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  1. The Happy Thread

    in Chit Chat

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    New office pretty much complete now. If any of you need stickers done for anything then get onto Lucy (Miss-Higgy) for super duper service. The business is at www.facebook.com/Indiprint and no, I didn't get any incentive to put this here :P If you want to give a like to the fifty6 page that'd be awesome because I don't get to concentrate on it much ironically - facebook.com/fifty6ltd

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    Looks cool. Loads of space! We're looking for a new place, but everywhere is so expensive :(

  2. Snowboarding Gear tips and recommendations.

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    For boots, they say 'they need to be small', but in my experience that just leads to pain. Your toes I guess should feel like they're up to the end, but not cramped. The main thing is to make sure your heel doesn't lift out of the boot much, again in my experience you'll never find boots that completely hold your heel in solidly, a little bit of heel movement is fine for me.

    If you're renting a board then you could get boots too. If you dont like them you can take them back (absolutely don't just think 'feck it, too much hassle, its only 3 more days..' - they only get more painful!) and get different ones. Quite often the rental places have brand new/very new boots for you there.

    Boots and trousers look good (Y) I'd be tempted to upgrade your gloves though. I lost my "mid range/regularly wet and cold gloves" and was reluctantly forced to spend 60 euros on some new ones in the resort (cheapest they had) but they're f**king amazing and they give me joy every time I wear them.

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  3. Snowboarding Gear tips and recommendations.

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    I've always got most of my snowboarding stuff from a retail outlet thingy,

    http://www.mcarthurglen.com/uk/cheshire-oaks-designer-outlet/en/plan-your-visit/getting-here/

    I'd recommend:

    a jacket from helly hansen/oneill/billabong/vans/tog24

    trousers from the same places

    base layer from helly hansen (a lifa one)

    socks from helly hansen

    gloves from somewhere - don't skimp on these, cold hands all day is shitty.

    goggles from either one of those shops or the internet, they cost a flippin fortune in the resorts - as do gloves.

    helmet you can rent or go without (although that is not a cool thing to do nowadays)

    Reckon you could pick the lot up for £200 in that mc arthur glen place, otherwise you might be looking at £200 for a jacket alone in a normal shop.

    For a beginner I'd also recommend an arse protector/impact shorts - strongly recommend in fact, unless you have a particularly large arse. For my first week I was always falling, my tail bone was hurting to the point where I was dreading doing too fast and falling on it again.

    EDIT: also consider getting a jacket with little sock bits that go over your hands, if you can. it stops snow going up your sleeves when you fall over. Sounds stupid but even a little bit of snow could be enough to break a man who is attempting to learn :D the oneill jackets normally have them.

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  10. Cant change my display picture

    in Trials-Forum News, Updates & Suggestions

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    hehe, thanks Mike :P

    I'm paid to do work so that takes priority I'm afraid.

    There is a server error somewhere along the lines, but it will take some debugging of the codes to work out what the issue is - I've taken a quick look already and its not a straight forward fix. It's going to take me at least 30 mins or so and, at the moment, I don't have 30 mins spare to solidly spend on it, but I'll take a look as soon as I get the chance.

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  11. Youtube not embedding?

    in Trials-Forum News, Updates & Suggestions

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    when you do a quick reply, try clicking the top left button to switch to either fancy or plain text editor, not sure if it'll make any difference but worth a try.

    EDIT Ah, just edited your post and i can see the problem: Don't actually post a clickable link to the video

    - just literally paste the URL to the video in your reply - don't click any buttons.

  17. What do you want from life?

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    I work on commercial web projects for people, usually sub-contracting for smallish companies on jobs for big companies. The small company in the middle means someone else goes to meetings whilst I remain in a location of my choice with a laptop and a bottle of Pepsi, happy in the knowledge that there's a good budget behind it all. There's no progression in the usual career sense, i.e. I charge an hour or day rate which may go up a little bit from time to time but there's no promotion or anything like that. It's an honest way of working: if I work a 14 hour day, I'm doing it because I'm billing 14 hours, not as a gesture to my employers because I hope a boss notices my efforts and rewards me when I do some kind of appraisal. Also the people I work for in the small companies generally become friends and are happy with me working in different countries/timezones should I feel the need to do so. In a few months I'm looking to register a 'non resident' company in Hong Kong as I'll be based in Asia, and then I can avoid paying tax (since H-K allows non-resident companies to operate tax-free, so long as trade isn't on their shores) and bank away from the British economy.

    The downside is that there's no guarantee of work, and sometimes I wait months to have invoices paid. Also, if you have a month off, the first week is like a week of Mondays... But I like the uncertainty. I used to work in a pretty secure job with career progression, etc, and it gives a comforting (albeit false) sense of security, but ultimately I found it boring and oppressive. Once I threw that job in and got used to the idea of having nothing in any way guaranteed, it made me stop worrying about so many things, especially the future, retirement, 'financial security' and stuff like that. I found that suddenly I was having these crazy moments of euphoria where I'd just think, F'ck, life today, right now, is so goddamn good. And not in a "It's Friday and I just got a pizza" kind of way, but in a completely unreal, all-consuming sense. Just this amazing feeling of well-being that I can't adequately describe.

    If my plans for the next few weeks are ok, and the next few months are sketched out in a pleasing way, then generally I'm alright. My only objective is to try to make each year as, or more, enjoyable as the last. To go to new places, to meet new people and to find and embrace new opportunities. To not shy from risk or confrontation of fears. To - as the saying goes - let the chips fall where they may.

    I will stress though, I'm not suggesting that this is the way to live life, because it isn't. My dad has always played things safe, and now he's retired, has an amazing house, loads of time and loads of money. He's had an amazing life so far and done so much, and it worked for him. I started out on that path but by my mid-twenties I knew it wasn't for me. Sometimes people ask what'll happen when I'm 60, whether I'll have any assets or anything, but the whole point of what I'm doing is to not worry about all that stuff and let it bog me down.

    After all, nothing like saving all your life for those golden years of retirement only to die of cancer the year before you finish work...

    You're in a good position, I'd hesitate to say not everyone can do this, good on you for doing so! I'm guessing you made some good contacts when you were working for a company?

    Up until a year ago I'd have said I want to own my own business, but I do now - well a 1/4 of one anyway :P Maybe up until 3 years ago I'd have said I want to live in a jungle (ok that would still be nice), but more recently I've accepted that I quite like things how they are. Its really boring but I like routine, I like having a cup of coffee in the morning (actually I f**king love it), I like doing normal stuff.

    In the future, I would like a house, of any size, as long as it has a bunch of land, so I can build an awesome treehouse and a shed and live in the middle of nowhere. I'd like somewhere where I can melt bronze and make things, and also to go gold mining, and not have to do too much work. That'd be cool.

  21. Forum Software Upgraded

    in Trials-Forum News, Updates & Suggestions

    Posted

    <blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="Revolver" data-cid="2475653" data-time="1356653758"><p>

    The thing that pops up whilst you're typing to let you see when someone's snaked your reply, it doesn't seem to work in chit chat.</p></blockquote>

    test

    found a fix for this - http://community.invisionpower.com/resources/guides.html/_/knowledge-base/341-editor-parser-updates-r262

    bit busy atm but will apply it later today

  23. Did he take it?

    in Chit Chat

    Posted

    I think, what he means, is stealing from rich people (corrupt thieves 99% of the time) is acceptable (ish), but stealing from family is very bad. Which... although I generally feel being a thief is bad, I can kind of see where he is coming from. I've been to Russia and saw the corruption myself, and it's easy to see why someone living there would feel that way. Imagine driving to b&q or wherever and being stopped and having your documents checked by corrupt policemen on the way in and out of every major town along the way, getting 'fines' for anything and everything, its nuts. we're lucky to live here.

    As for the thread itself, is there a chance you're smoking too much weed and getting paranoid? :P I've certainly accused people of doing things they haven't done in the past, and its a shitty feeling when you realise you're in the wrong, so I'd say, be 100% sure before you do anything :)

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