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It can take ages if you have a blunt (junior) hacksaw and a thick (steel) steerer. But it will work eventually. Pro tip: Take some tape (electrical is best) and wrap that around the steerer to mark where you want to cut, overlapping the tape with itself. If you do it right, the line marked by the top edge of the tape *should* be exactly 90 degrees to the long axis of the steerer tube. Admittedly it doesn't really matter too much for steerer tubes if you get it perfect, but if a job's worth doing it's worth doing correctly. Oh, and whilst we're on the subject of corny expressions, have you ever heard "measure twice, cut once"?

I keep telling you I'm not a student any more - Enough with the student jokes!

That's the thing though, these games never come down in price. Last time I checked, even COD4 was still £27 pre-owned or something stupid.

If my computer could play Vimeo videos without stuttering, I'd go for that. But it won't so Youtube is waaay better for me.

I have COD4 (I play online), skipped COD5 because I'm totally unconvinced by the WW2 weapons. I have obviously heard MW2 is coming out, but what's the deal with it? Is it supposed to be the bestest game ever? Can anyone convince me to buy it in two lines?

Hehe, I hope to be able to hold you to that one day

Yes. (Can you do FS spins on skis?)

I think I can help: Twin-tip skis make a cool plume of snow behind each ski. On that basis, they are cooler than normal skis. Get some.

I reckon you'll probably find that a few people living there are awesome, but most are just "okay" at it. Don't be intimidated, go to any of the resort places and there will always be a mixture of absolute beginners right up to (almost) pro.

One of my friends went as a paedo. Dressing gown, boxer shorts, grubby wife-beater and a bag of sweets attached just in front of his knob for children to reach into.

I quite enjoyed absolutely everyone laying into him for just being an utter bumbaclart. The bit about how he defined ethnic british people as those who came to this country at the end of the ice age 17 000 years ago - That was just absurd. And his fat little pudding face smiling every time someone insulted him for unknown reasons. He just looked like a fool if you ask me, which I anticipated after his recent appearances in the news. But Jack straw didn't do particularly well when asked if labour were responsible for the rise of the BNP which was less expected.

Do you?

Marcus Brigstocke playing the part of random spectator #15?

The beauty of doing a season is that you can do what you want - if you don't feel like skiing one day, you don't have to. You'd only get bored if you were feeling forced to go out every day.

Natural selection at its finest

Fair enough. I think you can get the wifi router thing when you jailbreak pretty easily.

It's still £30/year which you DON'T pay if you've got a PS3. Over the life of the console (maybe 4 years? more?) that's a big difference. Just sayin' (I have a 360).

Hey, don't make me out to be some kind of layabout student bum! I work, and I still think the iPhone is streets ahead of anything else The revolution, I think, is that they made a phone do some very clever stuff, in a very sleek simple way that everyone can understand. My Mum can use my iPhone for the internet, and she can barely operate a TV remote control; give her a Winmob phone and it would be out the window in a matter of seconds. Yes, WindowsMobile/Nokia/Blackberry phones have had a web browser for years but it's rubbish - Pages are broken up/ horrible, and navigating around them is difficult even with the stylus (which makes you look like an idiot IMO). For what it's worth, Tomtom on the iPhone works just the same way as on WinMob - all the maps are downloaded onto the device. As far as I know once you jailbreak you can acquire Tomtom semi-legally, but the full price is a lot of money. I still use my old Winmob phone for tomtom if I ever need it - Google maps isn't very good for in-car navigating, as soon as you lose phone signal it's useless! This isn't particularly a pro-iPhone rant (actually it sounds exactly like that), I just think some people seem to have a kind of stigma around iPhones. Whether you think they're worth the money (they are very expensive), or whether you think the features are that much better than anything else is sort of besides the point - I don't think you can buy a nicer/more useful phone at the moment.

Well that sounds thoroughly rubbish Good luck with it though.

What an utterly disgusting scenario. That would make loads of difference to my life. Urgh* * I'm joking, btw.

That's all well and good, but this isn't really about whether you believe transexuality is normal/whatever - that's a different debate. This is about whether you can you make these decisions aged 8? I doubt it...

I doubt it matters that it's nitrogen, but the cartridge will probably be pressurised with very high pressures and not really user-serviceable. They probably need to go back to the importers (Windwave) for fixing. The 2008 models are known to be pretty rubbish for breaking.

8 year olds can't make decisions about what clothes they want, let alone what sex they want they want to be. Sexuality is something that comes much later. I don't believe for a second that this child has had anything to do with this decision. Some (dumb) person who shouldn't be left in charge of carton of eggs let alone a child, subconsciously wants to f**k her child up / get on national TV. That's my view anyway.

Absolutely. Particularly as it only takes a 5% (1 in 20) fluke chance and you've got "proof" of something. Luckily people within research do accept this though and a p value of 0.0499 will always be interpreted with an air of caution. And now we're getting into varying degrees of "proof" and it all gets a bit complicated and hazy

Absolutely. But I work in a profession (medicine) where "proof" is regarded as anything with a p value* less than 0.05 (I.e. 5%). If the probability of your results occurring randomly is less than 5%, you've got proof. So when you're talking in minutiae of 0.00001% I can't accept that as anything less than proof. If you took your logic I don't think there would be any medical progress, our understanding would never change. On the "absolute certainty of evolution" point I actually do agree with you, but I can't help but think that my view is realistic while yours is a bit... pedantic No offence meant by that of course, I consider pedantry a virtue in many cases! *p value - the probability of such a result or a more extreme result occurring if the null hypothesis (no correlation) is assumed to be true.