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  1. As people have pointed out, carrier bags don't contribute too much to landfills, it's something like 0.1% of all the landfill waste. Getting rid of them is a bit symbolic but it's also because pretty much nobody needs to use these bags, so it's needless waste.

    I pretty much never pick up plastic bags at the supermarket, and I survive just fine. At my local one, they've started asking 'would you like a bag?' which I think is good :)

    How many houses does Gordon Brown have? The salary for MPs is actually quite low, I think Brown earns something like £70k. Obviously that's still a lot, but compared to top businessmen, lawyers, doctors etc it's less.

    gordon brown apparently only has 1 house that he uses. I don't think he agrees with other MPs having more than one house.

    a normal MP gets £61,820 per year but also gets £200,000+ in allowances for staff, computers, housing, living in/commuting to london, 40p per mile in the car and 20p on a bike, 10k for communications, 25k for additional allowances (whatever they are) and 40k for a winding up allowance (what the hell is that?) .

    a top lawyer will be lucky to make that.

  2. i've taken mdma which is basically e in a pure form. I'm not going to take it again because i don't think i really need to i'm having a good enough time without it atm. it is properly amazing though great feeling but i get the same feeling of satisfaction from riding downhill and sometimes trials so basically e is a lazy way of riding downhill lol

    I don't tend to drink ever these days and was fairly partial to the odd joint but i've cut that out too.

    also for decent pills here (ie not just pill powder with e stamped on it or something worse) your looking at 10-12 quid each so if you take 2 every weekend your basically wasting 80 quid a month which on my shitty apprentice wage would take you 2 days to earn. not really worth it in my eyes i'd much rather go out and ride one of my bikes.

  3. Heavier, more rotational weight, wouldn't have the same 'feel' as air does normally in tyres. So yeah, no.

    it's not that bad an idea, if someone would design something similar to the thing used on the inside of a rally cars tyre it would help prevent snake bites and impact punctures it wouldn't stop thorns etc but who really cares about them.

  4. exactly every little helps. even if it's more hassle than its worth for most.

    people who think they'll save the planet on there own by using their own bags are just being naive. But if you think about what would happen if everyone did it thousands of tons of plastic would be saved every year. which means less waste and less for the eco-mentalists to moan about.

  5. give kev a phone chis he's the master of this sort of thing.

    put the mech on like normal, replace the gear cable with a spoke and set the mech up so it's in the right gear and your sorted. i guess you could tie wrap the mech to the frame but i don't think you need to

    i did mine on the echo by removing the spring aswell but to be honest i don't think its worth all the hassle

  6. I want to go there.

    nice riding and nice pics as well. Good to see you can still turn your hand to a bit of photography. (Y)

    next time your all planning going somewhere like that I'll see if I can take a car full. mind you I'm working as much overtime/ homers as I can at the moment so might not be able too. Hopefully jamie will pass his test soon so he can share the driving with me :P

    Rick that bike looks mental haha nice to see something a bit different.

  7. i've been the last 4 years and never ridden in any of them. watching it is so much fun. there is tons to do if your interested in other aspects of bike sport it's well worth going.

    then there is the banter. last year we went and collected thousands of free stickers and put them on people. I got a big foot long hope sticker on the back of a policemans vest and one on a guy wearing a magura shirt :) so much fun to be had.

  8. I think your mad.... if someone wants a job done, they speak to friends in the business or the yellow pages, doubt someone sees a football tee-shirt on some amauter team in not an amazing leauge and thinks "damm i really need to use them despite the price they charge" i mean yea some teams will get sponsership but get on the blower now and try to get some sponsership, i know our team found it hard, and even a parent with a bussiness refused to do it becuase it just aint' worth it for em

    yeah your right. if someone needs a job done they will speak to friends or look up the yellow pages but the idea is that they'll look up the business that they saw on the shirt just because the name will stick in there mind or they'll phone up a friend who'll either recommend someone they've used before or recommend the name of a company which comes to mind. That's how advertising works. Thats why companys put there names on the side of there vans. it might not be worth it for some businesses but it will for most.

    Also there is the trust aspect of it. You don't get many pickeys or dodgers sponsoring football teams. so the customer sees a firms name on a shirt and subconsciously presumes they must be a safe bet because they're putting money back into the community.

    as for £500 being a lot of money. to most businesses it's nothing, it's just money that they'll be taxed on if they don't shift it. so in that respect it just becomes cheap advertising.

  9. it's easily worth it for a business. £500 is f**k all if you think about it if it's a trades company all the football team has to do is promote them enough to get 1 or 2 jobs and they'll make there money back.

    go for engineering/haulage/trades companys. they'll easily do it for that little bit of advertising, it also gives them a friendly reputation, and they'll give you the money before tax and save themselves a few quid.

    our old sponser used to pay for everything. ref, kit, £50 towards boots, balls (50 each), prizes and monthly barbeque/meal. it cost us next to nothing and they easily made their money back.

    if it's a brand new team your starting I very much doubt you'll get a decent sponser until at least your third year.

  10. I rarely drink but when i do i couldn't really give a f**k about it. I drink to get drunk not to worry about health. it's not really a bad attitude though everyone needs to unwind sometimes if we all stuck to gda's life would be so boring.

    i'm 17. mind you last winter I was hammered friday saturday and sunday every weekend there doesn't seem to be lasting effects obviously a bit of liver damage but to be honest I couldn't give a f**k. i'd rather enjoy life for 60 years than just get by for 80

  11. I had it on the run up to my exams (for about a year).

    it was shit. insomnia or i'd not be able to get to sleep then id go to sleep and not wake up for 20 hours. just generally feeling shit. i really don't want it again. also tons of mouth ulcers from being so run down made it so difficult to eat or drink anything

  12. Fatty no offence, but chars a feckin scummy little bottom of the barrel, attention seeking, manipulative little hoe. and your being a bare fassy believing all her crap.

    to say that shell tell her dad whos a copper, if you ever split up on a bad note, is a feckin joke. shes just doin that, so your tied into the relationship for as long as she wants. but then as soon as she meets elding, boom she drops you for the J-unit, and your left in tears.

    dont sweat about shaggin an under 16. she was consenting at the time, it has to be majorly fecked up for anything to happen. spesh regarding it being statutory rape, because of her age. spesh as its like 15 and 16. even with 14 and 16. youd be unlucky to get more than a caution and a temporary 2 year blot on your record. which will be erased as far as jobs go, at 18 (the cops will still retain it, but you wont need to disclose it at job interviews, and it wont come up on background checks).

    The fact her dads a copper would make it even less likely that your going to get done, because he knows the rules, and how hard it is to get a conviction for something like that, how much work is involved, and will also most likely understand the effect it would have on your life, for doing something which in all fairness,he probably did once or twice when he was your age(shag someone who was 15 that is, not have sex with char)

    not to mention, he probably knows how much of deviant lil hoe she is. and the fact that hes a copper, kind of suggests hes an ok bloke, and not some council estate c*nt wanting to sue you for your money. hes not going to give you a criminal record for anything like that.

    my problem, me and my mate where with these birds on wednesday, one of them nicked me mates visor, my mate then got lairy, and knocked the hell out of some bloke, now neither of the birds want to be associated with our rowdy fightin riff raff. and shes stole my visor which my mate was borrowing.

    nah thats balls if she did take him to court over it and say she was raped he might get off with the rape bit. but he'd still get done for having sex with her. more than likely that blot on his record will also be a blot on the sex offenders register and he'll never be able to work with/ in close proximity too kids again. he'll have to show it to his employer for at least 2 years and declare it in some jobs after that. it's really not worth it.

    i'd just tell her to f**k off.

  13. What's so great about the GTTDI? 138bhp, that isn't 'shit off a shovel'. A honda civic 2.2 tdci has similar performance figures and costs about 5k less

    a quick remap will see 180bhp and 400nm torque. I know this because we have the audi version.

    there not hugely fast but quick enough to put a smile on your face and still look senseible, Ie you don't really want to start a nice smart new job with a cossie fiesta just because it performs well.

  14. I'd go with the finance (unless your going second hand), then at least if your career goes wrong and you end up out of employment the worst that'll happen is your car being taken. you don't really want to secure anything against your house if you can avoid it.

  15. Ive got the whole hot/cold thing going on. 1 min i'm shivering the next im sweating my tits off. All started after getting rather sun burnt on Sunday. Sun Stroke perhaps?

    i've got that at the moment too.

  16. yeah just like he never checked the depth of the water. so if you never noticed that you had a damaged link in your chain then did a gap, fell, could never walk again, would you expect sympathy?

    some people crash cars because they don't notice there tyre is damaged, some people fall off bikes because they don't notice a patch of diesel on the road and some people jump off cliffs into water and hurt themselves because they don't know how deep it is. They all deserve sympathy. did you never dive into the shallow end of the pool when you were a kid? you knew it was called the shallow end for a reason but just did it anyway.

  17. I've done it loads of times, but you start from the water surely! You swim out, check the depth, climb up the cliff then wizz back down, and repeat going higher and higher.

    Try and make sure you do it as the tide is coming in, then it gets deeper and deeper as you go higher and higher, not shallower as you go higher, which isn't good.

    muels right i always go from the water aswell. and i've done 20m (well scary) the water would have been well over 6 m deep though and i saw a conga eel when i was under.

    up to 10 meters you can just jump anything after that you should pin/dive (if your brave) aslong as you check the depth and don't do it alone then really it's no where near as dangerous as the press make out.

  18. I feel sorry for him in the same way i feel sorry for a junkie or a hobo. yes they've gotten themselves into a bad situation. But food has become this mans addiction. He needs help the same way that a heroin addict needs help. and yes again i don't want to pay for it, but when you consider the amount of public money politicians get away with wasting, or the amount of council money thats wasted keeping shitty amenities open for a small minority. you soon realise that however much money the help he needs costs is actually not a large amount at all.

  19. i'm sure it'll be the same set up as it's been the last couple of years. you just buy a ticket to get in i think it was around £15 last time and you can watch what you want. The gondola is also included in some of the tickets. I'm pretty sure you won't be able to get a sunday gondola ticket because it'll be busy with the downhillers but you won't need that for the trials it's all easily accessible if you don't mind clambering up rocks and stuff.

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