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African hospitality and the generosity is truly mindblowing for us and our cold selfish ways. You'll love it.

Having spent the best part of 9 years in southern Africa, I can vouch for this. Be sensible, be aware, don't expect border crossings to take less than a full day, and you'll have a fantastic time.

I'm in boxers right now.. take that image to sleep tonight..

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Not all of us are suited to working in boxers.

Oh, the joys of working from home.

Time for bed.

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UK soldier returns from illegal war with no legs after having done his duty, bearing in mind he goes to jail if he doesn't go to this war. Do we help him walk again or not?

If I was signing up to fight a war, these are things I would chew over in my mind before making any decision:

Will I die? / Will I be terribly injured? / Can I quit whenever I like? / Who would it affect if I did die/was injured?

One surely must be aware of these possibilities before signing up, and weigh up the likelihood of them happening. If not, perhaps that's a failure on the part of the recruitment machine that the forces operate, but, as I said before, if you want to minimise the risks of that happening, get a job in a cubicle.

Yes, which is why I am all for organisations that do things like help injured troops and not at all happy about where your government and my own is sending troops.

Don't these organisations help to bolster the appearance of public support for the war?
Don't they also help subsidise the government's defence budget, distorting the true cost of overseas operations?

I'm not entirely sure myself (just playing Devils Advocate) but this is an example of why I don't think "support" for the troops and support for the war can ever be totally seperate.

Supporting the troops doesn't mean supporting the war. I thought that was kinda obvious.

I'm really unsure about this, I don't think I can safely say that one can "support the troops" without supporting their involvement in the war in a more than superficial manner.

Cool, so if they get a free mobile phone as a perk, we're all happy since they signed up for it.

Yup.

I'm just curious about why there is a current vogue for special support for soldiers who are doing the job they signed up for.

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blah...They also get fucking shot at, bombed and do pretty damn unpleasant things to keep their country safe and/or defend other countries.

Buy the ticket, take the ride. If you aren't prepared to do this for the wage/perks you agreed to, get a job behind a screen in a cubicle somewhere. No-one forces (ha!) those in active service to sign up.

Yep, they are people who understand that a career in the forces is just a career like any other, and does not automatically entitle you to special privileges/dispensations just because Toothy Tony says you're a hero.

ftfy.

Chris Brigham made this. He's asking ±$300 for them, which is a little OTT, but perhaps it's a nice starting point for a DIY job.

Dibs on

(18) SAN MARCO GP 27.2mm 135mm rails to limit mark stunningly nice and pretty seatpost New Old Stock £12

Please, PM on the way.

Fuck that.. I'm buying this

Love it..

Here: http://tinyurl.com/397yjpe

Ha!

worse than bin/bog paper? Really?

If it's constructive, then I don't think it's unnecessary.

Neither of these comments were constructive, so here, I agree with you.

My point is, I don't think it does anyone any favours to tread lightly around their talents (or lack of). People here are quick to call out those that might benefit from Cycle training, and so they should; this here's a cycling forum, and Cycle Training is, I'm sure, always beneficial.
So why not call out those who's artistic flair could do with some refining? Judging from the quality of what the op has posted, I'm presuming that they are not in the twilight years of their creative career, therefore any criticism, harsh or not, is a good indicator of if/where/how they might progress/improve/refine.

Performance > Feedback > Revision.

I agree with the dislikes in spirit but some of the above text seems unnecessarily harsh.

If it's constructive, then I don't think it's unnecessary.

These look like prints that have been designed with a limiting one-colour printing process in mind, and aren't really making the most of the advantages that glicée offers. The added interest in these if they were hand-pulled screenprints/risograph/letterpress would be the small but noticeable unique differences that a manual printing process often generates, adding at the least, a little warmth.

Anyone who has opened photoshop can appreciate that these probably took longer to source the quotes than it did to lay them out. One (low res, possibly stock) vector overlaid on a plain background, with some lazy-leaded text does not a piece of art make, limited edition or no.

I'm not trying to piss on your bonfire, but if you want to sell prints, take 5x longer to produce the artwork (and then charge 5x more if you think you can get away with it!). It's often apparent if something is a rush job, and it seems these were. Sorry.

I exchanged some hindrens just the other day, the current rate of exchange is twelfty.

I'm looking to strip a frame and forks in the next few weeks, I was going to nitromors it too but if it saves time/money/hassle for both of us, we could perhaps get a discount on getting two frames blasted at the same time?

I used 1ltr on the last frame I stripped, but it took several applications to get it back to steel. Better to have too much than to have to pop back to the shop halfway through the process.

make sure to wear gloves/goggles, well ventilated area, no exposed skin bla bla bla

ooh, if you haven't randomly picked freeloaders yet, can I add myself to the list of scroungers looking for speakers?

Hi wingedangel, richoking picked it up at lunchtime today, and carted it away in his belk bag. Sorry about that, good luck finding a suitable frame!