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I mean, I’d like to think I’m more coquettish than that…

Bristol/bristol 😭

I’m come and look at this Pompino every now and again and contemplate how I’d be able to pick it up

In their own front garden, or someone else's?

love the paint

No, breeding is not mandatory nor should it be. People will have all sorts of reasons for having or not having children and they're all valid as it should be a personal choice. When we decided to have kids (and it was a decision we made prior to finding out it was happening - this is not always the case), we considered the financial impact. Inaccurately, as it turns out, because as @dinosaur says, its virtually impossible to accurately gauge the impact a child will have on your life. 'All eventualities' is an incredibly broad statement - I can safely say that no, I would not be able to take care of my children in all eventualities.

The problem I have is the idea that financial wealth is a requirement to procreation. I mean, do you really want our future generations to be largely made up of tories?!

I photoshopped it in.

(It’s a surprisingly good headset for a tenner, actually).

I’ve told her it’s real. Like the tooth fairy and Father Christmas :-D

Finally the content this thread deserves: a new headset for my daughters bike

Cheers, it was kind of an experiment. I’ve done a few painted boards, but never done just black ink line drawings on a board.

Gripped and trucks on. Hopefully be able to squeeze in a skate on Wednesday if the temperature is bearable

I recall some cheap Makita chat on the eBay finds thread a while back - might be worth searching that in case there’s any relevant info. Although if not legit, I doubt the seller would have been active that long.

Are they steel then? I reckon I'll pop these chunkyboi forks on and see how it is, then idly keep an eye out for something nicer. if I even get on with the bike! I was going to take it on a proper ride last week but plans got borked. Might try this week if it cools off sufficiently.

May as well plonk this here, too.

Wanted to try a slightly wider board (currently skating an 8.25”) and I had a blank 8.38” lying around. I’ll probably struggle to tell the difference - it was mainly an excuse to scribble on a skatebord and have a new-ish set-up.

Indian ink, dip-pen and brush fwiw

Sorry, I realise I’ve basically picked up on a tiny part of what you said and then just gone off on one, to the detriment to the thread! Currently dismounting high horse.

You’re basically saying poor people shouldn’t have kids, though aren’t you?
It’s bullshit that poorer people choose to work rather than stay at home with the kids. That might be true of career-ladder climbing (upper?) middle class parents, but they’re likely to have access to other childcare anyway. The problem is lower paid jobs don’t pay enough to support a family on. Saying things like people assume school is “always there to entertain your kids” is loaded and I’d hope you could see that.

I guess we just have a system that isn’t set up with anyone other than the middle class or ‘above’ in mind. In fact, the idea probably is something along the lines of poor people should stop having kids.

school is not a babysitting service

That’s a very simplistic statement. The reality is that most families can’t afford to not both be working and don’t necessarily have access to other family who can help with childcare. Most families rely on their children being in school so that they can both work - one parent being a ‘stay at home’ is now a luxury that you have to be reasonably well off the be able to afford, unlike with previous generations. Summer holidays often mean taking a big financial hit to somehow juggle work/kids, so any extra days can make life pretty difficult.

Edit: that came out much rantier than intended! In reality, I’m kind of on the fence about heatwave school closures. Perhaps it should be optional, so kids who’s parents are able can keep them at home, but kids who’s parents have no choice can send them in where they’ll have fewer bodies in rooms etc.

Started doing a bit more to this and it instantly wasn’t coming out how I wanted it to. So then had a race against my own disinterest to finish it :-D

Decided to set up a new board so set about scribbling on it while the kids played in the paddling pool today. Quite like using Indian ink and a dip pen on wood, apart from when there’s some oil or something on the wood (from my hands I guess?) and the ink randomly gets repelled.

Think I might get a bit murderey if I have to hear that fucking Phoenix song many more times…

Got to be two of the raddest bikes on the forum right there

https://youtu.be/swBDlOk0V6Y

Dropped the price a bit on the shifter due to realising it’s a (less useful!) front shifter.

Yeah looking at it, I’d say it’s a front shifter. Slightly annoying as it was sold to me as a rear shifter - which I would have spotted if I’d known anything about bar shifters!

I’m afraid I don’t know much about it. There’s no model number on it anywhere and I can’t find any information online. I’m assuming it would work with any derailleur as it’s essentially a friction shifter. I never installed or used it as I went with flat bars on the bike it was destined for in the end