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pm'd with couple of questions

Wee bump for Principia track frames - this is one of the originals, handmade in Denmark. No connection with the seller but like Skunkworks I have one and they are incredible frames. Were tres expensive rrp - and that old Chainreaction link is well out of date. CR had near enough the last NOS frames of the original Principias on a steal and were just clearing them out about three years ago.. In fact they had just two of the track version. Dude over at Ciclos Uno who knows a thing or two about track frames reckoned they were one of the best ever made.

Internet life. I guess we're all searchimg.

Apologies, no deconstruction intended Scoot. Funny is sweet and individual.

How hard does that pulse beat?

I mean I dig the instant access and the forum idea. I think the "what are you doing right now" and the "any question answered" threads which are big, are great. They're interesting, informative and naively contributory. Kind of simple and cool and personal. I guess the problem with this one is it's just consumption - crap from elsewhere, viral, silly etc.

ah, maybe that's the point. In fact I get that. No problem with foolish or silly or dumb. But really? It's so unfunny, so-un-bizarre, the most conservative thread ever.

What's the point of this thread? It's huge, popular, endless replies but I kind of don't get it.Is it just funny things on the internet? Things that tickle your fancy and make you laugh? Are these memes really cracking you up? Memes? I mean, first time I've actually looked at it but cat's/babies/pictures/words/Star Wars? is this stuff funny?

Probably my humour bypass but goofy things ho ho ho. access to internet and a camera ho ho ho, jeez.

No, I don't need another one - there was a guy called Sasquatch who pm'd me that might or as above, badger17

recommended reading: Aloft by William Langewiesche to grasp fully what you're doing

Penguin, 31 Mar 2010 - 256 pages
In the essays collected here William Langewiesche considers how flying has altered not only how we move about the earth, but also how we view our world and our place in it. With vivid descriptions of the aesthetics and excitement of flight, Langewiesche also writes of the risks that go with this beauty: the perils of air traffic control, and the dangers of nervous passengers and bad weather. Full of spare and elegant prose, Aloft is a fascinating journey into the new, profound dimension that flight has added to the human experience.

Better to get the last bus/tube/Heathrow express to get you there for 1 and settle in for two hours. Hardly worth going to bed.

Thanks. I guess it'd be hardly a recommendation if I had. Good point.

Sorry, it was the A3 - not a motorway but three lane etc

meant to add that actually, the guys there, a family run business, are absolutely first class and lovely people. Way better.

Sounds, Barchan, as if you are getting on fine and sorted. But perhaps purely for humour value in an often dull world here's what I did at the grand age of 34.

I decided that weekly driving lessons at 7 am in London were a total drag and hard to fit in. Also felt on occasion it was a licence (no pun) for the company to keep me doing more and more lessons when I kinda wanted some control over it all. So I booked a weeks worth of lessons down in Hampshire and stayed with my sister. It was great, actually got some free roads and to really drive - motorways and all.

At the end of the week I took the test I booked myself ........and failed.

So back to London and knowing I needed to keep the practise in I booked another test for a months time and looked for an instructor.

And because I Like to make things a tiny bit more interesting and to add humour I booked lessons with what was formerly called "the Italian School of Motoring" on Clerkenwell Road. they're now called Holborn School of Motoring...but originally only taught Italians who worshipped at the nearbye Italian church.

http://www.holborndrivingschool.co.uk/

I passed and i have the peculiar joy of recounting "I learned with the Italian School of Motoring".

As a side note, the slow lane on the autostrada is known in Italy as the "Corridor of Shame"

I rest my case.

Respect to Capello for resigning. The FA have long been a bunch of self-deluding opportunists, less interested in the game than in their image, and as for the team....Christ, cut the crap, there hasn't been a good English team in years (decades) and no sign of one on the horizon either. By which I mean no matter the guff the pundits and armchair authorities spout, nothing happens of any worth.

Replied by PM Frank

Skipper

As per the title I've got an excellent condition Schott 740N Peacoat. Made in the USA. Incredibly warm, classic styling, size 42 so kinda medium/large. They're a almost black, midnight blue colour wool, 10 anchor buttons, no marks, tears, holes etc.

Exceptionally warm and well made.

Pick up E Dulwich - SOLD to FRANK

Navy suits work.

c/f Takeshi Kitano in Hana Bi

Pistoffski's a sound guy, don't fret. You're as bad as those folks clawing each other for a Mulberry handbag at the Jan sales

Warning - thread Hijack!

I might be after one deck if anyone has one in excellent condition and at the right price.....

Free bump too

Gorecki - Symphony No.3

Beautiful but sad too.

Credit where credit's due though - Elton John cheers me up because nothing can be quite as bad as Elton John. What with the sycophantic celebrity lovin', the narcissistic preening and the Diana candle mongering.........and the way he treats his bitch David Furnish (who is actually a filmmaker), why, how mean can a man be?......... boy, any day seems brighter when I think how glad I was to leave that Holland Park mansion in one piece and managed to get across the MOR to safety.

I'm not so sure he wrote the songs either....

I rode on those Spesh Armadillo types for years in winter and had no problem

Too much BC bud in Nelson methinks...

No doubt you've got the left hand ones as a Marxist?

The two of you could balance it up and save the French centrists

I'd be interested if these cranks resulted in one cycling in a circle - a Dadaist transmission,

Ceci n'est pas un chainset non?

Free bump

a mysterious collection.........