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Still looks like we're going to be on wet roads, and may get rained on for the duration - please dress accordingly [/dad]

I'm going to take this personally and say that I will make sure I have a waterproof with me and that my long tights are not in the wash. I have also bought some waterproof socks, and I am almost excited about getting wet in them

/chastened

Oh, I didnt realise it was a date.

Im in.

Dates are, like, totally vegan.

You are all mean.

Oliver, I'll come; I can't put my name down yet as I haven't checked with the other half that he ahsn't made any plans for me, but it should ok.

My chefs could never understand that vegans would want seperate utensils/pans and so forth to be used.

Extremely common site would be the grill chef tipping veggie sausages into the pan full of bacon as they cooked at approx the same temp.

The chefs could also not understand why replacing veggie sausages with meat ones when the veggie sausages ran out was not acceptable.

I think I've told this story on here before, but that reminds me of when I went vegetarian, and my Mum said, 'does that mean you can't eat chicken, then?' I said, patiently, 'no, Mum.' She looked pensive, and returned 'What about cold chicken?'

Just had my first vegan lunch. Chips and a Yorkie bar.

When drunk I always get the 'vegan special' from the kebab shop - chips, salad, chilli sauce. How bad can it be if you can still eat chips, really.

Thanks Balki, that means a lot.

There's something specifically horrible about the idea of falling over in the bath or shower, though, when naked and wet. It's always really given me the willies.

I'd rather it was warm and sunny, frankly.

bike?

My mistake, as you were.

Hell yeah !

Should he even be on the roads ? I am not having a go, it's just that if we let every mental/disabled/criminally insane ride a bike there is bound to be more accidents.

'Are' bound, dear.

I dont like wearing headphones. They dont allow me to hear all the builders wolf-whistling at me as I saunter by.

Can one 'saunter' on a bike?

Just a quick note to say the head phones you get with iPods are shit and therefore you can use them safe in the knowledge that you'll be able to still hear outside noise, buses, trucks, cars etc and the music will be a faint hissing beside it

Doesnt it also depend on the type of earphones you use?
I know that you can get cheap/expensive total block out (passive)/noise cancellation (active)/expensive external noise (opposite to the block out ones)

I may probably be wrong but if you have cheap ones or the ones that let ambiant noise in, you can still hear the noises around you. Blocking out sound may end up cacooning you in your own world.

This is right, I reckon. I've pretty much always listened to music when cycling, unless I'm specifically wanting to think about something I'm working on. But when I bought some new earphones and they were inadvertently those cancelling-out-noise type, I got a bit freaked out by the diminishment of my peripheral hearing, and went back to the shit ones. Safe in the knowledge that I can have them up as loud as they can go and still hear anything going on perfectly adequately.

My Dad's deaf, and he's a keen cyclist. I don't think, when listening to music, that I 'compensate' any less than he does when just riding about.

There's a dynamofem I've seen a couple of times. When I was there on my own last week, she and her mate overtook me and then slowed right down, right in front of me, and just chatted to each other. It was bizarre. they must have sped up a lot to do it just to make a point. I had to slow down loads to sit behind them - I didn't want to re-overtake as I was on my final lap and didn't want to get into a pissing contest. Women are sposed to be better than that, no? :D

People's livelihoods aren't actually going to be affected by the passing whims of the students, are they?

My girlfriend bought me one of the new winter hats for my birthday. Delightfully nice, if a little pricey. Thankfully I didn't have to pay!

I have this hat. I do love it. It even seems to be waterproof, or as good as.

I got mine in the 'sale'. I think five of your English pounds were taken off. A mere bagatelle; a gesture, if you will, to the state of non-priceyness, but one that thankfully detracted from its essential Rapha-ness not a jot.

Cheers Julia, how's 'ting in London village? Any trips back up to Glasgow planned?
Salutations from the weeg.

No' bad. I'm coming up the weekend of the 18th but sans bike, tragically: otherwise I would have loved to go on a ride with everyone again.

Next time...

You can't just go around making words up. You're not in Australia now, toto.

I think it might actually be Romanesco.

Mango. (Sugoi are brill, btw)

Who's your favourite Roman Emperor?

It was a football messageboard :( Uncouth bastards.

Enjoying the romaneco season. Geekiest vegetable ever.

I am such a fan of these. Look at it! And they taste lovely.

Though they do sometimes remind me of a photograph on the internet of advanced genital warts I once ill-advisedly clicked on.

Hey, this is a running bike but a project that's ongoing and has been for a while but nearly there, have a king grip nut in sotto voce black, some fluted campy pista cranks and some crank bros flats with yellow gurneys to go on still.
Will be getting a powder coat with either black & multicolour holographic metalflake or yellow with black metal-flake, can't decide... maybe something else, I've always been partial to kawasaki green and deep orange colours too but only if everything else is black, There's a tiny ding in the top-tube I'm going to try and get rolled out or I'll fill it with silver solder and flush it.
At some point I'll get the stem polished and anodised black if I can't find a swap and do the same with the campy pista cranks. Don't think I can do anything to make the post black as it's an alien ti so maybe I'ss ell it and get a black thomson....
It's a Peugeot track frame with cannondale track forks as the originals took a ding, Bontrager Race-X-Lite track wheelset with the rims taken off and powdercoated glass black.

Cool as fuck, Doug :-)

Trains.

Does it really all come down to sex or to death? This is important.

Frankie Boyle. Gives good interview. http://www.timeout.com/london/comedy/article/493/frankie-boyle-interview

What's the point?

Turner.

GSOH or kindness to animals?