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Mine seems to blow fuses all the time, just for fun!

Thanks for recommendations. Have booked the bike into Corsa Italiana in the end. Because I've been ill, the bike has spent the majority of the last three years sitting under a tarp, and I have no idea what might have corroded or perished. It actually started first time today, having had the battery on trickle charge for a week, but I decided that I want a main dealer service for this one. Because they only do Guzzis, Corsa might pick up some really obscure failure that a mechanic used to japanese stuff might not notice.

Just seen one of these up close, and I must say I was pretty impressed with it. Maybe it would fall to bits in a month, but they are so cheap you could practically chuck it away and get a new one!

http://www.sinnismotorcycles.com/motorcycle.php?motorcycle=Sinnis%20Cafe%20125

I know they are going to be really pricey, but has anyone used Metropolis next to Vauxhall Bridge?
I need a service and MOT in a hurry and they are the nearest place to where the bike is currently stored.

You're not paranoid, your phone actually is spying on you.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-using-people-s-phones-to-listen-in-on-what-they-re-saying-claims-professor-a7057526.html

I used to occasionally see a courier on a grey import VTR250, which looked like a little Ducati Monster. He swore it was the best bike he had ever had for bombing through the traffic.
It's the only one I've ever seen, no idea how many made it over here.

^^^from up there somewhere, Munch is even mentioned in an episode of Luther, as the US police liaison or something.

I don't have a tv, smart or otherwise, but i sometimes use the chromecast at my parents house to watch things on their big telly from my laptop.
I'm sure there is a way of doing the same with a smart tv, but i'm very out of touch.

Just finished watching the first episode of Preacher. A bit slow, but they did a very good job of translating the tone of the comic into tv without exactly following the original story.
It has promise, I hope they keep it up.

Should be lots of reduced barbecue meat in the supermarkets in the next couple of days though, so make sure there's lots of room in the freezer.

Did anyone post these at the time? They are still up on iPlayer for a bit. It still takes my breath away to watch people doing more than 200mph on ordinary roads.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00kj9xh

Amen to that, brother.
Munch is the coolest character ever, and holds some kind of record for being in the most different TV shows.
If you were murdered though, you'd want Pembleton on the case.

Why pixel out the numberplate in the first picture, but keep it plainly on view down the page?

Could get very nasty that, I suspect the cats will soon revert to "sink claws into everything" mode, and I don't imagine weightless cat sick is any nicer than the ordinary domestic variety.

Well, I have power in the battery, and the dash lights up when I turn the key, but no joy when I push the start button.
Warning light at the bottom of the dash seems to be telling me that the ECU is disconnected or faulty.
Could I have blown a fuse? I guess I'm playing with electrics this weekend...

They have just changed the layout for the new cycle superhighway, so maybe it's trying to tell you to go all round the square to turn right, rather than try and turn across the flow of traffic. I will have a better look this morning.

Road markings for bicycles going into Parliament Square.

It bloody works!
Battery attached to my Maplin booster battery with its built in jump leads, positive to positive. Charger connected and immediately all the correct lights come on like a christmas tree.
It now has enough charge in it to get rid of the booster, and is on trickle charge all night as if nothing had happened.
Will be interesting to see if there is any lasting effect to the battery, but it seems that AGM batteries are much more forgiving of deep discharge.

Deeply discharged Motobatt AGM battery, trying to charge it with a smart charger, but no joy. Professor google tells me that it's because smart chargers are configured so that they can't see very deeply discharged batteries and AGM batteries in particular because they have a very low resistance compared to other types.
Apparently there is a trick to get the thing charged, which involves buffering with a fully charged battery in series with the dead one.
Has anyone tried this?
I'm fully prepared to buy a new battery, but this has to be worth a shot, right?

Oh, but wasn't he great on the Today Programme this morning, blaming the elite bankers and industrialists for all the problems with the EU?
I recon if they had pushed him a little harder he would have gone full Ike and started ranting about the Illuminati, Bilderberg and shapeshifting lizards.

Yeah, but its always so fucking crowded, and last time I was in there the scotch eggs were veggie ones with falafel instead of meat.

What pub near Camden/Kentish town does good scotch eggs?
I'm looking for crispy outside and still runny yolk, with a nice pint.
Bonus points for a pint with a handle.

not even drunk

Bought a really nice marinated lamb leg steak at The Ginger Pig in Borough Market today, along with half a dozen of their posh italian sausages.
Rushed home to get them in the fridge, and they were nowhere to be seen. Obviously left them on the counter, or at another stall.
Epic fail thread >>>>>>>>

Yes, how much of our arguably good position in the world is down to the fact that we joined up years ago, and what would our relative position be if we had not joined the EU.

That said, many things, such as human rights, depend on our membership of the Council of Europe, which is a completely different organisation of many more member countries than the EU, and of which we will remain a member whether we leave the EU or not.