Not yet. Nothing came with the parcel but as it was sent to a business address, i assume their usual practice is to send a letter.

From the internet, it appears that everyone gets got for £38. I don't think i'm lucky enough to have gotten away with it.

Mine arrived on Monday, no customs sting. When I've been caught previously on imports I've had to pay the courier there and then so I reckon you're clear.

Face never has been and never will be booked.

Any suggestions for needle bottles that don't leak? I'm flying a lot at the moment and mine keeps leaking in whatever bag I put it in

Just ordered one of these http://www.cloud9vaping.co.uk/epages/yxve46fvrnud.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/yxve46fvrnud/Products/UCAN
Don't know if it will work, but looks like it ought to - also it's cool.

Everyone seems to have largely forgotten that the reason Crimea has so many ethnic Russians in it is that Uncle Joe deliberately murdered the bulk of the original population through intentional starvation (numbers dwarfing Uncle Adolfs tribute act) and then replaced the population with Russians. Immediately created a nice little vassal state with no troublesome anticommunists and a nice strategic position.

^^ I love that, nicely dressy. Question though, is the glass mineral crystal or that perspexy stuff? Hard to tell from the website.

And 'Hedge - what's with the 4th?

Was at a srs academic conference yesterday listening to a srs academic presentation by a srs academic and had to suppress snorting when he put up this slide. I am such a child.

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A razor and a template?

Boom

My apple TV very occasionally interrupts whatever we're watching with Christmas carols! I have confirmed that none of our devices are accidentally on mirror and playing the album (which my wife played a couple of times over the television at Christmas from her iTunes but never since) - wtf?

found on the web;

If a watch is labeled only"water-resistant" or 30 meters, it can withstand splashes of but should not be submerged.

50 meters: suitable for brief water exposure

100 meters: suitable for standard swimming pools, snorkeling

200 meters: suitable for recreational scuba diving

300 meters+: suitable for professional scuba diving

1,000 meters+: deeper than the human body can withstand (roughly three-fifthsof a mile).

Then there’s lots of folks saying that thereason it doesn’t apply is that those are only static pressures and don’t takeinto account moving your wrist under the water, which is nicely debunked bythis post;

Assuming you're in an open vessel (likeocean) and not in a sealed tank, the total pressure on a moving objecthas two components. The dynamic pressure can be calculatedand is proportional to the square of the velocity. The hydrostatic pressure can also be calculated and is proportional to the depth.

Without repeating all the calculations here (they involve denominators and thegreek alphabet and are PITA to type out), at a depth of 330ft and moving yourarm at 3 ft/sec, the dynamic pressure is in the order of magnitude of 0.14 feet of head or 0.04% of the depth. Even assuming you couldmove your arm at 20 ft/sec (14 mph!) the dynamic pressure is only about 6.2feet of additional depth (<2%).

Linky;

http://forums.watchuseek.com/f74/truth-about-water-resistance-71169.html

300m on my Pam, my colt ocean is 200m - both of which have been on my wrist snorkelling and scuba.

I know there is a sort of 'code' on water resist where the depth is bollocks for cheaper watches, but always figured that on 'serious' watches the depth would have some real meaning?

I'm loving this

Can't afford it though! I like the idea of the ceramic case but a little surprised at 100m rating - would have expected higher (not that many of these are likely to be taken to depth)

I call bollocks ^^

Found out that my Breitling Colt has doubled in value in the last thirteen years, result!

Congrats by the way!

Hi mate, any of that brown Chromexel left? I'd like a Kayfun Lite holster with a belt / jacket pocket spring clip (rather than a loop) to keep it vertical when not standing on a surface. Can do?

I am a salesman for a global high tech company selling capital equipment and the materials it uses.
Winning deals in my experience is usually based on being genuinely interested in the purchaser and their firm, identifying their needs and drivers (which very often turn out not to be what you expected) and offering solutions based on what they need rather than what you have to sell.
It's very easy to get bogged down with detail on your product rather than finding out what they want. You might be all fizzed up on the new über widget capabilities of your offering, when what is important to them is that the colour needs to match their logo.
Oh, and make it very clear that you don't play price games - offer a fair price at the outset and never drift past a couple of percentage points. Coming in way too high and then massively discounting makes you a twat and loses any long term trust that you build with the customer.
It's a cliche, for sure, but build relationships instead of deals. That's what brings the customer back time and again.
Lastly, come to the table with all your homework done and never, ever, ever lie.

Stolen from the .gifs thread

http://i.imgur.com/Bf4C7nZ.gif

How the hell does this just not plough straight on regardless? How can you steer with one track? My gabber is flasted.

Every Presta Tube has a Presta Valve Adapter - YouTube

That is a stone win.

:-d

Whoa! have you seen the size of the thing?? Just stick a starp on your iPhone!

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2014/01/08/15-tweets-to-george-osborne-that-will-cheer-you-up-nsfw/

Sorry, regardless of whether it's Desmond Tutu or Robert Mugabe you are commenting at I can see nothing humorous or edifying in the sort of people who simply clog it up with "YOUR MUM!"

Go back to the playground people.

With the two classics I bought last year I got away with none.

In my experience of importing things from the USA however I have found it to be luck of the draw. If it gets picked up on then the duty levels seems to be random and decided by the hangover level of whoever intercepts the package.

I paid twice as much on one Timbuktoo bag that cost half as much as another one I received a few days earlier. Luck of the draw.

Oh wait 49mm case.

GTFO

:/

Ah, didn't spot that. Still love it apart from the size though.