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But bear in mind you would prob need new rear mech, new shifter, new wheel - all for two more gears?

Thanks. Yeah, I like spending money on it. I like modding things to my taste and fit even if it makes no financial sense. It's my pleasure pursuing my idea of functional perfection. I wouldn't go as far as, say, buying Ultegra stuff. Being a gear tart is not what I'm about but I do like things to work the way I want them.

I know you hate them but I've just put the best Clarkes Brake setup on my bike and they great; very responsive and reliable;much better than the Shimano brakes that were on it... they were only low-end ones though.

Sorry to hear this.

 

My deepest condolences to you and your family.

Many thanks to everyone for their kind words. Just got back on my bike for the first time today

If you like sci-fi, you can't go wrong with enders game. Theirs a second one I think i'll be getting around to reading it soon.

Better late than never but I suggest the Gaean trilogy by John Varley. Outrageous genetic engineering in Science fiction.

Will give Varley a bash. I loved Enders Game. Audiblized (I know it doesnt exist) Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon as well - good fun

You are either very fit or motorised (or both!).

I guess you could outrun the police with a push-bike in the Metropolis!

Not motorised - don't feel very fit either! Legs nearly seized up this morning due to cold and wet - but then it is the 6th of July so what should I expect - Sun??

Not being totally logical I never considered (or neither!) lol. I was given an electric bike as a present a couple of years ago - but being retired it only comes out now and again on a nice day.

If that's the case it sounds a good time to ask if you could lend me fifty quid.

happy, well fed, but poor...

Any excuse!! Take pity on a poor old pensioner. :-D

5th of November sticks better to my mind.

we had three succesful revolutions in England - yet the only date anyone remembers is a failed plot

 

Blame the V

I hate to break it to you String but it's not just the UK and US - it's the whole planet.

It's a sad fact that the easygoing people who would be smart, insightful, and tolerant politicians aren't very good at telling people what they need to do. For that, you need a bunch of idiots who think they know best.

"I know that I know nothing"

I saw a documentary about Watson - it was on a game show and started swearing for some of the answers like Q-What is Homeopathy? Watson: Bullshit!

 

I think it searched for Homeopathy and found that the highest percentage of answers to that question were 'BS'. So it spouted it out - they had to adjust it. lol.

 

brilliant. it's right and it's about the only thing on TV which is brave enough to say that Homoeopathy is bullshit

I still think the hood and scarf is a good idea. Apart from anything else you can snatch the odd old ladies handbag! Just joking!!:-D

when I am up in front of the beak I know who to blame

I've got broad shoulders. I get the blame for most things - one more won't matter!

Depends how badly you're speeding I think.

It varied, but usually cops around here won't pull you over unless you're 10 mph or higher than the limit.

I would love to get pulled over for speeding - 30mph on a bike is really moving

I've never understood the true meaning behind the original lyrics.

well for a start the person bathing on the roof was Bathsheba and the peeping-tom was King David

there are something like a hundred verses that cohen wrote and some people perform dofferent verses. the jeff buckly version is based on John Cale's first cover.

IIIIIII cryyyyyyyyyyyy

 

I'm confused...

Start the ride home? Drinking at work? Sounds like promotion - if so congratulations. I am spending a lot of time on poetry at the moment, but I also look in quite often to see if I can contribute anything.

I am very lucky with my job - a large proportion of it is being entertained by brokers - and sometimes it gets messy.

Messy sounds good

 

Don't forget to throw in a couple of extra votes for me too.

Even we Belgians are on the ball. I wonder in what kind of world I'll wake up Wednesday.

It'll be rathe Louis Carroll to find Trumphas his finger on The Button.

Yes I was being facetious and tried to use an amusing example. Setting up the bench in a certain way just did not have the same ring as a ritualistic sacrifice, but would look similar to the observer (and blood was actually involved).

and the hexagrams purely coincidental?

Well, they seem to increase yield.

Reading about him, the US army should never had deployed him or allowed him access to the data. That said, they did and he became a traitor. I am not sure if he should be in a mental hospital or shot.

Mental hospital or shot? He uncovered war crimes, unless i'm misinformed. His sexual orientation is irrelevant if that has anything to do with your statement in my opinion.

"His sexual orientation is irrelevant if that has anything to do with your statement in my opinion." Actually, it may have some relevance, but not in the way you imply. This individual had lots of emotional and psychological issues. This I am sure played a big role in what happened. In my opinion the US army should never have deployed him, but then hindsight is 20-20.

It does sound like a disastrous outcome for Ireland. As if sorting out the border issue wasn't going to be hard enough.

Ahh, I didn't realise the Irish connection. This could be our Donald Trump.

It doesn't sound like the DUP will try to push an ultra conservative agenda. But it seriously undermines the peace process and makes a return to the Troubles more likely.

I think the problem is that they havent done any maintenance since then! Water main flooded the tunnels around Stratford. Back to normal now

I thought you were having trouble with a catheter...

I can tell you this from experience. If you are in hospital with a catheter fitted leading to a container on the left side of your bed its a very bad idea to jump out of the right side of the bed when the nurse comes round with the bedtime drink! Tears in your eyes doesn't come near!

8.02x is an online course at edx

 

https://www.edx.org/courses/MITx/8.02x/2013_Spring/about

I was hoping you meant hard in a gangster rap manner.

God I must be old - I don't know if "hard in a gangster rap manner" is good or bad. And no I mean it really makes me work to understand the ideas, remember the models, and see the true path.

I understand most of them served time for aggregated assault.

CORRECTION: That would be aggregated basalt.

lovely; very fitting tribute

Did the neutrino bounced off the pub or pass through it?

carried straight on without even interacting ;-)

 

Too bad .. it should have at least stopped for a shot of something.

I can never figure out your statuses.

I was off to centre court with my bosses tickets to watch the tennis. Wimbledon is a great day out - even if you do not like tennis

I'd much rather be playing the tennis. Sports are boring.

, wasn't on yesterday because all me and my dad were doing was cleaning up ALL the snow, but this is in the US, don't know were you are.

We have 3 feet in NH now

Good luck with that sounds dreadful. weatherwise I am fine in London - but I did mean the USAC and ECC

what is it that you had to make your mind up on?

most of my status updates are lines from songs that are just stuck in my head. That one is from I am Kloot

Why are there so many (lyrically) different versions of IAmKloot. "I don't know what to say, I don't know what to say, I could say I crave you still you little brat, I could rant and rave you no I can't do that"

really nice guy

I feel like culturally the general population values general consumer products more so than education. Yeah in a sense we're taken advantage of, their's the elite tyrants who turned college into a profit center. Among many other things. But the general population doesn't care, it's partly our own fault.

Tomorrows right is today's privileged, it's important to focus on the right's that really matter.