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As above disc brakes are a piece of piss. On my first car I had it down to about 10 mins per corner as they were so shit they'd wear out in about 6 months but were luckily only a tenner a pair! Best advice I can give is to find a nice Audi forum and hopefully they'll have a wiki or advice forum where a step by step guide has been written including photos. There are so many little variations in the way different manufacturers and even models attach their callipers and manage their pads etc that it's good to get model specific advice. Generic advice will only take you so far unless you have background knowledge of what you're looking at. Oh, and copper slip on the back of the pads is great for preventing brake squeal - obviously, don't get it anywhere near the friction surface. A can of spray on brake cleaner is also a good investment - use that and an old tooth brush to thoroughly clean everything before re-assembly. Also have a quick google for brake pad bedding in procedures. Usually it's a few miles of light driving followed by getting them good and hot with some 0-60-0 sprints on a quiet road somewhere and then hold your foot on the brakes for a minute or two to mate the two surfaces nicely and get rid of any bedding in compound on the surface of the pad. A step a lot of people fail to do!

$450 you say? What if I only want a 1-way ticket to 3,000ft rather than a return?

Saw that a couple of weeks ago and found it pretty interesting. Actually attempted to find some research or details and theorys why there's such a significant pattern but evidently google thought I just wanted porn. Anyone know any more?

Most places it's seatbelts on for takeoff (and landing if you end up making one) in case of the need to make an emergency landing (crash). They stay on until you're high enough to get out in the event of an aircraft emergency - interpretation of that differs from place to place but commonly it's at least 1000ft with some being higher. Some places it's a requirement from the governing body. Some places it's just plain common sense. Some places have no common sense and so don't use seatbelts... maybe you should have a quite word where you jump...

Is that why he went for right-side-up crucifixion, 'cause he knew all hell would break loose if he was turned the wrong way up?

Yup - Plenty of race series' with them in the UK. Slammed, stripped and caged they're not bad entry level racer, in fact it's where the early ones come into their own as they're so cheep and light by comparison to later models. You wouldn't want to butcher a straight TR like that though. On the road though - they oughta come with a hair dryer fitted in the glove box.

It depends what you want. Whilst they're both open top 2-seaters, frankly there's where any similarity will end... in fact I don't really think they're particularly comparable. The TR is a classic car and will need ongoing maintenance etc and depending on what the climate is around you may well entail an ongoing battle against rust. The Mazda will be soulless by comparison but in all likelihood will be good to go any day of the week (assuming you're not buying a complete shed). Early ones are getting on a bit but later marks are frankly just like any other new car in terms of ownership worries. What are you looking for, a daily driver? Something fun for the weekend with a bit of history that you can tinker with? Or something fun for the weekend that you can just go out for a blast knowing it will start every time? What's your budget? Of the two… TR takes the heart and would be more of an event to drive. It would probably not be a great car to try and commute in all year round. I don't think I could cope with an MX5 on the road - it's just _not_ a sports car, it's an open top tourer at best. There's just no chassis rigidity. Whilst the same can probably said of the TR, it's at least got pedigree and class. Neither are particularly fast.

That's a _very_ expensive lense on his stills camera - he's a pro camera flyer - and this occured in the UK, where the helmet cam police are well and truly out in force. Vary rarely would anyone get away with getting on a plane with a camera without C-license (200 jumps plus a few extra qualifications). In any event, it's in the report that he has 1300 jumps. Given the sheepish way he quickly gets off the field, I don't see this as a deliberate thing. Sure, there are loads of outs on 3 sides of the stadium, which I saw as odd at first, but just by reading his body language I don't think this was intentional. Discussion on the UK forum also indicates it was not. My take is he was probably trying to make it back to the DZ but judged too late that he wouldn't clear buildings so took the only out he'd left himself with. That in itself is worthy of Monday morning quarterbacking to some degree, but I doubt this was as daft as some are making out. I think he should have made the call to take a different field earlier - maybe the cloud was so low as to prevent that? I'd be surprised if it was but at least he landed safe and didn't either hook in attempting to clear the field, collect a building or take out one of the players as in the recent baseball demo.

Cold intollerance is a common result - consider good gloves adapted to fit. Bio-oil is often recomended for scars and supposedly does wonders in assisting in their development. Grip strength is usually reduced - ensure you've sufficient to deploy your reserve - consider if a pillow reserve handle is no longer an option for you (if you ever did) or if you should limit yourself to a metal D-ring reserve handle. Hope your recovery is progressing nicely by this stage.

In fairness to the Hawks, that's kinda the point. You've currently got a 3 (if not more) way fight - Assad, Islamic extremists and moderates. The argument is that if someone doesn't back the moderates you're going to end up with Islamic extremists in power with access to chemical weapons and the means to deliver them. So nearly 50% of rebels being Jihadists can be read two ways: "these are the guys on our side, FTW???" Or "holy shit, we better back the other 50% before these guys get the upper hand.

Definition of theft? Easy - dishonestly appropriating property belonging to another with the intention to permanently deprive - Section 1(1) Theft Act 1968. To apply that to your scenario: He appropriates the property (the milk) which belongs to another (the employer) simply by picking it up and walking off with it in his possession. He does this dishonestly as he is permitted to take the milk for use in the office, not to take it home. He may have a defence if he holds an honest belief that the owner would consent to his action or an honest belief that he has a right to lawfully appropriate the property by virtue of the fact they're sat their free to take. He has the intention to permanently deprive the lawful owner of the property as he is going to drink the milk. It's technically also potentially a burglary under s.9 if he enters the part of the building with the milk in it as a trespasser (his licence to enter the part of the building with the milk in it extends to working there/making himself tea etc, not stealing their milk, thus making him a trespasser if he forms the dishonest intent to take the milk prior to entry to the part of the building where the milk is). Arguably if, at the time he appropriates the property (picks it up and walks off with it), he has no dishonest intent as he is going to use it at his desk, and then only subsequently forms the dishonest intent to take the milk home, he may not have committed a theft as the dishonest intent and appropriation have to occur in tandem.

Bignugget - not a dig at you as in this context its clear what you mean, but does anyone else hate this word? To my mind, it covers such a huge variety of people and area that its use as a descriptor is virtually meaningless. This includes Chinese, Indian, Korean, Filipino, Japanese, Vietnamese, Sri Lankan, Cambodian and Thai. That's over half the worlds population. Maybe its just me. Makes it a bugger trying to get hold of just the right kind of porn doesn't it.

I still like the story associated with Douglas Bader when he had to bail out over German teritory (his version is he'd run out of ammo so rammed the Jerry he was dogfighting) and lost a prosthetic leg in the process. The Germans (on Goering's authority no less) told the Brits about the loss and said that if they gave them a flight plan they would allow a plane in to drop a replacement leg for him by parachute. RAF said, "thanks but no thanks Fritz, we don't need your permission or safe passage". Then proceeded to fly the replacement leg in, drop it for Bader and continue on to bomb power station. Just after the war, Bader arranged for a replacement leg for a colleague of the chap who'd kicked off the permission for a leg to be flown in to Bader in the first place as they were now both in British custody.

Reminds me of an occasion when an ex of mine (who I was with at the time) had been admitted into hospital - her mother had decided she would come down to stay with her once she was released. I received a text message from a number I didn't recognise which I simply couldn't read. It was full of shortened words with sections of words replaced with numbers. Complete and utter nonsense. I put it down to a wrong number from some chav and ignored it completely. Turned out it was pretty important info from my ex's mother with details about when she would be arriving. "Text, me, no I didn't receive any text I'm afraid - must have been lost on the wire" Never admitted to her that I'd thought her text had been written by someone with a severe mental disability. Then again, in hindsight the whole family was a bunch of nuts.

Just so you know, whilst you might not be getting many replies recently, we are still reading and interested in your projects. It's great to read of someone 'mucking about' like this.

Thanks for the info! Really helps answer my question. Not sure what more there is to say. It's so blatantly obviously fake it's not even funny. What info do you want about the clip?

You only -think- that's fake?

You know nothing Jon Snow.

Radweld - job done.

And not the boring kind either. Was given a session as a birthday present and went earlier in the week. Took my track wheels off and put road tyres back on and went through about 3mm of tread in the day. Lots of sideways and spinning action. Most of the morning spent perfecting taking a 90 degree bend at speed. Starting out at 60mph and trying to turn in without hitting a line on the runoff zone. Building up speed to doing it at 80mph + while still turning to avoid the imaginary wall. Lots of spins and learning how to anticipate, catch and correct the spin. Then doing it at 80 while emergency braking through the corner... and stopping the spin. Afternoon was understeer/oversteer training, controlling slip angle on the throttle. Lots of counterintuitive things to practice like taking off lock in order to turn harder. Ended the day doing runs of a timed circuit putting into practice everything we'd learnt over the day. Cracking day, lots of fun, stacks to learn. Highly recommend you look into something local to where ever you are in the world. If you're in the UK, I can highly recommend Car Limits. Instructor is an ex-F1 driver who competes in the Elise Trophy, splitting his time between 4 students on the day. It's even taken into account by some insurers when setting premiums (I'm guessing probably only niche market mind) and current F1 teams come to do exactly the same high speed bend as we were doing.

If cash it tight consider looking for a place locally which train static line instead of a tandem which you seem to be considering as something just to tide you over till you can start properly. A static line first jump course costs usually less than a tandem (this may or may not be true where you find yourself in the world) and it's a great way to get some ground school that will not be all that difference from an AFF first jump course. If it's just to tide you over, well you just saved a few bucks for your AFF course and learned a heck of a lot more than you ever would on a tandem. If you still have a few bucks left over, you could do 2 or 3 jumps as training jumps on a static line course are usually not that much more than standard post-qualification jumps. Heck you could even qualify that way - you could find doing only a couple of jumps a month is still enough to let you progress, albeit slowly and is within budget. Or if you get far enough through the program you can often later covert to AFF. Worst case scenario is you do 1 or 2 static line jumps, just to tied you over and for the same price as a tandem. When you do get round to AFF you'll have a much better knowledge base than if you'd just done a tandem. If you can find somewhere locally that teaches a static line/IAD program.

The list is 95% comedy and only 5% comment. Having an anglo centric thread without a poke at our friends across the channel is just as inconceivable as doing so without a similar poke at our friends over the pond. We now only need one about zee Germanz and maybe a bit of a skit about the Ozzies and this thread can be called done and closed down. We're English, we express our fondness for people by taking the piss out of them. If we didn't like someone at heart we wouldn't bother.

As above, they contribute more than they cost. Off the top of my head, some non-exhaustive reasons why we have a royal family, in no particular order: 1) daft yanks (mainly) coming over to look at their sparkly shit brings in loads of money 2) having them upsets the yanks on point of principal, which amuses us 2b) and the French - especially the French in fact 3) we like to laugh _at_ them 4) we like to laugh at the way the yanks fawn over them (especially the second rate ones that no one over here even know exist) 5) we actually send them off to war where they really do kill Johnny foreigners / put their arse on the line and get shot at by exocets etc 6) we really can't be arsed with faffing about with a system that's worked for centuries 7) we just don't care 8) Prince Philip is _fucking_ hilarious. Everyone wishes they had a mad old uncle like Prince Philip (and he served well in WWII - see point 5) 9) every now and again we get an extra public holiday because one of them does something unusual 10) every year the army gets to march up and down on HRH's birthday - everyone loves marching up and down and shouting orders and stuff 11) when its time to change them over, we get to have a street party and pretend the war just ended or something whilst selling lots of plastic tat emblazoned with union flags to visiting yanks (see point 1) BTW, they don't live on public money. They live on their own money, which admittedly, is only theirs by dint of who happened to give birth to them and was, many hundreds of years ago, essentially stolen at the point of a sword. Meh. We make them pay tax on it. They get an annual grant pay for their civic duties - opening libraries and shit - which we take from rent on the property owned by the Crown. The tax payer gets something like £200 mil from the rent and pays about £30 mil on running the lot. Not that bad a deal. Largely, the answer is: we don't care.

Typically understated by Private Eye: http://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/news/world/2013/07/23/royal_baby_front_pages_from_england/woman_has_baby.jpg

No like this thing does - better vid here showing how it works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnlTGndRi38 Whole blade drops down under the table away from fingers. Needs the blade and safety mech replacing afterwards - a 5 min job and a $70 part - but that's a lot cheaper than trying to collect your employees fingers up after he lops them off (well, it's cheaper than the hike in your employers liability insurance premium anyway).