Mississippi Bullfrog

As Stu says, pads often just lightly touch the disc which can generate noise. Perfectly normal and nothing to worry about. If you're concerned they're binding ride a mile or so then stop gently on the front brake only. Then just see if the rear disc is hot. Sometimes a very slight smear of copper assembly compound can help but check the spec of the calipers and only use the smallest amount.

Last time I did a first aid course the advice was not to remove the helmet. Hope the guy recovers ok.

Who knows - they're all tossers. Except I have to say Michael Heseltine. I'm no Tory but there's a man I respect. Otherwise, I'd agree with the pancake throwing reference.

Sorry, no point following that one up. I've already given them all my details so just waiting for all that money to arrive in my account. Really nice lady. So sad that her father who banked the funds for humanitarian purposes has disappeared. Still, all's well that ends well.

I would not usually condone the ballistic deployment of dairy based products. But in this case I have to say it could not have happened to a more deserving person.

I used to have savings in investments portfolios but I found buying property to let gave a better return in the long run. Your percentage returns is better than stock based investment. It just depends how much you’re talking about.

Back on track....I'd second the Halfords Advanced range. I broke a socket doing stupid torque on a seized wheel nut and they replaced it without hesitation.

Bet you knew the channel number for babestation though I assume that's either a channel for very small children or some kind of post natal forum?

I didn't even know there was an ITV 4!

When I joined my usual username was taken, though I can't find anyone on here using it. Then it kind of went wrong and rejected everything I tried, even totally random stuff. In the end I used a line from one of my favourite songs and it got accepted so I was stuck with it. Like a Mississippi bullfrog sitting on a hollow stump....got so many women I don't know which way to jump. Flip, flop, fly is the song. I have a wife, two daughters, and around 250,000 bees (most bees are female, they only need a tiny percentage of males - drones). So I'm kind of outnumbered.

The one thing you really need is to stop off and buy some of my honey. No trip to Oulton Park is complete without a jar of local sunshine in a jar. (20% discount for TMBF members)

Our cars have filler caps on opposite sides and I can never remember which is which. Pull into a petrol station today. Go left, no go right, no it's left. Look down. I'm on a bike

It's ages since I've had to be involved this kind of I but when it happened to me I let the car be declared a write off, accepted a figure, then bought the car back and just ran it like it was. But on a previous occasion when I wanted to do something similar they went and scrapped the car before I had chance to sort it out. So there's no simple answer that applies universally. I guess it depends on how your insurers handle it.

Incidentally - if you use paraffin do not let it drip anywhere near your brakes. I got some onto my rear pads once and it renders them about as much use as two cheese slices trying to grip the disc. But less tasty.

It's called evolution.

I spray with dry wax, use the same on my push bike. Simple, clean, no rust and no grit pick up. In response to the OP, there have been many threads about chain lube and everyone has their own way of doing it. It is widely and sometimes hotly debated!

They'd have to run away backwards for you to stand any chance of getting away with it! If that kind of thing worked the US would be peaceable crime free country.

Yea the dog is a takeaway and it don't know .... Which one ? ( Look closely ) Blimey, you've got good eyesight. Poor little thing, should have a crash helmet on it.

It's not just the police. My sister is a teaching assistant, a little lad swallowed a marble and started choking. She took the usual first aid steps to dislodge the obstruction and he survived. But his parents complained she'd assaulted him so she's been through disciplinary. I'd have expected the parents to thank her or the school to back her up. Perhaps mummy and daddy ought not to have sent him into school with marbles, but of course it's not their responsibility.

This story reminds me of a case we had in NL some time ago. Nob of the day was to me the judge when he decided 'guilty'... A man stopped for a red traffic light. An ambulance came up from behind, 'screaming and flashing'. The good man made way by pulling up a few meters. That's when the camera 'got' him... In court, the judge told the man that he was not allowed to 'make way for an ambulance' if it meant violating some f...ng traffic rule. Better to let someone die then to jump a red light ? Same is true if you pull into a bus lane to let them past. The theory is that you're meant to let them work out a route rather than changing your position on the road. But you'd think some common sense could prevail in the traffic lights situation!

In the absence of applying intelligence and hard work the currency of social media and the tabloid press is outrage. It's easy to stir up and lucrative to exploit. But it doesn't have the capacity to effect positive change. So peddling outrage just creates a self defeating vicious circle. If a review of the judicial system is needed it won't come through the likes of the DM, Twitter, Facebook etc. So long as it's someone else's fault and someone else's problem nothing will change. We just create the climate of outrage and anxiety which is a goldmine for those who do well out of it (which includes those who rely on public paralysis in order to carry out theft and attacks.)

I wouldn't put too much credence into anything published by the Daily Mail. Back in the 1930s they were rather keen on an up and coming young chap on the continent who they thought had the right idea how to run things. It turned out young Adolf wasn't quite the genius they took him for but the facts have rarely given the DM much pause for thought. They supported fascism then and there's little to suggest they learnt anything from what happened next.

What you have there is a Muscovy Duck. They come in various colours but the common identifier is the red eye patch. Probably descended from a released pet duck.

Project bikes seem to go for more than £300 though. I've done a couple of cars as restorations, great fun but you never get back what they cost you. You have to see the money as buying you something to enjoy rather than as an investment. Even tatty old CGs go for a fair bit these days.

If someone offered me £250 for my car I'd snatch their hand off.