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I achieved this using a python script once that takes a transparent png and places it over the original image. Is that beyond your capability?

I've just dropped out to grab a spot of lunch and while i was at it, i chose to put a splash of fuel in the bike. The PA system crackled with some inaudible instruction, followed by some gesticulated instructions which i presumed meant "remove your helmet". Nope. That ain't happening. I went into the shop and reminded them that we've just been through a 2 year pandemic, where people covering their face wasn't just encouraged, but mandatory. It's their "policy". It wasn't last week. When did the policy change? They've always had it. I smelled BS. The only thing I can think is that when i pulled up, there was a couple of lads on a bike next to me. So i suspect they were assuming that I was a party to the same shenanigans they were. They then said "we get a lot of drive offs." I accept that, but then you're making the assumption that i'm going to do the same thing. You're accusing me of a crime before I've had the opportunity to commit it! I put forward my arguments for not removing my lid while filling up (place is swimming with diesel etc). eventually they relented and allowed me to fill up. The lads on the bike next to me were cheering me on. I don't especially like discrimination. I'm hald tempted to go back and fill up the car with my lid on and see if the same "policy" applies.

Treated the bike to some new rubber today. The difference in handling is night and day. The old tyres were original to the bike 15 years ago and are looooong overdue a change.

Was very active a few years back, but put the bike passion on hold to start a family. Have since got back on after my old bike was pinched. Looking forward to seeing who of the old crew are still knocking around!

MOD 1 is more tricky than MOD2. I passed MOD1 first time with no minors - but it was still challenging and made me sweat! I found the key to it was remaining calm. Talk to the examiner - as him to clarify things if you're uncertain. keep you revs and your head up and remember what your teacher taught you. Think about being really positive on the steering input. for the swerve, sit upright and give the handle bar a good push and use countersteering to get round that cone, you should never clip it! Additionally, enjoy riding on that tarmac. nowhere else in the UK is there tarmac smoother than a MOD 1 test center!

Ok, I'm interested, but have some questions. Is it like an on call thing - or am i liable to be working from 7pm to 7am? how the hell does anyone working full time fit those sort of requirements in with their day job?

sadly i think you're right - sony seem to be distancing themselves from it already. one other annoying thing about VR is the fact you're so sensorily deprived - so you can't actually have a conversation with you other half while playing. It's very cool - but ultimately very lonely.

I have VR. VR is freaking awesome, but I've been utterly disappointed by the lack of full titles for it thus far. REVII looks like the first proper title and by all accounts - it's freaking awesome. I do want!

cheers, Always nice to hear of a trusted ebayer! In fairness, I haven't had a great deal of trouble from ebay - but you do hear some horror stories!

If you share every penny, then this could be where you're struggling. IMHO the best way to work it is to have a joint pot which mortgage/rent and bills come out of. each party pays an equal amount into this pot. over payment into this pot pays for our holidays. Then each party has their own money to spend and manage how they see fit. for me it goes on christmas and birthday presents for her - and for her it goes on birthday and christmas presents for her. Works very well! Seriously though with a maintained split in finances, it allows you each to pursue your own hobbies and save and spend whatever you see fit.

I quit 10 years ago and have not bothered with vaping.

cold weather is fine with the right gear. Sleet is frickin horrible. I remember getting caught on the motorway once when it started sleeting. you open your visor and you get sleet in your eyes, you close the visor and the sleet sticks. you open it a crack and everything fogs up and you can't see a thing. Worst experience ever!

struggling to think what my first game was. Probably something on the C64. I remember playing dynamite dan, jet set willy, eldon and the like. first console i had was the NES. first games i had was super mario bros and duck hunt. followed up a couple of days later with a game called "section-z". I wanted mario 2, but my dad said i already had a platform game and wouldn't i prefer a side scroller (i.e. he prefers side scrollers!). Always been a gamer, Always will be a gamer. I've had a minecraft account since 2010 (was looking just last night) when the game was early beta. It's a sandbox survival sim. Basically it's lego. The PC version allows for mods to be build where elements of the core code are extended and overloaded by modified code allowing for some pretty special new items such as engines, trains, computers, mining "turtles" and mining machines (to name but a few.) My wife doesn't understand it at all. When i tell her it's a game with no real purpose, she doesn't get it. It's just fun to be creative.

I know of hudgells. their name's plastered all over the KC!

a friend of mine coined a term for this. Shattoo. (shit tattoo!).

Gabe is 2 and he knew what to do. I guess at that age they're all at different places developmentally so it's for you to decide whether your spawn will handle it well or not. you can get them for £120 on ebay.

Went into Maplin on the weekend to pick up some odds and sods. Mini me was immediately on this thing!

2007 street triples go for around the 3k mark and are worth every penny. My instructor called it the unicycle because he went everywhere on 1 wheel. er6n is a very forgiving first bike. as said, an older bandit 650 will be around the 2/2.5k mark for a tidy one. For me, i'd be looking at the triumph though - i still am!

I'd have needed to reverse about 100 yards down the road, versus her 3 feet!

Good morning all, I'm calling this road rage for lack of a better word. more likely road ignorance or road discourtesy! I was driving up a road near my house to go pick up the little one from nursery (so in the cage). i was travelling up hill around an almost blind corner. it's blind in that if you travel the stated speed of the road, you're not given enough time to react to traffic coming up the road from the other direction. the best course of action there is to slow right down and have a good look before proceeding. People rarely do! the road is a street over from my house and I travel it every day and have issues with oncoming traffic regularly. What most people do is put their car into reverse to allow me through (given I'm travelling up hill and am already heavily committed!) This woman yesterday thought differently. she squeezed her car over and beconned me through. I have an octavia estate, so it's not the most narrow of vehicles and i wasn't going to squeeze through. The only way i could get through would be to bump up onto the curb. The curb on this road is quite high, by estimation, it's high enough to curb my alloys and probably pinch the side wall if i was to get it a bit wrong or unless i do some crazy manoeuvre to get up onto the curb. I shook my head and gesticulated for her to move back. She slung her head back in fits of laughter, pulled on her hand brake and defiantly crossed her arms as if to say "I'm not moving from here!". I shrugged and climbed out the car. I approached her window and made the "can you wind your window down a little so we can chat". she turned her head. I'm not surprised by this reaction. She didn't know who i was and didn't know if I was a big angry bloke or a soft kitten (the latter). I couldn't be angry by this! She started to talk and i couldn't hear. i asked her to speak louder or wind her window down. she did neither. I could make out the words "drive on the pavement". my response to this was something along the lines of the pavement being for pedestrians, not for big cars! I then explained about my low profile tyres and the damage the high curb might cause to my alloys and the damage my alloys might cause to the curb! the retorted at one point and tried to talk over me. I said to her that i was kind enough to listen to her argument and she should do me the courtesy of listening to mine. She spat defiantly and turned her head. I'm not sure at this moment whether it was the third car that approached me from the rear, or the fact that I was indeed a larger degree of correct, but she put her car in reverse gear and moved her car back the 3 feet required to give myself and the fella behind the sufficient passing room to go through safely without damaging public property and my alloys. As i passed, i waved a hand of thanks. I received the single finger salute as a response. I left the situation thinking she can look back on this meeting and she can only be disappointed with her behaviour. I tried to conduct myself as calmly as i possibly could have done and explain the situation we were in and what the correct course was to abate it. Eventually that's how things went. I'm sure she's currently on the shitty vauxhall astra owners club forum right now venting her spleen about a 6' overweight bloke with a shaved head bullied her into reversing her car 3' so he could speed past - but I'd like to think she takes something more positive from the encounter.

can you get us a photo? I'm wondering (can't remember) if the exhaust is in 2 sections. therefore you might be able to slap a bit of exhaust paste on it and bosh a jubilee clip on it. if the split has a good bit of pipe either side, gum it up with exhaust paste and use a bit of thin steel (a steel drinks can will work fine) with 2 jubilee clips to hold it in place - until you can afford a replacement.

congrats!

my sister and brother in law moved into a house in leeds where similar had been done. they had to abandon the kitchen in the basement as it became obvious it had been DIY'd on the cheap! assuming you don't need to underpin, you need to excavate so you get the headroom. then it will need to be tanked (which isn't cheap) then battons, insulation and boarding. then skimmed, concrete floor will need to be poured. I really can't see it costing any less than 10k for a small basement - if you don't need to underpin. even more if you do! If you like the area you're in, you neighbours and you're keen to stay put - it might be cheaper than buying a new house. But you won't get any of that money you spend back when you come to sell.

SAY you will - foreigner

I have a 3.5 year old iPhone. I didn't get insurance when i bought it and I never will. i've saved hundreds over the years by not buying it and it is covered by household anyway - but i wouldn't claim. If im unlucky enough for it to break or lose it, i will buy another. People take mobile phone insurance because they think a phone is a necessity. it is not. Insurance is a scam and a gable all in one. I won't take it if i can avoid it!