will.morris

Currently 5'9 66kg Heaviest I've ever been was 77kg ... ironically when I was eating healthily doing rowing and weight training a lot. ...So can some of us join in by trying to gain weight? Funny how peoples bodies are different though, I could eat and do no exercise for the next 6 monthes and if anything I'd lose weight Great in some peoples eyes but not when you wanna gain!

Did have some very well put together scenes in it. Rowan Atkinson is a fantastic man Would have liked to have seen a bit more of an international theme to it, I think a lot of the references would only have been understood by the English but it was for an international audience. Music wise it was far too orientated on pop music for me, as a nation we have far more talent in our music culture than dizzee rascal and emeli sande such as opera singers/brass bands/military style marching bands. BUT before I get slated for being negative I thought the vast majority of it was very well put together. Should have finished it on a high after the amazing firework display though IMO rather than a cringeingly out of tune performance by PM. Fireworks were outstanding and fitted in with the theme of the torch, so IMO nothing was needed after that to end it. Its here now and we all paid for it so may as well get some enjoyment from it, its already enabled me to have 1 bbq so far Shame about the road race, lets hope Wiggo can make us even more proud of him than we already are in the time trial.

Was round my grandparents once having a sunday dinner and a cowboy turned up at the door and asked if they wanted a tree in their front garden taken out, small sycamore about 20ft high. He was speaking to my grandma for about 10mins so I thought I'd better go and see what was happening to make sure he wasn't trying to con her. Turns out he was trying to quote £250 because the black dots on the leaves were a disease that was killing the tree and making it unsafe. I'd been doing some work in the back garden (free of charge obviously as its my family) and was wearing my hiflex and a stihl tshirt ... he suddenly became very sheepish and said to me maybe the dots weren't that bad afterall but that being next to a main road the tree might fail from dirty air Needless to say I told him no thanks and added we'll get a professional round if we want it looking at in the future, no reaction just turned and walked off ...sadly though I dare say he got a job off some old lady in the next street

Don't be daft mate.... Would take forever, has to be a top handle First pic amused me

I must be amazingly crap then I ended up buying a pantin instead Not sure if footwear makes much difference but some people just seem to get it straight away

That bad is it haha

I'm with you on this one.

Do you always feel that your straining really hard when you climb? Or was it just a particularly physical bit and you over did it? Not sure how you feel about it but maybe you would really benefit from making the switch to SRT? I don't know much about it, had a few go's on different srt systems at shows but thats about it so I can't provide info but certainly seems it could be worth a search on here for you and there are plenty of people on here that use it

That is the pits Motorists wind me up in so many ways, the further you get away from london the slower peoples brains seem to function when they are behind the wheel of a car. Coming out of Ipswich the other day we had a set of temporary traffic lights that were green the other side and red our side and every minute or so the lights would turn green, for quite literally 1/2 seconds so a flash not long enough for the 1st car to go then they'd be red again. This went on for about 5mins so quite clearly they were faulty so I was getting a bit pee'd off and beeped people to push through. Eventually i thought sod this and overtook about 8 cars before just going through. I know its illegal, but they were faulty ... would people have sat for hours on end before they worked it out, I just dont get it Another is people pulling out on you not realising your moving considerably faster then they are! My little rant over this is aimed drivers in general not just woman

To me huskies always seem to have a bit more torque to the equivalent stihl and I find the pick up speed as you get on the throttle is quicker, which is why for snedding up I'll always pick up the husky if I have access to one. I'm not basing any of that on figures, just how the saws 'feels' to me when I'm using it. Stihl vs Husky thread though so in theory 50% of members will disagree

Everyone has bad days mate!

It sounds like a fantastic opportunity so who cares what the accomodation is like Give it your all and don't be too quick to judge anything, if you came over to England and got in with a rubbish company in a rough area you would'nt like it so my point is keep an open mind about the country Good luck!

WOOOHOOOOOO!!! What a time for british cycling Every member of Team Sky just got their heads down and put in the hard work and then some! Hearing the national anthem in Paris and seeing our man in yellow was a magnificent moment for the sport as a nation. Olympics now ... and I don't think we could ask for a stronger team!

I personally have a lot of friends that work in farming so I wouldn't be bothered to pay even an extra 50p for my milk (I only use it for tea/coffee anyway!) if it meant that these hard working people could carry on their dairy farming. The way the country is though I can imagine 90% of our population would be pee'd off at a 10p increase and see it as just another price increase in our 2012 messed up Britian.

I see haha ... how silly of me

You'll have to be quick I'll go for the 1500m, string it out a bit

Cool

Haha pub talk at its finest ...Hope my thread doesn't result in a night on the sofa for you, thats just not cricket

Pretty sure it was your view on the olympics that the thread asks not your judgement of peoples responses (Don't take offensive I'm just winding you up now haha)

The apprenticeship does sound like a good idea if you can do it. I've just finished 2 years at college and I would recommend it. It opens your mind up about the industry I thought as it covers forestry operations, legal issues, science side of things + much more. It also lets you climb in a no-pressure environment, so when your just starting out or when you doing new rigging techniques you can go at your pace and make sure you understand everything fully. I did the level 3 national diploma in forestry and arb and honestly if you keep on top of things it really isn't that intense. Experience wise though a lot of guys got part time work whilst at college, almost like being an apprentice. If you have the time to do a 2 year course then I would say it is worth it mate, I don't regret it.

Because Arbtalk is a public community of professionals that work alongside each other and I was interested to hear their opinions much like I'd discuss it with my mates down the pub Clue is in the title, if you don't want to be part of a moany thread then you are under no obligation to read/post.

Safe to post now I think haha! As a sports fan I think the olympics is fantastic and truely appreciate all the training involved. Just look at the line up for our mens road cycling team! Especially if Wiggo manages to hold on!!! As much as I love sport though ... ~£12bn to host it and theories that it could end up double that, I don't think it's small mindedness to think that that is a gross amount of money to spend on sport given the mess we are in. Bit of perspective, we have people out on the front lines under-equipped. More to life than trees but also more to life than sport. In all honesty I'd be just as happy to watch out athletes do well in another country without the costs. The thread is going how I wanted it to, people expressing different view points but no-one is having personal digs at each other

Become a thug and bad mouth David Haye, nice little coma by say ooo about round 5, wake up, done and dusted

I don't think the 'Trees and the law' section of my ND3 in forestry and arb really provides me with the knowledge to get into a law discussion with someone like yourself The point I was making was based on the possibility that the employment offer COULD all have been word of mouth, much like me working for you on a cash in hand basis following an un-recorded telephone call offering me employment/a wage, with no paperwork to say I worked for you. To me that is not 'official' and provides no way of proving that I did work for you but someone like yourself with knowledge of law could correct me otherwise. But this might not be the case at all, so sorry to the OP for drifting off topic.