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  1. Contracted to do 1 in 4 weekends, in reality I do 1 in 2 as we are shafted by a recruitment freeze so have noone else to do them. We do normal office hours on weekends, 8-5. Grim. Very little time available to take time off in lieu, again due to lack of staff. Funtimes.
  2. Been checking out some Kali vids on youtube. Looks pretty good actually. I reckon it's gonna be the fashionable martial art within the next 2-3 years.
  3. 'Disgusting' Goat Sex Man Jailed | Home | Sky News
  4. Got bare unseasoned oak and sycamore. Nothing seasoned though.
  5. Yeah I had the same when I was 27. Although it took 3 months to get into surgery, I was only in the hospital for 3 hours. Off work for 2 weeks although just caught up on paperwork as I was bored out my mind. 3 months later it was totally fine. Apart from the scar, I wouldn't even know it's there.
  6. We have a frame for one, possibly 40-50 metres long, 8 metres wide. I'll take proper measurements and a photo tomorrow if you are interested. We are near Portsmouth.
  7. I heard that it was good to use structually in water, like for footbridge supports over water.
  8. Some pucka produce there! I'm liking the hedgelaying a lot!
  9. So this then:
  10. I've done my trailer test as only passed driving test in late 1998 and I'm still none the wiser on what I can and can't carry. As far as I understand though, 3,500kg is my maximum total weight so long as the trailer weight does not exceed the vehicle weight, so can drive a 2,000kg vehicle while towing 1,500kg trailer + load. Or something like that. But then sometimes I hear that max weight including vehicle, trailer and load is 7,500kg.
  11. Overstood hazel is pretty good for firewood. We ring anything up over 3" diameter and sling in the firewood pile. It all adds up.
  12. For hiphop see: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d12EI3xNiqE&feature=&p=E746896FA165D75B&index=0&playnext=1]YouTube - Cypress Hill How i could just kill a man[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcyOFMKqf8M]YouTube - Cypress Hill - Lick a Shot[/ame]
  13. APC

    Point break.

    That's Matt Johnson!
  14. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjbTcOVTwp8&feature=related]YouTube - D.A.V.E The Drummer - Jacknife[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meGwhrZi26Q&feature=related]YouTube - The Weathermen ~ Domination ~ 1997[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C63zxu5Tkl4&feature=related]YouTube - SUF 51B Site Breakers Hash Fudge Dave[/ame] hmmmmmm have a mix or do coursework?? think it's gonna be a mix. coursework can wait until tomorrow, like it could yesterday.
  15. APC

    Point break.

    Have you heard of a film called "Drop Zone"? It is by the same director or writer as Point Break, and is identical in every way apart from they are bang into skydiving instead of surfing. It's uncanny.
  16. Kids nowadays want everything on their own terms. They want to be bigtime from the start, on the big money, with their own work hours. I appreciate that at 19, you want to be out enjoying yourself, but at that age, for £10 an hour, i would have bitten ya hand off.
  17. I think the speed limit for motorway is still appropriate now. Peoples reaction times haven't improved. I get sick and tired of seeing people tailgating. It rarely happens with me as I just cruise in the far left lane but occasionally I get some tosser on the country lanes on way to work who wants to do 80 in a 60. Only had one moron so close that I was actually worried though, and he was only there for about 2 seconds before overtaking me. If there was a safe place to stop or if I caught him up at the lights I would have had words
  18. Not tree related but I know a lot of you boyos do fencing on the side. Weld a 4 foot tube, maybe 3-4 inches diameter, to a flat foot, with a lip, kind of like this shape: _I_/ At the top of the "/" piece, weld a handle. When you are laying out rolls of wire fencing, put the roll over the "I" and fasten the roll to the first post, then drag the roll as far as you want with minimal effort. Hope that makes sense.
  19. Brief summary of surrounding land use?
  20. APC

    Point break.

    Plus I think it is on iPlayer at the moment.
  21. APC

    Point break.

    The Transporter / Broken Arrow / Point Break Box Set (3 Discs) - DVDs at Play.com (UK) If you were up for a couple of other Keanu Reeves films then £13.96 is pretty good. If you agree though that every other Keanu Reeves film is dull then probably not so good value.
  22. Yeah that's pretty mental. I surfed Boscombe Pier at 4-5' on the face at midnight once. That was scary enough.
  23. [ame] [/ame] This is one of the better Krav vids on Youtube. Alain Cohen is from a different federation to mine but he seems pretty damn good.
  24. (copied from a post i did on another forum, feel free to ask me any questions about training) Krav is good at building up aggression and stamina in quite a short time. It can make some people over-confident though I reckon, as the marketing behind it makes it look like you'll be an urban commando within a few lessons. If you can see beyond that then you'll be fine. I would heartily recommend it. It trains scenario based stuff and knives, bats, guns. No matter how many times I have practiced the defenses for these, I still feel like I would poo myself when confronted with them. I have seen some people train who are total rubbish who either can't or won't improve their incredibly sloppy defense, but seem massively confident that they can "handle themselves" amongst a combination of multiple attackers with weapons. Like F*£k. 95% of the people at my place though are balanced individuals who train hard and aren't cocky like that. It's just the odd one. If I lived in a city or town and had the time, I would like to judo and muay thai. Possibly boxing instead of muay thai, but would prefer the kicking/knees/elbows. Boxing is usually cheap as chips which is obviously good for the wallet, as is judo. Muay Thai is fashionable right now so attracts a premium, also a lot of what is taught is not Muay Thai, apparently. This means you need to look for recommendations for the club you are thinking of joining. Good indicators could be a decent competition history. Does the place churn out winners? MMA places are in vogue at the moment too, so there's probably a lot of **** places (as well as loads of top-notch clubs), so tread careful if you fancied that, and expect to pay through the nose. There are plenty of "reality based self defense" (rbsd) classes, of which Krav is one of them. A lot of these are utter poo. With Krav, look for IKMF, Krav Maga Global (this is a branch off from KMG, very political, no difference in practice from IKMF except higher level instructors have been instructed themselves more often than IKMF, or something like that). Avoid "Commando Krav Maga" and anything associated with Moni Aizik. This is all based on lies and (proven) false claims about the founder, Moni (e.g. claiming to be ex special forces, swat team and more). You can buy yourself instructor level for a few grand. Other than that, apparently Tony Blauer SPEAR System is good, although I know nothing about it myself. If you can get yourself a nice mix of striking and grappling, and get the chance to spar you'll be fine. The only other thing I would suggest is avoiding shitholes and knowing when to turn and leg it, to avoid fighting.
  25. As long as you don't get caught twice in the same county then you can do it more than once. I got caught at 36 in a 30. Went on the course, at the biscuits, drank the tea, kept quiet and left. It was a thoroughly dull afternoon. Then again, if I wasn't driving too fast I wouldn't have been there. The only thing that annoyed me was that I didn't get caught speeding when I was younger, but instead when I actually calmed it down loads to the point that I don't speed as a rule, and I flick over 30mph for about 100 yards and get caught by a mobile van camera.

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