Any question answered...

Are we talking north of the border? If so then the case is dead so have a pint or two to celebrate.

Woo!

Cheers

Is this really repairable for £50.

http://www.gumtree.com/p/bicycles/colnago-c50-carbon-frame-repair-/1103441285

I doubt it. Ask the seller where he went for his quote. If it's genuine you can put your mind at rest by speaking to the horse's mouth. My guess is the seller is talking bollocks.

Does anyone know if it's possible to recycle an old helmet easily? Shell and foam have come apart and it's been sitting in a drawer for two years or more.

Use the inside foamy bits as drainage for a glorious window box and / or pot plant! And the shell as shrapnel for your enemies!

Yes, it works for every video game.

I wonder if I could melt the shell into a bowl shape with a flat bottom...

Vertical dropout without derailleur hanger.
How do I mount a derailleur?

I suppose you could use one of these:
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/lifeline-emergency-rear-derailleur-hanger

You need either a claw adaptor or a claw type deraileur.

@josh?
is this true?
you've done it before?

Paging @General_Lucifer!

Can anyone give an example of when using soft brown sugar in place of demerera (or vice versa) would have any noticeable effect whatsoever?

I can tell you that muscovado elevates the flavour of most things that require sugar.

If you use demerara sugar in baking then the finished product will generally end up tasting a little less sweet than if you used brown sugar. If you use it in, say, coffee, you'll get a deeper, treacly flavour from it than you would brown sugar - though not as much as you would using muscovado.

Demerara (and Muscovado) is made by spinning sugar cane crystals in a centrifuge. The liquid that comes off is refined into molasses (which ends up being further refined into treacle, if you're into that kind of thing). The less time a sugar has spent in the centrifuge, the more molasses it contains, so the more of a treacle flavour it'll have - muscovado gets this treatment for less time than demerara, so it's darker and stronger. Brown sugar is made by adding refined molasses to white sugar, with the attendant reduction in strength.

If you're eating chunks of any of them then you need to take a good, hard look at your life choices.

Brown sugar is made by adding refined molasses to white sugar

What?! I did not know this...

Thanks - interestingly, when you buy juice "with bits" they've added the bits back in, rather than left them in. They have to do this to ensure each carton has a homogeneous amount of bits.

Innocent (for example) buys its pulp in big frozen batches from Mexico.

I'm not sure if it's the same story with these hipster "skin-on" chips.

Is this auction intended to be deceiving?
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=261808131488

Absolutely, report it. Gives a full description of the condition of the bike, and some components, auction for dust cap

wac!

New message from: cheapandcheerful48 (157Turquoise Star)
I'm in northumberland
The bike reserve is £750
Buy it now £799
What u see is what u get
No pedals, no computer
Postage £30 insured.
Quintana Roo claim 5'8" to 6'2"
My back is the issue
As the advert says text me to discuss
I am not wanting to pay eBay exorbitant fees
The bike is a bobby dazzler, I am a cycle mechanic
and all bearings are silky smooth, wheels true, less than 1000 miles since new.
Go on, You want it !!!
Offers
Pat

I know, right? But yeah, it's like fizzykorn says, it's to make sure there's a homogenous amount of molasses in the sugar as it's supposed to taste lighter.

People tend to associate it with brown rice, or wholemeal bread - it looks less processed than the alternative, so we assume that it is. I didn't know about the juice bits, for eg, and assumed they must be left in rather than added. UNTIL NOW!

Offering to trade outside of eBay => well dodge.

Same with milk. All milk which is destined to be blue/green/red-top is 100% skimmed, then re-added to hit target percentages.