Any question answered...

I’m not convinced users of ‘LOL’ are actually laughing out loud. They could well be giving us the finger and sticking their tongues out.

rofl

Rofl !

When you could actually get somewhere by car?

It was better for cycling too,if you knew how to ride properly. Fuck all these different lanes and asls, they don't fit or work. Get rid of the obstructions on the network and everyone will have a clearer journey.

If only it was so simple. :)

I agree with you on cycle lanes, cycle tracks, and ASLs, as well as a few other things.

The traffic management of the 90s contributed a great deal to an increase in motor traffic in London (which has obviously also been driven by the increase in London's population). Some of that has been pegged back with good policies like bus priority, but a number of these policies are under immediate threat.

It would be nice to think that 'smoothing the flow of traffic' could somehow reduce motor traffic. Unfortunately, it will do the exact opposite. We can only hope that this nonsense will be stopped again soon.

The traffic management of the 90s contributed a great deal to an increase in motor traffic in London

I doubt it. More likely the growth of the economy drove the increase, like it always does.

Hi

I have just been assembling a flatpack frestanding kitchen island unit thingy.

I can't for te life of me work out how to put the two-part hinge together (the instructions are crap on this detail)

the hinge looks like this pic here:

Does anyone know the secret!? Please help. I'm guiding the little vertical bar into the notch furthest away, and the clip on the end of the spring mechanism nearest us on the right JUST WILL not go round the notch on the left nearest us...

For the love of tynan somebody help me

Are you meant to rotate the hinged mechanism to the opposite position first? Does the little vertical bar come out? Will the clip go on the mechanism first? Etc. Confusing.

tried both ways (i.e. which part engages first). At my wits' end.

i think you put the rear in, line up the front and give it a tap with your open palm

or the other way round, one defo goes in first, then wallop the other

you'd be better off putting up a pic of the instructions

Ok murts I'll try some murtle-engineering!

^^won't show it

The instructions are non-existant in the matter of the hinges. Totally. You're just meant to know. The instructions are for assimbling the furniture itself, not the hinge.

it is a bit of a knack, once you suss it, it is easy.

Loosening one of the screws helps. Can't remember exactly which one as it been a while since I used them. It was a bit of a faff when I was doing them but when I got it to work I was kicking myself for being so shit at DIY

Question for Rob really- this one ok?

http://www.screwfix.com/p/flexi-waste-straight-coupling-38-45mm/81383

Does anyone actually use the forum version 3.0?

It's horrible

I use it on my ipod touch, quite handy for mobile devices imo.

Ages ago I saw an episode of 'imagine', I think, that featured an artist who would build white rooms with odd-shaped windows looking up at the sky. the light in the room would cycle through colours as the day passed, and the colour of the sky would change too. sometimes contrasting, sometimes complimenting. it was mesmering in timelapse. I think he was building a massive version in a desert out in the states.
What was this guy's name? My google-fu is weak today :(

If I buy a campag veloce groupset and separate cantilever brakes, can the brakes be fitted with the cables that come with the groupset?

What are the best cantilever brakes for c. £30?

419 scams.
Has anyone on here ever played with the person writing the letter?

419eaters.com or similar, can't remember exactly and not keen to check because I'm at work.
(yet I'm on the forum. because I'm a hypocrite)

Ages ago I saw an episode of 'imagine', I think, that featured an artist who would build white rooms with odd-shaped windows looking up at the sky. the light in the room would cycle through colours as the day passed, and the colour of the sky would change too. sometimes contrasting, sometimes complimenting. it was mesmering in timelapse. I think he was building a massive version in a desert out in the states.
What was this guy's name? My google-fu is weak today :(

That's James Turrell. The episode was on the topic of light. Turrell is currently finishing his epic lifetime project 'Roden Crater'. A dormant volcano which he is excavating and re-engineering to play host to a collection of sky spaces, light rooms vaults and chambers. He also has a solo retrospective at Moscow's Garage gallery at the mo, is currently in the Venice biennial and was featured on a thread on this here forum when showing last year at London's Gagosian gallery.