Epic WTF

Which is a sub-species of weevils.

weevils wobble but they don't fall down

They do once they've been boiled with the pasta

Give it a nudge.

Weevils wobble but they don't fall down.

The packet was opened, at a guess.

Check the other packets kept in the same area, as most likely an infestation.

You were beaten to it.

Your pasta supplier of choice is ahead of the curve, supplementing the protein content with some crunchy insect protein.

Flour beetle? We had an in infestation of them in our flour bin some time ago - flour can have eggs in it.

Ah, bug-ger

It wasn’t. And there’s no bugs in any of the other packets in the same drawer or the drawer itself.

Oz government has a mile-wide tax loophole for 'commercial' vehicles which sees three quarters of everyone with an Australian Business Number getting around in one of these giant diesel-guzzling arsehole conveyances.

Once had a little bump with one of these in a maccas carpark in Gosford (I know, should have known better but it was a long drive, I was jetlagged and I was hungry). The guy told me it was his work vehicle (he was a plumber) but his girlfriend told me not to worry about him not getting to work as he had a "really fucked up old ute at home for work, this one is just for weekends". Luckily I took the excess insurance at the airport.

On the subject of weird bugs, I had this landing on my trousers at the weekend at a lake near Berlin. What is it?
Had fancy fans on its face.

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looks like a non-biting midge, male (frilly antenna)

https://www.romansinternational.com/used/cars/ford/f150/raptor-supercrew-3524

Heap of shite.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6p284ng14yt

My wife refers to lfgss and its members as the weevils, and me using the forum as weevilling. Nine times out of ten when I ask a question on here it’s because I have been asked “can you ask the weevils about….?”

Heap of shite.

This is the aspirational vehicle of choice for all the hardman builders and roofers around here (outer western London burbs).

Yeah looks the ticket. Thanks!

Huge Ford pickup for £120 grand

I'd love to understand the psychology here. A social group of males desires something which is difficult to acquire and degrades the habitat of their species. How come? Is it something to do with their conditioning?

For many years I worked as a tree surgeon at a big firm over west. When I started out the runaround/quoting vehicles were all Vauxhall Astra vans or VW Caddys - could fit all you’d need for a day doing quotes, running forgotten saws to the lads or whatever else. My Astra was a rocket ship and could tow fairly big bits of plant with ease.
The 2 directors had Mitsubishi Warriors to float around the suburbs in.

By the time I left almost everyone above a certain level had a lifted Ford Ranger with macho accessories as a company motor.
Yes, very occasionally they’d end up towing something or pulling a stuck box truck out of the mud on site but they were utterly useless.
I refused to take one and hung onto my Astra van until it finally shit the bed.
Those pickups are dogshit to drive, loads of blind spots(especially the lifted ones) and shit to park. Any 3pt turn is a 7pt in one of them.

Anyone who chooses to buy one is definitely a bit of a bellwhiff.

Always want/,wanted the raised Toyota Hilux with roll over bar and KC daylighters aka the Marty mcfly Hilux from back to the future.

Of course a time circuited delorian with the reg plate outatime.

Closest I have got is a Hilux surf, and it wasn't as nice as I'd hoped.

Phew, so relieved I got a D-Max.

I've had to play the company car/tax write off game in the last year. I always assumed you could claim the entire amount of your vehicle against your tax but no, the maximum is $65k. Some of these trucks are over $150k so they'll be paying most of that figure out of their own pocket, I don't know how they do it.

As stupid as it is, I'd struggle not to have one in my Euro millions rollover garage

That's a toy on a kitchen table, you wouldn't need a garage.

My wife refers to lfgss and its members as the weevils

YACF was dubbed the "weight loss cult" by Mrs GB, which got abbreviated to "the cult". I went from ~95kg to 76kg in 8 months in the run up to LEL 2009 and much of my time arranging various Audaxes via YACF was responsible for this.

Since one cycling forum was already "the cult" it meant that LFGSS became "the fixed gear cult" to differentiate it from the other one.