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it has disks on each rear.

It looks like the bodywork is made with panels of bamboo plywood. That's going to be a big material in the next decade, I reckon. Bamboo is going to get used in amazing ways once people get more into doing Gougeon-brothers-style epoxy engineering with it. I had a go myself a while ago and it seemed promising although getting hold of the right raw materials is pretty much impossible in the UK.
I'm not sure if the frame geometry is quite right for really getting your weight over the pedals with a couple of bulky passengers, though, even though it looks very chopper-ish and cool...

How about a nice charlotte? Apple or whatever in the bottom of the dish, and a layer of sponge mix (eg 3 eggs, 8oz SR flour, 6oz each sugar and marge / butter) on top, bake... It goes very nice and moist underneath where it sits on the fruit.

The coolest five minutes ever committed to film:
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Hellzapoppin' (1941) - Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart - The Harlem Congeroos[/ame]

Or this, a personal favorite...

YouTube- Hchicha Mahna yal mahna

well i want low tax, high spending on public services and a buoyant economy.

tell me who to vote for

Santa Claus?

Once I carefully locked up my nice mountain bike with a big D-lock and a long cable through both QR wheels. When I came out of the cinema some cunt had nicked the skewers. Had to push it home...

I ended up with a black eye once from my cousin throwing a dead cat at me.

When we were kids we used to go down to the marshes and throw jellyfish at each other. Once one burst on my face and left one of its inside ring bits hanging in my hair.

For me personally the last ten years have switched me from a default labour voter to a committed green voter. Both Labour and the Tories are locked into an obsolete mindset of top-down Government, disdain bordering on actual hostility to democratic mechanisms and institutions, and an unforgivable brown-nosed servility to the blatantly incompetent and parasitic financial services sector. Both have no real understanding of the urgent need to prepare for a world in which oil is no longer affordable or even available, and -truly unforgivable given their apparent political stances - both seem to lack any real understanding of or commitment to the free market. And that's before I even start on the venal, small-minded, self-righteous attitudes of their MP's, or the wars... Two big gangs of absolute dongs, is what they are, and a big part of the appeal of the Green party is that they're completely outside the current system.

I've never really got the whole 'Labour have just been really shit, haven't they' argument. It just seems that people have got really high expectations, and because they're not met, Labour must be shit. Growing up in the 1980s and early 1990s there were some things I didn't think would ever happen. Things like the minimum wage, devolution, reform of the house of lords and the human rights act would have been unthinkable under the Tories (in fact they want to scrap the HR act).

And the Working Families Tax Credit - that's probably the single most significant government act I can think of in terms of making life better for the people I know who need it - single parents, families on low incomes etc.
And labour didn't have a mandate for anything really radical. They were voted in precisely because Tony Blair had said that they weren't going to do anything too left wing. It would have been undemocratic if they'd gone ahead with a full-on socialist agenda.

What a pain. I'm just cooking up a scheme to import a cool cargo bike by bribing a friendly bike shop to run it through their business, then buying it via my highly cooperative employer to get the tax and Vat off it.

http://www.cyclescheme.co.uk/ - you can search for approved local suppliers on there.

Maybe ask someone in the finance dept why it's only Evans. The scheme is government-backed, but the Inland Revenue simply says that it has to be from an approved supplier - I was looking at the approved suppliers list in my area today and as far as I could see it was every bike shop I know of and a few more.

There are some Saffas who will squash your extended hand when they go for a bear hug instead of a handshake, aren't there, Ian? :-)

I've been there too... Both ways. That's the trouble with modern britain - so many physical greetings going that you never know which one to go with. Air kiss? Mediterranean double kiss? Man-hug? Handshake? Fist-bump? The armwrestle-position hand-grip?
As an aside, there's an old politican's handshake trick - when out pressing the flesh among the workers, it used to be quite common for some beefy miner or suchlike to reach out to shake a politician's hand, then give it a serious crushing - that soft office-based hand had no chance against an old-school manual worker. So the canny politician would always grasp the person's elbow with their other hand. It seems extra-chummy and sincere, but then if they go for the hard squeeze, you can dig a finger into the funny-bone pressure point. Bill Clinton used that move all the time.

Green! No such thing as a wasted vote, either. The only time your vote truly makes a difference is when someone wins by a margin on one - ie never, because that would trigger a recount. So you may as well vote for whoever best represents your views. And if enough people voted Green it would demonstrate to the mainstream parties that there are votes to be had from Green policies, which would be a good thing.
Incidentally, I have a theory that the Green Party doesn't do very well in this country (compared with mainland Europe) because the type of people who would vote green also tend to be the type of people who don't vote because they feel that voting doesn't change anything, whoever you vote for the government always wins and so on.

I'm not laughing - I've been there. Someone once stepped forward towards me, arm extending, I reached out to grasp his hand for a manly British handshake. Unfortunately he was going for an urban fist-bump, and I gripped his fist and shook it before I realised my mistake.