Rob

It certainly should be a serious matter, as they are given all the info about what it means to be a soldier and given the final chance to back out. Just for the record, there is no hidden agenda to this question, I'm not going to be critical of our army, they do an amazingly brave task and just watching the programes put the fear of god (non existant variety) into me. Obviously the army has come a long way from the time where a soldier would be shot after a very insufficient "court case" accusing him of cowardice or LMF, but a soldier who's "bricking it" in a more than expected way would surely be a liability and a danger to his mates. Is it not better to acknowledge he's made a grave mistake rather than forcing him to try and fight if he cannot?

I believe the OP's spider to have an equivalent cash value of $233.95, depending on the number of legs.

That last picture, he's smiling "You fall asleep in here pal....ah'm gonna eat you. Ah'm gonna gobble you up, get in mah belly"

KLF were awesome. I DL'd Chill Out recently, for old times sake.

BBC3 and BBC4 have been showing a lot of very good military programmes over the last month, focussing on Afghanistan. One that springs to mind is Young Soldiers, a 4 -parter which followed a few lads from the point of arriving at Catterick to deploying in Aghanistan. By the end of the 2nd episode, two lads had dropped out right at that point where you fully "sign up" to 4 years service. They were unable to commit or face going into battle. Now, the programme presented that moment as a key watershed, you're either in or out, but what happens if you think you are OK, maybe bouyed along by all your mates but when you get out there, you can't handle it? I don't mean in a breaking down, hiding under the bed, eating the carpet, PTSD way, but if you just can't face going out on foot, with all that sh*te buried in any random place, what reasonable options does the soldier have? Is the only option to refuse to patrol and then get court martialed, imprisoned and discharged with some sort of record, blighting your future life? Also when Katherine Jenkins visits Bastion, do you all get a go on her?

Tch, typical council, ignoring potholes until someone dints a wheel.

I've never liked the concept of it at all. On proper track days people are grouped by ability (or self-perceived ability) and there are marshalls all round. Any cock-ness and you're removed from proceedings. Chucking any number of people of all abilities and vehicles onto a historically lethal track is just idiotic.

What have you done to the intake manifold there, to get that satin sheen look?

Chap down the road with a nice jaaaag has installed a shaving mirror on the left hand side of his garage door opening, so he can view down the near side as he drives in. Presumably to get the car as far left as possible inside. Its a bit easier if you have alarm activated windows as its very easy to get in with the window down and the door only partially open.

The scary thing is, this tool is a soldier. Someone's actually given him a gun. I wonder if he bigs it up with his comrades when out on duty. "yeah, this is a G6-L85A2. Its got a range of about 10000m and fires 50 cal bullets at twice the speed of light, I had it modded by this bloke I know, ex-SAS, gets parts overnight from Japan."

Wouldn't even install for me. Word on the street is it won't run on XP.

Someone should ask the question..."Hey mate, what colour is it?"

Ah yeah, but you can't run a turbo every day...he says.

...and I'm being quite serious here, have you written to Maclaren?

Oh, with the trolley jack you need something to stop the cill "crimps" buckling over, a nice bit of 6mm angle iron.

Very nice, modern reworking, but he just needs to ease that peak in the roof line into a curve more reminiscent of the supra roofline.

Whatever tools you get, you will always be short of the one tool you need.

So its a bet? £20 says the 'chute doesn't open.

They are based on a standard car park size, 8ft or 2400mm wide. In a car park, that's just about ok as your door can swing into the space next to you, but with a wall there, you can barely get out of the car and forget about doing any work on it. I've probably said this before, but add an extra metres width and in twelve houses, you've lost an entire plot, a house worth £250,000. That's why developers stick to the smallest they can, plus they "know" that people don't really use their garages for cars without realising why. Its self-perpetuating.

All I know is that the sprinkler system was retro-fitted in the 90's after a small fire broke out. Sprinklers in offices are bad news, imo, as a small incident can lead to a huge amount of unnecessary water damage, and a big incident, like a bomb or a plane coming in at 500mph tends to disable the system anyway. Re explosion, I do recall cycling through the Isle of Grain oil refinary once, with some mates, and one of the large, steel framed buildings was being demolished. I could see cutting sparks high up, then was shocked to hear a big explosion. (We used to go on holiday there, woo-hoo, when I was a child and my dad always used to go on about how the whole place could explode). I looked back to see a dust cloud and one of the lads I was riding with said he saw a huge steel beam fall down to the floor. So there's an example of a falling steel sounding like an explosion in a situation where someone had explosions set up in their memory.

Its an alternative theory suggesting that molten aluminium from the aeroplanes seeped into the water tanks for the sprinkler system and caused the explosion noises that were heard just before the towers started to collapse. I know very little about sprinkler systems so cannot comment. I don't know if there are small tanks on every floor, a pressuried mains system or larger tanks every 10 floors, for example.

Oddly, a client of my wife's company ran into trouble with an employee in the situation you describe. Employee took legal action and wife's client ended up having to liquidate that company of his. I don't know the actual details but it seemed so avoidable for the sake of a simple contract.

I've had that... "Iz that a prelooode?" "No" "Is it 2 leeter?" "No" "Is it 16 val?" "No"

Oh, you mean the limited edition G6 Supra.

Its nip it up to just the point when the wheel locks then back off 8 notchs.