GrahamS2

I used to ski in Bad Gastein, Austria every year when I lived in SA. Never been to Japan but I'm very keen to go. My girlfriend lived there for 5 years in her 20's, and she said the snow in Sapporo region is next level.

Oh yes. I'm busy booking 10 days in Niseko for December...

This tells me everything about the type of person you shared a table with and sums up the situation perfectly. A freeloading do0$ is a freeloading do0$, no matter how small the bill is.

Alta had the recipe sorted, and was regarded as the bees knees when they launched. Until Harley Davidson played dirty to put them out of business, that is... Hopefully these new offerings are as good.

At some stage in 2022, I'm going to pester you for ideas. I've been wanting to fly over and do this exact trip (with a little fly fishing planned in...)

Quite a few guys I know have done it by painting bakkie liner instead of tape. Much tougher too.

You left out that other little thing called profit margin, which also seems to have increased since the start of covid. With global demand on sporting goods hitting an all time high, there was most certainly some profiteering going on.

I was just about to say that looked like one of Shaun's creations. Beautiful!

I would do it. I have a mate with 50+ collectable bikes, and he regularly sells to international buyers. The market for classic cars and bikes is ever growing.

Some gladiators were indeed vegetarian, because they mostly consumed barley, beans and fish. But they also took calcium supplements, as their diet lacked it.

Simple - if it's too expensive, don't do it. But expecting others to justify what and how they spend their own money... well that smacks of other issues.

Caffelatex. No flats in the past 2 years, but we also don't have broken glass everywhere here.

I really need to stop reading your posts!! I need one of these in my life lol

Thanks. I have some of those (from Bunnings), I found the gravity toggles also work well. But the drywall in my house is so crumbly, I wouldn't try hang a tv without finding studs to mount it on. I found this out the hard way...

Great idea, I'm going to make one of those! As an aside, what do you use to mount thing to drywall? I have little confidence in hanging anything remotely heavy...