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  1. ippy
    i HATE and DETEST boards that are too small for me. Its not downsizing though. Its just 156-158 = sweet spot. Anything smaller and i will blame that ride for every wipe or wash that comes my way. Ill then convince myself that the board is a piece of shit, cant be trusted and utterly dangerous. Ill then flip it for something else. I aint no park rat though Enjoy your new wheels! What, i dont care if this thread ended up being some Burton love in! If i want to talk about downsizing, im going to talk about downsizing. Its stupid. ****ing pointless. And i still cannot und
  2. ippy
    We all know i suck on a snowboard, but around 2012, once again in Niseko, took a heavy slam at the big kicker at the base of hirafu (near the gondy). It was OBVIOUSLY too big for me, but had a couple of mates i was riding with at the time who had taken me a little under their winging and gently nudging me out of my comfort zone. Had a couple of successful airs. Third hit though, over corrected on the landing and ended up smashing face first into the knuckle. Ouch. Didnt hurt all that bad to be honest. Part of the reason i had a go on it was it wasnt pristine. There was freshies on the run
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    Niseko 2011 I was practicing a butter. Nothing special, just a few spins. Obviously slamming all day with the occasional success to keep me going. But it got tough. No specific injury, but those cumulative hits took their toll. I think it destroyed the rest of my trip. I know its something we all go through, but that was definitely the moment i realised the pipe dreams were over. I could take the slams. I could take a broken wrist. But this... it was the feeling that id lost something mental rather than physical that did me in. I was in chains to a new world order. It signaled the
  4. ippy
    according to the fascist dctum: "not as good as skinny feels". Which is a ****ing lie.
  5. ippy
    I just scoffed a mcFlurry. I am bad
  6. ippy
    Its nice. What ive seen of it anyway. The bits i didnt see were skier only, or small hills i believe (or hills with a random policy to shut down the best parts of the mountain). For me, and im not proselytizing here, but yuzawa area comes a distant second to Iiyama if i was seriously picking a place to move around from. Actually maybe not. The transport is way better in yuzawa. Its actually a doddle picking your resort, getting on a shuttlebus and then coming home once youre done. not so, illyama. Well, info is current as of March 2013. If you had a car though, id pick iiyama for the
  7. ippy
    Hey you! dont be sarcastic, If you want proof ill more than happy direct you to all my posts on pages 5, 6, and 7 on the matter! .
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    Independence was always my second wish (eyes passim). My first wish was constitutional federalism Im an old school labour lefty. I dont blame the PLP for being a useless bunch of wankers. I blame the makeup of British demographics that concentrates wealth and power in the south east because thats where most of the people in the UK end up living (because wealth and power are concentrated in the south east - forcing the labour party to devise policy for those people at the expense of their heartlands). For me, if the conditions change, then the PLP will change with them and reflect somethin
  9. ippy
    A a good Foucauldian (look it up nerds), i believe that power exists in discourse. That means when no ones talking about something, it might as well not exist, (well, actually as a good Foucauldian, it means that when someones not talking about something it means that power is overwhelmingly being exerted, but thats for another lecture). Anyways, heres my assessment on Devo max: England is losing their shit (expected). England is now arguing about the West Lothian Question (expected) and the unfair distribution of wealth to Scotland through the Barnett formula (expected). They realise
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    Plus, some of the pensioners will be dead by then along with their intransigent 73% no vote. The young uns (71% yes amazingly) will still be radical, and we get a whole new raft of 16 and 17 year old (and their 18,19, and 20 year old mates to start voting). The 57% of over 50s i think it was, who voted no, might actually be worried more about their pension in a few years time if they STAY in the union. Plus, pressure on oil will actually pay off as a vote winner and not some kind of lottery windfall. Its going to run out, and the question might rightly be asked that if its going to run out, sh
  11. ippy
    Bumping for more random melodrama. One lousy document is about to push me down to the wire YET AGAIN. The Crc, after random pointless delays caused by an unacceptable chinese translation of my address (and thereafter an apparently fine translation of my address saying the exact same thing just all on one document), they not only snail mailed it back to me (took almost a month), but forgot to certify the thing with an official stamp DESPITE my original request to do so (along with the email reminders in every correspondence thereafter). So mailed it to my mate upon arrival and sent him
  12. ippy
    Momentum has ping ponged again. At the weekend it hit fever pitch. Almost lost control in fact at the whole camp outside the empty BBC building with the DEATH TO NICK ROBINSON banners. Well... maybe not death. But ugly anyways. Then monday hit and its been all quiet again. I know people are back at work and doing humdrum stuff, but even my facebook feeds are looking static compared to a fortnight ago. Ive been using them as a general weather vane. Not my sister mind you, shes still at it. She hates England plenty much though. But its when people i dont expect start getting caught up i
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    No less than Ed Balls has also come out (well, behind closed doors) to claim this would be a 'problem' for passing any English tax program given that West Lothian Question would now be obviously center stage again.
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    Wonderful day for not having a ****ing clue about any trends. A better together commissioned poll puts the at an 8 point lead. Suggestions of course that this being the case. perhaps SEVERAL polls were commissioned and they cherry picked the worst one. The observer poll reflects a 6 point lead for the No vote (53-47). but the Sunday Times poll put the lead at the more modest 51-49. However, mad polling at the telegraph puts the YES vote at an 8 point lead. Its bizarro world. Also the 2 key features of todays debate: 1. Accusations of BBC bias. If this sticks, it could turn some vot
  15. ippy
    More power either way?!? I think not......federalism isnt on the way, UKIP is and they want to consolidate not delegate. The Tories and the Pink Tories will shudder even further right in an attempt to stop the populist vote of UKIP.....Scotland will be a byword of UK Policy and will be battered and weakened on appeasement to the further shift right of the English electorate. UKIP are a GIFT to the labour party. For a generation the liberal democrats and SDP cleaved the labour vote in two (well 4/5 and 1/5). It amazes me that Farage is making in roads to labour, but i see this purely as
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    Its alright. Ill keep this one shorter For me, it doesnt matter who wins because both options mean more power to scotland to decide its own political and economic programmes It also means a kick up the arse to the labour party (im west coast ayrshire labour through and through - though ive never voted for 'new labour' once). Even if Scotland votes No, im delighted that the debate on federalism is now underway.
  17. ippy
    Sorry, dont mean to be on the warpath. I like seeing things from all the angles. But i really want independence, so theres going to be invariable bind spots. The sillars thing for example is being absolutely hammered for its cynicism at the moment. I loved it. It made me laugh that he said he did it just to give the daily mail a political orgasm and have the Today programme get him on the show so he could actually make his real attack on the negative briefing of companies like BP to a proper audience (instead of being quietly ignored if he'd have just said "stop distorting the facts, BP"). Inc
  18. ippy
    Because it was incredibly ironic. Now you personally are arguing that the campaign is full of ugly rhetoric on both sides. That will be true of course. Its a political campaign. But the irony comes from pretending that only the YES side are using ugly rhetoric and 'not focusing on the argument'. So why shouldnt i find this statement ironic? I didnt say that one side only has been using dirty tricks or campaigning negatively, the Shadow Business secretary did. It seems fair to laugh at him for saying it, no?
  19. ippy
    Why what? Why do i love what Jim Sillars did? or why is it hilarious that the no-camp are throwing in comments about ugly rhetoric?
  20. ippy
    I really do hope youre right, dude. I want that fait accompli on Friday morning when the manufactured fear stops and people have to come to the table and make it work. Someone on the guardian feed said it spectacularly well yesterday: its perhaps just a trade off with total economic potential for self-determination. And in that calculus, unless youre a greedy ****, its a trade off you should rightly want to take. If less well off countries (without abundant natural resources) can make independence work, its hard to believe that scotland would implode and somehow become the failed state that bi
  21. ippy
    Its been messy since Sunday's poll. We've had the leaders of all parties heading to scotland. A train full of labour MPs heading to Scotland. And an endless series of business leaders all telling the world that Scotland is going to implode if they vote Yes. But with less than a week to go, heres the Yes vote across all polls: Sun Panelbase 48% Sun YouGov 51% Tues TNS 49% Wed Survation 47% Thurs YouGov 48% Fri ICM 49% Average 48.7% Its right down to the wire. And to be honest, the negativity has hit saturation id imagine. The sky is falling the sky is falling! The
  22. ippy
    If i actually make it to Korea this time then itll be finally time to pick a console. I cant wait for destiny to completely ruin yet another attempt to learn a language and interact with other human beings. Seriously, if this was the matrix, id be all over that blue pill!
  23. ippy
    crash diet: eyes passim (page 2)
  24. ippy
    squeaked under 80kg for first tie since arriving in China. Literally squeaked it though - 79.9. Still, thats about 2kgs lost from the crash. Not bad considering its had time to consolidate. I reckon without the assistance, id be still around 81.5ish. So a decent move from the plateau. By the end of the session it should be around 77 or so and since im claiming 5lbs of extra muscle mass, im deciding that puts me at 75
  25. ippy
    I just think that labour voters turning to independence are responsible for this swing. And that those same labour supporters have no long standing interest in independence. They want devolved power, greater representation, and more collective powers (and the ability to actually affect change), but they also want that change to take place throughout the whole of Britain and with the support of the other (Keynsian) labour heartlands. They want an end to zero-hour contracts, they want a livable minimum wage, they want employee rights, they want free health care and education. They want oppor

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