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Last Breath. True story about a commercial diver accident. I was on that vessel shortly after it happened.

Most of the clubs have Line and send you notifications of deals.

On 5/10/2019 at 9:26 PM, tutsiwarrior said:

 

 

one reads different things for different purposes...I've been reading a lot of the Michael Connolly Harry Bosch series not because I like detective novels but for the vivid descriptions of Los Angeles...the underbelly with the low life bars, the whores and the taco trucks, the homesickness is gloriously excruciating...

 

 

I recommend James Ellroy for that genre.

On 5/10/2019 at 6:25 PM, Nyezhov said:

what format are they in? Epub or Kindle specific

Mobi and some pdf

Get yourself a kindle a Dropbox account and I’ll give you 6,000 books.

On 5/9/2019 at 4:36 AM, edgarfriendly said:

my kids have really enjoyed pulling shitty little bears and such from these games of relative skill.

 

hardly surprising someone has felt the need to complain they didnt win or some other nonsense.

 

wait until cp/mcd/chang 'invent' the same thing but to win beers/cigarettes/toxic snacks.

 

licences for all!!!!

In Burntisland when I was a lad there were claw machines that had 20 fags as prizes.

20 hours ago, EricTh said:

 

Many Thai people don't have motorbike licence either. I meet quite a lot of them doing a sudden u-turn just before a police block.

 

They nearly crashed into my bike.

 

Either they are too young or it's too tough to get one. That's why accident rates in Thailand is the 2nd highest in the world. LOL

No license, no helmet and no tax = a lot of U-turns

42 minutes ago, Black arab said:

20 bht for me in the next village, defo no extras from the old chap.

You’re not trying hard enough...

Yep, I buggered off over two weeks ago. Why stay in such a <deleted> place any longer. And now I expect replies from those who are tied to the place and won’t admit it.

Great. Another parasite!

Fires “broke out”.

????

7 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

You should be ashamed of yourself. Disgraceful comment.

<deleted>, the guy is being honest. Take your head out of your fisherman pants.

There’s a Judicial System in Thailand? 

13 hours ago, CharlieH said:

Had a meal in a restaurant in Beiging once, colleague was vegetarian and wanted me to try this place. Cant remember what the dish was actually called but the taste/flavour and texture was almost identical to the real thing and I thoroughly enjoyed it. never had anything even close to that experience again.

 

For me, whatever it actually is, would be honestly described as a "meat substitute" not some promo gimmick of meatless meat, either its meat or its a substitute for it. (IMHO)

Took a client to China and babysat her for a couple of days and she was a veggie. Everything went ok, but I had to go back to Hong Kong so left her in the capable hands of my assistant who was a mainlander.

Checked up a couple of days later. How’s it going etc? Ok says he. You do remember she is vegetarian? Yeah, no problem sir... I just order what I want and pick out the meat, then give the rest of the dish to her.

Perfectly acceptable in his eyes. Oh how I laughed.

A GP should be be to deal with this. It happened to me in Phangan years ago. However, if you are looking for the top boy in CM and possibly the country then Dr Nawat at RAM.

3 hours ago, Formaleins said:

EXACTLY! This is the very problem I had when I had a PDF done online. The binding is nothing more than a row of slits punched through the individual leaves then a sort of flat spiral coil threaded in to it. It just undoes itself and all of the pages drop out. Over time I can see that all of the cuts in the pages will also tear up too.

I am after a real Mcoy job, one where they take small groups of pages and sew them into sets, then they eventually bind these into the spine. Hell, it must be possible, there are books kicking around from the 14th century, I only need one to last 20 years or so! This was the reason I posted here. I was hoping someone had had this done and could make some suggestions (other than fucXXING GOOGLE) I have also got some books that were bought from reputable bookshops that appear to be normal bound hardbacks, but in the space of less than a year they have broken in the very manner you mention at the spine. Impossible to tell at the outset.

The only way you are going to be able to sew them is if you print them A3 2up, fold into 4pp and insert into 8pp or 16pp sections, then hand sew them. It can be done, but will cost you. Also I would recommend breaking the job into two volumes. 600pp... you are asking for trouble.

You could also consider hard back wiro bound, but I would recommend strong endpapers to keep the book block attached to the hard case.

The books from the 14th century probably took a year to produce one copy by monks who had been doing it for 50 years ????

The biggest problem you will have is getting a decent bind. The strongest hard backs have the sections, folded, gathered and sewn before binding, meaning pages won’t fall out. What you are trying to do is bind single pages. The closest industrial method of this is unsewn hardback where the sections are ground before gluing, but the grinder leaves a rough spine which glues up better than a perfectly flush spine.

Also 600 pages is going some, so look at thinner paper. Once you start opening that up you’ll break the spine and inevitably pages will end up falling out.

good luck.

Who was Fatty Arbuckle trying to impress in his Forlorn Hope?

7 hours ago, akirasan said:

Because Mrs Akirasan has a habit of buying things that we don't need. 

Haha, don’t we all. A few drinks, an iPad and eBay or lazada are all I need. I’ve had countless <deleted> delivered that I have no recollection of buying. Hooray!

Senile dementia is not funny, or big, or cool,... urm bottom, fish, banana etc, slobber.

All these comments and speculation, but no one asking the real question.... What did he score on his round of golf?