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Not sure if applicable here but my Thai wife says if women take a pee by the roadside it is ' Watering the flowers ' , if a chap has a pee by the road side he is ' Shooting the rubbish '.

13 hours ago, overherebc said:

Never tried a bsa twin???? Both pistons went up and down at the same time, that was vibration.

Yep , my brother in the late 70s was given a Triumph Bonny as a way round paying tax by his boss.  When I took it for a ride the vibration so bad that not only could I not see anything in the mirror but it kept falling and twisting tound the handle bars.  V twins are better but of course cost more to make.

22 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I'm 78, ride my scooter daily. Useful around town, no parking problems as with cars.

I drive defensively. I don't drive the scooter at night. If it's a longer trip, I take the car instead. My top speed is 50 km/hr.

My metric for giving up the scooter is when I feel I can no longer be in control of balance, with my GF riding pillion.

You have reminded me , my Forza just below this one.  I too don't ride at night , only the odd occasion do we go out at night and 'tis always by car.

Way up here it is nice to sit in the sun with a cuppa first thing at 9.30.  Our water heater is a Stiebel Eltron , don't know how powerful but after a bike ride through the rice fields at 5 pm the heater is set 3/4 towards max  and that is quite hot enough . In the morning just a cold face wash .

Looking at the first pic I would say " I had a big piece of wood in my hand I was just trying to swat a fly , oh there it is just landed on his backside ".

5 hours ago, 41632584 said:

That's a lovely story. I am a bit of a 78 collector, so I can even more so appreciate the personal value that record and music must have to you.  What label is it?

Sorry , I lived miles away in Devon and my brother cleared the house in Surrey ,what happened to the 78s I have no idea.

51 minutes ago, 41632584 said:

I see so many interesting suggestions. Some are unknown to me but now I am aware of their existence. Much appreciated everyone!

Agree , what a good topic eh.

Mendelssohn  overture  ' The Hebrides '.  Sir John Eliot Gardiner.  You will know the tune . Post it someone.

21 hours ago, 41632584 said:

Just listened to it. Wonderful. Impressive piano play. Such skill. 

A little story if I may 41632584 . My mother worked in a music shop in London in the late 30s.  If someone wanted to listen to a gramaphone this was the piece she put on , The girls in the shop got fed up with the same 78rpm record. When she left just before WW2 they gave her the record as a gift.  My mother told me this in the late 80s.  Upstairs in her house was a record case that held maybe 20 records. I looked and there was her 78 from 50 years before.  So this piece by Litolff is always mum's. Oh and I bought her the CD so she could hear it all and that is how I started this Litolff thing. The CD is right here.

19 hours ago, clivebaxter said:

Satie is nice to listen to if stressed

 

 

There was one of Eduard Cortez' pictures on Antiques Roadshow a year or so ago and all of his paintings were of Paris in the rain I think. But he put a tiny hole through the painting where all the lines in perspective met .  This music fits those scenes so well.

I am 75 in 3 weeks time. I drive my Forza everyday , granted not in BKK or CNX but up round the mountains here mostly.  I have said though should me and my bike end up lying in the road for whatever reason it will be the end of 2 wheel riding for me.

Will somebody please post from the tube Natalie Erlich and Litolff's Scherzo . Now that is piano playing.

40 minutes ago, jvs said:

One of my favorites but there are lots more!

I listen to all kinds of music everyday.

Usually by headphones but sometimes i crank up the old stereo set,sounds great!

Yes my Thai partner also likes some classical music.

 

One to play , one to operate the pipes and one to turn the pages and what a sound eh ?

Litolff.  The Romantic Piano concerto 14.    Concerto No 2in B minor . Very fast and crazy but no one knows how fast it should be !

2 hours ago, phetphet said:

Looks like she went well prepared.

 

A tube of KY lubricant? Sounds like a slippery customer to me.

As an aside , I always smile when I see the road sign ' Slippery when wet .'  Just how I like it , not the road obviously.

I like the way at Makro ( unless it is just my cart ) the cashier manages to scan 30 items without taking any out of the cart.  Oh I do know a way to get a free cart load but best not tell.

On 1/27/2022 at 1:49 PM, Wookie said:

I think if I did that my next application would be in jeopardy !

.......................your job is in Jeopardy . But I don't want to go abroad .  The Goons circa 1960.

2 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

My Honda Click is called " Bert "

My Foza is called Big Boy. A honda click called Derik , gotta larf eh.

57 minutes ago, robblok said:

Im pretty sure it would not affect you that fast.  Just a small error i mix up left and right quite often when talking. But not when looking ???? that would be fatal.

 

Hey robblok , you are from the Netherlands , you are entitled to mix up words in English innit.

2 hours ago, transam said:

I had one, it had a car attached to it......????

 

 

Only thing wrong transam is the steering whel is on the wrong side.

On 1/22/2022 at 4:46 PM, KC 71 said:

i wonder what sort of music they were playing

darude  Feel the beat posibly . I listened to this just yesterday and had the volume cranked up . pleased to say no one came round with violence in mind + the wife was out obviously.

On 1/10/2022 at 2:20 PM, billsmart said:

I don't eat salmon much anymore, but when I did, I bought it at Makro. It was fresh filets or steaks.

I have no idea where it came from or how it was caught or farmed.

That's where we/my wife gets salmon from. For some reason last Monday she said ' No need today '.

When we do buy it I cook it slowly in a little milk.  The delight on my wife's face . Once I said  " Is that better than sex ? " She replied ' It is the way you do it '.  Charming !

Did my 90 day yesterday at Maesai , in and out in 5 mins.

18 hours ago, marcho said:

I would like to meet her and say hello beautiful.  I need your protection ????????

Never mind protection , she can feel my collar anytime .