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3 hours ago, Gandtee said:

An event not to be sniffed at.????

Unless it's an acoustic catarrh .

23 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

''Police say they have evidence aplenty''

 

You just don't see the word 'aplenty' used enough these days. That has cheered me up for reasons I cannot explain.

My thoughts too.   I may have not bothered with paint on a rope  but on seeing aplenty I just had to view , I am still smiling aplenty.

15 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

Is that Bill Bailey driving ?

This topic has reminded me to put the lining back in my bike jacket.

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

I'll get the knitted shorts ready.

I do remember years ago in England one could buy a wooly willy warmer . Oh I don't know what happened to it but it never arrived here.

8 hours ago, RafPinto said:

Have you ever tried the: "Tripel Karmeliet"?

Yummy

https://www.beertourism.com/blogs/belgian-beer/tripel-karmeliet

Where can you buy it here ?

.....................they would provide the service for folk who got stuck in rings too.  'scuse me .  Which/who'se rings , are these front toilet rings , back toilet rings , rings of lady boys ....................far too many rings here.

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

Over the hill and far away would be my request.????

Now after nearly 20 years here.....................' I did it sideways '.

23 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Will the audience be limited to 5 people?

.................with every other chair having a sheet of paper with a red X on .

1 hour ago, mokwit said:

They will all appear beautiful if they are - like Saudi women on their wedding day.

 

I think Thai women have realised that they can all be beautiful with just their made up eyes showing.

...................and legs that go all the way to the floor .

More local than that , next door where our eggs come from is a cockpit.  Not a big deal as has nothing to do with us + the police are involved I suspect.  The cockpit has a digital clock above for timing events , in the evening 5 or 6 cars are parked there , but again not in the road so no bother to me.  Only worry is the fact that they walk about outside their home but as only a few metres from our house I am not doing more than 10 kph.

5 hours ago, khastan said:

Agreeed it was and mine had the 11.1 compression also and a bigger carb.. Which made kick starting it a problem. The mistake of advancing it to much risked breaking your leg. I learnt the best way to start the thing was to jump start it! It was in complete racing trim coloured blood red and fitted with a peel mountain mile fairing. Has far has I could tell the only homage to it being road legal was the lights it had! I did ride it to its limit on just one occasion and it scared the hell out of me. I dont think I ever touched 11000 rpm though! I heard the person that bought it wiped it and himself out on the motorway. I was there also in the IOM in 67 when Agostini and Hailwood were wheel to wheel with each other. The sound of that Honda and MV Augusto screaming past can never be forgotten. Like you say what a shame Agostinis chain broke. Hailwood after the race tried to console Agostini. What a true gentleman Hailwood was and how tragic he lost his life in the way he did. I often wonder how he would go on against the modern day riders whith their phenomaly fast bikes. I was also there on his comeback in 78 when he astounded everbody by winning. Dont apoligise I was 21 and would not have missed that time for the world.

'tis all coming back now.  The Goldie couldn't be bump started as with the close ratio gearbox the clutch was slipped up to 40 mph. So kick start it had to be.  I would hold my brothers leather jacket as he got the advance about right and did start the brute then I had to blip the throttle as that huge carb. wanted to suck in passing small dogs.  A bath plug was left in place when not going anywhere . Imagine. 70mph in first gear , I was leaning back on the pillion and couldn't get forward till second gear.

Glad we were at that IoM , Hailwood and Ago. eh.

10 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Well done! I guess dying is more of a thought as you get nearer 80. 

I am scared more of the body failing, which seems to happen to males in my family around late 70s. 

My Ma and Pa got to 90 but my dad just looked up the garden while doing the Telegraph cryptic crossword as he was too old then to do his favourite thing which was gardening , my mother had a thingy on her chest that called the doctor on pressing it. I was not there but my brother was he said she felt a bit off pressed the thingy but colapsed on the way down the drive to meet the doctor, imagine.

15 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

It sucks being old. I will be 60 in a few years and will be happy to get there but.

Kinda depressing knowing that I could leave my loved ones in a few year, I'd say 20 at most. 

 

60 ! Catch up , I am 74 . Someone said to me ' I wonder what I will be doing at 74 '. I said you may not get that far .

6 hours ago, Skeptic7 said:

Fear of not existing is real. Nilophobia or Eternal Oblivion. Mark Twain summed this up succinctly...

 

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."

—  Mark Twain
 

Thank you Mark Twain , couldn't have put it better.

9 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

Did you race IOM I only rode mad Sunday on my Blade. 

Met a good few riders, three sadly are in the pits in the sky. 

No chance of racing anything anywhere on a 30bhp Norton. Tent was used for sleeping , how I got to the IoM without loosing stuff I don't know . The 59 club rented a hall so when racing day was over spent time there but as 54 years ago my Thorkus is lacking.  I sold the Norton for 25 quid I do remember , the following year 1968 I bought a Morgan ....................

On 10/12/2021 at 4:10 PM, Kwasaki said:

I was bought by a cockney father so saying that lemon squeezer is a Richard the Third. ????

 

It would be shorten to that lemon is a Richard. 

Remember that story about a chap wanting to get into show business. He gave his name as Richard von Lesbian , they said no chance with that name , CHANGE IT !   He did to Dick van Dyke .

4 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

Here ya' go. heaven sent for non-riding whingers.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-noise-motorcycles/paris-suburb-pioneers-noise-radar-to-fine-roaring-motorcycles-idUSKCN1VK1AA

 

 

Great French name that ..................Fanny Meitlick.

On 10/9/2021 at 2:50 PM, khastan said:

Fantastic bike and a true riders dream but eye watering expensive now to buy a genuine one and not a fake. I had a Rocket Gold Star in full racing trim made road legal that had been raced at the IOM. It had much larger amal monoblock carbs than a standard and a very high compression ratio and was extremly fast for a road bike in those days. it used to drink fuel but fortunately I had a mate who worked at a garage selling it!  On the front of the fairing 2 naked girls were painted in all their explicit glory. I wonder if you would get away with that now. Sold it for 300 quid to get married and current price for a standard one is over 20000 quid. Sorry no pics same wife destroyed them all!

I thought the Rocket Goldie was the dog's testicals.  My Bro. wasn't satisfied with the 5 gal. alloy tank it had other bits .  The compression was raised to 11-1 , only ran on 5 star petrol. A slipper piston , lightened and polished flywheel , ......................pity he missed a gear , said it went to 11,000 rpm just before the conrod appeared through the bottom of the crankcase .  Can't remember how it all ended up but then the middle '60s was an odd time. Oh my Norton was loaded up for the IoM TT races in '67.  Agostini's chain broke , what a sound from that machine , my chain didn't IoM no prob. Sorry , just remembering being 20 years old.

2 hours ago, Henryford said:

UK NHS 10th that's a joke. It can take weeks just to see a GP then maybe months to get treated. I can walk into a hospital here with no appointment and get seen and maybe even treated the same day. OK you pay but then i pay for the NHS through taxes.

Things must have changed.  I went back to UK in about 2001 , I had only been to LoS on holiday .  After about 2 days I had a sore throat and a lump just north of the front toilet ( How polite ).  I saw the local doc. lady straight away . She asked where I had been , I said Thailand. The sore throat was caused by dust , the lump was a hernia.  Operation need on hernia if it got worse ( It hasn't )  and a big white tablet for the throat which cleared up next day.

' I am ready to meet my maker , whether my maker is ready for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter '. Sir Whinston Churchill .

2 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

With apologies to Spike Milligan 

If you don't go to other peoples funerals they won't go to yours.  That's only fair.

41 minutes ago, grain said:

A few years ago in Pattaya there was an old farang in his late 80s who died while getting a HE massage. The old boy's heart gave in while he was enjoying his final orgasm. That's what I call winning first prize in the lottery of death. 

Go as you come , a great way to go , just hope if I am still here at 80 to get that happy ending.