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11 hours ago, RonniePickering22 said:

What a twit you be dear boy...smokie36 merely moved off to the Mango with his friends...and its not hard to see why when you are the level of dribblling sychophant he left behind.

I think you are being unfair in discriminating the quality of dribbling sycophant.   To suggest that our friend is an inadequate dribbling sycophant seems at the same time harsh, unjustified, unfair and unnecessary.  Everyone needs to find a job that they can do well.

32 minutes ago, sipi said:

We need a TOTY (thread of the year) competition.

More objective.

Edit. Or Thread of the Century.

I'll go with Costas "taking your ferret for a run"

Or the one where Wayne saved that chap from the hospital.

They had us on the edge of the seat.

I agree on the Taking Your Ferret For a Run.

Top Thread.

21 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I have two boxes made out of parts I buy from the local computer shops.

I never buy new new computers.

Anytime something breaks, I just replace the part that has stopped functioning.

The steel computer case, if you buy a good one, will last forever.

Mostly, you just need to buy motherboards when the capacitors die.

A decent 500-watt power supply unit will last up to 10 years.

 

Also, you gotta worry about sockets.

When your motherboard dies...chances are...you will not be able to find a new motherboard that will have the correct SOCKET for your existing CPU.

So then you gotta buy a motherboard AND a new CPU.

 

Same with a wife that dies.

You just gotta find a new GF having the same socket.

Am I right?

 

 

 

 

I don’t know. When a close family member passed away, plug-and-play replacement might not be the immediate concern.

18 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Don't blanket all people haters or trolls it's a really weak thing to do, usually someone you don't agree with

12 hours ago, Goat said:

Gamma

Sheryl

Bogs/Bob

Just weird/Liverpool Lou

Yinn

 

It does seem most of the best posters are not participating anymore. 

And we are just left with a lot of low intelligent bitching amongst ourselves and not helping each other like we should.

Im going to accept that back-handed compliment in the positive spirit that I am sure it was intended

I don't think that there's many minimilists amongst us, and most people are pretty straight 4 / 4 common time beaters.

Are you asynchopated?

2 minutes ago, Woof999 said:

GammaGlobulin borrowed my keyboard.

You got off lightly

9 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

With a name tag ????

Where would be the fun in that?

2 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

Just read a blog. The guy was a digital nomad for 20 years. 

Everything he owns is in 2 suitcases. He's been living like that for 20 years. 

It can be done, but he does complain that he wishes he had a desktop and a few other things. 

The hotel should have a desktop. Unless he means a desktop computer.

12 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Still, it seems odd when people disappear without a trace.

In the real world, though not often enough in the virtual world, we at least have headstones and monuments, and wakes; and very often we have feasting, too...seems more civilized, in a way...

 

 

 

 

If you know where to go to for the headstones.
There's few amongst us notice the passing of our acquaintances by spotting their headstone.  Normally it's more a case of 
"Have ye seen Billy about recently?"
"Not since he fell in the last war"
"Well, there's the fiver I owe him; d'ye want a drink?"

Back in the day I got used to relocating, and I as quite happy to move from one place to another with only a luggage allowance. My term would be "drifter", rather than "minimalist".

28 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Your comment is a bit depressing...at least to me.

 

When I die, heaven forbid, (or if I were to be banned, even worse!), there'll be....

 

one child born on this forum to carry on.

To carry on...Yeah, Yeah.

Yee Haw!

To carry on!

 

 

 

So long as he lives on in our memories.
There are many of our close friends who have left us, through departure or moving elsewhere.

Maybe it does no harm to turn over their memories amongst us, to remind us all of the joy that they brought to the forum; or maybe it reminds people of the loss that we have suffered.

Well, whatever.

12 minutes ago, swissie said:

I volunteer. As a clearly non native english speaker, I must automatically be a "bottom feeder" here. Suits me, love it.
Although I might try to re-enter here as John Wayne or Winston Churchill at some point in the future. Boosting my popularity dramatically.

If you want to be a bottom poster, sit carefully on the photocopier.  

6 minutes ago, isaanistical said:

I hardly think Ray Davies is a noofter.

 

Kinks were largely "his" band and I always respected the music and the satires, but not really the singles.

 

Sad that one of the band dies yesterday, I believe.

For some, lyrical excellence is more important than the sexuality of the author or the singer.  I don't think any of us judged the excellence of Queen by which way Freddie Mercury crossed the road.

2 minutes ago, swissie said:

Rumor has it, that occasionally brown envelopes are in short supply.

Never mind. In Europe we do the same. now using crypto currency.

klepto currency

22 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

The Kinks never sang a bad song, at least that I have ever heard.

It's truly impossible to choose the TOP 3 tunes because they are all so good.

The best I might do is to choose my TOP 30...or maybe even my TOP 40 selections.

 

However, as soon as I saw this thread, TWENTY came immediately to mind...

Everybody likes Sunny Afternoon...

 

But the first tune that came to mind would have been this one...

 

I have the entire discography on my phone, but now seldom listen, so unfortunately.

These guys are the best.

 

I am old enough to clearly remember them, their songs being played, in my dorm room at age 12...

Unforgettable...

The Kinks are part of the times, at that time, for me.

When one had just passed through puberty,...The Kinks sounded the BEST....

 

 

 

A lot of their songs were challenging, and if you didn't want to accept the challenge, you could just enjoy the music.  "Come Dancing", for example, covers a lot of ground - some if it given over to car parks, some still terraced suburbia. Lola is not specifically about the 2nd floor of Nana Plaza.  "Sunny Afternoon" would be better directed at his agent, who had taken the 10% that the tax man was willing to leave...

12 hours ago, bignok said:

Who's in your top 4?

It seems like no-one wants to be seen being positive on the forum; COVID-19 is over, guys, it's OK to be positive.
Gammaglobulin; Britmantoo; Neeranam; anyone that posts on the Cycling forum.
It's OK to be different, or controversial, but in an ideal world, everyone would seem like a real person.  

23 hours ago, Bassosa said:

You're recommending her to be a civil servant for the rest of her life....in Thailand of all places.

That's the sad part of this story to be honest. 

Thailand is a great place for entrepreneurial civil servants.

As you know, we often go almost to Rawang; last Sunday, we went even closer, beyond the new turnoff that bypasses the town centre, to within a few hundred metres of the roundabout at the centre of town, before we turned off and headed to the North South Highway, where cycling is prohibited by law.  One junction down there, and we were onto Guthrie Highway bike lane, and home by beer o' clock.  That used to be my regular commute, and the road to the highway was shorter, and less tedious and frustrating on the bike than in a car.

This week saw us on the North South Highway again, in the other direction; again only one junction...
We stopped at my buddy's mate's place for Ribena since we were passing, and then on more or less familiar roads home.  My buddy took the lead for a stretch on the outward leg, which kept the pace up, and then we had a tail wind on the way home, so the ride is littered with Personal Bests, though only a 2nd-best on How High Is That Viaduct?  I think it used to be higher, back in the day.

Back in the day, I thought personality and looks were more important than age. 

When I'm drunk I dance like me Dad

On 7/22/2023 at 4:44 AM, Skipalongcassidy said:

32 spoke wheels on average can withstand 150kg... that's total weight (you/bike/cargo)... given that when new... with continued heavy weight the spokes start to deteriorate and over time will no longer support the weight...

According to the bill, he respoked a 28 spoke wheel, and when I counted them, he was not wrong.

Three broken spokes on a 28 spoke wheel is probably not good....


 

4 hours ago, swm59nj said:

You should get a card from your doctor to show airport personnel.  If the scanner is set off.  They have no idea what is doing it.  

They take you aside and look for weapons.  I’ve often been given a scan with the hand wand, and a bit of a pat down.  I’ve never been strip searched.  

17 hours ago, HuskerDo2 said:

Thanks John. I knew about not flying for a while. Not sure why that's an issue. Sitting at home in my recliner or couch isn't any different than sitting in an airport seat. 

Sitting at home, you can get up, walk about, step out to the pub or whatever, unless your wife puts the Seatbelts Sign on.