MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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Let's all think about we actually like for a while
i like threads about things i hate
Riding my bike(s)
Getting a bottle of wine and some nibbles and watching a film, lying on my bed, with my dog
When I do a job (bike, car or caravan) that I wasn't sure I could do properly, and it comes out right
I like it when my friends are happy
Loads of things really, but this will do to start
Boobies!
a really good argument.
ah, hang on.
"dutch-oven"-ing the GF
brown paper packages tied up with string...
When a front mech goes straight on and cabled without any buggering about for hours on end.
I like those jumpers that SAS wannabes wear. You know, the woollen ones, crew neck and patches on the elbows and shoulders. Preferably in black.
Also, french cigarettes, fish and chips, Mitchell and Webb, and my kids.
reading threads that make me laugh rather than cringe.. so far so good!
Sitting in my back garden in front of the chiminea with a beer and/or whisky
i very much like whiskey, when drank in the company of sexy, artistic women who have husky voices
Sunsets
15:30 on a Friday
Beer
4 day weekends back to back and 3 day weeks
Books
Simple things make me happy
Sitting in my back garden in front of the chiminea with a beer and/or whisky
Why would you have one in these in your garden, you sick bastard.
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Watching reasonable questions and points of view being made on STW then degenerate into personal insults and unholy rows totally out of proportion to the seriousness of the subject!
I have a mental picture of Chipps and Mark sitting in their office with their heads in their hands, like Dr Frankenstein, wondering what this monster is they've created...
Oh and I like buying, fiddling with and riding bikes 🙂
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Perfect.
Making my 7 year old son laugh. Yes, I like that.
Making my 17 week old daughter smile and hearing her goo and gaa.
brown paper packages tied up with string...
What a coincidence, for they too are amongst my favourite things. Along with BFO knives.
Farting and smelling it.
good lyrics, Movies that make me want to jump around the room making laser noises, those days when you are a biking god, sunrise, bad tattoos, people doing unexpectedly good things. Ice cream.
realman - that treet root picture is from avebury isn't it?
anyway things I like - the smell of cut grass, the first draught of cold beer after grafting in the sun, the sound of snow crunching under foot and geting hugged by my boys when I get home from work 🙂
No, from google.
And if you want a list (in no particular order)
Drinking, mates, bikes (all of them), riding bikes, fixing bikes, talking about bikes, badminton, boxing, tennis, almost all other sports, girls, being young, sunny days, sleeping, eating, music, doing stupid things and getting away with it, maths, learning new things, cats (dogs are stupid), living in a country where the worst worry for most people is how crap 11 of us are at kicking a ball around a field and plenty more things.
what I really used to love was my childrens 'breast milk breath' when they were babies - don't know why really, was just one of those 'all's right with the world' things.
The girl who works in support in the office. :S
Sunshine on my back.
The sound of my kids playing without any fighting.
BBQ food on a hot day.
Finding a tennner in a pair of trousers I haven't worn for a while.
What do I like?
I like being around my dogs, my wife and I taking them for a run when we are on our bikes, I like the odd beer, I like the odd glass of wine, I like lamp.
hippies
I like lamp.
Mmmm, I burnt my tongue.
For the first time in my life ... my job 8)
Shame it's only for three years ...
(Past jobs have ranged from OK, through tolerable, to downright hellish).
Getting post, wine, a lager shandy after a hot bike ride, the feeling when you're really pushing yourself(last night - not much time so a continuous 1000m climb on the road bike) and you realise you're fit enough to cope with it without too much knackerdness, the smell of rain and friendly cats.
Mrs North
Hardback books
Eggshell interior woodwork paint
Sunlight lighting up dust during the afternoon
5pm after a really hot day
The sound of silence
That joyous whoosh on hearing some extraordinary music for the first time
No chain feeling when riding the bike
Homecooked food
I could go on....
In no particular order...
My girlfriend, the stepkids, Marin Wolf Ridges, Specialized Enduros, Maxxis tyres, Hopback Summer Lightning, English Electric Lightnings, real ale, epic fail, the North Downs, Todmorden, Snowdonia, lock on grips, Hope and laid back journalism.
English Electric Lightnings
My mum used to build the nose cones for those
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the view from the top of Highstreet
watching people slide their way down a slippery downhill
getting a corner just so on either my mountain bike or my motorbike
and.....
The english electric lightning is a very fine thing to like indeed. Was or maybe still is the fastest climbing aircraft on the planet something silly like 20kftpermin. Blimey.
MKCHRIS and Toys19
My old man used to design bits of them!
Cool. Cool Thats a good reason to be an engineer.
My wife
My children
Having a golden, brown suntan
Growing exotic plants
Being on holiday
Working up a sweat on my MTB
Lager
Sex
Not having had a cigarette for over 4 months
-Blandford Fly.
-that warbly not-quite-clucking noise hens make to each other.
-the Geordie accent.
-that smell when its been hot and then it rains on the pavement.
-Hot Wheels toys 😳
Seeing my 6 month old daughter laugh.
-the Geordie accent.
Whey Aye!
I like dogs with that dopey look on their faces as they stick their heads out of a moving car's window. Always makes me smile.
Riding a bit of trail I've ridden a few times and it just clicking, that moment when you feel like no one can beat you at that moment. Got that in Wales on Dreamtime on CyB last week. I rocked. 🙂
Ice cold milk and Bourbon Creams (proper long thin ones not the squarish ones).
An expertly cooked steak and chips.
The smell of sleep.
Salvation
Blandford Fly
Why? It looks nasty you must be some kind of entophile?
Edit - doh you meant the beer didnt you..
Having a shower, moisturising and then getting into a clean bed... and wriggling mmmmmmmmmmm
Drac - MemberWhey Aye!
I have a couple of Geordie colleagues (in Devon, mind). Is it a coincidence that they are 2 of the most straight-talking and amusingly errr, 'honest' people I know?
5 day weekend next week to go camping in the Brecon Beacons.
Taking my son to gigs.
Laughing so much it hurts, but you can't stop.
Having the alarm go off, then realising you don't have to get out of bed
Snogging (love snogging)
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens.
Oh, and my wife and lil Meggie 🙂
[i]"i very much like whiskey, when drank in the company of sexy, artistic women [b]who have husky voices[/b] "[/i]
........and presumably a cock
Sitting outside my tent at Rothiemurchus campsite with a glass of red in one hand and a rollie in the other!! 8)
No, I think that's your particularly singular fantasy there, Ernie...
Is it a coincidence that they are 2 of the most straight-talking and amusingly errr, 'honest' people I know?
We tend to be a touch honest and blunt humoured.
fresh clean sheets
car journeys
hot showers after biking
tub of ice cream
dressing up and looking pretty
the light at dusk and dawn
The smell of summer rain
The smell of Christmas day
nickc - MemberNo, I think that's your particularly singular fantasy there, Ernie...
How do you know what iDave likes nickc ........... do you go with him ?
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Can I come next time ?
when you get allowed out to meet women ernie, you'll find some have delicious smoky voices without male genitalia...
when you get allowed out to meet women ernie, you'll find some have delicious smoky voices without male genitalia...
Yeah, it's amazing what you can do with a simple operation these days.
Barbara Dixon:
'One little prick and it'll all be over'
calm down boys - this is a nice thread. Arguments elsewhere
this is a nice thread
On STW? Good luck 😀
Guinness
Mondays (Fridays from September 😀 )
Coil springs
Blue stuff
Orange stuff
Brown paper packages tied up with parcel tape (preferably in a CRC frame box 8) )
Revenge 😈
Cut off jeans
Vindaloo
the feeling of no more school forever.
My girl
That feeling when you stand up on a hill and ride over it thinking wow im
lance.
sex
Good wine
Good ale.
Dry weather.
Light bikes.
Bikes that work really well.
That grin you get when you hit the first bit of powder on the slope.
Oakleys.
Being able to cook well.
Shaved legs (mock me but its so good...)
Being hot
FRANCE
when drinking from a camelbak on a hot day, the feeling of ice cold drink coming through after the nasty warm bit 🙂
Easily pleased me...
ernie started it
😕 What did I start ?
the unpleasantness - whiskey drinking creative women with smokey voices are delicious, and the only cock involved is attached to me, permanently. so there.
Using a really sharp, just-out-of-a-wooden-box, chisel...
And then using a really sharp plane and just...well...planing 🙂
The Dirty Projectors & Bjork EP called Mount Wittenberg Orca that I just downloaded via donation to the National Geographic Society Oceans Project.
Superb, quirky, whimsical. Happy.
the unpleasantness
Hey........I didn't make any cockophobic remarks 😐
If you want to drink whiskey in the company of ladies with large adam's apples, then that's up to you mate ...... I'm not going to knock it.
Whatever works for you fella 8)
Driving my van fully packed up for a trip away.
Good book.
Holiday cigarettes.
Watching my Mrs jump up and down on the spot screaming (very rare event) when we have an argument then forgetting about it and having a cup of Earl Grey.
Putting up a difficult piece of wallpaper and smoothing it down seeing its spot on whilst listening to Radio 4.
So simple so nice.
Getting it back on track....
Dust devils, in fact also dust trails behind riders in the evening sun as well
Wakeboarding on a toe edge, over the clear waters of the Indian Ocean and looking down to see turtles over the coral reef
Good beer
Good wine
Good cheese
Good food in general
Pretty girls on bikes in flowery dresses
Breasts (well, who doesn't like 'em? 😉 )
Being woken up in a "pleasing" manner
Cake
Friends
Family
Freshly pisted runs first thing in the morning
Fresh powder
A Force 5 and a fast boat
Killing it and grilling it
and so much more....
Driving home after fishing with the car smelling of carp and stopping off to get beer and curry.
"Killing it and grilling it"
Love that one.
Marin, it always tastes better if you've caught/shot it yourself and cooked it fresh! Fish and game, nomnomnomnomnom!
You're so right, my huntin' days are over now I've left Scotland. Still like bashing fish over the head though!
Beer
Music/guitar
Bikes that just work (not very common for me)
Family
Friends.
The feeling you have when it's the night before a big holiday.
Real beer
Real boobs (large, please)
Finding good new music
Nelson, BC
Fresh mountain water from a fast creek
Properly, uncontrollably belly laughing (it seems so long ago 🙁 )
Riding my Knolly
Saving up and buying new bikes and bike bits