[Closed] What is it with this forums lefties?

A few of those names ring a some bells, small world innit! 😀

And now (for me at least) I'm ending this thread on the opposite to the way it started
On a happy note 😀
Nite folks 😛

Fantastic thread ah the Henry Royce, PSV, Russell club, and of course the Nile / Reno Clubs now replaced by the fugging letter M got some great photos of the old Belle Vue Speedway stadium in Action.

Back to the original thread wrong with Lefties nothing at all bit long in the tooth though I started with Mag 21's and moved to a head shock that was a revelation in stability the lefty was also my first experience of disk brakes but by then 'Dale was loosing the quality build plot I jumped ship changed bike and went back to Rockshox however I miss my old lefty. . I still get to see it though a guy in the village bought it who stil lgets good use out of it

Me 132 Robert Adam Crescent 1977-80.

This thread needs to be kept going, in the interests of Democracy and Freedom.

Let us continue in our Celebration of Concrete.

Here are some cahs using an underpass:

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Should I bother to read all of this, or should I just post a pic of a concrete cow?

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That's a very valuable contribution, Flashy. Thank you.

As for reading it all; well it's up to you, but it was very entertaining, I though.

Can't remember what the original purpose of this thread was tbh, but I don't really think it matters.

How about a concrete boat?
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And the concrete canoe championships?
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I think the concrete helicopter is still at the design stage though.....

Can't remember what the original purpose of this thread was tbh, but I don't really think it matters.

I'm only contributing as a favour to wes. It's the least we can do.

Can't remember what the original purpose of this thread was tbh

I think someone picked up on it a little earlier .......... something about some geezer having an irrational hatred of people who ride Cannondales. Or something along those lines.

Is it just me or is Flashy's so-called concrete cow just a small plastic one being held close to the camera?

Good point IdleJon ....

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I thought it was left handed people he didn't like?

All very sinister if you ask me.....

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[i]Can't remember what the original purpose of this thread was tbh, but I don't really think it matters.
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It's us lefties that bothered him, allthough I can't help being left handed 😕
Jesus likes this thread and all,
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Elfinsafety. .what a lovely bit of concrete box section and lovely formed curving wing walls pity its got such a piffling accommodation road constructed over the top...

My lefty is currently awaiting a rebuild as it recently discharged it's contents all over the hub.

Sandwich, I know they're not bright, but could you not train it to use a kleenex like everyone else?

Lefties are actually more intelligent and more likely to be geniuses than righties, Flashy. S'true fact.

ooh, what an odd turn for a thread to take

Ooozits, anyone ? - near the station in manchester
(was a bit too arty farty for me but some weird appeal)

oh, and how's this for missing the zeitgeist by 5 years ? (unless they leave it as it stands currently)
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This forum makes me piss, take somebodies ranting and turn it into random photos - Class. I love it.

Keep it going please 😀

Wunundred! 😀

Had to be done.

The Shard, when finished, will look amazing. It's already massive, and it's going to be really tall. Got a bit of style to it too, unlike a lot of recent office blocks what've gone up in London.

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i'm lefthanded and i don't have an audi. i've been in one though. don't tell my friends.

here's some nice tubes
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.......earning enough money to send junior to a decent school so he can rub shoulders with the ruling classes that stamp you down all the time, buy that Audi you're secretly lusting after and afford to go skiing

Work harder? For that ^^??

Is "rubbing shoulders" a public school euphomism??

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Lets reward the person who started this thread.

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why is a lefty called a lefty?

Has the OP struck a nerve?

😆

Has the OP struck a nerve?

Ticked a funny bone more like.

Lefties are great:
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You forgot this bloke, Rusty...

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[b][i]"why is a lefty called a lefty?" [/i][/b]

I don't know ton...........why [b]IS[/b] a lefty called a lefty ?

(I hope it's a good one)

To get to the other side!

😀

I bet you all ride cannondales bunch of lefties 😉

I forgot this geezer as well Ernie, probably the world's most famous leftie:

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no..ernie, i was asking seriously

I bet they sit on the left as you walk in or something

(or else they only have one leg)

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Ton - tehy sat on the left of the french parliament after the revolution

tehy sat on the left of the french parliament after the revolution

But who told the lefties that they should sit on the left when didn't even know that they were lefties ..........on account that they had never sat on the left before.

Answer that.

Its the natural order of things

Its the "natural order" of things ? ........doesn't sound very revolutionary to me 😕

If they were proper revolutionaries, they should have insisted on sitting on the right......just to show them like. That's what I would've done.

Does anyone remember the fridge in hulme? That club made by knocking thewalls down between flats? My mate damo knocked them walls down. Good club that. Or the warehouse parties in the big houses in whalley range where mark kermode played in a band called Russians eat Bambi and he dressed in a red teddy boy drape jacket? No concrete damaged at those parties mind, but there were hells angels on the door and they looked as hard as concrete

damo suzuki ?

All this nostalgia made me quite emotional, so here's my favourite place from years gone by with my estate in the background
Any guesses where it is?

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[i]Does anyone remember the fridge in hulme? That club made by knocking thewalls down between flats? My mate damo knocked them walls down. Good club that. Or the warehouse parties in the big houses in whalley range where mark kermode played in a band called Russians eat Bambi and he dressed in a red teddy boy drape jacket? No concrete damaged at those parties mind, but there were hells angels on the door and they looked as hard as concrete[/i]

I remember that, the hells angels were the satans slaves and were pussy cats really, used to go to Manchester uni getting hammered with em, they wanted me and my mate to become members but I didn't want to cut off my Mohican,

Am I too late for a flyover?
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TT -Brisbane Rd

Spot on there mefty or the Matchroom Stadium as its been renamed (but no one uses that name)

Couldn't make it down there tonight, but bought a ticket anyway and got my mate to pick it up. Need the stub from tonight and next tuesday to get a ticket for the Arsenal cup game

pah, call that a flyover....

THIS is a flyover.....

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Your fly over does nothing for me iDave.

This one however.......

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A Lancaster, a Hurricane and a Spitfire ...... bollox .....now I've got a lump in my throat 😥

And maybe lets not forget the de Havilland Mosquito

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"In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again..."

– Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring, 1943

My girlfriend works with a de Havilland. She is now a lefty and has no money

Ooooh, are we doing footy grounds as well?

I like this one - smallest attendance of any game I've ever been to, 180 odd IIRC:
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And this one is a bit more local - great little ground though:
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Any guesses?

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I suppose that all those aircraft are lefties as well, in terms of suspension? Although there may be some righties on the other wing?

Ernie, I can hear the Merlins from here....

*Goosebumps*

A left wing fighter (right wing featured in this photo, however):
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Cant fail to see the left wing in this photo but it's the right wing getting all the attention but it's not News International its a stringbag
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Leftie car
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Do you need a right wing at all?

Polikarpovtastic

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Mountain biking underpass an' shiz.

That is ****ing amazing Kunstler !

EDIT : I just it seen again - that landing ain't real 😕

Second footy ground looks like Accrington Stanley, no idea of the first one though, guessing it could be a scottish team with that sort of crowd.

My lot sent Oxford down when Accrington got back in the league, complete reversal of fortunes I believe from about 1963

Spot on TT, second pic is the Fraser Eagle Stadium in Accy.
Nice ground, good atmosphere.

And the first ground is indeed in Scotland.
Here's a clue - you could get there on your 'Bad Motor Scooter', oh yeah.

hamishthecat - Member

Polikarpovtastic

Innit?
They always remind me of the US GeeBee racers, all engine, not much else.
Did much better than expected against the Axis though. HOW brave must the pilots have been to take on much more modern aircraft in one of those?

I believe they were actually replaced in service in some theatres by these:
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Here's a clue - you could get there on your 'Bad Motor Scooter', oh yeah.

That'll be:

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What an album cover.

Ernie - sorry you had the magic ruined. I felt the same way when I watched Tamara Drewe.

oh i do like a good concrete thread!

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fantastic stuff.

Check out the sky blue wafters on Sammy Hagar 😀 :

Actually, that's not my favourite album cover. I've always appreciated the subtle depictions of human warmth.

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Aw, that's nice - dad taking his daughter out for a birthday drink.
How thoughtful.

I've always liked this one - such nice, clean boys:
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I'd post the album cover of Millie Jackson sat on the bog, but I don't want to get banned just yet....

ahwiles - Member
oh i do like a good concrete thread!

fantastic stuff.

Concrete looks soooo much better in black and white than colour!

It doesn't happen often but TJ is wrong!!

There was always meant to be an office structure or development there. There are other M8 junctions and flyovers that were never completed though. Eg the Junction to Bishopbriggs, Inner Glasgow ring road down high street to gorbals...I could go on but you'd get bored.

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It doesn't always go to plan on the motorway.
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Or the velodrome.
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I've been trying to find some info over the last couple of days about a housing development I remember from Cheetham Hill in the 70's.

Memory plays odd tricks and I thought the place had been called the Queen Elizabeth or Queen Mary flats.
However, it appears to have been this place, Kennet House, which was built in 1933 (one of the first in the country?) and demolished in 1978:
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Think these may be from an architects model:
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You can really tell the difference between this and the later brutalist stuff, far more 'Art Deco' type touches.

I remember being shown this place just as it was being demolished.
My parents told me that it had been designed to look like a ship from ground level, and even though it was in a bit of a state, I remember it being quite spectacular - certainly nicer than Collyhurst, Monsal or 'Fort Ardwick'.

Although it would appear to be a pretty important building I can only find a few references to it on the net.

A thread about the place on Aidan O'Rourke's old site [url= http://www.aidan.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=21 ]here[/url].

Anyone remember the place, or better still have some more photo's?

Whilst looking, I've also come across these sites, some of you might like: 😀
[url= http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=501265 ]Skyscraper City's [/url]thread on Britain (the Manchester stuff starts about page 79, I think!).

[url= http://www.manchestermodernistsociety.org/ ]The Manchester Modernist Society. [/url]

Anyway.
Back on topic............this is what happens when you list dangerously to the left - or [i]"port side"[/i] as they would have us call it.

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Er, Ernie, isn't that the front of the canoe, or 'Pointy End' as I believe it's called in the trade?
So it's actually leaning to the right?

That's your suppressed subconscious fascist tendencies coming out right there, that is.

Anyway.
Back on topic............

interesting cbike - I could have sworn I was right but a quick google explained it. It sure looked like a roadway and was empty for 20+ years. Every day is a school day

Er, Ernie, isn't that the front ......

WTF...... I think you're right 😯 Good grief, I can't tell my arse from my elbow concerning nautical issues 😕 I'm sitting here philosophising on aquatic contentions which I clearly know nothing about. Oh the humiliation of being an incurable landlubber 😐

......having said that, I know a badly parked boat when I see one

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I suppose one of the most influential left wingers in my life was Steve Heighway. I'd choose him over Wes for a pint in the pub any day.

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