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You got a new log on after the ban will you be able to control yourself this time?

This log on is actually me, or the closest I can get to being me without expressing myself the way I would like to but would be banned by folk like you, abusing as is so often the case by the left, the basic right of expression gifted to us by those we would remember.

The fact that you consider criticism as abuse exactly defines you and your kind.

Junkboy if ever a post defined you as inappropriate to teach the young that last one did it.

Human Nature, sadly defines that an easy way to get more is to kill then steal it from your neighbour, it’s been a fact since creation.

As to our not being invaded, that is thanks to the various armed forces that have stood on the wall and prevented that from happening, many died doing it.

They don’t even ask to be remembered, there are however a few of us who have families that were among them, so we like to do it.

We like to do it without the benefit of young lefty pinko’s who are able to be that way because of the liberty they enjoy at the sacrifice of others talking bollox about the wrongs of war. Aggression exists, society is formed to protect itself from outside aggression and hires the services of people braver than ourselves to do it, so when they pay the ultimate price and particularly on a day such as this they deserve respect.

I didn’t go this year, first time in a long while, no real reason, I didn’t buy a poppy either, there’s still one attached to my car from last year.

That said it and it generally wasn’t a reaction to what I’d describe as extreme mawkish behaviour by ‘slebs’ and anyone remotely in the public eye, with whom I’ve no wish to identify, I still have a couple of moments to myself reflecting on what all those folks who gave their lives in the two defensive conflicts would think about the way things have turned out.

The bomber boys will no doubt be pleased they got a memorial at last but would probably wonder why it took so long and how the money had to be raised.

Transition Covert, only ride up to come down…

Get to the Alps whenever I can, did FOD earlier this year with flyup downhill on the Transition day.

Old School is probably my all time favourite.

But agreed if he’s in it, it’s worth a watch.

As is Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn.

I guess I am, although i don’t like to think of myself as being in the Bike Industry, they are a nasty bunch, I’m in the board riding business but we also sell bikes. Surfers, snowboarders Kite and Windsurfers both in and out of the business are a lot more chilled, actually have a sense of humour and are more humane to each other and their customer base imv.

Having said that, we’re slowly finding our way round the bike game and are forging similar relationships with the free riding baggy set and trying to stay true to our ideals.

It’s not easy in a world of anoraks and geeks who grow facial hair, smoke and don’t always wash, never mind swim, surf or ride frozen water even. 😉

Don’t even think about buying boots online, even exactly the same type can vary. Go into the shop try them on, keep them on as long as you can, I used to make folk stay in their boots for half an hour and we kept the shop as cold as possible. Bear in mind the moment you hit the snow, everything gets smaller, things shrink so even if they are fine instore, the boot shrinks, then you get pressure points.

There is a trick they use when making boots if you’re lucky, they generally only make lasts in whole sizes, then they vary the size of the boot by the sole insert which raises the foot higher in the boot, so if it is a bit tight you can often get away with removing the sole insert, your foot is in the liner anyway so it shouldn’t effect the comfort factor.

All the other things hold true, make sure you don’t get any heel lift, there’s plenty of room to wiggle your toes, don’t have your toe touching the end of the boot, I’m not a great advocate of the boa system they do have a habit of failing, I prefer laces, but each to his own, number one thing is comfort, nothing worse than having a cool looking branded boot only to be in agony riding in it.

I always went a half size over my actual size, even in soft boots, you can always sock it out, you can’t make it smaller..

We’re just researching and probably going to fit one of these devices to our demo kit in the very near future having been particularly badly hit this year. We’ve lost a Carbon covert, a standard Covert, two Bandits and a TR250, not that we could have done much about the 250 as it was in transit between a dealer and a team rider.

If we’d had one of these tracking devices in place when the Coverts got knicked in Monmouth we’d have had a pretty good chance of recovering them ourselves.

Then we’d probably have been arrested by Plod for knicking them back from the perps.

You can’t win really can you?

scuzz – Member
We’re geeky and we smell like it.

FTFY 😉

Not google, it’s a long ago remembered nickciske.com binary translator we used to mess about with on the kite forum back in the early days, I thought it would be nice for the Geek boys to converse in, since mostly I’ve no idea what they’re going on about anyway when they crash the threads I am interested in..

There are so many Geeks here, in a nice way it’s great, such a wealth of knowledge, it’s just such a shame they smell so bad, get a wash boys… 😉

“?:”

GrahamS – Member
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And I’m an Aries

Derek (Rides) always reckoned you were the most reasoned person on this forum.

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Ha, I had to google JLS, no, the Beatles are no JLS, but then I doubt JLS have a fraction of the song catalogue of the Beatles. I made the mistake of downloading a Torrent, it’s over a gig.

Got to say for young folk, not having lived through the Beatles,I can understand them not liking them. They were a bit of a girlie group boy band style anyway, well the forunner of that genre. But they did have a big influence on lots of later acts, the Revolver and Sgt Pepper albums were seminal works at the time and the last album, Abbey Road had its moments for me.

Most blokes were into the Stones or The Who then the Kinks and there was so much else going on in the sixties, so much choice then after the Sgt Pepper Album came the next wonder of the age, Stereo…

Which kind of puts it in context, why there is a lot of nostalgia for the Beatles. I can remember exactly where I was and who with when the news came through of their break up, what’s worse the girl i was with is dead now as are two of them.

GrahamS – Member
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bikebouy – Member
…. my paddle board leaning up the stairs.. I have to dodge it each time I go upstars and its a right old pain getting the bikes past it.
MrsBouy just about tolerates it bless her

You have a paddle board and you’re married?

Mid Atlantic Estuary – er dude.

Klunk – Member
phew!

+1
Of course I knew all along.. 😉

As I’ve now decided I’m your official forum psychic, I can confirm you are all going to die.

And that since you cannot take your money with you I suggest you order a Transition Carbon Covert to enjoy your riding whilst you still can.

As to how long you have left try this.

I wonder why you big hitting geek boys don’t go off now and again and set your own thread up to talk amongst yourselves, maybe discuss a Unix manual and it’s relevance to gear ratios on a single speed up winter fold hill or something. Let us psychics talk mumbo jumbo amongst ourselves…

Hah got the same dilemma myself, got an appointment with a potentially big client tomorrow, up that North place (Coventry) doubt they’ll get it, so off it’s going to have to come..

grum – Member
Can you not tell igrf, just by concentrating really hard?

What was wrong with me today?
I should have known better than to cop to all that on here, and under my proper ID… some times, I am such a soft lad.. 🙄

It’s not a Transition TR250 is it? We’ve had one knicked by a city link driver and maybe he’s dumping the evidence.

Junkyard – Member
the birth date is generally there clear to see before you even get an interview so he’d never know.
HE so we can add sexism to this as well..shakes head in disbelief

Trolling but entertaining

Er it was aimed at woppit under the assumption that was his particular gender. In truth these days we run a very inclusive outfit here we have all genders and all sexual orientations, folk like you that are concerned you might be gay would be more than welcome assuming the skill required for the job. As long as you can actually ride that is.. 😉

That astrological bollox dated back to the print and graphics industry where, if you were looking to take on trainees into a particularly creative environment and you had no other method to sort through lots and lots of potential applicants, then generally Gemini and Sagitarians would place ahead if there were no obvious other method to chose from for the graphics and creative roles whereas there were others specific to other tasks, it’s a long time ago now, I forget what they all were, but it was a phase back in the late seventies early eighties.. But it did happen, not a troll and I wasn’t the only person using what would it be called these days, astrological profiling?,

GrahamS – Member
Well I have to bow to your superior googling,… all those folks I didn’t hire over all those years on misinformation.
Really it took me less than 2 minutes of googling to show what complete nonsense that was.

Did you never think to maybe question your “facts” a little bit?

Er why? So i could prevail in a discussion on an internet forum about er Astrology something I don’t get and was actually asking a question about anyway?

Rather than just blindly accepting that personality traits can be neatly bundled into 12 different types based on the apparent position of our sun, relative to the perceived position of stars literally trillions of miles away, at the time of someone’s birth.

And accepting that so thoroughly that you claim to have made career decisions based on it!

Well lucky for me, it’s my money I’m about to waste on one of those 12 divisions of human personality traits which, before the advent of psychometric testing were as good as any other method for deciding wether the lying slacker that’s sat there in front of you at the interview table was going to do what you asked of him or her rather than spend all day on an internet forum or Facebook..

If you’d have done that to me, I’d sue you for every penny you’ve got, you stupid numbskull.
Pffftt.. typical Taurus.

As for the likes of woppit and the no win no fee lawyers that offer to make that idle threat an actual fact should for example it be down to his age, or other imagined impediment to him not being successful in his application, the birth date is generally there clear to see before you even get an interview so he’d never know.

So an even more effective means of sorting through a bunch of interviews, Hmm ‘no-one born between March 21st and April 20th need apply’ that would go down well in an advert, I wonder how long it would take for legislation to be enacted along the lines of astrological discrimination. 😆

GrahamS – Member

“This way lads, left a bit…”

Napolean was born in 15 August 1769 which makes him Leo or maybe Cancer.

I don’t think the birth date of Muhammad is known. Sunni Muslims observe His birthday on the 12th day of the Islamic month of Rabi’ al-awwal, while Shi’a Muslims mark it on the 17th.

Well I have to bow to your superior googling, I must say all this time I’d been given to the belief that those three were as detailed, so I must be totally wrong.

What a shame, all those folks I didn’t hire over all those years on misinformation. 😥

This is in danger of descending into a troll now. Oh and woppit yes and no, no I wouldn’t hire anyone from the internet anyway and certainly not from this place, you all spend far too much time on here at someone’s expense..

I spend far to much time on here as well and I most certainly wouldn’t hire me.

None of this however disproves the additional sensory perception that certain humans appear to be gifted with.

GrahamS – Member
an extraordinary number of Arians turn up as facist dictators …
Hmmm… a bit googling.. list of nasty dictator types..
– I think my point is made!)

Yes, mine rather badly put, it should have been warlord types rather than facist. Was thinking more along the lines of Napolean, Hitler, even the bloody prophet Mohammed and at the other end of the scale the Librans, Thatcher, Putin and I honestly can’t remember them all.

richmtb – Member
You know igrf you had me going for a while

But then you came out with this:

But I’d love someone to explain to me for instance why certain character traits are exhibited by folk born at periodic times of the year and forms the basis of Astrology another bullshit source of magic dusters. Yet an extraordinary number of Arians turn up as facist dictators and Librans their polar opposites equally in leading roles in society and Gemini’s in Advertising and Sagitarians in Graphic design and the arts, why is that? Gravitational alignment effecting cell strucure? Does it work opposite for folk born in the Southern hemisphere, I wonder if anyone has even checked.
Now I know you are taking the p and are just having a laugh

Ha if you knew me for real, it’s worse than that, there are certain folk back in the day I wouldn’t employ unless they are certain Astrological star signs, I’m that convinced of the veracity of it.

I know it’s true, what I don’t know is why.

gonefishin – Member
Nope, tiresome nonsense if I’m honest.

Then one questions why you are even wasting keystrokes on the subject.

I on the other hand do find it fascinating and have done this past fifty years, ever since my Gran went really pale reading the tea leaves one day whilst I was a kid and my Grandad died the next day, unexpectedly.

We all have our personal experiences that form our beliefs, that is all one can ever take from a discussion like this and the sure knowledge that if you do seriously attempt to promote what I’ve been alluding to here, folk assume you’re a nutter, in my case not that far from the truth. 😉

gonefishin – Member
In any case none of the supports any of your previous claims that you can predict the future.

I don’t recall saying I could predict the future, other than you might be in for a long and argumentative thread.

I did not say any of this is ‘supernatural’ personally I think it is perfectly natural that any being be tuned into it’s natural environment and it is more the case that humans are tuned out by virtue of education and dogma.

I do not know or profess to know why any of this shit goes on, I’m simply stating that in my limited experience it does.

There is a shit load of research on the subject of ESP, go google, look for yourself.

To my mind it is a person of limited experience that is more likely to simply debunk the existence of ‘other senses’, better to my mind to accept it and attempt to understand why. That doesn’t mean you accept the hocus pocus of every would be tom dick and mystic meg.

But I’d love someone to explain to me for instance why certain character traits are exhibited by folk born at periodic times of the year and forms the basis of Astrology another bullshit source of magic dusters. Yet an extraordinary number of Arians turn up as facist dictators and Librans their polar opposites equally in leading roles in society and Gemini’s in Advertising and Sagitarians in Graphic design and the arts, why is that? Gravitational alignment effecting cell strucure? Does it work opposite for folk born in the Southern hemisphere, I wonder if anyone has even checked.

Don’t you find any of it a tad fascinating?

gonefishin – Member Coincidence, confusing correlation with causation. There are any number of reasons as to why your dog acted in the way he did, all of them rational and none of them you will be able to disprove.

Along with the animals knowing the tsunami was coming, and hundreds of other examples of six sense in animals
Is there any actual evidence that this actually happens? Afterall how many times has animal behaviour at the moment of a tsunami been accurately recorded?

The dog? It did the same thing on more than one occasion and was only reported to me/my wife after the fact, it basically knew the day we were returning every time.

Even today, my current dog(s), know the moment I leave the office. I don’t/didn’t think this trait was even in dispute, that animals have another sense is a given.

Other animals there’s plenty of stuff about on it quick google =

According to a 2400-year-old document, ancient Greeks observed animals including snakes and rats abandoning the city of Helice before a devastating earthquake destroyed it. Throughout history and into the 21st century, reports of strange animal behavior in advance of a natural disaster continue inciting research and speculation, with no clear rationale as to why this happens. Among domestic animals, reports of hens not laying eggs, cows not giving milk, or bees abandoning hives days, hours and even minutes before tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes and more recently tsunamis regularly make news. The most consistent abnormal behavior reportedly comes from dogs. Amid the global studies on this phenomena, China continues exploring animal behavior to forecast earthquakes. One deduction from Chinese studies concludes that not all earthquakes cause unusual animal behavior. Animal sensitivity to geological vibrations and to electromagnetic changes, as well as to shifts in atmospheric pressure, is scientific fact; but validation of whether this sensitivity is the cause of abnormal animal behavior before natural disasters occur still eludes the science world in 2010.

Read more: Signs That Animals Show Before a Natural Disaster | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/list_6186158_signs-show-before-natural-disaster.html#ixzz2BReDs2uI

Junkyard – Member

FWIW I am open minded now show me your evidence

OK show me your palm..

Right, you’re a bad teacher.

You have self worth issues

You are argumentative and waste too much time on the internet.

You will never be truly happy. 😉

gonefishin – Member
I would suggest that you learn about “confirmation bias”. I’ve had plenty of occasions when I’ve “predicted” things correctly, but unless you keep acurate track of when you are wrong, you’ll never be able to make an accurate assessment of good your “predictions” are.

If I wanted confirmation of it, or sought to make some deal about it or set myself up as ‘Psychic Bob’ maybe I would, but I’m not that convinced, nor that interested in pursuing it as anyone other than what it used to be a bit of a ‘pulling technique’ or boredom alleviation at parties, anyone can read palms you just read up on what the lines mean and use it.
I used to do it to Prostitutes in bars in Germany not wanting to be diverted into the joys of their commercial offerings whilst my mates and younger charges did, and that’s when it first started working for real, when I didn’t actually want anything from the person I’d engaged with.

I only mention all this here as verification of the fact there must be something at work or none of this would have any basis in the first place so disregarding it as ‘total bollox’ which face it is the easiest route and most of us do, is probably wrong.

There are, and they are very few and far between, but there are some very inciteful and gifted types that genuinely have this talent, we are all better at some things than others and some folk are just better at communicating on this ‘other’ wavelength than others and they can tell you stuff about yourself that’s going to happen before it does. Now you might counter that it is auto suggestion and self fulfilling prophesy then springs to mind, but some of the stuff I’ve seen, heard and witnessed, sorry, it goes way beyond any of that is my personal belief.

So don’t be closed minded is my best advice to anyone.

Here’s another strange thing, I had this dog once, a brilliant trail companion, a German Shepherd, when I went overseas he used to go in kennels. He’d comply do all the doggy stuff that goes on in kennels, yet and we worked out later it was the moment I got on the plane to come home, he’d go to the end of the run and become agitated as if I was in the drive and he could see me.
Explain that. Along with the animals knowing the tsunami was coming, and hundreds of other examples of six sense in animals, how come they have it and humans don’t?

That’s not something I subscribe to, but fair play if you do, must be quite an odd feeling being given a “glimpse” of what life has in store for you.

You feel stupid (as I do a bit now) even talking about it, given when it happens other than to yourself, you’ve no proof, the only thing that ‘proves’ that anything you might say has any foresight or inexplicable knowledge is when the person you might have discussed it with says that what you go on about is true and then if you’re cynical you are sometimes disinclined to believe them, or think they are only saying it to somehow please you.

I’m sure it’s a facet we all possess to varying degree and frankly are mostly too inhibited to attempt to practise because of the absurdity and illogical nature of doing it. There are many examples of precognition anecdotally described, but until it actually occurs to you personally it’s better just to ignore or put them down to chance or coincidence.

All I’d say is the longer you live, the more you look around, the more there is going on that is unexplained by science or religion. Remember religions don’t like things of ‘spiritual’ nature either, mere suggestion of stuff like this would have you burned as a witch or warlock not so long ago.

I’ve always been a fatalist in my outlook on life, I do believe in Karma, and I do believe certain things occur because they were ‘meant’ to be. I know what this forum is like if a thread like this should degenerate into a religious slagging match if the two sides of the God or Not God botherers weigh in and my answer to that is there is only one possible belief structure for any of us and that is of ‘Extreme Agnosticism’ but it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t seek an answer.
So what it is I’ve no idea, how it occurs is definiteley a brain function and a brain function that works better uninhibited (which in my case usually comes from excess alcohol, I could never attempt it sober).

I’ve had a precognitive occurrence just recently that I can’t discuss right here and now for all sorts of shit legal reasons, but it was very real very lucid and came to pass exactly as the dream suggested it would, so this shit whatever it is, is very real in my world, mores the pity. I’d sooner not know when it’s bad news as so often it appears to be, which is another major drag, really, it’s always a bad news incident that is transmitted more readily than good I’ve noticed.

Cobblers it’s not, without doubt there is a sixth sense that some folk can tap into and predict stuff, my Gran had it, occasionally when I’m stupid pissed I come out with all sorts of what I believe to be bollox when ‘palm reading’ young ladies, which has been to correct to be co-incidence far too often to the point I really don’t want to do it.

Now, there are other things that I’ll just illustrate for you as examples where we all tap into some other ‘wavelength’ in extreme circumstance, hair raising on the back of your neck being the most common. In extreme moments in sport when you’re ‘in the zone’ when you get to predict what’s going to happen before it does and line yourself up for it.

OK not quite in the league of communicating with the dead, or psychic manifestations like that woman that got herself arrested for announcing the destruction of the Hood before the Admiralty even knew it had gone down.

So yes there is most definitely something out there that is a brain function not everybody acknowledges and call it a wavelength for want of a better definition. Palm reading, Tarot, Crystal Balls, they just provide a focus that clears the mind gives a bit of auto suggestion to build on then the bollox starts to flow, where it comes from who knows maybe it’s elemental mind reading. But me walking into a bar some pissed woman grabs my hand and says i hear you read palms and I blurt out I don’t do lawyers what’s the chance of that? Never met the woman from that day to this… I was very cynical thought it was all bullshit, then I had a near death experience and ever since I can’t tell you some of the crap I’ve come out with that turned out true.. I’ve spotted pregnancies amongst women who didn’t know, I’ve embarrassed myself talking about abortions that total strangers have had at the instruction of a nasty boyfriend who beat her, it goes on.

So don’t tell me it’s all bollox I wish it was and I try not to do it anymore, it’s weird and unsettling, like everything we don’t understand it’s also very erratic can’t be relied on.

Waterski racing – mental, racing 50 miles offshore.
Windsurfing
ATB in the early days
Sailing.