"Forgive my ignorance buut what is a lancaster doing in a battle of britain flight? "

Cos it was originally known as the historic aircraft flight, not specifically for b o b aircraft,it became popularly known as The BBMF in the late fifties/early sixties. It still flies a number of other aircraft now including a dc3 dakota and a chipmunk.

"plain lazy", I like their stuff very much.

"If you think I compared the British armed forces to the SS, then you just can't read properly

When it comes to the Issraeli armed forces however….."

And you cannot spell correctly apparently.

"not the same as all three flying over central London on a national armed forces day with global media interest."

If you are talking about the national event that was televised earlier….It was Cardiff anyway.

Nice goldie, thought I'd join in as well 🙂

sorry for sneaking two in but hey ho

Found more pringles,I reckon an hour from now I could have my own gravitational field if I work at it 🙂

I'm sprawled on the sofa dipping crisps and mini pork pies in mayonnaise if that's any help ?

I've been out on mine earlier this evening, tagalong and reflectors, I'd rather have them than die.

Sweet zombie Jesus, if that's the worst thing in y'life that worries you……. crap rant by the way.

"White ones are generally deaf apparently"

We had a pure white one, deaf as a bleeding post it was,though that may just be a coincidence. It used make a right racket trying to sneak along the fence to get at birds and squirrels , mewling away and with a huge bell dangling off it, whilst they just sat there looking at it and taking the p**s. It used to bring leaves,crisp packets, mars bar etc wrappers back instead of mice.

Hurrah, well spotted sir:)

"beacuase" is that Basque?

iirc, just buggering off from the scene of an accident where damage has been caused without leaving y' details is/was an offence , this happened to me about ten years ago, I reported it to the police and they did follow it up and I did claim sucessfully.

Unless you are running Windows Vista.

No, but I deliberately buy shirts two sizes too big, so when I get bored of them I can sell them on to some bloater without affecting the s/hand value.

"Why does everyone, including the dumbed down media, insist on calling all surface warships "battleships"?????"

Cos they are ships and they do battles? you do realise it's a generic term and those of us who don't float about for a living, by and large don't really care about the correct identification of a class of boat that became obsolete decades ago ?:)

Not particularly relevant but kind of interesting,one of the very few battleships present at Pearl Harbor, that survived the bombing undamaged was the USS Pheonix, which was decomissioned at the end of the war.

In 1951 she was sold to the Argentinean navy and re-commissioned as "General Belgraneo"

A WW2 warship sunk forty years after the war, by two WW2-vintage design torpedoes(Mk 8 mod 4) – fired by a nuclear submarine.

At that price, march straight into Richer sounds and ask what they've got. £50 isnt going to get you much anywhere else unless you go second hand and even then……..

"i get the impression that the north is filled with vast expanses of bleak moorland where no-one ever goes (except to bury/look for murder victims).

is this a generalisation? "

No……….It's what I can see out of my window now. If I had a telescope I probably could see people being buried, We've all done it.

If you were on a bike they were technically accurate, if perhaps over enthusiatic.

I worked there for a few years, it's a sh*thole,some decent riding nearby, that's it. If you get really bored you can go to the big roundabout by richer sounds in Hanley and watch pigeons, throwing themselves in front of cars out of sheer despair.

If you have to spend the night, get sh*tfaced and pretend to be somewhere else.

Is that right? no…. to stick pencils down your uretha they would have to go through your mouth and down to the bladder that way, I think you meant up your uretha.

Nope, school had a big sign outside saying that this will not be happening so don't even bother asking if you can take them out early.

I second Tim Cahill's Road Fever.

Home erotic tribalism imho. so yeah pretty much:)

Skip biking( as in "I found it in a skip" is brilliant, I'm a big fan…. the cheaper the better, if it weighs a ton just think of it as resistance training 🙂

I loved the flashing blade, I got farmed out to my grandparents for the summer hols and it was the nearest we got to excitement all day.

That's brought it all flooding back now thanks 🙂

oh and fish, but I still am terrified of fish, icthyophobia apparently.

Eskimos

Mongooses

I'm 13.5 stone and I use 65 psi on a 2.75.Personally even for me, I'd say that 40/45 psi is way low, but thats just my preference.

Hawaiian shirts have always been cool for riding in, both literally and figuratively. so there:)

I spent many happy years slotting terrorists and other assorted mit-mots on behalf of queen and country.

Golden Earring "Radar love"

Johnathan Richmann "Roadrunner"

Bo Diddley "Cops and robbers"

Link Wray "Under the wire"

Anything by Hawkwind, but especially "Hurry on sundown" or "Urban guerilla"

That's it,Any kind of 80's hair metal is just an embarrassment and will guarantee you wont get a shag when you get there.

They are great, but the only very minor thing I'd say is make sure it will mount on the steerer tube solidly first. The first bike we fitted it on took about two hours of ar*ing about to get it to fit on the steerer tube (which was quite slim) properly and stop it turning.

Should be fine on the Cnoc16 though.

"never drink in a pub with plastic windows"

"If you are going to piss on your own bonfire, make sure you've got somebody else's shoes on"

my Dad, giving me advice upon me coming of age.

Well done mini gsi:)

Now the trouble really starts, a month from now he'll be dangling from the light fittings and hiding your phone down the toilet, and using the cat to tow him around the room.

I got a caddy from a little backstreet place for about a tenner.

I'm talking about Alex Kingston, but that's only cos once I've got an idea in my head, it's like a ferret up a drainpipe.

Countzero is projecting his unnatural interest in Bonnie langford onto Karen Gillan and Ianmunro is working out how long he's had his bike.

Gammon marinated in balsamic vinegar, olive oil and lemon in a butterbean and sweetcorn hash.