Saw AC/DC at Castle Donnington – 17th August 1984

Some South African drivers are pretty bad. Over here for instance a red traffic light means NOTHING!!!

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I just put "Neon Knights" and "The Last in Line" on my MP3 player last week.

When Heaven and Hell came out back in 1980 it was the first time I'd heard RJD and I was blown away. Later I came across the early Rainbow stuff.

Time to catch the rainbow Ronnie.

We'll be watching in South Africa.

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They are being advertised over here (South Africa) on telly. Bizare if you ask me! LOL

Bit like Hayseed Dixie covering AC/DC I suppose . . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mU2lJKkQ04

I put all my heavy stuff in hand luggage.

Last time I came back to South Africa my hand luggage weighed as much as my hold luggage. I shit you not! Just don't wince while you carry it and no one will notice. Oh and to add insult to injury – I bought a bike bag with my MTB and all my bike tools, clothes and some bike books in it too – Virgin allow 32kg of Sporting goods 🙂

In my defence – I don't bring 50kg of fat with me every flight – some people do 😉

ps this is very very funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gkHwU4DRA8

That IS funny. Rupert Murdoch's "Sky News" is certainly not unbiased but we all know that already.

ToryBoy Boulton was also bollocked for his bias questioning of Nick Clegg, in contravention of the pre-established rules, during the Leader's debate.

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I like him too. So what if he's a bit moody? You should see me when I haven't had any chocolate for a while.

His win at La Flèche Wallonne was awesome to watch. The camera really doesn't do the gradient justice. He dropped Joaquín Rodríguez and Alberto Contador "like they were going backwards"

leaves on the track….

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I gaurantee he will not get caught out like this again though. Pain is the BEST teacher by far.

I had all 4 wisdom teeth plus a crumbling molar removed in one go at the dentist – but under a general. Pain was ok later on. Worst bit was trying to stop sticking my tongue into the huge holes I had. That was the bit that made me feel sick 🙁

I think the films are good fun. Hard to Kill and Under Siege particularly.

Are they running "Steven Segal – Lawman" in the uk yet?

a REAL Lawman

I like Cav – I remember one of his early interviews after a stage win at the TdF. He was sitting on the grass being interviewed and his phone rang. He said "I can't talk now mum – I'm on the telly"

His stage win on the Champs Elysees was an amazing show of power – after Big George peeled off Cav almost wheelspun away.

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(Funnily enough one of my other fav wins on the Champs Elysees was the Vino break a few years ago – but we won't talk about that now)

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I thought the headline on Sky News said "Bigtoed Women"

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PARENTS – leave a hole punch within reach of a three year old boy. That way he can perforate several of your most important documents including but not limited to birth and marriage certificates

LOL – true life expriences eh?

They are currently still on the tour that started in the US in Oct '08! They'll be doing some festivals in the summer including "Download" at Castle Donnington.

The album for Iron Man 2 is a greatest hits album, same as the one for Maximum Overdrive pretty much was – so I won't be buying it. Watch out for a live DVD from this tour though – due for release in August I think.

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They sold off the family silver big time. If it wasn't nailed down they sold it.

Oh yes, the great share owning democracy, release shares to the plebs from the nationalised industries, they sell them for a profit, fat cats buy them all and hey presto the industries you paid taxes to create and run are now privately owned and making profits for the few.

Spot on. Use peoples greed to accomplish what you want in min amount of time. From the governments point of view it must have been as predictable as flicking the back of your little brothers ear and "predicting" that he will hit you back – and arranging for mum to be there when he does, so he gets into trouble. Then laughing all the way to your friends house to do the same to his little brother . . . . suckers . . .

2nd the CSA. Can't begin to discuss them Grrrrrrrrrrrr

What was it made everyone move to Wales and then later Swindon? Was it tax insentives?

If you look at the length of term that the two last governments have served, it seems that both times the incoming party has been safe until enough young people (that don't remember what the last party was like) have reached voting age.

Spectator: I think it was "Blessed are the chairmakers".
Mrs Gregory: Aha, what's so special about the chairmakers?
Gregory: Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of seating products.

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hmmm – I vaguely remember seeing pictures on here of the "German Mine" thing!

It was miles and miles of disused mine. . . . . in Germany . . . 😯

Yes all good on the west rand. Just off for a road ride out to Fourways and back.

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Cool 🙂
Sadly for us winter is on it's way down here! Still hot enough yet though !

Hi tinker-belle – still missing SA?

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Mine currently goes from "AC-DC – Givin' The Dog A Bone" to "Opus – Life Is Live" . . . with "Eminem – 'Till I Collapse" somewhere in the middle.

I have my MP3 player on "single song repeat" – i just jog it on when I want a new song, but I've been know to listen to the same song for an hour.

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I remember SSP – singlespeedpunk

my 2 fav threads of all time were "42 flexing and posing" and "Badger blowing things up". In both cases the person on the receiving end seemed frustrated almost to the point of tears.

I know that shouldn't be so amusing, but it was 🙂

There was a shop on here too – chevin cycles maybe?

And who was the woman that was on tv with her family – bit vague but I think her son was into mtb'ing

42 – now works for MI5

Was 42 the ginger lad who used to give people "the stare"?

Hey – does no one remember Badger!Badger!Badger!Badger!

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some of those are quite good 🙂

I actually did meet a black man once btw.

Excellent. I'd like to have gone down to see this.

All in a days work . . . .

Found these to bits of info on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9 (When the 1982 incident occured over the Indian Ocean to the British Airways 747)

Fact No1: "Aircraft Ability"

Without engine thrust, a 747-200 has a glide ratio of approximately 15:1 meaning it can glide forward 15 kilometres for every kilometre it drops. The flight crew quickly determined that the aircraft was capable of gliding for 23 minutes and covering 91 nautical miles (169 km) from its flight level of 11,000 metres (36,000 ft)

That's pretty impressive for what essentially becomes a very large tin of sardines!

Fact No2: "Flight Engineers Reaction"

At approximately 13:42 UTC (20:42 Jakarta time), engine number four began surging and soon flamed out. The flight crew immediately performed the engine shutdown drill, quickly cutting off fuel supply and arming the fire extinguishers. Less than a minute later, at 13:43 UTC (20:43 Jakarta time), engine two surged and flamed out. Within seconds, and almost simultaneously, engines one and three flamed out prompting the flight engineer to exclaim, "I don't believe it – all four engines have failed!

I can only imagine what I would have said in the same situation! Something with lots of swear words and cursing – followed by me looking for my parachute, or in the abscence of that the biggest golfing umbrella I could find 🙂

on a night ride once one of my friends thought an inside out crisp packet was "a Baby Aliens head"

He also thought on another night ride that some small animal scratching around in the bushes alongside the track was "a Velociraptor"

Oh and he also arranged to meet us at the top of a hill for a ride one night (on his own) but came tearing down as we were riding up to meet him because "he heard something really scary up there"

He's a great guy – just a teeny bit nervy 🙂

hh45 – Member

Cameron may be rish and have several generations of wealth behind him but surely he is no aristo? Where is the country house and 5,000 acres?

Here apparently?

"David Cameron was dragged personally into the expenses row last night after it was revealed that he paid off a loan on his London home shortly after taking out a £350,000 taxpayer-funded mortgage (the maximum allowable) on his constituency house.
The disclosure followed a powerful call by the Tory leader yesterday for the ‘full force of the law’ to be deployed against MPs who have abused allowances.

When questioned about the jiggery-pokery, which although LEGAL, is still questionable on ethical grounds, the Tory Leader replied . . .
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"oooh Betty . . ."

Had the same prob here trying to start a pick-up that had been standing for a few months. Couldn't start it using jump leads from a fairly large SUV with its engine runing. Would barely turn the motor over (and the leads got very hot – so I agree with the black hole theory!)

Cured the problem by just charging the battery over night. Good as new afterwards.

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Sun is out – gonna ride in the farmlands just west of Johasnnesburg . . .

This was at San Francisco airport – a parallel approach to Rwy 28L & R. The runways are 750ft apart.

The sheer size of the 777 engines, bearing in mind it's 750 ft further away than the 767, is just awesome.

LOL @ "I would hope so, it would be a bit of a mind **** if it was the same plane, landing beside itself on a parallel runway at the same airport" btw 🙂

The hours are different during BST.

Well I sympathise with you oldfart, even if no one else does 🙂

Whatever happened to "public services" being open at times to suit "the general public" ??? Most of the working public are at work by 9am, so if you want to drop something off on the way to work . . . .

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Please do stuartie_c!

I need motivational help for everything other than getting out on the bike. That I'm fine with 🙂