Dogging Saturday, Car boot Sunday.

What girl could resist such a weekend.

Who’s going to split on you if you try necrophilia anyway…….

The one I work for was founded in 1637

Victoria plums.

Fit, Sane, Single.

You can only have 2 out of 3.

Take your pick :-)

I like the Kindle for fiction. I was reluctant to try them at first, but within 15 minutes I’d forgotten that I wasn’t reading a book.

Anything of a technical or picture heavy nature and I would still by the book.

I do buy the odd novel, especially when they’re newly out as they’re often not much dearer than the Kindle version. It’s nice to have something real for your money and not a download.

Wouldn’t be without a Kindle though. Great for storing lots of novels that would fill the house.

Thank God that my times are way to slow to post on Strava. :(

You could’ve asked them to tone it down yourself.

Much easier to do nothing and then whinge on the internet later.

“They said that there were WMD in Iraq, sweeteners were safe for you and Anna Nichol Smith married for love”

“still got the shovel in the car”

I left the RAC. I could never get through to them on the phone in under 20 minutes. Pissed me off big time.

A dealer bought my Aprilia yesterday. He sent a guy to collect it. Once he’d rang the buyer to say all was OK with the bike, the dealer did an instant transfer for the money.

All done and dusted in 25 minutes. No pain, other than seeing the bike for the last time.

Just give the damp thing to Sherlock. He worked out Lauren Pulver’s code easily enough.

Big up to Apple for standing firm. Let’s hope they continue to do so.

It’s tricky to know what to do for the best. I bought some pedals recently. They were 40% cheaper online than my LBS.

I buy from them as often as I can, but savings like that are hard to pass up.

I don’t mind haggling for a new bike, and have been happy with the three I’ve bought from them over the last few years, but I don’t want to haggle over cheaper parts.

What I won’t do is try clothing on and then buy it online. I’ll buy from my LBS if they stock what I want.

The actor who strangled his bit of fluff – think he did the same stunt on The Lakes 20 years ago?!

He did. Killed her in the bath, if I remember correctly. I think The Lakes is one of the best things I’ve seen on TV

I was fairly sure that he was going to kill her when he left home. He didn’t take much luggage :D

The BBC do seem to be prone for poor sound quality. Thank heavens for sub titles. I seem to use them more and more of late.

I remember watching Threads went it was first broadcast. Scariest thing was that 10 years later the city was still just rubble. No rebuilding. People more concerned with finding food and comfort than doing anything else.

Not surprising really. I just want to pissed and right underneath it when the bomb drops.

Always do. Give them a couple of quid on top of the bill.

I do the same with the mechanic who works on my motorbikes. Give him a tenner or perhaps twenty if the bill is large.

Then if I pop in with a piffling issue more often than not he’ll fix it there and then often for nothing (it elicits another tip, of course).

Oddly enough, I don’t tip the guys who look after the car, but that’s main dealer and you never see the mechanic, whereas the bike guy’s a much smaller set-up and I nearly always speak to the owner.

mortgage payments were the typical 1200-2000 my peers seem to be paying

Stone the crows, that’s scary amounts of money to stump up each month.

I’m an old git, but our first mortgage was £125 a month for a £16,000 house. We moved 7 years later (having sold the old place for £64,000) and the new payments were £350 a month.

I guess the downside was when the mortgage ended the spare money each month was not a great deal, Still, better in my pocket that the building society’s.

I struugle to see how youngsters these days can hope to get on the property ladder.

The Zanette rents and reckons she’s going to wait for us to croak and then just move in. :D

I cannot see anyway for her to buy otherwise.

We (I) paid ours off a couple of years ago. ’tis a great feeling even now.

The Halifax sent us the deeds. As has been mentioned they’re not really important any more. They were useful when a neighbour was telling us the the rather ropey fence was our responsibilty. I knew it wasn’t but he insisted on arguing. I said “hold on a mo”, popped into the house and came back out with the deeds, which clearly showed it was his fence.

The look on his face was priceless. Good to his word, he put up a new fence.

Could you imagine the outpouring of grief if the shoe had been on the other foot. Husband books holiday that the wife didn’t want.

Mumsnet would be rounding up a lynching party as we speak (type) and the internet would be in meltdown about the oafish husband who didn’t listen to his wife.

Because it’s the other way around the OP is being told to suck it up.

**** that. Put your foot down now or be walked over for the rest of your time together.

Are you man or mouse?

Coming dear…………

Jekkyl, you paint a wonderful picture.

I’m tempted to go there myself. :D

Take her somewhere she doesn’t want to go for her birthday :D

It’s funny how Mrs Z never asks where the money comes from when I stump up £600 for the car repairs in November, £900 for repairs to the central heating a week before Christmas or for the bracelet I bought her when we’d just popped into town to stretch our legs and call into the pub for a couple of drinks and a bite to eat last weekend.

When I bought a 2nd hand road bike recently it was like the Spanish inquisition. I even took her out for a ride in the car when I went to pick it up. Women, sheeeesh. …….

You could use an eBay classified ad. Costs £15 if I remember correctly. It’s a fixed fee, so you know what it’ll cost you.

Be prepared for ridiculous offers though. You can tell ebay to reject offers below an amount of your choosing. I’ve sold cars and motorbikes this way.

Bruce Springsteen. Old Trafford 2005. Been listening to him since the early 80s, but that was the first time I managed to get tickets to see him live.

That chain is entering the chainset at the wrong angle at the top. That would annoy me know end if I had it tattooed on me.

Surely, a real cyclist would’ve opted for big ring, small gear not the other way around :D

Out.

Don’t do it. Then we’ll all be spared Katie Piper interviewing you in 5 years times about how you regret it and we won’t see your skin blistering under a laser removal gizmo that will only lessen the intensity of the image but not actually get rid of it.

I’d try and sell it as a going concern.

The bodywork, lights etc will probably go quite quickly if they’re in good condition.

Then you’ll be left with the rest for all eternity.

You could try selling it as it is on the LDD (Longest Day Day) section on pbmagforum if you’re feeling generous.

Rest in peace Sir Terry. You brightened up many a morning.

I’d go by myself. In all honesty £250 is a drop in the ocean compared to what the next few months are going to cost you :oops:

Really annoys me that these incidents are ‘dangerous driving’ rather than attempted murder/assault with a deadly weapon. Maybe people will start behaving if a few examples are made.

I doubt for one moment that the driver intended to strike the cyclists. Just to scare them. If he did, then he’s a worse driver than he already appears to be.

Not condoning what he did, but I cannot see how it could be classed as attempted murder.

Make sure that they haven’t put a stopper in the spur that the drain hose pushes onto.

I spent a joyous Sunday afternoon trying to work out why my daughter’s washing machine wouldn’t empty.

The lad (idiot) who’d installed it hadn’t removed the bung and therefore the machine wouldn’t empty.

To be fair it was a new house, but really! :roll:

Can I have a 4th? If so it’ll be the Laverda 750S. It’s nice to turn up at a track day with something different. A cracking looking bike. Plenty of grunt out of the corners (if plenty can be used to describe 82hp).

They don’t deserve their poor reputation. Mine”s had very little go wrong with it in 15 years, despite being abused on track for 5 of them.

I did think it had broken down on my first track day. Going down Park Straight at Caldwell, 2 bikes passed either side of me so quickly I thought my engine had died. It was only when I looked down and saw the rev counter still reading 9,000 ram that I realised what had happened.

1958 350 Matchless. Oily rag condition, made in May 1958, the same year as me. Loved riding it.

Kawasaki ZX7R. Loved the looks, the induction roar. Still looks good today in my opinion.

Aprilia RSV1000R. 2nd generation. Looks superb, goes like stink and feels better the faster it goes. I love the surge as you open the throttle in 4th at around the ton. It’s like some hidden hand is pushing you. It’s addictive. Sorry officer, I’ll stop doing it…..?

Honda CB175
Kawasaki GPZ 500
Kawasaki GPZ750
ZXR750
ZX7R
ZX7R
ZXR750
ZX7R
Hornet 600
Honda Firestorm
Laverda 750S (owned for 15 years. You try selling one)
Laverda 750s
Triumph TT600
Yamaha R6
Aprilia RSV1000R
350 Matchless
Suzuki TT600
BSA 500 twin

Remembered a couple more from the how many cars thread.

The Laverda and R6 are track bikes, just the Aprilia for the road. Roll on spring……

It’s a cheap hobby.

Cars since 1976

Triumph Herald
Austin 1100
Mark 2 Cortical
Mark 4 Cortical
Saad 900
Citroen Xantia
Peugeot 306
Skoda Felicity
Peugeot 405
Citroen C5
Ford Focus
Citroen Xsara?

Bikes since 1974

Honda CB175
Kawasaki GPZ 500
Kawasaki GPZ750
ZXR750
ZX7R
ZX7R
ZXR750
ZX7R
Hornet 600
Honda Firestorm
Laverda 750S?
Laverda 750s
Triumph TT600
Yamaha R6?
Aprilia RSV1000R?

Still got the ones marked with a ?

I wear a beanie hat if it’s cold, or a cap if it’s hot, but no helmet.

Go. It’ll be hard, but do you want to spend the rest of your life like this?

I expect this will not be as popular choice (hard hat at the ready) but you’ve got to think about yourself as well.

I don’t think an affair’s the answer. If your marriage does recover, she’s sure to find out and that’ll cause much more grief than the passing pleasure the affair will bring.

I guess no one is prepared to use their common sense anymore. People will sue for any perceived slight so why take the risk. Cover your arse, all the way up the line. Once the teacher’s mentioned it, the head won’t take a risk and onwards and upwards it goes.

If the teacher had asked little Tommy if he meant terraced instead of terrorist nothing would have happened.

Then the media and the Internet wouldn’t have something to froth at the mouth about.