Tango

5 minutes ago, Clive said:

Getting to the point that it's not worth wasting a gallon of petrol on it.....

My missis' daughter had an Aprilia 125 scoot that gave no end of problems.  In the end it developed an electrical fault that we couldn't get to the bottom of, so she sold it as a non-runner. Funnily enough though, apparently it was some special edition or something, so the guy who bought it paid more for it than what my missus paid for it as a runner!

2 minutes ago, XTreme said:

We weren't going to rush because of the Covid situation.

There's no obligation for us to change from the old one but they recommend that you do.

I think @DangerRuss58 has got his......not sure about @Skippy though.

People here have to change to the new card irrespective of their old card, if they have one. It's causing all sorts of issues because some folk who had the previous one that had an indefinite time limit still think that they don't need to change them, in spite of the French government posting all sorts of adverts advising that they do need to be changed! A fair number of older people, who are not on social media, are going to fall foul of this. There's also a good bit of misinformation circulating that isn't helping the situation. 

27 minutes ago, Clive said:

The scoot ...say no more.....in more ways than one!.

A box of matches job?

34 minutes ago, XTreme said:

We've got to get new residency cards because of Brexit......the TIE.

That involves a copy of the Padron (Town Hall register), photos, a shitload of forms with documents for everything, pay the fee at the bank (€12), book an appointment at the Police station in Baza, then give them all the documents and have our fingerprints taken. Then go back in six weeks to get the new cards.

I've got better fucking things to do in my life than this stupid unnecessary shit!

We've been through that, Pete. A file of documents that had to be submitted and then a trip to Carcassonne to hand in passport style photos and have our fingerprints done. But we've got the cards now, so it's all good for the next 5 years.

My biggest gripe at the moment is concerning the transfer of the private pension fund from my last employer. I've been retired for a year now and they're still fucking me about! First it was the pension administrators who took forever to respond to my Independent Financial Adviser and then put up as many obstacles as they could. Once we got around that they then said that they've passed it on to the pension trustees, who are ignoring everyone! I've even got my old manager at the company to put pressure on the payroll manager to get things sorted, but nothing!

Fortunately I've got other private pensions that are paying out, so I'm not skint, but I'm fully expecting the chancellor of the exchequer to start looking at ways to get his hands on some of the money in private pensions soon and I'd rather get all the money transferred to my overseas fund than see a big chunk get grabbed by those bastards!

Anyway, that's what's gripping my shit at the moment!

There must be something happening to you at the moment that makes you shout FFS!!

Get it off your chest here. You may get some sympathy and encouragement, but likely you'll just get called a cunt, however, you'll likely feel better whichever!

The courtesy car that my missus had recently had the lane keeping assist or whatever it's called. In the end we turned it off (although it turned itself back on each time the ignition was turned on) because it would wobble and tug the steering wheel, not only when changing lanes or overtaking, but often when there was some tarmac banding in the road! The last straw was when I was overtaking a cyclist. I was indicating, mainly to warn the vehicles behind, and moved over the white line to give him plenty of room, but the haptic feedback really tugged the steering back. 

So, if they think that the technology is there for this kind of thing I think there's still a way to go yet.

Missus' bike.

It reminds me of the prohibition era in the US........and I can see it going the same way. But time will tell!

Reminds me of when my last company fitted trackers to all our cars. A lot of guys were very pissed off about it. 

One of the guys phoned the HR manager one Monday morning and asked her where she went at the weekend. She said that it was none of his business, so he told her that where he went at the weekend was none of her business either!!

Shortly afterwards the trackers were all removed!

24 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Try and use a bit of initiative......Bob had a nice windmill and scenic view in his......all you had was some shitty layby in Kent!

I think that you're being very dismissive of the dangers of stopping in a lay-by in Kent...........and shitty is a very distinct possibility!

Thanks guys......

I think that this is something that's been raised many times in the past. I honestly don't think that it's something that could safely be applied to bikes. Imagine a system that shuts the throttle, or even applies the brakes whilst the bike is leaned into a bend? Suddenly having to compensate as the bike starts to run wide due to changed speed? A few people having accidents and getting seriously injured or killed would have the governments demanding the systems being disabled in quick time.

His anti-EU rhetoric gives the impression of a certain amount of, dare I say it, scaremongering!

Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland 

An apothecary in Lucerne, Switzerland. 

1 hour ago, Six30 said:

1 hour ago, XTreme said:

 

What you say @Tango? I'm sure you'll agree he's but a shadow of his former self!

The calm before the storm..........or he's awaiting fresh instructions from HQ?

The suspense is killing me. Will the motorised pogo stick sweep to victory, or will it be the ride of shame tomorrow morning?

10 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

Fucking bastards 

You could lodge an appeal, Bob?

8 hours ago, Pedro said:

My most sentimental place in Portugal, you had bad weather:

 

We went on a Land Rover tour that day and it was the only grey day of our 2 week holiday, but it kinda added to the mood of the place and it meant that it wasn't too hot for the tour.

8 hours ago, Pedro said:

That was in Serra de Montejunto. Sintra should be about 70km south on the shore you see in the distance on that picture.

I did some work one time in Portugal for a service agent in Lisbon, but there was an air traffic controller strike on the weekend that I was due to fly home, so the agent asked where I wanted to stay over the weekend. I had a holiday in Cascais many years before, so I asked to be booked in an hotel there for the weekend. On the Sunday the engineer that I'd been working with came over and took me to the castle at Sintra to look around. I really enjoyed it.

Funnily, it was that engineer that got me hooked on olives! He took me to the airport on the Monday and presented me with a carrier bag full of jars of olives. I didn't like olives (or so I thought), but I couldn't refuse such a generous gift from this nice man, so I brought them home. When I got home I showed them to my then wife and she said "I didn't think you liked olives?" "I don't ". But I opened a jar and tried one..........I now eat olives regularly and love them!

1 hour ago, Pedro said:

Nice shot.

Is the castle at Cinta anywhere near you, @Pedro?