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4 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Well I did have this at the beginning of June.......took a couple of months to go.

Doctor thought it was a fungal infection (Jock Itch) which is the same thing as Athlete's foot but all over the body.

Warning (particularly @Grasshopper's Ride)......this is a bit graphic! 

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That looks pretty abit shingles like but doesn't look to be typical of a shingles infection 

29 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Question for the Covid people! Did any of you suffer from a rash? If so......where on the body and do you have a photo?

Are you thinking you have been afflicted?

28 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Question for the Covid people! Did any of you suffer from a rash? If so......where on the body and do you have a photo?

No I don't believe so

2 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Damn right Bob!

And I freely admit that I now ride with more reckless abandon than when the kids were small.

I think you go through phases.....young and mad, married with kids (very careful), old and enthusiastic.

Having my little one hasnt slowed me down so much as I just chose slightly more about where I open it up

1 minute ago, Swagman said:

Get them checked out, my mate I used to work with had to have a kidney from his son when his packed up work he was bad for a long time, get to the doctors and don’t wait.

I will make an appointment with them 

10 minutes ago, Swagman said:

You defo need more water, don’t want to lose those piss purifiers.

No I defo dont but I have a load of water loads of times but it makes next to no difference the only thing that does is alcohol I'm not sure my kidneys are working very well 

5 minutes ago, Mr Fro said:

You need to drink more water son!

I can drink as much water as I can it generally hasn't made a difference, what does make it go away is scotch surprisingly 

Just now, Mr Fro said:

Yeah, one of the kids picked it up from nursery before Christmas and spread it to the rest of us.

It gave me chronic achy balls for a few days - it's worth avoiding just for that!

chronic achy balls eh.....sounds dodgy 

2 minutes ago, Mr Fro said:

You hit the nail on the head when you said about the kidney infection. It's not just the primary viral infection that does damage, it's the secondary stuff too - it could be that if you were less fit or had an underlying kidney problem that you'd be on the slab.

I don't know about you but my heart was pounding for a couple of days - that's the kind of shit that can kill someone with a weak heart.

The extra workload the virus puts on your body is massive.

I'm also unsure if the kidney infection has done me lasting damage as my pee is always dark now and smells of bacon constantly..... 

May be too much information but I have been wondering about it as it's just been that way since my kidney infection 

14 minutes ago, Clive said:

Deaf yes....but nowhere near doddery!

Eh?

1 hour ago, XTreme said:

Now that's a Clickbait title if ever there was! I'm referring to a strange phenomenon that's been happening to me over the last year or two.

No......not actually getting brutally murdered on a Rideout.......people worrying that I'm going to get brutally murdered on a Rideout.

So why do they think this? Well it's a combination of the strange places I get to like Abandoned Villages, Railway Stations, Factories, Warehouses etc........and me being an OAP.

I don't get that response on here, but I used to get it on another forum! In fact @Richzx6r was one of those who was always concerned for my safety!

I get inundated with it on FB groups though! In fact one Romanian guy in the UK who's a FB friend is moving to Spain this year and he's told me that he's going to act as my bodyguard on these trips.  And he's a huge guy and ex Romanian military! Got this image in my mind of him turning up with AK47's or something! 

So does anybody else get this sort of thing? And why do none of the people who've known me for years have this pathological fear of me getting brutally murdered on a Rideout? While everybody else does! 

Not worried about you getting brutally murdered at all, it's more of a help the aged kinda thing, making sure that the doddery old gits like you are still alive and kicking before I make my bid to be included in the will should you go south

34 minutes ago, Tym said:

Are you hoarding coke for the pandemic? 

Not yet

I have tcx's which I believe are probably summer boots as the have pin holes up the front

There is definitely something satisfying about starting a bike with a kickstarter.....much better than with just a button

I have only ever owned 1 bike with a kick start in the cg125 

A friend of mine used to have a matchless g30 I think it was think it was a 350cc though could have been a 500cc single which was good fun to start.

My dad in the 70s had a 1958 velocette venom thruxton 500cc 

2 hours ago, XTreme said:

I see people asking riding advice on places and I find that I can't advise in any way.

Simply because I don't know how I ride or what I do when I'm actually riding.

To me it's like describing how I walk......it's impossible!

So how do you actually ride a bike

3 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Talked to a 23 or 25 year old girl who works for one of my client's today. She is fit and does sports.

She had covid for a couple of weeks, and the following lung infection left her in bed for a month and a half unable to stand up or speak more than 4 words without stoping for a breath. She's fine now, but can't run or climb stairs without having to catch her breath.

Same with athletes, they bounce back to "normal" but for months are left debilitated compared to their previous state.

Every sickness is best handled by very healthy and fit young people, that's just fucking common sense. So what?

Seriously, a young athlete copes better than an old and debilitated person or someone with a chronic sickness, what kind of idiot thinks this is relevant and should be viewed as an indicator that people and over reacting? Should we ease off on cancer treatment as well since it's deadlier on older people?

 

 

 

I too went from having covid and within days as @xtreme and @swagman can testify to a kidney infection so I know first hand that it's a naughty virus as does @Swagman and no I'm not saying anything about cancer as it's not the topic.

What I'm talking about is the scaremongering and those who write the death certificate putting covid19 as cause of death when actually it was a heart attack that killed said person just because the person who died tested positive for the virus, doing this would manipulate the the death statistics and give a false impression of the real death toll of people due to covid 

7 minutes ago, Pedro said:

I agree that power in any form is something that is always difficult for governments and leaders to give back once they get it. They get a state of emergency and are not easily convinced to give it back, that happens because power corrupts most people and politicians and governments aren't exempt to it. 

I believe death statistics in european countries to be accurate, there might be a day or two error sometimes but overall I think they are accurate.

I also think that whoever thinks covid only seriously affects the already ill or old is an idiot and someone that ironically proves the need of governments to order people to take care. If a significant number of people in the UK think that covid is still a sick people's sickness it might go to explains other opinions that UK people as a whole have expressed lately.

Being someone who has had the virus at the start of last year yes it's a naughty one but I do believe that those who are in power are over estimating the death statistics I never said it was serious I purely stated that it mainly kills those who already have underlying issues and normally those who are otherwise fit and healthy shouldn't be affected by it long term

3 minutes ago, XTreme said:

I'm particularly interested in the views of members who've joined up since this place opened.....as in they weren't on any of it's predecessors.

Because a concern of mine is that due to most of the guys on here knowing each other for years, I don't want this place to appear cliquey or insular to people coming on for the first time.

That's pretty much the kiss of death for any forum these days......and bearing in mind that this site is pretty much The Last Chance Saloon, we need to get the balance right.

That's why I'm looking for feedback from the newer ones who started with us on this board! @Clive @Grasshopper's Ride @Earache @Swagman  @Richzx6r  @skyrider  ......or any of the others. I've included those as they post more regularly.

I can honestly say if its cliquey then I havent really noticed it, I think it's more like welcoming banter to kinda make you feel abit more part of the forum, yes there are abrasive characters everywhere but it is more fun ribbing I think.

I like it here more than the other forum and as such have spent 95% of my time here since joining and so far am enjoying it here

4 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

@Skippy

There you go Ray, same spot in 2013.  Took me over an hour to dig those out

 

That's a very grey looking bike what say you @XTreme

3 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Dude, that's a stupid thing to say. 

Only people having trouble have "something seriously wrong" already? Crack a book!

Do you not agree that there is alot of scaremongering going on with these death figures or do you believe that those with the power wouldn't be so scrupulous as to how can I say it....make things up as they go along 

2 minutes ago, XTreme said:

That's the figure I saw reported from a number of news sources as Covid related deaths.

I honestly dont believe a word of it, yes its worse than the common flu but unless you have something seriously wrong with you then you will be ok, all this scaremongering and treating every death as covid just because its easier has to stop it just unnecessarily worries the population 

9 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Another Reliant man then @Sir Fallsalot.

I'm sure @Buckster will be along soon to point out that you look a bit gingery.

He has an obsession with it.

Nothing wrong with reliant!

If I could get one id love a scimitar se5a with the 3l ford lump and overdrive 

Maybe not the nicest or fastest car ever but I love them

3 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Apparently 1564 deaths in Britain today! 

But.....was it 1564 deaths across the board of everything which I'd suggest it probably is or just from covid which I honestly cant believe it being that high they are doing more scaremongering to try to justify this 3rd lockdown 

Just now, XTreme said:

@BusBoy will still argue that it's pink! 

Maybe he thinks brown looks a vivid iridium colour