Buckster

5 minutes ago, zzzak said:

Got a deep fryer, filled it up with peanut oil, made some chippies.

 

We call those fritters here.

Is it coincidence that a Dutch brand opens its first store in the weed capital of the USA?

37 minutes ago, XTreme said:

According to every dictionary it is!

the city or town where one was born or grew up

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hometown

You were clearly raised in a gutter somewhere.

4 minutes ago, Otto von Jizzmark said:

Yeah, fair enough - point taken. 

To be honest it’s probably time I pushed off anyway, not least because arrangements were finally made yesterday for the sale of my bike. It’s been almost a year now since my accident and my hand is probably as good as it’s going to get, which isn’t anywhere near good enough to ride safely over any distance. I’ve never been into bimbling around locally, and as even the short journey into work last week was agony I have to face the fact that my riding days – and certainly the big European jaunts that I used to enjoy best - are a thing of the past.  

I think part of the trouble is that for nearly everything else my hand is pretty much fine, so I just assume that the next time I get on the bike it’ll probably be OK – or at any rate better. But it’s not. The only other thing that has the same effect is some power tools – large angle grinders and demolition hammers in particular, it seems; bloody excruciating until you stop, and then pins and needles or burning in the fingertips a day or so later for however long it lasts. And as much as I love riding, I love music far more, and a bass player with fingers that are too numb to play is no good to anyone. The clincher was that the MOT is due this month, and as the place I go to also sold my last two bikes for me it just seems logical to take it there and leave it with them. It will be a wrench, but I daresay the cash will go a long way towards softening the blow.

I’ll also be honest and say that having lurked on here for a while, a big part of the reason I finally joined (other than to annoy Buckster, of course ) was that after a year away from riding I was really feeling pretty out of it, and I think perhaps I was looking for something that reconnected me to it somehow... I dunno… I realise that sounds a bit wanky. Maybe it was just to annoy Buckster after all… 

But at the end of the day this is a motorbike forum, and regardless of any kind words that might be offered to the contrary I really don’t belong here. I have nothing relevant to contribute. The occasional story or daft anecdote might make people smile from time to time, but you’ll tire of that soon enough. Or I will – people always underestimate the effort it takes to be this fascinating. At any rate, the point at which I become boring is the point at which my departure is overdue. 

And so, with my sincerest best wishes to every one of you, I’ll quietly pull the plug. To borrow Hunter S Thompson’s last words: “Relax – this won’t hurt…”

Flouncer.

Just now, XTreme said:

We need @YamaHead to add something to this!

Just now, XTreme said:

This groin?

28 minutes ago, Pedro said:

I honestly don't know, mate.

Take pictures of the sky or buy a house in Spain? Maybe go to church and pray for an idea?

 

Edit: I'm not a moderator or the owner, but it just gets old when you two go on and on about it for sport. Also, consider some people might have their own existencial doubts on the subject and might consider it poor taste to see it discussed in that fashion.

Don’t blame me, I never raise the subject.

8 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Let me put it in pictures, so it's easier:

Proper race bike for sale:

 

Silly Marketing that sells cruisers:

 

 

2 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

Don't despair , you can always request photos of his groin from our resident flasher 

2 hours ago, XTreme said:

The twat seems have got himself stuck in the hole in the table!

That's the secret entrance. 

18 minutes ago, Sir Fallsalot said:

Neither is Swansea 

Two and a half times the price of a Kove Rally Pro.

1 minute ago, Marcel le Moose Fondler said:

What do you expect for moderators...we have one less leg pirate and Bible freak....good call Pedro...don't know why you didn't get the gig..

Because he is Mexican. 

2 minutes ago, Otto von Jizzmark said:

Do you have much experience with babies, @Buckster?

If that's your predilection I suggest you speak to @Six30.

33 minutes ago, Otto von Jizzmark said:

Because evolution has no direction, and perfection is not its goal. That’s GCSE biology, @Buckster… 

The more pertinent question is whether an intelligent designer would come up with such a bad design. Ditto for childbirth, teeth, the inefficiency with which our bodies use water, DNA and its propensity for transcription errors and the genetic diseases that result, ginger people, etc, etc…

Or we could chew our food, that works too.

Alternatively you can choke then blame God because you didn't chew your food using what God gave you.

22 minutes ago, Otto von Jizzmark said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68978405

Well, isn’t that nice: Henry De Los Rios Polania, the guy who was attacked in his home by that sword-wielding lunatic, has credited God with saving his life via a miracle. He may well be right for all I know, because doing nothing until after the attacker has broken into your house and started slashing at you with a samurai sword and then providing nothing more useful with which to defend yourself than cuddly toys and cushions certainly has all the hallmarks of one of His half-arsed interventions. That’s precisely the level of competence I’d expect from someone who designed us with the single tube for breathing and eating that sees 160,000 people choke to death on their food every year, or who chose to reveal Himself not in one of the advanced civilisations of the time, like China or Egypt, but in front of a bunch of semi-stupefied peasants in the least literate part of the Middle East. This is why whenever religious dingbats tell me that "God has a plan for me" I always tell them that I'd really rather He left well alone, because we have to concede the fact that - by and large - His plans are shit.

Unsurprisingly, our Hainault hero is strangely silent on why no such divine intervention was forthcoming for the poor 14-year-old lad who was attacked from behind and essentially decapitated only moments later as he walked to school. I can only assume that something more pressing had got the Almighty’s attention by this point – perhaps someone doing something sinful with their genitals, which seems to be one of His chief preoccupations as far as I can tell.

Anyway, perhaps @Buckster the Bonkers Bible Boffin can shed some light on this, because it's beyond me... 

For someone who claims not to believe in God you spend a lot of time talking about him and based on what you claim about evolution, how come we ended up being so badly evolved? 

While it is clear that you think you could fathom something of God's plans or perhaps be capable of conversing with him as an equal, I can assure you that you are quite delusional, you are but a grain of sand on a beach.

8 minutes ago, XTreme said:

How much would your house be worth now Saul?

3 minutes ago, XTreme said:

@Pedro.......here's some Brit culture for you!

 

You should have posted this in the politics section.

Here you go Pete.

2 hours ago, Pedro said:

Very brave of BMW, to put that in that new 1300, shows they're confident with recals and having dealers work for free fixing bikes 

It's smart of manufacturers to do these robotic gearboxes, making it easy for people with arthritis and bad legs to continue buying a riding expensive bikes. 

Older people tend to have more disposable income.

35 minutes ago, Saul said:

It is for us that remember how vibrant and alive the town used to be.  I don't claim to have any answers but its just fucking sad.  

Maybe all the “celts” died.

4 minutes ago, Marcel le Moose Fondler said:

Dementia  ?

3 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

B&M will be half the price but only last 5 minutes before Clive’s missus gets splinters

Maybe that’s the plan.