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My day today, went wheeling with a group  of friends in the woods and trails around Farnham. Lots of sand and a bit of mud which is very difficult on only 1 wheel so a few falls, but only 1 broken bone. 

1 hour ago, Otto von Jizzmark said:

 

As for the rest, I'm getting very mixed signals here: you think I'm moving on because I want my 'ravings' to go unanswered, whereas other people think my constant engagement with you is getting old and boring. Which is it? Maybe we need a poll... 

I find them quite interesting. This is the inter web though, so anyone can say anything and its not going to change anyones mind, but the discussion is fun.

Did a 160 mile round trip to see my mum, traffic was awful, roadworks everywhere, shitty roads - coming up the hill with 100m to go until I'm home I was thinking that I'd got there and back without anyone trying to kill me, then a woman in a small silver hatchback pulls out of the school next to us straight in from of me. No "sorry mate", just ignores me and drives off. 

26 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…

My brother has an encyclopaedic knowledge of how our bodies work, he might be in a similar line of business to you (but im only guessing at what you do), and he wakes up in the morning and stretches his arms and legs, flexes his fingers and thinks thank god, it all still works! Given all the things that can go wrong its pretty amazing that it all works most of the time. 

Edited to add - sorry, I didn't mean to give the impression that he is in any way religious, he's not.

31 minutes ago, Buckster said:

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.

Evolution/ natural selection only works up until breeding age, after that you can get cancer, have a leg fall off or think the moon landings were a hoax, it won't make any difference...

Leave him there, the world will be no worse off. 

Just superglue it, that’s all they’d do innA& E. just get the bits out of it first.

2 hours ago, Clive said:

Hyundai......... i have cleaned all the lime scale (our water is very hard) out of the pipes, well as far as I can reach, repaired the on off water switch/valve.... the inlet water filter is clean, I am beginning to suspect it maybe the lance thats partially blocked, or pipe to the lance. 

No experience with Hyundai I’m afraid. My Karcher was not pressuring a while back, the motor was running but whereas if you don’t pull the trigger it should turn off once it gets up to pressure the motor just kept running. There was a defect in the cylinder head which let water leak out of the high pressure side. The new cylinder head was about £40. Pretty easy to change too. 
 

the original CH was shit plastic, the new one is aluminium. 

3 hours ago, Clive said:

Been trying to find out why my pressure washer has so very little pressure,  all seems OK. think it's just generally worn out, which is surprising as I have hardly use the thing. 

 

What make is it Clive?

Does it run ok, switch  off/on duty just shit pressure?

On 21/04/2024 at 12:40, Tango said:

We watched the two Rebel Moon films over the weekend.  They were so bad that they were entertaining! 

"Join our rebellion!"

"Why?"

"Because we want you to!"

"Oh, alright then"

Script- Poor

Continuity- Also poor!

Plot - Predictable!

Acting - Wooden!

All-in-all entertaining in a train wreck kind of way!

I read in the news that 21 million people watched the second part in the first few days it was out. One of them was me, what a bloody waste of 2 hrs of my life. It was shit. 

5 hours ago, Saul said:

Well I have jacked it in for the day.    Bench done, fixed my mitre saw and started stripping out the old rotten decking.    Knackered now

 

I feel your pain there. In a fit of enthusiasm 12 years or so ago I built a deck, couldn't afford hardwood for the under the deck bit, now I have to pull a third of it up every 2-3 years to replace the bits that have gone rotten. Pain in the arse.  

2 hours ago, Marcel le Moose Fondler said:

Wyll you twats were busy beating your meat...I took the the Harley killer out for its first run...

 

It is a lovely colour.

Was out on mine today and came the closest ive ever been to coming off it. I ended up on a minor road which has so much crap on it that it was just two narrow ribbons of tarmac with gravel either side and down the middle, caught the gravel and almost came off. Was only doing 10-15mph. 

32 minutes ago, Six30 said:

what car is it a ford?

No, a kit car built by a GP in his garage. I had to resolve a load of idiosyncrasies on it when I bought it from him 12 years ago.
 

Still not fixed, I looked at it, got head down in the footwell to work out how to get the dash off, decided my back hurt then went out on my Indian instead. Maybe next w/end … 

52 minutes ago, Buckster said:

Mice living in the dash.

Had that before. My mums car was in the garage for years as she hunt been able to drive for a long time. We decided to try to get it going and on pulling things apart found the air filter compartment full of something a squirrel or mice had spent ages stashing there.

I have had an electrical fault on my car for months, actually it’s probably a couple of years now, the rev counter only works intermittently. To get it to work correctly I need to turn some lights on, any lights, doesn’t matter which, switch them on and it starts working. It even goes on/off in time with the indicators. 
I keep meaning to get to it to trace the issue but can’t be arsed to pull the dash off. Today might be the day

13 hours ago, Buckster said:

Ohh, a crossbow, that looks fun

On 15/04/2024 at 21:32, Clive said:

Rain stopped here a while ago......and its 8c.....business as usual. 

I got finished with work and it was sunny outside so thought id go out for a random ride. When I went outside it was freezing so changed my mind. Within 20 mins it was pissing down ... 

19 minutes ago, Clive said:

You have to be brutal and rake all the moss out, something I should do, but can't be arsed, the lawn will look crap for a while, but with a bit of grass seed it will recover.

Mine is more moss than grass. I raked it all out a couple of years ago, then bribed my son to do it again last year and it’s back to how it started again so I can’t be arsed any more. Someone suggested getting a lawn aerator but a) they are expensive as I’d need a motorised one which requires minimum effort, b) I don’t care enough. 
 

1 minute ago, zzzak said:

Looks like Bidens more on your level then, have you seen Hitlers speeches that AI has converted to English, now there's a man who could give a speech, you should watch them and then you may understand that you've been conned about him as you've been conned about almost everything, 

Im no fan of Biden either, but at least he is mostly harmless, unlike Trump. US politics is a shit show, there is too much money in it and too many folks trying to get as much as possible of that cash into their own pockets. Im the only one in my household who cannot vote in US elections.

Adolf was a brilliant orator, and a total megalomaniac.

On 16/03/2024 at 04:59, zzzak said:

You know Bucky, I like that Putin can talk for half an hour about Russian history from the 9th Century without notes and that Trump can address a crowd of over 20,000 people for two hours again without notes which shows them to have superior intellects, then on the other hand we have Joe sniffing children and unable to find his way off a stage so who would you put in charge of the nukes, for you, if you look outside Rishi is taking a dump on your doorstep and Macron is already at the nightclub, better get your glad rags on or you'll miss all the fun.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/1BDDOTE9zOnw/

 

Have you ever listened to Trump giving a speech? His mouth might be moving but it’s still 2 hrs of random drivel which bears no resemblance to truth or reality. A monkey with a typewriter could literally make more sense…but what the monkey would produce would be like rocket science for those make up his supporter base. 

Looks lovely, id struggle with the bloody language though. At least in the nordic countries they all speak better English than I do. 

I like the cold, its the dank I could do without to use an Americanism.

Looks yummy. Have to say prefer my venison as a steak or an individual muscle cooked rare then sliced (pave).

https://mikerobinsonchef.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Pave-of-Wild-Venison-980x442.jpg

Mike Robinson used to own the Pot Kiln in Thatcham near me, he now has The Harwood Arms in London, never been to the latter but the former was wonderful. Many years ago I did my DSC qualification with him - something you are encouraged to do if you want to start picking you own (deer). 

Everything we get here is fallow or roe deer, max maybe 75kg for fallow, so a different prospect to a moose. Must need a big bloody round to bring one of them down and not just piss it off. 

I was talking to a Finn last time I was there, they get allocated tags for moose. They apply for one at the start of the season and normally get only part of an animal, so this persons family of 5 had 1.5 moose between them. 

Thankfully we don't have any tag system here, you just shoot what you want as long as it's in season, but then we have a feck of a lot of deer.

7 hours ago, Tango said:

When I had my A4 Avant I could just rock up at my local Audi dealer and get them to fill the Ad Blu. Same price per litre as in the filling stations, but I didn't get my hands dirty! Didn't need to book an appointment either! Pretty good service really. I'm not sure if they still do it.

VW used to do the same, they still do except you need to refinance your first born to pay for it now.

It is rather like skiing. It does take a bit of time to learn, a bit like learning to ride a push bike all over again, but well worth once you have the hang of it. 

I used to put mine under the seat on the train ad get around London with it but like everything, as people want these things cheaper and cheaper and buy anything (electric scooters, skateboards etc) with shit no name chink batteries, then the my e-bike caught fire, these things are dangerous  headlines started. So TFL don't allow this kind of thing on the train any more. 

EUC race in Spain. These things will do 50+ mph (depending on the type ) and are great fun, tho as with anything that's fun except sex in the UK, they are not legal. 

I got my first EUC in 2015. Back then you could ride about without the danger of being stopped by the rozzers. Sadly not the case now tho I do use mine around the village where I live as the local boys in blue don't seem to care here thankfully. Also good fun off road.

My first one was a 500w motor but the current models have 3-4kw, the more power in the motor the less likely you are to over stretch the laws of physics and come off. Lean forward to go and lean back to stop. Racing like this is ideally suited to those who weigh 50lbs wet through, my 100kg would put me at rather a disadvantage.