Sir Fallsalot

2 minutes ago, Clive said:

Only upside is we don't have a water shortage,  in fact we too much of the bloody stuff.  

Our two weeks of summer will fix that 

11 hours ago, Pedro said:

As you say, tuck in! Northern Portuguese cut of beef.

 

Chorizo entree:

 

Another flip and it was perfect, but Costa was in a frenzy while it was being sliced, all hell broke loose. Luckily we kept our cool and a good meal was had, except my dad almost chocking to death on an apple slice. Fucking apples!

Half drunk now, but half sober.

So you do eat human food as well looks very nice.

14 hours ago, XTreme said:

No probs Ray!

He's too busy 

7 minutes ago, Tango said:

Which album is it, Fred?

I only have their greatest hits Album cant even remember buying it, most of the music i listen to is downloaded. The head unit in my car will play music off a USB so no need to own albums anymore not that i owned many anyway.

59 minutes ago, Tango said:

The first 7" single that I bought with my own money from my Saturday job. I still have it too!

 

Love ELO, i was first introduced to them by a guy i used to have a lift to work with when i was around 17, he had one of those massive canal barge Citroens and used to have ELO playing all the time, but it wasn't until years later i found out i really liked them after i was playing some random music in the background and one of their albums came on and i recognised it from then. One of the most played albums in my car when i'm out now.

3 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

She 

We are so out of touch Bob both of us assumed the dogs gender 

11 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

If he does a runner with it your fucked 

20 minutes ago, XTreme said:

You and @zzzak think the same then?

Yup dipshits the pair of us 

And only two of the forum dipshits got it right and i was one of them 

5 hours ago, Otto von Jizzmark said:

Hi @Buckster.

So, this is what’s on today’s schedule in the lab: identification of some Bacillus isolates, where it's a pretty safe bet that at least one of them will turn out to be B. anthracis – that’s anthrax.

Now as I’m sure you know, this phylogenetic group is a bit of a bugger when it comes to characterisation because they are all so closely related, which makes it very tricky to separate the ones that are harmless from the ones that are lethal. Using toxin genes encoded in the plasmid is problematic because it doesn’t detect non-plasmid containing strains, and of course the sequences for the two pathogenic plasmids can be detected in uncharacterized genomes. There are some chromosomal regions that can be examined, but then again using real-time PCR to target the rpoB gene can throw up false positives among closely related non-anthrax species.

So, we have various options, one of which is to use suppressive subtractive hybridisation to identify specific chromosomal sequences unique to B. anthracis and then multiplex PCR four separate loci. If we get a positive, we then have to go through the whole palaver of deactivation, decontamination and disposal, plus all the compliance paperwork that goes along with that. It’s all a bit of a faff and bloody expensive – you wouldn’t believe what we spend just on PCR arrays every month!

So, I was wondering if a different approach might work. I remembered that those brainboxes over at one of those creationist websites where you get your proper science from wrote an article some years ago concluding that the real reason bacteria like B. anthracis are lethal when their closest relatives are not was because some of them turned bad when Adam ate the apple and allowed evil into the world. That got me thinking: do you suppose some sort of exorcism might be just as effective as what we’re doing? We could forego all the hassle and expense of identification and safe disposal and just assume they were all naughty, get the local vicar in to sprinkle some holy water and mumble some Latin over them and then just chuck the lot straight in the bin.

Obviously, if it works I’ll happily pay you a consideration for your consultancy services commensurate with the savings we make in efficiency and the reduction in our consumables expenditure. What do you reckon? All thoughts greatly appreciated…

And now i know how Pete feels when i talk about tools or DIY, what does the red one taste like must be nice because there's only one left 

9 hours ago, XTreme said:

They still exist there? 

Never went away

11 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Looks like Fred did the same with his head!

There's two types of tyre that give you good grip, Knobblies and slicks anything in between is just gay 

6 minutes ago, XTreme said:

A 90's Power Ranger cryogenically restored in the present day?

You have been away a long time, It's like that now and has been since the invention of the hump they can be seen in the biker cafe's on any sunny day bragging about the 20 mile round trip their in the middle of

3 hours ago, boboneleg said:

Pit stop in Northleach

I wouldn't fancy riding on the dirt with that front tyre after the weather we've been having Bob i would describe it as gay as the tyres Pete would fit 

4 hours ago, Saul said:

My best mate used to be a green one, Still gets shitty when I take the piss nowadays even though it was 1996 when he had his Kwak ZZR600.  I always remember his face when I went out with him for his first ride on it, me on my K100RS.     He spent weeks, waiting for delivery,  telling me how he would do his best not to leave me behind when he got the ZZR but it was me who had to wait for him on several occasions.    No super hero claims from me just competent , he was on a much quicker lighter bike, but a Noob with a new bike and a very twitchy ring.  There may have been a hint of putting manners on him a couple of times but only when it was safe    Mind you I then had weeks of him telling me once it was run in, yada yada yada.    I never claimed to be quick and don't now, but there is something about some guys with sports bikes, got to be billy big balls.  .  All the power rangers around here used to walk bandy legged like they had shat themselves.  

My mate dead Phil was was a bit like that. I had great pleasure telling him there was no way he could win in a race with me because he was on a sports bike and i wasn't, so if i won he would be totally humiliated and if i lost i didn't really lose because he was on a sports bike and i wasn't so he should win  

48 minutes ago, Six30 said:

thinking about it , perhaps  something like a drz 400 would suit  me better, bit more road orientated and ..i wont be doing the stuff you and bob do 

You need the KTM and the DRZ 

5 minutes ago, boboneleg said:

It could be easier or it could send him skyward if he yanks the throttle too hard ..................

 

with me or you on it yes but do you think it would lift the front wheel with six on it 

5 hours ago, Six30 said:

@boboneleg @Sir Fallsalot

been offered this off a mate of a mate 2014 250 6 days asked me 2500 for might come a bit better , good buy ? Don’t sound dear to me 

 

It's a bleeding two stroke LOL wont be as nice on the road as a four stroke but will be easier to ride off road on the hard stuff. What are you thinking of doing with the dirt riding.  

10 hours ago, Pedro said:

It’ll feel shit on the road, though, like all dirtbikes do when ridden out of their environment.

Get it on a tight twisty back road and there's nothing better even with the knobbly tyres

4 minutes ago, XTreme said:

Nothing to see here......just a normal day in Spain!

Axeman decapitates his father, 71, then kicks the severed head along main road before throwing it at passerby!

The man, 46, is said to have kicked the head around as if it was a football!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13287159/Axeman-decapitates-father-northern-Spain.html

It's almost as bad as Ponty there LOL

13 minutes ago, Clive said:

Nope, at our surgery you can only phone for an appointment, if you go in person they will not entertain you........ yep it would get me out , but its a shit drive through town during rush hour....

You need to move to wales Clive LOL

5 minutes ago, Six30 said:

a child could do that ..gives artists a bad name people like him, no way he went to art college.. just a chancer

But like him you will have to be dead before your art is recognised as more than a child's doodling's  

Another thing with buying a second hand enduro bike is so many people disconnect the speedo and tape all the plastics up to protect it and then sell a high hour bike as a low hour bike and because it looks good you think your getting a good bike. I think with the fuel injected bikes now you can plug into the ECU to check if the hours are correct you have to check wear marks that are harder to hide like brake disc wear foot rest brake and gear lever wear rub marks on engine cases from boots and things like that, that's why i just stumped up the cash for a new bike because i'm the type that buys the shiny lemon money pit, just look at the dog 

29 minutes ago, Clive said:

We have to ring our doctors surgery after 8am to try to get a appointment for that day...just to hear "You are 34 in the queue".... when you get through, the receptionist will tell you...."all today's appointments have been allocated"......so have to go through the same rigmarole the following day...and the day after..  

That's your mistake Clive go to the doctors at opening time and you will beat the lazy fuckers on the phone to it  and if you don't get an appointment you've got out for a change it's a win win 

1 hour ago, Six30 said:

thats nice... didn't want to spend that much ...you bastard bob .

350 be enough power wise  ?

 

Performance is a bit different on the dirt to the road, i had a mate that was a full on racer thought he was the fastest around he used to ride R1's and Ducatis as fast as he could on the road. One day he announced he was buying a CRF450 i mentioned it might be a bit too powerful for him to learn to ride off road on as it has pretty harsh fueling and throttle response but he dismissed me and got it anyway. I was talking to him in the pub the night after he got it and he leaned over to me and said smugly it's not too fast Fred, i said where have you been on it and he had only ridden it home from blunder road in Bridgend which was about 20 miles mostly motorway. He started riding off road with a few friends of mine and after a month he sold it told me it wasn't for him wasn't what he was into. A few months after that i bumped into the friends he'd been riding with, well he hadn't told me the full story had he apparently he spent more time on the floor than riding it falling off on the flat going up hill down hill in ruts you name it he'd fallen off on it and they all took the piss out of him, but he was the kind that couldn't take a bit of banter so the one day they were out after a bit of piss taking he disappeared. They waited for him for a while and when he didn't show up they started getting worried and went looking for him, spent a couple of hours riding around the forestry but no sign of him so they went to his house to see if his missus had heard from him before they called the emergency services and the fucker was there, he got pissed off and went home sulking and that's when he sold the bike and never mentioned it again to me. It wasn't the bike that was the problem though it was him he was too pig headed to take any advise because he thought he was the best at everything. 
That was another episode from dead Phil's short life.
Oh that 350 will have plenty of power just don't expect to be tearing around at 80mph everywhere on it, your probably looking at 50 to 60 mph as a comfortable speed but it will get there pretty quick