and did I remember to put the pressure washer gun away where it wouldn'tfreeze?

I say, they're sexy.

He's a fucker inn'e.

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Paul.

 

Refilling his glass at BOSM will be easy, and will save me walking all
the way to the Gents.

 

Not listening any more.

 

A friend of mine ran the nastiest, shittiest, rustiest old Honda CD175
you've ever seen, as his daily commuter hack in Norfolk.

Came the day when he was stopped, I think because the tail light had
blown. And Plod walked slowly round and round the horrible thing, and
eventually enquired: "Are you the owner of this fine vehicle, Sir?"

You're both right: they don't seem to teach them the finer points of
deadpan copper wit these days.

 

<VBG>

 

That looks more like the twisted smile of a past victim.

 

Two words: "Horrified Fascination".

 

"You were doing 46 miles per hour in a 30 mile per hour limit, towards a
pedestrian crossing, and still accelerating. We both ride bikes. Big
bikes. And even we don't take the piss like that."

And of course the classic, after being stopped by a dibble who'd been
following me a lot longer than I thought he had...

"See, you can do the speed limit when you want to, can't you"

Still, even that German with managed "zis is not ze isle of man, ya?"

 

Bloody Bonwick, see? He just casually ambles around, picking at his
frostbite, lobbing pebbles in ponds ....

 

There's no answer to that. Damned for not tidying it up if you affirm,
damned as a liar if you deny.

 

It's easy when you know how to do it. You'll be pleased to know that
it now appears I may be losing a fingernail after my blood chilling
experience.

 

You'd never fucking use them. They'd sit in the packet waiting for that
one special job where you could bear to break one out and actually put
it to good use, and even then you'd be thinking of some pikey work
around involving a piece of wood and some string that's going to save
you wasting one.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

Champ wrote:

My beaten to **** XS250 ratbike was given the once over by a copper
while it was parked, his response was "I don't for a second believe
there is anything illegal about it, no-one in their right mind would
ride that 'thing' if there was because it is such a cop-magnet"

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

Really? I rather like that.

 

It's not about actually using them, it's having them there in case he
needs them and there's no alternative. It's like keeping a spare
lighter in your pocket for that one time when you badly need a smoke
and your lighter fails. It might never happen but the sense of
security from having them makes the cost seem insignificant.

 

[stainless steel cable ties]

You're right, you know. Especially about the hairy string.

You're right, you know. It's all about backup. Exactly the same as
carrying a gas lighter in my left pocket for when the Zippo in the
right pocket runs out.

 

Andy, you really dont understand Pip and cable ties. With Pip there is
always an alternative costing three times the cost of one cable tie
that takes three times longer... but at least he still has that cable
tie for when he really needs it, tucked away with the other two hundred
or so he has.

--
Lozzo
Versys 650 Inter-Continental Hyperbolistic Missile , CBR600F-W racebike
in the making, TS250C, RD400F (somewhere)
BMW E46 318iSE (it's a car, not one of those 2-wheeled pieces of shite
they churn out)

 

Ooh ta. They look just the biz. I can't get a jubilee clip in.

<Ordered>

 

Equipment failure seems a common feature of your lives it seems to me.