So... What oiled your gears today? ARCHIVE

[bikergirl100]

Today was relatively simple. I, for the first time in forever, have decided to take a nap. It was short, nevertheless I feel recharged afterwards, because this week has been busy as hell.
Also, completely off topic, but I got my dog an insurrance (not sure how to call it in English https://www.fitformoney.de/hundekrankenversicherung-test/), because he is growing up so fast. He was often sick when he was small, but I wish my old dog can stay with us for a long time.

[martin734]

I finally got authorised to administer Covid vaccines. Because I work for a private healthcare company, we had to join and get authorised by our area's clinical commissioning group in order to be able to get our qualified staff to be authorised to administer the vaccine at vaccination hubs. Plus each member of staff had a ridiculous number of mostly irrelevant forms and certificates to obtain and fill out. Just got to wait to find out where I will be sent to.
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Current bike: ST1100 "Big Red"

[RhynoCZ]

The weather. -5°C during the day, -10°C at night, crap loads of snow.

Winter has come!

Well, cleaning the car from all the snow and ice twice a day, every day, starts to get a bit annoying.
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'87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
'95 Mercedes-Benz w202 C200 CGI, '98 Mercedes-Benz w210 E200 Kompressor

[hellkat]

That crunchy snow thing.
Before anybody else has stepped on it

It'll all be slush or ice by tomorrow round this necko the woods.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

I emailed Laithwaite’s wine merchants to tell them I’d received a bottle of wine addressed to my house but in the name of a Jean Turner, with a happy birthday greeting. I gave them the order number on the box and offered to deliver it if it was local. I couldn’t find anyone of that name round here but then a neighbour came back and said the Turners lived here before me, but had moved to Pitlochry. Laithwaite’s have now replied and said keep it. Cloudy Bay NZ Sauvignon Blanc. Not my usual tipple but very nice. Website says £25.

[Hong Kong Phooey]

^obviously poisoned, I have sophisticated biological test equipment at my disposal if you want me to verify it's safe for consumption?
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'81 CG125, '97 FZS600 : '99 CBR600F4, '09 KTM RC8

[Easy-X]

[Kris]

Just heard a goal update on a women's football league game, on the radio;

"Kimberley slipped it into Sophie who finished over the top of Fran"

I almost spat my tea out.


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[hellkat]

Messy.
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[Hong Kong Phooey]

[ThunderGuts]

I've got a bit of a thing for interesting and unusual beers. I particularly like to lay down very strong beers and age them (my oldest beers have been aging for nearly 20 years). Last night I cracked open a 2 year old bottle of "Rauchwine" brewed by a local brewery called Torrside. This is a 10% smoked barleywine (although it's very dark for the style) - it was absolutely stunning. Went very well with a wax truckle of cheese I never got around to opening at Christmas (mustard and ale cheddar).
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TG.

[Easy-X]

"Yeah, so we purge welded with a special mix of 80% Nitrogen 20% Oxygen, about 22°C..."

That tickled me for some reason
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[hellkat]

I attacked the tangle in my back garden again today.
Energy girl! Who the fuck is this strange energetic woman that keeps turning up in my house?

Put some weedkiller on the big tree-thing that I don't know what it is, and bombed the ivy and bramble in one corner with a bit more. Saved a bit of ivy to put in a potplant, but otherwise, it has to go! All a bit Catherine de Medici with the glyphosate.
Fuck it.
Sorry Greta, luv

I even peeked bravely into the shed between the doors that have been rusted open for about five years.
My Super Tenere!

I knew there was a hacksaw in the inherited toolbox, but it didn't have a blade, but then I noticed a proper oldstyle saw. Still in its cardboard wrapper!
(strange the things one finds in one's own home that one isn't even aware of I don't remember who made me buy that but I never got round to using it )

So I lopped a bunch of big branches off the rose tree (and I mean TREE) and I've been happily dragging and chopping branches out of it all afternoon and have a massive pile of branches and leaves to show for it. Still a bit to go. But it was getting dark.

I had gloves, yes. But I am majorly bitten by thorns, bastard thing.
I'll get the better of it yet!

*shakes fist threateningly out the back window*
Fuck it! Woman versus nature.
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[hellkat]

Although.

Might need a dash of ibuprofen with me next coffee
Bit of a bugger to get back off the sofa just now
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[Riejufixing]

I looking at the old "Monty Python" sketch "The funniest joke in the world", in which, during wartime in WWII, a joke was invented that made people who read or heard it die of laughing. It was translated into German ant shown to opposite forces in combat, who died of laughter.

I put it into "Google Translate"!


"Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"

ROFLMA...OH!

Well, it was a new one on me, and I found it funny! (edit: very funny!).

[Easy-X]

That harkens back to the early days of Google when if you typed "who is the most evil man in the world?" it'd bring up Bill Gates. So much has changed...
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Royal Enfield Continental GT 535, Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter

[yen_powell]

Hit the subtitles button and watch Snatch on DVD, everything Brad Pit slurs through is written down.

Someone has done the work on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySyBMTo-1sc
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Blackmail is a nasty word........but not as nasty as phlegm!
XT1200Z and a DR350 in bits

[hellkat]

Excellent I could never manage to get beyond "save your breath for cooling your porridge" - that middle bit really was completely unintelligible.

I never rated Brad Pitt beyond "pretty boy" before I saw Snatch.
I'd never bothered to watch him in anything until then.
It's only fair to say that he has gone up in my estimation since.
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[hellkat]

My gears have been oiled by the arrival of the print issue from my subscription of Wired.
I love the feel of the paper in fresh magazines

But.
It has a picture of Mr Gates on the cover.

I'm not sure how I feel about him nowadays.
Might have to read the article and see what he's up to, without the benefit of the opinions of conspiracy theorists from Facebook
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[Britabroad]

[yen_powell]

[hellkat]

Oooo I love Trinity Buoy Wharf.
Its v.funky. Not been there for YONKS.
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[yen_powell]

[Easy-X]

[yen_powell]