What Grinds my gears archive B

[Nobby the Bastard]

[dave001]

[dave001]

[hellkat]

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aww youve upset the boards commies Easy.
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current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
its old and fat, but its a damned good ride. the bikes not bad either.

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[Nobby the Bastard]

[Islander]

[Polarbear]

[Bhud]

Facebook... So I created an account on Facebook for 2 reasons: 1) to piss about a bit; 2) to sell some bits and pieces (I've accumulated so many bike parts it's kind of shameful, so I'm having a big clear-out). Last time I was on Facebook it was as myself, in 2012. I closed that account and haven't looked back until now. In fairness, I have had some success selling things I'd previously posted on Ebay with no interest. That bit's good. However, the interesting stuff happened when I wanted to buy a part or two. Scammers galore... OK, my account is itself fake, but at least I'll process things through Ebay and not ask strangers to rely on blind trust. But fake accounts designed to win my trust are really something else. They're putting some thought into it, liking all my posts, acting super friendly, and are a fan of all the right things. Bikes, cars, 80s rock and heavy metal, etc. All their photos are stolen photos though. Plus they're messaging me and trying to hold genuine conversations, etc. Crazy stuff. They've deliberately added themselves to (private) groups specific to particular bikes, and this is how I was targeted. I wonder how many normies get scammed for being too trusting, and then don't talk about it, for shame. I was never brought up to get scammed and it's not gonna happen to me. What a world, though. They're in the heads of normal motorcyclists, I reckon. They know what makes people tick.

[Howling Terror]

[Ste]

So you're selling stuff using a fake account and directing people to a different platform?

Fair enough although the point of buying or selling on Facebook is that both parties are local enough that the buyer can come and collect the item.

[hellkat]

[dave001]

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received my first sunburn of the year after spending several hours out in a field.
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current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
its old and fat, but its a damned good ride. the bikes not bad either.

[Hong Kong Phooey]

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[Polarbear]

[RhynoCZ]

Today, stabbing like pain in my left thigh right above the knee on a steep incline is grinding my gears. I had to take the rest of my commute very, very slowly. I also ended my commute in a thunderstorm, so the gears of my bicycle also got ground a bit as the rain washed out all the lube. I was soaking wet, I tell you. Anyway, I'm done with cycling for a week or two.
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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

[dave001]

[RhynoCZ]

[dave001]

good luck mate.

[hellkat]

I'm having to speak to the Senior Consort again already because yesterday his cat was attacked by a fox (the vet thinks) and has had her front leg amputated.

Poor little Shmi, I am very fond of her.

Frustratingly I am so bent out of shape emotionally about [a lot of stuff lately] that I currently don't have the capacity to cry about things that most other people would, although I'm terribly upset about the poor little thing. Only 8 lives left now!

I decided that I might go back to being nice to him at least for a while until the erstwhile Russian girlfriend turns back up, cos he's not been much of a cat person until recently and he's become very fond of the moggy very quickly and he's probably lonely and worried sick about her. So I can afford to be magnanimous over a traumatised kitty cat.

So now his cat matches my Dennis, the hopalong tripod tabby. He alleges to hate Dennis because she is such a psycho but I wonder if Shmi will become equally as psycho once she has to learn to cope with the PTSD of the missing leg.
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[Bhud]

[hellkat]

Yes, the vet said that there were puncture marks, so anticipated a predator rather than a car, but also the house is quite close to a large bit of mixed-use parkland so could be any sort of predator, including a dog.
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I agree with what you say about foxes, as in all the various parts of London I've lived, there are always many "urban" foxes that have never attacked any of my cats.

Impossible to know really.

I joined Nextdoor myself when I lost a cat about 3 years ago, but recently I've had to dial down the noise in my inbox from that app: its useful in some ways, but I do get a bit tired of all the hand-wringing that people do. At least on Facebook (which I use less and less as time goes by) ... its only your friends or fam whingeing and you can ignore them easily enough, but on NextDoor it can be any random person in your local area, often the sort of people to whom you wouldn't normally give the time of day if you saw them on the street
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