Todays - What Grinds my gears

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[WD Forte]

[to v or not to v]

[P.]

[recman]

[recman]

[recman]

[Easy-X]

A.I. videos on YouTube.

Get 30secs to a few minutes into the video you discover it's an AI voice reading a script. The penny drops when the pronunciation is wrong for the accent, e.g. a British English voice saying things like an American. It seems even the scripts can be AI generated - the few I've had the stomach to analyse sometimes repeat the same talking points.

I love a good "Why does Namibia have such a strange land border?" video, pub quiz trivia type stuff. Genre ruined
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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

[panrider_uk]

The bank rang me about fraudulent activity on my credit card.

Someone had tried to pay an insurance company using my card details and the bank's fraud dept picked it up.

No financial hit to me but I've had to have the card deactivated and a new one sent out with a new number.

How does anyone benefit from paying an insurance company like this?
Surely it'll be very easy to trace.

Anyway, good job Co-op bank.
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Current bikes: Hondas - Forza 750, ST1100 Pan European

[Easy-X]

[WD Forte]

[WD Forte]

I'm so angry and upset !
Tiddles went and sicked all over my Queers for Palestine tee shirt.
I wanted to wear that for this evenings slut walk protest but just
stayed in weeping and comfort eating.
Life is so unfair sometimes.
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bikers smell of wee

[Easy-X]

Wind tipped over the bike

Looking at my security camera a gust pretty much picked up the bike and threw it to the ground* but not onto the grass, the other way onto the concrete path

Surprisingly... not wrecked! Bar end mirrors are ghey? Well, took most of the force of the fall in this happenstance. Some scuff marks on the plastic tank sides but the bike cover took most of the damage - absolutely shredded now.

So on the minus side: easily tipped over 'cos light bike. And on the plus side: not much damage as bike too light to fall with much impact

*Events may have been slightly overdramatised.
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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

[Skudd]

Surveyors, There is nothing wrong with the house I want to buy, but a surveyor wants the wall cavities checking, none of the houses around me that have been sold within the k=last 2 years have had to have their wall cavities checked, and the house for sale near me doesn't need the wall cavities checking, but apparently my house does, even though its the same house as all the others, built at the same time and had the same weathering etc.
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Famous last words of Humpty Dumpty. " Stop pushing me "
Petty Anarchists look at "1984".............. The Visionary looks at "Animal Farm".

[stinkwheel]

What always amazes me about surveyors is they turn up to work in a pair of flannel trousers, black oxfords and a shirt and tie, carrying an iphone.

Whereas I'd expect to do that job anywhere near properly, you'd to need to turn up in a boiler suit or at a minimum some sort of denim trouser, stout brogues and a brown overcoat, carrying a ladder and a flashlight.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

[Easy-X]

The worst damage on the bike:

https://i.imgur.com/R9DIk0m.jpeg

Other than that the bar-end mirror is scuffed in a couple of spots and its mounting bolt bent. Clutch lever, shifter, foot peg, indicators... all untouched. Gods bless MotoGP bike covers
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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

[Diggs]

[Islander]

[Islander]

[Raffles]

One of my incommutable rules in life is that I don't have any dealings with peadophiles or their families. Today, however, I broke that rule.
Whilst on my travels and a long way from home, Mrs Raffles was nattering and complaining that she was Marvin. Under duress, I entered Greggs and proceeded to purchase a multi-pack of sausage rolls.
Whilst making payment, I enquired as to the suitability of the product for freezing. The lad serving me said that 'he wasn't allowed to say'. I asked, 'what do you mean, you're not allowed to say'? He repeated that 'he wasn't allowed to say'. This question and his answer was repeated several times before I asked to speak to someone who could give me a satisfactory answer. His reply was that nobody was allowed to tell me and that I'd have to look it up online.
Exasperated, I ceased asking and pointed to a zero tolerance sign hanging on the wall and said that I wasn't surprised that that was there.
I'll not be calling in there again, no matter how much grief the missus gives me!
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A good loser will always be a loser.

[Easy-X]

No gas at the moment as the line under the kitchen floor that runs to the boiler and cooker is fractured. There's an easy route to run a pipe through my side alley. Engineer will be doing the work Christmas Eve

The electric immersion heater in the hot water tank hasn't been turned on in years so of course that had a fit and conked out. On the bright side the camping stove I ordered from Amazon has just turned up.

Merry Fucking Christmas.
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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

[blurredman]

I hate driving/riding between guy faulkes' night and new year. There's something about this three month period that come two types of people.

Dick head drivers racing around on the one half and being generally stupid, and on the other (esspecially mid day) you have those drivers who plod along like long they're on super petrol economy mode, and then counter this to hold up traffic in the middle of the street to let people out of side roads thinking they're doing a 'good deed for the day' when they never looked behind them to see whether a) it was safe to just stop, or b) whether they're causing congestion themselves. and c) causing general confusion because they have to be nice to everyone despite the effect it causes to those they're oblivious to outside their 10 foot forward view only.
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CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S, 1979 MZ TS150.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 18k, 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 10k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 40k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 50k.

[WD Forte]

[stinkwheel]