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mentalboy
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PostPosted: 00:32 - 03 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

duhawkz wrote:
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"Fact (formerly the Federation Against Copyright Theft)"

Internet points to the first person who can work out the link between BCF and Fact. Laughing


facts very rarely get posted on bcf?


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PostPosted: 03:05 - 03 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I've just found it. And hope the forum will stay alive for a long period of time!


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PostPosted: 11:11 - 03 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ste wrote:
Everything will become clear about the departure of CaNsA and Rogerborg in good time.

Pass the popcorn


I assumed Reijufixing was the new Borg.
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PostPosted: 12:05 - 03 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

panrider_uk wrote:
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Everything will become clear about the departure of CaNsA and Rogerborg in good time.

Pass the popcorn


I assumed Reijufixing was the new Borg.


Me too!
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PostPosted: 12:54 - 03 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

panrider_uk wrote:


I assumed Reijufixing was the new Borg.


I thought that as well.

Rei Ju (phonetically) RO GER and Fixing as in BORG fixing.
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PostPosted: 15:16 - 03 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

panrider_uk wrote:
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I assumed Reijufixing was the new Borg.


Re use of head bearing races? No chance. Rogerborg never argued a stupid point to the point of frustration with us...
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PostPosted: 15:26 - 03 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

MarJay wrote:
panrider_uk wrote:
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I assumed Reijufixing was the new Borg.


Re use of head bearing races? No chance. Rogerborg never argued a stupid point to the point of frustration with us...


Agreed, he's not as pedantic as Borg either

Just mention speeding fines, and see if he correct you to the correct terminology Wink
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PostPosted: 22:46 - 03 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

panrider_uk wrote:
I assumed Reijufixing was the new Borg.

Polarbear wrote:
Me too!

rpsmith79 wrote:
...he's not as pedantic as Borg...

If someone wanted to re-invent their online persona, would they display their previous traits/post in their previous stylee?
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PostPosted: 10:04 - 05 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

mpd72 CPT wrote:
panrider_uk wrote:


I assumed Reijufixing was the new Borg.




Would Borg be gullible enough to believe May’s deal is us actually leaving the EU?

If it is the Borg, it’s trolling us.


That's my take on it.
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PostPosted: 23:24 - 05 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

This place is one of the most active forums around! Forums pretty much died with MSN messenger. If you want to see a dead forum take a look at 125ccsportsbikes, that place was once very active but now is completely dead.

linuxyeti wrote:
Valid point about the decrease in new riders, having said that, new car licences have also dropped by about 50% in the last 10 years or so, so it's possibly tied in with more of a societal trend in that sense. But yeah, the hoops that have to be jumped through for new bikers and the overall cost is very discouraging for new those new to biking..

Coupled with, generally, an improvement in public transport, more working from home, the rise in cycling, and electric push bikes, again, all add to the downward pressure of new riders coming on stream..


Young people these days are nowhere near as wealthy as previous generations were at the same age. High rents, high house prices, tuition fees, stagnant and minimum wages don't leave much money for cars and motorbikes. Public transport hasn't improved outside of London. If I go on a bus it's just pensioners and some school kids.

The European Unions driving licence regulations have no doubt helped deter more people taking up motorcycling.
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PostPosted: 00:22 - 06 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dunno about that.

At 16 (1989) I was on £1.50 an hour delivering pizzas on a scooter in literally all weathers and losing all my evenings
to earn it. I did 4pm(open) until 11pm(close) shifts. I also got a whopping 15p for each and every delivery. It
would top out at about 50 deliveries on a mega busy evening Plus tips. It was just one of my jobs. I also worked Sunday
daytimes at Texas Homecare in Romford (long gone now, I think it was a Matalan last time I passed it) designing fitted
kitchens, in pencil on squared paper because computers still had green screens back then. The technology simply wasn't
there like we have now so we still did it the old fashioned way which required a basic grounding in TD and maths.
Saturday daytime's I helped out on a fruit and veg stall. When I was 16 if I was moving then I was earning. In those
days we had fuck all to spend it on compared to today but I was somehow always skint. Crying or Very sad


Wifes youngest brother (17) works at a pub in Bath, £10 an hour collecting glasses and bringing food to tables. Shocked
I could probably train my dog to do that given a few weeks. He can barely string a coherent sentence together and
has had mummy and daddy handing him his spending money, chore free, right up until last year. I had my first paying
job at 10 years old delivering 100's and 100's of free papers. I've always been a grafter. I don't really have to now
but I never got here by being a lazy git or being afraid of a bit of collar.

He has a 50 inch telly in his (double bedded) bedroom plus Xbox and all the usual modern teenage trimmings
including £800 quids worth of mobile phone and head to toe designer gear.

I had 14inch B+W dial tune portable, a mono cassette radio and a bag of 10ps for the phone box. I never had a
car until I was 19. It was a £300, shagged out MKII Escort 1.3 Laughing
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PostPosted: 01:14 - 06 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

The only thing about that's £1.50 in 1989 according to the inflation calculator = £3.83, the current minimum wage's £4.20 for under 18, £3.70 for an apprentice. Before they brought in the apprentice wage I went for an IT 'apprenticeship' (through the national scheme) which turned out to be a regular full time job, with no training or qualifications, and no pay except for £5 a day lunch money. They were annoyed when I turned it down Rolling Eyes

Similarly at 24 the job centre tried pushing me to do an NHS admin 'apprenticeship' which was £3.50 per hour, I worked out after travel I'd be effectively working for JSA. Luckily I found a 'proper job' otherwise I would have had to do it. For all the good jobs there are still many many shit ones (deliveroo etc.).

BTW both jobs I could have done with my eyes closed.

P.S. how much was the insurance on said shagged out Escort? Smile
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PostPosted: 01:38 - 06 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

It wasn't as bad as they pay today for insurance by any means, but it was more than the car cost. It's nearly 30 years
ago now. But I've never paid more than 600 quid to insure a car, that car being a 1992 SAAB 9000 when I was about 24-25.

When I was 16 I signed up for college but never actually went, the full time student tax code was handy as it meant
I never paid any tax at all. Laughing I got caught in the end eventually though, when I was booking 70 hour weeks every
week on an agency working as a drivers mate when I was 19. Yet somehow still with the tax code of a full time student. Confused
Even HMRC aren't that stupid and after some letters back and forth I paid my arrears back with an amended code and a
reduced allowance over the next several years.
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PostPosted: 17:42 - 07 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ste wrote:
Everything will become clear about the departure of CaNsA and Rogerborg in good time.

Pass the popcorn

[Brian Blessed voice] CaNaA's alive!!!
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PostPosted: 17:53 - 07 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

I knew he was alive as I got PM from him earlier this year.

Hope the lad (he'd hate being referred to as a lad but that is my want) is doing fine...and I fancy his missus...then again I quite fancy anyone(thing) if I spend time with them(it).

…. Thinking I need to masturbate.
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PostPosted: 18:09 - 07 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Howling Terror wrote:
I knew he was alive as I got PM from him earlier this year.

Hope the lad (he'd hate being referred to as a lad but that is my want) is doing fine...and I fancy his missus...then again I quite fancy anyone(thing) if I spend time with them(it).

…. Thinking I need to masturbate.


Shocked

Remind me to wear a chastity belt if I come visiting Laughing
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PostPosted: 18:19 - 07 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

Everyone comes when they visit....It's a skill I have.
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PostPosted: 18:37 - 07 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

See.

Everything become clear about the mysterious departures.

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PostPosted: 18:39 - 07 Dec 2018    Post subject: Reply with quote

grr666 wrote:
elivering pizzas on a scooter in literally all weathers and losing all my evenings
to earn it. I did 4pm(open) until 11pm


i do that now on a bicycle, and often outfilter the yung uns on their mopeds Laughing
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