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Popped to the local shop to get some odd's n sods and met the God of Grumpy bastards in his Mobility scooter.

 

Called the owner a Cunt fumbler , called me a Big lump of Fuck spastic as I was in his way,

and as he trundled out the door shouted out - 'Your all just buckets of fucking spunk fat''

Laughed my bloody head off - He is my new hero in life :-D

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On a more serious note, the fact that I trust his workmanship enough to ride it flat-out tells me that schools and academia has failed him - he has great hands-on skills and talents, so how can I help him to get to where his talent should go? 

 

Is he motivated to do more stuff? Local college mechanics course? Local garages willing to take him on as an apprentice? Any old tat that you might have to let him loose on?

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  On 09/08/2015 at 18:30, Cheggers said:

Back from a long boozy lunch with my daughters to celebrate my 50th tomorrow. We went for a walk along the seafront to clear our heads and saw an immaculate gold 1600E & Mark II RS2000...happy days :)

i misread that as daughters 50th sorry

 

happy birthday daughter :D

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  On 09/08/2015 at 21:39, Taff said:

oh yeah, nearly forgot. Tomorrows hire car got delivered this afternoon. First IA...

 

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glad im not the only one to do that smooth r2 and rte (if it has lw :D)

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Got a groupon voucher for an mot the other week £18 including free collection and delivery. Well they picked the hearse up this morning and according to the mot website it has only gone and passed. Would of been nice for them to call me to tell me but I am well happy I never expected that. How the hell the garage is making anything out of it I don't know.

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If the back smells of formaldehyde, they've been moonlighting for Burke and Hare.

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Changed the crunching/grinding pedals on the pushbike. They undid beautifully as I had put a dab of copper grease on them 5 years ago. 

 

New ones fitted and gear change lever repositioned slightly. All good now for the planned bike ride with my veggy friend on Friday :)

 

I hope she hasn't got a bloody Tour de Londres in mind  :shock:

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If I hired a car and the radio was stuck on Radio 2 I'd take it back. Especially if I hired it between noon and 5pm.

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  On 10/08/2015 at 19:05, purplebargeken said:

Changed the crunching/grinding pedals on the pushbike. They undid beautifully as I had put a dab of copper grease on them 5 years ago. 

 

 

Best put a bit of copper grease* in your crack (Just in case).

 

 

 

*Other lubricants are available.

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Today is national Duran Duran appreciation day, in honour of this I have been blasting their TUNEZ all day.

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I have my radio presets set in declining quality, Radio 2 is at no.1, Radio Newcastle at 2 (it's good, but also "the home of football in the North East" or whatever bollox they say, yawnfest), Smooth, Metro, Heart, then Capital. Pretty much pointless pressing anything after Smooth, but sometimes I give it a go. Radio 1 doesn't get a look in.

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I thought it would be dangerous to listen to Smooth Radio while driving,my boss had it on at work this afternoon & I found it hard to stay awake  ;-)

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While generally, the feature vehicle of my trip appeared to be the Renault Extra (saw several), I also saw a Ford P100 (Sierra) with a double-wheel rear axle and a truly comedic stance. It sounded like the axle was utterly shagged too.

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on the wireless in the Rover, i know where to fine Radio 2, and also where Radio 4 is.

 

that is all.

 

apparently other radio stations are available.

 

i've not listened to Radio 1 since Mark and Lard left.

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From today's paper, proving that signs are not always wrong.

 

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Missus Moog has given me* £100 month car pocket money to be spent with as I want without complaints**. 

 

So i have spent the morning looking at ways I can buy a small decent MPG car for less than £100...  

 

 

 

* obviously out of my wages :-)

** the most important part of the deal

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  On 10/08/2015 at 20:28, HH-R said:

I have my radio presets set in declining quality, Radio 2 is at no.1, Radio Newcastle at 2 (it's good, but also "the home of football in the North East" or whatever bollox they say, yawnfest), Smooth, Metro, Heart, then Capital. Pretty much pointless pressing anything after Smooth, but sometimes I give it a go. Radio 1 doesn't get a look in.

Poor old R1 - it really doesn't know its place in the world any more. 

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  On 10/08/2015 at 21:26, dollywobbler said:

While generally, the feature vehicle of my trip appeared to be the Renault Extra (saw several), I also saw a Ford P100 (Sierra) with a double-wheel rear axle and a truly comedic stance. It sounded like the axle was utterly shagged too.

 

Reminds me that en route to Swansea on Friday evening I passed an early 106 buzzing down the inside lane, took me a moment to realise what was wrong, there was absurd levels of negative camber on both back wheels.  Must have handled really well, although the enormous bearded chap piloting it didn't look overly concerned.  That'll be the usual rear axle wear then, although I've never seen it on quite that level before.

 

That evening was a good one for shite spotting, there was also a very elegant black Citroen DS cruising up the M5 being driven by an elderly lady.  

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R1 always been shite, and R2 can FOAd too, seeing as it plays the sort of shit that I hated when I was young.

 

R4, R5, and RTé1.

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  On 11/08/2015 at 12:18, M'coli said:

R1 always been shite, and R2 can FOAd too, seeing as it plays the sort of shit that I hated when I was young.

 

R4, R5, and RTé1.

The problem with R1 is that it's always been listened to by people older than the BBC would actually like to admit. Every time the person who's doing breakfast starts to match the age of the actual audience, there needs to be a purge and the station is forced to "become relevant" again by doing stupid things that the management 'feel' are good for it, which leads to the audience leaving in droves. 

 

The current trend is to employ people from off of the telly-box (example: Mr Grimshaw) because that's what the kidz supposedly want. This leads to bad presenters because telly people rarely build a rapport with their audience, unlike radio people who are forced to try and do that from the minute they get their own show on university radio/hospital radio. Professionally speaking, it's a sad state of affairs that radio isn't building the talent that it should, or giving them the outlets that they need. 

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Cannot listen to Radio1 anymore, probably for at least the last 10 years.

 

Radio 2 is ok.

 

Cannot stand the local commercial radio stations. too many adverts and general verbal diherrea

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  On 11/08/2015 at 12:58, EssDeeWon said:

Cannot listen to Radio1 anymore, probably for at least the last 10 years.

 

Radio 2 is ok.

 

Cannot stand the local commercial radio stations. too many adverts and general verbal diherrea

Commercial radio is totally broken but that's another thing altogether... and strangely enough, down to a literal handful of people.. 

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  On 10/08/2015 at 15:39, panhard65 said:

Got a groupon voucher for an mot the other week £18 including free collection and delivery. Well they picked the hearse up this morning and according to the mot website it has only gone and passed. Would of been nice for them to call me to tell me but I am well happy I never expected that. How the hell the garage is making anything out of it I don't know.

They were dying to get a pass.................

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Absolute 80's  - Absolute 90's - Radio 2  - Radio 4  - Radio 4 Extra  - Smooth

And quite often the sound of wind, tarmac and cheap radials, and ticking injector HDi

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