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phatgixer said:
I was refused fuel unless i removed my helmet in a provincial fuel station the other day. Some nasal @rsehole bleating through the pa at me. I just nodded, threw the gun on the floor, started my bike and rode over the thing. Fook 'em.
Happened to me before, but the attendant had allowed me to fill up with my helmet on, I went in to pay and was met with 'please remove your helmet'.. he served a lady in a a full bhurka before me. I'm not racist, but at least you could see half of my face. He then went on about how it is their religion and got all the facts wrong. I laughed, threw the money on the counter and left.
(Have a thread somewhere)
casbar said:
m8rky said:
One of my good memories is when a mate and our girlfriends were refused service at a country pub as we were on bikes.So went home told my Dad,a keen motorcyclist, borrowed his Cortina estate went back to the pub and ordered a massive round with crisps nuts food etc.
When we were asked to pay after the drinks had been poured told them my money wasn't good enough when we were on the bikes so they can stick the drinks where the sun doesn't shine.
Wow I've heard various versions of that story over the years. So your the one it originated from :-)When we were asked to pay after the drinks had been poured told them my money wasn't good enough when we were on the bikes so they can stick the drinks where the sun doesn't shine.
I managed to convert a landlord in Loughborough back in the late seventies. I really can't remember the pub's name, but they had a "No Bikers" sign above the bar. I was a student at the university back then, but being part of a group of like minded petrol heads, into cars and bikes, we had stumbled in there one night and noticed the sign. As we had arrived by car, there was no issue, but I decided to have a go at this guy, but only very carefully, like stalking a stag.
Two of us went back a couple of nights a week for about a month, and got to know the landlord. Nice enough guy, and seemed interested in what we were doing at university. I eventually got round to asking him about the sign, and why were bikers banned?
He said that in his experience all bikers were dirty, long haired louts who scared off his customers. I told him that we'd been coming to his pub for four weeks now, and had not scared any of his customers yet. The look on his face when the penny dropped was priceless, but he did agree to take the sign down. He changed his policy to accepting all bikers unless they actually caused trouble.
That was my only conversion though. It just took too much effort, and students back then couldn't afford too much beer on such a selfless act!
The tide has indeed turned though, and it's very rare to see anything like that now, at least where I've been in recent years.
Petrol stations are a different matter anyway. That's more to do with identification and theft of petrol than the fact that you're a biker. Discriminatory all the same, but not in the way it was with pubs.
Two of us went back a couple of nights a week for about a month, and got to know the landlord. Nice enough guy, and seemed interested in what we were doing at university. I eventually got round to asking him about the sign, and why were bikers banned?
He said that in his experience all bikers were dirty, long haired louts who scared off his customers. I told him that we'd been coming to his pub for four weeks now, and had not scared any of his customers yet. The look on his face when the penny dropped was priceless, but he did agree to take the sign down. He changed his policy to accepting all bikers unless they actually caused trouble.
That was my only conversion though. It just took too much effort, and students back then couldn't afford too much beer on such a selfless act!
The tide has indeed turned though, and it's very rare to see anything like that now, at least where I've been in recent years.
Petrol stations are a different matter anyway. That's more to do with identification and theft of petrol than the fact that you're a biker. Discriminatory all the same, but not in the way it was with pubs.
m8rky said:
One of my good memories is when a mate and our girlfriends were refused service at a country pub as we were on bikes.So went home told my Dad,a keen motorcyclist, borrowed his Cortina estate went back to the pub and ordered a massive round with crisps nuts food etc.
When we were asked to pay after the drinks had been poured told them my money wasn't good enough when we were on the bikes so they can stick the drinks where the sun doesn't shine.
Yep thats the best way to deal with it,me and various mates did that a few times back in the 80's,its even worse for the pub landlord if you all order meals.When we were asked to pay after the drinks had been poured told them my money wasn't good enough when we were on the bikes so they can stick the drinks where the sun doesn't shine.
Edited by wildone63 on Sunday 19th May 18:57
gradderszx10r said:
phatgixer said:
I was refused fuel unless i removed my helmet in a provincial fuel station the other day. Some nasal @rsehole bleating through the pa at me. I just nodded, threw the gun on the floor, started my bike and rode over the thing. Fook 'em.
I like this guy It doesn't take long to take a helmet off.
strudel said:
gradderszx10r said:
phatgixer said:
I was refused fuel unless i removed my helmet in a provincial fuel station the other day. Some nasal @rsehole bleating through the pa at me. I just nodded, threw the gun on the floor, started my bike and rode over the thing. Fook 'em.
I like this guy It doesn't take long to take a helmet off.
Pothole said:
It's been proven time and time again that having a tantrum and making life awkward for the people carrying out instructions they probably don't agree with, but have to enforce to keep their jobs, changes everything for the better and bolsters our good name and reputation!! (not)
Oh, bring it!Drip, drip, drip. Crapitude creeps.
Pothole said:
It's been proven time and time again that having a tantrum and making life awkward for the people carrying out instructions they probably don't agree with, but have to enforce to keep their jobs, changes everything for the better and bolsters our good name and reputation!! (not)
You thank a traffic warden for doing their job whilst they issue you a ticket , too, Mr FatuousTwit?I am honest enough to acknowledge my behaviour is teenage when faced with 'a little bit of authority' flexed to the max. If it doesn't annoy you, check your pulse.
gradderszx10r said:
phatgixer said:
I was refused fuel unless i removed my helmet in a provincial fuel station the other day. Some nasal @rsehole bleating through the pa at me. I just nodded, threw the gun on the floor, started my bike and rode over the thing. Fook 'em.
I like this guy I do the same, except I don't ride over it (because I'm so poor on a bike I'd probably fall off)
Sorry for being so bellicose. Had a lager for the first time in a while tonight 
But I will rail against Daily Mail type finger wagging about being a bike rider when it is one of the few things that is free from that sort of constraint. I enjoy the whole biking schtick as you are allowed to be unacceptable to middle England dreariness. it is the ability to be free from all that tut-tutting that is so nourishing.
As long as you don't hurt anyone anything is game...
I mean,how many people don thier helmets and chant that every other road user is a tosser and out to kill you? Totally rude and unfair on most of fellow road users, but it keeps you alive in many cases. It is not about being measured and considered and Right-On with the chattering classes. It is a selfish pursuit that sometimes does change how you react to stimuli, like being ordered what to do by some charmless tit in a glass booth who has a flashing button power to serve you or not. And then charge you 30 quid for the privilege.
Then you suffer the beration of some dweeb talking about the harm I do to the biking community. What community? I ain't this for anyone else. It is a selfish and childish pursuit that is at its core anti-social.
But I will rail against Daily Mail type finger wagging about being a bike rider when it is one of the few things that is free from that sort of constraint. I enjoy the whole biking schtick as you are allowed to be unacceptable to middle England dreariness. it is the ability to be free from all that tut-tutting that is so nourishing.
As long as you don't hurt anyone anything is game...
I mean,how many people don thier helmets and chant that every other road user is a tosser and out to kill you? Totally rude and unfair on most of fellow road users, but it keeps you alive in many cases. It is not about being measured and considered and Right-On with the chattering classes. It is a selfish pursuit that sometimes does change how you react to stimuli, like being ordered what to do by some charmless tit in a glass booth who has a flashing button power to serve you or not. And then charge you 30 quid for the privilege.
Then you suffer the beration of some dweeb talking about the harm I do to the biking community. What community? I ain't this for anyone else. It is a selfish and childish pursuit that is at its core anti-social.
phatgixer said:
You aren't angry!
Soppy and confused, yes, but not angry
I can be angry. Sort of. Soppy and confused, yes, but not angry
I would mention what I have done to a chavs car when he tried to push me onto a round a bout, but I'm not proud of it, and it certainly wouldn't please the 'elders' on here
I shall now leave you to wonder. Maybe.
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