Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 26)

[leglessAlex]

GOG440 said:

leglessAlex said:

I love clapped out mopeds. The louder and more clapped out the better.

I hate the fking things, round here they are usually ridden by people who can only count to 21 with their trousers down, dont indicate, dont follow the rules of the road and have about the same life expectancy as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.
Then if they grow up they buy fked corsa's with bean can exhausts.
Shoot the little fkers on sight I say and improve the gene pool

I used to have one

I indicated, but other rules of the road such as speed limits were treated as totally unnecessary and annoying rules

[Impasse]

About 100 years ago I used to "borrow" my sister's Suzuki Love to whizz about the place. Reckless teenager that I was.
King. Of. The. Road.

[hidetheelephants]

ChemicalChaos said:

Did my first ever proper bit of analytical testing today at work (as opposed to dummy samples for training).
Shame it was a 6 hour test and I didn't get it going until nearly lunchtime... yay for flexi time!

ION, I had to go into the manufacturing plant area later on. Along the way was a single silo tank with 2 warning stickers on it: "caution, liquid nitrogen" and "caution, diesel fuel". Not that it was my place to question things, but on the list of substances I'd store together in one tank, those 2 would come pretty down...

I think one of the warnings may be erroneous; you could test the contents with a match to find out.

[Impasse]

"You got a match?"

"Yeah, my face and your... no, hang on a minute"

[Fishtigua]

Just sent a very snotty email to the MD of our Broad Band provider. When you don't get any service between the hours of 01.00 and 03.00 how is one supposed to send snotty emails to company MDs and ex-girlfriends? Or post on TT when full of ale?

[hidetheelephants]

Use a carrier pigeon?

[DickyC]

Turned out nice again.

This is a assumption. It's too dark to see what it's turned out like.

[Fishtigua]

hidetheelephants said:

Use a carrier pigeon?

The nice thing about living on a small island is that I know where he lives.

If, IF, I was a real git, I could go around to his house and screw up his phoneline every night. <snip> Bye-bye phone line.

For the last 3 months, I've been sorely tempted.

[Fishtigua]

Well clear blue skies for the Red Arrows today.

It's almost a carnival of scrumptiousness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHyaJ4viMg4

[SWTH]

This week I have mostly been driving this:



It's rather good fun

[GOG440]

leglessAlex said:

GOG440 said:

leglessAlex said:

I love clapped out mopeds. The louder and more clapped out the better.

I hate the fking things, round here they are usually ridden by people who can only count to 21 with their trousers down, dont indicate, dont follow the rules of the road and have about the same life expectancy as a pogo stick tester in a minefield.
Then if they grow up they buy fked corsa's with bean can exhausts.
Shoot the little fkers on sight I say and improve the gene pool

I used to have one

I indicated, but other rules of the road such as speed limits were treated as totally unnecessary and annoying rules /

Can you tell they are one of my pet hates?

[GOG440]

SWTH said:

This week I have mostly been driving this:



It's rather good fun

Plaxtons body on a Leyland Tiger?

First vehicle I drove was a very similar coach round the yard at my dads work

[SWTH]

GOG440 said:

Plaxtons body on a Leyland Tiger?

First vehicle I drove was a very similar coach round the yard at my dads work

Almost, it's a Leyland Leopard with Plaxton Supreme IV Express bodywork.

Proper gearbox too:



SCG five speed semi-auto.

[Pixel Pusher]

I walked our dog across the fields near us this morning at 6.30.

Sun was coming up, mist drifting across the fields.

Deathly quiet.

Perfect.

[Fishtigua]

Fishtigua said:

Just sent a very snotty email to the MD of our Broad Band provider.

Mike, the MD, got back to us at 6.30 and is looking into it for me.

He asked, very innocently, what my complaint number was? I said to just put my landline number into his system and have a look. After 3 pages, he gave up.

Things may happen.........?

[GOG440]

SWTH said:

Almost, it's a Leyland Leopard with Plaxton Supreme IV Express bodywork.

Proper gearbox too:



SCG five speed semi-auto.

Should have known it was a leopard, the tigers are too new
The one I drove had a proper manual box.
The guy who drove it normally had his ghetto cruise control for long journeys, a half brick in the footwell that he kicked onto the accelerator when he was on the motorway!

[McAndy]

SWTH: that looks awfully like my old school bus with a change in livery!

[SWTH]

GOG440 said:

Should have known it was a leopard, the tigers are too new
The one I drove had a proper manual box.
The guy who drove it normally had his ghetto cruise control for long journeys, a half brick in the footwell that he kicked onto the accelerator when he was on the motorway!

To be fair, it's a 1981 Leopard, production was stopped in 1982. The Tiger was already in production when this one was built, so from a simple picture it's a very easy mistake to make!

The manual box was good, I do prefer the semi-auto though - it requires a bit of skill to make smooth progress through the box! Either are 'proper' in my book though, it's the modern autos with just 'R' 'N' & 'D' buttons that are too lazy and for use by those who don't know better.

This one has an O.680 engine, a close-ratio gearbox and a town-spec diff - 50, maybe 55 is as fast as it wants to go, but it gets there quick and stays there

[Fishtigua]

My mate at school, his family ran Betws y Coed Coaches. They had Plaxman Leopards and some of those 4 wheel steering thingies. Another mate's Dad ran a fleet of Van Hool smartiepants coaches over to the Continent.

[Pixel Pusher]

Fishtigua said:

My mate at school, his family ran Betws y Coed Coaches. They had Plaxman Leopards and some of those 4 wheel steering thingies. Another mate's Dad ran a fleet of Van Hool smartiepants coaches over to the Continent.