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Captain Havoc · 19-08-2011 10:31am

I had to google that, it appears we don't have the same suicidal past-times down the country. Right, I'm off to agitate slurry on my own.

manwithaplan · 19-08-2011 10:57am

Captain Havoc wrote: »

agitate slurry

I hope that's not a euphemism.

Jawgap · 19-08-2011 12:57pm

manwithaplan wrote: »

I was looking at the thread about the guy who got hit by a milk float in London. It got me thinking about the time I fell off the back of a milk lorry (a lorry - not a float!) when scutting as a young lad. We lived near the Grand Canal at Harolds Cross Bridge and used to hop on the back of trucks all the time for a laugh (very bad idea, don't try this at home etc.).

It just occurred to me that you never see anyone scutting these days. Why not? Trucks no longer on the streets? Road safety message getting through? Better enforcement? Kids just have better things to do?

Why? In a word - "Darwin"

buffalo · 19-08-2011 2:16pm

How come the Friday whinge thread is closed, and it's still Friday? I wanted to add my whinge about other cyclists. I hate them all!

ednwireland · 19-08-2011 2:22pm

Wippermann Connex 10S0 €26.76 or
KMC X10-93 €26.14

????

just replaced my chain with a mavic which i dont seem to be able to get anymore, so looking for a replacement for the spares shelf

manwithaplan · 19-08-2011 2:41pm

Jawgap wrote: »

Why? In a word - "Darwin"

Perhaps but unlikely. I'm sure kids these days are just as brainless and convinced of their own invulnerability as they ever were. Maybe they're just lazier.

Holyboy · 19-08-2011 3:47pm

manwithaplan wrote: »

Perhaps but unlikely. I'm sure kids these days are just as brainless and convinced of their own invulnerability as they ever were. Maybe they're just lazier.

Theyre all out stealing bikes!

petethedrummer · 19-08-2011 6:38pm

If kids are lazier or more boring than previous generations it's the fault of parents and society. There can't have been a genetic leap in the last 20 years that made kids naturally lazier or duller. A fella in work was moaning about his kids today.

To be read in a Sunderland accent.

"Kids these days, they want everything duun't they?"
"Ah'd've been 'appy runnin' round with a ball".
"Ma kids didn't even knuuuw what a tarzy was when we passed one the other day."

yeah pal, whose fault is that?

niceonetom · 19-08-2011 6:54pm

What's a tarzy?

Beasty · 19-08-2011 6:56pm

Sunderland - the first place I ever came across deep fried Mars bars (it was actually Peterlee, just outside Sunderland) - the Scots claim to have invented them in the 1990s, but I recall them in the 1970s

Coronal · 19-08-2011 7:08pm

Beasty wrote: »

deep fried Mars bars

Battered curly wurlies are better, though

petethedrummer · 19-08-2011 7:24pm

niceonetom wrote: »

What's a tarzy?

It's hard to find a picture of a non-XXTREEEEEMMME to the maXX tarzy.

It's a rope swing over a small river.

Hermy · 19-08-2011 7:37pm

Hermy wrote: »

Some kids attempted to scut on the back of my taxi during the snow.

You cannot deny the facts - it's still going on!

manwithaplan · 19-08-2011 7:49pm

Does jumping on the back of a slow moving car count? I remember clinging to the back of a container lorry hoping it would stop before I ended up at Newlands Cross.

You're right Pete - I blame the parents. If they were any use, there would be kids swinging from trucks all over the place.

CianRyan · 19-08-2011 8:48pm

petethedrummer wrote: »

It's hard to find a picture of a non-XXTREEEEEMMME to the maXX tarzy.

It's a rope swing over a small river.

If not for that I wouldn't have known what they were, all the same though here's me being extreme about a year ago.

Picture's a little easier to see...

Squidgy Black · 20-08-2011 12:17am

Just found out that I'm missing one of my bar end plugs is gone, I was convinced I had a spair set of BBB's but they're gone too :mad:

Gives me an excuse to change my tape I guess though

wanderer 22 · 20-08-2011 1:00am

eh..how come there's about 8 threads on folding bikes at the moment???seems suspicious...

Holyboy · 20-08-2011 1:00am

It's like a bed bug infestation down there but with sh!t folding bikes!

I blame Lemag, no reason for it, but it's his fault:D

manwithaplan · 20-08-2011 1:05am

Holyboy wrote: »

sh!t folding bikes!

Can you not read? They are better than Bromptons.;)

Holyboy · 20-08-2011 1:12am

manwithaplan wrote: »

Can you not read? They are better than Bromptons.;)

Oh yeah, I did read that but then forgot it very quickly when I looked at the site, BUT maybe they are better, we should all buy one so we can find out:D

Holyboy · 20-08-2011 1:16am

Ah whats going on at all, has happytramp been hacked or summit??
It's all gone crazy!

happytramp · 20-08-2011 1:17am

Nope, just pushing the spam off the front page. All has returned to normal. Well worth the 20 min that took.

manwithaplan · 20-08-2011 1:20am

I was just wondering where I might find a value for money option for city cycling. Any ideas?

Doctor Bob · 20-08-2011 1:22am

Ah drat! I know I have a URL for that around here somewhere.

Holyboy · 20-08-2011 1:24am

Ah I see, you computer wizzes, I will never understand the whole thing, my expertise starts and ends with bikes, oh and fishing reels and rods, wow, two whole arrows to my bow!!!

happytramp · 20-08-2011 1:28am

Deadly. The Vuelta starts today.

RobFowl · 20-08-2011 2:54pm

scaled.php?tn=0&server=739&filename=gqfjb.jpg&xsize=640&ysize=640

And yes I know it won't last :rolleyes:

Captain Havoc · 20-08-2011 2:59pm

RobFowl wrote: »

And yes I know it won't last :rolleyes:

Maybe next year when ye're in the championship :pac: Joking aside, I think this could be a big year for the pool.

Beasty · 20-08-2011 3:53pm

Captain Havoc wrote: »

I think this could be a big year for the pool.

It clearly already is, one point ahead having played only one more game. 2012, however, is likely to be a different (but same old) story .....;)

(or are you referring to the Monkey Hangers?)

Captain Havoc · 20-08-2011 3:54pm

Anyone up for a spin on Tuesday afternoon?

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