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My favorite tool in my shop; the Mighty Logan. Turning a shock preload spacer for a guy out of 3" aluminum bar stock...

I used to work with the bloke pictured below, he was related to the Queen Mother I believe and his father had been colonel of the Scots Guards. Bobby, as he was known, was super posh AND very light on his loafers. When he heard that the council's chief executive had decreed I should wear a suit when meeting councillors he replied, 'Well our chief exec is hardly an expert in sartorial elegance is he". I had to look up sartorial in a dictionary. The last time I saw him was after he had retired. I was sitting in a trial hole speaking with a large hairy Irish road worker called Big Dick. A Jaguar rolled past and he leaned out the open window and shouted, "yoohoo Ian!". Bobby must be very old now, but still writes for the sort of Royal fan magazines they sell in the US I hear.

Oh yeh.....for sure! I can't mention Political matters, but I can mention those brainless fuckwits who think Hospitals are all empty and Covid is a hoax! There's one on another forum actually......I'm amazed nobody's ripped into him for spreading dangerous shit like that. My feeling is these people shouldn't be given a platform to air their opinions.

To me it's somebody who has a well spoken non-regional accent who doesn't swear. To Ren it's somebody with teeth!

Speaking all the way from Portugal, I have a couple of posh friends from back in school. Their families are wealthy from business, maybe from two to more generations going back. They drove discrete nice fast cars , wore expensive watches but not something you would know was expensive from 10 meters away, and were well mannered to everyone, never being loud or noticeable in a gathering. They were both very cool people to spend time with, and I liked they were my friends as they're good people. They also rode motocross or raced karts as teenagers, so there's that Now this is my experience from Porto, which is Portugal's second biggest town, located north with a history of industry and old money. Other people's experience in Lisbon varies wildly, Lisbon is a town where old money usually comes from trade and services, and I think that makes a difference. I've met a couple of people over the last couple of years that talked a big talk while boasting of owning cars and stuff, but apparently were more bankrupt than anything else.

Understandable......I doubt they'd want to be associated with your kind!

Gretta Thumbutt will have a cow when she gets wind of this.

Although I would not even be interested in doing this kind of project or anything even remotely similar, I appreciate how some guys can just make stuff. Allen Milliard making a replica 6 cylinder engine race bike. He's a bit of an odd ball, isn't he? But there is one thing the UK has slightly over most other countries, which is oddball dudes building stuff in garages. It blows my mind.

Is it right that the World Health Organisation has absolved China of any blame?

What has Bill Gates done other than to turn out operating systems that keep crashing?

I think it's the Sgt Pepper Syndrome......people looking for things and interpreting things which aren't even there. What was it.....play it backwards in a darkened room in front of a mirror and you'll hear the voice of the devil? And these type of people......when you tell them that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced with a lookalike they think you're fucking crazy. And yes.....I've been saying this for over 50 years......way before it became a thing on the Internet! What you say @Lone Amigo?

I think it proves your "they are fairly clever" theory to be wrong. They are indeed stupid, but maybe appearing to know something about a specific realm of knowledge makes them look less so.

not too bad around us you can soon head for the hills but not worth the risk at the moment

I'm lucky where I live because it's so easy to get out (weather permitting) and avoid people. Actually it's harder to find them than it is to avoid them. In Britain of course you tend to be all jammed in to urban areas.

and sadly my steed is staying in the cave until this lot is all over ?

You can have my place Bruce I’m of to that wig sale.

Except me trying to get the fuck off the bus as I just spotted @XTremeon there leading the singalong.

Why not I’m a very nice and polite person, I don’t cuss and swear, willing to help at the drop of a couple of grand.

Yeah that would be a bitch, we wouldn’t want to be cousins with the likes of a Welsh sheep shagging nation over here.

Well there's no way I'd come to visit you in the Old Folks Home......the fuckers might not let me leave!

So sorry but YES they do.

Those boots are wedged under the workbench in the garage. My neighbour gave them to me out of the blue one day, along with a pair of trousers, gloves, knee and elbow pads and a few other bits because his back was shot and he had no plans to ride a motocross bike again like he used to. He just rode his Suzuki V- twin rorty road bike to get his 2 wheel fix he said.

That ford is a crystal clear Wiltshire chalk river, or it was until he got there.

I;ll have my staff watch it and let me know...

Good for you we need boys like you around to do the dirty work, pip pip and all that, is it tea time yet, and do we have crumpettes?

Swagman out on an Old Folks day trip!

Posh was the hottest spice girl!