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Pete out for his ride.

Wankers !! someone who voted for my bike gave it too someone else...................

Seen that happen all too often! Seen the scars as well. A new second engineer decided that he was going on a pub crawl with a couple of us in Gibraltar, starting lunchtime and it must have been about three or so when we couldn't find anywhere open. The following morning everyone kept asking me what I'd done to the new Second. He had a black eye like a tennis ball and a gash on his eyebrow that needed stitches. Everyone thought that I'd thumped him. Truth was he'd got up for a piss in a strange cabin, pissed, had tripped over catching the washbasin on his way down. Great guy!

I am guilty of sometimes medicating with wine. Sometimes I would need a sleeping aid or something calming, but wine is more fun than that. Falling asleep without trying or difficult thoughts is great for me, though, so it is difficult to let go of it, but I was sort of spiraling a little out of control so am now enforcing a little self control over a few days.

Me and a couple of mates used to go down the pub on Friday evenings after we'd played squash and neck a few beers before closing. One of my mates missed squash one Friday but turned up down the pub with this kind of plastic mask thing on his face. He looked like he was starring in the Phantom of the Opera. We asked him what it was all about, so he said that he'd broken his nose and fractured a cheek bone! So we asked how? Anyway, the previous Friday, after we'd had a few down the pub after squash, he got up during the night for a pee. Being a bit unsteady on his feet he decided to sit down to pee. However, he fell asleep sat on the bog and then fell off and smacked his head on the corner of the bath as he went down! We tried not to laugh..........

My brother was the drinker in the family, boy could he down it When on night shift he would be in bed around 8am..........but always awake at 11am to go to the welfare till 2pm, then back home to bed, sleep till 8pm, then back on nightshift. Me, I have only been proper drunk once in my life, since then I have lived by the "Never again"

Enough said. …………..the miserable fuckers went and changed the name of the place a while ago.

Hero to zero.......it's a harsh life!

Oi! I resemble that remark! I can actually remember failing the Eleven Plus... just like my sister before me. ( we both went on to A -Levels or more though) and I definately read Lord of the flies, though possibly not in school. What the UK need to help them out of this "crisis" is to join a club or group of other likeminded countries where they could share manpower or costs and benefits as well as losses and problems, this would smooth out the short term ups and downs of the economy by allowing free movement of labour within the group or Union giving a huge and mobile, Labour Pool. We could call it a Union of European or maybe the European Unio... Oh, wait a minute...

Oh, he is a big Brazilian guy. Probably 6'-2" or so. Large, santa belly. I can say that cause he kicked my ass on the track. (and, yes. Bobby Fong is a small feller)

@Tango's drinking story reminded me of this Many years ago me and the guy who is my boss now were working away from home and had been out on the pop all night as usual. this night i was a bit pissed off because he was chatting some girl up and i was left on my own bored, so i left him to it and went to bed. When he came down for breakfast in the morning he had two black eyes and a nasty gash across the bridge of his nose. I thought the girls boyfriend had turned up and given him a dig, It turned out he had got up for a piss in the night tripped over his suitcase and face planted the chimney breast in the room, funny thing is we were sharing a room and i didn't hear a thing

Its the first, so like all lost virginity events, a special moment!

Uau!!! Amazing! The Speed Triple deserves it !! Thank you

I always think if you can't put something down and walk away from it (figuratively) without it playing on your mind you are looking at the beginnings of a form of addiction whether its alcohol, drugs or a type of behaviour. Personally Im an event drinker. Im happy alcohol free but when event comes up where everyones drinking I will join in with aplomb. Its defiantly not good for me because I feel like death for days after but I have no intention of changing, it does put me off the stuff for a long time! @Tango your brothers wifes Dr is either a twat or she wasnt telling the truth about what he said which is extremely common in alchy's. They kid themselves and everyone around them theyre fine because they don't drink in the morning or they don't drink spirits or whatever excuse allows them to carry on doing exactly what they want to do. "My Dr says its fine" is something I heard over and over again when patients told me honestly how many units they were drinking and 9 times out of 10 they were way out of the safe zone and they knew it.

Twat

Who would have thought that ending free movement of people and goods would result in a shortage of people and goods.

When someone waits till the last moment of the day to send you a work email, to which you reply instantly only to get an "out of office for a long weekend" reply. Twats Can you call a woman a twat?

That's the beauty of being able to switch votes is nobody will know for sure until the last minute oh the excitement

Avoid Chinese shit, aka BMW.

There could be treasure as well. The Old Chest Hospital site used to be the manor house for the Bishop of London, Bishop Bonner, also known as Bloody Bonner for his love of burning Catholics (everyone should have a hobby). There's a Mulberry tree still on the site that he is said to have tied heretics to whilst they were whipped. If you google the tree you get this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethnal_Green_mulberry_tree The whole redevelopment is now held up by a court case because they wanted to uproot the tree and put it somewhere else.

Phwoarrrrrrrr.

They fancy you @Pedro don’t knock it.

I'm slowly getting there when people aren't bothering me with other stuff

So you forgetful cunt, you got @Clive to send me a pm when you went missing from that other site, said you were desperate for members, then you got me restricted from other said site so I couldn’t go back.

@Swagman

There was a time when I was at sea that I used to drink quite heavily, 12 hour sessions quite often and in the bar every night. When things changed with promotion and duty days, then it was a day off. I never felt that I needed a drink on the days off, and by the time I retired, with random testing I sort of stopped drinking at sea but did enjoy a good session ashore. These days I hardly drink at all, unless Fred drags me to the Farmyard Party, although when I do I enjoy it. Was worried at one time about the consumption, especially if it was a lot of spirits. I remember a Chief Engineer saying that anyone who could drink as much as we used to then you definitely have a drink problem, but I don't think that's the same as alcoholism.

Congratulations @Sofia.

The time was announced two days ago......so you had plenty of time to vote! I mean, it's not as if you were busy riding motorcycles!

The Poll has closed and @Sofia is the winner for this month!

Found a proper weird pub , like being in a time warp …

I'm going to keep an eye out for those i like a crisp or ten

He doesn't really want to know all that shit he just wants to know where the treasure is buried

Good luck with that @Pedro.

The two that voted for you are solid, though, Pete, good result ...

More like a sad cunt really!

No I warned him off @Clive

Didn't take long So the government announced that the man in charge of the whole vaccination thing, who is an Admiral, was to be promoted to chief of the armed forces, being the highest ranking military person in Portugal, and would replace the current one. Later the same day the President came out to say nothing was going to be done without his say so, and that there is no reason to demote the current chief after only being there for 3 months and having done nothing wrong (except criticize a couple of things the government did). What a shit show these politicians put out

I left school at 15 (birthday in August) and started an apprenticeship 2 weeks after my 16th birthday. I couldn't wait to leave school, absolutely hated it!

You invited us you fucking wank bag.

You lot are all to fucking smart on here, I had to earn my crust by labouring with pick and shovel, to uneducated to get a well paid office job me am.

Well, put simply old bean.............Silver treasure what make engine go whizz along him fella. You are Pete Sake and I claim my five pounds.

Finally decided to strip the rocker cover off and order some of the parts i need. The cam followers arrived yesterday and i fitted them but after removing the shafts that hold them in place i find some scuffing on them. they will probably be ok but i cant bring myself to use them with the new parts so there's something else to buy This id the old and new parts just a small amount of wear on the old bits

I have heard Oxford is the best place for the qualifications needed.

Lets see, i slept, went to the beach, rode a motorcycle, and met a new chick with a hot name....what can we learn from this...working sucks.