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Everything posted by XTreme
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Still waiting for you and Mr Slowly to venture over this way!
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You wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Boomers!
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The irony here is that 60 years ago as a kid I really wanted a bicycle cos all my friends had them. So I used to scrounge a ride whenever I could. But I didn't have the money and my old girl wouldn't buy me one (God forbid she would ever spend any money on me)......so I had to go without. The first time I ever had any money was when I left school and got a job! So with my first monthly pay of £39 I paid £22 for a Lambretta TV175 and basically bypassed the bicycle stage. After that there was no way I ever wanted one......and I still don't want one now! Maybe a CRF300L would help lower my blood pressure and cholesterol?
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You said "go in"......which implies that you're going into a workplace! I wondered what this workplace was!
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The wife has said that once I've recovered from my Hernia op we've got to get bicycles. In her case it's to build up more strength that was lost due to her osteoarthritis......in my case it's to lower blood pressure and cholesterol. But I'll be making sure that people know that I'm doing it under sufferance, not for some perverse enjoyment like the rest of you weirdos do. Bicycle be fucked!
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Come to Spain and see these twats here! Apart from Rafa in "Vespacito no me Corras" in Granada.......they're all too fucking lazy to actually sell you a bike. @Pedro will recognise this sort of shit!
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When you say "go in".......go in to what?
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What about you.......how many days do you work?
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When you're growing up and living in Swansea you're just trying to survive......share dealing isn't an option. Did you find many Stock Market traders when you delivered to Merthyr?
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Having to bale your kids out doesn't help does it? I know I've done my fair share of that too, but at least I had the income coming in to cover it. The bloody third quarter taxes come out tomorrow.....that's nearly €2K what with tax and IVA/VAT. And people criticise me for being glad to see the back of the Brit freeloaders from this country. Especially those running businesses illegally.
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I think we all thought we'd end up getting a better Pension than we do. And nobody could have foreseen prices rising like they have.
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I had a great job as a Medical Rep for Beecham which had an excellent occupational pension scheme. Then I got made redundant in the 80's and was never able to get the chance to get back into that sort of system. After all, I lived in the Graveyard of Ambition! So from then on it was just making ends meet......maintenance for first family and supporting second family.
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As I said.....I need a challenge, I need something to focus on! So I'm fine with it, but the flipside is I don't always get the time to do as much riding as I'd like to do. But without the working there'd be no riding!
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The fucking Tories will have your generation working till you're 80.
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Those 5G masts got him!
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Hell has frozen over!
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The cost of living here is a lot lower than the UK, but we could never survive on €900 a month. Keeping horses isn't cheap.......but that's the wife's interest (like bikes is mine), and as she was never able to have them in the UK I don't begrudge a penny going on them. I'm lucky that my work isn't physically demanding, so as long as I can tap a keyboard and click a mouse I can keep doing it. Having said that, I couldn't do nothing like most of these Brits here.......I have to have something to keep me busy. That was really brought home to me during the Covid lockdown......I was so desperate to actually do something I end up launching this fucking place! Now that's desperation.
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So to avoid that you spend shitloads of dosh transporting the Enfields back and fore to Britain for an MOT every year?
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Ain't that the truth! I'm currently posting this while sipping Moet & Chandon in a deckchair on my luxury yacht in Marbella! @Clive is in Monte Carlo breaking the bank at the casinos with a Ferrari and a hot chick waiting outside! And @Renegade is in the tropical paradise of Cardiff getting measured for the dental implants of his dreams!
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There may be one or two here who are in the closet who would take that on board!
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Exactly! That's the Busa's job!
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If you get to the point after drinking that you don't know if you spent the night with another man, it's time to fucking quit the booze!