same here, matched with a white polo necked sweater. and to cap it off a white collarless ice cream mans type jacket. posh jumble sales - kirk ella swanland area and a sewing machine ensured i was unique in my garb if nowt else. dead mens suit trousers flared poss from the 50's 60's 70's taken in at the ankle so you could hardly get them on. same with jeans. and all big flappy shirt collars removed and sewed back up in a grandad stylie. this was before they started selling them in the shops. and you could get them great long coats for 50p two tone or sparkly thread. then charity shops started selling them for like a tenner!! outrageous. i kept my long overcoat till the mid 90's.
Hi, my name is… by Eminem samples the song I got the… by Labi Siffre. The guitarist and bass player were session muscians Chaz and Dave.
One for car drivers who suffer with hay-fever - ''sneezing while travelling at 60mph makes you close your eyes for 50 feet!''
*typing with everything crossed* - thus far, I've never done one; the last twice that I was pulled up on the bike 'eating humble pie and a good talking to' was deemed sufficient to send me on my way; it was however one that my Mrs told me and she HAS done the course - static cameras give no talking to's I'm afraid.
The average human farts 15 times a day. I think that raises the question of how they're counted. Are the 'full stops' after a long one additional, or included in the initial blast?
I think a lot of cops are or have been bikers so there's some empathy there. Except for the ones that got me on the M18 20-odd years ago doing about 110mph. Up before the magistrates in Doncaster. As I was looking at a disqualification I took a solicitor on my insurance to help out. Met the bloke for the first time 10 mins before my case was called, went like this, him: where were you and what speed? me: M18, about 110mph him: marked or unmarked car? me: unmarked him: what sort of car? me: err, Volvo I think him: colour? me: dark blue, is this important? him: I go home down there every day, I want to watch out for it... True story! I got off with 6 points and a fine.
I read once that your sphincter stays dilated and keeps expelling gas for 20 seconds after the main guff has happened. Based on 15 guffs you spend 5 minutes per day farting. Extrapolating that out further that’s: 35mins a week 30.3hrs a week 107 days if you keep up the rate until 85
Unmarked story for you - I had a new front tyre put on week before last and went out last Monday to scrub it in - I was doing the Wragby-Bardney-Baumber-Caistor loop, for me it's 110 miles of usually empty roads full of non-technical fast flowing bends (awesome road for those who've never done it) partway round I spotted a black machine hauling me in pretty fast, my days of racing off when I spot someone are long gone so I eased off the throttle a bit to let him catch up and pass - lucky I did cos it seems that the hard up Lincolnshire police have a nice black on black BMW1300GS that you don't recognise as a police bike until it passes you!
Couple of weeks ago saw another bike coming towards me on a road that is known for the police using marked, unmarked and temporary speed cameras, thought he was tramping on a bit as we passed I saw he had a marked police bike tucked in behind him. Don't know if they were both plod or the civvy was in line for a serious talking to.
On this day in 1917, Britain’s royal family changes its name from the Germanic "Saxe-Coburg-Gotha" to the more English sounding “Windsor.” To which the Kaiser, quick as a flash, announced he would retitle Shakespeare's famous play, The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. https://x.com/militaryhistori/status/1936113349189943340
The average jumbo jet gobbles approximately 1 gallon of fuel every second, a full jumbo jet tank would provide a family car with enough fuel to drive 4x around the world. Road trip anyone? PS We all know cars don't run on aviation fuel but, just go with it ...
