1. Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!

Off Topic The Goodhand Arms

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by TheSecondStain, Jul 15, 2014.

  1. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

    Joined:
    Jul 23, 2011
    Messages:
    39,383
    Likes Received:
    8,819
    I wouldn't try doing the same with a leather jacket. :1980_boogie_down:
     
    #42281
  2. The Ides of March

    The Ides of March Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Oct 21, 2011
    Messages:
    12,778
    Likes Received:
    4,686
    No need for a leather jacket here, unless your a biker!! You have a story to tell?
     
    #42282
  3. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

    Joined:
    Jul 23, 2011
    Messages:
    39,383
    Likes Received:
    8,819
    Not really. Of course I'm a motorcyclist. And I still have my bike, though I don't ride it these days. Of these two red ones in the foreground, mine is the one on the right with the blanked out Reg number. It's a Honda VFR800FiY from 2000. My buddy's VFR750 from 1995 is on the left. This is just gone 5am at Stonehenge on 21/06/2014.
    upload_2019-8-20_21-47-44.png
    Everyone is a motorcyclist. They just don't know it.
     
    #42283
  4. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

    Joined:
    Jul 23, 2011
    Messages:
    39,383
    Likes Received:
    8,819
  5. fran-MLs little camera

    fran-MLs little camera Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 18, 2011
    Messages:
    68,875
    Likes Received:
    24,070
    #42285
  6. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

    Joined:
    Jul 23, 2011
    Messages:
    39,383
    Likes Received:
    8,819
    Greenland's leader Kim Kielsen said, No thank you.

    Can't blame them. On the happiness scale, Denmark [Greenland] is at the top, and the USA is somewhere near the bottom. People would be crazy to want to change from being under Danish dependency to American.
     
    #42286
    davecg69 likes this.
  7. fatletiss

    fatletiss Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 17, 2011
    Messages:
    57,300
    Likes Received:
    40,066
    I’ve always been bad at diy, but today I joined two bits of wood together.

    I think I’ve nailed it.
     
    #42287
  8. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

    Joined:
    Jul 23, 2011
    Messages:
    39,383
    Likes Received:
    8,819
    I've said before that people are seriously going to have to change their environmental habits. We cannot read this stuff, agree with it in principle and then carry on as before:

    BBC News - Ditch cars to meet climate change targets, say MPs
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49425402

    Of course, the present government has bound itself to a relatively trivial thing called Brexit while we carry on poisoning ourselves. It's for you, the reader of this, to start changing. Don't wait until you're pushed.
     
    #42288
    davecg69 likes this.
  9. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

    Joined:
    Jul 23, 2011
    Messages:
    39,383
    Likes Received:
    8,819
    Fawley power station chimney is coming down I'm told. Someone I'm working with said it was this week. Is that true?
     
    #42289
  10. RSS

    RSS Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 25, 2011
    Messages:
    9,651
    Likes Received:
    7,303
    No idea, the internet says the chimney isn't due to be demolished until 2021. Who knows how accurate that is.
     
    #42290
    TheSecondStain likes this.

  11. thereisonlyoneno7

    thereisonlyoneno7 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 12, 2011
    Messages:
    18,162
    Likes Received:
    26,951
    Seems like the surrounding areas of Napoli are rocking in anticipation of Mrs No7 and mine upcoming trip next week.

    My cousin has just reported ground murmurs in her home town 50km away

    DBB9ACC5-15AB-4D9C-B937-B73B62E59E77.jpeg

    Still, at least I will be able to say I made the earth move at 50 years old to Mrs No7 next week if it happens a bit closer
     
    #42291
    davecg69 and San Tejón like this.
  12. fatletiss

    fatletiss Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 17, 2011
    Messages:
    57,300
    Likes Received:
    40,066
    "These orthodox shoes I’m wearing are great".

    "It's orthopaedic shoes".

    "I stand corrected".
     
    #42292
  13. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
    Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Feb 8, 2011
    Messages:
    37,240
    Likes Received:
    35,091
  14. San Tejón

    San Tejón Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 6, 2014
    Messages:
    13,965
    Likes Received:
    18,631
    There’s quite a bit of seismic activity down the east coast of Spain, and it’s not unusual for small tremors to occur near a property I have on the Costa Blanca. In fact one of the most recent was pretty much centred under the urbanisation the house is in. I believe that earthquake damage is included in house/building insurance as routine in this area.
    I have only witnessed one earthquake/terremoto, when living out there, and although just a small tremor the sound was quite loud and quite exciting.
     
    #42294
    thereisonlyoneno7 likes this.
  15. thereisonlyoneno7

    thereisonlyoneno7 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 12, 2011
    Messages:
    18,162
    Likes Received:
    26,951
    I have this weird fascination with earthquakes, always wanted to experience one, but not the 'big one' lol.

    I feel the same about Volcanoes...Naples is a good place to go for me :)
     
    #42295
    davecg69, San Tejón and StJabbo1 like this.
  16. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

    Joined:
    Jul 23, 2011
    Messages:
    39,383
    Likes Received:
    8,819
    Take the boat to Stromboli That's the active island volcano.
     
    #42296
    thereisonlyoneno7 likes this.
  17. StJabbo1

    StJabbo1 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 14, 2019
    Messages:
    8,239
    Likes Received:
    9,907
    Having an Indonesian wife volcanoes and earthquakes aren't unusual for us. The Mt Agung November 2017 eruptions cancelled our holiday flights, we went the following May/June, stayed on Jemeluk beach Amed area East Bali IMG_20180526_175355003.jpg the bad boy is on the left 3000+ meters. Oh must recommend Blue Star Bungalows https://www.bluestar-bali.com/
     
    #42297
    Last edited: Aug 22, 2019
    thereisonlyoneno7 likes this.
  18. thereisonlyoneno7

    thereisonlyoneno7 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 12, 2011
    Messages:
    18,162
    Likes Received:
    26,951
    I think what fascinates me about earthquakes and volcanoes is that it reminds me that we are just visitors to this living breathing planet.
     
    #42298
  19. Onionman

    Onionman Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jul 20, 2012
    Messages:
    6,000
    Likes Received:
    9,244
    I experienced a hefty earthquake in Mexico City (five point something).

    I was a long way up a tower block in a meeting in a conference room, on a chair with wheels, with my feet on the bottom of the chair rather than on the floor. Those details matter.

    Very suddenly, the room started moving around me while I stayed in one place as the chair and me weren't connected to the floor. I happened to be looking out of the window and could see I wasn't moving but the room was. Looking down I was rolling to and fro across the carpet but my inner ear told me I was stationary. It was all very otherworldly and I genuinely had no idea what was going on.

    Several of the people in the room dived for the floor under the tables around the outside of the room. Remember, at this point I'm stationary and the room's moving. I'm also heavily jet-lagged.

    In a situation where you have literally no idea what's happening (as it's so far out of any experience I'd ever had), people leaping under tables comes across as a bit odd. A few seconds later, the people re-emerged, some of them crying. Then they told me it was a big earthquake. Which I'd sort of not noticed. It has a very dreamlike quality in my memory becuase it doesn't fit properly.

    So I've lived through a pretty strong quake but not really experienced one.

    Vin
     
    #42299
  20. StJabbo1

    StJabbo1 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 14, 2019
    Messages:
    8,239
    Likes Received:
    9,907
    Mt Merapi erupted Oct 2010 we visited close by Borobudur in May 2011 it was still a disaster area bridges and infrastructure undergoing people getting on with their lives. What was/is needed was tourists to return, stay and spend locally not with international hotel and tour groups. Same goes for the more recent Lombok earthquakes and Mt Agung eruption. We have friends who's livelihoods were affected by sensational reporting, in particular, (surprise surprise) the express.
     
    #42300
    thereisonlyoneno7 likes this.

Share This Page