What's Boiling Your Pi$$ Today?

[chas]

Interesting.

I have very early memories of a rag and bone man doing the rounds, but I think the London tradition was that they rung a bell rather than blew a trumpet.

DS

Ghraaaagabooouwn

 

[Big Sandy]

Ghraaaagabooouwn

Same here, As a kid.... But slightly different...

Aaaaaagbohhhhh

 

[Big Sandy]

No good news over Christmas, oh well, there's always New Year.....................

I'm a gonna call you Moriarty.

"Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?"

 

[chas]

Same here, As a kid.... But slightly different...

Aaaaaagbohhhhh

Well, you lot are 'common', innit

I've a mate who grew up in Coatbridge, I've been surprised how many glottal stops we share when saying certain words.

Frittata = Fri*a*a, whether you're from Coatbridge or Hanwell

 

[Big Sandy]

Well, you lot are 'common', innit

Sayin nuffin.

Anyhoo, I'm the one with the collection of scrap nowadays. And I dress in rags....

 

[Foxy]

Have you?

Not that tha'd notice.

 

[Foxy]

My favourite local word selection is:
ginnel, snicket, ten-foot, twitten, twitchel or jitty
They all mean the same thing depending on which part of the Country you hail from. In Scotland they might be vennels, a wynd or a pend.
Duck probably calls it a cloaca. It’s a back passage!

Round our way we use 3 o them, ginnel, snicket and jitty, for a passage, or path. Ginnel is more Barnsley-esque, usually we say jennel.

 

[Sarky B’stard]

I haven't done it in a while but I used to really enjoy going on American chat rooms with another mate of mine and talk in our dialect and the yanks would go absolutely ape shit and bananas. The weird thing was that, apart from the accent there really wasn't that much that was hard to understand in what we were saying. I always wonder whether yanks are phobic of accents other than American or hispanic ones or were simply a bit on the thick side and unable to process words when they were spoken slightly differently.

I’d be interested to hear Ron’s perspective but, as I see it, you have to remember Americans are a bit more aware of their mongrel background than we are. We lost our origins when, like Mr Farage, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandma married that French bloke who escaped by boat from La Rochelle because he was the wrong religion….

You simply have to remember the number of Americans who learnt English as immigrants and then taught their kids badly! Throw in accents and the spelling habits of their native languages and you end up with some strange affectations like the Frenchification of some words. Fillet steak becomes a fil-eh and they bastardise Warwick to War-wick. Zed is zee and they completely miss the target with fanny

 

[gazzatriumph]

I’d be interested to hear Ron’s perspective but, as I see it, you have to remember Americans are a bit more aware of their mongrel background than we are. We lost our origins when, like Mr Farage, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandma married that French bloke who escaped by boat from La Rochelle because he was the wrong religion….

You simply have to remember the number of Americans who learnt English as immigrants and then taught their kids badly! Throw in accents and the spelling habits of their native languages and you end up with some strange affectations like the Frenchification of some words. Fillet steak becomes a fil-eh and they bastardise Warwick to War-wick. Zed is zee and they completely miss the target with fanny

Aluminium one of my favourites

 

[BAD LUCK DUCK]

My favourite local word selection is:
ginnel, snicket, ten-foot, twitten, twitchel or jitty
They all mean the same thing depending on which part of the Country you hail from. In Scotland they might be vennels, a wynd or a pend.
Duck probably calls it a cloaca. It’s a back passage!

Back passages are strictly verbotten in the Peasant Army and Duck Militia

 

[Big Sandy]

A friend mailed me these comments yesterday. I think he has a point. He runs a charity to get folk with illness and disability out and into gardening.

I've sent several letters out trying to find land for allotments. One contact has said that one of the places is now planning to plant trees on their wasteland for carbon offsetting - which led me down a rabbit hole to find out what that is all about.
The whole carbon credits idea is a good one for all the countries that signed up to the Kyoto Protocol Agreement in 2005, basically starting a carbon tax to reduce CO2, and setting up a cap and trade system for credits.
The only problem is that the UN classified China and India as "developing/ non-industrialised" nations - so they don't have to play the game, despite being the #1 and #3 most polluting nations in the world.
So lets say you are a UK manufacturer, to buy in your steel and make something uses a lot of energy and transport -so you are taxed on that and add it to the cost of the product, BUT if you get it made in China and just float it here on a boat it is a lot cheaper because you don't pay the carbon tax on the manufacturing. Therefore Every manufacturer will want to get as much as possible made in China or India, because it is better for the planet.

 

[MartytheMartian]

Just demonstrates the stupidity of the so-called intelligent people who are allegedly in charge of the world

 

[Steve 998cc]

Just seen on GB news 2 more knife murders in London, total now 30 for this year for that city. Theres only one way to make these murders think twice that is they forfeit there own lives and swing at the end of a rope. Yes I do no what I'm saying spent 34years dealing with them.

 

[MartytheMartian]

I notice that the vast majority, if not all of the killers and victims, seem to be from a certain ethnic demographic although, of course, that is rarely mentioned in the reports.

 

[Scrappy]

Just demonstrates the stupidity of the so-called intelligent people who are allegedly in charge of the world

Those that are allegedly in charge are evil, cynical and self-serving with a bit of stupidity thrown in, but the real idiots are those that accept and swallow all the bullshit that they produce

 

[Tallpaul]

I'm a gonna call you Moriarty.

"Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?"

Oh don't worry mate, I'm very positive most of the time. In fact I'm so positive, I'm positive the old bag is going to croak before Easter. How's that for positivity?

 

[Tallpaul]

So, back on track. Rear brake on the GT Pro started to squeal on the way home from my NYE ride. Brembo brakes, top quality etc. What a piece of cheap and nasty design the pad retaining pin is. It's a drive fit with a split collar to hold it in place and a minute bent "R clip" for security. The R clip has equal length legs so there is no lead to get it started. It drives out OK towards the wheel, but getting it back in, I couldn't get a straight push due to the rear sprocket, chain and chainguard. Add that the pin head sits below the caliper casting as well and it really is a bastard. Anyway it's back together again. Next time the caliper is coming off first.

Give me Nissin calipers, a lovely threaded stainless pin and threaded security plug.

 

[DD67]

The local Plod have released the results of their Christmas campaign to catch drunk drivers. They release names, ages & the offenders approx address location.

Here's a few examples, there are more than these six...
Sorin Neagu
Sergio Bivol
Serghei Morari
Nicu Leonte
Alexandru Mereacre
Dainus Puzauskas

Obviously Plod caught indigenous folk as well. But if you take into account the ratio of eastern european immigrants V's indigenous folk in the area. They are either very unlucky, or habitual offenders?

A mate of a mate who's Albanian is an absolute f#cker for drink driving. Apparently in his native country you need to be incapable of standing. Before you're likely to get into bother with the Cops for being too drunk to drive? Even then there's the option of a bribe.
His attitude to drink driving in the UK is that there are so few Cops out on patrol. It isn't much of a risk.
Unfortunately, he isn't wrong there. However he is still a piece of shit for doing it!
Maybe the threat of deportation might increase the risk to folk like him?

 

[chas]

I ran through some weekly maintenance stuff, stuck some juice in the Batt which is going to be binned in spring but no point giving a new battery an extra winter, ran up to fan kick in and was rewarded with an eml. Fuel level sensor grounding/dying so hoping it's just damp in the loom. Cleared the code and anotherfuckingthing to keep an eye on. Haven't moved the bike to winter storage yet so it's still outside under a cover as I'm an optimist/lazy and not ready to tuck it away just yet

 

[Sarky B’stard]

Looks like an Albanian decoy gang tying up plod with breathalysers while something bigger goes down.