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    #21
    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    Indeed the Busa feels really planted and safe, even in the wet.
    I'm glad I didn't get into bikes that early - I would have probably killed myself given the shennanigans I got up to in my 20s. From the sound of it bikes had improved by then.
    It's as Testmangler says; the bikes were tulipe, but the engines were incredible; screaming two stroke engines before the advent of all the environmental legislation; they stank, made a bloody racket and possibly melted a few glaciers, but my god they were fun.
    And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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      #22
      Originally posted by sasguru View Post
      I would have probably killed myself given the shennanigans I got up to in my 20s.
      What was all that hazardous about stamp-collecting and flower-arranging then sas?
      “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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        #23
        Ghostbusters
        "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon Musk

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          #24
          Guy Fawkes - "The last man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions."

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            #25
            Originally posted by Jog On View Post
            "Hooooooold aaaa chicken in the air, put deckchair up your nose.."
            The B side was funnier

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              #26


              tulipe music, but worth watching.
              And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                #27
                Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
                tulipe music, but worth watching.


                Video
                My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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                  #28
                  Good music, bats for the other side;

                  And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
                    - Spending your pocket money on the latest Smiths album from Our Price
                    - Trying to avoid the football hooligan violence after a match at Watford
                    - Saving up for the latest home computer/games/accessories
                    - Not being able to wait for school to end so you could finish your program in BASIC combined with Commodore's PEEK and POKE semi-assembler-like commands
                    - During the news, seeing the balloons superimposed on a map of England labelling the thousands of jobs lost in a particulat area.
                    - Enjoying the top 40 countdown on Sundays, before the like of Stock, Aitken and Waterman and Simon Cowell commercialised pop music forever.


                    Any others?
                    Working in 3 continents, going to New York, 80s rates, Springsteen when he was young, living in Silicon Valley with all its tech buzz, drinking champagne and snort.. I mean experiencing life to the full, spending 3 months in Rio, ... I guess my 80s was different from yours.
                    Job motivation: how the powerful steal from the stupid.

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by Ignis Fatuus View Post
                      Working in 3 continents, going to New York, 80s rates, Springsteen when he was young, living in Silicon Valley with all its tech buzz, drinking champagne and snort.. I mean experiencing life to the full, spending 3 months in Rio, ... I guess my 80s was different from yours since I'm an old fart and was working then
                      FTFY. HTH.
                      Hard Brexit now!
                      #prayfornodeal

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