Fizzelle
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6 hours ago, olderndirt said:
Miss Moore was definitely a 'keeper' but my best friend and I are 22 days from 56 years of maritalness. Back in '62 I was a government employee at Cold Bay, AK - as was her Dad. She came home from college in Anchorage for Xmas vacation and magic struck. We were married in a world war two quonset (Fort Randall for the curious) hut by the magistrate's husband - his day job was postmaster but he did a great job.
Nice to reflect on marriage sometimes. My first wife would say to me (in the days of early flight sim), "I wish you'd stop playing those silly games and do some jobs around the house". While my current wife says "Oh that's lovely scenery, we'll have to go there!"
Well done ORBX. You made a girl very happy, which means a nice quiet and peaceful life for me!
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5 minutes ago, JohnY said:
Very bitter Fizelle. You should become a Blue Badge Holder and get a disabled badge. We can psrk virtually wherever we like!
John
Already have one! To be even more bitter, some town car parks here are now charging blue badge holders for parking - used to be free mostly! However in Skipton recently, I was pleased to see the Council gave disabled badge holders an extra hour free parking, once the original high charge has been paid. At least it's free parking in all the stations round my part of the world!
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Love it Ken. In England nowadays cops don't write tickets any more. It's done by trumped up people called Traffic Wardens, who now wear personal body armour and body cameras. Wonder what they're afraid of..?
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3 hours ago, Ken Terry said:
Here is a couple to brighten your day
First
And the generation gap
Cheers
Ken
Love it! Essentially not a lot of difference - apart from the horse!
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55 minutes ago, Triplane said:
I too rode a motorcycle in my youth. Once..... I tried to ride by buddy's bike (an old Triumph of unknown model) down Ocean Ave. in Carmel, California. The street goes down a hill toward the beach and then makes a u-turn at the beach and goes back up the hill. I was doing well until I got to the u-turn. Here I was, 16 years old, tanned, wearing my best bathing suit and I was going to really impress the girls. I made it safely down the hill but I didn't see the beach sand on the road at the u-turn. Needless to say, I laid it over right in front of a group not-to-impressed girls. Nothing was broken but it took four months to regrow the skin on my leg (ankle to hip). Such are the things the memories of our youth are made from..........Doug
Here - how could you miss that huge arrow in the road saying sharp left!! D'oh
PS We've all done it.
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46 minutes ago, macca22au said:
Whoops Frizzelle, I put my foot in it, but then, Yorkshire isn't part of England is it?
No and well spotted Ian!
Yorkshire is, as owt will say, God's Own Country - innit!
I hope ORBX won't take too unkindly to my posting the short YouTube video below - Yorkshire Airlines. Sums it up really! Enjoy.
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1 hour ago, macca22au said:
Fizzelle, if you disturbed the Poms no-one in Australia would lift a finger to help them.
Indeed!
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11 hours ago, JMBIII said:
In truth I sold my two wheel BMW four years ago to someone who wanted it more than I. I was getting a bit leery of riding due to my age and strength. (Plus he paid me more than I paid for it) A few months later I still had the itch to ride and I found a five year old, three wheel BRP Spyder (990cc) that had 1200 miles on it. I didn't have to worry about my leg muscles being able to pick up a fallen machine. Some may laugh at tricycles but they can run as fast as two wheels. What a blast! It now has over 8000 miles on it and I will add another couple of K this year.
Come on spring !
Stoppit!!
You've just awakened my nostalgia (is that even English?). When I was 17 (back in 1969) I bought a Triumph Thunderbird 650cc and coupled it up to a Watsonian sidecar and spent all that Summer in the SW of England - Devon, Cornwall and Somerset. Stayed at campsites, and the noise that bike made as it roared back between the tents at 2 in the morning earned the ire and wrath of campsite owners and campers in equal measure!
The best part was travelling into Truro at 3 o' clock one morning. The exhaust fell off at the edge of town so I stopped, put it in the sidecar, and drove through those narrow walled streets at full throttle in second gear, just for the 'ell of it!
Hey I was "Bad to the Bone" in them days, not the sweet white-haired pussy I am now!
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I pick up my mouse and say "Hello Computer..."
Don't get much response though.
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32 minutes ago, Gypsy Pilot said:
And it's a good thing too or there would be very few of us who could still operate our keyboards.
The keyboard - how quaint!
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1 hour ago, Pat Cox (Aussieman) said:
And a lot of the young whippersnappers of today's generation cannot understand our sense of humour because we use the full and correct spelling instead of computer talk.
No no no! It's wippasnappa, man!
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And I think I'd like to say what a wonderful "soft" thread this is. No vitriol. no sarcasm, just nice happy thoughts. How gentle.
Many thanks to all of you!
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53 minutes ago, Triplane said:
When we rescued our last cat she came with a book entitled "How To Train Your Human(s)'". And she's done a good job...................
In my case it's an infinite supply of cooked king prawns - and very expensive!
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Tha' knows lads, I was feeling quite depressed having just turned 66 an'all. But after reading all your heartwarming messages, especially about not going out with a whimper, I fel quite encouraged.
So..thank you very much!
PS My beloved cat (Fizgil or "Fizz" for short) turns 12 this year. We are joined at the hip since my retirement. She loves flight simming. I thought it was because of the moving pictures of aeroplanes and the odd bird etc, but have long realised it's because my server is under my desk blowing out hot air, especially when under heavy load, and she sits on my lap to benefit!
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I'm 66 tomorrow (Friday) but I don't qualify yet.
Rats!
PS Looking forward to the next 20 years
The Old Coots Club
in The Neil Hill Memorial Lounge
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Which reminds me of a story in the music paper "New Musical Express" in the 1970s over here in the UK. A journalist spent all day in a record shop because he wanted to see how many people were still buying Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" - it had been number one for over a year. Anyway two teenage girls came in and one of them picked up an old Beatles album and was busy looking at the sleeve notes. She exclaimed to her friend, "Oh look! I didn't know Paul McCartney had left Wings".
Ah the innocence of youth sometimes!