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Tells us what you'll never ever ever want to do again.
- Thread starter oldbadger
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Yes.
But noisy wasn't too bad.
exchemist
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Ha! I can relate to that one. I lived in Dubai for 4 years and used to visit Jeddah and Riyadh regularly. I remember getting a non-Christmas card from the General Manager of our joint venture in Riyadh, with a picture of a peacock on it and inside the inscription: "Whatever is wonderful, whatever is meaningful, may it be yours, at this holiday time."....
.....under which he had written "Hint, hint" - and then his signature. (Next year I smuggled a Christmas pudding in for him.
)When our European staff came to Dubai, I used to invite them to breakfast and cook them bacon. And I ran training courses in Dubai for some of the plant management, many of whom were Filipino. The Chief Chemist from Riyadh wanted one thing more than anything: to go to mass. So I took him to the huge open air mass, said every Sunday for all the Goans and Filipinos, plus the European Catholics. There was also an Anglican church, for all the Brit Anglicans. The old sheikh (Rashid) was very tolerant - and knew it was good for business
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oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
Where do you live now?
Secret Chief
Vetted Member
Accidentally ( ) consume an insane amount of sugar in the evening. Thus spending the night with a persistent headache and my brain buzzing with high speed nonsense.
) consume an insane amount of sugar in the evening. Thus spending the night with a persistent headache and my brain buzzing with high speed nonsense.
Presumably in a boat? Since we used to holiday at Shoeburyness on many occasions, I used to hire a bike and once visited Foulness. I might have even brought home a trophy - a shell casing from the weapons used there.Get washed on to Foulness military research island and weapons testing area. 1963. The newspapers made such a fuss about that, and the military police......
The two things that I will never ever, ever, do again are - tripping over at a cliff top as a child, and such perhaps making me more sure-footed so as not to make any similar mistake ever again. Although in later life, and making use of whatever useful skills I retained, I did find myself making silly mistakes - and hence I gave up such walking before I completed what the cliff incident might have achieved. The second, I will not be riding any motorbikes any more and hence will not likely end my life on, or off one.
Martin
Spam, wonderful spam (bloody vikings!)
The two things that I will never ever, ever, do again are - tripping over at a cliff top as a child, and such perhaps making me more sure-footed so as not to make any similar mistake ever again. Although in later life, and making use of whatever useful skills I retained, I did find myself making silly mistakes - and hence I gave up such walking before I completed what the cliff incident might have achieved. The second, I will not be riding any motorbikes any more and hence will not likely end my life on, or off one.
Motorbikes are death traps!
Viker
Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
Only if you are too young to appreciate the inherent dangers over their wonderful nature. Fortunately I wasn't an early convert.
Martin
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Only if you are too young to appreciate the inherent dangers over their wonderful nature. Fortunately I wasn't an early convert.
But you're so vulnerable on two wheels, and car drivers are often clueless.
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
Yes, I was sailing from Colchester to Whitstable in an Enterprise sailing dinghy with a friend. We were both 15yrs and were not supposed to have left the Colne/Blackwater area. The ebb tide and a SW blow stopped us dead in the Swin Channel and with night falling we decided to head inshore for the night and sleep in the lee of the tilted hull, but as we came ashore there was this unmanned truck with a radar scanner whirling round and a brick building with a bloody big scanner. We couldn't leave by then because the dinghy was aground, and before we knew it we were surrounded by military police. We both got taken to separate cells down the coast somewhere where we were interrogated and locked up until next morning when we were released back at the boat and told to sod off..... our parents had been called and identified us. The Daily Express got hold of the story and wanted to know how the hell kids in a boat could get ashore if the place was supposed to be so secure.Presumably in a boat? Since we used to holiday at Shoeburyness on many occasions, I used to hire a bike and once visited Foulness. I might have even brought home a trophy - a shell casing from the weapons used there.
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
The two things that I will never ever, ever, do again are - tripping over at a cliff top as a child, and such perhaps making me more sure-footed so as not to make any similar mistake ever again. Although in later life, and making use of whatever useful skills I retained, I did find myself making silly mistakes - and hence I gave up such walking before I completed what the cliff incident might have achieved. The second, I will not be riding any motorbikes any more and hence will not likely end my life on, or off one.
Cliff Edges just terrify me, like walking within about ten feet of Beachy Head heights, Eastbourne..... Yuk.
I do still ride motorbikes, I've just bought an Electric 'Vespa' made in India; fifty miles range. We wanted an entry level EV and couldn't afford a car but I bought this on Ebay for just over high new price..... a city exec had tried it for easy commuting in to the city but I think he had a scare and that was that. My wife and self used to buzz all round the London streets on a vespa 30 years ago and she let me take her for a ride around on Herne Bay on it and then said that 'yes' I could take her to work on it if the Jimny was ever in the garage, etc. We look a bit different together on a vespa now than 30 years ago.
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
Them Scots are truly wild animals, the lot of 'em.
I mean.....who would think to wrap offal and guts up and stuff 'em in to a stomach lining for lunch.
I once lived in Californiastan.
Never again.
Never again.
Them Scots are truly wild animals, the lot of 'em.
I mean.....who would think to wrap offal and guts up and stuff 'em in to a stomach lining for lunch.
"Get yer haggis, right here! Chopped heart and lungs boiled in a wee sheep's stomick! Tastes as guid as it sounds.' (Groundskeeper Willie...Simpsons).
Since we spent several caving holidays in the area, we walked the length of the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland (below, and looking rather beguiling) and there was a very tempting finger of rock projecting out sideways like a gangplank at one spot. Fortunately none of us were daft enough to get a picture standing on it.
It was supposedly where The Guns of Navarone was filmed - according to the locals - but apparently it wasn't.
Quite an adventure then, and they should have paid you both - for testing their defences.
I think I was safer on my motorbike than on a bicycle - but that did of course mean being more careful as to not using its potential all the time. Still I have had more incidents on a bicycle than on a motorbike. These new codes coming out just seem to be what many cyclists were already doing anyway - I did.