From: TMack on
TMack wrote:
> Buggery bollocking fucksticks! I had the day planned. Give the ST3

SNIP

....and then to finish the day off I post the rant to the wrong ng. I blame
the codeine. Still the LS650 is 23 years old, which just about qualifies
even if nobody is ever likely to refer to it as a "classic".

--
Tony
'04 Ducati ST3, '08 DL650GT,
97 TW200, '87 semi-rat LS650, OMF#24


From: Tim on
In message <hpdfqh$6a4$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, TMack
<tonyREMOVECAPSmackin(a)REMOVECAPS.dsl.pipex.com> writes
>Buggery bollocking fucksticks! I had the day planned. Give the ST3 a wash
>and good going over prior to its MOT tomorrow, followed by cleaning the
[snip]

On a similar(ish) note. Why did all the mucking about replacing all the
disks and pads go smoothly and right at the end of it all I have an
air-lock in the front hydraulics? Snot fair. Time to see if I can sort
that and get out for a test run before is starts to rain.
--
Tim
From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on
On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 21:01:42 +0100, TMack
<tonyREMOVECAPSmackin(a)REMOVECAPS.dsl.pipex.com>
wrote in <hpdfqh$6a4$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>:

> excruciating pain in my right hip. I wasn't bending awkwardly or twisting
> it in any way so I don't know what happened but it was one of those pains
> that tell you immediately that you need to stop moving NOW! Fortunately
> after a minute or two it subsided sufficiently for me to be able to hobble
> into the house and swallow more than the recommended dose of
> ibuprofen/codeine tablets. So, instead of a happy day's fettling it was a
> case of sitting as still as possible watching TV and reading. It seems to
> be a bit better now - I just hope I can get my leg over tomorrow (fnar fnar)
> for the MOT.

BTDT but in my case it started symmetrically in both hips on
Friday afternoon of a Swiss long weekend, which meant it was (IIRC)
Tuesday before I could make a doc's appointment and Wed before treatment.
*And* he gave me a painkiller whose major effect was to produce violent
uncontrollable stomach cramps. Never worked out what it is, tho' it's
rarely been so bad again -- the absolute symmetry makes me wonder if it's
another manifestation of nerve damage in my neck from the Westwood
face-plant.

Managed to pinch a nerve in my coccyx last Boxing Day after
inadvertently following the Atkins diet for a few days -- luckily it went
away after 30 or 40 minutes, but it was as least as painful as when I'd
actually smashed the thing overbalancing against the edge of a step in a
bus out to CERN 15 months ago (two laptops and a litre of duty-free in
my backpack, combined with an unexpected jerk on take-off...)

--
Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
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WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon)
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".