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From: Champ on 9 Feb 2010 12:36 On Tue, 9 Feb 2010 09:21:35 -0800 (PST), darsy <darsy(a)sticky.co.uk> wrote: >On Feb 9, 5:09�pm, Champ <n...(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: > >> >you know, I've never actually seen someone through a petrol bomb. 1/2 >> >bricks, thrown at riot police - sure - loads of times, and I used to >> >lie awake at night in my flat just behind the Ormeau bakery watching >> >tracers and mortars flying overhead through the Velux window, but >> >never your actual petrol bomb. >> It's as if Molotov lived his life in vain! >erm, you're aware the term "Molotov Cocktail" was coined by the Finns >to actually mock Molotov, aren't you? Well, I am now. -- Champ We declare that the splendour of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: J�r�my on 9 Feb 2010 12:38 petrolcan <petrolcanSPAM(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:MPG.25db89db27f44e29989bcd(a)text.news.virginmedia.com: > In article <bbt2n55dfl1stvb875tu5vskcs32s0kn16(a)4ax.com>, Grimly > Curmudgeon says... >> >> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the >> drugs began to take hold. I remember petrolcan <petrolcanSPAM(a)gmail.com> >> saying something like: >> >> >Bottled gas is for camping and superser heaters. >> >> Is it bollocks. Rural areas with no mains gas and occupiers who happen >> to like gas cooking don't have a lot of choice. The bulk LPG suppliers >> are akin to gangsters, so that leaves smaller bottles as the way. > > So you're a gippo too, eh? Converted farmhouse in the French Alps - we use bottled propane. We do have a patio, but we don't heat it, even though it's currently under 80cm of snow. -- Jeremy R1200RT
From: J�r�my on 9 Feb 2010 12:47 ogden <ogden(a)pre.org> wrote in news:MPG.25dba285d2c24dae989f50 @news.eternal-september.org: > I've known more people die under 40 than die over it. > > Of course, knowing people who ride motorcycles and drink a lot, often at > the same time, probably doesn't help. Having a mountaineering obsession is a good way to meet shortly-to-be-dead people, too. -- Jeremy R1200RT
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 9 Feb 2010 12:57 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember petrolcan <petrolcanSPAM(a)gmail.com> saying something like: >In article <bbt2n55dfl1stvb875tu5vskcs32s0kn16(a)4ax.com>, Grimly >Curmudgeon says... >> >> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the >> drugs began to take hold. I remember petrolcan <petrolcanSPAM(a)gmail.com> >> saying something like: >> >> >Bottled gas is for camping and superser heaters. >> >> Is it bollocks. Rural areas with no mains gas and occupiers who happen >> to like gas cooking don't have a lot of choice. The bulk LPG suppliers >> are akin to gangsters, so that leaves smaller bottles as the way. > >So you're a gippo too, eh? Yer roof looks a bit suss - mind if I nip up and take a look? Got some tiles on the lorry.
From: The Older Gentleman on 9 Feb 2010 14:16
R C Nesbit <spam(a)ukrm.net> wrote: > Darsy spoke: > > > > There seems to be a lot of it about at the moment. > > Neighbours dad went a > > > > couple of weeks ago. > > > > > > People die *shocker* > > > > specifically "old people die in the winter" *shocker* > > I'm sure you will all be relieved to discover that today > this old gimmer survived the: > "we ran out of LPG at the weekend so I had to lug 2 empty > 47Kg bottles into the back of the Alfa, drive to the local > FloGas distributor and buy 2 full bottles[2]load them up in > the back of the Alfa, drive home, unload, lug into back > garden and hook them up" > episode. > > [1] there is no [1] > [2] Increased to �84 a pair! > Relying on ab Alfa to keep warm in winter strikes me as a bit risky. Though I suppose you could always torch it. -- BMW K1100LT Ducati 750SS Honda CB400F Triumph Street Triple Suzuki TS250ER GN250 Damn, back to six bikes! Try Googling before asking a damn silly question. chateau dot murray at idnet dot com |