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Kamikaze sheep i know all about them in scotland merv

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Well yehaaaaaaaaa too scott looks like a nice little trailer Merv

on’t throw away those large plastic beer and cider bottles. Drink the contents first. Collect plastic packaging and empty plastic food containers, and store them until you have enough for one large bonfire. Having several small bonfires is inefficient. Pick a day for your bonfire when there is a stiff breeze. This way, all the little burning smuts of plastic and the choking fumes will be carried away from your garden. Think about cycling instead of driving for a second. A second is plenty long enough. Vegetables are a good source of vitamins, minerals and fibre, so eating them is recommended. Eating vegetables needn’t be expensive. Steal next-door’s potato peelings from their compost heap and use them to make potato soup. Growing your own mushrooms to add a little variety to salad or to slice onto homemade pizza is easy. Place half a loaf of damp bread in the back of the cupboard under the sink, and in a few short weeks, after Mother Nature has been to work, you will have an impressive selection of fungi, all of which are perfectly safe to eat. Encourage your children to grow some cress in a margarine pot on the windowsill. It uses up an empty margarine pot, which would otherwise go into landfill. Your kids will learn a valuable lesson in horticulture and self-sufficiency, and they will be engrossed in watching the cress grow instead of fighting or playing on the Xbox. With careful tending, come harvest time, there will be plenty of cress for a whole sandwich. When you have a chip pan fire, do not put it out with water. Carefully set the burning pan in the fireplace, and use the heat given off to warm the room or to dry clothes. Don’t throw rhubarb leaves into the dustbin. Don’t waste them by composting them either. They are rich in oxalic acid, and the engine casings from an old parallel twin will be as good as new after an hour simmering in a large pan in a solution of leaves and water. Any remaining solution in the pan will produce a robust rhubarb wine if bottled and left to ferment in the attic for nine weeks. Conserve water. Because the water companies lose so much of it through leakage, we are encouraged to eke out what is left: Maximise the use of the water in a shower. Share your shower with other members of the family. Since most shower trays aren’t big enough for more than two similarly sized adults, shower with relatives of diminishing size instead. If each showerer stands beneath the chin of each taller relative, up to seven people can shower simultaneously. There are serious economies to be made in shampoo and soap this way, too. Use depilatories with care. Water the houseplants at the same time. Exercise care when showering with those tall cacti that are equipped with large spines. Most cacti are species accustomed to an arid or semi-arid habitat, and require little watering. Just look at the giant saguaro cactus of Arizona and the desert southwest. Big, aren’t they? Economies can be made with bathwater too. Placing several house bricks in the bottom of the bath will reduce the amount needed to fill it. Clean your teeth while in the bath, but don’t do this until all the family have used the water. Rinsing and spitting into the water before others have bathed is not very hygienic – human spit contains more bacteria per milligram than even the fiercest most horrible animal spit you can imagine. The remaining bathwater may be kept in sealed containers in a warm place (the airing cupboard is ideal) and used later for cooking vegetables. Keeping the water warm for a few days will lessen the energy required to heat it to a rolling boil. In case you are wondering whether or not this is safe, bear in mind that boiling the water in the pan will kill any germs, and pubic hairs are easy to spot in mashed potato. Also spuds and carrots grow in soil, and soil is dirty. Park your car in your neighbour’s flowerbed when washing it. You get a clean car; he gets his red-hot pokers watered and thus has no reason to complain about your extravagant use of the hosepipe. The average family toilet uses 15,000 gallons of water a day. You can reduce this by 50% by doing every other big job in your neighbour’s vegetable patch. His cat does it in yours, after all. Resist the temptation to do them all there. He may become suspicious. Buy a large stuffed cat and nail it to your shed roof. If your neighbour does begin to ask questions, point to the stuffed cat and shrug your shoulders. Leaving your television on standby wastes enough electricity to power a town the size of Kirkcudbright for a year. Have it turned it on all the time instead. Why should the grumpy Scottish people who live in Kirkcudbright get free electricity for a year when the rest of us have to pay for it? Drive fast. Driving fast reduces your journey time, and therefore the time that your car is pumping out hydrocarbons. An engine running at full-throttle is running at peak efficiency. Avoid braking. Braking wears out components prematurely. Cutting through garage forecourts at junctions saves time sitting idly at traffic lights. Don’t waste money insulating your loft. Often you may be tempted into buying loft insulation in the summer, when it is less expensive, but resist this marketing ploy. The effort required to install insulation in the summer in a loft in which the temperature is 163 degrees Fahrenheit uses the equivalent of 4 megawatts per hour. If you did it this summer, your investment would begin to repay itself in March 2103. What use is that? Double-glazing is a waste of money. For double-glazing to be effective, all the windows in the house need to be closed. If you keep all the windows closed, your ears will pop whenever you open the front door, you will wake with a headache, and farts will linger interminably. Double-glazing is no more than a scam perpetrated by disreputable companies who cannot survive by selling plastic fascias and soffits alone. Don’t waste money on expensive hot-water tank jackets. Most of us have a grandma who will leap at the opportunity to knit one with a bobble on the top. Collect rainwater from one of your down pipes in a butt. You will be making a valuable contribution into the ongoing battle against malaria and the life cycle of the anopheles mosquito.

Welcome to the forum mate, congrats on passing test, i only did mine 3 years ago, Andy has some very valid points there, it is not like the days when we all got mopeds then went on to bigger bikes a sudden jump onto a powerful machine trying to keep up wiith others can lead to disaster, but an experienced rider who understands you situation and i prepared to take there time and help you learn can be a good help. i read the Ewan Macgregor /Charlie Boorman book about going around the world and one of them was invited to trackday type thing with the bike press at one stage, thinking oh what a privelege and had been practising knee downs etc around the local roundabouts and tearing up and down the roads, He turned up with all signing dancing bike that he owned thinking this will be easy to keep up with a few journalists, they all left him for dead on the first corner, and he was floundering around the track like and amateur until one of them took him under his wing for a few laps and showed him how Merv

posted by one of the girls on south west bikers forum To My Dear Wife, You will surely understand that I have certain needs that you, being 54 years old, can no longer satisfy. I am very happy with you and I value you as a good wife. Therefore, after reading this letter, I hope that you will not wrongly interpret the fact that I will be spending the evening with my 18 year old secretary at the Comfort Inn Hotel. Please don't be upset - I shall be home before midnight. When the man came home late that night, he found the following letter on the dining room table: My Dear Husband, I received your letter and thank you for your honesty about my being 54 years old. I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that you are also 54 years old. As you know, I am a maths teacher at our local college. I would like to inform you that while you read this, I will be at the Hotel Fiesta with Michael, one of my students, who is also the assistant tennis coach. He is young, virile, and like your secretary, is 18 years old. As a successful businessman who has an excellent knowledge of Maths, you will understand that we are in the same situation, although with one small difference . . . . . . . . - 18 goes into 54 a lot more times than 54 goes into 18! Therefore, I will not be home until sometime tomorrow.

your nay the first one to ask that beezy i am from the other end of the country Merv

you lot will be buying suzukis next Lauras poxy GN 250 thing has one of them, oh and suppose you have electric starters as well Merv

A man walks into a drug store with his 8-year old son. They happen to walk by the condom display, and the boy asks,"What are these, Dad? To which the man matter-of-factly replies, "Those are called condoms, son. Men use them to have safe sex." "Oh I see," replied the boy pensively. "Yes, I've heard of that in health class at school." He looks over the display and picks up a package of 3 and asks, "Why are there 3 in this package? " The dad replies,"Those are for high school boys, ONE for Friday, ONE for Saturday, and ONE for Sunday." "Cool" says the boy. He notices a 6 pack and asks, "Then who are these for?" "Those are for university lads," the dad answers, TWO for Friday, TWO for Saturday, and TWO for Sunday." "WOW!" exclaimed the boy, "then who uses THESE?" he asks, picking up a 12 pack! With a sigh and a tear in his eye, the dad replied, "Those are for the married men. ONE for January, ONE for February, ONE for March....." _________________

Looks like a good way to save money on air freshener that one merv

I just uploaded some manuals and the guy asked if there were any links to put on so i got one for this site and the rd forums as well Merv

yes lets see the pics mozzy Merv

it,s me merv

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTT they say here life begins at 40 that makes you 4 mate have a good day Merv

useful site Pete if anyone wants the aircooled RD manuals andparts list i have a Cd with most of the european lists on as well as an YR5 parts list and a 4lo one merv

Good News Al nice to hear from you mate Merv

Maybe a bit of heat from a blow lamp around the outside of the stud would help but be very careful that you do not set the thing on fire. merv

Well i was in Eemshaven in holland at the weekend, there was a road race meeting on there unfortunately no time to stop and watch though, only got the road tax for the truck until saturday night, which meant i had to be out belguim by midnight on saturday and only finished loading on saturday mid afternoon, I did phone Matt (yamahafreak) on the Rd forum to see if he was there but he did not know it was happening either. Oh and if you wanna interesting read try Just Joey, a bio of Joey dunlop who spent a lot of his life road racing in ireland as well as winning more isle of man tts than you can shake a stick at merv

Try gear changing full stop with or without the clutch on an ERF truck with 8 speed crash box (no syncro) drove one a few years ago takes a bit of geting used too double declutch etc merv

wots a bws got rd ones and xt660 but no bws merv

Like Andy never saw the man in the flesh but his riding was a legend, there was another guy from finland( i think they came from) at the time called Tepi Lansivouri (ifmy memory is working right) what happened to him i wonder, Merv

to the left of the picture you see the traditional front paddock stand and in the centre the latest design.

merv

trawling the gusset of the internet, dont need to the inmates of the backyard on the lc forum do it for me and sometimes south west bikers forum members. merv

> A Texas Chilli Contest - **Note: Please take time to read this slowly. > > > > If you pay attention to the first two judges, the reaction of the > > third judge is even better. For those of you who have lived in > > Texas, you know how true this is. They actually have a Chilli > > Cook-off about the time Halloween comes around. It takes up a major > > portion of the parking lot at the city park. > > > > The notes are from an inexperienced Chilli taster named Frank, who > > was visiting from Canada. Frank: "Recently, I was honoured to be > > selected as a judge at a chilli cook-off. The original person called > > in sick at the last moment and I happened to be standing there at > > the judge's table asking for directions to the Coors Light truck, > > when the call came in. I was assured by the other two judges (Native > > Texans) that the chilli wouldn't be all that spicy and, besides, > > they told me I could have free beer during the tasting, so I > > accepted". > > > > Here are the scorecards from the advent: (Frank is Judge #3) > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Chilli # 1 Mike's Maniac Mobster Monster Chilli > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Judge # 1 -- A little too heavy on the tomato. Amusing kick. Judge # > > 2 -- Nice, smooth tomato flavour. Very mild. Judge # 3 -- (Frank) > > Holy sh!t, what the hell is this stuff? You could remove dried paint > > from your driveway. Took me two beers to put the flames out. I hope > > that's the worst one. These Texans are crazy. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Chilli # 2 Arthur's Afterburner Chilli > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Judge # 1 -- Smoky, with a hint of > > pork. Slight jalapeno tang. Judge # 2 -- Exciting BBQ flavour, needs > > more peppers to be taken seriously. > > Judge # 3 -- Keep this out of the reach of children. I'm not sure what > > I'm supposed to taste besides pain. I had to wave off two people who > > wanted to give me the Heimlich manoeuvre. They had to rush in more beer > > when they saw the look on my face. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Chilli # 3 Fred's Famous Burn Down the Barn Chilli > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Judge # 1 -- Excellent firehouse chilli. Great kick. Needs more > > beans. Judge # 2 -- A beanless chilli, a bit salty, good use of > > peppers. Judge # 3 -- Call the EPA. I've located a uranium spill. My > > nose feels like I have been snorting Drano. Everyone knows the > > routine by now. Get me more beer before I ignite. Barmaid pounded me > > on the back, now my backbone is in the front part of my chest. I'm > > getting sh!t- faced from all of the beer. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Chilli # 4 Bubba's Black Magic ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Judge # 1 -- Black bean chilli with almost no spice. Disappointing. > > Judge # 2 -- Hint of lime in the black beans. Good side dish for > > fish or other mild foods, not much of a chilli.. Judge # 3 -- I felt > > something scraping across my tongue, but was unable to taste it. Is > > it possible to burn out taste buds?Sally, the barmaid, was standing > > behind me with fresh refills. That 300-lb [witch] is starting to look > > HOT...just like this nuclear waste I'm eating! Is chilli an > > aphrodisiac? > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Chilli # 5 Linda's Legal Lip Remover > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Judge # 1 -- Meaty, strong chilli. Cayenne peppers freshly ground, > > adding considerable kick. Very impressive. Judge # 2 -- Chilli using > > shredded beef, could use more tomato. Must admit the cayenne peppers > > make a strong statement. Judge # 3 -- My ears are ringing, sweat is > > pouring off my forehead and I can no longer focus my eyes. I farted > > and four people behind me needed paramedics. The contestant seemed > > offended when I told her that her chilli had given me brain damage. > > Sally saved my tongue from bleeding by pouring beer directly on it > > from the pitcher. I wonder if I'm burning my lips off. It really > > p!sses me off that the other judges asked me to stop screaming. > > Screw those rednecks. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Chilli # 6 Vera's Very Vegetarian Variety > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Judge # 1 -- Thin yet bold vegetarian variety chilli. Good balance > > of spices and peppers. Judge # 2 -- The best yet. Aggressive use of > > peppers, onions, and garlic. Superb. > > Judge # 3 -- My intestines are now a straight pipe filled with gaseous, > > sulphuric flames. I sh!t myself when I farted and I'm worried it will > > eat through the chair. No one seems inclined to stand behind me except > > that Sally. She must be kinkier than I thought. Can't feel my lips > > anymore. I need to wipe my ars@ with a snow cone. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Chilli # 7 Susan's Screaming Sensation Chilli > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Judge # 1 -- A mediocre chilli with too much reliance on canned > > peppers. Judge # 2 -- Ho hum, tastes as if the chef literally threw > > in a can of chilli peppers at the last moment. **I should take note > > that I am worried about Judge #3. He appears to be in a bit of > > distress as he is cursing uncontrollably. Judge # 3 -- You could put > > a grenade in my mouth, pull the pin, and I wouldn't feel a thing. > > I've lost sight in one eye, and the world sounds like it is made of > > rushing water. My shirt is covered with chilli which slid unnoticed > > out of my mouth. My pants are full of lava like sh!t to match my > > shirt. At least during the autopsy, they'll know what killed me. > > I've decided to stop breathing, it's too painful. Screw it; I'm not > > getting any oxygen anyway. If I need air, I'll just suck it in > > through the 4-inch hole in my stomach. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Chilli # 8 Tommy's Toe-Nail Curling Chilli > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Judge # 1 -- The perfect ending, this is a nice blend chilli. Not > > too bold but spicy enough to declare its existence. Judge # 2 -- > > This final entry is a good, balance chilli. Neither mild nor > > hot.Sorry to see that most of it was lost when Judge #3 farted, > > passed out, fell over and pulled the chilli pot down on top of > > himself. Not sure if he's going to make it. Poor fella, wonder how > > he'd have reacted to really hot chilli