I think I've got MIIS

Whilst I take your point, Dan - and the wry, tongue-in-cheek,
self-deprecating delivery ... you're not in the right place
*at the back*.

If you want to obs lines, join a /good/ IAM group, or do the RoSPA
course ... or get yourself to nearly the front of the middle group on
a big 'FOT. TB brutally frank, you'll learn fuckall at the back of
the 'slow' group. They are slow because they don't GAF about riding
quickly, taking the best (or any) lines, overtaking properly or in
fact, riding much at all.

At the risk of having my arse singed, your best way forward is (for
example, and IME) a Bear observed ride. Or come to that, an obs'd
ride by any experienced rider who can put the point across without
making you feel like a piece of slow shit - and Bear can do that.

But really - you'll learn sweet FA sitting at the back of a slow
group, man. You need to watch riders that have at least clues 1 and 2
about what they're doing - and they will not be sitting at the back of
the stragglers (unless it's SimonK running in yet another cutting-edge
sportsbike on brand-new tyres) ...

 

Sound words rarely followed - and just as well: where's the fucking
vitriol going to come from otherwise, FFS?

 

Beige, innit.

Beige, with magnolia highlights.

 

Fucking bollocks. She'll hate every living fucking second doing the
Grand Canyon and Las Vegas ... the stoodent ****.

You go for it, man. The foundation course *will* be tough, but the
first year of the degree wil be easy in comparison: plus you'll love
the attitude of the lecturers to 'mature' stoodents.

Get in there hard - work like ****, get some good grades, get yourself
noticed as a hard worker - then when you need it, the lecturers will
look after you. DO IT.

 

Likewise, I had a 20 year break between leaving school and entering
further education. The Access course I did really prepared me well for
what would be expected at uni.

The LEA here were very good (if a little slow). All I can recommend
is getting the forms in at the earliest opportunity, as they will
invariably have a backlog by the cut-off date around July (I think).

Should be good ... We'll be visiting the Grand Canyon, Monument
Valley, Mount Zion National Park and jumping on a bit of the San
Andreas Fault. If it all goes off, I'm blaming Bear!

If you can do a year in industry would imagine it will be a marvellous
boost to your final year and subsequent employment potential.

All the best.

--
Elly - a tired Pixie
ZX9R-E1 - 'The bike made me do it!'
Spike - FZ400 - firing on 3 cylinders
MRO#32 ibW#25 BoTAFOT#46 BoTAFOF #46 GP#1 UKRMRM#00 TWA#3
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"Angel in the kitchen ... "
elly at garagepixies dot co dot uk

 

Pip emerged from their own little world to say

Just as I'm about to finish, my lot are just sorting exchange deals with
California Universities, the cunts.

Only Bath wanted me to do a foundation course. I told them to **** off.

My 1st year wasn't easy as I did not do the Foundation Course. I had to
change my mindset from writing technical documents.

The point about lecturers having a positive attitude to mature students
is valid though. I found in the first semester that during group
tutorials it was rare for someone other than the tutor or mature
student(s) to speak.

They certainly do. I have the Deputy Director of my School and various
others supporting my application for Research Council funding for a 1+3
PhD. My income will be peanuts for another 4 years but it beats working.

 

**** no. "Pearl Burnish Beige".

 

You *can* polish a (pale) turd.

 

I'll see that and raise you "Getting too old to be arsed" ... but the
little silly fucking things still slip under your skin, and you react
before you can shut it down. I'm *so* much more laid-back with big
shit these days (more and bigger than I could have imagined a few
years ago) and yet it is the stupid little things that make me bite.

**** knows, is the real answer.

 

I dunno, actually. Do you?

GAF. It's troo and Elly would say so too if the idle, lurgified bint
hadn't turned in already.

 

It certainly seems to have fucked any context, that's for sure.

If you ever had a sigsep, that's fucked off too.

 

Riding through red lights on pavements pissed as a fart at night with
no lights, insurance or licence is a shitty job, but someone's got to
do it.

All you boring c***s seem to ever do is try to take corners too fast
and end up in a hedge/drystone wall/coffin. Where's the fun in that?

James

 

We'll have not of that jumping on the fault, bit! I'm on the other end
of it.

--
Mike

SV650
UKRMMA#22
Skype: muddycat

 

something >> > you see every day. Odd, having the road surface rise
perpendicular in >> > front of you. And that sort of made up for it.

"John Wayne's last role, as a dying gunfighter spending his last days
looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of
dignity."

I don't think there are any London buses in that.[/QUOTE]

He decided to take a job as a clippy on the number 42 - and gets
stabbed in a row over a return to Islington Angel.

 

I agree, a Bear ride is well worth it.

BikeSafe (see other thread running atm) is also a very good 'course'
if you just want hints and tips from people who know.

 

Well worth how much? You'd have to buy him a fucking bike, for starters...

There's one on in Cheltenham in a couple of weeks, I may take a trundle up.

 

It needs fixing. The needle's been stuck there for weeks ;-)

Tony

 

Oi - I make an effort on best lines and somehow still end up somewhere near
the back...

Alternatively a weekend trundling round Wales with Dave C would work...

Does he do any other kind of riding?

 

In my case it's very very black - so you'd probably like it.

 

he does "fannying around on an underpowered supermoto" too.