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Discussion in 'UK Motorcycles' started by Nigel Eaton, Oct 27, 2003.

  1. Nigel Eaton

    Ian Guest

    Ambrose Nankivell must be edykated coz e writed:
    Nor me.
     
    Ian, Oct 30, 2003
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    Hog Guest

    I remember the day he was shot. I was standing in an office with my two
    employers and they were wringing their hand and whimpering on about how the
    world would never be the same. I published my opinion that although he was a
    musical genius he was a complete wanker so far up his own arse he couldn't
    see daylight and if any one of the Beatles had to be shot it was the right
    choice. They both started blubbering inconsolably.

    Both my employers were 30 something men.
     
    Hog, Oct 30, 2003
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    Ginge Guest

    I'm going to do that now.
     
    Ginge, Oct 30, 2003
  4. That'll be why I haven't seen her in any of the Brit-pic films
    recently then. Shame, she was great.

    I think I wanted to be her, after watching Four Weddings.
     
    Power Grainger, Oct 30, 2003
  5. River Phoenix. Fair near broke my heart that. You know, the whole
    realisation that I really was *never* going to star in a film
    alongside him.
     
    Power Grainger, Oct 30, 2003
  6. Nigel Eaton

    Ben Guest

    Nope, I'm the same.

    The only death that has affected me over the last few years was my
    Grandad earlier on this year. One reason for that was because he was
    the one who set me on a two-wheeled path.

    Although I do think it's a bit of a shame when people like David
    Jeffries die. Talented people dying before they've fully exercised
    that potential is always a downer.
     
    Ben, Oct 30, 2003
  7. Nigel Eaton

    Champ Guest

    Cos BS was *the man* when I was a teenager, just getting into bikes
     
    Champ, Oct 30, 2003
  8. Nigel Eaton

    deadmail Guest

    I could relate to this comment. DJ and JD I didn't really give much of
    a **** about. BS made me stop and think, albeit briefly.
     
    deadmail, Oct 30, 2003
  9. Nigel Eaton

    Dave Kahn Guest

    Nor me. The anti-cyclist rant is on the website but you have to go
    looking for it. It's not reached directly from the link that was
    posted.
     
    Dave Kahn, Oct 30, 2003
  10. I was working on a project in southern Germany, High Black Forest. The
    guy conducting the meeting was an up tight, "soul less", I am God and in
    control of everything Brit.

    The phone rings, he ignores it. No one is allowed to interrupt his
    meeting with a phone call.

    Secretary comes in most apologetic and gets an initial bollocking for
    interrupting *his* meeting. She says his wife is on the phone and she
    must speak to him.

    He takes the phone and immediately starts bollocking his wife for
    interrupting him at a meeting, "Nothing but a death is worth that". He
    says.

    He listens goes white sits down with tears filling his eyes.

    "I'm going home now, I wont be in for a while, Bob Marley has just died.
    I'm going home to get *very* drunk."

    And he walked out.

    Now never in my life would I expected this guy to even know who Bob
    Marley was let alone his death have that effect on him.

    He went up in my estimation after that.
     
    Mick Whittingham, Oct 30, 2003
  11. So far only one death has really affected me - my friend Nick. There
    is only one other death that could affect me more - if Cheryl died.

    Other than that I can't think of any.

    Phil
     
    Phil Launchbury, Oct 30, 2003
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    ogden Guest

    I'll be the same when Jenna dies.
     
    ogden, Oct 30, 2003
  13. Trolling? Please!! Irony yes.

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    Dave Swindell, Oct 30, 2003
  14. Nigel Eaton

    Lozzo Guest

    Phil Launchbury wibbled like a little girl....
    I'm sorry, but I've lost so many close friends in car and bike crashes
    over the years, that I know feel almost emotionless when I hear of
    another. They don't affect me like they used to.

    Back in 1988 I was sitting outside my local pub, which was on a
    notoriously bad corner, having a drink with a close friend when we saw a
    young lad called Neil approaching us on an AR50. I knew the lad, he'd
    asked me to derestrict the bike for him, and I hadn't yet done it. A
    Nova pulled out in front of him when he was no more than 10 yards away,
    Neil hit the car in the front corner and sailed over the bonnet hitting
    his head on the windscreen surround at the top. His ill-fitting helmet
    flew off and he hit the deck head first from 30mph. When I saw the blood
    coming from his ears and the damage to the side of his skull. I didn't
    think he wasn't going to make it. As I knelt there holding his hand
    trying to get a response from him, his mother turned up after being
    alerted by friends. As expected she was fairly hysterical, but later
    someone told me that I was totally devoid of any emotion that night, it
    was like I'd seen it all before and it didn't really matter.

    Neil died 2 days later when his life support was switched off. I still
    didn't feel anything.

    I get the emotional kickback sometimes years later, it may be when I
    pass the spot where I saw someone I knew killed, or when a small thing
    triggers something inside me, then I blubb like a little girl. I've
    turned out of the junction that Neil died at thousands of times since
    that day, it's at the end of my mum's road. One day I was taking my then
    7 year old step-daughter home in my van and as I pulled out of the
    junction something snapped and I just burst into tears. I had to pull
    over until I'd composed myself and it took alot of explaining to my
    daughter, whose natural father had been killed in a car crash when she
    was 2. She'd gone into shock afterwards, and she didn't feel or express
    the loss until 2 years later. She just hugged me and gave me that 'I
    know how you feel' look. The fact that it was on the face of a 7 year
    old made me feel even sadder.

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    Lozzo, Oct 30, 2003
  15. So that makes at least *three* people who got it wrong and they were all
    from the cycling not the motorcycling ng.

    There's a lesson there.
     
    The Older Gentleman, Oct 30, 2003
  16. Or at least Sir would have done if the page linked had not been a rant about
    Esther McVey (of whom I have never heard and evidently never want to)
    followed by other ramblings and not a mention of cyclists.
    Of course - when a newly-crossposted (or retitled) thread arises containing
    a link about D-list celebs and the usual Daily Mail bollocks about London
    cycle couriers ending "I think I made my point," everyone's first thought
    is that it is a humorous quote from (presumably) another page on the same
    site. Silly of me not to spot it, really.
     
    Just zis Guy, you know?, Oct 30, 2003
  17. Nigel Eaton

    Simian Guest

    Salad Dodger :
    I think he was being funny, rather than trolling.
     
    Simian, Oct 30, 2003
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    Platypus Guest

    Jarno Saarinen's death got to me. Still does, sort of.

    I was on a bit of a gloomy one the other day, and figured out that
    nearly all the SF writers I'd read had pegged out over the last 20-odd
    years.

    Oh, and I miss Alan Clark, too.

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    Platypus, Oct 30, 2003
  19. Nigel Eaton

    Platypus Guest

    I was impressed by the Grauniad's recent advocacy of Boris Johnson.
    Tony.

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    BOB#1 SBS#35 ANORAK#18 TWA#15
     
    Platypus, Oct 30, 2003
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    Ben Guest

    Aria for me.
     
    Ben, Oct 30, 2003
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