Right you lot...

I see what Tallbloke means about 'legpulls'. Moosehead here is
displaying what I assume is the northern "height of wit" again. Christ,
he's clever with ASCII.

Oh, and he's also good at spieling out cliches about smoking. He's done
the beer drinking and pissing on people recently, guess he'll do the "I
don't mind if you smoke if you don't complain when I fart" next.

My, how the winter evening's must fly by.

 

Scan in your documents proving you own an R1, otherwise kindly shut the ****
up about who can prove what.

Christ Des, I used to find you vaguely amusing but you're really starting to
get on my tits these days. Back up your assertions with more than a
French-English dictionary or *please* just keep your trap shut in future.

 

Well in your case it's correct anyway.

Everyone knows you're wrong about the Fora issue; you included. Forums
may be more elegant but that wasn't the issue as well you know.

 

spouted the following in

Deadmail here is trying to escalate from the personal attack to the Norf/
Sarf insult in the hope of drawing in supporting como-verbiage.

3/10 for subtlety

 

My old Guzza is older than all these bikes.
It also has twice as many miles on as all of them put together.

In the time I have owned it I have had one electrical breakdown. A 20
year old coil failed, and I wasn't carrying a spare.

It was the one occasion when I was glad to see a large yellow AA vehicle
turn up to cart us off the motorway.

Snarf and snigger as much as you like about shite old bikes. If you know
how to treat 'em, they keep you smiling through the miles.

 

I wasn't doing any such thing (and, if I may say so, that was a Des-esque
swerve away from the point).

I was saying to you that your snarfing and sniggering about Japanese
motorcycles is stupid.

 

You're right that there was a personal attack on Moosehead for the
stupid anti-smoking comments that he made; he went a long-way down in my
estimation then. Not that I suspect that'll make one jot of difference
to him in the same way that I couldn't give a **** about his (or your)
view of me.

And subtlety when I'm attacking people isn't something I aim for so the
3/10 mark is fair enough.

But... looking for support? No, you're off-mark there. I was escalating
the aggravation in the thread but not in an attempt to get others to
support me. I'm happy to argue on my own.

 

spouted the following in

Is this an argument about Latin?

Coo, how interesting, [1]



The long dark winter evenings etc.

[1] Not

 

You know, sometimes I worry about you.

 

I'd happily accept that certain shite-old-bikes keep going and that if
anything they get more reliable as they get older... (well that's true
if you keep on top of the bits that go wrong slowly).

But serious question, would you normally carry a spare coil?

 

No, it's an argument about lying.

I wouldn't argue about Latin since I know nothing about it.

How very amusing!

 

<bzzt> synonym, single word type thing, not a phrase

 

spouted the following in

Thats us getting older with them!

Well I have done on longer trips since then.

 

*cough* I should have said "I'm happy to argue with any number of people
unaided" but I suppose the statement(s) you've picked out prolly aren't
that out of line...

 

As was your snipping of the actual substance of my reply.

But hey, dissing people on usenet is too easy isn't it?

 

Heavens! you're brave correcting the French Professor like that.
Language is 'his thing', don't you know?

 

Maybe... I've not owned a bike I've used greatly for more than a couple
of years so I wouldn't really know.

I was stopped at the scene of an accident where the road was blocked and
went to the head of a queue to join another bike (Kawasaki Z1100) it was
his line that "in his experience bikes got more reliable as they got
older".

Hmm... I've not gone that far. I'm hoping I'll get a warning as the
coil dies... does the Guzzi only have one coil shared for both
cylinders?

 

What, that your Guzzi hasn't let you down?

*You* started this sub-thread with a snide "joke" (as you later claimed)
about Japanese electrics. Don't you remember?

 

wrote in

Couldn't resist. I used to make a habit of picking on him, especially
over on rec.travel.europe. Gave that up when the Republican
fundamentalists descended after 9-11 to have a go at the "cheese eating
surrender monkeys" as some would call the French. Class of insult
directed at Des reduced somewhat [1].

On here, I seem to have a fairly neutral attitude towards him. I've even
been helpful when he has made a request for information.

[1] for an indication of the intellectual level of the post 9-11 Merkin
contributor to r.t.e have a look at BBC2 now where L Theroux is
interviewing neo Nazis in the US.

 

Some do. Some don't.