Rip-Off UK Fuel Prices

Discussion in 'Classic Motorbikes' started by riccip, Jun 30, 2004.

  1. The Christian nutters are every bit as nasty, violent, bigoted, deluded
    and dangerous as the Islamic nutters, IMHO.
     
    The Older Gentleman, Jul 3, 2004
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    Timo Geusch Guest

    ["Followup-To:" header set to uk.rec.motorcycles.]
    The Older Gentleman was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:
    .... and the Hindu nutters and all the other religious nuts as well.
     
    Timo Geusch, Jul 3, 2004
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  3. sweller wrote
    Out of the mouths of babes....
     
    steve auvache, Jul 3, 2004
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    Eiron Guest

    Here's a good one:

    http://www.geocities.com/evilprogressive
     
    Eiron, Jul 3, 2004
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  5. When I see pages like that, at first I am never quite sure if it's
    satirical or not. Then I realise that there are people who actually
    believe all that crap and that worryingly they're allowed to vote and
    in some cases become president of the us.
     
    Boots Blakeley, Jul 3, 2004
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    sweller Guest

    sweller, Jul 3, 2004
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    Frinton Boy Guest

    ....er yes, exactly.

    and in the 70s home brewing was big, due to the price of
    beer. Therefore should prices be brought upto a comparable
    price today, I would anticipate a lot of people getting back
    into the old home poison...

    Nick
     
    Frinton Boy, Jul 3, 2004
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  8. but that's the point, isn't it, we're not really "in". Perosnally, I'm
    undecided as to whether we'd be better off "in" or "out", but either is
    probably better than being half-way in.
     
    Austin Shackles, Jul 3, 2004
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  9. No, because that was when home brew kits first hit the shops. And when
    the punters realised it tasted foul, they went back to the pubs.

    Beer has never been "expensive".
     
    The Older Gentleman, Jul 3, 2004
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    deadmail Guest

    (The Older Gentleman) wrote in
    It's over 2 quid a pint now FFS.

    Ehhh I remember the days, two pints for a quid.
     
    deadmail, Jul 3, 2004
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    riccip Guest

    It doesn't have to taste bad. The trick is to develop a live
    yeast culture in a bottle before you start, rather than relying
    on pouring in the contents of that silver condom packet. "Boots
    Special Bitter" can be made to replicate Owd Roger using
    shitloads of brown sugar and molasses then double-fermenting next
    to your boiler. You can make great scrumpy-style cider without a
    kit, with cheap apple juice from Aldi and potato peelings. Lager
    generally turns out like piss though.

    riccip
     
    riccip, Jul 4, 2004
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  12. I managed to produce reasonable tasting largers, the secret seemed to
    be to leave them in the bottle for sometime [8 weeks+] rather than to
    try to drink ASAP as with the bitters, stout always went wrong. I also
    never got a good result from using a secondary barrel, bottles were
    far better. I had hundreds of the blasted things at one time, coloured
    dots on the bottles with counterparts on the calendar related to
    drinkable dates. In the end I stopped once I realised that I was
    making 5 gallons every 5 days and drinking 90% myself.
     
    Boots Blakeley, Jul 4, 2004
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  13. I remember the last time I paid 1/11d for a pint, but that has got
    nothing to do with how much money, or a pint, is worth. Think in Mars
    Bars and you can't go wrong ;-)

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    Dave Remove my gerbil for email replies.

    Bike's are bosh, PC's are pointless, and the 2000's were nuts!
    Bikes are great, PCs are super, and the 2000s are the time to be!
    Save the apostrophe! Get 'em right! If in doubt, leave 'em out!!
     
    Dave Swindell, Jul 4, 2004
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  14. Out would be disastrous. Where are our markets now we have broken the
    umbilical trade cord with the Commonwealth? Who will invest in little,
    small-minded Britain when there is all that cheap labour in the EU? It
    may have escaped the Little Englanders' notice, but we haven't got an
    empire to leach off of any more. The only other option will be to
    become the 95th state of the US of A, and mates of mine are even
    advocating that, the fools!

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    Dave Remove my gerbil for email replies.

    Bike's are bosh, PC's are pointless, and the 2000's were nuts!
    Bikes are great, PCs are super, and the 2000s are the time to be!
    Save the apostrophe! Get 'em right! If in doubt, leave 'em out!!
     
    Dave Swindell, Jul 4, 2004
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    riccip Guest

    Nah, nor me. The tap once blew off mine in the night. Wot a mess.
    Placcy ex-pop bottles I presume? They don't explode. :)
    LOL! Same here. Stopped making wine for the same reason. Only
    brew cider now, in winter when the boiler helps it finish nicely.
    Keeps all year round and it's very satisfying to create DIY
    booze. Home-brewers may not earn much street cred but we'd be in
    mega demand in a post-apocalyptic future.

    riccip
     
    riccip, Jul 4, 2004
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  16. We're in, don't doubt it, except for the Euro (more's the pity). It's
    only the loud-mouthed UKIPer idiots who give the impression we're not.
    Actually we could be out any time we want to, like any of the other
    members, try reading the "constitution" and you'll see.

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    Dave Remove my gerbil for email replies.

    Bike's are bosh, PC's are pointless, and the 2000's were nuts!
    Bikes are great, PCs are super, and the 2000s are the time to be!
    Save the apostrophe! Get 'em right! If in doubt, leave 'em out!!
     
    Dave Swindell, Jul 4, 2004
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  17. Never tried that, but the stuff I've done so
    far has all tasted decent...
    I've tried a couple of bitters, and they have all worked, but needed
    leaving for a long time in the secondary barrel. But then all produce
    decent "session" beers.

    The ginger beer I tried was undrinkable piss however.
    Couldn't be faffed with bottles.

    The "old ale" that I did, which was only a 12pint kit, would
    have been better in bottles though.
    heh.
     
    William Grainger, Jul 5, 2004
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    riccip Guest

    Just save up a few 2 litre pop bottles. So long as nobody's
    gozzed in them you don't even have to wash them out.

    riccip
     
    riccip, Jul 5, 2004
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  19. Nope, glass bottles with crown corks - takes longer but the end result
    was imo better.
     
    Boots Blakeley, Jul 6, 2004
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  20. I did try a secondary barrel a few times but it just never tasted
    right and either the beer went flat or off or extra gassy because I
    was injecting gas to keep the pressure up.
     
    Boots Blakeley, Jul 6, 2004
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