[Abarth Mike]

How do you make a Maltese Cross? The answer used to be "Poke him in the eye.

Apparently now it is "Criticise Lewis Hamilton"?

 

[Abarth Mike]

QUOTE my worst grump is charities

May we add to that NGO's.? Who try to "blackmail" large corporations like Kellogs or Nestle or... by claiming that underage children whose parents have no money are helping out working in agriculture to add to the family income, in underdeveloped countries. They do this from the comfort of a nice office in London or New York or.. whilst having a career and a salary and a house and...

For sake of argument let's call them amnesty international.

 

[Abarth Mike]

Just been banned fro Home World Racing. You guys are wimps. I am a GOD.

Oh and my signature on HRW?

Unless your name is GOOGLE, don't assume you know it all

 

[Abarth Mike]

^^ Apologies for the above post.

It was late and untypically I had just come back from the pub!

G.O.I.G.S Grumpy Old Inebriated Gits Society.

 

[Abarth Mike]

Here in Thailand the "optional" lane is the quickest, as passing on the left is legal so for "Hoonigan's" that is the lane of choice. Oh and the shoulder in heavy traffic to make a fifth lane.

 

[Abarth Mike]

Just got an internet speed upgrade but the content is still boring.

Is it me or is the page count messed up in GOGS?

 

[Abarth Mike]

QUOTE (gordonzz @ 9 Jan 2017, 22:57) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I don't own any pyjamas...

QUOTE (StuBeeDoo @ 10 Jan 2017, 04:08) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I don't own pyjamas either.

Me neither. I've only got a silk smoking jacket from Vietnam.

As for crowding in the shower? How many constitutes crowding? I maybe guilty

 

[Abarth Mike]

A zebra went to heaven. When he saw St. Peter he asked him "You know, I have always wondered, am I a white horse with black stripes or a black horse with white stripes?" St. Peter said he would have to ask God that question since he's the one that made him.

So the zebra asked God, "God, am I a white horse with black stripes or a black horse with white stripes?"
God answered, "You are what you are."

The zebra left and came upon St. Peter and told him,
"Well I asked God if I was a white horse with black stripes or a black horse with white stripes..."
"What was the answer," St. Peter asked.

"Well I still don't know. All He said was: 'You are what you are."'

"Well that answers it," Said St. Peter. "You're a white horse with black stripes."

"How do you know that?" asked the zebra.

"Well if you were a black horse with white stripes He would have said: "You is what you is".

 

[Abarth Mike]

Used often in the business world, this incredibly versatile phrase can be literally translated as "feck it."

This is commonly used in American culture as a response of acceptance to something that makes little sense or has little to no validity.

Stuart,

Next time say "Very Interesting" and carry on with the conversation.

 

[Abarth Mike]

Probably just me but "reviews" are getting sloppy. All YouTube and Facebook with no real info. Just pretty pictures, hands rotating a car and car on the track.

I'm still trying to find out the weight of a Ninco Ford Ranger.

 

[Abarth Mike]

And have you read that the NHS is now telling its staff not to refer to pregnant women as "expectant mothers", because it is offensive to trans-gender people?

FFS when was the last time anyone saw a pregnant man or pregnant woman pretending to be a fat man. All the so called offence nonsense has to stop. It will be the death of us all.

 

[Abarth Mike]

^ But I'd bet you'd take the fries if offered.

 

[Abarth Mike]

no I don't want a bag for life (shes outside)

A visitor went to my parent's house one day. Outside the stable-type side door was standing a birch broom.

The visitor asked my father where the broom came from, as he had been looking for one and couldn't find one.

My father replied. "Oh that is my wife's. She asked me for transport of here own, so I bought here one"

 

[Abarth Mike]

wants to stay with us for the weekend (with his Ukrainian girlfriend) because it's cheaper than a hotel in Edinburgh.

If you invited them ? Well. Otherwise it depends on the space. They should either bring a bottle of wine or some flowers. Or ask!

 

[Abarth Mike]

The ducks are more of a problem as they are tough birds and the feathers are hell to get off.

Never don't. But don't you dunk them in hot water? I seem to remember seeing that done once in Malaysia.

 

[Abarth Mike]

In Malaysia they had a drum with rubber fingers in.

 

[Abarth Mike]

Polished concrete of course?

 

[Abarth Mike]

For Valentines my wife told me to go out and get something that makes her look sexy... so I'm going out tonight to get drunk.

 

[Abarth Mike]

That's 3.5x20 in new money.

Personally, I think that metric sizes/measurements are the best thing about being part of Europe.

I am a supposed to be a child of the metric age....

I am also a child of the metric age.

StuBeeDoo. I hate to break it to you but my Zeus Book (Metric revision) is from the very late 60's way before UK officially entered Europe. So UK industry had embraced metrication before that.. I don't think UK entered until about '73 or something and that was only the Common Market.

Whilst screws, like timber, maybe express in numbers that look like metric I suspect they are still made to the old number dimensions and simply "labelled' in metric.

4x2 timber is ? 50 x 100 no it is 47 x 100. 47 hardly sounds like a metric round number does it? Metric pipe threads? check the dimensions!

Gordonzz. You still got 6 x 3/4 just you have to learn to speak modern, not think modern. One will note that "metric" screws only have equivalent for 3,6,8,10,12,14 some are missing!

Oh slot cars? A 0.9mm Allen key is the same as a 0.035 " Allen key

 

[Abarth Mike]

Not grumpy.

Sent an email to NSR. I don't speak/write Italian so I prefaced my email by saying "Sorry for the English"

The polite reply said "Your English is very good"