Reasons to be cheerful

**Ocean1** · 28th June 2016, 09:41

Originally Posted by Voltaire

Norway #1.... my memory of Norway is expensive everything and I was earning pounds.
I was there is the Summer and it was snowing as we rode over the Arctic Circle....the things you do when you are young

In the 80's? They were deep into the fallout from a couple of decades of tax and spend about then, they seemed to have moved back to a more functional policy when I last looked, about the turn of the century.

A friend emigrated here largely because of their wee extreme socialist experiment of the time. Went back to catch up with family a decade ago and couldn't believe the improvement.

Married a kiwi, which probably qualifies as his "thing you do when you're young".

**Ocean1** · 3rd July 2016, 09:29

Nice to see the industry doing well...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/8159...ific-aerospace

**ellipsis** · 3rd July 2016, 10:59

Originally Posted by Voltaire

Norway #1.... my memory of Norway is expensive everything and I was earning pounds.
....the things you do when you are young

......my crew had to be flown to Stavanger in the early 80's 'cos we couldn't get back to Scotland, big ice and snow etc...bought a bottle of scotch, 100+ pound...ouch...things you do when you are young and dumb...

**MIXONE** · 3rd July 2016, 12:54

It's a beautiful day and I'm going for a ride.

**Blackbird** · 3rd July 2016, 12:57

44th wedding anniversary - heading for Fiji tomorrow

..... and I was a biker when I met my wife so she knew what she was getting into

**old slider** · 3rd July 2016, 13:18

Originally Posted by Blackbird

44th wedding anniversary - heading for Fiji tomorrow

..... and I was a biker when I met my wife so she knew what she was getting into

Congratulations Blackbird and partner, Our generation appear to be stayers or maybe just not give in easily when things get a bit tough, I have been with my gal since 1973.

Hey Mixone, I thought the same, started off Ok down here, but then the rain came.

**Blackbird** · 3rd July 2016, 13:32

Originally Posted by old slider

Congratulations Blackbird and partner, Our generation appear to be stayers or maybe just not give in easily when things get a bit tough, I have been with my gal since 1973.

Thanks Old Slider and congrats to you too. The only visible mark on me is her thumbprint on my forehead

. She's still the best pillion I've ever had on any of my bikes. She drew the line on coming on the back of my Street Triple as it would have crippled her and ditto for the current GSX-S 1000. I'm quite happy about that arrangement

**old slider** · 3rd July 2016, 13:46

Originally Posted by Blackbird

Thanks Old Slider and congrats to you too. The only visible mark on me is her thumbprint on my forehead

. She's still the best pillion I've ever had on any of my bikes. She drew the line on coming on the back of my Street Triple as it would have crippled her and ditto for the current GSX-S 1000. I'm quite happy about that arrangement

I envy you, my girl swore (in several ways) that she would never get on the back of a bike again after a tortuous trip from Wanganui to Wellington on the TS 250, pouring rain, extremely cold etc, that was in 1976, lol. some how managed to do the same when she asked to come hunting, took her into some really steep papa type country, wet and slippery, she never asked to come hunting again.

**carbonhed** · 12th July 2016, 09:42

This surprised me. Somewhat against the run of relentless health hysteria.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/up...line.html?_r=0

**puddytat** · 12th July 2016, 20:24

Im really fucking cheerful that Im not living in the cluster fuck that is the U S of A....& actually Im very cheerful about not living anywhere other than here.
We are blessed people.
We should keep that in mind at all times.

Carry on.....

**carbonhed** · 12th July 2016, 21:09

Originally Posted by puddytat

Im really fucking cheerful that Im not living in the cluster fuck that is the U S of A....& actually Im very cheerful about not living anywhere other than here.
We are blessed people.
We should keep that in mind at all times.

Carry on.....

Agree absolutely. No matter where I travel it's always brilliant to come home.

**mada** · 16th July 2016, 12:14

Everyday turning on the news - how lucky we are down here regardless of the things we moan about.

**Grumph** · 16th July 2016, 13:04

Frost's gone, finished another motor, sitting in the sun lunching...and the chap who boards around the corner fires his 3C Laverda up and takes it for a blat around the village...
Great soundtrack.

**Akzle** · 16th July 2016, 19:21

not fucken azns.
seriously. bad joke.

how many chinks does it take to send a nigga a fucken phone?
fuck knows, it isnt here yet.
internet banking my fucken arse. fucken jew chink cunts.

**husaberg** · 16th July 2016, 20:24

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