Waving - the neverending saga (multiple threads merged into one)

[Ixion]

That was so, like, yesterday. It's Septemeber now, waves issued for august are no longer valid, you'll all have to rewave.

[petesmeats]

I just figured out why cruiser riders don't wave... They are all gay and have aids.

I also just figured out why sportsbike riders don't wave... They are all gay and have aids.

I also was thinking about why people on tourers ALWAYS wave... They aren't gay... They just have aids and they are generally happy people as well.





























































Oh yeah your all gay and have aids (except for the happy people on sports tourers or just normal tourers cos you guys just have aids and are not gay.)


I hope this helps all you guys who were disturbed at the lack of waves.
Respect
Pete the meat

[Oakie]

Does it mention Waving?

"Err... no..."

Well its hardly a replacement then is it?

"N-no, I guess not. (gets ashamed, looks at feet)"

"Well?"

pause

(Quietly) "D'you want to come back to my place?"

[gijoe1313]

And now for something completely different....

[petesmeats]

my mum didn't wave this morning.
Gonna go cry in the corner now

She waved at me last night...

[Lord Derosso]

So does the SPRING wave look like this ?

Or like this ??

Or perhaps more like this ??

Depending on whats going by it could even be this.

But next time its that lady in the flash BMW 4 wheeler that tried to wipe me out a few weeks ago, its going to be this.

Have you actually seen how many 'waving' smilies we have on this site. Waves must have some true purpose after all.

[petesmeats]

I'm actually starting to think that there should be a ban on waving threads. In fact a blanket ban on all acknowledgement threads should be implimented...


Could people post here if they want to see the end of all waving threads please. Sort of like a petition for the sanity of all kber's.


I was thinking that the punishment should be that the culprit has to choose one of the following:

- Prison (without trial)
- Tazering for twenty seconds (4 x 5 second stints in public)
- Riding in the next gay pride parade.
- Doing some business with Taito Phillip fields.
- Taking a driving job in the middle east

I know that the first option and the fourth option are similar but...
and also that the last option is basically choosing death but...

[Lord Derosso]

Well I personally think this has been a lot of fun and it sure beats those other threads on members canning out , fatal accidents and whos more gay because of what they ride. I vote that censorship should not exist on this forum hence we may as well all become caged beasties and give up beer and women, or men ladies sorry,and gayist waves.

Hence why such threads are soooooo important to making sure true men wave truely like men. Not sure how the ladies are effected but its unlikely they can be thought of as gay at anytime they are in their nice gears. Though it can be a bit hard to tell riders sex at an approaching speed of 200+ kph.

[Ixion]

Well, lesse. Today on my wee pootle I waved to

A CBR250 (he waved back)
A Rocket3 (he waved first )
An Ambo. He waved back
A XTnnn Yamaha with a baby on the back. She (presumed she) waved back
A dozen or more assorted sprotsbikes. Most waved back (or nodded etc)
A Firebladey thing . (dunno if he waved )
A crusier thing. Ditto
Another half dozen Harley things. One waved back
2 horses and riders. They waved back
An old lady gardening (she waved back)

BTW , you would be ASTONISHED at how many grey and white haired old ladies have fond (and often lascivious) memories of time spent on the back of anceint Briddish 500s and 650s many a year ago, and accordingly a soft spot for bikers. Old ladies in my experience are very pro-biker

Several lots of kids in the backs of cars. All of whom waved with gusto
A bikie cop. He didn't wave back Snob
Seveal trial bike riders. None of them waved back Snobs
One rooster (wild, on th eside of Old North Rd) . Cos I felt like it. He didn't wave back
Assorted cages who were kind enough to pull left and let me through.

So, what does all that amount to?

[Lord Derosso]

You are right re the older ladies. I am amazed at how many of the middle aged ladies in my office have done bike tours with boyfriends when younger. I also have heard that in the 50's and 60's bikes were a cheap first MV so young men dating often took their lady friends out on them and they too got hooked on them. Couldn't have been too comfortable though and I bet they soon begged for cars, but they do retain the memories of their younger days and associate this with bikers today I suppose.

[scracha]

You are right re the older ladies. I am amazed at how many of the middle aged ladies in my office have done bike tours with boyfriends when younger. I also have heard that in the 50's and 60's bikes were a cheap first MV so young men dating often took their lady friends out on them and they too got hooked on them. Couldn't have been too co

Chicks digged bikes back then too you know! I never realised this till I got my FZ400. Visited grandparents and before I got off the bike my grandfather (was out digging the garden) said "let's have a wee shot". Lent him my helmet and I expected him to pootle up the street and back in first gear. Fark me, he mustuv revved it up to about 12 grand, dropped the clutch and LAUNCHED it. Heard him CANING it through the gears before he was out of ear-shot. I was $hitting myself. He was in his 70's and hadn't ridden for about 40 years. Came back after about 15 minutes, cool as a cucumber, "aye that's a nice wee bike" and then informed me about all the places he'd been to on bikes with my grandmother.

Sometimes he'd ask me to rev the tits off it to annoy the neighbours.

[Swoop]

Righto...
Decided to conduct a very scientific test of the wavy/noddy thing today, and waved at everything on 2 wheels with a motor under the bum...
Research PROVES (absolutely anything that a statistician wants it to prove):
1. Waving/nodding at scooters = NO response AT ALL.
2. Waving/nodding at GN250's = NO response AT ALL.
3. Waving/nodding at cruisers = 2 happy waves... from pillions!
4. Waving/nodding at adventure/trail type bikes = 2 VERY happy responses!!!
5. Waving/nodding at sportbikes = ALL very fast positive responses!
6. Waving at 6 patched Headhunters going north this afternoon (will put them in the cruiser category anyway...) = NO response.

Whoa! I am seeing a trend here...

I think there could be a new thread starting soon... (just kidding folks...)


This pointless post brought to you by the letter "B" and the number "3".

[McJim]

I can't work out what bits are off topic any more....was this not a Pythonesque thread for a while there? That was funny...who knows how to write "Cruisers,GN250s and Scooters who don't wave go home....in Latin?"

I don't give a flying squirrels piece of flatulence whether people wave back or not any way - I nod (if I'm going too fast to wave) or wave at most 2 wheeled denizens. On the motorway sometimes you don't notice the guys in the oncoming lane until they're past so I don't generally bother but out in the countryside and around town usually a friendly gesture of some sort.

[gijoe1313]

Eventually once I've become a jaded, cynical and expert tosser on a bike - I'll perfect a standing up on the seat and do a Michael Jackson twist and finger snap wave. While doing a ton (in ye olde English mph). And if the buggers don't wave back, I'll do a U-turn and do a wheelie past the bastiches and then drop a specially made bum-flap on my riding britches ... then I'll hit the flamethrower switch which dumps fuel into the exhaust so it'll smoke the bejeezus out of those non-waving bastiches!

And now, just for Big Jim Mc Jim Jimmy Jim Jim of Jimmy Jim Jim

Something completely different...

The Players:
Eric Idle - First Announcer;
Michael Palin - Dr Karl Gruber;
John Cleese - Assistant;
Carol Cleveland - Lady in Restaurant;
Graham Chapman - Second Announcer;
John Cleese - Alan Hutchinson;
The Scene:
Soft introduction music plays...
FIRST ANNOUNCER:
Are you embarrassed easily? I am. But it's nothing to worry about; it's all part of growing up and being British. This course is designed to eliminate embarrassment, to enable you to talk freely about rude objects, to look at awkward and embarrassing things and to point at people's privates. The course has been designed by Dr Karl Gruber of the Institute of Going a Bit Red in Helsinki. Here he himself introduces the course.
DR KARL GRUBER:
Hello! My name is Karl Gruber. Thank you for inviting me into your home. My method is the result of six years work here at the institute in which subjects were exposed to simulated embarrassment predicaments over a prolonged fart - PERIOD! - TIME!! [farts] Sorry.
Lesson one: Words. Do any of these words [farts] embarrass you?
ASSISTANT:
"Shoe" ..... "Megaphone" ..... "Grunties".
DR KARL GRUBER:
Now let's go on to something ruder.
ASSISTANT:
"Wankel Rotary Engine".
DR KARL GRUBER:
Now lesson two: noises. Noises are a major embarrassment source. Even words like "tits", "winkle" and "vibraphone" cannot rival the embarrassment potential of sounds. Listen to this if you can:

[embarrassing noise]
DR KARL GRUBER:
How do you rate your embarrassment response? (a) High (b) Hello (c) Good evening.
If (c), you are loosening up and will soon be ready for this:

[embarrassing noise]
DR KARL GRUBER:
Well, how did you rate? (a) Embarrassed (b) Hello (c) Good evening.
Now lesson three, in which these rude and dirty sounds are combined with smutty visual suggestions into an embarrassment simulation situation [fart]. You are the waiter at this table:
LADY IN RESTAURANT:
[Charles, I've got something to show you ..... embarrassing noise]
DR KARL GRUBER:
Score (5) for no embarrassment, score (3) for slight embarrassment, and (1) for .....
SECOND ANNOUNCER:
Good evening. A Book at Bedtime.
Alan Hutchinson reads another extract from a series of bedside books.
ALAN HUTCHINSON:
Number 32. The lady lies with her left leg planted firmly on the ground and the right hand waiting. The gentleman with the melon switches on the battery and places his left thigh on the edge of the swivel table, keeping the neck of the .....

(fades out to music)

[Dooly]

On a Quick blast yesterday I saw 3 bikers, 1 cruiser, 2 sport/tourers, all of them waved to me first.

100% waving percentage.
It was almost a religious experience.