Those were the days

[Oscar]

This alll sounds like you guys liked it better then than now? Your generation are still running the country and have all the money why don't you guys change it back a bit ae? why did you all go gay and ruin my time cheers!

on a brighter note i know it wasn't you here in the forum as your whining about it, but your accountant mate and feminist friend, you should have bucked their ideas up when they started going down those roads.

If we have all the money (and the spelling and grammar, if you're anything to go by), it's because we worked for it.

So stop pissing about on the Internet, cut a haircut, and get a real job.

Sheesh - kids these days....

[Oscar]

A couple of comments in another thread got me thinking.

I put my trusty Line 7 suit on and hit the road. Now I worked at Greenland Hospital and was heading out to Howick.

The Line 7 Suit....


I used to work in the same building as ACC in the days when they were the Motorcyclists friend. Crap of yer bike, get a chit from the Doc, and turn up to ACC with yer scratched helmet and busted up riding gear and they pay.

And when they'd paid, they dumped it at the back door of the office to wait for the bin man.

So one day, leaving by the back door (where I parked my trusty DT250D), I noticed a new addition to the pile of dinged up helmets and ripped riding gear - a red Line 7 suit with a slight rip in the knee, in my size!

Just the thing fer trail riding me thinks, so I half inch it and take it with me on our next trip to Maramarua.

After about 10 minutes in the forest I discover that it's more yer portable sauna than it is off road riding gear, so I abandon it and pick it up later on the way to the pub.

After a couple of jars in the Red Fox, we head back to the Farm Cottage where we were staying. I tie the arms of the Line 7 suit around my waist, and ride the 4 or 5 k's back with the legs flapping in the breeze behind me. Arriving at the farm, I hop off the DT to shut the gate and then jump back on,giving it the berries as if I don't get back up to the Cottage, those bastids will drink all the beer.

At this point, I figure that my appendix has suddenly,violently and painfully burst. For I am seized with an incredible pain in my neither regions, but I'm also being inexplicably dragged backwards....as I exit my bike over the back wheel, I'm also making things worse by opening the throttle in an effort to maintain my grip. The DT does a kind of on the spot wheelstand and then falls over as I finally give up and let go...

I find myself on my back, laying across the rear wheel, tied to my bike by the Line 7 suit which is now wrapped several times around the rear sprocket and tangled in the chain...

[Spyke]

If we have all the money (and the spelling and grammar, if you're anything to go by), it's because we worked for it.

So stop pissing about on the Internet, cut a haircut, and get a real job.

Sheesh - kids these days....

who needs grammar? 40 hours a week not good enough? Haven't you herd, the internet is the new library and also acts as a second parent gosh.

you do have a point though, when I'm not working and i'm off me lazy asss what can our generation do to make the country stop for a second and look at ourselves to see whats happening. then maybe we can go forward for the good of us as a whole, not some suit wearing mofo.

(Which oldies up for the challenge lol?)

PS i envy all who grew up in the 70's

[Oscar]

who needs grammar? 40 hours a week not good enough? Haven't you herd, the internet is the new library and also acts as a second parent gosh.

you do have a point though, when I'm not working and i'm off me lazy asss what can our generation do to make the country stop for a second and look at ourselves to see whats happening. then maybe we can go forward for the good of us as a whole, not some suit wearing mofo.

(Which oldies up for the challenge lol?)

PS i envy all who grew up in the 70's

Who needs grammar?
Obviously no one in your line of work.


What do you mean "go forward for the good of us as a whole"?

[nadroj]

Things that stick in your memory:
Dipping pens, ink wells & blotting paper (saved from the soap wrapping).
Milk monitor, crossing warden & film warden?
Suzuki 125 stingers, Honda cb360's, Yamaha DS7 250, R5 350 & DT360 trailie.
4 pack of Juicy Fruit = 2d
Ice cream slice with a buzz bar "off the ice"

[SPman]

I remember free school milk. Quite vile unless you were a milk monitor and got it whilst it was still cold
I remember dental nurses and their slow drills at the murder house! Ditto. And school medical inspections.

Aaaah school milk......left in the box in the summer sun until 10 o'clock..................

the smell of regurgitated milk all over the classroom floor............

Dental nurses with their foot operated drills.........

When any bike over 650cc was considered HUGE! Who could handle the massive power of a Vincent Black Shadow.................

[Spyke]

Who needs grammar?
Obviously no one in your line of work.


What do you mean "go forward for the good of us as a whole"?

No I don't need to use much grammar in my line of work, not many of our generation will as we can pass school with out it

New Zealand moving forward as a group, helping each other not just thinking of your self.

I'm no bible basher but one thing I have heard from a few of them is "know thy neighbor". I think we have to bring the community feeling and lifestyle back to NZ.

[madbikeboy]

I find myself on my back, laying across the rear wheel, tied to my bike by the Line 7 suit which is now wrapped several times around the rear sprocket and tangled in the chain...

I'm still chuckling, nice one Fella.

[madbikeboy]

who needs grammar?
PS i envy all who grew up in the 70's

Who needs grammar? Aside from you? It makes it easier for us old folk to decipher your ramblings. Now, where's my reading glasses and hearing aid...

[peasea]

PS i envy all who grew up in the 70's

Erhem! That would be me.
Walls covered in easy Rider, Jimi Hendrix, Doors and Led Zep posters. Mild-mannered pot, good acid, plenty of American V8's to choose from, gas was 47c per gallon (4.5l) and six big bottles of beer was $1.95. You could have yourself a ball for five bucks.

[Pwalo]

When in JB-HiFi on Saturday, I spied a boxed set of Captain Scarlet episodes... The whole lot for $20-

The poxy NZBC never broadcast the lot, or at a time when it was watchable. Roll on a rainy weekend, as the dvd player is getting a hammering!

Line7 gear! Awsome stuff.

Yes indeedy. My son pointed the boxed set out to my wife, and she got it for me. Brilliant stuff. From memory the only problem with Line 7 motorbike stuff was that you got almost as wet on the inside if it was a warm day!

[Swoop]

The Line 7 Suit....
I find myself on my back, laying across the rear wheel, tied to my bike by the Line 7 suit which is now wrapped several times around the rear sprocket and tangled in the chain...

I'm guessing that it was untangled and managed to survive another 20-odd years of service as well...

Yes indeedy. My son pointed the boxed set out to my wife, and she got it for me. Brilliant stuff.

I have enjoyed 3 episodes last night. I laughed when I saw a flat screen tv (at least 40inch screen) in one of the episodes!!!

[R1madness]

We used to get the empty bottles out of the crates at the back of the dairy and take them in to collect our deposit and spend it on lollies.
He never did catch on.

Actually he DID know lol. It was his way of stopping you from shoplifting the lollies.

[Bikemad]

ah yes the 70s................jet boating up the waimack in headmasters old Zepher 6 powered boat..........$25 four finger bags of NZ Green.................gallons of DB Green..........the real Mission Impossible on our first Colour TV..............petrol pumps with the clock face and hands goin round n round to fill up my Morris Oxford for 30 something cents a gallon i think it was............stressing out for School C.............my first shag...........first punch up.........first trouble with the Law.................the good old days eh.........

[Oscar]

I'm guessing that it was untangled and managed to survive another 20-odd years of service as well...

We had to take the wheel out.
I gave it away, it was cursed as far as I was concerned....