I wish I'd done a runner

**Reckless** · 19th October 2007, 12:25

Originally Posted by vifferman

"So, you waste $340 on fines, and you want to spend $500 on a radar detector as well?!?

Why don't you just slow down!!"
She desperately want to go to Urp next year. Any other expenditure (apart from bling, of course) is taken as personal sabotage of her goals.

Tell her you can't slow down and if you don't have your daily fix of adreniline/speed you'll want sex everyday and be very grumpy if you don't get it. She should look on the detector as an onboard councilor. AND a great investment in gauranteeing that future funds stay in the bank for the trip she so richly deserves for being so wonderful!!!.

oh shit that must have been a Tui moment.

PS just buy it and tell her its Not mine! they must have delivered it to the wrong address and seeing its here you might aswell test it out!

OH shit just sell the bloody bike!!!!

**vifferman** · 19th October 2007, 12:46

Originally Posted by Blackbird

it's your equivalent of bling

"Roll eyes" indeed.
Lessee... bling haul for 2007:
vifferbabe = $6k + (plus some more "+" in the form of some diamond earrings that are currently in the gestation stage...)
Vifferman = $0
Unless you count a new helmet ($480), to replace my poor-fitting, secondhand, crash-tested AGV, or the bike porn currently being manufactured deep in the wilds of Canadia ($1k, including freight)?

It's a mystery to me, and the game commences, for the usual fee, plus expenses...

Sorry... it's a mystery to me how it works. I know for a fact, that if I wanted some 'real' bling, like a diamond-encrusted ring or summat, that we'd be off to the jewellers in a flash. But things that are dear to my heart, like some front suspension work, or a jacket to replace my 7-year-old Teknic, or some new glubs to replace the crappy Dri-Rider ones that I've (pointedly) repaired three times now, it's

.

:spudwhat:

But, on the other hand, I just had luntz with the vifferbabe, and afterwards she did mention having another biking holiday. (As long - of course - that it doesn't eat into the "saving for Urp" thing, or use up too many valuable holiday days that could be squirreled away for the Urpeen vacation.)

**jrandom** · 19th October 2007, 12:49

Originally Posted by vifferman

It's a mystery to me, and the game commences, for the usual fee, plus expenses...

Oddly enough, I am, as I read your post just now, listening to an MP3 of 'Private Investigations'.

Co inky dinks are fun.

**vifferman** · 19th October 2007, 12:56

Originally Posted by jrandom

Oddly enough, I am, as I read your post just now, listening to an MP3 of 'Private Investigations'.

Co inky dinks are fun.

Oooohh.... spoooky.....

**Ocean1** · 19th October 2007, 13:10

Originally Posted by jrandom

Oddly enough, I am, as I read your post just now, listening to an MP3 of 'Private Investigations'.

Co inky dinks are fun.

Now, see, that just don't work for me.

The heavy stuff just aint right unless delivered by something capable of moderate tectonic disturbance. My old rig might look like something that the guys who built stonehenge would aprove of but it's still got the sub-sonic goods. Who cares if the lounge suite is in storage...

**jrandom** · 19th October 2007, 13:20

Originally Posted by Ocean1

Now, see, that just don't work for me.

I misrepresented slightly, there.

I don't actually use MP3s, mostly, for listening while working; I use full uncompressed audio CD images, loaded via a drive emulator. I listen through a Creative Audigy sound card (-100dB SNR on the output, so capable of cleanly outputting signals at the -96dB implied by 16 bit PCM) plus active noise-cancelling headphones with a good frequency response down to 20Hz (I know this because I wrote the software that acoustically tests them at the factory).

I'm hearing sound quality that you couldn't get in a full room system for less than about NZ$15,000.

I'm all about headphones for hi fi; I can pretty much hear Knopfler's fingers on the strings, and the breathing of the front row audience in live recordings.

**Ocean1** · 19th October 2007, 13:27

Originally Posted by jrandom

I'm hearing sound quality that you couldn't get in a full room system for less than about NZ$15,000.

I'm all about headphones for hi fi; I can pretty much hear Knopfler's fingers on the strings, and the breathing of the front row audience in live recordings.

Bastard.

Still, we hear with more than dem ridiculous appendages on the side of our heads dude. Bet your chest don’t collapse quite as much on something like “comfortably numb”.

**jrandom** · 19th October 2007, 13:28

Originally Posted by Ocean1

Bet your chest don’t collapse quite as much on something like “comfortably numb”.

Yes, you can't beat a proper full-range system and a complete lack of embarrassment about what the neighbours might think.

**Ocean1** · 19th October 2007, 13:39

Originally Posted by jrandom

Yes, you can't beat a proper full-range system and a complete lack of embarrassment about what the neighbours might think.

Used to be I didn't have neighbours. Now I've implimented a straegic wmd treaty, they don't bitch about the ruccus and I don't ride on their garden.

**Grahameeboy** · 19th October 2007, 13:39

Originally Posted by vifferman

Oooohh.... spoooky.....

You don't have to see him in the morning

**Blackbird** · 19th October 2007, 13:42

Originally Posted by jrandom

Yes, you can't beat a proper full-range system and a complete lack of embarrassment about what the neighbours might think.

Which is what I'll be doing tomorrow with Clapton's "She's Waiting" as soon as my wife goes out for lunch with her mates

The neighbour will be out with her.

**Ocean1** · 19th October 2007, 13:47

Originally Posted by Blackbird

Which is what I'll be doing tomorrow with Clapton's "She's Waiting" as soon as my wife goes out for lunch with her mates

The neighbour will be out with her.

In the white room... with no curtains... at the station...

Old dude, that's what you are.

**Sanx** · 19th October 2007, 13:47

Originally Posted by vifferman

Something which irks me ...
In two cases, the polis drove much faster AND for longer in order to make sure I didn't get away with my murderous actions and to "give me a not-so-friendly reminder that I was exceeding the speed limit." In the other case, on a very busy road (where I overtook in a passing lane), the polis took many kilometres to catch me, solely because the traffic was heavy, and other motorists had to get out of his way. I'm sure they took care in each case and drove very skilfully, but my point is this: the ultimate purpose of road rules is to make the road safe for motorists. Chasing people at speeds above the speed limit for extended periods/distances is potentially hypocritical as it poses more danger than the 'crime' itself, especially if the criminal is no longer speeding.

I had the same thought a while back, after watching a mufti cop spend an hour camped on my road running a speed trap. On several occasions, he (scientifically guestimated by myself) exceeded 100kph to catch the dangerous potential-murderer who had just driven past him in the opposite direction doing 65 or so. I also saw him cross the solid white line on the blind S-bend at the bottom of the road on two occasions as well.

So I took a little walk, got the car rego number, then banged on the window, got his badge number then gave him an earful for driving like a fucking maniac on a residential street at 5pm. He didn't like that much; to the point of threatening me with arrest for interfering with an officer doing his duty or wasting police time or some such spurious shit. A semi-formal complaint followed, where his arse of a Sergeant informed me that the Police were allowed to break the speed limit in order to carry out their duties. The question of how road saftey had been improved by a black commodore screaming up and down the road repeatedly at speeds close to double the limit, carefully remained unanswered, despite me asking it several times.

I made a suggestion that if speed was such a problem down this road (Sgt suggested it was - I'd lived on the road for a year and never noticed a problem) they should stick a marked car there. People slow down automatically when they see one, which achieves the goal of reducing speed far more effectively than issuing tickets. The Sgt disagreed with me, which indicated his primary aim was revenue generating, not road safety.

**vifferman** · 19th October 2007, 13:50

The trouble (1) with our system (one of five in the house, not counting guitar amps) is the lounge backs onto the gargre, and the assorted crap on the shelves in the gargre falls off if I crank up the volume.

So, I guess it's kinda fortunate that we were ignorant enough not to buy a better subwoofer and the next model up of amp, or maybe the roof tiles would be rattling off ...

The trouble (2) with our house, is the five stereos resident in it, and the two guitar amps, and the powered studio monitor speakers.

The trouble with our house (3) is there is no Noise Co-ordination Director, so it's too easy to end up with the guitar amp in the music room, the speakers in the lounge, the speakers in the dining-room, one or more of the stereos on the bedroom level, and the 300W amp or studio monitors or guitar amp in the basement all producing different noise.

The trouble with our house (4) is arriving home with no keys, some window- rattling noise rattling the windows and drowning out the doorbell ringing and frantic pounding on the windows and doors, and no-one answering their cellphone, and not being sure if anyone's home or not. And then (and then!) while you're sitting on the doorstep

some fucker comes screaming down the road in his hot hatch, with the decibels at 2,793, playing some godawful crap, and it turns out to be two (2) of the residents you're trying to attract the attention of via doorbell, door knock, window pound, and cellphone call.

"Oh... what...? Uh... I had my cellphone on silent / never answer my cellphone / couldn't hear it over the stereo. Why don't you have your keys, you dick?"
Polite little bastids...