Complaint Box

[CouchCoach]

They are pretty and provide shade. Is that not a thing in London?

They live in shade over there.

 

[nobody]

Gmail's new look SUCKS. I couldn't go back to classic look fast enough!

 

[Runwildboys]

Gmail's new look SUCKS. I couldn't go back to classic look fast enough!

I have a Gmail account too. Every few months I log on, just to delete everything.

 

[lukin2006]

I have a Gmail account too. Every few months I log on, just to delete everything.

 

[Londonboy]

They are pretty and provide shade. Is that not a thing in London?

Nah, We have other buildings for shade.
They're pretty until They fall over and demolish Your house.

 

[Runwildboys]

Nah, We have other buildings for shade.
They're pretty until They fall over and demolish Your house.

Or until the leaves "fall" off in Autumn (Happy?) and you have to rake them up.

 

[Londonboy]

Or until the leaves "fall" off in Autumn (Happy?) and you have to rake them up.

You used the proper word just for Me, I'm deeply touched Bruv.
Though I quite like "Fall", it's got a "does what it says on the tin" quality to it, much like the Baseball Stadium in Arlington, that was imaginatively named "The Ballpark in Arlington".

 

[Runwildboys]

You used the proper word just for Me, I'm deeply touched Bruv.
Though I quite like "Fall", it's got a "does what it says on the tin" quality to it, much like the Baseball Stadium in Arlington, that was imaginatively named "The Ballpark in Arlington".

What's "Bruv"?

 

[G2]

Ok, I have motortcycles and have been riding on and off road my entire life.
That being said, it drives me insane when guys will ride like Chips, side by side and the inside maroon rides the center line.

Also, if I don't know who the hell you are, I'm not doing that "underhand wave to every biker" thingy.


Side note, I was screwing around in my woods and I had a wasp fly into my helmet. I completely freaked out, dumped it and ripped my helmet off.
There I am laying in the weeds. I find my helmet and it wasn't a wasp. It was a ladybug.

 

[CouchCoach]

Ok, I have motortcycles and have been riding on and off road my entire life.
That being said, it drives me insane when guys will ride like Chips, side by side and the inside maroon rides the center line.

Also, if I don't know who the hell you are, I'm not doing that "underhand wave to every biker" thingy.


Side note, I was screwing around in my woods and I had a wasp fly into my helmet. I completely freaked out, dumped it and ripped my helmet off.
There I am laying in the weeds. I find my helmet and it wasn't a wasp. It was a ladybug.

Ladybugs can be vicious.

 

[Runwildboys]

Ladybugs can be vicious.

Especially in an argument!

 

[Runwildboys]

Ok, I have motortcycles and have been riding on and off road my entire life.
That being said, it drives me insane when guys will ride like Chips, side by side and the inside maroon rides the center line.

Also, if I don't know who the hell you are, I'm not doing that "underhand wave to every biker" thingy.


Side note, I was screwing around in my woods and I had a wasp fly into my helmet. I completely freaked out, dumped it and ripped my helmet off.
There I am laying in the weeds. I find my helmet and it wasn't a wasp. It was a ladybug.

Some bikers are just absolute idiots. I get the whole riding between lanes of crawling traffic thing, because it's not easy to stop and go on two wheels, but weaving through at 35 mph, just barely squeezing between vehicles is moronic. I don't care how well you ride, you can't predict when someone is going to cut over or open their door because they dropped something , or whatever.
And I wish that was the only stupid thing I saw bikers do!

 

[CouchCoach]

Some bikers are just absolute idiots. I get the whole riding between lanes of crawling traffic thing, because it's not easy to stop and go on two wheels, but weaving through at 35 mph, just barely squeezing between vehicles is moronic. I don't care how well you ride, you can't predict when someone is going to cut over or open their door because they dropped something , or whatever.
And I wish that was the only stupid thing I saw bikers do!

Not as bad as those idiots on crotch rockets, they're a menace.

We're driving back from Galveston one time and I look in the rear view mirror, and I am doing 80, and these two come up in the other lane and they get beside us this guy that had to weigh close to 250 pops a wheelie at 80 while looking back at his buddy. Then they began to weave through traffic at over 100 mph and one driver was startled when they buzzed by his left side and almost swerved into the side of the bridge. The guy had kids in his minivan. My wife called the cops to report them but we didn't see them again.

I knew quite a few bikers when I had a Rock station in OK and they hate the crotch rockets because most of the bikers are a lot safer than that and people have the tendency to lump all of them in together. The two local biker clubs did a lot of events to help people, especially kids with their annual toy rides.

 

[G2]

Some bikers are just absolute idiots. I get the whole riding between lanes of crawling traffic thing, because it's not easy to stop and go on two wheels, but weaving through at 35 mph, just barely squeezing between vehicles is moronic. I don't care how well you ride, you can't predict when someone is going to cut over or open their door because they dropped something , or whatever.
And I wish that was the only stupid thing I saw bikers do!

Valid point. I'm not that guy. In fact as I've gotten older I ride on dirt way more than pavement. When I see jack-wagons doing what you described or other idiotic things I typically route for a road-rashing.

And another thing. I get that other drivers should look out for motorcyclists, but it goes both ways.

 

[Runwildboys]

Not as bad as those idiots on crotch rockets, they're a menace.

We're driving back from Galveston one time and I look in the rear view mirror, and I am doing 80, and these two come up in the other lane and they get beside us this guy that had to weigh close to 250 pops a wheelie at 80 while looking back at his buddy. Then they began to weave through traffic at over 100 mph and one driver was startled when they buzzed by his left side and almost swerved into the side of the bridge. The guy had kids in his minivan. My wife called the cops to report them but we didn't see them again.

I knew quite a few bikers when I had a Rock station in OK and they hate the crotch rockets because most of the bikers are a lot safer than that and people have the tendency to lump all of them in together. The two local biker clubs did a lot of events to help people, especially kids with their annual toy rides.

When I said "bikers", I meant everyone who rides a bike, including, and especially crotch rockets.
I used to work with a guy who rode a rice burner. He was your typical example of a Napoleon Complex. Short little tough guy, who loved to brag about his "exploits".
Anyway, one day, a few months after he stopped working with my company, he and his friend show up at my house on their bikes, and he puts a video in my VCR of him riding down the highway, doing a wheelie for a mile or so. He kept looking at me, so proud of himself. CC, I don't think I could possibly looked more unimpressed, and that was the last time I ever heard from him. lol

 

[Runwildboys]

Valid point. I'm not that guy. In fact as I've gotten older I ride on dirt way more than pavement. When I see jack-wagons doing what you described or other idiotic things I typically route for a road-rashing.

And another thing. I get that other drivers should look out for motorcyclists, but it goes both ways.

Exactly. I see the bumper sticker, and my first thought is, "It'd be a lot easier to look out for them, if they didn't come up from behind at 95 mph, and scream by before you even know they're there!"

 

[G2]

And when a bunch of Harley bikers all leave at the same time it sounds like a ******** monster truck rally - drives me insane. "Hear how loud mine is."
I call those peoples vehicles "The extender."

 

[lukin2006]

When I was a teenager, 2 people I went to school with were in a brutal accident while riding a motorcycle ... They had the right of away, they were going 80 KM's or so and a vehicle pulled out in front of them ... they broadsided the other vehicle. The male driver was dead at the scene, the female died at hospital ... vowed I'd never rode a motorcycle after that, and I never had. One of my best buddies at time worked for a funeral home and he had to pick up the female at the hospital and assist with preparation for her funeral. Her injuries were brutal, just brutal...that's no way to die.

 

[Runwildboys]

When I was a teenager, 2 people I went to school with were in a brutal accident while riding a motorcycle ... They had the right of away, they were going 80 KM's or so and a vehicle pulled out in front of them ... they broadsided the other vehicle. The male driver was dead at the scene, the female died at hospital ... vowed I'd never rode a motorcycle after that, and I never had. One of my best buddies at time worked for a funeral home and he had to pick up the female at the hospital and assist with preparation for her funeral. Her injuries were brutal, just brutal...that's no way to die.

It actually amazes me how relatively few motorcycle deaths there are, especially in places like here in Connecticut, where there's no helmet law.

 

[CouchCoach]

And when a bunch of Harley bikers all leave at the same time it sounds like a ******** monster truck rally - drives me insane. "Hear how loud mine is."
I call those peoples vehicles "The extender."

LMAO, but I really do love the sound of a Harley and had my wife talked into it until I had a scooter wreck in Key West. She was on her own but figured if this moron can't handle a freakin' scooter, no way am I getting on the back of a Harley, no matter how cute I'd look in the clothes. She'd seen her sister's Harley duds and that's how she even considered it.