The moaning old git thread

[NTBooth]

just a little thing that annoyed me....I know MCN is a fairly "Marmite" topic with most people but I could never understand why (until today!), their written reviews always seemed quite alright!

Stumbled across a video review of theirs with a v-strom, versys and BMW f650gs.

All they were arsed about was speed and power...one of their reasons for how the versys was the best was..."the suspension is much more sportier than the others" right...well that would be good...on a sports bike  

pretty sure most people don't buy a v-strom versys or 650gs for their straight line speed and "sporty" suspension...  

[Joe Rocket]

Whilst waiting for my Glee last Autumn I found a video with the same three bikes and the outcome was quite different.

It may be earlier models (?) Just to make you feel a bit better.  

[NTBooth]

I am on an earlier model :P haha

I havnt seen that video before I will have a little watch later on :D that one isn't MCN thank god, or they would be saying how shit the Wee is because it doesn't have 9 gears and its top speed isn't 300mph.

[ProfG]

Effing toffee nosed red trouser wearing, loafers and no socks dicks (and that's just the men). Went to cheltenham to get a child seat advertised for £20. Hardly used and in great condition. So negotiated the traffic right through the  city centre and the one way traffic and when I got there she wanted £5 more than what  it was advertised for.

Now don't get me wrong, even at the extra fiver it was good value since it was like new and hardly used but not to accept the advertised price and not to let me know before I went there even though I had sent one email and three phone calls to make sure she was in and to get the directions.

Toffee nosed bitch chancing her arm, anyway I gave herthe extra fiver since I had driven all the way there. The other option was to go to Coventry but at a new price of £200, I think it was worth paying her the fiver and cursing the    bitch.

[UK_Vstrom650]

Hope you wiped it on your Donkey before handing it over... (and yes, I let the filter do its magic!)

[ProfG]

Nah, but I should've scratched my arse and then handed the money over  

[Joe Rocket]

Just saw this on another site, somewhere to meet up and chew the c u d ..........

http://www.walesoncraic.com/coffee-shop ... ng-people/

 

[MartinW]

Love it. I will be there tomorrow so I can "fit In" properly.

[joderest]

I have a confession to make .........

   I AM A MOANING OLD GIT

  There, said it, feel so much better

[No_my_pie]

If I'm happy to be a moaning old git, does that mean I'm not a moaning old git?

[tallpaul]

It means you've achieved a state of equilibrium...allbeit a miserable one.

[Joe Rocket]

tallpaul knows.....so I've been told......  

[tallpaul]

Have you met my wife...?!

[Fat Rat]

Who's idea was it to print the strength (different for each eye) on Contact Lenses packets really small    We can't see very well until AFTER we have put them in  

[Andy M]

Gave up on contacts after I had one get stuck in. No more details unless anyone wants to see their lunch again.

Now glasses are a rip off. I can see with every pair I've owned since I was about 25. The frames however are utterly trashed after 18 months. Metal, plastic, sports type whatever, they just bend so they won't stay on your face or drop to bits so they are cutting into your face. £100 or £300 they are all equally poor.

I'd go the laser route if I could face the fish hooks and week off work. Probably only last 10 years given my age though.

Andy

[gcram]

Probably only last 10 years given my age though.

Andy

The glasses or you?    

[mr_diver]

I went down the Laser route 10 years ago.

I was having problems with contact as I needed them in almost everyday for work. As I was in swimming pools and reservoirs on a daily basis I was getting eye infections, made worse by contacts and then needed a month without the contacts and out of the water.
This seriously hampered my work as a dive instructor  

I came out with 20/10 in the left eye and 20/16 in the other after having the Wavefront Laser thing.  
My vision hasn't deteriorated since, but I do work in a very dry and dusty environment so my eyes are very dry and gets a bit blurry, but a day or so away from work and my vision is perfect. But everyone in work gets blurry eyes with all the tile adhesive soaking up any moisture in the air.

It was well worth doing. I totaled up all the money I'd spend in 10 years of contacts and a new pair of glasses every 3 years and I'd have paid for the laser surgery. And that was @ prices 10 years ago.

[Fat Rat]

Over the last few weeks I have treated myself to some gourmet dishes from McDonalds  

Both times I order the same thing (Chicken Salad Wrap), the first encounter went something like this.

Me - "Can I have a Chicken Salad Wrap please but without any Mayonnaise"

Spotty Yoof - "Wivout any wot"?

Me - "Mayonnaise"

He looks at me like I'm speaking in a foreign tongue and then with a smug look corrects me, "You mean Mayo".

Rather than trouble this valuable section of this site with a rant I just mutter something about Americans, idiot kids and Americans.

Anyway, it only happened again today   Different McD's and a reasonably intelligent young girl. The word Mayonnaise is clearly alien to them and that white shit they put in to give their food some taste is only to be known as Mayo  

[MartinW]

McDonalds should be shut down in terms of selling anything other than Milkshakes  

[ProfG]

McDonalds should be shut down in terms of selling anything other than Milkshakes  

And coffee. Excellent coffee to compliment their dogfood