Topic: Let it all hang out,tell us how you really feel and what pisses you off.

[Bailgang]

That's no good Scott, I live in the coldest part of the Australian mainland but I've never experienced temps like that. (apart from 2 trips to the snow when I was in the Army, both against my will, I might add)

Our summer so far has been a bit of a fizzer, we've had the 2 coldest summer days on record apparently (when is Global Warming gonna kick in?) so far this month, but today will be around 70, and as it's my last working day until the 20th of January, I'm a happy camper. Cheers, Terry.

Most of the US is getting hit by a nasty cold spell at the moment. No worries though because I got the furnace up a going anyhow by jumping the wires to the high limit switch but inside temp dropped to almost 50 F by the time I figured it out. At the time the furnace was finally putting out some heat that's when my wife woke up to a cold house with her saying WTF!! when she walked out of the bedroom.  I'm not crazy about jumping the high limit wires because that switch is there for a reason but it should be OK till the new switch arrives. The supply shop is going to deliver it to a local shop here so I don't have to so far to get it. I'm just glad I checked the box before leaving the shop or I would've been seriously pissed.

[faux fiddy]

50 isn't that bad, common in Europe for people to keep their houses heated to 50-60 is what I hear.

It's just that with 1 outside it could busted pipes if it went on for a week. That would piss someone off.

[Terry in Australia]

I'm always amazed at how cold it is in other places around the world, I spent a summer in Europe and Britain back in the 1970's and it wasn't warm enough to match an Aussie spring.

How much does it cost you guys to heat your homes on average? Cheers, Terry.

[faux fiddy]

I'm always amazed at how cold it is in other places around the world, I spent a summer in Europe and Britain back in the 1970's and it wasn't warm enough to match an Aussie spring.

How much does it cost you guys to heat your homes on average? Cheers, Terry.

I'm seldom home, so I keep mine turned down all the way and burn oak in the wood  stove while I'm there.  It's been mild until two weeks ago, but let me get my December bill before I say only about $60.

[petercb750]

Hey Terry....I'll be pissed off if you haven't bought your dinner ticket for the classic.....

[Terry in Australia]

Hey Terry....I'll be pissed off if you haven't bought your dinner ticket for the classic.....

Ha ha, will do Pete, but where are we staying on the Saturday night?

[petercb750]

Hey Terry....I'll be pissed off if you haven't bought your dinner ticket for the classic.....

Ha ha, will do Pete, but where are we staying on the Saturday night?

Um, I know where I'm staying......I thought you were staying with bear? Perhaps I dreamed that. Have you got nothing organised?

[bear]

Your welcome to camp at the track with us plebs Uncle Tez.
We'll look after ya.

Cheers,
Brian

[Terry in Australia]

Your welcome to camp at the track with us plebs Uncle Tez.
We'll look after ya.

Cheers,
Brian

Woohoo! Will you carry me back and tuck me in Brian? I might need a bucket so I don't drown in my own vomit after hooking into all the free booze at the dinner too, if that's OK? Thanks mate!

[Bailgang]

50 isn't that bad, common in Europe for people to keep their houses heated to 50-60 is what I hear.

It's just that with 1 outside it could busted pipes if it went on for a week. That would piss someone off.

Nope it's not bad at all but it can be a shocker if you're not ready for it as in hopping out of a nice warm bed with nothing but your shorts on and expecting the temp to be around 69/70, you tend to wake up pretty quick.  Well anyhow the new high limit switch is in place, everything properly wired now and furnace working like it should. My wife told me that when she went to pick it up today both the supplier and the shop opened the box to make for damn sure the it had the correct part in it this time. I could've pitched a hissy fit about the mess but we all make mistakes so I just kept my cool. I'm just glad it's all straightened out now because we're supposed to be dumped with a bunch of snow tonight.

[bear]

Your welcome to camp at the track with us plebs Uncle Tez.
We'll look after ya.

Cheers,
Brian

Woohoo! Will you carry me back and tuck me in Brian? I might need a bucket so I don't drown in my own vomit after hooking into all the free booze at the dinner too, if that's OK? Thanks mate!

I'm happy to tuck ya in, but that's where I draw the line.

Cheers,
Brian

[Terry in Australia]

Well I just rang the toll free number to book a seat but their office hours are only Monday to Friday, so I'll try again on Monday. Cheers, Terry.

[petercb750]

Bear.....Terry......booze.....camp......tent......tucking in....this is gonna be one hell of a weekend....I should be able to sell the pics for a tidy sum ........

[bear]

Bear.....Terry......booze.....camp......tent......tucking in....this is gonna be one hell of a weekend....I should be able to sell the pics for a tidy sum ........

C'mon Pete,

What happens on tour,  stays on tour.

Cheers,
Brian

[petercb750]

Bear.....Terry......booze.....camp......tent......tucking in....this is gonna be one hell of a weekend....I should be able to sell the pics for a tidy sum ........

C'mon Pete,

What happens on tour,  stays on tour.

Cheers,
Brian

Everything has its price..........

[Dimitri13]

Nah, fire department or EMT would be the ones to bring you down.

Bugger! OK then, I'll think of another grisly suicide method to piss you off. Hey when I worked for the Melbourne City Council one of my jobs was to collect dead animals (dogs, cats, possums, foxes etc) and dispose of them, and I got 4 bucks for every one. How much do you get for people carcasses? Cheers, Terry.

Terry, I get paid hourly. Recently though, I kinda wish I got paid per body, because we've been SUPER busy.

[mick7504]

REPCO pisses me off.
For all of our mates over the the ponds, REPCO is an auto parts shop that sells spark plugs and seat covers and filters and oil and a whole lot of other #$%* that's automotive.

Just for the record, REPCO is an acronym for Rip Every Poor Cuunt Off. 
True story. 

So this morning, I went there with the ol' mate who wanted to buy a new radiator cap for his Toyota Dyna tipper.
Well we're waiting around for about 10 minutes or so and there's no barstard in sight.

In the meantime, there's a line up of other people waiting to get served.
So I thought Fcuk This and went behind the counter into the spare parts section to find someone.

Well wouldn't ya know it, there's this apprentice counter jumper standing there with his fcuken iPhone taking fcuken selfies.
So I yelled out "Oi Cuunt, get out here" 

Anyway, long story short, the ol' mate shows this hairy arsed apprentice counter jumper the old radiator cap and asks for a new one.
Nah, that was too hard, he wants to know the fcuken VIN number before he fires up his know all fcuk all computer.

Well get fcuken fcuked REPCO.

So we dropped into the BP servo on the way home and whadya know.
Jobs right, the Sheila behind the counter goes straight to the shelf and grabs one no questions asked.

REPCO pisses me off. 
And the ol' mate too. 

[dave500]

the caption on his selfie reads,"heres me at work pissing someone off"?

[Bailgang]

At the Advance Auto auto parts store we have here in town most of the people behind the counter don't know squat about cars and rely solely on what their computer says. There is another auto parts store nearby where most of them are reasonably knowledgeable but every now and then a newbie shows up, I once went there to get an oil pressure sending unit for a 70 Pontiac I had and this newb behind the counter was stuck in the American Motors section of the book. I told him it was a Pontiac not an AMC and he said American Motors was for all the American made cars ....... say what? I said haven't you ever heard of Rambler or Pacers? His face went blank so rather than explain further I just told him to keep turning the pages. Well what do ya know all of a sudden Buick and Cadillac and Chevrolet appear and a stunned look comes over his face in which I tell him again to keep on turning the pages and finally he arrives at Pontiac. I eventually got the part I needed and left shaking my head.

[bear]

Well I just rang the toll free number to book a seat but their office hours are only Monday to Friday, so I'll try again on Monday. Cheers, Terry.

Don't forget to nominate my table.

Cheers,
Brian

[Terry in Australia]

Well I just rang the toll free number to book a seat but their office hours are only Monday to Friday, so I'll try again on Monday. Cheers, Terry.

Don't forget to nominate my table.

Cheers,
Brian

Okey dokey!

[mick7504]

the caption on his selfie reads,"heres me at work pissing someone off"?

He nearly had a selfie to put on Facebook with a radiator cap bashed up his arse. 

[Terry in Australia]

I'm pissed off with myself. Yep, hard to believe that I could find fault in my beaut self, but there you go, even a mighty oak can fall.

You see dear readers, I'm now on my Christmas vacation where I've got 5 glorious weeks of getting up sometime before lunch, and going to bed some time before breakfast, riding my bikes and drinking a river of booze. Sadly my dad is in and out of hospital at the mo, so I won't be paddling the Amazon, or riding route 66 on a new Indian Chief, but I've got plenty of stuff to do to keep me occupied.

I've been planning my holidays for the last 11 months, (since my first day after I started back at work this year) and while I've been sitting at my desk at work, bored shiitless, I've day dreamed of being out in the garage and working on my various projects, like checking and adjusting my 'Wang's valve timing just to make sure it's spot-on. (I took it for a ride yesterday and it ran fine, but I just need to know that all's well)

Of course I also need to continue fitting the cool 17 inch FZ6R wheels to my Yamaha FJ1200 (I took it for a lap around the block last night and was amazed at how well it actually handles with air in the tyres..............) replacing the other fork seal on my BMW K100RS SE, (I replaced the one that was leaking, but this one looked fine until I took it for a ride. Poop.) and synching the carbs on my mighty CB750. (previously I couldn't hear the clutch rattle over the piston slap, but now that I've replaced the pistons and the engine's much quieter, the clutch is rattling so bad it sounds like a psychopath trashing an xylophone factory.

Oh, and I need to wash a years worth of dust and fly shiit off my Triumph Rocket III and get it in for it's second service that was due at 1 year or 16000 Km. (it's now 6 years old, with only 11000 Km on the odo) That's the problem with having several bikes, you want to share the love, but you tend to ride the bikes you enjoy riding the most, and for some reason, I'd rather ride my ratty old bikes, than my shiny new bike.

So why then, am I so pissed off with myself? Well it's 11am as I sit here typing this drivel, when I should be out in the garage! Yesterday, I sat inside until 3pm (when I went for a ride) watching the cricket! WTF?? I've gotta get out there and get my finger outta my butt or I'll wake up one morning and realise that I've done nothng all vacation! Fcuking hell!

Get up big Terry! (I often call myself "Big Terry", you see) Put down that big glass of chilly Coruba Rum and Coke, get out of that comfy Italian leather recliner, switch off your big plasma TV and get out into that hot steel garage and do something sweaty and smelly! Get up big feller! Do it!

Damn, I'm still here, and somehow I just refilled my glass. Oh well, I really shouldn't operate machinery when I've been drinking, so it's probably better that I stay here where it's safe............

[Dimitri13]

I know how you feel Terry. I've had my cam chain tensioner parts for over 48 hours, which means I can install them and FINALLY bolt up the head, degree the cam, then put the engine in the frame, and make some actual progress.

Yesterday I spent all day out driving the vette getting a nice dark tan. Today I'm on call, but I spent from 10am-5pm sleeping because I stayed up late drinking.

I have to finish my bike so I can work on the ranchero. I have to finish the ranchero so I can save for the hearse that'll be ready for sale sometime in February.

[petercb750]

Terry, you could always give up drinking........






Or not....