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philw696

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BennyD said:
It hasn’t; they accidentally set the drill to forward instead of reverse. In actual fact it’s only done 22,000 but they didn’t know how to turn the drill the other way.
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Take a long time with a drill even if you have it going at a 160 mph.
Easier with a small screwdriver ;)
 
midlifecrisis

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BL330 said:
That would be a memorable ride!
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It was, hired bike and guide from Bike Ride Australia in Cairns. The guide was fast on tarmac and dirt, his dad was a Belle Vue Ace in early 70's, so had pedigree. Started off in Cairns, headed North and got as far as Cooktown before heading back. Great tracks through the rain forest, I remember one massive hill climb, which was a challenge for anyone to do in one go. Going back down was scary too, just 2nd gear no brakes let the engine control the speed. It would have been late March 2000 so quite dry but still managed to learn sliding the front and rear without panicking or freezing.

My next motorcycle adventure after that was the Cook Islands TT on a scooter... Around Rarotonga in 35 mins... In the p1ssing rain.... :)
 
MrJoshua

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2b1ask1 said:
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Human kind is fooked when someone models a business out of cleaning trainers!!!



I am reminded of the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy:

The Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B was a way of removing the basically useless citizens from the planet of Golgafrincham. A variety of stories were formed about the doom of the planet, such as blowing up, crashing into the sun or being eaten by a mutant star goat. The ship was filled with all the middlemen of Golgafrincham, such as the telephone sanitisers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants.

Ark Fleet ships A and C were supposed to carry the people who ruled, thought, or actually did useful work.

The ship was programmed to crash onto its designated planet, Earth. The captain remembers that he was told a good reason for this, but had forgotten it, although the reason was later revealed to be because the Ark Ship B Golgafrinchans were a 'bunch of useless idiots'.

After the ship took off, no word was heard from either Golgafrincham or the other A and C ships.

After five years of traveling, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect were teleported onto the ship. They spoke to the captain and were very alarmed by the story of the ship.

The ship crashes onto the supercomputer Earth and is wrecked, but many of the passengers and crew survive. They begin running the planet in accordance with their previous useless ways. Arthur and Ford agree that this explains a lot about later Earth inhabitants.

Fate of Golgafrincham:
A notation in the Guide about Golgafrincham after the departure of the B Ark states that the entire remaining population subsequently died from a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.

Very 2020?
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I can't really see the difference between this and a shoe polishing shop?

An awful lot of people spend an awful lot of money on shoes and trainers, and want to keep them looking nice.
 
MrJoshua

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CatmanV2 said:
Is there such a thing? I mean I've seen enough shoe shines in my time, but an actual shop?

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Yep, there was/is a great one in Leeds that I used to go to every couple of weeks in my lunch break. You could get a sit down shoe shine while you waited, or leave a pair of shoes or any other leather item there for cleaning / polishing etc. It was busy!
 
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