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Post by Tobyjugs on Jun 14, 2020 10:25:08 GMT 1
This made me smile. I spent 3 years in Plymouth and finally got over the feeling that old dears were chatting me up when buying a pasty. "That'll be 76pence my lover...", I was thinking 'I hope no one heard her say that... Honest! Ive never seen that old crone before in me life!' I wonder what the International element of this forum make of such things lol It always went down with mixed feelings in Holland until Pirates of the Caribbean was released. Now they think it's funny.
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Post by veg on Jun 14, 2020 13:34:32 GMT 1
Can’t remember if I’ve said this before but my uncle is a fisherman out of newlyn he wears a t shirt in the summer that says ‘If it’s tourist season how come we can’t shoot them’.
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Post by donkeychomp on Jun 14, 2020 22:41:09 GMT 1
Hahaha!
Alex
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Post by Norbo on Jun 15, 2020 11:09:23 GMT 1
Myn is simple its part of my name and every has called me Norbo for as long as i can remember including my mum
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Post by stusco on Jun 15, 2020 13:57:15 GMT 1
This made me smile. I spent 3 years in Plymouth and finally got over the feeling that old dears were chatting me up when buying a pasty. "That'll be 76pence my lover...", I was thinking 'I hope no one heard her say that... Honest! Ive never seen that old crone before in me life!' The very same thing happened to me when working in Devonport i was looking behind me to see who she was talking too! to go off at a tangent i was watching crap on tv (Britains hardest pubs) and it was the avondale pub at the dockyard gates and im going” ive drank in there to the wife”then all the barmaids take their tops off !!it turns out its a topless pub ! She still doesn’t believe me it wasn’t like that when i was there.
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Post by Tobyjugs on Jun 15, 2020 18:28:26 GMT 1
This made me smile. I spent 3 years in Plymouth and finally got over the feeling that old dears were chatting me up when buying a pasty. "That'll be 76pence my lover...", I was thinking 'I hope no one heard her say that... Honest! Ive never seen that old crone before in me life!' The very same thing happened to me when working in Devonport i was looking behind me to see who she was talking too! to go off at a tangent i was watching crap on tv (Britains hardest pubs) and it was the avondale pub at the dockyard gates and im going” ive drank in there to the wife”then all the barmaids take their tops off !!it turns out its a topless pub ! She still doesn’t believe me it wasn’t like that when i was there. The Avondale made it to that list, crikey there were worst pubs than the Avondale around the Devonport Dockyard.
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Post by JonW on Jun 17, 2020 2:03:53 GMT 1
The very same thing happened to me when working in Devonport i was looking behind me to see who she was talking too! to go off at a tangent i was watching crap on tv (Britains hardest pubs) and it was the avondale pub at the dockyard gates and im going” ive drank in there to the wife”then all the barmaids take their tops off !!it turns out its a topless pub ! She still doesn’t believe me it wasn’t like that when i was there. The Avondale made it to that list, crikey there were worst pubs than the Avondale around the Devonport Dockyard. I think Im still barred from one of the pubs up by the Barbican on the Hoe. I almost popped in there a few years back when in the area just to see lol
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Post by flames on Jun 17, 2020 20:10:22 GMT 1
I became 'flames' after attempting some electrickery work a few years ago. We had a horrible temperamental strip light in our utility room. I decided one day that i would swap this out for a 'normal' light thinking its literally 'pull a couple of wires out and put them in the new light'. I hadn't reckoned on the 13!!!! wires that went into this thing and figured i dont need all them and duly went about 'weight saving' . Light all re wired up, fantastic.......turned the mains on to a 'BOOM' from downstairs and a scream. Aparrently when i turned on the mains, the bulb exploded and 'flames' shot out of the light. So again i have at the wiring......mains on......Boom followed by flames. After much to-ing and fro-ing, i finally got the mains turned on with no Boom... Yayyyy....turn the light switch on, and you guessed it. After several attempts at sorting i eventually called a mate who used to be an electrician round to sort it....like i should have done in the first place.After telling him the story he called me flames and the name stuck.
The only electrics i have been nearsince then have been the scale variety.
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Post by veg on Jun 17, 2020 21:20:49 GMT 1
Fan bloody tastic
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Post by steve h on Jun 17, 2020 23:34:25 GMT 1
I became 'flames' after attempting some electrickery work a few years ago. We had a horrible temperamental strip light in our utility room. I decided one day that i would swap this out for a 'normal' light thinking its literally 'pull a couple of wires out and put them in the new light'. I hadn't reckoned on the 13!!!! wires that went into this thing and figured i dont need all them and duly went about 'weight saving' . Light all re wired up, fantastic.......turned the mains on to a 'BOOM' from downstairs and a scream. Aparrently when i turned on the mains, the bulb exploded and 'flames' shot out of the light. So again i have at the wiring......mains on......Boom followed by flames. After much to-ing and fro-ing, i finally got the mains turned on with no Boom... Yayyyy....turn the light switch on, and you guessed it. After several attempts at sorting i eventually called a mate who used to be an electrician round to sort it....like i should have done in the first place.After telling him the story he called me flames and the name stuck. The only electrics i have been nearsince then have been the scale variety. Being called flames is a result then..... If it had been at where I worked... you would of been called something else... or sacked.... and most probably both
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Post by flames on Jun 18, 2020 18:13:02 GMT 1
I was just glad i didn't get fried!!!
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Post by jay on Jun 19, 2020 0:26:26 GMT 1
Got mine sine was a nipper the youngest sister couldn't say Jason so It stuck as jay
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Post by yamark on Jun 19, 2020 8:08:41 GMT 1
Such a great thread
But, I've just realised how boring and unimaginative I am
Cheers, Mark
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Post by Yogi on Jun 19, 2020 8:18:33 GMT 1
Such a great thread
But, I've just realised how boring and unimaginative I am
Cheers, Mark Come on then the suspense is killing me 😉🤣🤣🤣
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Post by daglad on Jun 29, 2020 18:05:07 GMT 1
Daglad, When l was about 4 years old an old friend of my parents lived at the top of the street where we lived and he called me Dagger one day because he said l was small and was always flying around. That was 49 years ago and l still get called it. The Daglad bit came from Dagger always being used on forums so l just use Daglad. I always knew when l was in trouble as a kid because my old man just used to say 'Daggerboy, office now!' and l knew l was in for it.
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Post by busby on Jul 3, 2020 19:50:47 GMT 1
Mine came from when I started my apprenticeship, not long after an annoying little bird was used in advertisements ti encourage the subs to use the phone more. Hence I became Busby. Stuck ever since.🐥
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Post by markylc on Aug 2, 2020 9:23:52 GMT 1
Such a great thread
But, I've just realised how boring and unimaginative I am
Cheers, Mark Lol. mark + initial of surname + lc I have been known as skid since I was a little chap due to a potty incident.
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Post by arrow on Aug 2, 2020 11:47:53 GMT 1
Such a great thread
But, I've just realised how boring and unimaginative I am
Cheers, Mark Lol. mark + initial of surname + lc I have been known as skid since I was a little chap due to a potty incident. Better than being known as skid for a road incident, I'd say. 👍
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Post by iwantalc on Aug 4, 2020 19:53:54 GMT 1
when i 1st came on to forum i was looking for a lc hence i want a lc
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Post by cnkxu1 on Sept 8, 2020 9:01:10 GMT 1
Initials plus XU1 and I use it on places like facebook and Netrider and one of my email addresses. I own a Juniper Green Metallic 1973 XU1 LJ Torana that I restored around 2000 and continue to restore with original and repro bits back to its original splendour. It was a car that came about in the homologation era when the Holden Dealer Team with Harry Firth leading development came up with a race car based on the small family car the Torana which started in Australia as the Vauxhall Viva. It is a straight six, 202 cubic inch 3300cc, triple Stromberg carburettor, four speed manual, two door, 77 litre fuel tank touring car. I had another one earlier in the 80's that was stolen and stripped. I rebuilt it with triple SU carburettors that I still have thus the photo. It was made famous by Peter Brock an Australian racing car driver who amongst others drove it to many victories and championship wins. Sadly, today, 8 September, is the anniversary of the day he died 14 years ago competing in the Targa West 06 Rally at Gidgegannup in Western Australia. His car left the road and hit a tree. I visited the spot last year on my lap of Australia.
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Post by 2taol on Oct 3, 2020 8:17:35 GMT 1
Nothng too exciting with my name on the forum,
2t, ive only ridden 2 strokes from my first TS100, had a brief spell on an XS400 but all 2strokes after that.
aol, just to remain totally anonymous i used the initials of the gaelic version of my name!
i have versions of this on some of the other 2t forums, 2t, 2tal.
Alan
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Post by fabiostar on Oct 5, 2020 10:35:13 GMT 1
long story short. i used to race supermoto and me and the brother were the maxxis tyre importers for Ireland. france at the time at a supermoto rider called fiorstar ?
now if i get any sun i kinda go a rather brown colour so the main Maxxis man in the uk arrives over here to the event to see how we are going and im sitting with the leathers round the waist looking all tanned and brown and he looks and says jesus france has fiorstar and the Irish have fabiostar so the name stuck.
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Post by tdrpete on May 4, 2023 18:21:04 GMT 1
I know im a boring c**t goes by the name O'Pete short for, you guessed it. Plus i had a tdr 250 which i regret selling to this day hence the TDRPETE. Plus it was the only name i could get that wasnt already used that had Pete in it. lol.
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Post by veg on May 4, 2023 18:28:50 GMT 1
Holy thread resurrection Batman
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Post by tdrpete on May 4, 2023 18:30:23 GMT 1
Jiminy Jilikers veg
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on May 4, 2023 20:03:05 GMT 1
And I still have never owned an MX5
It was an MR2 🙈
Steve
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Post by tdrpete on May 4, 2023 20:30:45 GMT 1
PMSL
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