Yesterday I saw a man, a grown adult male, riding a scooter.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

You know, one of those things children stand on with one leg and push along with the other. But this was an adult. I assumed, obviously, that he had raped and murdered the child, dumped its body and made off on its scooter, and that a mob would shortly form and tear this transgressor limb from limb, but no one batted an eye.

The world is a puzzling place in the 21st century and no mistake.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

http://38.media.tumblr.com/4016a5197b6d82b00961e2162f316548/tumblr_nhrufpO0pX1sxqyhyo2_400.gif

[Ashberto]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Are they mentals, sex offenders or Guardian readers bgm?

[Berni]

I'm not sure an actual grown-up man born since 1980 has emerged yet. Certainly not from the middle classes, anyway.

[Ashberto]

http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=tree&goto=3878 119&rid=2804&S=cb432c8008a8611e52ac8a93595e7f97 (http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=tree&goto=3878119&rid=2804&S=cb432c8008a8611e52ac8a93595e7f97)

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

YOU KNOW WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THIS CLUSTERf**k DON'T YOU?

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Definitely without doubt a ****er.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Throwing shapes like it was 1999.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

There's no way you'd have got away with such behaviour in the 70s or 80s.

How have we fallen this far, sw?

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I bet Jorge has one.

[Berni]

children in such a way that they grow up to feel entitled to indulge whatever pointless, selfish and solipsistic whim they desire - no matter how infantile or ridiculous?

[Pokster]

[Ashberto]

You wouldn't see a coal miner on one of them.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

I graduated from modes of transport that require self propulsion some time ago.

Sorry, I feel like I shouldve said they were "Totally Mexico" or "well Jackson" but there you go.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

This my friend is a scooter, and I am sure we all agree it is a thing of beauty and a thing to be coveted.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/c7/cd/68/c7cd680d330c61761df444b9c9738060.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

She told everyone we could all be middle class. And we believed her :-(

[Classic Jorge]

and powder blue

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I rather fancy a proper scooter, actually.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

My apologies but I could have imagined you in the office on your scooter, with your beard, in a rush to show your latest powerpoint presentation to a bearded colleague, so off you pushed on your 'scooter'.

I appear to be wrong.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I only ever had a Vespa what with Lambrettas being like hen's teeth at the time.

Still I have a significant birthday in a few years and hints are continually dropped.

[IUFG]

wearing a helmet.
and 'doing skillz'

f**king deviant

[Berni]

euphemism 'graphic novel' or are they not even decently ashamed anymore?

Mind you, people like you who go around saying that personal taste is all that counts and that there is no such thing as 'good' or 'bad' art must shoulder their portion of the blame imo. The denial of such important standards is what leads to people talking about Batman as though he were a/ real and b/ anything other than trash culture.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Berni]

Instead you remain inside, hunched over your 'joypad', indulging your solitary, sedentary, masturbatory pursuit. :-(

For shame.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

martial traditions. Put him in mind of the pickets at Agincourt, the squares at Waterloo and the gun decks at Trafalgar, where his forebears showed the world what it is to be an Englishman.

Then break one of his wheels off and watch him blub like a 6 year old girl. :-(

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I want to believe that it is possible to be permissive without the population taking the piss.

I'm clearly wrong.

[Ashberto]

Zippo lighters are developed. Hindenberg re-elected. Great days.

[PSRB]

[Berni]

acceptable. It's like anything else: only once you have acquired an understanding of the canon can you be said even to have personal taste, let alone be allowed to pretend your tastes have any weight.

[Ashberto]

[Classic Jorge]

[Jake]

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/906/550/37d.jpg

[Berni]

[Classic Jorge]

You appear to have confused manly with Saga advertising

[Ashberto]

How can a scooter have four wheels?

[Berni]

entertaining way of becoming obese.

[Classic Jorge]

There's a register for your sort

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

But they had swords and mensur scars, which gives them a pass.

[Berni]

Fortunately, they're too busy hugging trees and saying 'atomkraft nein danke' themselves.

It's a bad business when even the Hun are a bunch of bloody pansies.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Like the old 3 wheeled blue that was around when we were young and which would bizarrely always appear behind the goal at Stamford Bridge back in that era.

Modern day so-called 'mobility scooters' are for older perhaps less able and perhaps lazy people.

About 2 weeks ago I was entering a pub with the family when an old man was exiting, a little worse for wear it seemed so I stood back and held the lounge door open for him. He thanked me so I went to get the outer door which he declined as the f**ker got onto his 'mobility sccoter' which he had parked in the foyer type area, forced the outer door open and sped off down the f**king road.

[Ashberto]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Where is the honest Tommy to come from?

I can't see today's feckless youth flocking to the Colours :-(

Why, our very own Berni told me once that he wouldn't lay down his life for the Colours. That is an indication of the lack of moral fibre in this country.

[Classic Jorge]

Caught doing 62mph down camden road on it

[Classic Jorge]

[Snin]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Read your nice comic.

Don't worry, the bad man won't come for you. Some other poor schmo will lay down his life to protect you.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Ashberto]

They have some experience in dealing with that sort of thing.

[Snin]

BEASTS the ktm had race ( ie not much) mufflers and was a dog to kick start but could wheelie in 4th :) was mental tbh..then had a RD350 road race bike which i did 9 months couriering in london on from our little office on fulham palace road :cloud9: i was only 2 stroke bike coureir :-) got quite a few records for main routes..I should have got a bike licence really but no need back then

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

[Snin]

id honour myself and you could be general melchett

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/blackadder/images/1/1a/Gen_Melchett.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width/270?cb=20110105182320

[Classic Jorge]

I never really dug the full leather thing either tbh

[Snin]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2203/2517347072_2ddaa03f52_b.jpg

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Snin]

on ktm but it broke when i crashed.. oh and bought some MX boots so could kcick start damn thing as the pegs went through soles of my DM's :-)

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

You were Kevin in Quadrophenia whereas Jorge was Jimmy.

[Snin]

1, 2 and 3 on apple 2e took over plus little bit of d&d.. all stopped by about 15 I expect..then just bmx and hanging about and using the old 50 motocrosser i had hidden in woods :-)

[Snin]

i was always a supporter of rockers having liked ac/dc , maiden etc as a child from 9 - 12 and even owning a denim sleevless jacket with paches and studs :)

[Classic Jorge]

without the bag humping, obviously

[Ashberto]

http://www.games-collector.com/photographs/k/kingmaker-1974-or-later-ariel-1.jpg

https://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic910311_md.jpg

[Snin]

then when had enough its everyone just doing leg it do or dies runs :-)

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Ashberto]

Triffic game that. Pssst! 30ft of rope and I'm away!

[Snin]

[Ashberto]

[Snin]

for saudi military hospitals patient records system so he used to be away for 3 to 6 motnhs at a time, feel guilty plus on way back home would have access to all new computer stuff so we had apple 2 from about 78/78 with 2 floppys , green monitor ;-) then apple 2e ..then he got himself first mac as well..he loved all that ****e.. I should have kept them i guess..castle wolfenstein, wizardry , etc

[Berni]

country, though, isn't it?

The colours are just that. My home, family, loved ones, way of life and society, on the other hand would be worth dying for.

[Berni]

an appelle and you'd be back to square one, which was a bit ****.

[Classic Jorge]

[Ashberto]

I was probably playing these games at the time.

https://www.clive.nl/files/imagecache/detail/images/23129.jpg

[Snin]

but I remember when my american cousin was over and this happened and he kicked the board and walked out... now I guess we are all Americans so kids would not tolerate this either

[Monty91]

[Snin]

[Berni]

the magical pikey elves to take away. In it was an original ZX Spectrum 48k like what Young Berni owned.

I was genuinely tempted to take it away until I remembered there was no point in doing so. So I contented myself with the Proustian rush of touching the rubber keyboard and giving the Z and X keys a good hammering to see if my Daley Thompson's Decathlon skills were still sharp.

[Classic Jorge]

We used to line up in turns to do 1000m each.

Even more punishing, and wrong looking if viewed from the back, when done on one of the old Quickshot II joysticks.

[Berni]

That, too, was punishing and looked wrong when viewed from the back.

Sorry. Had to be done. :-

I quickly realised that your super-fast time on the sprint events in DT's Decathlon simply wasn't worth the fact that it inevitably f**ked the Quickshot joystick you'd been saving up your paper round money for.