New MkIII In The Family

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pete.v said:
phil yates said:
But spelling and grammar are improving.
There is progress.
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Thank you.

How do you feel about kawasaki's
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Is that a statement, or a question?
I see another problem looming.

Kawasaki's are good as external clothes hangers.
All in photo was put on "bike sales". Clothes line, clothes, tin shed.
Including shitty white dog.
All sold but Kawasaki.
 

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Again for pete.v
Though I have reservations about what he thinks a combat is.
Note the rounded front fender pete.

On a day ride west of the Blue Mountains. This time with Filipa on the back. Phil and Filipa.
Three dicks on Honda 4's challenged me across the mountains on this day in 1973. They never
saw anything but my tail light, and not for very long.
The ghost town of Newnes situates in this valley, nothing left but the pub.

Apparently Filipa died in her late 40's. I had lost track of her completely. But I was told she had
an 18 yr old daughter, desperately trying to piece her mother's history together. I duplicated this
and other photos and mailed them to the address I had been given.
Never even heard anything back. Not even a thank you. Next generation shit I guess. Too ill bred
to even say thank you.
 

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phil yates said:
Again for pete.v


Apparently Filipa died in her late 40's. I had lost track of her completely. But I was told she had
an 18 yr old daughter, desperately trying to piece her mother's history together. I duplicated this
and other photos and mailed them to the address I had been given.
Never even heard anything back. Not even a thank you. Next generation shit I guess. Too ill bred
to even say thank you.
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:roll: :roll: :roll: Why does'nt that surprise me... Just cos you give a bit here and there, dont mean your a saviour or make you anything special !!!!
 
olChris said:
phil yates said:
Again for pete.v


Apparently Filipa died in her late 40's. I had lost track of her completely. But I was told she had
an 18 yr old daughter, desperately trying to piece her mother's history together. I duplicated this
and other photos and mailed them to the address I had been given.
Never even heard anything back. Not even a thank you. Next generation shit I guess. Too ill bred
to even say thank you.
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:roll: :roll: :roll: Why does'nt that surprise me... Just cos you give a bit here and there, dont mean your a saviour or make you anything special !!!!
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Who even suggested it did?
Just being a human and showing compassion for a stranger doesn't make you special or a saviour.
Saying thank you isn't hard either. Unless you were never taught to.
I have no idea what you were taught.
 
phil yates said:
Just being a human and showing compassion for a stranger doesn't make you special or a saviour.
Saying thank you isn't hard either. Unless you were never taught to.
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My wife wasn't raised in a household where you say "please" and "thank-you"; I was. After showing her the Ways of the Force, she is amazed at how much better people react to manners and courtesy. She gets irritated when her family reaches across the table and blurts out "I'll have some of that".
As for spelling, it's a tough row to hoe when you're trying to be the world's teacher, but don't give up hope!
 
Nater_Potater said:
phil yates said:
Just being a human and showing compassion for a stranger doesn't make you special or a saviour.
Saying thank you isn't hard either. Unless you were never taught to.
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My wife wasn't raised in a household where you say "please" and "thank-you"; I was. After showing her the Ways of the Force, she is amazed at how much better people react to manners and courtesy. She gets irritated when her family reaches across the table and blurts out "I'll have some of that".
As for spelling, it's a tough row to hoe when you're trying to be the world's teacher, but don't give up hope!
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Nat
Perhaps olChris misinterpreted my original comment. Responding to a gesture of good will, or rather not responding, says something about your upbringing and your character. Table manners? Well I'm probably not much good at those either. Not really much good to you anyway when you are eating food shoved under the door of your locked study, once a day!

Spelling? A lot of people are apoorlin spellers. That reflects absolutely nothing about you. My Jenny is an appalling speller (as are many of my friends) but she is the kindest, most caring beautiful person in the world. Even if she beats me senselessly (which I deserve). My spelling gets worse and worse as I get older, I think it does for many of us.

pete.v can spell okay, he just does it to annoy me. For that, I will not tell him precisely where or why SI is on his clock cases. I don't care how many pleading private emails he sends me. The man deserves punishment for trying to make one Norton out of five, and then never riding it anyway.

Phil
 
And I'll leave pete.v to find the one deliberate error above. But still not going to tell him where the SI stamp is.
 
Gentlemen! :? Please get back on topic (Norton Commandos? Remember them? :roll: ) or this thread will be locked. :|
 
L.A.B. said:
Gentlemen! :? Please get back on topic (Norton Commandos? Remember them? :roll: ) or this thread will be locked. :|
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I started photographing my very old magazines containing Norton related articles and the people testing the bikes.. It's under Publications Of The Past. But cooking tea, mowing lawns and pressing computer buttons all at the same time sent it to the wrong section, Related Articles. Also, I ate lawn clippings for dinner and the dog had my risotto. Not a good evening.

I've asked Jerry to move it across here if that is possible or not hard. There is some real interesting stuff in those mags, I've not looked at them for years. Not a lot of Norton stuff against Japanese. Bu I guess that reflects what the era was, and where the Commando was going.

Might interest you, might not.

Phil
 
phil yates said:
I started photographing my very old magazines containing Norton related articles and the people testing the bikes.. It's under Publications Of The Past. But cooking tea, mowing lawns and pressing computer buttons all at the same time sent it to the wrong section, Related Articles. Also, I ate lawn clippings for dinner and the dog had my risotto. Not a good evening.
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In fact, I moved it to the Motorcycle Related Discussions section before you'd added any Commando content.

As it is now on topic I will move it back-done.
 
L.A.B. said:
phil yates said:
I started photographing my very old magazines containing Norton related articles and the people testing the bikes.. It's under Publications Of The Past. But cooking tea, mowing lawns and pressing computer buttons all at the same time sent it to the wrong section, Related Articles. Also, I ate lawn clippings for dinner and the dog had my risotto. Not a good evening.
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In fact, I moved it to the Motorcycle Related Discussions section before you'd added any Commando content.

As it is now on topic I will move it back-done.
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I suppose you also ate my risotto whilst I was out mowing the lawn?? Not the dog after all!
I started the photos with CW, who happened to be on a BSA, as background info for the man testing the Interpol. And some background to the magazine itself. Things here were then very different to pommy land, and America. More so than they are today.

But I don't mind where you put it L.A.B. Maybe put it in the BSA Related Discussions Forum. Maybe tell me next time so I don't kick the dog for eating my risotto whilst I was looking for my missing photos :D
 
phil yates said:
I suppose you also ate my risotto whilst I was out mowing the lawn?? Not the dog after all!
I started the photos with CW, who happened to be on a BSA, as background info for the man testing the Interpol. And some background to the magazine itself. Things here were then very different to pommy land, and America. More so than they are today.

But I don't mind where you put it L.A.B. Maybe put it in the BSA Related Discussions Forum. Maybe tell me next time so I don't kick the dog for eating my risotto whilst I was looking for my missing photos :D
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As long as there is at least some Commando content in a thread then there's usually no problem, and had you hinted in the original post that you were shortly going to include some then I'd have left where it was.

PS
(Sorry to disappoint you, but the dog really did eat the risotto.)
 
L.A.B. said:
phil yates said:
I suppose you also ate my risotto whilst I was out mowing the lawn?? Not the dog after all!
I started the photos with CW, who happened to be on a BSA, as background info for the man testing the Interpol. And some background to the magazine itself. Things here were then very different to pommy land, and America. More so than they are today.

But I don't mind where you put it L.A.B. Maybe put it in the BSA Related Discussions Forum. Maybe tell me next time so I don't kick the dog for eating my risotto whilst I was looking for my missing photos :D
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As long as there is at least some Commando content in a thread then there's usually no problem, and had you hinted in the original post that you were shortly going to include some then I'd have left where it was.

PS
(Sorry to disappoint you, but the dog really did eat the risotto.)
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That's okay Les,
The dog (Sammy) is in hospital with food poisoning.
I guess it wasn't such a good risotto.
You did me a favour.
After the Interpol test, CW was never allowed near a Commando again. He went back to road testing motor scooters, which he should never have ventured from in the first place.
 
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