I have to ask Derek, and I know I shouldn't.......why have you got eight pairs of jeans if you don't find them comfortable?
Oh god, why did I ask.....
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Interesting Wearing of jeans in to old age
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Oh god, why did I ask.....
Let's face it, after Daisy nobody had any chance of looking good in jeans...
Because Bev keeps buying them.
I know I am going to regret it.....but why?
Because she doesn’t seem to understand that something is only a bargain if it is wanted, I do wear them sometimes, usually at the field tucked into my riggers.
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Not worn jeans since my early 40's. Even back then I found the cheap ones were poorly cut and wouln't dream of paying the price for some of the known brands. I prefer the multi pocketed cargo trousers than come in 101 different colours.
Same with T-shirts, cheap one are only fit for polishing the car and the price of Wierd Fish ones is crazy.
Same with T-shirts, cheap one are only fit for polishing the car and the price of Wierd Fish ones is crazy.
In general terms, I don't see how anyone can be too old for a t-shirt. I think some people really need to buy them a couple of sizes bigger but that's not an issue exclusive to t shirts.
I wear t-shirts all year round or a polo if I need to be reasonably presentable. When I went to test ride my baby Panzer, Mrs P was in KL and she asked me to send some pictures of her (sod off Beaker, it's a 'she'!) so I did along with one of me sat on a showroom machine. First thing she did was carpet bomb me with texts about "all the nice clothes you have and you rock up to a BM dealer in that scruffy Ramones t-shirt!"
So your missus is a snob?
Years ago we went to buy a brand new Daihatsu Fourtrack, I was wearing torn & paint splattered jeans (see I do wear them sometimes) my tee shirt had plaster splashes all over it & my puma trainers had seen better days, should have seen the look on the salesman’s face when I asked for a test drive, I laughed & said “don’t worry I’ll probably be mostly dressed like this when I’m driving it.
If you go into a Mercedes showroom it doesn't matter what you are wearing - they still ignore you.So your missus is a snob?
Years ago we went to buy a brand new Daihatsu Fourtrack, I was wearing torn & paint splattered jeans (see I do wear them sometimes) my tee shirt had plaster splashes all over it & my puma trainers had seen better days, should have seen the look on the salesman’s face when I asked for a test drive, I laughed & said “don’t worry I’ll probably be mostly dressed like this when I’m driving it.
I recall going into the merc dealers in dartford on the way home from work fully suited and booted to talk about taking a merc as a company car.
After being ignored for about ten minutes I walked out.
Did you by any chance look like a bank manager?
Yup, total pillar of the community
Pillock surely?
And still you wonder why they ignored you.
No, she just doesn't like me looking like a Harold Ramp. I did look a proper scruff mind, but if I'm dropping £12k on a bike then I can wear what I like. As long as I'm clean, smell nice and wearing an expensive watch* then I don't give a toss what I look like.So your missus is a snob?
Years ago we went to buy a brand new Daihatsu Fourtrack, I was wearing torn & paint splattered jeans (see I do wear them sometimes) my tee shirt had plaster splashes all over it & my puma trainers had seen better days, should have seen the look on the salesman’s face when I asked for a test drive, I laughed & said “don’t worry I’ll probably be mostly dressed like this when I’m driving it.
You admit to wearing Puma trainers? Pikey. Fact!
*I don't wear a watch in the gym cos that's posing. I don't wear one on the bike either. Whether it's true or not I don't know but I've heard some quite worrying stories where people have been involved in road traffic accidents and instead of doing something useful like calling an ambulance, some sick motherfuckers have taken to relieving victims of their possessions, such as watches, wallets, phones, etc. I don't think I'd be able to restrain myself if I witnessed scum doing something like that.
That has been happening since before I attended my very first crash back n the 70's
I attended a double fatal on a quiet country road and 3 scumbags were seen legging it having stripped the occupants who were dead on scene of all their belongings.
Thankfully it does not happen often, but it does happen, and fortunately said scumbags were caught.
The taking of photos rather than call for assistance is increasingly common (and the press are just as bad)
So what you have heard is both true (albeit rare) and something that has been happening probably since the first motor car took to the road.
I always was a bit slow on the uptake, Tony
Seriously though, I really would beat the living shite out of someone I caught doing that and fuck the consequences. Even though it's rare, I still wouldn't wear a watch on the bike in case of an 'off'.
I'd forgotten about the 'photographers'. How they can do that when someone is writing around on the deck in agony, or worse, is beyond my comprehension.
Those of a certain age will remember the Miners strike of 82.
A lot of people (including a lot of Policemen) made a lot of money off the back of the strike, but in particular the oil haulage companies who were having to transport heavy oil to the power stations, which for my area was at Didcot.
Anyway, long story short, my partner and I volunteered to work an early turn Motorway car one January as it was a more comfortable option than being out on the bike all day.
We had just put the kettle on when we got turned out to reports of an HGV having gone down the embankment on the westbound M4 between junctions 11 and 12.
We found the HGV. It was one of these oil tankers that had jacknifed and crushed the driver in the cab.
The driver was well dead, but we could not remove the body until the 30+ tons of heavy oil had been drained from the main tank and the operators only remaining tankers were small HGV 2's.
The driver was half in and half out of the cab, but we could not really cover him up for a variety of reasons.
Anyway, being close to an overbridge, we lost count of the number of photographers (both press and private)) who were clicking away showing a complete disregard for the driver or any respect for the family.
But most got the hint when a couple of the lads went up onto the overbridge grabbed their cameras and ripped out the film.
The attitude of these picture takers was that there was no law preventing them from taking the photos (which there wasn't/isn't so they could not see what all the fuss was about.
Of course thus was in the days before digital was the norm.
So yes, photograhers has been an issue for a long time especially the press photographers who want that one picture they can sell to everyone else for a tidy profit and have no morals.
Sorry for digressing
Absolutely unbelievable. So in theory, the driver's family might have found out by way of a photograph on the cover of the Daily Tat as opposed to official channels. Nice start to anyone's day. Not.Those of a certain age will remember the Miners strike of 82.
A lot of people (including a lot of Policemen) made a lot of money off the back of the strike, but in particular the oil haulage companies who were having to transport heavy oil to the power stations, which for my area was at Didcot.
Anyway, long story short, my partner and I volunteered to work an early turn Motorway car one January as it was a more comfortable option than being out on the bike all day.
We had just put the kettle on when we got turned out to reports of an HGV having gone down the embankment on the westbound M4 between junctions 11 and 12.
We found the HGV. It was one of these oil tankers that had jacknifed and crushed the driver in the cab.
The driver was well dead, but we could not remove the body until the 30+ tons of heavy oil had been drained from the main tank and the operators only remaining tankers were small HGV 2's.
The driver was half in and half out of the cab, but we could not really cover him up for a variety of reasons.
Anyway, being close to an overbridge, we lost count of the number of photographers (both press and private)) who were clicking away showing a complete disregard for the driver or any respect for the family.
But most got the hint when a couple of the lads went up onto the overbridge grabbed their cameras and ripped out the film.
The attitude of these picture takers was that there was no law preventing them from taking the photos (which there wasn't/isn't so they could not see what all the fuss was about.
Of course thus was in the days before digital was the norm.
So yes, photograhers has been an issue for a long time especially the press photographers who want that one picture they can sell to everyone else for a tidy profit and have no morals.
Sorry for digressing
As for digressing, have you read the rest of the threads on here and seen the way they go off on tangents?
That was the concern and remains one of the principle concerns to this day.
I know that a few papers got sued but it still didn't stop them. They obviously figured that the increased sales was worth paying the fine or compensation.