General Chit Chat

[Bruce Rioja]

Watch out you biker lads...

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/23 ... g-members/

My first thought was "Why, because under leathers and a crash helmet, who will know the difference...or care?

Last few years there's been more and more female bikers Tango and they are welcome and respected in the main by male riders.

My point wasn't to decry female bikers Hoboh, or female anything. I support women in almost all they do. I just don't understand why they need to distance themselves from being just "bikers". No offence meant at all.

Males tend to be nearly all about just riding and talking machinery, females, in the main, are more into the social side not the nearest bacon butty shop

Ah, I see ...(I don't really, how social can you be on a motorbike? I mean, they all ride to meet up somewhere, then get off the bikes and talk about Loose Women, or summat in a cafe?)

When I was younger, every Sunday afternoon, literally dozens of motorcyclists would come tear-arsing up Belmont Road on their way to meeting up at Rivvy Barn, via Sheephouse.

Half an hour later a speeding ambulance would doubtlessly follow.

[Hoboh]

Watch out you biker lads...

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/23 ... g-members/

My first thought was "Why, because under leathers and a crash helmet, who will know the difference...or care?

Last few years there's been more and more female bikers Tango and they are welcome and respected in the main by male riders.

My point wasn't to decry female bikers Hoboh, or female anything. I support women in almost all they do. I just don't understand why they need to distance themselves from being just "bikers". No offence meant at all.

Males tend to be nearly all about just riding and talking machinery, females, in the main, are more into the social side not the nearest bacon butty shop

Ah, I see ...(I don't really, how social can you be on a motorbike? I mean, they all ride to meet up somewhere, then get off the bikes and talk about Loose Women, or summat in a cafe?)

When I was younger, every Sunday afternoon, literally dozens of motorcyclists would come tear-arsing up Belmont Road on their way to meeting up at Rivvy Barn, via Sheephouse.

Half an hour later a speeding ambulance would doubtlessly follow.

Average speed cameras put the damper on that Bruce, many still head for the barn though I ain't been there for years. Prefer the North Yorkshire moors or the Cumbria/Welsh mountain roads were most car drivers won't go.

[TANGODANCER]

"Lady" Susan Hussey. A fine example of England's aristocracy's uselessness.

[Montreal Wanderer]

"Lady" Susan Hussey. A fine example of England's aristocracy's uselessness.

I'm not sure it's entirely fair to tar the entire aristocracy with that brush, Tango. It's like saying the racist yahoos at Burnden were a fine example of the Bolton working man's beliefs. The aristocracy may be useless but they are not all racist any more than BWFC fans.

[TANGODANCER]

"Lady" Susan Hussey. A fine example of England's aristocracy's uselessness.

I'm not sure it's entirely fair to tar the entire aristocracy with that brush, Tango. It's like saying the racist yahoos at Burnden were a fine example of the Bolton working man's beliefs. The aristocracy may be useless but they are not all racist any more than BWFC fans.

Are you aware just how many hangers-on comprise our royalty Monty? I've never called the Queen nor will I Charles, but going back even just as far as the Regency era, the monarchy and co have hardly covered themselves with glory have they? I'm not just talking this obviously racist slant which the remarks obviously were, it's just the "down the nose" manner in which it was delivered by a titled woman. Nor have I forgotten the Duke of Edinburgh's "spear-chucking" comments.

[Montreal Wanderer]

"Lady" Susan Hussey. A fine example of England's aristocracy's uselessness.

I'm not sure it's entirely fair to tar the entire aristocracy with that brush, Tango. It's like saying the racist yahoos at Burnden were a fine example of the Bolton working man's beliefs. The aristocracy may be useless but they are not all racist any more than BWFC fans.

Are you aware just how many hangers-on comprise our royalty Monty? I've never called the Queen nor will I Charles, but going back even just as far as the Regency era, the monarchy and co have hardly covered themselves with glory have they? I'm not just talking this obviously racist slant which the remarks obviously were, it's just the "down the nose" manner in which it was delivered by a titled woman. Nor have I forgotten the Duke of Edinburgh's "spear-chucking" comments.

I just felt 'aristocracy' has a far broader connotations than the royal family and the titled nobility who hang around them as Ladies in Waiting, or gentlemen of the Bed Chamber. The aristocracy are all over, even in Bolton, sometimes doing good things. My aunt worked on charitable endeavours with Lady Marjorie Hulton (I had tea with them in her residence - not the Hall which had been pulled down) and I went to college with Bernard de Hoghton of Houghton Towers. I can't see either of them hanging on round the Palace. Lord Leverhulme left the Bungalow and its estate at Rivington to Horwich Council for the people, and I'm sure you wandered the grounds. Susan Hussey's remarks were despicable but everyone, including the Palace, has agreed on that.

I agree the Duke of Edinburgh's propensity for giving offence was pretty impressive, and the spear-chucking by no means his worst remark. Of course he is only British aristocracy by marriage

[Worthy4England]

I think the fuss and some of the language "violated", "abused" etc. is probably much larger than the offence (of course this is my view, not being the person on the receiving end.) The perpetrator - obviously the only description appropriate at this juncture, has hung up her glass slipper and having never heard of her to this point in my life, I suspect we'll never hear from her again.

I'm fairly sure I'd have responded along the lines of "King Charles, where are his people from? No, not Queen Elizabeth II and the Greek fella, George II? Oh they're Germans?"

[TANGODANCER]

"Lady" Susan Hussey. A fine example of England's aristocracy's uselessness.

I'm not sure it's entirely fair to tar the entire aristocracy with that brush, Tango.

Aye, I was a bit broad in the use of the word Monty, but in the strictly adapted sense, nothing applies to everyone, just the good and bad people and how they see things: they know who they are . Only you and God know the truth of anything. Perhaps I should have concentrated on the racist angle remarks which were despicable.

Re the "nobility" Blame my respect and admiration for Jane Austen who had little time for them mainly due to her own dislike of the the Regency era she lived in under the Prince of Wales ( later to be King George the fourth when his father died) and his openly illicit affairs and lifestyle. Jane dedicated the novel "Emma " to him under "advice" from courtiers rather than any fondness of him.

[TANGODANCER]

Haiti. What a hell-hole of a country it really is.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-63707429

[Hoboh]

London pub launches new 'Harry's Bitter' beer that at 3.9% strength is 'as weak as its namesake' after Prince and Meghan's Netflix whingefest

[Worthy4England]

Do you have to read OK and Hello, when you're not on your period, to keep up with this uninteresting topic?

[BWFC_Insane]

Do you have to read OK and Hello, when you're not on your period, to keep up with this uninteresting topic?

Baffles me how grown adults care about this at all….

[Hoboh]

Do you have to read OK and Hello, when you're not on your period, to keep up with this uninteresting topic?

Baffles me how grown adults care about this at all….

Simple answer is the monarchy is what keeps us different and pretty much unique in this world.

[Prufrock]

But he's what sixth in line and gone to California? Just, don't watch it?

It's not a bad heuristic that if anyone has any opinion on those two, they're probably not worth listening to.

[Worthy4England]

Do you have to read OK and Hello, when you're not on your period, to keep up with this uninteresting topic?

Baffles me how grown adults care about this at all….

Simple answer is the monarchy is what keeps us different and pretty much unique in this world.

Gotcha. Unique other than the other 40-odd monarchies across the globe...We might be the only on left where the current branch are German, but I rather doubt that too.

[Hoboh]

Do you have to read OK and Hello, when you're not on your period, to keep up with this uninteresting topic?

Baffles me how grown adults care about this at all….

Simple answer is the monarchy is what keeps us different and pretty much unique in this world.

Gotcha. Unique other than the other 40-odd monarchies across the globe...We might be the only on left where the current branch are German, but I rather doubt that too.

The overwelming majority of the 40 odd monarchy round the world do not work like ours in the slightest

[Bruce Rioja]

I was saddened by the passing of HM The Queen, and by that of The Duke of Edinburgh, too. However, I couldn't give a tin shit as to what Ginger Bollocks and his attention whore have to say about anything.
I wouldn't mind seeing the results of the DNA test though.

[Worthy4England]

Do you have to read OK and Hello, when you're not on your period, to keep up with this uninteresting topic?

Baffles me how grown adults care about this at all….

Simple answer is the monarchy is what keeps us different and pretty much unique in this world.

Gotcha. Unique other than the other 40-odd monarchies across the globe...We might be the only on left where the current branch are German, but I rather doubt that too.

The overwelming majority of the 40 odd monarchy round the world do not work like ours in the slightest

Yup this is where all that behind the scenes Intel from OK comes in. To a simple working man, Kinging and Queening all looks a bit alike. Wear shiny hat, wave a lot, generally don't mix with the masses. But we've digressed.

[BWFC_Insane]

This tweet from antiBrexit bloke had me smiling.
https://twitter.com/bmay/status/1602233 ... 7NyrgM_qjQ

[Worthy4England]

4 children dead, trying to do normal things for children their age. Awful. Heart goes out to their families