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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: klaviator on March 28, 2021, 03:39:19 PM
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I know that many people get on forums and just interact with each other online. I was just wondering how many people have have actually met other forum members in person?
Me? I have met at least four of the members here in person.
Crossbolt
Dan V
RDhood
Cleanerman
I met Crossbolt through this forum. The other three I met through other forums but they happen to be members here as well.
It is kind of cool when I see someone post something and I actually know that person. They are not just some anonymous name on the internet.
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None so far but have not traveled out of my area especially with covid. No forum members very close to me as well. I will try to say hello to a few when I head East and South. I will also have a Kymco with me for a ride or two.
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Unfortunately, no-one. At least yet any way. Enjoy meeting people and talking scooters and motorcycles.
Where I live, most everything that is 2-wheeled with a motor is a Harley. Maybe just maybe I can turn a few
Heads and opinions when I get my AK550 this week. :)
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I met the following at Beat the Heat last year:
Klaviator
Dan V and his wife
RDhood and family
Faces to go with forum names are good.
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You the only one I have met, klav! Looks like Cleanerman is in the lead!
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The warden gave us wifi for last year - and now - by using hand mirrors, us 3 scooter enthusiasts have finally been able to "meet".
It's been a moral boost to the whole cell block!
Major Tom
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I met the following at Beat the Heat last year:
Klaviator
Dan V and his wife
RDhood and family
Faces to go with forum names are good.
Hey Larry, I forgot you were on this forum. I didn't forget that I met you. I'll go back and change my first post to reflect that.
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I have met a couple of riders from this forum through the local scooter club. Also I have met several from the ADV forum through the same club.
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None as yet. Although as most of you are in the Sates and I'm in Blighty, that's hardly surprising!
Have a forum member not too far from me and we have threatened to take a run out somewhere one day, so who knows?
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None as yet. Although as most of you are in the Sates and I'm in Blighty, that's hardly surprising!
Have a forum member not too far from me and we have threatened to take a run out somewhere one day, so who knows?
Neil is continuing my education, had to look up Blightly . A informal and typically affectionate term for England by soldiers of World War 1 and World War II.
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Neil is continuing my education, had to look up Blightly . A informal and typically affectionate term for England by soldiers of World War 1 and World War II.
I could be wrong on this KK, but I think as a term, it may have originated in the RAF? Only used these days by old farts like me!
PS: Update. Nope, I'm wrong as a bit of internet surfing reveals that it pre-dates the RAF, going back to Victorian times: " ‘Blighty’ is another one of those Indian words that made it into English during the days of the Raj. It comes from the Hindustani vilayati, which sounds like ‘blighty’ in many regional dialects."
The original 1886 edition of Hobson-Jobson doesn’t mention the word denoting Britain, but ‘Blighty’ passed into British army slang not long afterwards. It certainly appears in soldiers’ letters during the Boer War. The word really caught on in the First World War. Many of the ‘Old Contemptibles’, the professional soldiers who bore the brunt of the early fighting, had served in India. It’s surely also no coincidence that ‘blighter’ was then a very popular expression meaning an irritating or distasteful person.
It’s exactly the sort of harmless vulgarity that Tommy liked. ‘Blighty’ became hugely popular, used in advertisements, music hall songs, and even as the title of a humorous magazine for servicemen. Soldiers in the trenches hoped that if they got hit, they would “catch a Blighty one” – a non-fatal wound that would get them sent home.
‘Blighty’ quickly passed out of vogue. When used during the Second World War, it was generally with mild irony.
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@Neil @Kansas kymco, nothing bad meant.
I don't know who said that originally, but seems to be true sometimes.
"Brits and Americans are the same nation, but divided by a common language".
Like Austrians and Germans are.😉
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@Neil @Kansas kymco, nothing bad meant.
I don't know who said that originally, but seems to be true sometimes.
"Brits and Americans are the same nation, but divided by a common language".
Like Austrians and Germans are.😉
Thanks Ruffus, it was the great GBS: George Bernard Shaw said: "England and America are two countries separated by a common language"
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@Neil @Kansas kymco, nothing bad meant.
I don't know who said that originally, but seems to be true sometimes.
"Brits and Americans are the same nation, but divided by a common language".
Like Austrians and Germans are.😉
We have said the same thing, in fact Neil and I have had a discussion about car parts having different names in each country. The world has become a smaller place with the internet. I remember in the early days of the Internet riding in a car with some long time friends on hwy 400. We passed the small town of Beaumont *Kansas. A question by me led to Marcie looking up the info as we drove down the hwy. As a child I would have been amazed to be able to make a phone call from a car.
*Beaumont Kansas is a very small town known for historic railroad water tower. It has a hotel/restaurant that pilots land at the airstrip and taxi into town and park in front of the motel restaurant for lunch.
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Thanks Neil & Kansas, there is everyday something new to learn.
..and yes, during my high school time I wasn't that interested in literature, went to study then at a tech. faculty.
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Thanks Ruffus, it was the great GBS: George Bernard Shaw said: "England and America are two countries separated by a common language"
I know that GBS said it first but Winston Churchill is who I remember the quote from.
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And I think he offered a much more quote-worthy version too!
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We have said the same thing, in fact Neil and I have had a discussion about car parts having different names in each country. The world has become a smaller place with the internet. I remember in the early days of the Internet riding in a car with some long time friends on hwy 400. We passed the small town of Beaumont *Kansas. A question by me led to Marcie looking up the info as we drove down the hwy. As a child I would have been amazed to be able to make a phone call from a car.
*Beaumont Kansas is a very small town known for historic railroad water tower. It has a hotel/restaurant that pilots land at the airstrip and taxi into town and park in front of the motel restaurant for lunch.
KK, I've driven through Kansas. I think if you stand on a kitchen chair in Kansas City you can see Denver.
I once hitch hiked across Kansas, caught a ride with a pro bowler. He talked bowling for like 20 hours straight, until I grabbed my pack and guitar and jumped out at a light in Grand Junction!
The whole state is like a landing strip....no offence meant.
I rode my Honda from San Antonio to parent's USAF airbase in Topeka, before flying out of Kansas City to SeaTac & Vietnam. Flew same route back a year later to meet up with my wife.
In the 50's we lived in a rented farmhouse somewhere in Kansas when my Dad was stationed before at that same Topeka airbase. As a little kid I had my foot stepped on by horse ridden by a girl who used to accompany my older brother to the one-room school house down the road, somewhere out of my sight...
Good memories of Kansas - just a real test of patience to drive across!!
Stig
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KK, I've driven through Kansas. I think if you stand on a kitchen chair in Kansas City you can see Denver.
I once hitch hiked across Kansas, caught a ride with a pro bowler. He talked bowling for like 20 hours straight, until I grabbed my pack and guitar and jumped out at a light in Grand Junction!
The whole state is like a landing strip....no offence meant.
I rode my Honda from San Antonio to parent's USAF airbase in Topeka, before flying out of Kansas City to SeaTac & Vietnam. Flew same route back a year later to meet up with my wife.
In the 50's we lived in a rented farmhouse somewhere in Kansas when my Dad was stationed before at that same Topeka airbase. As a little kid I had my foot stepped on by horse ridden by a girl who used to accompany my older brother to the one-room school house down the road, somewhere out of my sight...
Good memories of Kansas - just a real test of patience to drive across!!
Stig
Dude the whole high plain are flat from Manitoba Canada to Texas. Actually the flint hills are just that into Eastern KS with some variety of terrain. You get West of 135 and it flattens out. I travel a lot since my family is so spread out so get to see a lot of the country. I have family in Canada, California, *Pennsylvania, Georgia and Texas. I've been through Ohio many times on I-70 , I-80, I-76 and I-71 and beleive it would be very short sided of me to judge Ohio by the interstate. That's why when I go to visit family I would like to bring a scooter and check out more then the interstate and stop by your coffee village. I hope someday you will be able to do the same and I can show you some county roads and lakes.
*Moved from Lantau Island Hong Kong .
By the way this invitation is open to anyone that would like to stop by in there travels. By the way I avoid the interstate like the plague when on the scooter.
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Stig another funny thing I remember from school. El Dorado where I grew up had a exchange program. One student from Switzerland made the comment (you drive 3 hours in Switzerland your in another country, you drive 3 hrs in Kansas you're still in Kansas) . As a young person I learned a lot from the exchange students. Do you know if schools still have exchange programs?
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pe0ple from EU drove three days gave up driving to BC as they were still in Ontario,
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Stig another funny thing I remember from school. El Dorado where I grew up had a exchange program. One student from Switzerland made the comment (you drive 3 hours in Switzerland your in another country, you drive 3 hrs in Kansas you're still in Kansas) . As a young person I learned a lot from the exchange students. Do you know if schools still have exchange programs?
Yes, my kid's Christian school has kids from Korea, Japan and the Middle East. The ME are prized for their soccer skills --- or maybe that's just me talking😊
Had a kid from the UK on the soccer team. He was a skilled rugby player back home - who invariably got carded in the soccer games for roughness! He couldn't help it😊
I think each of these kids were from very wealthy families.
Stig
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pe0ple from EU drove three days gave up driving to BC as they were still in Ontario,
Ontario is definitely huge. Drove from Sioux Lookout to close by Toronto and it was 1250 miles. Ironically the same distance from my house in Kansas to Sioux Lookout. Coming back I took the Northern route by Kapuskasing. Extremely weird experience, You know how when you start to get a very bad cold? I had a fever and was spacey and was sitting in a restaurant while everyone around me was speaking french. It was surreal to say the least. Some absolutely beautiful scenery and would be a fantastic scooter ride.
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When I first glanced at this topic, I thought it said How many.... have you met in Prison!
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When I first glanced at this topic, I thought it said How many.... have you met in Prison!
Ooops
(see my post..)
#45362-J Block
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We have said the same thing, in fact Neil and I have had a discussion about car parts having different names in each country. The world has become a smaller place with the internet. I remember in the early days of the Internet riding in a car with some long time friends on hwy 400. We passed the small town of Beaumont *Kansas. A question by me led to Marcie looking up the info as we drove down the hwy. As a child I would have been amazed to be able to make a phone call from a car.
*Beaumont Kansas is a very small town known for historic railroad water tower. It has a hotel/restaurant that pilots land at the airstrip and taxi into town and park in front of the motel restaurant for lunch.
Back in the 30.s there was 1 phone per city block allowed , if the home owner did not like you , no phone unless it was a emergency in regina sask,. Canada,. we were not on the good list as our cat hunted his chickens,
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Stig another funny thing I remember from school. El Dorado where I grew up had a exchange program. One student from Switzerland made the comment (you drive 3 hours in Switzerland your in another country, you drive 3 hrs in Kansas you're still in Kansas) . As a young person I learned a lot from the exchange students. Do you know if schools still have exchange programs?
It’s all relative. 3 hours here can get you coast to coast! 😂
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Here in northern Italy you could be in half an hour in Slovenia, one hour more and you are through Croatia and after this three hours you would be in Austria to sit for a nice cuppa and cake (COVID aside). But "tempi passati".
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When I first glanced at this topic, I thought it said How many.... have you met in Prison!
I'm also on the Adventure Rider Forums. All the members there are called "Inmates" ;)
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It’s all relative. 3 hours here can get you coast to coast! 😂
I recently read that 11 states are larger than the U.K., and that each, alone, have more days of sunshine per year.
(also read that: musically - the 20th century will be remembered for 2 things: the Beatles and Dylan. Full stop.)
Stig
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Full stop? Ah, thanks Tom! Makes me feel right at home. Toodle pip.
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I live very close to Neil and have been shocking at arranging a ride out.
Though, in my defense, my C90 had a very short interlude between being MOTed and then catching fire last summer.
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I live very close to Neil and have been shocking at arranging a ride out.
Though, in my defense, my C90 had a very short interlude between being MOTed and then catching fire last summer.
No worries, whenever you’re mobile again let me know.
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I live very close to Neil and have been shocking at arranging a ride out.
Though, in my defense, my C90 had a very short interlude between being MOTed and then catching fire last summer.
"Fire"?!
Remember - no pic it didn't happen!
I nice pic using a selfie stick while riding with flames coming up over your helmet would be a real keeper for the forum archives!
Stig
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"Fire"?!
Remember - no pic it didn't happen!
I nice pic using a selfie stick while riding with flames coming up over your helmet would be a real keeper for the forum archives!
Stig
You encouraging the arsonist in him Stig?!