The only Star Trek I ever really watched was The Next Generation, looks like I’m going to have to watch Picard.
The Motorbike Show on ITV4.
Thinking I’d really quite like an original FireBlade again…
Actually mine was a Mk2, in the lovely understated Urban Tiger paint scheme
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I do think the original is best. Twin headlights just do it.
Total game changer and at the time , a very un Honda type bike! If you know what in mean.
Really liked it in the black.
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Yeah, has a touch of the RC30 about it. Claire keeps banging on about Goldwings though, she’s very enamoured of the sofa on the back… 
My older brother had a pan European , at the time I could never see the attraction of it ( especially as he hardly went any distance on it) but now as I’m older I get it.
Sort of 
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I mostly enjoyed Picard, though it lost me somewhat in the last couple of episodes, and I thought the conclusion was all just a bit duff. There was a lot about it I thought was excellent though.
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Yup. An old work mate used to have one, fantastic thing.
One day he was doing ‘ahem’ mph down the A38 to work on it and thought his bottom was getting warm, turned out the rear suspension had collapsed…
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Bring back the urban Tiger !
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It’s a real pleasure watching the shock on a nine year old’s face after that line in the Empire Strikes Back
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Dionne Warwick at the BBC, 80th Birthday special, BBC4.
Great until Noel fucking Edmonds just popped up. Cunt.
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Back in the early 90s, I wanted to part-ex my Ducati 851 for the much faster 888SP. Despite that she only occasionally went on the back of the 851, she said (because the SP had a single seat) that I’d “cut her out of my motorcycling”
So, I said not to worry, I’d get a second bike with a more sensible seat for both of us to go out on, then when I go out with mates, I can go mad on the new Duke.
Great she said, can we get a Harley? So, I booked an all-weekend test ride on a 1200 low rider sport (iirc).
By the end of that weekend, she had a sore backside and numb legs and I had a sore hand from heaving on the non-existent brakes. 
She never mentioned Harley again. I bought a Kawasaki 750 Zephyr instead.
She hardly every went on the back of the Kwaker either 
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Oh. My. God. Claire did that when I got the 998.
I had the choice between a 998 biposto and a 998R , at the time I think the R was about 3k more expensive and I could afford either. I really, really wanted the R because it was the ultimate model of my dream bike
“No, there’s no back seat, I want to come out with you” . so I bought the BP. I never thought about getting a second bike tbh, probably wouldn’t have been able to afford anything that I’d want to own anyway.
She has been on the back of that bike precisely once. And the last time I looked 998Rs were going for about 5 times the price of a BP…
My ex vetoed me buying a Honda RC45 from Liverpool Honda for £7k because I would have had to finance a couple of grand. They go for about £30k now… 
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You got to run a Ducati and keep the wife… not a bad outcome in the end.
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Don’t see the problem
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Ultimate Cars.
WTF they’ve just ‘customised’ a Jag XK220 and it looks fucking awful. The other was a SAAB 96 that they painted spitfire green and made fucking abysmal.
This is the car equivalent of that woman that makes ugly stuffed toy versions of peoples pets.
The Untouchables
Connery’s accent… 
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To be fair, any role that demanded a non-Scots accent from Connery… dodgy.
Highlander
The Hunt For Red October
Etc
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I forgot Connery got an Oscar for this! Jesus, was it a shit year or something?
Actually it’s a long time since I watched this film, and it’s really not as good as I remember. Apart from Pacino
yes ok De Niro, I always get them mixed up
as Capone, he’s fucking ace.
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De Niro was quite good as well.
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Fuck my life.
I blame oxygen starvation.