[Boatsie]

Rewritten,
Started commuting again, seems worth it as I get exercise and I have lost the just shy of $50 a week to run a car as my commuter.
Was going on and on with grandma and discovered that a bright couple that she befriends had bought a new car. The male had an accident and drove into a bike shop destroying $100 000 worth of tour bicycles. Anyway that’s insurance thankfulness and sort of funny comparing whether cycling is cheaper because that seems a lot. 🙂 I thought it was funny and appreciate the old ladies friends sense with humour.
Santos tour down under has been and gone now. Those dudes are amazing fast.
Loving commuting.

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[davel]

Botnik has escaped. On a bike

Botnik has escaped. On a bike! 

[Boatsie]

Regarding bikes, I’m stuck.
Regarding bikes, I’m stuck.
8speed hub..mudflaps.. Very wet weather.
Wide tyre roadie. Nearly rolling.
An old hack and me bmxs.
Wanting a speedster!!! Last bike. Dry weather 0-5% grade smooth tarmac 7-100km routes.
Looking at a used alloy velodrome 62cm 7.8kg. Thinking drilling brakes and feeling wind.
Statebikes have a 35% off sale. Their lightweights have sold out. Double butted chromoly 62cm bikes available and fairly cheap. I have spare dropbars, aero clipons and brake levers.
Isn’t as high though and I’m comfortable upgrade 5% on 3.5
I doubt it would wall air into a slipstreams as efficient neither.
Guessing total weight would be 9kg with used moded track bike vs 11kg with db chromoly unit.
Chromoly also should fit 28 mm and absorb streets better.
Track bike drives the ratios I want though although switching the pinion shouldn’t be a hassle yet less teeth might wear quicker or better put; require more diligence with tension.
At the start of the year I smile thinking yeah, today I’m riding a 10 year old $200 road bike because everything else is in the maintainance lineup and the dirty old worn rim black beast remains my smoothest fulcrum rolling machine. Sort of don’t care as long as I may ride

[Anonymous]

Boatsie wrote:

Boatsie wrote:

[…] After arriving in Odessa,  a hot as chick grabbed my hand and tugged me.  She didn’t speak much English.  ‘You take me shopping we have sex,  yes? ‘ Smiling away I told her nicely that I take her shopping but no sex because I have a girlfriend. 

Well, you got that the wrong way round.

Happy new year!

 

[brooksby]

Hang on: I’ve just tried to

Hang on: I’ve just tried to read Boatsie’s posts again.  Boatsie: are you writing in a different language and then using Google Translate to render it into English, but without translating it back again to see if it actually makes sense?  Because it really doesn’t…

[Crampy]

I like collage too.

I like collage too.

Decoupage pads and glue, son!

Now lets discus bikes?

[Boatsie]

Lol
Lol

[Boatsie]

I’m just scared. Collage I
I’m just scared. Collage I felt weird when my new friend, his friend, a German Shepard and I were walking along at night and he mentioned that this neighborhood was not so good. I can’t remember if I told him I had been out walking at 2am and wasn’t sure about walking past about 8 grown men under a bridge yet did so although it worsened as the street light had lost power before within arms reach zone.
We have a beautiful planet, lots of us were taught to either study or work as personal choice. Between times, unpaid work such as walking the river collecting garbage could be described as entertainment because resonsipility none.
Collage looks fun.
I’m just scared. We were explained that 2 babie families would slowly reduce population, water is needed!
I don’t like drug. There is a benefit to accidental pain but it hurts like hell yet it heals like heaven. Conscious absentee during accident seems to be perquisite.
I had a bitch jump onto bitumen at 55kmph with a 6 foot drop. Vet wouldn’t do a thing at night besides say she had a broken pelvis, hip plus leg. Balloon was twice width of her body. I stripped off, held her STILL and lay the night. Within 28 hours she ran out the door and jumped into my truck, seat high 2 metres.
I hope we win! I’m out, trippy truth aye.
I lost today, drove car.
Cheap tyre going ok but cheap tube sucks inside out and wants air each 2 days.
Thanks with the posters.
……..

[StraelGuy]

There’s definitely an air of

There’s definitely an air of ‘Hunter S. Thompson on a drug fuelled road trip’ about the whole thread .

[Jack Sexty]

Boatsie > Banksy 

Boatsie > Banksy 

[Jack Sexty]

This thread has brightened up

Here’s my best effort… 

[dave atkinson]

via Imgflip Meme Generator

Your inspirational poster for the morning

[peted76]

This thread has a good chance

This thread has a good chance of giving me nightmares.

[hawkinspeter]

Inspired by Pan’s review of

Inspired by Pan’s review of WSB’s Interzone in the June issue, I decided to write a piece on the Cut-up technique of writing utilized and pioneered by Burroughs and his associate Brion Gysin.

For the uninitiated, the Cut-up technique was inspired by the collage technique used by artists and photographers. Often the greatest photographs and artwork happen by accident. An unexpected pedestrian walks into your shot, or an odd glob of paint scars your painting, and rather than tragedy you have something unexpected and spontaneous. Take this concept one step further and the artist can juxtapose various visual fragments with great and unexpected results. Gysin and Burroughs wanted to introduce the spontaneity and chance of the collage to the written word, and so they developed and utilized the Cut-up technique.

The technique is simple. Take any page of writing. Take a scissors and cut it into four parts; cut straight across, down the middle, on angles, whatever. Now reassemble the parts at random. You now have a different text. Meaning, time lines and narratives are changed. The result may be quite similar to the original or shockingly different. The more cuts you make and the more sources you use, the more fun you’ll have. The beauty of the Cut-up method is anyone can do it, and should do it; anyone can now be a great writer, if only by chance. Unfortunately this technique works better with paper than computer text, because you cannot easily (if at all) make vertical cuts on an electronic page. One method you could use would be to capture your screen as an image, and then use image editing software to cut it up, and OCR software to return it to text form.

Here’s some ideas for you:

Experiment #1:

a. Go to Police headquarters and grab up some scary pamphlets on drug abuse, deer ticks, cyber crime, domestic violence. Read them for kicks and then get some scissors and cut them into chunks.

b. Go to your poetry notebook, or that file where you keep the first chapters to the half dozen or so short stories you plan on finishing one day. Get a scissors. Cut them up. Or, photo-copy them, and cut up the copies.

c. Arrange the chunks at random, but not consciously at random. Many times in our conscious effort to be random or spontaneous, we achieve the opposite effect.

d. Now read the results. Prepare to laugh, or at the very least impress yourself.

Experiment #2:

a. Collect an assortment of text sources: your writing, your diary, a few web pages printed out at random, a newspaper, a famous book, some pamphlets from the rack in the lobby of the supermarket, anything!

b. Next time you have a campfire place them at the edge of the fire so they become partially consumed.

c. Sift through the ashes, find the remaining fragments, and you have your story. Granted, this technique is a little extreme and you may end up with nothing but ash, however, imagine the results otherwise.

Music was the final form of art to embrace the power of the collage. David Bowie, inspired by Burroughs and Gysin, used the Cut-up technique to form the lyrics to his songs. Later artists like Gary “Cars” Newman, Throbbing Gristle and even U2’s Bono confess to using the Cut-up technique. If it were not for Throbbing Gristle’s adaptation of Burroughs techniques and philosophies to music, there would be, without question, no Industrial genre today. Obviously sampling is being used to quite the same effect: creating something new from multiple sources. Sonic terrorists like Negativeland take snippets of found sound, TV broadcasts, and music of many genres and weave the pieces together to a wonderful, insightful and often hilarious effect.

Burroughs states correctly that all writing is in fact Cut-ups. As a writer, in particular a fiction writer, your inspirations come from many sources: a description of a woman’s face comes from the cashier at the post office, a character’s name taken from your friend’s cat, a line taken from an issue of Legends and a plot twist from Shakespeare. All your experiences, whether first hand or taken vicariously through a book or a friend’s story, add up to form the text of your next tale. If you want to read more about Cut-ups, William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Throbbing Gristle, pick up the book RE/Search #4/5.

[Boatsie]

I also met some musicians.  I
I also met some musicians.  I’d hang out,  listen a day,  throw 5 quid and all happy. Then 1 of the days,  my friend said to me why would a rich tourist want to hang out with a tramp!
I explain,  no responsibility and besides that his smelly single costume musician was not a tramp because he reaked of education with 6 languages.  He told me then that he was an out of work nuclear engineer.  Lol.
That night I dropped about 150 quid plus a hundred American into a share kitty.  Cold weather saw many ‘tramp’ purchase warm winter clothes.  Anyway,  besides being surrounded by a Veyron,  a Ferrari and at least 50 Porsche’s,  some don’t get much.
You know what my friend did?  Nice jacket, boots and a job now looking much better.
Pretty happy to cycle because that all I need!

Tea time. Lol. Happy new year

I have 1 question!
This with brakes or something similar to a justrideit newy?
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I would like to feel wind!
Ain’t rich, ain’t greedy.

[Tommytrucker]

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