Bit Quiet

Jamz · Bit Quiet

God its a bit quiet in here isnt it?

No way of getting more banter/members ?

club sec

If only we knew how.

Gav Taylor · Re: Bit Quiet

Jamz

This isnt really any of my mates type of thing really....

Ill pop a few posts around on the Ford Focus Owners Club, and other regional sections of forums, see if i can get some more people here

skodaman

I would like to know where all these strange avatars come from ???

club sec

And you don't think yours is strange?

skodaman

You found it for me!

club sec

I'm going to change it for a 1984 Estelle for you.

Gav Taylor

Jamz

lol... I couldn't decide which one i liked on another forum, so i made something which shows them all :D

steaallan

hey peacock (m)

you leave the estelle alone i used to have a E reg green 105 then turned it into a 120 after blowing the engine coming sidewards out of saltburn. It was probably the car i most enjoyed driving (after the offroaders) it had no fancy gizmos electronic steering or breaking it was a pure driving car and unlike all the other cars at the time in winter it always fired up first time

They were the days

skodaman

Ste, did you have a 'Surprising Skoda' sunstrip??? That was an 80's Skoda must have item!

club sec

Along with the hand warmer- Heated rear window.

steaallan

no i dint have a sunstrip and the rear hand warmer was never needed

skodaman

Did you only drive it in the summer then?

steaallan

no def not alot more fun in the winter and as i said earlier it was virtually the only car in the street that started first go in the cold weather (built for the cold you see) and yes i would have another one or even the rapide a pure

sports car

club sec

skodaman

Best car i've had, makes a Golf GTI look seriously overpriced!!

club sec

They are.

joe_the_waiter

This forum has almost died.... whats happened to everyone?

steaallan

it has gone really qiuet now like (granted i have not been on much lately always knackered when i get in from work after doing 12hr shifts nowadays so really only get on at the weekends) but some other people dont have that excuse so where are they all come on everyone get the word out and give a big push for the club

slippy

I'm between addresses and internet connections

club sec

Even Taylor's excuses are better than those.

club sec

I noticed JTW has been stalking the forum a lot lately, must be missing Gav.

Gav Taylor

ha nice one sec, though I do hear he's now bereft of a women!

joe_the_waiter

Gav, you have come online.... yet not put anything in your world tour thread...... Have you actually gone? or are you still in bed in Aycliffe after missing the flight?

club sec

Gav is "8 Ace".

joe_the_waiter

club sec

Eight Ace is a comic strip in Viz magazine that charts the exploits of the eponymous protagonist Octavius Tinsworth Federidge Ace,or Eight Ace for short. He is a miserable, foul-mouthed, unclean alcoholic, named after the quantity and brand of lager which rules his life and prevents his battle-axe wife from ever letting him into their ramshackle home, in which she brings up their huge number of children on the poverty line.

Eight cans of Ace Lager cost £1.49 from Mr Patel's local 24-hour nano-mart, where the friendly shopkeeper often makes a futile attempt to invite Mr Ace to purchase non-alcoholic items, such as a comb or a bin liner, but to no avail. Each story sees Eight Ace given £1.49, or just enough money to bring his funds to that sum, by his estranged wife to buy something vital for his 'bairns' (the Geordie dialect word for children, and used across north britain) like medicine, or something needed for school or just food for their evening meal. The story sees Eight Ace telling himself, in a mildly inebriated manner, that this time he won't buy his favourite lager but will get the item his wife has demanded. Ironically, his wife is not very good with money herself and just as selfish. In Viz 166 (June 2007), she uses the money for adapting the family home to cater for the needs of one of her children (who has a disability) on a new plasma screen television which Eight drunkenly damages. This same strip establishes that one of Ace's young sons is named "Half" and another is named "Four".

Eight Ace maintains his self-instruction right up to arriving at the store - and then orders Eight Ace instead. He drinks each can one by one at great speed while loudly chastising himself for weakening again, and usually comes to a sticky end when he returns to his wife; often this is another night in a leaking shed, sleeping off the alcohol in a puddle of his own urine. He is frequently drawn in the act of urination, his (very small) penis quite visible.

Eight Ace is often threatening to 'bray' (Geordie for 'beat', but a fairly common word in Yorkshire, too) his wife or bairns or both. Ace's wife has been shown hitting or even stabbing him, but he has never to date actually been shown hitting anyone. He lives in a shed in his family's front garden, as his wife refuses to let him into the house. He wears the trousers of a jogging suit but never exercises. He also wears carpet slippers, apparently not owning a pair of proper shoes.

Eight Ace has been critically compared to the Greek god Prometheus, who like Eight Ace is doomed to repeat the same tortures every day for eternity.

Curiously - as has been brought up by a number of readers of Viz in the letter's page - £1.49 is extremely cheap for eight cans of lager. This is because Federation Ace is an extremely cheap, low quality lager, 3% ABV[1], although the price may be under-exaggerated slightly for comic effect. Part of this apparent discreptency also results from the fact that the amount for the Ace has never been changed since the strip's introduction in 1988, when £1.49 would have been a more reasonable (albeit still very cheap) amount for eight cans.

Often Eight has actually succeeded in giving up the Ace, only to revert back to drinking it at the end of the strip. In one episode he turns to the local vicar for help, and soon he has overcome his urges. At the end of the strip, the vicar gives Eight £1.49 from the collection plate, which he goes and spends on the Ace, instantly transforming into his old inebriated self.

Gav Taylor

I did type out a long update but when i went to post it the connection died..will try again this morning

joe_the_waiter

Where has he gone??? This is a bit un-Gav-like to be so quiet during peace time. Even whilst he was away Terra-rising (like it....??) the rest of humanity, he still radio'd back to base to report on key stages of his mission. Yet, now he seemingly has days of emptiness... he has fell silent.........

....... has he been caught by interpol and extradited to account for his world wide crime spree ?????

....... maybe in his pit dying a slow death of some tropical disease contracted whilst extending intimate anglo relations with the ladyboys of oriental orientation ?????

club sec

He might be at Aycliffe JCP doing a back to work interview.

joe_the_waiter

long interview..... they must've employed him as a wall... or summet.

Gav Taylor

joe_the_waiter

Wey hey...... like a seal in the sea... pops his head up to see whats going on before dissapearing again in to the vastness of nothing....

what gear you been testing?? new axe?

Gav Taylor

just a new tent and a £12.99 windbreak Dave son.

club sec

2 tins of beans cost a quid and they are a cracking wind break.

Gav Taylor

joe_the_waiter

bit of the good life going on ere..... Goes away for three months to travel the world...... comes home then immediately away on a camping holiday....

i must of done summet wrong in my previous life...

Gav Taylor

no mate travel the world the world for 3 months then come back to NEWTON AYCLIFFE then you will see why I wanted to get away so quick

joe_the_waiter

HELLOOOOOOOOO

anybody there ???

slippy

Helllo Joe what do ya know ???

joe_the_waiter

I know its not as busy on this forum as it used to be. In fact, i think the world tour has effected Gav in some way, as he isnt a prolific poster anymore.

slippy

When's your next motorsport based outing Joe ?

joe_the_waiter

Trackrod Rally. in two weeks.

slippy

Would have been for us as well but same weekend as Funslob's Stag Do

Might be doing a test day round Teesside though

joe_the_waiter

Tarmac?

club sec

Not much gravel at Teesside.

slippy

It's a tarmac car chaps ?

joe_the_waiter

oh no...... another airfields fan...

slippy

What type of events do you do in your rally car Joe

joe_the_waiter

I knew that was coming.

slippy

I aim to please

club sec

Glass houses & stones come to mind.

slippy

Yeh Joe you service Monkey

club sec

Soooooo Mr Slip, how many stage rallies have you done?

slippy

To date I would say circa 7, I think what about you Mr Sec ?

joe_the_waiter

how many has he finished is a funnier question

slippy

Circa 2 I think

club sec

Just started the 2 but importantly finished both.

slippy

Your not trying hard enough then

joe_the_waiter

club sec

Try hard enough for someone with no spares, back up or trailer, quite an achievement driving to and from events I think.

slippy

Fair play to you mate I dont have that type of discipline

You doing the Xmas Stages this year ?

joe_the_waiter

this is like tennis... only uglier....

club sec

Well perhaps you'd like Serena to shove her balls down your throat but I wouldn't fancy it.

club sec

[quote="slippy"]Fair play to you mate I dont have that type of discipline

You doing the Xmas Stages this year ?[/quote]

Well I might be resigned to the sack of spuds seat if I do now that Mrs club sec can go rallying

slippy

Booo.....

Just been watching some in car from Andy Fenwick up Otterburn think we might have to have a crack at the Cheviot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWtvyI4Mk2Q

club sec

yes but he retired after SS1, not a good example!

joe_the_waiter

maybe thats been Slippy's problem.....

time to choose someone else to watch

slippy

High speed stuff though jesus

Sec before you turn your toes to the sky do the burn

slippy

You got any incar Joe

joe_the_waiter

as it happens .... yes

slippy

Sweet howay then share the action mate

joe_the_waiter

i dont have it... taken by someone else. besides... why would you want to watch mine???? you really want inspiration from ME ??

slippy

Never seen you drive in anger mate you could be a natural for all I know ?

joe_the_waiter

never driven in anger... so even i dont know

Gav Taylor

jesus this forum is quiet these days!!

where has everybody gone? this is probably the worst I've seen it since it went live.

club sec

All the craic is at the club now, you should try it.

Gav Taylor

aye, heard its packed these days like

club sec

And it's because of that attitude that it isn't.

slippy

Make love notwar brothers

Just bought some adjustable front and rear Grp A Billies for the Nova, hopefully we'll have them on before the test day then set up ready for Otterburn as the intention is to attack

Gav Taylor

wasnt intended to be malicious boys just have heard the club turn outs are really suffering these days.

club sec

sO, YOU'LL BE MAKING THE EFFORT THEN.

Gav Taylor

if I had a car i would, I'm also looking to move to the stockton area so then I'll have no excuse

Gav Taylor

sad, sad days

I think this forum has almost died.

joe_the_waiter

well lets revive it

Gav Taylor

I dont get on as often as I like and no one person is bigger than the forum so wheres it going wrong.

Alex Ferguson wouldn't say he cant win the premier league just cos ronaldo's gone.

club sec

Forum and club attendance are both on the slide, effort is needed immediately otherwise we will have only one option left.

5 people at the last club night which is not a sustainable figure.

Too few people doing too much work is also going to kill this club very quickly.

joe_the_waiter

club sec

Meeting is tonight, the last meeting was Wednesday gone.

joe_the_waiter

apologies... I read it to mean yesterday

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