Pedro Pascal sang Listen to the Music.

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Soooo.....
For my entire life, I've assumed I would never buy a brand-new vehicle. That's for chumps, I thought.... why spend all that money on something I could buy nearly the equivalent - but used - for less than half the price?
But then I made the mistake of visiting Triumph of Seattle before Seattle Used Bikes.
And quite quickly found ways to rationalise it... seppo consumer protection laws (the "Lemon Law", for example); paperwork around private sales looked horrific; and finally... fuck it, I can afford it.
(although I decided to "finance it" - as the Credit-Score system here is ass-backwards... and I need to incur debt to improve my non-existent rating... and they're properly fucking me in the process)

TL;DR... ended up with this sitting in my lounge:
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Triumph Speed Twin 1200 RS. My Pretty.

And have spent the last couple of days spending even more money on accessories/gadgets/etc, and poring over maps for potential first rides. Have ridden it around the local streets a couple of times - showing it off to the various barmaids at the local breweries. Hoping to get out onto open road this weekend... meet some new barmaids at farther afield breweries.

Pretty much a total success for SpaceX. Incredible to nail re-entry, even with so many tweaks to the rocket. This was a massive leap forward for re-usability, to go through an aggressive profile with missing heat shields drives confidence they will crackt his

@Kruse said in Pro Wrestling:

Holy shit.
Wrestlemania 1 - StarSpangledBanner sang by Mean Jene Oakland
When I went in 2017, the USAF was involved

King Kong Bundy beat Special Delivery Jones in 9 seconds

@stodders Done.

@Virgil bought up Boba Fett in the other thread, is it unpatriotic of me to say I preferred the original voice ?

@voodoo Those guys are just dunces. I cannot say anything more.

Graham Thorpe's inquest is underway in the UK. A really sad story which seems to have been made worse by the ECB's handling of his sacking. Great batsman who deserved more.

Jul 23  /  UK news Ex-cricketer Graham Thorpe ‘spiralled into depression’ after losing job, inquest hears Ex-cricketer Graham Thorpe ‘spiralled into depression’ after losing job, inquest hears

Loss of England batting coach job after 2022 Ashes series was ‘start of decline of his mental health’, widow says

@Bones said in Help with a travel itinerary to NZ:

@nonpartizan right! And yet last time I was home, every plonker was moaning about the state of the roads and traffic. I live in south London and the main way out is the M25 or country lanes...

Yup, driving in NZ is awesome. Even if you screw up and make a wrong turn there is always a gap in traffic or a slow moving car coming the opposite direction to enable you to turn around or get across traffic.

@NTA said in Travel:

Connecting flight Sydney to Osaka I meant. The cheaper fares look to be short layovers in Singapore or HK.

The only direct flights to Osaka are JetStar I think and fuck. that.

It just seems like a bit of a waste to ride another shikansen for the sake of having a direct flight, and probably another night in an hotel in Tokyo.

I flew from Cairns to Osaka on Jet Star last year as it was the only choice, flight was almost totally empty, dream stuff

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A bit more on those poor kids living in the wilderness. No surprise that they have names like they do.

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Maverick reminds me of someone…..

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On a lighter note......

Hopefully Scotland centre Joe Ansbro is doing ok after this vicious attack from his own teammate celebrating a glorious victory over Australia

Lock for worst thread derail of the year

@voodoo much harder to remotely crack SCART connections on coal burner control panels 😉

@canefan said in Greatest kiwi lives:

Katherine Mansfield

An absolute colossus of her field.

Time to dust these off again...

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