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Whacking Permalink Archive 23 October 2004 Daily Mirror weasel Brian Reade - who comes across as a bloke with a serious bed-wetting problem - gives us more of his scintillating insights into American culture:
It's
amusing that a man can make an entire journalistic career from a raging
cultural insecurity complex.
A toy, just for the hell of it I've been thinking about buying a Honda CT110, better known as a 'postie bike':
A note to my overseas readers: in Australia, postmen use these bikes to deliver the mail, hence 'Postie Bike'. They are not available for sale to the general public, but Honda import around 1100 of them a year for Australia Post, who then auction off the old bikes. Some are used by pizza delivery companies (you can't see it very well in this photo, but there is a large metal carry rack behind the rider seat to which luggage boxes can be fixed, usually in the form of a humble milk crate), others by junk-mail delivery boys, and others by individuals who just want to own one. I have a soft spot for this bike: it was the first motorcycle I ever rode. The semi-automatic (a foot shifter, but no clutch) transmission, supremely light weight and low power output makes it ideal for getting used to the "feel" of being on a motorcycle. If you wanna get into motorcycling, you could do a lot worse than get one of these bikes and ride it around someone's backyard for a while. You'll get used to the feel of a two-wheeler with an engine moving beneath you, learn how to stay balanced, and changing gears with your foot. The tiny 110cc single-cylinder engine aint no powerhouse, but it has enough oomph to take you around the suburbs, and it's something you can service & fix yourself if need be. It's a great thing for zipping down to the local shops, as a backup bike if you don't own a car, or just as a fun toy to scoot around the city on. Fuel consumption is almost non-existent, as are maintenance, tyre and insurance costs. And it's a Honda, which means it will last forever if you take care of it. Its possible to find perfectly OK postie bikes for a grand, and for half that sometimes if you're willing to do a little work on it. Lots of people actually take these things long-distance touring, including dirt roads. One crazy bastard in Two Wheels magazine some years ago did an around-Australia trip on one. If
any of my readers owns one of these, or knows someplace to get a good
2nd-hand one, e-mail me at: tex <at> whackingday
<dot> com. I'm particularly interested in hearing about owner
experiences.
Some sorry-ass wanker thought it would be a great idea to set up a Charles Manson Fansite. It includes a collection of 'Manson Thoughts', the first of which is the entire text of a postcard the webmaster received from nice old Charlie:
Inspiring innit? This is a sentence, purple monkey dishwasher climbed out of my own xiphisternum. And here's some exciting Manson poetry:
Who
is Charles Manson? He's also got something to tell us about Ireland and spiders:
Charlie's also pretty keen on ecological issues:
Don't laugh. He's not being any more ideologically inconsistent than these arseholes. The
owner of this fansite needs a better hobby, like looking at animal porn.
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