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Are they legal there on the streets without a helmet? do you need a licence for one of those?

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gas prices man gas prices.

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Trust them tight cunts to only send half a bike :blink:

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mmmm how many sign ups do i need to send for a big one full size :scratchin

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not legal at all, no tail lights, no turn signals. If i get caught riding it, cops can just swipe it from me, but I dont really ride it that often and if i get caught, fuck it... i didn't pay for it :D

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I guess I'm pretty much the same in person as I am on the boards. I'd have to let someone online meet me in person first before I know for sure...

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The prize that just keeps on fucking you. :thumbdown

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it was actually just a random draw out of a hat thing, far as i remember no signups were required. If they were required, I shouldn't have won cuz I dont really send them any traffic :p

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People have met me and I hear that this is me. :)

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i have a monster scar on my leg from the exhaust on that thing. I burnt myself like a chicken wing :(

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hahaha sucks to be them huh

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no comment :D

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Mate you need to stop!

I'm laughing like a bitch with diamonds right now! :bustingup

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stop what? cooking myself to a dark crispiness?

it was a bad ass burn too, of course I didn't go to a doctor or anything, though I probably should have. I was a fire fighter for 3 years and that was easily the worst burn I've ever had (from the bike)

Now I have a big oval shaped pink scar on my leg. :(

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Ahh, fire and burn scars, they don't heal like anything else. That's because that tail pipe (exhaust) cooked you. Nasty burns to get, you really should have went to the doc though.

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For some reason, the latest tangent in this thread reminds me of this pic:

http://www.dirtygloves.com/jacko.jpg

http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/laugh.gif

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I am the RAINMAN

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I am the walrus.

Koo-koo ka chew.

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Alvin Stardust lol Koo-koo ka chew

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it's not always a negative thing when alcohol brings out the truer inner self (note: I say truer self because there are some exceptions where alcohol does change the real person...but that's usually because truer self is based upon moderate consumption)

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it's fine now, all healed and what not. Nothing a Dr could have done for me aside from tell me to do what I was already doing (EMT classes come in handy). I had a nurse friend of mine grab me some ointment from the burn unit at her hospital so I was set. If it had become infected I definitely would have had it looked at but it never got to that point.

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yup........
muhahahaha

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I have yet to meet someone in this business who is inherently different in person than they are on the boards. They might fake it well for a few people face to face, but in reality, the core is there. There is only so much you can "hide" writing day in and day out - your true personality will eventually come through. :)

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In that case, there are a few people out there who are truely scary. :)

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I went back in last night and got Zaq the waiters phone number for you. He says he eats pasta in bed.

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Thanks but I'm about "full up" with useless men in my life. He's a wee bit young for me (and more importantly I'm a wee bit old for him....). ;)

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Oh just go for it, girl! ;)

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I can promise you he wasn't interested, lol!

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Haven't you ever watched "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" Peaches? ;)

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preach it girlfriend!!!


Oops , I mean..

"interesting"

LOL

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I have never been much of a board poster but I do read them, and I am constantly amazed at those who evidently choose to put out such a bad first (and in many cases only) impression for me to observe.

The negative "board personality", for whatever reason people choose to use it, makes it very simple for me to decide those with whom I will not do business.

They have every right to do it, but I fail to see the benefits.

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I'm good on and off the boards. I'm a professional and I have work to do. A bit of fun and socialization is part of networking and there is nothing wrong with that.

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I'm guessing most of just don't understand, and that the wankers aren't going to admit to the world why they're such wankers in the first place.

This is going to be one of those "how many licks to the center of a tootsie pop" things .... we may never know what makes those kind of people tick.

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I think I have a negative board persona due to lack of communication on a medium such as a board, and unless someone has met me in person, sometimes they can not tell when I am trying to be lighthearted or sarcastic ( as is in my nature in person but people get the impact and the feeling cause they do not need to guess "was he kidding" they can obviously see it )

I also think my barbaric nature that comes off sometimes is due to my core as well, and same thing once confronted in person with it people seem to have a different reaction. I will explain it liek this to try to be more clear .

I look at boards as a useful tool to discuss business, communicate with your peers, ask questions and advice and to meet or set up meetings with new people , some boards work this way some do not .

unfortunatly when I first started I was relentlessly attacked for being stupid, or new, or "the rainman as apperantly according to nick some might say in private"

I am a fighter by nature and have been my whole life, I grew up poor in a shitty neighborhood and had to learn early to fight, I was NEVER given anything but was forced to fight to make it, I was kicked out of school at 17 and on my own every since, I lost college football scholarships due to being kicked out of school for discipline problems ... I went in to the bar/nightclub business and the only skill I had was quick thinking, talking and fighting. I parlayed that into a 2K a week job and was doing well enojugh to get myself into a demolishing and salvaging business , I took that to an 800K a year business until I went bankrupt in 2001 part economy, part bad steps by me due to inexperience in business. However I fought everyday to get there both literally and figurativly with peopl always trying to take from or hold me down where they wanted to get the benifites from my abilities.

I know when the snakes are snakes and what they are up to, so when I was being attacked my natural reaction was to fight back ( that is at my core board or not )

But if you meet me in real life you see thhat I am more interested in doing sometjing together for the benifite of both partys and for everyone involved to have good business, I do not wish to fight and people that have been fighters know it is only smart to fight when necassary or attacked.

It seems though that I have a bad rep on the bords cause I will fight the powers that be and I want to see the inderdogs given opportunity ( call it background or whatever ) at the core I know that evil is in most, but I like to believe thhat good is in enough people to make a difference. funny thing is people that want to fight with me on the board, NEVER want to fight with me when they see me in person, they always pull the " hey it was just board bullshit " line and I too think it is bullshit, dravyk.

sad thing is in this biz and in many others there are those out there that do not really give a fuck if you succedd or fail as long as they can take something from you along the way.

I fear sometimes that my "bad board persona" is due to my "real person" attitude that people should be who they are and unfortunatly they are not, and on a board to serious minded business people sometimes this gets lost and then everyone becomes cynical ( myself included) and decides that all the other people are faking until they either meet them in person, or need a service that the person offers and they secretly try it out to see if the person is different than what they first tought as an only resort to get their need fiilled ( this leaves out the possible discussions of many other facest of bussiness that a person or people may be able to offer eachh other that goes unspoken ) and all of this is due to the " fake board persona bullshit"

But then again I am probably just a lunitac ranting "RAINMAN" so what the fuck do I know about anything, everyone seems to know me so well .

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Joe ,

Underdogs don't need to be "given a chance".

Name one business where "you give someone the chance"?

They earn it. Once they do.They stop being an underdog.

I read YNOT for months before I posted.

I wasn't worried about appearing , tough , unpleasant , ruthless , or loads of other adjectives.

I was worried only about appearing one thing.... "dumb".

But I really haven't had to "fight" my way through this business or life.

I've sorta strolled through it. Its pretty easy.

Check out how many times you mention "fight" , mate. ( 12 or 13 times)

I'd stop fighting .....

;-)))

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For what it's worth .... Joe, I've never once considered you in any way to be a negative board personality. O contraire!!

It's "funny" (not the right word) those who think they are.

People with strong opinions (like Carrie) or who are brusk to idiots (JMM) or brusk most of the time (AaronM) ... I don't consider them negative either. In fact JMM not suffering idiots gladly is among the best things I like about him. And the others mentioned, also good people.

Also none of them are in any way "posers" or "reverse posers" either. Pretty genuine folks. Just like you are Joe!

That said, leave my balls out of this! :p

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Yeah, thank you dravyk, I was not trying to imply anything to anyone individually, I was just trying to answear the question and explain a possibility from someone that others have said has a negative board persona

as I noticed like you said, no one was really coming in to say hey well I do it because........ so I figured I would adress the perception issue s that may go along with this phenomenoe as well.

I will never mention your balls again LOL

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Hey, much appreciated! Excellent post, Joe. You really laid things out there on the line. But then I'd expect nothing less from you!

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I'm not sure if I'm negative or not, but I am naturally sarcastic and cunty. I post on the board as I would be in the real world.

I've got no love for Brand0n or aeon and if I met them face to face, I'd still be the same with them. I say nothing online to people that I wouldn't say to them offline.

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Yeah, would love to meet those two offline. Just to see what they're really like.

Of course, Greenie would love to meet Aeon even more. http://oprano.com/msgboard/images/smilies/wink.gif