RantMachine

I'm not bad, bit bored though! My "to do" list at the moment consists mainly of designing order forms, signs, and branding guidelines... not very thrilling stuff! Still, will all be over in a few weeks. And then I have the really fun job of carrying out a brand audit

I used to have a Sinclair Spectrum! Until my parents sold it without asking me, that is I still give them grief for it every now and then. And we had a Macintosh with so many great games... Hangman -http://www.emaculation.com/lib/exe/detail.php/hangmanminivmac.png?id=system_6_hell Kidpix - http://www.emaculation.com/lib/exe/detail.php/kidpix.png?id=system_6_hell Missile Command - http://www.emaculation.com/lib/exe/detail.php/missilecommand.png?id=system_6_hell Social Climber -http://www.emaculation.com/lib/exe/detail.php/social_climber.png?id=system_6_hell (Damn this game to hell, it was hard) Stuntcopter - http://www.emaculation.com/lib/exe/detail.php/stuntcopter.png?id=system_6_hell Daleks - http://www.emaculation.com/lib/exe/detail.php/originaldaleks.png?id=system_6_hell Brickles - http://www.emaculation.com/lib/exe/detail.php/brickles.png?id=system_6_hell And of course, the daddy of them all... CAIRO SHOOTOUT http://www.emaculation.com/lib/exe/fetch.php/cairooriginal.png?cache=&w=518&h=386&tok=3dfae3 And I loved playing Lemmings or Asylum on the Acorns at school. Those were the best games going, bar none. http://i.ytimg.com/vi/LOh-gAywCFU/hqdefault.jpghttp://www.abandonia.com/files/games/37/Lemmings_1.png I feel genuinely sorry for kids these days, they just don't have any appreciation for anything that isn't the latest generation of console game

Now just imagine if bikes could do a similar thing that chopped their horsepower down to 47 when being tested... A2 legal ZX10, anyone?

Piglet gets all the tough breaks.

HOLY POOP IT'S NEAR ENOUGH THAT I MIGHT ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO MAKE IT WITHOUT THE BIKE BLOWING UP Saturday is best for me.

Solenoid is a MAJOR weak point for those bikes, but if you're certain that it's turning over then that's not going to be an issue on this occasion

Guys, wrong thread for comments about job security... >> link <<

My employers would probably just come up with some way to fire you before you could go away for the statutory week

Very sketchy Not to mention, what if a model is posing by the bike and knocks it over? It's not as if it'll be bolted in place like the ones at Motorcycle Live which the Kawasaki tarts drape themselves across This gets me thinking though, maybe I should talk to the rest of the marketing guys about featuring motorcycles in our Spring/Summer 2016 catalogue shoot...

Also, stay relaxed - if you tense up you'll make it worse.

Never go to Paris. Just don't do that to yourself.

Wouldn't know - BMW contracted out the engine for the F650 to Rotax, that's why it's the one part that keeps on working while the bike falls apart around it

You and 50,000,000 product design students before you If you can design a visor that somehow sheds water and doesn't mist up, you'll be a millionaire.

Replace it with one of these, it'll be a performance upgrade in the long run

Or maybe the previous owner used car oil?

WD40 stuff. I like their chain cleaner, so figured I might as well use a lube from the same brand. Does the job well, and the chain still looks pretty with it on Tried Muc-Off stuff originally, wasn't a fan - seemed to need replacing more often than I liked. Also tried some brand X white lube, really didn't like that stuff - worked well but made the chain look bloomin' nasty.

Still buggered. Think you've seen the last of me for this year, plan is to fix the bike up then keep it under the cover until the end of the insurance year then flog it. Can't risk riding it and letting it break down again

That's the case with pretty much any mental illness or personality disorder, to be quite honest.

whats ur gamertag? Haven't got a Live subscription I'm afraid! Only use the 360 for co-op games with my other half. Just been playing some Diablo 3

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Laptop which rarely gets used for gaming these days, Xbox 360, PS2, and I think we might get a PS4 at some point but there are other priorities at the moment. Oh, and a PSP that I use to play old PS1 era Final Fantasy games when I'm on business trips

tell me what date might be going Don't know yet, I usually head over there with Bonniebird and Tango but no plans in place yet this year. Think we've done a Friday the last few times? I'm sure that I'll post an update nearer the time. 100% going, though - I need to scout out a replacement for the BMW

As a citizen of the marketing world, whenever I see packaging like that I think to myself "this stuff must be BLOODY good if they've stayed in business without updating their packaging to 40 odd years". For products like this where you want to buy something that you know you can damn well trust, it works. In an odd kind of way.