304: I'll Show You Who's Boss

Hmmmm.

It's another motorcycle message board retard...oops!, I mean member...who didn't get the respect he feels he's due, and is now out for blood on those who have tarnished his image.

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Yes, people, it's time, once again, to point my finger at the numb skulls writing silly shit on motorcycle message boards and have a good chuckle before I head into jerk.

A couple days ago, a guy wrote about something that lots of people have written about on message boards:

The time-honoured Mysterious Technical Problem that Defies Explanation and Must Surely be Caused by Evil Spirits, Majic, or some other Unexplainable Force, but I Still Expect the Correct Answer from One of You.

What this is, basically, is when a forum member comes on, writes about some weird problem he's having with his bike, lists the symptoms of what it's doing wrong, and then basically goes on and on about how he basically sounds like he believes the problem is something that nobody else in the whole wide world has ever experienced, and one that nobody can certainly ever figure out.

However, he still basically sits there tapping his foot, waiting for another member to come on and explain in exact detail what the trouble is (and it had better be something that takes a mere 2.5 seconds to fix and for less than zero money laid out).

Sounds like I'm greatly exaggerating in order to sound funny, huh?

Honestly, after reading stuff like this for a solid decade, now, I'm really not.

See, I don't know everything about motorcycles, but most forum members come and go as their interest in motorcycles comes and goes.

That means there's always going to be fresh newbies (or guys that have the brain of a newbie) posting silly shit that ultimately results in one big laugh.

Because, you see, the problem always ends-up being something so simple and basic, instead of pages of silly writing to get to the bottom of it, it really deserves just a sentence of two.

It boils down to making a big deal about how your bike handles like shit because your tires have 3 psi of air in them.

Get my drift?

At least I think it is highly entertaining as the author of this very intelligent post (yeah, right) goes to great length to explain himself all along the way before he comes back to finally tell us that the reason his bike ran like shit was because he had a rodent's nest inside the airbox because he only rides the bike once a month and he never bothers to clean his air filter because he's too busy picking his ass and being a retard, all which takes up most of his day. :)

Off to jerk,

-John

303 Ways to End the World

The two chief organizations who are always busy predicting a big disaster up ahead for mankind.
I'd bet a million that at the top of each one, the big shots simply laugh at all of the brainwashed pee-ons down below that fall for it.
All the while living high on the hog, of course.

Well, 6:00pm on Saturday, May 21st, 2011 has come and gone.
I'm still here typing, the Earth looks pretty much rapture-free around my neighborhood, and I just ate a couple of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Seems like things are pretty much normal to me.

I wonder what happened to this predicted ending of the world, and what all of those brainwashed believers will now say about it.
Bet they still believe it and they will still believe The End is coming soon, but will now think that somehow the correct date simply got messed-up after the coveted information was put in human hands.
In other words, Jesus gave the info to a loser who then gave the wrong date and time to everybody.
See how that explains everything so easily? :)

If you are familiar with my little bloggy blog I've been writing for over a year, now (already?), you know that I believe anybody thinking that the Earth is also in danger due to any environmental problems rates right up there will all of the hip-dip freaks who were staying home from work and selling their cars in anticipation of the rapture scooping their sorry asses up and flying them straight up to heaven.
In my opinion, one of those theories and beliefs is as stupid and silly as the other.
And, they both have something in common:
They exist in order to exert a measure of control over those that fall prey to them.
Even if you're not an environmental mental case, for example, you can still have the little seed planted in your head that, yes, man really should clean-up his act, lest the planet go boom in the middle of the night.

Now, just imagine, then, how the big shots at the tippity-top of this environmental mental movement must be laughing their wealthy and severely pampered asses off at all of the retards that swallow the lies they propagate about that.
As I've written before, I'd really like to see how one of these assholes would make it through just a single night camping out in the middle of the woods where I live, equipped with only what their sorry asses can conjure-up because no electricity or tents or sleeping bags are allowed since that's all man-made stuff that pollutes the environment with nasty greenhouse gasses from their manufacturing and eventual disposal, not to mention carting them to market to sell.

Yeah, they would be a riot.
They'd probably start whimpering and cry for their mommies who never raised them because that interferes with their careers. :)

-John

302 and Feeling Blue

I understand that this pin means the 5th Army.
What happened to the 1st through 4th?

Well, I didn't do any riding at all this weekend because I was sick.
Yup, warm weather colds suck, just like wintertime colds suck.
Saturday was the only weekend day with weather good enough to take either bike out, but, I felt weak and I felt like shit, basically, so that idea was out.
So, my weekend was comprised of staying inside most of the time, drinking lots of OJ, and taking plenty of naps on the couch.

Right now, I feel mid-way between how lousy I felt over the weekend and normal.
I could be in worse shape to start the work week, I guess, so I'll try to remain optimistic without going overboard and sounding like some kind of brainwashed everything-is-just-so-nice-and-peachy-and-overly-optimistic freak like you see on one of those Public Television Network kid's TV shows like Sesame Street.

I still made sure I watched the latest MotoGP race from Le Mans, France, though.
The race was decent, too.

One thing I did do was go grocery shopping so that I'd have some food in the house, something that has proven to be an asset over the years.
This is the time of year where stores allow solicitors to camp by the entrance/exit doors who basically hold out their hands and want money out of you for some cause they're involved in.
Popular ones are some kind of kid's sport organization like little league baseball or some kind of veteran's organization looking for some of your loot.
This is where the pin in the pic came from, by the way, so you can see that I caved-in and gave them some money.
Just trying to be nice and smiley to the old fellows.

I'm not a fan of this stuff at all because it basically shames people into handing money over.
You wouldn't dare tell some 3rd grade little girl to go jump off a bridge, would you?
I go to the grocery store to buy my goddamn food, not toss my money over to some people for little league or some kind of veteran's organization I know zippo about.
For all I know, these guys just take the money and run.
Even if they actually put it toward some legit organization, I do feel uncomfortable about how they basically ambush you as you walk out of the food stores.

The weather forecast for this work week is rain all week long, so it seems we're still getting April showers in May. :)

Off to jerk,
-John

301: Weekend of Fun?

The WR-250FY firebreather, as it's sat for several months while I pay attention to my other bike, the WR-250XX.
I might actually ride this bike this weekend.


I've got a slight cold right now.
Springtime colds suck, you know.
Somewhere, there's an old paper parchment with words written on it declaring that no man shall have to suffer through a cold during nice weather.
This parchment is under a glass case, of course, with velvet ropes and brass poles sectioning it off from being touched. :)

I'm just about to the point to where I'm starting to get the ambition to actually hear my WR-250FY firebreather run, again, which has not been started since I winterized it back in the first week of cold, cold December.
Basically, since I've been riding my WR-250XX on the street so far this year, and it is my most recently-bought bike, that has been getting the use.
Now, I'm making plans to put the WR-250FY back together from winter layover, start it in order to confirm that, yes indeed, it still does in fact run, and take it out to the ol' Pachaug rock pile for the season's shakedown ride.

Shakedown ride?
That's to basically test the results of my winter maintenance and tinkering, to confirm that the bike is working properly and to test the feel and settings of the freshly-serviced suspension.
If something needs to be tweaked in order to satisfy my desires, you do this on a shakedown ride, not when you are planning to go out for a bona-fide ride ride.
Geddit?
I hope so. :)

Off to another wonderful freebee Saturday at jerk,
-John

300: Three Centuries of Posting Shit

Well, not literally shit.
I feel it's noteworthy stuff to read, myself. ;)

This past weekend was pretty good.
The weather was good except for a couple rain showers that, luckily, didn't last too long.
Why should that matter?
Because rain means wet roads which reduce speed while riding my WR-250XX, silly.
Why else? :)

I had a couple of good rides on Saturday and Sunday, and my mind was off work while on the bike.
That is an awesome feeling, you know, leaving work at work and concentrating on riding the bike.
On top of that, we're at the start of the really good riding weather, and for the immediate future, it will only continue to get better.
No wonder this is my favorite time of year. :)

The bike felt and worked very well.
The engine ran crisply and strongly and never missed a beat, the rear shock was very good, the front fork was good, the handling and feel was very good, the front brake was very good, and the Michelin tires were downright excellent, as they always seem to be.
I pity any poor sap who mounts junk tires to his motorcycle.

I also watched some motorcycle racing on TV.
Village Post Office won the AMA Supercross title, as most were expecting, and Beef Stewart continued on his trend of crashing a lot.
Hopefully, he can get out of that habit because, quite frankly, it hampers the quality of the racing action.

There was also a World Superbike round from Monza, Italy.
It was some good action and it's a fast track, with straights of over 200 mph on the WSBK Superbikes.
Factory Yamaha rider Eugene Laverty won both races on his works YZF-R1, and he rode very well to get them.
Marco Melandri said he was hampered by not getting his bike setup to his liking, but he still got 4th and 2nd, almost winning race 2.

Melandri is a pleasant surprise to me because I wondered if he'd basically be in I'm-nearing-retirement mode once the WSBK season started.
Wrong.
He's a front-runner, and has already won a race this season and is 2nd in points behind Carlos Chucka.

The big talk of the race weekend with WSBK is how Max Biaggi was awarded a ride-through penalty for blowing through a chicane, reentering the track, increasing his lead over 2nd place as a result of the incident, and was then penalized for it.
This put him down in an 8th place finish for race 2 (he got 2nd in race 1).
I imagine the wop fans were hopping up and down, crying, "Mongia!"

The last time I remember seeing the leader of a road race get a penalty was back in 2003 in a MotoGP race, where Valintino Rossi did something to get awarded a docking of time.
He still won the race because when he realized the time dockage was going to happen, he simply increased his lead more than the time dockage was worth. :)

Well, off to drudgery, AKA jerk,
-John

299: The Dead Guy Who Just Won't Stay Dead

I'm talking about Osama Bin Ladin.
Is that how you spell his name?
I'm going by memory on it.

Myself, I feel that the guy has been dead since shortly after the 9/11 Twin towers disaster.
Basically, I feel the guy was used as a scapegoat to take the blame for it, and then after it went down (literally), he was killed to keep him from saying anything to the contrary.
You know - things like, "I didn't do it."
I mean, even the pics of the guy on my AOL mailbox page look like they're 10 years old.

Why do I feel this way?
Two reasons:

No. 1:
When I saw the video of the planes hitting the towers and (especially) of the towers coming down, I thought they were taken down as you see with old buildings being demolished.
In other words, the planes didn't do that, but somebody else did via another method such as what they call "controlled demolition".
I got that impression immediately, the very first time I watched it, the same day it happened.
Those were my feelings from my own head.

Most people I know don't even want to talk about that because it's an uneasy thought and they're probably worried about being cast out as a conspiracy theory nut.
Uneasy because if you were to start thinking about it, you'd have to ask yourself, "Well, if some camel jockeys in the desert didn't do it, who did?"
Avoiding thinking like that solves that problem, but the trade-off is that you're just going along with the supplied explanation, one that makes no sense to me.
Very much as with the official explanation of how JFK bit the bullet, literally, again.

No. 2:
I've often felt that, since high school, the news media is full of time-wasting shit.
When I was in grammar school, I actually watched the TV news often enough to know all of the news anchors very well.
That's the local TV stations as well as the big national ones like CBS News and ABC News, although it was mostly WFSB in Hartford, CT., and CBS News with good ol' Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather (when he was much younger), Roger Mudd, and a few others I can't recall at the moment.
When I was 10, 11, or 12 years old, the news actually seemed as if I were learning something.
By the time I turned 15 or so, it no longer felt that way.
It seemed I was being dished-out the same old BS that just went 'round and 'round in circles, and I got the feeling that somebody didn't really want me to learn anything about what was really going on in the world, or why.
Probably especially why.

So, for me, this whole media event of Osama being basically resurrected and killed again is just the latest step in some big lie that we're being dished-out by some smart, brainy, and probably psychotic people who have no scruples in what they do because they see themselves as being a cut above everybody else.
In other words:
We're being lied to.
Again. :(

Off to jerk,
-John

298, and the Weather is Great

Too bad the rear brake shoes in my clammy 2004 Ford Ranger ain't so great right now.
Basically, it feels like the brake shoe friction material has come off the steel shoe, is getting ground-up inside the brake drum, and is resulting in brake pedal pulsation, ugly noises, and poor braking performance.
In other words:
No driving it until I get it fixed, which should be soon.
Thank God, at least, the weather is warm, so riding my WR-250XX as my transportation during the week won't be too uncomfortable and cold.
Still sucks for hauling the groceries home in my back pack. :)

Watched the MotoGP race from Portugal this morning, and AMA Supercross is coming on at 12 noon, too.
You gotta' like motorcycle racing on TV.
What else is there worth watching?

Off to try to enjoy the nice Sunday weather, even though I woke-up with a headache. ;)