Listening now on MP3 player in internet cafe in Essaouira. I'm just on a line from Chelsea Hotel No.2 "Giving me head on the unmade bed/ While the Transalp waits in the street..." So you can add blow jobs to the list

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"I need to see if I am compensating or just like guns."

That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard! Surely there should be an AND in there, not an OR?

And by posting how big ones bike is, and not only what 4*4, but also how you needed to make it even bigger and by how much, one would think the answer is obvious!

Noones mentioned the weather yet. Turned out nice again.




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lol gotta love the American we did this attitude, by we you actually mean you as it was us who came there then became you. so infact there was no we kicked you out as we kicked ourselves out with alot of the help from ourselves and other EU nations who also happen to be you.

But having some american friends I do understand why some feel the need to carry firearms or at least have them for home protection. In one of my friends states there has been more police officers killed in line of duty by scum with firearms than in the whole of the Uk by any means in the last 5 years. They all think Im nuts for not locking my doors at night, but I am of the opinion if they are gonna enter your house they will do so and if they can get past my evil chinese crested dog, not break their necks falling over my cats and find any of my electrical appliances remote controls then they are doing better than me.

Im just in my thirties and I can remember the days of walking into the nearest city with a rifle to get it fixed or going to the nearest pub with farmers and gamekeepers with shotguns over the shoulder, so yes things have changed why because someone walked into a school and killed lots of folk and it has not happened since they introduced the laws.
I always had a decent sized locknife/hoofpick in my pocket as I owned horses, and when I was a chef I always had a knife set with me but I sure as hell would be nervous these days even walking into a club with steel toe caps on.
The clampdown on guns in the Uk worked to some degree many small time cons still would not even think about carrying a shooter as its way too much time when caught but they all carry knifes ect as the law isnt getting tough on that despite what the government says.

So I think the camping in the desert question is pointless but should really be how do you survive going anywhere as lets face it every country has it problems.

We are pretty much in agreement on most things however.

How often did it happen before they changed the gun laws? None. not once in a hundred years did anyone murder a load of kids until that single lunatic let loose. On that basis if a car driver ran over a number of pedestrians we should all have our cars confiscated to prevent it from happening again. Punish the entire population for one idiots wrongdoing. Does not seem quite right to me.
Truth is it is part of a long, ongoing ( since the russian revolution) process worked, excuse by excuse to disarm the peasants. Since 9/11 we have lost Habeus corpus enshrined in the Magna Carta. as is the presumption of innocence until proven guilty and the right to trial by 12 man jury. 900 years of justice and most of my reasons to be proud to be British dumped down the toilet.

I dare say that Ray Mears' bushcraft knife could be construed as an offensive weapon in modern Britain these days .

There will always be nutters who will kill innocent people and they will use whatever means they have at their disposal .

It could be argued that; if there were armed responsible citizens in Hungerford when Michael Ryan went on his rampage ,he could have been stopped before he killed so many .
Similar events have happened in just about every country in the world .
You cannot legislate against firearms and expect the problem to go away .Dunblane came after Hungerford and it's sad to say another tragedy will follow sooner or later.

It is a shame that ill-thought out legislation has been passed making the lives of legitimate sportsmen and women all the more difficult ,and yet every weekend there are many thousands of enthusiasts who take part in shooting sports in the UK and never harm anybody.
So what was actually achieved?

Gun crime has ,apparently ,doubled in the last decade .

Illegal firearms will still be available to those who are determined to get hold of them .
Bombs ,which have the potential to do much more damage, can be made from agricultural fertiliser and diesel .Hence every farmer is a potential bomb maker ,yet as far as I know there have been no new laws regarding fertiliser purchase and storage -[organic farmers might be let off the hook here ].



Using Ted's [unoriginal] hypothesis about penis size and gun ownership ,I will leave my rifle at home next time I go out into the woods ,for I feel that I am adequately equiped to defend myself from any Grizzly bears I might encounter .

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Sweet a political flame fest! I AM SO IN!

But most of the guns I have had came from the old USSR, China, and the no gun having EU. Odd you can not have them but see no wrong in proffiting from them. And before that the people that came here 300 years ago (and even before that) where from Europe. They brought the "gun culture" to the USA (or that what it is called now). Before that there was no guns here. The guns were used "resettle the indigenous people", funny but the avatar movie was about the same.
Now as far warmongers go if I am right it was the now EU that started both world wars. Killing millions now that is good waring not gust killing like when you settle an continent or two. You know going up a people that are armed with rocks and sticks.

The whole you is me thing cuts both ways, we are heartless warmongering killers ran by even worst heartless warmongering killers. In my state we have 6 or 7 police officers killed in December alone. Now that is not a very mary christmas thought.
So do not take a gun with you. No matter how big it makes your junk look.

Ah Yes! You can try the roof of the Hotel des Remparts for that. And no need to leave the Transalp in the street - you can push the bike inside that hotel. The beds are certainly unmade.

Please take DLBiten there for a bit of fun but no L.Cohen please.