What you drinking tonight?

i lived in the philippines when i was a kid. little boys sold balut on the street out of wooden boxes. the filipinos are ver proud of it

 

They've got a similar thing in China (duck IIRC) , where I travelled extensively. Really not my cup of tea. Snake, cat and various other outlandish dishes I did enjoy...

 

A friend brought me this as a pick me up week ago.
Unfortunately I've been knocked off the bike and have a few broken bits - pelvis, ribs, assorted sticky out bits at the bottom of my spine, and as a result of all the medication I'm on I can't even have a tot.
Most frustrating.
On the subject of vegetarian food, I eat quite a lot of it. Usually accompanied by a nice steak.

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Egad, Peter!!! Sorry to hear. Heal fast, ride soon!

My wife is vegan. She's not a moonbat. She started twelve years ago for health reasons (her asthma has completely disappeared!), She doesn't preach and still wears leather (I love it when she wears leather). It's just a bit of a pain when we go out to eat, making sure the restaurant bread does not contain milk and the salad doesn't come with cheese on it, etc.

 

Wow, I hope you heal well bud. GWS

 

Not doing too badly thanks.
I can start using both legs next week.
Ribs are just bloody annoying.
Broken processes at the bottom of the spine, that were below the back protector are literally a pain in the bum.
Still all improving

 

Yup, they will be. Smarts a lot. I had 6 broken (C2 to C8) last year, 3 with multiple fractures. Oxicodon kept me happy... GWS fella!

(I ride with an airvest now... )

 

Ok, I'm not on a motorbike but that's not in the title.



Tighnabruaich in the distance.

 

Sorry to hear that @Peter B whereabouts are you in West Yorkshire?

 

I had one on. I wasn't thrown far enough for it to go off. I had to get someone to unclip the tether while I was flat on my back.

 

Huddersfield

 

Huddersfield.
Knocked off in Dundee.

 

We'll have to meet up some time, I'm only a few miles from Squires.

 

That's a fair old run home after an accident. Are you in hospital, if not, how did you get home?

 

Spent a week in High Dependancy and Major Trauma wards in Ninewells Dundee.
Then a horrendously uncomfortable 7hr ride in an ambulance being transferred to Huddersfield Royal Inf.
A further week in there.
Been at home since.
Unable to do anything as told no weight bearing on my left leg for 6 wks.
That's up tomorrow. Physio turning up at 11. Should be fun.

 

Wow, so a bit of a show all round then.
Ribs are a pain but pretty harmless by the sound of the rest of your damage. I bruised, or cracked mine, after falling off off road at zero miles per hour
They still took x8 weeks before I didn't notice them.

Would you say the accident was your own fault, or the other parties?

 

It was at the Emmock Roundabout on the A90.
I was coming up behind a few cars that were waiting for cars on the roundabout.
I could see over them at a gap in the approaching traffic.
I filtered up an empty L turn lane. Timing it so I'd arrive as the gap opened up, so I could just open the throttle and be away before the waiting traffic moved.
It went as anticipated. Until I looked down to my right as a car front wing touched my right pannier.
I gave a push on the left bar and headed towards the kerb rather than go under the car.
Next thing I know I'm flat on my back, still attached to the bike by the airvest tether. With a nice lady stabilising my neck, who messaged me later saying she was there when I was knocked off.
I'll leave the blame to the solicitors/ insurers.

 

An unfortunate off mate. I hope you get the right outcome from your solicitor / insurance claim.

 

Umm so that all, unfortunately and sorry to say, sounds a bit 50:50 at best to me

So you're in a "left turn only lane" but intending to go straight on, and the front car changes it's mind at the last minute and turns left.

Have I understood correctly what you were saying?

If correct then surely that could be seen as undertaking, no?

 

revisiting a bit?

just what, exactly, is a "moonbat?"