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I mowed the lawn today, and after doing so I sat down and had a cold beer.

The day was really quite beautiful, and the drink facilitated some deep thinking on various topics.

Finally I thought about an age old question: Is giving birth more painful than getting kicked in the nuts?

Women always maintain that giving birth is way more painful than a guy getting kicked in the nuts.  Well, after another beer and some heavy deductive thinking I have come up with the answer to that question.

Getting kicked in the nuts is more painful than having a baby and here is the reason for my conclusion:  A year or so after giving birth, a woman will often say, "it might be nice to have another child."  On the other hand, you never hear a guy say, "You know, I think I would like another kick in the nuts."

I rest my case....time for another beer!

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who can do carb balancing as i don't fancy paying £80 for a bike shop to do it........   

my fiancé has said for the honeymoon doing a tour of europe,around 2500 miles on the bike,so i have some planning to do,and i have to get my rack fitted. 

Hi, i recently bought a 1998 fzs 600 fazer and i thought it was all fine. But i have started to notice that sometimes when changing up the gears i can no longer get into 4th as when i apply pressure to the gear lever it moves but doesnt have any resistance, like it's not moving anything. Although sometimes if i rev a bit harder and try to shift again it will. Failing that i have to change down then back up. As well as this i have also noticed that changing from 1st gear to 2nd gear is very clunky and even sounds like its grinding a bit. So far i have adjusted the clutch cable on the engine and the lever and adjusted the lever so it is inline with the little dimple on the gear selector shaft. None of this helped. I did read somewhere about a spring wearing out and not having enough force to allow selection on an up-shift. could this be the problem?

any ideas would be amazing. Thanks, Dan.

i plan to do a 2500 mile ride in europe in august,i will be fully loaded and 2 up,any ideas what sort of fuel consumption i may get,or what have  you got in similar use?
my bike is high mileage and is standard

In case you've not heard, Margaret Thatcher is dead.

Just to let you know that I did OK in the 80s moving from a terrace house to one in the better parts of Selby (if there is such a thing). By 1984 I'd paid my mortgage off, this was nothing to do with Thatcher but the fact I was working 10 hours a day 7 days a week, yes I was greedy when many didn't have a job, but hey greed was good.
What I got was a pittance to what the rich people got and don't believe the story that Margaret Thatcher was a poor girl from a poor family who made good.
I agree that the lefty, commie unions needed sorting out but why destroy the industries in the process?

I recently bought some levers for my bike from China and had to explain to a friend that China leads the world now and Britain is now a 3rd rate country.
I'm not pleased about the death of Mrs Thatcher but I have no respect for her or what she did and I don't believe the myths about how she saved the country.

When she was booted out of office in the early 90s, me and my boss went to the pub to celebrate. Now she's snuffed it at last. Please please no state funeral.

PS M Thatcher is no more