chad's opinion thread

oysterjar

I have been fortunate enough to never drop a bike at a high speed. My brother wrecked his pretty good and needed some skin graphing, wear leather kids! I don't necessarily miss riding all that much. I don't have much time so it would just be mostly for commuting, ala small single seat bike for me.

I don't know if I would get back on after a big crash or dropping of the bike. I have had a few scares but nothing serious. I really love the looks and styles of some bikes but as I said I just don't miss it that much now and don't have a lot of time for it.

I have read that you were working daily through some pains, is it mostly due to your wrecks?

Iraq/Kuwait for both deployments. All three are boys. No damage to the bike, story: so when bikes are shipped they are not fully assembled. We have technicians assemble them and then give them a good cleaning for the show room. After the bath they are supposed to be air hose dried to not leave streaks. One of the wash guys wheels this baby down to the showroom and leaves it in the middle some where because he hasn't a clue where us sales assholes want this thing. MY boss being a hard ass always made us move the bikes around and change the setup of the showroom and we had just finished arranging the bikes. While doing this on hardwood floors you can push a bike backwards while it is on its kickstand by pressing the handle bars from the front end of the bike. He wanted all the bikes packed in so tight you couldn't walk between the hogs. So here is this new bike and I have to fit it in some where. You always move bikes from the left hand side because it is the kickstand side and if it falls it lands on the kickstand. Well I had to parallel park this pig up tight on the left hand side where I was supposed to be standing. So I walked over to the other side, lifted it to balance by holding the handle bars and started moving it. Well with a bike that has all of the accessories that this one does there is bound to be some spots missed by the wash guys. There was a puddle of water that I hadn't seen that dripped out of the bike. So while holding the bike at center balance and maneuvering it backwards my left leg slid out from beneath me and I hit the ground while holding the handle bars. I quickly got to a knee before the bike slammed and "eased" it down to the ground because there was no stopping that chopped tree. Mind you this is right in front of my bosses office that has a big window overlooking the showroom. I had worked there for 2 months and I was half of every ones age. He flew out while a customer ran over and started to help me pick it up. My boss said "WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED" and the customer and I told him how I slipped and he asked why I was moving the bike from the left and I said "BECAUSE YOU ARE A FUCKING ASSHOLE AND WANT THESE FUCKING THINGS SO CLOSE TO EACH OTHER THAT I HAD NO CHOICE AND THE STUPID SHIT THAT BROUGHT IT DOWN HERE DIDNT DRY IT OFF ALL THE WAY AND THERE IS A BIG PUDDLE OF OYSTERJAR SLIPPING SAUCE RIGHT SMACK DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS HERE SHOWROOM" "because I had to due to them being so close." No damage and he wasn't mad. I never moved another bike again without my balls in my throat the whole time.

As far as the military goes. I am over it but have some years left for retirement. It consumed my life so much and took so much away from my kids. I used to want to be doing cool fun stuff with the seals, or SF or whatever but now I just want to stay home and watch M*A*S*H reruns.

oysterjar

imalive said:

love oysterjar's bikes. Here's mine. Since this is the opinion thread.....feel free to rip it, chad

That is a very nice bike. I really like the color/sticker combo. I have never ridden a CBR but I have heard a lot of good things about them. There is a reason there is many different styles of bikes. I would be in jail if I owned your bike.

The Juggler

low sodium salt?

F Me In The Brain

Love the bike pics. I burned the only bike I had -- no drainoff tube from the gas tank when it was rebuilt and so the gas spilled went dripping down onto the engine. What a friggin idiot, right? Luckily no harm came of it except that old rebuilt Honda.


Chad --- most fucked up story you read about from the weekend in the world? (A number to choose from, especially those poor bastards with the mud in WA!)

chadwick

The Juggler said:

low sodium salt?

pepper, garlic, ginger, cayenne pepper, onion, paprika, lemon & orange
frig a bunch of salt
hard to beat a salty french fry

so you take the french fries baked in the oven
rub them all over your sweaty body
sweat is salty

set

chadwick

F Me In The Brain said:

Love the bike pics. I burned the only bike I had -- no drainoff tube from the gas tank when it was rebuilt and so the gas spilled went dripping down onto the engine. What a friggin idiot, right? Luckily no harm came of it except that old rebuilt Honda.


Chad --- most fucked up story you read about from the weekend in the world? (A number to choose from, especially those poor bastards with the mud in WA!)

wow that is so horrible news. unfortunetly mudslides & the northwest are part of the deal i guess. the place is drenched, hilly, mountainous & ridiculously fantastic & before ya know it, roads & homes are installed. the trees out there have shallow root systems because why would roots need to go deep to get a drink? the water's right there. massive trees fall over quite easily actually with some wind & heavy rains. i just read 8 died, 8 injured & 18 others have up & vanished. plus the mudslide stopped the flowing river. WTF!?

that is some small ass river or one incredibly massive mudslide

but the most fucked up story i read this weekend goes to oklahoma native america indians living amongst some pretty belligerent sasquatches way back in the 1800's & recent times. & if they were going at it in the 1800's they surely had conflicts prior to the 1800's. so without any further delay, here is a second hand write up of the old accounts as well as the author's own experience of supposed actual events at the same locale.




"I was camping at the base of the Ouachita mountains in Oklahoma, which was one of the disappearances listed in the 411 book. I had a violent encounter with a 15 foot tall sasquatch and barely escaped with my life. There have been several people disappear without a trace in this area and my cousin and I would have been added to the list if we would have run away. Instead of running away, I ran toward the creature and started rocking it. We went back and started hunting the thing with assault rifles and had a violent confrontation with 3 creatures that encircled us. The Choctaw Indians have a documented story of a battle with Sasquatches in the 1800's in SE OK. that were kidnapping kids and eating them. They located where the Squatches were at in the mountains and went on the attack with guns. According to the story several creatures were on a mound littered with human bones and partially eaten bodies of children. When the indian lighthorsemen police approached, many of the creatures ran away, but several stayed and fought the indian police. They eventually killed the creatures, but during the battle one of the creatures flanked their leader,Captain Leflore, and ripped his head off. I'm personally convinced that these creatures or actually these giants are responsible for many of the disappearances like the 411 book you mentioned infers." - jim

chadwick

imalive said:

love oysterjar's bikes. Here's mine. Since this is the opinion thread.....feel free to rip it, chad

beautifully done bike. crotch rockets! not my cup of tea. my groin & back aches looking at them.

i once stood with some pals on the shoulder of a back country farming bullshit lost highway with a decent little straight-away.
these two doorknobs (one owned the bike) would take turns wrapping the thing up. they were zooming by tight as shit at 185mph. not me, im good

i've been 120 something on a bike
been 140ish in a car

i can barelly drive over 55 today
65? not really
on these bullshit nowhere highways im 50 & throughly pleased

did you know i can tell you how fast i am moving without looking at the speedometer?
i know what the fuck is going on i guess

chadwick

auto racing & whatnot

yeah believe it or not these fools are exactly that. talk about a enormous waste of resources, holy shit! with a who gives a bloody hoot attitude towards wasting fuel, tires, the whole nine yards, yeah they are pretty self important, goofy & useless in my book. it is a massive waste of time, space & a whole fucking list of things. it may have been cool decades ago. wasting resources today like fuel is quite simple for simpletons

that is my opinion on auto racing & i'd enjoy being proven wrong

shortstack

Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen and his wife, Dagmar Freuchen-Gale

Wobbie

shortstack said:

Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen and his wife, Dagmar Freuchen-Gale

arctic explorer..........or Chadwick?? :-O

chadwick

shortstack said:

Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen and his wife, Dagmar Freuchen-Gale

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/citizens/peter_freuchen_thats_pete.php
that is some guy
thank you, shortstack

Wobbie

she has a satisfied look on her face....does she not?

chadwick

indeed

The Juggler

chadwick said:

The Juggler said:

low sodium salt?

pepper, garlic, ginger, cayenne pepper, onion, paprika, lemon & orange
frig a bunch of salt
hard to beat a salty french fry

so you take the french fries baked in the oven
rub them all over your sweaty body
sweat is salty

set

so....low sodium or not?

oysterjar

Chad,

Do you play any musical instruments? If not what would you play?

chadwick

The Juggler said:

chadwick said:

The Juggler said:

low sodium salt?

pepper, garlic, ginger, cayenne pepper, onion, paprika, lemon & orange
frig a bunch of salt
hard to beat a salty french fry

so you take the french fries baked in the oven
rub them all over your sweaty body
sweat is salty

set

so....low sodium or not?

yeah uh probably not
doesn't sound natural to me
try putting some low sodium in someone's eye, like that bat shit crazy neighbor of yours
tell him, "its low sodium," when it stings.... if it stings

chadwick

all children should take piano lessons. my middle brother & i had to take piano lessons. he was more advanced than i was. i thought what the fuck is this list of notes, they look drunk & they say i need my ritalin or something, can i go outside now? got any cartoons? what's for dinner - meaning lunch, what's over there? hey piano teacher you might wanna be in your 20's or 30's or even 40's or 50's or even 60's & have have a low cut tank top on without a bra & wear your tiny underwears, why am i here? i want my bike, where is your swimming pool? do you go camping, do you go fishing, why? what? yeah that's great. my shoes are untied, my zipper is down, i forgot to comb my hair, uh, uh, um... yeah this fucking blows. i'll be over here doing push ups & sit ups & running in place

then as they get a bit older they can pick another instrument to play
maybe a cello or a didgeridoo or a ranat ek or a ranat ek lek or a ranat thum lek or a grajabpi or a saw duang or a saw u or a taphon or a khong wong lek or a jakhe or a deze or a pair of hosho or a matepe or a mbira/sanza

sometimes i mess around on a greg bennett acoustic guitar or a yamaha classical guitar. do i know what i am even doing? no i do not have a clue.


http://pricespy.co.nz/product.php?p=857646
something like this here but mine's a darker color & has pearl jam stickers on it
i picked it up where kurt cobain's star is (in the sidewalk) in front of the musical instruments store in aberdeen, wa.

JonnyPistachio

Chadwick, why in God's green earth do my eyes water like hell when I pull out one little nose hair?

dankind

Thirty Bills Unpaid

JonnyPistachio said:

Chadwick, why in God's green earth do my eyes water like hell when I pull out one little nose hair?

Further to this... two items:

1. Why do the hairs that grow on the medial portion of my inner nose promote infinitely greater tears than the ones on the lateral portion?

2. Why am I so motivated to pull nose hairs while I drive?