1400 Owners Life Today ( The 'What did you do today?' thread)

[Kiwifruit]

Caught up with a mate in Auckland during the week. Told me he was on a Harley ride couple of weeks ago. He got snookered from behind sending both down the road.
He reckons its done $30k of damage.
Will the Harley brightener fix his sense of humour ??

[Notty]

Caught up with a mate in Auckland during the week. Told me he was on a Harley ride couple of weeks ago. He got snookered from behind sending both down the road.
He reckons its done $30k of damage.
Will the Harley brightener fix his sense of humour ??

Guess it would brighten his day ! ... soon be harvest over here so all Harleys will be plowing the fields ! 

[gsxbarmy]

Fitted the bash plate to my mainstand and also SW-Motech bags to the upper crash bars on my Triumph.

[Tony Nitrous]

Today I visited The Killing Fields, and The S21 prison.

Between 12,000 and 20,000 men, women and children went through S21. Tortured to get confessions, or tortured until they made up confessions, and if they didn't die there they were taken to The Killing Fields to be executed with the rest.

I got to meet Chum Mey, an elderly guy who is one of only 7 known survivors of S21.  I bought his book and shook him by the hand. I really struggled to hold back a tear after hearing only a little of what he had been through. I really was close to crying.

Both visits were very moving and somber but I'm glad I saw it and payed my respect. Some of it from the amount of babies murdered barbarically to the monumount of skulls is just unreal and hard to take in.

Hard to believe it happened within my lifetime and to stand in the spot and hear about it was unbelievably different from a living room the other side of the planet. I'm normally quite happy to shrug things off but this was well beyond that for me.

To kill between 1.5 and 3 million of your own people, up to 25% of your own country's population.   I struggle to get my head around it.

[Tony Nitrous]

[Andre]

Thank you for sharing Tony.

Happened in my country as well. The Jews living here were part of my own people. One should not forget that many non-Jews here were also "treaded" the same. Didn't take much for the Gestapo to "fetch you". These atrocities were then expanded to the neighboring countries as we all know.

I interviewed my grandma about this for a report I made in elementary school. She got very upset about people claiming not to know what was going on during these times. That's when I first heard that we had a concentration camp at the outskirts of my city.

Had a few talks with a Dutch friend who described his experiences in the peace force in Bosnia. He is still burdened by what he saw there. He is grateful that he got to go home shortly before the Srebrenica massacre.

[Kiwifruit]

Sadlly the human race can be a cruel beast at times. We appear to have learned little from history.

My wife and l went to an amazing WW1 exhibition at Te Papa, our national museum in Wellington. One exhibit was a machine gun on a tripod. It had bullet holes in it. You read about the story of the men that died in action firing it.
The exhition was busy yet nearly everyone was silent. A very moving experience. The men that fought were just boys.

[Andre]

One of my uncles was flown out of Stalingrad. Well, not all of him as a large piece of his skull was left there.

I had the gall to ask him if he killed someone in the war: "I was a machine gunner", then he slumped over and cried bitterly.

BTW 4 out of 5 of his draft year, just boys, did not survive the war.

[Kiwifruit]

Not hard to understand why most vets never speak about the horrors of war.
I went to a funeral this week where l learned my mates dad had forged his mothers signature so he could join up and be with his mates. He was only 17. He left to join his mates again at 94.

[Bielie45]

Thanx for sharing Tony
Its tough as a vet to deal with conflict like that but at that moment its you or the other guy and very few people cope with it afterwards. Its our family and friends that help a lot.
I drown myself in work and taking care of my wife, the kids have their own life and a good one if I may say so myself

[Tony Nitrous]

I just went around the Royal Palace and the National Museum.

Now I'm lay on the bed in the aircon eating Pringles wondering what time the GP is on here, and trying to work out what time tomorrow's flight is as it was changed from morning to evening, and I got another message saying mid day.

[Tony Nitrous]

I have flights booked for this morning. Ankor Air sent us an Email saying it's now a late evening flight. The agent we booked through sent us an Email saying it's now a mid day flight. Ankor Air aren't answering their phones (no out of hours option). We are waiting for our agent to get back to us.

When searching Ankor Air we came across a LOT of feedback saying they don't include cases and normally charge $5 / kg for any luggage when folk were told it was included. Our agent says we get a minimum of 20kg.

Step daughter had enough drama with her flights to give up and get on a 6 Hour bus ride to meet us there.

I may go to the airport after breakfast.

[VladTepes]

The third world can be a joy that way....

[barbz]

Replaced the rear caliper mounting bolts...

They decided to abandon ship out past Boonah yesterday mid ride

M8 X 25mm for the rear and M8 X 30mm for the front if anyone needs to know

[KiwiCol]

That sounds horrible Barbz, mounting bolts coming out while riding!! Would appear you're very lucky not to have ended up on the road with them.  Had they recently been serviced or something?  & not tightened up?