fried onions wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 1:41 pm

scrapped the horrible Picasso thing

Believe me, he is trying to.

Tell him to hurry up.

"türken" means something akin to cheating. It's most commonly used in conjunction with gambling and used car enhancement. It's usually things that are "getürkt", not persons. As ever, the Internet supplies a possible origin of the term: https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/fr...

And what is the meaning of this verb? Urban Dictionary suggests this: "South London term meaning to beat up, assault, hospitalise, etc. Derived from 'The Turks' a gang of London mobsters of the 1950s renowned for their violent punishment beatings. "Talk to me like that once more and I'm g...

fried onions wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 9:36 pm I helped my friend take the wheel cylinders off his scrapper.

I'd have kept the ace black car on the road & scrapped the horrible Picasso thing behind it tbh

Junkman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 10, 2019 3:12 pm Turkey has Syria soon. Lebensraum, you know.

More like "Heim ins Reich", surely? They used to have Syria until after WW1...

Turkey has oil reserves, of course the septics aren't far away.

You should probably have put this thread in the motoring section, but I doubt anyone cares all that much.

I agree with the above re. the Zündapp KS50 btw, they're an ace little bike.

Welcome aboard.

I should think so, yes.

It's OK Eddie, I've got this for you. Eddie has squeezed out the final turd of this year's 24-hour Round-Britain Shitathon into the engine bay of that Citroen, taking his final score up to eight plus one strained fart (which would have only counted in the event of a tie-break). This wins him the Set...