I used to rattle something over Kate, especially the Babooska video https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kate+bush+babooshka
"One in Kate Bush is worth two in the hand"... or at least I thinks that's the old saying from the 70's.....
Many's the time I've exhaled with relief as that curtain slices away their hullaballoo and the anticipation of sloshed coffee and a Heineken excites me.
Was he like this? I absolutely love Guy Martin. My youngest son's personality is very like his in many ways and I also suspect GM is Aspergers like my boy.
Got talking to John mcguiness up at the nostalgia scramble a good few years ago. Randomly leant on a fence talking two strokes n mud clods. I noticed the Honda jacket at first, then the face and it started with a " hey up, what you doing up here? " Good lad to have a natter with.
Bugger. Vid not available in my country it says. Aspergers or not, he was an interesting chat. They say we’re all on the spectrum somewhere.
Watch it when you get back. It's fkn epic! Or Google "Guy Martin MotoGP grid walk COTA" or similar and you may find a clip that works.
Really? I've always had the impression that there's not a lot going on between the ears, especially judging by his MCN column which reads like something written by an 8 year old. "I really like bikes me so I can't understand why other people don't like them because they make too much noise. I think those people are boring and smell of poo. But I know bikes are dead ace and the best and I love the sound of a 4 or a twin or a triple with the biggest exhaust the world has ever seen. Vroom vroom! I have to go now as my mum says it's sausages for tea and jelly for pudding, which is yummy and my favoritest food. Bye"
As Guy himself said 'It’s true I’ve been diagnosed with Asperger’s. But I would say: “What a load of tripe”' https://www.driving.co.uk/news/feat...es-jenson-button-aspergers-theres-life-bikes/
"I was asked to do Top Gear, but if I did anything like that, it could become a way of life. It would take television work to the next level. And why would I want to do that?" What a shame he didn't take the gig! "They try to put names to it — “Oh, he’s like that because of this.” Everyone’s different. We’re all different. My girlfriend at the time persuaded me to see someone. I was turning her crackers, so she forced me — well, not forced me, but she said: “Will we go and see this psychologist?” Anyway, I sat there for a day, and it turned out it was a form of autism: Asperger’s. The way I look at it is that maybe having that is why I am the way I am. Maybe that is all down to the autistic side. I don’t know. If there are any benefits to having it..." That's pretty much what I say to my son. We only got him assessed because despite being clever enough to think most people under the table he just couldn't learn to read or write, and in order to get the funding for one to one classroom support you need a piece of paper with a diagnosis on it. On the flip side, it seems to have given him some special powers, including an encyclopaedic memory along with spookily quick as lightning reactions and the ability to spot patterns which mean he is a superb goalkeeper (being 6'3" at age 18 now also helps). Like Guy, my boy also has that same childlike quality that endears him to almost everybody who meets him, which again might be a by product of the condition. We are all wired differently and not everyone fits in the same hole that they try to bang all the kids through in the educational factory farming process. I just wish the school system would take more account of that.
Ha ha, got it on my handset. Yeah, I remember watching that live... Chuckle-tastic... It was around that time I met him. He'd just lopped all his hair off and I didn't know. It was the scruffy green shorts and the piston tattoo on his calf that helped me ping him....
Sat next to Bill Beaumont on a flight from Blackpool to London. Lovely huge bear of a man. No photos or autographs he never asked me and I don't like signing anything. Just daft banter about cauliflowers and ears
