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Got in this morning, sat down at my desk, took off my glasses, and the bridge snapped.
Currently sitting here with tape wrapped around it like every nerd stereotype ever. Off to Vision Express after work, and I'm going to have to leave the bike here overnight since there's no way I'm riding in traffic wearing glasses that could disintegrate at any second.
Which brings me to another thing, having to pay for eye tests this side of the border. Grrrr.0 -
Compliance officers - what a bunch of window licking, abject excuses for human beings.
Clear desk policies are just a pathetic exercise in corporate cock waving and then you get some adenoidally challenged traffic warden with a charisma deficit enforcing it.
Suffice to say in nearly went postal this morning when someone enforced the policy by removing all my reference docs from my desk.
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nation wrote:Got in this morning, sat down at my desk, took off my glasses, and the bridge snapped.
Currently sitting here with tape wrapped around it like every nerd stereotype ever. Off to Vision Express after work, and I'm going to have to leave the bike here overnight since there's no way I'm riding in traffic wearing glasses that could disintegrate at any second.
Which brings me to another thing, having to pay for eye tests this side of the border. Grrrr.
if you use a computer for "significant" part of your work the Visual Display Equipment regs means your company must cough up for the test and for any glasses required for you to carry out your duties. most opticians will write a letter to that effect anyway
Veni Vidi cyclo I came I saw I cycled
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Kieran_Burns wrote:So where do I go when a lorry comes 'round a corner?
I've had a recenent spate of this. Loads of drivers seem quite happy to overtake approaching a blind bend/hill and loads more seem quite happy to overtake even though there's an approaching car on the opposite side of the road.
I've lost count of how many folks coming the other way have had to come to a complete standstill just to allow some moron to get past me.
On the other hand, these morons do seem to be kind enough to give me plenty of room, even if that does mean risking a head on collision with another car.
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Kieran_Burns wrote:It gets worse.
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She lives in the same Village as me
She works here.
I'll probably see her in the canteen
She's a complete babe as well....
well why don't you suggest shared transport then?
Her car one day, a tandem the next ..................0 -
Drysuitdiver wrote:nation wrote:Got in this morning, sat down at my desk, took off my glasses, and the bridge snapped.
Currently sitting here with tape wrapped around it like every nerd stereotype ever. Off to Vision Express after work, and I'm going to have to leave the bike here overnight since there's no way I'm riding in traffic wearing glasses that could disintegrate at any second.
Which brings me to another thing, having to pay for eye tests this side of the border. Grrrr.
if you use a computer for "significant" part of your work the Visual Display Equipment regs means your company must cough up for the test and for any glasses required for you to carry out your duties. most opticians will write a letter to that effect anyway
Only if you wouldn't otherwise require them, unfortunately. It applies only to people that have to specifically purchase glasses to carry out their role, not people that require glasses generally.
Or so sayeth HR, anyway...0 -
They should still pay for your eye-test but if you need specs generally, they won't pay for your glasses. That's how my company operate the VDE guidelines.0
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I wear varifocals, so the optician stated this was necessary for computer work (which being in IT is unavoidable), and my company give £25 towards the glasses (which I gather is the legal minimum) as well as paying for the eye test (with vouchers)Applespider wrote:They should still pay for your eye-test but if you need specs generally, they won't pay for your glasses. That's how my company operate the VDE guidelines.Invacare Spectra Plus electric wheelchair, max speed 4mph
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Additional rant: Vision express refusing to provide you with your pupillary distance measurement, not making it clear that their frame prices don't include lenses, and then only actually springing the lens price on you at the last possible moment.
£214? F that. Going for the 2 pairs (with lenses!) for £49 offer from glasses direct.0 -
Having gone through similar recently, I sympathise entirely - although the majority of my £125 was getting the thinner lenses in the frames. The cheaper (included) version would have made me look like Mr Magoo.0
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Nearly met my maker this am under the wheels of a double decker bus. North towards Euston road coming up to Tavistock sq the road narrows with a bus in the straight on lane and me going quite a bit quicker on his left. I judged there was plenty of room and time for me to get in front of him so I passed the front doors he put his foot down to block my path. As I was in front of the bus now I started to move over when the front corner of the bus started rubbing against my right arm. I couldn't believe he would be doing this on purpose and he would back off. Err no! I was now fully leaning against the doors of the bus my front wheel all over the shop shouting my head off. Slammed on the brakes As he Graunched his tyres along the kerb where I would have been. I caught him up where we exchanged insults, given the chance it would have been much more, still shaking with rage!Bianchi Nirone C2C FCN40
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nation wrote:Additional rant: Vision express refusing to provide you with your pupillary distance measurement, not making it clear that their frame prices don't include lenses, and then only actually springing the lens price on you at the last possible moment.
£214? F that. Going for the 2 pairs (with lenses!) for £49 offer from glasses direct.
I've wondered about slapping opticians with a Data Protection Act request before to get them to divulge the PD. Yeah, I know, it's heavy handed, so just the threat of it should be enough.Sometimes parts break. Sometimes you crash. Sometimes it’s your fault.0 -
Very, very nearly got taken out last night. :shock:
Was riding here, with a few cars about, as I got to where the camera car must have been to take the Streetview shot, a Merc rolled up to the junction, from the side road on the right.
The driver didn't seem to look properly, so I turned my head to focus on her, and covered the brakes in anticipation of her not seeing me and pulling out across me to go right.
But she'd obviously seen me as she waited for me to pass. Just as I was thinking "ah, phew, no drama" and started to pedal again after easing off for a couple of seconds, I turned my head back to looking straight ahead to see a 107 a couple of feet in front of me.
It had been going the opposite direction to me, and turned right, across me, without slowing down. I was within touching distance of the rear wing with it doing 30+mph and me doing 20 in the opposite direciton. Would have been very nasty. I saw the passenger 'jump' when I went past the window, so he hadn't realised I was there, don't know if the driver had, I assume not. As I was looking back the car slowed right down and seemed to pull over, so maybe he/she had seen me as we nearly crossed paths and had a bit of a fright. Maybe the driver wanted to apologise, I don't know, I just carried on.
Although, if I hadn't slowed down for a couple of seconds for the Merc, I would have been right in the firing line. My headcam's in the post, it can't come quick enough!0 -
@bails87 : Jesus that's scary! You know what I sometimes think even if we were lit up like a mobile feckin disco some people still "Wouldn't see us" ....
By the way I had an acknowledgement from the Devon & Exeter NHS Trust and 1st Bus to say they were both going to be speaking to the drivers concerned. Best I could hope for I suppose.
However I'm giving serious consideration to posting snipers en route to take out miscreants!!Specialized Roubaix Pro SL : Litespeed Titanium Siena : Specialized Allez : Specialized Tri Cross :
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davis wrote:nation wrote:Additional rant: Vision express refusing to provide you with your pupillary distance measurement, not making it clear that their frame prices don't include lenses, and then only actually springing the lens price on you at the last possible moment.
£214? F that. Going for the 2 pairs (with lenses!) for £49 offer from glasses direct.
I've wondered about slapping opticians with a Data Protection Act request before to get them to divulge the PD. Yeah, I know, it's heavy handed, so just the threat of it should be enough.
Pondering that as an experiment. Can't cost more than a tenner and I've done any number of DSARs for work.
I'm not actually sure if they record it, though. It's the sales bod that does the measurement after you've picked out a frame, not the optician. I've no idea if that then gets written down anywhere other than on the slip that goes with the lenses to the lab.0 -
the twunt in the sporty merc with his ho , who tried to run me off the road because i dared to take primary on the eastway on the way home blocking his penis extension merc from progresing 30 yards .
it turned into an antirant when i passed you at the filter lights though. i hope your testicles rot from the nasty ho diseases you will catch humping that munterVeni Vidi cyclo I came I saw I cycled0 -
Not so much a rant, just a bit puzzled. Had two pedestrians (on different occasions) over the last week shout red light at me when I'm cycling through a green light. When I said to one that the light was green her response was "no its red". Also saw another cyclist being berated by a woman for turning right onto Oxford St even though the sign clearly said Cyclists only (she was crossing on the red man) he tried expaining this to her but she kept shouting at him red light.Fat lads take longer to stop.0
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There was a bad accident in the park on Sunday and the stretch between Robin Hood and Roehampton gates was shut to allow the air ambulance to land. The police were waving people to a halt just after Robin Hood roundabout, so I started to pull up and crossed the roundabout very slowly. Evidently this was too much for some pond life middle aged prince albert on a mountain bike who was coming down from Pen Ponds. He swore profusely at he, telling me to get out of the way. When I pointed out the police roadblock and that I had right of way at a roundabout he let fly with a string of expletives and said he'd knock me over next time. I turned round and offered him the chance to try. He then scuttled off down the gravel path still swearing at me, too much of a woman's front bum to make good on his promise. I told him I'd catch him up at the top of the hill so he could have another go and he bailed out through a pedestrian gate. Pathetic. Next time MTFU or STFU."Mummy Mummy, when will I grow up?"
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So I was cycling back from my friends house, new addington to tooting (in london), and cycled past a strange looking scummy type chav person on a road bike who was going extremely slowly at mitcham golf course. I then stop at a red traffic light and he catches up then says "oh that is a proper racer, I better get a head start" so he decides to go through the red lights at a crossing, almost being hit by a car whilst doing so... and then goes much faster then he previously was.
If you want to race me at my normal pace after you have just spent ur entire time going slow as hell, it is like going to the end of the Alpe d'Huez stage... and quickly jumping on ur road bike and doing the last 2km, overtaking all the professionals because you didn't cycle the 100km before the end and have all ur energy saved up.
So then I catch him up just before a round about (whilst he is frantically turning his head round trying to see if I am catching up), when he realises that I am right behind him he just goes flying through the round-about, once again almost getting hit by a car, I just stop and wait till its safe... and laugh at him.... once again I catch up to him, then he proceeds to flying through another red light, once again taking off... so basically I stopped a full three times to avoid death, whilst he never did... hardly a race.
So if you are out there and reading this, I would just like you to know that you need to lay off the crack, I was simply cycling back home at my usual pace, not trying to race. So please if you ever see me again stop waving ur hands around making gestures at me while u cycle thinking ur all awesome, and please try not to kill yourself to avoid me overtaking you, don't get upset about it ur just old... and your pedal stroke looks funny
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who stole my legs this evening? I'm certain the limbs on the end of my torso are not mine.... please give mine back0
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Why, when out on my bike wearing my helmet does my head itch where I can't stick a finger through the vents to scratch it? You can garuantee that as soon as I stop at a set of lights and take my helmet off to itch the scratch the lights will change.
I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.0 -
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Bother bother bother. Here's some free advice for you all. Don't open one of those ridiculous little plastic bottles of 'bio-yoghurt', then wander off to make a cup of tea, then come back & spot the yoghurt out of the corner of your eye on the kitchen table and give it a good shake prior to drinking. It needs the lid to be in place for that. As someone said last week in a different context, I now resemble a plasterer's radio. Cobblers.0
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CiB wrote:Bother bother bother. Here's some free advice for you all. Don't open one of those ridiculous little plastic bottles of 'bio-yoghurt', then wander off to make a cup of tea, then come back & spot the yoghurt out of the corner of your eye on the kitchen table and give it a good shake prior to drinking. It needs the lid to be in place for that. As someone said last week in a different context, I now resemble a plasterer's radio. Cobblers. 0
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CiB wrote:Bother bother bother. Here's some free advice for you all. Don't open one of those ridiculous little plastic bottles of 'bio-yoghurt', then wander off to make a cup of tea, then come back & spot the yoghurt out of the corner of your eye on the kitchen table and give it a good shake prior to drinking. It needs the lid to be in place for that. As someone said last week in a different context, I now resemble a plasterer's radio. Cobblers.
Same goes for the mouthwash that you have to shake; top must be on :oops:0
