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  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    They hadn`t flicked the mains switch and the battery ran out ?
    Smarter than the average bear.
  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    antfly wrote:
    They hadn`t flicked the mains switch and the battery ran out ?
    Could it have been anything else :D
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  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    Yaaaaaay, I got one right !
    Smarter than the average bear.
  • holybinch
    holybinch Posts: 417
    Got to hate working in IT.
    Mother calls me when she has a problem (usually, Internet not working, so no remote control)
    Father, same.
    In-laws, soon the same.
    Friends who aren't computer litterate, same.

    Been working 7 years in support, eventually managed to escape from the monkey dungeon, but still, people think I've got nothing better to do with my time.
    Remind me to ask an engineer friend to help me out next time I need to change a cable on my bike :roll:
    FCN 4(?) (Commuter - Genesis Croix de Fer)
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  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    The same thing happened to my Father. He's an electrician by trade and used to get relatives or friends or even friends of friends asking him to do jobs for them.

    Fortunately I've avoided a similar fate as most of our PC using friends and relatives have computer literate kids.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,562
    I think it's fairly universal: my parents are both vets (animals not 'nam) and I have many a childhood memory of random people turning up at the back door with their sick pets, or better still, a half dead, run-over squirrel. Being a small village, they couldn't really tell people to bugger off and go to the surgery like everyone else. If you provide some kind of quasi emergency service then don't tell your neighbours.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • Satu
    Satu Posts: 51
    holybinch wrote:
    Got to hate working in IT.
    Mother calls me when she has a problem (usually, Internet not working, so no remote control)
    Father, same.
    In-laws, soon the same.
    Friends who aren't computer litterate, same.

    This might come in useful at least on some occasions...
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,562
    Satu wrote:
    holybinch wrote:
    Got to hate working in IT.
    Mother calls me when she has a problem (usually, Internet not working, so no remote control)
    Father, same.
    In-laws, soon the same.
    Friends who aren't computer litterate, same.

    This might come in useful at least on some occasions...

    Brilliant!
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • Sailorchick
    Sailorchick Posts: 202
    To the idiotic taxi driver this morning, no matter how slowly the cyclist in front of you is climbing the hill (Garfield Road, Soton) may I suggest waiting patiently behind them may be safer than overtaking them on a 90degree bend with parked cars. Next time you might meet a car coming down the hill rather than me on my bike which won't be able to avoid you so easily.
  • commuterconvert
    commuterconvert Posts: 68
    To the driver who beeped his horn at me when i was on this road in almost exactly the same position as the cyclist in the streetview except quite a bit further up and on the right hand side (because it's a one way & I'm going to turn right at the end).
    OK, I'm not right in against the cars but there is still plenty of overtake space & I'm moving at a fair pace.
    http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&hq=&ll=51.507687,-0.136557&spn=0,359.98071&z=16&layer=c&cbll=51.509267,-0.142133&panoid=qwEwJArRJvcbc4RRs3r5dw&cbp=12,328.27,,0,5

    There's plenty of space to go past anyway, so why when I do move in you just pull up next to me and give me a prolonged evil stare and we reach the junction at exactly the same time anyway. Pathetic, truly pathetic.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Contrasting experiences today.

    This morning, riding through the middle of the Park, I pass a tall chap on a Tricross (I think). We're both riding into the headwind and neither of us are making much headway. He tucks in behind me and when we go our separate ways about half a mile later, he says "thanks, pal".

    This evening, a chap on a carbon Trek takes a tow down Millbank (no tailwind tonight), through DSC, to CB, and pretty much all the way to AB. No thanks whatsoever. :?
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    cjcp wrote:
    Contrasting experiences today.

    This morning, riding through the middle of the Park, I pass a tall chap on a Tricross (I think). We're both riding into the headwind and neither of us are making much headway. He tucks in behind me and when we go our separate ways about half a mile later, he says "thanks, pal".

    This evening, a chap on a carbon Trek takes a tow down Millbank (no tailwind tonight), through DSC, to CB, and pretty much all the way to AB. No thanks whatsoever. :?

    Typical Trek rider...
  • idwa
    idwa Posts: 2
    Slammed my brakes on and nearly had another cyclist go over me. Told him to stop drafting me - just got swearing back. Getting fed up with cyclists not asking in the first place. Why should I have to think about someone else tailing me so closely? It's not the f*c%ing tour de france - get over it!
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    I know I'm tempting fate, but bloody PF, outside now you tart......

    Get my bike out of the rack last nigh and the tyre is flat as a pancake so I strip it down, check the tyre and the rim tape and change the tube. Got home.

    This morning, same situation.

    I'm running out of tubes.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,562
    idwa wrote:
    Slammed my brakes on and nearly had another cyclist go over me. Told him to stop drafting me - just got swearing back. Getting fed up with cyclists not asking in the first place. Why should I have to think about someone else tailing me so closely? It's not the f*c%ing tour de france - get over it!

    +1. At least my 'shunter' was apologetic; if you run in the back of someone, it's your fault. At the very least have the good manners to apologise.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    Deer: FFS look before crossing the road. That's the second time in a week you've nearly T-boned me.
  • kurako
    kurako Posts: 1,098
    will3 wrote:
    Deer: FFS look before crossing the road. That's the second time in a week you've nearly T-boned me.

    Were you wearing hi-viz?

    :lol:
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    Univega Via Strato
  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    Please works people if there is a way you can avoid dragging all the mud from the field your working in onto the road I'd much appreciate it. If I wanted to ride through the mud I would have gone mountain biking.
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  • zanes
    zanes Posts: 563
    will3 wrote:
    Deer: FFS look before crossing the road. That's the second time in a week you've nearly T-boned me.

    *sucks through teeth*

    S'problem with deer, no tax, no insurance, no lights, no helmet :wink:
  • Mr_Cellophane
    Mr_Cellophane Posts: 690
    will3 wrote:
    Deer: FFS look before crossing the road. That's the second time in a week you've nearly T-boned me.
    Are you sure it was the same one ?
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Mr_Cellophane wrote:
    will3 wrote:
    Deer: FFS look before crossing the road. That's the second time in a week you've nearly T-boned me.
    Are you sure it was the same one ?

    I thought cows t-boned? :P
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  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    Mr_Cellophane wrote:
    will3 wrote:
    Deer: FFS look before crossing the road. That's the second time in a week you've nearly T-boned me.
    Are you sure it was the same one ?

    Hard to tell there was a whole gang of them both times. I think they think the hide-in-the-hedge-and-leap-out-at-the-last-moment routine is funny.
  • will3
    will3 Posts: 2,173
    zanes wrote:
    will3 wrote:
    Deer: FFS look before crossing the road. That's the second time in a week you've nearly T-boned me.

    *sucks through teeth*

    S'problem with deer, no tax, no insurance, no lights, no helmet :wink:

    feckers have no concept of what a red light is either :twisted:
  • davis
    davis Posts: 2,506
    Misery, thy name is train travel.

    I have a litany of hatred for this, the most vile excuse for public transport in the known universe.

    The noise: whine from the lights, drone from the train, the excessively loud, overly verbose and far too frequent announcements, telling you things you already know in too many words, over and over again.The noise for half-overheard phone conversations, the sporadic humming from tone-deaf commuters who know only half the notes and nothing of their order.

    The smell: if it's not a leaking toilet or a leaking train, it's a leaking commuter. The seats smell, the air smells, the bins smell, the people smell; everything smells.

    The actual travel: we wait on platforms. We wait in stations. We buy food we don't want and actively don't need to pass the time. Should the train arrive, we clamber aboard, squeezing amongst grey people who'd rather you didn't. In you get regardless, another sack of mewling biomatter joining the funeral parade.

    The boredom: you have no control, no independence; you're forced -- you choose -- to give up your independence and control to be treated like paying freight. Should you forget your book, there's only the free papers to look at - I won't use the word "read".

    All this misery and despair, all four stinking, rotten hours of it. All yours for 38 pounds and forty pence. Pay up, little commuter, pay up.

    Commuters, I give you the mass transport system of the 21st Century: the train. Even on a glorious spring day the joy ebbs from your soul.

    I don't like trains, me.
    Sometimes parts break. Sometimes you crash. Sometimes it’s your fault.
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Can my so called hyper immune system calm the fuck down so I can get back on my bike with more than 40% of my normal energy levels. Not been on since last monday and I miss it. :(
    Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Bloody Radio 4, Thinking Allowed this afternoon played a bit of Benny Hill's comedy classic Ernie - The Fastest Milkman In The West. So guess what was in my head for an hour or so going home tonight. Yeah, that.

    Ernie had a rival, an evil looking man
    Called Two Ton Ted from Tedding-ton and he drove the bakers van...

    etc. I had to put up with it. You can have a go too.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,562
    Tour Buses on the Embankment, at one point three abreast, queueing to turn of right completely snarling up all westbound traffic. Well Done Chaps. :evil:
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    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • attica
    attica Posts: 2,362
    CiB wrote:
    Bloody Radio 4, Thinking Allowed this afternoon played a bit of Benny Hill's comedy classic Ernie - The Fastest Milkman In The West. So guess what was in my head for an hour or so going home tonight. Yeah, that.

    Ernie had a rival, an evil looking man
    Called Two Ton Ted from Tedding-ton and he drove the bakers van...

    etc. I had to put up with it. You can have a go too.

    I was born into a world where that was the best selling single in the UK.
    Kinda set the tone really
    "Impressive break"

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    ...I can taste blood"
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Note to self: when fitting a new rack make sure all of the allen bolts are done up as tight as possible, that way you wont get 100m from your house before you end up dragging your brand new Ortleib panniers behind you putting holes in both of them and breaking the picture frame you were taking to work and covering all yout clothes in shards of glass.
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    Race - Fuji Norcom Straight
    Sun - Cervelo R3
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  • gbsahne001
    gbsahne001 Posts: 1,973
    CiB wrote:
    Bloody Radio 4, Thinking Allowed this afternoon played a bit of Benny Hill's comedy classic Ernie - The Fastest Milkman In The West. So guess what was in my head for an hour or so going home tonight. Yeah, that.

    I left this morning and as I was leaving, "the Tweenies" came on CBeebies; same thing, them tune in the head for 14 miles.... and it still hasn't gone
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