Your rants here.

CiB

It's September and it's football season time again, not the prem but my son's U15's new season [jeez he was four 3 weeks ago...] And as regular as feck, in come the emails - Hi; something's come up - could <insert kid's name> have a lift to the match this week pls? Much appreciated...

Take some responsibility for your own f****ng kids, I'm not a sodding taxi service or someone who sees Saturday football as a bit of convenient baby-sitting. Ask someone else, sod it make some effort yourself, and if you do enjoy the benefits of me giving your unpleasant quite smelly mono-syllabic teenager a lift more than a few times through the season how about come May and the end of it for 3 months you offer something tangible like a bottle of very nice wine, instead of a glib copy n paste email expressing your heartfelt thanks for being given some sprog-free time every Saturday morning.

There are some belligerent sods on here - I salute you. If you can suggest any well-worded responses that don't leave the team, the coaches or the uncared-for youths themselves on the losing side, you'd be doing me a good turn.

timothyw

You could just come up with some cock and bull story about also having to drop off so and so at the garage on the way so having a full car, or say you're going to the tip after drop off so have a carful of junk... or buy a convertible... or arrange a lift share with someone convenient who you think is actually deserving.

Or you could just ditch the car and start riding to football.... or get the bus.

timothyw

A nice regular one would be dropping the wife off at the supermarket on the way to pick up later, something like that.

Or change email address.

MrSweary

Take the kids but then drop them off at the wrong house. Doubt you'd be asked again.

bendertherobot

bendertherobot wrote:

Despite being symptom free (couple of attacks of cystitis) since May, NHS have finally scheduled me to have a camera stuck in a very small hole tomorrow. This is a rant. Of course, if it shows up anything it will become an anti rant. Or something.

Not quite as bad as I'd feared. And all clear, onto the CT now.

veronese68

bendertherobot wrote:

Not quite as bad as I'd feared. And all clear, onto the CT now.

All clear is good. Try not to fall asleep during the CT, I've done that a couple of times and they don't like it when you twitch as you fall asleep.

dhope

The Team Sky bus...

http://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/37309613

wolfsbane2k

dhope wrote:

The Team Sky bus...

http://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/37309613

Indeed. There is a rather large amount of chatter on twitter about it, and sky have responded already.

bendertherobot

Veronese68 wrote:

bendertherobot wrote:

Not quite as bad as I'd feared. And all clear, onto the CT now.

All clear is good. Try not to fall asleep during the CT, I've done that a couple of times and they don't like it when you twitch as you fall asleep.

I sometimes shudder as I drop off so I'll dose myself on caffeine!

veronese68

bendertherobot wrote:

I sometimes shudder as I drop off so I'll dose myself on caffeine!

That's the twitch I mean, not good when they tell you to lie still. Although to be fair most people probably don't fall asleep during a scan.

itboffin

CiB wrote:

It's September and it's football season time again, not the prem but my son's U15's new season [jeez he was four 3 weeks ago...] And as regular as feck, in come the emails - Hi; something's come up - could <insert kid's name> have a lift to the match this week pls? Much appreciated...

Take some responsibility for your own f****ng kids, I'm not a sodding taxi service or someone who sees Saturday football as a bit of convenient baby-sitting. Ask someone else, sod it make some effort yourself, and if you do enjoy the benefits of me giving your unpleasant quite smelly mono-syllabic teenager a lift more than a few times through the season how about come May and the end of it for 3 months you offer something tangible like a bottle of very nice wine, instead of a glib copy n paste email expressing your heartfelt thanks for being given some sprog-free time every Saturday morning.

There are some belligerent sods on here - I salute you. If you can suggest any well-worded responses that don't leave the team, the coaches or the uncared-for youths themselves on the losing side, you'd be doing me a good turn.

Simply reply with, sorry we're both cycling there together :twisted:

wolfsbane2k

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Ffs.

wolfsbane2k

FFS, am i just a negative person? I rant in here a lot.
Anyway - Shouted at someone who close passed me with no reason at all today, no oncoming, lovely wide road. ~ 1 min later they were coming back the other way at hair raising speeds.
Watched my back the entire rest of the ride. Took the fun right out of it.
Feel i'm going to have to be careful come next week :-(

kingstongraham

CiB wrote:

It's September and it's football season time again, not the prem but my son's U15's new season [jeez he was four 3 weeks ago...] And as regular as feck, in come the emails - Hi; something's come up - could <insert kid's name> have a lift to the match this week pls? Much appreciated...

Take some responsibility for your own f****ng kids, I'm not a sodding taxi service or someone who sees Saturday football as a bit of convenient baby-sitting. Ask someone else, sod it make some effort yourself, and if you do enjoy the benefits of me giving your unpleasant quite smelly mono-syllabic teenager a lift more than a few times through the season how about come May and the end of it for 3 months you offer something tangible like a bottle of very nice wine, instead of a glib copy n paste email expressing your heartfelt thanks for being given some sprog-free time every Saturday morning.

There are some belligerent sods on here - I salute you. If you can suggest any well-worded responses that don't leave the team, the coaches or the uncared-for youths themselves on the losing side, you'd be doing me a good turn.

I'd suggest "No problem, I'm going anyway and haven't got a full car."

redvee

Should be in bed now as I've got a 4am alarm call but the positive of that means I'll be walking down the streets of Barcelona around 10:45.

itboffin

Get thee t bed

reformedfatty

Narrowly avoided death yesterday as an old codger decided not to bother looking before pulling out on to the roundabout I was on. Evidently he heard my raised shout (amazingly lacking expletives, just an angry OI!). I was then stuck behind him till he pulled over at the house next door to my destination. I pulled over as well as it was my destination, and he promptly took off with a hasty U turn and sped off down the road. Guess he must have thought I was planning to administer some summary justice.

On the plus side at least he realised he'd done something wrong.

Old_Cranky

Narrowly avoided being taken out by an overtaking cyclist on the CS3 this morning. I was pulling away having stopped at one of the zebra crossings to let some pedestrians cross and the overtaking cyclist had to cut in to avoid oncoming bikes necessitating avoiding action by me.

Surely the highway code (165) applies to cycle paths so you must not overtake on a pedestrian crossing?

kingstongraham

Old_Cranky wrote:

Surely the highway code ... applies to cycle

Haha hahaha hahahahaha.

How long you been riding in London?

wolfsbane2k

Stuck the 6 month old / 1200 miles bike in for a check over service.
Highlighted as new chain & cassette needed, and new inners for gears and brakes.
Seems a bit excessive, especially when I've cleaned the chain every 2 weeks. Surely the cables should last longer than that!

cruff

Had a woman completely cut me up at a roundabout this morning - pull right across me without looking (that'll teach me to be in the bike lane...)

When I caught up with her, and shouted about her using her indicators (I was a bit pissed off - if my spidey senses hadn't been tingling she could have crushed me), through the inevitable torrent of abuse I got this pearler: "But you're wearing your headphones". Ah yes - good point. Because without the headphones in, I'd have been able to HEAR your fcuking indicator from INSIDE your fcuking car.

Twunt

paulintheforest

Not big on the scale of things, but started my day badly.

I don't get to commute by bike, I sit in my car for up to 3 hrs on a 120 mile round trip (working to resolve that, hopefully something to put in anti rants soon). Working from home today with an early Dr's appointment so rode into town (less than a mile) as it's a nice way to start the day. Going through the park a cyclist rushed past me on the grass without a call of warning or anything, but fair enough no harm done.
Next obstacle for him and me was a small child on a bike stopped on the path with it's back to us, I slowed and called out, he buzzed the poor kid who had no idea he was coming and made them flinch in terror. After we left the park he decided that the red light crossing the main road means give way, I caught him within 10 metres after waiting for green myself and gave him some "words of advice" on his cycling. Although as I was in Jeans and without a helmet he probably ignored it as I can't be a real cyclist.

Really wound me up, particularly about the small child, there was no need for it. That ride was supposed to make me all Zen for a day of email sorting.

dyrlac

Suppose it was inevitable, got an unwelcome "as there is insufficient evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction, it has been decided* to take no further action in respect of this matter" letter in re my nasty RTC 9 weeks ago. Never expected anything more than driving without due care (6 pts plus a trivial fine), but grumble. We are asking for reconsideration; mostly for purposes of my civil suit. I hate the idea of riding with a camera, but it looks like a reconstruction based on witnesses and slam dunk physics--had I not had priority, I couldn't have been hit where I was or suffered the injuries I received--isn't good enough.

* who teaches these people how to write?

itboffin

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Stuck the 6 month old / 1200 miles bike in for a check over service.
Highlighted as new chain & cassette needed, and new inners for gears and brakes.
Seems a bit excessive, especially when I've cleaned the chain every 2 weeks. Surely the cables should last longer than that!

either you've totally abused that bike or you're being had on the classic chain & cassette swap, either way learn to do those maintenance tasks yourself buy a jobsworth kit from Planet x and save a fortune in the process as well as gaining a better understanding of how your buy works and when its not setup correctly.

with the right tools and a tiny amount of research there's practically nothing on a bike thats had to fix, i'm excluding wheel building and electronics from that statement - there be voodoo in those

wolfsbane2k

itboffin wrote:

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

Stuck the 6 month old / 1200 miles bike in for a check over service.
Highlighted as new chain & cassette needed, and new inners for gears and brakes.
Seems a bit excessive, especially when I've cleaned the chain every 2 weeks. Surely the cables should last longer than that!

either you've totally abused that bike or you're being had on the classic chain & cassette swap, either way learn to do those maintenance tasks yourself buy a jobsworth kit from Planet x and save a fortune in the process as well as gaining a better understanding of how your buy works and when its not setup correctly.

with the right tools and a tiny amount of research there's practically nothing on a bike thats had to fix, i'm excluding wheel building and electronics from that statement - there be voodoo in those

Indeed. I've been servicing the bike myself for the past 6 months doing a clean and check /fettle every two weeks, and this was primarily a 'get someone to check I've not done something stupid in that time' check. I've got a basic tool kit, and growing tools slowly as rqd.

My chain checker (cyclo drop in) says I've not hit the .75% mark when compared to his reported >1% on a park tools thing, so am ignoring his recommendation - he was a bit miffed when I said 'thanks, got those in the garage already', however he did pick up a possible crack in a weld around a stay which manufacturer have confirmed they want to look at, especially as it's in warranty.
I was planning on a new front dr cable as it had pinged 2 strands after getting caught in the pedal mech last week, but the others were a surprise.

I've always wondered how you actually determine that a new inner is needed/snagging though!

Ben6899

Wolfsbane2k wrote:

I've always wondered how you actually determine that a new inner is needed/snagging though!

Sh1t shifting - typically 'hanging' changes from larger to smaller (i.e. away from the spokes) sprockets.

timothyw

I work in a school running the network. Dealing with a certain online school data services provider, which has recently expanded the offering to include support for setting homework for students via their web system, which our SLT jumped at the chance to sign up for.

A week and a bit into term, 'Omnishambles' and 'Clusterfuck' are the two words that spring to mind for their system and support of it.

asprilla

TimothyW wrote:

I work in a school running the network. Dealing with a certain online school data services provider, which has recently expanded the offering to include support for setting homework for students via their web system, which our SLT jumped at the chance to sign up for.

A week and a bit into term, 'Omnishambles' and 'Clusterfuck' are the two words that spring to mind for their system and support of it.

Pearson? I worked for them for a few months. I walked away as I didn't want to be associated with anything they produce.

keyser__soze

Asprilla wrote:

Pearson? I worked for them for a few months. I walked away as I didn't want to be associated with anything they produce.

If so they're totally unrelated to the bicycle retailer/cycling club of the same name, who are most excellent.

veronese68

Asprilla wrote:

TimothyW wrote:

I work in a school running the network. Dealing with a certain online school data services provider, which has recently expanded the offering to include support for setting homework for students via their web system, which our SLT jumped at the chance to sign up for.

A week and a bit into term, 'Omnishambles' and 'Clusterfuck' are the two words that spring to mind for their system and support of it.

Pearson? I worked for them for a few months. I walked away as I didn't want to be associated with anything they produce.

I think we have to use 3 or 4 different systems across the 2 schools the kids go to. One of them is an absolute nightmare from a users point of view. Every time we try to log on we have to change the password as it requires a change on a monthly basis. It also insists on the most complex password criteria. The only thing we need to look at on it is the end of term reports so it's hardly high security stuff.