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Yes, but did you have a nice weekend?Wolfsbane2k wrote:Where do i start, where do i start?
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Check the fridge; nope, no beer.0 -
Legit rant.Wolfsbane2k wrote:Where do i start, where do i start?
Check the fridge; nope, no beer.Fat chopper. Some racing. Some testing. Some crashing.
Specialising in Git Daaahns and Cafs. Norvern Munkey/Transplanted Laaandoner.0 -
Depends who should be checking ... no beer = my fault as I'm the only one that drinks it in my house.Cruff wrote:
Legit rant.Wolfsbane2k wrote:Where do i start, where do i start?
Check the fridge; nope, no beer.0 -
Slowbike wrote:
Depends who should be checking ... no beer = my fault as I'm the only one that drinks it in my house.Cruff wrote:
Legit rant.Wolfsbane2k wrote:Where do i start, where do i start?
Check the fridge; nope, no beer.
Does it really matter who's job it is? Even if it's mine ( check, yep, I'm the only drinker), the rant is at myself.Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
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Fair point, good rant though.Wolfsbane2k wrote:Slowbike wrote:
Depends who should be checking ... no beer = my fault as I'm the only one that drinks it in my house.Cruff wrote:
Legit rant.Wolfsbane2k wrote:Where do i start, where do i start?
Check the fridge; nope, no beer.
Does it really matter who's job it is? Even if it's mine ( check, yep, I'm the only drinker), the rant is at myself.0 -
Wed: sleepless night thanks to 1 year old with ear infection
Thurs: Rush home at lunchtime as he is projectile vomiting and has diarrhoea
Fri: Me and the wife hit by a sickness bug
Sat: son covered in rash, trip to a+e (either a viral infection or reaction to penicillin). I'm still showing "signs" of sickness bug.
What a f*cking $hit past few days.0 -
My wife is pregnant with our first so I'm off the alcohol (not that i drank much before) in solidarity with her abstinence (although I had to try some of the Belgian beers when I went to Brugges), so we also have no beer or any other alcohol in the house at the moment.Cruff wrote:
Legit rant.Wolfsbane2k wrote:Where do i start, where do i start?
Check the fridge; nope, no beer.
Am I being a good husband or is it too much?0 -
Wolfsbane2k wrote:Slowbike wrote:
Depends who should be checking ... no beer = my fault as I'm the only one that drinks it in my house.Cruff wrote:
Legit rant.Wolfsbane2k wrote:Where do i start, where do i start?
Check the fridge; nope, no beer.
Does it really matter who's job it is? Even if it's mine ( check, yep, I'm the only drinker), the rant is at myself.
true - you didn't do your morning prep right then did you ...
btw - I would've said sod it at the lift being cancelled ...0 -
Definitely too much. Whilst you may think you are being a good husband now, in order to stay a good husband longer term you have to look after yourself. So, whilst you should definitely encourage and support your good lady, I think having a beer is merely being a responsible husband and planning for the future by looking after your mental health now.elbowloh wrote:Am I being a good husband or is it too much?
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I think i'll show my wife this post. :idea:Veronese68 wrote:
Definitely too much. Whilst you may think you are being a good husband now, in order to stay a good husband longer term you have to look after yourself. So, whilst you should definitely encourage and support your good lady, I think having a beer is merely being a responsible husband and planning for the future by looking after your mental health now.elbowloh wrote:Am I being a good husband or is it too much?
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Dinyull wrote:Wed: sleepless night thanks to 1 year old with ear infection
Thurs: Rush home at lunchtime as he is projectile vomiting and has diarrhoea
Fri: Me and the wife hit by a sickness bug
Sat: son covered in rash, trip to a+e (either a viral infection or reaction to penicillin). I'm still showing "signs" of sickness bug.
What a f*cking $hit past few days.
yup - it's great isn't it ... they catch a bug - then pass it on to you (& everyone else they come into contact with) - except because you're already run down from having to look after him, you get it far worse ... and still have to look after him!
Wife and I gave in beginning of Jan this year - we had the bug that was going around - son had had it too, but he'd kicked it ... we were completely drained - fortunately, Grandparents were able to take him off our hands for a couple of days whilst we tried to kick it ...0 -
elbowloh wrote:
I think i'll show my wife this post. :idea:Veronese68 wrote:
Definitely too much. Whilst you may think you are being a good husband now, in order to stay a good husband longer term you have to look after yourself. So, whilst you should definitely encourage and support your good lady, I think having a beer is merely being a responsible husband and planning for the future by looking after your mental health now.elbowloh wrote:Am I being a good husband or is it too much?
Hope that helps
Don't show her Dinyull's post ...0 -
Happy to be of service, this has worked on all of my wives. I'm on the 5th one now so have plenty of experience.elbowloh wrote:I think i'll show my wife this post. :idea:
The above may be completely untrue.0 -
Slowbike wrote:Dinyull wrote:Wed: sleepless night thanks to 1 year old with ear infection
Thurs: Rush home at lunchtime as he is projectile vomiting and has diarrhoea
Fri: Me and the wife hit by a sickness bug
Sat: son covered in rash, trip to a+e (either a viral infection or reaction to penicillin). I'm still showing "signs" of sickness bug.
What a f*cking $hit past few days.
yup - it's great isn't it ... they catch a bug - then pass it on to you (& everyone else they come into contact with) - except because you're already run down from having to look after him, you get it far worse ... and still have to look after him!
Wife and I gave in beginning of Jan this year - we had the bug that was going around - son had had it too, but he'd kicked it ... we were completely drained - fortunately, Grandparents were able to take him off our hands for a couple of days whilst we tried to kick it ...
Fortunately, the wife wasn't quite as bad* as me so she took the reigns of looking after the little man through the night. Although the grandparents did give us a couple hours respite on Friday.
I was close to asking to be taken to hospital as I couldn't even crawl out of the bathroom at one point. Grim.
*Either that or she is a lot tougher than me!0 -
Slowbike wrote:true - you didn't do your morning prep right then did you ...
btw - I would've said sod it at the lift being cancelled ...
My plan was to pick up a curry and a 4 pack on the way home..
I was so tempted with the lift being cancelled, but decided against it - didn't know how many were expected to turn up. Glad I did, even if I'm just a nameless face amongst the 1500 that are believed to have turned up.
My signs have appeared in the media, which, personally, makes it worth while.Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
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Child or wife?Veronese68 wrote:
Happy to be of service, this has worked on all of my wives. I'm on the 5th one now so have plenty of experience.elbowloh wrote:I think i'll show my wife this post. :idea:
The above may be completely untrue.0 -
The young woman who filtered to the the front of the queue at the lights this morning (not a problem) but then sat there in a daydream when the lights changed. She then proceeded to give me a volley of Anglo-Saxon and flick the V's at me for having the temerity to toot her (Yes I'm a bad man in a car).0
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Nice close pass in Lewisham this morning from a twat in a Jaguar F-Pace, who then had to closely tail-gate the van in front to justify his impatience. When I pulled up behind him at the lights 200 yards on (naturally), I saw through his back window he had the breakfast news on his screen. Couldnae believe it - although was slightly mollified when I saw it revert back to normal car screen mode when he moved off. Still a twat of a driver though, and of course his impatience got him nowhere as I soon filtered past and left him long behind.
On a related note, the whole fleet of Lewisham white mobility buses seems to be out to get me at the moment, have been on the receiving end of a number of instances of aggressive or inconsiderate driving from them in the past couple of weeks.0 -
last stage of my route to work is a road with a standard barely there not much bigger than your handlebars kind of cycle lane and this morning white van man has decided to park in it to pop to Greggs or something to get his morning bacon sarnie, ok its a dotted line one so not a must not, but unavoidable hmm very debateable that.
Typical though means Ive got to move around it which means moving back into the stream of traffic,which ok isnt that busy a stream, but its there and still an annoying obstruction, though I can get past without crossing into oncoming traffic, unlike the cars who I can see already doing the theres a minute second of a gap from the oncoming cars that Ill just nip through there so I dont have to use the brake pedal.
first car overtakes me and then the van, ok having spotted the obvious van shaped hazard ahead and knowing the cyclist in the same position would need to move around it as a driver Id have hung back to let them do that, but I guess Im still a good few car lengths away from the van so I think well maybe Ill let them take that one.
couple of seconds pass, a second car goes for the overtake, ok now that was close to being a must get in front of the cyclist before we reach the van because reasons I guess
but I can hear a third car approaching, right Id better just claim the road space now so I dont get boxed in by this car as else Ill be cycling straight into the front of this van (parked driver side to the pavement so he didnt have so far to walk I guess),so I move across take prime ready to then move around the van...damn I realise the third car is daft enough and going for the overtake and is now very close to my leg till they swerved away, I look across expecting to see the stereotypical audi or landrover, but no it was a police car instead...sigh...worse still they then just took the very next left anyway :roll:0 -
The tightening mechanism of my Giro Synthe - MIPS Strava Limited Edition broke last night.
I am lost. Helmet is perfectly okay to use, but I can't even tighten it properly on my head now.
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ridiculous driver / attempted pass last night; approaching a mini roundabout (MR) at circa 25mph (probably more as I'm on larger tyres), when out of the corner of my eye I see a car trying to overtake, by now I'm almost on top of the MR going slightly faster and the car is alongside with nowhere to go, with oncoming traffic heading towards her.
She ends up stopping on the wrong side of the road, with her and the oncoming traffic forced to stop. Cue lots of beeping and fist waving by the oncoming traffic, directed at the offending driver; probably the worst bit of driving I've seen for a long time.0 -
One of those real banging your head against a wall days at work.
I won't bore you with the details...0 -
TGOTB wrote:Perfect excuse for Liverpool Council to ban cycling - "This must never happen again"...
Liverpool street in London ?Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.0 -
Exceptionally close pass through a pinch point by a French car driver this morning who honked his horn right beside me for not using the 30cm wide cycle lane.
The gesticulations and his driver entitlement were very visible in his bring red face with pie hole wide open screaming obscenities .
First time I've ever gone to slap the window of a car to find it's open and I've hit a passenger square in the face.
It went downhill from there.Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
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Wolfsbane2k wrote:First time I've ever gone to slap the window of a car to find it's open and I've hit a passenger square in the face.
It went downhill from there.
Sorry but this actually made me LOL
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Tashman wrote:Wolfsbane2k wrote:First time I've ever gone to slap the window of a car to find it's open and I've hit a passenger square in the face.
It went downhill from there.
Sorry but this actually made me LOL
Me too
Although I hope "downhill from there" meant a nice gradient to speed away on ....0 -
Slowbike wrote:Tashman wrote:Wolfsbane2k wrote:First time I've ever gone to slap the window of a car to find it's open and I've hit a passenger square in the face.
It went downhill from there.
Sorry but this actually made me LOL
Me too
Although I hope "downhill from there" meant a nice gradient to speed away on ....
unfortunately not - it's a slow uphill slog, and exactly why the narrow cycle lane is so frigging dangerous.Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
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To support my other half 's STEM educational business which is running out of control over half term, I'm currently spending my evenings mixing chemicals and prepping 3 hours science experiments each night, every night, so I've still not managed to fit my new front RD, so the chain is dropping off occasionally.
Today, it did in in the middle of a 40mph 3 lane roundabout, as I hit a pothole.
That was NOT pleasant.Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
Bike 1 (Broken) - Bike 2(Borked) - Bike 3(broken spokes) - Bike 4( Needs Work) - Bike 5 (in bits) - Bike 6* ...0 -
Surely mechanical engineering skills should be included in a STEM session. Get the kids to fix/maintain your bike. Supervised of course.Wolfsbane2k wrote:To support my other half 's STEM educational business which is running out of control over half term, I'm currently spending my evenings mixing chemicals and prepping 3 hours science experiments each night, every night, so I've still not managed to fit my new front RD, so the chain is dropping off occasionally.
Today, it did in in the middle of a 40mph 3 lane roundabout, as I hit a pothole.
That was NOT pleasant.0 -
elbowloh wrote:
Surely mechanical engineering skills should be included in a STEM session. Get the kids to fix/maintain your bike. Supervised of course.Wolfsbane2k wrote:To support my other half 's STEM educational business which is running out of control over half term, I'm currently spending my evenings mixing chemicals and prepping 3 hours science experiments each night, every night, so I've still not managed to fit my new front RD, so the chain is dropping off occasionally.
Today, it did in in the middle of a 40mph 3 lane roundabout, as I hit a pothole.
That was NOT pleasant.
Ideally, yes.
In reality, completely different age groups and level of balance; last nights task was prepping 400 packs of lava volcano ingredients, 80 small explosion kits and putting together 100 electrical circuit kits.
Which is best done without very young, overly tired little helpers around.Intent on Cycling Commuting on a budget, but keep on breaking/crashing/finding nice stuff to buy.
Bike 1 (Broken) - Bike 2(Borked) - Bike 3(broken spokes) - Bike 4( Needs Work) - Bike 5 (in bits) - Bike 6* ...0
