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  • davis
    davis Posts: 2,506
    mudcow007 wrote:
    Having not used my car in about 3 weeks, the tyres were looking a bit soft so went to the garage, stuck 50p (rememeber when it was only 20p!!) in the machine an filled my tyres.

    Got a track pump?
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    davis wrote:
    mudcow007 wrote:
    Having not used my car in about 3 weeks, the tyres were looking a bit soft so went to the garage, stuck 50p (rememeber when it was only 20p!!) in the machine an filled my tyres.

    Got a track pump?

    You pay? All the ones I go to are free - oh and it'll be a bit of grit stuck in the valve - just press it down and it'll blast out then reinflate it.
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Well - it finally happened.

    My air of Zen like calm and peace with the World was rudely shattered this morning.

    Last little roundabout in the Business Park I work in - right as I'm approaching it and the traffic island is there - a guy in a Corsa decides to overtake - this as the road line bends left to enter the island.

    I was left nowhere to go and inches from the side of his car, forced right out into all the crap and grit on the edge of the roundabout, frantically trying to stay upright and scared out of my wits.

    The bad news for the driver? He works for the company I do.

    The first words out of my mouth in the car park were "you're lucky I'm not the kind of guy that would pull you out the car and punch your f*cking lights out"

    It went downhill from there.

    His initial "I gave you loads of room" did change to "Sorry" when he realised how genuinely scared I was (I was visibly shaking)

    I have it on camera and I am going to show him what he did - not for any kind of high-and-mighty reason, but simply so he can see what happened and how little room I had if he had moved even an inch over. ANY kind of corrective action on his part and I would've been off.
    Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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    2011 Trek Madone 4.5
    2012 Felt F65X
    Proud CX Pervert and quiet roadie. 12 mile commuter
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,580
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    Well - it finally happened.

    My air of Zen like calm and peace with the World was rudely shattered this morning.

    Last little roundabout in the Business Park I work in - right as I'm approaching it and the traffic island is there - a guy in a Corsa decides to overtake - this as the road line bends left to enter the island.

    I was left nowhere to go and inches from the side of his car, forced right out into all the crap and grit on the edge of the roundabout, frantically trying to stay upright and scared out of my wits.

    The bad news for the driver? He works for the company I do.

    The first words out of my mouth in the car park were "you're lucky I'm not the kind of guy that would pull you out the car and punch your f*cking lights out"

    It went downhill from there.

    His initial "I gave you loads of room" did change to "Sorry" when he realised how genuinely scared I was (I was visibly shaking)

    I have it on camera and I am going to show him what he did - not for any kind of high-and-mighty reason, but simply so he can see what happened and how little room I had if he had moved even an inch over. ANY kind of corrective action on his part and I would've been off.

    At least you have the opportunity to do something constructive about it - show him the video from your point of view - I'm sure that would help in the majority of unintentional bad driving (as opposed to the deliberately aggressive stuff - no hope for that lot).
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  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    I didn't ride today. The sun is out. That is all.
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    Chris

    Genesis Equilibrium - FCN 3/4/5
  • nich
    nich Posts: 888
    Sketchley wrote:
    I didn't ride today. The sun is out. That is all.

    Same :(

    Trying to rest an injury, but to be honest being off the bike isn't making it any better, so I'll probably cycle tommorrow, plus it looks like it will be sunny in the evening 8)
  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    ffs I'm in the middle of optimising 160 PDFs, having to manually confirm at least 2 actions for each one and acrobat decides to crash on me. And I have no idea where it had got to when it crashed.

    Thanks a lot Adobe.
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  • davis
    davis Posts: 2,506
    suzyb wrote:
    ffs I'm in the middle of optimising 160 PDFs, having to manually confirm at least 2 actions for each one and acrobat decides to crash on me. And I have no idea where it had got to when it crashed.

    Thanks a lot Adobe.

    Umm does your filesystem not have a "last modified" metadata?
    Also there's metadata inside the PDF that describes whether it's optimized or not... I think - I'm away from my real set-up with limited access, so I can't say for sure... but the PDF toolkit can probably help.
    Sometimes parts break. Sometimes you crash. Sometimes it’s your fault.
  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    davis wrote:
    suzyb wrote:
    ffs I'm in the middle of optimising 160 PDFs, having to manually confirm at least 2 actions for each one and acrobat decides to crash on me. And I have no idea where it had got to when it crashed.

    Thanks a lot Adobe.

    Umm does your filesystem not have a "last modified" metadata?
    Also there's metadata inside the PDF that describes whether it's optimized or not... I think - I'm away from my real set-up with limited access, so I can't say for sure... but the PDF toolkit can probably help.
    They were being output to a new folder but were sourced from folders within folders within folders etc. Fortunatly I noticed the files were named numerically so I knew which where to restart. Except when I did Acrobat kept crashing :roll:

    And once I get all the files optimised, I'm going to have to add links to all of them to a web page.

    Sometimes I really hate my job.
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  • davis
    davis Posts: 2,506
    suzyb wrote:
    And once I get all the files optimised, I'm going to have to add links to all of them to a web page.

    Sometimes I really hate my job.

    and this is where *nix users get all smug... :)

    Oh well, best o' luck.
    Sometimes parts break. Sometimes you crash. Sometimes it’s your fault.
  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    davis wrote:
    suzyb wrote:
    And once I get all the files optimised, I'm going to have to add links to all of them to a web page.

    Sometimes I really hate my job.

    and this is where *nix users get all smug... :)

    Oh well, best o' luck.
    What's *nix
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  • rudyardmtb
    rudyardmtb Posts: 54
    Not really a rant, but i am a muppet. Rear brake pad change last night, felt spongy and eneded up with one new pad and an old one to make sure i could at least ride to work today. Tested it last night no problem.

    Set of this morning and i found myself having to use much easier gearing than usual, just thought i was more tired than usual. At lunch, thought about it, then went and checked the pads, ooppps pads were closed solid onto the disc and there was no movement when i span the wheel, no wonder it was bloody hard work this morning.

    Took em off and beasted it home so my best time ever, least i could do considering what a muppet i am.

    Chris
  • davis
    davis Posts: 2,506
    suzyb wrote:
    What's *nix

    OMG like SRSLY?

    (I'm genuinely asking if you're serious; my sarcasm detector is on the blink)

    'cos if you are it's Unix, innit? Also usually including Linux, and at about this point I get so fascinating that your legs will fall off, and you'll even be grateful for the distraction.
    Sometimes parts break. Sometimes you crash. Sometimes it’s your fault.
  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    davis wrote:
    suzyb wrote:
    What's *nix

    OMG like SRSLY?

    (I'm genuinely asking if you're serious; my sarcasm detector is on the blink)

    'cos if you are it's Unix, innit? Also usually including Linux, and at about this point I get so fascinating that your legs will fall off, and you'll even be grateful for the distraction.
    Ah I wasn't thinking Unix I was thinking Linux but then thought that ends ux not ix.

    Still I have to ask how using Unix means you don't have to manually add links to 159 PDFs to a web page. Or did you just quote the wrong part of my post.
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  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    Cold! That is all.
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    Chris

    Genesis Equilibrium - FCN 3/4/5
  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    Sketchley wrote:
    Cold! That is all.

    bleeding freezing fog here, i had frost on the front of my gloves when i "finally" got into work this morning
    Keeping it classy since '83
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,580
    Well done for perpetuating the obnoxious self-righteous stereotype to the chap on the grubby pale blue drop bar On One SS riding up from Bank to Finsbury Square this morning (yes, you in the red/white Bell lid). our tanned and chiselled calves may suggest a serious cyclist, but bellowing at pedestrians who have the temerity to cross the road 20 metres in front of you suggests you have a rather inflated opinion of yourself.

    Wazzock.

    ETA: This man should NOT fit an Airzound.
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  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    Icy cold headwind and baby-weak legs.
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    The three schoolboys I passed on the B2B cyclepath munching on vinegar soaked bag of chips made the slices of malt loaf I'd just eaten worthless. I could smell the vinegar for the next 10 seconds. What I couldn't understand though is where the chippy they bought them from was and why was it open at 15:30?
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    to the absolute "hrse aole" who has just tried to force me off the road in his diarrhea coloured chav chariot (Range Rover) who when i asked "what are you playing at driving like that, like a complete tool?" responded with "my cat has just had a stroke an im in a rush to get it the vets"

    all i could do was laugh an say "well just remember the quicker you response the more of the cat you save" Ha

    sorry really really really wound me up grrr






    and breathe......
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  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    his cat had a stroke?

    i think he was pulling your plonker.
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  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    What a pussy.
  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    did he miss you by a whisker?
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  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    His other car is a Moggy 1000
  • thelawnet
    thelawnet Posts: 719
    Climbing up a steep hill to a traffic light at the top, probably doing about 10mph, paramedic with lights on but no sirens coming the other way (down the hill). I'm aware of car behind, move towards the middle of the road and try to signal to car behind to wait and let the paramedic go past, but the f**ker just overtakes regardless.

    Luckily the paramedic has I think spotted that car drivers are both blind and stupid and is not going very fast despite the emergency situation, although he does beep his horn at the overtaking car.
  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    to be fair when he got out of his chariot of chav he was carrying a cat carrier, how can you tell if a cat is having a stroke though?

    ahhhhh im good now
    Keeping it classy since '83
  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    was he stroking it?
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  • thelawnet
    thelawnet Posts: 719
    I stroke my pussy every night
  • marchant
    marchant Posts: 362
    Did it have a hemipurresis?



    Watches tumbleweed drift past......
  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    the moggy was in a box so....possibly

    maybe the driver had the paralysis, so that he couldnt indicate?
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