When you're not cycling what do you do?

lost_in_thought

I drink tea! In fact I drink a lot of tea.

I also drink a lot of coffee.

Coffee, however, causes more arguments.... see, I am a troll after all.

iain_j

Yes to tea, but has to be strong and in pint mug. Prefer coffee most of the time tho.

marksteven

eat, sky ,ebay eat ,dog walk , eat, ebay,

iain_j

Going back to the coffee for a minute - the plunger in my cafetiere has just broke and dumped a big lump of ground coffee in my cup. It's strooong. Yum

Bassjunkieuk

I'm glad you put a comma in between eat and dog there! I'm just sitting down now with a nice pot o' coffee..........planning on swapping the bike saddle back for my old one (the inherited Fizik one is coming away from underneath and chaffing a bit), just need to do enough tidying to sneak into the shed and remove it from the wife's bike from when I had to use it for work!

Bassjunkieuk

Well my plunger is still intact and I've just brewed a lovely cup!

artaxerxes

Unless it's peppermint or green tea. Loverly

Yeah green tea (Sencha) is my preferred daytime drink.

Rich158

+1 for green tea, I prefer mine with a hint of Jasmine and honey :oops:

symo

I .....

Reading
DVDs
Skateboarding (bowls and ramps, knees way to screwed for street)
Guitar
PS2
Mix DnB Vinyl on me Techs
Oh and going out for cocktails

moonio

i've just had a week off work and spent the time

Buying music on Juno and Itunes
Planning gigs (I'm a VJ)
Watching documentaries
Buying clothes
Painting my kitchen
Completing a food diary and changed my diet, as I realised I have some food addictions (wheat, fat, salt) plus some intolerances
I made a to-do list for the whole YEAR!
Planned ways to get out of my really good but overly corporate day job, I'm setting my bets on having to do a 3-4 day week due to the economic downturn
Battled with January blues
Cycled into Kent a few times
Tidied my garden in preparation for spring

I think thats it!

NGale

Work for the ambulance service and drink alot of tea
Assistant Scout Leader and drink alot of tea
St John Ambulance Cadet leader and drink alot of tea
Do a teacher training course and drink alot of tea
Sit at home, watch QI and drink alot of tea.

Strangely enough I have to urinate quite frequently...no idea why...

Bassjunkieuk

NGale wrote:

Work for the ambulance service and drink alot of tea
Assistant Scout Leader and drink alot of tea
St John Ambulance Cadet leader and drink alot of tea
Do a teacher training course and drink alot of tea
Sit at home, watch QI and drink alot of tea.

Strangely enough I have to urinate quite frequently...no idea why...

Are you taking the pi55?

Bassjunkieuk

NGale wrote:

Work for the ambulance service and drink alot of tea
Assistant Scout Leader and drink alot of tea
St John Ambulance Cadet leader and drink alot of tea
Do a teacher training course and drink alot of tea
Sit at home, watch QI and drink alot of tea.

Strangely enough I have to urinate quite frequently...no idea why...

Are you taking the pi55?

symo

moonio wrote:

i've just had a week off work and spent the time

Buying music on Juno and Itunes

Juno ftw!

girv73

Back (slightly) on topic, for this (slightly) off-topic thread

25 random things about me you probably don't know:
http://www.girv.net/blog/archives/25-ra ... ut-me.html

1. Details are important to me. I am mentally noting and correcting all your grammar and spelling mistakes.
2. I’d like to read something other than science fiction but have yet to find another genre that can hold my interest for an entire book. I am also a frustrated science fiction author, frustrated by lack of skill and imagination.
3. I once hit a world champion boxer in the face with a door, and broke someone’s nose playing laser tag. I’ve had forty stitches, two operations, seen four of my own bones (including my skull) and at one time thought I’d broken my back after a spectacularly misguided jump. I am dangerously clumsy and accident prone.
4. I worry that I am not as smart as you think I am.
5. Sometimes I wonder if modern civilisation is a practical joke that has got out of hand. When the Martians come back and are all “Ha! Only kidding!”, I will laugh until they vaporise us all with a Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.
6. I share Woody Allen’s views on immortality.
7. I am careless and generous with money. If I was rich, I would be a philanthropist. As it is, I just have no money.
8. I believe government has a place in business, but not vice-versa, and that government and religion should not mix.
9. I’ve never smoked tobacco or taken drugs, ever. Not even “just a bit to try it”.
10. Cooking, history, the arts and world affairs: things I wish I knew more about, but things that are not interesting enough to actually make me want to learn more about.
11. I need to walk and cycle in the forests and hills, alone. For the love of your God, do not approach me when I am in this mood, I think I am part Yeti. Afterwards though, I will be happy.
12. I like coffee that cleans spoons and stains furniture (thank you, Jay dubbleU ), and drink too much of it.
13. My “Mastermind” specialist subject would be “Commercial dance music of the early 1990’s”.
14. I am immensely impressed by people who can speak foreign languages. I would like to learn two more languages myself - one useful, one obscure - but just so that I could show off at parties.
15. I am a very bad swimmer and runner.
16. I am very friendly when I’ve had a few drinks, and love everyone. Even you.
17. I am only interested in football (soccer) once every two years, for the Euro and World Cups, but I played goalkeeper for my school and Scout teams.
18. I find it difficult to be serious and grown-up. Based on my interests, I figure my “personality age” is around 14.
19. Vegetarians, Christians and dog owners confuse me. I can’t understand why anyone would want to do any of those things.
20. If I wasn’t a software developer, I would likely be an electrician like my three brothers. Or possibly a long distance lorry driver. Maybe a hitman.
21. Shame has no place on the dancefloor.
22. I am a competent DIY-er, which I find both immensely convenient and immensely inconvenient at times.
23. I like raw vegetables, well done sausages, sandwiches and spicy food of all kinds. I drink dark, strong, big bodied ales and believe lager is for the weak.
24. I find holidays stressful and dull. I suspect this just means I’ve been going on the wrong sort of holiday.
25. I have no idea what I would do without the internet.

Now it's your turn!

Petromyzon

Awesome post, particularly loving no. 23. 8)

always_tyred

4. I worry that I am not as smart as you think I am.

I wouldn't worry too much about this.

linsen

Girv73 I love your post.

I wish I had the courage to do the same, but one of the things about me (I think) is that I like people to make the effort to get to know me

In response to yours, though....

I speak 5 languages
Therefore I am with you on point number 1

and also.....
Lately too I have just reliased that life is short (who knows just how short) and I don't want to wait to pack in as much as possible of the things I love

il_principe

25 things about me

1. I don’t understand the concept of leisure wear
2. I’m about to start house hunting
3. I have a minor obsession with Jeffery West shoes
4. I’m a recent convert to Ale, now find lager hard to drink
5. I’m hopeless with money yet have made some canny investments
6. I own an unnecessary amount of cycle caps
7. I read voraciously (often at a rate of 1 book/day when on holiday)
8. I love cooking, but don’t enjoy cooking for groups of people (fear of food poisoning)
9. I’m evangelical about cycling
10. I think the current government meddles too much
11. I’m a macolyte
12. Dogs love me, no idea why but they always do
13. I dislike travelling (and rail against the pointlessness of over zealous airport security) but love seeing new places (still get travelsick)
14. I’m a frustrated novelist
15. I’m a firm believer in the ingenuity of man and of man’s capacity for kindness
16. I reject the notion that humans are the prime protagonist of climate change
17. I just don’t get religion – Palestine is a microcosm of my main reasons for this
18. I hate nuts and numbers
19. I love learning about new things and am very curious
20. I studied classics at university
21. I have the short term memory of a goldfish
22. I have the short term memory of a goldfish
23. I’m funnier than you think I am
24. I cannot understand why the West seems incapable of learning from the past (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, the War on Terror™)
25. I think Dubai is the height of Hubris

lost_in_thought

Ok, I've got nothing much to do, I'll play:

1. I love sailing, recently finished getting my father's 470 seaworthy, and will be learning to sail it this spring. I also have an oppy!

2. I speak french and german fluently and can get food/lodgings and some work speak in italian, dutch and finnish.

3. In line with the above, I am quite obsessed with language and linguistics, and can happily bore you all to death on the subject.

4. Following on, I am a dreadful pedant. Over the years I have learnt to keep it to myself though!

5. I read a lot. A LOT. I have a heated log cabin that holds my library, and have to bring 2 books per day on a beach holiday.

6. I don't like being idle, sitting around doing nothing doesn't work for me, I get fidgety.

7. I used to swim up to 28 hours a week, and competed at a national level when I was 13.

8. I was a tight head prop in the Oxford Uni women's rugby team.

9. I play the clarinet and saxophone to a high standard, used to earn a bit of cash doing so, but haven't picked either up in months.

10. I ardently believe that anyone can achieve anything they want to if they're willing to work for it.

11. I am a fully paid up atheist, but went to a methodist boarding school and love singing in church.

12. I really enjoy cooking.

13. I really feel that I've got to where I am in my career mostly by luck, and am really just waiting for someone to realise that I'm completely unqualified for my job and fire me.

14. I don't really follow politics or know that much about it, but have some very strong opinions on current issues!

15. I love dogs, we have 4, and am allergic to cats but like them.

16. I have a chinchilla called Fernando.

17. I was thrown from a horse when I was 8 and quite injured, and have been a little nervous of riding them ever since

18. I really dislike football, more than just a girly dislike. I would really struggle to date someone who was into football.

19. I'm the only person in my family who doesn't fly for a living.

20. I never finished my PPL, despite my mother paying for it. I don't really care about flying. In my family this is a big deal.

21. I own over 100 pairs of shoes

22. I really don't like eggs, dairy food, or fruit.

23. I really enjoy learning and am not afraid to ask if I don't know.

24. I'm a bit of an organising type, and very practical

25. I am getting better and better at DIY.

girv73

linsen wrote:

I wish I had the courage to do the same, but one of the things about me (I think) is that I like people to make the effort to get to know me

Well I'd like to think there's more to discover about me than those 25 points

Regarding courage, there are things I could have written but daren't, and others that only beer can reveal (ref: #16)

linsen wrote:

I speak 5 languages
Therefore I am with you on point number 1

...and also #14

linsen

Okay then:

1. I am less classy than my voice suggests
2. I failed my Maths A-level
3. I spent my teenage years on the back of a horse
4. I don't get vanity, but I like having good hair
5. I would rather do things than have things
6. I am the only person in my family to go beyond GCSE / CSE level academically
7. I lived in Austria for a year and have still never ski-ed (sp?)
8. I am amazed that people pay signwriters who are willing to mis-use the apostrophe
9. I have never travelled outside Europe
10. I am not sure what there is beyond this life
11. I love my job (teaching), but marking books sends me to sleep
12. I never know whether I really love or really hate rollercoasters
13. If I have ever been away from home the first thing I will do when I get back is wipe the kitchen worktops
14. I could give up alcohol tomorrow but chocolate never
15. I hate clutter. Makes life with children tough sometimes
16. I am rubbish with plants, though I like them
17. I love being on top of a mountain where nothing you can see is man-made (but would probably draw the line at being up there naked so I wouldn't have to look at clothes either - before anyone comments)
18. I love the smug sense of satisfaction I get when I have cycled to work
19. I can remember numbers very well
20. I hate the disempowering effect of modern technology - especially sat nav
21. I hate feeling like I need to own a car
22. I think modern life is too crammed full with stuff that is supposed to give us more free time - we have dishwashers, which give us time to do what precisely? I just fuss around doing other jobs instead...
23. I love going out for a meal but hate choosing what to eat
24. If I had my time at Uni again I would do more worthwhile activities than drink too much
25. If I never had to enter a supermarket again it would be too soon

BigJimmyB

Here goes....

Walking with dog/wife/kids Playing bass in a band Watching anything to do with History/Nature/Cars/Bikes/Footy on TV Avoiding anything else on TV Wii Fit with wife/kids (it's my only concession to a console - I hate the life-draining bastards) Reading

Plus a bit of housework/chores stuff

Oh, and working - 11+ hrs a day door to door

I used to cook, now the wife cooks almost exclusively and I don't get a look in, but she's the best cook I know, so it helps avoid any of my 'creations' making it to the table (although I do great roasts!)

UnworthyPapaLazaru

1. I hate making lists.

hisoka

That looks too much fun to pass up

1 I’ve lived around Nottingham most of my life, except two years of being ill at Noriwch uni.
2 I never passed my degree, dropped out to get a job
3 I was married in a museum
4 I was too young to legally drink at my wedding
5 I wasn’t too young to celebrate my divorce 5 years later
6 My current job seems to have no challenges left and I thrive on challenges
7 My a levels are in maths, physics, biology and psychology so how I am doing computer support I am unsure other then being a bit of a geek
8 I was always expected to the be the smartest and brightest in my family, I just have this problem of having trouble with studying
9 I love to learn new things, but I learn much better with experience or talking.
10 No real talent for languages, I speak minor bits of French but I can understand basic meanings reasonably well
11 I often can find the word people want when they have trouble finishing a sentence.
12 I’m dyslexic and see it as a blessing to see things in a different way to some
13 I’ve never broken one of my own bones, though did accidentally break two of someone elses once in football
14 I’m not majorly sporty, played the usual at school and American Football at uni but only in recent years took up cycling and I love it
15 I get sun burn very easily, even once getting burnt from light reflecting into an office from a car window or a CRT computer monitor (I kid you not!)
16 I don’t often listen to the news, hearing of all the tragedies in the world makes me wonder how we can always seem to survive.
17 I’ve been mistaken by online friends for being a woman, as I am apparently “too sensitive, understanding and willing to talk” to be a heterosexual man (yes also been asked if I am gay when I pointed out I am male, answer to both was no)
18 I hate sexism in all ways, I will hold a door open for a man as much as a woman
19 Unfortunately I tend to treat women better then men, give them more benefit of the doubt and I think this is because of really growing up with strong female role-models at home and no real male ones
20 I love to travel and hate that for the last few years I’ve not done nearly enough
21 I never give up on a friend, even when they have on themselves
22 I feel that friendship is the ability to care for someone else, and to want to tell them the good, the bad and the ugly in your world and desire to hear the same back
23 I can’t do one night stands, last time I had the potential for one my brain kicked in with “can I see a long term relationship here?” and when the answer was no I couldn’t go any futher.
24 I seem to be amazingly honest, see above.
25 I consider myself a master of complimentary smut, or as a female friend put it “here is Jonathan, he is a perv and notices things about women” when I was taking part in a discussion about shakira’s hair and which style would suit another female friend best.

I thought it was going to be hard to do this, but I just had loads more I could put in. Then again I might have to hide and never be seen again if I did.

symo

1. I am still a keen skateboarder
2. Once upon a time I was a keen kite buggier, however i am looking to shift all the kites and the buggy so I can buy more DJ equipment.
3. Cat ownership seems to be an oxymoron hence my love of dogs.
4. My job involves lots of foreign travel, oh and stress too.
5. My telephone extension at work is 666. The best part is that I chose this number.
6. My musical guilty pleasure is Pink.
7. If offered a choice between a night of naked fun with both Britney Spears and Katy Perry or a coffee date with Pink, I would chose 30 minutes in Pinks company.
8. Currently the only thing missing from my driving license are HGV and Commercial Passenger Vehicles.
9. My triumph motorbike has not been out of the garage since 12-12-08
10. I have lost track of how much vinyl I now own.
11. I never bought a house despite having a way above average salary and a career that will always be in demand. (Quick tip housing bubbles don't increase for 10 years then get all the collapse over in a year, at least 2 more years of falls to come on average.)
12. I am desperate to move back to London.
13. Like Dawkins I am 99.9% sure there can be no higher power.
14. Paul_Smith makes all my favourite clothes.
15. In Rio de Janeiro my favourite bar is Scenarium
16. I support Nottingham Forest.
17. Dexter is my current favourite TV programme
18. I am too tight to subscribe to SKy and I cannot get Virgin where I live.
19.First Person in my Mother and Fathers family to get a degree.
20. I contribute regulary to two other forums.
21. My mum thinks I am never going to become a dad.
22. Had I not gone into engineering I would have become a solicitor.
23. I write all my notes on 5x3 index cards and plan everything on a DIY planner. Much to the chargin of my colleagues who use red and black notebooks.
24. My worst vice is procrastination.
25. I swear too much; not through lack of vocabulary but through the enjoymenof the sound.

girv73

symo wrote:

Cat ownership seems to be an oxymoron

true, and that from a cat person.

hisoka

symo wrote:

6. My musical guilty pleasure is Pink.
7. If offered a choice between a night of naked fun with both Britney Spears and Katy Perry or a coffee date with Pink, I would chose 30 minutes in Pinks company.

Here here! Pink is rather awesome

lost_in_thought

hisoka wrote:

symo wrote:

6. My musical guilty pleasure is Pink.
7. If offered a choice between a night of naked fun with both Britney Spears and Katy Perry or a coffee date with Pink, I would chose 30 minutes in Pinks company.

Here here! Pink is rather awesome

Yeah, I'm in agreement on that... she's interesting! Mind you Britney has that whole 'teetering on the edge of insanity' thing... that would be entertaining.

Also, these 25 things are all pretty interesting!

greg66_tri_v2.0

Hmm. Here goes.

1. I genuinely don't care what other people think of me.
2. I will never have enough money.
3. I read and write for a living, so I get no enjoyment from reading for pleasure.
4. I've been married to or going out with the same person for more than half my life.
5. I used to think foreigners thought in English. I wondered why they bothered translating everything when they spoke.
6. I've never found anything as easy as doing maths.
7. Deciding it would be a good idea to do something other than maths at University was a Big Mistake.
8. I've always thought of myself as sporty, but I've never done as much sport as I think I have.
9. I wish I had less body fat, but I really can't be @rsed to do anything about it.
10. Several times when drunk I have been sure I have come up with a cast-iron proof that there is no God.
11. I am certain that when we die, there's nothing more. It's like a light bulb going off.
12. I thought I'd want a cat but now I want a dog (having house sat one).
13. I wasn't allowed pets as a child and Mrs. G66 and one junior are allergic to animals. This is a source of great disappointment to me.
14. I usually know the time to within a couple of minutes without a watch.
15. I love swimming but I hate the faff of going swimming.
16. Winning the lottery would be pointless, because I have the first 20 million earmarked for various things and that would be gone by lunchtime on the first day.
17. I hate getting older.
18. I still harbour an ambition to be able to ski moguls like the competition guys. There's a chance it might still happen (at least, to the non-pro observer).
19. I've broken a rib and an arm, but nothing else.
20. I hate the clutter that the children leave around the house.
21. It is a source of pride if work colleagues don't get things I get. It is source of frustration when my daughters don't get things I get.
22. I am not looking forward to the day when my two daughters are dating.
23. I am mildly obsessive.
24. I don't know my own blood group. I want to, but I'm too stingy to pay for it, and I can't be bothered to give blood to find out what it is.
25. I have one of the rarest psychometric profiles on the planet.