This Forum Rocks

il_principe
il_principe Posts: 9,155
edited February 2009 in Commuting chat
That is all.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    He has a point.
    FCN 7/1
    Viner Maxima, Tifosi CK7, Giant Bowery, Old commuter.
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    He has a drink as well, I bet (and a few in his belly).

    I love you too Jash, sheriously, you're a bloke, you are *hic*
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    biondino wrote:
    He has a drink as well, I bet (and a few in his belly).

    I love you too Jash, sheriously, you're a bloke, you are *hic*

    I wish. Stuck behind my desk, studiously avoiding work.

    No booze until tomorrow, wagons roll.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    This is a great forum and ATM moment a seriously large part of my snow bound unemployed social life.

    Take this week for example were had a wearing helmet thread and a shaving legs thread all we need to complete the trinity is a Shimano vs Campagnolo.

    No this forum (when working) is ace :wink: especially the people!
    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.
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    I agree. We should all give ourselves a pat on the back.

    I'm amazed how much work I've got done today despite following the helmets thread all day.
  • Jen J
    Jen J Posts: 1,054
    Well, I hate you all :P
    Commuting: Giant Bowery 08
    Winter Hack: Triandrun Vento 3
    Madone

    It's all about me...
  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    This forum rocks until about 5.30pm when everyone buggers off home and I'm left here with just Jen for company, who hates us.
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    That is its downfall, the commuting forum goes to sleep at commuting time... :wink:

    Maybe it's a sign I'm working too late again.
  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    Its OK Brun, I'm working till 10 tonight :(
  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    I now feel slightly guilty cos I'm off to the pub.
  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    Well that's just great isn't it?












    Here I am















    All on my own
















    With no-one to talk to













    Harrumph... :(
  • Jen J
    Jen J Posts: 1,054
    Awwww :cry:
    Commuting: Giant Bowery 08
    Winter Hack: Triandrun Vento 3
    Madone

    It's all about me...
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    No I'm here too.....

    Was supposed to be marking books but I had a better offer which involved wine and a pub.....


    Btw I quite like this place too

    Jash - your slogan suggestion gave me the biggest laugh I've had all week :lol:
    Emerging from under a big black cloud. All help welcome
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    linsen wrote:
    No I'm here too.....

    Was supposed to be marking books but I had a better offer which involved wine and a pub.....


    Btw I quite like this place too

    Jash - your slogan suggestion gave me the biggest laugh I've had all week :lol:

    Bad example to set the kids, not doing your homework but I'd do the same. Work or pub?? Pub!
    I've added a signature to prove it is still possible.
  • marchant
    marchant Posts: 362
    I feel a picture coiming on....
    BR1rocks.jpg
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    linsen wrote:
    No I'm here too.....

    Was supposed to be marking books but I had a better offer which involved wine and a pub.....


    Btw I quite like this place too

    Jash - your slogan suggestion gave me the biggest laugh I've had all week :lol:

    Glad to be of service!

    So how many parents at your establishment are obese? ... and how many kids?
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    Actually not too many, so there must be other forms of exercise in the world too.....

    Our pupils are at present not allowed to cycle to school....

    Our culture has become slightly too risk averse me thinks
    Emerging from under a big black cloud. All help welcome
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    marchant wrote:
    I feel a picture coiming on....
    BR1rocks.jpg

    This reminds me of a time when my wife and I were staying at a friend's flat in Singapore. It was on the 15th floor, and they said don't the let the cat get out on the balcony. The stupid moggie duly got out, and was sat, scared utterly sh*tless, on a concrete bridge of some kind between two walls of the flat. Fortunately, we retrieved it.

    So, whoever says cats are smart needs to think again.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • Littigator
    Littigator Posts: 1,262
    After a 3 week break I have thoroughly enjoyed returning to this forum and annoying lots of people with my harsh comments and rude trying to be funny witticisms.

    It's also lovely catching up with the people I don't like as well :D
    Roadie FCN: 3

    Fixed FCN: 6
  • simple_salmon
    simple_salmon Posts: 457
    linsen wrote:
    Our culture has become slightly too risk averse me thinks

    I agree, I've just been told off for standing on a wheeled chair (my colleague was holding it) to reach some books on my shelf at work.

    Apparently I should have got a ladder from stores or stood on my desk.

    The whole process took about 30 seconds - I'm not going to get a ladder for that AND my desk, unlike my chair, would probably have collapsed.

    World's gone mad I tell you :?
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    Our boss used to deactivate flousescent lights which had gone flickery by standing on the nearest desk, leaning out as necessary, and poking the tube out of its contacts with his fingers. While still switched on. Somehow I don't think the health & safety dept were aware :D
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    Well in my school of 2000 we have just been told that we are not allowed to work "at height" without being trained to use a step stool or ladder. No standing on any kind of chair is allowed.
    Currently one person in the whole place is "qualified" to stand on a stepladder.
    Emerging from under a big black cloud. All help welcome
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    Bloody hell. Are you allowed to go upstairs without being trained?
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    iain_j wrote:
    Bloody hell. Are you allowed to go upstairs without being trained?

    ooh I'd need to check :lol:
    Emerging from under a big black cloud. All help welcome
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    linsen wrote:
    Actually not too many, so there must be other forms of exercise in the world too.....

    Our pupils are at present not allowed to cycle to school....

    Our culture has become slightly too risk averse me thinks
    I confess that I looked at the Southampton Schools Website. I believe that they have a cycling strategy. I am sorely tempted to drop an email at a local paper regarding this contradiction, child obesity being such a hot topic and all.
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    iain_j wrote:
    Bloody hell. Are you allowed to go upstairs without being trained?
    Yes, but you need to book an electrician in order to get a light bulb fitted.
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    Always Tyred wrote:
    linsen wrote:
    Actually not too many, so there must be other forms of exercise in the world too.....

    Our pupils are at present not allowed to cycle to school....

    Our culture has become slightly too risk averse me thinks
    I confess that I looked at the Southampton Schools Website. I believe that they have a cycling strategy. I am sorely tempted to drop an email at a local paper regarding this contradiction, child obesity being such a hot topic and all.

    You could. I don't work in a Southampton school however :wink:
    Emerging from under a big black cloud. All help welcome
  • flattythehurdler
    flattythehurdler Posts: 2,314
    linsen wrote:
    No I'm here too.....

    Was supposed to be marking books but I had a better offer which involved wine and a pub.....


    Btw I quite like this place too

    Jash - your slogan suggestion gave me the biggest laugh I've had all week :lol:

    Which one?
    Dan
  • don_don
    don_don Posts: 1,007
    Extract from an article I found some time ago:
    Whose risk is it anyway?

    No napkins…the elderly might eat them.

    "Health and safety rules were invoked to halt the distribution of free napkins printed with safety tips with meals on wheels in part of Gloucestershire, after organisers were warned that there should have been a risk assessment of choking hazards."
    The Guardian, 13 April 2005

    Risk, it appears, lurks everywhere and no stone is left unturned in our apparent desire to hunt it down and eliminate it. Where it doesn’t exist, imaginations run riot in order to identify all the possible things which could happen. Nothing appears to stand in the way of stamping out risk – not our liberty, cost, efficiency, the truth and not, it seems, ridicule.

    Between April and July 2002, over 400 crimes concerning bogus doorstep callers were reported in Gloucestershire. The victims were predominantly women over the age of 70 – exactly the profile of most ‘meals on wheels’ recipients needing to be targetted with safety tips. Contrast this with the fact that between 1978 and 2002 there was one accident where a person choked on a napkin in the whole of Britain – a new born baby who survived the incident.

    Tewksbury Crime and Disorder Partnership group's development manager, Debbie Kemp, said: “We were discussing it at the meeting and it was brought to our attention that we should consider health and safety issues. Things were put on hold while we checked the rules and made sure the napkins were safe.”

    Pat Scannell of Gloucestershire Pensioners’ Forum said: “To risk-assess a napkin is utterly ridiculous and an unnecessary cost to the taxpayer”. Fortunately the napkins were eventually assessed as ‘perfectly safe’ and the scheme went ahead

    :roll: or :lol: or :cry: as appropriate!
  • iain_j
    iain_j Posts: 1,941
    don_don wrote:
    Extract from an article I found some time ago:
    Whose risk is it anyway?

    No napkins…the elderly might eat them.

    "Health and safety rules were invoked to halt the distribution of free napkins printed with safety tips with meals on wheels in part of Gloucestershire, after organisers were warned that there should have been a risk assessment of choking hazards."
    The Guardian, 13 April 2005

    Please let them have been two weeks late with that one?

    Sadly I know that's not the case :roll:

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