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  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Pinno wrote:
    Drizzle - it's neither here nor there.

    Time to change your supplier :D

    (Drizzle: hydroponically grown marijuana. More potent than shwag. Several strains that can be refered to as drizzle are Northern Lights,White Widow, Ghanni, BC Bud. Usually has alot of crystals and or long orange red or sometimes purple hairs)
    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    team47b wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Drizzle - it's neither here nor there.

    Time to change your supplier :D

    (Drizzle: hydroponically grown marijuana. More potent than shwag. Several strains that can be refered to as drizzle are Northern Lights,White Widow, Ghanni, BC Bud. Usually has alot of crystals and or long orange red or sometimes purple hairs)
    A holiday in Cornwall wouldn't be complete without four days of drizzle. Sitting in your tent, watching the world go by...
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    that time of the year when work colleagues try to engage you at the tea point with conversation like "so that Cavs got a good chance of winning the Tour then..."
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    awavey wrote:
    that time of the year when work colleagues try to engage you at the tea point with conversation like "so that Cavs got a good chance of winning the Tour then..."
    Yesterday, our cleaner - "so who's won most stages so far?". Me (not really following it yet tbh) - "Cav has won 2 so far, Peter Sagan has won one but...". Cleaner - "Oh so Cavendish might win it then? That's good".
  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    Thrifty Dutchess Kate, because she's wearing a £900 dress for the 2nd time in 2 years.

    Oh do f$&k off.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    People who don't understand urinal etiquette. I thought every man knew that if there's 3 or 4 and they're unoccupied you go for an end one so the next person can leave a gap.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    Pross wrote:
    People who don't understand urinal etiquette. I thought every man knew that if there's 3 or 4 and they're unoccupied you go for an end one so the next person can leave a gap.

    Now come on, don't dodge the bullet - explain the dodgy resurfacing comment please.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Pinno wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    People who don't understand urinal etiquette. I thought every man knew that if there's 3 or 4 and they're unoccupied you go for an end one so the next person can leave a gap.

    Now come on, don't dodge the bullet - explain the dodgy resurfacing comment please.

    Some people are crap at their job and / or lazy
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    Pross wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    People who don't understand urinal etiquette. I thought every man knew that if there's 3 or 4 and they're unoccupied you go for an end one so the next person can leave a gap.

    Now come on, don't dodge the bullet - explain the dodgy resurfacing comment please.

    Some people are crap at their job and / or lazy

    So how should it be done?
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Well if you really want to know.....

    https://www.rsta-uk.org/downloads/RSTA-ADEPT-Code-of-Practice-for-Surface-Dressing-Pt1-Introduction-2014.pdf

    In summary:

    Pre-patch potholes
    Sweep road
    Mask ironwork
    Spray on the binder (correct grade to speed / traffic volumes)
    Spread chippings using correct spread rate and chipping size
    Roll with a relatively light roller (trafficking then helps the process)
    Carry out first sweep within 24 hours to remove surplus
    Carry out second sweep after around 14 days to remove dislodged chippings

    Problem is too many times several of those stages get missed (probably 1, 2, possibly 7 and normally 8) along with working in the wrong temperatures or weather conditions.

    Fortunately I haven't done any of it for 20 odd years. Supervising / measuring it used to be great for getting a tan and clocking up expenses though as a trainee engineer!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    ^ Fair play to you.

    I'll keep the link as a future insomnia remedy.

    Are you going to start laying recycled plastic roads soon?
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  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    Pross wrote:
    Well if you really want to know.....

    https://www.rsta-uk.org/downloads/RSTA-ADEPT-Code-of-Practice-for-Surface-Dressing-Pt1-Introduction-2014.pdf

    In summary:

    1 - Pre-patch potholes
    2 - Sweep road
    3 - Mask ironwork
    4 - Spray on the binder (correct grade to speed / traffic volumes)
    5 - Spread chippings using correct spread rate and chipping size
    6 - Roll with a relatively light roller (trafficking then helps the process)
    7 - Carry out first sweep within 24 hours to remove surplus
    8 - Carry out second sweep after around 14 days to remove dislodged chippings

    Problem is too many times several of those stages get missed (probably 1, 2, possibly 7 and normally 8) along with working in the wrong temperatures or weather conditions.

    Fortunately I haven't done any of it for 20 odd years. Supervising / measuring it used to be great for getting a tan and clocking up expenses though as a trainee engineer!

    In my experience 1, 2, 6, 7 and (Sometimes) 8 aren't done at all.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    Whereas 'proper tarmacking' is proper tarmacking.

    A process is only as strong as it's weakest link.

    Seems that the 'dressing' method has a number of weak links dependant on a number of different phases and an equal number of different contractors actually communicating with each other and planning the event*... So it is shyte because of the variables and it is universally the same: loads of spare gravel, surface breaks up within 6 months and cycling in it/on it is treacherous not least because of the idiots driving hell for leather kicking up stones trapped in the wheel tread.

    *Not in Britain.

    People who claim something is good when it ain't :D It's only potentially good.
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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    If it's any help, when I am driving a motorised vehicle and am not a nuisance to others, I do like to drive in the middle of the road when chippings have been laid. Does my bit to pack them down.
    I may have already said this - people who insist on staying as far left as possible, no matter the road. It's a road, and you may use all off it. A dashed white line can be crossed, you know. Especially if it helps you anticipate the road and oncoming traffic.
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    ^ This (despite being an alcohol inspired post). :)
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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Pinno wrote:
    ^ This (despite being an alcohol inspired post). :)
    Who, you or me?
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    ^ This (despite being an alcohol inspired post). :)
    Who, you or me?

    You. I hope that's genuine EU (non tariff added) alcohol your're drinking.
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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Pinno wrote:
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    ^ This (despite being an alcohol inspired post). :)
    Who, you or me?

    You. I hope that's genuine EU (non tariff added) alcohol your're drinking.
    As a citizen of the EU, I am entitled to buy my beer and wine where I please, and consume it where I please. When PM May/Leadsom change that, then I step up the home-brew.
    Anyway, cheers!
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    ^ This (despite being an alcohol inspired post). :)
    Who, you or me?

    You. I hope that's genuine EU (non tariff added) alcohol your're drinking.
    As a citizen of the EU, I am entitled to buy my beer and wine where I please, and consume it where I please. When PM May/Leadsom change that, then I step up the home-brew.
    Anyway, cheers!

    Yes sir. Not disagreeing with you. I might take umbrage to the dodgy use of the non-EU regulation comma. If you don't mind. It's a seemingly trivial thing that annoys me.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Cycling on fairly dry roads out in lovely rural Hampshire. Occasionally you cycle through a bit of water, which at first you assume is run-off from a field or driveway. Then you get a whiff of something. Uh-oh. That is the whiff of septic tank/cess-pit. Of which there are many. That cooling spray on your legs from the "water" you just rode through? It's not just water.
    Thank the gods for mudguards. :D
    But seriously, sticks dwellers, empty your flipping tanks more often!
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    But seriously, sticks dwellers, empty your flipping tanks more often!

    [Herestarteththelesson]

    Septic tanks that are empty can fill up with water and overflow. Septic tanks that are not properly installed will fill up and overflow. Sometimes the water table can be high enough to over-ride any installation.

    Due to the ineptitude and general stupidity of the country dwellers (no less stupid than the urban rats), septic tanks require emptying. If bleach and other anti-bacterial substances are used in large volumes (like it does universally), it upsets the balance of a septic tank. A septic tank, if treated with a little common sense, acts like a stomach whereby both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria get to work and effectively digest what ever is chucked in it - within reason. The septic tank at PPP has not been emptied for more than 12 years.
    Within sniffing distance, a small group of houses (8) was built in the local village. As the cost of connecting them to the sewerage system was going to be extortionate, they fitted 4 large septic tanks to service the houses. It took an expert from Scottish water to go and basically say 'stop chucking bleach down the loo like it was going out of fashion, you silly barstewards' in a slightly more moderated style. A smell emanated from the septic tanks not long after people moved in - the solution they thought?: pour more bleach down the toilet to get rid of it... A viscous cycle. It still stinks and they are still complaining.

    [Hereendeththelesson]
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  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Pinno, as ever we are indebted to you and your knowledge of the "viscous cycle". I will of course avoid puns about being full of shit.
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno, as ever we are indebted to you and your knowledge of the "viscous cycle". I will of course avoid puns about being full of shoot.

    If I was flattering myself, I would have claimed it was all metaphorical in an Albert Camus sort of way.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Pinno wrote:
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno, as ever we are indebted to you and your knowledge of the "viscous cycle". I will of course avoid puns about being full of shoot.

    If I was flattering myself, I would have claimed it was all metaphorical in an Albert Camus sort of way.
    Ah, man's eternal struggle in the absurdity of the situation he finds himself thrown into. Yes, that's definitely what I was doing today. That's what I thought when I did the washing up for the second time around, anyway :lol:
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno, as ever we are indebted to you and your knowledge of the "viscous cycle". I will of course avoid puns about being full of shoot.

    If I was flattering myself, I would have claimed it was all metaphorical in an Albert Camus sort of way.
    Ah, man's eternal struggle in the absurdity of the situation he finds himself thrown into. Yes, that's definitely what I was doing today. That's what I thought when I did the washing up for the second time around, anyway :lol:

    Camus...washing up: the eternal struggle. :D
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • BelgianBeerGeek
    BelgianBeerGeek Posts: 5,226
    Pinno wrote:
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno, as ever we are indebted to you and your knowledge of the "viscous cycle". I will of course avoid puns about being full of shoot.

    If I was flattering myself, I would have claimed it was all metaphorical in an Albert Camus sort of way.
    Ah, man's eternal struggle in the absurdity of the situation he finds himself thrown into. Yes, that's definitely what I was doing today. That's what I thought when I did the washing up for the second time around, anyway :lol:

    Camus...washing up: the eternal struggle. :D
    The Sisyphean task in the face of which one must ask...have we run out of Fairy Liquid?
    Ecrasez l’infame
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,322
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno, as ever we are indebted to you and your knowledge of the "viscous cycle". I will of course avoid puns about being full of shoot.

    If I was flattering myself, I would have claimed it was all metaphorical in an Albert Camus sort of way.
    Ah, man's eternal struggle in the absurdity of the situation he finds himself thrown into. Yes, that's definitely what I was doing today. That's what I thought when I did the washing up for the second time around, anyway :lol:

    Camus...washing up: the eternal struggle. :D
    The Sisyphean task in the face of which one must ask...have we run out of Fairy Liquid?

    From Sisyphus to Camus to Churchill:

    Never in the field of cycling forums was so much philosophy owed by so many to so few
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  • verylonglegs
    verylonglegs Posts: 4,023
    Reminds me, I made a lame attempt at reading the Myth of Sisyphus a few weeks ago, must get back to it. Started with The Stranger a couple of months ago and it really did resonate with me.
  • jawooga
    jawooga Posts: 530
    1. The BBC thinking that Eddie Butler is a poet

    2. Eddie Butler thinking that Eddie Butler is a poet.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,416
    BelgianBeerGeek wrote:
    Pinno, as ever we are indebted to you and your knowledge of the "viscous cycle". I will of course avoid puns about being full of shoot.
    I've always said he's good at.talking s**t :)
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