Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    A brief scene setter...
    I was cycling along a 40mph max single lane, walking and cycling friendly road.
    I crested an overpass and saw an oncoming car which I thought I would meet after the approaching bend.
    On hearing the engine note and tyre noise this appraisal was reassessed so I made sure I was as far left as possible.
    Boy racer either never saw me, or didn't care.
    Either way, his car's radar did. And it applied the emergency braking. Two things happened.
    He crapped himself and hopefully learned a lesson.
    I learned that the emergency braking would not have saved me.

    Not so much that it cheered me up but it was certainly an "OH!" moment.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,236
    Martins giving it loud and large overhead while I sip a well deserved drink or 2. 33C, full sun, hedge trimming... well deserved as I say.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,505
    orraloon wrote:
    Martins giving it loud and large overhead while I sip a well deserved drink or 2. 33C, full sun, hedge trimming... well deserved as I say.
    You're better off getting some manual labourer to do the donkey work. Especially when it's this hot :wink:
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    PBlakeney wrote:
    A brief scene setter...
    I was cycling along a 40mph max single lane, walking and cycling friendly road.
    I crested an overpass and saw an oncoming car which I thought I would meet after the approaching bend.
    On hearing the engine note and tyre noise this appraisal was reassessed so I made sure I was as far left as possible.
    Boy racer either never saw me, or didn't care.
    Either way, his car's radar did. And it applied the emergency braking. Two things happened.
    He crapped himself and hopefully learned a lesson.
    I learned that the emergency braking would not have saved me.

    Not so much that it cheered me up but it was certainly an "OH!" moment.


    So you weren't killed then?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Cowsham wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    A brief scene setter...
    I was cycling along a 40mph max single lane, walking and cycling friendly road.
    I crested an overpass and saw an oncoming car which I thought I would meet after the approaching bend.
    On hearing the engine note and tyre noise this appraisal was reassessed so I made sure I was as far left as possible.
    Boy racer either never saw me, or didn't care.
    Either way, his car's radar did. And it applied the emergency braking. Two things happened.
    He crapped himself and hopefully learned a lesson.
    I learned that the emergency braking would not have saved me.

    Not so much that it cheered me up but it was certainly an "OH!" moment.
    So you weren't killed then?
    It might surprise you, but no. :lol: 30cm clearance.
    I could clearly hear a “Fuuuucccckkk!” over the noise of ABS controlled skidding.
    I cannot comment on the condition of the driver’s pants. :wink:
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    A brief scene setter...
    I was cycling along a 40mph max single lane, walking and cycling friendly road.
    I crested an overpass and saw an oncoming car which I thought I would meet after the approaching bend.
    On hearing the engine note and tyre noise this appraisal was reassessed so I made sure I was as far left as possible.
    Boy racer either never saw me, or didn't care.
    Either way, his car's radar did. And it applied the emergency braking. Two things happened.
    He crapped himself and hopefully learned a lesson.
    I learned that the emergency braking would not have saved me.

    Not so much that it cheered me up but it was certainly an "OH!" moment.
    So you weren't killed then?
    It might surprise you, but no. :lol: 30cm clearance.
    I could clearly hear a “Fuuuucccckkk!” over the noise of ABS controlled skidding.
    I cannot comment on the condition of the driver’s pants. :wink:

    Your a hard man -- enjoying being nearly killed by a daft young kunt in a car takes trivial to new levels.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Cowsham wrote:
    Your a hard man -- enjoying being nearly killed by a daft young kunt in a car takes trivial to new levels.
    What makes it trivial is that ultimately nothing happened.
    What cheered me up was the driver's reaction.
    What made it of particular interest was the car's reaction.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Boris's hair getting increasingly "serious".
    Whilst looking increasingly more like an outcast from Dumb & Dumber.

    NINTCHDBPICT000509753955-1-e1564519907679.jpg

    #appropriate
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Boris's hair getting increasingly "serious".
    Whilst looking increasingly more like an outcast from Dumb & Dumber.

    NINTCHDBPICT000509753955-1-e1564519907679.jpg

    #appropriate

    :lol:
  • PhilipPirrip
    PhilipPirrip Posts: 616
    When someone upgrades your purchase unexpectedly.

    Ordered some old stock winter 240 spike tyres that were on offer from SJS and they've sent me Schwalbe's latest top of the range reflective and spike protected tyres.

    Winter spikes do ultimately cheer me up. No matter how cold it gets I'd rather be commuting on a bike than be driving the car.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    PhilipPirrip wrote:
    When someone upgrades your purchase unexpectedly.

    Ordered some old stock winter 240 spike tyres that were on offer from SJS and they've sent me Schwalbe's latest top of the range reflective and spike protected tyres.

    Winter spikes do ultimately cheer me up. No matter how cold it gets I'd rather be commuting on a bike than be driving the car.

    Those look useful -- I see ones listed for mountain bike -- that's what I'd want them for. Wouldn't want to be on road with a sure footed bike and have some idiot in a car slide into me. I'm lucky to have the choice of road or off road cycle commuting and have managed with help of the very mild winter to use the mountain bike for most of the last year and enjoyed it.
  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    Went out for a quick spin last night - nothing too fast or fantastic - just as well, as on the single track lane over the back of the hill, there were some vehicles starting to reverse back down the lane - I stopped, got into the side and let them past - spoke to the chap in the Audi at the front "is it a vehicle standoff?" - "f*cking w*ankers" was the response ... :D yup - it was a vehicle standoff - the 3 vehicles coming towards us wouldn't reverse back 5 meters to the passing point ...
    well - when you've got roads closed for some big horse race going on and the visitors are trying to get away following their sat navs, what do you expect ...
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,236
    Trivial from me, anything but trivial from her. Dotwatching Fiona Kolbinger cap 66 continue to lead TCR No7 into day 6. Currently 27km from control point 3 on Passo Gardena Dolomites / Austrian Alps. You go girl.

    Highly rec Transcontinental.cc for images of stunning scenery, and cycling challenge.
  • PhilipPirrip
    PhilipPirrip Posts: 616
    Cowsham wrote:
    PhilipPirrip wrote:
    When someone upgrades your purchase unexpectedly.

    Ordered some old stock winter 240 spike tyres that were on offer from SJS and they've sent me Schwalbe's latest top of the range reflective and spike protected tyres.

    Winter spikes do ultimately cheer me up. No matter how cold it gets I'd rather be commuting on a bike than be driving the car.

    Those look useful -- I see ones listed for mountain bike -- that's what I'd want them for. Wouldn't want to be on road with a sure footed bike and have some idiot in a car slide into me. I'm lucky to have the choice of road or off road cycle commuting and have managed with help of the very mild winter to use the mountain bike for most of the last year and enjoyed it.
    If you're riding 26" then I'm looking at selling the tyres as the new ones are 700c.

    Spiked tyres are great. You feel the crossover then when rubber is useless it makes you smile. And they sound like you're bursting bubble wrap which is fun and alerts people to your approach.
  • PhilipPirrip
    PhilipPirrip Posts: 616
    Just upgraded from wired broadband to FTTC broadband.

    No more buffering at 3pm when kids come home from school choking up the bandwidth and buffering the stage ends.
  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    Don't worry - they'll soon realise they can download movies on one device and stream on another - hogging all the bandwidth ...

    what you want is a suitable firewall where you can control their download bandwidth .... ;)
  • homers_double
    homers_double Posts: 8,290
    We've just got a Deco set up, mainly to support wireless networking for MrsHD whilst she types away in the kitchen but the added extra is that it's a piece of cake to set up parental controls rather than the complete and utter faff that was trying to do the same on a sky router.

    I recon some spotty 16 yr old designed skys system to prevent luddite parents like me being able to stop them accessing Fortnite at 3am.
    Advocate of disc brakes.
  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    Ah - TP-link router - yes, I like TP-Link stuff - simple to configure, haven't always got the flexibility of a fully programmable router - but most of the time it's enough to do the job.

    We're fortunate enough that atm, we can just turn wifi off on the phone Little Slowbike uses to play Thomas Mini and he's happy ... :)
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    Rolf F wrote:
    Lagrange wrote:
    Driving down the road and seeing bins left out with HUGE house numbers written on the lid and the sides. I mean no-one will steal one and abusers of bins would only put the same crap in them that we do.

    Out of interest do these mad people paint large numbers all over their houses?

    Someone nicked my garden waste bin...... Nice part of town too!

    Does this presumed irrationality cheer you up then?

    I wouldnt say it was a nice part of town where I lived when it happened, it was the kind of place where you duct taped your letterbox shut on bonfire night just in case, but I used to live next to a bunch of people who were forever nicking my bin,probably because they never used bags for their rubbish in theirs and theirs was an absolute total state of a bin with all kinds of stuff and maggots growing in it which never cleared out, the only way I could stop them stealing mine was to paint full bin height numbers on it, just so I could, when they inevitably "accidentally" collected the wrong bin, go round and complain again and take it back,I could never leave the bin out over night as it would just disappear, or end up 3 or 4 streets away,they even tried to sand paper the paint off once, I dont think the kids liked me or they were rebelling against their parents or some other nonsense, fortunately i moved away, but Ill never feel safe with a bin without my house number on it.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    A Bianchi in celeste with deep rim carbons and tan wall tubs. lush, see

    #properbike
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    today's cricket score. GET IN!

    #fairdinkum
    #bonzerbruce
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • surfercyclist
    surfercyclist Posts: 894
    Why? Are you Australian?
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZAefoacUqc


    imbéciles estúpidos :lol:
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,236
    orraloon wrote:
    Trivial from me, anything but trivial from her. Dotwatching Fiona Kolbinger cap 66 continue to lead TCR No7 into day 6. Currently 27km from control point 3 on Passo Gardena Dolomites / Austrian Alps. You go girl.

    Highly rec Transcontinental.cc for images of stunning scenery, and cycling challenge.
    Winner. 4000km in 10 days and many many thousands of metres climbing. Even making it onto BBC news: woman wins race.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    (still) the result of the first Test.

    #joy
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    Despite that come the end of October I will no longer have an EU passport. I will always be able to get the passport of my choice on Bikeradar.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,356
    Webboo wrote:
    Despite that come the end of October I will no longer have an EU passport. I will always be able to get the passport of my choice on Bikeradar.

    True dat.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,236
    Pinno wrote:
    Webboo wrote:
    Despite that come the end of October I will no longer have an EU passport. I will always be able to get the passport of my choice on Bikeradar.

    True dat.
    Or if you have Scottish ancestry...?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,356
    orraloon wrote:
    Pinno wrote:
    Webboo wrote:
    Despite that come the end of October I will no longer have an EU passport. I will always be able to get the passport of my choice on Bikeradar.

    True dat.
    Or if you have Scottish ancestry...?

    Woah, wait a minute - getting some Scottish ancestry will cost £££'s.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Webboo wrote:
    Despite that come the end of October I will no longer have an EU passport. I will always be able to get the passport of my choice on Bikeradar.

    bizarrely, bambini's EU passport apps are going in tomorrow

    #culture
    #likeobvious,like
    #251
    Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am

    De Sisti wrote:
    This is one of the silliest threads I've come across. :lol:

    Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honour :D
    smithy21 wrote:

    He's right you know.

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