Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    GET IN MY SON!

    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/ ... tch-report

    smashed them out of the park.

    world no.1

    say no more.

    POW!
    CRASH!
    WALLOP!

    God's own rugby team

    BIG PHAT HET!

    #13-6
    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.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Robert88 wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    Robert88 wrote:
    Seeing a cyclist in front whom I can catch and overtake with a triumphant wave of the hand..

    Wait till she gets the stabilizers off.

    Had a young fit chap on a carbon road bike overtake me on the way to work on my mountain bike. We were both riding into a strong head wind and I was about 3/4 of my journey in so I thought I'd tuck in behind him -- it was tough going but surprisingly I kept on his back wheel for the last few miles to work. It's amazing how much of a tow you get. I thanked the big fella for the tow when we got to the traffic lights in town.

    Didja pull?

    No I got pulled. Not my type Rob I'm a strict vagetarian. Pulled a muscle maybe.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,307
    Diet and training success. Purely by reducing junk food and cycling more.
    86kgs to 79.5kgs. FTP from 250 to 300. w/kgs from 2.9 to 3.8. Bring on the Alps!
    Cheers me up mightily, and very trivial to everyone else. :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:
    Diet and training success. Purely by reducing junk food and cycling more.
    86kgs to 79.5kgs. FTP from 250 to 300. w/kgs from 2.9 to 3.8. Bring on the Alps!
    Cheers me up mightily, and very trivial to everyone else. :wink:

    Well done.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Diet and training success. Purely by reducing junk food and cycling more.
    86kgs to 79.5kgs. FTP from 250 to 300. w/kgs from 2.9 to 3.8. Bring on the Alps!
    Cheers me up mightily, and very trivial to everyone else. :wink:
    Not trivial at all. Well done, I know how much work it takes: I've managed a similar weight loss - actually 94 at the worst, down to 83 now, aiming for 78 - in the teeth of significant heart disease (serious blood pressure, LVH, probably caused by genetic HCM) and a thoroughly stuffed up hip causing a lot of grief and eventually resurfacing surgery.

    So it's a matter of life and death for me, and in a way it is for everyone.

    I really can't be bothered with FTP and all that jazz, don't have a PM and certainly don't go anywhere near a gym, but I rather suspect yours is higher than mine.
    But I do know that a few years ago I couldn't run up a flight of stairs without stopping, lungs heaving, at the top, but now (in my mid 50s) I'm getting faster on the bike, and even running is starting to come back together two years after hip surgery - nowhere near the sub 1½ half-marathons I did in my 20s and 30s, but my 7 year old park run PB is gonna get smashed. One day. Maybe.

    More power (and less weight) to you and to all of us.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Proper aggressive fast bowling.
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Diet and training success. Purely by reducing junk food and cycling more.
    86kgs to 79.5kgs. FTP from 250 to 300. w/kgs from 2.9 to 3.8. Bring on the Alps!
    Cheers me up mightily, and very trivial to everyone else. :wink:

    Can recommend the the Alps, and don't use the excuse you are not superfit! It's a lovely part of the world to cycle and you can take it as slow as you like.

    They are much nicer when not covered in nasty snow IMO.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,307
    Robert88 wrote:
    PBlakeney wrote:
    Diet and training success. Purely by reducing junk food and cycling more.
    86kgs to 79.5kgs. FTP from 250 to 300. w/kgs from 2.9 to 3.8. Bring on the Alps!
    Cheers me up mightily, and very trivial to everyone else. :wink:

    Can recommend the the Alps, and don't use the excuse you are not superfit! It's a lovely part of the world to cycle and you can take it as slow as you like.

    They are much nicer when not covered in nasty snow IMO.
    I'm going on Saturday. That was the motivation but yes, planning on going slow as it worked for the Pyrenees.
    Thunderstorms forecast for the week though. :evil:
    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: 27,307
    bompington wrote:
    But I do know that a few years ago I couldn't run up a flight of stairs without stopping, lungs heaving, at the top, but now (in my mid 50s) I'm getting faster on the bike, and even running is starting to come back together two years after hip surgery - nowhere near the sub 1½ half-marathons I did in my 20s and 30s, but my 7 year old park run PB is gonna get smashed. One day. Maybe.
    My FTP may be decent but running? Crossing the road fast is an effort. :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.
  • surfercyclist
    surfercyclist Posts: 894
    That Archer bouncer into Smiths neck. Genuine intimidating but perfectly legal hostile pace bowling.
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    SurferCyclist wrote:
    That Archer bouncer into Smiths neck. Genuine intimidating but perfectly legal hostile pace bowling.

    Also listening to Michael Vaughan on the radio today saying that if Smith bats in the third test, then Joe Root should immediately throw the ball to Archer and say “you’ve got six overs, get after him!”
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    holiday bike requires new internal 1 1/8 headset. simples.

    order, doesn't work. scratch head.

    try all manner of spacers and shims and hitting and swearing. nothing. not a sausage.

    take internal 1 1/8 headset off crit racer.

    fits perfect, works perfect. no shims, spacers, hitting, etc. exactly as a headset change should be. 5 mins work.

    out of interest, try non fitting new 1 1/8 in crit racer.

    fits and works perfect. exactly as a headset change should be. 5 mins work.

    #random
    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.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    holiday bike requires new internal 1 1/8 headset. simples.

    order, doesn't work. scratch head.

    try all manner of spacers and shims and hitting and swearing. nothing. not a sausage.

    take internal 1 1/8 headset off crit racer.

    fits perfect, works perfect. no shims, spacers, hitting, etc. exactly as a headset change should be. 5 mins work.

    out of interest, try non fitting new 1 1/8 in crit racer.

    fits and works perfect. exactly as a headset change should be. 5 mins work.

    #random

    #usererror
    Faster than a tent.......
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Rolf F wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    holiday bike requires new internal 1 1/8 headset. simples.

    order, doesn't work. scratch head.

    try all manner of spacers and shims and hitting and swearing. nothing. not a sausage.

    take internal 1 1/8 headset off crit racer.

    fits perfect, works perfect. no shims, spacers, hitting, etc. exactly as a headset change should be. 5 mins work.

    out of interest, try non fitting new 1 1/8 in crit racer.

    fits and works perfect. exactly as a headset change should be. 5 mins work.

    #random

    #usererror

    #undoubtedly :)
    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.
  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    Whilst not getting a PB on the club TT - not even a course PB - I did (finally) get a better time than 2 other racers I've been measuring myself against ...
  • coopster_the_1st
    coopster_the_1st Posts: 5,158
    Ryanair's business difficulties

    Karma is being served to a loathsome CEO & company
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Well it's hardly the employees fault and rest assured, the CEO won't suffer.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Winning business off your old firm.

    "They're not competition"

    Well they are now, f*ckers.
    _
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Winning business off your old firm.

    "They're not competition"

    Well they are now, f*ckers.

    Have to admit, I enjoyed similar. We picked up a job my old company was kicked off for failing to find an acceptable solution that could get planning. We took it on, came up with a scheme using a solution the previous company had told the Client wouldn't work and got them their planning. Made even more enjoyable as the person running it at my old company was a particularly obnoxious s**t who bullied junior employees.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,299
    SurferCyclist wrote:
    That Archer bouncer into Smiths neck. Genuine intimidating but perfectly legal hostile pace bowling.

    When I was a lad... this were all fields.
    No, hang on. At school I played a lot of cricket. I captained the B team at 15 and then played for the A team the following 2 seasons, as well as playing for the local first 11.

    When we first went into the local 8/8 league (8 a side, 8 overs), the coach took us all into the nets with some plastic simulation cricket balls. They were very bouncy. As we were all 14/15/16 and not fully grown, an average height ball could potentially be a bouncer.
    We were told repeatedly to never take our eyes off the ball.

    Whilst I realise that archer is quick and it's been a long time since there was a plethora of really pacey bowlers (Wasim Akram et al and given the rules restricting the number of bouncers per over), why did Smith:
    A. Take his eye off the ball and
    B. Knowing Archer's pace, not wear a full guard helmet?

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    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,462
    The neck guard wouldn't have helped him, he got hit more on the front of the neck. Neck guards are going to be compulsory in Aus soon.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,354
    Pross wrote:
    The neck guard wouldn't have helped him, he got hit more on the front of the neck. Neck guards are going to be compulsory in Aus soon.
    Too late in this case. Good shot Jofra :D
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    probably not trivial and not sure if it cheers me up but couldn't think of anywhere else to post this - are there any threads on brexit anywhere? but.....

    The UK has been "leaving" for almost 7% of the time it has been in the EU! I wonder what that percentage will get to?
    www.conjunctivitis.com - a site for sore eyes
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,354
    Chris Bass wrote:
    probably not trivial and not sure if it cheers me up but couldn't think of anywhere else to post this - are there any threads on brexit anywhere? but.....

    The UK has been "leaving" for almost 7% of the time it has been in the EU! I wonder what that percentage will get to?
    It took about 4 years to get in IIRC - from '69 to '73. Wonder if we will exit faster than we entered?
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • surfercyclist
    surfercyclist Posts: 894
    Bowling the convicts out for 179 and a sixfer for Archer. Now all England have to do is get a 150-200 lead.... :roll:

    Edit - FFS what a Pomnishambles! That shot from Stokes, words fail.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    this morning's cricket score

    #collapse
    #67
    #knockingoverbinmen
    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.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,307
    edited August 2019
    Overheard while passing a couple in a supermarket aisle.
    30 something male to 30 something female. (Relationship unknown.)
    "That you getting Veet to wax your backside*?" :lol:

    *wasn't the actual word used.
    #classy
    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.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    finding the Peppa Pig thermometer you bought for your work med kit that you thought you had lost.

    #savinglives
    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.
  • Lagrange
    Lagrange Posts: 652
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    finding the Peppa Pig thermometer you bought for your work med kit that you thought you had lost.

    #savinglives


    Do you have to shove it up peoples arrz?
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,529
    Lagrange wrote:
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    finding the Peppa Pig thermometer you bought for your work med kit that you thought you had lost.

    #savinglives


    Do you have to shove it up peoples arrz?

    Maybe that is where it was found.
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition

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