Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Fot double yellows only came int' yUk in the 60s. Wot's wiv da bleck 'n' white innit?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    More pics please PB.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,325
    pinno said:

    More pics please PB.

    Too many stories, and zero of them publishable in these PC times.
    What happens in Vegas didn't necessarily stay in Vegas.





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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    You mean, you got married to a croupier?!
    ...or you got an STD.
    ...or both.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,325
    edited July 2020
    pinno said:

    You mean, you got married to a croupier?!
    ...or you got an STD.
    ...or both.

    None of the above. To save you guessing... A few years later in Blighty, I got a booty call from one of these girls. Did something right. 😉


    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,325
    Anyway...back to cycling related stuff.
    A very nice pub lunch in Salisbury. Wonder if it has changed?


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    Veronese68 wrote:
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  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,694
    pblakeney said:

    pinno said:

    You mean, you got married to a croupier?!
    ...or you got an STD.
    ...or both.

    None of the above. To save you guessing... A few years later in Blighty, I got a booty call from one of these girls. Did something right. 😉


    Looks like Stevo heading for a big night out.

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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,398
    Wheelspinner said:

    pblakeney said:

    pinno said:

    You mean, you got married to a croupier?!
    ...or you got an STD.
    ...or both.

    None of the above. To save you guessing... A few years later in Blighty, I got a booty call from one of these girls. Did something right. 😉


    Looks like Stevo heading for a big night out.

    That might come as a bit of a surprise for Blakey if it were true :-)
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,325
    Remember that I was pitching. 😉
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    .
    Wheelspinner said:


    Looks like Stevo heading for a big night out.

    Stevo is not that pretty.

    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • diplodicus
    diplodicus Posts: 722
    First club ride for ages. Even with all covid precautions in place it was still great to get back to group riding
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    diplodicus said:

    First club ride for ages. Even with all covid precautions in place it was still great to get back to group riding

    How did it work?
    _
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    You get 5% draught at 2m unless the guy in front is a real fatty.
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  • diplodicus
    diplodicus Posts: 722
    rick_chasey said:

    diplodicus said:

    First club ride for ages. Even with all covid precautions in place it was still great to get back to group riding

    How did it work?
    As per British Cycling guidelines
    max 6 per group
    no joiners during ride
    1m+ distancing
    rotate every 5 mins to stop being in vapour trail too long

    But lovely to be out
  • diplodicus
    diplodicus Posts: 722
    Oh and every one has to leave contact details
    no non club members
    no helping in the event of a mechanical
    gloves and sanitiser to be carried.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,325
    Would be even more effective using the usual chain gang method which is way less than 5 minutes, no?
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  • diplodicus
    diplodicus Posts: 722
    yeah probably, but that was the BC guidelines so that's what we did
  • diplodicus
    diplodicus Posts: 722
    And also normal chaingang tends to speed up as each one takes a turn. Not ideal for 3+ hours
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,325
    That's just an indication of the chain gang requiring more discipline through training. 😉
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  • diplodicus
    diplodicus Posts: 722
    True
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    'Vapour trail' Ha ha.
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    What's the point of carrying hand sanitiser when you are on your own bike distanced from the others and no contact e.g. no help with a mechanical? Bizarre. Why not insist on wearing a face mask as well?
  • diplodicus
    diplodicus Posts: 722
    I didn't make the rules...
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,915
    New series of Alone. Time to dream of skills I don't have, but would like to.
  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    Finally unblocking my downstairs loo after 1.5 kg of caustic soda and several goes with a coathanger and various other methods failed. Managed to do it eventually with a plunger and 10 minutes of repeated possing which frankly was the last resort before having to remove the toilet and start physically removing solids from the waste pipe.
    Oh joy!
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,398
    shortfall said:

    Finally unblocking my downstairs loo after 1.5 kg of caustic soda and several goes with a coathanger and various other methods failed. Managed to do it eventually with a plunger and 10 minutes of repeated possing which frankly was the last resort before having to remove the toilet and start physically removing solids from the waste pipe.
    Oh joy!

    To quote a Macc Lads song, was it caused by 'Dan's Big Log'? :smile:
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,398
    Going for my first bike ride of any length since March (have been building up my running fitness during lock down). Managed a rather slow 40k with a mate - felt really good for it afterwards and I earned my pork pie snack that I took with me :smile:
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • shortfall
    shortfall Posts: 3,288
    Stevo_666 said:

    shortfall said:

    Finally unblocking my downstairs loo after 1.5 kg of caustic soda and several goes with a coathanger and various other methods failed. Managed to do it eventually with a plunger and 10 minutes of repeated possing which frankly was the last resort before having to remove the toilet and start physically removing solids from the waste pipe.
    Oh joy!

    To quote a Macc Lads song, was it caused by 'Dan's Big Log'? :smile:
    Lol not sure. Had it been organic matter I expect the caustic would've seen it off but I think it's more likely that daughter or wife flushed something down that doesn't belong in the bog.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    I've had plenty of that since moving in to PPP.
    So far: far too much toilet paper in a wad.
    A small teddy.
    An old tennis ball.
    Half a plastic doll - legs and arms provide much blockage opportunity.

    Luckily, all of the above end up in one spot between inspection covers. It has cost me £55 in a decent drain rod set with all sorts of attachments.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,348
    shortfall said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    shortfall said:

    Finally unblocking my downstairs loo after 1.5 kg of caustic soda and several goes with a coathanger and various other methods failed. Managed to do it eventually with a plunger and 10 minutes of repeated possing which frankly was the last resort before having to remove the toilet and start physically removing solids from the waste pipe.
    Oh joy!

    To quote a Macc Lads song, was it caused by 'Dan's Big Log'? :smile:
    Lol not sure. Had it been organic matter I expect the caustic would've seen it off but I think it's more likely that daughter or wife flushed something down that doesn't belong in the bog.

    I learnt rather more than I cared to know about dry & wet tensile strength of various paper products, when trying to persuade someone why using kitchen towel for ar$e-wiping was a really bad idea.

    tl;dr - toilet paper is very carefully designed to disintegrate after you've wiped your ar$e but before it can block wonky drains.
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