Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,349
    Stevo_666 said:

    Is this one of those 'pay what you think it's worth' arrangements?

    You should have asked before making the commission ;)

    Though apparently even when people help draft legal documents and sign them, sometimes they argue they don't carry legal force when they change their mind later...

    I might let you off this one, as a gesture of goodwill, and as my memory of the end of the tune might have been faulty.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    briantrumpet said:


    I might let you off this one, as a gesture of goodwill...

    I bloody wouldn't.

    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    Enjoying a good book. Although, after reading about 3/4 of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" I've decided that the title needs to be changed to " Three Very Disturbed Men" . I am enjoying it though.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,398
    briantrumpet said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    Is this one of those 'pay what you think it's worth' arrangements?

    You should have asked before making the commission ;)

    Though apparently even when people help draft legal documents and sign them, sometimes they argue they don't carry legal force when they change their mind later...

    I might let you off this one, as a gesture of goodwill, and as my memory of the end of the tune might have been faulty.
    You're a true capitalist at heart Brian.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,349
    Stevo_666 said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    Is this one of those 'pay what you think it's worth' arrangements?

    You should have asked before making the commission ;)

    Though apparently even when people help draft legal documents and sign them, sometimes they argue they don't carry legal force when they change their mind later...

    I might let you off this one, as a gesture of goodwill, and as my memory of the end of the tune might have been faulty.
    You're a true capitalist at heart Brian.

    I don't know what would have made you think otherwise.
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Possibly because you actually answer questions BT?
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,398
    orraloon said:

    Possibly because you actually answer questions BT?

    Is it still grinding your gears that I won't tell you what you want to hear about the nasty Torwies? :p If so, you're in the wrong thread...
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    You can ring my bell, ring my bell...
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,167
    I just figured out how to get rid of all of the "welcome to the new forum" threads.

    Has only taken me 2 years, mainly because I never read any of them and found out that it was even possible.
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,327
    First.Aspect said:

    I just figured out how to get rid of all of the "welcome to the new forum" threads.

    Has only taken me 2 years, mainly because I never read any of them and found out that it was even possible.

    One of the best posts/tips that I have read in ages!
    To my shame I did not know this was available. 😱
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,349
    Creating a good Google Form, and then seeing the automatically created Google Sheet collecting all the data without me lifting a finger.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,152
    https://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/archive/archive-highlights/the-chocolate-wrapper-ball
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    Eons ago, we used to get chocolate biscuits wrapped in a rectangular purply blue foil.
    For some reason, folks in the family would take the wrapper off carefully and smooth it out using a finger nail.

    Wind the clock forward 35 years after I got a book out of storage - 'Now we are seven' to read to the girls and out dropped one of these perfectly 'ironed' wrappers from the middle of the book.

    Alas, Tricky mangled it, not knowing it's significance.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    For days, weeks even, the wind round here has been strong and southwesterly.

    Except when I'm cycling into work in the morning: every single day what would have been a raging tailwind has dropped in the morning to light or literally nothing. Only to rise to a pretty stiff headwind in the afternoon.

    Until this morning.

    Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    Internet speed has been way more reliable since middle of last week.
    It’s almost as if a zillion kids were no longer at home hammering the bandwidth.
  • dennisn
    dennisn Posts: 10,601
    Just read a blurb on Pez Cycling about the "Gulo Wheel System". One of the advantages of these are that they have UV protection. It's about time. All these years of dealing with sunburn on my wheels is over. It's been really hard, all these years, to get the spokes, rims, and hubs coated with SPF 50. Have had to deal with so many failures due to sunburn and skin cancer. Thanx Gulo.
  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    dennisn said:

    Just read a blurb on Pez Cycling about the "Gulo Wheel System". One of the advantages of these are that they have UV protection. It's about time. All these years of dealing with sunburn on my wheels is over. It's been really hard, all these years, to get the spokes, rims, and hubs coated with SPF 50. Have had to deal with so many failures due to sunburn and skin cancer. Thanx Gulo.

    UV protection for your wheels is an absolute must in the U.K. ;)
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,317
    edited September 2020
    I don't know why you would buy set of Gulo wheels weighing in at 1300gms when you can buy the tried and trusted Shimano DA CL24's (previously known as the 1380's) weighing just... 80 gms more, for £1000+ less.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,327
    edited September 2020
    pinno said:

    I don't know why you would buy set of Gulo wheels weighing in at 1300gms when you can buy the tried and trusted Shimano DA CL24's (previously known as the 1380's) weighing just... 80 gms more.

    UV, innit.
    Carbon melts.
    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: 13,227
    Watching Annamiek vV riding pretty much like I do on steep sketchy gravel! Looking like she needed a bigger rear cassette plus skinny tyres and sliding off on the soft stuff. She may have been going a wee bit faster than like wot I do. 😊
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,327
    edited September 2020
    Listening to cycling podcasts a couple of days in arrears with the benefit of hindsight. Shows you how little the experts know. Ineos are really going to go for it tomorrow. 🤣🤣
    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.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Pleased NFL is back on.

    Have been surprised by how much playing NFL fantasy enhanced my enjoyment of it too.
    _
  • morstar
    morstar Posts: 6,190
    pblakeney said:

    Listening to cycling podcasts a couple of days in arrears with the benefit of hindsight. Shows you how little the experts know. Ineos are really going to go for it tomorrow. 🤣🤣

    In all honesty, this sort of thing has baffled me for years.
    With rare exceptions, gaps established in early mountain stages simply get extended over subsequent stages.
    And yet commentators go on about big moves to reverse the loss. How often does that happen in the TDF other than somebody blowing up.
    Similarly, a rider who is down on GC gradually drops to the back of a climbing group and is obviously hanging on for life. Commentator pipes up that they need to attack now.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    morstar said:

    pblakeney said:

    Listening to cycling podcasts a couple of days in arrears with the benefit of hindsight. Shows you how little the experts know. Ineos are really going to go for it tomorrow. 🤣🤣

    In all honesty, this sort of thing has baffled me for years.
    With rare exceptions, gaps established in early mountain stages simply get extended over subsequent stages.
    And yet commentators go on about big moves to reverse the loss. How often does that happen in the TDF other than somebody blowing up.
    Similarly, a rider who is down on GC gradually drops to the back of a climbing group and is obviously hanging on for life. Commentator pipes up that they need to attack now.
    Commentators deliberately spin the anticipation as it's in their interest to.

    I remember when Cancellara was on his 50km solo victory in Paris Roubaix, and at about 30km to go, the co-commentator said to the other "shall we stop pretending this is still a competition and start marvelling at the athletic achievement?"

    _
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    rick_chasey said:

    Pleased NFL is back on.

    Have been surprised by how much playing NFL fantasy enhanced my enjoyment of it too.

    Playing NFL fantasy sounds like the sort of past time involving cheer leader costumes and pretending to be the quarter back that all the girls wanted. Probably best to keep those games to yourself. Or do you mean fantasy NFL?
  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,327
    FWIW, I wasn't talking about commentators mid race. I was referring to "experts" predicting the next day's stage. Even further out from reality.
    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.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Pross said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Pleased NFL is back on.

    Have been surprised by how much playing NFL fantasy enhanced my enjoyment of it too.

    Playing NFL fantasy sounds like the sort of past time involving cheer leader costumes and pretending to be the quarter back that all the girls wanted. Probably best to keep those games to yourself. Or do you mean fantasy NFL?
    I'll let you decide.
    _
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    Doing my post run stretches against the back of my car last night and some guy went past on an electric scooter, looked at me and turned around to give me a hand thinking I was pushing the car.

    I'm also getting pleasure out of a new game I've invented - guess who 'liked' Coopster's posts (I'm very good at it).
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,167
    Pross said:

    Doing my post run stretches against the back of my car last night and some guy went past on an electric scooter, looked at me and turned around to give me a hand thinking I was pushing the car.

    I'm also getting pleasure out of a new game I've invented - guess who 'liked' Coopster's posts (I'm very good at it).

    That's a curious one, because you can't "like" your own posts.

    Electric scooters have just been banned again in Coventry because some have been used on a pavement. Since this could hypothetically result in some sort of catastrophe, the local authority have clearly decided that cars are safer.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Rode up (relatively speaking) and through the village where I grew up last night.

    Turns out, relatively fast too.

    I wish I could show my teenage self what speed I would later be riding those roads at.
    _

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