Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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Probably one for SCR but had some teenager on a slicked mtb scoot past me from the lines on castle hill here (the only proper hill in actual Cambridge). Wasn't having that.
I'm on a fairly long geared SS so it's a bit of a grind up it - anyway, I held him level untill just after the steepest bit towards the top when it levels out and got him on the false-flat drag at the top towards the lights.
He tried it again on the next jump but it was flat this time so I was not overgeared - let him pass once, wound it up and left him for dead thereafter. Scalp saved.
Didn't quite realise how humid it was so I got to my destination absolutely beading.0 -
No, but have been to an abbey where the sound just kept rolling around the room, I expect that the monks would have had to have been in total harmony or had fun with a disharmonic racket.briantrumpet said:morstar said:The whole idea that an echo chamber is somehow the antithesis of an echo chamber should be in the intriguing thread.
Talking of echo chambers, has anyone ever been in an anechoic chamber?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anechoic_chamber
I gather they are very weird to be in.
Maybe it was designed so that the spoken biblical word would have been re-iterated.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Yes a friend works for an engine manufacturer where they use it to help tune engine tones! Was very strange indeed, lifeless. Like Highbury back in the day...briantrumpet said:morstar said:The whole idea that an echo chamber is somehow the antithesis of an echo chamber should be in the intriguing thread.
Talking of echo chambers, has anyone ever been in an anechoic chamber?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anechoic_chamber
I gather they are very weird to be in.1 -
a) LBS actually having some Shimano rotors of required size in stock
b) cost of said rotors being less than quoted on the usual online suspects, even if they had any.0 -
Updating my French mobile tariff to get 60Gb of data for 9.95€ a month. Stick that in your pipe, UK mobile operators (see today's news). Now I just need to get the opportunity to use it...0
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I get roughly that out of EE @ £8.00 pm.briantrumpet said:Updating my French mobile tariff to get 60Gb of data for 9.95€ a month. Stick that in your pipe, UK mobile operators (see today's news). Now I just need to get the opportunity to use it...
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Try using it in France though.pinno said:
I get roughly that out of EE @ £8.00 pm.briantrumpet said:Updating my French mobile tariff to get 60Gb of data for 9.95€ a month. Stick that in your pipe, UK mobile operators (see today's news). Now I just need to get the opportunity to use it...
Your days of free data roaming are over.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.0 -
orraloon said:
a) LBS actually having some Shimano rotors of required size in stock
b) cost of said rotors being less than quoted on the usual online suspects, even if they had any.
Last pair of tyres I bought were cheaper at my very LBS, especially as they applied a 10% discount without my asking.0 -
Matt Hancock getting caught sh@gging. I hope he kept washing his hands.0
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😊shortfall said:Matt Hancock getting caught sh@gging. I hope he kept washing his hands.
I note that while the tabloids are in unison giving out the news on little Hattie Mancock's copying of his boss's normal behaviour, the anti-Tory, left biased, liberal woke BBC remain.... silent on the subject.
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orraloon said:
😊shortfall said:Matt Hancock getting caught sh@gging. I hope he kept washing his hands.
I note that while the tabloids are in unison giving out the news on little Hattie Mancock's copying of his boss's normal behaviour, the anti-Tory, left biased, liberal woke BBC remain.... silent on the subject.
Perhaps because the tabloids are a business and see an opportunity to make money from printing salacious stories that the likes of 'Loon seem to lap up and the BBC is supposedly a news outlet.
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Is Gammon Broadcasting broadcasting the 'news'?0
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So. Case proven. The 'independent' BBC is more in hock to and under the control of Spaffer's Gang than Gammon Broadcasting. Happy days. Ein volk, ein reich...shortfall said:
Indeed it is, just been on their newspaper review. Sorry to disappoint.orraloon said:Is Gammon Broadcasting broadcasting the 'news'?
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Case proven as you say, so let's scrap it.orraloon said:
So. Case proven. The 'independent' BBC is more in hock to and under the control of Spaffer's Gang than Gammon Broadcasting. Happy days. Ein volk, ein reich...shortfall said:
Indeed it is, just been on their newspaper review. Sorry to disappoint.orraloon said:Is Gammon Broadcasting broadcasting the 'news'?
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The BBC is always more cautious with these stories no matter if it's a politician, sportsperson or any kind of celebrity.0
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But that's no good to 'Loon. He needs his gossip fix. OK magazine only carries so much. 0
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It's possible they are trying to work out if any rules have been broken. If they were at it before he hired her, then plenty. If he proved irresistible only last month, maybe not.0
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Are they demanding a replay with Croatia because it's the will of the Scottish people?ballysmate said:"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I think they are just blaming the Toaries. And of course Boris for the Scottish 'keeper being so far off his line.1
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For an actual news channel, covering it and talking about it on a paper review would be different things. Not sure with gbn, because all they seem to do is talk about what's in the papers.shortfall said:
Indeed it is, just been on their newspaper review. Sorry to disappoint.orraloon said:Is Gammon Broadcasting broadcasting the 'news'?
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And not forgetting a young Boris Gascoigne goal back in 1996.ballysmate said:I think they are just blaming the Toaries. And of course Boris for the Scottish 'keeper being so far off his line.
https://youtu.be/g0NT6aUwN8c "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Hard to blame the bloody English this time for taking Scotland out of Europe when they clearly wanted to stay in.0
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True.kingstongraham said:Hard to blame the bloody English this time for taking Scotland out of Europe when they clearly wanted to stay in.
With hindsight the UK should have just appointed Arsene Wenger to lead the Brexit negotiations he took Arsenal out of Europe every year without even voting."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
kingstongraham said:
Hard to blame the bloody English this time for taking Scotland out of Europe when they clearly wanted to stay in.
From the reports I heard of the match, the English did all they could to keep them in.0 -
Re. Hancock, forgetting the affair and whether that had an effect on her appointment, the fact is this is just another example of the Tories giving their mates a job, they were at Uni together.0
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This has brightened my afternoon. Silly story thread.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
I think this is very much a consolation prize storyrjsterry said:This has brightened my afternoon. Silly story thread.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
