Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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Pinno wrote:
Of course they do. Why do you think every other cyclist I passed today stared at me?0 -
The rather delicious expression "we seem to have identified a training need..."
Thanks, Keef66.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
Bought one of those Park Cyclone chain scrubbers. Result! Really cheers me up when something does exactly what it's supposed to with no fuss, no bother.0
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I have given up on that jazz. Used to clean chains with petrol. Then I was convinced to 'modernise' so I bought a chain cleaner and Muc-off. Then after a couple of seasons using Muc-off and the chain cleaner, I thought f(ck it, i'm going back to petrol. Then I saw this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x8JTUa_hZU
Which then lead on to this:
Ultrasonic, brush wheel chain cleaner and... yes, you guessed it - petrol: (Never mind the speculative watts bollox)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0eOxbnzDQA#
...and now, i'm going to try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D12BFIXZCesseanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
seeing that I'm 68 out of a over 3000 on the Strava segment that runs across the top of my avenue, and THEN seeing names like Dani King and Emma Pooley above mine. Women's TOB went through last summer
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
Pictures of women with fantastic arses in the Bottom Bracket.0
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One and a half hours until the weekend and the sun is out.0
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The smell of damp hedgerows when you're riding after the rain on a warm spring evening0
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The Orange Tip butterfly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthocharis_cardamines
They fly (approximately) from early April to mid June, so when you start seeing them you know it's properly spring. When you stop seeing them, it's summer.0 -
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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Pinno wrote:
And when you see one of those, you know the winds have been blowing from the south.0 -
You're a dark horse Oblongwotsit.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0
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Just stating a fact. They're migrants that come here from north Africa every summer. Every now and again there's an invasion and they arrive by the million. The last time was about 7 or 8 years ago, I remember cycling through Cambridge, west to east, during May, with them crossing my path at the rate of one every couple of seconds. It went on for days.0
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oblongomaculatus wrote:Just stating a fact. They're migrants that come here from north Africa every summer. Every now and again there's an invasion and they arrive by the million. The last time was about 7 or 8 years ago, I remember cycling through Cambridge, west to east, during May, with them crossing my path at the rate of one every couple of seconds. It went on for days.
What cheers me up is the arrival of the Swallows and House Martens with their seemingly happy chitter chatter. The Swallows nest in my garage and dive bomb the cat. The House Martens always try to build a nest on the pebble dashed wall of the house but fail. This time they have a strip of wood I placed high up where they try and painted it white to blend in. I hope it works.
When they arrive it's like summer is on the way so i'll look every day soon when there's a warmish southerly.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Bike advice threads on here fall into two distinct categories:
1) Which >£1500 bike for me?
2) Which <£500 bike for partner?0 -
Thick Mike wrote:Bike advice threads on here fall into two distinct categories:
1) Which >£1500 bike for me?
2) Which <£500 bike for partner?
...and that cheers you up?!seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Pinno wrote:Thick Mike wrote:Bike advice threads on here fall into two distinct categories:
1) Which >£1500 bike for me?
2) Which <£500 bike for partner?
...and that cheers you up?!
Just makes me chuckle a bit. I imagine posters tell their partners their bikes cost <£500 though.0 -
The way that some things work on my PC and others don't, seemingly at random.
For example...
Today, I can't scroll down the CakeStop main page using the wheel on the mouse, yet I can in the Bottom Bracket page.
Some videos in YouTube, show a little preview screen when you move the mouse along the progress bar at the bottom of the video, but others don't.
If anyone knows why, PLEASE tell me :evil:
EDIT. Whoops wrong thread
The older I get, the better I was.0 -
Yes, makes me chuckle too. Although to be fair I wonder if you factored in hours used to price paid how that would work out.Thick Mike wrote:Bike advice threads on here fall into two distinct categories:
1) Which >£1500 bike for me?
2) Which <£500 bike for partner?
The other one that makes me laugh is if I ride in Richmond Park at the weekends on the path you see a bloke riding £3k upwards of MTB and all the gear looking over his shoulder in a frustrated manner as he's having to wait for his wife on a beaten up old bike with a toddler in a child seat.0 -
I frequently get annoyed with the GF when I'm on my '£3k upwards' MTB when shes on her £600 hardtail. I would probably be faster up the hills on her bike but it's more the fact that she can never be bothered to ride back up again and starts moaning she's tired after 20 minutes. She doesn't realise that it's supposed to be hard, and the harder it is this time, the easier it will be next time. Giggidy.0
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My dog's apparent ever-enthusiastic love for whatever I happen to have in my hand. I'm 99% sure he would hate salad with mustard based dressing or an imperial stout but it doesn't stop him trying0
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Being just a month away from getting out of my current job. Can't wait for the fresh start.0
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What used to make me giggle was my (deceased a long time ago )very dexterous cat Tiddles.
He was good with both paws. First stunt in the morning was trying to pull my breakfast bowl towards himself with his paw, next was pulling the foil off the top of the milk, licking the cream off, using his paw when the tongue wasn't long enough and then pushing the bottle over! Took us 6 months to figure out it wasn't the Blue Tits when I spied him one morning.
The other stunt was nicking things off your plate, or the counter - stuff he would never eat even if he was starving but he would eat it just 'cos he nicked it.
His other move was to pull the cat dish backwards with his paw whilst the others where trying to eat and a funny chase would ensue, which would invariably end when he hit a wall.
Last, our other cat 'midnight' and he would curl up together. Sometimes Tiddles would start cleaning her and if she wriggled, he would clasp her head between both paws and lick her vigorously. Generally, if she didn't want to be cleaned, it would break out in a fight.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Being woken up this morning to the sound of my wife and my eight year old girl having a tickle fight!0
