Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Just put a deposit down for a Donhou frameset.
    Ben

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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    rjsterry wrote:
    There was an aerial shot of a clearly modern road going across a moor in last Sunday's Poldark.

    Demelza cheers me up.

    Along with how every single geographical location on Poldark is reached from another by travelling across a cliff top or even a beach. Makes me chuckle.


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,602
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    Surrey Commuter wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    It burns. It's what gets deposited in your flue that may be an issue.

    Three years old there is no sappy stuff left. Think of all the softwood the Scandinavians burn without buying their houses down.
    The moisture evaporates, but not the resin. The stuff the Scandinavians burn is cut in winter when the sap content is at its lowest. And a lot of what they burn is birch. It won't burn the house down but you will get a lot of tar build up.

    seems to be a lack of consensus on sap content in logs a few years old. either way you have persuaded me to get the chimney swept

    :) My parents replaced their log burner with a gas stove after setting the tar in the chimney alight three times in a year.

    Then they moved house and reverted back to a log burner, albeit a much more advanced one. :|
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,602
    Capt Slog wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:
    There was an aerial shot of a clearly modern road going across a moor in last Sunday's Poldark.

    Demelza cheers me up.

    Along with how every single geographical location on Poldark is reached from another by travelling across a cliff top or even a beach. Makes me chuckle.

    TBF, that's not far off for the far west of Cornwall; not sure if that is where the Poldark stories are set.
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  • dinyull
    dinyull Posts: 2,979
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Just put a deposit down for a Donhou frameset.

    Nice!

    But is it only me that reads Donhou and thinks of cheap Chinese open mould carbon?
  • coopster_the_1st
    coopster_the_1st Posts: 5,158
    Matthewfalle wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:

    Needs two people to help; they only deliver on weekdays and all my mates live in London.

    *.

    But you've been there ages? How can you have failed to make any friends yet? Oh.....

    This justifies promotion to this thread as it sums up RC perfectly and reading this made me :lol:
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Dinyull wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Just put a deposit down for a Donhou frameset.

    Nice!

    But is it only me that reads Donhou and thinks of cheap Chinese open mould carbon?

    That's racist.
    Ben

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  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Just put a deposit down for a Donhou frameset.

    I'd a custom bike built a few years back. You can't beat a good custom build.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,823
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Just put a deposit down for a Donhou frameset.
    Ooh, that's not trivial. Which one? They do look rather nice.
    Kinesis Pro6
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  • kingstonian
    kingstonian Posts: 2,847
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Just put a deposit down for a Donhou frameset.


    Top work. He built me a custom frame 4 years ago, best bike I've ever ridden.

    What have you gone for?
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    The frog that just appeared in the lounge last night :D

    Must've hopped up 2 steps and in through the open french doors, made it's way through the dining room, up the hall and into the lounge then under the sofa where it lurked until we were settled in front of the telly. How it managed that without the dog noticing I have no idea, but when it hopped onto the rug in front of the fireplace my wife certainly did! Cue a lot of shrieking while I was able to do the manly thing and catch the bugger as he was heading under the logburner, and evict him onto the front lawn.
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Just put a deposit down for a Donhou frameset.


    More info please - you can’t tease us like that!
    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.
  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,548
    Capt Slog wrote:

    Demelza cheers me up.

    Along with how every single geographical location on Poldark is reached from another by travelling across a cliff top or even a beach. Makes me chuckle.

    This! I don't know if anyone here is old enough to remember Tarzan (when played by Ron Ely). Every time Tarzan hollered his call, there was the same clip of elephants stampeding, leopards jumping out of trees and lions running through the jungle - every single week.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,345
    Films that finish with a "The End".
    None of this sitting through 1/2 hour of credits for a 30 second scene at the real (reel? :lol: ) end.
    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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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Alright chaps. I've gone for the DSS4. The standard 56cm is almost like it was designed on my fit numbers. Lovely stuff. Very exciting.
    Ben

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  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    laurentian wrote:
    Capt Slog wrote:

    Demelza cheers me up.

    Along with how every single geographical location on Poldark is reached from another by travelling across a cliff top or even a beach. Makes me chuckle.

    This! I don't know if anyone here is old enough to remember Tarzan (when played by Ron Ely). Every time Tarzan hollered his call, there was the same clip of elephants stampeding, leopards jumping out of trees and lions running through the jungle - every single week.


    I’m glad that I’m not the only one who noticed that, quite a lot of American kids programmes in the 70’s used to use the same clips over and over again, The Banana Splits were particularly bad for this!
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,488
    crispybug2 wrote:
    I’m glad that I’m not the only one who noticed that, quite a lot of American kids programmes in the 70’s used to use the same clips over and over again, The Banana Splits were particularly bad for this!
    The Banana Splits were ace, at least I used to think that when I was about 7. Then I re-watched an episode or two a few years ago and it was pants. That said, I used to to think that Dr. Who was scary when I was 7.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    crispybug2 wrote:
    I’m glad that I’m not the only one who noticed that, quite a lot of American kids programmes in the 70’s used to use the same clips over and over again, The Banana Splits were particularly bad for this!
    The Banana Splits were ace, at least I used to think that when I was about 7. Then I re-watched an episode or two a few years ago and it was pants. That said, I used to to think that Dr. Who was scary when I was 7.


    I had pretty much the same experience watching the Banana Splits on YouTube, to quote Don Henley on the Boys of Summer...

    “Don’t look back, you should never go back!”
  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Alright chaps. I've gone for the DSS4. The standard 56cm is almost like it was designed on my fit numbers. Lovely stuff. Very exciting.


    Sweeeeeeeet! What colour? What groupset? What wheels?

    THE MFs NEED TO KNOW!!!!
    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.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Colour undecided
    Mechanical Dura Ace (7900)
    Vision 42mm wheels
    Deda, Fizik Starley finishing kit
    Ben

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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Colour undecided
    Mechanical Dura Ace (7900)
    Vision 42mm wheels
    Deda, Fizik Starley finishing kit

    Good choices my man.

    Completion date?
    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.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    6 month waiting list on the frame. So just after Christmas.
    Ben

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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,823
    Ben6899 wrote:
    6 month waiting list on the frame. So just after Christmas.
    Look forward to reading about the build and seeing pictures.
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    I'm looking forward to sharing it!
    Ben

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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,602
    Ben6899 wrote:
    I'm looking forward to sharing it!
    You'd let other people ride it!?? :shock:
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,823
    rjsterry wrote:
    Ben6899 wrote:
    I'm looking forward to sharing it!
    You'd let other people ride it!?? :shock:
    It’ll be a fraction small but I’m sure I’ll manage :lol:
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    :lol:
    Ben

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  • FishFish
    FishFish Posts: 2,152
    I'm not even remotely interested in it.
    ...take your pickelf on your holibobs.... :D

    jeez :roll:
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    That's what yer mam said. But I persuaded her.
    Ben

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  • Matthewfalle
    Matthewfalle Posts: 17,380
    Ben6899 wrote:
    That's what yer mam said. But I persuaded her.

    so did the MFs
    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.

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