Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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Used my chain breaker to shorten new chain and one of the little lugs to hold the chain broke off, irritating as fairly new - anyone recommend one?
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Park Tool one works well. Probably not the cheapest though. Mind you, if you are using it on an annual basis, if not more, get something decent.
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 -
If it's just the lug that holds the chain that's broken, you can usually keep using the breaker, being more careful with alignment.
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I get loads of very vivid dreams, sometimes I know they're dreams at the time and others not. There's a mixture of good ones I don't want to wake from and some I'm glad to wake but they continue when I go back to sleep. There are a few very common themes that get repeated in some way e.g. (at risk of being analysed as some kind of deviant!) I regularly have one where I'm doing the long jump and can basically stay in the air as long as I want before landing or I'm doing a bike race where I can just ride off the front at will. I also have one where I'm cycling and can't turn the cranks. For some reason fishing also features regularly in my dreams.
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Yeah, a bit but not regularly for about 15 years probably and I haven't done long jump for 35 years.
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That's a bloody impressive long jump.
- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Ha. It's always a disappointment when I wake up and realise that I didn't really have gravity defeating properties or that I haven't turned into van der Poel overnight.
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Ah, I didn't know if it was a skill you only had in dreams.
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Let me get on my soapbox for a minute.
Parents of young children who take their children to obviously grown up venues. Please, f*ck the f*ck off. Either find some babysitting or don't turn up.
Example, Sunday lunchtime, leaving drinks for my mate ( a close mate, best man at my wedding). Schlepped down to London to a South London pub/bar thing, only to find the event was crawling with under 3s. I recon maybe 40% of people brought kids? It was a nightmare. Spilling pints, parents complaining about people's language.
FFS guys, it's a bar. If you don't like that stuff, don't take you f*cking children. Stop pretending you're still childless and you can do things like you used to. You can't. You're responsible. So either sort out the care or don't turn up.
More selfishly, I spend all my bloody time socialising with kids - that's my life, and that's fine, but on the rare occasion I get the opportunity to go down to a bar in the middle of the day to drink with my mates, let me talk like I am actually in one.
I don't want to be on the look out for snotty toddlers putting their mucky hands in my pint.
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Surprised at that being one from you to me honest although as a grumpy old man with grown up kids I agree. There are 'family' pubs and 'grown up' pubs but even in the family pubs - especially those with soft play areas etc. - the lack of parental supervision becomes an issue a lot of the time. In my defence I used to think the same when my own kids were young as that is when I was more likely to be in that sort of environment. I would also add in the difficulty in finding places these days that don't allow pets. I'm not sure when it became the norm for pubs and cafes to allow dogs, I also can't remember dogs being walked around town centres being common until fairly recently. I was in Edinburgh about 18 months ago and there were people walking their dogs through a department store in one of the main shopping centres.
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Yeah agreed. If you want all your mates to come and not all of them can get childcare - book somewhere that's family friendly.
There are places that are good for kids, places that are good for families, and places that are good for grown ups. Stop taking kids to places that are totally inappropriate.
Same with grown ups going around places obviously set up for children and complain about all the kids everywhere. What are you, a moron?
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Parents mostly ignoring their kids at the park while the kids follow my son around in the sandpit repeatedly trashing the different sand castles I was helping him build.
You know they'd suddenly take a keen interest if you start telling their kid to stop.
- Genesis Croix de Fer
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Most pubs aren't child free on a Sunday lunchtime are they?
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Not sure if it was the smoking ban, general gentrification or me getting a bit older/more disposable income (and so avoiding total dives) but I remember in my late twenties that a lot south london pubs I used to drink in were becoming less pub and more like restaurants. It started with people booking tables, which I don't remember being a thing, then more people eating than drinking and gradually families/kids being the norm.
I guess in those areas, it's more profitable to cater to the family lunch market than the drinking market, especially on a sunday afternoon. How do you know which venue is which type? I guess if it has a kids menu then it's reasonably clear you can expect kids
I pretty exclusively go to pubs with my kids at weekends now, apart from the occasional saturday night, but in my defence they are well trained - I would never let them wander around the place and usually they entertain themselves with reading/colouring.
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Sure. In the example I'm using it was a proper bar/pub. No food apart from snack food. No proper seats - beerkegs with a cushion for seats. etc.
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Erm... If the bar is happy to be full of pre-school kids then it's not aimed at grown-ups only. Soon enough your and your peers kids will be moody teenagers who wouldn't be seen dead in a grown-ups bar.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Trust me. It was not for children. Not set up in anyway for kids. Being open in the day-time and being 'family friendly' are not the same thing.
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Build a sand castle around a large rock, sit back and enjoy watching them try to kick it down
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You can at least swear in front of dogs.
I don't have a problem with dogs providing they remain part of the group they arrived with.
To be honest it's the same with children.
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Is the issue the language police. Because I agree with your gripe on that. I'm not automatically beholden to your household rules because you chose to bring your household with you.
Let me ask you this - does this sentiment apply to taking children on flights and other long journeys on public transport, and making everyone else's journey miserable?
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I don't think there's a reasonable expectation that flights and public transport should be child free zones, so I would say not. Whereas a bar...
Besides in my experience it's mainly been poorly behaved adults that can make travelling shit.
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Not child free. I'm thinking more the children who are obviously not ready for a big trip, hate the journey, won't get anything out of the destination.
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How do you know what their destination is? I doubt many of them are staying at the airport
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Would a good analogy be taking your kids to football? It's not child free, but would you tap the fellow with the 1985 West Ham shirt on the back and say excuse me kind fellow, but we don't use language like that in front of children?
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I don't know, but I usually share planes with people intending to go to the same place as me, more or less.
Got to love the forum. I must suddenly be the only person who has ever thought, why not wait until they are ever so slightly older and knows how to clear the pressure in their ears?
But children...
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It'll be down to their licensing. Maybe the bar was trying to have it both ways.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Can I just let everyone know that this is a safe space in which to be trivially annoyed.
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One I see quite regularly locally and all the time when we used to have a static caravan in a large site in Devon is parents going out all day drinking and taking the kids then just leaving them to do their own thing. At the caravan we would see a few people doing it every day of their break but if there was sport on in the bar it would be packed with parents getting hammered whilst their kids did what they want (sometimes they'd even be allowed off to the adjacent beach unsupervised, talking primary school age kids as well as teens).
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