The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.

[Vince]

I know that feeling Tiermat. My first step is to stand up and look where I have been sitting, it works surprisingly often. My second approach is to shout at Boy Wunja to ask if he has borrowed it. At this point Mrs Wunja will overhear and tell me where she moved it to.

[T42]

Can I find the other 2? Can I heck! So I am now faced with the fact that I can't find the Leatherman Crater I had, last that I can remember, 2 weeks ago, and a Ortlieb backroller plus that I can't remember when I last had it!  The former is quite easy to lose, as it is quite small, but how on earth do you lose a BRIGHT YELLOW pannier?

Everything's bright bloody yellow these days unless it's bright bloody orange.  Yesterday in the workshop I turned round to look for the Fiskars, thinking they'd stand out from the rest. Fat hope, the rest were much the same colour.

[Mr Larrington]

Everything's yellow apart from the blinkenlights on anbaric apparatus, which are not only turning blue but doing so at an intensity visible from distant galaxies.

One day I will do a survey on the blinkenlights visible from my sofa, when I'm really bored.

[davelodwig]

Miss,

Your bike may be a heap of supermarket made unmitigated rubbish the sort that I generally would heave in the nearest skip complete with it's rust spotted colour scheme and drive train so dirty that glastonbury after a wet festival is cleaner.

Mine however is not, so please don't just chuck your bike against mine on the train, yes I was a little grumpy I quite like the paint to remain on it. Yes that means you shouldn't just grab hold of it and remove it from the rack and lean it against the side of the train so your mate can fit his equally crappy bike in. No that dosent' mean you can make a face because I've asked you to stop fiddling with my bike.

Just leave it alone and show other peoples stuff some god damm respect!!!

[Pingu]

Oi, Channel 4 News. The temperature in the Sarf was not twice as high as in the North today 

[Mrs Pingu]

Oi, Channel 4 News. The temperature in the Sarf was not twice as high as in the North today 

You mean they weren't counting the other 273 K?

[T42]

Ants in my espresso machine.

[billplumtree]

Ants in my espresso machine.

That would make a great euphemism for something.  I'm not sure what, but I'll recognise it when I see it.

[Mr Larrington]

Ants in my espresso machine.

We know a song about that:

Masters Of Reality - "Ants In The Kitchen".

Yodel, you're supposed to be shit.  Why, then, did you attempt to deliver my new Babbage-Engine fewer than twenty-four hours after it was despatched by ebuyer?  If I'd suspected you were capable of this level of not-shitness I'd have got up early

Not that it makes much difference, as the Mega-Global Sounds Like A Big River Corporation of Seattle, USAnia haven't delivered Windows yet.

[Bledlow]

Cough. Fuh.

[Mr Larrington]

Really quite late last night a leather-clad man sounded a peal on the doorbell of Larrington Towers in order to deliver a pizza.  I was in the bath.  And hadn't ordered a pizza, having dined well, if not wisely, on Sossidges a couple of hours earlier.  And the window key fell out of the lock, bounced off the roof of the Grand Portico and disappeared into the Japanese Garden where doubtless the under-gardener will find it in July.

[Cudzoziemiec]

You have a gardener for your undies? 

[T42]

Ants in the boiler
Ants in the tubes
Ants with antlers
Ants with boobs
Ants with their antholes filled with lube
As they revel in the joys of maceration

[CAMRAMan]

Self: When scratching about for things to take to the tip to justify a trip there do not then forget to take the ugly, big, old, plastic parasol base that was the main reason for going there in the first place! Eejit.

[nikki]

Robinsons seem to have changed the sweeteners in their squash.
Nasty horrible perma-aftertaste 

[Kim]

Robinsons seem to have changed the sweeteners in their squash.
Nasty horrible perma-aftertaste 

That's more or less what put me off the stuff a several of years ago.

[T42]

Since I visited Shimano's site earlier today, Google has been shoving ads for fishing tackle at me.

[hellymedic]

No, Evening Standard, the Tweed Run is NOT a race!
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/hundreds-of-cyclists-clad-in-their-finest-tweed-cycled-through-london-for-charity-race-10186817.html

[Kim]

No, Evening Standard, the Tweed Run is NOT a race!
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/hundreds-of-cyclists-clad-in-their-finest-tweed-cycled-through-london-for-charity-race-10186817.html

Then it must be for charity.

Where are they going?  That's a long way!

etc.

[mrcharly-YHT]

No, Evening Standard, the Tweed Run is NOT a race!
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/hundreds-of-cyclists-clad-in-their-finest-tweed-cycled-through-london-for-charity-race-10186817.html

Oh, aren't they absolute heroes?

[Canardly]

Since I visited Shimano's site earlier today, Google has been shoving ads for fishing tackle at me.

I think their fishing tackle business is order of magnitude larger than cycling kit.

[Kim]

Since I visited Shimano's site earlier today, Google has been shoving ads for fishing tackle at me.

I think their fishing tackle business is order of magnitude larger than cycling kit.

There's a Desmond Tutu quote for that.

[T42]

Since I visited Shimano's site earlier today, Google has been shoving ads for fishing tackle at me.

I think their fishing tackle business is order of magnitude larger than cycling kit.

Stand to reason: there's more folk as sits around than drives bikes.  And they get to kill things.

[mcshroom]

Grr Fulcrum OEM road wheels.

I'm not a real fan of low spoke count wheels, but having a nipple unscrew completely from the spoke after less than 400km is just poor. Also why do you have to have weird straight-pull spokes that make it harder to get the nipple to start threading, and also it would be nice if you used the same nipple diameter as all my other bikes, instead of having one that looks right but starts rounding when you try and exert any tension on the spoke.

Just bought a 3.2mm (black) spoke key which I think must be the right size (I have a 3.3mm red one which fits all the others), but I think a good pair of hand built wheels with normal spoke numbers might be going on this bike sooner rather than later.

[Mr Larrington]

I've just been spammed by some clue-free twatbaskets who claim that for only five hundred and fifteen of the BRITONS' pounds I can have a banner advert for my Webby SCIENCE on the Daily fucking Heil's web shite.  There may be another scenario involving being Wrong in more ways simultaneously, but I shudder to think what it might be.

Also Google!  Please to stop with the adverts for heating oil and red diesel.  I mean, WTFF