what I have learned today.

[Kim]

A few weeks back day, a picture popped up on my Linkedin feed, proudly announcing how some construction company or other had won a diversity award. I'm hoping it was a joke, as the people representing such a ground breaking company looked like they were all (a) male, (b) "white european" and (c) middle aged.

They'd probably managed to recruit a couple of gayers.  Corporates like gayers; they don't cost anything or require alteration to working practices (beyond perhaps a clampdown on homophobic bullying).

[Mr Larrington]

It's the gender balance that's (completely non) shocking.

Hasn't M. Macron taken a (maple) leaf out of The Boy Trudeau's book in this regard?

Interviewer:	Why are half your cabinet women?
J Trudeau:	Because it's 2015.

[fimm]

I'm no fan of Nicola Sturgeon's politics but I did appreciate her quote: "When I announced the balanced cabinet, people asked me if the women were all there on merit. No one asked me if the men were there on merit..."

My IT company employer recently created a "Gender Network". One of my colleagues was having the usual rant about are we going to have a men's network too. I did point out to him that the person to whom he was grumbling was the only woman in a fairly large office...

[rafletcher]

That there is a product called Airwick Vipoo.  That one sprays into the bowl before sitting to trap offensive odours. Really.

[Torslanda]

Bit late to the party there, Raffers.

There's a whole thread about it . . . 

[T42]

Measure twice, cut once. Yet again.

[mark]

That there is a product called Airwick Vipoo.  That one sprays into the bowl before sitting to trap offensive odours. Really.

There's at least one other such product, Poo-pourri. Both have been referred to on this forum. The advertisements for both are quite good.

[Mrs Pingu]

I've just learned there is a type of fastening called a sex bolt. I am amused.

[Tim Hall]

I've just learned there is a type of fastening called a sex bolt. I am amused.

Inna Tom Jones stylee, I hope.

[Cudzoziemiec]

 

[Pickled Onion]

Severe Haircut Lady in Cory Doctorow's Little Brother is based on Theresa May.

[woollypigs]

Severe Haircut Lady in Cory Doctorow's Little Brother is based on Theresa May.

Five minutes before you posted I decided that I need to re-read this.

[T42]

Torx screws are great.  I picked up a box of 4 x 40s a while back, thinking they were the usual cross-heads, and had a wee swear when I got them home & discovered my mistake.  However, a set of bits I'd bought 20 years ago because it included sockets also had a few Torx bits in it as well, and one of them fitted.

I've just finished a small stand for some new machines where I used about 50 of them.  Every single one went in without a hitch - none of the jump'n'judder you get when a cross-head bit rides out of the screw-head towards the end of the drive.  By way of contrast, I had to use cross-heads to fasten a sheet of ply down, and out of a dozen screws only 4 or 5 didn't judder.

Going to change all my stock now.

[rogerzilla]

I've just learned there is a type of fastening called a sex bolt. I am amused.

Well, there is a Jesus bolt*, and I suppose everything has an opposite.

*the main fastening bolt on a helicopter rotor, also applied to any bolt that Must Not Fail, such as the cable pinch bolt on your front brake

[fuzzy]

I've just learned there is a type of fastening called a sex bolt. I am amused.

Well, there is a Jesus bolt*, and I suppose everything has an opposite.

*the main fastening bolt on a helicopter rotor, also applied to any bolt that Must Not Fail, such as the cable pinch bolt on your front brake

'Tis a 'Jesus NUT' on a heliocopeter. So says the wisdome of Robert Mason, pilot and Chickenhawk author.

[Ham]

That peanut butter can remove chewing gum from shoes. Allegedly. https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/f09ajj00yx

[Jurek]

I've just learned there is a type of fastening called a sex bolt. I am amused.

Well, there is a Jesus bolt*, and I suppose everything has an opposite.

*the main fastening bolt on a helicopter rotor, also applied to any bolt that Must Not Fail, such as the cable pinch bolt on your front brake

'Tis a 'Jesus NUT' on a heliocopeter. So says the wisdome of Robert Mason, pilot and Chickenhawk author.

Jesus nut, indeed.
My Auzzie cycling buddy has referred to the missing Jesus (barrel) nut on the Easton EC70 seat post on the CF bike I built for her.
Jesus nut because it costs £26.74 to get a replacement bag of bits from the distributors. Comprised of 2 bolts, 2 washers and 2 barrel nuts.
Markup. Or what?
I can pick up a replacement seat post for less than twice that price from SJS.
Instinct tells me these ought to be quoted on the London Diamond Exchange......

[Basil]

That after 16 months of not doing it, I rather miss my old commute.

This, from another thread has made me all nostalgic.

I'm with fboab; Tour de Yorkshire.  My office-mates (all locals unlike me) were thoroughly amused by "coat d' garrowby 'ill" and the like.

I reckon the rule for that sort of thing is that it should only be allowed when done ironically.  So Col de Priory Road for the annoying (but ultimately unspectacular) climb on Basil's commute^[1] is fine, but referring to a proper BRITISH hill as such when included as part of a serious road race just makes you sound like a prat.


_{[1] Not to be confused with Basil's Commute, which is the technical term for the little geese-infested cut-through at the end of Raddlebarn Farm Drive that saves tens of metres on the ride between Bournville and a certain pub.}

Think I might go and visit #1 son and do it again.
Oh hang on, I'd have to do it at the correct time of day.  And I used to get up at WHAT TIME?

[Mrs Pingu]

That peanut butter can remove chewing gum from shoes. Allegedly. https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/f09ajj00yx

Supposed to be recommended for bubblegum and hair, too.

[Andrij]

Cycling 200km in a single day will not kill me utterly to DETH.

Also, even with today's COR and shared use paths factored in, I think I'm still a bit too slow for Audax (not that I have any rides planned for this year).

[T42]

The smell of linseed oil is bloody disgusting.

[Mr Larrington]

That much-derided Strawbs spin-off The Monks were Big In Canada.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

The smell of linseed oil is bloody disgusting.

You mean it doesn't remind you of long shadows on county (cricket) grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers?

No pleasing some folk

[Cudzoziemiec]

Perhaps T42 doesn't want dog lovers filling his pool?

[Ham]

That JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard) is a thing and that the Shimano adjuster screws are that thing, not Phillips. Who knew? (yeah, OK Brucey)