Author Topic: A random thread for small things that don't really warrant a thread of their own (Read 3004909 times)

Kim · « **Reply #23950 on:** 29 March, 2019, 03:21:13 pm »

On a related note, I've realised that Sunday's Audax o'clock start will be more jarring (and, by the look of it, cold) than anticipated.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #23951 on:** 29 March, 2019, 03:22:47 pm »

Quote from: citoyen on 28 March, 2019, 11:33:13 am

Quote from: mrcharly-YHT on 28 March, 2019, 10:35:14 am
I'd be happy to get up earlier year-round and finishing work earlier.

I guess it depends on your job but couldn't you do this anyway? At the company where I'm working at the moment, normal office hours are 9.30-6 (4 on Fridays) but some of my colleagues do a 9-5.30 day and at least one does 8-4.30. Another does 9.30-4.30 two days a week for childcare reasons.

Not when when of my preferred activities post work is training with a group of other people. We all need to be able to exit work in daylight hours and not all companies offer flexible working hours.

Mine does; I just can't really make use of them due to pressure of work and meetings.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #23952 on:** 29 March, 2019, 03:28:34 pm »

Couldn't we split the difference and go to GMT+30mins?

citoyen · « **Reply #23953 on:** 29 March, 2019, 05:15:52 pm »

One for Thatlondoners...

So I’m on Gloucester Place and a tourist asks me the way to Buckingham Palace. “Well, if you just hop over that wall...”

Basil · « **Reply #23954 on:** 29 March, 2019, 06:27:16 pm »

One for the Brummies.
I was asked by some forigns for St. Henry Square.

Took me a while to realise they were trying to say Centenary Square.

Paul · « **Reply #23955 on:** 29 March, 2019, 07:02:41 pm »

What forigns? Oldbury? Solihull?

Basil · « **Reply #23956 on:** 29 March, 2019, 07:18:22 pm »

Quote from: Paul on 29 March, 2019, 07:02:41 pm

What forigns? Oldbury? Solihull?

No. Not THAT forign. Some sort of East European.

Paul · « **Reply #23957 on:** 29 March, 2019, 07:38:59 pm »

Practically locals then?

Kim · « **Reply #23958 on:** 29 March, 2019, 07:49:05 pm »

St Henry's Square is across the road from the Gastric Basin...

Basil · « **Reply #23959 on:** 29 March, 2019, 07:50:14 pm »

hellymedic · « **Reply #23960 on:** 29 March, 2019, 08:06:33 pm »

Cradley Heath and Rowley Regis were considered FOREIGN when I lived/worked in Stourbridge...

CAMRAMan · « **Reply #23961 on:** 29 March, 2019, 08:16:02 pm »

Good beer over that way. Cheap too. Bathams, ah....

T42 · « **Reply #23962 on:** 31 March, 2019, 09:53:41 am »

Yesterday we received a Christmas card from Canada.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #23963 on:** 31 March, 2019, 01:08:45 pm »

The other day I got a Farcebok shitvert for an event in January. January 2016.

Kim · « **Reply #23964 on:** 31 March, 2019, 06:06:43 pm »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 31 March, 2019, 01:08:45 pm

The other day I got a Farcebok shitvert for an event in January. January 2016.

Are you going? You could warn everyone...

Wowbagger · « **Reply #23965 on:** 01 April, 2019, 12:28:06 pm »

I screwed up this morning and grabbed the wrong pump. I put mountain bike air into my road bike's tires. Will I be able to remove the tubes and tires and repair the rims, or are they goners?

Kim · « **Reply #23966 on:** 01 April, 2019, 01:25:10 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 01 April, 2019, 12:28:06 pm

I screwed up this morning and grabbed the wrong pump. I put mountain bike air into my road bike's tires. Will I be able to remove the tubes and tires and repair the rims, or are they goners?

If it's just a little bit of mountain bike air, you should be okay if you top it up to full pressure with road bike air immediately, just remember to take it easy on approach to the climbs, and watch out for signs of getting gnarly on cycle infrastructure. Stay off the drops until you've topped the tyres up a couple more times.

Otherwise the best thing to do is not even mount the bike and call you LBS's air assist service immediately. They should have the equipment to drain and safely dispose of the mountain bike air, without contaminating your ride.

(This is the better way round - if you'd put road bike air in mountain bike tyres, the lack of bounce could cause permanent damage.)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #23967 on:** 01 April, 2019, 01:31:07 pm »

In order to really help you, we need more information. Was this alloy or carbon mountain bike air and, very importantly, does the road bike run on Campagnolo or Shimano air? If it uses Sram, then there's no hope; this is totally incompatible with mountain bike air and you will have to scrap the tyres (incineration is the safest way) and disinfect the entire bike as well as the entire bike shed. You may also have to shave off your beard, just in case stray particles of mountain bike air have become trapped in it.

Legs · « **Reply #23968 on:** 01 April, 2019, 02:08:26 pm »

Quote from: citoyen on 29 March, 2019, 05:15:52 pm

One for Thatlondoners...

So I’m on Gloucester Place and a tourist asks me the way to Buckingham Palace. “Well, if you just hop over that wall...”

Did you mean Grosvenor Place?

hellymedic · « **Reply #23969 on:** 01 April, 2019, 02:59:23 pm »

Quote from: Legs on 01 April, 2019, 02:08:26 pm

Quote from: citoyen on 29 March, 2019, 05:15:52 pm
One for Thatlondoners...

So I’m on Gloucester Place and a tourist asks me the way to Buckingham Palace. “Well, if you just hop over that wall...”
Did you mean Grosvenor Place?

Good spot! I was wondering how anyone could jump from Selfridge's to Buck House...

citoyen · « **Reply #23970 on:** 01 April, 2019, 03:16:27 pm »

Quote from: Legs on 01 April, 2019, 02:08:26 pm

Quote from: citoyen on 29 March, 2019, 05:15:52 pm
One for Thatlondoners...

So I’m on Gloucester Place and a tourist asks me the way to Buckingham Palace. “Well, if you just hop over that wall...”
Did you mean Grosvenor Place?

Oops! I was walking from Marble Arch to Victoria so... yes.

Not sure why I had Gloucester Place in my head.

ian · « **Reply #23971 on:** 01 April, 2019, 06:51:26 pm »

Because I assume the date, some pranksters parked a line of toy cars on a notoriously ignored section of double-yellow lines by the main roundabout in town (because stopping off at the Barclay's ATM or stuffing your face full of KFC is worth risking a serious accident over – plus damage to the roundabout from lorries trying to get by them has cost taxpayers several tens of thousands of pounds to date). And then ticketed them.

Ironically, unlike the actual cars, the council came and promptly cleared them away.

Torslanda · « **Reply #23972 on:** 01 April, 2019, 09:06:21 pm »

any pics...?

andrewc · « **Reply #23973 on:** 02 April, 2019, 11:37:50 am »

There’s just been an “ Inspector Sands” call at Liverpool Lime St. I thought that was only a London thing, but apparently not. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Sands

telstarbox · « **Reply #23974 on:** 02 April, 2019, 06:43:55 pm »

On company websites where the jobs page says "We're always on the lookout for new people!", does that mean:
a. They can't be bothered to add actual details of the jobs and there might not be any;
b. People are always leaving so it's a poisoned chalice?

Author Topic: A random thread for small things that don't really warrant a thread of their own (Read 3004909 times)

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