Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1625226 times)

andrewc · « **Reply #2300 on:** 30 September, 2012, 12:03:02 am »

I'm going away a week on Sunday for what is going to be a very strenuous cycling tour. I'm currently aching all over & my lower intestine is in Krakatoa mode. If this doesn't clear up fast I'm going to be a most unhappy bunny.

Deano · « **Reply #2301 on:** 30 September, 2012, 11:59:04 am »

I'm lucky to have a neighbour who's in when the postie comes around, saving me a trek to (in this case) the Parcelforce depot in darkest Boro.

But how come they aren't in when I call around to collect it? Four days they've had it now

Jaded · « **Reply #2302 on:** 30 September, 2012, 12:14:25 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 29 September, 2012, 09:54:03 pm

< unladylike alert>
I hate it when you've been drinking 'beer (I.e.from a bottle) and you burp and the CO2 goes up your nose and it burns.
That is all.

The trick is to burp properly, as nature intended, in a manner designed to frighten off predators.

Arch · « **Reply #2303 on:** 30 September, 2012, 01:21:42 pm »

Quote from: RJ on 29 September, 2012, 10:43:34 pm

When cooking 3 pizzas at once in a fan oven, make sure the fan is on

(fan off = 1 underdone, 1 just so, and 1 burnt to a crisp )

Ah, the Three Bears pizzas....

andrewc · « **Reply #2304 on:** 30 September, 2012, 01:39:16 pm »

Today's lunch with the family has been cancelled and I'm heading back to bed. Stomach still upset, body still achey.

The first days serious riding of my USA tour next week is 120Km and the temperature is currently in the mid 30's. If I'm not 100% that's going to be a killer...

Canardly · « **Reply #2305 on:** 30 September, 2012, 01:55:39 pm »

Better now than then Andrew GWS.

barakta · « **Reply #2306 on:** 30 September, 2012, 02:20:15 pm »

Hope you get better soon Andrew.

barakta · « **Reply #2307 on:** 30 September, 2012, 02:23:28 pm »

My shoulder/shoulderblade spines have been crap since Wednesday, every time I get from megapain to improvement they flare up again the only thing which helps is sleep but not too much so I'm a bit sleep depped. stress from work being busy and typing too much probably doesn't help but I can't change either of those so sodit. I'm running out of drugs and my GP wants to see me before giving me more - probably cos it's NSAIDs and opiates and shock horror a handful of different types and doses for different purposes. Will go and see my usual GP and try and wrangle a flu jab out of her cos she's crap at putting me on the flujab list of the computer.

David Martin · « **Reply #2308 on:** 30 September, 2012, 03:49:31 pm »

My shoulder aches. Might be something to do with the Unintended Involuntary Dismount yesterday whilst off-roading. First time I have been over the bars in years.

mcshroom · « **Reply #2309 on:** 30 September, 2012, 09:32:51 pm »

Virgin trains why don't you let cyclists with first class tickets put their bikes in the end nearest my seat?Pendolinos are long trains to sqeeze down the isle of.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2310 on:** 30 September, 2012, 09:42:26 pm »

Quote from: Andrij on 28 September, 2012, 08:22:31 pm

Does my recent grumbled mean I'm solidly middle class?

It means you're solidly Britified.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #2311 on:** 01 October, 2012, 09:11:18 am »

Citroen garage. When I ring up and try to book my car in, you say "No need to book, just turn up, we are open from 8".

So when I turn up at 8:15, wait outside for 30min, try phoning 3 times, all without any success, it is really fucking annoying.

Oh, and if you pay someone to make a website for you, with a handy location map, it would be a really good idea of the location map actually showed your location, not somewhere 2 miles away.

rafletcher · « **Reply #2312 on:** 01 October, 2012, 09:34:51 am »

Why do HMRC use paper that's just a bit bigger than A4, so won't go through the photocopier properly

mcshroom · « **Reply #2313 on:** 01 October, 2012, 09:38:38 am »

Quote from: mcshroom on 30 September, 2012, 09:32:51 pm

Virgin trains why don't you let cyclists with first class tickets put their bikes in the end nearest my seat?Pendolinos are long trains to sqeeze down the isle of.

and a follow up - why do you want to stand in the doors on the train for 5 minutes before it gets to the station? Instead of getting back down the train to my bike I had to run 8 carriages along the platform, dodging dozy idiots with fridge sized trolley bags as I went.

RJ · « **Reply #2314 on:** 01 October, 2012, 12:45:12 pm »

Quote from: Arch on 30 September, 2012, 01:21:42 pm

Quote from: RJ on 29 September, 2012, 10:43:34 pm
When cooking 3 pizzas at once in a fan oven, make sure the fan is on

(fan off = 1 underdone, 1 just so, and 1 burnt to a crisp )

Ah, the Three Bears pizzas....

(Needless to say, burnt-to-a-crisp was for GrowlyBear

- though it scrubbed up alright

)

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #2315 on:** 05 October, 2012, 09:31:28 am »

The slow lane of the pool was very busy this morning, with traffic jams caused by very slow guy and very very slow guy. At one point I was behind very slow guy who was behind very very slow guy. I had the space to overtake them both but just as I was about to pass very slow guy, he moved out to overtake very very slow guy. But he didn't have the pace to do it in the space available and had to pull back in. This happened twice in one length. I actually spent half that length doing nothing more than treading water and sculling my arms a bit right behind them.

I wish I was fast enough for the medium lane, or that they'd open a very slow lane.

Chris S · « **Reply #2316 on:** 05 October, 2012, 12:45:32 pm »

Why not swim under them, and overtake them that way?

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #2317 on:** 05 October, 2012, 01:03:20 pm »

I have natural buoyancy. I'm kind of like a swimming Tigger.

Feline · « **Reply #2318 on:** 05 October, 2012, 02:32:30 pm »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 05 October, 2012, 09:31:28 am

The slow lane of the pool was very busy this morning, with traffic jams caused by very slow guy and very very slow guy. At one point I was behind very slow guy who was behind very very slow guy. I had the space to overtake them both but just as I was about to pass very slow guy, he moved out to overtake very very slow guy. But he didn't have the pace to do it in the space available and had to pull back in. This happened twice in one length. I actually spent half that length doing nothing more than treading water and sculling my arms a bit right behind them.

I wish I was fast enough for the medium lane, or that they'd open a very slow lane.

God, it sounds like commuting! You even get to be soaking wet too!

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #2319 on:** 05 October, 2012, 02:41:04 pm »

So far this week my days have been spent feeling crap, then good, then crap, then good and now crap again. WTF's going on?

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #2320 on:** 05 October, 2012, 02:53:50 pm »

I need chocolate

and

gin
(although wine would do)

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #2321 on:** 05 October, 2012, 03:18:07 pm »

Quote from: Mrs Pingu on 05 October, 2012, 02:41:04 pm

So far this week my days have been spent feeling crap, then good, then crap, then good and now crap again. WTF's going on?

Is the crap/good/crap/good coinciding with being at work/home/work/home?

Basil · « **Reply #2322 on:** 05 October, 2012, 05:32:14 pm »

Gosh.
I hope Pingu sees this.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #2323 on:** 05 October, 2012, 05:41:51 pm »

The good bits being home, obviously.

why1040 · « **Reply #2324 on:** 05 October, 2012, 07:46:00 pm »

Self...
Checking what time the AGM started would have meant that:
A) you would not have had to rush through showering and grabbing food, and
B) you wouldn't have had to sit in the car outside the village hall for an hour feeling like a total nitwit!

Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1625226 times)

Chris S