Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1628450 times)

Kim · « **Reply #1575 on:** 04 April, 2012, 04:33:21 pm »

Quote from: mcshroom on 04 April, 2012, 03:49:18 pm

Easter is a busy time for me with all the different choir bits and pieces, so I only get Monday to do some nice cycling. Why has the weather decided that's the day to chuck it down all day

Bank holiday weekend. It's a tradition, an old charter or something.

mcshroom · « **Reply #1576 on:** 04 April, 2012, 04:45:04 pm »

Yebbut why only the Monday? Fri-Sun are due to be fine

Kim · « **Reply #1577 on:** 04 April, 2012, 04:50:21 pm »

Because that's the day you pack your tent up, obviously.

rower40 · « **Reply #1578 on:** 06 April, 2012, 08:00:21 am »

5 hours on a Voyager ahead of me. I checked again and again, and it was MEANT to be an HST.

Kim · « **Reply #1579 on:** 06 April, 2012, 04:36:51 pm »

And I've just rounded off a sillier-than-riding-to-York-on-studded-tyres FNRttC in sub-zero temperature with an hour and a bit on a Pendolino with overenthusiastic air conditioning and a PA turned up to 11 - you could see everyone in the quiet coach jump at the first burst of feedback whenever they tried to give us live updates (see rants passim) on the sandwich shop status.

Arch · « **Reply #1580 on:** 06 April, 2012, 11:01:30 pm »

I spent an hour and a half in a carriage today with a group of increasingly pissed young men, whose language got steadily louder and more sweary as we got to Manchester.

When challenged by a gentleman to pipe down a bit, they got louder on purpose.

When we all got up to get off, they loudly explained their behaviour to this same gentleman. Apparently, this bunch of louts are members of our esteemed infantry, and this makes it ok for them to make other people's journey's unpleasant. Because "we do what other people don't want to".

Frankly, I have more respect for people who have to wipe old people's bums in homes. I found myself hoping they all get shot.

At least one was wearing a regimental sweatshirt. Do the Army care how they behave when in civvies?

I also noticed that they piped down and were nice as pie whenever a member of train staff came along. Seems they're only bothered about authority, and not any of the ordinary people they claimed to be fighting for....

Valiant · « **Reply #1581 on:** 07 April, 2012, 05:07:13 am »

I chopped the top 5mm off my thumb almost completely today while cutting an onion

Arch · « **Reply #1582 on:** 07 April, 2012, 08:21:22 am »

Ouch! You alright?

Clare · « **Reply #1583 on:** 07 April, 2012, 05:57:03 pm »

Letter to the RSM Arch?

In other news I've just melted my Mooncup and set fire to its bag.

Kim · « **Reply #1584 on:** 07 April, 2012, 06:11:30 pm »

NSFW is that way -->

jogler · « **Reply #1585 on:** 07 April, 2012, 06:15:46 pm »

Quote from: Clare on 07 April, 2012, 05:57:03 pm

In other news I've just melted my Mooncup and set fire to its bag.

is that some form of ritual Clare?

Arch · « **Reply #1586 on:** 07 April, 2012, 06:17:26 pm »

Quote from: Clare on 07 April, 2012, 05:57:03 pm

Letter to the RSM Arch?

I did wonder about that.

Quote

In other news I've just melted my Mooncup and set fire to its bag.

Oh no! Were you boiling it? I'm always worried I'll do that.

Clare · « **Reply #1587 on:** 07 April, 2012, 06:23:10 pm »

Quote from: jogler on 07 April, 2012, 06:15:46 pm

is that some form of ritual Clare?

Sadly not, I was boiling them for 7 minutes and started reading the paper, then the cryptic crossword caught my eye, I'd just started on the sudoku when I realised there was smoke pouring out of the kitchen door and a strange smell of burning cotton and hot silicone rubber. The house stank for a while, now it is just bloody cold.

I was boiling the bag because I'd had to store the cup in there pre-boil so I thought it should get a sterilise as well. Don't think there's anything alive on either thing now.

Has anybody seen my memory?

jogler · « **Reply #1588 on:** 07 April, 2012, 07:41:57 pm »

Wotwith being a bloke wotaz led a shelterd & niave life I'm not familiar with such pratices

Clare · « **Reply #1589 on:** 07 April, 2012, 07:50:14 pm »

Mooncups or memory?

jogler · « **Reply #1590 on:** 07 April, 2012, 08:16:37 pm »

both

Kim · « **Reply #1591 on:** 07 April, 2012, 08:17:12 pm »

If they spring out in the wrong direction, it's entirely likely that they could affect your memory...

perpetual dan · « **Reply #1592 on:** 09 April, 2012, 06:04:24 pm »

Why does baking powder no longer have the quantity required to make self raising flour written on the side? I'll get floury hands on the Internet if I'm not careful.

Kim · « **Reply #1593 on:** 09 April, 2012, 06:07:47 pm »

Oh boabword!

There's ^_CAKE in the oven, and that post has just reminded me what I forgot to add...

Arch · « **Reply #1594 on:** 09 April, 2012, 06:12:19 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 09 April, 2012, 06:07:47 pm

Oh boabword!

There's ^_BISCUIT in the oven, and that post has just reminded me what I forgot to add...

FTFY....

Kim · « **Reply #1595 on:** 09 April, 2012, 06:25:25 pm »

Good news, the self-raisingness of the flour appears to have half-done the job. So it's probably going to end up as high-density audax cake, rather than biscuit.

LindaG · « **Reply #1596 on:** 09 April, 2012, 06:42:39 pm »

Why is it, that whenever I put on a nice shiny new cycling top in a nice colour that I really like, that I have to fettle something in the wild, and get oil on it?

Every nice thing I own has oil stains.

Kim · « **Reply #1597 on:** 09 April, 2012, 06:44:07 pm »

Are you related to Butterfly?

(There's a reason most of my cycling things are BLACK.)

Arch · « **Reply #1598 on:** 09 April, 2012, 06:48:57 pm »

Quote from: Lindagordinho on 09 April, 2012, 06:42:39 pm

Why is it, that whenever I put on a nice shiny new cycling top in a nice colour that I really like, that I have to fettle something in the wild, and get oil on it?

Every nice thing I own has oil stains.

Have you tried Swarfega? Apply to dry clothing, rub in well, then rinse out. Worked well for me when I leaned back against my trike chainring in the back of MFWHTBAB's car...

andrewc · « **Reply #1599 on:** 09 April, 2012, 06:56:32 pm »

Well I now have a mostly clean & lubed bike, but I forgot to mark the saddle position when I took it off and now I'm going to be fiddling with it for ages on my next ride

Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1628450 times)

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