Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1626211 times)

hellymedic · « **Reply #7250 on:** 13 January, 2016, 01:22:54 pm »

Quote from: essexian on 13 January, 2016, 09:59:29 am

May I grumble about my "cyclist legs" please.
Well, they fit well around the waist; I can get my bits in without looking stupid or that I have a hamster down here and the leg length is fine. However, as the muscles at the top of my legs are rather large from cycling, the trunks are really tight around that part of my body. So much so, they are really uncomfortable and I doubt I can wear them for more than a few minutes without cutting off blood supply to my lower legs.
Sigh, I suppose I will have to buy a larger pair which are likely to fall off when I am swimming leaving me looking rather stupid in the deep end.

I have often whinged about Trousers for David.

Seems like Modern Man doesn't have much Muscle.

Is it really too much to expect fit at the waist, space for bits, bum room for sitting and room for quads/hams?
Why???

L CC · « **Reply #7251 on:** 13 January, 2016, 01:48:12 pm »

If you're going to be a throwback, physically, you clearly need to learn the throwback skillz, and make your own.

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #7252 on:** 13 January, 2016, 01:52:51 pm »

Yesterday I get a panicked phone call "One of the mooring ropes has snapped on your boat". I interrogate them and decide that boat is not in immediate danger of floating away. Book today off work and spend part of last night writing list of tools etc that I might need.

Drive out. All mooring ropes are intact and despite there being considerable river flow, boat is fine.

There is a bit of rope around a post with a cut end that doesn't attach to anything. Rope that I didn't put there - my landlord did. He also cut it.

FFS!

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #7253 on:** 13 January, 2016, 02:41:19 pm »

My desk thermometer says we have 23 degrees of Mr Celsius's bits of warm. So why are we wrapped in scarves, shivering and considering going out for fingerless gloves and wheat bags?

mcshroom · « **Reply #7254 on:** 13 January, 2016, 03:02:51 pm »

Wind chill? Is it blowing a gale?

mrcharly-YHT · « **Reply #7255 on:** 13 January, 2016, 03:03:50 pm »

aircon blowing a gale?

Kim · « **Reply #7256 on:** 13 January, 2016, 03:04:52 pm »

Crappy landlord/public sector issue windows letting a gale through?

Also, there can be a surprising temperature difference between feet level, desk level and head level.

Kim · « **Reply #7257 on:** 13 January, 2016, 04:36:44 pm »

Quote from: clarion on 13 January, 2016, 12:00:42 pm

Nottingham is an impostor.

USAnians seem genuinely surprised to learn that Nottingham is a real place. They think it was made up for the Robin Hood stories, and are shocked to discover that it's the former knife crime capital of the UK and doesn't even have a proper castle.

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #7258 on:** 13 January, 2016, 04:52:07 pm »

They're equally suprised to learn you can't ride a horse from Dover to Nottingham via Hadrian's Wall in four hours.

Kim · « **Reply #7259 on:** 13 January, 2016, 04:55:56 pm »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 January, 2016, 04:52:07 pm

They're equally suprised to learn you can't ride a horse from Dover to Nottingham via Hadrian's Wall in four hours.

I dunno, remember that the M25 didn't exist in Robin Hood's day...

Deano · « **Reply #7260 on:** 13 January, 2016, 05:45:17 pm »

Quote from: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 13 January, 2016, 02:41:19 pm

My desk thermometer says we have 23 degrees of Mr Celsius's bits of warm. So why are we wrapped in scarves, shivering and considering going out for fingerless gloves and wheat bags?

How about a new job?

https://www.bas.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/

Andrij · « **Reply #7261 on:** 13 January, 2016, 05:56:11 pm »

Quote from: Deano on 13 January, 2016, 05:45:17 pm

How about a new job?

https://www.bas.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/

Hmm...

ElyDave · « **Reply #7262 on:** 13 January, 2016, 08:18:46 pm »

I still have a cassette player in my car. Can you imagine my glee when I bought it and could turn round to the other half and say "see, I told you I shouldn't throw those old tapes out".

The fact that I now have most of that stuff on CD or digital and can pipe it into the car otherwise is irrelevant

Kim · « **Reply #7263 on:** 13 January, 2016, 08:23:40 pm »

They all turn into Queen's greatest hits eventually.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #7264 on:** 13 January, 2016, 08:35:26 pm »

Quote from: Andrij on 13 January, 2016, 05:56:11 pm

Quote from: Deano on 13 January, 2016, 05:45:17 pm
How about a new job?

https://www.bas.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/

Hmm...

I know someone who was invited to apply for a similar job. He's a mammalogist who'd proved his Antarctic-worthiness by living in a motor caravan for six months studying badgers in the Highlands of Scotland (and other places, mostly remote) for an MSc (or maybe it was a PhD). It was that experience that persuaded him not to apply!

Kim · « **Reply #7265 on:** 13 January, 2016, 08:37:20 pm »

Rookie mistake. Always best to specialise in species native to tropical islands and the like.

ElyDave · « **Reply #7266 on:** 13 January, 2016, 08:57:30 pm »

I've not managed to make it official policy yet that I only go offshore in the summer, wherever summer happens to be

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #7267 on:** 13 January, 2016, 09:08:47 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 13 January, 2016, 08:35:26 pm

Quote from: Andrij on 13 January, 2016, 05:56:11 pm
Quote from: Deano on 13 January, 2016, 05:45:17 pm
How about a new job?

https://www.bas.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/

Hmm...
I know someone who was invited to apply for a similar job. He's a mammalogist who'd proved his Antarctic-worthiness by living in a motor caravan for six months studying badgers in the Highlands of Scotland (and other places, mostly remote) for an MSc (or maybe it was a PhD). It was that experience that persuaded him not to apply!

Wasn't that a plot device in Fortitude?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #7268 on:** 13 January, 2016, 09:22:44 pm »

Wrong end of the planet, but probably. Badgerology seemed to involve a measure of practical psychotherapy for isolated farmers...

barakta · « **Reply #7269 on:** 13 January, 2016, 09:44:08 pm »

One of my friends is in effect a badgerologist from a social science perspective rather than zoology tho.

mcshroom · « **Reply #7270 on:** 18 January, 2016, 02:02:51 pm »

Just noticed I've worn a hole in my Humvee cycling trousers. Looks like where they'd rub against the saddle.

Kim · « **Reply #7271 on:** 18 January, 2016, 02:06:46 pm »

Quote from: mcshroom on 18 January, 2016, 02:02:51 pm

Just noticed I've worn a hole in my Humvee cycling trousers. Looks like where they'd rub against the saddle.

Your fault for wearing them on a bike.

(Reminds me: I must take a needle and thread to my Altura longs...)

T42 · « **Reply #7272 on:** 18 January, 2016, 04:24:11 pm »

Wretched internet keeps dropping ou

ElyDave · « **Reply #7273 on:** 18 January, 2016, 06:58:18 pm »

sae her

clarion · « **Reply #7274 on:** 19 January, 2016, 11:56:36 am »

Quote from: Kim on 18 January, 2016, 02:06:46 pm

Quote from: mcshroom on 18 January, 2016, 02:02:51 pm
Just noticed I've worn a hole in my Humvee cycling trousers. Looks like where they'd rub against the saddle.

Your fault for wearing them on a bike.

(Reminds me: I must take a needle and thread to my Altura longs...)

Holes in all but one of my Humvees (=default legwear when not in lycra)