Author Topic: The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant. (Read 1624549 times)

fuzzy · « **Reply #3675 on:** 23 July, 2013, 09:06:15 am »

On a similar note, I am struggling to avoid buying a Fat Bike (fundinfg would cause severe strife for someone- probably me!) so was really incovinienced when, whilst at the Trek world event at Silverstone last week, some complete bastards put the Trek Farley on display

The link is to a Polish (I think) blog which had the best selection of images.

A very desireable bit of kit which needs me to sacrifice £1700 beer tokens to obtain.

interzen · « **Reply #3676 on:** 23 July, 2013, 09:36:13 am »

Quote from: fuzzy on 23 July, 2013, 09:06:15 am

On a similar note, I am struggling to avoid buying a Fat Bike (fundinfg would cause severe strife for someone- probably me!) so was really incovinienced when, whilst at the Trek world event at Silverstone last week, some complete bastards put the Trek Farley on display

The link is to a Polish (I think) blog which had the best selection of images.

A very desireable bit of kit which needs me to sacrifice £1700 beer tokens to obtain.

Genesis Caribou and a gen-yoo-ine Pugsley are cheaper.
On-One Fatty cheaper still.

Just sayin' ...

Andrij · « **Reply #3677 on:** 23 July, 2013, 10:20:50 am »

Quote from: fuzzy on 23 July, 2013, 09:06:15 am

On a similar note, I am struggling to avoid buying a Fat Bike (fundinfg would cause severe strife for someone- probably me!) so was really incovinienced when, whilst at the Trek world event at Silverstone last week, some complete bastards put the Trek Farley on display

The link is to a Polish (I think) blog which had the best selection of images.

A very desireable bit of kit which needs me to sacrifice £1700 beer tokens to obtain.

Is this before or after you buy a recumbent trike, or have you already slipped one of those into the stable?

fuzzy · « **Reply #3678 on:** 23 July, 2013, 12:49:19 pm »

As you can see. I am in serious do do in the want stakes

fuzzy · « **Reply #3679 on:** 23 July, 2013, 12:50:11 pm »

Quote from: interzen on 23 July, 2013, 09:36:13 am

Quote from: fuzzy on 23 July, 2013, 09:06:15 am
On a similar note, I am struggling to avoid buying a Fat Bike (fundinfg would cause severe strife for someone- probably me!) so was really incovinienced when, whilst at the Trek world event at Silverstone last week, some complete bastards put the Trek Farley on display

The link is to a Polish (I think) blog which had the best selection of images.

A very desireable bit of kit which needs me to sacrifice £1700 beer tokens to obtain.
Genesis Caribou and a gen-yoo-ine Pugsley are cheaper.
On-One Fatty cheaper still.

Just sayin' ...

yeahbut, the Farley is the nicest looking fatty I have seen (with the exception of our Mr Bloke) IMHO.

interzen · « **Reply #3680 on:** 23 July, 2013, 12:59:39 pm »

Quote from: fuzzy on 23 July, 2013, 12:50:11 pm

Quote from: interzen on 23 July, 2013, 09:36:13 am
Quote from: fuzzy on 23 July, 2013, 09:06:15 am
On a similar note, I am struggling to avoid buying a Fat Bike (fundinfg would cause severe strife for someone- probably me!) so was really incovinienced when, whilst at the Trek world event at Silverstone last week, some complete bastards put the Trek Farley on display

The link is to a Polish (I think) blog which had the best selection of images.

A very desireable bit of kit which needs me to sacrifice £1700 beer tokens to obtain.
Genesis Caribou and a gen-yoo-ine Pugsley are cheaper.
On-One Fatty cheaper still.

Just sayin' ...

yeahbut, the Farley is the nicest looking fatty I have seen (with the exception of our Mr Bloke) IMHO.

Two words: Salsa Beargrease.
Bonus extra word: Carbon

[FX: exuent, whistling innocently ...

]

clarion · « **Reply #3681 on:** 24 July, 2013, 09:10:10 am »

It's a terrible tragedy, and I don't want to lose sight of that. Two girls have drowned in the notoriously strong River Wear, not far from where I used to live.

But why did the BBC call it the River Ware? It's a major British river, sixty miles long, FHS. It flows through two cities - Durham and Sunderland, - passing by nearly 400,000 people, and has one of the most picturesque dales in the country. Ignorance.

Greenbank · « **Reply #3682 on:** 24 July, 2013, 09:25:22 am »

Or just a typo. One headline on the BBC home page talked about a "murdered muslim ma."

Have the BBC been employing a whole load of ex-Grauniad sub-editors?

clarion · « **Reply #3683 on:** 24 July, 2013, 09:26:16 am »

Not a typo. This was spoken on Radio 4 Today news headlines.

Andrij · « **Reply #3684 on:** 24 July, 2013, 10:22:18 am »

Quote from: clarion on 17 July, 2013, 02:19:58 pm

Or you could save your ears from hours of proto-fascistic caterwauling.

Quote from: clarion on 17 July, 2013, 02:58:00 pm

I wear that badge with pride, where a pompous hack like Wagner is concerned.

You might find last night's "Twnety Minutes" interesting: The Soviet Valkyrie

Bledlow · « **Reply #3685 on:** 24 July, 2013, 11:46:29 am »

Quote from: clarion on 24 July, 2013, 09:10:10 am

It's a terrible tragedy, and I don't want to lose sight of that. Two girls have drowned in the notoriously strong River Wear, not far from where I used to live.

But why did the BBC call it the River Ware? It's a major British river, sixty miles long, FHS. It flows through two cities - Durham and Sunderland, - passing by nearly 400,000 people, and has one of the most picturesque dales in the country. Ignorance.

Yeah. I noticed that. Not being from round there, I wondered if that was the local (i.e. correct) pronunciation, & I'd been getting it wrong all my life, but from what you say, I've been right all along & the Beeb was wrong.

tiermat · « **Reply #3686 on:** 24 July, 2013, 11:50:17 am »

I have come to the sad conclusion that, due to financial constraints, I am going to be unable to accompany Mrs T and TLD to Croatia on September

Rs

clarion · « **Reply #3687 on:** 24 July, 2013, 11:54:05 am »

Quote from: Bledlow on 24 July, 2013, 11:46:29 am

Quote from: clarion on 24 July, 2013, 09:10:10 am
It's a terrible tragedy, and I don't want to lose sight of that. Two girls have drowned in the notoriously strong River Wear, not far from where I used to live.

But why did the BBC call it the River Ware? It's a major British river, sixty miles long, FHS. It flows through two cities - Durham and Sunderland, - passing by nearly 400,000 people, and has one of the most picturesque dales in the country. Ignorance.
Yeah. I noticed that. Not being from round there, I wondered if that was the local (i.e. correct) pronunciation, & I'd been getting it wrong all my life, but from what you say, I've been right all along & the Beeb was wrong.

Local pronunciation (and I lived about a mile from it at one point, so I am sure about this), is emphasis on the first syllable, and definite break between them, so something like 'weeyur'.

L CC · « **Reply #3688 on:** 24 July, 2013, 12:10:13 pm »

Beeb pronunciation of loads of Northern Places is shite.

London bias, innit.

(I say Wee-ah).

interzen · « **Reply #3689 on:** 24 July, 2013, 12:22:24 pm »

Quote from: fboab on 24 July, 2013, 12:10:13 pm

Beeb pronunciation of loads of Northern Places is shite.

London bias, innit.

(I say Wee-ah).

Not too far off how its pronounced where my parents live near Durham (about a mile from the river itself, as the crow flies) - albeit with a short 'a' ('Wee-a') - the IPA rendering is /ˈwɪər/ (wee-r)

Basically, if its north of Watford the Beeb will either pretend it doesn't exist or fuck up the pronounciation (most of their facilities may be in Salford, but they're still annoyingly London-centric)

fuzzy · « **Reply #3690 on:** 24 July, 2013, 12:31:49 pm »

Quote from: interzen on 23 July, 2013, 12:59:39 pm

Quote from: fuzzy on 23 July, 2013, 12:50:11 pm
Quote from: interzen on 23 July, 2013, 09:36:13 am
Quote from: fuzzy on 23 July, 2013, 09:06:15 am
On a similar note, I am struggling to avoid buying a Fat Bike (fundinfg would cause severe strife for someone- probably me!) so was really incovinienced when, whilst at the Trek world event at Silverstone last week, some complete bastards put the Trek Farley on display

The link is to a Polish (I think) blog which had the best selection of images.

A very desireable bit of kit which needs me to sacrifice £1700 beer tokens to obtain.
Genesis Caribou and a gen-yoo-ine Pugsley are cheaper.
On-One Fatty cheaper still.

Just sayin' ...

yeahbut, the Farley is the nicest looking fatty I have seen (with the exception of our Mr Bloke) IMHO.
Two words: Salsa Beargrease.
Bonus extra word: Carbon

[FX: exuent, whistling innocently ... ]

fuzzy prepares to deploy the Innocent Whistle Seeking Missile System.

andrewc · « **Reply #3691 on:** 24 July, 2013, 08:09:51 pm »

I've been waking up with a sore, stiff left foot this week and limping. Sounds like Plantar fasciitis

Time to do some stretching to see if I can make it go away.

clarion · « **Reply #3692 on:** 25 July, 2013, 09:57:27 am »

When I commute, I get hungry about half an hour to an hour after I stop. Normally, a cereal bar helps.

I forgot to bring any cereal bars in today.

The shop across the road doesn't sell cereal bars.

It does sell chocolate

Small grumble, I know. More of a rumble than a grumble...

Notsototalnewbie · « **Reply #3693 on:** 28 July, 2013, 08:02:17 pm »

My ankles and feet are covered in weepy bites. One of them has a really angry swollen red patch round it and my ankle has turned into a cankle.

It's my own stupid fault for going camping and forgetting insect repellent (it doesn't stop them completely but does reduce them).

Kim · « **Reply #3694 on:** 28 July, 2013, 08:09:00 pm »

Hate it when that happens. Time to start cutting up sanitary towels and taping them to your ankles? (absorbs the weepyness and gets in the way of further scratching)

Notsototalnewbie · « **Reply #3695 on:** 28 July, 2013, 08:23:13 pm »

That's such a good idea but I don't have sanitary towels to hand, being a mooncup user for some years now... Will try to improvise with something else. Trying very hard not think about the itching...

Arch · « **Reply #3696 on:** 28 July, 2013, 08:26:04 pm »

Quote from: Notsototalnewbie on 28 July, 2013, 08:23:13 pm

That's such a good idea but I don't have sanitary towels to hand, being a mooncup user for some years now... Will try to improvise with something else. Trying very hard not think about the itching...

Stick a mooncup over every bite. Then at least you'll look like a Dalek...

Basil · « **Reply #3697 on:** 28 July, 2013, 08:42:06 pm »

It did occur to me that after a few pints, I might have a little difficulty locating my tent in the campsite. As it happens, I can't even remember where the bloody campsite is.

Kim · « **Reply #3698 on:** 28 July, 2013, 08:43:37 pm »

Probably best to stay in the pub then...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #3699 on:** 29 July, 2013, 10:05:40 am »

Quote from: Andrij on 17 July, 2013, 02:56:20 pm

Quote from: clarion on 17 July, 2013, 02:19:58 pm
Or you could save your ears from hours of proto-fascistic caterwauling.

Philistine!

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And ride your bike, natch.

HTH

Heading over to the Albert Hall extends my commute a fair bit, so it would involve riding my bike.

I was so tired last night I actually fell asleep listening to Gotterdamerung. Imagine how embarrassing that would have been in the Albert Hall - especially in my pyjamas!