A random thread for small things that don't really warrant a thread of their own

[Basil]

Seems i won £5 on the pub sweepstake for 4th place.
That is the total sum of my gee gee racing knowledge.

For some reason they won't give me an each way bet on tomorrow's boat race.

"total sum"?  Come on Basil, you can do better than that.

[Kim]

For some reason they won't give me an each way bet on tomorrow's boat race.

My money's on Hull.  The only one of the great universities with a seafaring tradition.

[Cudzoziemiec]

And Oxford's full of German spies. Or something like tht.

[Andrij]

And Oxford's full of German spies. Or something like tht.

Soviet, I thought.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I thought the Soviets all went to Cambridge, because Oxford's a dump.

[tiermat]

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?

In my experience, b)

[hellymedic]

Reading accounts of 3Down on the Audax board extolling Reading CTC's tight ship at Pangbourne, I note I'm wearing my 1994 souvenir T shirt from their Home Counties Rally...

[Andrij]

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.

Happened to me yesterday morning, walking down Grosvenor Place toward Victoria. 
Them: Excuse, please, where is Buckingham Palace.
Me: Over this wall.  But better to turn back, keep to your left, the Palace will be on your left.

[Sergeant Pluck]

There’s a lot of this about at the moment. Not a bad bit of digger driving and a most inventive loading method:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-47857633/cctv-shows-digger-ripping-out-dungiven-cash-machine

[essexian]

I brought a "bag for life" earlier....it split before I left the shop.

Am I right to be worried? 

[lou boutin]

I brought a "bag for life" earlier....it split before I left the shop.

Am I right to be worried? 

  That made laugh.  I needed that.  Thanks.

[T42]

 Maybe it's undergoing binary fission.

[T42]

There’s a lot of this about at the moment. Not a bad bit of digger driving and a most inventive loading method:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-47857633/cctv-shows-digger-ripping-out-dungiven-cash-machine

He wants to watch it, he'll be done for having an insecure load.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Police are looking for black hole in a black van.

[Wowbagger]

For some reason they won't give me an each way bet on tomorrow's boat race.

My money's on Hull.  The only one of the great universities with a seafaring tradition.

I would imagine that, in a boat race, backing a hull is a safe bet.

[essexian]

My new bed partner needs to calm down a bit!

Last night all I did was wiggle my toes as I do and she was all over me; biting and scratching me before rolling over onto her back.

Sigh…. I suppose Pearl the new cat in the house needs to learn the house rules like leave my toes alone!

[andytheflyer]

There’s a lot of this about at the moment. Not a bad bit of digger driving and a most inventive loading method:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-47857633/cctv-shows-digger-ripping-out-dungiven-cash-machine

He wants to watch it, he'll be done for having an insecure load.

I'm disgusted.  Very unprofessional.  He didn't put any plywood sheets down first to protect the asphalt from his tracks.  And where was the Heras fencing?  And the meaningless Site Safety notices?

[Guy]

I walked outside at just the right time. I heard 'proper' engines in the sky, looked round, and there was the Shuttleworth Collection's DH-88 Comet! I've spent the last 10 minutes watching it zooming about

[T42]

There’s a lot of this about at the moment. Not a bad bit of digger driving and a most inventive loading method:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-47857633/cctv-shows-digger-ripping-out-dungiven-cash-machine

He wants to watch it, he'll be done for having an insecure load.

I'm disgusted.  Very unprofessional.  He didn't put any plywood sheets down first to protect the asphalt from his tracks.  And where was the Heras fencing?  And the meaningless Site Safety notices?

And was he wearing a plastic hat?

[citoyen]

And was he wearing a plastic hat?

Well, I'm guessing his balaclava was probably made out of nylon.

I've been thinking of hiring a digger for some garden landscaping. I suspect I would end up leaving our house looking in a similar state. They don't look like easy machines to control.

[T42]

I've known some perfectly tractable Australians.

[spesh]

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu Herefordshire wgah'nagl fhtagn."

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2018.2792?utm_campaign=rs-social&utm_medium=social&utm_content=Sprout_default&utm_source=Sprout_default&

[T42]

Hm... I always took "a congeries of spheres" to mean a load of balls.

[Ham]

And was he wearing a plastic hat?

Well, I'm guessing his balaclava was probably made out of nylon.

I've been thinking of hiring a digger for some garden landscaping. I suspect I would end up leaving our house looking in a similar state. They don't look like easy machines to control.

Oh, but they are SUCH fun. Go on, you know you want to. The small mini digger ones are OK.

[Salvatore]

For some reason they won't give me an each way bet on tomorrow's boat race.

My money's on Hull.  The only one of the great universities with a seafaring tradition.

I would imagine that, in a boat race, backing a hull is a safe bet.

Hull v Keele is the obvious university boat race.