Author Topic: A random thread for small things that don't really warrant a thread of their own (Read 3008306 times)

Basil · « **Reply #23850 on:** 15 February, 2019, 09:54:49 am »

Today will be the most expensive day of the winter for me. By chance and coincidence all three form of fuel turned up today.
7.30 a.m. 1000 litres of oil delivered. (I was in bed listening to it happening)
8.15 a.m. Large propane gas bottle delivered and connected. (I was still in bed)
9.15 a.m. half a ton of kiln dried logs are delivered (Interrupting my breakfast)

Bloody hell. That's cost me.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #23851 on:** 15 February, 2019, 11:02:08 am »

Quote from: Beardy on 14 February, 2019, 02:39:44 pm

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 14 February, 2019, 02:24:02 pm
PET is also the Stuffs that high-speed bicycles used for windscreens before these new-fangled video camera gadgets. It's cheap, it can be worked into shape using hot water and it doesn't shatter when you go end-over-end into the brush at R17.
if’n they made the whole fairing from it they wouldn’t need a separate window or new-fangled video camera gadgets that go dark at inopportune moments. I should patent the idea and get sponsorship from the fizzy drinks industry.

Sean Costin's "Boy In The Bubble" fairing was precisely this. It may not be entirely coincidental that he was also the first person to run a camera bike.

Beardy · « **Reply #23852 on:** 15 February, 2019, 12:44:32 pm »

Well, searching for,pictures of that threw,up some dodgy images

Guy · « **Reply #23853 on:** 15 February, 2019, 01:38:12 pm »

We don't have a "Measurements Which Make You Cringe" thread, so...

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The 3in (2.5cm) explosive device...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-47250724

I believe three inches is a little bit longer than two anarf centimetres

ian · « **Reply #23854 on:** 15 February, 2019, 01:45:43 pm »

Those will be Boy Inches, typically used in anatomical measurements.

Pingu · « **Reply #23855 on:** 15 February, 2019, 03:08:18 pm »

These have been reported in Arithmetic that makes you cringe.

andrewc · « **Reply #23856 on:** 15 February, 2019, 07:44:13 pm »

"Hello, Andrew. Carrier records say your Aspectek Large Size Rat Trap (HR1903) has arrived, but can you confirm? We're just trying to follow through and make sure it reached you and that you have it and are, hopefully, enjoying it as much if not more than expected."

How much is one supposed to enjoy a rat trap ? Damn things haven't caught anything anyway. (this is at the parents place , not mine)

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #23857 on:** 15 February, 2019, 07:49:46 pm »

"I'm enjoying it immensely, especially since it caught the neighbour's yappy chihuahua, nosy old Mr Parker's walking stick and two inquisitive toddlers."

(Just how large is this large size rat trap?)

Beardy · « **Reply #23858 on:** 16 February, 2019, 12:01:57 am »

I kept a ‘blog’ of the adventures of ratty mcrat face after he visited my desk one weekend and the subsequent failure of the RatMan to capture him. It’s avsilsble the newsgroup server in the .misc group for anyone who has access to the BT intranet.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #23859 on:** 18 February, 2019, 04:13:22 pm »

Quoted elseforum (non-cycling related forum):

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I have to say that when I'm sitting in a queue of traffic and someone nips past me on a unicycle - which has happened more than once - I do feel very much like I'm living in the right place.

Kim · « **Reply #23860 on:** 18 February, 2019, 05:52:11 pm »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 18 February, 2019, 04:13:22 pm

Quoted elseforum (non-cycling related forum):
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I have to say that when I'm sitting in a queue of traffic and someone nips past me on a unicycle - which has happened more than once - I do feel very much like I'm living in the right place.

Stokes Croft?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #23861 on:** 18 February, 2019, 06:17:32 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 18 February, 2019, 05:52:11 pm

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 18 February, 2019, 04:13:22 pm
Quoted elseforum (non-cycling related forum):
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I have to say that when I'm sitting in a queue of traffic and someone nips past me on a unicycle - which has happened more than once - I do feel very much like I'm living in the right place.

Stokes Croft?

Not Stokes Croft (you're more likely to see skateboarders and the bloke selling grilled chicken from a homemade grill) but Bristol. The unicycle commuters I've seen have been on St Michael's Hill(!) (a teenager going to school) and Castle Park area. But whether the source of that quote has seen them in the same places, I don't know.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #23862 on:** 18 February, 2019, 07:04:04 pm »

I used regularly to see a unicycle commuter on Kingsland Road in Hackney, years before hipsters were A Thing. He had a cool hat too.

citoyen · « **Reply #23863 on:** 25 February, 2019, 05:36:51 pm »

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/humpback-whale-dead-amazon-jungle-brazil-rainforest-marajo-island-a8796016.html

Obvious question: was there also a bowl of petunias nearby when they found it?

nicknack · « **Reply #23864 on:** 25 February, 2019, 05:42:21 pm »

Quote from: citoyen on 25 February, 2019, 05:36:51 pm

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/humpback-whale-dead-amazon-jungle-brazil-rainforest-marajo-island-a8796016.html

Obvious question: was there also a bowl of petunias nearby when they found it?

arabella · « **Reply #23865 on:** 25 February, 2019, 09:51:44 pm »

Quote from: Beardy on 16 February, 2019, 12:01:57 am

I kept a ‘blog’ of the adventures of ratty mcrat face after he visited my desk one weekend and the subsequent failure of the RatMan to capture him. It’s avsilsble the newsgroup server in the .misc group for anyone who has access to the BT intranet.

Obviously it's a good time to be a rat. Some where I am too.
The facilities folks went around replacing anything that might possibly be edible with a snotty note saying come and get it from <location>. This included my liquorice tea bags.
Liquorice is poisonous to rats, thobut.

T42 · « **Reply #23866 on:** 26 February, 2019, 08:35:52 am »

Quote from: citoyen on 25 February, 2019, 05:36:51 pm

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/humpback-whale-dead-amazon-jungle-brazil-rainforest-marajo-island-a8796016.html

Obvious question: was there also a bowl of petunias nearby when they found it?

Bloody Garmin again.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #23867 on:** 26 February, 2019, 09:03:10 am »

Quote from: arabella on 25 February, 2019, 09:51:44 pm

Quote from: Beardy on 16 February, 2019, 12:01:57 am
I kept a ‘blog’ of the adventures of ratty mcrat face after he visited my desk one weekend and the subsequent failure of the RatMan to capture him. It’s avsilsble the newsgroup server in the .misc group for anyone who has access to the BT intranet.
Obviously it's a good time to be a rat. Some where I am too.
The facilities folks went around replacing anything that might possibly be edible with a snotty note saying come and get it from <location>. This included my liquorice tea bags.
Liquorice is poisonous to rats, thobut.

It is a good time to be a rat, and it's linked to the numbers of humans.

Steph · « **Reply #23868 on:** 27 February, 2019, 08:45:57 pm »

Shake, rattle and roll.

My bed at around half three this morning. Initially graded 3.7 on the Richter scale.

Jurek · « **Reply #23869 on:** 27 February, 2019, 08:52:42 pm »

Quote from: Steph on 27 February, 2019, 08:45:57 pm

Shake, rattle and roll.

My bed at around half three this morning. Initially graded 3.7 on the Richter scale.

Lucky that you don't live close to an airport or anyfink.....

Giraffe · « **Reply #23870 on:** 28 February, 2019, 08:48:22 am »

Quote from: Steph on 27 February, 2019, 08:45:57 pm

Shake, rattle and roll.

My bed at around half three this morning. Initially graded 3.7 on the Richter scale.

3.7! - surely this should be in the Middle-aged thread.

ElyDave · « **Reply #23871 on:** 28 February, 2019, 10:13:37 am »

I'm surprised you felt it, unless you are a very light sleeper

ElyDave · « **Reply #23872 on:** 28 February, 2019, 10:19:25 am »

SPAM - an "e-mail" from USPS suggesting they are having difficulty with a delivery - No shit Sherlock

citoyen · « **Reply #23873 on:** 01 March, 2019, 02:02:56 pm »

Started my current job in October. The orange light on my desk phone was flashing from day one. Soon worked out it meant I had new messages. Tried to access the messages but couldn't due to not having a PIN. A quick call to IT sorted that out.

Turned out that there were loads of messages, some of them over a year old.

This means my predecessor, who had been in the job less than a year before going on maternity leave, had never checked her messages. And the name on the caller display is still that of her predecessor - unfortunately, I can't change that myself, needs admin privileges.

Lately, the phone on the (currently) spare desk next to me has started flashing as well, and it's very irritating, so I need to get the PIN for that. Looking around at my colleagues' desks, four on our bank of six have flashing orange lights. One of my colleagues has even resorted to taping over the light so make the problem go away.

People are weird.

Kim · « **Reply #23874 on:** 01 March, 2019, 06:55:39 pm »

Sometimes employers do idiotic things like publish an extension number for the deaf person in the internal database. That sort of thing never goes away, even if the phone itself is wrapped up in the bottom drawer of a filing cabinet somewhere.

Author Topic: A random thread for small things that don't really warrant a thread of their own (Read 3008306 times)

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