Todays - What grinds my gears *ARCHIVE*

[chickenstrip]

I have just watched a short video of a helicopter flight on a beautiful day up the Khumbu valley on the approaches to Everest, Lhotse, Nuptse etc. Damn, I wish I'd had some different priorities in my younger years!
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[ThunderGuts]

[chickenstrip]

[hellkat]

[chickenstrip]

The really mad people are those who climb that ice fall!

I think some people weigh it up by thinking what else they might achieve in life - especially if you're not family inclined. Some experiences are hard to beat.
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[ThunderGuts]

[chickenstrip]

Yeah, there's watching...and there's doing!
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[ThunderGuts]

Quite! A closer to home adventure that's on my list (one day) is to backpack the Haute Route in the Alps. Doable in two weeks including transport there/back and much more affordable too. Not quite the same scale as the Himalayas though.
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TG.

[chickenstrip]

[ThunderGuts]

[chickenstrip]

[hellkat]

Decided to attend one of those free digital lecture events, which had popped up in my Facebook feed.

It was on Zoom - I can't quite remember but I may have used Zoom to participate in a pub quiz with my mate Mad Liz, a month or so ago.

The subject was entitled "Violent Fluid" and was, of course, something about blood: the first lecture about depictions of Christ being crucified and showing blood dripping and other gory things. The second lecture was about a picture of Donald Trump that had been painted in menstrual blood with a tampon and brush (yes *sigh* I know)

But it was a different format than the pub quiz, and all I could see was a single screen showing the faces of the lecturers. I didn't get to see any of the rest of the audience. Whereas in the pub quiz, we all got to see one another on the screen, whilst miserably failing to answer questions correctly.

So I dunno if I had my filters wrong or what, maybe the organisers set it so that you could ONLY see them and their slides, rather than the rest of the audience attending.

I certainly hope so, cos less than halfway through the second lecture I fell asleep.

I woke up towards the last two minutes of the lecture, feeling for all the world like an attendee in the House of Lords

I may have to train my algorithm to send me more interesting ones during which I might actually manage to stay awake. Missed a good one last week about mourning jewellery, doh!
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[JackButler]

My usual DIY outlet of choice is closed, the type of place where "got any O's" is frequently heard.

All I wanted was a 4" hose clamp, so off to the big sheds I go.

Oh fucking deary me. Who on earth chooses what stock these places carry? Is it Beryl, who's on a 6mth waiting list for a hysterectomy & has never put so much as a shelf up in her 48.7yrs ?

How can a shop so big, with sooo much floorspace, not have a 4" hose clamp?
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I clean my guns with the tears of the snivelling, left wing scum.

[Skudd]

[kramdra]

I went to halfords to use up a gift voucher. It can only be used in store decided on bicycle brakes. Local shop had one, was opened and messed about with. Next shop 20km away had two. Both had the discs theived. So I went back to first shop. They had sold the other one but had brand new wrapped with a security tag so I got that.

55km done on bicycle, some fecking steep hills too.

[chickenstrip]

[ThunderGuts]

[chickenstrip]

Also, he hasn't really landed, he's still using lift in a partial hover. So no translational lift where the rotor disc clears its own turbulence and becomes more efficient, although presumably with the thinner atmosphere, there'd be less of that. I guess the toughest part is getting from there back to normal flight, although he can use a dive to gain airspeed as he gets away. If the summit had been a small plateau which he could have landed on fully, getting going again might've been a different story. But they've certainly come a long way since the old Puma buses I worked on!
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[Riejufixing]

[chickenstrip]

Honey! (No, not you!).
So Shaft tips me off that honey makes a good substitute for sugar in coffee. I actually found it's delicious in coffee. Getting the amount just right gives a certain smoky sweetness that was actually causing me to increase my coffee intake.

All was fine for a couple of weeks. But then I started to get some quite acute pains in my lower abdomen, quickly progressing to sweats, very unpleasant hypersensitivity all over, and feeling totally drained.

I wasn't sure what it was at first, and was imagining all kinds of nasty possibilities. I then had a couple of days without using honey, as I was finding it a bit too expensive a substitute for more than the occasional treat. Et voila, the symptoms started to rapidly clear. Still hadn't realised what the problem was, until the next coffee with honey, and bam! The symptoms instantly began to return, even as I drank that coffee.

Gone again now. So I simultaneously discovered something that I loved, and had to abandon it. Gears ground
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[Riejufixing]

[ThunderGuts]

[chickenstrip]

It was in an attempt to cut down on refined sugar intake. Thought it might be a little healthier.
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[panrider_uk]

[ThunderGuts]