So... What oiled your gears today? ARCHIVE

[thx1138]

I haven't really worked out at all for weeks. Just riding a bicycle for a living. I weighed myself earlier this week for the first time in months.

I've lost over 1/2 a stone my weight and bmi are lower than they have been for years.

[M.C]

Why are you surprised? You don't see many fat (keen) cyclists. If they forced fatties on a bike they'd save the NHS overnight.

[Polarbear]

[chickenstrip]

Hmm, cycling. I might be interested to give it a try. Are the NHS issuing free bikes yet?
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THERE'S MILLIONS OF CHICKENSTRIPS OUT THERE!

[pepperami]

[Nobby the Bastard]

The strumpet passed its mot with no issues at all.

(well, i replaced the front brake pads and flattened out a massive ding in the front wheel a couple of months ago and repaired a connector for the front brake switch a couple of weeks ago but you know what I mean.)
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Sprint ST 1050

[Tracey Suntan-King]

Sid fitted a porthole* in an interior hallway door.

It looks great as the door is one we could not replace because it's a funny size. So we had to recycle and retain it.

It was an otherwise plain and boring mid century door, but now it boasts the best feature in the house!

https://i.imgur.com/AKfvC8o.jpg

*Yes, an actual porthole from a boat salvage yard.
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Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're probably right

[Polarbear]

[Tracey Suntan-King]

There's a story there...

I ordered it from one of those mail order brochures that fall out of your Sunday newspaper. When it arrived I found the CD player only worked intermittently so I called the supplier.

They sent a replacement but didn't collect the faulty one. So I ended up with two of them for the price of one

The faulty has been given away but this one is connected by bluetooth to phone/tablet to provide boomy sound s and announcements from Churchill and the war office
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[M.C]

Why do old people like electrical items housed in a cabinet?

[Tracey Suntan-King]

[Suntan Sid]

Actually yesterday, but hey ho!

I needed my, digital, kitchen scales, having spent the last four years packed in a removals box, unsurprisingly, they didn't work when I put some new batteries in.
Two error messages appeared, no matter what combination of buttons I pressed, I couldn't get rid of the error message or get the scales to work.
Having tried everything I could think of I resorted to the manual, turns out this was useless as well.
In a moment of clarity, I decided to give the scale a good walloping on the worktop.

Re-fukin-sult, now working perfectly, although why a set of scales need a clock i'll never know!

Turns out brute force and ignorance defeats tech, who knew.
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[chickenstrip]

[grr666]

Percussive maintenance.
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[hellkat]

I threw a book today.
Like, as part of a tantrum.
It was one of them hard-covered spiralbound notebook type things, only A4 size, and I use it to take minutes at meetings, etc.

I flung it right over the partition in the office where the manager usually sits (but was not in today).

It felt good.

Sometimes you just have to get some things out of your system.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[Riejufixing]

[Tracey Suntan-King]

No no no not Steepletone it's Daklin.
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[thx1138]

[thx1138]

Also I just remembered about 20 years ago, when I was younger and stronger, back when I'd get in the the loft by jumping up knocking the hatch open, then catch the sides with my finger tips and haul myself up into the loft, I put a 1960's cabinet radio there, hoping it would be worth something.

15 years on, it was worth feck all, and I no longer had the physical strength to get it down again, so I put a mattress under the hatch and booted it out. Survived unscathed. Worked perfectly. sold it for not much hey ho

I'll stop rambling down memory lane now. Good night.

[grr666]

[Hong Kong Phooey]

[Polarbear]

[grr666]

[Tracey Suntan-King]

[Hong Kong Phooey]