Mundane News

[biggs682]

Did you come away with a glass trophy ?

No we got that a couple of weeks ago

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Waverly quite good.

Edinburgh's Waverley train station is apparently the only station in the UK network to have got its name from fiction. I've no idea where I picked that bit of information from, no idea either why I remembered it.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Anyhow, I've done my bit of driving around SE London to add to the strike-hit congestion this morning. I'd agreed to take someone who's immunocompromised for a hospital appointment a good while ago and then they decided to have a transport strike. It was not as stupidly bad as I feared. Average speed of 6.2mph on the way back home.

 

[tyred]

Prestwick has proven to be a 16 x 1 3/8" tyre free zone. Bike shop owner reckoned I could fit a 16 x 2.3" (305 mm instead of 349)

I had emailed a few other bike shops in Ayrshire yesterday evening but none have bothered to reply.

I ordered a tyre from Ebay to click and collect from Argos in Stranraer. It is supposed to be there Thursday so hopefully it will be. I go home on Saturday so no idea what will happen to my tyre if it doesn't come in time.

Now I will walk to the Burns museum. My plan to ride out electric brae direction ain't going to happen.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Apparently, an asteroid the size of ten Killer Whales is going to pass close to the Earth this week.

I'm wondering how many Killer Whales do you get to a London Bus?

I'm wondering if in some university there's a Department for Amusingly Inappropriate Comparisons.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Can't see more than two comfortably if it's a double decker myself.

And that's if you take the seats out.

 

[PeteXXX]

I'm wondering if in some university there's a Department for Amusingly Inappropriate Comparisons.

If there isn't, there bloomin' well should be! Sometimes I wonder why I pay my taxes!!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

And that's if you take the seats out.

Come on, you can't make a killer whale stand!

 

[Andy in Germany]

Come on, you can't make a killer whale stand!

Sure we can, like a bicycle stand but with a big padded "U" in the middle.

Honestly, do I have to come up with all the solutions here?

 

[Threevok]

I've always wondered how we would manage for comparisons, if football had never been invented.


"Each day, an area of rainforest the size of 1,000 tennis courts......"

 

[biggs682]

Second cuppa went down well

 

[cookiemonster]

Well, this is fun.

Major power outage in this part of HK. Everything’s down. Traffic lights, street lights, everything.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I'm eating ice cream and drinking tea.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Well, this is fun.

Major power outage in this part of HK. Everything’s down. Traffic lights, street lights, everything.

You still have internet access though, so societal collapse is averted.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Back to work. I'm considering leaving this livestream running with the screen switched off, so see how many people it freaks out.