Tea? (Part 1)

[Amanda P]

Godo monrig, evreynoe.

Green agricultural trousers here.

Did I hare smoenoe yas aTe?

 

[Arch]

I can think of three options:

a) your keyboard is knackered.
it's national misspelling day and no one told me
c) you have swine 'flu....

 

[Arch]

OH, and do your agricultural trousers have string round the ankles to keep rats out? Or ferrets in....

 

[tdr1nka]

Now, you chaps always kick up a fuss about having to do a job like that, but you love it really....

Oh I wish!
Fettling when you have decided that is the job for the day is one thing.......

Following Lander's observations of the previous night a fixie rider I met at some lights on the Old Kent Rd. kindly pointed out my back wheel was out of true. On inspection I found the broken spoke.

Never replaced a spoke before and was panicking that the wheel might have been irredeemable and I'd be utterly lost without the Rat for even a few days at the moment.

So I had to strip the wheel, remove the cassette, which is from Decathlon and has a fiddly lock rings rather than the splines and in a rush and a fit of forgetfulness I got the assembly off and a million tiny bearings flew all over the carpet!
Fuggit!

This was all done under duress with only an hour or so before I was due to head into London to meet with some old friends. I got so frustrated that I almost decided not to go.

All in all I did get it done and the end result is I now have a clean cassette, a fitted spoke which seems to have trued the wheel far better than it had been.

And I got to see my friends, even if my hands were still filthy.

Tea?

 

[Amanda P]

OH, and do your agricultural trousers have string round the ankles to keep rats out? Or ferrets in....

No. Those are a quite different kind of agricultural trousers. Those can only be worn with wellies and a torn nylon mac. An extinguished cigarette glued to the lower lip is de rigeur, and you have to be carrying a bit of plastic pipe with which to encourage your cows towards the milking shed. You have to have cows, too.

And it's not just string. It's Marks and Spencers string binder twine (preferably orange).

These are the altogether smarter and more easily come by tractor-driver's type trousers. Green and almost indestructible. Red diesel just runs off (not sure about road diesel...) You can tow vehicles out of ditches with them (remember that jeans advert?)

Oh, yes, Tea?

And what is the biscuit of the day?

 

[tdr1nka]

All Butter Crinkles.

 

[Arch]

Ok, so that does sound like something to fuss about.

Have some tea. Flapjack?

 

[tdr1nka]

Thank you. It was touch and go but I'm quite calm now.

 

[Amanda P]

c) you have swine 'flu....

Is that one of the symptoms, then?

When learning to touch-type, one types pages of repititious gobbledegook. There are certain words that you invariably get wrong, usually by transposing pairs of letters. As in shrit, brid, toady (for today), godo for good, and so on.

Some of these typisms have become standing jokes here.

I just thought I'd throw some in, after the frist one happened at rondam.

 

[Arch]

No. Those are a quite different kind of agricultural trousers. Those can only be worn with wellies and a torn nylon mac. An extinguished cigarette glued to the lower lip is de rigeur, and you have to be carrying a bit of plastic pipe with which to encourage your cows towards the milking shed. You have to have cows, too.

Oh dear, you've just reminded me of 'techniques used by early farmers to encourage milk let-down in cows when the calf isn't present', which I leanred about on my MSc. Not really suitable for lunchtime...

 

[Arch]

Is that one of the symptoms, then?

When learning to touch-type, one types pages of repititious gobbledegook. There are certain words that you invariably get wrong, usually by transposing pairs of letters. As in shrit, brid, toady (for today), godo for good, and so on.

Some of these typisms have become standing jokes here.

I just thought I'd throw some in, after the frist one happened at rondam.

Ah! Ok, I see...

Speaking of 'flu, should it really be 'flu', or 'flu.? I guess the latter, the full stop indicating an abbreviation...

 

[Angelfishsolo]

Then again as it is short for influenza, 'flu' seems more grammatically correct.

Ah! Ok, I see...

Speaking of 'flu, should it really be 'flu', or 'flu.? I guess the latter, the full stop indicating an abbreviation...

 

[Arch]

Then again as it is short for influenza, 'flu' seems more grammatically correct.

I know, but... An apostrophe technically replaces letters missing from the middle of a word (it's, for example, or didn't) or skimmed off the front (the "in" bit). The "enza" bit is the whole end of the word.

I didn't think of this myself, I should add, I seem to remember it being discussed before, here, or elsewhere. A full stop is correct for when a word is abbreviated by taking the end off completely.

Not that it matters really, but...

 

[Angelfishsolo]

OK that makes sense. Learn something new every day

I know, but... An apostrophe technically replaces letters missing from the middle of a word (it's, for example, or didn't) or skimmed off the front (the "in" bit). The "enza" bit is the whole end of the word.

I didn't think of this myself, I should add, I seem to remember it being discussed before, here, or elsewhere. A full stop is correct for when a word is abbreviated by taking the end off completely.

Not that it matters really, but...

 

[HelenD123]

No. Those are a quite different kind of agricultural trousers. Those can only be worn with wellies and a torn nylon mac. An extinguished cigarette glued to the lower lip is de rigeur, and you have to be carrying a bit of plastic pipe with which to encourage your cows towards the milking shed. You have to have cows, too.

And it's not just string. It's Marks and Spencers string binder twine (preferably orange).

These are the altogether smarter and more easily come by tractor-driver's type trousers. Green and almost indestructible. Red diesel just runs off (not sure about road diesel...) You can tow vehicles out of ditches with them (remember that jeans advert?)

But do you have the obligatory checked shirt to go with them?

Any tea on the go?