The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

Quite possibly a new thread that will lead to handbags at dawn. " No gender we're British ". and we are off for a starter for 20.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Quite possibly a new thread that will lead to handbags at dawn. " No gender we're British ". and we are off for a starter for 20.

You won't need mods for a thread like that, you'll need peace keepers.

 

[dickyknees]

Temperature up to a balmy 7°C on today’s 50 km bimble with very little wind.

We are having fish and chips tonight. Someone in Mach does it from a van and goes round on Wednesday evening's.

When we rode the Lon Las Cymru and stayed in Mach we had very good fish and chips from Hennighans.

 

[Juan Kog]

dave r hope you are able to rustle up another body to help with the furniture shifting . On the gearing I lowered mine several years ago , currently 47x19 , I checked one of the online gear calculators your 42x17 works out exactly the same .
Mrs JK refers to her close female friends as the girls . As in ( pre Covid) the Girls are coming round for lunch next Tuesday, that’s the Tuesday I go out cycling regardless of the weather.

 

[welsh dragon]

Temperature up to a balmy 7°C on today’s 50 km bimble with very little wind.



When we rode the Lon Las Cymru and stayed in Mach we had very good fish and chips from Hennighans.

Hennigans has been voted the best in Wales for a number of years. Quite often the queues are out the door and down the street.

 

[welsh dragon]

The Drs surgery in Mach just phoned my son. They want to arrange for 1 of the rwins to have the vacination for Covid. They didn't mention anything about his brother who has the same condition. They seem to have forgotten all about Jake.

I heard that Mach docs had started to do vacination S for Covid19. I am not confident that they can organise a p*** up In a brewery let alone anything else

 

[classic33]

Not good at basic arithmetic, me. But, thanks for this bit of knowledge. So, 6.11 miles with 359 feet of elevation

Naismith's Rule
“Allow 1 hour for every 3 miles forward, plus ½ hour for every 1000 feet of ascent”
He made no extra allowance for elevation lost.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Hennigans has been voted the best in Wales for a number of years. Quite often the queues are out the door and down the street.

There's a chip shop near Poole Park that has a sign outside " Voted the best Chip Shop in Dorset " The sign has been there for more years than I care to remember. It doesn't specify who voted it the best chip shop, or when. A couple of years ago I finally got to sample their wares, very disappointing, I tried a few and ended up throwing the rest in the bin. Now the chippie on Swanage seafront, that is another matter, an absolute delight, always long queues and wonderful chips and a divine pea fritter. While I'm on the subject of chippies, St Andrews in Portobello is outstandingly good, I don't eat fish, but the fillets of fish are laid out on a bed of ice in a display cabinet as you walk in the door. They have a Pizza oven and the pizzas are made fresh to order 😍

 

[ColinJ]

He made no extra allowance for elevation lost.

Or surface conditions (scree, peat bogs, rivers and streams to cross...), or weather (deep snow, ice, freezing fog, vicious winds...)!

 

[classic33]

Or surface conditions (scree, peat bogs, rivers and streams to cross...), or weather (deep snow, ice, freezing fog, vicious winds...)!

All of which you can have in one afternoon circular walk from Hebden Brige, up to Blake Dean and back via Pole Hill/Redmires Dam,

 

[GM]

Setting up my questions for tonight's Zoom quiz, can't believe we've been doing them for over seven months.

On the subject of gender, I like the old fashion ones...Geezer, and Her in doors!

 

[Dave7]

There's a chip shop near Poole Park that has a sign outside " Voted the best Chip Shop in Dorset " The sign has been there for more years than I care to remember. It doesn't specify who voted it the best chip shop, or when. A couple of years ago I finally got to sample their wares, very disappointing, I tried a few and ended up throwing the rest in the bin. Now the chippie on Swanage seafront, that is another matter, an absolute delight, always long queues and wonderful chips and a divine pea fritter. While I'm on the subject of chippies, St Andrews in Portobello is outstandingly good, I don't eat fish, but the fillets of fish are laid out on a bed of ice in a display cabinet as you walk in the door. They have a Pizza oven and the pizzas are made fresh to order 😍

We visited Chester a few years ago.
A chippy had a similar sign "voted best chip shop in Chester".
Crap.... absolute crap. Like yours most ended up in the bin.
Likewise there is a chippy in Warrington that has a BIG sign claiming it has xyz awards. We tried it just once

 

[oldwheels]

I've heard both males and females, usually younger people address mixed gender groups using the collective term "guys" . It seems to be becoming a bit gender neutral but that's just my perception. " Folks " seems a neutral general form of address too. I've read that Sweden have added a gender neutral pronoun to the language, with Hon = female, Han = male and Hen = non gender specific. Not sure if this would work in Scotland, I've watched loads of Rab C and I'm sure "hen" refers to females.

Hen does refer to females. In my diving days when anyone was making an announcement to a mixed group it was to " chaps and chapesses". How on earth do you spell that last term?

 

[welsh dragon]

The weather doesn't look good for Scotland tomorrow lots of snow for Mo

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

On the subject of referring to men and women

Before we were married (only 2 years ago) my wife often referred to me as My Man

I did ask her how she would feel if I referred to her as My Woman - she promised to visit in me in hospital if I ever did