what have you learnt today !

[dan_bo]

Colliers wood is a complete dump. Not sure what I was expecting but lordy I'd rather be in walworth at least its got atmosphere.

 

[gbb]

I have learnt that no matter how cheap I make my prices somec*** will undercut me so there really is no point in lowering them at all and I learnt that this morning having quoted a job at the very bottom line possible including materials and having the agent phone up saying someone else had quoted slightly cheaper, I didn't even bother to ask where they were from as I'm getting tired of the answer.

I used to be a buyer in engineering. I built some good relationships with suppliers and let my preferred suppliers know what the competition was up to and where he had to quote.
One of the competition quote sooooo low on a job, my preferred supplier said...stuff it, give it to them, they're not going to make any money and they'll just undercut themselves out of business.
He continued charging sensible prices, and continued in business for years.

 

[smokeysmoo]

That I can ride home just as quickly after donating a pint of blood as I can when I haven't

 

[machew]

That if you plug a PC into a badly configured POE switch, there is a small bang and the lights go out

 

[gbb]

Ive learned that despite wallowing like a fish out of water in a new job for 3 months...its finally clicking and i'm not having to call on other engineers to guide me.
(new job, new machinery...you only learn a bit at a time, only as much as the machinery breaks down. Until that point, you learn nothing, but every breakdown is new, every solution has to be thought out from scratch. Some are easy, some are hard)

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Today i learned a banana has around 95 calories per 100g , so a std full banana has approx 175 calories in it, where as a mars bar has around 170 calories.
Some one clever will now tell us why the banana is better for us.

 

[biggs682]

well today i have learnt that its raining and i have a bike to go and try , but not going out in rain one to me bike so bugger

 

[headcoat]

Well i learnt that bike shops don't know how to service a bike with hub gears. Got mine back and it wasn't changing right kept jumping gear, I was looking at it and then realised they hadn't lined up the two marks when in gear four.....problem solved

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Yebbut ... taking half an hour over something that used to last thirty seconds isn't always such a bad thing you know

And there's this way around - warning: contains country music!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

That although being 29 is closer to being 30 and "old" than being 28 was....its still not quite being 30 and "old"?

I'm twice your thirty, and I'm not old.

 

[colly]

I learned today that my bicycle, in road going state, (lights, pump, pedals, saddle pack with spares etc etc) weighs 27.5 lbs.

That explains SO much.

 

[smokeysmoo]

That the board of RBS are a set of utter to$$pots after awarding it's Chief Exec £963,000 in shares. Feckers

 

[Silver Fox]

That Wheelies Direct are a pain in the bum to deal with, I never want anything to do with them again.

 

[TheDoctor]

I had to get a replacement Brompton from them. Had the insurance people given me a cheque instead, I could have got one from Evans and not waited three months...

 

[BigonaBianchi]

I learnt that to ge tthings working you need to committ, but to committ you need to trust, I vowed never to trust again, I learned I was right.