Things that make you go oooh thread....

[UncleEbenezer]

Don't want it to be too easy to open the camera.

A hundred photos of the inside of my pocket lack interest. Maybe I should enter them for the Turner prize?

[AleisterCrowley]

Hmm, Booger King, I'd queue to get out of one...
It's 'Five Guys' burgers or home made for me now

[vrdiver]

Seeing as I've got back into cycling, I'd just like to mention pedals that allow your feet to clip in (via special shoes and retainers on the pedals)

They'll change your life.

Was in the local bike shop when a cyclist came in wearing clip-in shoes. Of course, the first thing that happened was he went a-over-t on the polished floor.

My purchase changed from clip-in pedals to bolt-on toe clips* that you just slide your normal shoes into. The disadvantage is that they hang upside down when you take your foot out, but, after a few journeys, it becomes second nature to spin the pedal and meet the clip with your shoe as it comes over the top.

Not for purists, or speed junkies for whom milliseconds count when starting off, but they work for me.

VRD

*e.g. this sort of thing: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bicycle-Pedal- ... B01DJ140RK - not a recommendation, just for illustration.

[swill453]

My purchase changed from clip-in pedals to bolt-on toe clips* that you just slide your normal shoes into. The disadvantage is that they hang upside down when you take your foot out, but, after a few journeys, it becomes second nature to spin the pedal and meet the clip with your shoe as it comes over the top.

Yes, I use them, they're great.

Scott.

[UncleEbenezer]

I'm with VRD. I don't want to wear footwear I can't walk in. It's many years since I did even for a very specific purpose, such as skis, skates or flippers. Trainers or adequately-robust sandals for cycling.

[kiloran]

Karen Gillan in the film 'Jumanji'

Karen Gillan in...... anything

--kiloran

[UncleEbenezer]

Barbeques, basically, are shite.

But only if you use a clean fuel.

The ones that cover the world in oily smoke are a whole lot worse.

[UncleEbenezer]

Not very funny.

It's the way you tell 'em.

[kiloran]

We've had snow today and I'm sitting here with my heated gillet on watching a garden chair slide across the patio in the wind.

Not very funny.

It's June, so it'll be warm snow (every cloud etc......)

--kiloran

[vrdiver]

Its the English I feel sorry for.

There you go. Deleted the unnecessary text for you.

[UncleEbenezer]

Many will have been half way up Ben Nevis in shorts and plimsolls,

Plimsolls? What's wrong with sandals?

You sound like one of those softies who gets put off by a bit of weather.

[UncleEbenezer]

Its the 6th of June.

... and ts always worth remembering the D Day Landings.

Sorry, don't remember that. Before my time.

But I do have a faint recollection of an anniversary: the outcome of a referendum about our membership of the ... um ... civilised world.

[scotia]

Its the 6th of June.

... and ts always worth remembering the D Day Landings.

I'd be kidding if I said I remembered them 76 years ago - I was a just over a month old.

But yes - I think of the ordinary men in the landing crafts who probably thought it was unlikely that they would survive the day - but onward they went for our future.

[tjh290633]

Its the 6th of June.

... and ts always worth remembering the D Day Landings.

I well remember the US Invasion of England, in the prior years. Large US Army 6-wheel wagons, with the driver on the wrong side, who was therefore able to pass a small boy on a bicycle with inches to spare. Frightened me no end.

Got any gum, chum?

TJH

[tikunetih]

Combined electric trike, boat and micro-camper "van":

https://zeltini.com/en/product/z-triton/




Pretty much everyone wants (needs) one of these, I should imagine.

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[AleisterCrowley]

I like the angles on that. Looks very stealthy - like the early HAVE BLUE prototypes. Very small Radar signature I guess

[gryffron]

I like the angles on that. Looks very stealthy - like the early HAVE BLUE prototypes. Very small Radar signature I guess

Apart from the bicycle wheel. Which is a shiny reflector from any angle
Maybe it was added deliberately so he didn't get rammed by larger boats in the fog

[AleisterCrowley]

It's a Radar decoy - passive countermeasures.

[bungeejumper]

My last petrol receipt.....the 13th of March 2020 - and still 99 more miles to go according to the trip.

I topped up the wife's car this morning - same story, no refills since late February, and still a quarter of a tank left. Our entire experience of the outside world since mid-March has been a couple of doctor's surgery visits and a quick blast around the lanes to keep the cars moving. And exercise, of course.

I chose a nice quiet time at our village filling station, and I had the mask on and everything. Although I was the only person in sight who'd bothered.
And dammit, then I forgot the gloves. That's one pump handle, two push doors and one credit card terminal that I had to clean the car for afterwards. Handbrake, steering wheel, gear lever, door grab handle. Good job I didn't touch the light switches. Oh damn, and then there's the indicator stalk, better wipe that as well. And the seatbelt buckle. And the filler cap. Help, I think I might be going OCD.

BJ

[swill453]

And dammit, then I forgot the gloves. That's one pump handle, two push doors and one credit card terminal that I had to clean the car for afterwards. Handbrake, steering wheel, gear lever, door grab handle. Good job I didn't touch the light switches. Oh damn, and then there's the indicator stalk, better wipe that as well. And the seatbelt buckle. And the filler cap. Help, I think I might be going OCD.

Carrying a bottle of hand-gel in the car (as we do) solves some (but not all) of those issues.

Scott.