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Building a house as a novice I expect to make a few mistakes. Ive over-ordered door handles (having forgotten I already had them), the dimmable bulbs Ive ordered wont fit my light fittings etc. But today I discovered my best mistake of all.
As the glazing company dropped off my latest order there just didnt seem to be as many pieces as I was expecting.
"How many are there?"
"Seven"
"ummm, there should be fourteen"
As I realised all seven were different sizes it dawned on me...when ringing through the order dimensions for glass for french windows, dont forget to ask for "Two of"... 😳
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Diving off a stage to crowd surf and realising the crowd is a 7 years old girl who neatly side steps leaving me to fall 6 feet onto the ground and dislocate both shoulders.
on the first night of the Big Bike Bash
Opening this thread.
Ba-Doom-Tish!
Being nice to Stoner...sometimes.
WCA really? 😯
I wonder if you're stupid enough to accidentally swap houses with me. That looks lovely, even with a draft!
lol WCA, only you could do that! heal quick!! 😀
Stoner, yeah. He did.
erm.... no.... nothing at all springs to mind. Everything I've done over the last week has been thoroughly thought through, the potential consequences evaluated fully, then executed with true professionalism
One shoulder went in okay but the right arm is still quite painful.
The worst thing is that I have dropped two bottles of beer as I cannot lift them to my mouth with my right arm.
Appear to have done my "knee in" when I'm about to go on a round the world climbing, biking trip flying out in 8 weeks, off to the quaks tomorrow, physio Wednesday and sports masseur Thursday, living in hope at the moment. 🙁
Went to Wetherby today to fit some wheels to a boat trailer after I'd put new bearings in.
Forgot to take the wheels with me.
Whilst I was loading the road bike into the car I rested the front wheel against passenger side of car, closed boot and drove off (minus one wheel). One hour later unloading car I realise what I've done - excuse for a new pair at £200.
Browsing STW when I should be writing up a dissertation. It's like internet crack. 😳
Threw myself down the Etive:
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there's some big padlocked gates at the front of my gaff. i reversed up to them, jumped out and unlocked and opened the gate then jumped back in the car and reversed through the gate...having forgotten to close my door. almost ripped the bloody thing off! good job it's a banger.
Bought some rims at 5.30AM that I dont need and cant afford.
Long night shift. On my own.......
less recently (but I a still jarred about it)
Bought a pair of FOX F100s off ebay. Stripped and found one of the top bearings goosed. decided to rebush and lower the travel so the worse of the worn stantion was no longer used
Feel very smug at how clever I was going to be..check
Made a tool to remove bushes from Fox forks..check
Ordered New bushes from USA as I strugged to get them here...check
Turned up a nice tool to press bushes in with..check
Inserted fist lower bush...check
Inserted next lower bush...[strike]check[/strike] OH NO I HAVE STUCK IT IN THE SAME SIDE IT WILL NEVER COME BACK OUT WITHOUT BEING DESTROYED AND I HAVE A TRIP IN 2 DAYS AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGG
Bought some SH lowers in the end from a helpful chap off here who got them to me in the nick of time
lol at peachos.
I did the same thing in my Mini, but the full Ryan O'Neal stylee.
I jumped back in the car as a traffic warden approached. Thought I'd closed the door, but the sound of the seatbelt clasp in the door shut was the same as the door locking. I looked over my left shoulder and reversed quickly to a parking space. As I took off, the door swung open caught a sign post and ripped it clean off. I drove home from Edinburgh to Fife over the Forth Bridge doorless.
haha, just like thatr mcmoonter! 🙂
Looking very nice Stoner.
Yesterday on a ride up the Roman road at Hope, I shouted to 2 strange girl mtbers in front of me to 'get back on their bikes and show the boys that we (females) can ride. They both turned round and gave me such glaring looks. So maybe they just didn't get my sense of humour. Felt a real plonker.
i trusted an ex boss
now fighting a potential work related shafting
but winning
lesson learned
trust NO ONE
had a tattoo
Drove the fire engine into a ditch enroute to an emergency call. Not my greatest moment.
Not one, but two nails through a gas pipe...
I started arguing with Surf Mat 🙁
Got out of bed, yawned and stretched - tore a muscle in my back, and couldn't walk for 3 days! Stuck in the house!
I can accept such injuries riding into trees etc, but having a yawn FFS!
doing a bit of decorating at home, started stripping off the wall paper got to the power socket covered in paint round the edges , unscrewed it from the wall grabbed the wire wool to give it a clean . one second i am
kneeling next i am on my arse the other side of the room a bit dazed watching bone dry wall paper starting to catch fire ... 😳
According to my wife its; BREATHE 🙄
Wire wool and live sockets!!!!!!!!!
Made a spelling mistake on a post title!! (I phone typo, but the flamers were out in force)
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[i]iPhone[/i] typo did you mean........ 😉
I told someone I was related to an ex Labour prime minister and now he's telling everyone. 🙂
Slept with my Ex.
Twice.
Slept with my Ex.
shes back from oZ then !
schlepping on a building site.. the local chiropractor is gonna be living like a king for weeks...
Bought a CX bike when i really don't have the money for it 🙄
I was taking a newbie on his first ever off road ride on Dartmoor showing him the route & the potential dangers to lookout for.
On a fairly 'safe' section I was leading & he was following when I decided to ride through the narrow gap between two granite stones. The gap was filled with water & 'looked' shallow, anyway the front wheel sank down the gap, stopped dead & the bike went vertical, I exited over the bars onto the ground & the bike then landed on top of me 🙁
The worse bit was landing in an exotic cocktail of wet mud, granite, peat, cow sh*t, sheep sh*t & rabbit sh*t and my mate laughing his sox off. Why I didn't just ride over the stones I'll never know.
Read all of the "What Estate Car?" thread...
running late for work this morning
decide to pump tyres up on the road bike to get there quicker (!?!)
get a bit ham fisted with my shitty track pump
tyre up to 110 psi
valve breaks and fires presta pin across the room
even later for work 😳
Drove from the lakes to france, got to dover decided i'll get my pillow handy for some down time on the ferry.. leaving it on the roof of the car from the petrol station wasnt the handiest place as it had vanished 4 miles later 🙁 10 days of camping with no pillow = bollocks nights sleep!
up in the alps "will just tweak my psi" started to take valve cap off when the whole core blew out leaving me at 1500 meters with a flatty and no tools 🙁
bollocks!