I’ve checked for leaks, can only be the power shower

Unless you’re a quick shower-er (2-3 mins) power showers use as much, sometimes more, water than a bath … I read somewhere recently … and if two adults are having a couple of showers a day, that adds up to a lot of water

I’m un-metered, and pay about £23 per month water rates. £278 per year.

2 bed terrace, 2 adults & 2 under-5’s.

Certainly not switching to a meter unless it becomes mandatory.

In the meantime, and to get my money’s worth, I’m going to continue having three deep baths and seven unnecessarily prolonged showers every day, leave the tap running whilst I brush my teeth (very thoroughly so it’ll take some time) and not bother repairing all those dripping taps.

Wy wife will be doing the same.

I generally make a massive load of bolognese or some-such on a Sunday evening, which lasts me all week for lunches.

This week, for example: 1 packet of beef mince £3, some mushrooms, jar bolognese sauce £1.80, 1 onion £0.16, other mixed veg £1 and a few hanfuls of pasta £0.50 (& gas to cook it £?)

Works out at ~£1.50 per day plus gas!

Happy with that.

£1.50 wouldn’t even buy me the cheapest sandwich in our canteen.

Anything in a tin.

Except bakes beans.
And sweetcorn.
Oh, and soup.
Then there’s condensed milk too.
Coconut milk.
Almost forgot chopped tomatoes.

Ah dammit.

It seems my ‘system’ is stupid and illogical.

How often does the title race competition go down to the last game of the season? Every season? No. Why is that?

If a team gets an unsurpassable pointage by the end of March (for example), do they therefore stop playing for the rest of the season and just wait for everyone else to finish?

Or do they finish the rest of the competition despite having already ‘won’?

Doesn’t sound like any race I’ve ever seen.

Usually, once you’ve won you stop – this is what I’ve seen people like Paula Radcliffe and Usain Bolt do.

I’d love to see someone tell Paula to keep on running until all the other competitors have finished 🙂

‘Best’ CC will depend what benefits you want.

For me, Amex platinum, for the cashback, because I wasn’t interested in air miles or other ‘rewards’ offered by other card issuers, I had no balances to transfer into it, always pay off the full balance, not used abroad and so on and so on … not accepted everywhere, but enough of the places where I spend most each month (supermarkets, petrol).

if it is not a race I can safely assume there will be no winners right

‘competition’ generates a winner … doesn’t have to be a race

is the title decided as the first team to do anything at all? No.

Of course it is ,its the first team to get amass enough points so they cant be overtaken

Nah, it’s the team finishing the scheduled season with more points than any other … there’s no ‘race’ to get an insurpassable number of points as quickly as possible … something like that anyway

(Please don’t let this turn into a “Reasons I hate football thread” … )

deadslow – that’s a whole other arguement (I mean, are they really overpaid?. The ‘idiots’ thing is a given)

I have never heard the football season started by someone going “on your marks, get set, go” … so it quite clearly is not a race

I found running complemented my cycling very well – I’ve assumed it’s because running is a more constant effort, whereas on a bike you’re exerted a lot less on the flat or going downhill.

Whatever the reason, my riding fitness improves when I combine it with running.

Don’t substitute too much cycling time with running though – different muscle groups & muscles used differently. I had a friend who did a lot of running – he was very fit, but put him on a bike and being ‘running fit’ doesn’t transfer to ‘cycle fit’ …

an intelligent way of minimising energy use while climbing or riding on the flat

Why type all that when “lazy” would suffice?

😉

I get paid to work 37 hours a week, but frequently end up doing 50 hours. That is giving 135%

Nah, it’s just giving 100% for longer.

If you were doing 50 hours work in 37 hours, that would be ‘giving 135%’.

Run then eat, otherwise you might just feel sick and end up vomitting behind someones hedge.

Apparently eating within 20 minutes after exercise is when your body will make best use of the nutrition. Or some such.

At the end of the day it probably doesn’t really matter – you’ve changed your diet and are exercising more, so it’s very likely you’ll continue to lose weight & get fitter regardless of when you eat lunch.

in fact a really good way to lose some pounds and increase your metabolism is to get up, have a nice strong coffee and then do an hour on the turbo trainer before breakfast

Agree with this.

I used to have a bit of breakfast, then commute to work (45 minutes), then have a snack when I got to work. Nowadays I just have a mug of coffee before my commute & eat a healthy breakfast when I get to my desk.

I’ve lost weight. Even though that wasn’t my aim.

Pregnancy

People who take a full trolley of stuff through the self service checkouts in the supermarkets!!

They were installed to speed things up for shoppers who only wanted a few bits.

Don’t be silly. They were installed to cut the wage bill.

What boils mine?

Mostly it’s minor irrelevant niggly things, rather than anything thaty actually matters. Annoying really. Pointless.

I reckon I’m a friendly and approachable person.

I find being friendly seems to catch a lot of people off-guard or make them suspicious of why you’re being nice.

Maybe they just think I’m after something. 😕

So, we now know that relatively few immigrants claim benefits, and of those that do, very few are doing so fraudulently. I take it that’s how it’s being reported?

Stop that.

You’re ruining one of britains favourite passtimes of being outraged and enraged about it.

Although I’m sure we’ll all pretty quickly find something else we don’t understand properly to be all angry about.

I don’t mind so much those who are genuinely entitled (although not sure about the volume of migrants that are allowed into the country considering the number of unemployed).

Isn’t the thing we’re supposed to be massively outraged about all those illegal immigrants illegally living & illegally working. illegally. in the UK. ?

Through my wife, I know many in the above category.

(wonders if there’s a reward for shopping them to the UK Border Force?)

The filthy runts who throw cigarette butts on the street are probably the same filthy runts who drop litter in general … litter is litter, regardless of whether it’ll biodegrade … it’s lazy and anti-social

Huggies nappies are identical to morrisons, boots and sainsbury

Really???

.. I’ll have to look into this further 🙂

Now they have your dna they can make an army of clones

Who?

well, apparently

It tells you up there ^^^ Dimbo

It tells you up there ^^^ Dimbo

Ah, he’s one of those people who chase after a ball whilst falling over unnecessarily a lot.

If only more were as bonkers – it might make their hobby more interesting to watch.

What’s a Mario Balotelli?

I can’t decide what tyres for the 1st world …

Something worthwhile ?!

On an internet forum ?!

It’ll never catch on …

Sometimes I take a knife out of the dishwasher and it still has a little bit of dried-on food stuck to it

😆

I was overtaken this morning by a guy on a proper road bike (I commute on my MTB) … he went gliding effortlessly past … I caught him up at traffic lights and drafted him all the way down the A6 8)

“..you can over power them, they are only heathen christians, have faith…”

You were sat next to a Jedi Knight, or something similar

And I didn’t think it was possible to be a heathen AND a Christian?

Sum’s it all up very nicely I think …

“So, you’ve paid them nothing, bought nothing from them, but still expect to be treated as a customer?”

No complaints because the Daily Mail haven’t written an inflammatory ‘report’ telling us we’re all outraged about it

There’s nobody who I can genuinely say gives me any pride in being British. People are just people, wherever they are. Nationality is pretty irrelevant to me.

A few people do great things, a few others are massive gits, the rest of us make up the numbers doing all the stuff necessary to keep the lights on.

The company are claiming the ship was off course and had never been on that route before. But lloyd’s are saying it followed an almost identical path last year as part of some celebrations.

‘Almost’ was obviously the difference between hitting the rocks and not … previously the ship may have had a very lucky escape, only having missed the rocks by a few metres …

The programme could be over in 5 minutes without all the fannying about trying to create tension etc.

I still can’t believe anyone deliberately chooses to sit down and watch a group of strangers opening a load of boxes.

The British are too apathetic to do a proper occupation of anywhere.

Although if anyone ever organises a protest that involves generally moaning about stuff to your mates but not being prepared to do any more than that, we’ll be well in there!

There’ll be a horses head in his bed one night …

I can’t stand them. Too sickly sweet for me.

A colleague of mine however can happily eat a box of 12 in one evening 😯

“Sorry I Fell into a life boat”

And in other walks of life …

High School: “Sorry Miss, the dog ate my homework”

After side-swiping a cyclist: “Sorry mate, I didn’t see you”

And each hole could be a section of singletrack…

Yes, it could … but instead they’ve runied it by turning it into a golf course 🙂

😉

(yes, I know what you were actually meaning)