Bits & Bobs 45

sdg · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 9:53

Mr Kissyfur wrote:

I had three hours on the phone with HSBC on Friday, going through our outoings in great detail (even the 7 quid on Netflix was in there), and we still won't hear for 2 weeks whether they'll actually give us the fricking mortgage.

As with Cras, when we last did this the banks really didn't give much of a toss.

Urgh I'm really not looking forward to this hassle.

sdg · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 9:54

Londoners! what's the best way to get from London Euston to Wembley tomorrow avoiding the tube strike? My workmate is going.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14362

Jet pack.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 10:49

sdg wrote:

Londoners! what's the best way to get from London Euston to Wembley tomorrow avoiding the tube strike? My workmate is going.

Uber.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14362

Cannon.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

London Overground to Brent then a bus, or Uber.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38469

Best doesn't always mean fastest. Walk

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14362

Giant sling-shot.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

Trains go from Euston to Wembley Central which is about a mile from Wembley stadium.
http://www.thetrainline.com/buytickets/ ... /Dep/1/0//

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 12:27

DavPaz wrote:

Best doesn't always mean fastest. Walk

That's the worst way.

sdg · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 12:31

Great, thanks all.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14362

You're welcome.

No, hang on, hovercraft.

Jem · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 12:37

Achilles wrote:

Looked for a Tennis thread, couldn't find one.

On BBC1 and BBC2 today there was Womens tennis. On 1 there was Sharapova, and she made the equivalent noise of doing a deadlift each time she hit the ball, her opponent was silent.

I put BBC2 on, it was also showing 2 female players, both playing in near enough silence. Why does Sharapova feel the need to make such ridiculous noises?

If you think that's bad, you should hear me doing an actual deadlift. Gaz heard the tail end of one of my workouts last week and the look on his face was priceless.

At the end of the day it takes a shit ton of skill and physical effort to play tennis at that level, if she wants to make noise while doing it that's up to her. If you don't like it, don't watch.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 12:40

How come it's more pronounced for women than men? Is there a reason?

Jem · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 12:57

Dunno, I don't watch / play tennis.

I do know that when I'm lifting, my grunting / swearing / whatever seems to make a difference. I don't know if it's psychological, but if sounding like a twat is going to mean the difference between e.g. getting the barbell above my head or ending up on the floor crushed under a shit ton of weight, I'm gonna keep grunting.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 13:22

Bobbyaro wrote:

What the hell is wrong with you people. You don't like watching tennis because the women "grunt" when undergoing physical exertion?
How do you feel about the men who make similar noises?

No really, no.

It means that I'm limited to the matches between people who haven't been taught to do that. Because, surprisingly, shouting every time you hit the ball is something of a use of energy, and from a not getting so tired point of view isn't useful.

Mens matches? As above, don't watch them.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

And yet the person who's dominated women's tennis for the better part of a decade grunts quite a bit. It's almost like it isn't as simplistic as you make out.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 13:32

Cras wrote:

And yet the person who's dominated women's tennis for the better part of a decade grunts quite a bit. It's almost like it isn't as simplistic as you make out.

hich is why I specified "from a not getting tired point of view" rather than "as a whole"

Jem · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 13:34

Mr Dave wrote:

It means that I'm limited to the matches between people who haven't been taught to do that. Because, surprisingly, shouting every time you hit the ball is something of a use of energy, and from a not getting so tired point of view isn't useful.

Quote:

A recent study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research examined the effects of grunting in the performance of 32 Division II and III collegiate tennis athletes. The players engaged in a warm up, followed by six sets of tennis. In random order, half of these sets involved grunting, and the other half did not. Serves and forehand strokes were measured for force and velocity, and the players were hooked up to electrodes to measure muscle activity levels. The results found that grunting generated greater muscle activity, which translated to higher force output in their shots and ball velocity. In fact, the force of the hits increased by between 19% and 26%. This improvement also translated to an average increase in serve velocity of 4.9%. Even better, forehand stroke velocity went up by 5.4%. Additionally, the researchers found that grunting did not impair oxygen consumption.

http://boxlifemagazine.com/training/don ... y-help-you

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Am I alone in having no idea what Dave's gibbering about?

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 13:40

He doesn't like the grunting noise in tennis.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Grim... wrote:

He doesn't like the grunting noise in tennis.

Well, yeah, but I get lost at this bit:

"It means that I'm limited to the matches between people who haven't been taught to do that. Because, surprisingly, shouting every time you hit the ball is something of a use of energy, and from a not getting so tired point of view isn't useful."

He can only watch matches with people who don't grunt...because grunting makes one tired? Aside from being placed in the same sentence there doesn't seem to be a connection between those two things.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14362

I've a question:

Anyone know if Adobe 10 (or whatever the fuck its called now) can paginate documents? Y'know, print a number the pages when it prints?

I can't find the option and I imagine that's because it ain't fackin' there is is.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Assuming you're just using the Reader app and not the full version of Acrobat it's just intended as a 'read only' view of documents, if you want to actually alter the content then you need to do it in the source document that the PDF was created from.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 14:06

Could Dave watch TV with sound off?

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 14:10

MaliA wrote:

Could Dave watch TV with sound off?

Alternatively, I could just not bother watching it, seems the best way, really.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 14:10

Mr Dave wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Could Dave watch TV with sound off?

Alternatively, I could just not bother watching it, seems the best way, really.

Then they have won.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 14:19

MaliA wrote:

Could Dave watch TV with sound off?

Do they subtitle the grunts?

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14492

Kern wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Could Dave watch TV with sound off?

Do they subtitle the grunts?

Yes , but they just use the same subtitles from a random porno

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 14:55

"Ich werde spritzen!"

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25597

Cras wrote:

London Overground to Brent then a bus, or Uber.

'Brent' station? huh? Don't travel to Brent Cross, whatever you do - that's miles away from Wembley.

The overground to Wembley Central is often massively hit by the knock-on effect of the tube strike. If it is looking busy or the overground isn't running as it should, hop outside and jump on the Number 18 bus. Keep an eye on the little stop indicator on the bus and jump off at 'Wembley Triangle' or as soon as you see Copeland school. The journey should take just over half and hour in the day time.

If you do end up travelling to Wembley Central station (which is unfathomably grim) come out of the station and cross over Wembley high Road, get the 182, 297, 245 or 83 bus from outside Primark and jump off when you are outside Wembley Park Station. It's only about 4 or five stops, but will save you a lot of bustle from tryingt to get down Wembley High Road.

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Bobbyaro wrote:

What the hell is wrong with you people. You don't like watching tennis because the women "grunt" when undergoing physical exertion?
How do you feel about the men who make similar noises?

If it was just a fairly standard grunt of exertion I wouldn't be so bothered by it, but Williams was almost yelping words at one stage.

And I feel the same about the men. If it doesn't become a yelling competition, it's OK.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 16:32

My boss and colleague left at 4pm to go and play golf at a course an hour away. Which puts me in some dilemma.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 17:22

MaliA wrote:

My boss and colleague left at 4pm to go and play golf at a course an hour away. Which puts me in some dilemma.

"You should play golf" head of other team said, "they might take you with them, then".

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

MaliA wrote:

My boss and colleague left at 4pm to go and play golf at a course an hour away. Which puts me in some dilemma.

Surely this belongs in the 1st world problems thread.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 17:24

Warhead wrote:

MaliA wrote:

My boss and colleague left at 4pm to go and play golf at a course an hour away. Which puts me in some dilemma.

Surely this belongs in the 1st world problems thread.

It irks me somewhat

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

MaliA wrote:

My boss and colleague left at 4pm to go and play golf at a course an hour away. Which puts me in some dilemma.

"You should play golf" head of other team said, "they might take you with them, then, to carry the bats and balls".

FTFY

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

MaliA wrote:

Warhead wrote:

MaliA wrote:

My boss and colleague left at 4pm to go and play golf at a course an hour away. Which puts me in some dilemma.

Surely this belongs in the 1st world problems thread.

It irks me somewhat

That this should be in the 1st world thread, or that they're slacking while you're toiling under the capitalist yoke? I suspect the latter.

Work hard, get promoted, then you too can spurn the proletariat with your nine iron.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 17:38

Warhead wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Warhead wrote:

MaliA wrote:

My boss and colleague left at 4pm to go and play golf at a course an hour away. Which puts me in some dilemma.

Surely this belongs in the 1st world problems thread.

It irks me somewhat

That this should be in the 1st world thread, or that they're slacking while you're toiling under the capitalist yoke? I suspect the latter.

Work hard, get promoted, then you too can spurn the proletariat with your nine iron.

No. It is poor management. What should have happened was a quiet "as we're off early, finish what you are doing and leave" as my colleague left. .

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

Fair point, well made.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 18:57

So you didn't leave at 4:01pm? What's wrong with you?

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Jul 08, 2015 19:00

TheVision wrote:

So you didn't leave at 4:01pm? What's wrong with you?

I had to wait until the phones rang to say "No, sorry, they left to go play golf. Can I help?"

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38469

Hey, London types. Having a nice day so far?

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

DavPaz wrote:

Hey, London types. Having a nice day so far?

That's a pretty sinister question.

"Nice city you've got there. It would be a shame if something were to...happen to it."

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

DavPaz wrote:

Hey, London types. Having a nice day so far?

I had a long, multi-train journey into work, though it was actually quite pleasant. Then when I made it into the office the lift broke down on the way to my desk.

Malc · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2015 10:26

So glad I was in London last week and not this week.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4302

Cycled home yesterday, twerking from home today.

If I hadn't been able to do that I suspect I'd have stayed around work, got very drunk, and found a hotel/doorway to sleep in. Scenes at Oxford Circus yesterday looked 'fucking horrible', as opposed to its default setting 'horrible'.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2015 10:31

DavPaz wrote:

Hey, London types. Having a nice day so far?

Yup. It's quieter than normal (both on my train and in the office).

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38469

Cras wrote:

DavPaz wrote:

Hey, London types. Having a nice day so far?

I had a long, multi-train journey into work, though it was actually quite pleasant. Then when I made it into the office the lift broke down on the way to my desk.

What business did it have at your desk, anyway?

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Jul 09, 2015 10:35

DavPaz wrote:

Cras wrote:

DavPaz wrote:

Hey, London types. Having a nice day so far?

I had a long, multi-train journey into work, though it was actually quite pleasant. Then when I made it into the office the lift broke down on the way to my desk.

What business did it have at your desk, anyway?

Investments can go up and down.

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