Be Excellent To Each Other

So, spent about 1200 quid keeping the volvo on the road in the last two weeks. Today on the way home, it started playing up - some dodgy noises from the engine, then it stalled, was hard to restart. Then, on the big slope down into the valley, it kept dying (revs just dropped off constantly and stalled the engine), which meant the electrics went out, which meant the steering went. That was an interesting few hundred meters. Thankfully, there is a very good garage at the bottom of the hill, so the chap there had a look for me despite being closing time. Turns out, for some unknown reason, the coolant had boiled, blown a clip off one of the hoses, and emptied the entire system. 20 minutes and a few gallons of water and a new clip later, car was (and still is) fine. Fucking bonkers. Must have been the weather or something.

Once you've cooked a car enough for it to pack up, it doesn't tend to fully recover.

It might be time to start looking around.

Could you not smell it?

Nope.

And it's absolutely fine now. don't be a pessimist you bastard. Not least as it's booked in to have a new cambelt next week.

Remember when I cooked my Toyota, then the garage checked it all out and said it was fine to drive, then I drove us home for your stag do? Good times.

Yeah, but that was a shit car.

Once they go they tend to go easier in the future, is all.

I accidentally ordered a naked burrito for lunch rather than a proper one

What is a naked burrito?

It's in a box, rather than in a wrap.

No wrap? That's not a burrito, then. It's just meat, beans, salad snd cheese in a box. That has no right to call itself a burrito, naked or otherwise.

Worst. Lunch. Ever.

Hence the post.

Stupidest order ever.

How can you accidentally not order the most important part of a burrito? What is wrong with you.

Presumably he assumed the burrito would arrive borne by a naked lady. It's what I would have thought

Hm, that would certainly provide confusion, yes.

Why the fuck else would you describe food as "naked"? Bonkers mis-selling

Hang on, we don't know whether or not the pulled pork and smoked chorizo were in the box.

Just found out that a club I used to be involved in has been ripped of to the tune of several grand by the treasurer. They owe a couple of grand in rent to the hall they used and all the various insurance etc has gone unpaid. Everyone's a bit shellshocked and are trying to work out what happens next. It's odd, as it seems it started happening almost exactly at the time I moved and stopped attending.

...and bought a several grand car.

Cripes.

An organisation I'm involved with suffered that fate shortly before I joined - thankfully someone realised that their insurance included a part about a committee member with their fingers in the till so were able to recoup most of the losses.

Just shows that everyone, not just the committee members, ought to pay attention to Treasurers' reports and insist on good record-keeping.

Squirt recently seen with World's Largest Moussaka.

Pfft, as if a few grand's worth of Moussaka is enough to satisfy me! I get through 500 quids worth of moussaka on a slow day.

My season is over.

Oh you poor man. What did the doctor say?

Thats one hell of a self-pleasuring injury.

Add tap water.

Went to the walk-in centre. They x-rayed it - broken. Now at A&E waiting for a fracture specialist to see me.

All that from playing iRacing? You take it too seriously.

You should stand up or wave or something. Just waiting there until they see you could take hours.

Is that the perspective or are your fingers actually that dumpy irl?

Also, that looks painful Hope it just needs strapping up and it's not going to be too much of a hindrance.

I have delicate hands that have never done a day's work in my life, so must be the perspective.

Just been told they're going to splint it, which is what the nurse should have done at the walk-in centre after my X-ray. Wasting A&E resources ftw!

Ouch! How did you break it?

Failing to catch a cricket ball.

Due to having Trump-esque dumpy fingers.

Your captain broke your finger for that?!

Ouch, hope it's healing ok and the pain relief you have is working.

If it gets strapped up, ask for the really cool waterproof velcro-attached strapping that you can take off to wash your hand and then put back on. When I broke my little finger, I spent a week with crappy tape-based stuff that meant couldn't easily shower and it sucked.

Geraint Thomas rode the TdF with a broken pelvis; Tyler Hamilton did it with a broken collarbone; your finger ouchie shouldn't affect your Stickball.

But why not check out http://www.physical-sports.co.uk and their range of sports first aid?

Yes, but cyclists are doping fucks - I'm sure they were high as kites at the time. I've just got ibuprofen.

And it's a bit difficult holding a bat and throwing a ball when you can't bend one of your fingers.

Just do one at a time then.

Clingfilm. That's what I was told to use when I scalped my elbow. Just wrap it in clingfilm

Clingfilm doesn't breath. That's vile.

It forgets how to air.

Clingfilm is excellent first aid for a really bad burn. Can't see it doing much for a broken finger.

It's ok just for a quick shower though, surely?

yes or get a shower cap..

Oh, I see, I thought JC meant to wear it all the time! Yeah, I guess, although you still can't wash the skin covered by the strapping then. I found with my finger that I could happily tolerate taking the strapping off for short periods, as long as I was very careful with it, so I could wash my hand normally.

These are the straps I used:
http://www.3pointproducts.com/buddy-loop

Yeah they look pretty good. I'll need to have it splinted as well though because the finger has 'dropped' a bit. Basically the tendon that runs across the first joint has torn or stretched, so it needs to be hyperextended to allow it to heal properly.

Just wrap it in electrical tape and get on with it. It never did Sabu any harm in ECW.