Bits and Bobs 36

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 9:36

Pundabaya wrote:

Holy crap, I've been doing some research for a friend who's kids want horse riding lessons for Christmas. The place rated as the best riding school nearby charges £33 per half-hour, plus £2 helmet hire for individual lessons. (and they won't let you take cheaper group lessons until you can basically control the horse on your own) 70 quid an hour! And we complain about the price of video games.

Yeah, my neice has decided she wants to "do dressage". I'm not sure her parents realise how much it is. I think that girls often work at the stables in return for lessons or something. last tiem I went riding, we called them up and gave them £18 and went for a walk around the lcoal roads. it took about an hour.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 9:37

Dimrill wrote:

I would never have thought drinking liquid nitrogen would be bad for you.

Interestingly, it very often isn't.

EDIT: Or maybe you can have it in your mouth, but don't swallow. I can't remember.

Don't try this at home. I don't miss having to look through the liquid nitrogen dewars for cell samples. That was horrible.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

MaliA wrote:

Dimrill wrote:

I would never have thought drinking liquid nitrogen would be bad for you.

Interestingly, it very often isn't.

I've watched a guy dip his hand into liquid nitrogen. For an encore, he froze it and dumped a lump of solid nitrogen onto his workbench.

Edit -- related: http://darwinawards.com/personal/personal2000-25.html

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 9:59

Heh. I' pleased it isn't just me that can't remember those things.

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 10:03

Bamba wrote:

Pundabaya wrote:

And we complain about the price of video games.

Do we? I thought it was pretty much universally acknowledged that games are good value for money and it's a pretty cheap hobby in terms of £/hour entertainment?

It depends if you play them or not.. I've lost track of how many sealed games I own.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 10:10

Bamba wrote:

Pundabaya wrote:

And we complain about the price of video games.

Do we? I thought it was pretty much universally acknowledged that games are good value for money and it's a pretty cheap hobby in terms of £/hour entertainment?

<thinks about pile of bikes and bike related stuff>

yes, yes, it is.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 10:19

hipypapypy btghufdy!

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22270

TheVision wrote:

Bamba wrote:

Pundabaya wrote:

And we complain about the price of video games.

Do we? I thought it was pretty much universally acknowledged that games are good value for money and it's a pretty cheap hobby in terms of £/hour entertainment?

It depends if you play them or not.. I've lost track of how many sealed games I own.

You need a spreadsheet.

nickachu · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:38

Happy MaliA

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

Happy Birthday, Mali! Were you aware you shared your birthday with HNBBttrree, who lists as his occupation 'Home Repair TV watching Frisbee Golf - Frolf Windsurfing Dumpster Diving'? What a fascinating sounding chap.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 12:17

Will we be seeing a BeeX FortnightX this Friday?

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 12:17

Craster wrote:

Happy Birthday, Mali! Were you aware you shared your birthday with HNBBttrree, who lists as his occupation 'Home Repair TV watching Frisbee Golf - Frolf Windsurfing Dumpster Diving'? What a fascinating sounding chap.

Thanks. Clearly, HNBBttrree and I are cut from the same cloth.

If you get the chance, drink "I hardcore you" from Brewdog. Jesus wept it's immensely tasty. Absolutely divine.

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

Zardoz wrote:

Will we be seeing a BeeX FortnightX this Friday?

Thursday. Nobody who's anybody will be around to read it on Friday.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 12:19

LOL

What is happening? Something about your Mother?

I bet.

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 13:45

About to get the first part of my braces fitted. Hoping they won't hurt too much.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16560

Rock on Tommy!

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10078

Don't go straight from having them fitted to your 11th birthday party and try eating Ritz biscuits.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 13:52

I echo Bik. Never. Ever ever. Get them fitted to your 11th birthday party.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 13:59

Kern wrote:

About to get the first part of my braces fitted. Hoping they won't hurt too much.

Good luck.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 14:03

Superb

Quote:

Presenting their Official Jubilee anthem ‘Sing’, with all the dignity of three not particularly close friends assembling a set of Ikea shelves, cherub Malone, bland Barlow and allochthenous – honestly – Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber were surrounded by the Military Wives. The Wives formed a decorous, sacrosanct barrier around what, if positive discriminating critical values were still thriving and permitted, would be swiftly dismissed as on the deadly side of dreary.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 15:27

Happy Birthday Mali!

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 15:28

Good luck Kern, I'm sure you'll be fine. It'll all be worth it in the end.

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 16:08

Thanks everyone.

My mouth now feels funny, rather than painful. I've got to back in a fortnight to have the rest put in.

The orthodontist asked if I'd be happy with photos of the inside of my mouth being used for teaching purposes. I'm vain enough to have agreed.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 16:36

Be careful the cameraman doesn't fall down your throat!

Glad it's going well so far. It'll all be worth it, I'm sure.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Kern wrote:

The orthodontist asked if I'd be happy with photos of the inside of my mouth being used for teaching purposes. I'm vain enough to have agreed.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 16:41

Huh. Not as cool as a holiday brochure.

Ange · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 17:39

Kern wrote:

Thanks everyone.

My mouth now feels funny, rather than painful. I've got to back in a fortnight to have the rest put in.

The orthodontist asked if I'd be happy with photos of the inside of my mouth being used for teaching purposes. I'm vain enough to have agreed.

I remember my teeth just feeling really tight when I had a brace, if that makes sense. Pretty strange. Good luck with it

nickachu · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 18:12

The worst things are a: cleaning inbetween them.
b: all the annoying little elastic bands you have to keep your mouth together (or was that just me)
c: When it comes to taking them off the orthodontist having to stand on the chair to get more force to yank them off.

Good luck Kern!

Kern · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 18:23

Oh god, the elastic bands! They were horrid when I first had braces, back in my early teens.

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

MaliHappday!

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Dimrill wrote:

I would never have thought drinking liquid nitrogen would be bad for you.

Interestingly, it very often isn't.

I've watched a guy dip his hand into liquid nitrogen. For an encore, he froze it and dumped a lump of solid nitrogen onto his workbench.

Edit -- related: http://darwinawards.com/personal/personal2000-25.html

I heard on the radio that the bar in question said they'd stop putting liquid nitrogen in drinks from now on.

Sweet. I wonder: when I mash someone up, can I avoid punishment by saying I won't dump anyone on their head again?

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 18:36

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Dimrill wrote:

I would never have thought drinking liquid nitrogen would be bad for you.

Interestingly, it very often isn't.

I've watched a guy dip his hand into liquid nitrogen. For an encore, he froze it and dumped a lump of solid nitrogen onto his workbench.

Edit -- related: http://darwinawards.com/personal/personal2000-25.html

Ahhh.. so it was probably the expansion of gases that burst her stomach, rather than any freezy business. I learned science.

Malc · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 18:47

The expansion of gas causes the freezy stuff!

Malc

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 18:48

No no no. The coldyness causes the freezystuff. Gas embiggening happens when.. erm... nitrgoen is.. erm.,.. with the.. thing stomach. Yeah.

Pundabaya · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5016

Surely, if you pour liquid nitrogen into a glass of anything, it's going to boil off straight away?

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

I've been signed up for charity work at work. We're going to some inner-city school tomorrow in Leeds and doing a "careers talk" with some kids. Not legal careers, but just general fucking careers. Like "professional footballer" and "vet" and stuff. I have to do research. Why did I agree to do this? I don't even know if I'm allowed to get out of work to do it, actually. I assume someone has told my boss...

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

WTB wrote:

I've been signed up for charity work at work. We're going to some inner-city school tomorrow in Leeds and doing a "careers talk" with some kids. Not legal careers, but just general fucking careers. Like "professional footballer" and "vet" and stuff. I have to do research. Why did I agree to do this? I don't even know if I'm allowed to get out of work to do it, actually. I assume someone has told my boss...

Which school?

Do you have a current CRB?

Malc74 · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 19:55

My desperate attempts to make more room in my retro gaming corner now involve velcroing consoles to the TV.
This is a foolproof plan with no drawbacks!

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

throughsilver wrote:

WTB wrote:

I've been signed up for charity work at work. We're going to some inner-city school tomorrow in Leeds and doing a "careers talk" with some kids. Not legal careers, but just general fucking careers. Like "professional footballer" and "vet" and stuff. I have to do research. Why did I agree to do this? I don't even know if I'm allowed to get out of work to do it, actually. I assume someone has told my boss...

Which school?

Do you have a current CRB?

Dunno, and no. I'm going dressed as Jimmy Savile.

You only need a CRB if you're working regularly with children. Like, working in a school is your job/part time job/etc. I'm going in for one morning, and the teachers are going to be there supervising.

TheVision · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 20:07

I think you only need a CRB if you're left alone with the kids don't you?

nickachu · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 20:08

Tell them they don't need to work when the government pays for everything you need.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

nickachu wrote:

Tell them they don't need to work when the government pays for everything you need.

Pretty sure that's precisely the reason this charity exists!

ApplePieOfDestiny · **Joined:** 17th Dec, 2008 **Posts:** 8293

WTB wrote:

just general fucking careers...

Tell me more. I could do with a change.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

My advice is going to be to avoid general fucking careers because "Tube sites" are killing the industry. And then I'll pass it on to a colleague who will talk about becoming a doctor.

nickachu · **Posted:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 20:14

Tell them there's no point in going to university and that they are better off learning a trade.

throughsilver · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6197

WTB wrote:

throughsilver wrote:

WTB wrote:

I've been signed up for charity work at work. We're going to some inner-city school tomorrow in Leeds and doing a "careers talk" with some kids. Not legal careers, but just general fucking careers. Like "professional footballer" and "vet" and stuff. I have to do research. Why did I agree to do this? I don't even know if I'm allowed to get out of work to do it, actually. I assume someone has told my boss...

Which school?

Do you have a current CRB?

Dunno, and no. I'm going dressed as Jimmy Savile.

You only need a CRB if you're working regularly with children. Like, working in a school is your job/part time job/etc. I'm going in for one morning, and the teachers are going to be there supervising.

I'll tell the headteacher you steal cats.

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

The cat stole me! My heart!

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10078

One of our mates does risk assessment for plumbing (legionella, that kind of thing) and he's CRB checked. Required for most schools to even let him on the premises. Though I suppose that's because there was a chance he'd be on his ownsome at times.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10078

Someone wanted to view our house at 6.40 this evening. Bit of a bummer I thought, since I'd have to eat late, but eh, if they buy it it'd be worth it.

Cunt never fucking turned up. What kind of cunt does that?

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

BikNorton wrote:

Cunt never fucking turned up. What kind of cunt does that?

A really cunty one.

Presumably the estate agent was supposed to turn up as well?

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10078

No, we're doing the viewings ourselves at the moment.

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