This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Too cheap and I have multiple possible replacements at home. Will wing it. What could go wrong..?

I popped a spoke few months ago. I'm 80kg, 5'11" - it just occurred to me how fucking stupid we are about units in this country - but I put it down to my massive Hoy-like power rather than my weight

(They were Fulcrum wheels)

80kg and ~180cm

You know you have to put both feet on the scales don’t you?

Matter for the police no?

Not my weight.

"it just occurred to me how fucking stupid we are about units in this country" conversion for sensible people.

is it? I went to roadsafe and filled out an automated form that told me to get in touch with Southwark council, I used twitter havent got a response from anyone.

Think it depends if you're reporting road debris or an act of anti social behaviour that's putting road users safety at risk.

The latter is an indiscriminate attack (akin to any other fuckheads who throw shit into roadways or off motorway bridges) and is almost definitely a matter for police investigation.

edit; similar issue, though on a road and not cycleway

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2781305/Police-hunt-saboteur-left-hundreds-drawing-pins-cycle-track-bikers-racing-speeds-70mph.html

Massive shard of glass puncture on 2 day old tyre. Grrr. Thankfully just outside BC so was able to swap tubes and have a nice chat with Jimbilly at the same time.

I would have used cm personally but I thought no-one would know what I was talking about. There are also a huge fraction of people who don't know how much a typical person weighs in kg and insist on using stone, but that's where I draw the line.

Jim still doing the old chuck glass in road outside the shop to drum up business trick then?

/slander

Coming from a proper country, we are educated about both, for those legacy uses, like talking to Leave voters.

Stone can get fucked though, no person with an IQ above their age should be using that.

Judging from the swearing we're from the same place.

I was never taught anything about the 'legacy' system. Inches were just nonsensical thing on the other side of old 30cm rulers.

You know you are at rock bottom when even american mates think stone is stupid

You know you are at rock bottom when even american mates think stone is stupid

I LOLd.

I used to build speakers so things like 6x9s and 12" woofer had to be meaningful. It might depend how old people are though. Car tyres are a great one too - let's combine a stupid imperial measurements with a modern measurement and a ratio just to really fuck over anyone who wasn't paying attention.

What I particularly like about stone is that there are a different number of ounces in a pound than there are pounds in a stone (although any body weights in kg I still mentally convert to stone, whereas weights in pounds and ounces I convert to grams, same with miles and metres).

What I particularly like about z is that there are a different number of x in a y than there are y in a z

The Imperial system in a nutshell.

inch = 1000 thou
foot = 12 inches
yard = 3 feet
chain = 22 yards
furlong = 10 chains
mile = 8 furlongs

Sounds like the bloke I encountered in Herne Hill a year or two ago. He berated me for wearing rain gear in the rain by shouting "It's only a bit of water, you're not made of sugar" before taking off through a red light under the railway bridge shouting "Whoop whoop" and screaming abuse at the oncoming traffic.

I liked him.

Legend.

To be fair, all traffic is for A-B use, so shouting it at them is a bit pointless.

Hmmm I encountered a bloke at Herne Hill a while back who sailed through the red light shouting something like this. He had been quiet up to that point. Maybe he thinks he has (is) a siren.

Made me smile (and wince as he was very nearly taken out by a scrote in an Audi going too fast.)

Wait, he wasn't wearing a hi vis jacket with a radiation symbol on the back was he?

Not aimed at you as an insult, but it's a sign of the times that someone's first thought to alert the authorities to a mischief is via twitter.

That was only after Instagram, having formerly received confirmation that it was a good idea by a close circle of 7388 friends on Facebook.