Laziness - the cause and solution to all of lifes problems

Riding home last night I felt the chain being a little jumpy so had a look at it when I was stopped to do some shopping. Turns out that through being too lazy to clean or properly service the bike my 17T rear cog had become a 5T cog and a collection of little stumps. FAIL

Fortunately, I still have my 21T on the other side from last months Hill Climb so just flipped the wheel and didn't have to walk home. WIN

I guess the moral of the story is climb more hills or something. Ride to work yoday will be a bit spinny.

On the plus side wearing your 17 tooth down to 5 you significantly increased your GI and your awesomeness, until you reset it back to uncool dad dancing levels by flipping to the 21 tooth.

Right now I'm conducting a real world experiment on the laziness proposal being the cause and solution to all lifes problems, but confess I'm struggling. I want another cup of tea, but am too lazy to make one, and there's no one else here to persuade to make me one, I don't want water or any other substitute, I'm at an impasse. Laziness appears to be the problem but so far the laziness solution has not presented itself.

In the spirit of the experiment should I just continue to lie on the sofa and hope this problem will solve itself, how much longer will I have to wait?.... I'm thirsty.....I'm currently doubting the application of this theory. The only solution I can currently see is to haul my arse off the sofa and make myself a cuppa, but that seems wrong, I so want laziness to win, any tips?

Get an extension cord and lots of water vessels so you can bring the kettle into the living room. Going for a piss could be a conundrum, but by that point you will have hopefully emptied some of the water vessels to make tea. The circle of life

I've seriously considered investing in a Goblin Teasmade:

Sweet jesus, epic fnarrr. I can imagine the advertising campaign,'every man wants a gobling teasmaid'

Enjoying the functionality of the later models, with three settings:

You'e opened up a brave new world to me, I want.

This looks like a bakerlite one with lights and is pretty stylish

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://farm1.staticflickr.com/4/5810887_9dea76733e_z.jpg%3Fzz%3D1&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerard/5810887/&h=480&w=640&sz=61&tbnid=74SrY0MNUJtWcM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=120&zoom=1&usg=__DDQ8mBQwsB0OrW2IWOz1xAEqOZM=&docid=zqozadNVneeycM&sa=X&ei=_N-FUqmiBoOihgejh4GgDA&ved=0CFoQ9QEwBA

But my favourite has to be the fetching timeless lampshade on this beauty.

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/images/I064/10327805.aspx

That lampshade seems to be flinching from something, possibly the idea of a light bulb adjacent to boiling water being forced down a metal pipe

or maybe its recoiling from the horror that is Earl Grey.

Yuck, tastes like granny soap

Earl Grey is a wonderful tea, second only to darjeeling in its ability to be drunk black with a slice of lemon. What more could you want?

Now, Camomile... there's a tea that tastes like soap.

builders T, loads of milk and a couple of teaspoons of sugar

thirst quencher extraordinaire

better than red bull

Earl Grey is a wonderful tea, second only to darjeeling in its ability to be drunk black with a slice of lemon. What more could you want?

Now, Camomile... there's a tea that tastes like soap.

As Dicki says, milk and sugar for a start! Only one sugar though, I'm not a complete savage.

Agreed Camomile is rank, and ignore any tea mixed with an infusion of hedge, PG tips all way. If Liz2 invited me round hers I'd probably ask for some of her finest Assam (not a euph)

I'm house/cat sitting at the moment and the stock house brew is Yorkshire Tea, which is actually better than I remember but still not PG. In the cupboard my curiosity has been piqued by an unopened sample box of 10 tea bags of Yorkshire Gold, which is twinkling at me and sending my imagination into overdrive. If the famously thrifty with praise Yorkshire folk are calling it gold it must be good shit right? Thing is its still in the celephane wrapper, could it be rare custom vintage NOS majesty of a brew. Is this a test? If only I could be arsed to make it.....
Tea thread>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yorkshire Gold or GTFO

Had another laziness win yesterday.

Found an old rear wheel with a 16t on it in the basement and it seemed OK so switched out the other one.

Coming up to a set of traffic lights at bit fast as they were turning red. Started braking hard and as I popped it up a not very dropped curb everything sort of went slack and the chain shipped off the front.
Stopped on the front brake and discovered that I had managed to strip the thread on the lockring/hub and undo the cog.
Luckily there was an18t on the other side so I've moved over to that until I can get a new wheel at the weekend. Today, riding into the high winds, that 18t is feeling pretty clever. Getting tempted to buy a Dingle for weather like this. And hills of course.

I've also pondered wiring up a Goblin Teasmade to the internet so I can order up a brew when I'm on my way home.

An internet enabled Goblin would be amazing...

I've seriously considered investing in a Goblin Teasmade

You'e opened up a brave new world to me, I want.

This looks like a bakerlite one with lights and is pretty stylish

That's the D25b, widely regarded as the classic and definitely the most stylish (IMO).

I once was bitten with a similar bug and bought one for a tenner on eBay. It was local pickup only, so going cheap.

I restored it, polished the kettle, rewired it and got it all working. It looked lovely, but about 20 minutes before it is due to wake you up the kettle gets very noisy and wakes you up 20 minutes before the tea is ready.

Here's a few pics:

I couldn't live with it so I sold it to a nice lady who worked in the Middle Temple for a rather tidy 90% profit. The more modern ones are probably more practical.

If you do get one make sure you get the tray too, look out for cracks/chips in the teapot and don't turn it on without checking the wiring first :)

Start a teasmade thread this shpuld be an homage to alcohol

Didn't realised this was a real thing when I first saw it in Queen's video.