Fucking terrible gifts for cyclists

So this was put swiftly in the recycling bin.

You can put metal in your recycling bin? What paradise do you inhabit?

Probably the same paradise as my parents who can recycle tin foil and tetrapaks

Come to Leyton! It is the recycling promised land

You've just blown my mind... I was about to buy a pizza cutter...

tetrapaks

They bought their own recycling plant.

Bit of olive oil on the blade and you can cut pizza with a wheel, a knife or scissors with no topping draggage.
I've got a Park tools one, my girlfriend uses scissors. All part of life's rich tapestry.

My grandad was a pizza cutter before "technology" made his job redundant. He'd use an 8-foot length of ash timber to tap the crust in such a way that the pizza would naturally split into 6 pieces. it was all about locating the stress points, apparently. when pizza wheels came in in the late 50s he drifted between jobs for a few years and ended up brokering the deal that brought martin offiah to widnes. his best pizza was plain pineapple.

never had an issue with a knife - the 'upside down' wheel technique makes sense though too

I just fold the pizza in half and shove it in my gaping gob

This happens with the HHSB cutters but the park one is bomb proof.

Scissors for cutting pizzas, fucking plebs, next you’ll be telling me you don’t know what Swarfega is.

my girlfriend uses scissors. All part of life's rich tapestry.

This got a bit Gein didn't it.

next you’ll be telling me you don’t know what Swarfega is

Some sort of exotic pizza topping?

It rubs the Swarfega on its skin or else it gets the hose again

I was going to reply with some joke response to this but I got sucked into Wikipedia and now I feel hollow.

Wanna buy a belt?

Got given this tshirt from my Dad. I never wear pink.

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Might get that for @6pt

We can recycle tin foil in Hackney but not actual metal (and tetrapaks, what is this madness!?).

I used to take an occasional bag from my cellar/workshop to the tip but the LBS get a regular pickup from the scrap metal man so I'm planning to take it there next time.

It says ‘ride’ on it and is thus not relevant.

I won this in the quiz section of our middle class dinner party / drinking sesh on NYE. Seems relevant.

More scrap for the scrap metal guy...

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Are you 12 years old?

Worst bit is the trouser clips aren't even metal, they're plastic and seem like they'll break in no time.

I think I still have an old dumbbell spanner somewhere. They used to be the default in Germany when I was growing up, perhaps because they were an early form of multi-tool. They're called 'bones' in Germany, though. This looks as if some cheap stuff from the Continent was re-packaged?

Pineapple fighting talk

How would you eat a calzone?