MAY 2017 CHAT THREAD - All my freinds are getting married

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InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

rdb posted:

Also on the bike chat, I have something similar to that hybrid posted earlier, what specifically do you recommend for tires if I have to ride gravel? I have some skinny Michelin Road tires on it now and haven't touched it since moving because of that.

Large volume, tough carcass, tread that fits in with where you ride when not on gravel.

Tomarse posted:

I spend more on road tax than insurance for my landies

What tax?

Tomarse posted:

My ancient MTB needs a new rear wheel (the bearings in it are hosed) and I was looking at trying to buy myself something slightly better but bikes are just too complicated and it's too hard so I'll probably just end up spending �40 on a new wheel to keep the lovely one working

26", 7 speed? Double check your dropout width and I can probably give you a freebie.

# ¿ May 16, 2017 23:40

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 05:06

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Tomarse posted:

It is 26". Once I have looked up what the dropout width is I shall measure it!
It might be 7 speed but I only use like 5 of them because the gear change is too sloppy and I can't get them all....

Basically width between the frame where the wheel slots in, though as frames can have some flex with no wheel, it's best measured with the wheel in there. Older 7 speed MTBs stand a chance of being either 130mm or the later 135mm.

I have a 130mm wheel sat doing nothing, but it's got a long enough (non-QR) axle you can add a spacer to make it 135mm, which I've done one way or another swapping it between bikes. Anyway, you can have it if you need it.

# ¿ May 17, 2017 20:26

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Just had an older guy with Oirish accent tried to sell me tools out the back of his van (I had a look, none were mine), and then wanted my postcode "because I have a friend who's lost somewhere near here and want to make sure we meet up"

Yeah, my arse. Logged it with 101 and gave them his reg number.

Fair play to the police, their reaction to "Man with Irish accent selling tools out back of van" was one step from "say no more fam".

# ¿ May 18, 2017 18:27

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Larrymer posted:

What good does it do knowing your post code?

Communicating by text or other simple means where to go burgle.

# ¿ May 18, 2017 18:47

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Larrymer posted:

Post code here in USA speak makes me think postal/zip code which is a general area for us yanks and anybody can google. Hence my confusion.

Yeah, postcode and the number on your gatepost is all you need to get right to someone's front door here. You can Google it if you know where you're wanting to be, but the point is that you can text someone, say, "3 NW8 9AY" and bang, that's Abbey Road Studios in London right in front of you, not just "well, it's number 3 on a street within a mile or so".

funny Star Wars parody posted:

Lmao this is basically what my grandfather did for a living

Hah, not in this sense, I hope.

# ¿ May 18, 2017 19:38

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Brewdog do a good job of covering a wide range of tastes. I'm partial to Punk.

# ¿ May 18, 2017 22:25

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Adiabatic posted:

I unironically enjoy super hoppy IPAs. Then again I also love really dark really vinegary flemish sours and oud bruins so I may just be nuts.

Have you tried Brewdog Jack Hammer?

# ¿ May 18, 2017 22:51

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Adiabatic posted:

Nope but Imma try that poo poo

It's pretty bitter/grapefruity, if you like that sort of thing.

As I said, they cover most tastes, so worth having a try of their various offerings.

# ¿ May 18, 2017 23:40

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Tomarse posted:

Punk is nice but doesn't really stand out to me. I forget what it is after the first one. Brewdog stuff is also far too expensive

I guess nice but not standing out is fine for me. I usually want a beer that I just like, and I have Punk as my go-to that I can get most places.
As for cost, I don't find it especially different for Brewdog stuff over anyone else's beers, but I don't really pay a huge amount of attention to it.

In the supermarket sense, their "dog pack" of three bottles each of four different beers is about �15, which seems fine to me?

Tomarse posted:

I'm more a fan of dark ales/stouts/porters. I haven't managed to find the brewdog ones yet though. Have you?

Well, I haven't gone looking for them, as that's not always my kind of thing, but we have a Brewdog bar here, so I'd assume they'll have everything?

# ¿ May 19, 2017 01:01

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

I don't associate cider with millenials. It's basically chavvy teenagers hanging around the youth center, chavvy adults hanging about the betting shop, or the archetypical hybrid of real ale fans and the Wurzels.

# ¿ May 19, 2017 01:10

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

I find a single cider starts me with a headache, not sure why. Not overly keen on them anyway, so it's no great tragedy for me.

# ¿ May 19, 2017 01:19

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

cakesmith handyman posted:

I don't think I'm chavvy so I think that makes me a wurzel. Okay.

Do you have a brand new combine harvester?

But seriously, when I was younger, the only people I ever saw drinking cider fit one of those categories, and it's never lost the association for me.

# ¿ May 19, 2017 06:54

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Indeed. Miata with no engine is better than fully functional PT Cruiser.

# ¿ May 19, 2017 16:04

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

The Door Frame posted:

Does anyone in Chicago need a small child? I got stuck babysitting my niece all day and she's... very spirited. And every time I try to color with her, she takes the markers away from me and switches our papers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDXYzUlv0S8

# ¿ May 19, 2017 21:34

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

I saw a signwritten Mercedes SLK today.

Appropriately, it was a hairdresser.

InitialDave fucked around with this message at 15:53 on May 20, 2017

# ¿ May 20, 2017 15:44

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Adiabatic posted:

Talking to him on facebook. If anyone would like to reach out, pm me or email me at AdiabaticSA@gmail.com and I'll give you his contact info.

As long as he's not dead or heading that way, that's the main thing.

# ¿ May 21, 2017 12:55

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

BigPaddy posted:

So he is in the middle of Germany in a car the Police have said if they catch it on the road again they will confiscate and destroy.

"If."

*does full-bore launch out of checkpoint and heads straight for nearest border*

# ¿ May 21, 2017 20:08

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

The Locator posted:

Some amazing engineering going on there for a juicer.

Yeah, I was seriously impressed, it's like a prototype unit or a piece of proper industrial kit, not a slightly poncy bit of consumer-grade kitchen equipment.

Darchangel posted:

UK folks, I understand that you're upset that the USA stole your Brexit stupidity thunder by electing Trump, but please stop trying to top that:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/theresa-may-internet-conservatives-government-a7744176.html

I can't believe someone says poo poo like this out loud in front of people.

I tend to find that if someone comes out with a variant of "we need to prevent people expressing hate speech", you know you're gonna hear some poo poo. I actually thought when the headline first cropped up that it was some kind of disingenuous spin on what they really said/intended, but noooope, it is that level of crazy bollocks.

# ¿ May 21, 2017 21:08

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Tomarse posted:

I thought that the tapered roller bearing on the press looked like a landrover wheel bearing. Looked up the part code (you can read it in the video) and it is in fact used as a Citroen/Trailer wheel bearing. Somewhat over engineered for a juicer ....

I did quite like that it was designed the wrong way round.

# ¿ May 21, 2017 21:29

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Sadi posted:

Frankly it was impressive how poorly engineered the juicer was. It was pretty design. But the concept of pressing a bag like that on such a large plate is really dumb. Al lot of the machines parts should have totally been cast with a few machined surfaces. That juicer could have been just as effective, last just as long if not longer and been several $100 cheaper to make.

There's a point where someone doing a really bad idea to the nth degree just becomes this awesome/terrible spec-creep trainwreck that you can't turn away from.

I mean, "We made a way to give you a tasty beverage that could well see you getting crushing injuries if the interlocks fail, and we need you to keep buying the juices for like a year or we lose our shirts on the machines" is some Cave Johnson level poo poo.

# ¿ May 22, 2017 00:26

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

meltie posted:

It really feels like the kind of project an engineering undergraduate turns in before they've got some real-world experience.

When I was at uni, they wanted us to make a multi-CD "jukebox" as a project. They were not happy when I read the requirements, and pointed out the cheapest, fastest way was to run X number (I think it was minimum 4) of off the shelf CD drives in parallel with a selector circuit.

They rewrote the spec to say it had to be a physical changeout of the disc for another in a single drive. Apparently optimising to minimise your team's work while technically doing what your told wasn't in the spirit of things. :laugh:

# ¿ May 22, 2017 02:02

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Enourmo posted:

To be fair the latter is more scaleable. Same changer mechanism with a larger storage rack/more memory addresses, vs X complete readers.

I mean probably not for small numbers, but...

It was more an exercise in "be careful what you ask for". Scaleability wasn't defined as a requirement, so tough.

Similarly, they wanted a machine to sort ball bearings by size. Two non-parallel rails to roll them down, tubs at appropriate positions to catch each size range, job jobbed.

Olympic Mathlete posted:

A few years ago I had a posh bike and the Chris King rear hub it had was obscenely well made...

Where most hubs clickety clack, these made a noise like a ziptie which turned into a scream when at speed. It was pretty great because it put riders off and they could hear you coming from a mile off to move over for you. They're not cheap but holy gently caress are they well made, I don't think I ever touched it to service it or even adjust it, I didn't need to despite subjecting it to environments that destroyed they shittier hubs of friends.

I intend that my next bike has a Chris King headset, because I've kind of fancied one for years, but would be inclined to go with Hope for most things if for no other reason than the :britain:

factor.

# ¿ May 22, 2017 10:47

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Hah, yep, that's the one!

I wish X-Lite stuff was still a thing.

# ¿ May 22, 2017 10:55

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Yeah, one of my stolen bikes had some X-Lite bits on it, I'm glad that switching to the Muc Off stuff has been so successful for them, but I want my anodised bike jewellery dammit.

Edit: also, check those TSW wheels in the background, proper 90s there.

# ¿ May 22, 2017 11:05

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

I'm impressed you managed to drive a modern generic Vauxhall for any length of time and not simply fall asleep at the wheel.

# ¿ May 22, 2017 21:52

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

stump posted:

How is the Astra? I'm like how they look and I'm intrigued by the 1.4 turbo petrol.

To be perfectly honest, Vauxhall just can't seem to avoid making their cars dull and damped-out to drive, the Insignia in particularly feels like a barge.

Plus the interiors seem to be just boring and meh, while also feeling a size smaller than they should for the class of car.

Try something like the Ecoboost Fiesta instead.

# ¿ May 23, 2017 12:18

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

stump posted:

That's a shame. I've driven an few facelift mk1 Insignias and it felt like it was covering up a crap chassis with big rubber... handles well until you get near to the limit and it all falls apart quickly. I was hoping they had upped their game since.

Don't really mind Vauxhall interiors, I'd say I slightly prefer them to Ford's current lot. I still haven't forgiven Ford for their sea of shiny silver plastic phase.

I mean, they're as competent as any modern car, I've just not driven one that manages to get you arriving at the next corner grinning like a 13 year old who's found porn in the woods.

# ¿ May 23, 2017 19:26

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

rdb posted:

I haven't driven a car that felt that way since I drove my e30 into a curb and totaled it. Everything modern feels so dead.

I have driven just about everything you can rent.

Motorcycles are a different story.

Seriously, those little 1.0 Fiestas are a right laugh.

# ¿ May 23, 2017 21:06

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Buy a $500 shed for her to drive until she gets better at the whole "car" thing?

# ¿ May 23, 2017 22:54

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

funny Star Wars parody posted:

Buy your wife the Mercedes benz she deserves

InitialDave posted:

Buy a $500 shed for her to drive until she gets better at the whole "car" thing?

$500 Merc it is.

How is she with peeling, discoloured window tint and the persistent smell of wet dog?

# ¿ May 23, 2017 23:24

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

We need some kind of Soylent Green petrol. That'll solve two problems at once.

PC Chat: I can't remember how much my PC cost, but I got it maybe 6 years back, and all I've upgraded is some RAM and a modest graphics card when I got Fallout 4. The only thing I feel I miss out on is console exclusive titles, which is more someone else's business decisions than anything to do with the hardware itself.

# ¿ May 24, 2017 20:37

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Rhyno posted:

I indulged at lunch (boss paid) and had two freaking potato skins and it was 450 loving calories! The waiter told me they weren't deep fried and he fuckin lied! Now I'm starving and don't want to go over my calorie allotment for the day.

What the guy above said. Do not try to compensate for a duff meal choice, eat exactly as you would had you not had it, and let it damp out.

If you really can't do that, swap food for a protein shake.

# ¿ May 24, 2017 23:41

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Rhyno posted:

Protein shakes are so nasty though.

Try different brands. It's hit an miss. MyProtein Micellar Casein is my normal shout.

# ¿ May 25, 2017 00:04

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/mechanic-george-cheese-locked-cage-13086388

What the gently caress.

# ¿ May 25, 2017 18:51

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

It sounds fun, but I'm not sure it's worth $750.

Depends how much seat time you get, and how much freedom to actually drive the car(s) without being excessively nannied.

# ¿ May 25, 2017 21:09

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

Counterpoint: I'm single and own my place. I can pretty much do whatever I want.

# ¿ May 26, 2017 07:54

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

She'd better be an 11.

# ¿ May 26, 2017 21:38

InitialDave: Jun 14, 2007; I Want To Believe.

jammyozzy posted:

Whoever at AP Racing decided 7mm was a good nominal size for a fastener hole needs a slap. Make it 6 or 8 you jerks, we have a million studs that will fit those sizes laying about.

Sorry that's been pissing me off since last week. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.