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Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 12:49 pm
by DefTrap
Jody wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 12:22 pm
Yep, and the ones in t shirts that scratch your side
And even worserer when they sew 4 or 5 in there like (a) there's that much detail you need about a t-shirt (b) you will -ever- read it
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 12:59 pm
by KungFooBob
Alpinestars GP range of gloves used to have a label in them that just said 'Win', dunno if they still do?
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 1:12 pm
by Count Steer
DefTrap wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 12:49 pm
Jody wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 12:22 pm
Yep, and the ones in t shirts that scratch your side
And even worserer when they sew 4 or 5 in there like (a) there's that much detail you need about a t-shirt (b) you will -ever- read it
I picked one up on a sale rail yesterday to check what it was made of. 3 labels on the side seam, all in multiple languages
, 2 more in the collar
.....and a spare button.
Oh yeah and a 'reduced from' price that you'd have to be
to have ever paid.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 3:59 pm
by Noggin
Washing powder perfume!!
I buy a specific clothes washing powder as I'm ok with my clothes being clean without an added yucky 'perfume' (that just smells of chemicals to me)
Picked up my normal powder the other day and now everything smells of something a chemist in some lab thinks is 'spring' - or something like that
Yucky
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 4:01 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
KungFooBob wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 12:59 pm
Alpinestars GP range of gloves used to have a label in them that just said 'Win', dunno if they still do?
Presumably a reminder for the more dim racers?
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 4:03 pm
by Count Steer
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 4:01 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 12:59 pm
Alpinestars GP range of gloves used to have a label in them that just said 'Win', dunno if they still do?
Presumably a reminder for the more dim racers?
It probably said 'Wine!' but they stitched the 'e' into the seam.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 4:03 pm
by Jody
Mates garage robbed last night, 3 MX bikes (one not his) a trials bike and a decent MTB all missing never to return. Approx £12.5 k
4 garages in a 40 miles radius hit last night
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 4:04 pm
by KungFooBob
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 4:01 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 12:59 pm
Alpinestars GP range of gloves used to have a label in them that just said 'Win', dunno if they still do?
Presumably a reminder for the more dim racers?
I googled it, the only picture I could find of the label was in a pair of schumacher's A*'s F1 driving gloves.
They should have put a don't crash sticker in his ski helmet.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 4:53 pm
by gremlin
Old wive's tales when it comes to first aid....
Long story cut short, I stepped in to help out with my first aid training when a kid had a hot drink spilled on their leg. I grabbed a napkin and ice and applied to the affected area. Reassured both casualty and parents with my best bedside manner. I then get a tap on the shoulder from one of the waiting staff, who handed me a shaker of vinegar with the suggestion that I sprinkle it over the affected area as it helps with burns.
WTF?
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 5:39 pm
by Count Steer
gremlin wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 4:53 pm
Old wive's tales when it comes to first aid....
Long story cut short, I stepped in to help out with my first aid training when a kid had a hot drink spilled on their leg. I grabbed a napkin and ice and applied to the affected area. Reassured both casualty and parents with my best bedside manner. I then get a tap on the shoulder from one of the waiting staff, who handed me a shaker of vinegar with the suggestion that I sprinkle it over the affected area as it helps with burns.
WTF?
Probably goes back to the days when vinegar (or sometimes wine) was a handy antiseptic. Dilute acetic acid/alcohol would do in a pinch. You'd smell like a bag of chips if it was malt vinegar.
Wouldn't have thought either would do anything at all if the skin isn't broken though?
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 6:18 pm
by Horse
gremlin wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 4:53 pm
Old wive's tales when it comes to first aid....
WTF?
It can be worse with trained first aiders.
At a wedding, hot day, packed church. Lots of military types.Older guy keeled over, I went to check, along with about half a dozen others.
They were almost fighting to get at him. "Put him in the recovery position!" etc. He was conscious, sat down. I left them to it and went to be with his wife.
Luckily ambo arrived fairly pronto.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:05 pm
by gremlin
Years ago a bloke at my gym had an epileptic seizure. I put a towel under his head to save him whacking it on the tiled floor and let the seizure run it's course. It was st this point somebody said he'd go to to reception to see if they had a spoon to shove in his mouth.
Words still fail me now...
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:33 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
Yeah, why would reception have a spoon?
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 9:08 pm
by Pirahna
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 8:33 pm
Yeah, why would reception have a spoon?
To force into the mouths of unsuspecting epileptics.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 4:09 pm
by Demannu
the head of the MET felt intimidated by the tone of the MOL language.
Clearly not up to the job of PC let alone head of the MET if harsh words intimidated her!
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 4:17 pm
by DefTrap
gremlin wrote: Thu Sep 01, 2022 4:53 pm
Old wive's tales when it comes to first aid....
Long story cut short, I stepped in to help out with my first aid training when a kid had a hot drink spilled on their leg. I grabbed a napkin and ice and applied to the affected area. Reassured both casualty and parents with my best bedside manner. I then get a tap on the shoulder from one of the waiting staff, who handed me a shaker of vinegar with the suggestion that I sprinkle it over the affected area as it helps with burns.
WTF?
The other day my dad, 80s, assured me with a straight face that he and his mate were applying WD40 to their arthritic knees, with remarkable success.
I waited for the punch line.
Nope.
Normally he's not a plank, so just to nip it in the bud I googled the actual wd40 website to show him (lest next week his
Trumpian pharmaceutical cabinet leads him to gargle with nail-polish-remover)
https://wd40.co.uk/tips-and-tricks/can- ... ff-joints/
Nope, still happy that he's right.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 4:22 pm
by gremlin
DefTrap wrote: Fri Sep 02, 2022 4:17 pm
The other day my dad, 80s, assured me with a straight face that he and his mate were applying WD40 to their arthritic knees, with remarkable success.
Late M-I-L went through a stage of doing that. I thought it was just her was daft as a box of frogs.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 4:24 pm
by KungFooBob
I like the smell of WD40.
Maybe it gets them high and they don't notice the joint pain.
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 5:02 pm
by Count Steer
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Sep 02, 2022 4:24 pm
I like the smell of WD40.
Me too. Nothing smells quite like it.
I wish they'd make a version with slightly more lubricating properties though. It's tempting to spray it on things that really need something a bit more oily. (I did have a small can of spray on light grease which was really useful...they left it in the car after a service. Probably used on battery terminals and hinges etc).
Re: Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 7:12 pm
by Greenman
Count Steer wrote: Fri Sep 02, 2022 5:02 pm
KungFooBob wrote: Fri Sep 02, 2022 4:24 pm
I like the smell of WD40.
Me too. Nothing smells quite like it.
I wish they'd make a version with slightly more lubricating properties though. It's tempting to spray it on things that really need something a bit more oily. (I did have a small can of spray on light grease which was really useful...they left it in the car after a service. Probably used on battery terminals and hinges etc).
Another WD-40 smell lover here, also like the smell of chlorine, and don;t get me strated on 2-stroke smells lol