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by RIP
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:31 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18424

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Aye it was a real headline from last year! You can see why I was mildly concerned about my bike. Although I don't think Tunstallies go as far as murdering bikes....
by RIP
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:53 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Matthew Fairbrother
Replies: 6
Views: 171

Re: Matthew Fairbrother

What a guy, astounding. A lesson in tenacity, fortitude, and winging it. Quite bonkers too of course :smile: .
by RIP
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:47 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18424

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Congratulations Reg :-bd Sounds like the celebration distilled all the elements of your inimitable style down into one trip :grin: the middle of Stoke… I believe from The Influencers that that's what we're all aiming for, so congrats on that :wink: This influencer? "Tunstall TikTok influencer ...
by RIP
Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:41 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18424

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

“Nice one Centurion, like it, like it!” (dungeon prisoner, Life Of Brian). Or is it centenarian? No, that’s not right. Anyway, whatever, 100 Bivvy a Months in a row then. Maybe I get some sort of bonus attachment for my Four Seasons Legion badge? A “bar” perhaps, or some gold stars, like they have f...
by RIP
Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:20 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you listening to now?
Replies: 1121
Views: 169119

Re: What are you listening to now?

Dave Barter wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:42 am
Reg I went to the Nijmegen and Arnham gigs. Looking to see where they are in 2025 as Gigpacking in the Netherlands rules above all else.
Aye, good stuff. Sadly no UK dates though :sad:
they are West Ham supporters so can do one.
:grin:
by RIP
Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:16 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you listening to now?
Replies: 1121
Views: 169119

Re: What are you listening to now?

Ta Scott, noted! It was "convenience or death" that I don't like either of the sound of :smile: . Having been gigpacking this weekend (of which more shortly round in Trips), I have this on while I'm typing. Didn't you go Dave? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY50hQx8_xE Intriguing: "A...
by RIP
Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:04 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you drinking now?
Replies: 704
Views: 68459

Re: What are you drinking now?

MuddyPete wrote: Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:03 pm pickled egg squished up in a bag of cheese and onion crisps... :shock:
And I thought it was impossible to create farts worse than those from a dog..............
by RIP
Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:24 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 3932
Views: 464709

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

Just partaken of a pleasant luncheon. Chatted with my pal at the Council about how he's going to spend the £1m we managed to wangle for new cycleways and footpaths around the town, so that was nice. Based on the rates for HS2 I'd estimate that £1M will be enough to construct nearly 12m of new cycle...
by RIP
Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:41 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 3932
Views: 464709

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

whitestone wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:00 pm some database normalisation
Blimey, that takes me back. Databases tended to be abnormal after I'd finished fiddling with them though :smile: ..
by RIP
Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:36 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 3932
Views: 464709

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

Just partaken of a pleasant luncheon. Chatted with my pal at the Council about how he's going to spend the £1m we managed to wangle for new cycleways and footpaths around the town, so that was nice. Hope you put that on the expense account :wink: He bought me a pint :smile: . Seems a good deal on h...
by RIP
Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:04 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 3932
Views: 464709

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

Seems to be that day again then. Just partaken of a pleasant luncheon. Chatted with my pal at the Council about how he's going to spend the £1m we managed to wangle for new cycleways and footpaths around the town, so that was nice. Will shortly ride to the station and furnish myself with an off-peak...
by RIP
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:43 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you reading now?
Replies: 397
Views: 40149

Re: What are you reading now?

Blackhound wrote: Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:28 pm I saw the tv series in the early 70’s
Yep, well remember it Kev. It was refreshing to see the German commandant and guards portrayed in a, for want of a better word, sympathetic way. Anthony Valentine was suitably chilling though! Strange to think the situation was only 80 years ago.
by RIP
Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:39 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: How long does it take for your mat to lose pressure?
Replies: 9
Views: 254

Re: How long does it take for your mat to lose pressure?

I fancy injecting a good old-fashioned BBB digression in here. I reckon the "lower temperature causes mat to deflate" story is similar to the "hot drink warms you up for bed" story. I'm not convinced by either. "Adding a hot liquid to your body does increase your body temper...
by RIP
Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:27 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: How long does it take for your mat to lose pressure?
Replies: 9
Views: 254

Re: How long does it take for your mat to lose pressure?

Sorry not to answer the Q, Bear, because I don't usually have, er, problems going soft, so I'm told anyway, but just gerrit posted off to them and they'll find the leak and do a nice fix FOC.... My physics isn't up to calculating the exact pressure loss per volume per degC. "the air in the matt...
by RIP
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:19 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18424

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

When we got to the hide we worked out which side we normally lay on, me on my left and Mike on his right, then worked out which side of the floor to have so as not to wake up face to face inches apart :lol: Good job Ralph in the middle sleeps on his back or he'd have been guaranteed to wake up faci...
by RIP
Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:05 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you listening to now?
Replies: 1121
Views: 169119

Re: What are you listening to now?

For no reason at all, the great Roy Wood of Wizzard and The Move fame. Ah, those halcyon 70's - superwide collars on flowery shirts, bell-bottomed jeans, Bird's Angel Delight, the Six Million Dollar Man, power cuts, fighting with your brother in the back of the car on 8 hour holiday journeys to Tenb...
by RIP
Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:28 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18424

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Top report as usual Sean. Enjoyed all the little factoids and stories. That hide was pretty cosy for two :smile: .
by RIP
Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:56 pm
Forum: Anyone playing out?
Topic: GB Duro Entries open
Replies: 37
Views: 933

Re: GB Duro Entries open

Especially when Meta's carbon footprint running various social media platforms is massive. "According to Greenspector, there were 4.33bn social media users globally in May 2021. Across the 10 social media platforms the company looked at, their combined use adds up to 262m tonnes CO2e. That’s 0...
by RIP
Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:19 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18424

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Looks like a red light area to me.

Underpass kipping - another original idea in the Gritty Urban Realism series :-bd
by RIP
Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:18 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you listening to now?
Replies: 1121
Views: 169119

Re: What are you listening to now?

Just taken delivery of Macc Lads "Beer & Sex & Chips & Gravy" CD replacement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEOLkwMd5Hs

I'm dead shy about the size of my dick
And chips n gravy make me sick

Muttley, the poet laureate of Macc
by RIP
Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:10 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: The post man's been ...
Replies: 11406
Views: 1894108

Re: The post man's been ...

voodoo_simon wrote: Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:58 am Poor Taylor being used as a swear filter word…
The ultimate BBB honour really :smile:
by RIP
Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:37 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you drinking now?
Replies: 704
Views: 68459

Re: What are you drinking now?

Only 3 months late. Or 9 months early.

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by RIP
Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:09 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 3932
Views: 464709

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

fatbikephil wrote: Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:58 am drinking beer and woodland management
Nice. Just planted ten black poplars at the river this morning. Ultra rare these days. Tea and biscuit break.
by RIP
Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:22 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...
Replies: 10
Views: 418

Re: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...

Dave Barter wrote: Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:07 pm video of me eating a poo off the floor
This is already turning out to be my personal favourite thread of the year :grin:
by RIP
Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:06 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...
Replies: 10
Views: 418

Re: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...

Especially the Clif Bar observation "After I managed to blast that turd out, I turned to see how big it surely was (*). To my surprise (and heartbreak), it was only the size of a quarter and looked precisely like the Clif bar I was eating (yes, eating while you poop does save time.)". X_X...