http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Anti-resolutions en Sun, 31 May 2026 15:33:22 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477&page=2#post-271200 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 18:19:43 +0000 urchaidh 271200@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/isBexBgm.jpg"><br /> (stolen shamelessly from the web) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477&page=2#post-271199 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 18:10:56 +0000 dessert rat 271199@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4690/25604727108_0624e6522c_o.gif"> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477&page=2#post-271198 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 18:04:15 +0000 steveo 271198@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Better solution, use one colour then no one is at a disadvantage. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477&page=2#post-271197 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:58:06 +0000 dessert rat 271197@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>spent 10 mins trying to do a pie-chart in Excel with hatching lines instead of colours. Have given up. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477&page=2#post-271195 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:43:49 +0000 gembo 271195@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@steveo no worries big man, you should check out unhurt's encyclopaedic knowledge of Blakes 7 over on Facebook. Curious as she was only Seven when it ended. Servelan, now there was a villain. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271194 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:36:37 +0000 steveo 271194@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>@steveo, :-) though very sadly Norman came aboard after Linda died.<br /> </em></p> <p>Ah, don't know my dwarf history as well as I should for round here. :D </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271193 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:35:52 +0000 steveo 271193@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I can't listen to Steve Wright, makes my blood boil for reasons I can't entirely articulate. This is not ideal when I'm driving. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271192 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:33:34 +0000 gembo 271192@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@steveo, :-) though very sadly Norman came aboard after Linda died. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271191 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:32:29 +0000 steveo 271191@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Was nice to hear Linda Smith the original ship's computer on red dwarf.</em></p> <p>You sure, she looks nothing like Norman Lovett </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271190 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:28:07 +0000 gembo 271190@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iainmcr, I saw a similar green red pie chart on Facebook asking Will my children tidy up? Like it. Though your one won't work with the second commonest form of colour blindness and mine won't work with the most common form of colour blindness ( though how I am googling)<br /> From Google - colour blindness more complicated than I remember<br /> @sallyhinch Eddie Mair is very good. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271189 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:15:31 +0000 sallyhinch 271189@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When I had a proper job and had trains to catch, the Today programme was invaluable because you always knew exactly what time it was without looking at your watch. Now that I no longer need it for timekeeping purposes I mostly turn it on just so I can have the pleasure of turning Jacob Rees Mogg off in mid sentence. </p> <p>The rest of the R4 output is much better as long as you avoid question time, any questions, you and yours, the moral maze and the drama (so probably most of it). The only news programme I actually enjoy is PM because Eddie Mair actually listens to what people are saying, which makes him a devastating interviewer when he wants to be and a very sympathetic interviewer of non politicians. He didn't cover himself with glory the once time cycling came up though, which took a bit of the shine off. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271187 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:07:52 +0000 dessert rat 271187@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ Gembo - ooooooh I get to use my childish pie chart again!</p> <p><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4732/25578855398_d40de29e8c_n.jpg"></p> <p>I think he is great. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271180 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 16:28:53 +0000 I were right about that saddle 271180@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>St Augustine, what a waste of a great brain.</em></p> <p>True, but CCE only started in 2009. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271179 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 16:26:30 +0000 gembo 271179@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iain McR, just so I am sure, are you saying you do not like Gary? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271177 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 16:10:10 +0000 dessert rat 271177@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ Gembo</p> <p><em>The sports guy is usually OK, Gary Richardson I think is his name.</em></p> <p>OK ?? He is awful - nothing on the radio, other than Chris Moyles, makes me detune faster.</p> <p>wrt Moyles - i can not comprehend the appeal. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271176 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 16:08:37 +0000 Cyclingmollie 271176@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I have recently started worrying that I might be an Augustinian. </em></p> <p>St Augustine, what a waste of a great brain. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271174 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 16:01:32 +0000 gembo 271174@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was nice to hear Linda Smith the original ship's computer on red dwarf. On the spliced together show. She was a human being. Williams always challenging to today's listeners (e.g. I think we should have more women on the show). He tried to dismiss Peter Jones another human being but could not get him on hesistation, deviation or repetition so he went for accusing him of being Dreary. Jones mutters That never stopped anyone on this show. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271173 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:49:29 +0000 I were right about that saddle 271173@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo</p> <p>Kenneth Williams' 'cult figure' rant on Just a Minute was one of the funniest things I've ever heard. Not that I'd want to hear it again. In the context of the time it was genius. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271168 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:21:47 +0000 gembo 271168@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Iwrats, did you not wait until after the news? The sports guy is usually OK, Gary Richardson I think is his name.</p> <p>the parents of Frank Partridge who used to read the news on radio four used to live in north uist which I found weird. I used to listen to radio four through the day on north uist when I went up in the winter, until I wanted to puke. But then next day I would still listen to it.</p> <p>Some quite good radio four moments over Xmas (IWRATS comments about Today do pretty much cover the whole channel) my favourite being Satchmo on desert island discs. Still available on iplayer, I implore anyone to listen to that. Then more niche but the old comedian, long dead Peter Jones getting buzzed on Just a minute and muttering I don't think this format is right for many of my stories.. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271163 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:08:58 +0000 I were right about that saddle 271163@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>* I was an habitual Today listener until 07h30 on the 24th of June 2016. </p> <p>At that point the scales <em>finally</em> fell. It was just bourgeois London babbling to bourgeois London about bourgeois London. Maybe that's changed but I'm done. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271161 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:02:13 +0000 unhurt 271161@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good old Augustine of <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Hippo_at_dawn.jpg/220px-Hippo_at_dawn.jpg">.</p> <p>@sallyhinch Everything you've <em>*</em>'d is a perfect summary of every Today programme </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271136 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 11:02:52 +0000 chdot 271136@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“Strongly correlated with depression, anxiety etc.”</p> <p>At least ‘we’ know that cycling can help. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271135 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 11:01:33 +0000 chdot 271135@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“So once more CCE is in the vanguard of modern thought”</p> <p>Don’t know if that is good or bad!(?) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271133 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 10:23:37 +0000 sallyhinch 271133@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Interesting thing* on the radio this morning about the rise in perfectionist tendencies among the younger generations. Strongly correlated with depression, anxiety etc. So once more CCE is in the vanguard of modern thought</p> <p>* I say interesting - it was the Today programme so they have 5 minutes, only two of which was the researcher attempting to say something nuanced about their research, the rest of the air time taken up by someone who had written a vaguely related book and the interviewer cutting everyone off. But reading between the lines, something interesting at the back of it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271132 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 10:02:18 +0000 I were right about that saddle 271132@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@unhurt</p> <p>You have hit on the essence of Christmas? The realisation that indolence in the company of the tolerable is worth more than any material object? </p> <p>I have recently started worrying that I might be an Augustinian. This is not the worst worry? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-271081 Tue, 02 Jan 2018 13:31:03 +0000 unhurt 271081@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmm, despite my resolve not to make resolutions I do seem to have resolved to keep track of how many days this year I get on a bike. Not to try to change that figure - but since observation affects outcome... Essentially I have broken my non-resolving resolution in record time. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-270720 Sun, 24 Dec 2017 21:10:49 +0000 Rosie 270720@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>To quote Chesterton, "If a thing is worth doing it's worth doing badly." I do various things badly - music, gardening, cycling - &amp; yet it is so much better than not doing them. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-270719 Sun, 24 Dec 2017 21:02:07 +0000 LaidBack 270719@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Many activities are 'works in progress'.<br /> If you are doing something new all that matters is that you are 'doing it'. This is a 100% improvement from 'not doing it'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-270697 Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:35:34 +0000 unhurt 270697@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@dougal I tend to procrastinate because if I don't start something I can't fail to do it perfectly. So I really like this quote (about writing but more widely applicable): </p> <p>“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft." Anne Lamott</p> <p>Ive been trying to let go and get on with actually living the [does rule 2 apply to soft swear words from quotations?] first draft of my life. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18477#post-270696 Sun, 24 Dec 2017 13:25:12 +0000 chdot 270696@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>You can't always get what you want<br /> But if you try sometimes, yeah<br /> You might find you get what you need!</p> <p>“ </p>