driving range + river loop = a painful combination

asterope said:

<snip> driving range yesterday <snip>

quick loop of the river <snip>

OMG! post year end exam celebrations have taken a serious nerd -nosedive since I was an undergraduate (yes, which was in the previous millenium)

Monsterman
(who after 1st yr exams barfed all over a space invaders machine at the Regatta hotel in 1985, and then slept face down in it. Allegedly. No-camera phones in those days and you would not take your good 35mm SLR on a binge session. Ah, the old days ... ....)

monsterman said:

OMG! post year end exam celebrations have taken a serious nerd -nosedive since I was an undergraduate (yes, which was in the previous millenium)

Monsterman
(who after 1st yr exams barfed all over a space invaders machine at the Regatta hotel in 1985, and then slept face down in it. Allegedly. No-camera phones in those days and you would not take your good 35mm SLR on a binge session. Ah, the old days ... ....)

whoa whoa whoa... hold on there just a moment monsterman... just who was making friends with a bottle of absinthe on thursday afternoon (after calling in "*sick*" at work) after their last exam, hmmmm?

tut tut... the driving range and river loop are merely recovery days... days of relative sobriety betwixt the hazy sparkle of alcoholic stupor...

sleeping in your own barf... truly a sign of a stunning academic mind of the future 😉 how long did it take you to realise/wake up? though im assuming from your post you have no recollection of the event hehehe

Asterope
(who just got back from an end of uni 1/2 price cocktail party at the pavillion, having consumed many dirty martinis)

asterope said:

whoa whoa whoa... hold on there just a moment monsterman... just who was making friends with a bottle of absinthe on thursday afternoon (after calling in "*sick*" at work) after their last exam, hmmmm?

tut tut... the driving range and river loop are merely recovery days... days of relative sobriety betwixt the hazy sparkle of alcoholic stupor...

sleeping in your own barf... truly a sign of a stunning academic mind of the future 😉 how long did it take you to realise/wake up? though im assuming from your post you have no recollection of the event hehehe

Asterope
(who just got back from an end of uni 1/2 price cocktail party at the pavillion, having consumed many dirty martinis)

I think I realised just after the bouncer woke me up and gave me a mop and bucket :eek: . You have restored my faith (a little) in Gen Y with the absynthe and martinis. A little ... ....😎

monsterman said:

asterope Wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Asterope
(who just got back from an end of uni 1/2 price cocktail party at the
pavillion, having consumed many dirty martinis)

I think I realised just after the bouncer woke me up and gave me a mop
and bucket :eek: . You have restored my faith (a little) in Gen Y with
the absynthe and martinis. A little ... ....😎

Asterope, MM sets the bar really high when it comes to binge drinking - like a
true professional 🙂

Had a great ride yesterday at Daisy. My boss won't be in today as a result of
the concussion he gained at Sleepy Hollow. 10/10 for stack style though 🙂

--
Karen

"Reverse the polarity and invert the particle flux!"
"You mean put the batteries in the other way?"
"...yes."
-Star Trek (any of them)

Duracell Bunny said:

My boss won't be in today as a result of
the concussion he gained at Sleepy Hollow.

Nice way to get a promotion. How hard did you have to push him?

monsterman said:

Nice way to get a promotion. How hard did you have to push him?

please note that no-one on this board condones the use of force to achieve a day off or a promotion, but if its done in style, then there are concessions made...

nice one karen... did you get any photos? 😉

monsterman said:

Duracell Bunny said:

My boss won't be in today as a result of
the concussion he gained at Sleepy Hollow.

Nice way to get a promotion. How hard did you have to push him?

Not that hard, actually 🙂

He's now complaining of numbness in some fingers of his left hand (left elbow
took a beating on impact) so I suggested a trip to his quack might well be
advised. But he's planning to be riding with us again both days next week.

Quite a good crowd of MTB'ers at work here now, we can normally muster between 4
& 10 riders, and maybe 3 or 4 if we're doing a 'hard & fast' ride. I'm really
surprised how my skills have picked up after Kooralbyn, I learned a lot that
day. Must be due for a serious stack myself ...

--
Karen

"Reverse the polarity and invert the particle flux!"
"You mean put the batteries in the other way?"
"...yes."
-Star Trek (any of them)

Duracell Bunny said:

Quite a good crowd of MTB'ers at work here now, we can normally muster between 4
& 10 riders, and maybe 3 or 4 if we're doing a 'hard & fast' ride.

What do you and the other 5 or 6 riders do after the 3 or 4 hard & fast riders take off? 🙂 😄 😄

asterope said:

monsterman said:

Nice way to get a promotion. How hard did you have to push him?

please note that no-one on this board condones the use of force to
achieve a day off or a promotion, but if its done in style, then there
are concessions made...

nice one karen... did you get any photos? 😉

No, I'm still not used to having a phone that can take pictures, otherwise
that'd have been good for endless blackmail 🙂

Like your thinking, though ...

--
Karen

"Reverse the polarity and invert the particle flux!"
"You mean put the batteries in the other way?"
"...yes."
-Star Trek (any of them)

monsterman said:

Duracell Bunny said:

Quite a good crowd of MTB'ers at work here now, we can normally muster
between 4
& 10 riders, and maybe 3 or 4 if we're doing a 'hard & fast' ride.

What do you and the other 5 or 6 riders do after the 3 or 4 hard & fast
riders take off? 🙂 😄 😄

Ouch!

That's maybe a reflection on the standard of the others ...

--
Karen

"Reverse the polarity and invert the particle flux!"
"You mean put the batteries in the other way?"
"...yes."
-Star Trek (any of them)

monsterman said:

OMG! post year end exam celebrations have taken a serious nerd -nosedive since I was an undergraduate (yes, which was in the previous millenium)

Monsterman
(who after 1st yr exams barfed all over a space invaders machine at the Regatta hotel in 1985, and then slept face down in it. Allegedly. No-camera phones in those days and you would not take your good 35mm SLR on a binge session. Ah, the old days ... ....)

my final engineering exam in 1977 - finished exam at 11:00am, Regatta, Student Club, Regatta (Student Club used to close for a few hours in the afternoon),Student Club, walk down to ferry but decide that sleeping under tree beside path to ferry is a better idea, wake up in the dark, walk to ferry, get seasick crossing Brisbane river (must have been rougher than usual), stagger into home in Highgate Hill at midnight.

And the yoof of today.........?

SteveA

monsterman said:

Duracell Bunny said:

Quite a good crowd of MTB'ers at work here now, we can normally muster
between 4
& 10 riders, and maybe 3 or 4 if we're doing a 'hard & fast' ride.

What do you and the other 5 or 6 riders do after the 3 or 4 hard & fast
riders take off? 🙂 😄 😄

--
monsterman

Oh you [censored]!