Boring Bloke Bingo

[newfhouse]

SWMBO.

 

[Rusty Nails]

I can get 46mpg on a trip to London.

I'll have a pint of my usual.

I'm not racist, but......

 

[Yellow Fang]

This wonderful phrase popped up in another thread and I felt it was too good to lose, even if my English teacher told me to always avoid alliteration.

I fall into a haze when a person says

"You would be better to take the third exit...."

"26tpi unless its Italian..."

"Its a well-known fact that..."

"Great film, it was based on a true story about..."

What sends you into a gray torpor?

(I may have said each of the above and have a distant inkling that I may, on occasion, be a little bit of a BB)

Why did your English teacher tell you to avoid alliteration?

 

[Grant Fondo]

I'm worried about putting the right amount of grease on my new QR axles.... during a global pandemic. Is this PTSD?

 

[Wookee]

When I am asked what I do for a living, my now standard response is "only 5 other people in the world understand what I do and find it interesting, you are unlikely to be a 6th". The trouble is, some get intrigued by this and ask me to elaborate...

 

[And]

"Campagnolo is better than Shimano, and I'll tell you why....."

 

[All uphill]

Why did your English teacher tell you to avoid alliteration?

I think it was the nearest she could get to a joke.

 

[Edwardoka]

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Christ, that meme is ancient. Oolong the rabbit died at the start of 2003, making that meme older than:

 

[ColinJ]

Why did your English teacher tell you to avoid alliteration?

Always avoid alliteration...

I think it was the nearest she could get to a joke.

Well, I thought it was funny!

Ooh, I've just had a flashback 50 years to MY English teacher reading out Anthem for Doomed Youth...

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
...

 

[mudsticks]

I'm worried about putting the right amount of grease on my new QR axles.... during a global pandemic. Is this PTSD?

TBH I'm feeling the anxiety rise now.

When I am asked what I do for a living, my now standard response is "only 5 other people in the world understand what I do and find it interesting, you are unlikely to be a 6th". The trouble is, some get intrigued by this and ask me to elaborate...

I have the opposite problem, when people inquire about my occupation i'll often get.

"Oh how lovely / fascinating "

I sometimes have to bite back a "No not always"

The alternative is to pretend to be a 'systems analyst'

cos no one knows what that is..

Not even the systems analysts

 

[mudsticks]

Christ, that meme is ancient. Oolong the rabbit died at the start of 2003, making that meme older than: View attachment 535235

Yeah but it's from the 'vintage meme' collection.

Be careful, express any more interest, and you'll get shown all of them ..

 

[raleighnut]

TBH I'm feeling the anxiety rise now.



I have the opposite problem, when people inquire about my occupation i'll often get.

"Oh how lovely / fascinating "

I sometimes have to bite back a "No not always"

The alternative is to pretend to be a 'systems analyst'

cos no one knows what that is..

Not even the systems analysts

Oi! my Dad was a 'Systems Analyst' in his 'career path' that saw him move from an Oik in the RAF to a 'Senior Systems Designer' with a salary in excess of a quarter of a million* before he died (aged 56) in the late 90s. I as his 'Hippy' Son was a disappointment to him but I've had a much more fulfilling life though as a 'wanderer' going from one creative occupation to another in my life.

* after I went to college for 2 years 'full time' in my 30s and qualified as a 'City & Guilds' Cabinet Maker I worked in shopfitting for a few years and got paid @£40,000 a year, he scoffed "I pay more than that in Income Tax"

 

[Profpointy]

When I am asked what I do for a living, my now standard response is "only 5 other people in the world understand what I do and find it interesting, you are unlikely to be a 6th". The trouble is, some get intrigued by this and ask me to elaborate...

You are Arthur Eddington and I claim my five pounds!

The version I'd heard was a journalist asking Sir Arthur if it was true that he was one of only three people who really understood Relativity after his triumphant return from measuring the orbit of Mercury during an eclipse. "Don't know about that" replies Sir Arthur, and the journalist comments on his modesty. "It's not that, I was just wondering who the third person might be". I gather he was a bit of a comic rather than being arrogant, though he was certainly smart enough to justify a bit of arrogance

 

[mudsticks]

Oi! my Dad was a 'Systems Analyst' in his 'career path' that saw him move from an Oik in the RAF to a 'Senior Systems Designer' with a salary in excess of a quarter of a million* before he died (aged 56) in the late 90s. I as his 'Hippy' Son was a disappointment to him but I've had a much more fulfilling life though as a 'wanderer' going from one creative occupation to another in my life.

* after I went to college for 2 years 'full time' in my 30s and qualified as a 'City & Guilds' Cabinet Maker I worked in shopfitting for a few years and got paid @£40,000 a year, he scoffed "I pay more than that in Income Tax"

I have a mildly amusing story about a 'systems analyst' I met on a train one time - it involved a hurty knee, and a rolled up trouser leg..

Another time maybe

I realised some time back though, that both my jobs require endless, and ongoing 'systems analysis'..

But sadly, I'm also ashamed to report, that like you, I don't coin it for the exchequer, in quite the majorly quantifiable way that your dad did..

However, I hope my efforts contribute to overall wellbeing in other ways though

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I bought this bike for £12,000