What Has Made You Laugh Today ?

[Jdsk]

Do you know the Zen... story?

I do; perhaps Pirsig's friend would have been less upset with a gold plated shim, my current choice for my British Eagle's drive-side bb cup.
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Is it an in-joke referring to that? Because the difference in views wouldn't work with a product designed to be used for the purpose for which it is used...

Jonathan

[colin54]

Is it an in-joke referring to that? Because the difference in views wouldn't work with a product designed to be used for the purpose for which it is used...

Jonathan

I assumed perhaps mistakenly (?) that you were alluding to the 'Zen Shim Question' which you have mentioned before on the forum.

http://www.hilarygallo.com/the-zen-shim-question/
All that Zen stuff make my head ache I'm afraid, I read the book once or twice, not for me.

[kylecycler]

Out washing my bike when I overheard this exchange between father and daughter over the back fence...

Dad: You're not getting your phone for at least a week."

Kid: "W-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A!"

I know it's not really funny - modern technology can be more of a curse than an asset sometimes - but it did make me laugh.

[djnotts]

I do hope that this is NOT a 1st April thing:

https://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/ribble-h ... 0UK%20Only

[Audax67]

I do hope that this is NOT a 1st April thing:

https://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/ribble-h ... 0UK%20Only

Heh. In the wee small hours during a 1000k 10 years ago I really did feel that another rider was with us and riding just out of sight, slightly behind and to my right. Chum who's a bit on the religious side said "well, somebody was". :facepalm:

[Mike Sales]

Heh. In the wee small hours during a 1000k 10 years ago I really did feel that another rider was with us and riding just out of sight, slightly behind and to my right. Chum who's a bit on the religious side said "well, somebody was". :facepalm:

Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman —But who is that on the other side of you?

The Waste Land T.S.Eliot

Shackleton felt something like this on his small boat voyage to South Georgia.

https://www.rsgs.org/blog/sir-ernest-sh ... -third-man

[Jdsk]

Heh. In the wee small hours during a 1000k 10 years ago I really did feel that another rider was with us and riding just out of sight, slightly behind and to my right. Chum who's a bit on the religious side said "well, somebody was".

Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman —But who is that on the other side of you?

The Waste Land T.S.Eliot

Shackleton felt something like this on his small boat voyage to South Georgia.

https://www.rsgs.org/blog/sir-ernest-sh ... -third-man

That was on the trek across South Georgia, after the voyage of the James Caird.

Jonathan

[Audax67]

I have read of this somewhere else since then. Apparently feeling the presence of another is a kind of hallucination that most commonly occurs in cases of brain damage, but I'd not be surprised if it happened due to fatigue and sleep deprivation. Somaesthesia is the tech term.

[mattheus]

I have read of this somewhere else since then. Apparently feeling the presence of another is a kind of hallucination that most commonly occurs in cases of brain damage, but I'd not be surprised if it happened due to fatigue and sleep deprivation. Somaesthesia is the tech term.

Ditto! Walkers/runners on super-endurance events were mentioned - I probably noticed that due to post-Barkley-Jasmin euphoria - and I'm annoyed that my rubbish brain can't remember more of the details ...

[Jdsk]

I have read of this somewhere else since then. Apparently feeling the presence of another is a kind of hallucination that most commonly occurs in cases of brain damage, but I'd not be surprised if it happened due to fatigue and sleep deprivation. Somaesthesia is the tech term.

Somaesthesia refers to any perceptions about the body.

I don't know a term for this other than Third Man and felt presence.

Jonathan

[Audax67]

I have read of this somewhere else since then. Apparently feeling the presence of another is a kind of hallucination that most commonly occurs in cases of brain damage, but I'd not be surprised if it happened due to fatigue and sleep deprivation. Somaesthesia is the tech term.

Somaesthesia refers to any perceptions about the body.

Gotcha. I was taking it as feeling the presence of another body.

[Cowsham]

A Farmer in Devon see's a bloke drinking from his stream & shouts,

"Wozzon! Ee dun wanna be drinkin dat,
it's full of horse p1ss an cow dung".

The bloke says "I'm from london and just purchased a property in the village can you speak bit slower please".

The Farmer replies "If - you -use - two - hands - you - won't - spill - any"!!!!!

[rjb]

During my apprenticeship I was seconded to a substation in Indian Queens in Cornwall. We were being instructed in the operation of the substation by an engineer with a strong local accent. My fellow students became quite agitated and later admitted to me they didn't comprehend anything he said.
Being a Devon lad from Plymouth I could manage the dialect.
BTW the locals use "tiz" not it's.

[Pastychomper]

I have a fond(?) memory of sitting in a factory canteen in Cornwall when one of the other workers asked if a young chap was reading a motorbike magazine. The manager replied for him, "No, 'tis not a motorbike. 'Tis something you ride, but 'tis not a motorbike."

[kylecycler]

I do hope that this is NOT a 1st April thing:

https://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/ribble-h ... 0UK%20Only

Heh. In the wee small hours during a 1000k 10 years ago I really did feel that another rider was with us and riding just out of sight, slightly behind and to my right. Chum who's a bit on the religious side said "well, somebody was". :facepalm:

One of the funniest things I ever read was about a fellow on an audax ride whose pal fell asleep beside him but kept riding. His pal slumped over and rested his head on his shoulder, fast asleep, but they kept riding like that for several miles before his pal woke back up - his pal was still pedalling, but in his sleep!