The Rant Thread MKII (a new place to dump ur baggage)

walshb · 21-10-2014 10:37am

If going for a PB or fast time then stopping would be a big deal! Otherwise I think it shouldn't be too much of an issue,

MaggotBrain · 21-10-2014 11:25am

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HelenAnne · 21-10-2014 11:27am

walshb wrote: »

If going for a PB or fast time then stopping would be a big deal! Otherwise I think it shouldn't be too much of an issue,

But you won't ever be guaranteed a PB or fast time on a training run unless it's somewhere you won't be interrupted by anything unexpected -- if you're running on the public roads / paths you have to stop for traffic lights / to cross roads / if people are pulling out of their driveways, and you have to slow down to get around pedestrians / old people / slow walkers / kids on scooters / little dogs. Why is stopping for a bit of human interaction and to give directions any different to that?

(I presume we're talking about in training here rather than people asking the OP for directions during the Olympic Qualifier Trials on a track or something?)

walshb · 21-10-2014 11:46am

HelenAnne wrote: »

But you won't ever be guaranteed a PB or fast time on a training run unless it's somewhere you won't be interrupted by anything unexpected -- if you're running on the public roads / paths you have to stop for traffic lights / to cross roads / if people are pulling out of their driveways, and you have to slow down to get around pedestrians / old people / slow walkers / kids on scooters / little dogs. Why is stopping for a bit of human interaction and to give directions any different to that?

(I presume we're talking about in training here rather than people asking the OP for directions during the Olympic Qualifier Trials on a track or something?)

I was thinking the same myself. Looking to go real fast then best to pick a route with the least possible obstacles

carter10 · 21-10-2014 11:52am

HelenAnne wrote: »

You're joking, aren't you? Are you? Sometimes it's hard to tell on boards. Why is stopping such a big deal? What do you do when you get to traffic lights etc?

Didn't mind stopping for the wheelchair but in the case of the cars yes I did as there were other people around that could have been asked. Hate having to stop as it puts me off big time.
What also drives me nuts is coming up to a junction that I'm going straight through and there is a car turning into it. Some drivers take forever to turn. Recently it happened me and I shouted in frustration "f**k sake it's not a jumbo jet you're landing" not knowing 1. the window of the car was open and 2. he was an elderly neighbor.

T runner · 21-10-2014 11:55am

carter10 wrote: »

Didn't mind stopping for the wheelchair but in the case of the cars yes I did as there were other people around that could have been asked. Hate having to stop as it puts me off big time.
What also drives me nuts is coming up to a junction that I'm going straight through and there is a car turning into it. Some drivers take forever to turn. Recently it happened me and I shouted in frustration "f**k sake it's not a jumbo jet you're landing" not knowing 1. the window of the car was open and 2. he was an elderly neighbor.

Maybe he has a narrow gateway?

ThisRegard · 21-10-2014 11:56am

Car driver could be unsure if you're going to run in front of them as they turn, hence the hesitation. A bit of eye contact usually sorts this issue out quick enough. You could also just run around the back of them.

robinph · 21-10-2014 11:59am

Sometimes I'll stop and try and help or give directions, other times not. Depends on my mood, the weather, where I am at the time, if I can be bothered, how they approach me in the first place.

I certainly have no problem with ignoring people trying to stop me during a run to ask me some as yet unknown question, I also have no problem with people attempting to ask me something. If they get a response or not depends.

Gavlor · 21-10-2014 12:22pm

robinph wrote: »

Sometimes I'll stop and try and help or give directions, other times not. Depends on my mood, the weather, where I am at the time, if I can be bothered, how they approach me in the first place.

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Are you referring to your style of modding??????

PaulieC · 21-10-2014 12:37pm

I was out a few weeks ago in an unfamiliar area and a taxi driver stopped me to ask for directions. I asked him first did he not have 'the knowledge' but he looked like he didn't know what that was. When I told him I didn't know where he wanted to go, he til me not to worry about. Lucky he said that as it would OF spoiled the rest of the run thinking about it. A few miles later a guy coming on to the Navan Road hopped out of his car to start on me as I had the cheek to have been almost knocked down by him when he didn't stop at a stop sign. When I pointed that out to him he called me lots of names and started throwing shapes, so I just ran off. I really, really hate those types of uneducated, mouthy, aggressive dubs (yes I know there are the same kinds of tw*ts in every county, but the dubs have an extra special way of being dicks). After I ran off, I went way too fast for about 5 miles due to the adrenaline, then was wrecked for the last 8 miles or so 😓

walshb · 21-10-2014 12:48pm

PaulieC wrote: »

I was out a few weeks ago in an unfamiliar area and a taxi driver stopped me to ask for directions. I asked him first did he not have 'the knowledge' but he looked like he didn't know what that was. When I told him I didn't know where he wanted to go, he til me not to worry about. Lucky he said that as it would OF spoiled the rest of the run thinking about it. A few miles later a guy coming on to the Navan Road hopped out of his car to start on me as I had the cheek to have been almost knocked down by him when he didn't stop at a stop sign. When I pointed that out to him he called me lots of names and started throwing shapes, so I just ran off. I really, really hate those types of uneducated, mouthy, aggressive dubs (yes I know there are the same kinds of tw*ts in every county, but the dubs have an extra special way of being dicks). After I ran off, I went way too fast for about 5 miles due to the adrenaline, then was wrecked for the last 8 miles or so &#55357;&#56851;

Just shows you what a jungle it is out there. Have to be so alert. Animals everywhere.

AuldManKing · 21-10-2014 1:13pm

robinph wrote: »

Sometimes I'll stop and try and help or give directions, other times not. Depends on my mood, the weather, where I am at the time, if I can be bothered, how they approach me in the first place.

Gavlor wrote: »

Are you referring to your style of modding??????

Send 'em off, ref.

Gavlor · 21-10-2014 1:28pm

AuldManKing wrote: »

Send 'em off, ref.

Screw you rat boy!!

I bet you had your own daughter sin binned at the weekend

ThisRegard · 21-10-2014 1:47pm

PaulieC wrote: »

but the dubs have an extra special way of being dicks).

Some Dubs, just like some people. Bleeding culchies with their generalisations.

(yes, I'm well aware of the purposeful generalisation )

Any polite Dub would have helped the taxi driver and not ran out in front of a car as we don't think everyone in the big smoke is out to get us.

pgmcpq · 21-10-2014 2:36pm

ThisRegard wrote: »

Some Dubs, just like some people. Bleeding culchies with their generalisations..

Bloody Irish ... always fighting eachother

PaulieC · 21-10-2014 5:35pm

I would have helped the taxi if I knew where the hell I was, nevermind where he wanted to go. And yes, it was a generalization, but a very specific one 😊

MaggotBrain · 21-10-2014 11:33pm

Puy de Dóme, Pinot Noir, 2012. (SuperValu €10ish)
Straight out of an arsehole somewhere, rank stuff.

rom · 22-10-2014 12:35am

MaggotBrain wrote: »

Puy de Dóme, Pinot Noir, 2012. (SuperValu €10ish)
Straight out of an arsehole somewhere, rank stuff.

You could try drinking it next time.

davedanon · 22-10-2014 7:58am

PaulieC wrote: »

Lucky he said that as it would OF spoiled the rest of the run thinking about it.

Proud to be illiterate?

sideswipe · 22-10-2014 8:32am

davedanon wrote: »

Proud to be illiterate?

davedanon · 22-10-2014 8:41am

Ho hum. I'm happy with the 'being right' thing, on balance.

haha. And then I have to edit a misspelling.

yaboya1 · 22-10-2014 10:35am

davedanon wrote: »

"Ryan and Reid played their part as well but the nine point deficit against Wasps must of had O’Connor seething."

This is from THE IRISH TIMES. I know they've outsourced their subbing, but even so, if the Irish NEWSPAPER OF RECORD can descend to this level of illiteracy, then what hope is there for the world?

Gavlor wrote: »

I would of hoped for better from them alright.

PaulieC wrote: »

Lucky he said that as it would OF spoiled the rest of the run thinking about it.

davedanon wrote: »

Proud to be illiterate?

i don't think either of the lads are illiterate. They're just making a joke based on the original article you ranted about. I would have thought the fact that PaulieC capitalised OF makes this obvious?

davedanon · 22-10-2014 10:41am

yaboya1 wrote: »

i don't think either of the lads are illiterate. They're just making a joke based on the original article you ranted about. I would have thought the fact that PaulieC capitalised OF makes this obvious?

mmmm....okaaaay. I didn't read it like that. Maybe because my rant is going back a bit though now. But, let it never be said of us grammar nazis that we lack a sense of humour. Now that
would be wrong.

PaulieC · 22-10-2014 11:25am

davedanon wrote: »

mmmm....okaaaay. I didn't read it like that. Maybe because my rant is going back a bit though now. But, let it never be said of us grammar nazis that we lack a sense of humour. Now that
would be wrong.

Yes, it was a specific reference to your/you're rant. Believe me, I'm right up there when it comes to being a pedantic grammar Nazi.

While I'm here rant: being a pedantic grammar Nazi. It's almost impossible to read the internets without getting anxious due to bad spelling/grammar/punctuation/txt spk/malapropisms. Oddly enough, I quite like stuff like LOLZ and LMFAO.

Gavlor · 22-10-2014 11:34am

yaboya1 wrote: »

i don't think either of the lads are illiterate. They're just making a joke based on the original article you ranted about. I would have thought the fact that PaulieC capitalised OF makes this obvious?

Spot on. I can't believe that a nerd was unable to spot the nerdy joke!

davedanon · 22-10-2014 12:36pm

Gavlor wrote: »

Spot on. I can't believe that a nerd was unable to spot the nerdy joke!

Well, the first one was obviously a reply to my rant. I did get that. After a few days though, I wasn't sure about the second one. Still getting used to people's little ways around here, not sure how long the collective memory is. On another site I'm on, some of the memes and running gags have been going for a decade or more.

ultraman1 · 22-10-2014 1:37pm

Start ranting or the ranting ss will be on

#1 brass monkeys in taxis gettin their phi

kit3 · 22-10-2014 1:48pm

ultraman1 wrote: »

Start ranting or the ranting ss will be on

#1 brass monkeys in taxis gettin their phi

??

#rant - used to be able to understand um1's rants - losing my touch :rolleyes:

yaboya1 · 22-10-2014 1:49pm

kit3 wrote: »

??

#rant - used to be able to understand um1's rants - losing my touch :rolleyes:

Rhyming slang

Gavlor · 22-10-2014 1:53pm

ultraman1 wrote: »

Start ranting or the ranting ss will be on

#1 brass monkeys in taxis gettin their phi

Are you headbutting the keyboard instead of typing??

pconn062 · 22-10-2014 5:25pm

Mod/

Some posts deleted guys, keep it civil.

/Mod

PaulieC · 23-10-2014 5:14pm

Stupid tapering. And stupid next wed cos I'll be in bits and still won't be able to run proper.

Ososlo · 23-10-2014 5:22pm

PaulieC wrote: »

Stupid tapering. And stupid next wed cos I'll be in bits and still won't be able to run proper.

What about stupid Tuesday?

PaulieC · 23-10-2014 6:01pm

I meant stupid next week 😃

Finnt · 23-10-2014 9:33pm

Ads for triathlon hotels and training at the bottom of my screen when reading thru the a/r forum,

MaggotBrain · 23-10-2014 9:39pm

Finnt wrote: »

Ads for triathlon hotels and training at the bottom of my screen when reading thru the a/r forum,

Disneyland Paris here, got me spot on

gerard_65 · 23-10-2014 9:46pm

Adblock addons for chrome and firefox stops all that.:cool:

rom · 23-10-2014 11:56pm

The hack of Irish athletics takes a running (taxi) tour of DCM

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/ian-o-riordan-s-three-and-a-half-minute-dublin-marathon-1.1973083

ThisRegard · 24-10-2014 10:41am

Sitting in a GP waiting room, already a half hour past my scheduled appointment time. Chris Barry (or Adrian Kennedy, they're all the same) on the radio with every skanger in Dublin calling in who are all experts with what happened on the M7 last night, and I'm genuinely the only one so far without a medical card ffs.

This is how I imagine how hells waiting room is.

walshb · 24-10-2014 11:21am

Ice Bucket Challenge. Where's it gone?:mad:

ThisRegard · 24-10-2014 11:38am

It's been replaced by grab a testicle or something like that.

rom · 24-10-2014 1:58pm

walshb wrote: »

Ice Bucket Challenge. Where's it gone?:mad:

Irish water put a stop to it.

RayCun · 24-10-2014 2:18pm

those feckers in Athletics Ireland!

skeleton_boy · 24-10-2014 4:02pm

Last day of work before Dublin and I'm sat beside someone who's just back from a chest infection. Not good for my blood pressure if anything else.

gerard_65 · 24-10-2014 9:40pm

Three pr1cks in the same place on the LLS.

Laois_Man · 26-10-2014 10:04am

Everyone going on about the great "extra hour in bed"

Won't anyone think of those of us living with 4-year-olds.

cjt156 · 26-10-2014 11:30am

WIND!
horizontal leaves passing the window so I layer up in tights and a jacket. 2k into a run and I'm sweating like Joan of Arc.
Come home a sodden, sweaty mess.

Note to self; only wear layers when you can see your breath!

Slow_Runner · 26-10-2014 2:30pm

Laois_Man wrote: »

Everyone going on about the great "extra hour in bed"

Won't anyone think of those of us living with 4-year-olds.

Tell me about it:mad: Makes for 1 f**k off long day!!! And pre DCM as well, the kids will be lucky if they survive until dinner time with my nerves!!

Ososlo · 26-10-2014 4:14pm

Circuses with wild animals or any animals for that matter.
It makes me very sad and angry to know that there are wild animals, lions, tigers and bears imprisoned in cages only 5 minutes up the road from me. :mad:

gerard_65 · 26-10-2014 5:52pm

Ososlo wrote: »

Circuses with wild animals or any animals for that matter.
It makes me very sad and angry to know that there are wild animals, lions, tigers and bears imprisoned in cages only 5 minutes up the road from me. :mad:

Didn't know they still had wild animals:(

The Rant Thread MKII (a new place to dump ur baggage)

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