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    #1892
    Ryath
    Registered Users Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭Ryath


    Beasty wrote: »
    GB Olympic Kit launched :eek:

    The cycling kit is pretty dire alright
    Victoria+Pendleton+in+the+adidas+Team+GB+Kit

    On the other hand I must say I can't see anything wrong with your track and field kit.
    Jessica+Ennis+in+the+adidas+Team+GB+Kit


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    #1893
    ednwireland
    Registered Users Posts: 14,291 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    i've got tickets for the olympics

    white water kayaking though

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



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    #1894
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    anyone have any experience with these? http://www.amazon.com/iHome-Rechargeable-Mini-Speakers-Black/dp/B004I8WHA6/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

    would love any bit of music on some long spins!


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    #1895
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,742 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Nothing about the opening of the Grand Canal cycle route on the news. What could be so important that it would push that out of the headlines?


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    #1896
    cdaly_
    Registered Users Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    Ardennes1944 wrote: »
    anyone have any experience with these? http://www.amazon.com/iHome-Rechargeable-Mini-Speakers-Black/dp/B004I8WHA6/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

    would love any bit of music on some long spins!

    The X-mini II speaker is half the price and really good...


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    #1897
    petethedrummer
    Registered Users Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    cdaly_ wrote: »
    The X-mini II speaker is half the price and really good...
    :eek: It's 3 times the price in Dublin shops.

    You could do what your local mentaller does and sellotape a radio to your handlebars. It's a dying tradition that should be revived.


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    #1898
    [Deleted User]
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    tomasrojo wrote: »
    Nothing about the opening of the Grand Canal cycle route on the news. What could be so important that it would push that out of the headlines?

    Tried it today on the way home out of curiousity (Sam Beckett Bridge to Portobello). It is OK in parts but I was surprised at the extensive cobbles at Grand Canal Quay - while fun I don't think it'll do much to get more people cycling if it feels like they're on a boneshaker.

    The lack of respect from other cyclists for the lights is an issue, as if you were on the road going along the Canal you can normally cycle ahead of them so they don't go ahead of you. Normally works but as you are stopping and stopping more often you're more likely to be behind them. Also, numerous cyclists were stopping in both cycle lanes on both sides of the road meaning you couldn't cycle straight - at plenty of junctions there was many dances of 'are you going left of me? Are you going right of me?'

    I encountered one car blocking the cycle route who was stopped at red lights, annoying but not much you could do about it. There were also several pedestrians on the path (I tried the bell but they didn't move, to be expected). There's also incredibly poor access in and out of the Leeson Street bridge section and it's difficult for me to rejoin the main road I take home.

    At the end of it I decided I'll be sticking to the road. Then again, I suppose the intended audience isn't me as I'm happy cycling on the road.


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    #1899
    The tax man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,557 ✭✭✭The tax man


    Always laugh to myself when a few 'young wans' walk past holding a mobile phone out in front of them while listening to some tinny sh!te coming from the speaker.
    God be with the days you'd be down the road with a ghetto blaster(twin tape deck of course) with a sound you could actually listen to and your mate in tow carrying a plastic bag full of spare D cell batteries. : )


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    #1900
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,267 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Don't forget the bag of cans.


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    #1901
    The tax man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,557 ✭✭✭The tax man


    Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »
    Don't forget the bag of cans.

    LOL How could I forget the drink.


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    #1902
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    The tax man wrote: »
    LOL How could I forget the drink.


    You forgot cardboard. Someone was always carrying a sheet of cardboard for breakdancing on.


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    #1903
    lennymc
    Registered Users Posts: 6,458 ✭✭✭lennymc


    ROK ON wrote: »
    You forgot cardboard. Someone was always carrying a sheet of cardboard for breakdancing on.

    we were so posh. we had lino.


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    #1904
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,667 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Vladimir Kurtains wrote: »
    Don't forget the bag of cans.

    Bleedin southsiders, lowering the tone of the place


    (Flaggins or naggins of course)


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    #1905
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    RobFowl wrote: »
    Bleedin southsiders, lowering the tone of the place


    (Flaggins or naggins of course)

    Always naggins where I grew up. Never heard of a flaggin til I moved to Dublin.


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    #1906
    Holyboy
    Registered Users Posts: 869 ✭✭✭Holyboy


    I'm really starting to panic about my best man speech now, only a few hours left!!!
    Screw it, I think I'll just wing it, I know it's the wrong thing to do but how wrong could it actually go?

    No one needs to actually answer that:rolleyes:


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    #1907
    G rock
    Registered Users Posts: 926 ✭✭✭G rock


    Holyboy wrote: »
    I'm really starting to panic about my best man speech now, only a few hours left!!!
    Screw it, I think I'll just wing it, I know it's the wrong thing to do but how wrong could it actually go?

    No one needs to actually answer that:rolleyes:


    Ah you'll be fine! Just remember that you're among friends, everyone has been wined and dined by that stage and are up for a laugh!

    forget about the stress and enjoy it!!


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    #1908
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users Posts: 9,316 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    G rock wrote: »
    I hope you went by bike, absolutely beautiful morning for it!

    I did. Glorious morning for it. Even the traffic was playing nice.

    I was planning to do tomorrow but I got an email reminding me that the college wants their books back and they wont let me renew them online. I can't lug 6 door stoppers of books with me, my panniers would cry.


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    #1909
    midonogh
    Registered Users Posts: 295 ✭✭midonogh


    Holyboy wrote: »
    I'm really starting to panic about my best man speech now, only a few hours left!!!
    Screw it, I think I'll just wing it, I know it's the wrong thing to do but how wrong could it actually go?

    No one needs to actually answer that:rolleyes:

    I have known X for15 years and in that time we have had a lot of fun and great nights craic, we have got up to some mischief. I could go on for hours about the messing that has gone on. Much though I would love to embarass him, his mother is here [granny], new in-laws etc and he has given me a list of things that I am not allowed to mention in my speech.

    Best man produces a piece of paper from his pocket and reads out list of things he is not allowed to mention. Just read the list, do not expand

    Include some true things that make him look cute -running away from home at 5 etc Grannys & aunties go ahh

    Include some true things that make him look like a drunken fool - passing out drunk, - so all his mates at the back laugh out loud

    Include somethings that make him look like a poor boyfriend - way he dresses/turning up late/dancing - so all the brides mates give a knowing laugh

    Intersperse this with things made up that will have people looking at each other and going wtf - Bangkok, tattos, awkward piercings

    You are the last person to speak so nobody will get a chance to respond

    Put away list and say that this does not leave you with much else to say.

    Say that the bridesmaids are looking wonderful and how you know they mean so much to the bride

    Say that you have know X for 15 years and are honuored that he has asked you to be his best man. While in that 15 years he had a few girlfriends come and go it was very obvious that when he met Y she was clearly something special. She clearly brings out the best in him and think that he brings out the best in her. YOu really wish them all the best and are sure that the future will be rich and happy. Ask everyone to be upstanding one last time and toast the bride and groom.


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    #1910
    daragh_
    Registered Users Posts: 3,121 ✭✭✭daragh_


    Holyboy wrote: »
    I'm really starting to panic about my best man speech now, only a few hours left!!!
    Screw it, I think I'll just wing it, I know it's the wrong thing to do but how wrong could it actually go?

    No one needs to actually answer that:rolleyes:

    We want a full report.


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    #1911
    niceonetom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,833 ✭✭✭niceonetom


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67DfSoxRts0


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    #1912
    SomeFool
    Registered Users Posts: 2,452 ✭✭✭SomeFool


    543622_261975267222746_100002308257235_581898_1365588189_n.jpg

    From the SKT facebook, interesting method of locking a bike :)


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    #1913
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users Posts: 9,316 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    That image is doing the rounds for a while. At least since january...


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    #1914
    rich.d.berry
    Registered Users Posts: 517 ✭✭✭rich.d.berry


    niceonetom wrote: »
    Bike Butterfly

    April 1st is just around the corner methinks. I cannot see anyone, but the gayest of gays, adopting this. Surely this is all a joke!


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    #1915
    Lusk Doyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭Lusk Doyle


    rich.d.berry wrote: »
    niceonetom wrote: »
    Bike Butterfly

    April 1st is just around the corner methinks. I cannot see anyone, but the gayest of gays, adopting this. Surely this is all a joke!

    That chap reminds me of Lumen. Can't for the life of me think why though...


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    #1916
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,267 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    TomPeterson.jpg


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    #1917
    ROK ON
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,831 ✭✭✭ROK ON


    rich.d.berry wrote: »
    , but the gayest of gays,

    Sorry to do this, but is anyone else here sick of the use of a pejorative to describe a persons lifestyle choice or orientation.
    I am usually pretty thickskinned and most certainly am not part of the PC brigade.

    That said noticed a small increase in the amount of times that gay, gayer, ghey is being used in a jokingly pejorative sense on forums.

    I would prefer that it happened less and less tbh. I purposefully did not report the post to mods as I do not believe it warrants it, and I want to get across the message that what one person deems as an offhand comment meant as a slag, maybe offensive to others.

    Thats all.


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    #1918
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,009 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    ROK ON wrote: »
    Sorry to do this, but is anyone else here sick of the use of a pejorative to describe a persons lifestyle choice or orientation

    You don't like the butterfly then?


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    #1919
    rich.d.berry
    Registered Users Posts: 517 ✭✭✭rich.d.berry


    ROK ON wrote: »
    Sorry to do this, but is anyone else here sick of the use of a pejorative to describe a persons lifestyle choice or orientation.
    I am usually pretty thickskinned and most certainly am not part of the PC brigade.

    That said noticed a small increase in the amount of times that gay, gayer, ghey is being used in a jokingly pejorative sense on forums.

    I would prefer that it happened less and less tbh. I purposefully did not report the post to mods as I do not believe it warrants it, and I want to get across the message that what one person deems as an offhand comment meant as a slag, maybe offensive to others.

    Thats all.

    It was never intended to offend anybody. What I was trying to say was that the Bike Butterfly is flamboyantly camp. Something that the Dancing on Ice judge, Louis Spence, might consider if he were a cyclist.


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    #1920
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,009 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    rich.d.berry wrote: »
    It was never intended to offend anybody. What I was trying to say was that the Bike Butterfly is flamboyantly camp. Something that the Dancing on Ice judge, Louis Spence, might consider if he were a cyclist.

    I think you've proven your credentials with the Dancing on Ice reference.


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    #1921
    RobertFoster
    Registered Users Posts: 9,123 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Lumen wrote: »
    I think you've proven your credentials with the Dancing on Ice reference.
    Lycra is lycra, all you'd have to do is change your footwear.


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