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  • #6662
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,800 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    CramCycle wrote: »
    Knowing Top Gear it was staged.
    Come now, nobody watches it for realism. It's the Major Gowen-style racism that people are drawn to.


  • #6663
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,477 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    Come now, nobody watches it for realism. It's the Major Gowen-style racism that people are drawn to.

    That's just what the politicaly correct feminazi atheist gay agenda Muslim apologist brigade want you to think...


  • #6664
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Jawgap wrote: »
    Not sure- he did a pretty good job at snapping the derailleur on the Di2.

    Cos he gives a fiddlers about that! Everything they do is staged.


  • #6665
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Cos he gives a fiddlers about that! Everything they do is staged.

    Yeah, normally I'd agree - but trying to stage a fall in the middle of St Petersburg?

    You're kind of relying on a lot of Russians to respect his space when he tumbles - I'm not sure you can bank on their forbearance!

    It was noticeable that they were unwilling to take the pi$$ out of the Russkies the way they've taken the pi$$ out of other nationalities in the past.


  • #6666
    Mr Rubicon Conundrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭Mr Rubicon Conundrum


    Was reading a Peppa Pig book to my near 3 year old son, Peppa and George were on bikes....

    'Daddy, Peppa & George are very bold'

    'Why?'

    'Because they are not wearing helmets on their bikes!'

    What can I say?

    On an unrelated but related note - do any of you sneak rides on your kids flickers, they are great craic, pity they weren't around in my day.


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  • #6667
    zl1whqvjs75cdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭zl1whqvjs75cdy


    Jawgap wrote: »
    Top Gear.......Richard Hammond just found out why you don't cycle near tram tracks......an expensive fall by the looks of it!

    I winced when I saw the sheared derailleur. A beautiful piece of kit ruined by Hammond's incompetence. As soon as he crossed onto the tram tracks I knew it was going to be trouble.


  • #6668
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,800 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Mr Rubicon Conundrum wrote: »
    Was reading a Peppa Pig book to my near 3 year old son, Peppa and George were on bikes....

    'Daddy, Peppa & George are very bold'

    'Why?'

    'Because they are not wearing helmets on their bikes!'

    What can I say?
    The programme makers have fixed this. They reanimated the early programmes to add helmets (and seat belts for the car journeys) and all future programmes and merchandising will feature them in the first place.

    There is a stockpile of merchandise and DVDs produced before the change still out there where they don't have helmets though.


  • #6669
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Mr Rubicon Conundrum wrote: »
    Was reading a Peppa Pig book to my near 3 year old son, Peppa and George were on bikes....

    'Daddy, Peppa & George are very bold'

    'Why?'

    'Because they are not wearing helmets on their bikes! Silly Daddy'

    .

    FYP :D:D:D


  • #6670
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,151 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    The programme makers have fixed this. They reanimated the early programmes to add helmets (and seat belts for the car journeys) and all future programmes and merchandising will feature them in the first place.

    There is a stockpile of merchandise and DVDs produced before the change still out there where they don't have helmets though.

    I copped the seat belt thing the other day, but its a kids program so I didn't really care as I don't expect my child not too put on a seatbelt because an animated pig didn't.

    Little to be doing with their time if someone complained about this.


  • #6671
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    CramCycle wrote: »
    I copped the seat belt thing the other day, but its a kids program so I didn't really care as I don't expect my child not too put on a seatbelt because an animated pig didn't.

    Little to be doing with their time if someone complained about this.

    Wanna bet?

    One minute their not putting their seatbelts on because the pig didn't......

    .........next they're picking people off with a high powered sniper rifle using techniques they've learned from COD!

    .......it's a slippery slope......


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  • #6672
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,151 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Jawgap wrote: »
    Wanna bet?

    One minute their not putting their seatbelts on because the pig didn't......

    .........next they're picking people off with a high powered sniper rifle using techniques they've learned from COD!

    .......it's a slippery slope......

    Listen, if I have said it once, I have said it a million times, those Hare Krishnas were not wearing Hi Vis, mounting the payment and running them all over was completely their fault and nowt to do with GTA.

    Witnesses that claim I was screaming GOURANGA are clearly liars.


  • #6673
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    Jawgap wrote: »
    .........next they're picking people off with a high powered sniper rifle using techniques they've learned from COD!

    Not so funny anymore I am afraid.


  • #6674
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Alek wrote: »
    Not so funny anymore I am afraid.

    Sorry, but I'm not seeing the link between IS and kids camping on CoD?


  • #6675
    Mr Rubicon Conundrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭Mr Rubicon Conundrum


    I am now insisting that they wear full Hi-vis and helmets while jumping in muddy puddles and all pre-nanny state Peppa Pig publications have been burned in a mass eco-friendly bonfire out my back garden. Kids these days....:)


  • #6676
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Mr Rubicon Conundrum wrote: »
    On an unrelated but related note - do any of you sneak rides on your kids flickers, they are great craic, pity they weren't around in my day.

    Ha ha, they're bloody awesome. You can get some speed going with a good hip movements. I think that's why adults are better on them, they've more experience in the hip flexing department.


  • #6677
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,800 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    CramCycle wrote: »
    I copped the seat belt thing the other day, but its a kids program so I didn't really care as I don't expect my child not too put on a seatbelt because an animated pig didn't.

    Little to be doing with their time if someone complained about this.
    Children's programme makers seem to take these things very seriously, especially those who produce for the BBC (which doesn't include the Peppa Pig makers). I remember one episode of Something Special (I have small chidren, ok?) where Mr. Tumble has a crash, off screen, and re-emerges to reassure the children that he was unharmed because he was wearing a helmet. Which is a somewhat mixed safety message, if you believe in risk compensation among children.

    The Peppa Pig makers did indeed decide to reanimate the early shows because of some parents saying that their kids wouldn't wear seat belts because Peppa Pig didn't. I guess they threw in the helmet thing while they were doing the seat belts, in the spirit of responsibility.


  • #6678
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Alek wrote: »
    Not so funny anymore I am afraid.

    Joining because of Call of Duty?
    tomasrojo wrote: »
    I remember one episode of Something Special (I have small chidren, ok?)

    I can tolerate all kids programs, may even enjoy Peppa Pig and Ben and Holly, but I draw the line at Mister Maker and Something Special, luckily so did my daughter.


  • #6679
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Mr Rubicon Conundrum wrote: »
    I am now insisting that they wear full Hi-vis and helmets while jumping in muddy puddles and all pre-nanny state Peppa Pig publications have been burned in a mass eco-friendly bonfire out my back garden. Kids these days....:)

    It's too late for you. Having watched it they will now be convinced that you as the Daddy are a lazy imbecile......

    Why Peppa Pig is evil

    Daddy Pig is a loving, hard-working father - but he is subject to abuse from Peppa Pig and family every single episode"

    Maybe it's not too late to trade them in for fresh set and start from new!


  • #6680
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,800 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    I see a lot of such shows. I have started having detailed opinions, Mark Kermode-style, about them. Help!


  • #6681
    Alek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,520 ✭✭✭Alek


    I'm not trying to say that playing war games on the computer makes mercenaries from kids. But I believe it creates acceptance (or even glorification) of extreme violence and dehumanization that can help make this decision at later stage.


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  • #6682
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Alek wrote: »
    I'm not trying to say that playing war games on the computer makes mercenaries from kids. But I believe it creates acceptance (or even glorification) of extreme violence and dehumanization that can help make this decision at later stage.

    Well based on my small sample study of my two kids and their mates, I think it simply creates acceptance of shouting, arguing, abandoned homework and strange smells in rooms!

    Although I do know someone who is in the army and when interviewing a potential recruit he asked him "so, why do you think you'd make a good soldier?" His reply was ".....because I'm boss at Call of Duty."


  • #6683
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,800 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Alek wrote: »
    I'm not trying to say that playing war games on the computer makes mercenaries from kids. But I believe it creates acceptance (or even glorification) of extreme violence and dehumanization that can help make this decision at later stage.
    It was so much simpler in the eighties, when those who were exposed to children's entertainments in the seventies grew up to use cream pies and splurge guns as their weapons of choice.


  • #6684
    Mr Rubicon Conundrum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭Mr Rubicon Conundrum


    "Maybe it's not too late to trade them in for fresh set and start from new!"

    I'm thinking of some sort of sale & leaseback system whereby we could have them when they being cute & funny, but someone else's problem during tantrums, etc. :)


  • #6685
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    It was so much simpler in the eighties, when those who were exposed to children's entertainments in the seventies grew up to use cream pies and splurge guns as their weapons of choice.

    .......it's a wonder we even survived such a dangerous time in human evolution....

    from "Magnets, Bulbs and Batteries (A Ladybird Junior Science Book)"

    Yay - a proper kids book that teaches you how to strip batteries and complete a circuit with your tongue.......

    Tongue-Tester_3171645b.jpg


  • #6686
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,151 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    tomasrojo wrote: »
    Children's programme makers seem to take these things very seriously, especially those who produce for the BBC (which doesn't include the Peppa Pig makers). I remember one episode of Something Special (I have small chidren, ok?) where Mr. Tumble has a crash, off screen, and re-emerges to reassure the children that he was unharmed because he was wearing a helmet. Which is a somewhat mixed safety message, if you believe in risk compensation among children.

    The Peppa Pig makers did indeed decide to reanimate the early shows because of some parents saying that their kids wouldn't wear seat belts because Peppa Pig didn't. I guess they threw in the helmet thing while they were doing the seat belts, in the spirit of responsibility.

    I think risk compensation is the biggest issue, if you want your kids to wear a helmet, then make them, but don't tell them it will protect from harm in a crash as then they don't see the harm in having a crash. I remember one poster finding his kid ramming the kerb as the helmet now protected her.

    If my kid doesn't want to wear his seat belt, he will shortly find out what the phrase "tough ****" means and that he is wearing his seat belt, whether he likes it or not. So far its not an issue but if it becomes one, it will be his issue.


  • #6687
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,620 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bit of a twitter spat between sticky bottle and Paul Kimmage about their recent Pat McQuaid interview.

    STlQpGd.png


  • #6688
    quozl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,308 ✭✭✭quozl


    Magnets used to be wussy but modern rare earth magnets are seriously dangerous to small kids. They can cause tissue death between intestines on trapping it after attracting it together, which is a medical emergency. They've caused deaths unfortunately, and more surprisingly to me teenagers have had to have surgery to remove them after trying to use them as fake tongue piercings and accidentally swallowing them!

    eg http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24084613

    On the plus side, magnets are cool and I use them in a hobby of mine but the modern ones are not for kids anymore :)


  • #6689
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    Jawgap wrote: »
    It's too late for you. Having watched it they will now be convinced that you as the Daddy are a lazy imbecile......

    Why Peppa Pig is evil

    Daddy Pig is a loving, hard-working father - but he is subject to abuse from Peppa Pig and family every single episode"

    Maybe it's not too late to trade them in for fresh set and start from new!

    Hah! You obviously didn't have childhoods scarred by the real horror of Oliver Postgate's sinister Pogle's Wood and Noggin the Nog.


  • #6690
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    Qualitymark wrote: »
    Hah! You obviously didn't have childhoods scarred by the real horror of Oliver Postgate's sinister Pogle's Wood and Noggin the Nog.

    The Daleks........ftw!


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  • #6691
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,496 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Qualitymark wrote: »
    Hah! You obviously didn't have childhoods scarred by .... Noggin the Nog.
    Certainly brings back memories for some of us, as does Muffin the Mule ....


    (only the replays though!)


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