They don't even pay road tax Joe. Off topic thread

CptMackey · 25-01-2015 12:51am

inc21 wrote: »

you did try to search for new sensor on the 500?

Ya. Doesn't seem to work . Going to try the firm ware update and see how it goes

Hopefully it will work

CptMackey · 25-01-2015 4:30pm

Just in case anybody else has similar problems the firm ware update worked

bazermc · 25-01-2015 4:39pm

need cycling fashion advice

Purchased bib tights with foot loops. Do they go on over or under socks?

I tried socks over them, but looks a bit daft

CramCycle · 25-01-2015 5:19pm

bazermc wrote: »

need cycling fashion advice

Purchased bib tights with foot loops. Do they go on over or under socks?

I tried socks over them, but looks a bit daft

Socks first

OldBean · 25-01-2015 6:40pm

Socks first for sure.

Jawgap · 25-01-2015 9:17pm

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

CramCycle · 25-01-2015 9:22pm

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!

Knowing Top Gear it was staged.

Jawgap · 25-01-2015 9:30pm

CramCycle wrote: »

Knowing Top Gear it was staged.

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

eeeee · 25-01-2015 10:17pm

Went out for the road spin with my own club for first time today. It was awesome and very enjoyable. However I did a couple of really stupid things in traffic that I never do on my own. (I went up the inside of a left turning car that was stopped at the lights, but they turned green as I shimmied up the inside of it like a complete and total dick) and called 'clear' when it wasn't for everyone turning out onto another road. Serious red face (:o times 10) and discipline + brain to be engaged next week. Does this happen to anyone else? It's so embarrassing!

inc21 · 25-01-2015 10:20pm

Do you call out "clear" when out on your own? :O

tomasrojo · 26-01-2015 12:24am

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.

rollingscone · 26-01-2015 9:38am

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...

Lusk_Doyle · 26-01-2015 10:00am

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.

Jawgap · 26-01-2015 10:30am

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.

Mr Rubicon Conundrum · 26-01-2015 10:55am

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.

zl1whqvjs75cdy · 26-01-2015 11:02am

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.

tomasrojo · 26-01-2015 11:03am

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.

Jawgap · 26-01-2015 11:14am

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

CramCycle · 26-01-2015 11:21am

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.

Jawgap · 26-01-2015 11:29am

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......

CramCycle · 26-01-2015 11:36am

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.

Alek · 26-01-2015 11:37am

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.

Jawgap · 26-01-2015 11:44am

Alek wrote: »

Not so funny anymore I am afraid.

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

Mr Rubicon Conundrum · 26-01-2015 11:54am

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....:)

ThisRegard · 26-01-2015 11:56am

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.

tomasrojo · 26-01-2015 11:57am

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.

ThisRegard · 26-01-2015 11:58am

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.

Jawgap · 26-01-2015 12:04pm

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!

tomasrojo · 26-01-2015 12:04pm

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

Alek · 26-01-2015 12:05pm

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.

Jawgap · 26-01-2015 12:10pm

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."

tomasrojo · 26-01-2015 12:11pm

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.

Mr Rubicon Conundrum · 26-01-2015 12:17pm

"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.

Jawgap · 26-01-2015 12:18pm

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.......

CramCycle · 26-01-2015 12:22pm

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.

26-01-2015 12:27pm

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

quozl · 26-01-2015 12:30pm

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

Qualitymark · 26-01-2015 12:55pm

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.

Jawgap · 26-01-2015 1:09pm

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!

Beasty · 26-01-2015 1:32pm

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!)

ThisRegard · 26-01-2015 2:42pm

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.

I should be a despot so at this stage.

Only last week some judge in Donegal laid the blame on the amount of young people coming before him on driving related matters on computer games, sigh.

Jawgap · 26-01-2015 2:47pm

Beasty wrote: »

Certainly brings back memories for some of us, as does Muffin the Mule ....

(only the replays though!)

not to mention Seaman Staines, Master Bates and Tom the Cabin Boy......

........and people are worried about Peppa Pig!

magicbastarder · 26-01-2015 2:54pm

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/lucy-kellaway-should-falling-off-my-bicycle-stop-me-from-leaning-in-1.2078990

'i don't want to go to a job interview and explain that i fell off a bike, but i will tell the world in a syndicated column'.

tomasrojo · 26-01-2015 3:19pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/lucy-kellaway-should-falling-off-my-bicycle-stop-me-from-leaning-in-1.2078990

bikesnobnyc make the point some years ago that baskets and panniers were unsung safety devices.

tomasrojo · 26-01-2015 3:23pm

Jawgap wrote: »

not to mention Seaman Staines, Master Bates and Tom the Cabin Boy......

........and people are worried about Peppa Pig!

In the urban myth it's Roger the cabin boy. But all an urban myth, alas.

Beasty · 26-01-2015 3:25pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/lucy-kellaway-should-falling-off-my-bicycle-stop-me-from-leaning-in-1.2078990

'i don't want to go to a job interview and explain that i fell off a bike, but i will tell the world in a syndicated column'.

My last job interview was over 20 years ago - I've stopped doing them for a reason ....;)

nomdeboardie · 26-01-2015 3:37pm

Another brief cyclists-vs-motorists item with vox pop on Newstalk included the following gem from a man-on-the-street: “...but a lot of people don’t tend to have knee-pads and elbow-pads :eek: (and helmets)...”

ThisRegard · 26-01-2015 4:17pm

The current Second Captains podcast discuss Geert Leinders lifetime ban, in their Cheaters special.

manafana · 26-01-2015 4:26pm

ThisRegard wrote: »

The current Second Captains podcast discuss Geert Leinders lifetime for ban, in their Cheaters special.

the south park bill billchick thing is brillant, loved that episode.

Weepsie · 26-01-2015 5:46pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/lucy-kellaway-should-falling-off-my-bicycle-stop-me-from-leaning-in-1.2078990

'i don't want to go to a job interview and explain that i fell off a bike, but i will tell the world in a syndicated column'.

"First, cyclists see me as a hero, non-cyclists as a fool."

I see her as an eejit for having the bag over the handlebars

They don't even pay road tax Joe. **Off topic thread**

Comments

They don't even pay road tax Joe. Off topic thread