Jan and Klodi's Party Bus - part II **off topic discussion**

robyntmorton

RobFowl wrote: »

Am getting perilously close to 10,000 posts !
Any suggestions for the big one !!!

An expose about how you don't really like cycling?

*Runs... to the nearest bike. Flees*

Hunterbiker

RobFowl wrote: »

Am getting perilously close to 10,000 posts !
Any suggestions for the big one !!!

It seems like most of them are complaints about this thread title aren't they?...

RobFowl

Hunterbiker wrote: »

It seems like most of them are complaints about this thread title aren't they?...

I have grown to love it....


(this may not be true !!!)

Hungrycol

RobFowl wrote: »

Am getting perilously close to 10,000 posts !
Any suggestions for the big one !!!

Just simply say: That will be all.

RobFowl

Hungrycol wrote: »

Just simply say: That will be all.

Just signed up for the Clontarf 10 mile so maybe it will be !

Moving to the AR or Tri forums

tomasrojo

Hungrycol wrote: »

Just simply say: That will be all.

Mic drop.

RobFowl

RobFowl

Weepsie wrote: »

Where's the alpecin? I've been conned

Thats me and lenny after a Vets race

manafana

RobFowl wrote: »

Thats me and lenny after a Vets race

camera takes off 10kg ?

scott.s

Thoughts on gold chain on all black bike...

Yay or nay?

ThisRegard

scott.s wrote: »

Thoughts on gold chain on all black bike...

Yay or nay?

Awesome.


{This is the one I was trying to insert as it's all black, but it's being non cooperative http://s790.photobucket.com/user/dubstar69/media/85_08a.jpg.html }

Alek

Thoughts on gold chain on all black bike...

You mean, like?

Eamonnator

scott.s wrote: »

Thoughts on gold chain on all black bike...

Yay or nay?

https://eurocyclist.wordpress.com/about/

Rule#42 covers this.
So Yes, go for it!

Beasty

RobFowl wrote: »

Am getting perilously close to 10,000 posts !
Any suggestions for the big one !!!

Thought you were talking about the thread then, and panic started creeping in...


...anyway, I do have a plan. I'm going to reinstate a few of your deleted posts to ensure you leapfrog 10,000


:pac:

robyntmorton

Beasty wrote: »

I'm going to reinstate a few of your deleted posts to ensure you leapfrog 10,000


:pac:

That's evil. You're a genius!

RobFowl

Beasty wrote: »

Thought you were talking about the thread then, and panic started creeping in...


...anyway, I do have a plan. I'm going to reinstate a few of your deleted posts to ensure you leapfrog 10,000

I have a plan and ready to execute it ! Lenny or Kuotobia have been told !!!!!

Beasty

RobFowl wrote: »

I have a plan and ready to execute it ! Lenny or Kuotobia have been told !!!!!

Jaysus! You're not sending the heavy mob down are you? I've spent enough time in hospital already this winter!!!

koutoubia

RobFowl wrote: »

RobFowl wrote: »

I have a plan and ready to execute it ! Lenny or Kuotobia have been told !!!!!

Your eagerness to-day to post pictures of semi- naked men is ...well ..unsettling!
And for that reason I'm Out!
Good luck Lenny.
You will need it!

Chuchote

Should cycling organisations have a say in this?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057706642

Surely a petition saying Irish motor tax (built in an attempt to cut Ireland's horrific carbon footprint) is too high should be opposed

magicbastarder

Chuchote wrote: »

Surely a petition saying Irish motor tax (built in an attempt to cut Ireland's horrific carbon footprint) is too high should be opposed

there is logic to this though, in the 'two tier system' argument. you could have the same car bought three months apart, but exactly when it was bought could result in noticeably different tax being payable on it.

IMHO, they should scrap motor tax and raise duty on fuel to cover the shortfall, i.e. a direct tax at the petrol pump rather than a tax on claimed (and usually fanciful) emissions.
for example: i'm doing what is possibly lower than average mileage (about 10k p.a.) in a 2007 reg car but am paying higher motor tax than someone driving a newer car doing 50k p.a.

Chuchote

magicbastarder wrote: »

there is logic to this though, in the 'two tier system' argument. you could have the same car bought three months apart, but exactly when it was bought could result in noticeably different tax being payable on it.

IMHO, they should scrap motor tax and raise duty on fuel to cover the shortfall, i.e. a direct tax at the petrol pump rather than a tax on claimed (and usually fanciful) emissions.
for example: i'm doing what is possibly lower than average mileage (about 10k p.a.) in a 2007 reg car but am paying higher motor tax than someone driving a newer car doing 50k p.a.

Yes, motor tax, insurance and NCT (the first NCT, not any repeats) should be on the cost of fuel. The only objection is that we have a loose border with Northern Ireland and this would incentivise people near the border to drive north to buy fuel.

tomasrojo

Chuchote wrote: »

Yes, motor tax, insurance and NCT (the first NCT, not any repeats) should be on the cost of fuel. The only objection is that we have a loose border with Northern Ireland and this would incentivise people near the border to drive north to buy fuel.

Brexit might change that.

manafana

i'd like see us bring in congestion charge within canal too, amount of single people occupied cars going through city every day, with all the bike tech now one person in big metal box is shouldn't be how people commute in a city

Chuchote

manafana wrote: »

i'd like see us bring in congestion charge within canal too, amount of single people occupied cars going through city every day, with all the bike tech now one person in big metal box is shouldn't be how people commute in a city

However, I'd also like occasional exceptions - for instance, a freelance friend has to drive to and from all the hospitals in Dublin and the surrounding counties in a car loaded down with case files; her annual mileage would prove her case for needing an exception to this.

buffalo

Chuchote wrote: »

However, I'd also like occasional exceptions - for instance, a freelance friend has to drive to and from all the hospitals in Dublin and the surrounding counties in a car loaded down with case files; her annual mileage would prove her case for needing an exception to this.

I drive a lot for work, so I shouldn't have to pay? I can make money thanks to the public road network, and therefore should be exempt from paying more for it?

If there is a charge introduced, her rates to clients should increase to take account for it. Likewise employers should cover costs to delivery drivers, etc.

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/congestion-charge/discounts-and-exemptions

Hungrycol

magicbastarder wrote: »

there is logic to this though, in the 'two tier system' argument. you could have the same car bought three months apart, but exactly when it was bought could result in noticeably different tax being payable on it.

IMHO, they should scrap motor tax and raise duty on fuel to cover the shortfall, i.e. a direct tax at the petrol pump rather than a tax on claimed (and usually fanciful) emissions.
for example: i'm doing what is possibly lower than average mileage (about 10k p.a.) in a 2007 reg car but am paying higher motor tax than someone driving a newer car doing 50k p.a.

Down with this sort of thing. I've just gotten a 2012 reg car and gone from over €1000 on Motor tax on my old car to to now just €200 per year my new one. I'll take that.

Lusk_Doyle

buffalo wrote: »

I drive a lot for work, so I shouldn't have to pay? I can make money thanks to the public road network, and therefore should be exempt from paying more for it?

If there is a charge introduced, her rates to clients should increase to take account for it. Likewise employers should cover costs to delivery drivers, etc.

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/congestion-charge/discounts-and-exemptions

We pay more than enough to the revenue in charges on fuel versus your average Joe, Joe. Quid pro quo.

Chuchote

buffalo wrote: »

I drive a lot for work, so I shouldn't have to pay? I can make money thanks to the public road network, and therefore should be exempt from paying more for it?

If there is a charge introduced, her rates to clients should increase to take account for it. Likewise employers should cover costs to delivery drivers, etc.

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/congestion-charge/discounts-and-exemptions

Nnno. My friend (barely keeping it together financially) is required by work to visit hospitals that have most inconsiderately been put a good distance apart, as well as visiting city centre government departments.

Many people have similar work - freelance reporters who have to drive to different places in Dublin to report on news stories, but are paid only by the word; doctors who have to visit patients - and non-work, like people who bring meals-on-wheels to old and sick people. I'd be up for exemptions to this kind of necessary driving. But commuting, except for the disabled and decrepit, nope.

magicbastarder

i'm sure the best idea for a congestion charge would be for a 24 hour period, rather than every time you cross the canal cordon.

Lusk_Doyle

Chuchote wrote: »

Nnno. My friend (barely keeping it together financially) is required by work to visit hospitals that have most inconsiderately been put a good distance apart, as well as visiting city centre government departments.

Many people have similar work - freelance reporters who have to drive to different places in Dublin to report on news stories, but are paid only by the word; doctors who have to visit patients - and non-work, like people who bring meals-on-wheels to old and sick people. I'd be up for exemptions to this kind of necessary driving. But commuting, except for the disabled and decrepit, nope.

Hospitals that have inconsiderately been put a good distance apart? I hope that my sarcasm detector is broken and that you ain't serious!