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

manafana

buffalo wrote: »

I thought it was odd there wasn't that many extra cyclists this morning given the pseudo-general strike.

cycling on strike dates I found a headache between the huge amount of extra cyclists along with the huge amount of additional cars driven by people who don't know how drive with commuting cyclists

Chips Lovell

buffalo wrote: »

I thought it was odd there wasn't that many extra cyclists this morning given the pseudo-general strike.

Big queue for the showers in my office this morning.

CramCycle

Can someone explain if NBRU members who are in Irish Rail and Dublin Bus who started unannounced picket lines will be in trouble? I totally believe in the right to strike, so long as the rules are followed.

magicbastarder

am i correct in that it was clearly organised, but wasn't arranged via the unions?

daragh_

buffalo wrote: »

I thought it was odd there wasn't that many extra cyclists this morning given the pseudo-general strike.

A few extra bike shaped objects wobbling about but not as many as I expected.

Amazing how many people will happily sit for an hour and a half in gridlock rather than walk for 30 minutes.

CramCycle

magicbastarder wrote: »

am i correct in that it was clearly organised, but wasn't arranged via the unions?

NBRU were quick out the gates to say that they did not authorise or know about it. It was definitely organised, suppose it is just trying to see if there is someone to pin it on but I imagine it was strongly by word of mouth.

cdaly_

CramCycle wrote: »

Can someone explain if NBRU members who are in Irish Rail and Dublin Bus who started unannounced picket lines will be in trouble? I totally believe in the right to strike, so long as the rules are followed.

I suspect that they are perfectly entitled to hang around at the entrances to bus/rail depots so long as they do not impede others in going about their lawful business. OTOH, the Dublin Bus/Irish Rail employees who refused to enter their workplaces will have some union fun ahead.

magicbastarder

i wonder if the union are pissed but knew about it - they couldn't be seen to organise it as they don't currently have a mandate to strike.

CramCycle

magicbastarder wrote: »

i wonder if the union are pissed but knew about it - they couldn't be seen to organise it as they don't currently have a mandate to strike.

I don't think they are pissed at all, I could well imagine whether they knew or not (and I could imagine which is more likely), they cannot condone it as it would screw them in any court action.

magicbastarder

sorry yeah, that's what i meant to say but was a bit distracted.

Wishbone Ash

Chuchote wrote: »

I've seen a lockable bike cage in some hospitals - for the staff - but feck all bike parking for the patients and visitors.

As far as I can recall there is only one HSE hospital (i.e. general) in Dublin City. The rest are private/voluntary/trust etc.

Chuchote

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

As far as I can recall there is only one HSE hospital (i.e. general) in Dublin City. The rest are private/voluntary/trust etc.

The others are owned by the nuns? Which is the HSE hospital?

St James's
St Vincent's
Our Lady's Children's
Mater Misericordiae
Coombe Lying-in (as it used to be called)
Rotunda
Holles Street
James Connolly Memorial

smacl

For the day that's in it;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSZPNwZex9s

Wishbone Ash

Chuchote wrote: »

The others are owned by the nuns? Which is the HSE hospital?

St James's
St Vincent's
Our Lady's Children's
Mater Misericordiae
Coombe Lying-in (as it used to be called)
Rotunda
Holles Street
James Connolly Memorial

St James's is HSE. (Connolly is HSE but not in city centre).

Not sure about the Maternity Hospitals as I was referring to General Hospitals but I don't think they are HSE either.

RobFowl

Pretty chuffed to be asked to be a mod here but had to decline as would interfere too much with free time. Good luck to the other 2 new ones though.

robyntmorton

You're a cyclist. You're not meant to have free time. You're either working to pay for the bike, on the bike, talking about the bike, or dreaming about the bike

koutoubia

Thrilled to be asked to be a mod.
I will be ban hammer happy!
Bow to me minions!

koutoubia

And my first act of moderation will be to ban all MCNS members!

koutoubia

Thinking of banning Drawheda wheelers as a well!

koutoubia

....also skinny climbers. They can go as well!

RobFowl

koutoubia wrote: »

Thinking of banning Drawheda wheelers as a well!

Triathletes too

koutoubia

Goes without saying!

RobFowl

koutoubia wrote: »

Goes without saying!

Man Utd supporters and non coffee drinkers

koutoubia

RobFowl wrote: »

non coffee drinkers

Ah now here...Surely these people are stuff of urban legends.
I mean who doesnt drink coffee?

Tryathletes probably.

koutoubia

What about the thread title?

Beasty

koutoubia wrote: »

And my first act of moderation will be to ban all MCNS members!

I agree. Motor Cycle NewS readers should not be allowed to post here...

Beasty

koutoubia wrote: »

What about the thread title?

You want us to rename it "Man Utd supporters and non coffee drinkers"

Could live with that...

Wishbone Ash

Seems to be some sort of a glitch with Strava's April Climbing Challenge. My ordinary ride today with 600m is displaying as 103,000m and Strava has congratulated me for completing the April challenge. The world leader is on 321,000m on the first day!

Ryath

Beasty wrote: »

You want us to rename it "Man Utd supporters and non coffee drinkers"

Could live with that...

Surprised Rob didn't take the modship just to rename the thread!

RobFowl

If I did rename it, it would be "Robbie Fowler rides a Dolan "

https://twitter.com/terrydolan1/status/352097111107596288