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

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As a culchie it amazes me massive divide/rivalry in Dublin. I know it's all a bit of craic mainly, but I do know southsiders who avoid going north side and visa versa, and mad judgements about each other, it's hilarious. It's all the one town/city!

I've lived north and south over the last 13 years and I have no particular grá for either. It's comfy on the fence. There's popcorn sometimes :P

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As a culchie it amazes me massive divide/rivalry in Dublin. I know it's all a bit of craic mainly, but I do know southsiders who avoid going north side and visa versa, and mad judgements about each other, it's hilarious. It's all the one town/city!

I've lived north and south over the last 13 years and I have no particular grá for either. It's comfy on the fence. There's popcorn sometimes :P

RobFowl

Northsider born and bred, couldn't live on the southside

Unknown Soldier

gadetra wrote: »

As a culchie it amazes me massive divide/rivalry in Dublin. I know it's all a bit of craic mainly, but I do know southsiders who avoid going north side and visa versa, and mad judgements about each other, it's hilarious. It's all the one town/city!

I've lived north and south over the last 13 years and I have no particular grá for either. It's comfy on the fence. There's popcorn sometimes :P

As a fellow culchie who has moved about a lot, there is no real divide. It's no different to all the divides that exist in many cities and countries. Watford gap for example.

Naughty North & Sexy South.

lennymc

RobFowl wrote: »

Northsider born and bred, couldn't live on the southside

ditto.

rollingscone

Wicklastani here.

But there's a big difference between Nort Side and North inner city

Beasty

God's own county for me (the North Riding thereof)

OldBean

Alek wrote: »

You're weird, you know?


(Even numbered areas resident for the last 12 years :P )

I'm very aware

I've lived in the rough and the all-too-nice of the south side. I'll take a decent local, Phoenix Park a Km away and the North Quays over the other side of the river any day.

Only regret is I'm half knackered on the bike from traffic by the time I get to the Wicklow mountains when I want them.

For the record, also a culchie blow in. Was sent to Dublin to learn culture and couldn't return.

RobFowl

OldBean wrote: »

Was sent to Dublin to learn culture

Jaysus, that was a bit of a fcukup wasn't it:rolleyes:

Lusk_Doyle

gadetra wrote: »

An artisanal bank or American multinational

Ah poor hipsters, they get such a hard time. I have no beef with them, People be people and there are a lot worse they could be. It does annoy me that I can't live near town because of them though :mad: (although as an artist I suppose we kind of kick start the problem)

You do live near town though.

Wishbone Ash

rollingscone wrote: »

....But there's a big difference between Nort Side and North inner city

And an even bigger difference between the North County and the 'Northside'.

rollingscone

Just sauntered over the ropey sections of the Royal Canal after Castleknock at 35psi on the Croix.

All hail tubeless tyres, thanks Alek for introducing me to this glorious new gospel of our Lord Jesus Bicycle.

*Shame about the fcekers using the towpath as a horse run though!

OldBean

rollingscone wrote: »

Just sauntered over the ropey sections of the Royal Canal after Castleknock at 35psi on the Croix.

All hail tubeless tyres, thanks Alek for introducing me to this glorious new gospel of our Lord Jesus Bicycle.

*Shame about the fcekers using the towpath as a horse run though!

Any hassle?

rollingscone

OldBean wrote: »

Any hassle?

Nay. I just didn't fancy having a horse fired at me.

Some other chap on Hypers got past them alright.

I was a little behind and took the gravel bypass and was about to rejoin via the tunnel when a horse thundered by.

**** this quoth the Raven and I headed for home.

Unknown Soldier

That "Call the Midwife" on RTE1 would bring H2o from an igneous rock

smacl

rollingscone wrote: »

Shame about the fcekers using the towpath as a horse run though!

You get kids with horses pretty regularly on the Grand canal too, though I've had no hassle of any kind as yet. I always shout a howya to them if approaching from behind, as much to let the horse know I'm there as anything else. Spooked horses with kids on the canal are not a great combination.

Haven't been down the Royal since last Winter. How do you find the Deep Sinking section? Thinking I'd possibly circumvent it next time around.

rollingscone

On the Tubeless it was no issue whatsoever.

Edit: The horse was riderless. It was just being sent tearing up and down the towpath.

Qualitymark

Nice piece about cycling with the family in New York:

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/gimme-shelter-in-central-park?intcid=mod-latest

Moflojo

From today's Irish Times: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/almost-14-bikes-stolen-every-day-in-dublin-says-bike-theft-group-1.2397430

Not having proper lock main reason for theft with over 4,950 bikes stolen in 2014.

I guess the bikes are just running away on their own then?

Almost 14 bicycles are stolen every day in Dublin, according to a Bike Theft Group.

The group, which was set up by Dublin City Council, said 4,950 bikes were reported stolen in Dublin in 2014.

"They say in Dublin you're never more than 5 metres from a bike you once owned." - Colm Tobin on Twitter. @colmtobin

“Alerting cyclists to the need to use higher quality locks is important. We need to make it harder for bikes to be stolen,” she said.

The solution to bike theft is for bicycle owners to engage in an arms race with bicycle thieves. Awesome.

Qualitymark

Irish Rail, stupidly, is now refusing to carry bikes at peak time, and only allowing them at all if pre-booked. Idiocy, and will be a real wrecker for bike tourism

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/1019/735901-cyclists-bikes-trains/

traprunner

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Darkglasses

Qualitymark wrote: »

Irish Rail, stupidly, is now refusing to carry bikes at peak time, and only allowing them at all if pre-booked. Idiocy, and will be a real wrecker for bike tourism

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/1019/735901-cyclists-bikes-trains/

Already a thread about it here -

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=97302745

AstraMonti

BrianHenryIE

https://twitter.com/colmtobin/status/654984703209021440

manafana

I have a video to post up il get round to it, its on the auld twitter machine

Qualitymark

Gardaí start bait bikes project http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/garda%C3%AD-use-bait-bikes-to-tackle-bicycle-theft-in-dublin-1.2398092 (Thought they were already doing this?)

Irish Times has a few articles on bike theft, mostly with blame-the-victim bad-lock slant. I suppose it's a start.

ThisRegard

Yeah, they were already doing this, I remember posting a link to a story about it a good while back.

tomasrojo

Qualitymark wrote: »

Gardaí start bait bikes project http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/garda%C3%AD-use-bait-bikes-to-tackle-bicycle-theft-in-dublin-1.2398092 (Thought they were already doing this?)

Irish Times has a few articles on bike theft, mostly with blame-the-victim bad-lock slant. I suppose it's a start.

I would say that the emphasis on locks is not victim-blaming in the same way as the the helmets and hi-viz brigade are guilty of victim-blaming. People leaving cars and motorbikes unattended are also advised to secure their vehicle. I suppose it doesn't address the root cause (thieves), but at least good u-locks are uncontroversially regarded as much more effective than cable locks, while hi-viz and helmets are very contested as regards their efficacy in the real world.

The real difference in attitudes among law enforcers is in that bike theft is treated as a minor offence, and car theft is treated as a major offence -- I think that the case even when the bike costs well over a thousand euro and the car has effectively no resale value.

The retailers really shouldn't sell cable locks without telling you that they're useless without a good u-lock to secure the frame of the bike.

tomasrojo

Via the excellent Planet Money podcast, I became aware that the USA is only now switching to Chip and Pin credit cards, and that for the moment people are still required to sign for purchases, but that nobody cares what they write, and people write any old thing.

Then I found this (possibly NSFW) story about a man who took derisory signings to the max.
http://consumerist.com/2009/02/03/dont-draw-genitalia-as-your-signature-when-paying-via-credit-card/
End of story is here, as his blog seems to have died under the pressure of hits.
http://www.horsepowerjunkies.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78925

Qualitymark

Talking of which - way off topic - a friend was *nearly* caught by the latest scam. She got a call "from her bank" saying her account was blocked. She said, as she's been drilled to do, that she didn't discuss money affairs on the phone, and hung up.

Luckily, she'd been warned not to immediately pick up the phone and call her bank to verify - because if you do this, the line is still open and you'll end up giving the scammers all your details.

She walked down to the bank, and sure enough, her account wasn't blocked, and the bank told her that this was a currently popular scam.