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

Luxman

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Following a lad today up Howth Head, if your stretchy pants feel too tight they probably are too tight... and see through 😕

Or worse. Wet white ones

RobFowl

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Following a lad today up Howth Head, if your stretchy pants feel too tight they probably are too tight... and see through 😕

Maybe try going for a cycle rather than indulge your pervy fantasies

Hmmzis

Hell Yeah!






Disclaimer: That's a Falcon 9 booster stage landing back (Buck Rodgers style) at its launch site after launching 11 satellites into low Earth orbit. What a time to be alive.

tomasrojo

Hmmzis wrote: »

That's a Falcon 9 booster stage landing back (Buck Rodgers style) at its launch site after launching 11 satellites into low Earth orbit. What a time to be alive.

The present is so like a science-fiction story. Watching on-demand, live (well, near-live) footage from Mars on a little screen on your lap in your house is really science-fiction-y.

tomasrojo

NSW, Australia again:

We don’t want to be a Government that ignores cyclists. We want to be one that openly treats them with contempt.

http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2015/12/22/new-laws-punish-cyclists-being-struck-cars

(It's a spoof, but it's quite accurate.)

Fian

magicbastarder wrote: »

i'm assuming the first shot was accidental, rather than one cop thinking 'now's my chance to off bob, he keeps nicking my sandwiches from the staff fridge'.

Video did not look like he meant to shoot his partner, he either meant to shoot the cyclist or his gun went off by accident.

Unknown Soldier

Diarmuid wrote: »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

I got as far as the bit with the word "dichotomy" and I don't get it. Probably might have if I read further but there looked like there were a lot of words in that wiki thing.

Regardless... lots of things requires licences for various reasons and I'd pay one for cycling if it "educated" other road users. I'd like to be treated like someone on a moped, for example.

A really slow moped though

Lumen

Unknown Soldier wrote: »

Regardless... lots of things requires licences for various reasons and I'd pay one for cycling if it "educated" other road users. I'd like to be treated like someone on a moped, for example.

The problem is that even after you've discovered that you're not treated any differently than you were before, you'll be stuck with your ridiculous pedalling license/permission to exist and have no way back.

Besides which, you do realise that scooterists are despised by everybody? Even motorcyclists hate them. Actually, especially motorcyclists. They're like mechanically propelled herpes.

Thud

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/assos-ss-rallytrekkingjersey-evo7-mtb-jersey/rp-prod133065

Gotta love the description for this €372 :eek: jersey:
Note that the back panel is an innovative 3-D mesh construction that has many advantages, as well as one concern:
reduced UV protection. Wearing an Assos baselayer resolves this potential
problem. If the rider prefers to not wear the baselayer, we recommend sunscreen be applied to the rider's back.

LollipopJimmy

You better hurry there's only 3 left

Unknown Soldier

Lumen wrote: »

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Besides which, you do realise that scooterists are despised by everybody? Even motorcyclists hate them. Actually, especially motorcyclists. They're like mechanically propelled herpes.

To be honest... no, I didn't know that

Exiting stage left... I came across this the other evening after coming across "4th and vine"

She was only 21! :eek:
I think it is pretty amazing at that age to walk out onto that stage alone and in front of all your peers, and knock out a superb performance, fair play to her. Some serious vocals in it too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JugUQJv9YlY

Wishbone Ash

Thud wrote: »

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/assos-ss-rallytrekkingjersey-evo7-mtb-jersey/rp-prod133065

Gotta love the description for this €372 :eek: jersey:
Note that the back panel is an innovative 3-D mesh construction that has many advantages, as well as one concern:
reduced UV protection. Wearing an Assos baselayer resolves this potential
problem. If the rider prefers to not wear the baselayer, we recommend sunscreen be applied to the rider's back.

...and the obligatory Assos baselayer will be another €95 ......and there's only 2 of them left!

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/ie/en/assos-ss-skinfoil-spring-fall-s7/rp-prod133066

tomasrojo

At the other end of of the scale from "permission to exist" Australia:

Having studied the barriers Stockholmers face in switching from cars to bikes, [Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology] has recommended that the city’s existing congestion charge zone be adapted to benefit people commuting by bike. Some money earned through the congestion charge (which covers most of the inner city) could be funneled back into cycling benefits—not as cash in hand, but as credits towards bike repairs or upgrades to studded tires for winter riding.

http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2015/12/stockholm-reverse-congestion-charge-cyclists-driving/421767/

Unknown Soldier

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Entries for 2016 Wicklow 200 now open. (Sunday 12th June).

http://www.wicklow200.ie/how-to-enter/

Done.

Better be a few before me!

Sponsored by Tyskie Beer.

manafana

tomasrojo wrote: »

At the other end of of the scale from "permission to exist" Australia:


http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2015/12/stockholm-reverse-congestion-charge-cyclists-driving/421767/

the nordic just seem to have there head on there shoulders for the most part. In Oz the state of NSW has just become a state of all laws and more laws its nut just cycling

koutoubia

Used Parcel Motel for the first time to send a parcel. Medium sized parcel weighing under 10kgs ( weighed in at a shade under 3kgs.
For price comparison An Post website was quoting €12.50. Parcel Motel to a house address €7.50. Parcel Motel point to Parcel Motel point €5.50.
Some difference!

OleRodrigo

Can't imagine what this is going to do for the humble turbo:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/24/the-climb-virtual-reality-oculus-rift-crytex

Fian

OleRodrigo wrote: »

Can't imagine what this is going to do for the humble turbo:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/24/the-climb-virtual-reality-oculus-rift-crytex

Yeah VR linked turbo training might actually be fun rather than a chore, especially if you can compete in a tour de france stage against the actual riders, with a sliding level of "boost" to make it possible to actually compete. Sort of like virtual mechanical doping. No reason why they could not incorporate an easing of power required when drafting an increase in the front too, as well as factoring in climbs.

I am planning a new PC and a VR HMD next year when they come out.

manafana

koutoubia wrote: »

Used Parcel Motel for the first time to send a parcel. Medium sized parcel weighing under 10kgs ( weighed in at a shade under 3kgs.
For price comparison An Post website was quoting €12.50. Parcel Motel to a house address €7.50. Parcel Motel point to Parcel Motel point €5.50.
Some difference!

AN post is gone in my view as a postal service for all bar the basics, there customer support, the service, there cost base and union issues blended in with this eirecode debacle.

koutoubia

I didn't think An Post had much input into eircode. I thought it was a govt farce designed so that anyone who wanted to use it had to buy the database. Hence the utter randomness of the codes that meant nothing unless you had The database.

Wishbone Ash

There used to be a time when An Post would get a letter to the intended recipient even when the address was incomplete or incorrect but that seems to have gone in recent years. I don't know if it's a form of protest or what but we regularly get letters returned to us at work even when the address has been provided by the recipient.

I was sending a large batch recently and inadvertently put Castlebar, Co Limerick on one. It was sent back. I would have thought that anyone working in a sorting office would immediately know it's destined for Co Mayo. :rolleyes:

bazermc

Does Arnotts sell any decent cycle stuff?

I have a nice voucher, but if not, I will gift on tomorrow

ThisRegard

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

There used to be a time when An Post would get a letter to the intended recipient even when the address was incomplete or incorrect but that seems to have gone in recent years. I don't know if it's a form of protest or what but we regularly get letters returned to us at work even when the address has been provided by the recipient.

A bloke near me has a blog going about the often absurd lengths he goes to to have An Post complete puzzles to get post to him. He puts puzzles, crosswords etc on them, packs them weirdly. They all got to him apart from one or two. Can't find the blog at the minute but they impressed me.

manafana

koutoubia wrote: »

I didn't think An Post had much input into eircode. I thought it was a govt farce designed so that anyone who wanted to use it had to buy the database. Hence the utter randomness of the codes that meant nothing unless you had The database.

the an post workers union made sure it took years longer to complete than it should have (hence going way over budget). But yes Eircode is complete crap, the locate8 is much better.

eeeee

I find An Post fantastic. I often send things back and forth to home and letters are 99% of the time there the next day, two days max. Parcels the same actually. And very nice to deal with in depots/getting destinations changed on deliveries. And they manage to send stuff with my barely legible scrawl on it. Plus the postie in our area is lovely! Big An Post fan!

They have been using one of the most advanced automatic sorting machines in the world, and apparently it doesn't work so well with dark ink on a dark background but what can't be sorted by it is done by hand. We're really lucky to have such a good postal service in comparison to Royal Mail which has been a nightmare for me at times between friends. And a lot slower.

smacl

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

There used to be a time when An Post would get a letter to the intended recipient even when the address was incomplete or incorrect but that seems to have gone in recent years.

I think it depends very much on who's running the local post office. My father was living in a village in Wexford and you could get a letter to him by using his name, name of the village, Wexford. After getting held up a few times, the post office merge with the local Centra, but the service remained very good, largely IMHO to a conscientious post mistress who knew her neighbourhood really well.

Anyhoo, that aside, a very merry Christmas to one and all!

RobertFoster

ThisRegard wrote: »

A bloke near me has a blog going about the often absurd lengths he goes to to have An Post complete puzzles to get post to him. He puts puzzles, crosswords etc on them, packs them weirdly. They all got to him apart from one or two. Can't find the blog at the minute but they impressed me.

This one? http://meversusanpost.tumblr.com/

I remember seeing a couple of articles about him this year.

Harrybelafonte

An Post run an excellent service. I've used them for business for five years now. No hassles. Royal Mail are a joke, poor service but staff are decent. Fastway, GLS, DPD and niteline have abysmal service. Never on time. Staff have a poor attitude. Handle freight badly and have caught them lying repeatedly. An Post are slightly more expensive but service is much better. By far.

As for them not automatically redirecting your incorrectly addressed letter. Learn to do things properly next time instead of expecting people to fix your **** ups.

Qualitymark

ThisRegard wrote: »

A bloke near me has a blog going about the often absurd lengths he goes to to have An Post complete puzzles to get post to him. He puts puzzles, crosswords etc on them, packs them weirdly. They all got to him apart from one or two. Can't find the blog at the minute but they impressed me.

Tell him to try putting his name and Loc8 code. I'm still waiting for a postcard I sent myself with that in the early days of Loc8.

But yes, An Post is generally far, far better than Royal Mail - books from English publishers often don't reach Ireland for weeks, while I've posted a DVD from Dublin to West Cork at 5pm and had it arrive there 9am.

koutoubia

I think that An Post do a decent job. But it seems to be down to what the local postie is about.
As for one of the couriers who I wont mention.
I witnessed something a while back...The courier couldnt get through a locked gate so proceeded to throw the package as hard as possible towards the front door , then tapped on his delivery device then drove off.




Any Happy 25th December guys and gals.
Stay upright and may the road always be a descent!