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

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  • #3992
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Technical question. What do you call those gadgets that you put on the end of a cable where it might fray, and tighten it with a pliers, please?


  • #3993
    Lumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,285 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Chuchote wrote: »
    Technical question. What do you call those gadgets that you put on the end of a cable where it might fray, and tighten it with a pliers, please?
    Cable end caps.


  • #3994
    magicbastarder
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    CramCycle wrote: »
    Walk around any train station in Brussels, O'Connell St in Dublin, certain parts of London.
    i've never been offered drugs on o'connell street. and it's not as if i've never been there. i can say quite easily that on the two nights i've been in lisbon city centre, i was offered drugs more times than i have ever been offered drugs in dublin.

    barcelona - las ramblas - was another interesting experience when it came to being offered drugs.


  • #3995
    daragh_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭daragh_


    Weepsie wrote: »
    That's the same model as mine albeit different group and size. I shall henceforth sing that when setting off

    We should form a special club.


  • #3996
    Hungrycol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,246 ✭✭✭Hungrycol


    I've never been offered drugs anywhere. I put it down to looking like a poor excuse for a plain clothes cop.


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  • #3997
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    I've never been offered drugs outdoors. I put it down to my exceptionally clean-living appearance. At parties, back in the day, yes, was often offered dope; never anything stronger, though I knew people who used heroin and cocaine, the creatures.


  • #3998
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,244 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Chuchote wrote: »
    I've never been offered drugs outdoors. I put it down to my exceptionally clean-living appearance. At parties, back in the day, yes, was often offered dope; never anything stronger, though I knew people who used heroin and cocaine, the creatures.

    Jeepers what kind of parties did you go to? Heroin never struck me as a party drug.
    I actually do a fair bit of volunteering with the homeless, it's heartbreaking watching what addiction does to these people. I'm a bit over a year at it now and have seen numerous deaths, a person sleeping in her own waste, suicide attempts plus much more. What addiction does to these people physically and mentally has me totally against ever legalising any of these substances. Believe me I'm no angel but I absolutely would be against legalisation


  • #3999
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Jeepers what kind of parties did you go to? Heroin never struck me as a party drug.
    I actually do a fair bit of volunteering with the homeless, it's heartbreaking watching what addiction does to these people. I'm a bit over a year at it now and have seen numerous deaths, a person sleeping in her own waste, suicide attempts plus much more. What addiction does to these people physically and mentally has me totally against ever legalising any of these substances. Believe me I'm no angel but I absolutely would be against legalisation

    Sorry, I misspoke. I was offered dope at parties. Separately, I had some friends who used heroin and cocaine. It was the sixties, man. As far as I remember.


  • #4000
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,094 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Chuchote wrote: »
    ...Friday night is wine night; a bottle between 2.......
    I'd like to be that disciplined. With me it's usually 2 bottles between 1.


  • #4001
    Hunterbiker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,259 ✭✭✭Hunterbiker


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    I'd like to be that disciplined. With me it's usually 2 bottles between 1.

    You like discipline on a Friday night? I think boards has a special forum for that sort of thing...


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  • #4002
    Darkglasses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    This is pretty cool, takes your vitals and matches you with an Olympian. I got Leopold Konig :D


  • #4003
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,912 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Hungrycol wrote: »
    I've never been offered drugs anywhere. I put it down to looking like a poor excuse for a plain clothes cop.

    It's calmed down now, but in the past not only did people try to sell drugs to me with surprising frequency, but I was approached by people wishing to buy fairly often too.

    There was a Larry David-ish incident that happened to me in California that I posted last night, but I got a bit worried I looked like a mild racist (in the sense of unwarranted assumptions), so I deleted it.


  • #4004
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,912 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    Apparently, the WHO recommendations on physical activity are too low to really get the best protection from common ailments. You need to get up to 3000 metabolic equivalent minutes per week.
    “A person can achieve 3,000 MET minutes per week by incorporating different types of physical activity into the daily routine – for example, climbing stairs 10 minutes, vacuuming 15 minutes, gardening 20 minutes, running 20 minutes, and walking or cycling for transportation 25 minutes on a daily basis would together achieve about 3,000 MET minutes a week.
    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/09/whos-recommended-level-exercise-too-low-beat-disease-study

    I presume if you do more than 25 minutes cycling daily, you don't need to get the hoover out so often.

    It's often been said, but if the health benefits of walking and cycling were encapsulated in pill form, they'd be relentlessly promoted. Since active travel is a nuisance to those who habitually drive, it's marginalised.


  • #4005
    magicbastarder
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    Darkglasses wrote: »
    This is pretty cool, takes your vitals and matches you with an Olympian. I got Leopold Konig :D
    i got a french rugby player, a golfer, and a wrestler.


  • #4006
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i got a french rugby player, a golfer, and a wrestler.

    I didn't try, but know in my heart I'd get WC Fields


  • #4007
    Dermot Illogical
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    2 boxers and a fast runner. :confused:


  • #4008
    wanderer 22
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,180 ✭✭✭wanderer 22


    Skinny people.... I did a similar one before where it ranks your body fat, apparently I'm most like someone from Eritrea:o:p


  • #4009
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    colm18 wrote: »
    Skinny people.... I did one before where it ranks:o:p

    He he he. Couldn't resist after 4 hours driving back to Warsaw!


  • #4010
    Idleater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,176 ✭✭✭Idleater


    colm18 wrote: »
    Skinny people.... I did a similar one before where it ranks your body fat, apparently I'm most like someone from Eritrea:o:p

    Phillip Gilbert. What could have been.


  • #4011
    wanderer 22
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    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    He he he. Couldn't resist after 4 hours driving back to Warsaw!

    'ranked' would've been better :D


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  • #4012
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    Did you ever see any of those Africans with the incredibly narrow hips? Saw them often over in London and always wondered where they were from, but didn't have the nerve to ask. Seriously, their hips – men and women – are about a foot across, and they're tall and very slender generally, with a spectacularly graceful way of moving.


  • #4013
    Doc07
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    Darkglasses wrote: »
    This is pretty cool, takes your vitals and matches you with an Olympian. I got Leopold Konig :D


    Cool. I got sprinter Tyson Gay, exact same height and weight but he's a little bit younger than me(and faster)


  • #4014
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Glenn Kable for me


    :confused: Who is Glenn Kable:confused:

    Now around the time of the last Olympics I was the same height and weight as Chris Hoy.


  • #4015
    mugsymugsy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,569 ✭✭✭mugsymugsy


    Hi all got one of these I had bought many moons ago when I was a youngster in my parents house and totally forgot about. Thought I would share. A project for future mini mugsymugsy to use what do you reckon?


  • #4016
    magicbastarder
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    i put in my weight and height on that BBC url, but selected female athletes.
    i got an archer, a fencer, and a shooter. all armed women.


  • #4017
    Chuchote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭Chuchote


    I'm a swimmer, a sailor, a rugger player and three weightlifters. Stocky!


  • #4018
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,008 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    2 fencers and a shooter. The fencers I don't mind as I can pretend to be in either an old movie, jumping on tables, swinging out of long curtains etc. or even being be like Hikaru Sulu


  • #4019
    ThisRegard
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    mugsymugsy wrote: »
    Hi all got one of these I had bought many moons ago when I was a youngster in my parents house and totally forgot about. Thought I would share. A project for future mini mugsymugsy to use what do you reckon?

    I had one of those as a kid in the 80s!


  • #4020
    Hungrycol
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    Darkglasses wrote: »
    This is pretty cool, takes your vitals and matches you with an Olympian. I got Leopold Konig :D

    Ahh here. My first match is a Brazilian Handball player.


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  • #4021
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Chris "The Fireman" Brown, 400m runner from the Bahamas.

    I'll take that ;)


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