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ROK ON · 14-10-2010 09:20AM

Bono doing an advert for Louis Vuitton in todays Wall St Journal€
FFSm

AAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHH.

Jawgap · 14-10-2010 09:26AM

ROK ON wrote: »

Bono doing an advert for Louis Vuitton in todays Wall St Journal€
FFSm

AAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHH.

ROK ON reads the Wall Street Journal..........FFS:)

seamus · 14-10-2010 09:43AM

ROK ON wrote: »

Millars Pizza Kitchen. Baggot St Dublin.

Worst pizza ever. Obnoxious service. I have sometimes recommended restaurants where I have enjoyed a nice place. Millars however is vile, grotty and produce cardboard ****e with bitter tomato sauce masquerading as pizza. All for 14 euro. The waiter was also a charmer.

If you like food then avoid. If you like eating crap then knock yourself out.

Hell pizza on wexford street. Great pizza. The crust is not too thin and not too thick, has the right balance of soft and crunchy and it's not swimming in cheese like a dominos pizza. They also do these great Cajun wedges. With sweet chili sauce they're spicetastic.

Service can be a bit "odd", as in a lot of the staff appear to away with the birds, but they've never gotten an order wrong. Yet.

Also, they do 3 bottles of beer for a tenner if you're eating in.

ROK ON · 14-10-2010 09:45AM

Nah. I just look at the pictures.

ROK ON · 14-10-2010 09:52AM

@ Seamus.
I passed Hell yday and they were handing out free slices of pizza to passers by. Absolutely fantastic. So I got a longing for pizza. However as I had to be near baggot street I kept moving and ended up in the disaster that was Millars.

I should have repaid Hells genorousity yday by visiting there. I didn't and paid the price. I will go back however as the slice that I was given by the nice lady was exceedingly good.

tomasrojo · 14-10-2010 01:31PM

ROK ON wrote: »

Bono doing an advert for Louis Vuitton in todays Wall St Journal€
FFSm

AAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHH.

Well, he's had a hard life. When he was growing up, Finglas was divided along sectarian lines.

http://weekendfisher.blogspot.com/2007/03/bonos-acceptance-speech-at-naacp.html

Chips Lovell · 14-10-2010 01:44PM

Thor debuts his rainbow stripes:

Jawgap · 14-10-2010 01:47PM

tomasrojo wrote: »

Well, he's had a hard life. When he was growing up, Finglas was divided along sectarian lines.

http://weekendfisher.blogspot.com/2007/03/bonos-acceptance-speech-at-naacp.html

Somewhat reminiscent of this

"Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah."

tomasrojo · 14-10-2010 01:57PM

Jawgap wrote: »

Somewhat reminiscent of this

"Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah."

Great skit that. It's not widely known that it's a very close reworking of a skit by Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman which appeared in At Last the 1948 Show.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/dc333014c5/four-yorkshire-men-by-at-last-the-1948-show-from-greatest-comedy-sketches?playlist=110387

EDIT: Looks like Barry Cryer serving the wine in that too.

DirkVoodoo · 14-10-2010 02:22PM

Mark Ronson and the Business Intl - The Bike Song.

Should have been called the hipster douchebag song, but the video has some positives:

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

mloc123 · 14-10-2010 02:34PM

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

Mark Ronson and the Business Intl - The Bike Song.

From what I can make out.... the first guy steals the bike and then gets all uppidy when somebody steals it from him...

14-10-2010 02:46PM

Also note how he threatens the thief with a lock and length of chain, would it not have been more effective to use those to lock up the bike? I mean it has to be less hassle than using sonic waves from Ronson's handlebar mounted boom box to summon an army of autonomous bicycles.

tomasrojo · 14-10-2010 02:50PM

I like the saddle of a bike turning to watch a girl cycling by.

Chips Lovell · 14-10-2010 04:25PM

Asda Customer Care call.

Hail 2 Da Thief · 14-10-2010 04:41PM

^^^ What a plonker! :rolleyes:

CramCycle · 14-10-2010 04:47PM

el tonto wrote: »

Asda Customer Care call.

#Is there a youtube version of this, some of us have rebelled against the evil that is FaceBook.

Hail 2 Da Thief · 14-10-2010 04:50PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H8HnaTIcmk

seamus · 14-10-2010 05:13PM

CramCycle wrote: »

#Is there a youtube version of this, some of us have rebelled against the evil that is FaceBook.

And can someone transpose it into an ASCII text file? Not all of us can use video or audio or fancy browsers in work...

ednwireland · 14-10-2010 05:15PM

William Fotheringham's top 10 cycling novels

not sure i'll be reading any

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/14/top-10-cycling-novels

Chips Lovell · 14-10-2010 06:04PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akZZd7Hz0rE

mloc123 · 14-10-2010 06:14PM

el tonto wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akZZd7Hz0rE

wow, enough to turn the light back on.

CramCycle · 14-10-2010 06:16PM

mloc123 wrote: »

wow, enough to turn the light back on.

And his T-shirt from blue to black

ROK ON · 14-10-2010 06:18PM

Just finished reading Fallen Angel - The Passion of Fausto Coppi.

Good read. A truly extraordinary life.

seamus · 14-10-2010 09:14PM

3 crappy Thursdays in a row. Convinced now that Hell is just a series of Thursdays. And it's raining and theres a headwind in every direction.

Punctured on Dame st. Pulled over to fix it (people are insanely rude and nosey btw). My speed levers breaks. Great. Manage to wrestle the tyre off the rim with the remains of the lever. Replace tube, pump up. Back on the road after 15 long minutes.

Get to clanbrassil st. Phsssssssh. Balls. I had only one spare. So 45 minutes later the missus picks me up from harolds cross. Officially the longest commute ever.

Get home. Replace tube. Pump to 100psi. BOOM. Now I have to get to work alternatively tomorrow and buy new tyres. Le sigh.

manwithaplan · 15-10-2010 12:29AM

ROK ON wrote: »

Good read. A truly extraordinary life.

Agree on the second point. Not so much on the first. The subject matter was fascinating but I could take or leave the writing.

I enjoyed Matt Rendell's book on Pantani even though you would want a degree in pharmacology to understand some of it. The breadth and depth of the research are very impressive and his conclusions are thought provoking.

mo_bhicycle · 15-10-2010 10:54AM

ROK ON wrote: »

Just finished reading Fallen Angel - The Passion of Fausto Coppi.

Good read. A truly extraordinary life.

Yeah, just finished this too, really enjoyed it.

manwithaplan wrote: »

I enjoyed Matt Rendell's book on Pantani even though you would want a degree in pharmacology to understand some of it. The breadth and depth of the research are very impressive and his conclusions are thought provoking.

That book was a chore to read, he seemed to spend the entire time trying to avoid a lawsuit by going into ridiculous levels of details that I'd imagine most readers don't care about.

RobFowl · 15-10-2010 11:54AM

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/503344/di-luca-to-return-in-january.html

Wouldn't we all love to see him back so soon :rolleyes:

ednwireland · 15-10-2010 12:14PM

victor comte's letter to dwain chambers
http://forums.cyclingweekly.co.uk/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/102934/an/0/page/0#102934

quite an interesting resume of the doping process and how to avoid tests

missed the original link to bbc
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics/athletics/7403158.stm

dont know why i missed that first time round its from 08 so you may have seen it

ednwireland · 15-10-2010 12:38PM

brad wiggins is funny

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/feature-wiggins-year-of-wisening-up

Lumen · 15-10-2010 01:14PM

ednwireland wrote: »

brad wiggins is funny

Indeed.

Told the kids that having a dog means you have to pick the Ricco's up and if you don't we will have to eat the dogs, seems to have worked
4:40 PM Oct 12th via Twitter for BlackBerry®

Good to hear a sane voice in all this mess, thanks Michael Rasmussen I'll sleep better tonight
2:26 PM Oct 12th via Twitter for BlackBerry®

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