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  • #32
    WilyCoyote
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,059 ✭✭✭WilyCoyote


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Tarmac isn't as harsh on the joints, compared to concrete.

    Depends how thick you roll them :)


  • #33
    robinph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,146 ✭✭✭✭robinph


    Rabelais wrote: »
    Have a slice of apple tart you miserable sh1tes!

    I bet the runners eat through more cake and apple tart than you do.


  • #34
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    The constant updates on Facebook is what annoys me 'just ran 10 miles'

    Nobody gives a sh!t


  • #35
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Tarmac isn't as harsh on the joints, compared to concrete.

    Beat me to it.


  • #36
    Aestivalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 202 ✭✭Aestivalis


    Saw something that blew my mind the other day.
    I was driving on a busy dual-carridgeway at around 4pm, when I came across 3 runners, who were running on the road, coming TOWARDS traffic...with a perfectly good foothpath beside them.

    The mind boggles.


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  • #37
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    The constant updates on Facebook is what annoys me 'just ran 10 miles'

    Nobody gives a sh!t

    Your problem is with your friends then, who just happen to be runners.
    Aestivalis wrote: »
    Saw something that blew my mind the other day.
    I was driving on a busy dual-carridgeway at around 4pm, when I came across 3 runners, who were running on the road, coming TOWARDS traffic...with a perfectly good foothpath beside them.

    The mind boggles.

    You do know you're supposed to face on coming traffic when on a road, right, right ?


  • #38
    Aestivalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 202 ✭✭Aestivalis


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Your problem is with your friends then, who just happen to be runners.



    You do know you're supposed to face on coming traffic when on a road, right, right ?

    On a dual carridgeway? there shouldnt be runner on dual carridgeways when theres a gigantic footpath beside them.


  • #39
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Can anyone point me in the directions of the numbers of runners mowed down on a daily basis, and the death/survival ratio relative to the size of the maurading gangs of them? It must be massive going by the posts in this thread, god help us all.


  • #40
    tunguska
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,545 ✭✭✭tunguska


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    The constant updates on Facebook is what annoys me 'just ran 10 miles'

    Nobody gives a sh!t

    Now that I agree with. Just needy people looking for attention. Although that pretty much describes everybody on twitter..........


  • #41
    Healy Rae Permit Holder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭Healy Rae Permit Holder


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    The constant updates on Facebook is what annoys me 'just ran 10 miles'

    Nobody gives a sh!t
    And they just changed their name to Irish a half hour earlier, why not be posting in Irish or is using imtranslator.net on the go too difficult. :rolleyes:


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  • #42
    No Pants
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,346 ✭✭✭No Pants


    caustic 1 wrote: »
    they have running tracks
    They what now?


  • #43
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    The constant updates on Facebook is what annoys me 'just ran 10 miles'

    Nobody gives a sh!t
    Probably because they're about 2 stone overweight and are just looking for some moral support from their friends.

    Stop being such miserable sh1tes and whinging about what other people do.

    Nobody forces you to look at facebook.


  • #44
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    seamus wrote: »
    Probably because they're about 2 stone overweight and are just looking for some moral support from their friends.

    Stop being such miserable sh1tes and whinging about what other people do.

    Nobody forces you to look at facebook.
    We are not 2 stone over weight, i like updating on facebook.


  • #45
    Daqster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Daqster


    SV wrote: »
    At least they're not cyclists though.

    Seen some nutjob cyclist yesterday (one of those courier ones I think, that tow some kind of container which is usually a little wider than the bikes). He comes booting up the quays, passing by O'Connell bridge, heading for Hueston and starts screaming at everyone on the footpath as he is approaching Aston Quay, to get out of his way, as he obviously knows his wide load needs a inch or two of the footpath also. Most people step back a little and those at the front breath in deep and he nearly knee caps one guy who even held his arms back also in case they were taken off.

    Second's later, everyone's mind back on the pedestrian clock counting down and all of sudden the lunatic courier jumps in front of all of us, obviously have run back up the quay, bike lock in hand and starts screaming right in the face at the guy in the front: "Did you hit me? Hit me now! Hit me again!" The other guy was in shock, for about two seconds until it dawned on him which twat this was and he starts screaming: "What the fcuk are you on?? I never touched you! You courier cnut!". "Yes, you did! Hit me, go on and I'll kill you". "Fcuk off you fcuking stupid cnut or I will fcuking hit you!"

    Went on like that for a but and then the lights changed. Ah, gotta love street theater in Dublin :p


  • #46
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    Daqster wrote: »
    Seen some nutjob cyclist yesterday (one of those courier ones I think, that tow some kind of container which is usually a little wider than the bikes). He comes booting up the quays, passing by O'Connell bridge, heading for Hueston and starts screaming at everyone on the footpath as he is approaching Aston Quay, to get out of his way, as he obviously knows his wide load needs a inch or two of the footpath also. Most people step back a little and those at the front breath in deep and he nearly knee caps one guy who even held his arms back also in case they were taken off.

    Second's later, everyone's mind back on the pedestrian clock counting down and all of sudden the lunatic courier jumps in front of all of us, obviously have run back up the quay, bike lock in hand and starts screaming right in the face at the guy in the front: "Did you hit me? Hit me now! Hit me again!" The other guy was in shock, for about two seconds until it dawned on him which twat this was and he starts screaming: "What the fcuk are you on?? I never touched you! You courier cnut!". "Yes, you did! Hit me, go on and I'll kill you". "Fcuk off you fcuking stupid cnut or I will fcuking hit you!"

    Went on like that for a but and then the lights changed. Ah, gotta love street theater in Dublin :p

    If that's true then it's no harm someone did hit him, feckin gobshíte.


  • #47
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Daqster wrote: »
    Seen some nutjob cyclist yesterday (one of those courier ones I think, that tow some kind of container which is usually a little wider than the bikes). He comes booting up the quays, passing by O'Connell bridge, heading for Hueston and starts screaming at everyone on the footpath as he is approaching Aston Quay, to get out of his way, as he obviously knows his wide load needs a inch or two of the footpath also.
    What's more likely is that his experience has taught him that if there are no cars, pedestrians in Dublin walk straight out in front of bikes without looking, especially on the quays around O'Connell Bridge
    Pedestrians also tend to stand almost on the road as they wait to cross, which leaves bikes with very little room.

    No call for his aggressiveness of course, but I've had to scream at people on those quays who step out literally without looking.


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