The Rant Thread(a place to dump ur baggage)

adrian522 · 28-06-2014 02:03PM

****ing garmin wont charge. Was at 30% last night , left it for several hours and it had charged to zero. Unplugged it and tried again, left it over night and it was at 94%.

Used it for 5 miles today and it was reporting 28%. Charged for a few hours and now its back to zero and won't charge up at all.

Apparently this is a known issue yet one Garmin are doing **** all to fix.

I reckon my next GPS watch will be some other brand.

nolinejudge · 28-06-2014 03:39PM

adrian522 wrote: »

****ing garmin wont charge. Was at 30% last night , left it for several hours and it had charged to zero. Unplugged it and tried again, left it over night and it was at 94%.

Used it for 5 miles today and it was reporting 28%. Charged for a few hours and now its back to zero and won't charge up at all.

Apparently this is a known issue yet one Garmin are doing **** all to fix.

I reckon my next GPS watch will be some other brand.

I had that. Hard reset it twice and it seems to be working again.

tang1 · 28-06-2014 10:03PM

James is pronounced as its spelt James, if you want your name pronounced "ham-es" spell it that way!! RTE commentators bigger fools pronouncing it "ham-es", your Irish George Hamilton for fook sake pronounce it right!!

ecoli · 28-06-2014 10:08PM

tang1 wrote: »

James is pronounced as its spelt James, if you want your name pronounced "ham-es" spell it that way!! RTE commentators bigger fools pronouncing it "ham-es", your Irish George Hamilton for fook sake pronounce it right!!

Exactly, he is Irish, there is no J in the Irish alphabet, Spot on George

tang1 · 28-06-2014 10:13PM

ecoli wrote: »

Exactly, he is Irish, there is no J in the Irish alphabet, Spot on George

It would take an educated young lad such as yourself to cop that, some how being called Seamus would not make Monaco spend €45 milion on him regardless how good he is!!

statss · 28-06-2014 10:25PM

the ignore feature is rendered useless when someone quotes the posts of the user you have on ignore....

ecoli · 28-06-2014 10:35PM

tang1 wrote: »

It would take an educated young lad such as yourself to cop that, some how being called Seamus would not make Monaco spend €45 milion on him regardless how good he is!!

Atleast Paul McShane still stands a shot so

drquirky · 29-06-2014 05:23AM

The morning after the beer mile

eliwallach · 30-06-2014 08:31AM

Marathon organisers who couldn't be bothered measuring the distance correctly :mad: (twice) :mad:

JohnDozer · 30-06-2014 08:54AM

They put all their effort into organising the lovely weather and forgot about the most important part apparently...

Cabaal · 30-06-2014 09:34AM

JohnDozer wrote: »

They put all their effort into organising the lovely weather and forgot about the most important part apparently...

but...but the weather is important :pac:

Ososlo · 01-07-2014 07:02PM

Do running coaches in clubs not tell their athletes that when they're training in a recreational park that's open to the public, that they shouldn't run more than 2 or maybe 3 abreast on narrow paths? Seeing as they're adults you would imagine that they'd have the common courtesy to think of this themselves, but maybe need to be reminded by the coach now and again.
And having races/time trails in said parks, where there are dogs, children and older people walking, is frankly, quite dangerous. Parks are for everyone equally and no one person should take precedence over another person.
That feels better : )

Pacing Mule · 01-07-2014 07:33PM

The guts of the first decent spat in the spat thread disappearing

dwayneshintzy · 01-07-2014 07:46PM

Couple things;

People coming out of parking lots (or wherever), turning left and only looking to the right for traffic, not a care in the world for any pedestrians who might be coming up on their left. I do not like that.

Also; ran at a fairly large 10k recently that said it was "chip timed". The only time taken by the chip was at the mat at the end, thus all times were from the gun. Ended up losing a minute from my "chip" time as a result.

Ososlo · 01-07-2014 07:59PM

dwayneshintzy wrote: »

Also; ran at a fairly large 10k recently that said it was "chip timed". The only time taken by the chip was at the mat at the end, thus all times were from the gun. Ended up losing a minute from my "chip" time as a result.

+100. I was caught out by that too last December. No starting mat. Really annoying if you're not near the front.
What you do next time is start on the line and get in everyone's way (obviously if you belong at the front line this won't work!). You have as much right to a correct time as the people at the front (if it's advertised as 'chip timed').

drquirky · 01-07-2014 08:31PM

Ososlo wrote: »

What you do next time is start on the line and get in everyone's way (obviously if you belong at the front line this won't work!). You have as much right to a correct time as the people at the front (if it's advertised as 'chip timed').

Stupid and unsafe.

Ososlo · 01-07-2014 08:37PM

drquirky wrote: »

Stupid and unsafe.

I agree and would never do it but it might stop the organisers advertising it as 'chip timed' when its not. Everyone is entitled to a proper time from front to back.

walshb · 01-07-2014 10:36PM

When your dying for a penalty shoot-out and next the goals start flying in...:mad:

Beef · 01-07-2014 10:42PM

Ah you can't complain in that instance it was a cracker of a finish.

Rant, all the late games going to extra time meaning I'm shagged in work!

Rainbow CatMagic · 01-07-2014 11:08PM

I really don't think batches of posts should be deleted in the interests of some imaginary 'harmony'. Especially in this thread, of all places. Publish and be damned!

TRR · 01-07-2014 11:13PM

Rainbow CatMagic wrote: »

I really don't think batches of posts should be deleted in the interests of some imaginary 'harmony'. Especially in this thread, of all places. Publish and be damned!

Oops69 · 02-07-2014 07:28AM

'Do you run with music ' threads , is it more virtuous or pure to run without music ?? , ffs , get a life .

Tom Joad · 02-07-2014 08:05AM

The HSE and their mind numbing incompetence and their complete untouchability or accountability.

Oh and fúckers driving with trailers without lights on their trailers.

ecoli · 02-07-2014 08:05AM

Fecking mod's :P

Tom Joad · 02-07-2014 08:08AM

ecoli wrote: »

Fecking mod's :P

:eek::eek: How did you escape??

ecoli · 02-07-2014 08:10AM

Tom Joad wrote: »

:eek::eek: How did you escape??

Patience and years of planning

(let myself go a little but i'll come good for DCM

)

Gavlor · 02-07-2014 08:25AM

Ecoli, what a tosser

TFBubendorfer · 02-07-2014 08:45AM

ecoli wrote: »

Fecking mod's :P

You're banned! :mad:

walshb · 02-07-2014 09:05AM

People on rant threads slating other people's threads.

vitani · 02-07-2014 01:01PM

Awesome. Think I'll head down and run a sub-50 minute marathon.

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