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The Rant Thread(a place to dump ur baggage)

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  • #2642
    menoscemo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    People who constantly put themselves down, celebrate mediocrity, don't want to improve and constantly sneer on those who are trying to improve themselves.

    I was reading a magazine article recently about pacing yourself in racing/training and it advised a training session starting off slow then progressing through the paces (M. HM, 10k, 5k etc). Queue comments :
    'I only have one pace slowwwww lol' = 1Million likes :mad:

    FFS are you telling me your 5k pace and your marathon pace are the same thing??? OK your 5k pace might be 12 min/mile which in the grand scheme of things is slow but surely your Marathon pace is slower again? In which case do you not get the point of the article; i.e to improve pacing start off at 15 min/mile and progress up to 12 min/mile????
    The general point I am making is that even if you are slow (in the grand scheme of things) proper training principles still apply to you if you want to improve.
    I hate this 'lol I am always slow therefore training advice does not apply to me' attitude. Obviously if you stick to that mentality you will never improve. Or maybe you don't want to?


  • #2643
    Bahanaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭Bahanaman


    echancrure wrote: »
    Oh no!

    Hope it is not too serious.

    Thanks for the concern echancrure! I don't think it's too bad. I've done a little bit since but have stopped since last tuesday because the achilles was going mental! I think the injury gods are conspiring against me!:(


  • #2644
    ultraman1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,742 ✭✭✭ultraman1


    #1People not ranting on a ranting thread..use txts if ye wanna chat
    #2 unreasonable people
    #3.Miller...1 bottle and was fecked this morning
    #4 lightweights.
    #5..Will do # 5 later ,the day is young


  • #2645
    rom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭rom


    ultraman1 wrote: »
    #1People not ranting on a ranting thread..use txts if ye wanna chat
    #2 unreasonable people
    #3.Miller...1 bottle and was fecked this morning
    #4 lightweights.
    #5..Will do # 5 later ,the day is young

    If you drink chemical rich beer then what do you expect.


  • #2646
    ThebitterLemon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,674 ✭✭✭ThebitterLemon


    rom wrote: »
    If you drink chemical rich beer then what do you expect.

    Sanctimonious, pretentious, craft beer drinking wannabes :)

    TbL


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  • #2647
    Finnt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Finnt


    People in deli's that fold a wrap, it's called a wrap for a reason.


  • #2648
    ultraman1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,742 ✭✭✭ultraman1


    rom wrote: »
    If you drink chemical rich beer then what do you expect.
    See rant#1...


  • #2649
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,705 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    If someone offers you something or offers to help you out in some way either accept it with thanks and appreciation or decline with thanks. Don't spend 5 minutes looking for reassurance that they want to do you a good deed, or that "are they sure." Takes the good out of it, and it's unnecessarily awkward for the good Samaritan....


  • #2650
    ultraman1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,742 ✭✭✭ultraman1


    ultraman1 wrote: »
    #5..Will do # 5 later ,the day is young
    Dogs on beaches...


  • #2651
    SeanPuddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭SeanPuddin


    Tampon and constipation ads, what the **** do they think they are selling?


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  • #2652
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    It may be a response to straitened times, but it seems that aspirational advertising is, more and more, giving way to designing new insecurities for us to persuade us to buy.

    Like the shampoo ad that declaims how "Thin hair makes you feel invisible". These always existed of course, particularly in the beauty industry, but more and more advertisers are going this route.

    As a general rule of thumb, if you try and sell me something by attempting to make me feel **** about
    myself, I will give a hollow laugh and buy your rivals products!


  • #2653
    gerard_65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭gerard_65


    Facebook: like if you hate cancer, like if your against animal cruelty.
    Just fcuk off, like.


  • #2654
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,705 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    gerard_65 wrote: »
    Facebook: like if you hate cancer, like if your against animal cruelty.
    Just fcuk off, like.

    Classic!


  • #2655
    snailsong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,140 ✭✭✭snailsong


    SeanPuddin wrote: »
    Tampon and constipation ads, what the **** do they think they are selling?

    Tampons and laxitives.


  • #2656
    rom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭rom


    Ice Bucket Challenge

    50/60 year old something guy doing efforts with a 10 year old girl (who clearly hates doing it). Way to turn her off the sport for life. Same happened to me when I was 14.


  • #2657
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,110 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    gerard_65 wrote: »
    Facebook: like if you hate cancer, like if your against animal cruelty.
    Just fcuk off, like.

    _like_butonpng23.png


  • #2658
    digger2d2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭digger2d2


    BeepBeep67 wrote: »
    _like_butonpng23.png

    George Hamiltion /\ /\


  • #2659
    dukeraoul
    Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭dukeraoul


    People talking **** on here about posters with closed accounts who walked away cause there was too much drama, not enough running. Last I checked this is meant to be a running forum, not a soap opera...


  • #2660
    adrian522
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,610 Mod ✭✭✭✭adrian522


    dukeraoul wrote: »
    People talking **** on here about posters with closed accounts who walked away cause there was too much drama, not enough running. Last I checked this is meant to be a running forum, not a soap opera...

    Welcome back.


  • #2661
    dukeraoul
    Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭dukeraoul


    adrian522 wrote: »
    Welcome back.

    Damn straight. If any of them wanna back it up with their running, fire away.


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  • #2662
    TFBubendorfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭TFBubendorfer


    dukeraoul wrote: »
    Last I checked this is meant to be a running forum, not a soap opera...

    What, no award for Best Resurrected Character?


  • #2663
    Fianna Fowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭Fianna Fowl


    2.5 ranters for every 1 raver


  • #2664
    walshb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59,705 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    Fianna Fowl wrote: »
    2.5 ranters for every 1 raver

    We were always a bunch of negative fu%$£rs!


  • #2665
    Ron DMC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,297 ✭✭✭Ron DMC


    walshb wrote: »
    We were always a bunch of negative fu%$£rs!

    If it means negative splits then I'm all for it! :)


  • #2666
    gerard_65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 763 ✭✭✭gerard_65


    dukeraoul wrote: »
    People talking **** on here about posters with closed accounts who walked away cause there was too much drama, not enough running. Last I checked this is meant to be a running forum, not a soap opera...
    Using the soap opera analogy some characters are just never killed off. The character remains but the actor changes.


  • #2667
    menoscemo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    South Dublin County Council, constantly digging up perfectly runnable tarmac footpaths and replacing them with thick concrete monstrosities.

    Why are you using my taxes to close the roads for months in order to ultimately make things worse for pedestrians/runners? :mad:


  • #2668
    Murph_D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 10,899 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    menoscemo wrote: »
    South Dublin County Council, constantly digging up perfectly runnable tarmac footpaths and replacing them with thick concrete monstrosities.

    At least they dig 'em up and replace them - over here on the north side they just let the tarmac wear off until you're tripping over it. Then maybe, if they have to dig it up for something else, they might go with the concrete.


  • #2669
    event
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,363 ✭✭✭✭event


    f*cking ankle, its been bothering me since the start of august and I havent been able to train at all. Have the longford HM this sunday, gonna attempt it as a training run.

    pain in the hole


  • #2670
    digger2d2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,957 ✭✭✭digger2d2


    menoscemo wrote: »
    South Dublin County Council, constantly digging up perfectly runnable tarmac footpaths and replacing them with thick concrete monstrosities.

    Why are you using my taxes to close the roads for months in order to ultimately make things worse for pedestrians/runners? :mad:

    Do your taxes not go to the Inland Revenue ;)


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  • #2671
    ultraman1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,742 ✭✭✭ultraman1


    Some of the traininlogs here are ridiculiculous

    Am not sayin mine is great either


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