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

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  • #362
    Rambling Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 358 ✭✭Rambling Man


    The Black Oil wrote: »
    Thailand direction. :) It's 26C there now.

    Maybe a spare pair of nylon knickers and a spare nylon shirt.


  • #363
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,966 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Does nylon work better than polyester, then?

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



  • #364
    Buzwaldo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 739 ✭✭✭Buzwaldo


    The Black Oil wrote: »
    Apart from fluid intake and sun block, does anyone have any advice on cycling in warm weather - 30C?

    http://www.cyclesuperstore.ie/shop/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=41326
    Saw these on offer and thought they would be good for v hot weather, esp if fair-skinned. That's if you are still here and planning a trip. Not much use if you're already out there.


  • #365
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Oh FFS. I really don't get the need for this:

    http://road.cc/content/news/164413-bike-shop-allegedly-offering-spouse-receipt

    I suppose it's great if you need that kind of thing but when did people have to go sneaking around like children to get things they want with their own money? I mean if it's not coming out of the families mouths/joint budget for other things what's the feicin problem? I just don't get it! :rolleyes:


    ETA: which is even beside the point of it being called the 'wife receipt' which doesn't exactly fill me with joy...


  • #366
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    gadetra wrote: »

    ETA: which is even beside the point of it being called the 'wife receipt' which doesn't exactly fill me with joy...

    Because it's mostly men trying to hide the real price from their wife.


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  • #367
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Raam wrote: »
    Because it's mostly men trying to hide the real price from their wife.

    It's also sexist as hell.


  • #368
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    gadetra wrote: »
    It's also sexist as hell.

    The name or lads hiding the real price?


  • #369
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Raam wrote: »
    The name or lads hiding the real price?

    Name. It a) assumes women don't understand how much bike things cost cos they don't cycle and b) as a consequence perpetuates the idea of cycling as a MAMIL activity. It also assumes men to be 'henpecked' or childishly hiding away secret spending form their wives which is sexist against men. It basically reinforces tired gender stereotypes and perpetuates inequality. IMO.

    Lads or ladies hiding the real price still makes no sense to me. Why if you're an adult can you not spend your money on whatever you want after you have met your communal financial responsibilities?


  • #370
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    gadetra wrote: »
    Name.

    Lads or ladies hiding the real price still makes no sense to me. Why if you're an adult can you not spend your money on whatever you want after you have met your communal financial responsibilities?

    Cos I suppose a spouse might not be too happy with the amount spent. Some folk are like that. Don't tell them how much you spent... problem solved... no dramas.


  • #371
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Raam wrote: »
    Cos I suppose a spouse might not be too happy with the amount spent. Some folk are like that. Don't tell them how much you spent... problem solved... no dramas.

    Having to creep around, either hiding stuff away or pretending stuff cost less than it did though, I mean come on! That's drama no? I guess I just don't understand the kind of relationship where that's necessary. People are just weird I suppose.

    If my OH got a load of expensive cycling things the biggest issue would be me 'borrowing' them. :pac:


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  • #372
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Gadetra, you know the way that everybody else thinks your odd sock charade is wierd and wrong? Accept this for what it is in the same vein that everybody else has accepted you.


  • #373
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Lusk_Doyle wrote: »
    Gadetra, you know the way that everybody else thinks your odd sock charade is wierd and wrong? Accept this for what it is in the same vein that everybody else has accepted you.

    Ha ha ha! I have chalked it down to people are weird :D


  • #374
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    gadetra wrote: »
    Having to creep around, either hiding stuff away or pretending stuff cost less than it did though, I mean come on! That's drama no? I guess I just don't understand the kind of relationship where that's necessary. People are just weird I suppose.

    If my OH got a load of expensive cycling things the biggest issue would be me 'borrowing' them. :pac:

    I can only speculate as I don't know the parties involved, but perhaps the partner, whose sex is irrelevant, is secretly hiding the fact that their job is insecure and they might be fired. So whilst the partner spending dosh on bike stuff thinks everything is fine, but the partner with the job worries doesn't want to offload that worry on to them just yet and their frustration manifests in giving them grief for buying expensive stuff. So the biking partner doesn't understand the grief, has no worry about money (yet) and just wants a quiet life so they say "Oh this old thing? Just a couple of hundred quid".

    Just a guess though.


  • #375
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Raam wrote: »
    I can only speculate as I don't know the parties involved, but perhaps the partner, whose sex is irrelevant, is secretly hiding the fact that their job is insecure and they might be fired. So whilst the partner spending dosh on bike stuff thinks everything is fine, but the partner with the job worries doesn't want to offload that worry on to them just yet and their frustration manifests in giving them grief for buying expensive stuff. So the biking partner doesn't understand the grief, has no worry about money (yet) and just wants a quiet life so they say "Oh this old thing? Just a couple of hundred quid".

    Just a guess though.

    Yeah that's very understandable, but you hear it ALL the time, everyone isn't permanently on the brink of unemployment though? The gendered nature of it was what irked me first.

    Anyway, it's just a different way of being, quite apart from mine, it is what it is. I just couldn't understand it. I don't need to though!


  • #376
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    gadetra wrote: »
    Yeah that's very understandable, but you hear it ALL the time, everyone isn't permanently on the brink of unemployment though? The gendered nature of it was what irked me first.

    Anyway, it's just a different way of being, quite apart from mine, it is what it is. I just couldn't understand it. I don't need to though!

    I sense a deep-rooted feeling of hurt following lies told to you in the past. It helps to talk about these things.


  • #377
    Zyzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭Zyzz


    gadetra wrote: »
    Having to creep around, either hiding stuff away or pretending stuff cost less than it did though, I mean come on! That's drama no? I guess I just don't understand the kind of relationship where that's necessary. People are just weird I suppose.

    If my OH got a load of expensive cycling things the biggest issue would be me 'borrowing' them. :pac:

    I've already told you you're not allowed on the bikes.


  • #378
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Zyzz wrote: »
    I've already told you you're not allowed on the bikes.

    I totally went out on them behind your back.


  • #379
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Raam wrote: »
    I sense a deep-rooted feeling of hurt following lies told to you in the past. It helps to talk about these things.

    Never had a hurt filled lying moment (in that context), but my feminist senses tingled and it all flowed from there :pac:


  • #380
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    gadetra wrote: »
    Never had a hurt filled lying moment (in that context), but my feminist senses tingled and it all flowed from there :pac:

    I'm on the turbo so I'll be brief... stop reading road.cc. It's fúcking shíte. They publish drivel.


  • #381
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Now I'm getting worried.

    Just back from 30k around the park and both my kit and I are bone dry...I feel like not breaking a sweat is a sign I need to change up my training significantly.


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  • #382
    Unknown Soldier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭Unknown Soldier


    gadetra wrote: »
    Name. It a) assumes women don't understand how much bike things cost cos they don't cycle and b) as a consequence perpetuates the idea of cycling as a MAMIL activity. It also assumes men to be 'henpecked' or childishly hiding away secret spending form their wives which is sexist against men. It basically reinforces tired gender stereotypes and perpetuates inequality. IMO.

    Lads or ladies hiding the real price still makes no sense to me. Why if you're an adult can you not spend your money on whatever you want after you have met your communal financial responsibilities?

    It's not really that hard to imagine.

    There may possibly be a discussion about a new Kitchen/Car/Garden/Kids collage etc etc. As you might have put it... future "communal financial responsibilities"

    One partner convinces the other "communal funds" are better spent "elsewhere" for the greater good of the family or that there isn't enough in the fund.


    Said partner walking into the house a few weeks later having blown a lot of dosh on a personal luxury item, such as a new bike or Jimmy Choo shoes, is probably not a good thing.

    I'm imagining that's kind of how it pans out.

    I wouldn't be looking into it much deeper than that.


  • #383
    Raam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,318 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    Unknown Soldier wrote: »
    Jimmy Choo shoes, is probably not a good thing.

    I'll buy those god-damn shoes if I want.


  • #384
    wanderer 22
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    rollingscone wrote: »
    Now I'm getting worried.

    Just back from 30k around the park and both my kit and I are bone dry...I feel like not breaking a sweat is a sign I need to change up my training significantly.

    Go back out now; it's raining ;)


  • #385
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    gadetra wrote: »
    Never had a hurt filled lying moment (in that context), but my feminist senses tingled and it all flowed from there :pac:

    Feminist senses. There's a misnomer if ever there was one.



    BOOOOM!


  • #386
    koutoubia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭koutoubia


    Haaa. Tornado Tom to the rescue.
    http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/video-etixx-quickstep-get-their-car-stuck-in-a-ditch-and-struggle-to-remove-it/


  • #387
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    The Black Oil wrote: »
    Does nylon work better than polyester, then?

    I think it was invented/available earlier. The point of nylon in those days was that you could rinse it out and it'd be dry overnight.
    Raam wrote: »
    Because it's mostly men trying to hide the real price from their wife.

    Ah, the warm fuzzy memories of widows ringing up to tell the employer that her pension is way too high, as a proportion of her husband's wages… not realising that he'd been concealing a third of his wages from her for years. On the other hand, at the same time - back in the 1970s-1990s, it was the norm for husbands to hand over the whole fat jingly banknote-squashy pay envelope to his wife, and get some pocket money back, while she dealt with all the expenses. That was pretty much universally how it went among the lower middle and middle middle classes, anyway.


  • #388
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,458 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    gadetra wrote: »
    Lads or ladies hiding the real price still makes no sense to me. Why if you're an adult can you not spend your money on whatever you want after you have met your communal financial responsibilities?
    We're quite frugal in our house and TBH anything I spend on bike stuff is not much more than petty cash....



    :P


  • #389
    Lusk_Doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,338 ✭✭✭Lusk_Doyle


    Beasty wrote: »
    We're quite frugal in our house and TBH anything I spend on bike stuff is not much more than petty cash....



    :P

    Ah feck off with your money.


  • #390
    OleRodrigo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,514 ✭✭✭OleRodrigo


    Qualitymark wrote: »
    the lower middle and middle middle classes, anyway.

    Did people really buy all that, back then ?

    I thought it was just Insurance companies and Governent advisors ( and later, the Irish Times ).


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  • #391
    arybvtcw0eolkf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,608 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    I'm not usually one to rant, cry or throw a tantrum.. But by Jaysus I was seething earlier.

    I've NEVER passed a cyclist broken down, never.. But I was caught with a puncture tonight (around 21:30) at the wooden bridge in Clontarf ~ usually not a big problem at all, but tonight one of my two tyre levers broke whilst trying to get the tyre off.

    So in the pissing rain I was left with one tyre lever and thank f**k for years of Judo giving me enough grip strength to tear the tyre from the rim.

    And yes, every cyclist pissed on past without a backwards glance.

    Just one bloody tyre lever would have made a massive difference to my night.

    May the curse of the seven scabby orphans haunt every cyclist who whizzed past me tonight.

    Home now, showered and warm again ~ with a whiskey!!.

    Oh, on a plus.. I used an Aldi repair kit, apart from the lever breaking the pump and patches worked great (I think the pump cost me about a fiver a few years ago) :)


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