La Flamme Rouge off topic discussion

eeeee · 20-09-2019 1:56pm

NamelessPhil wrote: »

Get the kittens a Penney's or Dunnes stores paper bag. Hours of endless fun as they hide and mug each other.

Now This Is what I'm talking about!

20-09-2019 5:19pm

Boscoirl · 20-09-2019 7:01pm

Our cat is extremely boring. She does nothing interesting

eeeee · 20-09-2019 8:13pm

Boscoirl wrote: »

Our cat is extremely boring. She does nothing interesting

They don't need to do anything. They just lounge there, with an equal blend of calculating menace, menace, relaxation and awesomeness.

wanderer 22 · 20-09-2019 8:47pm

Boscoirl wrote: »

Our cat is extremely boring. She does nothing interesting

Mine just sits around watching films.

RobFowl · 20-09-2019 9:59pm

We have 4 feckin cats.....

secman · 20-09-2019 10:03pm

Just to add a bit of balance.....i fckin HATE cats.

eeeee · 20-09-2019 10:04pm

RobFowl wrote: »

We have 4 feckin cats.....

You say that without a single picture :eek:

See post above to avoid a ban

RobFowl · 20-09-2019 10:11pm

eeeee wrote: »

You say that without a single picture :eek:

See post above to avoid a ban

Alex is the black one and the ginger one is Taylor Swift..

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eeeee · 20-09-2019 10:27pm

secman wrote: »

Just to add a bit of balance.....i fckin HATE cats.

Get out! :P

Awwwwww what glorious little dotes RobFowl.

Does your cat write reviews Colm18?

NamelessPhil · 20-09-2019 10:36pm

We have four cats too. The two fluffy idiots in the picture above, an aloof black cat and a nervous grey and white boy.

NamelessPhil · 20-09-2019 10:37pm

Colm18 - is your cat gloating at the sinking of the Titanic?

eeeee · 20-09-2019 11:42pm

NamelessPhil wrote: »

Colm18 - is your cat gloating at the sinking of the Titanic?

They appear to be appraising the tragedy.
Or wishing they could push them all off into the water themselves :eek: :pac:

20-09-2019 11:58pm

We used to have have a ferret named Oy when we lived in Dublin. Best pet ever. She was like a puppy that never grew up and super klepto !!! Missing a shoe? It'd be in Oy's stash of treasures behind the sofa

eeeee · 21-09-2019 8:34am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

We used to have have a ferret named Oy when we lived in Dublin. Best pet ever. She was like a puppy that never grew up and super klepto !!! Missing a shoe? It'd be in Oy's stash of treasures behind the sofa

Awwwwwwwwwww! Ferrets are so cute and mischievous. And so intelligent. It's like trying to hold water :pac:

Captain Havoc · 21-09-2019 1:56pm

My dog is mental.

Weepsie · 21-09-2019 7:51pm

Has anyone ever used Yokozuna reaction cables? Was looking at getting them for some TRP Hy/Rds but they're pricey (guts of 50 quid or more). Have TRP cables unused.

dastardly00 · 21-09-2019 9:11pm

Tadej Pogacar turned 21 today! He was born in 1998... I feel old! :pac:

I remember the Tour from that year, and the football World Cup, and I attended my first All-Ireland hurling final

RobFowl · 21-09-2019 10:00pm

dastardly00 wrote: »

Tadej Pogacar turned 21 today! He was born in 1998... I feel old! :pac:

I remember the Tour from that year, and the football World Cup, and I attended my first All-Ireland hurling final

I got married in 1998....

magicbastarder · 21-09-2019 10:26pm

dastardly00 wrote: »

I feel old! :pac:

star wars came out 32 years after the end of world war two.
star wars is now 42 years old.

'nevermind' came out 23 years after the beatles' 'the white album'. 'nevermind' is now 28 years old.

i feel old.

RobFowl · 22-09-2019 9:24am

My favourite cat often sneaks into my room at night. Woke up this morning to this!
PS She's called Evee

eeeee · 22-09-2019 9:30am

Awwwww!
Doing important foot warming work there:pac:

magicbastarder · 22-09-2019 2:24pm

maybe the intended heat flow is in the opposite direction. an unusual approach if so, i'll admit.

Thargor · 22-09-2019 9:49pm

College Green deliberately blocked off instead of properly pedestrianised again:

magicbastarder · 22-09-2019 10:23pm

as someone asked on twitter earlier - if those barriers are considered requisite safety equipment for pedestrians when there *aren't* cars on college green, what is required for when there *are*?

De Bhál · 22-09-2019 11:37pm

I'd say there's good money to be made in the temporary barrier game in this country

magicbastarder · 22-09-2019 11:41pm

https://twitter.com/murray_ste/status/1175854415875645440

tomasrojo · 24-09-2019 5:49am

magicbastarder wrote: »

god bless whoever got to @dublinbus before dublin bus did. that twitter account is brilliant.

They seem to have used the capitalised ninth letter of the alphabet for the fourth character instead of a lower-case twelfth. @dublinbus was taken in 2009, maybe by Dublin Bus to stop anyone else using it?

tomasrojo · 24-09-2019 6:27am

While there's some cat discussion ...

https://twitter.com/thomasfuchs/status/1175237908736831488

Kurtosis · 24-09-2019 9:41am

Would anyone know of somewhere in the Grafton St area that might sell a puncture repair kit? Sad to see all the nearby bike shops have closed or moved.

CramCycle · 24-09-2019 9:44am

Kurtosis wrote: »

Would anyone know of somewhere in the Grafton St area that might sell a puncture repair kit? Sad to see all the nearby bike shops have closed or moved.

Camden St. would be the closest I imagine.

RobFowl · 24-09-2019 9:45am

Is there a Tiger shop near ? They do them.

magicbastarder · 24-09-2019 9:48am

i think there may be a tiger shop across the road from the church on aungier street. but camden street is just a little bit farther to walk, and you'll be in a dedicated bike shop.

Weepsie · 24-09-2019 9:56am

There's a tiger in Stephen's green and a bike shop on Pearse street across from the library. TK Maxx sometimes have stuff too.

Kurtosis · 24-09-2019 10:03am

Brilliant, thanks all! Didn't realise Tiger did them. Also, despite cycling past Penny Farthing cycles on Camden Street every day, I forgot they existed. Will give them a go if no joy in Tiger.

rubadub · 24-09-2019 10:38am

Dealz too, but none on the southside.

buffalo · 24-09-2019 2:52pm

http://www.dublincity.ie/share-care

Deputy Lord Mayor Cllr. Tom Brabazon recently launched the new “Share with Care” (“Roinn le Curaim”) signage in Fairview Park. This initiative will promote responsible behaviour and respect between pedestrians and cyclists and if successful will be extended to other parks in the city.

It would be easy to make a whataboutery comment about motorists and cyclists sharing with care, but I won't.

CramCycle · 24-09-2019 3:50pm

Office mate in an unpleasant way after a car ran onto the main road, looking at phone and she had to emergency break, bike went from under her. Fairly bruised and battered, car drove off, never stopped and possibly didn't even notice. Thankfully the car and cyclist behind stopped to make sure she was OK. Driver of the car barely made the turn as they were trying to type and spin the wheel with at the same time. Thankfully only road rash and bruised ribs and hips.

Weepsie · 24-09-2019 3:58pm

Happened near work? There are plenty of cameras around there no?

magicbastarder · 24-09-2019 4:05pm

no dashcam footage from the car behind, i guess?

CramCycle · 24-09-2019 4:32pm

Weepsie wrote: »

Happened near work? There are plenty of cameras around there no?

Happened on the road between the Dropping Well pub and the old train station just around the corner, after climbing the hill.

magicbastarder wrote: »

no dashcam footage from the car behind, i guess?

There is possibly one from the creche across the road.

She talked me through it and I think she made the right call in regards what was happening, it was hit the deck or possibly hit the car at a funny angle. Funny she partly blames herself for a car pulling out in front of her and not paying attention.

magicbastarder · 25-09-2019 7:46am

so... when are we going to start seeing disc brakes on fixies/single speeds?

Lusk_Doyle · 25-09-2019 11:50am

tomasrojo wrote: »

They seem to have used the capitalised ninth letter of the alphabet for the fourth character instead of a lower-case twelfth. @dublinbus was taken in 2009, maybe by Dublin Bus to stop anyone else using it?

Could you not just have said a big I instead of an l rather than making me do my abcs?!?!?!

De Bhál · 25-09-2019 1:23pm

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Could you not just have said a big I instead of an l rather than making me do my abcs?!?!?!

reminds me of this old joke

Teacher: Can anyone give me a sentence beginning with ‘‘I’’?

Student: I is…

Teacher: Never put ‘‘is’’ after an ‘‘I’’. Always put ‘‘am’’ after an ‘‘I’’.

Student: I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.

tomasrojo · 25-09-2019 7:34pm

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Could you not just have said a big I instead of an l rather than making me do my abcs?!?!?!

On my browser, the two letters of which you speak look exactly the same,so I tried another tack. Admittedly, I achieved precision without achieving intelligibility.

Lusk_Doyle · 25-09-2019 10:13pm

tomasrojo wrote: »

On my browser, the two letters of which you speak look exactly the same,so I tried another tack. Admittedly, I achieved precision without achieving intelligibility.

So you think that we can't read a sentence good like you does?

magicbastarder · 25-09-2019 10:35pm

tomasrojo wrote: »

Admittedly, I achieved precision without achieving intelligibility.

story of my life, bud.

eeeee · 25-09-2019 11:36pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

so... when are we going to start seeing disc brakes on fixies/single speeds?

Never!

Ah no disc's on single speeds fine.

But why the flip would you want to have them on a fixie? You have double the amount of brakes on a fixie than a normal bike!

It nearly killed me to put a back brake on my old track bike when I was converting her into my commuter. I have yet to use use it (back brake).

I have disc's on a road bike and mtb, and they are truly excellent.

I don't miss them on the fixie though. 4 brakes!

magicbastarder · 26-09-2019 7:46am

random thought - i've occasionally seen someone mess up mounting their rear light on the bike, and it ends up being a happy accident in that the light ends up shining back onto an item of clothing, illuminating it.
i'd be curious as to how visible or eye catching a point source of light is, compared to the same light being bounced off a light item of clothing.
there might be merit in mounting a rear light, facing forward onto your back, if you've a carrier or similar to mount it to?

Mefistofelino · 26-09-2019 2:58pm

Found this while tidying today.

Nissan Classic,1992. Climb of Mushera, heading South. Some rider in possibly his first race in Europe after turning pro following the Barcelona Olympics.
Chunky guy - whatever happened to him?

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