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La Flamme Rouge **off topic discussion**

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  • #5852
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    A load of kids huffing Nos?

    Yep, it's a massive problem at the moment, it's referred to as 'Hippy Crack'.


  • #5853
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,175 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    can you get addicted to it? i tried it once, it's a very brief kick. weird aural hallucinations though, where what i was hearing got trapped in a loop.


  • #5854
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,107 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Yep, it's a massive problem at the moment, it's referred to as 'Hippy Crack'.

    Is it a massive problem? I know it's popular with de kids, but is it actually causing problems on the level of underage drinking?


  • #5855
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    loyatemu wrote: »
    Is it a massive problem? I know it's popular with de kids, but is it actually causing problems on the level of underage drinking?

    It seems to be in certain places.


  • #5856
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    loyatemu wrote: »
    Is it a massive problem? I know it's popular with de kids, but is it actually causing problems on the level of underage drinking?

    In certain areas it is a huge issue, there was a death recently also


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  • #5857
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,095 ✭✭✭buffalo


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    In certain areas it is a huge issue, there was a death recently also

    It causes spinal problems, with numbness in limbs eventually leading to paraplegia - sometimes permanently.


  • #5858
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,175 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    in what context? sheer overuse?


  • #5859
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    buffalo wrote: »
    It causes spinal problems, with numbness in limbs eventually leading to paraplegia - sometimes permanently.

    No way? I had no idea it could be so lethal. I've had a good bit of it in hospital with various injuries, I was in too much pain to appreciate it though, boo!


  • #5860
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,095 ✭✭✭buffalo


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    in what context? sheer overuse?

    Yep.

    https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/06/excessive-use-of-laughing-gas-can-lead-to-serious-spinal-problems-doctors/
    At least 64 youngsters have ended up in hospital with spinal injuries over the past two years after inhaling nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, RTL Nieuws has reported.

    The figures derive from sampling carried out by the Dutch association of neurologists at a number of Dutch hospitals. In several cases the youngsters, with an average age of 22, ended up in wheelchair, RTL said.

    The chronic use of laughing gas can deplete vitamin B12, which in turn can damage the spinal cord. Patients develop weakness in their legs, arms, trunk, and tingling and numbness that progressively worsens.


  • #5861
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,107 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    buffalo wrote: »
    It causes spinal problems, with numbness in limbs eventually leading to paraplegia - sometimes permanently.

    really, I assume you're talking about B12 deficiency - you'd have to be using a lot of it for a long time to have that effect...

    I'm just a bit wary of moral panics about particular drugs, they're usually highly exaggerated; particularly when you consider the damage done by legal substances like alcohol and tobacco.


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  • #5862
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    are these the same sort of canisters cyclists would use?

    https://twitter.com/theJeremyVine/status/1277557850466922499

    No, cyclists use CO2 canisters. may look the same, but are completely different.

    How do people inhale the gas from those canisters without getting freeze burns?


  • #5863
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,107 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    Eamonnator wrote: »
    No, cyclists use CO2 canisters. may look the same, but are completely different.

    How do people inhale the gas from those canisters without getting freeze burns?

    I'm not sure of the exact process but balloons are involved.


  • #5864
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Eamonnator wrote: »
    No, cyclists use CO2 canisters. may look the same, but are completely different.

    How do people inhale the gas from those canisters without getting freeze burns?

    They empty them onto balloons and inhale from the balloon.


  • #5865
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,382 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    eeeee wrote: »
    They empty them onto balloons and inhale from the balloon.
    Yes there are devices called "crackers" that you put the balloon on and then twist it to crack open the canister which fits inside.


  • #5866
    Weepsie
    Site Banned Posts: 20,686 ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    Perhaps the most weirded out I've ever felt was at around 5-6 am at Glastonbury some years back.

    I was at the stone circle or passing at least , and there were a couple hundred people sitting around for the sunrise all laughing their faces off thanks to aforementioned gas.

    It just made me uneasy for some reason.

    Now I'd gotten through that week with what I'll call TUEs of my own, so they may well have thought the same about me or played a part in my mood.


  • #5867
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    God when I was at Glastonbury it was a guy shouting E's or Acid at 5am :D


  • #5868
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,167 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Had Laughing gas a few years ago, after splitting my chin open. I walked out of St. James dancing like Dick van Dyke and high fiving everyone from there to Grafton St.


  • #5869
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,175 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    interesting, the kick only lasted about 30s when i tried it.


  • #5870
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Had it briefly after an accident in the back of an ambulance a few years ago. Felt like being unpleasantly drunk but stopped within seconds.


  • #5871
    MojoMaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,747 ✭✭✭MojoMaker


    How does anyone acquire tiny canisters of nitrous oxide? Are they commercially available for some benign use?

    150kgs on a beach suggests they are easy to get one's hands on.


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  • #5872
    dahat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,826 ✭✭✭✭dahat


    Discovered a wasps nest in the cavity wall today, ran like a child.

    Absolute fear of wasps & pest control to be called asap.


  • #5873
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Apparently used in coffee machines to froth up milk.....


  • #5874
    Weepsie
    Site Banned Posts: 20,686 ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    dahat wrote: »
    Discovered a wasps nest in the cavity wall today, ran like a child.

    Absolute fear of wasps & pest control to be called asap.

    I uncovered one last week myself. Outside at least though.


  • #5875
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,175 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    RobFowl wrote: »
    Apparently used in coffee machines to froth up milk.....
    wasp frothed cappucinos. i've heard it all.


  • #5876
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,292 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    dahat wrote: »
    Discovered a wasps nest in the cavity wall today, ran like a child.

    Absolute fear of wasps & pest control to be called asap.
    I had a pile if old crap sitting in a pile out the back to put into a skip a few years back. Lifted a bit of carpet only to find myself legging it through the garden before I knew it, followed by a hive of pissed off wasps.
    Ended up with about 15 stings, mostly on my head :(


  • #5877
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    They're not that risky this time of year. It's when they get drunk on over ripe fruit later in the summer you have to worry, unless your disturbing hives in the meantime :D

    Think I posted about the last itme I was stung a couple of years ago. Sat at lights one foot on the ground the other clipped in and went to scratch an itch on my neck and got stung and toppled over. Fella in a van next to me picked me up and gave me some antiseptic wipes. Hadn't been stung since I was a kid and my brother pushed me and I landed on one.


  • #5878
    Ryath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,466 ✭✭✭Ryath


    Hadn't been stung since once as a child either (I may have provoked him!). Been stung 4 times by the feckers the last few years. Three or four years ago I stepped on one in my socks at home. There was a nest the size of a beach-ball in the attic that year!

    Was stung 3 times last year! Twice on the bike in May/June first under my helmet on the back of my head, second on the thigh descending I hadn't even swatted him! Last time was in August or so when I just sat into my car and trapped one and got stung on the back. That better be my life time allocation.


  • #5879
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The worst is when the kids spot one in the house and you're ****ting yourself because you remember the pain while being expected to shoo it out. I can deal with Mr. skinny legs removals but wasps and bees get swatted with a vengence.


  • #5880
    cletus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,050 ✭✭✭cletus


    Don't kill bees, we need them for pollination


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  • #5881
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    cletus wrote: »
    Don't kill bees, we need them for pollination

    Don't worry I'm crap at swatting so no bees actually get harmed and it's rare one finds its way in :D. Also our front "lawn" has a large amount of daisies, buttercups, white clover and some kind of purple ones so theres a decent amount of bees going about their business at the moment. Actually more than I've seen in recent years.


  • #5882
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,175 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Deleted User wrote: »
    They're not that risky this time of year. It's when they get drunk on over ripe fruit later in the summer you have to worry,
    from what i understand, it's because the queen stops laying so they run out of food and get hungry so pester anything that might be food.


  • #5883
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Oh that makes sense, I always figured they were mean drunks from the alcohol in over ripe fruits late in summer.


  • #5884
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,107 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    wasps are pollinators too.

    We had a nest in our garden wall right beside the back door - I put powdered poison around the entrance and it was gone within days.
    I'd never actually been stung by one until last summer, wasn't too bad compared to a bee sting or (the worst) a horsefly bite.


  • #5885
    dahat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,826 ✭✭✭✭dahat


    Wasp removal tomorrow, €60 well spent for me.


  • #5886
    dinneenp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,153 ✭✭✭dinneenp


    dahat wrote: »
    Wasp removal tomorrow, €60 well spent for me.

    A bit of a buzzkill.....


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  • #5887
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,668 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    dinneenp wrote: »
    A bit of a buzzkill.....

    I hope they don't sting you with a huge bill...


  • #5888
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    maybe ring elverys? they list whistles on their website anyway, €4.

    Thanks for recommendations. Elvery's in Omni closed but Lifestyle had loads in stock oddly enough.


  • #5889
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Ended up in my local last night, nachos and a shedload of pints. Team meeting over zoom this morning was less than nice


  • #5890
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,292 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Team meeting over zoom this morning was less than nice
    Just use Ctrl + Shift + 7...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1UB1-LKX5E


  • #5891
    Weepsie
    Site Banned Posts: 20,686 ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Ended up in my local last night, nachos and a shedload of pints. Team meeting over zoom this morning was less than nice

    How many pints can one have in 105 minutes?

    A younger me, would see that as a challenge, but I'd gather a lot of pubs/people are taking it as a challenge


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  • #5892
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,175 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    there's a tweet going round, with a photo of a receipt for one meal and 31 pints of heineken, which is disgusting behaviour.

    really, you've not been able to get to a pub for months and you order *heineken*?


  • #5893
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,107 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    there's a tweet going round, with a photo of a receipt for one meal and 31 pints of heineken, which is disgusting behaviour.

    fools. you don't actually have to order any food.


  • #5894
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Weepsie wrote: »
    How many pints can one have in 105 minutes?

    A younger me, would see that as a challenge, but I'd gather a lot of pubs/people are taking it as a challenge

    The 105minute thing is in no way enforcable, I was there from 8.30 until midnight. They seem to be ok with only asking people to go if there are others waiting to get in


  • #5895
    dinneenp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,153 ✭✭✭dinneenp


    loyatemu wrote: »
    fools. you don't actually have to order any food.

    Friend was in an establishment last night- couldn't get drink until food arrived...


  • #5896
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    dinneenp wrote: »
    Friend was in an establishment last night- couldn't get drink until food arrived...

    Really? We were 3 pints deep before we even ordered


  • #5897
    Weepsie
    Site Banned Posts: 20,686 ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    The 105minute thing is in no way enforcable, I was there from 8.30 until midnight. They seem to be ok with only asking people to go if there are others waiting to get in

    It's entirely enforceable though. Pubs have no problem enforcing people to wait or leave when it suits them, so during a cautious reopening in the midst of a global pandemic, it is.


    Given what the smallest if businesses have been able to enforce the last 3 months, pubs can enforce this.


    Pubs that can't should have their licences temporarily revoked.


  • #5898
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 50,175 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1277914065973784576


  • #5899
    Hurrache
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,240 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    https://twitter.com/mission753/status/1278031408339070976?s=19


  • #5900
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Was just watching this, Lanterne Rouge covering the mens Slovenian ITT and some interesting findings re: bike changes and some points about a later stage of the Tour this year.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e0E1x2N0AU


  • #5901
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,095 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Is there any decent bike parking on Parnell St in Dublin? Outside the cinema probably isn't as safe as it used to be given the lack of foot traffic. Outside Pennys might be the best option.


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