La Flamme Rouge off topic discussion

12-09-2019 11:36pm

Normally I'm not bothered by them, but they other morning I bent down to put stuff in the laundry basket and felt a web on my forehead , the basket is next to the bed.

magicbastarder · 12-09-2019 11:59pm

i put a pair of work gloves on earlier, which i hadn't worn in months, and half an hour later, pulled them off and wondered 'why is there a spider squashed on the end of my finger' for a second or two till i copped.

eeeee · 13-09-2019 12:31am

:eek:
The pair of you.

I'm not sleeping tonight.

I have named the spiders that live in each room of my flat though

it's less scary that way

Although I had to kill Jennifer in the bathroom. The rules are we stay out of each other's way.
She jumps down into the sink.
It took two downing attempts and both plug and duct tape to secure the sink.
I still feel guilty

magicbastarder · 13-09-2019 12:35am

i found this lovely lady in the front garden recently. my hand is only a few inches behind her, so you get a reasonably accurate sense of scale.

eeeee · 13-09-2019 12:38am

AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAahhhhhhggggg

robyntmorton · 13-09-2019 6:46am

Simple rule with spiders: If they leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they cross me, they die.

Once got woken by a spider crawling up my arm. That ended like the scene from Dr. No.

Mickiemcfist · 13-09-2019 8:37am

We used to have a silverfish problem in an old apartment I lived in for a few years, but once I stopped killing bathroom spiders I never saw them again, so I've learned to like them ever since!

Weepsie · 13-09-2019 9:35am

Hate spiders because I've been terrified of them since I was a kid. I think they are amazing though, and from a distance could watch them as they spin webs and go about their business. The intricacy they are capable of is incredible.

We also had a bad silverfish problem in our apartment, and that apartment was nearly free of spiders the entire time I was there.

My new house is full of them. Spindly guys are allowed stay, but the big bodied ones can go away.

magicbastarder · 13-09-2019 9:47am

you should check out collie ennis's twitter feed, he's got a load of pet spiders (among other things), including a tarantula who's over 20 years old.

cdaly_ · 13-09-2019 9:48am

eeeee wrote: »

I have named the spiders that live in each room of my flat though it's less scary that way
Although I had to kill Jennifer in the bathroom. The rules are we stay out of each other's way.
She jumps down into the sink.
It took two downing attempts and both plug and duct tape to secure the sink.
I still feel guilty

Poor Jennifer. *bows head*

I have the spider evicting duty at home. They get caught in a glass and carefully released in the grass on the roadside...

magicbastarder · 13-09-2019 10:02am

years ago, my wife was reading in bed and heard a quiet tapping noise - it took her a minute or two to find the source, but it was a rather large spider repeatedly pulling on the flex for the bedside lamp and letting it fall back against the wall.

magicbastarder · 13-09-2019 10:14am

Weepsie wrote: »

I think they are amazing though, and from a distance could watch them as they spin webs and go about their business.

https://twitter.com/marakat/status/1172056357903712257

second link is adulterated, add the h back in if you're not scared of spiders.

ttps://twitter.com/collieennis/status/1172054889964462081

eeeee · 13-09-2019 10:16am

cdaly_ wrote: »

Poor Jennifer. *bows head*

I still feel guilty

!

cdaly_ wrote: »

I have the spider evicting duty at home. They get caught in a glass and carefully released in the grass on the roadside...

Definitely the way to go. Only works on flat surfaces though...

I had a little mouse I'm my flat once. They were absolutely adorable. I named them

then they started bringing a friend over. I got one of those plug in anti mouse things and they left. I felt soooooo guilty. But they were up on the counters and everything.
Fast forward two years and little mouseling (offspring I'm guessing) is back. I got them in a humane mouse trap with some chocolate.
The guilt at the evictions

putting them outinti the cold

!
They're so cute though. I entertained notions of taming them and keeping them as a pet...

LollipopJimmy · 13-09-2019 12:45pm

Apparently if you bhave mice it means you don't have rats. We always need to be careful about rats where I live, I'm only a couple of hundred yards from the canal yet my neighbour thinks it's ok to throw food into the middle of the cul-de-sac for 'de burds'. Yeah mate, birds love your leftover curry

Eamonnator · 13-09-2019 1:25pm

eeeee wrote: »

:eek:
The pair of you.

I'm not sleeping tonight.

I have named the spiders that live in each room of my flat though it's less scary that way
Although I had to kill Jennifer in the bathroom. The rules are we stay out of each other's way.
She jumps down into the sink.
It took two downing attempts and both plug and duct tape to secure the sink.
I still feel guilty

Burial at sea is always appropriate.

Idleater · 13-09-2019 1:26pm

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Yeah mate, birds love your leftover curry

My cat spent dinner time staring at me and trying to get at my plate. So when just about finished I put it down and let her at it.
Licked the plate clean.
The cat likes vegetarian Thai green curry.

eeeee · 13-09-2019 1:44pm

Eamonnator wrote: »

Burial at sea is always appropriate.

:eek: :eek:

I couldn't release mouseling to a watery death!
Instead, like a proper eejit, I released them 20 metres from my flat into the park *facepalm* .
I wasn't entirely sure they walked into the trap, and initial emptying attempts proved fruitless.
So I looked inside and saw two little beady eyes looking at me and then shook them out.
After some confused grass based scurrying, they made for the nearest wall.
10m from my flat

I also have neighbours who empty their dinner plates straight out onto the square to 'feed the pigeons'. They don't seem to realise rats exist.
There are a couple of foxes who take up residence at night. I'm really hoping they're on the rats, as I haven't seen any rats tbf.
I have so far resisted naming them.
It hasn't been easy. :pac:

Poor little mouseling. I hope they're ok

eeeee · 13-09-2019 1:47pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

years ago, my wife was reading in bed and heard a quiet tapping noise - it took her a minute or two to find the source, but it was a rather large spider repeatedly pulling on the flex for the bedside lamp and letting it fall back against the wall.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

Weepsie · 13-09-2019 2:04pm

eeeee wrote: »

:eek: :eek:

I also have neighbours who empty their dinner plates straight out onto the square to 'feed the pigeons'.

Do you live beside Phil Daniels? If they start feeding the sparrows too, I suspect so.

eeeee · 13-09-2019 2:06pm

Weepsie wrote: »

Do you live beside Phil Daniels? If they start feeding the sparrows too, I suspect so.

Who's Phil daniels?

Weepsie · 13-09-2019 2:08pm

This guy from the Park Life video, and Quadrophenia.

CramCycle · 13-09-2019 5:23pm

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Apparently if you bhave mice it means you don't have rats. We always need to be careful about rats where I live, I'm only a couple of hundred yards from the canal yet my neighbour thinks it's ok to throw food into the middle of the cul-de-sac for 'de burds'. Yeah mate, birds love your leftover curry

I'd prefer rats, mice are dirty creatures, rats I find grand.

LollipopJimmy · 13-09-2019 5:28pm

CramCycle wrote: »

I'd prefer rats, mice are dirty creatures, rats I find grand.

De Bhál · 13-09-2019 10:41pm

Great Van De Poel finish in the tour of Britain.

13-09-2019 11:23pm

De Bhál wrote: »

Great Van De Poel finish in the tour of Britain.

Trentin giving a thumbs up and a what could I do gesture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2T84UxzMV0

Lusk_Doyle · 14-09-2019 10:39am

eeeee wrote: »

Noooooooo! I like to keep some in every room for protection. I figure if I have one or two civilised specimens they'll keep the rest out
I still shudder after Big Spider Year. I went to hoover one and it was too big and heavy for the headless hoover noozle. The noise of them moving across carpet.
Aaaaaaaaaaaah!

Try to vacuum them next time instead. Might work better.

Bambaata · 14-09-2019 2:51pm

Aaaaaaaahhhh of all days for eurosport app to not work!!

magicbastarder · 16-09-2019 10:51am

https://twitter.com/GardaTraffic/status/1172410262609002498

Weepsie · 16-09-2019 10:55am

I saw a Garda car last night approach a juncto, throw on it's siren and power through to pull in at a station 150 metres up the road, all in an effort to save a 20 seconds?

eeeee · 16-09-2019 12:59pm

Weepsie wrote: »

I saw a Garda car last night approach a juncto, throw on it's siren and power through to pull in at a station 150 metres up the road, all in an effort to save a 20 seconds?

I've seen this a lot too.

ED E · 16-09-2019 5:27pm

My locals do it all the time for an indian. Harris is trying to change the culture but the whole org chart is doing everything they can to resist it.

brocbrocach · 16-09-2019 5:55pm

"The Force" as a whole needs a good boot up the hole. If it takes a MI5 operative to do it rather than one of our own, they have no-one to blame but themselves.

Acquiescence · 16-09-2019 7:01pm

I had a rear tyre blow out at the weekend a good 50km from home. Grabbed a lift into the local town from a cyclist that luckily happened to be parked near where it happened. He dropped me to the 'local' bike shop who proceeded to charge me €40 for a DSI something or other. He said it was all he had that'd fit. If it cost him more than three euro wholesale I'd be surprised.

I was charged €14 for a tube in another LBS recently.

I got great satisfaction from supporting a local business while they bent me over.

magicbastarder · 16-09-2019 8:12pm

may be of interest to people here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/535183747252193/

for those not on facebook:

Thursday, 3 October 2019 at 19:00
Friends of the Earth Ireland
9 Upper Mount Street, Dublin, Ireland

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•Group values
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•Demonstration ideas

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buffalo · 18-09-2019 8:19am

I think we've all encountered this guy at some point :pac:

https://twitter.com/claudiascore/status/1174001056025645064

(audio NSFW, but worth listening to)

CramCycle · 18-09-2019 8:55am

buffalo wrote: »

I think we've all encountered this guy at some point :pac:

https://twitter.com/claudiascore/status/1174001056025645064

(audio NSFW, but worth listening to)

I love those guys, once its clear, usually pretty quickly, that it is all hot air, it becomes quite funny.

Mefistofelino · 18-09-2019 9:18am

He's like a geriatric Scrappy-Doo - "Lemme at 'im"

Some of the comments are gold:

"#SoundON - Road rage
#SoundOFF -killing time at the traffic lights with a bit of interpretive dance"

LollipopJimmy · 18-09-2019 11:21am

buffalo wrote: »

I think we've all encountered this guy at some point :pac:

https://twitter.com/claudiascore/status/1174001056025645064

(audio NSFW, but worth listening to)

I hate people

LollipopJimmy · 18-09-2019 5:04pm

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I hate people

Although after checking my Euromillions ticket turns out I have a little less hatred in my soul today. €2000, come to papa

18-09-2019 5:39pm

Ha nice!!!!!!!

magicbastarder · 18-09-2019 10:22pm

https://twitter.com/DubIinBus/status/1172854434004709381

eeeee · 18-09-2019 11:36pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

https://twitter.com/DubIinBus/status/1172854434004709381

Excellent

magicbastarder · 19-09-2019 7:49am

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

Captain Havoc · 19-09-2019 10:28am

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

Although after checking my Euromillions ticket turns out I have a little less hatred in my soul today. €2000, come to papa

What bike are you going to get with it?

LollipopJimmy · 19-09-2019 11:45am

Captain Havoc wrote: »

What bike are you going to get with it?

There's an ex Pro Ridley I have my eye on, I need another couple of yoyos to add although given what I've spent on Doctors, physio, meds, MRI etc etc in the last 3 weeks the couple of grand has come in handy.

magicbastarder · 19-09-2019 11:03pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

now commuting with a pannier bag.

an unexpected issue; we have a pair of five month old kittens, and they are utterly obsessed with playing in or on this. i have to put it away where they can't get at it, i found four of their toys in it this morning when i went to fill it.

c.p.w.g.w · 20-09-2019 2:26am

magicbastarder wrote: »

an unexpected issue; we have a pair of five month old kittens, and they are utterly obsessed with playing in or on this. i have to put it away where they can't get at it, i found four of their toys in it this morning when i went to fill it.

Yeah my cats sit on my saddle when I leave it on the tutbo. Saddle of course I'd ruined now from them using their claws

eeeee · 20-09-2019 10:14am

magicbastarder wrote: »

an unexpected issue; we have a pair of five month old kittens, and they are utterly obsessed with playing in or on this. i have to put it away where they can't get at it, i found four of their toys in it this morning when i went to fill it.

It's criminal that this post wasn't accompanied by kitten pics.
Further pic less kitten posts will be deleted :P

NamelessPhil · 20-09-2019 1:13pm

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

magicbastarder · 20-09-2019 1:35pm

Ours don't seem to bother with paper bags. However, I also cannot leave a sweaty cycling top down as otherwise you'd find a cat wrapped up in it in short order.

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