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

brocbrocach

CramCycle wrote: »

I presume by the actions of the English after 1921 in regards to other parts of the empire breaking free, it would realistically have been a fair bit friendlier, with better economic outcomes for Ireland and potentially the support of our neighbours which may have went some way to lowering the number and level of atrocities, but only an opinion and I admit I am no expert.

I don't know about that. Most of their African and Asian colonies descended into chaos shortly after they left. Your average Arab and Jew in the middle-east wouldn't have great memories of the legacy of empire either...

The undeniable and vile discrimination against Nationalists in the North until they were forced to behave - over FIFTY years after after the Southern uprising - leads me to think that things wouldn't have gone swimmingly whatever happened.
Anyway this is bad territory to get into. All Europeans now etc.

petethedrummer

Definitely booking a foreign holiday this Easter.

Harrybelafonte

brocbrocach wrote: »

Anyone with any knowledge of history knows that most of it is down to interpretation. I'm afraid you've made a bit of a show of yourself above as it's not outlandish by any means to believe that the War of Independence started in 1916.
Also Seán Treacy and Séamus Robinson are usually regarded as the top men at Soloheadbeg, Breen being a lesser figure at the time.

Clearly they're teaching things differently since I got my degree. I could also interpret the 1867 rebellion as having begun the war of independence. That'd just be inside outlandish as well. As for making a show of myself... that too is open to interpretation.

Anybody know what happened to the Irish women's TP squad. Where they given wrong lap numbers?

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Harrybelafonte wrote: »

Anybody know what happened to the Irish women's TP squad. Where they given wrong lap numbers?

From this?
http://www.tissottiming.com/File/Download?id=00030D0000021463FFFFFFFFFFFFFF02

Eamonnator

Qualitymark wrote: »

Could we maybe talk about bicycles? Sorry to have brought all this in.

Well, it is the "off topic" thread"

Harrybelafonte

gadetra wrote: »

From this?
http://www.tissottiming.com/File/Download?id=00030D0000021463FFFFFFFFFFFFFF02

I saw a report that they were given the 3km pursuit lap numbers on their first run and had to go again.

RobFowl

petethedrummer wrote: »

Definitely booking a foreign holiday this Easter.

Ahead of you

Italy beckons ....

Beasty

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

I saw a report that they were given the 3km pursuit lap numbers on their first run and had to go again.

From here

Brian Nugent said “the commissaires put 12 laps on the board instead of 16 and stopped the team a kilo early. It was very frustrating and it meant we had to restart at the end. After already completing 3kms and having to go again wasn’t really ideal, but there wasn’t any other option at that point.”

Felix English took 4th in the Scratch and then 7th in the Points Race. That may help secure places in the Worlds in London in March

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"Brian Nugent said “the commissaires put 12 laps on the board instead of 16 and stopped the team a kilo early. It was very frustrating and it meant we had to restart at the end. After already completing 3kms and having to go again wasn’t really ideal, but there wasn’t any other option at that point.”


Jesus that's horrific.

Ridiculous at that level too

Beasty

gadetra wrote: »

"Brian Nugent said “the commissaires put 12 laps on the board instead of 16 and stopped the team a kilo early. It was very frustrating and it meant we had to restart at the end. After already completing 3kms and having to go again wasn’t really ideal, but there wasn’t any other option at that point.”


Jesus that's horrific.

Ridiculous at that level too

Did I ever tell you about my first World Championships - they made me do an extra lap:p

The really frustrating thing is I was looking at the lap counter, and it seemed to stick at 6. Was thinking it should be 5. Another lap and I'll be half-way there. But it was another 2 before I saw 4 on the board. Normally when that happens the person realises they are out of sync with the lap counter on the other side. In this case though they both got it wrong! Played hell with me mentally for the remainder of the pursuit. Looked up at the clock at the end and could not believe how poor my time was. Was saying to people around me I must have done 9 laps. Then an official came over to me rather sheepishly to tell me they had made a mistake. They gave me the option of going again - not a cat in hell's chance of that! They therefore gave me my 2k time.

Weepsie

petethedrummer wrote: »

Definitely booking a foreign holiday this Easter.

Possibly heading to South Korea , not sure yet. Apparently there is loads of dedicated cycle paths now so going to try and get on that if I go.

Lumen

FOOTPAD!

Warning: contains Ingle

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/r%C3%B3is%C3%ADn-ingle-on-a-collision-course-1.2495309

CramCycle

Did I see right that the mens team had to restart as well after the timer malfunctioned?

Eamonnator

Lumen wrote: »

FOOTPAD!

Warning: contains Ingle

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/r%C3%B3is%C3%ADn-ingle-on-a-collision-course-1.2495309

I don't take The Irish Times. I've never read any of this woman's stuff before.
Does she write s*#te like this often?

OleRodrigo

Lumen wrote: »

FOOTPAD!

Warning: contains Ingle

http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/r%C3%B3is%C3%ADn-ingle-on-a-collision-course-1.2495309

A shameful double whammy of shame. Any commuter-cam warriors get some footage?

:P

Beasty

CramCycle wrote: »

Did I see right that the mens team had to restart as well after the timer malfunctioned?

They definitely had a disadvantage - possibly more down to the fact Felix English and Eoin Mullen are the only Irish guys out there and you need 3 to cross the line in the pursuit....

It became clear after the Euros they had virtually no chance of qualifying for Rio. They went to the World Cup event in Cali but did not enter the Cambridge or HK events

Lumen

Eamonnator wrote: »

I don't take The Irish Times. I've never read any of this woman's stuff before.
Does she write s*#te like this often?

No. It's usually much worse.

traprunner

I can't believe people get paid to write crap like that. I'm thinking that I should see if my parents have any of my old school copies in their attic. I reckon 'My News. Today is Saturday. It so a cold day.' would earn me a fortune.

rollingscone

I regularly hear one elderly lady in Portobello telling cyclists "No cycling on this path" as they ignore en-mass the perplexing cycle free section canal at Portobello.

I don't cycle on it, because it's for pedestrians; the only real disincentive to using the road like a grown up is the section of one way street at the end, and the fact that Portobello road is often blocked by cars.

It's pretty clear that the reason this section isn't cycle track is that they couldn't make space for pedestrians off the canal without pedestrianizing Portobello road.

But I'm still firmly of the opinion that cycling on a footpath, especially one with big no cycling signs on it, is dickish and wrong. So I sympathize with the lady not wanting to have hardcore extreme athlete commuter warriors who are too lazy/afraid to go around on the road zipping around her.

Weepsie

traprunner wrote: »

I can't believe people get paid to write crap like that. I'm thinking that I should see if my parents have any of my old school copies in their attic. I reckon 'My News. Today is Saturday. It so a cold day.' would earn me a fortune.

She's made a career of it. Absolute tripe. At least its not Barry Egan though, it's the little things like that

Chips Lovell

Several posts deleted. If you want to make negative remarks about someone who's just won a defamation action (of all things), please don't do so on this website.

Think before you post folks.

Thanks

Eamonnator

Is it just me, or has there been a problem with Boards.ie today?

Weepsie

Eamonnator wrote: »

Is it just me, or has there been a problem with Boards.ie today?

RobFowl tried accessing some servers to change the name of this thread. Total lockdown

Eamonnator

Weepsie wrote: »

RobFowl tried accessing some servers to change the name of this thread. Total lockdown

Looks like the Hoor was at it again.

koutoubia

Lemmy,Bowie and Frey....All dead!
Yet Simon Cowell lives.
Something is badly out of Synch in the world!

Lumen

I've achieved so much in the last day or so.

RobFowl

Eamonnator wrote: »

Looks like the Hoor was at it again.

And I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky kids ...

Eamonnator

Can somebody post a link, to what has been happening lately to Boards.ie
please.

Unknown Soldier

Eamonnator wrote: »

Can somebody post a link, to what has been happening lately to Boards.ie
please.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack#Distributed_attack

Beasty

Eamonnator wrote: »

Can somebody post a link, to what has been happening lately to Boards.ie
please.

Blame "DDoS"ers;)

There's a thread in Feedback, and another here, although I suspect the latter is unlikely to go into the cause too deeply

A bit more about them here