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    #8552
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,079 ✭✭✭buffalo


    average_runner wrote: »
    Don't worry, they are going to block the buses from getting out of the city, so drove in today. Actually leaving at 7am gets me into town in 25 mins from lucan!!!

    I didn't realise that, thanks extinction rebellion for showing me the way:D

    Where'd you hear that?


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    #8553
    Stark
    Registered Users Posts: 20,994 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    Blocking buses would be completely counter to their aims so sounds like BS.


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    #8554
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,927 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    I presume it was a joke based on the video of protesters blocking cyclists in the states. Have to say, fume levels are rising, not something I ever noticed before.. ANECDOTE WARNING.


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    #8555
    average_runner
    Registered Users Posts: 12,851 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    buffalo wrote: »
    Where'd you hear that?

    It was on one of the twitter feeds that they were planning to block O'Connell Bridge.

    They blocked the luas in the IFSC yesterday also!!


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    #8556
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    That's in the USA. How is that relevant? other than its full of crazy people.


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    #8557
    average_runner
    Registered Users Posts: 12,851 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    beauf wrote: »
    That's in the USA. How is that relevant?

    This is a cycling forum, so thought it was funny!!!


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    #8558
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,586 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    average_runner wrote: »
    This was posted in after hours:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/dek9z3/climate_change_activists_block_city_bridge_tell/
    it was also posted in this thread, about ten posts before yours.


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    #8559
    average_runner
    Registered Users Posts: 12,851 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    it was also posted in this thread, about ten posts before yours.

    Sorry, I missed it. Will delete

    @beauf you can have a dig at someone else now!!


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    #8560
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    I thought it was about bridges being blocked which might have an effect on people commutes. Thats all.

    But you have to realize the cycling forum is full of cranks.


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    #8561
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,079 ✭✭✭buffalo


    average_runner wrote: »
    Don't worry, they are going to block the buses from getting out of the city, so drove in today. Actually leaving at 7am gets me into town in 25 mins from lucan!!!

    I didn't realise that, thanks extinction rebellion for showing me the way:D

    Well, was your bus blocked?


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    #8562
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,586 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    beauf wrote: »
    But you have to realize the cycling forum is full of cranks.
    this is not getting the reaction it deserved.


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    #8563
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,848 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    "WWF chief executive Tanya Steele said: “We are the first generation to know we are destroying our planet and the last one that can do anything about it."

    From the IT article linked above.

    Fully support XR.
    No sign of any disruption on my commute through town today, they must need more numbers!*

    *not a single sign of either a coconut or flowers. Much dissapoint :pac:


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    #8564
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,927 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    this is not getting the reaction it deserved.

    At least twice as many cranks as there are posters,


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    #8565
    jjpep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 658 ✭✭✭jjpep


    CramCycle wrote: »
    At least twice as many cranks as there are posters,

    Maybe. Don't forget about all those fixies out there though...


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    #8566
    average_runner
    Registered Users Posts: 12,851 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    buffalo wrote: »
    Well, was your bus blocked?

    I drove yesterday so it was grand. On the luas today as collecting kids from the inlaws


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    #8567
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,848 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    jjpep wrote: »
    Maybe. Don't forget about all those fixies out there though...

    We're also doubly cranky!


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    #8568
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,586 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    and tend to flip-flop on important issues too.


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    #8569
    Miklos
    Registered Users Posts: 985 ✭✭✭Miklos


    That may be true but we're certainly chained to some fixed ideas.


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    #8570
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    ...and people rarely back-pedal on their ideas!


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    #8571
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,927 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    jjpep wrote: »
    Maybe. Don't forget about all those fixies out there though...

    Ah, would you give 'em a brake.


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    #8572
    average_runner
    Registered Users Posts: 12,851 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    With all those jokes, ye need a good service


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    #8573
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,812 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Moving on from the entendres (and getting back onto the journalism saddle), I spotted this just now...

    https://twitter.com/LkCycleDesign/status/1181685206635470855


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    #8574
    average_runner
    Registered Users Posts: 12,851 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    Moving on from the entendres (and getting back onto the journalism saddle), I spotted this just now...

    https://twitter.com/LkCycleDesign/status/1181685206635470855

    In fairness, your lucky he isn't taxing ye for cycling. Irish Governments are clueless


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    #8575
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,586 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    it's an extraordinary (in the way that's not extraordinary) missed opportunity of a budget.
    you'd think ross would have cut viciously into the greyhound budget, given that he's revealed himself to be no fan of what's been going on, and which also (i suspect) play well in his constituency. but they get to keep their €16.8m, nearly double what's been allocated to cycling.

    they've completely cut grants to businesses to replace their fleets with e-cars, which hardly plays into the plan to have a million of them on the road in ten years.
    and it's inevitable, BNM is going to have to stop burning peat in the very near future, why not just get it over and done with, and pay the workers off? it might actually show some willingness to deal with the issues being faced - and would save money anyway.


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    #8576
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    it's an extraordinary (in the way that's not extraordinary) missed opportunity of a budget.....

    I think in the future we will look back on the last decade as time who Govt fiddled while rome burned. its all about keeping the status quo, and zero progress. While basic needs like housing, health, transport, schools, collapse in crisis. The titanic sinks and the govt is busy rearranging the furniture.


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    #8577
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,586 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i guess varadkar and coveney are busy with brexit/happy that their legacy is being created by same. but that does not excuse so many other departments for astounding inaction.


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    #8578
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Love his reply about vaping.
    “Vaping is relatively new but it is not all that new,” the Taoiseach said adding that, “we need to look at the science and listen to the doctors and health professionals”.

    I don't think "Leader" means what he think it means. Wait for someone else to give direction and leadership. Then just follow them.


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    #8579
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Never mind the fact the he is a doctor himself.


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    #8580
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,586 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    beauf wrote: »
    Love his reply about vaping.



    I don't think "Leader" means what he think it means. Wait for someone else to give direction and leadership. Then just follow them.
    in this case, i can't fault his approach. wait for expert advice, the jury is very much out.


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    #8581
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    in this case, i can't fault his approach. wait for expert advice, the jury is very much out.

    Is there any valid case to be vaping in the workplace?


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