La Flamme Rouge **off topic discussion**

daragh_

Deleted User wrote: »

Speaking of cats and wife/partners we spent nearly 10 minutes this evening watching the neighbours cat trying to sun himself in the driveway getting heckled by a pair of magpies who frequent the tree outside our house. One would sit on the wall and the other would hop down near him and squawk at him then they'd switch. We only watched for 10 minutes because the fleabag got fed up of them and headed off under our car

This is happening in my back garden daily. We've two cats and the adventurous one gets an earful from two Magpies anytime she ventures onto the back wall. She attempts to retreat with some dignity but they have her sussed.

They ignore the other cat as he's far too lazy to attempt anything as strenuous as scaling a wall.

LollipopJimmy

Rechuchote wrote: »

LJ, be especially careful of yourself when this kind of thing starts happening. It's a sign of exhaustion and is dangerous. If you can take a couple of days of rest and quiet it would do no harm.

Ah I'm grand. My sector has just gone nuts the last few weeks. I get to go motorbike shopping this week so all good

dahat

While on Facebook market place earlier I saw a Genesis Equilibrium 725 disc frame set €350 for sale in a medium.

It’s beyond my knowledge but given the popularity of these here I thought it might interest somebody.

crosstownk

Crows are astonishingly smart. Check out these crows in Japan. Picture isn't great but Mr. Attenborough narrates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPGknpq3e0

If you want to learn more about corvids, search YouTube for John Marzluff. Very informative if you're only even half interested in ornithology.

Lumen

crosstownk wrote: »

Crows are astonishingly smart. Check out these crows in Japan. Picture isn't great but Mr. Attenborough narrates.

They're also complete bastards.

I'd like to see Attenborough lovingly narrating the segment where they peck the eyes out of living animals then wait for them to die so they can feast on the carrion.

buffalo

I read the inline quote as referring to 'cows' for some reason, which made this statement a bit bizarre.

Lumen wrote: »

They're also complete bastards.

I'd like to see Attenborough lovingly narrating the segment where they peck the eyes out of living animals then wait for them to die so they can feast on the carrion.

magicbastarder

nature, red in tooth and claw, innit?

loyatemu

buffalo wrote: »

I read the inline quote as referring to 'cows' for some reason, which made this statement a bit bizarre.

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

Fighting Tao

buffalo wrote: »

I read the inline quote as referring to 'cows' for some reason, which made this statement a bit bizarre.

That might be to do with your bovine username.

seamus

Crows and Magpies make more sense when you keep in mind that they're actually tiny dinosaurs.

I'm reliably informed that chickens are in fact some of the most savage and brutal animals one could come across. Just like the velociraptors in Jurassic Park.

Chips Lovell

Don't get him started on the chickens.

Fighting Tao

seamus wrote: »

Crows and Magpies make more sense when you keep in mind that they're actually tiny dinosaurs.

I'm reliably informed that chickens are in fact some of the most savage and brutal animals one could come across. Just like the velociraptors in Jurassic Park.

Then there are those sweet little bunny rabbits you see. They sometimes eat the face and ears completely of romantic competitors if they can corner the.

magicbastarder

i was talking to one of the most weirdly pushy shop assistants in a bike shop near me earlier.
he tried convincing me i didn't want the colour of bar tape i was asking for, and then when i was asking about a wax chain lube they were selling (it stated on the bottle that you've to completely strip the chain and reapply every 600km, and i thought the point of wax lube was that it was extra long lasting) and it turned into a 'well, we've established you've got poor chain hygiene already' and then did the 'only joking mate' when he saw the look on my face. or in my eyes.

it's a pity, the mechanics in that shop are usually dead sound but maybe the sales guys are under a lot of pressure to rack up the sales.

Seth Brundle

seamus wrote: »

I'm reliably informed that chickens are in fact some of the most savage and brutal animals one could come across. Just like the velociraptors in Jurassic Park.

The velociraptors in JP were way too big. They were slightly bigger than a chicken in the real world...

Seth Brundle

Fighting Tao wrote: »

Then there are those sweet little bunny rabbits you see. They sometimes eat the face and ears completely of romantic competitors if they can corner the.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgj3nZWtOfA

eeeee

My velociraptor knowledge has exploded.

loyatemu

eeeee wrote: »

My velociraptor knowledge has exploded.

Clever girl!

caadmium

Seth Brundle wrote: »

The velociraptors in JP were way too big. They were slightly bigger than a chicken in the real world...

and clearly had no regard for social distancing rules

breezy1985

Seth Brundle wrote: »

The velociraptors in JP were way too big. They were slightly bigger than a chicken in the real world...

Wouldn't call them chickens to their face though would you

tomasrojo

https://twitter.com/KensingtonVan/status/1400756586960859141

tomasrojo

crosstownk wrote: »

Crows are astonishingly smart.

They tried the scenario in the Aesop fable The Crow and the Pitcher (the crow manages to get a drink by dropping stones into the pitcher to displace the water upwards), and crows can actually figure it oiut.

Rogue-Trooper

One of the lads I work with did a nixer on the side this morning and was busted when his watch tracked his walking activity and auto-uploaded it to Strava - he is followed by a load of us including his line-manager and director....!!:eek::pac:

breezy1985

Rogue-Trooper wrote: »

One of the lads I work with did a nixer on the side this morning and was busted when his watch tracked his walking activity and auto-uploaded it to Strava - he is followed by a load of us including his line-manager and director....!!:eek::pac:

A crow would never do something stupid like that

LollipopJimmy

Rogue-Trooper wrote: »

One of the lads I work with did a nixer on the side this morning and was busted when his watch tracked his walking activity and auto-uploaded it to Strava - he is followed by a load of us including his line-manager and director....!!:eek::pac:

I worked with a guy who had strava printouts presented to him in a disciplinary, he was a mountain biker so it's grand

CramCycle

Took a half day and went up around Rathcoole with a co worker last week in the middle of the day. If it was ever pulled on me in a disciplinary thing, I would pull up my Google where am I thing and show them all the unrecorded call outs that I never even tell them about. This thing of pulling someone up for flexitime if they are getting the job done is absolute sh1te. Some jobs need you there but alot don't and picking on a good worker who uses a bit of flexibility is the sign that you work for idiots.

magicbastarder

my boss has occasionally been known to tell me to go out to make the most of the good weather, if i mention to him the sun is shining.

breezy1985

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I worked with a guy who had strava printouts presented to him in a disciplinary, he was a mountain biker so it's grand

He should have been sacked just for the stupid baggy top and pants he wears never mind the crappy un-aero helmet

magicbastarder

What if the entire continental US was on a decreasing slope from West to East. How steep would the slope have to be to sustain the momentum needed to ride a bicycle the entire distance without pedaling?
https://what-if.xkcd.com/154/

tomasrojo

https://twitter.com/shanemoloney19/status/1400888423364374529

Scrambler aside is that how people negotiate a kissing gate with a bike?

I always walked the bike through them on the rear wheel with the front in the air