Friday's rant

[RoboProp]

Now an R2 unit has been sent to Washington DC, playing "Help me Barack Obama, you're my only hope"
Beyond farcical

[domhnallj]

Now an R2 unit has been sent to Washington DC, playing "Help me Barack Obama, you're my only hope"
Beyond farcical

[honeyec]

Rear-ended a guy who stopped dead in front of me at the top of the M50 southbound on-ramp at Firhouse on Tuesday morning. Was doing about 20kmh; my seatbelt didn't even lock.

Got the damage assessment back there this afternoon, and the car is a write-off

[mfjoc]

Rear-ended a guy who stopped dead in front of me at the top of the M50 southbound on-ramp at Firhouse on Tuesday morning. Was doing about 20kmh; my seatbelt didn't even lock.

Got the damage assessment back there this afternoon, and the car is a write-off

Yours, his, or both?

Nowadays cars are designed to crumple in a collision and once bent can't be fixed.

[domhnallj]

Rear-ended a guy who stopped dead in front of me at the top of the M50 southbound on-ramp at Firhouse on Tuesday morning. Was doing about 20kmh; my seatbelt didn't even lock.

Got the damage assessment back there this afternoon, and the car is a write-off

Yours, his, or both?

Nowadays cars are designed to crumple in a collision and once bent can't be fixed.

I'd be more worried that my seatbelt failed to lock even at 20 kmh.

[honeyec]

Rear-ended a guy who stopped dead in front of me at the top of the M50 southbound on-ramp at Firhouse on Tuesday morning. Was doing about 20kmh; my seatbelt didn't even lock.

Got the damage assessment back there this afternoon, and the car is a write-off

Yours, his, or both?

Nowadays cars are designed to crumple in a collision and once bent can't be fixed.

Mine.

And yes, they can be fixed once the chassis isn't damaged, which mine isn't. It's an economic write-off.

I'd be more worried that my seatbelt failed to lock even at 20 kmh.

Should have been more specific - it locked at the shoulder point but the pretensioners didn't even kick in; it was so low-impact. I drove the car home and then down to the body shop, like.

[mfjoc]

Rear-ended a guy who stopped dead in front of me at the top of the M50 southbound on-ramp at Firhouse on Tuesday morning. Was doing about 20kmh; my seatbelt didn't even lock.

Got the damage assessment back there this afternoon, and the car is a write-off

Yours, his, or both?

Nowadays cars are designed to crumple in a collision and once bent can't be fixed.

Mine.

And yes, they can be fixed once the chassis isn't damaged, which mine isn't. It's an economic write-off.

I'd be more worried that my seatbelt failed to lock even at 20 kmh.

Should have been more specific - it locked at the shoulder point but the pretensioners didn't even kick in; it was so low-impact. I drove the car home and then down to the body shop, like.

All you have to now is site and wait for the insurance claims to come in
I presume the guy you hit will suffer from soft tissue injuries that will destroy his life etc etc

[Oldschool]

Rear-ended a guy who stopped dead in front of me at the top of the M50 southbound on-ramp at Firhouse on Tuesday morning. Was doing about 20kmh; my seatbelt didn't even lock.

Got the damage assessment back there this afternoon, and the car is a write-off

The main thing to worry about is your own health.
Although less likely you may well have whip lash too.
Some of the symptoms can be:-
1. Head ache.
2. Neck pain.
3. Lower back pain - yes lower back pain.

Get yourself checked out.
Irish doctor's aren't great on this stuff but I'd go to a physio but he/she has to be somebody who is on the ball with this sort of stuff.

[Hippo]

City Bike riders - almost all of you.

Please learn something, even just one thing, about how to use the road properly. Thanks!

[RoboProp]

City Bike riders - almost all of you.

Please learn something, even just one thing, about how to use the road properly. Thanks!

Not saying that I let them deliberately run into me on paths or that I walk into them when they break lights at pedestrian crossings. Only that accidents can happen

[Vamos los azules]

City Bike riders - almost all of you.

Please learn something, even just one thing, about how to use the road properly. Thanks!

Not saying that I let them deliberately run into me on paths or that I walk into them when they break lights at pedestrian crossings. Only that accidents can happen

I had one try to cycle straight through me this morning just as I started to cross the road because he wanted to cycle the wrong way up a one way road before the traffic started again.

He shot me back a glare as he headed off straight up the middle of a two-lane one way road in the wrong direction, like I was the one in the wrong

[domhnallj]

The concept of the public roads being a shared space is alien to pedestrians/bike users/motorists in equal measure.

[Peg Leg]

The concept of the public roads being a shared space is alien to pedestrians/bike users/motorists in equal measure.

They're for whatever I'm doing at the time and curses on anyone doing anything else!

[RoboProp]

The concept of the public roads being a shared space is alien to pedestrians/bike users/motorists in equal measure.

They're for whatever I'm doing at the time and curses on anyone doing anything else!

Alls I knows new is I pity the cyclist on the footpath who goes barrelling towards a heavily pregnant Lady RP. Let's just say the inner Terry Tate is embraced

[domhnallj]

Alls I knows new is I pity the cyclist on the footpath who goes barrelling towards a heavily pregnant Lady RP. Let's just say the inner Terry Tate is embraced

I did not know you were a knight of the realm

[RoboProp]

Alls I knows new is I pity the cyclist on the footpath who goes barrelling towards a heavily pregnant Lady RP. Let's just say the inner Terry Tate is embraced

I did not know you were a knight of the realm

I have been known to sit on a throne!

[domhnallj]

I have been known to sit on a throne!

Roboprop for making people visualise him taking a dump

[Donny B.]

I have been known to sit on a throne!

Roboprop for making people visualise him taking a dump

It's the "throne" I feel sorry for!

[RoboProp]

I have been known to sit on a throne!

Roboprop for making people visualise him taking a dump

It's the "throne" I feel sorry for!

Well, when you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you die

[offshorerules]

The Garth Brooks debacle, I blame it all on his roots......