New - The things that really annoy you

[Wolftone]

Thunder storms over Dublin this evening sounded like buildings being blown up.
Never heard thunder as loud. Sky went very dark, torrential rain began to fall and we had fork lightning in the sky.
After a few mins I was upstairs looking out the back with the windows open and lightning struck right over our house. 5secs later it was like 3 bombs went off, the house shook, I thought it was going to break windows. My ears were ringing.

We had same down here in Wexford. I was videoing it on my phone. When a massive strike hit above us. I thought the house had been struck, blew the electric and everything . I have the video on my phone but can't get it to load up here. The lightning was so bright it looked like daylight outside. Scary.

 

[SSB]

5secs later it was like 3 bombs went off, the house shook, I thought it was going to break windows. My ears were ringing.

Sounds similar to this one I saw on Twitter in Blackpool earlier this month.

https://x.com/carolinecoramuk/status/1686654800258113536?s=46&t=C4S93gpPJYxZrbkyZ1lCuw

 

[Alan]

Getting hit with a great one right now. I love them (provided everyone stays safe, of course).

Think this storm has kept some level of constant thunder going for almost two solid minutes now.

 

[The Saturday Boy]

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Y'all have fire ants over there?

Yeah but we call them Johnny or Prawn King

 

[Alan]

Sorry lads, I did have to laugh.

 

[Wolftone]

Sorry lads, I did have to laugh.

Ped ants and piss ants are fairly common too

 

[sycophantia]

Yeah but we call them Johnny or Prawn King

I'd always assumed they were the same person

 

[Alan]

I'd always assumed they were the same person

 

[EpsomWolf]

Went to Wimbledon station bike park today to service the wife’s commuter bike and sure enough the bike’s been stolen. Upon refection was actually more annoyed at the conditioned ambivalence to it being stolen - you know it’s going to happen at some stage so you factor it in. It was a nondescript commuter, a bit beaten up, but reliable nonetheless and of course worth much more in convenience than value. We’d figured if it happened roughly once a year then so be it and you’d have to just consider it part of the overall commuting costs - it does come to something when you have to think like that.

Did get me thinking about counting up the number of nicked bikes of both mine and the wife’s over the years so did a little list. Over a good few years to be fair:

Cambridge:

1) Nicked from outside a corner shop
2) Nicked from railings outside a friends house
3) Garage broken into and bike taken
4) Nicked from outside Tesco
5) Nicked from outside work
6) Nicked from garden side passage
7) Nicked from outside friends house
8) Shed broken into and bike taken
9) Nicked from garden side passage (same time as 8).
10) Nicked from outside work

Epsom (Wimbledon):

11) Nicked from secure bike park INSIDE Wimbledon station

All bikes locked.

Reported to Police - 4
Recovered- 0

Insurance paid on 1 (No 8, brand new un-ridden bike in shed).

Sad thing is I don’t think that’s a particularly unusual count for bike riders in some towns and cities and whilst some of those were before good quality locks and/or CCTV, it’s unlikely to make get any better as portable angle grinders from a rucksack see off any lock in seconds and no one is going to challenge anyone for fear of being stabbed whilst the arseholes act with impunity.

So off we go again, eyes down look in for another ladies bike. A sad state of affairs.

 

[Boozad]

I had two Giants nicked from outside my flat years ago, the first one wasn't locked up but as we lived in a secured block of six I was naive enough to think I wouldn't need one. So when I moved jobs I bought an XTC 4.5, it was fucking expensive and a great bike and I locked it to the railings outside the front door with a very expensive lock. They still managed to get in the security door and cut the lock somehow and nick it, the utter cunts. that second one really pissed me off, I loved that bike.
I've been lucky with my Revel Ltd 0, I've had that probably ten years or more now and it's still in my possession. God knows how. Bike thieves are absolute fucking scum.

 

[Bigbadwulf07]

Players and managers that don't fulfil thier contracts

 

[Wolftone]

I had two Giants nicked from outside my flat years ago, the first one wasn't locked up but as we lived in a secured block of six I was naive enough to think I wouldn't need one. So when I moved jobs I bought an XTC 4.5, it was fucking expensive and a great bike and I locked it to the railings outside the front door with a very expensive lock. They still managed to get in the security door and cut the lock somehow and nick it, the utter cunts. that second one really pissed me off, I loved that bike.
I've been lucky with my Revel Ltd 0, I've had that probably ten years or more now and it's still in my possession. God knows how. Bike thieves are absolute fucking scum.

Police and legal system not fit for purpose. Absolute fucking scum are aware of this and therefore act with impunity.

 

[machin05]

Went to Wimbledon station bike park today to service the wife’s commuter bike and sure enough the bike’s been stolen. Upon refection was actually more annoyed at the conditioned ambivalence to it being stolen - you know it’s going to happen at some stage so you factor it in. It was a nondescript commuter, a bit beaten up, but reliable nonetheless and of course worth much more in convenience than value. We’d figured if it happened roughly once a year then so be it and you’d have to just consider it part of the overall commuting costs - it does come to something when you have to think like that.

Did get me thinking about counting up the number of nicked bikes of both mine and the wife’s over the years so did a little list. Over a good few years to be fair:

Cambridge:

1) Nicked from outside a corner shop
2) Nicked from railings outside a friends house
3) Garage broken into and bike taken
4) Nicked from outside Tesco
5) Nicked from outside work
6) Nicked from garden side passage
7) Nicked from outside friends house
8) Shed broken into and bike taken
9) Nicked from garden side passage (same time as 8).
10) Nicked from outside work

Epsom (Wimbledon):

11) Nicked from secure bike park INSIDE Wimbledon station

All bikes locked.

Reported to Police - 4
Recovered- 0

Insurance paid on 1 (No 8, brand new un-ridden bike in shed).

Sad thing is I don’t think that’s a particularly unusual count for bike riders in some towns and cities and whilst some of those were before good quality locks and/or CCTV, it’s unlikely to make get any better as portable angle grinders from a rucksack see off any lock in seconds and no one is going to challenge anyone for fear of being stabbed whilst the arseholes act with impunity.

So off we go again, eyes down look in for another ladies bike. A sad state of affairs.

Francis Cade on YouTube has done a few videos demonstrating just how useless bike locks are (aside from the odd super expensive ones that cost more than your actual bike). Best you can hope for is that the lock is a deterrent and they go for an unlocked bike instead.

Out of interest, did you have dedicated cycle insurance or is it just covered on your house insurance?

 

[Keef]

When I worked for Halfords the amount of people buying a £400 bike then buying the £5 lock was unreal, locks and lights were the only things I’d try to upsell for better ones, very few people did though.
Had a lot of people with cheap cable locks wrapped around the frame come in asking for help because they’d lost the key, could we get the lock off? We’d whip out the cutters we used for brake and gear cable trimming and slice the cable, they were amazed it took a second or so, now they’d buy a better lock.
Best you can do is have a decent lock on it, and hope there’s a bike with a worse lock on it

 

[EpsomWolf]

Out of interest, did you have dedicated cycle insurance or is it just covered on your house insurance?

Covered as a specific addition to the house insurance.

There comes a point where it’s not economical to insure bikes because of the hike in premiums and the excess you’ve got to pay on a claim anyway. We don’t cover the daily hacks for that reason and just roll with the punches on those. There are a couple of road and mountain bikes that tend to not be left locked up anywhere but they’re on the policy should the worst happen.

On that note, I’ve been corrected that the insurance hasn’t in fact paid out for “1” bike at all. The insurance payout was for the house burglary where it was laptops, iPads etc, but no bikes on that occasion. The brand new unridden Giant MTB that was stolen from a locked shed a different time was taken within 48 hours of purchase before it had even been added to the policy! Turns out that was stolen by a scumbag ‘new best friend’ of our son who clocked it through the shed window when round one evening. He came round the following night while everyone was asleep and carefully removed the shed hinges, took the door off silently and helped himself . Facebook and the scummy community knew whodunnit and exactly where the bike had gone but despite forensics doing what they could it was never seen again.

We’ve just filed a report for yesterday’s theft which at least is now straightforward online without all the faff of the time at the station. Hopefully the simplicity of that will encourage a more people to do the same and give a more accurate representation of the true levels of crime.

The report had links to this site which I’m going to use and get the bikes on today, might be worth a look for some of you guys:

www.bikeregister.com

 

[lemonjelly]

I guess I ought be relieved at never having had a bike stolen! there is something to having a cheaper version (mine is a fairly basic decathalon bike). Like you say, the inconvenience of the theft would be a bigger issue for me (difficulty travelling to/from work, time and cost of getting a replacement).
I am getting to the stage where my bike is triggers broom. I think most bits have been replaced at least once, except the frame, pedals, saddle and handlebars...

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

This cunt. It's not standing up that's the problem son, it's being a massive attention seeking whopper.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1696010901705417185

Anyone waving phones/cameras about at a gig can fuck off. Take one or two photos maybe, filming a load all at once, when are you ever going to watch that? Sound quality will be shite for a start.

The clown in front of me at Wolves films the players coming out every single game. 19 identical videos a year, just why?

 

[SSB]

That looks very staged to me.

 

[SSB]

I sympathize with people affected by yesterday's flight issues, but there's just been a bloke on the news who's complaining he's "stranded" in Paris with his family!

 

[Keef]

Thoughts and prayers for this family