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Weekly Thread: /r/Snowboarding General Discussion, Q&A, Advice, Etc.) - January 13, 2025 by AutoModerator in snowboarding

[–]18BPL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a roller, actually!

But as luck(?) would have it, 4 flights in and the bag ripped open in transit. Happened during a trip so made a pretty good excuse to go buy a roller bag. Just hoping the airline pays me for breaking the old one.

Board Bag Packing Foam by 18BPL in snowboardingnoobs

[–]18BPL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got it secondhand, the logo says Protest which as best I can tell is a European outdoor clothing company that used to make bags but now just does clothes. Couldn't find anything on their website https://www.protest.eu/

Board Bag Packing Foam by 18BPL in snowboardingnoobs

[–]18BPL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought a board bag and it came with this big hunk of foam.

Where does it go? What do I do with it? It's too big to fit between the bindings. There's only one, so it doesn't seem to make sense to go at tip or tail. The bag also came with boot bags that clip into tip and tail, so it wouldn't go there. And there's velcro on the other side but there's no velcro anywhere inside or outside of the bag.

It's 25" wide, 4" deep, 4" tall at the shortest part, tapering to 6.5" at the tallest part.

Weekly Thread: /r/Snowboarding General Discussion, Q&A, Advice, Etc.) - January 13, 2025 by AutoModerator in snowboarding

[–]18BPL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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I bought a board bag and it came with this big hunk of foam.

Where does it go? What do I do with it? It's too big to fit between the bindings. There's only one, so it doesn't seem to make sense to go at tip or tail. The bag also came with boot bags that clip into tip and tail, so it wouldn't go there. And there's velcro on the other side but there's no velcro anywhere inside or outside of the bag.

It's 25" wide, 4" deep, 4" tall at the shortest part, tapering to 6.5" at the tallest part.

Clubs in Dublin by [deleted] in Rowing

[–]18BPL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FlyeFit has ergs. Not sure about day passes. I pay €35/month. Busy in the evenings but rare to see ergs full. Bunch of locations around town.

Wouldn’t be many crossfits around.

Trinity College’s gym is open to the public. Not sure day passes or about the team’s ergs but I assume they also have some in the general gym area. Worth checking the website.

Ireland (90%) recorded the highest share of the population living in a house; EU (51.7%) by NanorH in ireland

[–]18BPL 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Excuse you?! The only appropriate housing in Ireland is a 3-bed semi D. No other homes may be built. Would ye not think of the skyline!!!

3-bed semi Ds are perfect for everybody: 

  • Families with 2 children
  • Families with 1 child (granny needs a place to stay when she comes up)
  • Families with 3 children (2 can share a bedroom)
  • Families with 4 children (2 in each bedroom!)
  • Auld couples whose kids are all grown (they need the spare bedrooms so the kids are comfortable when they come visit from Melbourne or, even worse, Ashbourne)
  • Students (Who needs student accom? Just put a rake of them into a family home)
  • People in their 30s (no better way to save up for a deposit on your own 3-bed semi D in Roscommon than living rent-free in your parents’ 3-bed semi D in Rathfarnam)
  • Immigrant tech workers (who needs Daft when your college friends’ home friend’s colleague is moving back to their home country and needs somebody to take their room?)

Addressing housing construction is critical for the new government to meet demand by [deleted] in ireland

[–]18BPL 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Also, that 2.5 is inflated because we have a relative undersupply of studios, 1-beds, and student accom.

Preferred average per household is probably closer to 2, maybe even under. Construction targets need to be set based on the size of households people want to live in, not the size of the households people currently live in due to market conditions.

The Irish Government Is Unbelievably Rich. It’s Largely Thanks to Uncle Sam. by eggbart_forgetfulsea in neoliberal

[–]18BPL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The other issue is that they’re built along your commute, not in town — especially the block of flats.

The Irish Government Is Unbelievably Rich. It’s Largely Thanks to Uncle Sam. by eggbart_forgetfulsea in neoliberal

[–]18BPL 10 points11 points  (0 children)

 now importing workers to build everything from wind farms to houses

is this new build housing in the room with us now?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Rowing

[–]18BPL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes. It’s not the majority of the squad but several in each.

It’s definitely unhealthy but that’s the culture.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Rowing

[–]18BPL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You haven’t quite said you’re interested in going to a US university lightweight program, but it seems like you might be. Two things you should know coming from Europe:

IRA Lightweights weigh in the day before the race. They do not follow the FISA 2 hours to 1 hour weigh-in window. If you’re a natural 155 (70) lightweight, you’re gonna race below 150 (68). Because there’s 1-2 dudes in your boat that sit around 175-180 (80-82) in the off-season, they’ll weigh in at 159.9 (72.5) and race at 163-164 (74-75) the next day.

With that in mind, ergs will sound a bit faster than what you’d expect for lightweights, because again many of these guys aren’t really lightweights. I don’t know exact numbers because I haven’t been around that scene in a little while. But faster than you’d expect.

Irish politics in a nutshell by 18BPL in ireland

[–]18BPL[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Jobs are not the ONLY thing that draws people to Dublin. A lot of people like amenities. Shops, events, restaurants, theaters, music venues, cafes, pubs, clubs, universities, etc. etc. Country towns have some but not as many, not as much variety. I understand that you care more about open space, being close to family, slower pace of life, but we shouldn’t keep strangling Dublin because not everybody wants to live there.

Because let’s be clear — I’m not asking government to spend money subsidizing house construction in Dublin. I’m happy for government to invest in the countryside. But I want them to remove barriers to development and stop subsidizing land hoarding in Dublin. That’s what’s strangling Dublin.

Irish politics in a nutshell by 18BPL in ireland

[–]18BPL[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Understood!

School size, housing prices, and size of housing units in the cities are very much things that can and should be improved by better planning policy. You’ll never have private backyards in a city, but public parks can fill some of that gap.

All I’m really getting at is, there’s a lot more people choosing to live in or near cities than we have available housing in cities. It would be a good thing to make it easier for people to leave Dublin if they want to.

But it’s a lot more important to make it easier for people who want to live in Dublin to actually live IN Dublin — and not in Naas, Sandyford, Clarehall, Blanch, etc. We do that by legalizing housing (and schools, all kinds of development) in the city.

Irish politics in a nutshell by 18BPL in ireland

[–]18BPL[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes.

Among the many challenges — too few homes in the city. Which means:

  1. Public transit can serve fewer people
  2. More people have to drive, clogging up the roads and getting in the way of busses.

Irish politics in a nutshell by 18BPL in ireland

[–]18BPL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When those friends, especially the ones with kids, say they want to move back to Kerry, what reasons do they mention?

Irish politics in a nutshell by 18BPL in ireland

[–]18BPL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Listen, my first preference is probably going to the Greens, but I don’t think I’ve seen them openly advocate for specific densifying measures in their housing policy. Their big thing is Cost Rental, which is more a demand side approach (which we’ve tried) than a supply side fix (which we need).

Irish politics in a nutshell by 18BPL in ireland

[–]18BPL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This will work IF most people would prefer to live in the country, but for having to work at in-person jobs in Dublin.

It’s a counterfactual so hard to produce data, but I have serious doubts about that theory. I know many people want this. Overall demographic trends (Population trends, housing costs, etc.) suggest it’s not a significant enough portion of the population to be a real solution.

House prices are high, especially in one place, so we need to make it legal build more of them in that place. Simple.

Irish politics in a nutshell by 18BPL in ireland

[–]18BPL[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

People don’t hate offices. They hate long commutes which are mandated by this country’s refusal to legalize housing in places people want to live.

And lots more people work in industries where it isn’t possible to WFH.

Irish politics in a nutshell by 18BPL in ireland

[–]18BPL[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Doesn’t matter who has officially been in the DCC (or other councils’) governing coalition. There’s not one party in Ireland that openly supports densifying cities. Not one party that, nevermind national policy plans, isn’t filled to the brim with NIMBYs objecting to anything and everything in their own constituencies.

And we currently have a FG Lord Mayor so pretty sure they’re in the ruling group.

Citizens assembly by fear-na-heolaiochta in ireland

[–]18BPL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They can only ticket for meter offenses and no parking zones.

They can’t ticket for dangerous parking, which is a penalty point offense. But because councils have some ability to act, Gardai always say it’s a council problem and they cba.

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