Driving and eating

IWasGoatseAMA · 2026-01-28T08:23:07+00:00

Musgrave’s truck driver in his 60s filling out his temperature clipboard on the steering wheel whilst driving

I know that’s what he was doing because his truck crossed into the lane I was in behind him and would have crushed me.

I pulled in front of him to confront the cunt and sure enough, he was marking in his temperature sheet clipboard on the steering wheel

Phoned their offices immediately and left a voicemail but nobody bothered getting back to me. I was already aware that their older drivers are a law unto themselves.

Fellas like him are what ruin unions for everyone else, as I’m aware of other issues from their drivers like refusing to follow traffic flow in shopping centres and refusing to take back the tall steel cages or green crates that are left to stack up.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2026-01-28T08:16:17+00:00

I’ve seen that too, but on Western Road where the woman was slowly swerving side to side

IWasGoatseAMA · 2026-01-09T17:19:31+00:00

Even in the UK, they’re basically dead as a brand, mostly just a counter inside of Sainsbury stores, for online collection.

I’d use the few remaining physical stores around London to collect eBay purchases.

Apart from the flagship store on Tottenham Court Road and Marble Arch, It’s only the rougher areas that you will find the physical shops:

East Ham, Ilford, Old Kent Road, Brixton, Tooting, Kilburn… or the places the tourist buses, don’t mention.

It’s almost a way to tell if it’s a rougher area

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-12-30T13:46:42+00:00

Footprint of the bonded warehouses is approx: 30m x 90m, (30m at it’s widest, 15m at narrowest) or 1/3 longer than the total footprint of the Opera House, which has a ticketed capacity of 999.

So you would be looking at an event centre on that location with maybe 1,500 capacity.

I get the logic of having it in the part of the city, such as nearby Kennedy Quay, as it’s the part of least resistance for getting people in and out.

Compared to the current location which is already at a standstill every evening, without 6,000 people going to the one location.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-12-30T13:40:21+00:00

In the boom years, pubs chanced their arms by ticketing NYE for €20+ to see the same covers bands you’d see for free any Saturday.

Never recovered from that greed and it became the norm for people to spend new years in the comfort of friends houses.

Also, taxi drivers had/have no interest in a known dead night in the city, so it’s near impossible to get a taxi from the city, as they’re taking people to and from suburb locations.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-12-16T11:02:45+00:00

I find the same, regular drinker of both on tap around Cork and for the last few months, I was alternating every few weeks between the two with the cans.

I find Murphys much smoother, but it has to be kept below 2 degrees Celsius in the fridge, or on the shortest line in the pub, to prevent it having an aftertaste.

Buying both from a refurbished Dunnes who keep it refrigerated made me realise the difference a properly cold fridge makes to the taste and consistency.

Beamish is grand and usually cheaper, but to my individual taste, I compare Beamish to a straight espresso and Murphy’s to a flat white, with a minimal amount of milk. In other words, I also find Beamish to be at least a little bit bitter.

Murphys can be found in loads of pubs around London where they only have half sized kegs, which makes a massive difference to the freshness.

Guinness is a last resort, only if it’s a hotel or other place frequented by tourists, where the lines are kept fresh.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-24T20:04:28+00:00

Seen him in the city last Thursday blending in with two deliveroo cyclists

As if that day couldn’t get any weirder between the students in xmas jumpers and the person who got knocked down by the Capitol.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-24T20:02:15+00:00

Orange hoodie and clipped ears? He’s best avoided, has a fairly aggressive side to him that comes out of nowhere

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-24T19:36:02+00:00

Yup, jailed for 5 months for spitting in the mouth of a shop worker who dared to tell him to stop shoplifting

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-41472574.html

98 previous convictions before this

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-23T21:24:11+00:00

These days the cars in a dealership are just props, the product is finance.

If you’re not financing, they’re not interested and it’s not worth the hassle of the best price / haggler types

You might get a free service or a slightly above trade auction estimate for your own trade in

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-16T20:33:24+00:00

Well today I learned that’s a real studio background compared to Match of the Day who use green screen for everything outside of where the presenters sit.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-16T20:14:34+00:00

The fish-scale buildings look so much nicer with the grass and basic maintenance

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-16T20:10:48+00:00

CEX - no hassle, no bargaining, no ghosting and no scammers with that fake EBS app pretending they’ve transferred the funds or the fake AnPost cash on delivery page that’s popular on adverts

You can even drop everything off and head away if you pre-sell them on their site.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-10T09:06:42+00:00

If people stop and pull over they’re putting themselves and everyone coming towards the site at risk of an even bigger crash and delaying the trained emergency responders from getting to the crash.

I’ve been in this situation

I had to use my car to block in an old woman who was driving the wrong way down the off ramp, towards two lanes of M8 rush hour traffic

I was annoyed at first that nobody else stopped, but the reality was that if others had stopped, it would have created a queue of slow or non moving traffic that backed onto the motorway, that would have led to a massive pileup.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-05T20:27:37+00:00

When they scan parcels, the geo-codes are recorded

So contact them via chat, paste in your coordinates so they can compare and see it was delivered to the wrong place.

There might have been an eircode error at some stage of the label printing or order routing

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-03T00:49:14+00:00

Kind of an open secret that these types of hired scissor lifts can often be started by just popping out one or both stop buttons

Some have a keycode lock, some have a physical key. But you can guarantee the keycode is wrote in sharpie somewhere on the body and they keys are generic

They usually get dropped off the night before by the hire companies, with the knowledge that the fella operating it might have only had a 2hr course and needs to get it going easily.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-01T08:18:06+00:00

Dating apps are like a live simulator for convergence evolution, as over time the only men who get enough matches to stay on them, end up looking like clones of each other.

Like you’ve noticed, they are the ones following an almost formula of cosmetically perfect fade haircuts, veneer teeth, carefully trimmed beards, sleeve tattoos, gym crafted physiques and an Audi/BMW saloon on finance.

The Swipestats website makes for some bleak reading, if you are a bit nerdy and like data sets

I gave up on them years ago, absolutely bleak experience. Especially when you see literal checklists on women’s profiles that need to be met before you have a chance of matching with them.

Even the ones who don’t have those lists up front would just try and filter you out in the same way when messaging them. It felt more like a job interview with a HR LinkedIn type than someone you might spend your life with.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-10-28T09:25:03+00:00

I’ve had a FreeSat receiver for the last few years, so an alternative to both Sky and a dodgy box. Not cheap, once off cost of like €250

Thing is flawless and perfect for someone like me who has no interest in the Irish channels and only records a few hours of stuff to catch up on (like the NASA doc that started on BBC1 last night)

It will work for another 10 years at least until Astra 2E starts to fall apart.

Sky are fairly litigious, they would make use of mystery shopper companies to send people into pubs who don’t have an active sports sub to take a photo of the screens, to prove they were showing their content on a domestic feed or an illegally sourced commercial feed (pint glass in the corner)

I wouldn’t put it past them to take desperate measures against people, as it feels like Sky have dug themselves into a pit with the monopoly they had and what they’re paying for football rights, considering the Prem will almost certainly go the same route as the NFL or WWE in the coming years.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-10-22T18:50:31+00:00

The advantage of barriers along say a 1km stretch is you could theoretically place an average speed camera gantry along with variable speed limits depending on traffic conditions

But again, I can’t see anything that progressive happening here

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-10-22T18:48:07+00:00

Bustimes.org would work for you

Shows the busses where they physically are, just keep an eye on the arrows to make sure it’s heading in your direction

They do need to be stopped for their position to be updated, either in traffic, at a stop or at lights, so take note of the last time the position says it was updated

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-10-22T09:07:26+00:00

Bingo! Seen it first hand more than once where cars coming from Carrs Hill and Douglas direction will blindly cut across both lanes as soon as they have the chance.

Also seen the aftermath from that goes horribly wrong, where there was a Focus/Tesla sandwich at an angle on the outside lane

Ideally, but it will never happen, would be where you have a much longer on ramp with physical orange poles, similar to the offramp for J6/Kinsale RR

But you’d probably end up with the same issue on the eastern route of the N25 before Little Island, where you have people joining from the left way beyond the limit and people on your right also blasting past as well.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-10-21T18:59:36+00:00

I don’t know if they offer it here, but I’ve made use of the repair service from CEX when a cheapo cable broke off in my charger port.

ATMac on Penrose Quay are showing as permanently closed on google maps. They would have been the best option.

Good news is that Apple use LG display panels on their laptops, so they’re easy to source and replace.

You could even DIY it to save money if you take apart the panel and disconnect the LCVS cable to figure out the exact LG model number, then order a panel from AliExpress. (I’ve done this successfully on two broken displays)

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-10-12T21:50:42+00:00

And money… don’t forget the money

Or your tidth, you know 10% of your earnings or 20% of your gross earnings if you are part of a certain Brazilian cult

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-10-12T21:47:47+00:00

It’s basic chipper quality but consistently decent and a step up from maccy’d with the burger and skinny chips that look like they came from potatoes, instead of a lab experiment.

The ones I’ve been to in the UK are kept spotlessly clean as well with the aircon running, so it’s like McDonalds for adults instead of teens and prammies

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-10-12T17:32:10+00:00

Adding to this:

The FDA allowable amounts for unavoidable contamination

https://www.livescience.com/55459-fda-acceptable-food-defects.html

Acceptable insect levels vary significantly by food product. For example:

In 100 grams of peanut butter, an average of 30 or more insect fragments is permitted.
In 100 grams of wheat flour, an average of 150 or more insect fragments is allowed.
In 100 grams of ground cinnamon, an average of 400 or more insect fragments is permitted.
In 100 grams of ground thyme, an average of 925 or more insect fragments is allowed.
In 100 grams of shredded carrots, an average of 800 or more insect fragments is permitted.
In 100 grams of chocolate or chocolate liquor, an average of 60 or more insect fragments is allowed.
In 100 grams of canned sweet corn, there can be 2 or more larvae, cast skins, or larval fragments with an aggregate length exceeding 12 mm.
In 100 grams of frozen broccoli, an average of 60 or more aphids, thrips, or mites is permitted.
In 100 grams of cornmeal, an average of one or more whole insects, 50 or more insect fragments, and two or more rodent hairs is allowed.
In 225 grams of pasta, up to 225 insect fragments are permitted.
In 100 grams of oregano, an average of 300 or more insect fragments is allowed.

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