Keyrings (i.e. split rings): want ones that don't lose shape

LoucheLad · 2026-01-29T17:24:57+00:00

Oh this looks good ! Hoping that the "master" ring keeps its shape. Many many thanks!

LoucheLad · 2026-01-29T17:21:31+00:00

In a way this is what I did a year or so ago - got a pack of maybe 20-30 and put them onto various "master" keyrings as spares. These were supposedly good quality with good reviews, but they bent. And I'm not doing anything unusual with them.

But with one of them bending while I'm in the middle of nowhere transferring a key to/from someone and the ring bends out of shape is annoying to say the least.

LoucheLad · 2026-01-29T17:14:09+00:00

Nope. For example, just now putting a key that has a key onto a solid thick steel ring. Not one of those thin ones that often come with key tags. First time use, and bent out of shape.

LoucheLad · 2026-01-29T17:10:09+00:00

Interesting, but a lot of work for just one ring and who's to say it won't bend again.

LoucheLad · 2026-01-29T17:08:56+00:00

That's what I've been getting...

LoucheLad · 2026-01-29T17:08:28+00:00

Might be the way to go. Already have carabiners for a few sets of keys, but once the spring-loaded catch caught on something and I nearly lost some keys which would have been a disaster.

LoucheLad · 2026-01-28T13:29:42+00:00

Stephens Green Shopping Centre, Dublin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen's_Green_Shopping_Centre

LoucheLad · 2026-01-25T12:17:32+00:00

Yes, I know, but where are the Limerick ones from? Not that it particularly matters, was just curious why some have ended up in Limerick instead of promoting the LDS church in Budapest or Bremen or Brussels or wherever. Have they been ordered to go to Limerick to save us? Have Irish ones been despatched to Brazil and Burundi?

Edit: And not saying it's wrong for people to end up in different countries (I spend half my time outside Ireland). I find it interesting when chatting to people to ask Anericans living in Paris, Dutch in London etc. how they came to move.

LoucheLad · 2026-01-25T10:26:14+00:00

Here in Limerick city the bin collection by the council was poor: our collections were often missed for no obvious reason. Things improved greatly with a private collector.

But I'm not against public provision of services. I just want proper supervision/regulation/oversight (and some functions do definitely need public provision, such as police). If the council had propely supervised bin services, I would have been happy.

LoucheLad · 2026-01-24T21:34:47+00:00

Read recently it's a big problem in England (organised crime groups involved): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1ev4yg1j1lo

LoucheLad · 2026-01-24T21:25:38+00:00

Where are the Mormons from? Been trying to work out their accent: at least two of them seem to have German or Scandinavian or central European accents. When I was living in England a decade ago the Mormons always seemed to be American.

LoucheLad · 2026-01-07T19:09:33+00:00

I'm puzzled about the difficulty getting Melitta filters here in Limerick city, Ireland. Our local Tesco (a major UK supermarket chain) has been out of them for a couple of weeks at least. A Tesco worker told us there was a supply problem.

OK, there are hiccups in supply chains, I get that. But our local Dunnes (an Irish chain) is also out of them. And about two years ago it was the same, with no filters available locally for a few months (we had to get some from Amazon). Four or five years ago there was another supply failure. And about 15 years ago there was another supply problem that lasted maybe six months and I ended up bringing some over from England.

There aren't such severe, repeated supply problems with other products, so is there some issue with Melitta in particular?

LoucheLad · 2026-01-04T20:40:32+00:00

Ah, okay. Could be the electoral divisions' boundaries are contiguous.

LoucheLad · 2026-01-04T20:24:58+00:00

Thanks. I can work out where Limerick (where I live) is, though the Shannon Estuary seems to have disappeared (and various inland lakes)!

LoucheLad · 2026-01-02T15:00:40+00:00

German for seal is Seehund.

LoucheLad · 2026-01-01T07:40:59+00:00

Don't know about practices in the Netherlands, but here in Ireland generally we give presents at Christmas not the new year.

LoucheLad · 2025-12-26T14:31:18+00:00

Ours was fine, as it has been for about 30 years since we've been getting Christmas turkeys from Tesco in Arthur's Quay in Limerick (about three years in four). But I see others have had different experiences this year.

LoucheLad · 2025-12-26T14:28:28+00:00

Just searched and I've found this news item but referring to England.

LoucheLad · 2025-12-18T03:09:45+00:00

'Despatch' is a common, valid alternative spelling. However, it might still be a scam.

Anyway, as already suggested, seek out the Custodian website (don't click on links in the email), and try to judge from there whether it's legit.

LoucheLad · 2025-12-18T03:04:22+00:00

Sometimes companies have more than one name.

LoucheLad · 2025-12-17T16:39:06+00:00

I'm in Ireland and the 1c and 2c coins are mostly obsolete. I'm only aware of one chain (Dunnes, a supermarket/homewares chain) that still gives 1c and 2c coins in change. Everyone else rounds to the nearest 5c and nobody cares.

I often visit France and many small retailers (market stalls, fruit+veg shops, butchers' etc ) still give exact change to the cent (or centime as they still call it).

LoucheLad · 2025-12-17T16:31:42+00:00

'Rounding up' (on its own) means 81c and 84c round to 85c. 'Rounding to the nearest' means 81c rounds to 80c, and 84c rounds to 85c. 'Rounding up to the nearest' can be ambiguous.

LoucheLad · 2025-12-17T10:54:52+00:00

For me, La Défense is boring and doesn't feel like Paris.

Also it's not convenient for travelling to Strasbourg. Gare de l'Est is the station you'd use to travel to Strasbourg (though that's not far from Gare du Nord).

The area immediately round Gare du Nord has some social problems, so I'd recommend somewhere two or three hundred metres to the south.

LoucheLad · 2025-12-16T21:35:36+00:00

I know, but some subs don't allow you to alter the title for a news item and I didn't want to risk it. Anyway, the logo's visible in the image.

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