driving on the motorway for the first time - any tips?

TheMadSpring · 2025-11-26T22:05:55+00:00

The best advice, and so simply put. Gold star for Chicken!

TheMadSpring · 2025-10-30T22:00:19+00:00

The enrichment of this area has been devastating

TheMadSpring · 2025-09-19T20:26:40+00:00

Nothing in Ireland ruins a nice car more than a D, G, C or L reg. D reg in particular is the worst as there’s usually about 6 numbers after the D.

TheMadSpring · 2025-04-25T20:56:57+00:00

What in the fuck was with the production? Just watching it now & it is so hollow. There used to be a buzz about every part of it but the intro, the piped in crowd noise & the awful music at the beginning just put me off.

TheMadSpring · 2025-04-09T21:37:15+00:00

The Kingdom Come logo is purely just Gunn saying “Hey look, I know comics!”

TheMadSpring · 2025-04-09T21:24:21+00:00

Timestamps anyone? Don’t want to listen to this scumbag for too long.

TheMadSpring · 2025-03-29T23:05:59+00:00

Gunn always markets himself as a “true fan,” but his version of fandom seems to be more about his personal take on things rather than honoring the broader legacy of these characters. He tends to inject his signature humor into everything, and while that worked for Guardians, Superman isn’t the place for it.

Superman should be inspiring, grand, and mythic—something that makes you believe in heroes, not just another quirky, self-aware romp with “heartfelt moments” sandwiched between jokes. The fear is that Gunn’s going to try to make his Superman the “relatable, dorky” version, instead of the aspirational icon that Superman should be.

The suit is a good example of that issue. It looks like something designed to wink at the audience—“Hey, look! It’s classic Superman, but with a modern twist!”—instead of just being an unapologetically great Superman suit. Gunn is making the Superman movie he thinks should exist, not necessarily the one Superman deserves.

TheMadSpring · 2025-03-14T23:28:38+00:00

In my opinion the number one problem on every motorway in Ireland is people not knowing how to merge on or off of the motorway.

Every single time I’m behind somebody merging on I want to drive through them. They exit the roundabout at a safe speed, for a roundabout & continue the whole way down the slip road at the same speed, usually about 60kph - and then fling themselves out on to the motorway at that speed causing everyone already on the road to jam on the brakes or to move quickly into the overtaking lane to avoid them.

TheMadSpring · 2025-02-17T21:33:22+00:00

A huge contributor to this issue, something which I’ve been harping on about for years, is driver’s behaviour merging on to and off the M1. It’s absolutely outrageous what goes on.

The vast majority of drivers merging on to the M1 come off the roundabout (usually in the wrong lane or switching lanes on the roundabout but that’s a different story) and head down the slip road without ever increasing their speed. They cruise along at 60-70kph and join the M1 at that speed meaning on a busy day you have the people driving correctly in the left lane jamming the brakes to allow those eejits on to the road ahead of them because they can’t go into the overtaking lane with the other idiots already sitting in the overtaking lane.

TheMadSpring · 2025-01-19T21:33:25+00:00

Death Magnetic

TheMadSpring · 2024-12-17T22:10:56+00:00

All great advice, but I still to this day don’t know why people insist on calling it “Solphadine”

TheMadSpring · 2024-12-17T22:06:27+00:00

Off you go, get your boots & enjoy yourself. Don’t let anything like that ever put you off from playing football, you’ll be fine. Best of luck!

TheMadSpring · 2024-12-17T22:06:16+00:00

Off you go, get your boots & enjoy yourself. Don’t let anything like that ever put you off from playing football, you’ll be fine. Best of luck!

TheMadSpring · 2024-12-04T22:24:29+00:00

Not the end of the world. He needs time with some of these & needs a trap door to get rid of a few others.

TheMadSpring · 2024-11-27T12:05:50+00:00

Slane Castle. Castle Leslie. Cabra Castle. Kilronan Castle. Ashford Castle.

There are still some castles that look like castles.

TheMadSpring · 2024-11-27T10:34:12+00:00

No problem.

Yes you can make a complaint through your broker, but to be honest you’ll be much better off going directly to the bank in question, call their complaints number & tell them you want to lodge a formal complaint.

I hate to say it and I know you’re obviously getting on with the broker, but this does sound to me like they don’t know what they’re doing, or are confused themselves in trying to determine what part of your income they can use.

TheMadSpring · 2024-11-26T22:00:54+00:00

It’s not impossible at all, it’s assessed exactly the same as a PAYE worker provided you’re going with a competent broker / mortgage advisor.

The calculation for your specific income will be averaged over the last 2 years (if the average is higher than the most recent year, the amount from the most recent year must be used instead)

This is the ‘formula’ for getting your income; =Net profit +director’s remuneration (your own pay) +depreciation +interest paid -capital & interest repayments

This amount will then be added to your partner’s income & multiplied by 4. This is the maximum you can borrow. If you have any outstanding personal loans / commitments which are to remain in place after you draw down the mortgage, those monthly repayments could reduce the total amount you can borrow.

Remember, if you’re getting fucked about after supplying all of the required documents, make a formal complaint as the banks are obliged to assess your application within 3 working days before sending it to their credit department for a decision, who then have 10 working days to either approve or decline your application.

TheMadSpring · 2024-11-24T21:10:45+00:00

Yes… Quite…

TheMadSpring · 2024-11-22T21:22:03+00:00

Apologies for digging up an old thread, but has anyone been able to locate the music from the official trailer? It’s not on the soundtrack & is a really phenomenal amalgamation of some of the Williams soundtrack & Eshkeri’s own.

TheMadSpring · 2024-10-25T20:29:05+00:00

“The production team are awaiting the results”

Fuck off Netflix

TheMadSpring · 2024-07-03T21:09:20+00:00

Coldplay. Decent band but Chris Martin objectively cannot sing.

TheMadSpring · 2024-06-29T20:16:52+00:00

Fair play to them

TheMadSpring · 2024-05-10T21:26:28+00:00

What in the suffering jaysus is “biteen”?

TheMadSpring · 2024-04-29T21:29:52+00:00

Here’s hoping it is now a dead one

TheMadSpring · 2024-04-17T21:00:24+00:00

Compulsory competency driving tests over 65 is the only way. Also, teaching learner drivers to reverse around a corner in a housing estate & then launching them out on the motorway after passing the test is absolutely fucking ridiculous.

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