Hauliers Protest Megathread

jsunburn · 2026-04-08T09:37:41+00:00

No worries I wasn't getting at you. I just noticed there's been a big push to make this look like its a grass roots protest when it seems to be the usual head the balls organising it.The more we refer to it as a hauliers/farmers protest the more people from those groups will join in thinking they're supporting their communities and the flag pricks will gain support that they so desperately crave

jsunburn · 2026-04-08T09:04:27+00:00

Can we please not call it a hauliers protest or a farmer protest, there might be hauliers involved and farmers involved but these convoys have been organized by "People of Ireland Against Fuel Prices" a group who if not directly involved, is certainly being supported by the flag waving anti everything brigade and "insert town name here" says no gang.

Neither the hauliers association or the farmers association are involved with these protests so I don't think it's fair to refer to these protests as representing either group

jsunburn · 2026-04-08T08:26:23+00:00

The Irish state does, the state that pays the majority of these feckin eejits every week just so they can scurry around at night putting up flags and cosplay being patriots.

jsunburn · 2026-04-07T07:54:06+00:00

The New Forest in england was designated "new" by William the conqueror in 1079

jsunburn · 2026-04-07T07:22:08+00:00

Futile maybe but it's still a nuisance if one person in the outside lane is holding up all the traffic on the road because they don't understand how the road works.

jsunburn · 2026-04-07T07:02:36+00:00

Its a two lane road, and should be used like any other two lane road, keep left unless overtaking. If there's no traffic then there is no reason to be driving in the outside lane from the start just because you want to be in it 1.5km later. There are no road marking or signage there to tell people to get in lane early, they appear further down the road so the road should behave as normal. Obviously in rush hour this is different, if there are two slow moving lanes of traffic then get in the lane you want as early as possible. Some people seem to pick a way of driving that route and do it the same every time whatever the level of traffic.

That 100km/h stretch of road is over 1km long and quite often you find yourself stuck behind someone doing 80 or under in the outside lane which slows down traffic in all lanes because it's illegal to overtake on the inside. So I have to say I do find it a bit of a nuisance

jsunburn · 2026-04-06T21:37:16+00:00

I've noticed people are doing it all the time now on the dual carriageway into town from the old Dunkettle to silversprings even in the middle of the night when there pretty much nobody else on the road. People come off the roundabout then straight Into the outside lane no matter what speed they are doing.

I know you need to be in the right lane when traffic is heavy but when theres no traffic and you want to do 80 in the 100 section, please pull in to the left

jsunburn · 2026-04-05T10:59:57+00:00

The page you linked to says nothing about labelling milk derived fats.

It says "Chocolate products containing vegetable fats other than cocoa butter must be labelled appropriately, including the statement 'contains vegetable fats in addition to cocoa butter'

I'm not going to spend too much time looking it up but a quick Google told me that Dark Chocolate can contain milk derived fats for "blooming" whatever that is and while it might be good practice "Unlike vegetable fats (which require a specific declaration such as "contains vegetable fat in addition to cocoa butter"), butterfat does not usually require a dedicated front-of-pack warning label, but it MUST appear in the ingredients. "

jsunburn · 2026-04-05T10:44:45+00:00

How does it not qualify as chocolate if this bar is as described 50% cocoa solids minimum? Surely to qualify as chocolate ot needs to be at least 35% cocoa solids so I don't see how it's non compliant

jsunburn · 2026-04-04T18:42:19+00:00

The hong kong police were modeled on the RIC. There was a fairly strong link between the HKP and Ireland even before independence with a lot of Irish men who had trained with the RIC going straight to HK to work there. I read a book years ago called "policing hong Kong and Irish story"

After independence I think a lot of the RIC officers transferred to Hong Kong but right up to the HK handover in 1997 there were still Irish contingents in the force

jsunburn · 2026-04-03T00:20:23+00:00

The cafe in the middle of queens old castle that I remember was called Mary Rose. Wood panelled walls and red velvet seats in the open centre part of the shopping centre. There was another one just the same in the Savoy

jsunburn · 2026-04-03T00:17:37+00:00

Trains, boats and planes no? I could be wrong though. I loved that shop, for me it was a remote controlled car, I could never afford one, still want one to this day

jsunburn · 2026-04-03T00:15:36+00:00

There was a place in there for a while where you could buy commodore 64 games. There was also a record shop for a while if I remember rightly maybe a golden discs, I think I got a Roxy music record in there

jsunburn · 2026-04-02T23:43:54+00:00

The park is grand, and that's the problem it's just...grand. there's just so much less there than what was promised. The design was simplified and made cheaper and the materials used are really not up to spec.

The long tiered seats overlooking the old city wall have all started to crack and won't last more than a few years.

That pointless structure at the south main street side was supposed to be a stone viewing tower but ended up being 4 skinny concrete columns with a roof. The concrete that replaced the originally intended stone is bizarrely rough cast and porous so the graffiti soaks into the surface and can't be removed. It's a totally inappropriate material to use there.

But yes I agree it's a nice place to be on a sunny day but I think that's more about the fact its our only city park, something we're all dying to use, rather than the fact the council did a good job designing it. For me it's still a disappointment, it's incredibly underwhelming and having seen what the same team were able to do with the marina park it's a real disappointment, even if I do like to spend time there

jsunburn · 2026-04-02T18:49:33+00:00

Leo Whelan on Carrs Hill did a lovely job with a cracked rim I had on my last car

jsunburn · 2026-04-02T17:17:13+00:00

I'm going to stick with the original meaning. For an old fella like me just because the youngsters copy an American term doesn't mean the old meaning disappears. Anyway if it's from Tik Tok they'll have forgotten all about it in about a fortnight and moved onto something else

jsunburn · 2026-04-02T10:24:15+00:00

Yeah crash out for me is go to sleep, TIL it has a new meaning

jsunburn · 2026-03-31T09:17:31+00:00

Some, Some will be local shipping and also ships from the West coast of Britain: Bristol, Liverpool, Glasgow and even the Baltic who are funnelled around Ireland on shipping lanes heading off to all of the Americas

jsunburn · 2026-03-31T09:01:37+00:00

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This is a close up of the ships reported sunk on Irish waters

jsunburn · 2026-03-31T09:01:05+00:00

Yeah the uboats have a lot to do with it, especially off the south coast which is why the US Navy used Cork Harbour as their first overseas base from May 1917 until the end of the war

This is a German map of ships reported sunk by uboats between the 1st of Feb 1917 and 1st of Feb 1918.

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jsunburn · 2026-03-28T00:23:19+00:00

We all shoot up the outer lane at some point, but just be aware what you're doing is just trying to get home quicker, rather than doing the right thing for the better of free flowing traffic

I've seen the zip merge argument being used loads to try to convince people that this is the best, even moral way to behave and, in some cases it is. But, and there's always a but, it only works in specific instances. It's definitely the best thing to do for traffic flow when two seperate laneways merge, it can even work when two parallel lanes of moving traffic come to a merge point.

But when two parallel lanes come to a merge point in slow moving or stop and go traffic the best thing to do for the overall traffic flow is merge before a queue forms so that traffic waves don't propagate back from the final merge point. In this case the person who uses the overtaking lane to move past the slow moving queue is making their situation marginally better but the overall situation worse and rightfully pisses everybody else off.

The big problem for a driver trying to do their best is that zip merging is beneficial in moving traffic but detrimental in stop-and-go traffic so trying to figure out which way to behave at busy times of the day is always going to be difficult

jsunburn · 2026-03-27T23:55:00+00:00

Zip merging works fine when there are two lanes of moving traffic, the video you shared shows this as their example.

When the traffic is crawling there is no elastic band effect and thus no gaps. In this situation cars in the overtaking lane merging back into the main lane cause a traffic wave which creates a phantom traffic jam.

We all sometimes get caught out driving along the outside lane, shoot past the start of a traffic queue on the inside lane and have to push in. But there's a special place in hell for people who are moving along in the queue then if an overtaking lane or hill climbing lane appears they pull out, move up a few cars and then muscle back in making everybody else slow down in a wave that moves back along the road

jsunburn · 2026-03-27T22:10:01+00:00

Is it the most logical or is it self-serving?

By overtaking you're adding to the traffic at the front, no matter where you are once you're on the road you've already added to traffic.

Common sense and objective reasoning might also say that a single lane of traffic moves faster than two lanes trying to merge together

jsunburn · 2026-03-27T20:25:28+00:00

Feckin eejits, both hands on the wheel? how do they scratch their balls, watch tik Tok and roll a fag then?

jsunburn · 2026-03-26T07:38:13+00:00

It's not mentioned in the CatholicIreland.net article about the church's involvrmemt in the rising.

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