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A wet and rainy Dublin. LeahFarrell/RollingNews.ie

Poll: Does the rainy weather change how you get around?

Rainfall was above average across most of the country last month.

CHANCES ARE YOU woke up to rain today, with Met Éireann forecasting dull, misty weather with persistent rain this morning.

Ireland has been on an apparent rainy streak lately, with rainfall above average across most of the country last month. 2024 and 2023 are now two of the three wettest Marches on record at Dublin Airport’s weather station, along with 1947.

Whether you choose to work from home when it’s lashing (well for some!), take the car instead of walking or cycling, or simply grab an umbrella and get on with it – we want to know if the wet weather changes how you go about your day.

So today we want to know: Does the rainy weather change how you get around?


Poll Results:

Yes (3437)
No (2805)
Sometimes (1288)
No interest, no opinion (136)

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    Mute The Firestarter
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    Apr 10th 2024, 11:02 AM

    “Rainy streak lately”, are you having a laugh, it never bloody stops. The weekend was rubbish, Monday was depressing, yesterday in fairness was nice, but back to it’s grey depressing very wet norm again today.

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    Mute Brian Hunt
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    Apr 10th 2024, 11:33 AM

    It is of some satisfaction to me to know that Cabbage-head is getting very wet on his bicycle in this weather, or does he take his ministerial limo…a fair weather sailor?

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    Mute eoin fitzpatrick
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    Apr 10th 2024, 12:39 PM

    @Brian Hunt: and it’s very satisfying for us disciples of Eamon to see you losers sat in lines of traffic that don’t budge while we whizz past in our waterproof clothing

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    Mute Mike Carson
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    Apr 10th 2024, 1:05 PM

    @eoin fitzpatrick: It’s even more satisfying that this loser is dry and warm in his car. Only 15 minutes from house to office (9 km trip). I arrive at work dry, clean, fresh, sweat-free, and generally more productive than the grumpy self-righteous cyclists who look worn out and take ages to sit at their desk because they need to change, freshen up, or catch their breath.

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    Mute eoin fitzpatrick
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    Apr 10th 2024, 1:33 PM

    @Mike Carson: and I don’t sweat or get out of breath on my jaunt to work because I’m so fit and can have a shower at work anyway.
    don’t know where you are but dublin grinds to a halt with a bit of rain and only us wokies on bikes are the ones carrying on as usual.

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    Mute Sean O'Dhubhghaill
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    Apr 10th 2024, 1:55 PM

    @Mike Carson: You drive 9km???

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    Mute Mike Carson
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    Apr 10th 2024, 4:59 PM

    @eoin fitzpatrick: A bit of weather never stopped me from going anywhere, plus I’ve got plenty of spare time to keep fit. I don’t need to be a smug git on a bike plodding round town, holding up traffic,dodging in & out of pedestrians, breaking lights, going the wrong way down one-way streets, and moaning about cars on roads that were primarily designed for them. I partake in real cycling, off-road, in the countryside, on tracks and trails designed for bikes, away from pedestrians, and not annoying road users who pay motor tax for the use of roads. Oh, and in all sorts of weather.

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    Mute Mike Carson
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    Apr 10th 2024, 5:02 PM

    @Sean O’Dhubhghaill: sure do. 9 km each way, 2.2 liter diesel. Takes 10- 15 min depending on traffic. Get into work relaxed, fresh, warm and dry. Get home promptly so plenty of free time to enjoy family life.

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    Mute michael odwyer
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    Apr 10th 2024, 10:57 AM

    Paddle the canoe to work

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    Mute Sean Money
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    Apr 10th 2024, 11:14 AM

    My shoes are still wet from Monday.

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    Mute Mr “JonnieBoy” Johnson
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    Apr 10th 2024, 5:19 PM

    @Sean Money: so you’re the one that was causing the manky musty smell in the office today so.

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    Mute james rowan
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    Apr 10th 2024, 11:17 AM

    Does not rain inside my car

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    Mute Áine G
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    Apr 10th 2024, 11:18 AM

    Wear the right gear if it’s bucketing, it never ceases to amaze me how some people don their white canvas converse in heavy rain.

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    Mute Fiona Wyse
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    Apr 10th 2024, 11:21 AM

    @Áine G: Exactly!!

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    Mute Sean Money
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    Apr 10th 2024, 12:01 PM

    @Áine G: what shoes would you recommend?

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    Mute David Corry
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    Apr 10th 2024, 2:33 PM

    @Sean Money: ecco do stylish waterproof shoes

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    Mute Sean Money
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    Apr 10th 2024, 4:41 PM

    @jak: thanks guy but rubber not great for breathability

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    Mute Shaun Gallagher
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    Apr 10th 2024, 11:41 AM

    Weather has been a lot cooler in the north west so far this year anyway. Coolest March as I can remember

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    Mute Jonathan Hanlon
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    Apr 10th 2024, 11:08 AM

    Chauffeur driven

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    Mute William Tallon
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    Apr 10th 2024, 11:01 AM

    Some people are too miserable to ever get a round even when the sun is shining…

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    Mute Gerald Kelleher
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    Apr 10th 2024, 11:21 AM

    @William Tallon: The Journal specialises in bad weather as climate change modelling and all the misery guts who follow the dire predictions

    You were doing well yesterday in the other discussion without really knowing how society became victims of academic convictions.

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    Mute Brendan O'Brien
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    Apr 10th 2024, 11:38 AM

    @Gerald Kelleher: Climate change isn’t just a matter of modelling: it is a reality in the real world that you spend all your time avoiding, preferring arcane diatribes re Newton, Darwin et al.

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    Mute William Tallon
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    Apr 10th 2024, 11:47 AM

    @Gerald Kelleher: Sounds to me like you’re trying to avoid getting your round in, which is decidedly odd seeing as you’re reputedly such great fun at parties…

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    Mute Gerald Kelleher
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    Apr 10th 2024, 11:58 AM

    @Brendan O’Brien: I don’t discuss Royal Society icons; I dismantle their dangerous and false ideas for what they are.

    Younger Irish people have the opportunity to deal with prejudice expressed as ‘races, racism, racial inherited from Victorian academia and especially that Irish culture played a starring role in the development of natural selection as a less favoured ‘race’.

    ” Thus the reckless, degraded, and often vicious members of society, tend to increase at a quicker rate than the provident and generally virtuous members. The careless, squalid, unaspiring Irishman, living in a pig sty multiplies like rabbits. In the eternal ‘struggle for existence,’ it would be the inferior and less favoured race that had prevailed.” Darwin

    Maybe you are one of those Irish Darwin describes.

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    Mute Brendan O'Brien
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    Apr 10th 2024, 12:00 PM

    @Gerald Kelleher: QED.

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    Mute William Tallon
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    Apr 10th 2024, 12:22 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: More like OCD I’d guess…

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    Mute Brendan O'Brien
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    Apr 10th 2024, 12:28 PM

    @Gerald Kelleher: You can explain all this to the Spanish farmers who are losing their crops to climate change. I’m sure they’ll be fascinated. Also the Irish farmers suffering from freakish rainfall, for that matter.

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    Mute William Tallon
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    Apr 10th 2024, 12:34 PM

    @Gerald Kelleher: Given the frequency of your posts here and the speed at which you produce them, they are more and more resembling something that’s spewed out by ChatGPT! I’m beginning to suspect that you’ve been taking the proverbial urine this past year or so…

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    Mute eoin fitzpatrick
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    Apr 10th 2024, 12:40 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: you really shouldn’t feed that troll Brendan, or whatever the hell it is

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    Mute Gerald Kelleher
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    Apr 10th 2024, 12:46 PM

    @Bren: You are not a snake, Brendan, so I understand that you aspire to the level of those who assert that an experimental hypothesis scales up to large Earth sciences like climate or solar system research. It began with equating the fall of an apple with planetary orbital motion (clockwork solar system modelling) and now as conditions in a greenhouse with the Earth’s atmosphere (climate change modelling).

    The lucrative machinery of academia is a funding/grant paper mill, so they will not give up on the particular golden goose. I have no interest in whether it is a money-making venture where political leaders make people pay taxes to support the subculture; for me it is giving people a chance to connect with climate as it exists away from the contrived hysteria.

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    Mute Patrick MC Dermott
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    Apr 10th 2024, 12:49 PM

    @Gerald Kelleher: You left out the part about the Moon and Mercury.

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    Mute Gerald Kelleher
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    Apr 10th 2024, 12:58 PM

    @William Tallon: Natural selection is a principle that a person or a culture has to be dehumanised first in order to exterminate them for evolutionary purposes, and the modern version of bot/ChatGPT label is a variant of that academic conviction that formally labelled people as superior and inferior or civilised and savage ‘races’.

    ” In 500 years how the Anglo-Saxon race will have spread & exterminated whole nations; & in consequence how much the Human race, viewed as a unit, will have risen in rank.” Darwin

    Somehow, people know convictions are driving them they would not normally assert to, in this case scientific method modelling.

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    Mute Mike Carson
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    Apr 10th 2024, 1:08 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: The myth is that humans can alter climate change in a “positive way”. It’s just a new method to justify more taxes and force us to part with extra money for “greener” items. Sure, weren’t we supposed to be underwater by now? Kevin Costner made a big budget documentary about it and all back in the day.

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    Mute William Tallon
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    Apr 10th 2024, 1:10 PM

    @Gerald Kelleher: Another laugh-out-loud word salad from Gerald! Yep, you’re most definitely taking the urine at this stage…

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    Mute Brendan O'Brien
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    Apr 10th 2024, 1:12 PM

    @Mike Carson: We can do less to alter climate in a negative way. That’s no myth.

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    Mute Gerald Kelleher
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    Apr 10th 2024, 1:23 PM

    @Patrick MC Dermott: When it is a cloudy day, observers can always go to a satellite tracking with the Earth around the stationary Sun where permanent solar eclipse conditions exist.

    sol24.net/data/html/SOHO/C3/96H/VIDEO/

    It doesn’t matter that nobody else appreciates that Mercury is passing between the slower-moving Earth and the Sun at the moment because I do it for personal satisfaction and the connection I have to nature, the solar system, and the Universe. It is a God-given talent that most reject for whatever reasons known to themselves.

    There is no such thing as a miserable day, just miserable perspectives.

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    Mute Gerald Kelleher
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    Apr 10th 2024, 2:08 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: Ireland has a maritime climate, Brendan, so no negative or positive is attached to that.

    I hope that you will eventually arrive at a settled conclusion that climate covers many topics and that society can act towards a cleaner environment, no more and no less.

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    Mute Tezmond McVicar
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    Apr 10th 2024, 3:09 PM

    @Gerald Kelleher: your doctor needs to ‘up’ your dose – rapidly.

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    Mute Mike Carson
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    Apr 10th 2024, 5:11 PM

    @Brendan O’Brien: We can do nothing; climate change is a natural occurrence. It will change over time, no matter how much tax we pay or how many bikes we use. It happened in the past long before us and will happen again. In and out of ice ages. Human activity only contributes 3% of the carbon emitted on this planet.

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    Mute Gerald Kelleher
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    Apr 10th 2024, 5:26 PM

    @Mike Carson: Changing Ireland’s maritime climate is impossible, so the reaction that climate has always changed is less than helpful.

    Climate is not long-term weather; the seasons are cyclical regardless of weather, and these alone constitute long-term weather, such as wet spells, dry spells, cold snaps, or heat waves.

    Maritime, continental, polar, or equatorial climates cover a range of topics, as do ice ages or influences like volcanic activity or comet strikes. The largest topic is the link between planetary dynamics and climate. Due to 17th-century clockwork solar system modelling, modellers can’t affirm that one 24-hour day is one planet rotation, which means society is really messed up.

    Nobody gets a sense of being driven by a subculture one way or another.

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    Mute David Murray
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    Apr 10th 2024, 10:58 AM

    You know a good day ain’t got no rain.

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    Mute Maris Piper
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    Apr 10th 2024, 12:28 PM

    Ireland recognising statehood would give hope to the Palestinian people, along with free houses, medical cards and dole money

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    Mute Ann neylan
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    Apr 10th 2024, 11:26 AM

    For all dog owners.. Do you think we take the dog for a drive instead of a walk on a rainy day?

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    Mute Mike Carson
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    Apr 10th 2024, 1:10 PM

    @Ann neylan: Well that’s a choice you made by choosing to mutt in the first place. You can’t compare that luxury with a person needing to go to work to put a roof over their head and feed themselves.

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    Mute Colin Howard
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    Apr 10th 2024, 12:22 PM

    There’s no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes!!!

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    Mute Patricia Mc namara
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    Apr 10th 2024, 11:26 AM

    I love the rain. For those who don’t, move to a desert.

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    Mute David Murray
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    Apr 10th 2024, 3:51 PM

    @Patricia Mc namara: Hae you cut the Turf Yet.

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    Mute Patricia Mc namara
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    Apr 10th 2024, 6:51 PM

    @David Murray: no. I’m a city girl. I lived in Teheran for 3 years. Not one drop of rain.

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    Mute Gavin Gray
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    Apr 10th 2024, 11:46 AM

    take the bike every morning, except when I’m working from home, that other poll was removed fast lol

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    Mute Mike Dunne
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    Apr 10th 2024, 12:55 PM

    It would be a great little country if you could only roof it.

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    Mute JP
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    Apr 10th 2024, 1:27 PM

    Never mind the ordinary citizen…how is poor Eamon getting around ?

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    Mute Fiona Wyse
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    Apr 10th 2024, 11:21 AM

    Wellies and wet trousers problem solved!

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    Mute Sean Money
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    Apr 10th 2024, 12:02 PM

    @Fiona Wyse: I cannot cycle in Wellington boots

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    Mute Mike Carson
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    Apr 10th 2024, 1:11 PM

    @Fiona Wyse: Car. The problem was solved even better.

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    Mute Sean Money
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    Apr 10th 2024, 4:43 PM

    @Jimmy Wallace: I will Google them now so

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    Mute zephyrum
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    Apr 10th 2024, 12:47 PM

    The rain is a pain

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    Mute Gearoid MacEachaidh
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    Apr 10th 2024, 12:47 PM

    It did this morning. Took me exactly twice as long to cross the city to work.

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    Mute Reuben Gray
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    Apr 11th 2024, 9:10 AM

    I cycle almost every day to work rather than take the car. The weather doesn’t matter. sure, it’s not nice cycling when it’s very wet but it doesn’t bother me.
    I don’t bother with rain gear, too heavy and just makes you sweat and get wet either way so I never understood the point.
    I just wear thin cycling layers which dry quickly and keep changes of clothes in work.

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    Mute Padraig O'Brien
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    Apr 10th 2024, 7:14 PM

    @Fiona Wyse, how did your trousers get wet?

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    Mute martin finnegan
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    Apr 14th 2024, 8:52 PM

    Yes drive more sadly

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