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Loughs

cafcfan
cafcfan Posts: 11,198
edited July 2017 in Not Sports Related
Before it was unceremoniously closed, someone suggested on the Locks thread that Loch Lomond was the largest in the British Isles.

It isn't. That honour belongs to Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland. In fact, Lower Lough Erne is larger too. I just wanted to put that right. That's all.

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  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836
    Life is full of highs and loughs
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    Discussing Lochs on the Locks thread? Poor form.
  • lough out lough
  • Redvalleyeast
    Redvalleyeast Posts: 4,689
    He who loughs last loughs longest
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,626
    sorry, but Lough Ernie is short with fat hairy legs.........everybody knows that !!
  • cafcfan said:

    Before it was unceremoniously closed, someone suggested on the Locks thread that Loch Lomond was the largest in the British Isles.

    It isn't. That honour belongs to Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland. In fact, Lower Lough Erne is larger too. I just wanted to put that right. That's all.

    You're 'avin' a Lough.
    Biggest by water volume is Loch Ness.
    Also has the most monsters :wink:
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079

    Discussing Lochs on the Locks thread? Poor form.

    Beats Love Island.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318

    cafcfan said:

    Before it was unceremoniously closed, someone suggested on the Locks thread that Loch Lomond was the largest in the British Isles.

    It isn't. That honour belongs to Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland. In fact, Lower Lough Erne is larger too. I just wanted to put that right. That's all.

    You're 'avin' a Lough.
    Biggest by water volume is Loch Ness.
    Also has the most monsters :wink:
    Never been on a night out in Lower Lough Erne then?
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,617
    edited July 2017
    Glencar Lough, County Leitrim.

    Where the wandering water gushes,
    From the Hills above Glen-Car,
    In pools among the rushes,
    That scarce could bathe a star.”
    – Yeats, The Stolen Child
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Live, Lough, Lough and be Happy
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  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    My Favourite.....
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  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952

    My Favourite.....
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    Too soon.

    I still miss him so much.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    but Ness is still a monster Loch
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    edited July 2017
    These are the toughest locks in the world according to my google search


    See how you lot like it when you start talking about Lochs and I derail the discussion with pictures of locks.

    @MrLargo get over here and tell them some more stories about your Citroen - they deserve it
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    cabbles said:

    These are the toughest locks in the world according to my google search


    See how you lot like it when you start talking about Lochs and I derail the discussion with pictures of locks.

    @MrLargo get over here and tell them some more stories about your Citroen - they deserve it

    Are you sure? Or have you fallen for the good ol' american marketing? You know world famous this, acme that. So much old pony.

    Are they rust proof? Rust is the nemesis of most padlocks.

    I'd say something like this is streets ahead. (It even has ball bearing inserts to prevent the coke can trick.) lockshop-warehouse.co.uk/acatalog/abus-pfaffenhain-padlock-83-80.html

    You could use it to secure your boat on a lough.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,736
    edited July 2017
    The football season can't start quick enough.
  • MrLargo
    MrLargo Posts: 7,989
    cabbles said:

    These are the toughest locks in the world according to my google search


    See how you lot like it when you start talking about Lochs and I derail the discussion with pictures of locks.

    @MrLargo get over here and tell them some more stories about your Citroen - they deserve it

    As lock would have it, I was locking for a way to fill my last hour in the office!

    Apparently the 4 most common categories of lock are deadbolts, knob locks, padlocks and levers.

    Funnily enough, "knob lock" was the term my ex-girlfriend used to use when referring to her underwear. I remember on my birthday one year, she stared at me sweetly and said "get your f%cking hands off me, I've got my knob lock on and that ridiculous little thing certainly isn't the key to it! Just go and knock one out in the bathroom, you pathetic tosser!"

    She had a real way with words, bless her.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    I'm not sure about this. Yes to the lock reference, no to the cobbler misappropriation
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,477
    What about Devon Loch?
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  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    When I recently fitted a new bathroom door, I went all retro and fitted one of these. It looks like I'm living in a public toilet.

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  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    cabbles said:

    These are the toughest locks in the world according to my google search


    See how you lot like it when you start talking about Lochs and I derail the discussion with pictures of locks.

    @MrLargo get over here and tell them some more stories about your Citroen - they deserve it

    image
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    cafcfan said:

    When I recently fitted a new bathroom door, I went all retro and fitted one of these. It looks like I'm living in a public toilet.

    image

    My grandparents had locks like that. Be careful someone doesn't open it from the outside by twisting the "occupied" bit, throw an armful of soaking toilet paper at your face then run off with your trousers. The chances of that will be reduced if you don't live with me but as an 8 year old