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    #5912
    Lumen
    Registered Users Posts: 31,008 ✭✭✭✭Lumen


    Dermot Illogical wrote: »
    Mostly unfit for human consumption.

    Eww.


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    #5913
    Darkglasses
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,526 Mod ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    For anyone who didn't know, the lance Oprah show will be on at 2.00 am on the discovery channel, number 520 on sky.


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    #5914
    monkeyslayer
    Registered Users Posts: 911 ✭✭✭monkeyslayer


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    #5915
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    A good start to the year scuppered. No roller sessions for three days now, excuses. 3am Wednesday morning awoken to child's face covered in blood. Nose bleed. Stop bleeding, wash blood of face, into my bed while I wash blood from bedsheets, bed, carpet, bathroom floor, toilet, sink and wall. Get to sleep around 5am. 6am this morning, child has earache, falls asleep again after meds, but day off school for him so I get nothing done. 8pm, suddenly has to puke, from nowhere, makes it to bottom of stairs, "Not the carpet" I scream. Too late, he pukes on wall, stairs and carpet, tries to move away from stairs, pukes on hallway floor and finally makes it outside and pukes all over doorstep. I'm still cleaning that up. At least it didn't smell like fish like when he was small.


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    #5916
    furiousox
    Registered Users Posts: 6,894 ✭✭✭furiousox


    Covered in blood and violently sick, has he just come home from a nightclub? ;)

    CPL 593H



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    #5917
    Junior
    Registered Users Posts: 3,179 ✭✭✭Junior


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    A good start to the year scuppered. No roller sessions for three days now, excuses. 3am Wednesday morning awoken to child's face covered in blood. Nose bleed. Stop bleeding, wash blood of face, into my bed while I wash blood from bedsheets, bed, carpet, bathroom floor, toilet, sink and wall. Get to sleep around 5am. 6am this morning, child has earache, falls asleep again after meds, but day off school for him so I get nothing done. 8pm, suddenly has to puke, from nowhere, makes it to bottom of stairs, "Not the carpet" I scream. Too late, he pukes on wall, stairs and carpet, tries to move away from stairs, pukes on hallway floor and finally makes it outside and pukes all over doorstep. I'm still cleaning that up. At least it didn't smell like fish like when he was small.

    Life lesson there chief, don't have carpet..


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    #5918
    Harrybelafonte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,450 ✭✭✭Harrybelafonte


    Junior wrote: »

    Life lesson there chief, don't have carpet..

    Tell me about it. It was white when I moved in, it's like a petri dish of all human waste liquids now.

    Forgot the coats in the hall, had to wash them too.


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    #5919
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,834 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    suddenly has to puke, from nowhere, makes it to bottom of stairs, "Not the carpet" I scream. Too late, he pukes on wall, stairs and carpet, tries to move away from stairs, pukes on hallway floor and finally makes it outside and pukes all over doorstep. I'm still cleaning that up. At least it didn't smell like fish like when he was small.


    Been there, but I took the bullet in order to save the soft furnishings. I held her into me so that the puke completely covered me from head to toe, nothing on the carpets ! The most unpleasant thing about it was when the warmth started to seep through my clothing.


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    #5920
    t'bear
    Registered Users Posts: 588 ✭✭✭t'bear


    Seriously - TMI - as someone once said - euuuhhh


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    #5921
    Wishbone Ash
    Registered Users Posts: 24,952 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    I held her into me so that the puke completely covered me from head to toe, nothing on the carpets ! The most unpleasant thing about it was when the warmth started to seep through my clothing.
    I was carrying my daughter (then 5 years old) in my arms through a train station in LA when she puked on my shoulder, neck and down my back. We had already checked our luggage through (long distance train to Dallas) and I couldn't retrieve another shirt. Not pleasant!


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    #5922
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,667 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Wishbone Ash wrote: »
    I was carrying my daughter (then 5 years old) in my arms through a train station in LA when she puked on my shoulder, neck and down my back. We had already checked our luggage through (long distance train to Dallas) and I couldn't retrieve another shirt. Not pleasant!

    I was doing my final medical exams (back in the day). On my forst exam I was asked to look at a baby. The little charmer promptly spewed all over me and had to spend the rest of the day explaining and apologizing for my appearance...
    Passed though ;)


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    #5923
    lennymc
    Registered Users Posts: 6,458 ✭✭✭lennymc


    RobFowl wrote: »
    On my forst exam....

    Did the exam take place in D4?


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    #5924
    manwithaplan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,200 ✭✭✭manwithaplan


    RobFowl wrote: »
    On my forst exam I was asked to look at a baby.

    It seems exams were easy enough in the olden days.


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    #5925
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users Posts: 9,316 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


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    #5926
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Anyone fancy having a go at the descent from Sugar Loaf to Kilmac tomorrow?
    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v439/glynf/20130118_112838_zps926d514a.jpg

    :eek:


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    #5927
    Chips Lovell
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,266 Mod ✭✭✭✭Chips Lovell


    Mmmm, a face full of TNT truck.


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    #5928
    Rofo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭Rofo


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    #5929
    CaoimH_in
    Registered Users Posts: 945 ✭✭✭CaoimH_in


    Guy came around knocking door-to-door asking for money for charity. I gave him 6 euro: all I had on me, I was at work. I asked what he was doing, and he said a charity cycle at the end of the month. Intrigued, I asked "What distance?" He said, "65 kilometers". Now he was young and fairly fit: he was carrying extra weight, though not a very large amount. I just thought what a complete chancer this man is. He asked was I a cyclist and I replied that I was. Devil-tempted I was to say that I'd done 80k solo before work and I've a 100+km hard club spin tomorrow. In all fairness, my first proper bike ride ever was around 70 or so kilometers (on a steel framed racer with mountain bike pedals, no less!)--and am I right in thinking 65k isn't that difficult for even those who'll admit they aren't the strongest of cyclists? Happy to support charities, but c'mon fella suffer a bit for it!.


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    #5930
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    CaoimH_in wrote: »
    Guy came around knocking door-to-door asking for money for charity. I gave him 6 euro: all I had on me, I was at work. I asked what he was doing, and he said a charity cycle at the end of the month. Intrigued, I asked "What distance?" He said, "65 kilometers". Now he was young and fairly fit: he was carrying extra weight, though not a very large amount. I just thought what a complete chancer this man is. He asked was I a cyclist and I replied that I was. Devil-tempted I was to say that I'd done 80k solo before work and I've a 100+km hard club spin tomorrow. In all fairness, my first proper bike ride ever was around 70 or so kilometers (on a steel framed racer with mountain bike pedals, no less!)--and am I right in thinking 65k isn't that difficult for even those who'll admit they aren't the strongest of cyclists? Happy to support charities, but c'mon fella suffer a bit for it!.
    why did you give 6 euro in the first place?


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    #5931
    t'bear
    Registered Users Posts: 588 ✭✭✭t'bear


    65k worth of laps around howth maybe?


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    #5932
    Raam
    Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam


    t'bear wrote: »
    65k worth of laps around howth maybe?

    Sure that's only six laps.


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    #5933
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    furiousox wrote: »
    Covered in blood and violently sick, has he just come home from a nightclub? ;)
    Harrybelafonte wrote: »
    ... face covered in blood. Nose bleed...suddenly has to puke, from nowhere,

    I remember being in that nightclub in Leopardstown (club 92?!?) and having my favourite Hugo Boss shirt on when some young upwardly mobile young chap full of Heino standing behind me deceided to 'decorate' my my shirt.
    After turning around and him and I realising what had just happened I added his blood directly from his nose to the mix.
    I was promptly removed from said club.
    I was also promptly removed form the landmark known as ClubM. But I was innocent in that case.
    AH the good old days......


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    #5934
    bcmf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    ....Was at my Gran's funeral today (she was 98 :D as was my Grandad when he got the call). She was born and bred smack in the heart of Dublin city , as was my Dad, and my Dad was telling me that the top of Nelsons column was level with the door of Phibsboro Church (Petar and Pauls?!?) and the top of Phibsboro church is level with the door with the church on the Navan Road (Mary Help of Christians)


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    #5935
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,285 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    bcmf wrote: »
    I was also promptly removed form the landmark known as ClubM. But I was innocent in that case.
    AH the good old days......
    Truth and reconciliation commission required methinks ...


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    #5936
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,391 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    CaoimH_in wrote: »
    Guy came around knocking door-to-door asking for money for charity. I gave him 6 euro: all I had on me, I was at work. I asked what he was doing, and he said a charity cycle at the end of the month. Intrigued, I asked "What distance?" He said, "65 kilometers". Now he was young and fairly fit: he was carrying extra weight, though not a very large amount. I just thought what a complete chancer this man is. He asked was I a cyclist and I replied that I was. Devil-tempted I was to say that I'd done 80k solo before work and I've a 100+km hard club spin tomorrow. In all fairness, my first proper bike ride ever was around 70 or so kilometers (on a steel framed racer with mountain bike pedals, no less!)--and am I right in thinking 65k isn't that difficult for even those who'll admit they aren't the strongest of cyclists? Happy to support charities, but c'mon fella suffer a bit for it!.

    The first ever charity cycle I did was 50km, I was well chuffed as it seemed like quite a bit back then to me. Back then if you told me I'd do 200kms in a day, I would have laughed at you. Just to add, I train the beginners here in Kilkenny and I don't think any of them would believe that I'd have them up to 70km in the middle of the summer, they're all chuffed when they do it, not realising that all it takes is a bit of training. When they recover from the tour de kk, they're delighted to have done that also.

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



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    #5937
    Darkglasses
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,526 Mod ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    CaoimH_in wrote: »
    Guy came around knocking door-to-door asking for money for charity. I gave him 6 euro: all I had on me, I was at work. I asked what he was doing, and he said a charity cycle at the end of the month. Intrigued, I asked "What distance?" He said, "65 kilometers". Now he was young and fairly fit: he was carrying extra weight, though not a very large amount. I just thought what a complete chancer this man is. He asked was I a cyclist and I replied that I was. Devil-tempted I was to say that I'd done 80k solo before work and I've a 100+km hard club spin tomorrow. In all fairness, my first proper bike ride ever was around 70 or so kilometers (on a steel framed racer with mountain bike pedals, no less!)--and am I right in thinking 65k isn't that difficult for even those who'll admit they aren't the strongest of cyclists? Happy to support charities, but c'mon fella suffer a bit for it!.

    Does it really matter at all if the cycle was long enough if the charity was worthwhile?


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    #5938
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,285 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Darkglasses wrote: »
    Does it really matter at all if the cycle was long enough if the charity was worthwhile?
    Not so far as I'm concerned, but I do recall a certain satisfaction when we sent RobFowl on a 300km "adventure" one day (accompanied by snollup) in aid of charity a few years ago - the knowledge that he was suffering certainly helped ...


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    #5939
    CaoimH_in
    Registered Users Posts: 945 ✭✭✭CaoimH_in


    Nothing to do with the charity, from where I am at the minute, but all to do with suffering and kinship through difficulty. From where I stood 65km just didn't feel that far ...

    Cheers for your response CH. But are these beginners twenty-somethings carrying a bit of pudge? Or forty-somethings who've been sedate for a good few years?


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    #5940
    Darkglasses
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,526 Mod ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    Beasty wrote: »
    Not so far as I'm concerned, but I do recall a certain satisfaction when we sent RobFowl on a 300km "adventure" one day (accompanied by snollup) in aid of charity a few years ago - the knowledge that he was suffering certainly helped ...

    Although I enjoy watching someone suffer as much as the next guy, i've never understood going through ordeals in order to raise money. Whether the charity is actually effective is the bit I'm interested in!


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    #5941
    tawfeeredux
    Registered Users Posts: 795 ✭✭✭tawfeeredux


    bcmf wrote: »
    ....Was at my Gran's funeral today (she was 98 :D as was my Grandad when he got the call). She was born and bred smack in the heart of Dublin city , as was my Dad, and my Dad was telling me that the top of Nelsons column was level with the door of Phibsboro Church (Petar and Pauls?!?) and the top of Phibsboro church is level with the door with the church on the Navan Road (Mary Help of Christians)

    Nelson's head is in a library on Pearse St. I asked them if that's where it landed, they said they weren't sure.


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