The A/R Off Topic Thread

Munster_Gal · 26-03-2009 7:09pm

ClashCityRocker wrote: »

To go back to films, I'm going to "watchmen" tomorrow night.

Anyone seen it, and if so is it any good?

Total let down. The trailers looked so good! Was really really disappointed!!

RacoonQueen · 26-03-2009 7:13pm

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Happy kirby is happy. Just found out that 2 of my favourite bands (Dream Theater and Opeth) are touring together this autumn.

*\o/*

Who?

Munster_Gal · 26-03-2009 7:13pm

Sorted my flights for the Heineken Cup Final last night

woo hoo!

I reckon after Saturday's Grand Slam Munster will be up for doing the double with the HC and Magners League. Have my tickets for the final booked since before Christmas, accommodation is booked since then too. Had my flights book but had to change them to accommodate my sister who is now going to accompany me to Edinburgh for all the madness that is HC Final Weekend........

Oh the memories of last years final .....

:D:D

Rusty Cogs 08 · 26-03-2009 9:04pm

Off to Glasgow for the weekend, any recommendations ?

Peckham · 26-03-2009 11:51pm

Rusty Cogs 08 wrote: »

Off to Glasgow for the weekend, any recommendations ?

Get on a train to Edinburgh!

Rusty Cogs 08 · 27-03-2009 12:06am

Peckham wrote: »

Get on a train to Edinburgh!

And you could see that coming all the way from Edinburgh too I'd say. Ah, been to Edinburgh, I want to scoff and say, Edingburgh ? och you want to get yourself dune the road to Glasgow.

copacetic · 27-03-2009 12:43am

Munster_Gal wrote: »

Ring the tax office - request your P21. this is a statement of tax. You can claim for 2007 back to around 2005.
Fill in a form for rent relief - http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/it/leaflets/it1.html#section6
Post this to the tax office and they will make all the adjustments needed and make sure that you do this for the previous address you were renting at as well - you should get a refund for tax paid last year.

or get with the program and do it all online!:pac:

You can claim all your reliefs back 4 years online now including medical etc
and they'll stick the money in your bank account for you.

Munster_Gal · 27-03-2009 7:32am

copacetic wrote: »

or get with the program and do it all online!:pac:

You can claim all your reliefs back 4 years online now including medical etc
and they'll stick the money in your bank account for you.

:P They for some reason had never set me up online (never got pin codes and stuff when I requested them) So i just filled in the forms and sent them off. They still looked after it all really quickly

xebec · 27-03-2009 1:48pm

Munster_Gal wrote: »

:P They for some reason had never set me up online (never got pin codes and stuff when I requested them) So i just filled in the forms and sent them off. They still looked after it all really quickly

Try requesting them again... Online is by far the handiest. Should be some more credits and stuff being added to the online version soon, it's due an update sometime soon - originally for end of April, but afaik it's delayed. They're very helpful over the phone too in my experience.

Daithi BC · 27-03-2009 3:28pm

Munster_Gal wrote: »

Sorted my flights for the Heineken Cup Final last night woo hoo!

If you like, I can lend you my Leinster jersey so that you fit in with the rest of the crowd.

Munster_Gal · 27-03-2009 3:36pm

Daithi BC wrote: »

If you like, I can lend you my Leinster jersey so that you fit in with the rest of the crowd.

Excellent... That's gonna save me a fortune in petrol and matches for the bonfires on the way home

stmochtas · 27-03-2009 4:25pm

Anyone else watched "The Wire", the box set is unbelievably addicitive.

kennyb3 · 27-03-2009 4:59pm

Thank god it s friday is all i can say, another 5 days stuck in an office and im wrecked. looking forward to chilling out and doing some of that stuff we cant mention in this thread. grand weather outside too!! the bright evenings next week will be class!!

rainbow kirby · 27-03-2009 5:27pm

*drumroll*

I'm finished my finals! *\o/*

Now to sleep. Tired kirby is tired.

Woddle · 27-03-2009 6:30pm

stmochtas wrote: »

Anyone else watched "The Wire", the box set is unbelievably addicitive.

Yeah it was class I must have watched it all in 2/3 weeks and why do you end up liking certain characters (Omar and so didn't see that happening :eek:)
Don't want to spoil it for anyone but well worth a watch and not too far off being soprano standard

Racing Flat · 27-03-2009 7:20pm

Woddle wrote: »

well worth a watch and not too far off being soprano standard

:eek:

GTFO

Sopranos = best ever. Only thing to come close in terms of quality is Entourage.

Krusty_Clown · 27-03-2009 8:52pm

stmochtas wrote: »

Anyone else watched "The Wire", the box set is unbelievably addicitive.

A huge fan. My only disappointment is that I'll never get to watch it for the first time ever again. Well worth watching is 'The Corner' a series that pre-dates 'The Wire' made by the same team, featuring many of the same actors.

Also 'Generation Kill' by the same team but on a very different subject (The Iraqi War) which is going to air on Channel 4 soon, is very good.

I'm saving The Sopranos, until I really need it. Desert Island type situation.

Woddle · 27-03-2009 8:53pm

Racing Flat wrote: »

:eek:

GTFO

Sopranos = best ever. Only thing to come close in terms of quality is Entourage.

Love entourage can't wait for the next season. One other program that I love equally to the sopranos is the west wing, the shield showed promise but failed in the end in my eyes.

rainbow kirby · 28-03-2009 1:23am

I'm drunk for the first time since New Year's...

--amadeus-- · 28-03-2009 1:44am

Racing Flat · 28-03-2009 2:04am

Woddle wrote: »

One other program that I love equally to the sopranos is the west wing, the shield showed promise but failed in the end in my eyes.

2 good shouts. Seen only bits of Shield, but like it even though it's a bit much

Munster_Gal · 28-03-2009 5:50pm

Nothing like a bit of retail therapy to help you recover from a break up

Just went out and bought a new flat screen tv and ordered Sky+
No more Chorus for me woo hoo!!!!!!

Woddle · 28-03-2009 8:47pm

GO ON IRELAND

rainbow kirby · 28-03-2009 8:58pm

Kinda half-watching the match at the moment...

Pherekydes · 28-03-2009 9:54pm

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Kinda half-watching the match at the moment...

I turned it off (Earth hour) and all the lights along with it. Things have gotten less boring already.

How's the head?

--amadeus-- · 28-03-2009 10:23pm

Woddle wrote: »

GO ON IRELAND

Jinx!

rainbow kirby · 28-03-2009 10:23pm

Ah it's fine, but my longest sleep in months helped with that too. The match is boring as hell, but that's pretty much to be expected from our football team!

robinph · 03-04-2009 1:43am

So todays plan was to go for a scenic drive from LA to Vegas via Death Valley, just becasue it was there.

I now find myself stranded on the wrong side of the bottom of Death Valley though after some fancy computer system in the rental car has decided to keep on shutting down the accelerator of the minivan. "Luckly" though this decided to happen at the top of the first mountain range so we could just coast down the hill and we then came across a gas station/ RV park and restaurant that happened to have free wifi access. A few Skype calls later and we are now stuck here for at least another 5 hours before a replacement vehicle gets towed out to us. Means that the best case now is that we'll not get into Vegas until about 3am, but at least we are not going to melt into the desert floor now I guess.

We did just get told by someone else here of some other people before who were stuck for 72 hours before getting rescued though.

jlang · 03-04-2009 7:49am

robinph wrote: »

... before a replacement vehicle gets towed out to us.

:eek: A service designed to inspire confidence, I'm sure.

Woddle · 03-04-2009 7:54am

robinph wrote: »

So todays plan was to go for a scenic drive from LA to Vegas via Death Valley, just becasue it was there.

I now find myself stranded on the wrong side of the bottom of Death Valley though after some fancy computer system in the rental car has decided to keep on shutting down the accelerator of the minivan. "Luckly" though this decided to happen at the top of the first mountain range so we could just coast down the hill and we then came across a gas station/ RV park and restaurant that happened to have free wifi access. A few Skype calls later and we are now stuck here for at least another 5 hours before a replacement vehicle gets towed out to us. Means that the best case now is that we'll not get into Vegas until about 3am, but at least we are not going to melt into the desert floor now I guess.

We did just get told by someone else here of some other people before who were stuck for 72 hours before getting rescued though.

I'm on that page in ultramarathon man

there camper broke down also, does not sound like a pleasant experience

RacoonQueen · 03-04-2009 8:24am

IT'S FRIDAY!!!!!

--amadeus-- · 03-04-2009 8:39am

Can't you just run to Vegas?

robinph · 03-04-2009 10:32am

Yay, we finally made it to Vegas. Now to see how much money I can lose.

It was starting to get a bit worrying for a while when we were watching for every set of traffic lights coming over the horizon ad trying to guess if it was the tow truck or not during the following 20 minutes that it took for the lights to reach where we were, especially as there was only maybe two cars passing each hour or may three in a busy period. We would have been seriously screwed if the car gave up at another point on the way through the valley though as there was no other place we could have made it to or got help from.

Dissapointed now that all I got to see today was a big dust storm and a desert at night time which isn't all that impressive.

rainbow kirby · 03-04-2009 11:00am

You know you might possibly be obsessed when you dream about doing a triathlon...

Munster_Gal · 03-04-2009 11:12am

I wish Friday was over already!!!!

kennyb3 · 03-04-2009 11:26am

if this groin strain doesnt clear up soon im going to go nuts!! its so nice out too!! thank god its friday too, roll on 5 o clock (im clearly dossing in work)

RacoonQueen · 08-04-2009 9:52pm

Soooo...to eat loads of easter eggs or to not eat loads of easter eggs :pac:

rainbow kirby · 08-04-2009 10:12pm

Eat them! It gives you an excuse for a nice long run to get rid of them

at least that's my theory...

Munster_Gal · 22-05-2009 10:16am

Just found this thread again... Just wanted to say..... :cool:

WOO HOO this time 2 weeks I'll have done my mini marathon and will be lying on a beach in Spain

--amadeus-- · 22-05-2009 10:19am

Enjoy the holliers - my little lad asked me to go out and play ball but by the time we made it out the front door it was raining. "I hate Irish weather" he says...

Munster_Gal · 22-05-2009 10:27am

It's defo a well deserved break after the last couple of months :rolleyes:

Feel sorry for kids at the moment. Don't ever remember the weather being this crap all the time when I was a kid! I remember spending my summers cycling to Cratloe woods and doing drop out races for fun (about 30 of us basically ran around a large green until only one of us was left standing lol).

Magnet · 22-05-2009 2:27pm

Munster_Gal wrote: »

I remember spending my summers cycling to Cratloe woods and doing drop out races for fun (about 30 of us basically ran around a large green until only one of us was left standing lol).

umm.. Isn`t that what Enduro does?

Anyone tasted the new Pear Bulmers?
I used to drink Ritz in my heyday but couldn`t stand cider...
Ive suddenly got an awful lip on me :P

rainbow kirby · 22-05-2009 2:35pm

I haven't tried it yet, but as one who likes a Kopparberg I'll definitely have to.

Rant for today: I have NO idea what shoes to wear with my new skirt ><

disclaimer: unfortunately I am not talking about a running skirt

gerard65 · 22-05-2009 2:37pm

"Anyone tasted the new Pear Bulmers?"

Would'nt be pushed on it. A bit aftertaste and 5c dearer.

shels4ever · 22-05-2009 2:38pm

rainbow kirby wrote: »

I haven't tried it yet, but as one who likes a Kopparberg I'll definitely have to.

Rant for today: I have NO idea what shoes to wear with my new skirt ><

disclaimer: unfortunately I am not talking about a running skirt

Why do you have to wear shoes

gerard65 · 22-05-2009 2:52pm

shels4ever wrote: »

Why do you have to wear shoes

You into womens feet????

shels4ever · 22-05-2009 2:53pm

gerard65 wrote: »

You into womens feet????

who isn't

gerard65 · 22-05-2009 2:57pm

shels4ever wrote: »

who isn't

Tried toe sucking once - nearly did my back in!!!!!!!!!!

robinph · 22-05-2009 3:32pm

rainbow kirby wrote: »

disclaimer: unfortunately I am not talking about a running skirt

...and I might have been able to help you with the desicion making otherwise.

Munster_Gal · 22-05-2009 4:40pm

rainbow kirby wrote: »

I haven't tried it yet, but as one who likes a Kopparberg I'll definitely have to.

Rant for today: I have NO idea what shoes to wear with my new skirt ><

disclaimer: unfortunately I am not talking about a running skirt

What kind of skirt? I have to find a dress to match my shoes lol

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