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    #4892
    gaynorvader
    Registered Users Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭gaynorvader


    FouxDaFaFa wrote: »
    Ha, I've seen people on Twitter going on about the rooms and I assumed they were being primadonnas but that's pretty bad!

    I saw a great comment on a pic of a sign telling people not to flush toilet paper but to put it in the bin provided. Basically it boiled down to "Spoiled American pig-dogs! It's not just in Russia, in all 5 star to 0 star hotels across Europe you must do this!". I laughed.


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    #4893
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    gaynorvader wrote: »
    I saw a great comment on a pic of a sign telling people not to flush toilet paper but to put it in the bin provided. Basically it boiled down to "Spoiled American pig-dogs! It's not just in Russia, in all 5 star to 0 star hotels across Europe you must do this!". I laughed.
    Reason is that the Soviets (and now the Russians) used very thin sewage pipes which get blocked very easily indeed :rolleyes:
    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    As an F1 fan, I'm waiting to see how much of a clusterfuck the Russian GP will be.
    Like the election?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQLy4JZD8Ts


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    #4894
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    As an F1 fan, I'm waiting to see how much of a clusterfuck the Russian GP will be.

    Be surprised if it happens tbh.


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    #4895
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 33,953 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Cabaal wrote: »
    Pretty shocking hotel conditions in Russia for the journalists!
    :eek:

    $50 billion only goes so far (especially when most of it is bribes.)

    Life ain't always empty.



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    #4896
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    ninja900 wrote: »
    $50 billion only goes so far (especially when most of it is bribes.)

    Sure thats like 100 water metres installed tops.


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    #4897
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,791 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVaITA7eBZE


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    #4898
    Gbear
    Registered Users Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    I want this:

    Hh1NNH8.jpg


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    #4899
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Gbear wrote: »
    I want this:
    <Great A'tuin amigurumi>

    You don't happen to have a pattern for that, do you?


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    #4900
    Gbear
    Registered Users Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    kylith wrote: »
    You don't happen to have a pattern for that, do you?

    Here's a link to the website reddit found it on:
    http://www.planetjune.com/blog/discworld-update/

    It's written in knittingese but it looks like it's some sort of instructions.:)


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    #4901
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    Ravelry has a few bits and pieces, but from the looks of the blogpost she pretty much made it up as she went along which just makes it more awesome.


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    #4902
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Gbear wrote: »
    Here's a link to the website reddit found it on:
    http://www.planetjune.com/blog/discworld-update/

    It's written in knittingese but it looks like it's some sort of instructions.:)
    Getting the continents would be the hardest part, but that is definitely on my list.


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    #4903
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    Gbear wrote: »
    I want this:

    Hh1NNH8.jpg

    Get in line!


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    #4904
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,233 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    OK! Which o' y'all is knittists? Us non-knittests need y'all now!

    Answer the call!


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    #4905
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    endacl wrote: »
    OK! Which o' y'all is knittists? Us non-knittests need y'all now!

    Answer the call!

    I am an abject failure as a knittist. :o

    Not too bad as an embroiderist but that is feck all use in this instance...


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    #4906
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    endacl wrote: »
    OK! Which o' y'all is knittists? Us non-knittests need y'all now!

    Answer the call!

    I'm a crocheter, and I'll be starting on this just as soon as I've finished this cardigan and a doll with bear arms for my niece.


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    #4907
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    Irish Atheists: just a bunch of knitters and crocheters.
    Where is the militancy?

    Ok, back to your knitting ......


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    #4908
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Kivaro wrote: »
    Irish Atheists: just a bunch of knitters and crocheters.
    Where is the militancy?

    Ok, back to your knitting ......

    I'm a militant crocheter, if that helps.


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    #4909
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,993 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Knittists have a long and distinguished history. Back in the olden days (before the interweb) there were two types of people. Those that spent the long winter evenings darning their socks by candlelight, and those that read the good book by candlelight, while praying for their socks to last longer.


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    #4910
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    recedite wrote: »
    Knittists have a long and distinguished history. Back in the olden days (before the interweb) there were two types of people. Those that spent the long winter evenings darning their socks by candlelight, and those that read the good book by candlelight, while praying for their socks to last longer.

    and my granddad who somehow managed to do both...


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    #4911
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    and my granddad who somehow managed to do both...

    I read on my ipad while I knit. Hoorah for modern technology!


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    #4912
    FouxDaFaFa
    Registered Users Posts: 6,850 ✭✭✭FouxDaFaFa


    What about those of us who mounted an anti-knitting policy in primary school because the girls had to knit and the boys got to do cool and dangerous nail art?

    Something, something, patriarchy, etc.


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    #4913
    joseph brand
    Registered Users Posts: 4,537 ✭✭✭joseph brand


    White Christians turning into Nones

    Religion-by-Generation.jpg


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    #4914
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    borntoknitzoom.jpg

    Yeah, ye put the fear of god in me.


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    #4915
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Could be the logo of The Raging Grannies, possibly the finest self-selecting human group in existence.


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    #4916
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    FouxDaFaFa wrote: »
    What about those of us who mounted an anti-knitting policy in primary school because the girls had to knit and the boys got to do cool and dangerous nail art?

    Something, something, patriarchy, etc.

    In my school we all had to learn to knit. My teacher tells me she still has nightmares from the week they tried to teach me.


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    #4917
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,233 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Brian Shanahan wrote: »
    In my school we all had to learn to knit. My teacher tells me she still has nightmares from the week they tried to teach me.

    Mine too. I remember something about 'a rabbit going around a tree...?'


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    #4918
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    endacl wrote: »
    Mine too. I remember something about 'a rabbit going around a tree...?'

    I nailed putting button holes in hair bands and decided to quit while ahead.


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    #4919
    pauldla
    Registered Users Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭pauldla


    Brian Shanahan wrote: »
    In my school we all had to learn to knit. My teacher tells me she still has nightmares from the week they tried to teach me.

    It was every Friday afternoon in our school. The girls were kept in for knitting class, while the boys were let lose to run amok.


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    #4920
    obplayer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭obplayer


    endacl wrote: »
    Mine too. I remember something about 'a rabbit going around a tree...?'

    I remember that from the Scouts about some knot or other.


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    #4921
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    pauldla wrote: »
    It was every Friday afternoon in our school. The girls were kept in for knitting class, while the boys were let lose to run amok.

    Well in our school the principal was an equal opportunities torturer. If the girls were going to be inflicted by stabbing themselves with needles, he didn't see why the boys should be excused.


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