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vienne86

pickarooney wrote: »

Ireland out of the cricket world cup, possibly forever.

Bizarre end to the match v Pakistan this morning.....Pakistan trying to manoevre a century for one of their players when they only needed a handful of runs to win meant they passed up on lots of opportunities to hit winners until yer man got the strike - very very boring to watch.

RuggieBear

I ****ing hate flat pack furniture.

Wang King

I think I lost a little respect for Tom Hanks now he's appeared in a Carly Rae Jepson video

Zzippy

Wang King wrote: »

I think I lost a little respect for Tom Hanks now he's appeared in a Carly Rae Jepson video

Who's she?

Buer

RuggieBear wrote: »

I ****ing hate flat pack furniture.

It's a pain but it's made much, much easier by just being prepared. Mallet, screw gun with right bits and spend the first 10 minutes laying everything out in sequence. It's pretty handy then, normally.

I put together a cross trainer 2 weeks ago. 8 bags of nuts and bolts and came in about 50 pieces. If I didn't have a decent socket set I'd still be assembling it.

irishbucsfan

I built a rack (as in for servers) the other day, but they didn't pack the instructions and I had never had to do one before, so it was quite an exciting guessing game.

RuggieBear

Buer wrote: »

It's a pain but it's made much, much easier by just being prepared. Mallet, screw gun with right bits and spend the first 10 minutes laying everything out in sequence. It's pretty handy then, normally.

I put together a cross trainer 2 weeks ago. 8 bags of nuts and bolts and came in about 50 pieces. If I didn't have a decent socket set I'd still be assembling it.

One ****ty old rounded Phillips and the crappy piece of **** allen key that came with the crib. 20 side slats and 20 bottom slats and ****ing ridiculous difficult angles to screw screws into wood....I'll probably be divorced as a consequence of this morning.

Stheno

Is there no Italy/france match thread?

Buer

RuggieBear wrote: »

I'll probably be divorced as a consequence of this morning.

Soooooo......silver lining? :pac:

The tools that come with an item are generally awful. With the cross trainer it provided a poor allen key and one of those cheap flat spanners that gives you less torque than a sparrow's leg. Something like this but worse.

For the sake of long term sanity, I really recommend people get a good quality drill/screw gun with a set of bits and also a socket set that has all the various extensions (screw/allen key etc.). Just saves so much time in the long run and those two items will cover so many tasks. End up using them every few weeks.

Wang King

Zzippy wrote: »

Who's she?

Canadian singer of absolute muck... Call me maybe and her new one where she really, really, really, really likes you

irishbucsfan

Wang King wrote: »

Canadian singer of absolute muck... Call me maybe and her new one where she really, really, really, really likes you

Sounds like you know more about her than Tom Hanks does!

Zzippy

Wang King wrote: »

Canadian singer of absolute muck... Call me maybe and her new one where she really, really, really, really likes you

Nope, still doesn't ring a bell!

Wang King

Zzippy wrote: »

Nope, still doesn't ring a bell!

That was Quasimodo.... She sings as well as he looks.

chupacabra

RuggieBear wrote: »

I ****ing hate flat pack furniture.

The furniture itself is usually a good bloke. Its those feckin instructions! I bought a big dresser a few months ago and it took my sanity and a few chunks of skin before I got it together. And its still wobbly. :mad:

CatFromHue

I find assembling flat pack furniture quite cathartic tbh

mfceiling

The trick with flat pack furniture is to roar and shout obscenities at it at every junction.

Once a year we go to Ikea to buy storage gear etc for the accumulation of sh*te that we have. Whenever we get home the missus always takes the kids to her sisters to allow me the time to go mental with the flat pack!!

Pudsy33

The Irish beer and whiskey festival in the rds is class.

Buer

Pudsy33 wrote: »

The Irish beer and whiskey festival in the rds is class.

Wasn't hugely impressed this year. I thought there wasn't too much new stuff, unfortunately. Black Donkey Sheep Stealer was my favourite but aside from that it was nearly all the usual suspects with very little in the way of new options (aside from ciders).

Think the other hall last year was better. Obviously it was smaller and more jammed but made for great atmosphere and also the front lawn allowed a great milling area for people and a good space for food vans.

I am in my hole going into work tomorrow.

irishbucsfan

Deleted User wrote: »

I am in my hole going into work tomorrow.

You work in your hole?

dregin

Buer wrote: »

Wasn't hugely impressed this year. I thought there wasn't too much new stuff, unfortunately. Black Donkey Sheep Stealer was my favourite but aside from that it was nearly all the usual suspects with very little in the way of new options (aside from ciders).

Think the other hall last year was better. Obviously it was smaller and more jammed but made for great atmosphere and also the front lawn allowed a great milling area for people and a good space for food vans.

This festival's equivalent last year was in IFSC... By all accounts this is more about paddy's day. I wouldn't write off September's fest based on opinion formed at this one

CatFromHue

Deleted User wrote: »

I am in my hole going into work tomorrow.

Tomorrow is prob the dodgiest day all year to pull a sickie.

You're going to have to actually break your leg or kill your Granny.

Buer

dregin wrote: »

This festival's equivalent last year was in IFSC... By all accounts this is more about paddy's day. I wouldn't write off September's fest based on opinion formed at this one

Then what was the craft beer festival in February of last year in the RDS? Is that gone now for good?

Also, not sure what it was like today but the Porterhouse had a lad on their stall that was absolutely hammered. He was all over the place, knocking over drinks onto customers, messing up orders etc. Poor stuff.

b.gud

Buer wrote: »

Wasn't hugely impressed this year. I thought there wasn't too much new stuff, unfortunately. Black Donkey Sheep Stealer was my favourite but aside from that it was nearly all the usual suspects with very little in the way of new options (aside from ciders).

Think the other hall last year was better. Obviously it was smaller and more jammed but made for great atmosphere and also the front lawn allowed a great milling area for people and a good space for food vans.

That brewery's actually only a couple of miles down the road from where I'm originally from, first I heard of it was when I went home at Xmas and there was some in the house. I was impressed that someone from there started a brewery, as it's about as far away from craft beer territory as I can think.

Wang King

irishbucsfan wrote: »

You work in your hole?

Have you seen the size of his hole? Family of gypsy's squatting in there at the moment

Buer

b.gud wrote: »

That brewery's actually only a couple of miles down the road from where I'm originally from, first I heard of it was when I went home at Xmas and there was some in the house. I was impressed that someone from there started a brewery, as it's about as far away from craft beer territory as I can think.

Chatted with the woman that owns it. Really nice lady and seems really into it. Certainly not your typical craft beer brewer given she's a middle aged woman from Roscommon.

Pudsy33

Can't disagree as I recognized a lot of the names. However I tried some divine Weiss beers and porters so it's a plus in my book

dregin

b.gud wrote: »

That brewery's actually only a couple of miles down the road from where I'm originally from, first I heard of it was when I went home at Xmas and there was some in the house. I was impressed that someone from there started a brewery, as it's about as far away from craft beer territory as I can think.

What's that?

b.gud

dregin wrote: »

What's that?

It's a really small village with a good few pubs that would pretty much all be regulars most of whom would come in and ask for the usual. A lot of people wouldn't be going out to the pub on a night out and looking for something different to try. They mainly know what they like and stick to it. So I would consider that not really an area where craft beer would flourish.

Having said that it has been a few years since I've been there so it might have changed

awec

awec wrote: »

I'm on a plane when we play Wales ffs.

Deleted User wrote: »

Alton Towers for me

errlloyd wrote: »

I'll be there for Leinster v Wasps. If you find a spot with a TV, keep me in the loop.

Alton Towers was great as usual. No TVs so no misery.

Ignorance is bliss.