Off Topic Thread 3.0

dregin

irishbucsfan wrote: »

It's awful.

I need something else fast

Gilmore Girls just landed on Netflix.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

sydthebeat wrote: »

im starting the new "preacher" series from HBO, first episode is encouraging.

i loved the graphic novel when it came out first.

It's AMC not HBO and it's very very slow.

Pilot is the best episode so far. There's been 5, I think, and nothing has really happened.

bilston

irishbucsfan wrote: »

b.gud wrote: »

I got a wave of disappointment going to bed last night knowing that I wouldn't have a GOT to watch today. Although it may have been exaggerated due to the fear

It's awful.

I need something else fast

Vikings (on its 4th season now) and Billions are the two shows I'm watching at the minute. I'd recommend both if you haven't seen them. Vikings isn't that unlike GoT in that there is a lot of blood, guts, swords fights and political power plays. Obviously there are no Dragons or White Walkers or magic stuff, although there is a certain element of the supernatural to it.

bilston

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

sydthebeat wrote: »

im starting the new "preacher" series from HBO, first episode is encouraging.

i loved the graphic novel when it came out first.

It's AMC not HBO and it's very very slow.

Pilot is the best episode so far. There's been 5, I think, and nothing has really happened.

I'm 3 episodes into it and yeah I'd agree it's quite slow. Although it still has my attention. There is a lot of potential to it.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

bilston wrote: »

I'm 3 episodes into it and yeah I'd agree it's quite slow. Although it still has my attention. There is a lot of potential to it.

In the Preacher thread in the TV Forum the comic readers seem really frustrated with the pacing of it. I don't mind the slow pace so much but I did realise after last week's episode that bar Preacher realising he has a power there's been no forward movement of plot at all since the pilot.

Just remembered the end of last week's now and that was quite a thing, so maybe it's picking up.

sydthebeat

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

In the Preacher thread in the TV Forum the comic readers seem really frustrated with the pacing of it. I don't mind the slow pace so much but I did realise after last week's episode that bar Preacher realising he has a power there's been no forward movement of plot at all since the pilot.

Just remembered the end of last week's now and that was quite a thing, so maybe it's picking up.

its quite different to the comic

im 2 episodes in definitely the best thing about it is cassidy...

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

sydthebeat wrote: »

its quite different to the comic

im 2 episodes in definitely the best thing about it is cassidy...

His accent is pretty bad though. It was spot on in the pilot but has been all over the place since.

The Lost Sheep

Chris Evans stepping down from Top Gear.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

This Console business is some carry on. There's secret storage facilities involved now. Crazy stuff.

thomond2006

The Old Head near Kinsale is stunning.

mfceiling

thomond2006 wrote: »

The Old Head near Kinsale is stunning.

If you're still there get a taxi out to the Bulman pub. It's a few miles back out the road and sits in a little cove looking back at kinsale. A beautiful spot to sit outside on a warm evening with a cool pint!!

thomond2006

mfceiling wrote: »

If you're still there get a taxi out to the Bulman pub. It's a few miles back out the road and sits in a little cove looking back at kinsale. A beautiful spot to sit outside on a warm evening with a cool pint!!

Unfortunately gone past there. Next stops are the peninsulas.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Really good episode of Preacher this week, I'm happy to report. Looks like we're finally getting somwhere

Hmmm I've been looking for something new to watch but I'm really averse to comic book based stuff. Is it over the top / ridiculous at times?

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Deleted User wrote: »

Hmmm I've been looking for something new to watch but I'm really averse to comic book based stuff. Is it over the top / ridiculous at times?

No, not really.

I mean, the basic plot is a bit out there, but it's not like silly comic book stuff. There's no spandex costumes or puns, if that's what you mean.

TeoReid

Deleted User wrote: »

Hmmm I've been looking for something new to watch but I'm really averse to comic book based stuff. Is it over the top / ridiculous at times?

have you watched Ray Donovan? It's about a hollywood fixer and his family of idiots

sydthebeat

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Hmmm I've been looking for something new to watch but I'm really averse to comic book based stuff. Is it over the top / ridiculous at times?

Assume you've seen peaky blinders?

b.gud

sydthebeat wrote: »

Assume you've seen peaky blinders?

+1 for peaky blinders

Clearlier

Synode wrote: »

Are you saying that we shouldn't have had an austerity budget? That we should have maintained spending at existing levels? Because if you are, then Ireland would have had to borrow huge amounts that would not have been repaid in a generation

A little bit of a delayed response but I didn't say that which you seem to think I did. If you look back at my previous posts I even said that I was open to arguments that Ireland was a special case. In our case it wasn't so much the amount that needed to change (although it did) but what it was spent on.

The problem IMO in Ireland was the utter failure on the part of the vast majority of us (me included and I'll be paying for it for the rest of my life) to recognise that the housing boom was totally unsustainable. Too much of our workforce worked in construction and drunk on the relatively enormous sums of tax money the government went on a spending spree the apogee of which for me were the increases in the state pension. I'm all for supporting elderly people who are poor but this money went to very wealthy people too. What's worse is that with a baby boom that occurred a few decades after everyone else in Europe we had pretty much the whole continent to look at to see what would happen to our demographics. Anyone with any sense whatsoever knew that this was suicidal (and with a rate about €50 a week higher than the UK still is) but no politician challenged it because pensioners vote. This scenario was played out in a range of sectors including notably with child benefit which increased even more quickly although IIRC it was partly a ham-fisted (as with pensioners the money went to wealthy and not so wealthy recipients) attempt to address childcare issues.

We did run small surpluses in boom time and we did invest in the NPRF but these efforts were dwarfed by the scale of the housing bust allied to the banking collapse.

Austerity so far as I can see has little regard for what it targets. Investment should have been made in infrastructure for the future, it has the double whammy of putting people to work and developing opportunities for business in the future.

The political realities made anything other than austerity on just about everything possible but economically it was pretty stupid.

I'm floating over hugely complex issues here but the fundamental point I'm making is that austerity as a method of reducing your spending deficit isn't necessarily a sensible move. Europe compared to the US shows that a hundred times over.

kuang1

b.gud wrote: »

+1 for peaky blinders

In my attempt to minimise withdrawal symptoms from GoT, I just watched the first series of Peaky Blinders.

I think I've done PBs an injustice watching it now.
Part of me can acknowledge that it's a good show, but most of me is thinking:
"Ah just torture the bejaysus out of her and be done with it"
Or:
"Ah FFS cut his ear off properly will ya!!!"

GoT....what have you made me become.

Mc Love

Anyone playing in the Pig N porter this weekend?

Watched most of Attack on Titan Part 1 last night. Freakish.

pickarooney

I was sure that first semi final was tonight. Stupid Portugal in the final. Balls to that.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Conservation International gave the internet the chance to name some whale sharks they're studying at the moment.

b.gud

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Conservation International gave the internet the chance to name some whale sharks they're studying at the moment.

I've written a simple program to accurately predict the name of any internet naming competition for the next 5 years

if competitionType == naming {
    var objectBeingNamed = args[0]
    return objectBeingNamed + "y Mc" + objectBeingNamed + "face"
}

wp_rathead

b.gud wrote: »

I've written a simple program to accurately predict the name of any internet naming competition for the next 5 years

if competitionType == naming {
    var objectBeingNamed = args[0]
    return objectBeingNamed + "y Mc" + objectBeingNamed + "face"
}

:pac::p

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

wp_rathead wrote: »

:pac::p

Nerdy McNerdface

DGRulz

While we're on the subject ... anyone tried Pokémon Go yet?

pickarooney

FFS, Whaleum Sharkspeare was a great name. That other one is so awful.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

pickarooney wrote: »

FFS, Whaleum Sharkspeare was a great name. That other one is so awful.

I thought so too.

They're naming a second one. I suggested Ghostface Kriller. .....

...... because they eat krill.