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Things you just "don't get"?

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    #1742
    Widdershins
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    The grass is greener on the other side syndrome.

    I'll never understand it.

    Valuing who and what I have comes easily.

    Also the notion some people have that love is the same as infatuation and can just wear off. It gets deeper and mellower and richer and stronger. And the idea that you can only truly love one person or only share your life with one.

    Its great, knowing everything and always being right :D


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    #1743
    Greyfox
    Registered Users Posts: 3,728 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Widdershins wrote: »
    Valuing who and what I have comes easily.

    Your in the minority so, if more people where like you the world would be a better place.


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    #1744
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    How exactly did this mad run on toilet paper get started? Was it triggered by something specific?
    If it was a bad stomach bug going round where you would need a lot of extra tp I would understand it, but why tp and not bread like during the big snow?


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    #1745
    Widdershins
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Harem pants


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    #1746
    pinkyeye
    Registered Users Posts: 1,293 ✭✭✭pinkyeye


    the purple tin wrote: »
    How exactly did this mad run on toilet paper get started? Was it triggered by something specific?
    If it was a bad stomach bug going round where you would need a lot of extra tp I would understand it, but why tp and not bread like during the big snow?

    In Ireland at least it's because they're all imported. If you remember during the snow they didn't have them back in stock for a few days.

    Nowhere in Ireland manufactures them.


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    #1747
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,464 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Werewolf, the game. I don't get it... but wish I did!


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    #1748
    Seamai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    Widdershins wrote: »
    Harem pants

    Hideous things.


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    #1749
    Salvation Tambourine
    Registered Users Posts: 928 ✭✭✭Salvation Tambourine


    vriesmays wrote: »
    A drawing of Malahide Castle on the cover of People's Friend magazine.

    March-14-Cover_34117041-b-Read-Only-978x624.jpg

    Bit too much green?


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    #1750
    Widdershins
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Seamai wrote: »
    Hideous things.

    Aren't they! So slovenly looking.

    Speaking of which I dont get people who cannot be fecked to tie their laces, tuck or button their shirts or make the slightest effort.

    Also I REALLY don't understand what Im missing about this virus?
    Sorry to drag it in, but what are people basing "the Spanish Flu and Ww2 of our generation" on? Projections of the next waves?

    I was never on board the "its the flu!" dismissive bandwagon but I feel Ive missed something in between that and where we are now.

    Id just like someone to précis it for me?


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    #1751
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,464 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    I don't know, but where we are is surreal. :(


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    #1752
    Widdershins
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Deja Boo wrote: »
    I don't know, but where we are is surreal. :(

    It's extraordinary. I'm standing back waiting to see more of this picture.


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    #1753
    Pawwed Rig
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    Deja Boo wrote: »
    Werewolf, the game. I don't get it... but wish I did!

    Neither did I but I signed up for a game or 2 and it is actually very good fun if not a bit too time consuming at this stage of my life.

    I really do not get the toilet paper panic. In a worst case scenario one could just use the shower!


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    #1754
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,464 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Neither did I but I signed up for a game or 2 and it is actually very good fun if not a bit too time consuming at this stage of my life.

    I really do not get the toilet paper panic. In a worst case scenario one could just use the shower!

    Did you understand the rules and setup before ...or during the game?


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    #1755
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,856 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    the purple tin wrote: »
    How exactly did this mad run on toilet paper get started? Was it triggered by something specific?
    If it was a bad stomach bug going round where you would need a lot of extra tp I would understand it, but why tp and not bread like during the big snow?

    People started taking dumb ass Australians and their panic buying seriously.
    If I was stuck I could use newspaper as a substitute or commune with nature with a fist full of grass. I realise the latter may not be an option for urbanites.


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    #1756
    Widdershins
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    "Family cloth". Google it. Its the latest thing in the world of reusables.
    I use reusable everything else but its a step too far for me. Even the name makes me shudder.
    However you could always cut up an old sheet into squares if truly stuck, and dispose of them straight afterwards. People must be terribly precious about their 7 ply moistened, fragranced, patterned paper if theyre hoarding it like this. They can't all have Crohns etc


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    #1757
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    Widdershins wrote: »
    "Family cloth". Google it. Its the latest thing in the world of reusables.
    I use reusable everything else but its a step too far for me. Even the name makes me shudder.
    However you could always cut up an old sheet into squares if truly stuck, and dispose of them straight afterwards. People must be terribly precious about their 7 ply moistened, fragranced, patterned paper if theyre hoarding it like this. They can't all have Crohns etc

    Surely just having a wash would be better than using an old tee shirt and having to dispose of it?

    If we're all stuck at home pooping our brains out, we'll probably have time to hop in the shower anyway....


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    #1758
    Pawwed Rig
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    Deja Boo wrote: »
    Did you understand the rules and setup before ...or during the game?

    You pick them up as you go (if you survive long enough).
    The lads are good at helping out first timers too. Sometimes they will assign you a 'mentor' who you can ask questions


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    #1759
    Runaways
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭Runaways


    Another one.
    A massive cohort of posters really really hate Ireland and everything in it from services to government to the people. Like it’s in every thread.
    Very weird.


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    #1760
    Gwynplaine
    Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    Horseracing. If there was no gambling, no one would look at it.


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    #1761
    Widdershins
    Registered Users Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    Tacitus Kilgore wrote: »
    Surely just having a wash would be better than using an old tee shirt and having to dispose of it?

    If we're all stuck at home pooping our brains out, we'll probably have time to hop in the shower anyway....

    Cloth squares for wiping properly before standing up as I suppose you can't shower every time you use the toilet and if you get sick you mightn't be up to standing in the shower just for that. I haven't given it a lot of thought though


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    #1762
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    Widdershins wrote: »
    Cloth squares for wiping properly before standing up as I suppose you can't shower every time you use the toilet and if you get sick you mightn't be up to standing in the shower just for that. I haven't given it a lot of thought though

    Hopefully neither of us ever have to


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    #1763
    AlphabetCards
    Registered Users Posts: 410 ✭✭AlphabetCards


    Love island. They speak to each other like no one I know. It feels scripted, but I know it isn't. It is as if they are coached in how to approach situations, how to enunciate words, how to limit their vocabulary to appeal to everyone. It is so odd.


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    #1764
    Redneck Reject71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Redneck Reject71


    Widdershins wrote: »
    "Family cloth". Google it. Its the latest thing in the world of reusables.
    I use reusable everything else but its a step too far for me. Even the name makes me shudder.
    However you could always cut up an old sheet into squares if truly stuck, and dispose of them straight afterwards. People must be terribly precious about their 7 ply moistened, fragranced, patterned paper if theyre hoarding it like this. They can't all have Crohns etc

    There is only so much I would be willing to reuse. A family cloth is not one of them,heh.


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    #1765
    vriesmays
    Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    After drinking a few cups of black coffee I develop a cough.


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    #1766
    Redneck Reject71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Redneck Reject71


    vriesmays wrote: »
    After drinking a few cups of black coffee I develop a cough.

    Unclean!heh.Make sure you have your bell to ring when your in public.


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    #1767
    Jigsaw
    Registered Users Posts: 1,508 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    Ice hockey. I think it is ****.


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    #1768
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,317 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Joe Wilkinson


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    #1769
    Nevin Parsnipp
    Registered Users Posts: 832 ✭✭✭Nevin Parsnipp


    AlphabetCards wrote: »
    Love island. They speak to each other like no one I know. It feels scripted, but I know it isn't. It is as if they are coached in how to approach situations, how to enunciate words, how to limit their vocabulary to appeal to everyone. It is so odd.

    Only one thing worse than "Love Island" it's the stupid beuers that watch it !

    Completely contrived and over hyped sh1te ....


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    #1770
    the purple tin
    Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Dead-end, sinkhole warzone estates always have really charming sounding names like 'Primrose Hill', 'Buttercup Valley' etc.
    Why not rename them 'Heroin Row', 'Concealed-Weapon Meadow, etc. Give potential buyers a heads-up.


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    #1771
    Conor Bourke
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 17,424 ✭✭✭✭Conor Bourke


    the purple tin wrote: »
    Dead-end, sinkhole warzone estates always have really charming sounding names like 'Primrose Hill', 'Buttercup Valley' etc.
    Why not rename them 'Heroin Row', 'Concealed-Weapon Meadow, etc. Give potential buyers a heads-up.

    Cherry Orchard sounds delightful, the reality is somewhat different however


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