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  • #3302
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,003 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Felix Jones is God wrote: »
    Only option when you have kids :D

    You beat me to it!!


  • #3303
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,122 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Amazon have launched Prime Video in Ireland but their video offering is such a confusing mess.

    I login to my amazon account on the fire stick and see a load of cool stuff, but it seems that I can't watch most of it. They seem to have no concept of only showing you the videos that you can actually watch in Ireland, it appears to be a pure guessing game as to which you can actually view and which you can't.

    I go to amazon.co.uk and a load of stuff says "included with your prime membership", but I can't actually watch it.

    Crap like this drives me nuts.


  • #3304
    Felix Jones is God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Felix Jones is God


    I suppose a VPN would sort this, but kinda defeats the purpose if it's aimed at an Irish market


  • #3305
    NiallBoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,504 ✭✭✭NiallBoo


    kuang1 wrote: »
    I'll be able to unsubscribe from Virgin for the tv part of my deal with them, and just maintain broadband only. (Saving €20 a month)

    Anyone any experience with this stuff?

    Expect some crap like:

    "Tv disconnection charge" €100
    "Standalone service charge" €19.50 per month.
    "Change of contract fee" €40
    "Fee has increased by 24c per month"
    "I'm sorry, your contract was automatically updated when the fee increased, 3 generations of your family have now been sold into slavery".


  • #3306
    kuang1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,469 ✭✭✭kuang1


    NiallBoo wrote: »
    Expect some crap like:

    "Tv disconnection charge" €100
    "Standalone service charge" €19.50 per month.
    "Change of contract fee" €40
    "Fee has increased by 24c per month"
    "I'm sorry, your contract was automatically updated when the fee increased, 3 generations of your family have now been sold into slavery".

    Getting the new system installed tomorrow. I think my current contract with virgin runs to February.
    So I'll find out then.

    (Incidentally new system does have facility for recording, usb stick required.)


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  • #3307
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,003 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    kuang1 wrote: »
    Getting the new system installed tomorrow. I think my current contract with virgin runs to February.
    So I'll find out then.

    (Incidentally new system does have facility for recording, usb stick required.)

    Please let me know how you get on Kuang....need to get virgin tv out of my life forever.


  • #3308
    kuang1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,469 ✭✭✭kuang1


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Please let me know how you get on Kuang....need to get virgin tv out of my life forever.

    Will do!


  • #3309
    Buer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Please let me know how you get on Kuang....need to get virgin tv out of my life forever.

    Just upgraded to a new package with them due to costs.

    A week on and no sign of new box. No television for a week. Broadband still operating off the old Horizon box but 120MB speeds are down to 10MB.

    Cooling off period availed of and instructed them to put me back on old package. No problem. But they still haven't restored TV service.

    We're renovating the house in a few months. Once that's done, they're being kicked to touch. Shambolic service.


  • #3310
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,003 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    48 lads from work heading to galway on a work christmas party...should be a sensible enough evening...


  • #3311
    molloyjh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,767 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    mfceiling wrote: »
    48 lads from work heading to galway on a work christmas party...should be a sensible enough evening...

    Quiet night ahead so. Nice to see you picked a relaxing spot for it too. :D


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  • #3312
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,003 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    molloyjh wrote: »
    Quiet night ahead so. Nice to see you picked a relaxing spot for it too. :D

    I've never been on one with this crowd before. Apparently he spent 28k on last year's!! Few quid for all the lads, free bar, full sit down meal, all hotel rooms paid for (suites and the works), mini bar covered and then did the same on the 2nd day for anyone that wanted it!! I get hammered on a few pints so my total spend should be somewhere in the region of €17!!


  • #3313
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 29,815 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    mfceiling wrote: »
    I've never been on one with this crowd before. Apparently he spent 28k on last year's!! Few quid for all the lads, free bar, full sit down meal, all hotel rooms paid for (suites and the works), mini bar covered and then did the same on the 2nd day for anyone that wanted it!! I get hammered on a few pints so my total spend should be somewhere in the region of €17!!

    :eek:

    My work pays precisely zero towards a christmas party - it's entirely a self organised and self funded endeavour. Miserly bastards.


  • #3314
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,003 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Podge_irl wrote: »
    :eek:

    My work pays precisely zero towards a christmas party - it's entirely a self organised and self funded endeavour. Miserly bastards.

    Most crowds I've worked with before had an open bar for a few hours. This lad is a head banger. He spent upwards on 40k one year when he took everyone away on a Friday afternoon...they started by going go karting followed by a night on the razz. Got up Saturday morning and he decided another day was in it so they spent another day on the lash (greyhound racing that night and another lash of food and drink)...You'd think that was it but the hardcore group went on another bender on Sunday as well!! His accountant comes as well and keeps telling him to reign it in but to no avail. If you are any way attractive and anywhere near his company you will be drinking for free all night.

    *any attractive boardsie ladies if you are reading this and fancy a free night of food and drink please make your way to galway this evening*

    *awec please take off your wife's dress...you're fooling no one*


  • #3315
    Zzippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    mfceiling wrote: »
    48 lads from work heading to galway on a work christmas party...should be a sensible enough evening...

    Hit the beer tent in Eyre Square to kick it off. Stay out of O'Connells please, I don't want to be queueing for a drink... ;)


  • #3316
    kuang1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,469 ✭✭✭kuang1


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Please let me know how you get on Kuang....need to get virgin tv out of my life forever.

    So it's installed now.
    I've spent the last hour testing it out and familiarising myself with it...

    IT'S FOOKING AMAZING!!!!!

    €360 in total as they had to put up a dish on my chimney (they could have used a pre-existing dish if I had had one and would have taken €130 off the cost).
    Will be €100 a year from now on. (1st year included in the €360).

    Every channel available in ireland and UK is on it. (Sky box office stuff is freely available to me too)
    Perfect picture.
    Takes about 45 seconds to boot up after I turn on the box...and that's as close to an annoying feature as I could find!!

    100% delighted. Looking forward to telling virgin to cancel my tv service.


  • #3317
    Yeah_Right
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,212 ✭✭✭Yeah_Right


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Most crowds I've worked with before had an open bar for a few hours. This lad is a head banger. He spent upwards on 40k one year when he took everyone away on a Friday afternoon...they started by going go karting followed by a night on the razz. Got up Saturday morning and he decided another day was in it so they spent another day on the lash (greyhound racing that night and another lash of food and drink)...You'd think that was it but the hardcore group went on another bender on Sunday as well!! His accountant comes as well and keeps telling him to reign it in but to no avail. If you are any way attractive and anywhere near his company you will be drinking for free all night.

    *any attractive boardsie ladies if you are reading this and fancy a free night of food and drink please make your way to galway this evening*

    *awec please take off your wife's dress...you're fooling no one*

    You guys hiring?


  • #3318
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Two excellent puns for the Connacht and Leinster megathreads, 10/10


  • #3319
    TeoReid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 365 ✭✭TeoReid


    kuang1 wrote: »
    So it's installed now.
    I've spent the last hour testing it out and familiarising myself with it...

    IT'S FOOKING AMAZING!!!!!

    €360 in total as they had to put up a dish on my chimney (they could have used a pre-existing dish if I had had one and would have taken €130 off the cost).
    Will be €100 a year from now on. (1st year included in the €360).

    Every channel available in ireland and UK is on it. (Sky box office stuff is freely available to me too)
    Perfect picture.
    Takes about 45 seconds to boot up after I turn on the box...and that's as close to an annoying feature as I could find!!

    100% delighted. Looking forward to telling virgin to cancel my tv service.

    So you went from thinking about it, asking here about it, to installed in less than a day... you don't hang around!

    What the name of the service provider?


  • #3320
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,003 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Yeah_Right wrote: »
    You guys hiring?

    I'm leaving as from today!! He's a mate of my brothers so I can get a start with him anytime by picking up the phone. Just got a text from a couple of the lads over there...One lad is gone to bed already p*ssed!!


  • #3321
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,118 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Our bosses said they couldn't give us a Christmas lunch this year as they had to fly off to the Caribbean.

    Hope they enjoy it.


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  • #3322
    kuang1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,469 ✭✭✭kuang1


    TeoReid wrote: »
    So you went from thinking about it, asking here about it, to installed in less than a day... you don't hang around!

    What the name of the service provider?

    Lol. Yeah...thought I'd be waiting a while to get sorted but dropped a name of a friend of mine and that sped things up significantly.

    Service provider?
    Well lets just say that I asked for a couple of business cards from them as they were heading off, and I was told "oh no we don't have anything like that, we're happy to stay under the radar."

    Cash only too.

    I asked at one stage "what's the legal status of this stuff?"
    Answer: "It's a grey area." :)

    He went on to tell me that SKY went to court over all this stuff and the court ruled that once the signal was being transmitted by them, it fell on their own shoulders to control who receives it. How true that is I don't know.
    I'm living in waterford city btw. Might not be of use to a lot of you lads and lasses but pm me if ye'd like a contact number.


  • #3323
    swiwi_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    4570510872_01afc45a22.jpg
    Ok, this is what usually springs to mind when someone says "alphorn"...


    ...I wasn't quite expecting this...


  • #3324
    swiwi_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭swiwi_




    Also just for .ak, Swiss artist "Seven"...


  • #3325
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 43,264 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    only 3 more hours.... my brain has totally checked out of work already



  • #3326
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    only 3 more hours.... my brain has totally checked out of work already


    Same here

    I wonder did mfceiling survive?


  • #3327
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ha, enjoy it folks. I'm absolutely up to my tits, going to be working up to the wire and probably through next week.


  • #3328
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,122 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    I'm doing sod all today. Not back until the 4th.


  • #3329
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 43,264 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ha, enjoy it folks. I'm absolutely up to my tits, going to be working up to the wire and probably through next week.

    i feel for you venjur !!!

    off today till the 4th


  • #3330
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    i feel for you venjur !!!

    off today till the 4th

    Off till the 6th for me in for one day then off again :)


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  • #3331
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 20,606 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    sydthebeat wrote: »
    i feel for you venjur !!!

    off today till the 4th

    Enjoy it! I don't mind to be honest, I'm in the seemingly rare circumstance of enjoying my job a great deal so can't complain.


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