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Just pressed the +One Hour boost on the heating . . . . .

  • 12-01-2017 08:11PM
    #1
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭


    ...and aren't we so lucky that we can.

    Its bloody freezing out tonight, yet there are many homeless people sleeping outdoors in sleeping bags in doorways, & in cardboard boxes. They were talking about those poor souls on the radio today.

    Can you imaging sleeping out tonight?

    God help them.


Comments

  • #2
    munster87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,601 ✭✭✭munster87


    A thread in after hours should help


  • #3
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,707 ✭✭✭stimpson


    Surely they're all in Apollo House?


  • #4
    Truckermal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,043 ✭✭✭Truckermal


    I pressed Advance for all 3 zones and I'm still cold..


  • #5
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    stimpson wrote: »
    Surely they're all in Apollo House?

    only one


  • #6
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79,509 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    The_Valeyard wrote: »
    only one

    Apollo One?


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  • #7
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,059 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    I don't have central heating - which is for rich wimps. I also work outdoors - cold is merely less warm than would otherwise be the case.


  • #8
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,235 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    This is not a joke. People will die tonight.


  • #9
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,235 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    I don't have central heating - which is for rich wimps. I also work outdoors - cold is merely less warm than would otherwise be the case.

    You so Badass! I suggest you try making your bed in a shop doorway tonight.


  • #10
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    dw7whh.jpg

    Saw this earlier on. Pity the poor fcuker. :(


  • #11
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    I've just turned the heating off. Will probably turn it back on in an hour or so.


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  • #12
    eeguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭eeguy


    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »
    dw7whh.jpg

    Saw this earlier on. Pity the poor fcuker. :(

    Sure he's got a roof over his head.( /massive insensitivity, renews Simon donation)


  • #13
    Silane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 176 ✭✭Silane


    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »
    dw7whh.jpg

    Saw this earlier on. Pity the poor fcuker. :(

    That's probably 1200 a month


  • #14
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,774 ✭✭✭Allinall


    They all moved out of Apollo House into nice warm taxis.
    None of them shower will be sleeping outdoors tonight.


  • #15
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    FrancieBrady wrote: »
    Apollo One?

    No. Apollo One was anything but cold. :(


  • #16
    The One Doctor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,322 ✭✭✭The One Doctor


    maudgonner wrote: »
    No. Apollo One was anything but cold. :(

    Indeed, Apollo 1 was fairly toasty. Almost as warm as having the heating on constant. But they were warm for the rest of their lives.

    Jammy bastards.


  • #17
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,692 ✭✭✭Stigura


    Homeless people? But ..... Didn't I read an empty hotel had just been snapped up to house a load of single young lads of military age? :confused:


  • #18
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Truckermal wrote: »
    I pressed Advance for all 3 zones and I'm still cold..

    ...but probably better off than those poor souls sleeping in doorways tonight!


  • #19
    Phoebas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,373 ✭✭✭Phoebas


    LordSutch wrote: »
    ...but probably better off than those poor souls sleeping in doorways tonight!

    They should get themselves off to one of the homeless shelters.


  • #20
    A Dub in Glasgo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,278 ✭✭✭✭A Dub in Glasgo


    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »
    dw7whh.jpg

    Saw this earlier on. Pity the poor fcuker. :(

    Damn right, look at the inconsiderate parking. That fcuker on the left must be parking in two bays!


  • #21
    red ears
    Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭red ears


    I'm a bit squanderous (if that's a word) with heat, i have it on in rooms i don't even use.


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  • #22
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,949 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Just +1nd the gaff there. Still feeling the cold air though. Chest doesn't handle anything below 2 degrees too well.


  • #23
    BunkMoreland
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 820 ✭✭✭BunkMoreland


    Homeless people should just take advantage of the many supports in place for them.

    Anyone sleeping rough in this country are doing so by choice.

    Less of a **** I could give about the homeless.


  • #24
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,679 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Love coming home to the house with the heating timed these days but I suspect I've just gone soft. We only had a sitting room and kitchen coal fire in the home house when I was a kid and I never froze to death.


  • #25
    Red Kev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,793 ✭✭✭Red Kev


    LordSutch wrote: »
    ...and aren't we so lucky that we can.

    Its bloody freezing out tonight, yet there are many homeless people sleeping outdoors in sleeping bags in doorways, & in cardboard boxes. They were talking about those poor souls on the radio today.

    Can you imaging sleeping out tonight?

    God help them.

    Luck? 99.992% of us in this country are sleeping indoors tonight. So it's hardly down to luck that we are in a heated room.

    Homelessness and lack of affordable housing is a growing issue, but describing people who are sleeping indoors as "lucky" is a bit morbid, or somewhat daft.


  • #26
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,069 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Red Kev wrote: »
    Luck? 99.992% of us in this country are sleeping indoors tonight. So it's hardly down to luck that we are in a heated room.

    Homelessness and lack of affordable housing is a growing issue, but describing people who are sleeping indoors as "lucky" is a bit morbid, or somewhat daft.

    Oh dear, looks like we have a pedantic nitpicker on the loose ....

    Maybe 'aren't we preveleged' might have been gramatically better?

    The point I was making about those poor sods sleeping out in sub zero temperatures seemed relavent at the time (on that particular freezing night), hence I felt very lucky privileged to be able to press the +One hour boost that night, while others not so lucky privileged slept outside in the freezing cold :(


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