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So this Hurricane

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  • #62
    Pinch Flat
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    I’ve asked the missus to take in the washing.


  • #63
    Beechwoodspark
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    RayM wrote: »
    Pedal stool. For example, if you put someone on a pedal stool, it means that you uncritically admire them.

    Can't believe I have to explain something so basic to fools. I really am better than this place. :rolleyes:

    The word is pedestal my friend.


  • #64
    server down
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    So we’ve decided. People are putting this storm on a pedal stool, but it will be a damp squid.


  • #65
    RayM
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    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    The word is pedestal my friend.

    That's not even a word, mate.


  • #66
    The_Valeyard
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    RayM wrote: »
    That's not even a word, mate.

    I believe he did spell that correctly.


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  • #67
    Surreptitious
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    Jesus Christ. It's pedestal. End of.


  • #68
    pjohnson
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    Fuck your pedastal and your pedal stool do I build the fucking arc or not.


  • #69
    _Dara_
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    Surreptitious wrote: »
    Jesus Christ. It's pedestal. End of.

    Think that poster is joking around but it’s backfiring a bit!


  • #70
    Surreptitious
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    _Dara_ wrote: »
    Think that poster is joking around but it’s backfiring a bit!

    I just need to know do I stock up and will I have Internet. I don't wanna be scared :(


  • #71
    RayM
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    Surreptitious wrote: »
    Jesus Christ. It's pedestal. End of.

    I've explained this enough times. It's pedal stool. "Pedestal" is like a word you'd make up in a game of Scrabble.


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  • #72
    server down
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    Pedal Stool. Late 19C. From a tradition originating in Kentucky and spreading through America to parade home coming queens, sportsmen and other dignaturies on Penny farthings to the acclaim of the crowds. This tradition fell out of favour with the arrival of truck driven parade float and in some countries (notably Rep. Ire) the tractor (see Massy Ferguson)


  • #73
    RainMakerToo
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  • #74
    bnt
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    RayM wrote: »
    That's not even a word, mate.
    You know you're on the Internet, right? Try the Oxford English Dictionary for size.

    I have friends in Texas who were hit by Hurricane Harvey, so they're now on to me asking if I'll be OK. It's going to be strong, but is it going to be worse than the storms that hit Ireland nearly every winter?

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #75
    server down
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    bnt wrote: »
    You know you're on the Internet, right? Try the Oxford English Dictionary for size.

    I have friends in Texas who were hit by Hurricane Harvey, so they're now on to me asking if I'll be OK. It's going to be strong, but is it going to be worse than the storms that hit Ireland nearly every winter?

    Probably. These things are hard to predict this far out. The weather forum is a prett good read.


  • #76
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
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    I honestly didn't know there were so many people who hadn't seen the I.T Crowd. This is like those body builders arguing over how many days there are in a week.

    Is this supposed to hit morning/afternoon? I've to get to work, usually walk, and I'll assume Bus Eireann will be as good as it usually is at being there when it's needed.


  • #77
    _Dara_
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    I don’t watch it, no. Love Ted and Black Books. The several IT Crowd episodes I watched didn’t do it for me. Not up to other Graham Linehan standards, IMO. It’s not a show everyone would have seen. Still a bit niche.


  • #78
    RayM
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    bnt wrote: »
    You know you're on the Internet, right? Try the Oxford English Dictionary for size.

    Nah mate, that's a load of bollocks. Someone's edited that.


  • #79
    Conor Bourke
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    Surreptitious wrote: »
    Jesus Christ. It's pedestal. End of.

    You clearly have a very limited understanding of the English language. Maybe you should read a bit more, expand your vocabulary.


  • #80
    bnt
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    So that was a "joke" from The IT Crowd? I've seen a few but didn't memorise them - mea culpa. I know this is AH, but could we at least try to stay on topic?

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #81
    server down
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    Right back on topic. Time to panic!

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-ophelia-track-path-latest-updates-uk-ireland/

    Hurricane Ophelia has been upgraded to a Category 3 storm, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said late Saturday morning.

    Ophelia, the sixth major hurricane of the 2017 season, was moving at 25 mph northeast with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph, the service said.

    Ireland's Met Eireann weather service issued a "status red" warning for the western Irish counties of Galway, Mayo, Clare, Cork and Kerry. It said Ophelia could bring winds of 50 mph and gusts of more than 80 mph on Monday, with the potential for structural damage, high seas and flooding.


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  • #82
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    Yup, could be a big one. Don’t why people think it’ll be nothing because it’s going to be “just” a tropical storm. Depending on different variables, it could be something or it could be nothing. If the authorities downplay it and it turns out to be very dangerous and damaging, they’ll be criticised. But it might turn out to be nothing and then they’ll be criticised for the warnings. Rock and a hard place.


  • #83
    alchemist33
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    server down wrote: »
    Right back on topic. Time to panic!

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-ophelia-track-path-latest-updates-uk-ireland/

    They know in America too?!?

    Getting own to s**t is bad enough but I don't want Trump coming over and throwing paper towels to us so we'll adore him.


  • #84
    bnt
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    Met Éireann now has a Red weather warning for Western counties, and Orange for the rest of the country.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #85
    philstar
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    Ophelia ? what sort of name is that anyway? sounds like a protestant name :mad:

    (;))


  • #86
    The_Kew_Tour
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    Would be taking no chance chances. Could be bad one. Hopefully not.

    EVENFLOW



  • #87
    Kermit.de.frog
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    We might have to take the roads in.


  • #88
    _Dara_
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    philstar wrote: »
    Ophelia ? what sort of name is that anyway? sounds like a protestant name :mad:

    (;))

    Hamlet.


  • #89
    Kermit.de.frog
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    The way he says "it's heading for Ireland!?"...

    http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/12/world/hurricane-ophelia-ireland/index.html

    I wonder will CNN be sending Wolf Blitzer


  • #90
    donegaLroad
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    Don't park your car right next to your house if possible. Ridge tiles blew off my roof during the last storm and would have killed someone if they landed on their head.


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  • #91
    LordSutch
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    philstar wrote: »
    Ophelia ? what sort of name is that anyway? sounds like a protestant name :mad:

    That got my attention :)

    Although on Friday nights RTE weather bulletin Siobhan Ryan called it 'Exophelia'.

    ... which sounded really odd.


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