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Stheno · 23-11-2017 10:07PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

You've very feminine wrists....

Not compared to mine.

They look like fine manly wrists to me

Neil3030 · 23-11-2017 10:24PM

Nah they are tragically thin wrists, but it's a small price to pay for my otherwise magnificent anatomical proportions.

sydthebeat · 23-11-2017 10:39PM

Neil3030 wrote: »

Nah they are tragically thin wrists, but it's a small price to pay for my otherwise magnificent anatomical proportions.

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Neil3030 · 23-11-2017 10:45PM

sydthebeat wrote: »

Neil3030

Hey!!

I am at least 3% more attractive than that guy :mad:

pickarooney · 23-11-2017 11:19PM

I've ridiculously thin wrists too. I can wrap my thumb and pinkie around with space to spare. It's not a particularly useful attribute outside maybe of veterinary science.

Neil3030 · 23-11-2017 11:21PM

All I know is, I innocently wandered in here looking for advice on cooking a goddam turkey leg, and I've been thinwristshamed to the point of having that last belgian beer in my fridge.

awec · 23-11-2017 11:22PM

pickarooney wrote: »

I've ridiculously thin wrists too. I can wrap my thumb and pinkie around with space to spare. It's not a particularly useful attribute outside maybe of veterinary science.

:eek:

I'm built like a budgies hard-on and I can't even do the thumb and pinky wraparound on my wrist.

Zzippy · 23-11-2017 11:28PM

awec wrote: »

:eek:

I'm built like a budgies hard-on

Saved for posterity. Brilliant!

Dave_The_Sheep · 23-11-2017 11:57PM

Neil3030 wrote: »

... and I've been thinwristshamed to the point of having that last belgian beer in my fridge.

Really twisted your arm huh. Not that it'd take much, given those wrists, but still.

Neil3030 · 24-11-2017 12:26AM

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Really twisted your arm huh. Not that it'd take much, given those wrists, but still.

Well if anything I'd slip easily from any grasp, no?

Yeah_Right · 24-11-2017 12:57AM

Synode wrote: »

I'd definitely put LCD into the dance music category. Give them a listen (anything except 'Daft Punk is Playing at My House' or 'New York I love you'. I recommend 'Get Innocuous', 'Us VS Them', 'All my Friends' or 'Someone Great'). Quality

I checked them out. Listened to them while I cooked dinner. Some songs had strains of Violent Femmes and Talking Heads (obviously nowhere near as good). Others were a bit 80s to the point I could imagine one of them with a keyboard guitar. There was a bit of The Killers and Franz Ferdinand in there and then also some highly repetitive EDM.

Overall they were alright as background music. Not really my thing and not something I'd put on but the sort I'd have no issue with.

When I hear the words dance music, I immediately think of some guy plugging his iPod in and waving his hands in the air while some female pop singer repeats the same few lines over and over. The fact LCD Soundsystem actually play instruments is a big plus.

errlloyd · 24-11-2017 04:47AM

I've a 90s era apartment, and I wanna buy Hue light bulbs on black Friday. Problem is I'm in China and don't know which type of bulb get. If I get the wrong ones, I'll adverts them.

Anyone know which is a safer bet, Bayonets or E27?

pickarooney · 24-11-2017 06:29AM

Yeah_Right wrote: »

I checked them out. Listened to them while I cooked dinner. Some songs had strains of Violent Femmes and Talking Heads (obviously nowhere near as good). Others were a bit 80s to the point I could imagine one of them with a keyboard guitar. There was a bit of The Killers and Franz Ferdinand in there and then also some highly repetitive EDM.

Overall they were alright as background music. Not really my thing and not something I'd put on but the sort I'd have no issue with.

When I hear the words dance music, I immediately think of some guy plugging his iPod in and waving his hands in the air while some female pop singer repeats the same few lines over and over. The fact LCD Soundsystem actually play instruments is a big plus.

You're describing house music to a T there.

Listen to Home by LCD Soundsystem. Get annoyed by how there's nothing there. Keep listening all the way through. Wait 5 minutes and listen to it again. Fall in love with the simple trick of progressively adding layer by layer until you have an absolutely stonking tune.

Errlloyd: bayonets are on the way out. Worst case scenario you can get an adaptor from bayonet socket to screw but I'm not sure you can go the other way around.

errlloyd · 24-11-2017 07:37AM

pickarooney wrote: »

Errlloyd: bayonets are on the way out. Worst case scenario you can get an adaptor from bayonet socket to screw but I'm not sure you can go the other way around.

Thanks man. Ideal advice. Zero risk and future proof.

prawnsambo · 24-11-2017 09:11AM

errlloyd wrote: »

Thanks man. Ideal advice. Zero risk and future proof.

Yes, but there are two different sizes of Edison screw. The mini size is getting more popular.

errlloyd · 24-11-2017 09:22AM

prawnsambo wrote: »

Yes, but there are two different sizes of Edison screw. The mini size is getting more popular.

Lack of standardisation makes me cry.

thomond2006 · 24-11-2017 12:31PM

Another election? Oh joy.

ClanofLams · 24-11-2017 12:37PM

thomond2006 wrote: »

Another election? Oh joy.

Terrible timing too with the stage Brexit is at. Don't think this will work out for FF. Varadkar right to not back down.

24-11-2017 12:40PM

Varadkar 100% right not to back down. Incredibly foolish of SF and FF to try and undermine a relatively fragile government at this stage, It really shows they are thinking politics and not about the country.

Total lack of awarness and if it does go to the polls I hope they both get absolutely smashed for it.

All that said, she will definitely resign and that will be that. The two other parties will rub the governments nose in it and bring it up before the next election.

Honestly wish these lads could put the country first at this time.

Buer · 24-11-2017 12:44PM

thomond2006 wrote: »

Another election? Oh joy.

It would be a disaster for them to go to an election at this point. Critical point in Brexit and referendums coming down the line. Cutting the nose off to spite the face, comes to mind.

I'm not sure FF would even want to go to the people at this point. FG are looking solid enough in the polls right now and I'm not sure how much this current situation is going to hurt them.

With all that said, Varadkar has missed an opportunity to come out with some sort of boost in terms of PR by sacking Fitzgerald on this matter. He'd come across as decisive and actually taking some action in the McCabe situation. I can only hope she resigns at this point for the greater good and any election is deferred.

I find the SF motion of no confidence hilarious. Fair play to them for wanting to protect an honourable Garda like Jerry...I mean Maurice McCabe.

24-11-2017 12:47PM

We have an election, nobody has enough seats to form a Govt, potentially the only viable coalition is FF/FG + SF, neither of them will go into power with SF... so we need another confidence and supply agreement? What's the point?

ClanofLams · 24-11-2017 12:49PM

Emilee Bitter Ginseng wrote: »

We have an election, nobody has enough seats to form a Govt, potentially the only viable coalition is FF/FG + SF, neither of them will go into power with SF... so we need another confidence and supply agreement? What's the point?

I wouldn't rule out FF going in with SF. Martin would accept it to be Taoiseach.

dregin · 24-11-2017 12:51PM

ClanofLams wrote: »

Terrible timing too with the stage Brexit is at. Don't think this will work out for FF. Varadkar right to not back down.

Hope to jesus people don't forget what FF have done to this country in the last 20 years. Can't wait for FF & FG to just amalgamate and get it done with.

24-11-2017 12:52PM

ClanofLams wrote: »

I wouldn't rule out FF going in with SF. Martin would accept it to be Taoiseach.

Ugh. Would be about the most unforgivable thing they've done in the last 15 years imo, which is saying something.

24-11-2017 12:53PM

Buer wrote: »

It would be a disaster for them to go to an election at this point. Critical point in Brexit and referendums coming down the line. Cutting the nose off to spite the face, comes to mind.

I'm not sure FF would even want to go to the people at this point. FG are looking solid enough in the polls right now and I'm not sure how much this current situation is going to hurt them.

With all that said, Varadkar has missed an opportunity to come out with some sort of boost in terms of PR by sacking Fitzgerald on this matter. He'd come across as decisive and actually taking some action in the McCabe situation. I can only hope she resigns at this point for the greater good and any election is deferred.

I find the SF motion of no confidence hilarious. Fair play to them for wanting to protect an honourable Garda like Jerry...I mean Maurice McCabe.

Varadkar can only sack Francis Fitzgerald before the **** hit the fan. After the fact just makes it look like he is bowing to Fine Fail.

It's not even all that massive a scandal in my opinion, at least Francis Fitzgerald part in it.

dregin · 24-11-2017 12:54PM

Also, not sure why FF are throwing their toys out of the pram over the email and have sfa to say about the acting commissioner deciding that no disciplinary action for falsified breath tests is absolutely fine. Oh wait....

ClanofLams · 24-11-2017 12:55PM

I hope the Independents take a hammering too. Complete waste of time the vast majority of them and a roadblock to stable government.

It's probably/definitely too late now but a law like the one they have in Germany whereby you can't take a seat unless you're a member of a grouping that polls 5% nationwide would be brilliant.

Buer · 24-11-2017 12:56PM

ClanofLams wrote: »

I wouldn't rule out FF going in with SF. Martin would accept it to be Taoiseach.

Both FF and FG already came out last week and said they would not go into a government with SF.

Sinn Fein can make eyes all they want and claim they're ready to go into government in a coalitiion but they're still on the outside p*ssing in. I can't understand why they'd want an election at this point. They've their own leadership contest to go through yet and the unknown aspect of that surely won't increase their vote at this point.

Buer · 24-11-2017 12:58PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Varadkar can only sack Francis Fitzgerald before the **** hit the fan. After the fact just makes it look like he is bowing to Fine Fail.

That's what I said; he has "missed an opportunity"

At this point, it needs to be a resignation from Fitzgerald or nothing.

24-11-2017 12:59PM

Buer wrote: »

Both FF and FG already came out last week and said they would not go into a government with SF.

Sinn Fein can make eyes all they want and claim they're ready to go into government in a coalitiion but they're still on the outside p*ssing in. I can't understand why they'd want an election at this point. They've their own leadership contest to go through yet and the unknown aspect of that surely won't increase their vote at this point.

Elections give them the biggest possible platform to do what they do best - shout and scream and lie with absolutely no chance they will have to implement or be accountable for their nonsense.

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