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  • #8792
    Don Kiddick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭Don Kiddick


    Just wondering...can a Waterford man stand up and fight at the same time?


  • #8793
    kuang1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,469 ✭✭✭kuang1


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    awec carries around a little bell for just these occasions...

    Tbh, I really don't ever want to know what he carries around in his manbag...although surely there's a plastic sheet in there.


  • #8794
    aloooof
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,678 ✭✭✭✭aloooof


    Don Kiddick wrote: »
    Just wondering...can a Waterford man stand up and fight at the same time?

    Jack O'Donoghue seems to manage it.


  • #8795
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    kuang1 wrote: »
    Tbh, I really don't ever want to know what he carries around in his manbag...although surely there's a plastic sheet in there.

    I believe its plastic gloves and tesco bags he uses


  • #8796
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    awec going by the name 'Jamie' here...



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  • #8797
    Neil3030
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,154 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    Deleted User wrote: »
    awec going by the name 'Jamie' here...


    Sidehug rap, ftw:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZnmTiqEikg


  • #8798
    molloyjh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,767 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    Buer wrote: »
    My mortgage < My childcare costs

    I don't know whether to be jealous of your mortgage payments or scared about my upcoming childcare costs.... :eek:


  • #8799
    Buer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    molloyjh wrote: »
    I don't know whether to be jealous of your mortgage payments or scared about my upcoming childcare costs.... :eek:

    A touch of both probably, to be honest. My childcare costs are about €1,650 a month. Two kids, full time childcare in Dublin.


  • #8800
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Neil3030 wrote: »
    Sidehug rap, ftw:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZnmTiqEikg

    I had to double check that this was satire. I could easily see this being a completely serious and in no way self aware attempt by Conservative America to encourage a more platonic form of hugging.


  • #8801
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I had to double check that this was satire. I could easily see this being a completely serious and in no way self aware attempt by Conservative America to encourage a more platonic form of hugging.

    Is that actually satire?


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  • #8802
    Neil3030
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,154 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    Ah feck, is it satire??


  • #8803
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    Is that actually satire?

    According to what I just read on wikipedia - yes.

    Actually, only kind of. The song was written as a joke but the organisers thought it was serious.

    I don't think religious folk are always the most self aware mind you - check out this sculpture ordered by a Catholic school in Australia. Someone had to actually inform them after the fact of what it looked like:

    _98854729_891665d8-a21b-4f59-a4af-ee5ec7778b99.jpg


  • #8804
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,090 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Deleted User wrote: »
    awec going by the name 'Jamie' here...

    Neil3030 wrote: »
    Sidehug rap, ftw:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZnmTiqEikg
    What's amusing about this is anyone who knows me knows I really hate country music and I am pretty anti-religion too.


  • #8805
    Buer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I don't think religious folk are always the most self aware mind you - check out this sculpture ordered by a Catholic school in Australia.

    Complete tangent but if anyone is looking for an interesting podcast they should listen to Casefile's episode on the Catholic church in Australia. Absolutely brilliant and disturbingly fascinating look into the abuses by the church and their efforts to conceal it in conjunction with the authorities.

    http://casefilepodcast.com/case-34-catholic-mafia/


  • #8806
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,090 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Speaking of houses, I just saw the price changes for Clay Farm Venjur. 3 beds price up to start at 485k, 4 beds price up to start at 620k.


    :eek:


  • #8807
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    Actually, Buer seems like exactly the type of person to ask if there's any good podcasts on the go.


  • #8808
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    awec wrote: »
    Speaking of houses, I just saw the price changes for Clay Farm Venjur. 3 beds price up to start at 485k, 4 beds price up to start at 620k.


    :eek:

    That's outrageous


  • #8809
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    awec wrote: »
    What's amusing about this is anyone who knows me knows I really hate country music and I am pretty anti-religion too.

    That's exactly what someone really into Christian rock would say...


  • #8810
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,090 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    That's outrageous
    Especially when you see the place. Houses are packed in and pretty fugly, parking is a joke too.


  • #8811
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    awec wrote: »
    Speaking of houses, I just saw the price changes for Clay Farm Venjur. 3 beds price up to start at 485k, 4 beds price up to start at 620k.


    :eek:

    I honestly couldn't even remotely care in the slightest about Francis Fitzgerald knowledge of an email or otherwise, but I really wish the Government would step in and put some real thought into controlling house prices.

    I mean that's a 7% increase. 7% in what - 4 weeks?

    It's actually disgusting. It makes my blood boil the f**king greed of it.


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  • #8812
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    awec wrote: »
    Especially when you see the place. Houses are packed in and pretty fugly, parking is a joke too.

    I'm renting around the corner and would have considered one but then I heard the old prices. The new ones are ridiculous.

    People become so disconnected from it and have to play along in order to keep the market up. It's madness.

    I'm just going to keep renting until I'm good to move somewhere less insane. Luckily the industry is going that way, should be good to work from a sensible location soon.

    I've always thought telecommuting might well rip the arse out of the market. 10 years time the demand could be nothing like it is today, when people have worked out how to make their employees remote like they have in our industry.


  • #8813
    Neil3030
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,154 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    I'm renting around the corner and would have considered one but then I heard the old prices. The new ones are ridiculous.

    People become so disconnected from it and have to play along in order to keep the market up. It's madness.

    I'm just going to keep renting until I'm good to move somewhere less insane. Luckily the industry is going that way, should be good to work from a sensible location soon.

    I've always thought telecommuting might well rip the arse out of the market. 10 years time the demand could be nothing like it is today, when people have worked out how to make their employees remote like they have in our industry.

    But what then, when the little darlings need non-denominational schooling, and you can't get your hands on decent Negev style hummus?


  • #8814
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,090 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    I'm renting around the corner and would have considered one but then I heard the old prices. The new ones are ridiculous.

    People become so disconnected from it and have to play along in order to keep the market up. It's madness.

    I'm just going to keep renting until I'm good to move somewhere less insane. Luckily the industry is going that way, should be good to work from a sensible location soon.

    I've always thought telecommuting might well rip the arse out of the market. 10 years time the demand could be nothing like it is today, when people have worked out how to make their employees remote like they have in our industry.
    My goodness we might be neighbours. :pac:


  • #8815
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    awec wrote: »
    My goodness we might be neighbours. :pac:

    I suppose it’s not exactly statistically unlikely. But still...


  • #8816
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,002 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Kuang drop me a pm if you want the number of a very good house builder in waterford. He's based in south kilkenny and covers all around that area. Smashing lad and good at what he does.

    Awec regarding thinking of kids going into school...when my wife went to a local school with our first daughter who was 6 months old, she was told that she had left it late to register her!! 6 months.

    Childcare costs really are prohibitive in dublin.


  • #8817
    Zzippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    Jaysus Im glad to be well out of Dublin, those prices are crazy. Prices going up rapidly here too but you still get a lot of house for your money. One of those 4 beds would buy ya a mansion on a fair bit of land and a nice view. We spent a lot less than what the 3 beds start at and got a big detached house on nearly an acre 10 mins from town. The only problem is the peace and quiet... :)


  • #8818
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,002 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Zzippy wrote: »
    The only problem is the peace and quiet... :)

    Yeah that does tend to be a problem when you get married alright.


  • #8819
    Don Kiddick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭Don Kiddick


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  • #8820
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,002 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Don Kiddick wrote: »
    https://m.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_1261336.html?wid=108&utm_source=linkshare&utm_medium=linkshare&utm_campaign=linkshare&siteID=TnL5HPStwNw-rf8TNpkEEYavDWPJ5zFqKQ

    Anybody looking for an inexpensive phone with good spec for a kids pressie...have a look

    Feck the kids...I might pull the trigger on that for myself.


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  • #8821
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    After a week of driving my new car the driving position appears to be really aggravating my dodgy knee which is extremely sore and swollen :(


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