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Buer · 16-01-2018 11:18AM

And thus ends today's motivational speaking seminar.

Salmo, Molloy, awec....questions?

awec · 16-01-2018 11:20AM

Buer wrote: »

And thus ends today's motivational speaking seminar.

Salmo, Molloy, awec....questions?

Ask me again in 3 weeks.

mfceiling · 16-01-2018 11:26AM

It gets worse and that's no lie.

12 year old doesn't want to go to bed at a reasonable hour on a Friday and Saturday night now so that's your "adult sit down with a beer and wine chat" gone out the door.
8 year old negotiates everything from how much breakfast she wants to the colour of that days vest.
10 year old loves running down all power on laptops, phones, ipad etc and then leaving them at her arse. Added to the fact that she hides the tele controls so no one else can use it.

At least when they are small they have to do as you want them to do....it's when they get older and think they have some sort of democratic say in their life that fecks you up.

Zzippy · 16-01-2018 11:38AM

mfceiling wrote: »

It gets worse and that's no lie.

12 year old doesn't want to go to bed at a reasonable hour on a Friday and Saturday night now so that's your "adult sit down with a beer and wine chat" gone out the door.
8 year old negotiates everything from how much breakfast she wants to the colour of that days vest.
10 year old loves running down all power on laptops, phones, ipad etc and then leaving them at her arse. Added to the fact that she hides the tele controls so no one else can use it.

At least when they are small they have to do as you want them to do....it's when they get older and think they have some sort of democratic say in their life that fecks you up.

You've a house full of women. You're fecked regardless!

stephen_n · 16-01-2018 11:53AM

Zzippy wrote: »

You've a house full of women. You're fecked regardless!

Having never experienced having boys, I’m never sure about that one. Though having been a boy once, I’m fairly sure my dad should have killed me and buried me somewhere, as I probably would have if any of my kids were like I was.

Yeah_Right · 16-01-2018 11:56AM

mfceiling wrote: »

It gets worse and that's no lie.

12 year old doesn't want to go to bed at a reasonable hour on a Friday and Saturday night now so that's your "adult sit down with a beer and wine chat" gone out the door.
8 year old negotiates everything from how much breakfast she wants to the colour of that days vest.
10 year old loves running down all power on laptops, phones, ipad etc and then leaving them at her arse. Added to the fact that she hides the tele controls so no one else can use it.

At least when they are small they have to do as you want them to do....it's when they get older and think they have some sort of democratic say in their life that fecks you up.

Am I right in thinking that you are the poster on here that is often playing with the neighbourhood kids? And I don't mean that in a creepy way. Living with four females, I can fully understand if you wanted to escape for a kick around in the park.

mfceiling · 16-01-2018 12:40PM

Yeah_Right wrote: »

Am I right in thinking that you are the poster on here that is often playing with the neighbourhood kids? And I don't mean that in a creepy way. Living with four females, I can fully understand if you wanted to escape for a kick around in the park.

God no....actually yeah. All the kids play together and there's always a bike race (now hoverboards) or football game taking place. It's amazing how good of a footballer you look when you're playing against 7 year olds.

Zzippy · 16-01-2018 12:52PM

You know that hypothetical question about would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 15 duck-sized horses? MF practises for that by fighting the neighbourhood kids...

16-01-2018 01:02PM

Zzippy wrote: »

You know that hypothetical question about would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 15 duck-sized horses? MF practises for that by fighting the neighbourhood kids...

I can just imagine the parents whatsapp groups in MF's area.

"We are still no closer to identifying who is organising the group fights the kids keep getting involved in. My little Timmy had another black eye this afternoon and is insisting on being called Robert Paulson"

b.gud · 17-01-2018 11:13AM

I mean that billboard makes a good point, but on the other hand have you every had a really nice steak??

irishbucsfan · 17-01-2018 11:14AM

Or even really really nice veal.

Buer · 17-01-2018 11:17AM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Or even really really nice veal.

That died from loneliness. Bovine despair is so tender.

Zzippy · 17-01-2018 11:33AM

Ha. The same people had an ad showing a live turkey, featured on a bus stop in Limerick, one of those dynamic advertising signs. The ad that immediately followed it was a pic of a cooked turkey in an ad for Lidl.

prawnsambo · 17-01-2018 11:45AM

b.gud wrote: »

I mean that billboard makes a good point, but on the other hand have you every had a really nice steak??

I don't think that's a particularly good campaign. It's relying on an emotional response, but the vast majority of people don't really connect the cute calf in the sylvan setting with the shrink-wrapped cut of meat in the supermarket.

But here's a photo I took last year of a dairy farm in the middle of California. Not so sylvan. In fact it's just dust. That's a crop in the foreground, not grazing. The photo doesn't really do justice to the massive area that this covers and the scale of those sheds that were on both sides of the road for as far as you could see.

irishbucsfan · 17-01-2018 12:10PM

Right. But Irish farmers are actually decent people.

A good reminder to check the source of what you’re buying though.

DGRulz · 17-01-2018 12:16PM

I remember studying the Texas cattle industry for Leaving Cert Geography many years ago. The Irish cattle trade is nothing compared to the scale they do it on.

prawnsambo · 17-01-2018 12:31PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Right. But Irish farmers are actually decent people.

A good reminder to check the source of what you’re buying though.

Ah yeah. The beef/dairy industry in the US makes no sense. 55% of US water use is in the animal agriculture industry. There is practically no grazing land that would be comparable to our industry, nearly half of the US land mass is devoted to animal agriculture - between 2 and 5 acres of land per cow.

17-01-2018 12:49PM

Cattle are thriving. They've at a constantly increasing peak of their population worldwide. They domesticated us.

Diabhal Beag · 17-01-2018 01:00PM

Lads what's the story with beer inside Stade de France? See a lot of online reviews saying it's alcohol free. I also see talk of Heineken vendors with giant canisters on the backs all over the place.

I know there's options on the way to the ground but mid match pints are crucial.

Bazzo · 17-01-2018 01:06PM

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Lads what's the story with beer inside Stade de France? See a lot of online reviews saying it's alcohol free. I also see talk of Heineken vendors with giant canisters on the backs all over the place.

I know there's options on the way to the ground but mid match pints are crucial.

I think it's low alcohol beer.. 0.5% or whatever. You'd want to be snorting the stuff.

Podge_irl · 17-01-2018 01:23PM

It's alcohol free basically. Quite often alcohol free stuff will say 0.5% just to be safe. It says "sans alcool" in very small writing on it.

I just brought in a shoulder of whisky with me cause I'm classy like that.

Diabhal Beag · 17-01-2018 01:57PM

Carefully hidden nagin it is!

Thanks lads

Zzippy · 17-01-2018 02:12PM

Paris can be Baltic too that time of year, was there one year and it was -5 during the game. Cold beer was definitely not a good idea. Whiskey and get a coffee to pour it into (I know, waste of good whiskey, so buy something cheap)

irishbucsfan · 17-01-2018 06:30PM

North and South Korea will field a joint hockey team at the upcoming olympics, under a single flag.

The coach of South Korea has voiced concern. Supposedly it will harm their chances of winning a medal. Glad someone is looking at the bigger picture!

stephen_n · 17-01-2018 07:43PM

irishbucsfan wrote: »

North and South Korea will field a joint hockey team at the upcoming olympics, under a single flag.

The coach of South Korea has voiced concern. Supposedly it will harm their chances of winning a medal. Glad someone is looking at the bigger picture!

Heard that in passing earlier, wonder how that came about. Would be good for the whole world if that ended up being the thin end of the wedge in North/South relations

17-01-2018 08:28PM

stephen_n wrote: »

Heard that in passing earlier, wonder how that came about. Would be good for the whole world if that ended up being the thin end of the wedge in North/South relations

Apparently Shane Ross and Jonny May have been spotted in Pyongyang. Coincidence? I think not.

wp_rathead · 17-01-2018 10:39PM

Anyone watching Kiri?

thomond2006 · 18-01-2018 07:50PM

Cannolos. My word. Delicious.

mfceiling · 18-01-2018 11:01PM

thomond2006 wrote: »

Cannolos. My word. Delicious.

Had to Google that. They look deadly. Where did you get them?

prawnsambo · 18-01-2018 11:10PM

thomond2006 wrote: »

Cannolos. My word. Delicious.

Should that not be Cannoli?

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