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  • #842
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    cycle4fun wrote: »
    Or a different attitude and more industrious / less lazy.

    In fairness there are plenty of workers out there. I certainly wouldnt blame laziness


  • #843
    cycle4fun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭cycle4fun


    Beethoven9th wrote: »
    Maybe the teachers should get an extra few weeks off to get over the trauma of this snow event !

    Do not ask them to work back the days over the Easter or Summer holidays anyway!


  • #844
    cycle4fun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭cycle4fun


    Hector Bellend wrote: »
    In fairness there are plenty of workers out there.
    But the government has shut down the country.


  • #845
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    I've been at full power all morning. She's taking full advantage.


  • #846
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,248 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    cycle4fun wrote: »
    No. just work when there are a few cm of snow instead of shutting the country down.

    Do you not understand that being IN work is not the problem it is getting there and getting home is the danger .The storm has not even arrived yet .Where you around in 1982? People were taking shelter in strangers homes , pubs , hotels and left on the Naas dual carriagway for days until the army got them out .


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  • #847
    BillyBobBS
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    TheQuietBeatle wrote: »
    Feel sorry for the small businesses. They must be stressed with the losses they're taking due to not being able to work.

    That's life. Its just money. Peoples safety is the most important thing.


  • #848
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,464 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    cycle4fun wrote: »
    Do not ask them to work back the days over the Easter or Summer holidays anyway!

    The teachers haven't made the decision to close the schools.

    Maybe get on with whatever it is you're supposed to be doing yourself and don't be worrying about what anyone else has to do.


  • #849
    OldMrBrennan83
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  • #850
    Vojera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,812 ✭✭✭Vojera


    I actually did lose power earlier... But only to my sockets, and it turns out that the laptop I was given so i could work from home is causing the trip switch to go.

    So terrible news, I guess I just have to stay home and get paid for doing nothing.


  • #851
    cycle4fun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭cycle4fun


    Collie D wrote: »
    The teachers haven't made the decision to close the schools.

    There are plenty of teachers in the Dail. Anyway, no doubt they will work over their ample Easter + summer holidays to make up for this and storm Ophelia.


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  • #852
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    Give that driver day off, full pay! Great save.

    Scotland have got an absolute battering. There have been people stuck in cars on the M80 since yesterday evening. Some up to 17 hours!

    :eek:

    Yep, neighbour of mine was stuck 2 miles from home for almost 4 hours. not allowed abandon the car and walk pbviously.

    Some folk were still on the Edinburgh bypass late last night, the Red Cross turned up an all.

    Police Scotland had to issue a cease and desist for companies ring their 101 number and asking if they should let folk home!


  • #853
    OldMrBrennan83
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  • #854
    Christy42
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    Collie D wrote: »
    The teachers haven't made the decision to close the schools.

    Maybe get on with whatever it is you're supposed to be doing yourself and don't be worrying about what anyone else has to do.

    Well I mean all those kids are now obviously going to grow up to be idiots now cos of these few days lost. It is inconvenient for parents that do have to work today but I am sure most of them would prefer their kids at home than risk being trapped in the school later.

    You would think the economy would be crippled by Monday the way some go on. It will be tough for small businesses buts let's be fair that has nothing to do with the government. They were hardly getting masses of customers today anyway.


  • #855
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    cycle4fun wrote: »
    No. just work when there are a few cm of snow instead of shutting the country down.

    Are you for real? I doubt it.
    The Red warning is for this afternoon. IT hasn't hit yet but people have to get home.

    I find your attitude to all this quite hard to take seriously.


  • #856
    The Moldy Gowl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    I wonder if hardman Johnny flash made it to work or is wrapped around a pole?


  • #857
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Feed the birds! They love nuts, muesli, granola and oatmeal. Basically any breakfast cereal will do them.


  • #858
    OldMrBrennan83
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  • #859
    redcup342
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭redcup342


    cycle4fun wrote: »
    How do teachers and society cope in other countries that get snow?

    There are plenty of tourists stuck in Dublin airport who cannot get out of this country, even though they are going to countries with a lot more snow but functioning airports.

    They invest a ton of money via Taxes to tackle Snow because its a regular occurrence. Ireland doesn't have the same because it would be silly to have equipment and resources sitting around for an event that hardly ever occurs.

    Even here in Germany in Bavaria everything keeps running because they get snow all the time and have the resources in place to keep it running, people are personally equipped with clothing and their cars are kitted out with winter tyres/snow chains.

    Whereas in the North here in NRW 2 cm of snow and the whole place shuts down, Netherlands goes to complete sh*t, I remember a few years ago the Motorways were so bad that people started to run out of fuel.

    If we get that Weather here in the North of Germany your employer tells you to stay home and the schools are closed because personal safety comes before profit.

    By the way, you'll notice this year they had enough road salt, if they didn't you'd be complaining the authorities are morons and they can't run the place properly.


  • #860
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    David McWilliams was another one of those "I'm in Canada and people are laughing and joking about how such little snow has ground the country to a halt" people, he's rightly been put back in his place on twitter.

    There's one thing living and adapting to a climate where the weather is consistent on an annual basis, its another when snow of this magnitude falls every 30 years or so.
    If the Govt and their Agencies spent millions being ready for something like this there would be complaints too.


  • #861
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    redcup342 wrote: »
    They invest a ton of money via Taxes to tackle Snow because its a regular occurrence. Ireland doesn't have the same because it would be silly to have equipment and resources sitting around for an event that hardly ever occurs.

    Even here in Germany in Bavaria everything keeps running because they get snow all the time and have the resources in place to keep it running, people are personally equipped with clothing and their cars are kitted out with winter tyres/snow chains.

    Whereas in the North here in NRW 2 cm of snow and the whole place shuts down, Netherlands goes to complete sh*t, I remember a few years ago the Motorways were so bad that people started to run out of fuel.

    If we get that Weather here in the North of Germany your employer tells you to stay home and the schools are closed because personal safety comes before profit.

    Or you know, common sense comes before whataboutery on talk forums!


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  • #862
    Harry Palmr
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    Patww79 wrote: »
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    Yes if it's uncooked oats (but never cooked), as for your Cuisine de France bread it's probably too awful! :p


  • #863
    OldMrBrennan83
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  • #864
    gadgiemagoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭gadgiemagoo


    Patww79 wrote: »
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    Would you just put them out in a bowl and wet them or leave them dry?[/quote]
    I was clearing cupboards recently of out of date stuff - mainly baking ingredients i.e flaked nuts, dried fruit & just threw them out by the handful. 15 mins later loads of diff birds pecking away enjoying it all.


  • #865
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,463 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    We're in Naas and it hasn't gone yet. But we're prepared if it does.

    Wish this sh1te would just hurry up and be over. Pain in the hoop.


  • #866
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,549 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Be aware that dried fruit such as raisins, sultanas etc. are toxic to both dogs and cats, so if you have pets, best not to do this.


  • #867
    Wheety
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,522 ✭✭✭Wheety


    I filled the bird feeder yesterday and it's all gone. Have to get wrapped up and go out again to fill it. Birds were just pecking at the snow earlier :(


  • #868
    Try_harder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,681 ✭✭✭Try_harder


    cycle4fun wrote: »
    How do teachers and society cope in other countries that get snow?

    There are plenty of tourists stuck in Dublin airport who cannot get out of this country, even though they are going to countries with a lot more snow but functioning airports.

    Maybe you should go out and Cycle for Fun on some some black ice, cos sure there’s no risk...
    It’s 8” of snow here


  • #869
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    cycle4fun wrote: »
    A nephews local school is closed this morning - and quite right too. The road and footpath was buried in a 2 millimetre snowdrift. Even the school is only a half mile away so the kids could walk, thank God for health and safety. Back to the gargle for half the population.
    cycle4fun wrote: »
    How do teachers and society cope in other countries that get snow?

    There are plenty of tourists stuck in Dublin airport who cannot get out of this country, even though they are going to countries with a lot more snow but functioning airports.
    cycle4fun wrote: »
    Or a different attitude and more industrious / less lazy.
    cycle4fun wrote: »
    No. just work when there are a few cm of snow instead of shutting the country down.
    cycle4fun wrote: »
    Do not ask them to work back the days over the Easter or Summer holidays anyway!
    cycle4fun wrote: »
    But the government has shut down the country.
    cycle4fun wrote: »
    There are plenty of teachers in the Dail. Anyway, no doubt they will work over their ample Easter + summer holidays to make up for this and storm Ophelia.
    Would you look at that? A cyclist being an insufferable bore.

    Who'd have thunk it?


  • #870
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Patww79 wrote: »
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    Dry, they know snow is water :) Just on cooked porridge oats - its a hazard as it cools and then chokes them.


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  • #871
    [Deleted User]
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    cycle4fun wrote: »
    Or a different attitude and more industrious / less lazy.
    cycle4fun wrote: »
    But the government has shut down the country.

    You'd probably cry your eyes out if they spent anything on a once off situation such as this. ''There are people on trollies/on the streets/living in hotels etc etc etc'' ''It's a joke'' '' It's a disgrace''


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