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Squidgy Black · 09-05-2019 1:25pm

stephen_n wrote: »

My new job is 10 minutes walk from my apartment, that's a far better option :pac: will be the first time in my life I've been able to walk to work.

My last place was a 15-20 minute drive from the house, current place is around 45-50 minutes bus journey plus walking.

Having the option to nip home to grab something on lunch, or even when doing releases out of hours being able to head home and knowing you'll get back well within time, versus having to stay in the office later because it's a big hassle to get home is something I never really accounted for.

Couldn't live in the city centre though. Certainly not northside anyways, Smithfield at a push maybe.

09-05-2019 2:10pm

I had a job for two years that was a 45 second flat out run from my apartment. I know this, because despite the proximity I cut it very fine very often.

I live 8 miles from my job now, I cycle in and out every day. I spent 7 of the 8 miles this morning whizzing by lines and lines of cars. I'd say the cars I passed early on still hadn't gotten to the city centre by the time I had showered and was on my second coffee.

sydthebeat · 09-05-2019 2:30pm

lucky enough to have had the same job for 20 years.
lived nearby for the first 3 years... driving ever since.
25 mins gets me there (20 miles away)

the town my job is in is the first town i hit after i leave.

troyzer · 09-05-2019 3:14pm

One of the benefits of being unemployed from next week is that I don't have to worry about commuting anymore.

Or deciding what to spend money on.

stephen_n · 09-05-2019 6:53pm

Squidgy Black wrote: »

My last place was a 15-20 minute drive from the house, current place is around 45-50 minutes bus journey plus walking.

Having the option to nip home to grab something on lunch, or even when doing releases out of hours being able to head home and knowing you'll get back well within time, versus having to stay in the office later because it's a big hassle to get home is something I never really accounted for.

Couldn't live in the city centre though. Certainly not northside anyways, Smithfield at a push maybe.

This is the first time I’ve ever lived in the city center. Not something I ever intended to do, as I’m not really a city person. Pro’s and Cons to it I guess, but I reckon this will definitely fall in the pro column. 2 mins walk from Stephens Green, doesn’t get much more central really.

Erik Shun · 09-05-2019 7:06pm

I have never lived anymore than a 10 minute walk from my job

#ruraltownrules

Synode · 09-05-2019 7:11pm

I had a 50 minute drive/30 minute cycle for years until recently when I started working from home. It's fantastic not having to commute anymore. Though I do miss the cycling

Squidgy Black · 09-05-2019 7:31pm

Synode wrote: »

I had a 50 minute drive/30 minute cycle for years until recently when I started working from home. It's fantastic not having to commute anymore. Though I do miss the cycling

Working from home is great, not sure I could do it full time myself though. I usually WFH one day a week, did a stint of around a month last year over the snow period as I found myself going delirious during the day with the boredom.

Synode · 09-05-2019 8:02pm

Takes a while to get disciplined but absolutely love it now. I'd struggle to go back into a 9 to 5 office job

irishbucsfan · 09-05-2019 8:40pm

Synode wrote: »

Takes a while to get disciplined but absolutely love it now. I'd struggle to go back into a 9 to 5 office job

Yeah exactly. But it’s like riding a bike, once you know how to do it, it works and it’s very rewarding.

Although I will say you need an employer who will push you, people have gone utterly insane working from home slipping through the gaps

I don’t do it at the moment because it doesn’t work in early startup culture but I can’t wait to get back to it

Squidgy Black · 09-05-2019 8:57pm

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Yeah exactly. But it’s like riding a bike, once you know how to do it, it works and it’s very rewarding.

Although I will say you need an employer who will push you, people have gone utterly insane working from home slipping through the gaps

I don’t do it at the moment because it doesn’t work in early startup culture but I can’t wait to get back to it

Yeah I think it's more than likely the fact that our team is managed with a "hands off approach" aka nobody really manages us outside of project managers during sprints, it's very easy to fall down the rabbit hole of watching YouTube videos instead of working.

The Lost Sheep · 09-05-2019 9:10pm

I work events and have for years either in hospitality or event management roles. 9-5 office job hasnt ever existed for me bar couple of summers when in college when i worked in a bank
Nothing on for next 2 weekends but then everything kicks off Spice Girls/Rod Stewart/Metallica/Coronas/Fleetwood Mac and few others all on consecutive weeks

thomond2006 · 12-05-2019 3:23pm

Munster hurling. Can't bate it.

Diabhal Beag · 12-05-2019 4:32pm

Tipp looking very good but maybe peaking too soon. Cork ****e at the back.

thomond2006 · 12-05-2019 4:37pm

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Tipp looking very good but maybe peaking too soon. Cork ****e at the back.

Cork go to Limerick next Sunday, it's not going to get easier.

A few draws aside, there was only two away wins in Munster last season. That's been equalled already today.

The Lost Sheep · 12-05-2019 4:42pm

Huge for tipp. matched last years points tally for Munster championship already
Huge score from play for Tipp but will have to look at number of chances given to Cork in terms of placed balls.

ClanofLams · 12-05-2019 4:47pm

Think Limerick will get a bit of a land this year. Lot of people anointing them already forgetting that KK had them on the ropes last year and Cork collapsed against them in semi.

Fancy Cork to improve a lot and turn them over next week. Munster is such a dogfight that a loss would put them under pressure immediately.

thomond2006 · 12-05-2019 5:09pm

You can't predict much alright. Munster was very close last year. Tipp finished winless but had two draws and lost by only two points against Clare.

Podge_irl · 13-05-2019 11:22am

Only one more week of annoyance to go folks!

That was muck

Mind you, phenomenally well filmed muck. They clearly just don’t have enough time to do this justice.

13-05-2019 12:26pm

Podge_irl wrote: »

Only one more week of annoyance to go folks!
That was muck

Mind you, phenomenally well filmed muck. They clearly just don’t have enough time to do this justice.

80 minute episode and I skipped through in 20 minutes just to get the major plot points having coffee before work.

It's a staggering collapse in quality, I've gone from a huge fan to disinterested in 3 episodes.

What a huge f**k up of a season, tarnished 7 years of excellence.

Dave_The_Sheep · 13-05-2019 12:29pm

Podge_irl wrote: »

Mind you, phenomenally well filmed muck. They clearly just don’t have enough time to do this justice. [/spoiler]

It's not just time they don't have. They don't have the ability, or the desire to finish this properly, even if they wanted to. Absolute hacks.

awec · 13-05-2019 12:46pm

Production wise I thought it was genuinely incredible.

Plot wise it follows on with the rest of season 8 in being weak.

thomond2006 · 13-05-2019 12:50pm

GoT Ep 5

The demise of Varys deserved more time. A major character who was fine one minute and then taken away, sentenced to die and executed ten minutes later. While he most likely expected to die (remember the scene with Melisandre), no time was given to flesh out Tyrion's betrayal or Varys' defence of his actions. The most annoyed I've ever been watching the show. Everything is so rushed.

Otherwise I echo the previous posts. The production levels are stunning. I absolutely loved the "battle" if you could even call it that, it turned out to be more like a genocide of King's Landing. If I want to nitpick, Tlthe buildup of the Golden Company was bizarre in hindsight, they amounted to nothing. Introducing the Strickland character led to nothing either.

Also, Euron Greyjoy turning into the Team Rocket of the show got old.

irishbucsfan · 13-05-2019 12:56pm

One of the best filmed and scored episodes in television history. And also most controversial. Lovely stuff!

Cersei is one of the best characters in TV history. Lena Headey deserves every award out there.

It’s a shame that they didn’t just do the whole thing over 10 episodes both to pace it far better and to really draw out the misery of the whole thing for the internet geniuses!

Mr Tickle · 13-05-2019 1:09pm

irishbucsfan wrote: »

It’s a shame that they didn’t just do the whole thing over 10 episodes both to pace it far better and to really draw out the misery of the whole thing for the internet geniuses!

I really don't see why they went for the 6 long episodes. With the exception of the battle of Winterfell (which had it's own problems) none of the episodes wouldn't have benefited from the extra breathing room.
I'm sure these guys could have asked HBO for whatever format they wanted. even doing one or two long episodes would have been fine if they could justify it.

Buer · 13-05-2019 1:21pm

Do any of you f*ckers actually work? How has everyone watched an 80 minute episode by lunch time?!

awec · 13-05-2019 1:22pm

Buer wrote: »

Do any of you f*ckers actually work? How has everyone watched an 80 minute episode by lunch time?!

I watch it before work to be sure I avoid spoilers.

thomond2006 · 13-05-2019 1:48pm

awec wrote: »

I watch it before work to be sure I avoid spoilers.

Same.

Diabhal Beag · 13-05-2019 2:06pm

I actually enjoyed it and I've hated this season

I think I'm literally the only person not raging about Cleganebowl. Thought it was a fitting way to go for the Hound. Qyburn's death was a little disappointing. He's a side character I've really enjoyed along with Vary's but the rushed nature of it is fine considering how much else they made a bollocks of this season

I won't miss this when it finishes next week tbh. This season will go down as one of the biggest letdowns in television history surely.

13-05-2019 3:58pm

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

I actually enjoyed it and I've hated this season
I think I'm literally the only person not raging about Cleganebowl. Thought it was a fitting way to go for the Hound. Qyburn's death was a little disappointing. He's a side character I've really enjoyed along with Vary's but the rushed nature of it is fine considering how much else they made a bollocks of this season

I won't miss this when it finishes next week tbh. This season will go down as one of the biggest letdowns in television history surely.

As to your last point - it's an interesting one. I've never seen people go to bat defending a show so badly on social media so I don't think we'll see the really harsh criticism for a while.

I can't see next week saving the show and I think when things die down the drop in quality of the last season will become a meme.

molloyjh · 13-05-2019 9:08pm

I loved that episode again, even if I didnt love how it got there. This season and last have been incredibly rushed, and while it has meant the show hasn't been as strong as previous seasons I do think some of the payoffs have been really good. We still have no idea how it's going to end with 1 episode to go, which for me is a real positive.

bilston · 13-05-2019 9:24pm

molloyjh wrote: »

I loved that episode again, even if I didnt love how it got there. This season and last have been incredibly rushed, and while it has meant the show hasn't been as strong as previous seasons I do think some of the payoffs have been really good. We still have no idea how it's going to end with 1 episode to go, which for me is a real positive.

I thought that was the best episode.of the series so far.

Varys's demise definitely needed to have been played out a lot longer, but it was brutal (in a good way) stuff. I ended up hating Danearys and sympathising with Cersei!

Although I did laugh out loud and the way Cersei's hand bit the dust!

!

bilston · 13-05-2019 9:35pm

Maybe if some of you guys didn't watch GoT at 7am on a Monday morning you might enjoy it a bit more!

bilston · 13-05-2019 9:39pm

Deleted User wrote: »

80 minute episode and I skipped through in 20 minutes just to get the major plot points having coffee before work.

It's a staggering collapse in quality, I've gone from a huge fan to disinterested in 3 episodes.

What a huge f**k up of a season, tarnished 7 years of excellence.

Haha...if you skip through an 80 minute episode in 20 minutes then it sounds like you'd made your mind up it was crap before even watching it!

DGRulz · 13-05-2019 10:32pm

Mr Tickle wrote: »

I really don't see why they went for the 6 long episodes. With the exception of the battle of Winterfell (which had it's own problems) none of the episodes wouldn't have benefited from the extra breathing room.
I'm sure these guys could have asked HBO for whatever format they wanted. even doing one or two long episodes would have been fine if they could justify it.

HBO wanted 10 episodes for 7 and 8 ( maybe more?) Martin himself said it needed another 5 seasons to be done properly. D&D and just done with GoT and mentally checked out a while ago. Large parts of this season can be summed up as throwing alphabet soup on paper.

As for the episode itself I rather enjoyed it for the most part but similar to other parts of the story like the Battle of Winterfell it feels like D&D just thought to themselves "you know all that foreshadowing and prophecies stuff? Nah f**k that, lets do something unexpected and out of left field. In that vein I really thought Jamie was going to ring the bells to get them to lower their guard.

Ayra this episode displayed a very special sort of plot armour. That of, GRR Martin's wife said she'd leave him if anything happened to her, armour.

Also, Euron. I have never despised a character more in my life. Not because the story requires me to hate him but because he's a douchy Jack Sparrow wannabe who doesn't deserve the wins he has.

Bazzo · 14-05-2019 6:32am

I think it was probably the best episode of the season so far. Still not nearly as good as earlier seasons but more true to them at least. Anybody expecting satisfying endings for their favourite/least favourite characters clearly has forgotten how the books/earlier seasons went. It was still a bit predictable though. Literally everyone I know called the "twist" coming into the episode.

Buer · 14-05-2019 7:24am

Bazzo wrote: »

I think it was probably the best episode of the season so far. Still not nearly as good as earlier seasons but more true to them at least. Anybody expecting satisfying endings for their favourite/least favourite characters clearly has forgotten how the books/earlier seasons went. It was still a bit predictable though. Literally everyone I know called the "twist" coming into the episode.

I don't think it's so much about satisfying endings but more about how they reach them. Varys was a great secondary character known for his subtlety and smarts. Jon pulls up on a beach and Varys runs up to him, asking him to betray Daenerys immediately and winds up executed in the next scene. It doesn't match up to his character whatsoever.

Last week we see the Iron Fleet kill a dragon and Daenerys flee barely with the surviving dragon. This week the one dragon wipes out the entire fleet and all defences of Kings Landing in a few minutes with only a couple of shots fired.

The Golden Company are an elite force that were mentioned a number of times and built up significantly. Wiped in seconds without any involvement.

It's disappointing because they've just obviously run out of steam and hit the fast forward button to ensure the show is wrapped up and done with. The descent of Daenerys into full blown insanity where she betrays everything she stood for has literally taken 2 episodes.

It could have been the greatest show ever made. Instead it's dying rapidly. It's a shame because the visuals, score and acting are all still absolutely top notch (and possibly even improved). But the storyline and writing has just fallen apart.

Mr Tickle · 14-05-2019 7:42am

Bazzo wrote: »

I think it was probably the best episode of the season so far. Still not nearly as good as earlier seasons but more true to them at least. Anybody expecting satisfying endings for their favourite/least favourite characters clearly has forgotten how the books/earlier seasons went. It was still a bit predictable though. Literally everyone I know called the "twist" coming into the episode.

I'm kinda curious about which bit was meant to be "the twist"? It all seemed like a very linear story

errlloyd · 14-05-2019 8:47am

I really enjoyed that episode. Most things seemed on character if some things slightly rushed.

thomond2006 · 14-05-2019 8:49am

Buer wrote: »

I don't think it's so much about satisfying endings but more about how they reach them. Varys was a great secondary character known for his subtlety and smarts. Jon pulls up on a beach and Varys runs up to him, asking him to betray Daenerys immediately and winds up executed in the next scene. It doesn't match up to his character whatsoever.

I thought similar and posted as such here but then I was advised on the GoT forum that Varys may have been attempting to poison Daenerys. It would explain his opening scene where he asks the girl (a little bird?) if Daenerys is eating. It would fit Pycelle's line from season 1 of poison being a weapon of "women, cravens and eunuchs". Then again, if this was the case it wasn't fleshed out.

Mr Tickle · 14-05-2019 9:38am

thomond2006 wrote: »

I thought similar and posted as such here but then I was advised on the GoT forum that Varys may have been attempting to poison Daenerys. It would explain his opening scene where he asks the girl (a little bird?) if Daenerys is eating. It would fit Pycelle's line from season 1 of poison being a weapon of "women, cravens and eunuchs". Then again, if this was the case it wasn't fleshed out.

That's just making excuses for it now though. People are writing their own plot to fit around what's actually in the show.

bilston · 14-05-2019 9:52am

Buer wrote: »

I don't think it's so much about satisfying endings but more about how they reach them. Varys was a great secondary character known for his subtlety and smarts. Jon pulls up on a beach and Varys runs up to him, asking him to betray Daenerys immediately and winds up executed in the next scene. It doesn't match up to his character whatsoever.

Last week we see the Iron Fleet kill a dragon and Daenerys flee barely with the surviving dragon. This week the one dragon wipes out the entire fleet and all defences of Kings Landing in a few minutes with only a couple of shots fired.

The Golden Company are an elite force that were mentioned a number of times and built up significantly. Wiped in seconds without any involvement.

It's disappointing because they've just obviously run out of steam and hit the fast forward button to ensure the show is wrapped up and done with. The descent of Daenerys into full blown insanity where she betrays everything she stood for has literally taken 2 episodes.

It could have been the greatest show ever made. Instead it's dying rapidly. It's a shame because the visuals, score and acting are all still absolutely top notch (and possibly even improved). But the storyline and writing has just fallen apart.

It's the fault of whoever decided to commission 6 episodes. In reality it needed another series, but even 10 episodes for season 8 would have made a difference.

Varys deserved an entire episode building up to his death

I still enjoyed the rest of it though.

Mr Tickle · 14-05-2019 11:11am

bilston wrote: »

It's the fault of whoever decided to commission 6 episodes. In reality it needed another series, but even 10 episodes for season 8 would have made a difference.
Varys deserved an entire episode building up to his death

I still enjoyed the rest of it though.

Agreed. There was a great chance to have him in a dungeon with John coming to visit him like he did with Ned in season 1.

14-05-2019 11:11am

bilston wrote: »

Haha...if you skip through an 80 minute episode in 20 minutes then it sounds like you'd made your mind up it was crap before even watching it!

I watched the full episode last night, I was more making the point that I don't really care about the nuance anymore as the show runners clearly don't.

I thought it was an OK episode but it has no cohesion with previous episodes and seasons and it's all just very careless and ham-fisted.

Rumour doing the rounds the books are due for release as soon as the show is over and if this is the case I'm more interested to see where they take things as the show has gone completely flat.

Podge_irl · 14-05-2019 11:17am

Deleted User wrote: »

Rumour doing the rounds the books are due for release as soon as the show is over and if this is the case I'm more interested to see where they take things as the show has gone completely flat.

He has come out and denied it and I can pretty readily believe him because he's clearly crap at writing at any kind of reasonable speed, has got himself tied in ridiculous knots and is never actually going to finish them.

I've seen a lot of defences of the show suggesting there was lots of foreshadowing to Dany's actions. It was clearly obvious this was going to happen, but it was still handled like crap and didn't even need to be as ludicrously over the top as it was. Massacring an entire city of civilians who have just surrendered is a wee bit of a leap even from her burn-heavy actions of the past. The issue is not where they ended up, it is how they got there.

Bazzo · 14-05-2019 11:51am

bilston wrote: »

It's the fault of whoever decided to commission 6 episodes. In reality it needed another series, but even 10 episodes for season 8 would have made a difference.
Varys deserved an entire episode building up to his death

I still enjoyed the rest of it though.

The show writers insisted on the schedule, HBO was offering them more episodes.

prawnsambo · 14-05-2019 2:11pm

Podge_irl wrote: »

He has come out and denied it and I can pretty readily believe him because he's clearly crap at writing at any kind of reasonable speed, has got himself tied in ridiculous knots and is never actually going to finish them.

Very robust and logical in his denial. As if publishers would allow him sit on books that are absolute goldmines for them. Or for the same reasons, he would. Just doesn't stack up.

Podge_irl · 14-05-2019 2:32pm

prawnsambo wrote: »

Very robust and logical in his denial. As if publishers would allow him sit on books that are absolute goldmines for them. Or for the same reasons, he would. Just doesn't stack up.

Yeah, it was always a completely bonkers rumour. I can't even remember the story from the books at this stage.

swiwi_ · 15-05-2019 8:00pm

As much as game of thrones has provided a riveting few weeks of discussion, has anyone else watched Deutschland 86? I reckon it’s better than the first series. It’s sort of far fetched but pretty engrossing. Lavinia Wilson only increases the appeal of the series I must say.

troyzer · 15-05-2019 8:42pm

For **** sake Leeds.

Another year of pain.

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