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The 'trampoline wars' FG Off Topic Thread

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  • #4052
    kitten_k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,347 ✭✭✭kitten_k


    Congrats EN!


  • #4053
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Has there been a best song of all time competition or was it just a condensing of all those nominated in each decade?


  • #4054
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Has there been a best song of all time competition or was it just a condensing of all those nominated in each decade?

    There has been...

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=112553846

    The winner was
    Nena - 99 Luftballons


  • #4055
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,839 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Oooooh. I’m gonna mix it up a bit then.

    When’s the best time to put up a thread. Now or when kolido has finished?


  • #4056
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Oooooh. I’m gonna mix it up a bit then.

    When’s the best time to put up a thread. Now or when kolido has finished?

    If you're looking for nominations before running the knockout then you could put it up now.


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  • #4057
    Kolido
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,446 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Oooooh. I’m gonna mix it up a bit then.

    When’s the best time to put up a thread. Now or when kolido has finished?

    Feel free to plug it in my thread.

    I hope someone will do a best 90s act also, I'm thinking of moving away from music for my next venture.


  • #4058
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    While WFH I've most had on Newstalk for company. Muting it every now and then when I need to Zoom, or concentrate on a job.

    I've now a big job to do that needs lots of concentration and silence is too much, but on is too distracting so I put on my whole music catalog on shuffle.

    And I'm really enjoying it! I have to say I really do have EXCELLENT taste in music! :D:). I just thought I'd come on and say that. Now back to work!


  • #4059
    Necro
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 58,087 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    How does it shuffle up all the Mariah Carey tracks QB? A few in a row or are they nicely spaced out... ;)

    Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling, State Benefits



  • #4060
    Trigger
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,114 Mod ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    quickbeam wrote: »
    While WFH I've most had on Newstalk for company. Muting it every now and then when I need to Zoom, or concentrate on a job.

    I've now a big job to do that needs lots of concentration and silence is too much, but on is too distracting so I put on my whole music catalog on shuffle.

    And I'm really enjoying it! I have to say I really do have EXCELLENT taste in music! :D:). I just thought I'd come on and say that. Now back to work!

    Music is brilliant to settle the head and allow you to concentrate, usually mine does be on from 7 - 5 but since working from home it's been less. Great thing about having the bluetooth straight to the implant is that I can throw it on 50/50 and when people would annoy me in work, I would zone out pretending I'm listening but really I'm bopping away in my head and they would be none the wiser :pac:

    Moderator: Forum Games, Conspiracy Theories, Current Affairs/IMHO



  • #4061
    fixXxer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,453 ✭✭✭fixXxer


    Trigger wrote: »
    Music is brilliant to settle the head and allow you to concentrate, usually mine does be on from 7 - 5 but since working from home it's been less. Great thing about having the bluetooth straight to the implant is that I can throw it on 50/50 and when people would annoy me in work, I would zone out pretending I'm listening but really I'm bopping away in my head and they would be none the wiser :pac:

    I'm sorry, what?? The cyborg future I've always wanted is already here??


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  • #4062
    Mollyb60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,863 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    Trigger wrote: »
    Music is brilliant to settle the head and allow you to concentrate, usually mine does be on from 7 - 5 but since working from home it's been less. Great thing about having the bluetooth straight to the implant is that I can throw it on 50/50 and when people would annoy me in work, I would zone out pretending I'm listening but really I'm bopping away in my head and they would be none the wiser :pac:

    What is this magic?

    Spotify have been earning their subscription since we've been working from home. It's on constantly and I've picked up few new artists by listening to random artist radios.


  • #4063
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Trigger wrote: »
    Music is brilliant to settle the head and allow you to concentrate, usually mine does be on from 7 - 5 but since working from home it's been less. Great thing about having the bluetooth straight to the implant is that I can throw it on 50/50 and when people would annoy me in work, I would zone out pretending I'm listening but really I'm bopping away in my head and they would be none the wiser :pac:

    That is fantastic!

    I'm with fixXer, I wasn't aware we had advanced this far. Judgement Day is Nigh!


  • #4064
    Trigger
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,114 Mod ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    fixXxer wrote: »
    I'm sorry, what?? The cyborg future I've always wanted is already here??

    Ha yeah I wear a bluetooth device around my neck and it transmits from phone to implant, use it for phone also or anything really, also have a device that connects to the TV that streams the sound straight to implant via the bluetooth.

    There is an new one out that actually hooks straight onto the battery on the processor that eliminates the need for the device around the neck. Bit pricey for me at the mo though

    Moderator: Forum Games, Conspiracy Theories, Current Affairs/IMHO



  • #4065
    fixXxer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,453 ✭✭✭fixXxer


    Trigger wrote: »
    Ha yeah I wear a bluetooth device around my neck and it transmits from phone to implant, use it for phone also or anything really, also have a device that connects to the TV that streams the sound straight to implant via the bluetooth.

    There is an new one out that actually hooks straight onto the battery on the processor that eliminates the need for the device around the neck. Bit pricey for me at the mo though

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    That might be the coolest thing I've heard in ages.


  • #4066
    Baggly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


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  • #4067
    Necro
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 58,087 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    I actually use audiobooks in the same way youse guys do music. It's my new addiction.

    Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling, State Benefits



  • #4068
    Trigger
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,114 Mod ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    Necro wrote: »
    I actually use audiobooks in the same way youse guys do music. It's my new addiction.

    I use them also in the same way. If you havent listened to the game of thrones audiobooks yet, you should, they are read buy Roy Dotrice who had a small part in the series..

    Moderator: Forum Games, Conspiracy Theories, Current Affairs/IMHO



  • #4069
    Necro
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 58,087 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Trigger wrote: »
    I use them also in the same way. If you havent listened to the game of thrones audiobooks yet, you should, they are read buy Roy Dotrice who had a small part in the series..

    They're actually my next planned purchase with this month's credit :D

    Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling, State Benefits



  • #4070
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Trigger wrote: »
    I use them also in the same way. If you havent listened to the game of thrones audiobooks yet, you should, they are read buy Roy Dotrice who had a small part in the series..

    Betty Spencer's (as in Frank Spencer's wife) dad, for those old enough to remember Some Mothers Do Have 'Em.


  • #4071
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Also the dad of Jane Banks, the daughter in Mary Poppins. I knew the above, but didn't know this until just now.


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  • #4072
    fixXxer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,453 ✭✭✭fixXxer


    I've been doing audio books now I have an office to myself.
    Burned through Homo Sapains, The Stand, The Body: a user's guide and now starting Truth Lies and O rings: The Challenger Disaster. It's gonna be hard going back to normal :D


  • #4073
    Mollyb60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,863 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    Oh god Homo Sapiens was the most depressing book ever. I couldn't bring myself to read the follow up.

    And I can't listen to podcasts or audio books whilst trying to do anything else. I just can't concentrate on 2 things at once. So podcasts are for when I'm painting, exercising or doing cross-stitch.


  • #4074
    fixXxer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,453 ✭✭✭fixXxer


    Was it the farming that made it depressing? I kinda wanted to be a hunter gatherer again after that chapter.


  • #4075
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    If you're talking about the Yuval Noah Harari book, I didn't much like it at all. I thought it be more focussed on our evolution. It did in the early part, but everything after that was a bore.

    I read all my books. I've never done audio.


  • #4076
    Necro
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 58,087 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    quickbeam wrote: »
    If you're talking about the Yuval Noah Harari book, I didn't much like it at all. I thought it be more focussed on our evolution. It did in the early part, but everything after that was a bore.

    I read all my books. I've never done audio.

    I was like that too but I've converted :o It's soo handy, bluetooth it in the car and no listening to the radio and all the covid talk on every station to and from work.

    I can even sneak a listen at work if I'm not on the phones and working on emails :D

    Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling, State Benefits



  • #4077
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    quickbeam wrote: »
    I read all my books. I've never done audio.

    Same. I don't think I have the attention span for Audio, as I've never really listened much to talk radio, and even when listening to podcasts I tend to zone out a bit.

    My preferred method is reading a physical book while listening to music at the same time, and pacing around the house.

    I don't drive though (I mean I can, I just don't; had a car for a year when I was 21, but did not enjoy driving so sold it and haven't driven since), so I can read books on buses or trains when I'm in transit. Maybe it's different for car folk.


  • #4078
    [Deleted User]
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    No. Car drivers read and drive simultaneously. It’s part of the test now.


  • #4079
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,639 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I eat books and ingest the knowledge. You're all missing out.


  • #4080
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    No. Car drivers read and drive simultaneously. It’s part of the test now.

    To be fair, half the reason I hated driving was because I was losing out on valuable reading/day-dreaming time. Too much concentration and paying attention was involved. And you couldn't just stop and have a pint whenever you wanted either.


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  • #4081
    Necro
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 58,087 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    I got into audiobooks when I had an hour long commute to work each way, found the time absolutely zoomed by listening to it.

    *Side note* Great to see the OT thread alive again, it had been rather quiet for a while up till recently :D

    Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling, State Benefits



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