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I don't know where we're going, but we know where we are? (Part whatever)

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,211 ✭✭✭thomil


    Well to be fair, I mostly dealt with German customers. Almost every single call or chat reinforced my stance that emigrating to Ireland was the right decision...

    Good luck trying to figure me out. I haven't managed that myself yet!



  • Registered Users Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    You would need Bluetooth on your own phone.



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,118 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    I want out of the place! It must be reverse engineering! Grow up in a cool place, move to a backwater. Grow up in a backwater, move to a cool place.☺️ I lived in Spain for a few years. Canary Islands. More advanced that many think except for crap broadband and postal service. Great. I got a taste of London at the start of 2020. Great start. Absolutely brilliant. Covid killed the dream. My next move will involve all three of us if possible. I still have itchy feet even at my age! I do not see the appeal of Ireland anymore.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,211 ✭✭✭thomil


    Well, the coolest place doesn't help if you can't get a job. Due to my family history with moving across Europe and my lack of a completed secondary education, my work prospects in Germany were limited to either low-level call centre or temp jobs, or alternatively a life on benefit street. When I got the offer from Apple, after working in one of those low-level call centre jobs for five years, there was only one way I was going to react. Fast forward ten years and I'm in a job that is more varied, challenging and international than I could ever have dreamed, not to mention that I currently earn more than three times as much as I did when I worked in Germany.

    I know this country has more than its share of problems but for the most part, Ireland has meant a massive improvement for me, especially when it comes to dealing with the pandemic, where Ireland towers massively over Germany. Oh, and Ireland doesn't have to deal with Neo-nazis running around assassinating people and securing over fifty percent of second-preference votes in some areas, as happened in parts of Eastern Germany back in autumn during the latest elections for the Bundestag. I'll take the Healy-Raes over that any day, thank you very much!

    Good luck trying to figure me out. I haven't managed that myself yet!



  • Registered Users Posts: 22,252 ✭✭✭✭Autosport




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    Probably should have taken today off as some holiday or other.

    Work-side with a bit of a hangover. Not much of a drinker these days so when I drink it affects me more.

    Still good busy night. Had a belated Christmas "lock in" party in a friends restaurant which he reserved only for us. Not sure how much loss of earnings closing a restaurant to the public for a night entails in current pandemic climate but it was appreciated and the whip around came to a nice sum of money so I hope he did alright out of it.

    Spent ages in his kitchens with him making the food for everyone. Man I love cooking as I have mentioned so often on boards. My kitchen at home is well kitted out by average standards. But working in a real restaurant kitchen for a few hours really makes me pine for a career change. Is 43 too late to change from IT/Medical/Science/Statistics into Chefing? :)



  • Registered Users Posts: 22,252 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    I am a disco ball 😂😂😂🙌🙌



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,640 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Sitting at the bank, waiting for my OH who collected me from work earlier to finish opening a new account.

    Of course, feck all bank tellers or anyone for that matter in this automated branch to help him properly. Customer service and the personal touch in banking, retail and services has completely gone to the dogs in the past decade....


    @Purple - the very limited CCTV in the car park unfortunately didn't cover the spot where the car was parked - I plan to raise this issue at the next Management Company/Residents Committee meeting. I did tell the Chairperson of the committee what had happened and she is texting the other residents to see if they saw anything.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,118 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    Thanks for that insight thomil. Understandable. But despite my qualifications from secondary through third level and actual experience on the job for many years, for me, the place stinks. I stuck around after my leaving cert while many of my friends emigrated. I stuck around after college while many of my class mates emigrated. I left at 40 years of age after the crash. I came back as I was promised a new Ireland that embraced ambition. My bank said they backed "brave". (they still do) That same bank told me recently that I have to demonstrate my ability to recover work opportunities after lockdowns before they'll consider me for a loan to upgrade my car. I grew up in this country when it hadn't a pot to piss in. I got educated here. I stayed here and started a business. I believed in it. But now I feel very let down by it. The harder I work, the more it costs. Absolutely no disrespect to you thomil, but I hate the fooking place and cannot wait for another chance to get out.



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,211 ✭✭✭thomil


    Oh, I get ya, I know how it feels to desperately want out of a place that is suffocating you, and I hope you find a new opportunity quick. Just stay in touch with us whereas when you do 😉

    Deskside, finished with the second of three monster days as part of our company's 2022 Kickoff. First management reviews went well, tomorrow is the big one, and then a few smaller ones next week. Apart from the fact that some of my colleagues seem to be sharing their department's solitary brain cell, everything's going smoothly.

    Oh, and the raise + company gifts don't hurt either 😜

    Good luck trying to figure me out. I haven't managed that myself yet!



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  • Registered Users Posts: 22,252 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    My life now ❤️❤️❤️



  • Registered Users Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    @autosport, that is just so true, it made me laugh.



  • Registered Users Posts: 10,073 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Coffee time, have a couple of boxes of monkey Pooh coffee, not as convenient as my Nespresso but quite nice.



  • Registered Users Posts: 22,252 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Coalface is beginning to annoy the hell out of me 🤬🤬🤬🤬



  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 59,879 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gremlinertia


    Making lasagne if a portion would help cheer you Auto



  • Registered Users Posts: 22,252 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Thanks Grem 👍 a shotgun would be better 😂



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,088 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Here is a dumb question for you.

    I recently started using a Nespresso that a friend was getting rid of.

    I am not a big coffee person so I'm still trying to decide if I like the coffee or not.

    My question in..how when you put the pod straight in, the coffee is ready to pour? Like, when I'm making a cup of tea I've to wait for the kettle to boil.

    It just doesn't make sense 🤷‍♀️

    To thine own self be true



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,088 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    To thine own self be true



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,211 ✭✭✭thomil


    I'm not smurfjed, but I'll have a go with an answer to the Nespresso question.

    Basically, it boils (no pun intended) down to the volume of the water being heated. Rather than heating a large volume of water at once, such as with a kettle, coffee machines such as Nespresso use relatively thin pipes of water wrapped around a heating element. This reduces the volume of the water being heated, causing it to reach the desired temperature quicker. This isn't really modern technology, by the way. Steam-powered railway locomotives and steamships from the late 19th century onwards used "small tube boilers" based on the same principle. Getting back to Nespresso, once the water is heated it is then pumped through the coffee grounds at high pressure to ensure that they "surrender" their aroma quickly. With the newer Nespresso Vertuo machines, which I use, the coffee pod is spun at around 7000 rpm, rather than using a high-pressure pump.

    Hope I didn't nerd out too much there 😉

    Good luck trying to figure me out. I haven't managed that myself yet!



  • Registered Users Posts: 22,252 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    But @thomil how long would it take to drinkable 😂😂



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    Adventures you said. Same tune for me. Although I did do some adventurous Skyrim gaming. 😃🌄



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,088 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    @thomil You are a big need! But I'm impressed. Fair play for your love of knowledge. However, how come there's no steam from the machine!?

    I am still unsatisfied in my curiosity ☺

    To thine own self be true



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,211 ✭✭✭thomil


    Nespresso is in effect a sealed system. The capsules and the machines are designed to interface directly, without any of the minor variabilities that allow the high pressure water to flash into steam on a regular espresso machine. In addition, Nespresso machines don't operate with the same high temperatures that regular espresso machines do, meaning that even if there was a way for water to escape, it wouldn't flash to steam.

    For comparison, regular barista-level machines operate with water temperatures close to boiling point, between 90-96 degrees. Nespresso works with temperatures of 83-86 degrees in their original Nespresso machines and roughly 78 degrees in the Vertuo models, depending on the coffee pods used, as the latter machines can actually adapt their water temperature. That's why a Nespresso coffee is theoretically drinkable as soon as the brewing process is complete, whilst a regular espresso fresh out of the machine will straight up burn your tongue.

    I feel like getting a coffee now...

    Good luck trying to figure me out. I haven't managed that myself yet!



  • Registered Users Posts: 13,088 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    A chapter of thomil's encyclopedia! Cheers, mate. Interesting explanation.

    For me, a hot beverage has to be scalding hot. Maybe that's why I'm not warming (pun intended) to these coffees.

    No steam = no deal.

    To thine own self be true



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,640 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Deskside, work office, preparing for my final lecture of my first week back teaching for the new semester.

    Meeting two good friends for an evening of DJ-ing and 90s dance music tomorrow evening. We may all be in our mid 40s now, but still young at heart! 🥰😜😎🕺🕺🕺🎸🎸🎚🎛🎶🎶📀📀🎧

    Another of my creative writing short stories has been published. Yaay! 👍👍😊

    We are also nearly half way through January.... 🌈

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  • Registered Users Posts: 22,252 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    😂😂😂



  • Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭Night owl gal


    Afternoon all

    Couchside

    Hope everyone is well

    Have a small problem with my phone which is a xperia L1. The status bar on my phone keeps disappearing (only on the home screen)

    Any suggestions how to fix it?



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  • Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭Night owl gal


    Thanks for that

    Can't seem to find 'google now' though



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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,118 ✭✭✭✭Grandeeod


    It's beer O'Clock after a week of some work in Dublin. I took the train to stop the pain. Jumped in the car at the station and brought home a pizza, a quater pounder, chips and szechuan beef and a bottle of 120 for Mrs G. Crew are fed. I stocked up on beers before christmas.😁

    Despite the best attempts by some people to be nasty, bad tempered and rude, I keep on smiling at them. Lots of them around. Fook em. Cheers folks! Disco light and tunes are incoming.😁



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