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Ways of living you never want to go back to

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    #242
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,059 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    It was tolerable when a screenshot of a QR code was accepted. Now Ticketmaster want their app open with a live data connection. I can see that working out great.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #243
    Qrt
    Registered Users Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Qrt


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120672451#Comment_120672451

    I Wonder if they’ve tried the 3Arena? You can’t even send a text in there most times.



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    #244
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 28,177 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120672451#Comment_120672451

    I prefer to be able to print but you can save to Google wallet I think.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #245
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,903 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    I really never want to go back to paying for a service that serves me ads.

    The worst offender being cable TV. I've not had cable TV for over 20 years now and I'm so glad for it. Pretty much the only times I'm exposed to TV ads now is if I'm sitting in a bar or restaurant with a TV going in the background.

    If Netflix goes to an ad supported pay model...bye!

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    #246
    YellowLead
    Registered Users Posts: 7,685 ✭✭✭YellowLead


    Five days a week in the office



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    #247
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,770 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    The FF tent in the Galway Races..



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    #248
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,059 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121829516#Comment_121829516

    Watching live TV is something I don't want to go back to (except sport - but sometimes not even then)

    PVR it and skip the ads / halftime bullshit. Life is too short.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #249
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,903 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121830910#Comment_121830910

    TBH the majority of my watching is either Netflix for series and the odd movie, or YouTube for 5 to 25 min vids ranging from history, green tech, current affairs and tutorials to do up my gaff or fix my car. Oh and music on weekends when I'm making breakfast or having lunch.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    #250
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,827 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121829525#Comment_121829525

    Being in an office full stop.



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    #251
    bejeezus
    Registered Users Posts: 271 ✭✭bejeezus


    Severe depression.



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    #252
    Markus Antonius
    Registered Users Posts: 2,136 ✭✭✭Markus Antonius


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121832910#Comment_121832910

    Lucky Dee Forbes is sick, otherwise she would make you go back and watch every single one of those ads you skipped



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    #253
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,903 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Dee Forbes can lick my taint.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    #254
    pgj2015
    Registered Users Posts: 8,956 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121832989#Comment_121832989

    Mrs Brown's boys has already been mentioned.



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    #255
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,961 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Long Commutes. They have been the bane of my existence at various times. Years ago in London I had one that was 2h each way, on bus, Tube and train. After 9 months of that, I came down with pneumonia and was out for two weeks.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #256
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,903 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121837453#Comment_121837453

    I'd like to add shift work to this. There is different shift patterns in fairness and some are worse than others.

    I used to have 12hr shifts that were 3 days on, 3 days off, 3 nights on, 3 nights off, or something like that. Wasn't too too bad but still not ideal.

    Then moved company and had 2 days on, 2 nights on 4 days off. It was brutal. You work 8 am to 8pm and you've 24 hours to switch to working again at 8pm. No way I could have done it without blackout curtains but even then it took a toll on my health. Not worth the shift premium tbh.

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



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    #257
    Oscar_Madison
    Registered Users Posts: 5,149 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    Twin tub washing machines



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    #258
    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,463 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Even though I loved it at the time , I'd never go back to snaring rabbits and cutting, turning, clamping and bagging turf. Though the ride home in the tractor was great craic.



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    #259
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,844 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121839515#Comment_121839515

    Had to use US modern toploaders in 2014 that were about as 'good' as a twintub. One was a 110v dryer - may as well have breathed on my clothes to dry them, and I'm asthmatic. The spin in a better twin tub would probably have left them dry enough to hang off the end of the bed or something; this just made them warm and damp for hours and hours



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    #260
    GIMP
    Registered Users Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭GIMP


    Growing up on a west of Ireland farm, feeding cattle smelly silage and shoveling shite from them all day Saturday because we had no slatted shed, then asking your miserable b@llox father for a tenner to go out on a Saturday night and him making a big deal out of it, w@nker! Great memories 🙄🙄



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    #261
    Mehaffey1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,578 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    Living in a house overseas with no heating system apart from a tiny stove while working long hard hours. Spent many an hour lying in the bath watching a movie on the laptop on the floor of the bathroom. Sometimes would have a bottle of red wine for company and all.



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