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    #2672
    smegmar
    Registered Users Posts: 795 ✭✭✭smegmar


    I got 6.6 meters, that was mostly shuffling in my knees and a very nice face plant


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    #2673
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    it's fecking hard, and there is a hurdle after like 50 metres! Which you kinda have to hump outta the way, cos jumping is fecking impossible


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    #2674
    smegmar
    Registered Users Posts: 795 ✭✭✭smegmar


    OMFG this guy can moon walk!!!


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    #2675
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    I managed -1.2 metres there


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    #2676
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    It's no -3! God good times.


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    #2677
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    My guy hurts....I don't think it is fair for me to carry on.


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    #2678
    entropi
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 21,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭entropi


    Managed a hearty 1.2m before i faceplanted like smegmar:P my quop is not as co-ordinated as i'd like:(


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    #2679
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Alother preseantation out of the way, business plan this time!

    Also Govindas with raah and a friend after, but raah ruined teh meal by spilling water, my friend just couldn't continue after the onslaught! ;)


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    #2680
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Time to leave teh library I think! raah wouldnt join us in teh postgrad roo after I described it.

    You're entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location.
    The kind of place where there might be a monster or some sort of weird mirror.
    These are just examples... it could also be something much better.
    Prepare to enter The Scary Door.


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    #2681
    raah!
    Registered Users Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    Also Govindas with raah and a friend after, but raah ruined teh meal by spilling water, my friend just couldn't continue after the onslaught! ;)

    I ruined christmas!

    Anyway, I'm still farting from that govinda's. Tar's friend disgraced himself worse than that time Tar disgraced himself to a disgraceful extent.

    I had a few forcks of his. Now the pressure in my stomach is forcing out such flatulations that you would never believe.... Well you probably would.

    Oooh, you were there long, I left at 9. Was a relatively productive day so it was. Though the last hour was wasted fiddling around with something I coulda just looked up and then never working it out. Ooooh maths.


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    #2682
    entropi
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 21,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭entropi


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    You're entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to a location.
    The kind of place where there might be a monster or some sort of weird mirror.
    These are just examples... it could also be something much better.
    Prepare to enter The Scary Door.

    Love that cartoon!!:D:D


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    #2683
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    raah! wrote: »
    I ruined christmas!

    Anyway, I'm still farting from that govinda's. Tar's friend disgraced himself worse than that time Tar disgraced himself to a disgraceful extent.

    I had a few forcks of his. Now the pressure in my stomach is forcing out such flatulations that you would never believe.... Well you probably would.

    Oooh, you were there long, I left at 9. Was a relatively productive day so it was. Though the last hour was wasted fiddling around with something I coulda just looked up and then never working it out. Ooooh maths.

    Yep, he couldnt eat much at all, and he only had breaffast, it defeated him!
    Me and raah bai had to dig into his delicious food.
    Ye, filled us up a bit all right!
    Love how you went from complaining about your portion size to unbearablly full.

    I was in college til 10pm, ugh!
    I was trying to fix pesky java


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    #2684
    maameeo
    Registered Users Posts: 12,399 ✭✭✭✭maameeo


    4.7!
    he ran on his knees







    (like all men should >_>)


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    #2685
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    raah! wrote: »
    Anyway, I'm still farting from that govinda's. Tar's friend disgraced himself worse than that time Tar disgraced himself to a disgraceful extent.

    I had a few forcks of his. Now the pressure in my stomach is forcing out such flatulations that you would never believe.... Well you probably would.

    Ah jesus...

    I got that guy 16 metres! It was great.


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    #2686
    entropi
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 21,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭entropi


    maameeo wrote: »
    4.7!
    he ran on his knees







    (like all men should >_>)
    Wo...

    men? <_< >_> we shall see missy! We shall see...:D


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    #2687
    maameeo
    Registered Users Posts: 12,399 ✭✭✭✭maameeo


    you wont see much from your knee!


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    #2688
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    You see enough anyway!


    http://www.break.com/index/dumb-cat-cant-figure-out-how-to-drink.html
    http://www.break.com/index/kid-cat-figure-out-how-to-kick.html


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    #2689
    Mellor
    Registered Users Posts: 39,140 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Veggie based question.

    First of all, i'm not trying to offend anyway, as far as i'm concerned, to each their own.

    Ok, so there are loads of reasons for going veggie, from simply disliking the taste or feel, the idea of eating flesh, to moral reasons (which in themselves split from animal welfare to ecological reasons)

    So, due to the many reasons for becoming a veggie, the extent that people practise varies. An example of this would be non-meat animal products used in cheeses or jellies etc. It might not be a problem for one person, but would for another.


    Ok, Recently I spoke about it to somebody and they put it in such a way that I was sort of stuck for words.

    Basically, I said eating food cooked with meat as to them its the same as eating meat.
    Their point was that using different or the same utensils has no effect on the number of animals slaughtered/farmed/etc so basically becasue nothing is changed there is no reason for it and its just a choice. (they weren't criticising, just observing btw). I didn't have anything to say to this as obviously I don't know enough about the issue.

    So is it just a choice, or is there a reason behind it?
    (I know its not strictly off-topic, so mods move if you wish, I jsut imagine its a little simple)


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    #2690
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Mellor wrote: »
    Veggie based question.

    First of all, i'm not trying to offend anyway, as far as i'm concerned, to each their own.

    Ok, so there are loads of reasons for going veggie, from simply disliking the taste or feel, the idea of eating flesh, to moral reasons (which in themselves split from animal welfare to ecological reasons)

    So, due to the many reasons for becoming a veggie, the extent that people practise varies. An example of this would be non-meat animal products used in cheeses or jellies etc. It might not be a problem for one person, but would for another.


    Ok, Recently I spoke about it to somebody and they put it in such a way that I was sort of stuck for words.

    Basically, I said eating food cooked with meat as to them its the same as eating meat.
    Their point was that using different or the same utensils has no effect on the number of animals slaughtered/farmed/etc so basically becasue nothing is changed there is no reason for it and its just a choice. (they weren't criticising, just observing btw). I didn't have anything to say to this as obviously I don't know enough about the issue.

    So is it just a choice, or is there a reason behind it?
    (I know its not strictly off-topic, so mods move if you wish, I jsut imagine its a little simple)
    seamus wrote:
    As a vegetarian, my "goal" as it were is to ensure that nothing (or as little as is realistically possible) I do will lead to the death/consumption of more animals. I.E. that the net effect of my existence on the lives of animals is zilch.

    So for example, McDonalds and their animal fat - if I eat the chips, then I consume a little of that fat which requires more of that fat (however little) to be produced, causing my actions to lead to more dead animals.
    This allows me, for example to eat the wedges in hell - although they're cooked in the same oil as the chicken dippers, my eating of those wedges doesn't require more animals to die - they won't have to cook more chicken dippers because I'm eating wedges.
    I would be the same as seamus here, whose post I nicked from another thread. It doesn't disgust me, nor do I feel the utensils use will have a negative impact on my health. However people are vegetarian and vegan for many reasons and I can see some saying they find it unsettling; the same as a lot of people would if the utensils had just been used on a person for example.

    Another reason may be that they feel that any animal based product may have a negative impact on their health. I'm not sure of others reasons, just guessing.


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    #2691
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    I would be the same as seamus here, whose post I nicked from another thread. It doesn't disgust me, nor do I feel the utensils use will have a negative impact on my health. However people are vegetarian and vegan for many reasons and I can see some saying they find it unsettling; the same as a lot of people would if the utensils had just been used on a person for example.

    Another reason may be that they feel that any animal based product may have a negative impact on their health. I'm not sure of others reasons, just guessing.

    I thought of that post too!

    Personally I wouldn't eat things cooked in the same oil/with the same utensils as meat for the same reasons I wouldn't eat something that was cooked with say, a dirty sneaker or a piece of poo (an extreme example I know). I've never eaten meat and I don't see it as food, all I can see it as is dead bodies. Everyone sets their own limits for their own reasons though.


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    #2692
    Mellor
    Registered Users Posts: 39,140 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    Does Macca's use animal fat for its chips?
    I didn't know that.


    The piece of poo argument actually did made sense. I wasn't thinking of veggies of that variety :D, ie those who see is as something physically distusting (and not just taste etc)

    thanks


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    #2693
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Tutor wanted for 14 year old technically competent boy learning Java
    programming for Christmas holidays abroad in Florida.
    Duration is for 2 weeks - 17 Dec '09 to 2 Jan '10 - for approximately 3
    hours per day of tutoring. Flights and accommodation will be paid for, with
    a contract rate of €1,000 for the 2 weeks. Activities available during free
    time include watersports and hiking.
    This would suit a post-graduate student or a student in their final 2 years.
    hmmm, tempting me!


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    #2694
    raah!
    Registered Users Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


    Do it!

    There's something suspicious about it though, why have someone from ireland? Why all the perks? Be careful over there :P

    I missed a 6 hour lecture spree there, now I have to ask someone for the notes. That's almost the worst part of my life these days... asking people for notes. I should get to work now to make up for this day missed. On the up side I had time for tea in the morning, and I didn't have to spend any money. And I can listen to a whole playlist with some tea before I get to work. Today I was given shoes.


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    #2695
    shinysiren
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭shinysiren


    raah! wrote: »
    Do it!

    There's something suspicious about it though, why have someone from ireland? Why all the perks? Be careful over there :P

    I missed a 6 hour lecture spree there, now I have to ask someone for the notes. That's almost the worst part of my life these days... asking people for notes. I should get to work now to make up for this day missed. On the up side I had time for tea in the morning, and I didn't have to spend any money. And I can listen to a whole playlist with some tea before I get to work. Today I was given shoes.

    Your posts brighten up my day. They're just full of all these lovely snippets of information about you.
    I'm writing this from a blanket-fort.


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    #2696
    DonnieScribbles
    Registered Users Posts: 537 ✭✭✭DonnieScribbles


    The Irish Times has opened up it's digital archive for free for the next 2 weeks :)

    I just checked the paper from my birthday, migratory birds were confused by the unseasonally warm weather!

    It's here: http://www.irishtimes.com/150/

    And they had sports news within the first three pages, mad...


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    #2697
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    can anybody find a higher res of this for my desktop? :)

    1762628.jpg


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    #2698
    raah!
    Registered Users Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭raah!


    shinysiren wrote: »
    Your posts brighten up my day. They're just full of all these lovely snippets of information about you.
    I'm writing this from a blanket-fort.

    Oooh how nice! And here i thought it was strange to ramble on about the goings on of your daily life to a bunch of people who don't wanna hear it :P

    That's from that song! That video had loaaaaaaaaaads of good pictures in it alright. In fact I really like this new wave of youtube mash up songs with nice pictures in the background. It's like an established thing, and there is no other genre with more picture sequence videoes, than these "mash ups". I Don't know if there's another word for that

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMDunGVx7uU


    hahah, i just watched the video a bit there. It's pretty gay (well, not "gay" but ... girly at least), this has been posted here before too, now I realise this. By tar I think


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    #2699
    maameeo
    Registered Users Posts: 12,399 ✭✭✭✭maameeo


    14years old?!!! learning Java!! wtf?!!

    :rolleyes: hmmm maybe i should get Tar to tutor alicia? 7 is a good age to start Java me thinks!



    im sleepies, tell me to go asleep (im already in bed!!)


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    #2700
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    maameeo wrote: »
    14years old?!!! learning Java!! wtf?!!

    :rolleyes: hmmm maybe i should get Tar to tutor alicia? 7 is a good age to start Java me thinks!



    im sleepies, tell me to go asleep (im already in bed!!)

    I was teaching a 15 year old yesterday! So 14 won't be too far off.
    You area star for making em teh desktop. :D


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    #2701
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    hello late night buddy, who only appears around 5am :p


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