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The Rant Thread(a place to dump ur baggage)

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  • #812
    PaulieC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭PaulieC


    statss wrote: »
    Put a deposit down on one this morning :-(

    get your money back. All you need is a Maclaren buggy and a car seat. Shouldn't cost you more than €350.


  • #813
    statss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,802 ✭✭✭statss


    Tom Joad wrote: »
    That's a pity - planning to put ours (barely used:rolleyes:) on Done deal tonight.

    sure send me the link when its up, as Paulie said I can always get the deposit back!


  • #814
    metamorphosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    Family wedding on the 2nd of January

    I love my family but what an awkward time of year for a wedding ... just paid for xmas presents, a work trip to Poland, the wedding things like present, hotel, suit then the day itself ... :/ Not to mention January is a long month before getting paid. Oh well! ... at least it was a fun night!


  • #815
    rom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭rom


    metamorphosis wrote: »
    Family wedding on the 2nd of January

    I love my family but what an awkward time of year for a wedding ... just paid for xmas presents, a work trip to Poland, the wedding things like present, hotel, suit then the day itself ... :/ Not to mention January is a long month before getting paid. Oh well! ... at least it was a fun night!

    Weddings in general. Long run bollixed and too much food :D


  • #816
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    metamorphosis wrote: »
    Family wedding on the 2nd of January

    I love my family but what an awkward time of year for a wedding ... just paid for xmas presents, a work trip to Poland, the wedding things like present, hotel, suit then the day itself ... :/ Not to mention January is a long month before getting paid. Oh well! ... at least it was a fun night!
    Mate's 30th this evening. Just when I was thinking of resting my liver...


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  • #817
    metamorphosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    Just keep thinking from here on in most people are on a *dry January* ...


  • #818
    theboyblunder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,054 ✭✭✭theboyblunder


    Krusty_Clown wrote: »
    Scientists have proved that there is no alcohol in medicinal hot whiskey. It's something to do with a chemical reaction with the clove-studded lemon (similar to the manner in which you can copper-plate a nail, using a penny and some simple household utensils). The alcohol is transferred and stored in the cloves (and nobody ever eats the cloves). Just ask theboyblunder; he sounds like a scientist and drinks whiskey.

    As someone who occasionally sounds like a scientician I can confirm this. The combination of cinnamaldehyde and eugenol in the cloves not only allows guilt-free hot whiskeys, but will also give you ripped abs and increase the size of other important body parts.*


    *this might not be accepted in court or in any nightclub


  • #819
    LaHaine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭LaHaine


    People who plug everything out all the time. I hate you.

    I dont care if your sister in laws auntys cousin's laptop once exploded as a result of lightening. Stop plugging stuff out!!!!


  • #820
    KielyUnusual
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭KielyUnusual


    theboyblunder wrote: »
    As someone who occasionally sounds like a scientician I can confirm this. The combination of cinnamaldehyde and eugenol in the cloves not only allows guilt-free hot whiskeys, but will also give you ripped abs and increase the size of other important body parts.*


    *this might not be accepted in court or in any nightclub

    Well, it must have been the placebo effect then because I felt pretty hammered going to bed last night. :)

    My big toe does look slightly bigger this morning though so you're right on the second count.

    May just have drunkenly stumbled in to a table and stubbed it.


  • #821
    TRR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭TRR


    LaHaine wrote: »
    People who plug everything out all the time. I hate you.

    I dont care if your sister in laws auntys cousin's laptop once exploded as a result of lightening. Stop plugging stuff out!!!!

    I must admit I do this. I hate people who leave stuff plugged in, especially hair dryers. Bugs the **** out of me.


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  • #822
    blockic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭blockic


    LaHaine wrote: »
    People who plug everything out all the time. I hate you.

    I dont care if your sister in laws auntys cousin's laptop once exploded as a result of lightening. Stop plugging stuff out!!!!

    Lost the laptop over Christmas to lightening so I'll happily continue to pkug stuff out! Tis all fun and games until it arrives at your doorstep!


  • #823
    Beef
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,182 ✭✭✭Beef


    All of the santy toys he thought he'd never get, sitting under the Christmas tree while he hops around the house with a rubber chicken that cost 1.49 in 'dealz'


  • #824
    skittles8710
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 653 ✭✭✭skittles8710


    People who leave lights/devices switched on in rooms they are not occupying (LeHaine is going to hate me).

    I don't mind hall lights or such but my housemates have a tendency to leave lights in the utility and kitchen and the telly on and then feck off up to their rooms for a few hours or go out and leave lights on all over the gaff. Unnecessary waste of energy and money irks the hell out of me!


  • #825
    drquirky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,866 ✭✭✭drquirky


    Absolute douchebags who insist on feeding the deer in the Phoenix Park by hand. The mostly have young children and come equipped w/ a particularly annoying breed of complete stupidity and ridiculous hubris.

    If I ruled these world there would be concentration camps in the "whest" for these sort of tools. The only good part of spotting one of them is praying that one of the deer gores them or their doomed offspring. :D


  • #826
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    My daughter and I are two of those douche bags, and will continue to be. You'll need to add park rangers to that rant who have introduced people to doing so also, particularly at Christmas when they bring groups of kids to do it while waiting for Santy to appear from the trees.


  • #827
    drquirky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,866 ✭✭✭drquirky


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    My daughter and I are two of those douche bags, and will continue to be. You'll need to add park rangers to that rant who have introduced people to doing so also, particularly at Christmas when they bring groups of kids to do it while waiting for Santy to appear from the trees.

    Great. My rant was aimed at that. No way whatsoever to treat a wild animal. Well done.


  • #828
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    drquirky wrote: »
    Great. My rant was aimed at that. No way whatsoever to treat a wild animal. Well done.

    Why thank you. Do you want the number of the park rangers who look after the herd so you can call them and educate them too?

    They're a herd in a public park in which up to 200 deer can be born annually resulting in them being shipped off or culled. Being fed carrots and parsnips by the public is not going to make them forget how to forage and die out. These aren't the guys you find around the wilds of Wicklow.

    You must give big dirty glares to the grannies with their stale bread at the duck ponds too?


  • #829
    SamforMayo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭SamforMayo


    drquirky wrote: »
    Absolute douchebags who insist on feeding the deer in the Phoenix Park by hand. The mostly have young children and come equipped w/ a particularly annoying breed of complete stupidity and ridiculous hubris.

    If I ruled these world there would be concentration camps in the "whest" for these sort of tools. The only good part of spotting one of them is praying that one of the deer gores them or their doomed offspring. :D

    People in Dublin wanting to ship their problems to the west:D


  • #830
    menoscemo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Why thank you. Do you want the number of the park rangers who look after the herd so you can call them and educate them too?

    They're a herd in a public park in which up to 200 deer can be born annually resulting in them being shipped off or culled. Being fed carrots and parsnips by the public is not going to make them forget how to forage and die out. These aren't the guys you find around the wilds of Wicklow.

    You must give big dirty glares to the grannies with their stale bread at the duck ponds too?

    Maybe they are having to be culled because too many people are feeding them??

    Anyway my rant is stupid pedestrians. In Blackrock Shopping centre today and reversing into a parking space when a lady with 2 kids decides to walk behind my reversing car :eek: Only just spotted them in time to stop before hitting a kid as I was almost entering the parking space (they came from my blind spot)

    She was using her 2 young kids as protection as well as she was behind them :mad: I wanted to give out at her but didn't want to scare the little ones so I attempted to stare her out instead (she ignored me) :mad:


  • #831
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    SamforMayo wrote: »
    People in Dublin wanting to ship their problems to the west:D

    Hopelessly optimistic usernames :pac:


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  • #832
    SamforMayo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,297 ✭✭✭SamforMayo


    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Hopelessly optimistic usernames :pac:

    Have to keep the faith!


  • #833
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    menoscemo wrote: »
    Maybe they are having to be culled because too many people are feeding them??

    No natural predators resulting in large survival rates, both as adult and fawns, plus pretty much 24 hour care so if any get injured or diseased they're removed from the herd preventing it spreading. It's pretty much the same for every other herd living in similar situations.


  • #834
    drquirky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,866 ✭✭✭drquirky


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Why thank you. Do you want the number of the park rangers who look after the herd so you can call them and educate them too?

    They're a herd in a public park in which up to 200 deer can be born annually resulting in them being shipped off or culled. Being fed carrots and parsnips by the public is not going to make them forget how to forage and die out. These aren't the guys you find around the wilds of Wicklow.

    You must give big dirty glares to the grannies with their stale bread at the duck ponds too?

    Am well aware they don't need to be able to forage food etc. My main issue is that deer are shy animals and the Steve Irwin wanna be howyas I witnessed today were clearly agitating them as they were scrambling around looking quite stressed. It is not respecting these animals to enter their space for your own personal gratification. Leave them alone and view them from a decent distance.


  • #835
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    drquirky wrote: »
    Am well aware they don't need to be able to forage food etc. My main issue is that deer are shy animals and the Steve Irwin wanna be howyas I witnessed today were clearly agitating them as they were scrambling around looking quite stressed. It is not respecting these animals to enter their space for your own personal gratification. Leave them alone and view them from a decent distance.

    A lot of the time the deer will approach you. They used to be stand offish but some figured that if they came over they'd get more food and easier, it's something they're used to doing. Others that have no interest will stay away with the main herd. If the people you saw were agitating them it's because they're dicks, not because it generally wrong to feed them.


  • #836
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Arsenal v Spurs, FA Cup 3rd round: 5:15pm

    BA 827 DUB-LHR : 5:30pm

    :(


  • #837
    Pacing Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,097 ✭✭✭Pacing Mule


    Hoping Spurs don't get an AMK entry here today !


  • #838
    belcarra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭belcarra


    SamforMayo wrote: »
    People in Dublin wanting to ship their problems to the west:D

    I think there was a similar idea a few hundred years ago too...:cool:

    Rant: People who spell The Wesht as The Whest!


  • #839
    mr.wiggle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭mr.wiggle


    People who get personally insulted by random rants on a RANT THREAD and decide to pull the OP on it, when EVERYONE else can see that its a good natured thread where all rants are meant to be taken with a pinch of salt and anyone with the smallest bit of sense of humour enjoys the rants for what they are

    Oh, and long rants with no full stops - I hate those too !!

    Mr.W.


  • #840
    Gavlor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,202 ✭✭✭Gavlor


    Rant: The ban on deer hunting in Phoenix park.


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  • #841
    TRR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭TRR


    mr.wiggle wrote: »
    People who get personally insulted by random rants on a RANT THREAD and decide to pull the OP on it, when EVERYONE else can see that its a good natured thread where all rants are meant to be taken with a pinch of salt and anyone with the smallest bit of sense of humour enjoys the rants for what they are

    Oh, and long rants with no full stops - I hate those too !!

    Mr.W.

    People who sign their rants or any posts for that fact. There really is no need.

    Also people who use the first initial of some ones forename in a post. Along the lines of "my god D, you are a grumpy bastard".


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