The Rant Thread(a place to dump ur baggage)

gerard_65 wrote: »

Its the wind that pushes the sea unto the coast, combined with low pressure and high tides.

There was very little storm here last night, it was the spring tide caused the problems, not speaking for other parts of country though.

ultraman1 wrote: »

cheap poxy fones,,,,and d 6 cnuts who thanked digger

Make that seven.

Ososlo wrote: »

Didn't actually know that but really couldn't care less:rolleyes:

I think you secretly like him, going by your question to PConn

Pedestrians with headphones, eyes down, huge umbrellas, weaving from side to side on the footpath. I'll just run in the feckin canal will I?

Ososlo wrote: »

And while I'm here - weddings.

And the expense of everything related to them :mad:

Rant: work interfering with my runs ! Made a good consistent start to the year so determined to keep it up. Home hectic this week so lunchtimes my only hope. Knew 2 out of 5 were already gone but now down to one worst thing was driving for 3 hours yesterday to a meeting only to find that 3 of the parties who should have been there were in a stand-off situation across town ! Result - meeting abandoned to reconvene on Friday - another run gone

mr.wiggle wrote: »

People constantly on about the weather!
Get over it, its always going to be there. Buy the correct gear for the prevailing weather conditions and shut the f up ffs !!!

Jebus, that felt good :-D.

Driving home last night in howling gale and lashing rain with a 10 mile threshold run to do. Was tempted to wus out but thought of this post and got on with it.

The wind isn't a problem, the cold isn't a problem, the rain like bullets isn't a problem, not even the flooded roads or the p*ss ignorant drivers on country roads - it is the wind chill. Fingers, ears, nose, knees all freezing, fine - to be expected, but when your central core shuts down its trouble, a real taste of what happened to Maria McCambridge in Dungarvan last week - and I have an extra half inch of blubber:pac:.

Stuck it out and the shower afterwards was...........:):).

Sorry, supposed to be a rant....nice pair of (formerly) white runners now sh*tty brown:(

ecoli wrote: »

First thing being asked when you arrive in A & E "how would you like to pay?" Should have replied with "time" considering i will probably be here longer than the full shift in work tomorrow

I get that the bills have to be paid but could atleast find out whether I would be around to pay off a credit card bill if i chose that payment method.

What ever happened to patient well being, being a priority?

Hope all goes well in the end for you.

Ososlo wrote: »

ffs what's the deal here?
I've still yet to meet one person I know who's actually going or wants to go. Truly baffled by it all...

I know some people who are trying to get tickets. I guess they would be typical GB fans. I was just doing some sums - if 5 concerts sell out, that will be in excess of 26 million euros spent by about 20% of the adult population of the country (assuming each person goes once only). Statistically there has to be some overlap there with the % of people who are defaulting on their mortgages.

ecoli wrote: »

First thing being asked when you arrive in A & E "how would you like to pay?" Should have replied with "time" considering i will probably be here longer than the full shift in work tomorrow

I get that the bills have to be paid but could atleast find out whether I would be around to pay off a credit card bill if i chose that payment method.

What ever happened to patient well being, being a priority?

More Boston that Berlin is what happened. There was a time about 25 years ago when it was signficantly cheaper to go to A&E than it was to see your GP so some people started using A&E when they should have been going to their GP. It made sense to bring the charges into line to allow for a more efficient use of resources (although it obviously would have been better for Joe Public if GP fees had come down rather than A&E go up). I think that they've gone way too far the other way though. IIRC there's no charge for A&E if you go with a GP's letter. Thing is, it's wasting everybody's time to go to your GP first if it's obvious that you've broken something so now we're wasting resources in the opposite direction.

Having lived in the UK for 5 years now I have mixed feelings about the NHS. There's a huge financial relief in not having to pay to see the GP. On the other hand you're expected to go to see a GP at the drop of a hat here - there's very little judgement exercised as to whether you need to go or not. The culture largely seems to be - I'm not 100% - better go see my GP even if we're talking about a heavy cold in many cases. On the plus side if there is something wrong it's far less likely not to be picked up because somebody didn't go to their GP.

The thing that bugs me the most is the attitude towards antibiotics that we've come across. A couple of times we've brought the kids in with a cold that has turned into an infection. They make their examination - tells us that it's a virus and then ask if we want antibiotics :eek::eek::eek:. The frist time it happened I asked if there would be any benefit to having them and was told no. Why even mention them then? There's no indication that they'll be of any benefit, they have negative effects on the patient and negative effects on society with the growth of bugs that are resistant to antibiotics yet here we are being offered them. It's as if they think they're $%^&* smarties!

ThisRegard wrote: »

I've no idea, I genuinely thought it would be close enough to the event before the first gig sold out.

I was talking to my wife about it the other day and she said she wouldn't mind seeing him for the craic. She said that he was really popular in school when he was around the first time. But she did grow up in a small midlands town were country and western is still king. Had you expressed an interest in Garth Brooks when I was in school, where in my class you were either a rocker, raver or shoe gazer, you'd be sorry.

Apparently he's sold 125 million albums worldwide!! I've seen mentioned that the Irish shows are in advance of his World Tour (Is Ireland truly out of this World?!:rolleyes:) so perhaps there really are shedloads of people coming in from abroad for the gigs. If so, it could be a huge shot in the arm for the tourism business, even bigger than the US College Football games which are extremely successful for the economy.

Having said all that, and staying true to the nature of this thread:
I hope to fcuk this does not spark a revival of all that C&W sh1te!
I blame Blockic for everything!!