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The 'trampoline wars' FG Off Topic Thread

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  • #4052
    kitten_k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭kitten_k


    Congrats EN!


  • #4053
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Has there been a best song of all time competition or was it just a condensing of all those nominated in each decade?


  • #4054
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Has there been a best song of all time competition or was it just a condensing of all those nominated in each decade?

    There has been...

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=112553846

    The winner was
    Nena - 99 Luftballons


  • #4055
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Oooooh. I’m gonna mix it up a bit then.

    When’s the best time to put up a thread. Now or when kolido has finished?


  • #4056
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Oooooh. I’m gonna mix it up a bit then.

    When’s the best time to put up a thread. Now or when kolido has finished?

    If you're looking for nominations before running the knockout then you could put it up now.


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  • #4057
    Kolido
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Oooooh. I’m gonna mix it up a bit then.

    When’s the best time to put up a thread. Now or when kolido has finished?

    Feel free to plug it in my thread.

    I hope someone will do a best 90s act also, I'm thinking of moving away from music for my next venture.


  • #4058
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    While WFH I've most had on Newstalk for company. Muting it every now and then when I need to Zoom, or concentrate on a job.

    I've now a big job to do that needs lots of concentration and silence is too much, but on is too distracting so I put on my whole music catalog on shuffle.

    And I'm really enjoying it! I have to say I really do have EXCELLENT taste in music! :D:). I just thought I'd come on and say that. Now back to work!


  • #4059
    Necro
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,136 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    How does it shuffle up all the Mariah Carey tracks QB? A few in a row or are they nicely spaced out... ;)


  • #4060
    Trigger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,557 ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    quickbeam wrote: »
    While WFH I've most had on Newstalk for company. Muting it every now and then when I need to Zoom, or concentrate on a job.

    I've now a big job to do that needs lots of concentration and silence is too much, but on is too distracting so I put on my whole music catalog on shuffle.

    And I'm really enjoying it! I have to say I really do have EXCELLENT taste in music! :D:). I just thought I'd come on and say that. Now back to work!

    Music is brilliant to settle the head and allow you to concentrate, usually mine does be on from 7 - 5 but since working from home it's been less. Great thing about having the bluetooth straight to the implant is that I can throw it on 50/50 and when people would annoy me in work, I would zone out pretending I'm listening but really I'm bopping away in my head and they would be none the wiser :pac:


  • #4061
    fixXxer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,330 ✭✭✭fixXxer


    Trigger wrote: »
    Music is brilliant to settle the head and allow you to concentrate, usually mine does be on from 7 - 5 but since working from home it's been less. Great thing about having the bluetooth straight to the implant is that I can throw it on 50/50 and when people would annoy me in work, I would zone out pretending I'm listening but really I'm bopping away in my head and they would be none the wiser :pac:

    I'm sorry, what?? The cyborg future I've always wanted is already here??


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  • #4062
    Mollyb60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,637 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    Trigger wrote: »
    Music is brilliant to settle the head and allow you to concentrate, usually mine does be on from 7 - 5 but since working from home it's been less. Great thing about having the bluetooth straight to the implant is that I can throw it on 50/50 and when people would annoy me in work, I would zone out pretending I'm listening but really I'm bopping away in my head and they would be none the wiser :pac:

    What is this magic?

    Spotify have been earning their subscription since we've been working from home. It's on constantly and I've picked up few new artists by listening to random artist radios.


  • #4063
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Trigger wrote: »
    Music is brilliant to settle the head and allow you to concentrate, usually mine does be on from 7 - 5 but since working from home it's been less. Great thing about having the bluetooth straight to the implant is that I can throw it on 50/50 and when people would annoy me in work, I would zone out pretending I'm listening but really I'm bopping away in my head and they would be none the wiser :pac:

    That is fantastic!

    I'm with fixXer, I wasn't aware we had advanced this far. Judgement Day is Nigh!


  • #4064
    Trigger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,557 ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    fixXxer wrote: »
    I'm sorry, what?? The cyborg future I've always wanted is already here??

    Ha yeah I wear a bluetooth device around my neck and it transmits from phone to implant, use it for phone also or anything really, also have a device that connects to the TV that streams the sound straight to implant via the bluetooth.

    There is an new one out that actually hooks straight onto the battery on the processor that eliminates the need for the device around the neck. Bit pricey for me at the mo though


  • #4065
    fixXxer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,330 ✭✭✭fixXxer


    Trigger wrote: »
    Ha yeah I wear a bluetooth device around my neck and it transmits from phone to implant, use it for phone also or anything really, also have a device that connects to the TV that streams the sound straight to implant via the bluetooth.

    There is an new one out that actually hooks straight onto the battery on the processor that eliminates the need for the device around the neck. Bit pricey for me at the mo though

    image-asset.gif?format=750w

    That might be the coolest thing I've heard in ages.


  • #4066
    Baggly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,024 ✭✭✭✭Baggly


    giphy.gif?cid=19f5b51a0cbcb5432b64cafb2401eef9e6a6ef496ccd86c6&rid=giphy.gif


  • #4067
    Necro
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,136 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    I actually use audiobooks in the same way youse guys do music. It's my new addiction.


  • #4068
    Trigger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,557 ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    Necro wrote: »
    I actually use audiobooks in the same way youse guys do music. It's my new addiction.

    I use them also in the same way. If you havent listened to the game of thrones audiobooks yet, you should, they are read buy Roy Dotrice who had a small part in the series..


  • #4069
    Necro
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,136 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Trigger wrote: »
    I use them also in the same way. If you havent listened to the game of thrones audiobooks yet, you should, they are read buy Roy Dotrice who had a small part in the series..

    They're actually my next planned purchase with this month's credit :D


  • #4070
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Trigger wrote: »
    I use them also in the same way. If you havent listened to the game of thrones audiobooks yet, you should, they are read buy Roy Dotrice who had a small part in the series..

    Betty Spencer's (as in Frank Spencer's wife) dad, for those old enough to remember Some Mothers Do Have 'Em.


  • #4071
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Also the dad of Jane Banks, the daughter in Mary Poppins. I knew the above, but didn't know this until just now.


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  • #4072
    fixXxer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,330 ✭✭✭fixXxer


    I've been doing audio books now I have an office to myself.
    Burned through Homo Sapains, The Stand, The Body: a user's guide and now starting Truth Lies and O rings: The Challenger Disaster. It's gonna be hard going back to normal :D


  • #4073
    Mollyb60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,637 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    Oh god Homo Sapiens was the most depressing book ever. I couldn't bring myself to read the follow up.

    And I can't listen to podcasts or audio books whilst trying to do anything else. I just can't concentrate on 2 things at once. So podcasts are for when I'm painting, exercising or doing cross-stitch.


  • #4074
    fixXxer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,330 ✭✭✭fixXxer


    Was it the farming that made it depressing? I kinda wanted to be a hunter gatherer again after that chapter.


  • #4075
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    If you're talking about the Yuval Noah Harari book, I didn't much like it at all. I thought it be more focussed on our evolution. It did in the early part, but everything after that was a bore.

    I read all my books. I've never done audio.


  • #4076
    Necro
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,136 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    quickbeam wrote: »
    If you're talking about the Yuval Noah Harari book, I didn't much like it at all. I thought it be more focussed on our evolution. It did in the early part, but everything after that was a bore.

    I read all my books. I've never done audio.

    I was like that too but I've converted :o It's soo handy, bluetooth it in the car and no listening to the radio and all the covid talk on every station to and from work.

    I can even sneak a listen at work if I'm not on the phones and working on emails :D


  • #4077
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    quickbeam wrote: »
    I read all my books. I've never done audio.

    Same. I don't think I have the attention span for Audio, as I've never really listened much to talk radio, and even when listening to podcasts I tend to zone out a bit.

    My preferred method is reading a physical book while listening to music at the same time, and pacing around the house.

    I don't drive though (I mean I can, I just don't; had a car for a year when I was 21, but did not enjoy driving so sold it and haven't driven since), so I can read books on buses or trains when I'm in transit. Maybe it's different for car folk.


  • #4078
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    No. Car drivers read and drive simultaneously. It’s part of the test now.


  • #4079
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I eat books and ingest the knowledge. You're all missing out.


  • #4080
    Also Starring LeVar Burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    No. Car drivers read and drive simultaneously. It’s part of the test now.

    To be fair, half the reason I hated driving was because I was losing out on valuable reading/day-dreaming time. Too much concentration and paying attention was involved. And you couldn't just stop and have a pint whenever you wanted either.


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  • #4081
    Necro
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,136 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    I got into audiobooks when I had an hour long commute to work each way, found the time absolutely zoomed by listening to it.

    *Side note* Great to see the OT thread alive again, it had been rather quiet for a while up till recently :D


  • #4082
    Mollyb60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,637 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    fixXxer wrote: »
    Was it the farming that made it depressing? I kinda wanted to be a hunter gatherer again after that chapter.


    Yeah a lot of it just seemed to be about how amazing things were back in the good old days and how we're all just a bunch of miserable bastards now murdering cows and ripping babies (animals) away from their mothers and torturing them before we kill them and eat them. And sure we're all gonna die horribly anyway because we're destroying the planet and humans are just the worst. The End.


  • #4083
    Trigger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,557 ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    quickbeam wrote: »
    If you're talking about the Yuval Noah Harari book, I didn't much like it at all. I thought it be more focussed on our evolution. It did in the early part, but everything after that was a bore.

    I read all my books. I've never done audio.

    You should try do both together, line up the audiobook with the chapter you start, it's pretty decent way to consume a book, most narrators put on accents etc for characters so it can give you that added dimension


  • #4084
    Trigger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,557 ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    Mollyb60 wrote: »
    Yeah a lot of it just seemed to be about how amazing things were back in the good old days and how we're all just a bunch of miserable bastards now murdering cows and ripping babies (animals) away from their mothers and torturing them before we kill them and eat them. And sure we're all gonna die horribly anyway because we're destroying the planet and humans are just the worst. The End.

    AggravatingInexperiencedAnhinga-size_restricted.gif


  • #4085
    Ectoplasm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭Ectoplasm


    Necro wrote: »
    I got into audiobooks when I had an hour long commute to work each way, found the time absolutely zoomed by listening to it.

    *Side note* Great to see the OT thread alive again, it had been rather quiet for a while up till recently :D

    I like audio books but I'm really sensitive to who is reading them. If it's a 'bad' voice it kills the book for me.

    Also agree with your side note :)


  • #4086
    fixXxer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,330 ✭✭✭fixXxer


    Our take away driver wouldn't take his tip because of social distancing :-/


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  • #4087
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    BOO!

    :D


  • #4088
    sullivlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    Ectoplasm wrote: »
    I like audio books but I'm really sensitive to who is reading them. If it's a 'bad' voice it kills the book for me.

    YES!!!

    I listened to an entire series of books written by Joy Ellis and read by Richard Armitage and he makes the books. He performs them, not just reads them.

    In contrast, Marian Keyes read her last book for the audiobook version and I couldn't warm to her. The story itself was good, but I didn't enjoy her performance.

    I loved The Body (Bill Bryson) audiobook. I tend to listen to books on the commute in the car. Obviously no commute now so listen to them when doing activities like sewing or cleaning, or when out walking, or when I'm in bed colouring (to relax).

    Turned on Spotify for the first time in a few weeks today while trying to correct tests and it made me wonder why I hadn't tuned in previously. Couldn't get behind the idea of this week's throwback Thursday so ended up listening to a random reggatone album from 2005. As you do. Had a great auld bop. Didn't correct all of the tests but sure plenty of time for that tomorrow.


  • #4089
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Richard Armitage. Was he in The Hobbit and also that mini series The Stranger?


  • #4090
    sullivlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Richard Armitage. Was he in The Hobbit and also that mini series The Stranger?

    Apparently so!


  • #4091
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Trigger wrote: »
    You should try do both together, line up the audiobook with the chapter you start, it's pretty decent way to consume a book, most narrators put on accents etc for characters so it can give you that added dimension

    I follow a few "Booktubers", and have heard this recommended there too, esspecially if you're struggling with a book. Maybe it's worth a go, but I quite like having my own interpretation of what characters sound like.


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  • #4092
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    sullivlo wrote: »
    Apparently so!

    I like him. Definitely a voice I could listen to.


  • #4093
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Like Molly, our mob have been playing family bingo every Sunday for a few weeks now. I won the full house yesterday. 75 smackeroonies!!!


  • #4094
    kitten_k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,186 ✭✭✭kitten_k


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Like Molly, our mob have been playing family bingo every Sunday for a few weeks now. I won the full house yesterday. 75 smackeroonies!!!

    Are you Molly's granny?? :D:p


  • #4095
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    kitten_k wrote: »
    Are you Molly's granny?? :D:p

    She’s the favourite grandchild. She knows that she’ll be getting that full house winnings in the form of 7,500 penny sweets!

    :D


  • #4096
    Mollyb60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,637 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Like Molly, our mob have been playing family bingo every Sunday for a few weeks now. I won the full house yesterday. 75 smackeroonies!!!
    75 quid for a full house! Holy **** yous are high rollers. We're doing €3 for a line, €5 for 2 lines and €10 for the full house. There's 8 of us playing.
    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    She’s the favourite grandchild. She knows that she’ll be getting that full house winnings in the form of 7,500 penny sweets!

    :D

    YUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


  • #4097
    [Deleted User]
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    We are totaling up who has the most lines and full houses after 6 games. If there’s a draw after the 6 games, those players have a line-off or house-off.Winner takes all.

    It’s 10 euro to play and a 1/3 goes to the winner of the lines, 2/3 to the house winner.

    Our family spread out over Ireland, UK, Australia & USA and we all pay into a PayPal account.


  • #4098
    Mollyb60
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,637 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    Amazing. I bow before your vastly superior organisation skills.


  • #4099
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,396 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    I really want to put this gif in the female song competition thread but I think it's better to ignore the blow-in know-it-alls, so I'll tell you guys here instead :p

    Yzmi1H.gif


  • #4100
    MrsFlushdraw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭MrsFlushdraw


    In case anyone isn't reading the last few posts in the last game thread. I was saying to Molly that if she was coming to Malta and looking for accomodation, and any others that might fancy some sunshine when this all passes. I am the accountant in a resort there. I will do my best to get ye good rates!

    https://saliniresort.com/


  • #4101
    Necro
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,136 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Ireland seems to have gone trampoline-crazy. I cannot find one in any online store at the moment, everywhere is out of stock

    Edit: Never mind, got one :D


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