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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,808 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    The gear shuffle on Boards here seems to have a problem. When you put it in forward it goes back a page.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Water John wrote: »
    The gear shuffle on Boards here seems to have a problem. When you put it in forward it goes back a page.

    Afaik, John, it's due to one of the server thingys not synchronising with the other ones if I'm understanding it properly. So sometimes you get the proper ones and all is well but sometimes you get one that's stuck 48 hours ago?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    Afaik, John, it's due to one of the server thingys not synchronising with the other ones if I'm understanding it properly. So sometimes you get the proper ones and all is well but sometimes you get one that's stuck 48 hours ago?


    Can you not just do an Onslow on it & thump it til it works again?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Can you not just do an Onslow on it & thump it til it works again?

    I've suggested switching it off and on again, but I'd say that's been tried already:P

    Sorry, folks, I know it's frustrating but Covid19 has reduced the staff numbers and hours for the site. I'm assured there's a lot of work going on in the background to upgrade the systems and this is now being delayed again by WFH and other covid issues.

    We're hoping it can be brought back up to speed again pretty soon though:o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    We should have a rant thread. Just to air our grievances about everything farming related. Like I specifically bought bright pink duct tape with unicorns on it so Dad wouldn't steal it. I was as well just buy the normal stuff as the 'pink is fierce handy to see' when I questioned him on how it had gone from my kitchen to the quad box yesterday :rolleyes::rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    We should have a rant thread. Just to air our grievances about everything farming related. Like I specifically bought bright pink duct tape with unicorns on it so Dad wouldn't steal it. I was as well just buy the normal stuff as the 'pink is fierce handy to see' when I questioned him on how it had gone from my kitchen to the quad box yesterday :rolleyes::rolleyes:

    There's a whole forum somewhere on Boards just for that;)

    I've never managed to find it though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 758 ✭✭✭CHOPS01


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Cul camp on this week. Very well organised. Asked young lad what did he think of it . 11 out of 10 :D

    My 2 had it last week and absolutely loved it. Older lady could take or leave the camogie but she was delighted with herself when she was a captain of one of the teams on Thursday. Wife rang me Friday morning in hysterics. She said if only I could hear the conversation at the breakfast table. Like 2 preparing for an All Ireland final.

    The 2 kids were meant to travel back up to your neck of the woods this morning with my sister who was home for the weekend. Word came one of her kids has a sore throat and a temp so heading for Covid test.
    Tears from my 2 when they would told the trip was off.
    The innocence of youth.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,852 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    CHOPS01 wrote: »
    My 2 had it last week and absolutely loved it. Older lady could take or leave the camogie but she was delighted with herself when she was a captain of one of the teams on Thursday. Wife rang me Friday morning in hysterics. She said if only I could hear the conversation at the breakfast table. Like 2 preparing for an All Ireland final.

    The 2 kids were meant to travel back up to your neck of the woods this morning with my sister who was home for the weekend. Word came one of her kids has a sore throat and a temp so heading for Covid test.
    Tears from my 2 when they would told the trip was off.
    The innocence of youth.

    Hope the test is clear


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Fair belt of an explosion in Beirut port, apparently a ship full of fireworks.
    https://twitter.com/borzou/status/1290675854767513600?s=19


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,181 ✭✭✭Lady Haywire


    That is scary as hell to watch. Did not expect the 2nd explosion/shockwave.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,224 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    That is scary as hell to watch. Did not expect the 2nd explosion/shockwave.


    I don't think the person with the camera expected it either


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,484 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    ****, that was a bang and a half


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    There's a thread over in CA/IMHO with loads of videos.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058101951

    Supposed to be 10 blocks of housing destroyed and hospitals turning people away because they're too badly damaged or full already:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭davidk1394


    Would anyone know how much a tonne of limestone building stone is making ? Mainly white limestone. All clean stuff


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭148multi


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    Would anyone know how much a tonne of limestone building stone is making ? Mainly white limestone. All clean stuff

    PM sent


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    We just got an email about the return to school for the youngest. It's being done alphabetically so it looks like it will be about 9.15 before he gets to come in. Some of his class will have to be there before 8.35 and others later than him.

    Herself does the drop offs in 3 different schools at 3 different times in time for work and it looks like she will be starting late every day so won't be able to be out from work to do the collection that's furthest so I'll be doing all the collections.

    Jaysus.

    I may have to give up the farming lark:rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,357 ✭✭✭✭Base price


    We just got an email about the return to school for the youngest. It's being done alphabetically so it looks like it will be about 9.15 before he gets to come in. Some of his class will have to be there before 8.35 and others later than him.

    Herself does the drop offs in 3 different schools at 3 different times in time for work and it looks like she will be starting late every day so won't be able to be out from work to do the collection that's furthest so I'll be doing all the collections.

    Jaysus.

    I may have to give up the farming lark:rolleyes:
    It's hard to know where we will be in three weeks time - the schools may open but tbh they won't. The Government/populous opinion has been striving for them to open but it really depends on the Covid positive numbers/health of the State.
    As an aside I got home at my place in NCD early afternoon. I drove home on the M3 and saw three Expressway Bus and the drivers were wearing masks. I drove to a local shop to pick up cat food in Swords Manor (NCD) and saw five Bus Eireann drivers (route 41C) and not one of them were wearing face masks - wtf are the rest of us doing. I sat in the carpark for a while outside the shop watching and IMO only 1 person outta 50 that I witnessed was wearing a mask.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,776 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    We just got an email about the return to school for the youngest. It's being done alphabetically so it looks like it will be about 9.15 before he gets to come in. Some of his class will have to be there before 8.35 and others later than him.

    Herself does the drop offs in 3 different schools at 3 different times in time for work and it looks like she will be starting late every day so won't be able to be out from work to do the collection that's furthest so I'll be doing all the collections.

    Jaysus.

    I may have to give up the farming lark:rolleyes:

    The local St.Patrick's special school of 150 pupils has been back full time since the start of July.
    I'm not breaking any confidentiality code by posting this as it was all over the local radio with nothing but praise for all concerned.
    It wouldn't have been easy for all concerned as the pupils may not have fully grasped the situation but it's surprising when heads are knocked together what can be done.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,852 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    We just got an email about the return to school for the youngest. It's being done alphabetically so it looks like it will be about 9.15 before he gets to come in. Some of his class will have to be there before 8.35 and others later than him.

    Herself does the drop offs in 3 different schools at 3 different times in time for work and it looks like she will be starting late every day so won't be able to be out from work to do the collection that's furthest so I'll be doing all the collections.

    Jaysus.

    I may have to give up the farming lark:rolleyes:

    At least they are working to get school back. I dont think I could handle any more remote learning. Kids need to get back. Sure most of them are meeting up anyway. I know that's probably outdoors ....


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    No idea what happens if a kid misses their time slot, do they wait till everyone else is in and then go in?

    It's like they decided the most dangerous time for transmission is the 2 minutes the kids are spending coming into school and not the 5 hours spent in the classroom with the rest of their class.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    whelan2 wrote: »
    At least they are working to get school back. I dont think I could handle any more remote learning. Kids need to get back. Sure most of them are meeting up anyway. I know that's probably outdoors ....

    I’ll loose the plot if we don’t get back. Impossible to teach a practical class remotely.

    In our place, it’s going to have to go back to chalk and talk, no group/pair work and we will have to remove lockers to just get the 1 m distancing in corridors. I dunno how it will work to be honest. I reckon they will have to get a few prefabs installed or something. A 1950s building built for 160 with 200+ students and now social distancing. A lot of schools like that.

    I’d say everyone is missing school at this stage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Went on a day trip to limerick- a fairy garden in Kilmallock, around a little bungalow. Unbelievable place. Done so well. The children loved it. Even without children, it’s a nice place to go. Free tea, coffee and biscuits after. It’s a credit to the family.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,925 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    I’ll loose the plot if we don’t get back. Impossible to teach a practical class remotely.

    In our place, it’s going to have to go back to chalk and talk, no group/pair work and we will have to remove lockers to just get the 1 m distancing in corridors. I dunno how it will work to be honest. I reckon they will have to get a few prefabs installed or something. A 1950s building built for 160 with 200+ students and now social distancing. A lot of schools like that.

    I’d say everyone is missing school at this stage.

    Eldest is very worried about heading back into leaving cert. they have missed a massive amount of school time and god knows what’s to come. School has about 800 students and was packed to capacity before this. I think they are a bit forgotten in the whole thing, they will be expected to sit a regular leaving cert but will not have had anything close to a normal two year run in to it.

    She worked extremely hard at her schoolwork during the lockdown, harder than I’d ever have been able to. I’d say allot of the lads in her year are in a worse place having spent the lockdown out on tractors in the good weather.

    I know one family where neither 3rd or 5th year kid was returning any work at all and the principal had to phone the parents about it.

    We spent few quid on access to online resources with one of the Dublin based specialist colleges catering for leaving certs, and Easter revision session. It was a combination of online videos and notes they sent out by courier. I recorded the videos for her to have. Have to say after seeing them myself they were great and she has them to look back over when needed. Think it was €200 for five subjects.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭AntrimGlens


    Our school opened on Monday for a fortnight for a “summer school” from 9.30-2pm. Our two are back and loving it except they have to sit beside each other as they are in the same bubble. Only the top 4 classes were invited back and nearly all the kids have came back. The government is giving grants of £10k for any school that opens up for a summer school to pay wages, food etc. The kids take nothing with them in the morning, not even a pencil. They start back full time on the 26th and the whole school is back everyday, with a half day on Wednesday for a deep clean. You can see the benefit to them already and it’s only been two days. The teachers are actually using it as a means of seeing how well kids progressed or not during lockdown and what remedial measures they need to put in place for when they all start back properly. That’s the benefit of a small rural school of 85 pupils, yet we’re fighting to keep it open beyond Sept 21.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    _Brian wrote: »
    Eldest is very worried about heading back into leaving cert. they have missed a massive amount of school time and god knows what’s to come. School has about 800 students and was packed to capacity before this. I think they are a bit forgotten in the whole thing, they will be expected to sit a regular leaving cert but will not have had anything close to a normal two year run in to it.

    She worked extremely hard at her schoolwork during the lockdown, harder than I’d ever have been able to. I’d say allot of the lads in her year are in a worse place having spent the lockdown out on tractors in the good weather.

    I know one family where neither 3rd or 5th year kid was returning any work at all and the principal had to phone the parents about it.

    We spent few quid on access to online resources with one of the Dublin based specialist colleges catering for leaving certs, and Easter revision session. It was a combination of online videos and notes they sent out by courier. I recorded the videos for her to have. Have to say after seeing them myself they were great and she has them to look back over when needed. Think it was €200 for five subjects.


    I reckon there will Be a lot of leeway for the LC for both years. If normal service resumed in sept, she will be grand. More anxious but ok. But if there is more disruption, the dept will have to protect those students.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,703 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    I think there will be more choices on the LC papers next year.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    blue5000 wrote: »
    I think there will be more choices on the LC papers next year.

    Or they’ll have to reduce the number of questions answered. There will be a rush on all project work for fear of lock down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,840 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    Gardaí launch appeal to trace owners as 10 suspected stolen dogs recovered

    https://www.thejournal.ie/dogs-seized-limerick-appeal-5168099-Aug2020/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,203 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Is Boards under attack? or just broken?

    Cloud flare looks to be turned up to max this morning, Had to click a lot of pictures of buses to prove I'm human....
    and have to admit I struggled on a few of them :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,776 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    emaherx wrote: »
    Is Boards under attack? or just broken?

    Cloud flare looks to be turned up to max this morning, Had to click a lot of pictures of buses to prove I'm human....
    and have to admit I struggled on a few of them :D

    I got trains yesterday with the tablet.




    I was proved a human.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,203 ✭✭✭emaherx


    Would have been real upset if I failed a human test this morning. :D

    Seems quite around here today, Im begining to suspect some of the "others"


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,908 Mod ✭✭✭✭Siamsa Sessions


    Seems to some kind of attack being managed alright. I got a DDOS message before being allowed in, which if I remember from the off farm job is Distributed Denial of Service. Could be as simple as someone using loads of IP addresses to try to connect at the same time.

    Hopefully the boards.ie security team get on top of it

    Trading as Sullivan’s Farm on YouTube



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,703 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Touch version on the phone was dodgy earlier on alright, ok on laptop.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,983 ✭✭✭I says


    To the pig ignorant cnut who scraped my car this morning without acknowledging it while you were trying to park. I have it on dash cam you cnut.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,852 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    I says wrote: »
    To the pig ignorant cnut who scraped my car this morning without acknowledging it while you were trying to park. I have it on dash cam you cnut.

    Youngest lad was playing ball with his friend at a game the other night. They hit the wing mirror of a van and the cover of the mirror fell off. They came and told me and were near crying. I found the owner if the van and he laughed and said sure that's always falling off .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    Things will be a bit slower than normal today, folks. There's some work being done on the back end (whatever that is:D) so hopefully will be nearer normal tomorrow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    I says wrote: »
    To the pig ignorant cnut who scraped my car this morning without acknowledging it while you were trying to park. I have it on dash cam you cnut.

    I had my new van three days when some crettin dinged it with their door.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,890 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    Things will be a bit slower than normal today, folks. There's some work being done on the back end (whatever that is:D) so hopefully will be nearer normal tomorrow.

    But of hydraulic oil and a filter, she'll be grand again!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭Odelay


    Gardaí launch appeal to trace owners as 10 suspected stolen dogs recovered

    https://www.thejournal.ie/dogs-seized-limerick-appeal-5168099-Aug2020/

    Begawd. Stolen dogs found in Rathkeale. Amazing how they all wound up there.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,925 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Odelay wrote: »
    Begawd. Stolen dogs found in Rathkeale. Amazing how they all wound up there.

    Well, I never..........Rathkeale of all places.

    'If I ventured in the slipstream, Between the viaducts of your dream'



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,262 ✭✭✭Grueller


    Well, I never..........Rathkeale of all places.

    Settled people dumped them there to put the blame on them don't you know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Youngest lad was playing ball with his friend at a game the other night. They hit the wing mirror of a van and the cover of the mirror fell off. They came and told me and were near crying. I found the owner if the van and he laughed and said sure that's always falling off .

    Great lesson in honesty though. Like if they got a bollocking or a hiding, they might not be as quick to own up again. And we all make mistakes and something small where nobody’s hurt is solvable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Lads doing work on pylons on the land- Esb job. Have a bit of damage done to a shared road. My phone is red receiving calls off neighbours complaining.

    Every time the answer is: I don’t work for them, they aren’t doing work for me, nor am I gaining from it.

    The lads were sound, said they’d photos taken before and will have it sorted again after. They are in area a lot with other jobs so know well enough to sort it out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    On the subject of roads the road passing my place had a big resurfacing job done about 3 weeks ago. But the fact that the council were involved meant it wasn't all plain sailing. Apparently the head engineer wouldn't sanction a full machine laid tarmac road so they only did 4 sections in tarmac. The rest was done with just a layer of 806 with a skin of tar spray and chips. Today a nice wet day they're back again patching sections and the road will be closed all next week.
    Why couldn't they just do the whole thing in tarmac. The tar and chips is a pure joke- just a skin. Any heavy machinery turning in a gap in hot weather will tear it up. I have 6 gaps along a section of it and I dread how it will fare with trailers later on in the year with maize coming out. Like KK above I'll probably be getting phone calls
    The local council area was ever known to be miserable for road maintenance. 20 yrs ago was the last resurfacing job. Cleaned off grass margins lobbed it up on and over ditches burying wire and knocking poles. They didn't give 2 shytes.


  • Registered Users Posts: 514 ✭✭✭farmersfriend


    On the subject of roads the road passing my place had a big resurfacing job done about 3 weeks ago. But the fact that the council were involved meant it wasn't all plain sailing. Apparently the head engineer wouldn't sanction a full machine laid tarmac road so they only did 4 sections in tarmac. The rest was done with just a layer of 806 with a skin of tar spray and chips. Today a nice wet day they're back again patching sections and the road will be closed all next week.
    Why couldn't they just do the whole thing in tarmac. The tar and chips is a pure joke- just a skin. Any heavy machinery turning in a gap in hot weather will tear it up. I have 6 gaps along a section of it and I dread how it will fare with trailers later on in the year with maize coming out. Like KK above I'll probably be getting phone calls
    The local council area was ever known to be miserable for road maintenance. 20 yrs ago was the last resurfacing job. Cleaned off grass margins lobbed it up on and over ditches burying wire and knocking poles. They didn't give 2 shytes.

    We've clay coming up through our road, no hope of getting it done. Drives me mad ripping goid tar off main roads all the n back roads in bits. We pay road tax for what


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    We've clay coming up through our road, no hope of getting it done. Drives me mad ripping goid tar off main roads all the n back roads in bits. We pay road tax for what

    for mains water and cyclists :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    We've clay coming up through our road, no hope of getting it done. Drives me mad ripping goid tar off main roads all the n back roads in bits. We pay road tax for what

    They changed the name from “road tax” to “motor tax” maybe 20 years ago so people would stop expecting the money to be spent on the roads. It’s now a lifestyle tax.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,776 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Well I've the car to match the roads. :pac:

    New purchase today. 152 Dacia Duster 4wd.

    20200807-171128.jpg

    Just in case you didn't know what you were sitting into.

    Duster leather seats. :pac:

    20200807-171312.jpg


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭Mossie1975


    Well I've the car to match the roads. :pac:

    New purchase today. 152 Dacia Duster 4wd.

    20200807-171128.jpg

    Just in case you didn't know what you were sitting into.

    Duster leather seats. :pac:

    20200807-171312.jpg

    Well wear


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