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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,961 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Last night I decided I'd go out for breakfast this morning seeing as my local-ish place has re-opened post-lockdown.

    Got up early but just didn't feel like it. Couldn't motivate myself to get in the car and drive there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,544 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Notifications on my phone.
    I click and get ' no new messages ) etc. But the notification sign is still there. On 4 apps now.
    Also emails from the lottery (uk) to tell me 'good news about your ticket ' . Well stick your £4.20 up your hole ! I nearly had a heart attack.
    While I'm at it the Battery symbol on this phone. It's at 61% but looks like its showing 30/40%
    Oh and there's more!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Awake since 4.30 this morning thanks to the massive session people decided to have in the playground across the road from my. They weren't even teenagers either, two of them stood under my window having a very long and loud conversation and they looked about 25. And there was a constant stream of taxis coming and going so they weren't from the estate and had money to spend on getting home.

    What a weird and random thing to do - organise to go on the knack somewhere far enough away to require a taxi.

    The cops finally arrived and they all scattered. The Gardai spent about an hour searching in gardens and bushes while a collection of very confused taxis drove around wondering where their fares were...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,277 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    Awake since 4.30 this morning thanks to the massive session people decided to have in the playground across the road from my. They weren't even teenagers either, two of them stood under my window having a very long and loud conversation and they looked about 25. And there was a constant stream of taxis coming and going so they weren't from the estate and had money to spend on getting home.

    What a weird and random thing to do - organise to go on the knack somewhere far enough away to require a taxi.

    The cops finally arrived and they all scattered. The Gardai spent about an hour searching in gardens and bushes while a collection of very confused taxis drove around wondering where their fares were...

    Dial, you should have done the French thing and chucked a saucepan of water out the window, down over their heads :)

    To thine own self be true



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Pulling on my jeans this morning and the zip has ripped my skin from my shin to above my knee ..wouldn't be the first time either

    I thought that sentence was going to end very differently ala American Pie There's Something About Mary.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,023 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    I thought that sentence was going to end very differently ala American Pie.

    ‘There’s Something About Mary’, no?

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    ‘There’s Something About Mary’, no?

    yeah, thats the one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,023 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    yeah, thats the one.

    Thanks for the wincing memory of that scene.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,513 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Thanks for the wincing memory of that scene.

    WE GOT A BLEEDER!


  • Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Jenna James


    DOMS :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,104 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    DOMS :(

    Whats DOMS?!

    My TA is that its Saturday and I am thinking about monday at work. I wonder if this could count as overtime...


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    There was a ball pit for babies for sale in Aldi a while back. Thought it would be nice to pick one up for the little one because she can sit up now, and loves playing with bits of coloured plastic and all that as they do at that age. None in the store I stopped by today. No biggy, just picked up a few other bits and figured I'd order one online from somewhere else.

    Apparently there isn't an Aldi one to be got the length and breadth of the country. Women in the mums group I'm in are going mad posting asking what stores they are in. IIRC they were the same about the last range of toys Lidl had in. In fact, stores had to implement a ticketing and store marshall system to stop people running amok, killing each other and buying up loads of them.

    The thing is, it isn't that these toys are any cheaper, or can't be got elsewhere or are specifically made in Ireland. You could have the exact same thing in Argos or Amazon and nobody would give a feckin hoot but for some reason when it's Lidl or Aldi, the FOMO just kicks in with people. And one isn't enough either - how many ball pits does your child actually need?

    TL:DR TA hungry gits.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    Whats DOMS?!

    My TA is that its Saturday and I am thinking about monday at work. I wonder if this could count as overtime...

    Is it a dominatrix?


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Antares35 wrote: »
    There was a ball pit for babies for sale in Aldi a while back. Thought it would be nice to pick one up for the little one because she can sit up now, and loves playing with bits of coloured plastic and all that as they do at that age. None in the store I stopped by today. No biggy, just picked up a few other bits and figured I'd order one online from somewhere else.

    Apparently there isn't an Aldi one to be got the length and breadth of the country. Women in the mums group I'm in are going mad posting asking what stores they are in. IIRC they were the same about the last range of toys Lidl had in. In fact, stores had to implement a ticketing and store marshall system to stop people running amok, killing each other and buying up loads of them.

    The thing is, it isn't that these toys are any cheaper, or can't be got elsewhere or are specifically made in Ireland. You could have the exact same thing in Argos or Amazon and nobody would give a feckin hoot but for some reason when it's Lidl or Aldi, the FOMO just kicks in with people. And one isn't enough either - how many ball pits does your child actually need?

    TL:DR TA hungry gits.
    Very sly business model they have with their middle aisle stuff. Some new item comes in and it is 'when they are gone they are gone' so people want to buy it quick in the week or whatever.
    Of course they usually have the same things on offer at a later date, but who is to say for sure they will!
    Also this model means they are never stuck with a load of unwanted stock they can't shift like Argos and the others.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    Very sly business model they have with their middle aisle stuff. Some new item comes in and it is 'when they are gone they are gone' so people want to buy it quick in the week or whatever.
    Of course they usually have the same things on offer at a later date, but who is to say for sure they will!
    Also this model means they are never stuck with a load of unwanted stock they can't shift like Argos and the others.
    Oh it's very clever alright, they are cashing in on people's FOMO and it's a good marketing move. It's just when they say "they are gone they're gone" I hear, "when they're gone you can just get one somewhere else" :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,011 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Antares35 wrote: »
    Is it a dominatrix?

    Tell me more


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    PsychoPete wrote: »
    Tell me more

    Women who like to be violent towards others, is about where my knowledge begins and ends. Presumably the men who are into them were belted around the kitchen table with a dish cloth by their mammy, and have some weird Oedipus complex. I'm not sure though! :D

    TA that the passport office still insists on receipt of important documents by snail mail. I actually had to put my own passport into a fúcking postbox to them, to make sure I'm not trafficking my own child.

    They've no idea where my passport is now, and the "computer says no" príck that I spoke to basically just said "dunno how long it will take, we've a big massive pile of envelopes still to open". So, anyone could have my passport, and I am also prevented from travelling should an emergency arrive, because the passport office is stuck back in the 1980s. Do they realise that scan copies are accepted for banking, KYC checks etc. Why are they so precious about originals?

    TA public sector bureaucracy and incompetence means my baby probably won't get to meet her sick grandmother :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,011 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Antares35 wrote: »
    Women who like to be violent towards others, is about where my knowledge begins and ends. Presumably the men who are into them were belted around the kitchen table with a dish cloth by their mammy, and have some weird Oedipus complex. I'm not sure though! :D

    The thing I don't get about that stuff is how stressful does your life have to be for that stuff to give you pleasure


  • Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Jenna James


    Whats DOMS?!

    My TA is that its Saturday and I am thinking about monday at work. I wonder if this could count as overtime...

    Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness ( I think is the term)

    Essentially over did the exercise yesterday and now muscles very crampy - self inflicted and I should know better!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,011 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness ( I think is the term)

    Essentially over did the exercise yesterday and now muscles very crampy - self inflicted and I should know better!

    Your first mistake was doing exercise in the first place


  • Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭JeffreyEpspeen


    Look back at old footage of Gay Byrne he used to do yank accents now and again, so did an aul fella I worked with. With them though it was like a wild west cowboy accent, and they were doing it for a laugh. The young ones today do it non-stop and I don't think they even realise it.
    They are reared on nothing but American shows and films tbf. We had a lot more Irish, English and loads of Ozzie shows growing up. :)


    Nothing to do with watching American TV shows and films. Scottish, Welsh and English women watch the same things we do and they don't speak with American accents.


    All the women I've ever met from the UK & Ireland and other English speaking countries and it's just ours who change their accents.


    I have a theory that it's some kind of cultural inferiority or insecurity.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    Nothing to do with watching American TV shows and films. Scottish, Welsh and English women watch the same things we do and they don't speak with American accents.


    All the women I've ever met from the UK & Ireland and other English speaking countries and it's just ours who change their accents.


    I have a theory that it's some kind of cultural inferiority or insecurity.
    Stick on Emmerdale sometime, it sounds more like an episode of Friends nowadays. Then look up some old Emmerdale Farm clips on YT to hear the proper old eh-up Yorkshire accents.
    Same with Corro: regional accents are dying off in the english-speaking world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,985 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    Antares35 wrote: »
    There was a ball pit for babies for sale in Aldi a while back. Thought it would be nice to pick one up for the little one because she can sit up now, and loves playing with bits of coloured plastic and all that as they do at that age. None in the store I stopped by today. No biggy, just picked up a few other bits and figured I'd order one online from somewhere else.

    .

    We used an inflatable paddling pool (in shape of a car) and bought a set of balls, all in argos came to about 20 quid.....might have to wait until summer stock comes in though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    These lockdowns have not helped my appearance.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,023 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    These lockdowns have not helped my appearance.


    Surreptitious, you can't improve perfection. :cool:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    New Home wrote: »
    Surreptitious, you can't improve perfection. :cool:

    Would ya go away ya chancer!



    Thanks though:)


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,023 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I'm not a chancer. I'm just an underestimated motivational speaker. :D (Plus, I use that excuse on myself aaaaallll the tiiiime!)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 RLF71


    Hypocrites and false friends.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,699 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    I was watching the ManU v Man City match yesterday (which was annoying enough) but before the start, the camera went to a weird angle...but then I realised what was happening. The camera was 'taking the knee'!

    What's wrong with these people? :confused:


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,561 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    The word "fish" needs to be entirely expunged from the English language.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    The word "fish" needs to be entirely expunged from the English language.

    Add covid, and brexit and you have a deal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 529 ✭✭✭Goldfinch8


    Just lost twenty minutes of my weekend and life trying to 'coax back' a disappeared drawstring in a tracksuit bottoms waist.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭Robsweezie


    TA christmas shopping and my hands were red raw from the handles of those bags for life they have in the shops.

    TA i think my keyboard is starting to die off as some of the letters arent typing straight away, and needs one or two bashes to work properly. so ''table'' comes out as ''abe''.


  • Registered Users Posts: 624 ✭✭✭Jenna James


    PsychoPete wrote: »
    Your first mistake was doing exercise in the first place

    No my first mistake was not exercising for too long.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    An entire Sunday morning wasted doing the weekly clean-up after the cats. While they just hang around shouting at me for food. No, you get fed in the evening and that's it. They must have fifty fúckin acres of mountain to roam, hunt, frolick, dance with the rabbits I don't know, whatever cats do, but no they've to "hang out" at the back door, tripping me up as I make my way in and out with buckets of hot water and bleach. Little sh*ts.

    I love them really.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,972 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    Imperial measurements for your tools.

    I know a 200mm spanner didn´t work so I might try a 250mm

    But read instructions on an American site and you learn about swopping a 5/8 spanner for next size up 11/16 spanner. If that doesn't work try a 3/4 spanner and then a 13/16

    Now I learned fractions in school, we all did but it seems so unnecessarily difficult


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Having to tax my car when I barely used it all year.

    Due its NCT too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,089 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Imperial measurements for your tools.

    I know a 200mm spanner didn´t work so I might try a 250mm

    But read instructions on an American site and you learn about swopping a 5/8 spanner for next size up 11/16 spanner. If that doesn't work try a 3/4 spanner and then a 13/16

    Now I learned fractions in school, we all did but it seems so unnecessarily difficult

    I watched a review of a camera on YouTube by a Canadian guy yesterday. For the Americans, he converted grams into pounds - but to 4 decimal places. Then he converted millimetres into lightyears for them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 555 ✭✭✭JeffreyEpspeen


    I was watching the ManU v Man City match yesterday (which was annoying enough) but before the start, the camera went to a weird angle...but then I realised what was happening. The camera was 'taking the knee'!

    What's wrong with these people? :confused:


    It's important to be seen doing the right thing, that's what's most important.


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


    Had my sister and her bf over for a pre-quarantine Christmas dinner. Had a great night talking ****e which I didn't realise I missed so much. But we were up talking till near 4am and I am feeling every glass of wine and missed hour of sleep today.

    And it's a month today since our little cat went to sleep and I still have a massive weight on my heart and a lump in my throat from missing her. Not in any mood for Christmas at all.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Porklife


    Mollyb60 wrote: »
    Had my sister and her bf over for a pre-quarantine Christmas dinner. Had a great night talking ****e which I didn't realise I missed so much. But we were up talking till near 4am and I am feeling every glass of wine and missed hour of sleep today.

    And it's a month today since our little cat went to sleep and I still have a massive weight on my heart and a lump in my throat from missing her. Not in any mood for Christmas at all.

    Aww Mollyb, what a bittersweet post, sending you a virtual hug.

    TA at myself and my bizarre shopping/eating habits since being pregnant. I just came home and emptied the contents of my bags on the table...jam (I don't eat jam), big jar of honey, box of milk tray and koka noodles. So it looks like its honey noodles for dinner with chocolate jam for dessert. Yummy!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,011 ✭✭✭PsychoPete


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    Imperial measurements for your tools.

    I know a 200mm spanner didn´t work so I might try a 250mm

    But read instructions on an American site and you learn about swopping a 5/8 spanner for next size up 11/16 spanner. If that doesn't work try a 3/4 spanner and then a 13/16

    Now I learned fractions in school, we all did but it seems so unnecessarily difficult

    If a spanner or socket isnt in millimetres then I won't use it, I have a load of imperial sockets and I won't even entertain there existence. My father uses imperial, he'd say I'd reckon that's a 3/8, I'd have no idea what size that is


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,971 ✭✭✭spookwoman


    Celebrities that are rolling in money telling people and countries how to live or what to do.
    Climate change we need to cut down own carbon emissions while they jet around the world. Home many homes have they build for homeless people etc yet they tell us we have to take more people in.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,943 ✭✭✭✭the purple tin


    People who turn competions into county contests.
    The Young Scientist Award for eg. It was vote for the winner online and family members of the conteatants were sending out messages all over soc med saying things like 'support the county, vote for Lucy'.
    It is not about their inventions anymore but turns into like a GAA type county pride contest :(


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    When the person drying the dishes keeps getting in your way while you wash them. Or when you're drying them and trying to put them away but the person washing them keeps getting in your way going around gathering up more dirty ones.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    People who turn competions into county contests.
    The Young Scientist Award for eg. It was vote for the winner online and family members of the conteatants were sending out messages all over soc med saying things like 'support the county, vote for Lucy'.
    It is not about their inventions anymore but turns into like a GAA type county pride contest :(

    Same thing used to happen with the póxy Eurovision too :D


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,612 ✭✭✭Gervais08


    Antares35 wrote: »
    Same thing used to happen with the póxy Eurovision too :D

    But that was grand till we stopped winning!!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    Gervais08 wrote: »
    But that was grand till we stopped winning!!!!

    No I think it was grand when we stopped winning! :D wasn't there a time for a while where we didn't know where to get the money to host it! :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Antares35


    "Price on Application" - would you get off with your notions. Can anyone explain why estate agents do this? Do they charge you more if you "look" like you can afford it? Will they not disclose the price and prevent you from buying if you "look" like you can't?

    OH and I currently in the market for a house and this POA is really starting to píss me off :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Antares35 wrote: »
    "Price on Application" - would you get off with your notions. Can anyone explain why estate agents do this? Do they charge you more if you "look" like you can afford it? Will they not disclose the price and prevent you from buying if you "look" like you can't?

    OH and I currently in the market for a house and this POA is really starting to píss me off :(


    Im looking at cars atm and I ignore all POA ads.
    Cant be dealing with it.


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