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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    Feck them and their carpet cleaners. Get a bit of shake n' vac and run the hoover over it a couple of times and it leaves it smelling nice. Then tell them ya had the 'carpets steam cleaned', there's no such thing as a carpet expert. I've done this loads of times.

    im lovin the way you think :cool:

    duno what we're gonna do. see how arsed we are later. official moving date, is 29th, we'll see how we go by then.

    gotta move double bed, washing machine, table, blah blah, awkward expensive stuff.

    haha, last time i moved, just threw it in a suitcase, and hopped on a plane.

    time before that, i had to walk for about 40mins up and down a feckin hill, about 5 or 6 times, as i had no car, and was moving across the town i lived in, and had no means of transport bar walking.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭One Cold Hand


    The guy who normally plays the music in the office is out, so I've comandeered the speakers and have my mp3 player pumping out today! I'm baffling the office with some Irish classics:

    Put 'em under Pressure
    Raggle Taggle Gypsy
    A series of Pogues songs

    Anyone got any requests??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    Anyone got any requests??
    Old Town by Thin Lizzy


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭One Cold Hand


    Good one! Coming up...

    Just played Philby by Rory Gallagher!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,899 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Maniac 2000


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    Good one! Coming up...

    Just played Philby by Rory Gallagher!
    I remember seeing Rory Gallagher playing a free concert in the Central Bank in Dublin years ago. His guitar slides still sends shivers down my back. What a legend he was!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭One Cold Hand


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Maniac 2000

    I'm gonna play gift grub's 'The Mammy,' by Daniel O'Donnell. If you don't know it look it up! I'll tell them it was number 1 last christmas!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,899 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Ha I do know it. The one about jumpers and what not? Brilliant.

    Lash on a bit of Dustin while you're at it. '32 counties' or the like.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭One Cold Hand


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Lash on a bit of Dustin while you're at it. '32 counties' or the like.

    That'd be class....if I had it!
    (was 32 counties the Eurovision song?)

    Just found an album of drinking songs...
    I have 7 drunken nights lined up next...
    Followed by O-ro the Rattlin Bog...
    and The Irish Rover!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,899 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    No 'Irelande Douze Points' was the Eurovision effort.

    I hope you have 'Joxer'......


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭One Cold Hand


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    I hope you have 'Joxer'......

    Amazing forgot that! Have that one alright!
    Do you know 'The Rose of Tralee', Christy's 13 minute song? Must stick that on too!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭One Cold Hand


    Okay I'm getting looks now... I think I'll have to stick on the Kings of Leon, or something normal now!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    Waterboys! Whole of the moon!

    Saw doctors - Used to love her


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,899 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    hussey wrote: »
    Waterboys! Whole of the moon!

    With Father Noel Furlong on lead vocals! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭One Cold Hand


    My Lovely Horse! (Don't have that unfortunately tho'!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    With Father Noel Furlong on lead vocals! :D

    Now lets all stand for the National Anthem <hussey puts on ghost town by the specials>

    Classic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    what about dulaman?
    all things christy moore, quite fond of hills of donegal myself...

    paddy casey, ive a strange soft spot for, too. damien dempsey? get some songs about those ... feck it,w hat do you call them? industrial schools? that doesnt sound right... but y'no the ones... the song...?

    *shuts up*

    zig n zag ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,240 ✭✭✭hussey


    did anyone else get tickets to snow patrol?
    http://www.metrotheatre.com.au/events/2008/11/19/snow-patrol
    ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,899 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Jaysis don't go playin Damien Dempsey :mad:

    'Dulaman' is a tune though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭One Cold Hand



    paddy casey, ive a strange soft spot for, too. damien dempsey? get some songs about those ... feck it,w hat do you call them? industrial schools? that doesnt sound right... but y'no the ones... the song...?

    Industrial schools is one of his.
    Could also have been Negative Vibes, Colony, etc.?
    Big fan of Damo myself.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,899 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    I may need to consider my long term plans. The gheys are takin over -

    http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,24669169-5005370,00.html
    Aussie male under threat by beautified metrosexuals

    FORGET the whales - it's time to save the Aussie male.

    A national survey has found the hard-drinking, straight-talking male is under threat.

    The research, commissioned by Barons Brewing, suggests a rise in the number of champagne-drinking metrosexuals more interested in hair products than their mates.

    Fathering and relationships had affected mateship and 75 per cent surveyed said men were more likely to take champagne and cheese to a barbecue than beer and meat.

    "If the trends continue there'll nothing but weak handshakes and pink frocks," Barons Brewing CEO Scott Garnett said.

    The survey of 500 Australians by McCrindle Research found eight out of 10 respondents thought men spent more time on their appearance than a decade ago.

    Sixty per cent said men prefered to meet at cafes rather than pubs, while 50 per cent said men were more likely to do yoga than play footy or cricket.

    Mr Garnett said women were the strongest advocates of the savethemales.com.au campaign: "Single women are crying out that it's almost impossible to find a real man."


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    Play The Langer song..... or some Dustin the turkey!

    i also have a soft spot for The Auld Triangle by the Dubliners and Summer in Dublin by Bagatelle.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,899 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Just went out for lunch there and there's Munster jerseys all over the shop. You'd swear they actually won something.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 319 ✭✭pucan


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Just went out for lunch there and there's Munster jerseys all over the shop. You'd swear they actually won something.

    Its called pride, win, lose or draw.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,899 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    pucan wrote: »
    Its called pride, win, lose or draw.

    Codswallop.

    It's only because it was against the All Blacks. You'd never see it after a Magners League defeat to Connaught.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 319 ✭✭pucan


    Ha Ha, you're mixing us up with Leinster...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 416 ✭✭Coileach dearg


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Connaught.

    It's Connacht. I'll be writing a long winded email to ya a la channel 10 and nine msn :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,899 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Ha ha it's been at least two years since I had to spell that poxy word!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    hussey wrote: »
    did anyone else get tickets to snow patrol?
    http://www.metrotheatre.com.au/events/2008/11/19/snow-patrol
    ?

    ssssshhhh! don't let people know we're even vaguely associated with snow patrol via citizenship! *shame*


    Industrial schools is one of his.
    Could also have been Negative Vibes, Colony, etc.?
    Big fan of Damo myself.

    ah, twas industrial schools. the two words just didnt sound right together in my head. not a massive fan of damo, i like the music, and the lyrics, but his voice just grates on me.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭One Cold Hand


    ah, twas industrial schools. the two words just didnt sound right together in my head. not a massive fan of damo, i like the music, and the lyrics, but his voice just grates on me.

    He has a bit of a marmite voice alright!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    it's three thirty three on thursday.

    i am so over that. -.-


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    He has a bit of a marmite voice alright!

    oh don't get me started on bleedin marmite! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,899 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    it's three thirty three on thursday.

    i am so over that. -.-

    Only a mild 28 here :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    ... hehe, no, thanks be to jebus, it's not gotten that hot down here yet.

    but i said something to that general effect at work today, followed by my darling colleagues rippin it outta me cos of my accent. apparently 'thirty' sounded like 'turdy'. oh c'mon, turd?! they try say 'deck', and say 'dick'!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 416 ✭✭Coileach dearg


    ... hehe, no, thanks be to jebus, it's not gotten that hot down here yet.

    but i said something to that general effect at work today, followed by my darling colleagues rippin it outta me cos of my accent. apparently 'thirty' sounded like 'turdy'. oh c'mon, turd?! they try say 'deck', and say 'dick'!


    Ask them to say paw, poor and pour. The end up saying poh, poh and poh and don't realise how rediculous it is!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    hehe, but they can't hear it! like our friend jen is very different to the drink gin, and get them to say both, and it's like 'gin', 'gin', absolutely convinced they can do it right ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,878 ✭✭✭The_B_Man


    lol ye and "bed" and ten" sound more like "bead" and "teen".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    i can't believe i forgot to request some boomtown rats, or clannad, or... enya!

    haha!

    has anyone else found themselves saying 'yip' instead of 'yep'?

    also, Bman, are you in ozzie or nz? cos i'd say that bed and ten sounded more like 'bid' and 'tin'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,899 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,24675808-421,00.html
    Driver convicted for penis in pasta jar

    A MAN caught by police with his penis inside a pasta sauce jar was still pleasuring himself while resisting arrest, a court has been told.

    Police drew their weapons after New South Wales man Keith Roy Weatherley, 46, led them on a brief, slow-speed car chase, the Newcastle Herald reports.

    Weatherley attracted police attention while he was parked in a no-stopping zone near Nobby's Beach on October 26, Newcastle Local Court was told yesterday.

    Police thought he might have a weapon because they saw him doing something with his hands in his lap, the Herald said.

    Instead, they found him partially clothed with his genitals in a jar, a police statement said.

    That's when the pursuit began, the court was told.

    When Weatherley was stopped, he refused to leave his car and four officers used batons and capsicum spray to get him out.

    They found a 750mm jar around his penis and said Weatherley attempted to continue "pleasuring himself in between bouts of wrestling".

    Weatherley pleaded guilty to offensive behaviour, resisting police and disobeying a police direction.

    He was convicted and fined $600.

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    Thats so crazy Xavi. I was reading this story on the train in one of these freebie papers called Mx and you sprung to mind straight away. I was actually thinking about posting it because I knew it would cause you much mirth.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭One Cold Hand


    Ah Bogans! Our lives would be empty without they're crazy antics to entertain us!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭The Sweeper


    Reckon my house will be finished inside the next three weeks. (Reckon I've started to start my sentences with reckon without noticing it.)

    Weather needs to improve more though. Was cold this morning! Gah!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,196 ✭✭✭Crumble Froo


    Ask them to say paw, poor and pour. The end up saying poh, poh and poh and don't realise how rediculous it is!

    you know what,? i did that last night. then one of hte girls said it's like the 'three hairs'... im thinking... three?! hare, hair, and....

    here.

    no really. that's the third 'hair'.

    come on!

    they continued to take the piss on the 'thur' thing. and then, i swaer twas a set up, one of hte kids walks in this morning with a '36' jumper on. i swear, it's a set up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭One Cold Hand


    Reckon my house will be finished inside the next three weeks. (Reckon I've started to start my sentences with reckon without noticing it.)

    Weather needs to improve more though. Was cold this morning! Gah!

    Did you build from scratch or was it renovations?

    And yes, it was bloody freezing in Melbourne last night. So changeable around here, it was 33/34 in the middle of last week, the cold this week.


  • Registered Users Posts: 253 ✭✭Traq


    Yeah, the weather's been absolutely shithouse here lately. Not looking forward to tomorrow, a month's worth of rain forecast for the afternoon, with the wind howling outside, and it's only going to be 16 degrees. I may as well be back at home! At least the pub crawl I'm going on should be a good distraction...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭The Sweeper


    Building from scratch. Takes ages.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    At one stage I was going to build a strawbale house (with my ex) which has very good insulation qualities. It doesn't heat up as much as brick in the summer and retains heat in the winter. Theres lots of little pockets of hippydom in parts of Country Vic that have these little alternative communities which really appeals to me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,658 ✭✭✭✭The Sweeper


    Yeah this is true - country Vic isn't a bad place to live actually - I definitely love having more space, though our community really aren't that radical. We just went for a project build, but building always just takes longer than you thought it would. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,899 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Feckin pricks in work making me go to some awards thing tomorrow. It's meant to be sunny so my plan was to top up the oul tan by the pool. Instead I have to go and meet a bunch of **** and basically tell them that if they advertise on our site then I will write a story bigging up their company. Not happy :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭dSTAR


    Xavi6 wrote: »
    Feckin pricks in work making me go to some awards thing tomorrow. It's meant to be sunny so my plan was to top up the oul tan by the pool. Instead I have to go and meet a bunch of **** and basically tell them that if they advertise on our site then I will write a story bigging up their company. Not happy :mad:
    Mate .. you always seem to be hanging down the beach or poolside if you are not on boards. You really must stop bludging and pullin sickies :D


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