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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostIts such a bizarre thing. Like a writing nervous tic
...With Regards that country thing, 22 is a lot of countries...Ireland, England, France, Italy, China, Canada, Usa (9 times 2 states), Spain, Greece, Turkey...That's my hitlist so far...
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostI should never have pointed that out.
Is it generally noticeable, or its just noticeable because I said about trying not to use it?
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThink its partially due to reading Private Eye too much as an undergraduate in England where they had an 'I' count piece for journalists to measure their self-involvement. Michael Winner always came out on tops.
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Originally posted by luckforsome View Post...ha...that came out wrong...I would have eaten the banana but it wouldn't have filled me...and if I didn't want the banana, freeze it for an hour and I'd have a clean prostate the next morning...
Did you genuinely need to text a friend to help you decide, like tossing a coin wouldn't do. Just curious if it's aligned with another obvious ocd tendancy?
Feel free to ignore or tell me to fk off and mind my own business off of course!
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Ugh...stupid wife no longer drinking wine...whole dinner bottle to myself...it's just that little bit too much for a Sunday.
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Originally posted by darwinatemyhamster View PostHa, was only joshing. I am curious about something though, if you don't mind me prying(obv ingnore this post at your leisure).
Did you genuinely need to text a friend to help you decide, like tossing a coin wouldn't do. Just curious if it's aligned with another obvious ocd tendancy?
Feel free to ignore or tell me to fk off and mind my own business off of course!
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWonder if maybe it used to be, but not so much anymore given that Ryanair will bring you to 30 countries for next to nothing.
17 countries outside UK/NI/Ire over 37 years doesn't seem much
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71SPOILERextremely average
InterstellarSPOILERstellar, 1st megabudget film in ages where I haven't walked out of the cinema feeling insulted
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Travel is overrated, can't go anywhere without bumping into some cunt in a gaa jersey. It was better 20 years ago+ when air travel was more expensive.
Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostIts really not. The main thing it allows at that stage is for them to be working well within their ability rather than having to be flat out to keep up.
If its a problem of how their peers react well frankly the childs outlook is already completely in thrall to what a gang of 9 and 10 year olds think then you are already in deep trouble.
While on the subject, could banks/atm makers etc not sort it so the buttons on the ATM line up with the multiple options on screen? Fairly mad how shit and archaic atms are. Are they running off 386's?
You'd get a better interface on an old nokia.X can be anything, any number, that is what’s CRAZY about X.
Because X doesn’t roll like that, because X can’t be pinned down!
$ Free Travel Credit with Airbnb $
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostSpecifically excluded Sweden and Latvia overnight stays for that reason. Was just airport -> hotel -> drink -> sleep fitfully -> wake up full of regret -> airport. You can't really say you've been to a country in that scenario?Originally posted by eamonhonda View PostNah, you'd need a couple hours trip to nearest city to qualify imoProfit before people.
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Originally posted by The Situation View PostYeah I agree but I'd say studies on such things are very skewed by people adding counties they've stoped off at briefly or driven through on route to their holiday/work destination.airport, lol
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Hmm what happened to the history show at 6 on newstalk. Seems to have been replaced by some awful Ted talk garbage.
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Originally posted by Lord Sir Business View PostWhile on the subject, could banks/atm makers etc not sort it so the buttons on the ATM line up with the multiple options on screen? Fairly mad how shit and archaic atms are. Are they running off 386's?
You'd get a better interface on an old nokia.
Puts me on tilt that BoI ATM's by default ask you if you want to use a fucking language that there is not a single person on the planet would need to use but they will still present you with fast cash options that cannot be dispensed because there are no twenties in the machine. This is basic stuff that could be solved with five lines of code and a time cost of <100 milliseconds. Grrrrrrrrrr!
Some of the old AIB ATM's appear to be still running OS/2 though tat this stage that is probably an OS/2 emulator running on WinXP
Its shockingly bad but they see no margin in improving the experience for us puntersTurning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Cuchulainn1 View PostOur eldest daughter is four in march and everyone we have talked to in the education field has advised to leave her till September 2016 before starting school which will make her five 1/2.
She is doing the free year this year and we first sent her to a playschool at seventeen months. She was also in a daycare in New York for 10 months which was run by Columbians so she understands Spanish quite well.
What I am trying to say is that she has been well socialised but the reason for everyone saying to leave her till she is over five is for social reasons.
Tbh I could see it this year when she started the free year she walked in like she owned the classroom whereas the other boys and girls clung furiously to their parents legs and some still do even after two 1/2 months.
We are still debating it but it looks like we will leave her the extra year.
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Originally posted by NewApproach View PostI've been in 11 US states, and only 8 (!) countries outside of GB&I as far as I can remember.
My list of States I've never been to but most want to go to are:
Oregon
Washington
Texas
Colorado
Alaska
Hawaii
and then some of the middle rural states like the Dakotas and Montana.
Some of the others I'm not too bothered about.
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Originally posted by PSV58 View Post71SPOILERextremely average
InterstellarSPOILERstellar, 1st megabudget film in ages where I haven't walked out of the cinema feeling insulted
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Only got around to seeing it last night. I thought it was a complete mess. A mess not without merit the majority of which belongs to the spectacle but I found it a deeply frustrating movie to watch. I ended up completely disengaged with story as it jumped from one chaotic scene to another interspaced with long narrative exposition often without need. I ended up watching it as a series of set pieces which still made for a decent watch as Nolan's ability to make impacful, interesting scenes often with cool concepts remains even within the mess. I do really like this idea with regards to the film.
Firstly, Cooper is Nolan and Nolan is Cooper. There is a line in the movie where Donald (the grandfather) says to Cooper: "You were born forty years before your time, or forty years after it", and I believe this is a reference to Nolan and his film-making. A few months ago, there were suggestions that Interstellar, as much as it is a movie about space exploration, is a movie about the current state of Hollywood. Nolan is highly critical of the use of green-screen, the lack of innovation in movie-making, and the switch to digital. The idea Earth(the movie industry) is dying, engineers, pioneers, explorers are of no use any more, and all that is needed to survive is the knowledge to grow the same crop over and over until complete exhaustion, is a good metaphor for how movies are being made today.
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Originally posted by 5starpool View PostAnyone here watched Alpha House with John Goodman? Any good?
Originally posted by luckforsome View Post...Yep, needed to ask what to get...It happens with a few things where I cannot make a decision and the more I try to decide the worst it gets...The coin thing works sometimes, but on occasions I can't actually decide which is heads and which is tails...It's fun living in my head sometimes :-)...
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThe kid ended up doing the 100 piece 6+ (HH bolds with gushing oxfordian pride) jigsaw, but it ended up taking her an hour. Actually a proper level of frustration on her part at times while she was doing it, so it might be the limit of her current abilities. She did it again a bit later in way less time, but I'd say the first test was more accurate as there was less memory at play.
Reasonably day's rewards for the €50 spent on jigsaws though at the expense of actually being able to buy food for the rest of the month.
Couldn't remember though whether to congratulate her or not due to Hotspurs post which I didn't quite understand but which seemed to be making a point one way or the other. So we just gave each other a limp high-five.His rival it seems, had broken his dreams,By stealing the girl of his fancy.Her name was Magill, and she called herself Lil,But everyone knew her as Nancy.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThe kid ended up doing the 100 piece 6+ (HH bolds with gushing oxfordian pride) jigsaw, but it ended up taking her an hour. Actually a proper level of frustration on her part at times while she was doing it, so it might be the limit of her current abilities. She did it again a bit later in way less time, but I'd say the first test was more accurate as there was less memory at play.
Reasonably day's rewards for the €50 spent on jigsaws though at the expense of actually being able to buy food for the rest of the month.
Couldn't remember though whether to congratulate her or not due to Hotspurs post which I didn't quite understand but which seemed to be making a point one way or the other. So we just gave each other a limp high-five.
say "really good work kid Hitch, your effort was very impressive"
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"you're the best kid Hitch. Oxford will be lucky to have such a naturally talented and genius kid"
the jist is complimenting hard work means when they encounter troubles in the future, they'll find a way to work through them. Complimenting ability or natural genius means when they encounter troubles in the future, they'll feel their failures are due lack of ability and won't reach their potential.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostJAR* score?
* Jigsaw Ability Rating
He got bored with 1000 piece sets
Never struck me to time him when he was preschool but he did complete all the kid jigsaws we had and with 3 older children we have lots, he's now 6 and probably to old for your jar test, it's been a while but I must take out some older js and see how he gets on with them.
Btw your little girl is showing good abilities, for reference what type of js is she completing, number of pieces/piece size/age group/picture topic.
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Originally posted by hotspur View Post
Have you ever been diagnosed with OCD or something? Like, what would it feel like to choose to write without those dots? Is there a significance to the fact that there are 3 dots? I know it's convention, but is 3 a lucky number for you? Do you have unlucky numbers?
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...Last edited by Hitchhiker's Guide To...; 16-11-14, 22:36."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Feel kind of bad for enjoying Robocop http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234721/?ref_=nv_sr_1 . Though can't help thinking Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Samuel L Jackson and Michael Kenneth Williams should really be up to something better.Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post3.25. No the stupid school system won't let her go next year as she'll just be 4 on Sept 2nd next year. Think that means she's a day too late.Originally posted by elbows View PostJust moved our 2.75 year old up to the 20 piece jigsaws this week. Now that there is competition out there I will have step up the training to get her to 100 piece ones in 6 months time.Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post2.75 is okay, its 3.25 where you really have to put the pressure on.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
We're going to need some proof to award you an accredited JAR score
I'm not really sure about the jigsaw, it says Ravensburger 6+ on it. Was a Frozen Disney one. Is there different gradients of these things? She definitely struggled on it, but had to see it through. Was rather sweet her pride in the whole thing!
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