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Originally posted by PSV58 View PostWho the fuck tips taxi drivers?
Also ah where are ya going say southside ah not worth me time
Cunts had a total grip on the industry the queues on fri sat nights were bananas.
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Waiting on a withdrawl from Boyles for 2 days.
Telling me a problem with neteller
i say stick it back into my account we cant?
Refuse to give me a timeframe for processing anyone site to complain about them?
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Originally posted by Sickpuppy View PostFond memories of my first few years in dublin and they taking a long hard look at ya and driving off.
Also ah where are ya going say southside ah not worth me time
Cunts had a total grip on the industry the queues on fri sat nights were bananas.
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Originally posted by FeetMagic View PostI'm strongly considering going on a 3/4 month excursion come the start of Feb while I still have such opportunity. Basically every possible travel idea has been considered at some point (motorbiking SE Asia, backpacking Europe, camper van around Europe, travelling across States (buses/bike) and so on). Budget will be anything from 2k-10k so almost any option is open to me. Would anyone strongly point me in a certain direction?
US >>>>>go west
you're welcome
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Like FM I'm thinking something similar.
I'm mid twenties working a decent ish job and have no mortgage. I'm thinking of applying for the 2 year Canada visa in Jan, well I will apply either way. Work 12 months here and just go in Jan 2016 with herself. Perhaps a month or two in South America first.
Thinking 20 months of work and travel in Canada, then one big road trip through the US.
Any reason for me not to do this? All I can think of is my job but I will be working for the rest of my life. I think in 5 years down the line if I don't go it will be a regret.
How bad will it look on my CV that I went to college, worked for a year, went OZ 12 months, worked a few years then went Canada 2 years? Too many gaps?
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostIt will actually take a generation to forgive the taxi industry for how they used to run things. I remember many winter weekend boozings followed by having to walk the three hours in the cold back to Bayside.Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by 5starpool View PostAuld biddy on Prime Time "we have a right in the constitution to refuse water meters". Some foresight by the lads who created it.You are technically correct...the best kind of correct
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Postoh thats potentially quite handy for nights out. You can have a card set up in Hailo and use it to pay for the taxi even if you don't have your card? Normally leave my card at home to avoid overspends, but then never have enough left to pay for the taxi due to excessive drinking.Originally posted by Flushdraw View PostDon't have Halo, so just wondering..
If you tip, do you tip him in the car, or add a tip to the total cost?
I never wait for a taxi, or go to a taxi, they come to me at maybe 2-3 clicks.
Also hitch for somebody with social tipping anxiety it is a good start to wean you off, they won't know how much you are tipping, you can even lie or play them with word trickery - oh great turn, just gonna double my tip.
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Originally posted by CourierCollie View PostBit mad to blame how they used to run things on the current drivers. It was ridiculous 25 years ago, waiting 3 hours on college green, or realizing you could walk home in 90 minutes. I know you said 'taxi industry', but there is no such thing.
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View PostLinux is awesome, hard to use windows or a mac after linux tbh.
Admittedly not as user friendly but does keep the scum out
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Originally posted by CourierCollie View PostI mostly think yourself, Garrett Fitzgerald, and Alan Shatter, have read it. No reason to think anyone else has
I met Garrett once. In the very brief meeting I had with him it was so obvious that he was absolutely brimming over with smarts. Such a lovely man too.You are technically correct...the best kind of correct
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It's a fair bit less than 25 years since the bad ol taxi days. Unpleasant memory of sobering up in a taxi queue due to the wait on new years eve of all nights. Was 2002 or 2003 i guess.
Not used hailo yet but had to get a couple of taxis with a mate yesterday and was very impressed as it helped us out of a couple of vaguely grim spots - getting from the gravediggers in the lashing rain and then from anglers rest last night only having to wait a few mins
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostMy dislike is only directed towards actual Irish taxi drivers though rather than the cleaner and less racist foreign drivers, so there is that.
Same thing when I became a car salesman, it's only most of them that are absolute cunts.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostIt will actually take a generation to forgive the taxi industry for how they used to run things. I remember many winter weekend boozings followed by having to walk the three hours in the cold back to Bayside.
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Originally posted by gorrrr72 View PostIt's like most industries, until you actually enter said industry. 20 years ago I became a bus driver. Before that, in my opinion, every bus driver was a cunt, when I became one I discovered it was only most of them.
Same thing when I became a car salesman, it's only most of them that are absolute cunts.
I work in transport/Logistics so work ith a lot of non-irish people for the most part all the different nationailities are the same some good some bad some you would drive over twice if you got the chance, nothing much you can do except get on with it!
tl:dr: People are people, live with it!!
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...Last edited by Hitchhiker's Guide To...; 18-11-14, 23:27."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by pgodkin View PostI work in transport/Logistics so work ith a lot of non-irish people for the most part all the different nationailities are the same some good some bad some you would drive over twice if you got the chance, nothing much you can do except get on with it!
tl:dr: People are people, live with it!!
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostRead it a few times, due to invigilating law exams. Think every student was allowed a copy of it. If I remember correctly its quite short? Elegantly written though.
Edit: ah right, must have read a shortened version, its quite longOriginally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostOhYou are technically correct...the best kind of correct
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View PostOnce you go halo, or uber if you are fancy like me, you don't go back.
I never wait for a taxi, or go to a taxi, they come to me at maybe 2-3 clicks.
Also hitch for somebody with social tipping anxiety it is a good start to wean you off, they won't know how much you are tipping, you can even lie or play them with word trickery - oh great turn, just gonna double my tip.No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.
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Just looking at reviews of Interstellar on IMDB as it seems to be a real love it or hate it thing but I did have to laugh at this review. Contains lots of spoilers and by someone who hated it by the way - a lot.
SPOILER
Near the beginning of the movie a family gets a flat tire in the dust-bowl corn fields of any mid-western alternate reality. The dad is played by Mud and in his alternate world he hangs a 90 and does like SEVENTY through the corn without the slightest bump, all the while deftly hacking his laptop to commandeer a nearby drone.
After stealing the drone, Mud decides that he must leave his kids to prove to their uppity teacher that NASA really did go to the Moon. He is chosen by Alfred to blast off with Catwoman in a reasonably 20th century 3-stage rocket that will eventually dock with an incredibly advanced 22nd century space station/rocket-ship. After leaving Earth, they need no longer adhere to primitive Earth technology. Now they can do anything that already ever happened on Star Trek, including Cryo-Sleep.
When they wake up feeling refreshed they head for a cool wormhole that Stanley and Alfred told them about. They are hoping to find a new planet for all the okies to go to, at least that's Plan A. There is a Plan B but it's sub PC and is not going to work for Mud who is all about hurrying on up back to Earth so he can save everyone.
Gotta say more here about Mud's robot chum as he is remarkable with a fingerprint smeared body consisting of multiple swinging HVAC ducts that can navigate through zero gravity, run across boulder fields, and even walk on water, not to mention rescue damsels while carrying on charming banter with a voice socially engineered to be annoying.
After they go through the wormhole they go to a waterworld where the laws of physics need not apply. Each hour they spend is equal to 17 years on Earth. Where's Einstein when you need him? The whole planet is covered with 3 feet of water which is fortunate since Catwoman can't swim.
Back on Earth, the dispossessed are aging rapidly with their old-school monster trucks and other quaint artifacts of 20th century dust-bowl Arkansas. Mud's kids get growed up and environmentally challenged, but it's really about how Mud abandoned them.
Eventually Mud and Catwoman go to a really crappy planet that seems even worse than dust-bowl earth, yet they feel hopeful that they might move their famblys there, perhaps down under the frozen ammonia glaciers. They find a sinister guy who looks like Matt Damon's dad who gets all evil and blows stuff up. Mud decides that he's gonna take the tin man and fly into the near-bye black hole that is just 14 billion light years away.
Mudbot knows in his crazy-brilliant, hillbilly-sage way, that if he just makes a B-line through the B-hole he is going to pop the cherry. With Hans Zimmer in the house Mud trips his way through the five-dimensional space. After an abbreviated acid trip (Thanks Kubrick, thanks Trumbull) Mud skips the room with the old man and starts floating around in an empty library. He peers through the stacks at his past-life capers while pondering the tangled twists which makes him feel real sad and then he feels real mad and yells at his little daughter who can't even hear him. If only he could communicate using just his sheer acting....
Meanwhile, Mud's grown-up daughter on Earth also feels sad and mad and she tells her brother to Argo F himself for not joining her in her cave. She doesn't like the air quality either so she torches her bro's corn crop. Harsh. Then she starts moping around in the old family library, the very same one that Mud is trapped behind the stacks in, except Muds library is made by humans from the future. At least that's what the robot said. Suddenly while pondering a wristwatch big daughter has an epiphany and realizes that all you really need is… …. wait for it…. Gravity!
Lots of good opportunities to cry here, what with Mud screaming at the little and big version of his daughter and having epiphanies right and left. Something (no idea what) clicks and Mud tells the robot to get binary and convert the 'quantum data' into Morse code so that he can power-emote it to the wristwatch that daughter is trippin on. Wait, did she just hallucinate? or did the little minute hand start jiggling around? It did do a jiggly wiggly and the jiggles are obviously coded gravity-signal wiggles coming through the black-hole bookshelf world from her crazy hick-savant dad.
Well that about wraps it up. Needless to say,... big daughter trans-codes the Quantum Jiggles into FORTRAN code and saves the world or at least makes it a lot less dusty and so that people get to go to Hawaii again.
Years later the big daughter becomes really ancient daughter and cryo-naps in the hope of seeing Mud again. Darned if some of the freshly quantum jiggled peoples don't figure out how to make space rockets again and they even find Mud just in time so that he can come back and be ignored by everybody he saved. Apparently the robot ran off with catwoman so ancient daughter wakes up and figures it is just so much easier to go to Saturn with her tube and her hospital Bed. A bunch of other family members go with her just for convenience sake and they all gather around her bed. When Mud comes in they decide to walk out en masse without even glancing at Mud even though he is their great gran-pappy and saved the world and discovered quantum gravity love.
More sweet, sweet tears as dad and daughter commiserate. After an appropriate interval daughter wisely tells daddy to go and enjoy his youth, steal a spaceship, and try and win catwoman back from the swinging robot.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWell because the evident reality is that so many mothers do have to work for economic neccesity? It also doesn't seem to feature in any apparatus of the state e.g. unemployment benefit regulations are equally applied to mothers and non-mothers.
And that constitutional provision is dealt with by child welfare payments. Totally uncontroversial constitutional point.Last edited by Kayroo; 19-11-14, 00:12.You are technically correct...the best kind of correct
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Lollipop seems like a nice improvement to android so far, it may be my imagination but the keyboard and touch in general seem to have come on a lot. However the option to add chrome tabs to previous apps is peculiar, and gmail assuming control of other email accounts is invasive.Last edited by Denny Crane; 19-11-14, 00:05.
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Originally posted by Mellor View PostYou've lost me also Hitcheroo.
I read it simply as the states recognise that a housewife contributes to the state outside of contributing tax.
Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostIs there no scope for saying that if, say, 20% of mothers worked 30 years ago, and now, say, 80% do, then there has been some evident breakdown in the ability of mothers to not have to work due to economic neccesity?You are technically correct...the best kind of correct
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostIs there no scope for saying that if, say, 20% of mothers worked 30 years ago, and now, say, 80% do, then there has been some evident breakdown in the ability of mothers to not have to work due to economic neccesity?
They "have" to work to maintain a certain level of comfort, or lifestyle. But the reality is that's a level they've chosen, and it's not anyway comparable with the level 30 years ago.
30 Years ago dual income was obviously much lower, nowhere near as many people would be content with that level of comfort today.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostBear in mind I just found it interesting, that's all. Cheers!You are technically correct...the best kind of correct
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostBut then it says "the State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home."
Is that not quite clear, or I'm misreading it?
Also, if one was to make a case, "to the neglect of their duties" could possibly be exclude part-time work.
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Haven't played teh pokers in a year, feeling the urge to get a game in. Was going to go to a local $200 monthly game on Friday, probably stupid thing to do being so rusty and given most of the players will be Spanish. Never set foot in the casino here so I don't know what to expect with the lingo etc.
On the other hand I'm being roped into a Stars in their Eyes night in the local boozer on the same night, probably do that instead. Don't mind me lads, just typing out loud.
Re: Stars in their eyes, Johnny Cash should be the default here yeah? Ring of Fire?
Yeah, I'll probably do that.
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...lying in bed, and just got a horrible pain in my left testicle...it's actually the 3rd time it's happened in about 3 weeks...I thought I just kneed myself the first time , but last two times have been knee free...what's the General Diagnosis for this, would it be worth checking or something that normally passes, as would rather not have to whip it my dick to get checked...
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Originally posted by luckforsome View Post...lying in bed, and just got a horrible pain in my left testicle...it's actually the 3rd time it's happened in about 3 weeks...I thought I just kneed myself the first time , but last two times have been knee free...what's the General Diagnosis for this, would it be worth checking or something that normally passes, as would rather not have to whip it my dick to get checked...
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Originally posted by luckforsome View Post...lying in bed, and just got a horrible pain in my left testicle...it's actually the 3rd time it's happened in about 3 weeks...I thought I just kneed myself the first time , but last two times have been knee free...what's the General Diagnosis for this, would it be worth checking or something that normally passes, as would rather not have to whip it my dick to get checked...
Use some of that, if the pain persists then see a doctor.
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Originally posted by 5starpool View PostJust looking at reviews of Interstellar on IMDB as it seems to be a real love it or hate it thing but I did have to laugh at this review. Contains lots of spoilers and by someone who hated it by the way - a lot.
SPOILER
Near the beginning of the movie a family gets a flat tire in the dust-bowl corn fields of any mid-western alternate reality. The dad is played by Mud and in his alternate world he hangs a 90 and does like SEVENTY through the corn without the slightest bump, all the while deftly hacking his laptop to commandeer a nearby drone.
After stealing the drone, Mud decides that he must leave his kids to prove to their uppity teacher that NASA really did go to the Moon. He is chosen by Alfred to blast off with Catwoman in a reasonably 20th century 3-stage rocket that will eventually dock with an incredibly advanced 22nd century space station/rocket-ship. After leaving Earth, they need no longer adhere to primitive Earth technology. Now they can do anything that already ever happened on Star Trek, including Cryo-Sleep.
When they wake up feeling refreshed they head for a cool wormhole that Stanley and Alfred told them about. They are hoping to find a new planet for all the okies to go to, at least that's Plan A. There is a Plan B but it's sub PC and is not going to work for Mud who is all about hurrying on up back to Earth so he can save everyone.
Gotta say more here about Mud's robot chum as he is remarkable with a fingerprint smeared body consisting of multiple swinging HVAC ducts that can navigate through zero gravity, run across boulder fields, and even walk on water, not to mention rescue damsels while carrying on charming banter with a voice socially engineered to be annoying.
After they go through the wormhole they go to a waterworld where the laws of physics need not apply. Each hour they spend is equal to 17 years on Earth. Where's Einstein when you need him? The whole planet is covered with 3 feet of water which is fortunate since Catwoman can't swim.
Back on Earth, the dispossessed are aging rapidly with their old-school monster trucks and other quaint artifacts of 20th century dust-bowl Arkansas. Mud's kids get growed up and environmentally challenged, but it's really about how Mud abandoned them.
Eventually Mud and Catwoman go to a really crappy planet that seems even worse than dust-bowl earth, yet they feel hopeful that they might move their famblys there, perhaps down under the frozen ammonia glaciers. They find a sinister guy who looks like Matt Damon's dad who gets all evil and blows stuff up. Mud decides that he's gonna take the tin man and fly into the near-bye black hole that is just 14 billion light years away.
Mudbot knows in his crazy-brilliant, hillbilly-sage way, that if he just makes a B-line through the B-hole he is going to pop the cherry. With Hans Zimmer in the house Mud trips his way through the five-dimensional space. After an abbreviated acid trip (Thanks Kubrick, thanks Trumbull) Mud skips the room with the old man and starts floating around in an empty library. He peers through the stacks at his past-life capers while pondering the tangled twists which makes him feel real sad and then he feels real mad and yells at his little daughter who can't even hear him. If only he could communicate using just his sheer acting....
Meanwhile, Mud's grown-up daughter on Earth also feels sad and mad and she tells her brother to Argo F himself for not joining her in her cave. She doesn't like the air quality either so she torches her bro's corn crop. Harsh. Then she starts moping around in the old family library, the very same one that Mud is trapped behind the stacks in, except Muds library is made by humans from the future. At least that's what the robot said. Suddenly while pondering a wristwatch big daughter has an epiphany and realizes that all you really need is… …. wait for it…. Gravity!
Lots of good opportunities to cry here, what with Mud screaming at the little and big version of his daughter and having epiphanies right and left. Something (no idea what) clicks and Mud tells the robot to get binary and convert the 'quantum data' into Morse code so that he can power-emote it to the wristwatch that daughter is trippin on. Wait, did she just hallucinate? or did the little minute hand start jiggling around? It did do a jiggly wiggly and the jiggles are obviously coded gravity-signal wiggles coming through the black-hole bookshelf world from her crazy hick-savant dad.
Well that about wraps it up. Needless to say,... big daughter trans-codes the Quantum Jiggles into FORTRAN code and saves the world or at least makes it a lot less dusty and so that people get to go to Hawaii again.
Years later the big daughter becomes really ancient daughter and cryo-naps in the hope of seeing Mud again. Darned if some of the freshly quantum jiggled peoples don't figure out how to make space rockets again and they even find Mud just in time so that he can come back and be ignored by everybody he saved. Apparently the robot ran off with catwoman so ancient daughter wakes up and figures it is just so much easier to go to Saturn with her tube and her hospital Bed. A bunch of other family members go with her just for convenience sake and they all gather around her bed. When Mud comes in they decide to walk out en masse without even glancing at Mud even though he is their great gran-pappy and saved the world and discovered quantum gravity love.
More sweet, sweet tears as dad and daughter commiserate. After an appropriate interval daughter wisely tells daddy to go and enjoy his youth, steal a spaceship, and try and win catwoman back from the swinging robot.
SPOILERDude hasent a clue, he is basically a cunt.
A know nothing about wormholes or space cunt.This too shall pass.
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Originally posted by luckforsome View Post...lying in bed, and just got a horrible pain in my left testicle...it's actually the 3rd time it's happened in about 3 weeks...I thought I just kneed myself the first time , but last two times have been knee free...what's the General Diagnosis for this, would it be worth checking or something that normally passes, as would rather not have to whip it my dick to get checked...
A few hrs of self abuse will make it 'presentable' if you are worried
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Originally posted by premierstone View PostI think you already know the answer! And don't put it off.
...would anyone that has said testicle issues know if it's something you can get checked straight away or would there be a specialist and appointment only...
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