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Originally posted by 5starpool View PostAnyone ever fly with Cityjet to London from Dublin? I assume you can check in at the airport with no extra fee? If I really need to I could check in online but as I'm not in work this week it would be awkward as the printer at home is out of ink."you raise, i kill you" El Tren :{)
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I doubt I'm interested enough in the failings of the fraternity system in US Universities to plough all the way through the Atlantics very long article about it but fair play to the writer she does a great job of grabbing you with the first few paragraphs.
One warm spring night in 2011, a young man named Travis Hughes stood on the back deck of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house at Marshall University, in West Virginia, and was struck by what seemed to him—under the influence of powerful inebriants, not least among them the clear ether of youth itself—to be an excellent idea: he would shove a bottle rocket up his ass and blast it into the sweet night air. And perhaps it was an excellent idea. What was not an excellent idea, however, was to misjudge the relative tightness of a 20-year-old sphincter and the propulsive reliability of a 20-cent bottle rocket. What followed ignition was not the bright report of a successful blastoff, but the muffled thud of fire in the hole.
Also on the deck, and also in the thrall of the night’s pleasures, was one Louis Helmburg III, an education major and ace benchwarmer for the Thundering Herd baseball team. His response to the proposed launch was the obvious one: he reportedly whipped out his cellphone to record it on video, which would turn out to be yet another of the night’s seemingly excellent but ultimately misguided ideas. When the bottle rocket exploded in Hughes’s rectum, Helmburg was seized by the kind of battlefield panic that has claimed brave men from outfits far more illustrious than even the Thundering Herd. Terrified, he staggered away from the human bomb and fell off the deck.
Fortunately for him, and adding to the Chaplinesque aspect of the night’s miseries, the deck was no more than four feet off the ground, but such was the urgency of his escape that he managed to get himself wedged between the structure and an air-conditioning unit, sustaining injuries that would require medical attention, cut short his baseball season, and—in the fullness of time—pit him against the mighty forces of the Alpha Tau Omega national organization, which had been waiting for him.
It takes a certain kind of personal-injury lawyer to look at the facts of this glittering night and wrest from them a plausible plaintiff and defendant, unless it were possible for Travis Hughes to be sued by his own anus. But the fraternity lawsuit is a lucrative mini-segment of the personal-injury business, and if ever there was a deck that ought to have had a railing, it was the one that served as a nighttime think tank and party-idea testing ground for the brain trust of the Theta Omicron Chapter of Alpha Tau Omega and its honored guests—including these two knuckleheads, who didn’t even belong to the fraternity. Moreover, the building codes of Huntington, West Virginia, are unambiguous on the necessity of railings on elevated decks. Whether Helmburg stumbled in reaction to an exploding party guest or to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is immaterial; there should have been a railing to catch him.Turning millions into thousands
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My heart is broke.
Attempting to 'repair' my father's pc. It's windows xp. It's fucking twelve years old.
Fucking thing rattles like a whore and takes a fucking age to do the simplest of tasks.
I think I'll just bite the bullet and but him a new Laptop.
Any suggestions? Just for facebook and the pokerz??
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Originally posted by newbie2 View PostMy heart is broke.
Attempting to 'repair' my father's pc. It's windows xp. It's fucking twelve years old.
Fucking thing rattles like a whore and takes a fucking age to do the simplest of tasks.
I think I'll just bite the bullet and but him a new Laptop.
Any suggestions? Just for facebook and the pokerz??Her sky-ness
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Originally posted by newbie2 View PostMy heart is broke.
Attempting to 'repair' my father's pc. It's windows xp. It's fucking twelve years old.
Fucking thing rattles like a whore and takes a fucking age to do the simplest of tasks.
I think I'll just bite the bullet and but him a new Laptop.
Any suggestions? Just for facebook and the pokerz??Intel Celeron Laptops including HP, Dell, Acer and more at low prices with next day delivery and finance available. Get your Celeron laptop and save!
Will handle absolutely everything fine.
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Originally posted by newbie2 View PostMy heart is broke.
Attempting to 'repair' my father's pc. It's windows xp. It's fucking twelve years old.
Fucking thing rattles like a whore and takes a fucking age to do the simplest of tasks.
I think I'll just bite the bullet and but him a new Laptop.
Any suggestions? Just for facebook and the pokerz??
install wine (for running poker clients)
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Originally posted by Dice75 View PostQuick 12 question quiz on Irish Internationals of the noughties. Got one wrong.
http://www.the42.ie/irish-internatio...44418-Feb2015/
That could have gone better!
You're more a GAA fan aren't you? Not to worry.
12 guesses, 2 correct, mathematically below average even for guessing, pretty impressive.
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Originally posted by Megatron View PostBeen a bit of a lull with Irish Water protester Videos of late but they seem to be making a comeback after their Christmas break.
Garda gets very heavy handed @ 1:23 and throws a presumably upstanding member of the local community to the ground potentially causing life threatening injuries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAc6VWD5yRU
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Today's eagerly awaited poem is from the dearly departed John O'Donohue, called For a New Beginning:
SPOILERIn out of the way places of the heart
Where your thoughts never think to wander
This beginning has been quietly forming
Waiting until you were ready to emerge.
For a long time it has watched your desire
Feeling the emptiness grow inside you
Noticing how you willed yourself on
Still unable to leave what you had outgrown.
It watched you play with the seduction of safety
And the grey promises that sameness whispered
Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent
Wondered would you always live like this.
Then the delight, when your courage kindled,
And out you stepped onto new ground,
Your eyes young again with energy and dream
A path of plenitude opening before you.
Though your destination is not clear
You can trust the promise of this opening;
Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning
That is one with your life’s desire.
Awaken your spirit to adventure
Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk
Soon you will be home in a new rhythm
For your soul senses the world that awaits you.
I love his voice, it makes it much more soulful listening to him reading it. I couldn't find a copy of him reading it online so I uploaded one myself so you can listen to it:
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Great article I read this morning A Whistleblower's Horror Story"When Winston protested his preposterous punishment on the grounds that a trillion-dollar company recouping legal fees from an unemployed whistleblower was unreasonable and unnecessary, a California Superior Court judge denied his argument — get this — on the grounds that Winston failed to prove a disparity in resources between himself and Bank of America!""you raise, i kill you" El Tren :{)
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostLOL at rich kid Paul Murphy and his thuggish henchman Derek Byrne on the radio on their way down to todays protest which according to them only purpose of is to 'Close down Dublin'
Confirmed Fascists.
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Thinking of doing this 12k, endurance yoke, anybody taken part?
Join us for Ireland's toughest physical and mental challenge, HELL & BACK. We convert Killruddery Estate in Bray, Co Wicklow into an adventure playground where participants must go over, under, around and through 40+ man-made and natural obstacles on trail routes ranging from 5-16KM. Dublin's best fitness challenge.
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View Post
This will do more to kill the idiotic anti water charges movement than all Paul Murphy's thuggery
Soon the majority of the water protesters who got caught up on facebook like it was another ice bucket challenge craze will wake up the reality that they are behaving just just as stupidly as that fool.Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View Postmy new #1 facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/Crumlinshopingcentre
Official Crumlin Shopping Centre
February 17 at 2:38pm ·
It seems some people are upset about the dog fighting on the first Saturday of every month. I've spoken to the organisers and they've agreed to move it back to the original Friday night slot.
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...Last edited by Hitchhiker's Guide To...; 19-02-15, 17:13."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View PostAre you not captain of your own ship contracting?
Originally posted by tylerdurden94 View PostRecently flew Cityjet to France and they charge more for checking in a bag at the airport than doing so online, just a heads up in case you're bringing baggage.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostHate that when you start peeing at the urinal and then almost immediately realise you also desperately need to dump. But can't until you finish at the urinal. So you're there trying to remember which muscles to relax that will get the rest of the pee out, while simultaneously trying to tighten the muscles that open the shitgates.
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The water 5 really make it hard on themselves...
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Originally posted by Dice75 View PostQuick 12 question quiz on Irish Internationals of the noughties. Got one wrong.
http://www.the42.ie/irish-internatio...44418-Feb2015/
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People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Sit down protest in O'Connell Street blocking traffic going both ways..and causing mayham for people trying to get home. .... Water protestors can f*ck right off...i have no problem with organised peaceful demonstrations and marches...but this is just ridiculous. ......
Holding a whole city to ransom because a few members were held in contempt of court....
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Originally posted by smurph View PostSit down protest in O'Connell Street blocking traffic going both ways..and causing mayham for people trying to get home. .... Water protestors can f*ck right off...i have no problem with organised peaceful demonstrations and marches...but this is just ridiculous. ......
Holding a whole city to ransom because a few members were held in contempt of court....
As a taxpayer and productive member of society, you should be thankful that these brave protestors are reminding you (in so many fabulous ways, today of all days) of what is really important in this country."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by smurph View PostSit down protest in O'Connell Street blocking traffic going both ways..and causing mayham for people trying to get home. .... Water protestors can f*ck right off...i have no problem with organised peaceful demonstrations and marches...but this is just ridiculous. ......
Holding a whole city to ransom because a few members were held in contempt of court....
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Good bit of common sense from a poster on politics.ie
I'm not going to pretend to be an economic expert but to me there seems to be a few self evident truths.
Greece is insolvent. Blame them all you like for ending up in that situation but that is not going to change the fact that they are will remain insolvent until such time as some of their debt is written off. The real question is when this reality will be confronted.
Ireland, while far from smelling of roses, is not currently insolvent and is going to get any more sweeteners any time soon. The bank debt in this country was socialised not just for our benefit but for the benefit and stability of the entire Eurozone. However while there is a moral case for others to share some of the burden we are on the hook for it and cannot force anyone to take some of it off our hands. As long as the Irish economy remains reasonably healthy and no new impending crisis looms there is no real motivating factor for any of the other Eurozone countries offering any further help, particularly with more pressing problems existing elsewhere. The government realise that and are trying to put the best presentation on it for public consumption. Any other party who follows them into office will learn the same lesson regardless of what they currently say.
The solidarity which for so long underpinned the European project is being steadily eroded. Ireland was once amongst the most ardent pro-all things European (despite an irrational fear amongst some that the real purpose of so many European treaties was to legalise abortion) but has become far more skeptical. The same goes for any nation whose interests do not happen to be aligned with those of popular opinion amongst the German electorate. If the Germans are happy with that then what can you say. However history tells us that unions of different nationalities that are coerced rather than voluntary don't have great prospects in the long term and anyone with half a brain can see the centre getting squeezed and the extreme fringes gaining ground in the current turmoil."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by eamonhonda View PostHow would they expect to get support blocking regular people coming home at rush hour. Brain dead stuff. They must have all got off early from work to organise itTurning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by 5starpool View PostNot any more, nope.
Nah, not checking in a bag, but we have a 23kg bag each included in the basic price even though we didn't want it. I'm going to use my phone to check in. Never used that feature before but should be handier."you raise, i kill you" El Tren :{)
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Originally posted by smurph View PostSit down protest in O'Connell Street blocking traffic going both ways..and causing mayham for people trying to get home. .... Water protestors can f*ck right off...i have no problem with organised peaceful demonstrations and marches...but this is just ridiculous. ......
Holding a whole city to ransom because a few members were held in contempt of court....Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by tylerdurden94 View PostSome of the airline apps are excellent while for example the Aer Lingus one is kinda shit, defo super handy for check in with no need to worry over trying to get stuff printed.No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.
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Find the rte coverage of the o'hara trial to be a bit unsavoury. Is it really necessary to give out all that detail? Must be awful for the family knowing that thousands of random strangers are now privy to such intimate details of o'hara.No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.
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Originally posted by pokerhand View PostThe United airlines app is awesome... I found out via it the flight status and plane delay before General public and change flights to earlier flight that had just 3 available seats before the others copped on to it. Seeing the other passengers desperately queuing after the official announcement was a laugh."you raise, i kill you" El Tren :{)
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Originally posted by tylerdurden94 View PostThat is up there with one of the best ones I've used so far, Air France was pretty good also, Ryanair is decent but as I mentioned earlier Aer Lingus is really lagging behind at the moment. Started using my Gmail account more and when flying to the Bahamas last month I got a notification to say my flight leaving Dublin was delayed by 1 hour, nice & handy.Her sky-ness
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View PostLinkedIn sent me an email, my contacts are breeding!
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Originally posted by SatNav View PostDoes Ryanair have that check in thing on app. I'm heading off in 7 weeks to lanza with just carry on bag. Does it mean I can just saunter off through security. As in no desk etc
Used it before just after it was being phased in. Everyone that was using the app was actually kept behind because the system wasn't accepting the barcodes of the boarding pass properly
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThe coverage of this Elaine murder trial is strange enough. Seems to be all about stuff the murdered person did rather than the person accused of the murder. If one was being sanctimonious (and indeed provided one was fully aware what that word meant, which I'm not); it almost seems like she is on trial rather than him.
Her past an lifestlyle is far far more interesting to most people. That's why it's talked about. No one really gives a shit about your mans wife + 2 kids and a job life. It's not that exciting really. I expect if he's convicted it could change though.
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