Bad Beat/Moaning/Venting - pray for Lazare

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[MrsFlushdraw]

Just on the accents. Our three have the oddest accents ever. The eldest 2 have neither strong Irish or Scottish. Irish people hear the Scottish twang but if you put them beside a Scottish kid they sound nothing like them. Same with Irish.

The little one has no accent I can identify with. My friends son asked where she came from! pretty tough with a Scottish mother, Dub Dad and living in Donegal!

Goodness knows what sort of accent she will end up with LOL. She did used to sound a bit English when the creche she went to was ran by an English woman.

[AndyFatBastard]

yeah the younger one, he got rid of the irish twang and now has a very proper english accent but he's a complete mimic, so loves trying out accents all the time. australian, scottish, irish etc. He's not very good at them yet but loves using them.

Much more impressive though is he's a physical mimic, and copies movement incredibly well, from sportsmen (rugby place kickers), to dancers (he twerks like nobody's business ), or just how people walk!

basically, he's a sponge! (as they all are really)

Get him mimicking sportsmen as much as possible!

[RichieM]

Get him mimicking sportsmen as much as possible!

Shrap is a french rugby fan so steady on

[Solskjaer]

Brace yourselves .Glen HansArd is on a flight to busk outside Princes studios.

[NewApproach]

Think that's a bit of a false flag. Could say the same about UK with its vastly outsized London financial sector that contributes very little to the UK. People like saying it about Ireland to belittle the country.

Our GDP is €240bn and tax take is €55bn. UK has about the same ratio.

You can't compare us to the UK for the purposes of justifying GDP as an accurate measure, and the compare us with Venezuela and Chile to demonstrate how great our GDP is!!

[shrapnel]

Shrap is a french rugby fan so steady on

Ah heyor, all the best players in the world play in France

Brace yourselves .Glen HansArd is on a flight to busk outside Princes studios.

no doubt Bono will join him at some point!

[Raoul Duke III]

Ah heyor, all the best players in the world play in France

That's the problem

Would you recommend Montpellier for a rugby trip?

[shrapnel]

That's the problem

Would you recommend Montpellier for a rugby trip?

God yes (although i've never been "for rugby")! great place, great people and their team is flying at the moment so they're on a high

[DeadParrot]

Wife is asking if smoking in the toilet of her hotel will set off the smoke alarm. There's usually no smoke alarm in hotel toilets?

Depends on the hotel tbh.
Some expect you partake and turn a blind eye.
Others seem to take it as an insult.
Pro Move is smoking in the bathroom with the shower on scalding and no extractor.

[DeadParrot]

Brace yourselves .Glen HansArd is on a flight to busk outside Princes studios.

really?
no, no....not buying it at all

[Emmet]

@RD3 - If you're going to Montpellier for a rugby trip, be sure to pop into Trinh-Duc's restaurant/bar.

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g187153-d2717485-Reviews-La_Chistera-Montpellier_Herault_Languedoc_Roussillon.html

Dad was there before for the Leinster away day and said that not too long (2/3 hours) after the game was finished, 6/7 of the Montpellier players came in for dinner and Trinh-Duc came over to thank my Dad and his friends for flying over for the match and for their custom. (If you remember, we robbed it at the death!).

Said there were some songs and stuff going on too. Fairly good craic I'd say!

[V for Vendetta]

That's the problem

Would you recommend Montpellier for a rugby trip?

A superb spot. A few too many hippy types lying around in the sunshine but it's a lovely place with some incredible restaurants.

Has a real charm about it.

[Solskjaer]

really?
no, no....not buying it at all

You are getting drowsier and drowsier , sleepier and sleepier. ..snap.

[shrapnel]

you couldn't make this shit up. 17 year old high school basketball star is in fact...29

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/21/canadian-high-school-basketball-star-jonathan-nicola-refugee

[Guest]

you couldn't make this shit up. 17 year old high school basketball star is in fact...29

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...nicola-refugee

Shrap, if you find that odd, you clearly never played/seen U-13's hurling in Ireland

[Guest]

you couldn't make this shit up. 17 year old high school basketball star is in fact...29

http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...nicola-refugee

Must have been great for the school beer run though

Coach: Great win today lads, go have some fun, get the er um young African lad to go to the supermarket for the beers

[Guest]

The AC Milan Nivea Haka before their game tonight...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3i0q2n4rZ8&t=0m29s

I hope the Maori council of stop taking the piss you cunt go full metal jacket in their outrage on that one

[Emmet]

I hope the Maori council of stop taking the piss you cunt go full metal jacket in their outrage on that one

Cultural Appropriation you say? (aside, great opinion piece here on that subject!)

Get the Feminazis out of the pit, they've got some work to do. AC Milan must fall!

[Raoul Duke III]

A superb spot. A few too many hippy types lying around in the sunshine but it's a lovely place with some incredible restaurants.

Has a real charm about it.

Cool. Funking that Connacht get them now! Or else Zebre.

[Raoul Duke III]

Anyone know where I could buy a bottle of Georgian brandy in Dublin?

Tried Mitchells and Celtic Whiskey shop already.

[Guest]

@Emmett:

Coming home was one of the best things I ever did. Yes there are a ton of fucked up things about Ireland, but there are also a ton of incredibly amazing things about living here. England is just sooooooo booooooring in comparison.

Boring as fuck, no wonder everyone over here under 25 is constantly off their tits on de drugs

You get used to the grinding, cynical incompetence. After a while you just ease into cycles of righteous indignation and scrupulously avoiding the news.

The reason I left tbh, still glad I did

1-2 more years in London or Bristol and out me thinks

[Guest]

Sigh. Call from the wife there (in Amsterdam) saying she thinks she shouldn't have smoked stuff 30 mins ago as now she's too high to fly home in two hours. At least I think thats what she was saying. If only I wasn't living in this beautifully glassy house I'd throw a stone. Sucked it up and booked her an extra few days with the express understanding that I'm amazing and that this is the approach we should take to all future fckups by both of us.

I don't get this. It's only weed, it doesn't stop you from functioning.

[Strewelpeter]

FML
Got myself committed months ago to a work thing that has me stuck in the office and in actually doing stuff type of meetings for Tue to Fri of next week... Punchestown week
Quite likely that Jennies has her last run on Thursday in the middle of it all FFS!
Obv I will have to get my priorities right but Feck it anyway

[Strewelpeter]

I don't get this. It's only weed, it doesn't stop you from functioning.

Only Weed LOL
I don't think people have quite grasped what has happened to 'weed' in the last decade or so.

[Guest]

Cultural Appropriation you say? (aside, great opinion piece here on that subject!)

Get the Feminazis out of the pit, they've got some work to do. AC Milan must fall!

aaah there's being a dumb cunt in a shamrock hat and then there's things like that ad

mind you I thing the Maori council of stop taking the piss you cunt should go full metal jacket on the NZ rugby/football teams doing the Haka at this stage

They are about as Maori as the tattoo my brother in law got 15 years ago

[Emmet]

Only Weed LOL
I don't think people have quite grasped what has happened to 'weed' in the last decade or so.

What about Milk?

[Strewelpeter]

What about Milk?

There is a similarity

[Guest]

Only Weed LOL
I don't think people have quite grasped what has happened to 'weed' in the last decade or so.

I've spoken to quite a few people recently who have all quit because it's too strong, nice relaxed smoke v's zombie Apocalypse

Mind the whole of London still smells like a growers tent

[Jibzzzz]

Actually thinking of a Bordeaux game for a trip. Good spot?

[DeadParrot]

FAO: HorseHead Elite

Journalism lecturer at University of Limerick, Dr Henry Silke, above, writes about online site Lovin Dublin, the Luas dispute and French Marxist philosophy and what ties them altogether.

Dr Silke writes:

The ideological state apparatus has many forms; the anti-working class hipster wing are the most annoying........

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2016/04/21/lovin-in-a-cold-climate/

[Mellor]

I don't get this. It's only weed, it doesn't stop you from functioning.

Take somebody who isn't a regular user, give them a commercial strain of weed bred to be high in THC, remove any legal apprehension and inhibitions, they they are getting fuuucked up.

Not a chance they'll get through security if they are doing it right. First time I was in Amsterdam I was seeing a gremlin leprechaun in the street. To this day, I'm pretty sure it was actually a crazy dutch guy in unusual dress

[CHDad]

What about Milk?

[shrapnel]

I've spoken to quite a few people recently who have all quit because it's too strong, nice relaxed smoke v's zombie Apocalypse

Mind the whole of London still smells like a growers tent

it's become ridiculous here. i live next to a skate park, and it's just a massive bowl of smoke. the smell off it is unbelievable.

tbh i've started smoking again since i got here (pure with a little one hitter pipe), but can't stand tobacco anymore though even in joints.

[V for Vendetta]

Actually thinking of a Bordeaux game for a trip. Good spot?

Home of the Leinster v Clermont Heineken cup semi-final - the greatest rugby match I've ever attended. The stadium is ancient and the town isn't very wealthy or fancy but not unpleasant. The surrounding area is beautiful and the wine is pretty decent by all accounts.

The locals are very nice and it's driveable in a day off the ferry.

[Strewelpeter]

Is that a picture of one of your heros tapping out in a bitchlike manner ?

[CHDad]

Is that a picture of one of your heros tapping out in a bitchlike manner ?

[CHDad]

You're a hero of mine SP, not McGregor.

[TheDrunkenOne]

Went into Currys to get MS Office for daughters lappie as she needs powerpoint and excel for school. £65 for one computer for year £115 for life and £120 for 2 computers for year (approx remembering)

When did it become a yearly subscription?
I am still using Office 2007 which was one payment only for life and multiple computers!

Am I missing something or/and is there any other options?

Dont like paying Gates £100+ every year as other daughter will need same soon.

[Mellor]

Is that a picture of one of your heros tapping out in a bitchlike manner ?

Oh bless...did you learn a new word?

[Mellor]

it's become ridiculous here. i live next to a skate park, and it's just a massive bowl of smoke. the smell off it is unbelievable.

tbh i've started smoking again since i got here (pure with a little one hitter pipe), but can't stand tobacco anymore though even in joints.

Seen Nick Diaz post this on snapchat. His post race recovery. Disposable Cannabis vape. Legal in california. Haven't smoked in years, but id be tempted with one of them. The sheer handiness.

[Raoul Duke III]

Actually thinking of a Bordeaux game for a trip. Good spot?

I think it's a very nice city although V obviously doesn't rate it!

[Strewelpeter]

I've spoken to quite a few people recently who have all quit because it's too strong, nice relaxed smoke v's zombie Apocalypse

Mind the whole of London still smells like a growers tent

A lad I know who has been doing it regularly for 40 years without much incident but probably no more than a few times a year in recent years found himself into a situation where after no more than a few tokes of a modern strain ended up spending a week in hospital including a few nights in a secure unit.

[Guest]

Only Weed LOL
I don't think people have quite grasped what has happened to 'weed' in the last decade or so.

We'll I was there 2 weeks ago and have two decades of experience and haven't experienced such difficulties!

[Strewelpeter]

Oh bless...did you learn a new word?

Chadly taught it to me... apparently it has something to do with the way Jose left Chelsea

[Keane]

FML
Got myself committed months ago to a work thing that has me stuck in the office and in actually doing stuff type of meetings for Tue to Fri of next week... Punchestown week
Quite likely that Jennies has her last run on Thursday in the middle of it all FFS!
Obv I will have to get my priorities right but Feck it anyway

Obviously this will turn out to be overzealous arse covering on the part of the travel company, but if it doesn't I'm going to burn that place to the ground.

SPOILER

[Strewelpeter]

Obviously this will turn out to be overzealous arse covering on the part of the travel company, but if it doesn't I'm going to burn that place to the ground.

SPOILER

You are fine you were there pre Ebola.

Myself and Patrick were there when everyone else was panicking and leaving over it, poor fucker thought he'd never get out
Was probably the weeks work that netted the biggest sale of recent years!

[V for Vendetta]

I think it's a very nice city although V obviously doesn't rate it!

Maybe I'm too harsh. The surroundings are lovely and the weather can be great but it's not in the very nice league as a city. It's Waterford or Limerick with sunshine and surrounded by vineyards and lovely countryside.

Worth seeing but I wouldnt go there without a car to get the max from the place. The best bits are a drive away...

[Keane]

You are fine you were there pre Ebola.

Myself and Patrick were there when everyone else was panicking and leaving over it, poor fucker thought he'd never get out
Was probably the weeks work that netted the biggest sale of recent years!

Glad to hear all the groundwork I laid came to something!

Ever been to Ras al Khaimah?

[Guest]

A lad I know who has been doing it regularly for 40 years without much incident but probably no more than a few times a year in recent years found himself into a situation where after no more than a few tokes of a modern strain ended up spending a week in hospital including a few nights in a secure unit.

Basically the mellow high nice stoned feel of the 60s is gone.
The hippys of yesteryear would probably be in bits with panic attacks the weed has got so strong.

I saw it with people first hand when living in Holland smoked loads of hash in ireland go to Holland suck on a 6 inch joint turn white and collapse.
That or people getting panic attacks paranoia.
People think its a safe drug i think its quite harmful and addictive.
Not as addictive as heroin of course.
Some wannabe hippys here wil say you just dont get weed but they are in denial.

[Guest]

Maybe I'm too harsh. The surroundings are lovely and the weather can be great but it's not in the very nice league as a city. It's Waterford or Limerick with sunshine and surrounded by vineyards and lovely countryside.

Worth seeing but I wouldnt go there without a car to get the max from the place. The best bits are a drive away...

Guessing if you were a wine guzzler like Raoul would appreciate it more.
Waterford and Limerick sunshine or not are pretty grim.

[Mellor]

Just flicking through my bank account details. Noticed that my wages this month was a bit higher. I can't be sure, but I think that I've been given a pay rise and nobody thought to tell me.

[CHDad]

Chadly taught it to me... apparently it has something to do with the way Jose left Chelsea

That was more a referee stoppage TKO m8

[V for Vendetta]

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http://www.broadsheet.ie/2016/04/21/...-cold-climate/

That article was painful to look at, never mind read. I'm sure I'm evil and should be ashamed or something, but if that passes for online journalism then there's still hope for old school media....

[Strewelpeter]

Glad to hear all the groundwork I laid came to something!

Ever been to Ras al Khaimah?

Not been there, seems to be a quiet and sedate alternative to Dubai. I'd always recommend anyone looking at an Arabian holiday to try Oman.

All that time you spent on the automated app tester is turning into a product now, there has been a pile of work done on it since and there are a few customers interested in buying it.

[Raoul Duke III]

Just flicking through my bank account details. Noticed that my wages this month was a bit higher. I can't be sure, but I think that I've been given a pay rise and nobody thought to tell me.

Australia have an April budget?

[Guest]

Just flicking through my bank account details. Noticed that my wages this month was a bit higher. I can't be sure, but I think that I've been given a pay rise and nobody thought to tell me.

There is a new aftertiming thread.

[CHDad]

2 days, 13 hours and a couple of mins til Game of Thrones returns m8s