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**ArmaniJeans** · 30-06-17, 13:12

Originally posted by PSV58 View Post

Pro tip - go to Portaventura world near salou in Spain (not far from Barcelona). Way cheaper and can get cheap accom nearby. The rollercoasters etc. are also way better

But its not disney, dadda.

**Keane** · 30-06-17, 13:22

Car insurance is due next week so I'm clicking around different places.

The crowd I'm currently with increase by ~€800 if I give my address in Limerick instead of the old one in Ranelagh. A different crowd increase by ~€350 if I give my address in Ranelagh instead of Limerick.

Tralee is cheaper than both on both websites. Bizarre stuff.

**oleras** · 30-06-17, 13:37

Originally posted by Iago View Post

... never mind

In an unrelated karma incident missed the El Tren tip last night so no free money to rub on titties for me

Originally posted by bohsman View Post

Heatwave here, last day in work, got paid out nearly a month in unused annual leave. Not majorly rushed to find a new job tbh.

Heading over there Wednesday morning for a week with the family, better pack the F50 !

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**bohsman** · 30-06-17, 13:49

Originally posted by oleras View Post

Heading over there Wednesday morning for a week with the family, better pack the F50 !

Looks like it will get back to normal nice weather by then. Was around 30c last night.

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**Lao Lao** · 30-06-17, 13:54

Are they just summer prices for Euro Disney?

A mate of mine goes for a week pretty much every year in January - Him, wife and two kids but didn't think he was shelling out that kind of money

**Tar.Aldarion** · 30-06-17, 13:58

Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post

€1,500 for three-days two-nights in DisneylandParis without even a morsel of food thrown in. The prices are outrageous.

I used to think disney land resort was big (19 km^2) then i went to Florida, (119km^2), that is insane, 5 times bigger and is bigger than Dublin City.

It took me two whole days to go around universal studios with express passes and that has to be smaller than disneyland paris even. Highlight was getting $300 of tickets for $20 (spent the rest on margaritas) the girl clearly was a fan of the Irish charm.

No way would I ever bring a family to a place like that.

**Guest** · 30-06-17, 13:58

My daughter is 5 and she's already over Disney. She's all about the YouTube stars now.

**Flushdraw** · 30-06-17, 14:02

Originally posted by zuutroy View Post

My daughter is 5 and she's already over Disney. She's all about the YouTube stars now.

and Roblox, yeah?

**BennyHiFi** · 30-06-17, 14:48

Originally posted by Lao Lao View Post

Are they just summer prices for Euro Disney?

A mate of mine goes for a week pretty much every year in January - Him, wife and two kids but didn't think he was shelling out that kind of money

My sisters and their myriad kids have been doing this for aeons also. No way they'd shell out top dollar to stand in a queue that's for sure.

**Guest** · 30-06-17, 14:57

Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View Post

But its not disney, dadda.

Tough shit you little brat,if you want Disney show me the money.
And no I'm not taking out a bank loan to buy you a treehouse either.
Kids these days

**Guest** · 30-06-17, 14:57

Originally posted by Flushdraw View Post

and Roblox, yeah?

Not seen that one...I'll tell her about it.

**KK82** · 30-06-17, 15:01

Originally posted by Flushdraw View Post

and Roblox, yeah?

My son is absolutely obsessed with Roblox.. Can't understand the appeal myself.

**Iago** · 30-06-17, 15:01

Originally posted by oleras View Post

Heading over there Wednesday morning for a week with the family, better pack the F50 !

Yeah, been an m unreal week. Real feel of 42 with a temp of 35-37 most days, suggesting it'll be back to 31 or so next week with the usual high humidity lots of Suncream is key for sure.

Lowest temp today (4am) is forecasted to be 27 and there's another 2.5 months of this ahead. I'd much prefer the March/April weather all year round personally but it's a minor complaint.

**dobby** · 30-06-17, 15:02

Parents are idiots

**coillcam** · 30-06-17, 15:08

Originally posted by DeadParrot View Post

7 hours into server repair and the plug is pulled...grrrrr

Fuck that. Hope you're on the right side of it now.

Great thread on reddit about a junior dev guy's first and last day. He accidentally nuked a production database. The company didn't have a proper backup strategy in place. Oops.... link

**AndyFatBastard** · 30-06-17, 15:16

Originally posted by dobby View Post

Parents are idiots

Seems harsh. Any basis for this claim?

**DeadParrot** · 30-06-17, 15:21

Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post

€1,500 for three-days two-nights in DisneylandParis without even a morsel of food thrown in. The prices are outrageous.

Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post

We've just flat-out refused to ever bring the kids there. They've given up asking!

Mrs DP very interested in bringing deadpidgeon as soon as the idea of a giant bilingual anthropomorphic mouse/duck etc doesnt kill her on sight.

I've countered with disneyworld at a later date, negotiations are ongoing

**DeadParrot** · 30-06-17, 15:28

Originally posted by coillcam View Post

Fuck that. Hope you're on the right side of it now.

Great thread on reddit about a junior dev guy's first and last day. He accidentally nuked a production database. The company didn't have a proper backup strategy in place. Oops.... link

Yeah I'm on the right side for once.
Opex/Capex/outsourcing proven once again to be a fucking shell game

I've renamed production tables using keyboard to skip through schemas but havent dropped anything yet

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**DeadParrot** · 30-06-17, 15:33

Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post

actually i was looking only at the five-star hotel option in Disney by accident. There's actually a €700 option hotel. Two nights, three-day VIP passes, breakfast included, for two adults, two kids. Its not cheap, but suppose its not a killer either.

luckily I didnt fire that arrow before finding out it's made of biscuits....

**Tar.Aldarion** · 30-06-17, 15:41

**Tar.Aldarion** · 30-06-17, 15:43

Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post

actually i was looking only at the five-star hotel option in Disney by accident. There's actually a €700 option hotel. Two nights, three-day VIP passes, breakfast included, for two adults, two kids. Its not cheap, but suppose its not a killer either.

That's actually decent, those places tickets alone are very expensive.

**dobby** · 30-06-17, 15:44

Originally posted by AndyFatBastard View Post

Seems harsh. Any basis for this claim?

No. Just a mass generalisation.

**shrapnel** · 30-06-17, 15:46

Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post

€1,500 for three-days two-nights in DisneylandParis without even a morsel of food thrown in. The prices are outrageous.

we frenchies go to parc asterix, just around the corner, great fun and half the price (and really well done too!!)

**shrapnel** · 30-06-17, 15:54

and 3 days in disney is overkill tbh!!!

**shano1888** · 30-06-17, 16:08

Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post

actually i was looking only at the five-star hotel option in Disney by accident. There's actually a €700 option hotel. Two nights, three-day VIP passes, breakfast included, for two adults, two kids. Its not cheap, but suppose its not a killer either.

But it's not 5 star dada

**ArmaniJeans** · 30-06-17, 16:28

Originally posted by shrapnel View Post

we frenchies go to parc asterix, just around the corner, great fun and half the price (and really well done too!!)

Mais ce n'est pas disney papa.

**careca** · 30-06-17, 17:23

any cousins sites still operating?

**hotspur** · 30-06-17, 17:59

Originally posted by careca View Post

any cousins sites still operating?

A proxy site still gets you to the high seas. I use proxyduck.

**careca** · 30-06-17, 18:17

Originally posted by hotspur View Post

A proxy site still gets you to the high seas. I use proxyduck.

super, working away as we speak. Thanks a mill

**6starpool** · 30-06-17, 18:35

Originally posted by shano1888 View Post

But it's not 5 star dada

Not my child!

**shrapnel** · 30-06-17, 18:41

Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View Post

Mais ce n'est pas disney papa.

asterix and obelix are far bigger stars for kids and grown ups in France than Disney ever will be, the only reason why kids may prefer going to disney is the size and the marketing, but they'd be easily convinced that asterix is so much cooler!!!

**Lazare** · 30-06-17, 18:55

Yeah, and the Irish kids go mad for a theme park based on a bag a cheese & onion.

**tylerdurden94** · 30-06-17, 19:02

Originally posted by 5starpool View Post

Moto G still best value for money.

Noted.

Originally posted by DeadParrot View Post

thought the same but €499 isnt exactly budget smartphone
I'll give it a while before pulling the trigger

Just pulled the trigger, 8gb RAM & 128GB memory guy on boards had a code up for €20 off and said it works multiple times. They're definitely moving away from budget phone territory.

Originally posted by KevIRL View Post

Just started using the Moto g5 plus today. V nice so far

Quick YouTube review and it looks decent, like to get a OnePlus 3T for the girlfriend's mother but some of the websites coming up look a little dodgy, anybody get links?

**Tar.Aldarion** · 30-06-17, 19:19

That was always the plan, offer great deals until you are known, become the same as everybody else to maximise profit. Only way into the market.

**tylerdurden94** · 30-06-17, 19:41

Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View Post

That was always the plan, offer great deals until you are known, become the same as everybody else to maximise profit. Only way into the market.

€500/€560 for a high end phone is still pretty good, it was inevitable that's the way they were gonna go, I'm still digging OnePlus.

**Opr** · 30-06-17, 20:02

Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View Post

That was always the plan, offer great deals until you are known, become the same as everybody else to maximise profit. Only way into the market.

They have made themselves look like some hip startup when the reality deviates from that truth quite a bit when you see who they are most likely in bed with.

The OnePlus hype needs to die

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=-QP6pm1DM1Q

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**TheDrunkenOne** · 30-06-17, 20:05

Hi strangers, been a while!

Looking info, whats parking options at Ossary Road, North Strand next to TNDO fitness at 10am Saturday morning?

**eamonhonda** · 30-06-17, 20:23

Originally posted by Lazare View Post

Yeah, and the Irish kids go mad for a theme park based on a bag a cheese & onion.

You could have based it on a lot worse to be fair

**Raoul Duke III** · 30-06-17, 20:34

Trains to The Curragh for racedays, is that still a thing?

**ArmaniJeans** · 30-06-17, 20:53

Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post

Trains to The Curragh for racedays, is that still a thing?

Heuston to Kildare train station and a boring bus transfer.
Sadly no longer stops at the Curragh 'station' to allow racegoers to scramble through bramble into the course, and the hi-tech stepladder is probably residing in a rail museum somewhere.

**Dice75** · 30-06-17, 21:00

Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View Post

Heuston to Kildare train station and a boring bus transfer.
Sadly no longer stops at the Curragh 'station' to allow racegoers to scramble through bramble into the course, and the hi-tech stepladder is probably residing in a rail museum somewhere.

Interesting that I appear to be a closet train fanatic judging by that picture.

Yep, me & Dom, train buddies.

**SatNav** · 30-06-17, 21:19

Gonna head to the curragh Sun with Mia , anyone got tickets they dont want. I often see tickets floating about obv thats why I am asking.

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**Raoul Duke III** · 30-06-17, 21:24

Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View Post

Heuston to Kildare train station and a boring bus transfer.
Sadly no longer stops at the Curragh 'station' to allow racegoers to scramble through bramble into the course, and the hi-tech stepladder is probably residing in a rail museum somewhere.

Yeah, I did remember going to the 'Budweiser Irish Derby' with a date when 17 and the train definitely stopped at the racetrack. Generous won iirc.

Have a free afternoon tomorrow so was considering a repeat. Minus the 17 y/o.

**ComradeCollie** · 30-06-17, 21:46

Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post

Hats off to the Disney crowd. Started with the €900 3-day-2-night option and they moved me along so smoothly like a scene from The Sting until I unblinkingly filled in my card details for a total of €1,400. It's only ten minutes later, as I started to write this post, that I realised what they had done.

You seem unusually bothered about an amount you used to spend on 2 or 3 hours lapdancing. If your daughter gets a buzz out of it, and it doesn't feel like on hell on earth to you and your wife, it's not that mad expensive really.

**dobby** · 30-06-17, 22:05

Is it possible to just turn up at the curragh tomorrow and pay at the gate or is it ticket only? Have been looking for something to do tomorrow and that would.suit us nicely.

If we need tickets, would appreciate two if any going?

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**SatNav** · 30-06-17, 22:23

Originally posted by dobby View Post

Is it possible to just turn up at the curragh tomorrow and pay at the gate or is it ticket only? Have been looking for something to do tomorrow and that would.suit us nicely.

If we need tickets, would appreciate two if any going?

going by site seems sold out and cant buy at gate

**Emmet** · 30-06-17, 22:23

@thedrunkenone, if hersef and myself ended up in NI at some stage (With the dog), would you be keen to take us out for a day on the water?

**dobby** · 30-06-17, 22:30

Originally posted by SatNav View Post

going by site seems sold out and cant buy at gate

Yeah checked after you mentioned the curragh. Have been looking for something to.do for the day. Munster final Sunday so need to entertain herself tomorrow

pity it's ticket only

**SatNav** · 30-06-17, 22:34

Originally posted by dobby View Post

Yeah checked after you mentioned the curragh. Have been looking for something to.do for the day. Munster final Sunday so need to entertain herself tomorrow

pity it's ticket only

chance jumping the fence? dont clip it

I did it at electric picnic 7 yrs ago, handy enough

**6starpool** · 30-06-17, 22:38

Originally posted by Emmet View Post

@thedrunkenone, if hersef and myself ended up in NI at some stage (With the dog), would you be keen to take us out for a day on the water?

Make sure you don't offer petrol money.

**Strewelpeter** · 30-06-17, 22:39

Originally posted by dobby View Post

Is it possible to just turn up at the curragh tomorrow and pay at the gate or is it ticket only? Have been looking for something to do tomorrow and that would.suit us nicely.

If we need tickets, would appreciate two if any going?

Tomorrow is definitely sold out and there will be none on sale at the gate, Sunday is still on sale.
If I come across any going spare tomorrow I'll let ye know

**TheDrunkenOne** · 30-06-17, 22:40

Originally posted by Emmet View Post

@thedrunkenone, if hersef and myself ended up in NI at some stage (With the dog), would you be keen to take us out for a day on the water?

Its an open 19ft boat so it all depends on weather etc for comfort. Gladly take anyone out but a couple with a dog would not be practical.

Heres me on my own a couple years ago and as you can see its not a cruise type option. I could move some stuff and not sing lol

Lough Erne

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXfuicjMh0U

bobbing along

**TheDrunkenOne** · 30-06-17, 22:46

Originally posted by TheDrunkenOne View Post

Hi strangers, been a while!

Looking info, whats parking options at Ossary Road, North Strand next to TNDO fitness at 10am Saturday morning?

No info? Looking like I gonna be driving into Dublin in morning hoping for a safe car park

**dobby** · 30-06-17, 22:49

Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post

Tomorrow is definitely sold out and there will be none on sale at the gate, Sunday is still on sale.
If I come across any going spare tomorrow I'll let ye know

Would appreciate that. Ty

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