A few years ago I went up to the counter of my local hardware shop with €8.50 worth of stuff.
Owner said he can't accept my card as the bank have a minimum limit of €10 set on his machine.
Rather than buy something for €1.50 I handed the lying cunt his stuff back and went to Woodies.
Have never went back.
Miserable bastard not understanding that the 40c charge he incurrs means he doesn't have to secure my cash or visit the bank with it.
That's almost 5%. Things are tight enough for independent businesses like that, they had to have some limit
Contactless has given them a break tho at least. How much petrol did you use to drive to Woodies?
The woman in local shop here gives out if you don't buy enough. If you don't buy bread and milk she gives out that you don't buy that stuff with her.
Give me my bin tags and shut up please
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Was quite randomly thinking about you today @pokerhand. You've come back from the big LA and Oz adventure and seem to be living ten miles outside of a small place in the West of Ireland (based on your burger story, but maybe that's just where your family is from, think you said your mum was from that part of the world anyway). How is that whole shift in perspective working out? It might be kinda cool and a return to what you want, but I'm doubting it a bit.
I am actually based in Dublin, that Kebeb story is my family, purely there for the holidays.
Yeah still to do a trip report for that 4 years. Will get to it when back from london (weekend trip)
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.
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Win A House in Dublin Roscommon GAA draw tonight. Wish me luck dudes. Although my gut is telling me this is already in the bag and your best wishes are superfluous. 15,000 tickets sold, so 14,999 other suckers have spent €1,499,900 for me to have a cheap house in a city I don't live in.
...Actually came on here to post my wishes for you to win one of the consolation prizes, as clearly I'm winning this...14997 people will be disappointed in just over 3 hours, as I float to victory with one of of my 3 tickets...I'll have an IPB welcome party in late January though...
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Win A House in Dublin Roscommon GAA draw tonight. Wish me luck dudes. Although my gut is telling me this is already in the bag and your best wishes are superfluous. 15,000 tickets sold, so 14,999 other suckers have spent €1,499,900 for me to have a cheap house in a city I don't live in.
...Unless your name is KUMAR GANAGH FROM LUCAN, then hard luck with this one...
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We actually use adult Lego to teach 'design thinking' (the big innovation thing at the moment)
Lego was ruined for me as soon as they started putting instructions in it.
Gimme a bag of random blocks and imagination over 3500 color coded steps any day
People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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I'm keen to buy myself a big jigsaw to tackle at the end of January. Any recommendations of where to go shopping online?
Art and Hobby shops have decent selection, have shops in most of the big shopping centres and online shop. Did this one while back https://www.artnhobby.ie/1000pc-puzzle-munich was enjoyable. The next one I got was a panorama which didnt realise at the time, takes up a shitload of space so prob better off sticking to regular format
Art and Hobby shops have decent selection, have shops in most of the big shopping centres and online shop. Did this one while back https://www.artnhobby.ie/1000pc-puzzle-munich was enjoyable. The next one I got was a panorama which didnt realise at the time, takes up a shitload of space so prob better off sticking to regular format
How long did it take you to do roughly?
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.
Lego was ruined for me as soon as they started putting instructions in it.
Gimme a bag of random blocks and imagination over 3500 color coded steps any day
Spent hours today messing with a 30 month old and a box of lego, he was having much more fun with the random blocks and bits and pieces than the made up cars etc.
He was telling me the names of the different shapes and told me that one was a trapezoid I had to check the and was right! 2 and a half years and he knows a trapezoid from a rectangle
...I got a 3d jigsaw when I was 12 or 13...Think it was a 15,000 piece...Was super excited to finish all of the base of it, but to this day have never figured out how to make the jigsaw go upwards...
If the championship races at Cheltenham aren't puzzle enough to be challenging you during February, I can only surmise that you have them solved already. WP
I'm keen to buy myself a big jigsaw to tackle at the end of January. Any recommendations of where to go shopping online?
The bro got one for Christmas of personal photographs in a 1000 piece jigsaw. The SIL ordered it online. Might be an idea to order some equine picture that has meaning for you.
‘IF YOU had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” Genghis Khan
The bro got one for Christmas of personal photographs in a 1000 piece jigsaw. The SIL ordered it online. Might be an idea to order some equine picture that has meaning for you.
I bought a. Jigsaw few yrs back of a memory . Did in black and white for extra confusion. Was good crack putting together. Stuck with sellotape at back to keep together.
Again a photo. Uploaded to some site online. Well worth the money and wasn't expensive
Are jigsaws back in fashion? (or maybe they never went out)
Mrs Lao Lao's niece brought 3 of them back with her from Canada (they are staying with us over Christmas/New Year).
I came home from work last week and saw one just started on the kitchen table and got stuck into it. Had to eventually pull myself away from it as the poor 9 year old wasn't getting a look in to her own jigsaw.
Hadn't done a jigsaw in years and had forgotten how enjoyable they were.
Are jigsaws back in fashion? (or maybe they never went out)
Mrs Lao Lao's niece brought 3 of them back with her from Canada (they are staying with us over Christmas/New Year).
I came home from work last week and saw one just started on the kitchen table and got stuck into it. Had to eventually pull myself away from it as the poor 9 year old wasn't getting a look in to her own jigsaw.
Hadn't done a jigsaw in years and had forgotten how enjoyable they were.
they never went out of fashion. xmas week without a jigsaw or 2 is just not xmas. we've got a few Jan van haasteren ones like the below which are great fun to do.
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.
That time of year again, when I pull together my top twenty tunes of the year. Rather than sticking in a You Tube video for each one, I've tried to add my Spotify playlist (will probably make a balls of it )
20) Editors – Magazine
19) Squarehead – Always On
18) We Cut Corners – Rainy Night in Slomo
17) David Kitt - Like Lightning
16) King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Beginners Luck
15) AE Mak – Glow
14) Christine & The Queens – 5 Dollars
13) Jungle – Heavy, California
12) George Ezra - Shotgun
11) Roisin Murphy – The Rumble
10) Maggie Rogers – Give A Little
9) The 1975 – Love If We Made It
8) SPIES – Watchman
7) Villagers – A Trick Of The Light
6) Tanjier – Lights
5) Saint Sister – Twin Peaks
4) The Fontaines DC – Boys In The Better Land
3) Young Fathers – Toy
2) Janelle Monae – Make Me Feel
1) David Byrne – Everybody’s Coming To My House
If there is a better way to add a Spotify playlist, can one of the intelligent members on here, let me know, please and thanks!
The link works fine.
There's add ons to embed Spotify playlists etc but link works fine
People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Spent hours today messing with a 30 month old and a box of lego, he was having much more fun with the random blocks and bits and pieces than the made up cars etc.
He was telling me the names of the different shapes and told me that one was a trapezoid I had to check the and was right! 2 and a half years and he knows a trapezoid from a rectangle
That's from watching Umi Zumi, my little one said the exact same at that age. Blew me away.
I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
Ive only heard of two of the artists and none of the tracks. I clearly need to stop doing conference calls and listening to podcasts on my commute and diversify my music listening habits.
‘IF YOU had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” Genghis Khan
Anyone watch the Jayo documentary on RTÉ last night? A very interesting watch but so many unanswered questions. How exactly did he go off the rails after 1995? How come he married and had a kid so young? What did he do for money apart from TV and ads? When he went back to college what did he do? A bit more detail on his Chinese family (although that was so raw that maybe that needs more time).
A great watch on the RTE player if you’re doing nothing today.
‘IF YOU had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” Genghis Khan
Anyone watch the Jayo documentary on RTÉ last night? A very interesting watch but so many unanswered questions. How exactly did he go off the rails after 1995? How come he married and had a kid so young? What did he do for money apart from TV and ads? When he went back to college what did he do? A bit more detail on his Chinese family (although that was so raw that maybe that needs more time).
A great watch on the RTE player if you’re doing nothing today.
When I was with PPP I ran into him in a work situation, he was employed by the Louis Fitzgerard hospitality group at the time, was their PR guy or something similar (general glad-hander type role, which you'd imagine former GAA stars would have a lot of value as). This was back in 2009/2010.
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