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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWhat type of fuckwit sets up midnight presentations to discuss financial maths in australia
<- this fuckwit
going to need those clockwork orange things to keep the eyes open for the talk at this stage.Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by Theresa View Post
Thank you.
Cliniko. Perfect, thank you.
We are in talks with a practice management app here called JaneApp so this is a great shout, ty.
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View Post
Have you solved the problem with your heavy breathing in video presentations?"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Use this booking app a fair bit - both here and with other restaurants. https://3leaves.clickandcollection.com/"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostLad still hasn't contacted me about my knife. I've been in touch a couple of times to gently enquire.
Ordered it at the end of Nov.
How long do you think I should leave it before telling him to stick it up his bollix?
Or is 4 months (so far) acceptable for something hand crafted?
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
Back in the glorious days of haircuts, a lot of places use online booking systems. No idea what backend they use though.
I'd imagine the key with these is they could be a lot better than they currently are. Like why not text me five weeks after a haircut saying 'psst want us to book you in for a cut'. Could also remember some client info and use that to ensure decent service no matter which hairdresser is cutting the hair."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by ionapaul View PostSpeaking of decor being 'too trendy', what would you think of this? Not to my taste at all, we were offered a viewing on this previously but declined for a few reasons, mainly location - but to my mind that interior is a bit off-putting to most buyers I imagine!
People get put off by things that demand attention.
The kitchen/bathroom/garden stuff is grand.
As a rule of thumb we try for a clean practical look which is plain enough that people can adapt easily.
Walk in and not have to change anything is the goal.
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Originally posted by DeeBrown View Post
As a rule of thumb we try for a clean practical look which is plain enough that people can adapt easily.
Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
Back in the glorious days of haircuts, a lot of places use online booking systems. No idea what backend they use though.
It is kinda shocking how little some companies want to integrate.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
All efforts were made to make this thought original but with the abundance of thoughts in the world the originality of this thought cannot be guaranteed.
The author is not liable for any issue arising from the platitudinous nature of this post.
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Originally posted by Theresa View Post
Yeah we have a couple integrations underway for barbers.
It is kinda shocking how little some companies want to integrate.
"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
I feel I know the guy who set up Phorest (the sugardaddy booking system). Maybe we were in college at the same time. They seem to have done well for themselves, 2000 hairdressing salons from the comfort of their own home. Maybe each salon paying €30-40 a month? for a handy million euros a year in revenue, probably mostly profit, as they surely can't have many running costs.
I might even do the designs for your idea for free for you if you do!This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
All efforts were made to make this thought original but with the abundance of thoughts in the world the originality of this thought cannot be guaranteed.
The author is not liable for any issue arising from the platitudinous nature of this post.
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View Post
The fact that the previous owners were wankers shouldn't really make any difference though. Especially when it was only built 4 years ago. The question of Churchtown or Nutgrove as expressed by RD3 is a bit odd to me. Nutgrove is a street(that I live on) which is either Rathfarnham or Churchtown. The site those houses and apartments are on, were where HB and Premier Dairies were, and both were Rathfarnham addresses.
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Originally posted by ionapaul View PostSpeaking of decor being 'too trendy', what would you think of this? Not to my taste at all, we were offered a viewing on this previously but declined for a few reasons, mainly location - but to my mind that interior is a bit off-putting to most buyers I imagine!
Although it’s mostly the decor tbf. I’m fully aware styling has an impact on perception - it affects how a place looks considerably. But it's really irrelevant as none of that is gonna be included in the sale. Once you remove the furniture. It's pretty basic tbh. The only issues then are the light fittings and the paint.
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Originally posted by gorrrr72 View Post
Do you remember when Holylands was re-named Mountain View? Having a Rathfarnham address didn't help when you're from Holylands, when they changed it to Mountain View it fooled a few potential employers for a while.Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by DeeBrown View Post
Too many statement pieces in the living spaces.
People get put off by things that demand attention.
The kitchen/bathroom/garden stuff is grand.
As a rule of thumb we try for a clean practical look which is plain enough that people can adapt easily.
Walk in and not have to change anything is the goal.
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View Post
The fact that the previous owners were wankers shouldn't really make any difference though. Especially when it was only built 4 years ago. The question of Churchtown or Nutgrove as expressed by RD3 is a bit odd to me. Nutgrove is a street(that I live on) which is either Rathfarnham or Churchtown. The site those houses and apartments are on, were where HB and Premier Dairies were, and both were Rathfarnham addresses.
i.e. between Ballinteer, Rathfarnham, Dundrum and Churchtown"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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It even has its own wikipedia page.
Nutgrove (Irish: Ceathrú an Notaigh) is an area in Churchtown, County Dublin.
It is a suburban area at the foot of the Dublin mountains between Churchtown and Rathfarnham around the Nutgrove Shopping Centre.
It used to be the home of HB, an ice cream company in Ireland."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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It's definitely a phenomenon all over Dublin, people (especially when trying to sell property) claiming to be located in a more desirable area than they actually are. I'm sure it happens everywhere, it's relatively harmless and quite funny to watch.
We know somebody who will very forecfully insist she lives in one place, when she's nowhere near it. Maybe an Irish version of Hyacinth Bucket?
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Originally posted by Theresa View Post
If any BBV readers can think of any businesses that you've booked online, or ay businesses that use acuity or squarespace I would MASSIVELY appreciate it.
Here is an example of the squarespace/acuity UI to see if it jogs a memory.
Clients can quickly view your real-time availability and self-book their own appointments—and even pay online, reschedule with a click, and eliminate 100% of the drudgery. (Official term.)
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
It must be a thing that gaudy homes are undervalued? People don't warm to it, can't see themselves there, when the reality is that most of the stuff will be gone, and the walls can be repainted?Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostIt's definitely a phenomenon all over Dublin, people (especially when trying to sell property) claiming to be located in a more desirable area than they actually are. I'm sure it happens everywhere, it's relatively harmless and quite funny to watch.
We know somebody who will very forecfully insist she lives in one place, when she's nowhere near it. Maybe an Irish version of Hyacinth Bucket?
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Actually, while not being an avid Ross O'Carroll Kelly reader, I remember laughing long and hard at how close to the mark he hit with this bit about his mother and her friends trying to stop the Green Line linking up with the Red I am 100% there was much gnashing of teeth and tearing out of hair at the possibility of Northsiders/Westsiders gaining access to the Dundrum Town Centre and other such bastions of the well-heeled.
Back to something else mentioned, I think that Foxrock definitely has the most liberties taken with its borders. Houses well into Deansgrange are given Foxrock addresses. Likewise those in Cornelscourt and Cabinteely. I believe there's similar liberties taken with Knocklyon?
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Originally posted by Ed View Post
They didn't want to be in Dublin 24
As in, you get to RTE on the N11 and suddenly everything is in County Dublin (even though, you're very close to the city centre and well inside the M50? e.g.UCD, Stillorgan, Blackrock, Mount Merrion etc
No other area in the city is postcode-free. Guess it doesn't matter any more with Eircodes."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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I knew someone who lived on Malahide Road, Swords. If they clambered up onto railings of fire escape of their building they could see the Sea if they stood on tippy toes.
Used to get a lot of smirks when they spoke about loving life in Malahide and being so great to have a sea viewLow fee Euro/UK money transfer, 1st transfer free through my referral
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
the other thing that is weird, why do the postal districts abruptly cease south of Dublin 4?
As in, you get to RTE on the N11 and suddenly everything is in County Dublin (even though, you're very close to the city centre and well inside the M50? e.g.UCD, Stillorgan, Blackrock, Mount Merrion etc
No other area in the city is postcode-free. Guess it doesn't matter any more with Eircodes.
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post
Easy to paint the walls but I can't imagine how long it would take to exorcise 'poor oul' Sinead from a house.... Imagine waking up in the night and thinking you are in the room where she was banging John Waters
About last night Sinead , you er nearly got me when you were stabbing the pillow with the scissors.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
the other thing that is weird, why do the postal districts abruptly cease south of Dublin 4?
As in, you get to RTE on the N11 and suddenly everything is in County Dublin (even though, you're very close to the city centre and well inside the M50? e.g.UCD, Stillorgan, Blackrock, Mount Merrion etc
No other area in the city is postcode-free. Guess it doesn't matter any more with Eircodes.
was approximately Trimbleston/Foster Avenues.
The old borough of Dun Laoighaire began from there running South.
The area within outside DCC
became County Dublin for postal proposes.
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Originally posted by DeeBrown View Post
Bread 41 on Pearse Street
is the nuts for pastries in Dublin.
They seem to operate on the basis of opening early and shutting the door
when the shelves are empty so move fast.
@tar will try your vegan treats another day, they look classairport, lol
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post
Easy to paint the walls but I can't imagine how long it would take to exorcise 'poor oul' Sinead from a house.... Imagine waking up in the night and thinking you are in the room where she was banging John WatersGone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by ionapaul View PostActually, while not being an avid Ross O'Carroll Kelly reader, I remember laughing long and hard at how close to the mark he hit with this bit about his mother and her friends trying to stop the Green Line linking up with the Red I am 100% there was much gnashing of teeth and tearing out of hair at the possibility of Northsiders/Westsiders gaining access to the Dundrum Town Centre and other such bastions of the well-heeled.
Back to something else mentioned, I think that Foxrock definitely has the most liberties taken with its borders. Houses well into Deansgrange are given Foxrock addresses. Likewise those in Cornelscourt and Cabinteely. I believe there's similar liberties taken with Knocklyon?
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Originally posted by Dice75 View Post
Knocklyon is well boundaried using certain roads, schools wouldnt take any prisoners either on the boundary. Our address used to be Templeogue before it became a proper area here in the early 80s housing increase which brough a church, school & shopping centre.
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Originally posted by coillcam View PostDoes anyone know much about the EIIS scheme for tax rebates on investments to qualifying Irish startups?
Looks like a HUGE no brainer, getting 40% back over two years on your initial investment - €1k investment becomes a €600 exposure."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Applied to taxback.com - ticked a few boxes - and they're now promising to send me €12k in back taxes. It all seems unlikely, so we'll see. I suspect no tax authority goes around offering €12k cheques for perfunctory ticking of boxes. But if you too might also be owed tax, taxback seem very good.
"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostApplied to taxback.com - ticked a few boxes - and they're now promising to send me €12k in back taxes. It all seems unlikely, so we'll see. I suspect no tax authority goes around offering €12k cheques for perfunctory ticking of boxes. But if you too might also be owed tax, taxback seem very good.
I've never used the service as I never had much tax back to claim and it wasn't too difficult to use the self service option on revenue's site. The revenue app is handy for uploading pictures of receipts.
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R&D Tax credits also v useful in that regard, can claim retrospectively too, where some of these challenge funds you would be long bypassed by others if you were relying on them as part of your business plan.
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Originally posted by eamonhonda View PostQuestion for the knowledgeable BBV, I wanted to pick up some pastries, cakes etc for someone this week, their favourite place is Queen Of Tarts, but they dont seem to be open for takeaway. Does anyone know the best place for such things thats open for takeaway at the moment?Originally posted by DeeBrownBread 41 on Pearse Street
is the nuts for pastries in Dublin.
They seem to operate on the basis of opening early and shutting the door
when the shelves are empty so move fast.Last edited by Lao Lao; 26-03-21, 15:17.
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Originally posted by eoghan104 View PostLao Lao we need updates on your job and the Suez Canal before you can comment on anything else please.
Theresa, my club use Chronogolf for golf bookings, maybe one to check out.
Elbows has promised not to wreck our buzz this time.
"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by hotspur View PostI liked RDIII's "weirdly flat" observation on Holland and imagined him in a Lao Lao offer negotiation stand off. "Have you accepted the position yet Raoul?" "No, the ball is still in their court about the country being weirdly flat!"
My job saga runs on
After telling my boss on Tuesday this week that I wasn't changing my mind and if the offer wasn't the same, it was a no from me, I thought it was done and dusted.
Then this morning, I get a call from the guy doing the hiring looking to touch base with me on the role, to run through where we are and how we should probably see if we can get to a figure that I won't happy with and that they also won't be happy but that could see me take the job as they think I'm the perfect fit for the role and can I get back to him with a figure.
I know any figure I go back with will be countered and I am not taking the role for something I am not happy with.
I'm sorely tempted to just withdraw my application but that wouldn't look good long term so I need go around the merry go round once again, give them a range again and tell them my lowest level that I am willing to go to, again, let them counter lower and then tell them, thanks but no thanks.
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Originally posted by Lao Lao View Post
My job saga runs on
After telling my boss on Tuesday this week that I wasn't changing my mind and if the offer wasn't the same, it was a no from me, I thought it was done and dusted.
Then this morning, I get a call from the guy doing the hiring looking to touch base with me on the role, to run through where we are and how we should probably see if we can get to a figure that I won't happy with and that they also won't be happy but that could see me take the job as they think I'm the perfect fit for the role and can I get back to him with a figure.
I know any figure I go back with will be countered and I am not taking the role for something I am not happy with.
I'm sorely tempted to just withdraw my application but that wouldn't look good long term so I need go around the merry go round once again, give them a range again and tell them my lowest level that I am willing to go to, again, let them counter lower and then tell them, thanks but no thanks.
i.e. "this is my number, I wouldn't consider taking the job for less so please don't waste both our time by offering""We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Lao Lao View Post
My job saga runs on
After telling my boss on Tuesday this week that I wasn't changing my mind and if the offer wasn't the same, it was a no from me, I thought it was done and dusted.
Then this morning, I get a call from the guy doing the hiring looking to touch base with me on the role, to run through where we are and how we should probably see if we can get to a figure that I won't happy with and that they also won't be happy but that could see me take the job as they think I'm the perfect fit for the role and can I get back to him with a figure.
I know any figure I go back with will be countered and I am not taking the role for something I am not happy with.
I'm sorely tempted to just withdraw my application but that wouldn't look good long term so I need go around the merry go round once again, give them a range again and tell them my lowest level that I am willing to go to, again, let them counter lower and then tell them, thanks but no thanks.
Btw this is good progress. Things are going your way, Just stay strong now and bring it home...‘IF YOU had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” Genghis Khan
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Originally posted by V for Vendetta View Post
Just tell him the minimum number you'll accept and tell him he can spin it how he likes from a "negotiation" perspective with ranges etc...
Btw this is good progress. Things are going your way, Just stay strong now and bring it home..."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostI see some of the ships in the queue have started to go the long way ahead. Tough year for logistics. Anyone in that industry deserves a raise imo.
This is just another cluster fuck in a long run of cluster fucks over the last 12-15 months.
You know things are royally fucked, when your industry, one that is fairly anonymous to the larger public at best, is all over the main stream news.
The chaos and potential fallout from this is huge. We're already at an all time low for global schedule reliability with it down at circa 30% and that out of the almost 70% of all vessels globally that are delay, the average time they are delayed has increased by almost double. This shit show will only make it worse and then some;
We will have a small lull in vessels arriving into Europe and then once this is cleared, we will have a shit load all arriving at pretty much the same time which will cause major congestion. The fact that no vessels are arriving for a period of time, means that no export cargo from Europe heading back down the Suez will be going anywhere so there will be backlogs there. We've already seen one shipping line put a full booking stop in place ex Europe to APAC for any new bookings - More backlogs and congestion!
In addition, shipping lines have been trying to send as many empty containers back to Asia as they can to try meet the demand coming out of there. That will be delayed so we will possibly start to run into more equipment shortages ex Asia which will cause further backlogs and congestion
It's like a never ending cycle at the minute
The facts of this incident are still not clear as to what exactly happened - There have been stories of A)The wind catching the vessel, B)The vessel losing power and drifting/caught by the wind or C) somebody making a monumental fuck up.
Personally, I think B is the most likely. Bizarrely, vessels lose power more often than you would think and if that did happen, it could easily drift and with a container stack as high as it is on a 20,000 TEU vessel, the wind could play a bit part in it too.
Another element that may cause some problems is that the shipping line, Evergreen, don't own the vessel, it's chartered. I'm hoping this doesn't make it an issue but in the latest press release I saw from the shipping line, it was very much, the owners are doing X, the owners are looking at trying to solve it by doing Y, the owners said crew are OK, etc - Maybe, I'm reading too much into that though
They already had about 10 tugs out there trying to refloat it and they have diggers on site too but all to no avail so far. there is two specialist salvage teams on their way - One from Raoul's spiritual flat home of the Netherlands and one from Japan. I'm not sure when they are due to arrive but these lads aren't cheap and the costs are racking up so they will most likely claim General Average on it which is another nightmare to deal with although can sometimes be used to sell insurance - Every cloud!!
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Did I see mentioned someone had an Eames chair? Are the replica ones any way decent?
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Music King round 7 - Theme Time Radio Hour will wind up at 8pm tonight and the loser will miss out on the weekend final!
Give it a vote if you can, it's might close.
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Originally posted by mocata View PostDid I see mentioned someone had an Eames chair? Are the replica ones any way decent?
TOOMOO Leather Recliner with Ottoman, Mid Century Genuine Leather Recliner Chair Chaise with 8-Layer Walnut Wood and Aluminum Base for Bedroom Living Room Lounge Office (Red Palisander + Black): Amazon.co.uk: Kitchen & Home"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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