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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
It's entirely possible we paid too much, but the difference in our prices might be:
1. Getting the garage wired also
2. Getting a car charger installed (paid the full price for the charger as didn't have time to claim the grant)
So reasonably similar pricing.
Money well spent though imo.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
€10k for the rewire. Got ATC SunRay radiators. They're highly efficient if they aren't heating a house with no insulation. Although the guy that fitted the new hot water tank was saying there's an even newer type of one that uses infrared to heat a particular spot in the room. Not quite sure what it means, but he was getting them installed and was in the energy-saving business, so guess they are good.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
8k I paid for a full rewire. Big job tbf.
1. Getting the garage wired also
2. Getting a car charger installed (paid the full price for the charger as didn't have time to claim the grant)
So reasonably similar pricing.
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Originally posted by Ed View Post
What sort/brand of electric radiators did you get? Looking at getting one in only one room.
Also, did you get your place rewired? $$$?
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Originally posted by Ed View Post
What sort/brand of electric radiators did you get? Looking at getting one in only one room.
Also, did you get your place rewired? $$$?
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostCalculating today the electricity bill is going to be €1,300 for the last two months. Three days over the last two months with more than 50kwh in heating used. Average of 30kwh a day in Jan. The external insulation can't come soon enough, although ESB have clearly worked out we're a cash cow and its now been three months of waiting for the fuckers to turn up and unclip the wires so the insulation can proceed.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostIts the electric radiators. They're an absolute curse in an uninsulated place. But ... should be brilliant in an insulated place. That electricity bill includes charging the car also. And there's no gas. Still mad. Now it will easily halve by this time next year with the insulation, and every summer will continue to be a mad excess of electricity produced from the solar panels.
Also, did you get your place rewired? $$$?
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Its the electric radiators. They're an absolute curse in an uninsulated place. But ... should be brilliant in an insulated place. That electricity bill includes charging the car also. And there's no gas. Still mad. Now it will easily halve by this time next year with the insulation, and every summer will continue to be a mad excess of electricity produced from the solar panels.Last edited by Hitchhiker's Guide To...; 26-01-23, 16:14.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
You're making me doubt the stag do I have to go to in a month in England. Can't see it ending well with the amount of beer, strippers, and [a new category for me] beer wenches that have already been booked. There's already far too many stories in this group, that if we feel the need to top usual behaviour its going to be absolute carnage.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostCalculating today the electricity bill is going to be €1,300 for the last two months. Three days over the last two months with more than 50kwh in heating used. Average of 30kwh a day in Jan. The external insulation can't come soon enough, although ESB have clearly worked out we're a cash cow and its now been three months of waiting for the fuckers to turn up and unclip the wires so the insulation can proceed.
Still trying to figure out how to set up my air to water right, as there is a really ambiguous dial for when the immersion will kick in, and also how hot to aim to keep the tank.
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Originally posted by hotspur View Post
Accusing the title of pandering to Oirish America is strange given that it's the name of the play he wrote in 1994, more than a decade before the possibility of films and America.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostCalculating today the electricity bill is going to be €1,300 for the last two months. Three days over the last two months with more than 50kwh in heating used. Average of 30kwh a day in Jan. The external insulation can't come soon enough, although ESB have clearly worked out we're a cash cow and its now been three months of waiting for the fuckers to turn up and unclip the wires so the insulation can proceed.
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Originally posted by Ed View PostHave reached out to john balfe but throwing in here too - anyone got a recommendation for a tiler? Very small kitchen job
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Have reached out to john balfe but throwing in here too - anyone got a recommendation for a tiler? Very small kitchen job
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Calculating today the electricity bill is going to be €1,300 for the last two months. Three days over the last two months with more than 50kwh in heating used. Average of 30kwh a day in Jan. The external insulation can't come soon enough, although ESB have clearly worked out we're a cash cow and its now been three months of waiting for the fuckers to turn up and unclip the wires so the insulation can proceed.
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View PostMe Inish is wrong
If you were asked to come up with a movie title to sound as Oirish as possible this would definitely suit the billing. I’m sure the Americans love it.
Ronnie Drew would probably call it, The Fiddlers cross – I’m picking bones of course. Although I’m stunned it’s up for so many Oscars. We feed off our Irishness well in Hollywood.
The fingers thing is stupid but sure, diddley eye diddle eye.
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Originally posted by Micknail View Post
Thanks very much.
What age staff member should I be aiming to hook up with that would have a defined benefit pension? The ones that get half their final years wages as their pension annually?
I'm not PS though.
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View PostBack to the Inish movie . I've read it was an allegory type ref to the Civil War . I get that and I'm not saying its a bad movie but is it really so great with amazing acting ? I don't see it and im a fan of the actors involved.
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Originally posted by 6starpool View Post
You can do AVCs into your public pension to basically top it up. No need for a separate one I would have thought.
What age staff member should I be aiming to hook up with that would have a defined benefit pension? The ones that get half their final years wages as their pension annually?
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Back to the Inish movie . I've read it was an allegory type ref to the Civil War . I get that and I'm not saying its a bad movie but is it really so great with amazing acting ? I don't see it and im a fan of the actors involved.
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Originally posted by Micknail View PostIf I have a public sector pension now (i'm never leaving this place - ever) should I still pay into my private one too?
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If I have a public sector pension now (i'm never leaving this place - ever) should I still pay into my private one too?
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
You're making me doubt the stag do I have to go to in a month in England. Can't see it ending well with the amount of beer, strippers, and [a new category for me] beer wenches that have already been booked. There's already far too many stories in this group, that if we feel the need to top usual behaviour its going to be absolute carnage.
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Me Inish is wrong
If you were asked to come up with a movie title to sound as Oirish as possible this would definitely suit the billing. I’m sure the Americans love it.
Ronnie Drew would probably call it, The Fiddlers cross – I’m picking bones of course. Although I’m stunned it’s up for so many Oscars. We feed off our Irishness well in Hollywood.
The fingers thing is stupid but sure, diddley eye diddle eye.
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View PostI think the Banshees of Inishfree should win an award for most pretentious film title.
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I think the Banshees of Inishfree should win an award for most pretentious film title.
Yikes . InishErin .Last edited by Solksjaer!; 26-01-23, 09:06.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Surely the only valid response is to whip out your own mickey and have some kind of deranged dance off.
Hard to get into a fight if nothing else.
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Originally posted by hotspur View Post
I haven't read any of his stuff or listened to him.
Bonos new book is good - very nostalgic imo.
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostI'm working with a Dublin football player, young lad. Am training him in for a sales role.
He was telling me all about the set up today. Mind blowing how professional it is.
He's training six days a week and at any given session there's approx 36 backroom staff there.
That includes drone operators. Cameras are set up at each goal, with drones flying above capturing everything. The next evening he could be called in to review footage and explain why he did certain things.
Said he's allowed take a Lemsip but not a Lemsip Max. He had flu meds recently prescribed and he had to send in the full details of them. Was told no, he had to bin them.
Said also that whenever they play a game players are banned from using social media for two weeks. Can't share a cat picture on FB.
Tight security around training too so no eyes can get on what they're at.
Fascinating stuff.
I was assisting a friend of mine who was directly involved in the set up but cool experience in college going to the games, training sessions, listening in on some of the discussions.
As you say, the level of professionalism is incredible. The drones weren’t a thing when I was there but all the video feedback was available for challenge matches through championship.
Social media probably wasn’t the minefield then that it is now but I can imagine they well warned on it.
It was really enjoyable overall and probably a large reason why I landed my first job out of college tbh.
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Originally posted by hotspur View Post
I haven't read any of his stuff or listened to him.
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostDon't really understand why the Emporium, by far the best facility for poker in Dublin, with Parkinson doing front of house and a decently structured game isn't getting anything like the numbers the Fitz EOM was.
I see it's on tomorrow night, unfortunately it's unlikely I'll be able to make it. Always thought that Friday would be a better night for it and that it suited the Fitz to bring in a bigger crowd on Thu because they were going to be busy on Fridays by default.
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Don't really understand why the Emporium, by far the best facility for poker in Dublin, with Parkinson doing front of house and a decently structured game isn't getting anything like the numbers the Fitz EOM was.
I see it's on tomorrow night, unfortunately it's unlikely I'll be able to make it. Always thought that Friday would be a better night for it and that it suited the Fitz to bring in a bigger crowd on Thu because they were going to be busy on Fridays by default.
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Originally posted by Lao Lao View PostI'll be happy when all the Weatherspoons are gone. I haven't set foot in an Irish one but the UK ones are absolute fucking kips.
I was in one over 13 years ago in Birmingham. Was over there for work for a week and one of the lads I know well asked me out for a few pints. Rather than go into the city centre, we hit up his local which was a Wetherspoons. Jesus, it was grim. We had food, if you could call it that, rank microwave heated burgers and a few pints of piss.
Next of all, some lad walks out of the jacks with his mickey hanging out of his trousers waving it at people and then shouting at them 'Are you a queer cunt, staring at me fucking cock?' And then trying to start a fight with them because they were gay and trying to ride him. This went on for a while with no staff doing anything about it. It was only broken up as your man and his mates went back into the jacks every so often to snort more coke up their noses.
The tension in the place was mental, you could tell it was about to fully kick off at any minute. We decided to call it a night but we were only two minutes down the road when we could see people spilling out of the pub and a good few people roaring at each other and squaring off against each other.
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