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"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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House A clearly looks to be the better house but the way the bed is wedged in on the 7th photo has me on life tilt.
Who the fuck gets in and out of the bed by crawling up and down it from the bottom. You get in and out of bed from the side. I mean in that bed, you'd have to crawl into it from the end, then pull the duvet back while you're hunkered down on it possibly through the use of some gymnastic moves and then you'd be trying to tuck it back down along side the wall.
And don't get me started on how many times you'd bang arms, legs and probably even your head off the wall.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostA, other one is basically beside the M50
A will go for well over 100k above that number though - and needs a lot of work long term"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Lao Lao View PostHouse A clearly looks to be the better house but the way the bed is wedged in on the 7th photo has me on life tilt.
Who the fuck gets in and out of the bed by crawling up and down it from the bottom. You get in and out of bed from the side. I mean in that bed, you'd have to crawl into it from the end, then pull the duvet back while you're hunkered down on it possibly through the use of some gymnastic moves and then you'd be trying to tuck it back down along side the wall.
And don't get me started on how many times you'd bang arms, legs and probably even your head off the wall.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Yeah. I think you're right. The long-term plan would be to use the sidespace to extend massively to 260sqm. The neighbours with an identical plot of land got permission in 2008 to build a standalone house on their land. Suppose it depends will anyone else come in and blow us out of the water."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
I don't know? Isn't that what everyone outside of Dublin has?
The fact that culchies like to build 75% empty McMansions is irrelevant."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Just struck me as being pretty much twice the size of the average Dublin house and was wondering why the hell you would need so much space!
The fact that culchies like to build 75% empty McMansions is irrelevant."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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I think I’ll just be upfront. Make it easy for them to make it easy for me.
Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostI don't know, like my parents built 4 houses, including two while I was home, and one very recently, and the wife's father has built quite a few also, albeit in a different country, so we have a lot of family experience to draw on, and I guess a lack of fear of substantial development.
It’s a big project, but it’s sequential, starting from a black canvas.
Buying a fixer-upper is considerably more difficult. Some of the work needed might be out of sequence, meaning you’ve to demo walls, or rip out parts that were
finished. Make the place into a building site, while living there.
Unless you go in and gut the place from the get go, it’s likely to turn into a drawn out job that stagnates.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
I genuinely have no idea - I just thought thats what we were meant to do as semi-automated Irish human beings - to take property and expand it as large as physically possible, and then by definition the best Irish human is the one whose construction can be seen from a distant planet. Aren't those the rules?"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Mellor View PostBuying a fixer-upper is considerably more difficult. Some of the work needed might be out of sequence, meaning you’ve to demo walls, or rip out parts that were
finished. Make the place into a building site, while living there.
Unless you go in and gut the place from the get go, it’s likely to turn into a drawn out job that stagnates.
I can't think of anything worse than some kind of never-ending fixer upper. I'd rather do nothing and live in the old kip than be in a constant state of flux.
"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
From experience, you don't go incremental - you plan it right, spec it right and then move the hell out while the professionals do their job!
I can't think of anything worse than some kind of never-ending fixer upper. I'd rather do nothing and live in the old kip than be in a constant state of flux."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
How long would you be moving out for? 6 months type of thing?
It was extremely well planned and project managed though."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Full on productivity slump this afternoon.
The last three weeks have been absolutely bat shit crazy work wise, as in 70+ hour weeks bat shit crazy.
This afternoon is the first time in three weeks that there isn't about 50 people screaming at me for something to be done 3 days ago. It's not quiet, there is still shit loads to do but for some reason, the franticness is not there this afternoon.
As such, my brain/body seems to be saying, 'We'll chill this afternoon, it is Friday after all' when at the back of my head I know that this is a mere tiny bit of respite and next week is going to be back to being mental again so I can't afford to faff about the place but yet here I am, fluting around on IPB...
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
From experience, you don't go incremental - you plan it right, spec it right and then move the hell out while the professionals do their job!
I can't think of anything worse than some kind of never-ending fixer upper. I'd rather do nothing and live in the old kip than be in a constant state of flux.
I suppose you could move in, plan, then move out and do the same. A lot of people end up with the half finished for life place.
Obviously that’s for substantial work. Little bits are manageable of course.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostDouble jabbed, party time!
As others have noted, it's very weird to be in a room full of people more or less exactly your own age.
A few startlingly old looking ones, one suspiciously youthful looking one and everyone else is all in that 'definitely not young but certainly not old' bracket.Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Mellor View PostThat’s what I was getting at with the guy it immediately. Just do it in one hit.
I suppose you could move in, plan, then move out and do the same. A lot of people end up with the half finished for life place.
Obviously that’s for substantial work. Little bits are manageable of course.
The biggest problem with the 'do it all in one hit' approach is probably financing. There's no way your average buyer could finance that scale of work upfront."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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A is obviously better, but unless you plan for the parents to use the ground floor bedroom, not sure how comfortable you would feel about the kids being downstairs from a security point of view at nights.No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.
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Live fairly close to B, there's zero noise from the M50 in that estate I'd bet. Also approximately 100 seconds walk from the Luas, so into Stephen's Green in just over 20 minutes. Tiny tiny house though, I'm assuming it will go for over 600k in the end. Maybe not, the €/square foot is already sky high.
A is a better bet, though for my money it's in a bit of a public transportation hole (not near the Luas, not near the Dart, near enough some busy bus routes at least). I think there are better options out there, keep looking Hitch!
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Originally posted by shrapnel View Postwatched "the serpent" yesterday on netflix. would recommend. Loved the 70s vibes and the music was excellent, although the French and quebeccois accents of the 2 main protagonists were all wrong.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
We moved out for 7 weeks last time - and that was a complete gut, rebuild and double-height extend job.
It was extremely well planned and project managed though.
ah lovely. So we could probably do it in 5 weeks then."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View PostOne more round is showing in the IFI at the moment, I highly recommend it. Mars Mikkelsen's gives a great performance with a plot that will resonate with most people here: "Four high school teachers consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives."Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View PostMore good videos on the IT.
Cahill :"Would your mother be proud of you?" Garda : "My mother would be absolutely ecstatic".
"Do you know if you restrict someone it's actually rape under the law?"
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/poli...ntre-1.4615772
Saw another video where the exchange was
Cahill "I'm an election candidate let me in, what are you afraid of?" and he replies "I don't like spiders".
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One of the biggest cons in this world is HR or recruiters trying to convince you that option awards have any real value.
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 ArmaniJeans View Post
That garda is fast becoming my hero of the week.
Saw another video where the exchange was
Cahill "I'm an election candidate let me in, what are you afraid of?" and he replies "I don't like spiders".
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Actually its a bigger con that the proletariat don't understand the worthlessness of those options but yet assign them such high mental value.
"omg, they are giving me 100,000 options".
I sometimes think that even the people selling the value of these options are misguided.
Funny oul world.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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Originally posted by Theresa View PostOne of the biggest cons in this world is HR or recruiters trying to convince you that option awards have any real value."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
absolutely. The wife had a notional two percent in options of her company that is being acquired. Essentially worthless, because of director flexibility on option valuation. Its worked out grand in other ways, as its an acqui-hire, so they've incentivised her contract decently, but the options look like being chucked in the bin to all intents and purposes.
Then there is the usual 4year vest/1 year cliff.
Then the 60 days to exercise post triggering event.
Then the fact most companies don't let you exercise while in the seat.
Then like you say, the board discretion around valuation and acceleration.
All in all, a lot of individual events have to go your way to realize any value.
Yet, they are bandied about like they have some real tangible value in job negotiations. I actually suspect that the actual ramifications of options isn't really understood by even the HR people selling them. So sometimes they take it as an affront when you question the value. It's a personal attack because they think they have value in their own contract.
Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostSo you're moving to Houston, did you say? Thats going to be a ridiculous change in life!! Are you in a relationship or anything like that, that you have someone else that needs to be brought with you?
Missus would be more than happy to peace out of Calgary for Winter, and we are lucky enough to not need her to work so much.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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Hitch though, tbf, Houston and Calgary aren't that different. At all. Culture wise anyway.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
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Originally posted by The Istanbul View Post
Didn't know you were a primary school teacher
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Originally posted by Dice75 View Post
As posts seem to be up a decent chunk again lately I'm going to challenge you to contribute to a conversation once for a change rather than just smart remarks as we both know, well I certainly do from poker interations, you are far more intelligent than your regular imput here
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Originally posted by hotspur View Post
Watched the first episode and just found it deeply unpleasant.
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Originally posted by Dice75 View Post
As posts seem to be up a decent chunk again lately I'm going to challenge you to contribute to a conversation once for a change rather than just smart remarks as we both know, well I certainly do from poker interations, you are far more intelligent than your regular imput here
Now what would you like to converse on?
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostDefinitely a bitta reaction with the Pfizer second shot - sore arm plus medium sized hangover."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Micknail View Post
Jesus class sizes really were smaller back then.
There were a half a dozen kids in that class who were between 12 and 14 and who had been kept back year after year Ithink the plan was to keep them in primary in the hope they would learn something before they were legally allowed to leave school.
We got the bad side of that draw, the other third class had a teacher who was brilliant and amongst other things taught every one in his class to play chess to a level way above what you'd have expected most of them to get to. Thinking about the outcomes I'd say there wasn't too much damage from that year to anyone's education and the only long term harm was the trauma and deep psychological damage done to Pat the Perverts 'favourite' pupils.Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Dice75 View Post
Wut?
A guy here who runs summer camps confirming that his understanding is they need to shut.
"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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