An antidote to Pet Peeves!
I have a suplus of holidays left and, as a result, I finish work on Friday for the year. I have nothing planned other than to get comfortable on the couch, listen to music, watch movies and read books. I cannot fucking wait.
Man, there's nothing I look forward to more than simple chillin. I genuinely look forward to it at work. Thank fuck the missus isn't too demanding wanting to do stuff. Like, I don't want to climb a mountain, there's not a whole lot of interesting things to do in Limerick, the weather's always shit so why would you want to go anywhere anyway. That's my outlook. Between the pup's guitar lessons and football training, my band practice and familial obligations I don't feel the need to have extra hobbies or anything. So much around us is peeve-worthy, it really is the simple things that make life worthwhile.
Tea, TV/movies and a book in bed. That's my ideal evening.
Bought a gaff recently so plenty of painting to be done. Luckily getting to work from home until Christmas (hopefully that won't change) so I'm getting to tip away at a bit of DIY each day. I suppose it's the opposite of flaking but it's a buzz seeing the place begin to take shape.
Congrats Andy!
I've my first Christmas without my daughter so I'll be fucking off to Waterford for a couple days of lazing about and catching up with old friends and family. No doubt a wander round Dunmore East is on the cards as well. I'll miss having the lil' ninja for the few days but at the same time being away from Dublin is always a pleasure.
Christmas food. I'm a sucker for it all... Mince pies, fancy cheese and ham, turkey dinners, lots of good wine and beer... I'll be beating the fuck out of the gym come January. Again.
Getting up on a Saturday at the same time I would on a work day, having a solid breakfast and going back to bed. Magic.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on December 13, 2018, 07:20:58 PM
Getting up on a Saturday at the same time I would on a work day, having a solid breakfast and going back to bed. Magic.
:laugh: class. You'll go blind pullin the bleedin stomach ourra yourself all morning.
Handed in my notice in work the other week, not leaving until the middle of March but have just completely switched off already and doing as little as possible. It's great.
I have a big cheap picture of a sunset over a beach on the wall in my gaff and my latest favourite thing to do is stare blankly at it while listening to tunes. Usually after a couple of cans and a bit of a smoke. I can just get lost in its generic glory for hours on end. Having a girlfriend and kids and work and bills etc, it is a great way to just forget all about it before I go to bed.
I haven't really listened to music in this way since I was a lot younger and it is reinvigorating. Simple pleasures indeed.
When a cunt at work who does fuck all, tries to hang you for stuff HE hadn't done and copying in half the company in the email, but you reply within seconds showing all your work is in order and it is in fact him that is the spa... ah now I feel good.
Weed.
Quote from: Wiseblood on December 14, 2018, 10:55:36 AM
When a cunt at work who does fuck all, tries to hang you for stuff HE hadn't done and copying in half the company in the email, but you reply within seconds showing all your work is in order and it is in fact him that is the spa... ah now I feel good.
Nice :laugh:
Have lots of cunts like that here, it's always a good feeling when they get exposed.
ive no kids, wife , mortgage etc so every weekend for me is just drinking and smoking weed and playing/listening to music. its great and i never want it to change!
Quote from: blessed1 on December 14, 2018, 11:42:43 AM
ive no kids, wife , mortgage etc so every weekend for me is just drinking and smoking weed and playing/listening to music. its great and i never want it to change!
Keep fighting the good fight. There is a lot to be said for it.
Yeah regarding parenthood, the fantasy of not being a auld lad does materialize every so often. About two months ago the young lad asked me if he could play my (expensive) acoustic and I told him 'no' and to play his own. I went to the kitchen o get him his breakfast and when I brought it through, there he was, pants around his ankles, mickey in hand pissing into the hole in the guitar. He is 6.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on December 14, 2018, 02:15:12 PM
About two months ago the young lad asked me if he could play my (expensive) acoustic and I told him 'no' and to play his own. I went to the kitchen o get him his breakfast and when I brought it through, there he was, pants around his ankles, mickey in hand pissing into the hole in the guitar. He is 6.
Did you pause and ask yourself, What Would Jordan Do?? ;)
I paused and considered what my auld lad would have done...but a solid beating is passé these days.
Going in to a small room and playing big filthy riffs with your mates at ridiculous volume. Man, that's the best.
Also the guitar-pissing child story is the most rock n' roll thing I've read this year. Fair play.
Quote from: Pentagrimes on December 19, 2018, 09:06:09 AM
Going in to a small room and playing big filthy riffs with your mates at ridiculous volume. Man, that's the best.
There are very few things as fun as this. Especially when it's just in a jamming/creative stage and ye're under no pressure.
Afternoon darts with a bottle of wine, though I am gravely concerned over the obesity epidemic raging among these athletes.
:laugh: :laugh:
2 weeks Xmas hols. Goddam nice feeling. And instead of going on the batter, I rearranged the man-cave/recording setup. So I have the satisfaction of that.
Going on the batter tomorrow, obviously.
Two weeks holidays kicked in here too. Got some wallpapering done today and I foresee yummy Guinness on my immediate horizon :)
Yeah teacher holidays since 1.30, and not back til the 8th. A weekend if acting the prick with the young lad and then home on Monday to put on a stone under the approving vigilance of my mammy. Happy days :)
Fires lit, beers in the fridge, music on.
Perfect.
This > :laugh:
Getting back into your own bed after a few nights away. Currently a mattress on the floor as we are doing a bit of work on the new gaff but a pleasure none the less.
Walking out the door from work and lighting up a fag. The first drag is exquisite.
When the fridge is full but it's cold enough to just leave a box of beers outside
Beans. Simple auld baked beans... old as the hills but still one of the most satisfying snacks there is. In a world obsessed with the newest super foods and annoying food fads these hipster foodies have overlooked a true great...
Quote from: Wiseblood on January 11, 2019, 04:50:55 PM
Beans. Simple auld baked beans... old as the hills but still one of the most satisfying snacks there is. In a world obsessed with the newest super foods and annoying food fads these hipster foodies have overlooked a true great...
A cheese toastie with a few beans on top is one of the best lunches a man can have.
Quote from: ochoill on January 11, 2019, 06:33:39 PM
Quote from: Wiseblood on January 11, 2019, 04:50:55 PM
Beans. Simple auld baked beans... old as the hills but still one of the most satisfying snacks there is. In a world obsessed with the newest super foods and annoying food fads these hipster foodies have overlooked a true great...
A cheese toastie with a few beans on top is one of the best lunches a man can have.
Fact.
Quote from: Wiseblood on January 11, 2019, 06:40:48 PM
Quote from: ochoill on January 11, 2019, 06:33:39 PM
Quote from: Wiseblood on January 11, 2019, 04:50:55 PM
Beans. Simple auld baked beans... old as the hills but still one of the most satisfying snacks there is. In a world obsessed with the newest super foods and annoying food fads these hipster foodies have overlooked a true great...
A cheese toastie with a few beans on top is one of the best lunches a man can have.
Fact.
the beans have to go in the cheese toastie!
Quote from: Emphyrio on December 13, 2018, 11:13:48 AM
Man, there's nothing I look forward to more than simple chillin. I genuinely look forward to it at work. Thank fuck the missus isn't too demanding wanting to do stuff. Like, I don't want to climb a mountain, there's not a whole lot of interesting things to do in Limerick, the weather's always shit so why would you want to go anywhere anyway.
I like going to the milk market in Limerick on Saturdays.
And the Gatherings also good for a game of DnD!
Waking up in the middle of the night is a ball ache but there's something satisfying about flipping the pillow over to the cool side!
When it's cold out, the moment when the car's engine is finally up to temperature and the heating starts to take effect.
Finding another chip/sweet in the bag....
Having spent the last couple of months sleeping on a mattress on the floor, I spent a busy evening getting the bedroom fixed up. I'm lying on an actual bed for the first time since early December. It feels good :)
An oul hand shandy when you're stressed never grows old
Quote from: Pedrito on January 31, 2019, 02:51:37 PM
An oul hand shandy when you're stressed never grows old
especially when dying of a hangover!
then it's something more akin to an exorcism
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Electricity.
Came home to find the power off in my flat last night, still not back this morning and according to the ESB fault line's recorded message there's a "major fault" in Inchicore that still isn't sorted. Conveniently, this "major fault" only seems to be affecting my building. And of course, I discovered this after coming back from a trip to the supermarket to stock up my now non-working freezer...
Quote from: Pentagrimes on February 01, 2019, 09:15:55 AM
Electricity.
Came home to find the power off in my flat last night, still not back this morning and according to the ESB fault line's recorded message there's a "major fault" in Inchicore that still isn't sorted. Conveniently, this "major fault" only seems to be affecting my building. And of course, I discovered this after coming back from a trip to the supermarket to stock up my now non-working freezer...
Push your freezer over to an open window lad.
Arriving on a green light this morning on 2 sets of roadwords 1km apart.......ahhhhh...
BBQ beef Hula Hoops.
Nope, they're a manky crisp.
Motor insurance seems to have gone down.
A male colleague paid €370 (TPF&T) for his van today. A €200 drop from last year.
A female friend paid €670 (Fully Comp) today. Compared to €1127 last year.
Coca Cola (ice cold obviously) from a glass bottle...
Actually, I think I have arrived at the definitive hierarchical structure of Coca Cola consumption. In order of preference:
1. Glass bottle
2. Fountain Machine
3. Can
4. Plastic Bottle
Quote from: John Kimble on February 13, 2019, 01:43:13 PM
Coca Cola (ice cold obviously) from a glass bottle...
Actually, I think I have arrived at the definitive hierarchical structure of Coca Cola consumption. In order of preference:
1. Glass bottle
2. Fountain Machine
3. Can
4. Plastic Bottle
5. None of the above
Fixed that for you.
A letter in the post to say my 5 penalty points are now gone. Zero points on the licence now. Bitta leeway for messing, says you :P
Hanging out with your lifelong pals and their wives and kids. Such a deadly buzz seeing all these new little personalities developing.
When you are having just a shit run of days.. and then you read some random comment like on here, or a youtube video etc and it just flips you into hysterics
Sitting in work and there's nothing but problems and complaints and people being loud... just push in the ear buds and turn on one of my spotify playlists that starts off with the Rain Song by Zepplin and I just block all that shite out and continue on.
Taking a shit is seriously underrated.
Got a new kitchen knife in the post today. The sheer pleasure of slicing up your food with a new, sharp blade can't be denied. Blissful.
Quote from: astfgyl on February 24, 2019, 09:36:15 AM
Taking a shit is seriously underrated.
Related: Smoking a joint on the crapper.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on February 25, 2019, 08:02:08 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on February 24, 2019, 09:36:15 AM
Taking a shit is seriously underrated.
Related: Smoking a joint on the crapper.
Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter ???
A simple bacon and fried egg toast sandwitch.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on February 25, 2019, 08:02:08 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on February 24, 2019, 09:36:15 AM
Taking a shit is seriously underrated.
Related: Smoking a joint on the crapper.
When your buddy hands you a pack of skins to roll with and you cop that there's still (was) a greenie inside 8)
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on February 25, 2019, 08:02:08 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on February 24, 2019, 09:36:15 AM
Taking a shit is seriously underrated.
Related: Smoking a joint on the crapper.
This has always made me way too paranoid. small spaces and smoke is an almost immediate whitener.
Blue skies, particularly after months of grey ones.
Quote from: Juggz on March 01, 2019, 08:31:13 AM
Blue skies, particularly after months of grey ones.
Leaving the house while it's bright and crisp in the mornings is a real treat. Lovely feeling.
Sneachta falling outside, cup of tea and Willow on the box.
Jesus fucking Christ, I might have been a bit hasty on putting Willow in this thread. What an incoherent load of noisy nonsense. It's like Pokemon or something. Lots of roaring and shouting and non stop action and barely any semblance of a storyline. I know it's a kid's film but Jesus...
Willow is a perfect family movie, it's got it all!
I turned it off. Unbelievably irritating shite.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on March 03, 2019, 06:43:23 PM
I turned it off. Unbelievably irritating shite.
:laugh: :laugh:
Man I remember going to see that in the cinema, still a great show.. stop being old and cranky :laugh:
I remember it coming out as I remember every Cornflake box advertising it at the time. It was obviously a big deal back then but fucking hell... if ever a film has aged badly! Those two little French cunts... What was the point of them??
Load of cans in work this afternoon because one of the guys was retiring, followed by a big greasy chipper feed on the way home. Lovely.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on March 03, 2019, 08:25:26 PM
I remember it coming out as I remember every Cornflake box advertising it at the time. It was obviously a big deal back then but fucking hell... if ever a film has aged badly! Those two little French cunts... What was the point of them??
Cornflakes :laugh: remember it well. Tried watching the movie a load of times and it's awful shite. Conan the Barbarian will fill that void you're looking to fill...class film
Early morning movies on a lazy weekend. Just watched The Lobster, a wonderfully demented way to start the weekend.
Watching and listening to Monica Bellucci ??? :-*
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Watching and listening to Monica Bellucci ??? :-*
What a woman
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Watching and listening to Monica Bellucci ??? :-*
I'd call that a very complex pleasure myself :laugh:
Yeah shes incredible looking for a women in her mid 50s,but on my filth scale shes no Deirdre o Kane!
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Watching and listening to Monica Bellucci ??? :-*
I'd call that a very complex pleasure myself :laugh:
Don't hate on our love :laugh:
Ordered a box of band shirts lately. Currently folding, rolling, taping them to organise and it is oddly very very relaxing
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Watching and listening to Monica Bellucci ??? :-*
I'd call that a very complex pleasure myself :laugh:
Don't hate on our love :laugh:
No hating going on at all! Just dealing with the complex emotions she stirs :-* :laugh:
When youre driving through lashing rain and pass under a bridge and the noise stops for just a second, always found that oddly satisfying
Haha, yeah. I appreciate that too.
Imagine how good it is on a motorbike.
I hate driving here in Madrid. The honking is so excessive and for the most minor infraction. In years of driving in Ireland I did it once. And that was unjustified, gave the other driver the nod after.
Ventured into Spin Dizzy Records this afternoon as I was in the area. It's not a usual haunt of mine so I was pleasantly surprised to see a second hand Siculicidium LP in there for a mere €12. I'd been meaning to check them out for a while. Winner.
Not exactly the right places for this observation but it's close enough without having to open a new thread. I was at a site induction this morning and found it interesting to observe that as well as the usual health and safety stuff the dude mentioned that abuse of other people due to race, religion, sexuality or gender was not acceptable on site. This might be taken as read for most people but it's interesting that the culture on site is being kicked into the 21st Century. I know this might be regarded as ridiculous PC shite by some but I think it's overall a positive move compared with the typical laddish culture of the past. While that usually amounts to little more than harmless banter, it's good to know that ultimately respect is expected across the board. They are also planning a Darkness into Light walk in the coming weeks, which is a really positive thing, I think. I'd never heard this sort of stuff being mentioned before, and a shift towards a healthier and more positive atmosphere for everyone on site that maybe challenges the macho aspect that can sometimes dominate these environments is only going to benefit everyone.
Aye, possibly more to do with free speech, from a positive angle, than any kind of simple pleasure.
Haha, yep. It's an interesting and positive shift in culture. The whole gender thing still seems foreign to me, and hearing about schools giving out gender pronoun stickers to kids seems absurd, but then again, young people always seem absurd to the previous generations.
One of the men's toilets at the back of our building in work only has one cubicle and its nice just to sit in there and surf on the phone. Occasionally you'll hear the door into the bogs open then close immediately as somebody wants to take a shit and I've denied them that.
Quote from: Kunt 4 Life on April 04, 2019, 03:43:52 PM
One of the men's toilets at the back of our building in work only has one cubicle and its nice just to sit in there and surf on the phone. Occasionally you'll hear the door into the bogs open then close immediately as somebody wants to take a shit and I've denied them that.
:laugh:
That's more like it!
:abbath:
I'm finding :abbath: a simple pleasure in itself
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How cool.is that!
It's :abbath: % cool!
:abbath:% agree
Drinking good beer on your own in a pub youve never been in, preferably far away from your home town. Utterly class. Its just you and the pints, alone at last.
Quote from: Slaughterday on April 04, 2019, 09:51:29 PM
Drinking good beer on your own in a pub youve never been in, preferably far away from your home town. Utterly class. Its just you and the pints, alone at last.
The exact opposite but with the same sense of longing I'm getting off this post: https://youtu.be/t4hmFPBf-C8
Having a nice feed of Saturday pints in front of you 8)
What a glorious feeling!
Getting the long hair chopped off after what must be 15 years now... I cannot wait for my next shower/hair wash to have dry hair in like 3 minutes :laugh:
#sellout :abbath:
Bbq season has started.
Finally, first beer of the weekend. :abbath:% proof
I just cracked a bottle of red. I apologise in advance for any online farting, vomiting or repeating of posts from other forums. Consider it the magic of surfing the information super highway. Surf safe, bros and broettes.
First off a Ryanair plane.
First pint on a holiday.
Comfy pillows.
Breakfast pint.
watching the downfall of John Delaney
sex in the morning followed by a big fat fuckin joint
Cutting up vegetables for dinner with a new set of knives
Quote from: blessed1 on April 14, 2019, 03:01:14 PM
sex in the morning followed by a big fat fuckin joint
:laugh:
Is that not more luxury territory?
Sounds heavenly :laugh:
Prison ain't as tough as it used to be?
Taking the rest of the week off. Just because.
Being off work when you know everybody else is in being miserable is way better than having the weekend off.
Getting into bed when it's pissing rain outside, particularly on a Monday morning when everyone else is heading into work. One of the few joys of working nights.
I've had the same pair of cheap earphones for about 3 or 4 years now and they finally died on me last week. Decided to splash out on a decent pair and the sound difference is unbelievable, some albums are like I'm listening to them for the first time, wonderful stuff
Quote from: Trev on April 26, 2019, 08:21:53 PM
I've had the same pair of cheap earphones for about 3 or 4 years now and they finally died on me last week. Decided to splash out on a decent pair and the sound difference is unbelievable, some albums are like I'm listening to them for the first time, wonderful stuff
What did you buy?
I wouldn't buy anything below the quality of Sennheiser. So many headphones are just awful. I've never owned a pair of Bose but I'd seriously think about splashing out in future. My Sennhesiers are just a pleasure. I've had about 5 sets of them now.
Realising you really aren't THAT familiar with old albums, and finally getting your mind blown by just how fucking class they are.
Smashing Pumpkins Gish and lots of FNM. Great to be able to listen to older stuff without nostalgia and emotion too. They sound fresher now than they ever did.
Cryyyy Litttllle Siiiisterrrrrr!
That song.
:-*
When you kick a pebble on the ground and, instead of skeeting along the ground, it lifts up into the air in a perfect arc to nowhere in particular.
mdma after not having it for ages.
That reminds me, d'ya know what I haven't had for ages? MDMA!
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 03, 2019, 09:17:03 PM
That reminds me, d'ya know what I haven't had for ages? MDMA!
:D
Gardening. I've never owned my own place before so gardening was always a pain in the hole. Now that I have my own one I'm turning into Monty fuckin Don!
Quote from: Eoin McLove on May 04, 2019, 11:25:37 AM
Gardening. I've never owned my own place before so gardening was always a pain in the hole. Now that I have my own one I'm turning into Monty fuckin Don!
Yeah I actually love gardening myself.nothing like planting your own flowers and watching them grow.igenerally stick with bulbs though as you only need to plant the fuckers once.
We've stick in a combination of trees and plants, a veggie box and a small herb box as well. Once/if they start emerging the places will be great looking. Got a couple of packets of bee bombs, which are a mixture of local wild flowers that attract bees, so we'll scatter them around the place too. It's taking shape quite nicely.
Plant a load of lilies.they look and smell great and they come back every year.also trail clematis plants over your front door and it will look amazing.grows quite fast too.
Seeing people with kids and they're looking tired and stressed and being able to say, "thank fuck that's not me".
I don't mind people coming to visit who have kids but the best part is knowing they will go away, or if I go to visit people with kids knowing that when I leave that stress they have won't be coming with me .
Yes, children are a blessing :laugh:
Homemade taco chips. Fucking magic. :abbath:
All the best to you if you have kids, but I am glad to say I never will.
When people come round and have their, "precious little one's" in toe, they are screaming and wanting to pull the place apart. It makes me glad that when they leave all that will go too.
Apart from that, I like a cup of tea and a slice of chocolate cake or Swiss Roll.
Ah yes, Simple Pleasures ;)
As a wise old instructor at work, now retired, once told us "kids are like farts...you can only tolerate your own". I have two little angels myself, and they're at the age where both can dismantle an entire living room in under 30 seconds. Nothing worse than parents who let their brats off the leash then justify it with that 'ah sure they're little divils, what can you do' attitude.
Quote from: livingabortion on May 14, 2019, 01:00:23 PM
All the best to you if you have kids, but I am glad to say I never will.
When people come round and have their, "precious little one's" in toe, they are screaming and wanting to pull the place apart. It makes me glad that when they leave all that will go too.
And you needed to make this exact same point twice in a row why exactly? I mean, if you were a flustered parent I might understand...
A lot of the time its not the kids fault,its the parents.Personally when my kids were around 2/3 years old i avoided a lot of places,to much stress and hassle.
Some parents dont give a fuck if their kids are running amok in someones house or out in a restraunt.I just took my kids out of the equation for a while until the grew out of that annoying pissy age.,its not worth the head ache.
Being so fed up with work that ya take the rest of the week off and are now sat at home with a big ass order from ramen in front of your fat mouth along with a nice glass of jameson with Robocop about to start 8)
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 14, 2019, 03:28:08 PM
Quote from: livingabortion on May 14, 2019, 01:00:23 PM
All the best to you if you have kids, but I am glad to say I never will.
When people come round and have their, "precious little one's" in toe, they are screaming and wanting to pull the place apart. It makes me glad that when they leave all that will go too.
And you needed to make this exact same point twice in a row why exactly? I mean, if you were a flustered parent I might understand...
Just reiterating the joy's of no kids :laugh:
Quote from: Eoin McLove on May 04, 2019, 11:25:37 AM
Gardening. I've never owned my own place before so gardening was always a pain in the hole. Now that I have my own one I'm turning into Monty fuckin Don!
Whilst I'm not a massive fan of gardening, I am getting more into it. Even to the point of enjoying it at certain points. The weeding though, Christ.
Just ordered myself a black Dutch hoe yesterday.....
..... this would have probably had a far different (and more exciting) meaning for me 20 years ago.
Yeah, I'm digging (pardon the pun) the joys of gardening very much these days. The place was an absolute mess when we moved in, grass was in a terrible state, weeds everywhere, and the previous owners had planted bamboo all along the back wall, which is an absolute cunt to remove. Dug everything up, put down a load of gravel and a patch of astroturf, and made some large flower beds out of railway sleepers. I think what appeals to me about gardening is that, because I'm fucking useless at DIY, there's very little damage I can do outside as opposed to messing around with the gaff itself. And while we're on the subject of simple pleasures, there's nothing better than firing up the barbeque after an afternoon in the garden, and having a few beers.
It's amazing the difference a small amount of effort makes in the garden. I go out and water the plants each evening and it's great to see how things are constantly developing. It's so cheap to pick up nice plants too so a few quid thrown into it at the weekend can go a long way. We've managed to turn ours from overgrown, dull and uninspiring to something to be modestly proud of in a short space of time. I've a plan for a bit of decking so it could all go sideways yet :laugh:
Can't believe I'm discussing gardening on a metal forum but, hey, I suppose I'm only a year off my forties. McLove, can I please talk you out of the decking? Ours came with the house and we got rid of it. It's a bollocks to maintain in the Irish climate, there's just too much rain. I'd go for paving slabs instead, it prob works out cheaper too and little or no maintenance.
I hear you regarding the upkeep but the decking is integral to my plan so I'll just have to roll up the sleeves and make sure to keep it in good condition.
Have to echo the pleasures of gardening.
Took to the idea a few years back that I wanted to start growing some of my own food. Currently have 5 raised beds and a poly tunnel with a nice assortment of veg coming along.
The quintessential Irish gardening experience is planting your spuds on St . Patrick's Day while having a Guinness.
Out of interest, and fair play to you, but I've often wondered how much actual food people get from their gardens? My grandfather had a farm and we would plant spuds, but they were whole fields needed for a decent quantity. Just wondering, not a criticism, I actually think it's a great idea
Yeah it's pretty difficult to become completely self sufficient in food for sure.
I've two beds for potatoes, one early potatoes, and one main crop potatoes. For most of the beds I follow some square foot gardening principles. So one potato plant per square foot in a 3 foot by 5 foot bed, gives me 30 plants between the two beds. I had enough potatoes to munch on for a good few months last year with them.
Same with the carrots, parsnips, and beetroot. You can fit 16 carrots or 16 parsnips in a square foot. So my 1 foot by 5 foot strips in the bed give me 80 carrots and 80 parsnips, dependent on them all successfully germinating. Beetroot on the other hand is 9 per square foot, so a 1 foot by 5 foot strip gives me 45 plants, all of which I pickle.
Other than that I've a bed with around 22 garlic plants, and a rake of onions and red onions, then the final bed is a strip of peas, an an assortment of oriental greens and lettuce.
The poly tunnel then has vine tomatoes, bush tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and a shit load of chillis.
Overall I get quite a lot out of a reasonably small space. Next year I'll try expand to 8 beds, and perhaps look at getting chickens this year.
Far from self sufficient, but it's such a satisfying endeavor.
Sounds great.
Bra wearing seems to have become pasé amongst many of the young ladies that are walking around the Madrid university where I work and to top it all off, tight see through tshirts are all the rage. Having grown up in repressed, Catholic, single sex education Ireland, I need to pinch myself and wonder if I am not living in some sort of new world utopia. Heavenly nipples everywhere
Quote from: Pedrito on May 23, 2019, 09:52:45 AM
Sounds great.
Bra wearing seems to have become pasé amongst many of the young ladies that are walking around the Madrid university where I work and to top it all off, tight see through tshirts are all the rage. Having grown up in repressed, Catholic, single sex education Ireland, I need to pinch myself and wonder if I am not living in some sort of new world utopia. Heavenly nipples everywhere
I visit Spain a few times a year and I can definitely vouch that Spanish chicks are the hottest in Europe.
Enjoy my dear friend.... me encanta XXxX
Great to see everyone getting on well with the gardens, mad to do a bit with mine too but at this rate have to wait until next year. Currently it holds an old kitchen and a fuckin ton of stuff for a skip so that has to be sorted first.
It's only a small concrete yard, L shaped with each part being about 3m long each and 1.5m wide at the best, with high walls. City house so not a huge space. Once it's cleaned, can consider what to do with it, thinking of some small raised beds for the back wall just to grow something out there. There's a few badly looked after bushes from the old owner that can be tidied. Can any of ye recommend any decent online resources for ideas?
Quote from: John Kimble on May 22, 2019, 08:42:28 PM
Can't believe I'm discussing gardening on a metal forum but, hey, I suppose I'm only a year off my forties. McLove, can I please talk you out of the decking? Ours came with the house and we got rid of it. It's a bollocks to maintain in the Irish climate, there's just too much rain. I'd go for paving slabs instead, it prob works out cheaper too and little or no maintenance.
I reckon that most of us listen metal while doing the yard work, I think that this gives us license to discuss it here. :abbath:
Echo that. My neighbours (those mentioned in the Nectar of The Gods thread) have a deck out their back yard. The lady who owned the house before them religiously treated the timber every spring. Within 2 years of her going the thing has fallen to a rotten condition.
Timber decks are also a haven for vermin apparently.
This all said, I'd doing a deck in my yard after I get a bit of building work done. However, I'm getting slabs that look like traditional timber but it's made from concrete. Powerhose the fucker and you're done.
https://www.ballygarvanstonecraft.ie/product/263/paving-slabs/precast-sleeper
Quote from: ochoill on May 23, 2019, 10:11:40 AM
Great to see everyone getting on well with the gardens, mad to do a bit with mine too but at this rate have to wait until next year. Currently it holds an old kitchen and a fuckin ton of stuff for a skip so that has to be sorted first.
It's only a small concrete yard, L shaped with each part being about 3m long each and 1.5m wide at the best, with high walls. City house so not a huge space. Once it's cleaned, can consider what to do with it, thinking of some small raised beds for the back wall just to grow something out there. There's a few badly looked after bushes from the old owner that can be tidied. Can any of ye recommend any decent online resources for ideas?
This is a decent website for ordering a starting kit - https://giy.ie/
You begin with the stuff in boxes indoors and then move them outside.
As has been said already decking is a waste of time in Ireland. It just goes to shit. No metal music for me out in the garden. I usually start with a small joint then whack on classical music. Come to think of it I actually listen to more classical than metal music these days.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on May 23, 2019, 09:58:29 AM
Quote from: Pedrito on May 23, 2019, 09:52:45 AM
Sounds great.
Bra wearing seems to have become pasé amongst many of the young ladies that are walking around the Madrid university where I work and to top it all off, tight see through tshirts are all the rage. Having grown up in repressed, Catholic, single sex education Ireland, I need to pinch myself and wonder if I am not living in some sort of new world utopia. Heavenly nipples everywhere
I visit Spain a few times a year and I can definitely vouch that Spanish chicks are the hottest in Europe.
Enjoy my dear friend.... me encanta XXxX
hehe...add the huge influx from Latin America, North Africa, it´s like a catwalk in the metro. A long way from grey uniforms and Christian brothers I tell ye.
I have to say, I wasn't gonna join this forum till I heard there was a gardening discussion! Does anyone brew from what they grow? Have a lot of blackcurrant, raspberry, gooseberry bushes and a plum tree so I'm planning to . Also elderflower champagne and rhubarb champagne is on the cards... Have 3 polytunnels and hens too so I live in the garden. . Winterfylleth and Ulver are my gardening bands of late.
Quote from: Bigmac on May 23, 2019, 09:41:03 AM
Yeah it's pretty difficult to become completely self sufficient in food for sure.
I've two beds for potatoes, one early potatoes, and one main crop potatoes. For most of the beds I follow some square foot gardening principles. So one potato plant per square foot in a 3 foot by 5 foot bed, gives me 30 plants between the two beds. I had enough potatoes to munch on for a good few months last year with them.
Same with the carrots, parsnips, and beetroot. You can fit 16 carrots or 16 parsnips in a square foot. So my 1 foot by 5 foot strips in the bed give me 80 carrots and 80 parsnips, dependent on them all successfully germinating. Beetroot on the other hand is 9 per square foot, so a 1 foot by 5 foot strip gives me 45 plants, all of which I pickle.
Other than that I've a bed with around 22 garlic plants, and a rake of onions and red onions, then the final bed is a strip of peas, an an assortment of oriental greens and lettuce.
The poly tunnel then has vine tomatoes, bush tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and a shit load of chillis.
Overall I get quite a lot out of a reasonably small space. Next year I'll try expand to 8 beds, and perhaps look at getting chickens this year.
Far from self sufficient, but it's such a satisfying endeavor.
You any issues with germinating peppers? Ive tried 3 times, both chilli and sweet. The polytunnel gets quite hot. I've tried it in vermicompost and then just peat free compost with vermiculite and still no luck. Everything else germinate for me, tomatoes, squash melons... Even celeriac... Just no luck with the peppers.
No major issues really that I can recall. I'll always sow more than I think I'll need, so even if I get a few duds, I tend to still have enough. Have 3 pepper plants, 4 red chilli and 4 jalapenos all doing well now in the poly tunnel.
Since they have such a long growing season, I started them off on the windowsill along with the tomatoes back in February.
I tend to use module trays and sow one seed per module, water them in and wrap a bit of cling film over the tray to keep in a bit of moisture and heat.
The depth at which you sow them can have a bit of an influence too. I think mine usually just go in at a finger nails depth, and I just top it off with a bit more compost. Hope some of that helps anyway!
Quote from: Bigmac on May 24, 2019, 04:27:37 PM
No major issues really that I can recall. I'll always sow more than I think I'll need, so even if I get a few duds, I tend to still have enough. Have 3 pepper plants, 4 red chilli and 4 jalapenos all doing well now in the poly tunnel.
Since they have such a long growing season, I started them off on the windowsill along with the tomatoes back in February.
I tend to use module trays and sow one seed per module, water them in and wrap a bit of cling film over the tray to keep in a bit of moisture and heat.
The depth at which you sow them can have a bit of an influence too. I think mine usually just go in at a finger nails depth, and I just top it off with a bit more compost. Hope some of that helps anyway!
Cheers. I've done all of the above except I sowed them fairly near the surface. I'll try deeper next year and try a different seed company next yr. Just puddled in my leeks today. (it's Mairéad BTW) if you're ever in our neck of the woods, pop in and see our set up. We have baby chicks n all!
Ah didn't realise it was yourself!
Yeah that would be brilliant. I was looking at getting some chickens soon myself, so I'll try pop over sometime and check out the set up. Sounds like you're doing brilliant!
My Teac tape deck arrived today competing my new setup. Trollman av Illdtoppberg are breaking her in.
8)
:-*
:abbath:
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on May 23, 2019, 09:58:29 AM
Quote from: Pedrito on May 23, 2019, 09:52:45 AM
Sounds great.
Bra wearing seems to have become pasé amongst many of the young ladies that are walking around the Madrid university where I work and to top it all off, tight see through tshirts are all the rage. Having grown up in repressed, Catholic, single sex education Ireland, I need to pinch myself and wonder if I am not living in some sort of new world utopia. Heavenly nipples everywhere
I visit Spain a few times a year and I can definitely vouch that Spanish chicks are the hottest in Europe.
Enjoy my dear friend.... me encanta XXxX
Ah stop it, I live in Spain too (south coast), it's torture during summer time, so many amazing looking women ..🤯
Quote from: leatherface on May 29, 2019, 06:53:54 PM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on May 23, 2019, 09:58:29 AM
Quote from: Pedrito on May 23, 2019, 09:52:45 AM
Sounds great.
Bra wearing seems to have become pasé amongst many of the young ladies that are walking around the Madrid university where I work and to top it all off, tight see through tshirts are all the rage. Having grown up in repressed, Catholic, single sex education Ireland, I need to pinch myself and wonder if I am not living in some sort of new world utopia. Heavenly nipples everywhere
I visit Spain a few times a year and I can definitely vouch that Spanish chicks are the hottest in Europe.
Enjoy my dear friend.... me encanta XXxX
Ah stop it, I live in Spain too (south coast), it's torture during summer time, so many amazing looking women ..🤯
What part? My missus is from Cádiz.
Beautiful Andaluzas...you chose well. Cadiz is spectacular.
I'm in Almería. Spaghetti western land.
Quote from: Pedrito on May 30, 2019, 10:29:25 AM
Beautiful Andaluzas...you chose well. Cadiz is spectacular.
It is indeed. We've actually named our cat Kaí, which is the way the locals pronounce Cádiz, hahaha...
Have either of you ever been to Carnaval de Cádiz? It's on during Lent and I thoroughly recommend it. A great cheap weekend of singing, eating and drinking in such a beautiful setting.
Quote from: leatherface on May 30, 2019, 11:54:41 AM
I'm in Almería. Spaghetti western land.
Visited Almeria for the first time last year, great time had, some amazing snorkelling done nearby too. Have to get back to the region to visit the Alhambra.
Speaking of simple pleasures and Spain, supping of the incredible sense of internal community during fiestas in the small villages is something else. My own missus is from a village of ~250 in la Rioja, and we did fiestas more down your way in a village called Lubrin last year; the whole place animated around the same activities for days on end... nothing like it in Ireland that I've ever known.
Long weekend, starting at 2.40 Few beers tonight. Plenty of beers on Saturday and not back to work til Wednesday.
Bliss
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 30, 2019, 01:11:10 PM
Quote from: leatherface on May 30, 2019, 11:54:41 AM
I'm in Almería. Spaghetti western land.
Visited Almeria for the first time last year, great time had, some amazing snorkelling done nearby too. Have to get back to the region to visit the Alhambra.
Speaking of simple pleasures and Spain, supping of the incredible sense of internal community during fiestas in the small villages is something else. My own missus is from a village of ~250 in la Rioja, and we did fiestas more down your way in a village called Lubrin last year; the whole place animated around the same activities for days on end... nothing like it in Ireland that I've ever known.
My advice for the Alhambra Palace is to book it about 8 months in advance. I've been to Granada twice and only got into the Alhambra there at Christmas but it was an evening pass under artificial light (couldn't get a day pass). I'll have to go back again to see it 'properly'. Amazing place and definitely should be on anyone's bucket list.
Been in the Alhambra twice and Granada quite a few times. Spectacular, beautiful, incredible, a jewel of a city. Such a romantic, heroic looking place. The mixing of the peoples there..Jews, Arabs, Christiand and god knows what else resulted in something magical altogether. And yet, despite all the beautiful spicey air down there, a very conservative place too behind it all, loads of Franquistas back in the day and still, Primo De Rivera's name still firmly in sight on the Cathedral front wall. An interesting mix..oozing history.
Gonna throw my tuppence in on the decking discussion above...
Fucking DON'T.
Shit turns into a death trap over Winter. Turns lethal slippery. To the point we couldn't let the nippers out the back for months of the year.
And YES! It is a pure haven for vermin.
Finally ripped the bastarding thing up a couple months ago.
Just use stone and slabs.
Quote from: Pedrito on May 30, 2019, 02:17:40 PM
Been in the Alhambra twice and Granada quite a few times. Spectacular, beautiful, incredible, a jewel of a city. Such a romantic, heroic looking place. The mixing of the peoples there..Jews, Arabs, Christiand and god knows what else resulted in something magical altogether. And yet, despite all the beautiful spicey air down there, a very conservative place too behind it all, loads of Franquistas back in the day and still, Primo De Rivera's name still firmly in sight on the Cathedral front wall. An interesting mix..oozing history.
Granada is a dream. Easily one of my favourite cities in the world so far. As you said, the perfect mix. Those pure white mountains look spectacular in the winter sunshine too. Gleaming...
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 30, 2019, 01:11:10 PM
Quote from: leatherface on May 30, 2019, 11:54:41 AM
I'm in Almería. Spaghetti western land.
Visited Almeria for the first time last year, great time had, some amazing snorkelling done nearby too. Have to get back to the region to visit the Alhambra
Yes, it's very nice down here...spectacular coastline and food. Any heads from this site who find themselves here drop me a PM to meet up and have a few beers.
The Alhambra (in Granada- about an hour and a half from me) is indeed worth visiting, and wider Granada for that matter too. I didn't need to book ahead last time I went (ages ago now). Think there are ticket machines you can put cash into and they print you out a pass, that might have changed though.
Yep it's not too difficult to get in. I'd defintely do it online or whatever because the queues are a pain in the jock. If you're into skiing, it's a class spot just up in the mountains too..ah christ heavenly
Pocket hole screw woodwork....ahhhh
Cup of tea and a Turkish Delight Tim Tam.
Cracking open a new book. Tea and Tim Tam optional, but probable.
Entering a restaurant and asking for a table for one. There's something magical in soaking up the looks of pity and in making the other diners feel like the air has become slightly contaminated by your pathetic presence. They say cleanliness is next to godliness but I don't know, I think this is up there.
:laugh:
😂😂😂
Quote from: Eoin McLove on June 14, 2019, 09:15:37 PM
Cup of tea and a Turkish Delight Tim Tam.
Did you go all in and do the Tim Tam Slam?
what are these Tim Tams ye speaketh of?
Australian Penguin bars.
Penguin > Tim Tams
FUCK THE WORLD :abbath:
That's an impossible argument for someone who's married to an Aussie but the ol Tim Tams have a massive range of flavours, the Turkish delight being a truly exceptional experience. It almost looks like I'm leaning towards Tim Tams, doesn't it?
Having the house to myself and listening to Adagio from Alien 3 on full wack. So good
Finally picking up a CD copy of Trouble, self titled for normal money on Amazon. That album has been going for bullshit money in recent years and all I had was a burned copy that got damaged and skipped on The Wolf of all songs.
When you're peckish and only have limited snack materials at hand but you decide to combine 2 rich tea biscuits with a smear of nutella between them... I should patent this creation! :abbath:
Quote from: Wiseblood on July 23, 2019, 09:13:03 AM
Finally picking up a CD copy of Trouble, self titled for normal money on Amazon. That album has been going for bullshit money in recent years and all I had was a burned copy that got damaged and skipped on The Wolf of all songs.
'Run To The Light' is also now available for normal money again on Amazon, finally off my 'wants' list.
A chip sandwich. White bread, salt and vingared chips and (optional) a dash of ketchup. Not a path to healthy living but as a very occasional treat it is hard to beat.
Quote from: Juggz on July 31, 2019, 12:06:51 PM
A chip sandwich. White bread, salt and vingared chips and (optional) a dash of ketchup. Not a path to healthy living but as a very occasional treat it is hard to beat.
Almost anything in a sandwich is godlike. My personal favourite is a pizza sandwich - two slices of hot pizza between white bread, bit of bbq sauce and some extra cheese if you're into that. Fantastic. Also up there are chicken fillet sandwiches with hash browns, black pudding, cheese, onion relish and taco sauce. Fuck me i'm hungry
Driving on the M50 late at night when there's fuckall other traffic about, although the flipside is driving on the M50 at every other time of the day
Quote from: ochoill on July 31, 2019, 12:13:32 PM
Quote from: Juggz on July 31, 2019, 12:06:51 PM
A chip sandwich. White bread, salt and vingared chips and (optional) a dash of ketchup. Not a path to healthy living but as a very occasional treat it is hard to beat.
Almost anything in a sandwich is godlike. My personal favourite is a pizza sandwich - two slices of hot pizza between white bread, bit of bbq sauce and some extra cheese if you're into that. Fantastic. Also up there are chicken fillet sandwiches with hash browns, black pudding, cheese, onion relish and taco sauce. Fuck me i'm hungry
Give a lasagna sandwich a go.
Two bits of buttery toast with a big slab of lasagna in between.
Unreal.
Spaghetti bolognese sandwich, may I also recommend highly.
Apart from the chip sandwich (obviously!), ye're all mad. I find myself intrigued nonetheless.
Don't knock it until you try it. Then come back and apologise :laugh:
Bolognese (complete with the pasta) toasted sambo is king.
Also a serious one is macaroni cheese with ketchup on regular white bread with lots of butter. Completely unhealthy but super satisfying and up there with the chip sambo as one of the best things to do with white bread.
Quote from: Bigmac on July 31, 2019, 02:12:09 PM
Give a lasagna sandwich a go.
Two bits of buttery toast with a big slab of lasagna in between.
Unreal.
What you do in your spare time is your own business. Lets keep this kind of filth off the forum please
:laugh:
I'd try the lasagne sandwich. The pizza one doesn't sound like it'd work though.
There is no "I would...", there is only "I will..."
Affirmative action and all that.
I knew a guy in university who ate 3 sausage roll sandwiches (2 large sausage rolls per sandwich), a 2 litre bottle of fanta, and what seemed like a bowl of ketchup for every meal. Breakfast, dinner and lunch.
Sausage rolls can get fucked. Puff pastry is fucking terrible stuff.
Quote from: Hambeast on July 31, 2019, 03:18:39 PM
Quote from: Bigmac on July 31, 2019, 02:12:09 PM
Give a lasagna sandwich a go.
Two bits of buttery toast with a big slab of lasagna in between.
Unreal.
What you do in your spare time is your own business. Lets keep this kind of filth off the forum please
:laugh:
:abbath:
In my teens and early twenties, I ate just about every meal my mother put in front of me in sandwiches of buttered brown bread, so I've tried everything listed here and loved them all. The butter was central to me. And then 10 years ago I discovered a wheat intolerance was largely responsible for a range of chronic health problems I'd been having since my late teens...lol!
Quote from: Wiseblood on July 31, 2019, 03:59:45 PM
Sausage rolls can get fucked. Puff pastry is fucking terrible stuff.
While I don't quite share your hatred of the above, I also don't get the fuss over sausage rolls. But above all, jambons. My job requires me to be out and about quite a bit, there's lads at work that will travel miles for a certain jambon from a certain filling station. They all taste the fucking same!!
Quote from: Bigmac on July 31, 2019, 02:12:09 PM
Quote from: ochoill on July 31, 2019, 12:13:32 PM
Quote from: Juggz on July 31, 2019, 12:06:51 PM
A chip sandwich. White bread, salt and vingared chips and (optional) a dash of ketchup. Not a path to healthy living but as a very occasional treat it is hard to beat.
Almost anything in a sandwich is godlike. My personal favourite is a pizza sandwich - two slices of hot pizza between white bread, bit of bbq sauce and some extra cheese if you're into that. Fantastic. Also up there are chicken fillet sandwiches with hash browns, black pudding, cheese, onion relish and taco sauce. Fuck me i'm hungry
Give a lasagna sandwich a go.
Two bits of buttery toast with a big slab of lasagna in between.
Unreal.
I had a lasagne roll lately and it was brilliant. White roll, butter, lasagne, and grated cheese. You are dead right it is unreal.
Jaysus lads, learn to cook ;D All this talk has reminded me of one of my grandfathers favourites, cake sandwiches. Just to make the cake last longer.
Quote from: Bigmac on July 31, 2019, 02:12:09 PMGive a lasagna sandwich a go.
Two bits of buttery toast with a big slab of lasagna in between.
Unreal.
Have had it and it is fuckin top notch. Especially if it's yesterday's lasagne just heated up, bit of brown sauce on the top just to tone down the cheese against the bread.
Quote from: Juggz on July 31, 2019, 02:32:24 PM
Spaghetti bolognese sandwich, may I also recommend highly.
Another unreal one yeah, though eating a chilli with cheese toasties as spoons is a similar experience but utterly fantastic.
Quote from: Scáthach on August 11, 2019, 11:05:38 PM
Jaysus lads, learn to cook ;D All this talk has reminded me of one of my grandfathers favourites, cake sandwiches. Just to make the cake last longer.
I dunno how I feel about cake sandwiches but I ate a few fig roll sandwiches when I was a young lad.
Also I love cooking and can put together a fuckin mean meal, but am also an insatiable savage who will try most sorts of combinations of filth in search of the ultimate derelict meal. This has led to things like emptying and entire kebab chip onto a tandoori chicken and pepperoni pizza, and using the slices like shovels. Also homemade chicken curry in a wrap with some potato waffles toasted and broken up mixed through it.
Back to some simple pleasures:
Being outside in the rain while also completely dry and warm, listening to it hop off a plastic roof or umbrella, watching it turn from drizzle to sheets and back again on a loop, at certain times of the day, comes with it's own brand of electric almost-nostalgia that is beyond comfort. Listening to the cars tear past on the wet tarmac, sounding like shredding paper, the whole atmosphere feeling thick and a little greyer than it should be, in a city or town and if you're lucky with barely necessary streetlights on around you - I love this weather.
When Karma comes in on some CUNT and you get to watch it all unfurl in its marvelous gorey glory
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When Karma comes in on some CUNT and you get to watch it all unfurl in its marvelous gorey glory
More detail.....
When you have a bad connection and this site still takes 2 seconds to load vs e.g. facebook taking 30 seconds. Keep it simple indeed. Good stuff.
Foreign gigs. The whole thing of going abroad just to see a band play is silly, really, but immensely enjoyable. Just bought a ticket to see Coroner in Switzerland this November. Conan are playing a couple of days beforehand and not too far away. I think a three-dayer is on the cards. Bliss.
Quote from: ochoill on August 12, 2019, 12:23:12 PM
Back to some simple pleasures:
Being outside in the rain while also completely dry and warm, listening to it hop off a plastic roof or umbrella, watching it turn from drizzle to sheets and back again on a loop, at certain times of the day, comes with it's own brand of electric almost-nostalgia that is beyond comfort. Listening to the cars tear past on the wet tarmac, sounding like shredding paper, the whole atmosphere feeling thick and a little greyer than it should be, in a city or town and if you're lucky with barely necessary streetlights on around you - I love this weather.
Can't beat a bit of shcaldy weather alright.
Quote from: Juggz on August 25, 2019, 06:26:43 PM
Foreign gigs. The whole thing of going abroad just to see a band play is silly, really, but immensely enjoyable. Just bought a ticket to see Coroner in Switzerland this November. Conan are playing a couple of days beforehand and not too far away. I think a three-dayer is on the cards. Bliss.
Yeah defo. Any kind of weekend abroad is always a joy. The beer always tastes better on holiday too.
Went for a ramble up around Glendalough this morning. Autumn and winter are my favourite times to hit the hills. I haven't been out in a couple of years, though, and the yearning was too strong to ignore. Can't beat it.
A dirty curry that was probably just a mouthful more than I should have comfortably eaten, feet up, perusing the auld tunes for a few albums to see out the evening.
Pure sound.
Big refund from the taxman, lovely
Had an interview on Tuesday in a companies office and a follow up interview just now via phone
Fucking nailed it.. I'm not even going to be mad if I don't get it. I am just happy that this isn't in the pet peeves thread again and me saying how I fucked up another interview :laugh: :laugh:
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Had an interview on Tuesday in a companies office and a follow up interview just now via phone
Fucking nailed it.. I'm not even going to be mad if I don't get it. I am just happy that this isn't in the pet peeves thread again and me saying how I fucked up another interview :laugh: :laugh:
Good luck with it and hope you do actually get the position.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on September 25, 2019, 03:53:40 PM
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Had an interview on Tuesday in a companies office and a follow up interview just now via phone
Fucking nailed it.. I'm not even going to be mad if I don't get it. I am just happy that this isn't in the pet peeves thread again and me saying how I fucked up another interview :laugh: :laugh:
Good luck with it and hope you do actually get the position.
Cheers lad :abbath:
Heading to the pub during work to watch the rugby and have a few sneaky pints 8)
A nice cold perfectly poured can of Guinness on a Friday evening is just unreal!
Quote from: cunning stunt1987 on October 04, 2019, 04:21:07 PM
A nice cold perfectly poured can of Guinness on a Friday evening is just unreal!
Enjoy that....
Nice. I've been cutting back massively on the sauce over the past few months but there's going to be a few Guinness tomorrow evening.
Sticking on an album that for whatever reasons resonates with you more than you ever remember it doing before.
When you get off the plane, reach the baggage carousel, which starts rolling twenty seconds later, and your bag is the first one that comes down the ramp.
Actually that's more of a Fuck Yeah! than a simple pleasure.
Quote from: Mower Liberation Front on October 06, 2019, 01:22:08 PM
When you get off the plane, reach the baggage carousel, which starts rolling twenty seconds later, and your bag is the first one that comes down the ramp.
Actually that's more of a Fuck Yeah! than a simple pleasure.
Everyone else:
...cunt! :laugh:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.thesun.ie/news/4643261/devil-dublin-kitchen-door-freaky-image/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwj5_-T3-ZPlAhUqThUIHWRtAD0QFjAAegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw2xW7EXhjLOA_6XLctX2zi-&cf=1
Wimp. That's what he gets for selling out.
Can't we take this goon's right to vote away? This cretin can't be allowed a say in the future.
A decent cup of tea
Tried a new recipe from a cookbook and it came out looking exactly like the picture. I'm afraid to eat it now in case it tastes like shit and ruins my sense of accomplishment
:laugh:
Quote from: Trev on October 12, 2019, 07:13:26 PM
Tried a new recipe from a cookbook and it came out looking exactly like the picture. I'm afraid to eat it now in case it tastes like shit and ruins my sense of accomplishment
Plot twist - it's actually plastic.
Saturday night cans of Guinness 8)
Draught cans? I gave up the draught cans a long time ago tastes like piss compared to a pint.
Yep draught. Tastes good to me. Straight out of the can too! No farting around descanting it into a glass.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on October 12, 2019, 08:51:42 PM
Yep draught. Tastes good to me. Straight out of the can too! No farting around descanting it into a glass.
Ah yes this is the way to enjoy cans of Guinness.
Pour the entire can in one go really fast.
Tbh sometimes they can be even nicer than some shite you get served in pubs.
4 months off drink, went to big work party tonight. Stayed for 3 hrs drinking cranberry juice (you got yer period?)
Lasted longer than I thought I would and didn't call anyone a cunt ::)
That joint there earlier.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on October 12, 2019, 08:51:42 PM
Yep draught. Tastes good to me. Straight out of the can too! No farting around descanting it into a glass.
Hup, draught is bang on, I actually like it better than a poured pint.
It is that bit lighter and doesn't turn me shites into black batons.
Quote from: Trev on October 12, 2019, 07:13:26 PM
Tried a new recipe from a cookbook and it came out looking exactly like the picture. I'm afraid to eat it now in case it tastes like shit and ruins my sense of accomplishment
First time ever baking bread last week, looked great, smelled delicious, came out like a fuckin Madeira cake it was so thick. Ate it anyway, good toast out of it.
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Quote from: Mower Liberation Front on October 06, 2019, 01:22:08 PM
When you get off the plane, reach the baggage carousel, which starts rolling twenty seconds later, and your bag is the first one that comes down the ramp.
Actually that's more of a Fuck Yeah! than a simple pleasure.
Everyone else:
...cunt! :laugh:
That was the first time that had ever happened to me. And then almost a repeat performance this morning. Both bags within two minutes of getting to the baggage claim area - not like Dublin to be so quick. :laugh:
Getting out of bed in the dark is rough but driving to work with the low golden winter sun rising is unbeatable. A bit of frost and mist over the ground is a bonus.
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Quote from: Mower Liberation Front on October 06, 2019, 01:22:08 PM
When you get off the plane, reach the baggage carousel, which starts rolling twenty seconds later, and your bag is the first one that comes down the ramp.
Actually that's more of a Fuck Yeah! than a simple pleasure.
Everyone else:
...cunt! :laugh:
That was the first time that had ever happened to me. And then almost a repeat performance this morning. Both bags within two minutes of getting to the baggage claim area - not like Dublin to be so quick. :laugh:
I guess it's true then... there really is no cure for being a cunt! :laugh:
Schadenfreude, from the look on Arlene Fosters face over the last few days. Golden.
Strooooolin out the door of work today.. not back for two weeks ::)
Quote from: Aborted on November 05, 2019, 06:00:05 PM
Strooooolin out the door of work today.. not back for two weeks ::)
Doing anything nice?
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on November 05, 2019, 07:54:11 PM
Quote from: Aborted on November 05, 2019, 06:00:05 PM
Strooooolin out the door of work today.. not back for two weeks ::)
Doing anything nice?
Epic wanks and dominos pizza most likely
"murcia
But essentially yes
Farting in a lift and then 8 people boarding as you disembark. The perfect crime.
Having a beer, listening to the new Blood Incantation and will wind down later with some Nick Cave.
That new Nick Cave album is phenomenal, album of the year for me by a long way.
Yeah it's a great listen. Love how it's quite chilled but still has that uneasy energy that Cave does so well.
It's an ambient album in all but name, really. Stuck it on for a train journey the other week (was saving it 'til I had time to listen to it through), by the third track I'd pre-ordered the physical release. Spectacular return to form.
I don't know why he bothers with the And The Bad Seeds suffix these days, it's a two man show with himself and Ellis. Even on the Ghosteen artwork they're the only two pictured, and they write everything between them anyway.
Getting a free ticket to a gig... unexpected but very welcome. Twas the doomy punk folk collective Lankum who played St Luke's in Cork last night. Great stuff.
A perfect dinner (lamb chops & garlic spuds), a roaring fire and feet up with a big ol' glass of rum & Coke.
Pissing the Nialls and the Neils of this world off by (unintentionally) criss-crossing their names. :laugh: :laugh:
Perhaps not exactly simple, but I love when new discoveries like this challenge our comprehension of things and the response is to learn more to fully understand it. It is one of the most admirable traits of humanity.
https://www.rte.ie/news/2019/1128/1095669-black-hole/
Fascinating stuff. Black holes are mind bending to consider. Then again, astrophysics in general is mind bending!
Yep, it ties back into the whole meaning of life thing. Once you start to try to comprehend the scale of everything, our own individual position loses the significance we crave... but that's a matter for another thread :laugh:
Absolutely. It really shows how infinitesimally tiny we are but I like to think of it as being a little speck that drops in to this eternal energy flow, consciously getting to explore it for a brief time, and dropping out again. It's pretty meaningful in its finite-ness 8)
Love reading about stuff like that, can't understand a thing about it, but still interesting!
Quote from: Eoin McLove on November 28, 2019, 10:43:21 AM
Fascinating stuff. Black holes are mind bending to consider. Then again, astrophysics in general is mind bending!
Went to see Professor Brian Cox before and even with the basic illustrations and simple explanation method he uses I still only had a very vague grasp of the principles of space time. Fascinating subject all the same!
Yep, I'm the same. I find I'll understand things up to a point and then... forget about it...
Driving to work this morning and I decided to make a different turn in the road and go the scenic route. The sun was coming up as I turned off the main road and the countryside just looked incredible. Driving around the countryside when the conditions are right, particularly in winter, is so rewarding. A bit of 40 Watt Sun playing helps to make such experiences all the more romantic 8)
Saturday night beers 8)
Throw the video for Candlemass's 'Bewitched' in to the mix for good measure.
Frequency illusion buzz today.
I woke up early to head down to Rodge (WOTH etc) to record some noise. I was looking at another forum and the doom discussion threw up a band called Hexenhammer. I gave them a listen and thought, the singer sounds like Eric Wagner.
Naturally I grabbed Trouble 'The Skull' for the drive. First time in a few years...
I get down to Rodge and we are sitting there chatting before starting to record anything and he jumps up and hits play on his stereo. Who's in there, only Trouble! I recount my morning to him to some amusement.
I get home this evening, having a few beers and I decide to watch some old Headbanger's Ball on YouTube. I watch Donnington 95 which leads to Dynamo 95 and who shows up only fucking Trouble!
It's like serendipity, fate and random cosmic coincidence are pulling their various strings today :laugh:
Focussing on Malcolm Young in the left speaker.
Nothing like it.
Related directly to retail therapy, but booking the holidays leaves me glowing for a good couple of days,.
Heading to 'Scatlin' as they say in the states, and Thailand/Cambodia in 2020 as well as a few dirty weekends. The elephant in the room is that I'm now doing financial gymnastics in my head to figure out how I'm going to eat in the meantime. Be grand sure.
Big dinner, big poop, big couch, few tunes.
Quote from: Ducky on December 03, 2019, 02:35:49 PM
Big dinner, big poop, big couch, few tunes.
Hopefully you never left the couch for all those pleasures?
Fire lit, lights off, cup of tea, new Blut Aus Nord. 8)
Then going in to work for midnight >:(
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on December 03, 2019, 05:34:00 PM
Quote from: Ducky on December 03, 2019, 02:35:49 PM
Big dinner, big poop, big couch, few tunes.
Hopefully you never left the couch for all those pleasures?
Leather couch 8)
Fire lit, pint of beer, new Waylander vinyl and no goddamn work.
Once again sitting in the only cubicle in the men's toilets on this floor, killing time on my phone. Then hearing the main door open, followed by a frustrated sigh as some poor fucker has to find somewhere else to shit. :laugh:
Quote from: Kunt 4 Life on December 18, 2019, 02:25:31 PM
Once again sitting in the only cubicle in the men's toilets on this floor, killing time on my phone. Then hearing the main door open, followed by a frustrated sigh as some poor fucker has to find somewhere else to shit. :laugh:
Glorious cuntery altogether :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
I had a Swedish massage off an auld one at the hotel before I checked out this morning. I always thought it was a bit , you know, gay getting a massage but unreal hi. Absolute and total relaxation, and the strangest thoughts came to my mind like a dream, Henry Shefflin, Neville Bartos from Chopper, the goulash I had eaten earlier, and all me troubles melted away. 100 notes but fuck it, never experienced anything like it. Told the bird she may do a course and learn how to do it properly, get a few flagons of oil and all that. She got fierce nippy over it, just a friendly suggestion.
Did you make sure you specified twas an aulde wan? Any ambiguity there and you're asking for trouble.
She just happened to be an auld wan. I was half expecting her to offer me 'extras', never came to pass though.
"A BIT GAY" :laugh: :laugh:
Have had a few over the years (non happy ending related ones). I had one from a reflexologist and jesus I floated out of the place. Literally felt stoned walking around and annoyingly happy.
Think I'd be a little peeved if I wasn't at least offered "a little extra".
Quote from: Emphyrio on January 26, 2020, 03:58:05 PM
Think I'd be a little peeved if I wasn't at least offered "a little extra".
#metoo
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on January 26, 2020, 04:27:57 PM
Quote from: Emphyrio on January 26, 2020, 03:58:05 PM
Think I'd be a little peeved if I wasn't at least offered "a little extra".
#metoo
Now, I wouldn't request it. Or expose my balls or anything...
A Soapy I believe
The cigarette I'm having with my cup of tea after two bacon sandwiches, simple pleasure altogether
England losing in the Six Nations. Petty, I know, but always delicious.
Fuck, I recorded it and am just at half time now. :laugh:
:laugh: Ah balls, sorry man. It's a great second half, regardless.
Yeah, I watched it anyway, I wouldn't have expected them to have won it the way they were playing. They had a go, though.
Filled a 1.5 tonne skip bag with household shite today,serious clear out!.11 years in this house and 2 kids later the amount of utter garbage got out of control!.
I feel like a new man!
Quote from: Paul keohane on February 10, 2020, 06:01:00 PM
Filled a 1.5 tonne skip bag with household shite today,serious clear out!.11 years in this house and 2 kids later the amount of utter garbage got out of control!.
I feel like a new man!
You are Philip Schofield and I claim my £5......
Was on a conference call earlier discussing why a project has ended up a complete mess. Had a US based colleague blame me for it and deny quite forcefully that she had tried to get work expedited in a panic, 3 days before it was due, because of her own piss poor planning. Naturally her manager jumped to her defense and I spent 15 minutes in silence listening to him rant at me for the project failure and defend her against any wrong doing. I then spent another 5 minutes in silence listening to my boss apologise on my behalf. All of it was worth it for the final 2 minutes of the call when I simply shared my screen and revealed the entire instant messaging conversion she had initiated - and that implicated her in no uncertain terms. Glorious :laugh:
:laugh: Fucking sweet!
im not sure if its been mentioned here or not but the sheer pleasure of taking a shit thats about to explode out your ass is unbelievable.
the smellier the better as well.
Quote from: 101_North on February 12, 2020, 06:15:09 PM
Was on a conference call earlier discussing why a project has ended up a complete mess. Had a US based colleague blame me for it and deny quite forcefully that she had tried to get work expedited in a panic, 3 days before it was due, because of her own piss poor planning. Naturally her manager jumped to her defense and I spent 15 minutes in silence listening to him rant at me for the project failure and defend her against any wrong doing. I then spent another 5 minutes in silence listening to my boss apologise on my behalf. All of it was worth it for the final 2 minutes of the call when I simply shared my screen and revealed the entire instant messaging conversion she had initiated - and that implicated her in no uncertain terms. Glorious :laugh:
I take your simple pleasure and substitue it as my own ::)
That is fucking GLORIOUS 8)
Quote from: blessed1 on February 12, 2020, 06:37:56 PM
im not sure if its been mentioned here or not but the sheer pleasure of taking a shit thats about to explode out your ass is unbelievable.
the smellier the better as well.
I applaud that, also farting in bed and it is horrendous just for the wife's reaction, good times
French toast, bacon, maple syrup and a cup of tea. Imagine living in a world where maple syrup didn't exist. Hellish!
As a diabetic it may as well not exist!
Going into Aldi to get the bananas my good lady requested yesterday evening and coming out with a ski jacket... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on February 19, 2020, 09:26:08 AM
Going into Aldi to get the bananas my good lady requested yesterday evening and coming out with a ski jacket... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
:laugh: :laugh:
Brian Eno's Music For Airports on vinyl.
Some classic video games, some films from the 70's and 80's, (of which there's plenty on youtube) and a couple of can's that's me as happy as the proverbial pig in shite.
A really good gig. The good feeling lasts for days afterwards.
Going from a wheezing, flabby embarrassment while our running a few months ago to gliding through the kilometres and enjoying the endorphins on the stroll home after a run. Savage.
Quote from: Juggz on February 28, 2020, 09:56:55 AM
A really good gig. The good feeling lasts for days afterwards.
So true! Was there one in particular there or are you just thinking about it?
I went to see Cory Wong down Cork way last night, doing his particular funk thing. They just powered through the songs, amazing musicians, fantastic horn section (something uncommon for most of the gigs I go to) and it was really enjoyable from start to finish. I'm knackered in work this morning but in an unflappable good mood.
The contrast between that and the feelings after having to endure the risible Zakk Sabbath a couple of weeks ago is quite stark.
Handing in my notice to work today
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Haha class
Yeah. Fuck McDonald's
Getting everything done an hour before quitting time, making a cup of tea and being able to enjoy it 'cos you're the only one in.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on February 28, 2020, 04:58:33 PM
Yeah. Fuck McDonald's
Yeah I handed it to me 22 year old boss and asked him if he wanted fries with that.. then everyone cheered as I walked out to Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me to go live my best life 8)
:laugh:
Waking up at 6, getting up at 6.30 and having two hours to read and listen to tunes. I love that time of morning when it's beginning to get bright.
Glorious time of the day. Time to make a decent breakfast, and get a few pages in or hit the auld Duolingo. Can't get in to running or gym early in the morning though. Seems mental.
Early mornings like that, especially when it's frosty, are great. Put on a pot of coffee, go out and clean the back yard of dog crap (we have 4, there's lots of it), and when you come back in to a warm kitchen and the smell of the coffee hits you - bliss. Then sit down with a book and the post-breakfast coffee.
That sounds great apart from the dogshit :laugh:
Aye, but it has to be done. It's the contrast, mainly. Out in the cold, doing something shitty (literally) vs. that nice, cozy feeling.
The feeling of a freshly shaved head. My own, before you start.
Or a freshly shaved fanny :-*
Quote from: Pedrito on February 29, 2020, 05:57:28 PM
Or a freshly shaved fanny :-*
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
:abbath:
Having the house to myself for the day. A spot of recording earlier, watching the ball now, gowl around editing patches on pedalboard shortly, maybe a bit of porn later. Splendid!
Your own?
You scuppered my deadly joke there, Emphyrio. To the pet peeves thread!
Ye fucker :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :abbath:
No mercy.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on February 29, 2020, 06:31:03 PM
You scuppered my deadly joke there, Emphyrio. To the pet peeves thread!
:laugh:oops
Getting a nice tax refund back from the revenue, happy days
Belly full, fire on, feet up in front of the darts. Might chance a can of Guinness.
Beyond Simple Pleasure and into the realms of Fucking Awesome...
Stepdaughter comes back from Brazil last night, hands me a record of some local band ' the guy' said I might like..an original press of Arise from a stall on the streets of Sao Paolo.
Had to show her a photo of me wearing the tshirt of it a quarter of a century ago.
Nice!
I remember years ago I was going out with a chick and she went to London for work training. She went into Tower and texted me to ask what CD I wanted as a present. I couldn't think of anything I wanted off the top of my head so I said, just grab the CD with the ugliest artwork. She bought me 'There Was Blood Everywhere' by Embalmed, which I already had, but on a burned CD :laugh: Fair play, I thought.
Sounds like you got egg on your face
Wait, this isn't egg!
:laugh:
My missus bought me a mandolin for my birthday, jees its great fun to play....
Quote from: The Heretic on March 18, 2020, 10:41:42 AM
My missus bought me a mandolin for my birthday, jees its great fun to play....
6 days into isolation and chill and you give her this look...
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Coming out of the shower to the sound of Cradle of Filth ripping through a cover of 'Into The Crypt of Rays' and turning that fucker right up.
Say what you like about them but they do turn in some stonking covers do the Filth.
Strimming the shit out of your garden and revealing a nice garden, and 8 cans of Guinness in the fridge
Kids gone to bed, fire lighting, pick a film, cans.
^
That, but just listened to the new Ruiari O'Baoighill album and now watching a Jim Gaffigan special.
Not having kids :laugh:
I should clarify, I have no kids, so it's all the sweeter.
I never appreciated it before, the effect on my mental well being of going to a cafe. When it's taken away I pine for it.
Discovering that Monty Python: Almost The Truth is on Netflix, settling down to that with a few cans of Guinness.
Quote from: Giggles on April 13, 2020, 05:43:15 PM
Not having kids :laugh:
For anyone who doesn't it's an equal blessing as having them is to those who do
Malteser easter eggs...18p in Tesco
Quote from: Thorn on April 10, 2020, 01:59:07 PM
Coming out of the shower to the sound of Cradle of Filth ripping through a cover of 'Into The Crypt of Rays' and turning that fucker right up.
Say what you like about them but they do turn in some stonking covers do the Filth.
I fucking love their cover of 'Sleepless'.
Quote from: Ducky on April 17, 2020, 03:44:36 PM
Quote from: Thorn on April 10, 2020, 01:59:07 PM
Coming out of the shower to the sound of Cradle of Filth ripping through a cover of 'Into The Crypt of Rays' and turning that fucker right up.
Say what you like about them but they do turn in some stonking covers do the Filth.
I fucking love their cover of 'Sleepless'.
Have you heard the Alison hell one.
It's actually deadly.
Yep and then there's their 'Hell Awaits'... deadly covers the lot of them
First bottle of Guinness Extra Stout of the weekend, pulled cold from the fridge. If there is such a thing as heaven, Guinness Extra Stout has to feature heavily.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on April 18, 2020, 08:19:36 PM
First bottle of Guinness Extra Stout of the weekend, pulled cold from the fridge. If there is such a thing as heaven, Guinness Extra Stout has to feature heavily.
It's even better at room temperature.
Nah, agree with McLove there, nice and cold from the fridge... Although I wouldn't agree with one of the girls I went to college with, she insisted on chilling red wine.
Foreign Extra is the daddy. Once you get a taste for it and it 7.5% then regular stuff tastes like water.
Creamy water though!
Quote from: Wiseblood on April 18, 2020, 10:46:18 PM
Foreign Extra is the daddy. Once you get a taste for it and it 7.5% then regular stuff tastes like water.
Big fan of the Foreign Extra myself but it's hard to beat a draught pint of cream in a good pub all the same!
I've developed a serious taste for cans of draught during this lock in - sorry, lockdown - I'd have a few most nights but the West Indies porter is bloody lovely when I can get it. Nice surprise when they had them in Vicar St. last time I was there, I'd rather pay €6 for one of those than dodgy gig pints.
Their milk stout is the business with a steak or the like. Lovely winter drink.
Sleep coaching an infant!
Oh sorry, absolutely the wrong thread :/
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on April 19, 2020, 07:58:24 PM
Sleep coaching an infant!
Oh sorry, absolutely the wrong thread :/
:laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on April 18, 2020, 08:30:12 PM
Quote from: Eoin McLove on April 18, 2020, 08:19:36 PM
First bottle of Guinness Extra Stout of the weekend, pulled cold from the fridge. If there is such a thing as heaven, Guinness Extra Stout has to feature heavily.
It's even better at room temperature.
Giving a shout for extra stout. Bottle or can, shelf or cooler, get it in it is the nectar of the gods
Wine. It's fucking lovely.
A fine hangover off it though. Well if one happens to be a pig like myself..
Massively reduced my drinking over the past year or so but the last couple of days I've had a real lip on me between the beautiful weather and being stuck at home. Today in Lidl I had a look at the beer aisle and saw they had non alcoholic IPA bottles for 99c. Hitting the spot nicely! Going to grab a heap of them for the fridge I think.
That lovely sound that knives make when you slide them out of their holder. Shinnnnggggg!
Quote from: Juggz on April 19, 2020, 11:21:50 PM
Wine. It's fucking lovely.
I like all wine but a nice red is a winner. Been drinking tonnes of the Barefoot Malbec lately. It's almost too easy to drink.
Aldi have Cotes du Rhone red at about 7 quid and it’s quite incredible.
That is a marvellous tipple. It used be €5.50.
Quote from: Juggz on April 20, 2020, 10:57:08 PM
Aldi have Cotes du Rhone red at about 7 quid and it's quite incredible.
Yep, I love the stuff, fantastic wine region.
Aldi used to do a great Châteauneuf-du-Pape for €15 but they haven't had it for a few months now. Shame....
I just skirted into Aldi to grab a few bits because it was quiet and just spotted this thread, sheesh :laugh:
Quote from: Ducky on April 21, 2020, 04:20:25 PM
I just skirted into Aldi to grab a few bits because it was quiet and just spotted this thread, sheesh :laugh:
How many bottles of wine did you buy? :laugh:
Leftover pizza for breakfast.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on April 21, 2020, 04:32:15 PM
Quote from: Ducky on April 21, 2020, 04:20:25 PM
I just skirted into Aldi to grab a few bits because it was quiet and just spotted this thread, sheesh :laugh:
How many bottles of wine did you buy? :laugh:
Ahhh... correct use of words is important :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Getting the weeding done after putting it off for ages.
Fixed up the bike a few days ago, got out for a few cycles, having a rest day today (mostly because it's hell on your arse without the proper padding!), just had a dirty pizza while listening to some Mayhem, about to pick a videogame to settle into for the afternoon.
Pure sound.
Warm weather. Cold beer. I don't think it can be overstated.
Great stuff in aldi these days, and very reasonable. Brown Bear double IPA only €1.99 for a 500ml bottle, which works out better than the 4 for 10 offers you tend to see in other shops. Cans of Native IPA also very good.
Brown Bear is pretty decent.
My brother recently grabbed a pack with two bottles and a nice pint glass for five quid, lovely wee bargain.
Quote from: Carnage on April 22, 2020, 02:09:53 PM
Getting the weeding done after putting it off for ages.
Even though ive been working ive managed to wipe out a huge amount of DIY jobs at home,powerhosed drive way, front of house,back patio area etc.Managed to trim all bushes,hedges.Some of it was gone out of control so it was good to get it done.Im not green fingered or a garden person,but there was great satisfaction getting it done.
Wont do it again for another 5 years!
Today is a day of action. I've just put together a flatpack shelving unit that I bought a few months back and when trying to make space for it, I accidentally tidied the spare room.
Turning your alarm clock off for work on a Wednesday evening. Weekend begins.. \m/...
.....and already being halfway to shitfaced... :laugh:
You were busy in thise 10 mins.!
Quote from: John Kimble on April 22, 2020, 04:40:33 PM
Great stuff in aldi these days, and very reasonable. Brown Bear double IPA only €1.99 for a 500ml bottle, which works out better than the 4 for 10 offers you tend to see in other shops.
In the interests of science, I had to pick up a few of these this evening. Bloody good deal, that.
Aye, the Brown Bear stuff is a tasty drop.
Home cooked tofu kung po with rice for dinner earlier. Fucking tasty out. Now for a nice glass of uisce bheatha. Sláinte.
Taking a wee stroll around the block for half an hour and being able to see Venus clearly in the night sky.
Quote from: Scáthach on April 22, 2020, 10:18:35 PM
Home cooked tofu kung po with rice for dinner earlier. Fucking tasty out. Now for a nice glass of uisce bheatha. Sláinte.
Found out last week that me and my better half are 'flexitarians'.... :laugh:
We don't buy/cook meat or dairy products but if we're eating in someone's house, we'll not be bollox's and eat what they're eating.
If we're eating out we'll order the nicest meal on the menu, not the single vegetarian/vegan option on offer. Or if my daughter and her boyfriend cook/buy a meal at home and there's some left over we'll eat it instead of it let it go in the bin.
It's nice to be pigeonholed sometimes. Saves a lot of hassle explaining stuff.... :laugh:
Oh, and try and buy as much of your food, etc. loose and without packaging.....
For anyone who's thinking about giving up or cutting down on meat and dairy, it's a lot easier than you think. So much good information and nice veggie/vegan recipes available now.
Was lacto-veggie for most of my 20s (sorry, how the fuck is fish meat not meat?!), and I'm like that - I don't cook with meat at home and only really have it of I'm out (so not a whole lot these last six weeks)... couldn't do without cheese though, fucking love any and all kinds of it.
Also hard to beat some strained Greek yoghurt on raw oats in the morning :abbath:
I still eat chicken and fish, but more-or-less cut out red meat in December. Doctor's orders were to cut down but I just cut it out. I treated myself to a steak a week ago, and have another in the freezer, but compared to before, it's a big change. Feel better, lost weight (a stone in January alone), and enjoying my veg. a lot.
Quote from: Carnage on April 22, 2020, 11:02:25 PM
I still eat chicken and fish, but more-or-less cut out red meat in December. Doctor's orders were to cut down but I just cut it out. I treated myself to a steak a week ago, and have another in the freezer, but compared to before, it's a big change. Feel better, lost weight (a stone in January alone), and enjoying my veg. a lot.
Loving the veg and the weight loss. Was slim enough before but loving the fact that I didn't throw out any of my old clothes which now fit me again. Bonus!
One of the worst things I ever did was go back on the meat. Because I was off it for so long I hammered it, out on a hape of weight.
I find I can't digest pulses anymore, so vegetarianism became untenable, especially being wheat free since ten years ago. Like above though, only eat red meat when it's put in front if me now.
I'd go through phases of less meat but it's mostly from cooking things in batches - so we'd end up doing something like cooking bolognaise and eating it for two days, then veg soup for three, break it up a bit here and then you notice that suddenly you've only ate meat two or three days in a week without considering it. I still love it mind and don't actively try to eat it / not eat it, its just sort of mad how without thinking you'd go from eating it daily down to half as much.
I've been cooking with less meat without fully cutting it out. So if I'm doing a bolognaise, instead of using the amount of mince I used to I'll substitute half of it with lentils, or throwing in a heap of extra veg to a risotto instead of chicken
Starting to see the weight drop, and found the amount I'm spending on my food shop has gone down a bit too
I think this needs a thread of its own.....
Since I bought a decent smart TV, just being able to sit on the couch with a belly full of strong beer and watch as much '70s Tangerine Dream live stuff as I like in comfort.
Was never into merch like band beermugs and the likes but bought an Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time Jigsaw and I'm like a 5 year old after Santy came. Album playing in the background. Class artwork.
Gave the yard and the house a serious clean this morning and fucked a heap of stuff in a skip, up since about 8 o'clock at it. Finished it an hour ago.
Sitting here now with a few cans cooling in the fridge and nothing else to do for the day, moved my good speakers and records so they're facing the couch. Pure relax
Eating made from scratch pizza with cold crisp beer and good tunes in the back garden with glorious sunshine for good measure.
Also got a good clean in, trip to the bottle bank, some spicy peanuts, a cold beverage, headphones, book, backgarden.
We could rename this thread to "Feeling Auld but Happy'.
Quote from: Ducky on April 25, 2020, 03:28:42 PM
Also got a good clean in, trip to the bottle bank, some spicy peanuts, a cold beverage, headphones, book, backgarden.
We could rename this thread to "Feeling Auld but Happy'.
'Feeling Amazing and Happy'
Shaved my head for the first time ever, blade zero, the shortest it's been since I was in nappies.
Jaysus it's a lot easier, isn't it? No combing, styling, bed head, dry almost as soon as you step out of the shower.
Quote from: Ducky on April 29, 2020, 03:21:36 AM
Shaved my head for the first time ever, blade zero, the shortest it's been since I was in nappies.
Jaysus it's a lot easier, isn't it? No combing, styling, bed head, dry almost as soon as you step out of the shower.
It's class alright. :abbath: Abbath approves.. :abbath:
Quote from: Ducky on April 29, 2020, 03:21:36 AM
Shaved my head for the first time ever, blade zero, the shortest it's been since I was in nappies.
Jaysus it's a lot easier, isn't it? No combing, styling, bed head, dry almost as soon as you step out of the shower.
I have on and off been shaving my head since I was 15 - bar one or two times attempting to grow my hair out, I just buzz it back to blade 0 once a month. Handiest haircut ever.
That said, I am currently attempting to grow it out a bit to see how badly bald I'm actually gone :lol:
2 blade for me with years,couldn't grow it,to much of skullett risk!
Quote from: ochoill on April 29, 2020, 08:53:03 AMI am currently attempting to grow it out a bit to see how badly bald I'm actually gone :lol:
Shaved mine off from long five years ago (actually, I started by shaving half of my head to zero for a couple of weeks as a sort of mid-thirties, last chance to have a laugh and emulate Joey Daub's do from the Believer inlays which I was obsessed with as a teen), but I did it because I wanted to take a proactive approach and see if it would suit me rather than wait until all the world was dying for me to get rid of my last few stragglers. Looked grand. Shaved it again once since, but it's back proper long again for the moment now.
I shaved my head to 1 or a half from when I was about 15 until my mid-thirties.
My missus said to me about a year before we got married that she'd never seen me with hair. She'd only seen me once without the beard in all that time, due to a possible hangover-induced mishap when trimming the yoke that made me shave it all off.
So I decided to see what I looked like with hair, surprisingly, it all grew back and all the same colour. Found a style that I liked and kept it ever since. Now that the barbers are closed and I resemble a heavy from a 1970s B-grade mob movie, the clippers are looking mighty appealing.
I had a shaved head for a few years until I was about 15, grew it long then and it's been the same since. Looking back at some old photos and my head looks fucking massive without hair to cover it up! Going to keep it out as long as I can, until nature decides to bald it away from me
Quote from: Ducky on April 29, 2020, 03:21:36 AM
Shaved my head for the first time ever, blade zero, the shortest it's been since I was in nappies.
Jaysus it's a lot easier, isn't it? No combing, styling, bed head, dry almost as soon as you step out of the shower.
Go the whole hog, take a razor to it. Best feeling in the world the first time you run a hand over it.
I've been shaving mine for 20+ years (grew it out once, but shaved it off about 12 years ago, when my mother lost hers due to chemo, it was worth it for the laugh it gave her), makes life a lot easier. Haven't touched it for a coupla months, been toying with the idea of growing it again but I'm sure I'll break and get rid of it again. The beard's coming back nicely though.
I've thought about going the whole hog with a wet shave - I've got my nice soap, my sharp as fuck DE blades, my brush, but I can't find my actual razor (I haven't clean shaved my face in over two years now!).
I usually keep a good handful of hair, but it was back to just under my shoulders. It was becoming a pain in the hoop for washing/drying off (especially during winter) and I remember the liberation of cutting it off when it was almost waist-length years back.
Only found out you can cook a baked potato in a microwave, been having them every day for the last week
Spent most of yesterday cooking, grilled polenta squares with a spicy pepper, aubergine and bean ragout and basil and walnut pesto. I made enough to feed an army so same again tonight.
This morning I made a baked New York style cheesecake. Its sitting in the fridge, setting (only 4more hours) but it's taking all of my willpower to not just stick my face in and have at it :)
I got out for a run yesterday for the first time in nearly two months. The belly jiggling around was a bit of a downer but lots of belly boys around. Remember that band, Bellynus?
Postie just delivered a set of diamond-coated needle files. Bliss.
Quote from: Juggz on May 05, 2020, 03:56:30 PM
Postie just delivered a set of diamond-coated needle files. Bliss.
Job or hobby?
He does it for a living, definitely.
😂
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Ding-a-ling :laugh: :laugh:
Not sure where exactly to put this observation but this thread will do.
You know the Aldi ads that are currently doing the rounds, with the family in lockdown supposedly making it themselves? Does anyone else wonder if the little ginger lad has a soul?
Having Thursday night beer because tomorrow is your first furlough day... Not sure if this belongs here or in pet peeves or the Coronavirus thread but the beer is making it seem better so here it stays.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on May 14, 2020, 10:36:51 PM
Not sure where exactly to put this observation but this thread will do.
You know the Aldi ads that are currently doing the rounds, with the family in lockdown supposedly making it themselves? Does anyone else wonder if the little ginger lad has a soul?
I though gingers with souls was just an urban legend.
Could be. Could be...
KP dry roasted peanuts, absolutely savage.
Dry roasted peanuts full stop; such a leap above ordinary salted!
Just washed down a shkelp o' them with some Guinness myself, tasty.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 14, 2020, 11:16:45 PM
Dry roasted peanuts full stop; such a leap above ordinary salted!
This is true, indeed! I do enjoy a salted peanut too, but almost to serve as a deliberate reminder of the superiority of dry roasted.
KP are the kings for me, the Chuck Schuldiner of peanuts, if you will :abbath:
Peanuts in general are great - Dry Roasted, chili or plain. Mostly Dry Roast though.
Talking shite.
You know all the general shite talk about nothing in particular with no purpose to it.
So yeah, peanuts are unreal. I had a packet of honey roasted ones from aldi the other day and they were strangely nice. I'd eat em again no bother but decent dry roasted are still where it's at. There is also no place for vinegar at the peanut-flavouring table. Get fucked, vinegar
Been horsing down Haribo jellies throught the Lockdown,also Squashies (the pink and white yokes),fuckin unbelievable!
The Squashies are fair nice
Yiz bastards (I can't eat sweets)
For those on permanent Lent, a ham and red cheddar cheese sandwich in brown bread with real butter that didn't tear the bread in half is unreal and I'd eat it quicker than the sweets this minute. Actually I will, not I would
Fresh baguette from the bakery below, turkey, cheese, touch of mayo, rucula (I hope it's the same word in English) and a bit of caramelised onion. Mug of tae to wash it down. Ah here...
Quote from: Caomhaoin on May 15, 2020, 10:08:52 AM
Fresh baguette from the bakery below, turkey, cheese, touch of mayo, rucula (I hope it's the same word in English) and a bit of caramelised onion. Mug of tae to wash it down. Ah here...
Rocket....
Sound :)
I usually don't like spinach and all that shite in a sandwich but the auld Tommy Rocket, class.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on May 15, 2020, 10:33:16 AM
Sound :)
I usually don't like spinach and all that shite in a sandwich but the auld Tommy Rocket, class.
We grow our own among other things. It's amazing on pizza too.
On food, I made my own pizzas from scratch this week, having not made dough since my time working for the son of an SS officer in a by-the-slice pizza shop in Vancouver a decade ago (another story). Came out quite well though I used a significantly simpler recipe, made three - ham and jalapeno, chorizo with capers and olives, and the ultimate kimchi chicken pizza. Pure scoff. Froze a heap of dough too so no takeaway pizzas for me for a while.
Also stopped at the deli on the way to work for the ultimate wrap for breakfast - spicy chicken, black pudding, hash browns, cheese and taco sauce. Can't beat it.
Quote from: ochoill on May 15, 2020, 10:44:35 AM
On food, I made my own pizzas from scratch this week, having not made dough since my time working for the son of an SS officer in a by-the-slice pizza shop in Vancouver a decade ago (another story). Came out quite well though I used a significantly simpler recipe, made three - ham and jalapeno, chorizo with capers and olives, and the ultimate kimchi chicken pizza. Pure scoff. Froze a heap of dough too so no takeaway pizzas for me for a while.
Also stopped at the deli on the way to work for the ultimate wrap for breakfast - spicy chicken, black pudding, hash browns, cheese and taco sauce. Can't beat it.
Homemade pizza is the best thing. It's all about the base. Getting the dough right is what it's all about.
Jamie Oliver's is the one I found works best. Dead handy....
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/bread-recipes/pizza-dough/
Mixing balymaloe relish with mayonnaise.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on May 15, 2020, 10:52:03 AM
Homemade pizza is the best thing. It's all about the base. Getting the dough right is what it's all about.
Jamie Oliver's is the one I found works best. Dead handy....
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/bread-recipes/pizza-dough/
That's the very one I used for reference! I used to have one that was a mix of different specific flours from the pizza shop but it's long lost, unfortunately. He also taught me how to skewer and marinate my own proper upright kebab but the finer details of that are gone too, some of the method remains but you'd have to experiment with the ratios of seasonings.
A few tortilla wraps glued together with pesto make for a quick and daycent homemade pizza base.
Quote from: Ducky on May 15, 2020, 12:27:14 PM
A few tortilla wraps glued together with pesto make for a quick and daycent homemade pizza base.
Going to try that for definite, sounds like a class idea with potential for all sorts of chicanery between the layers
Aye, that sounds a winner.
It's good tack for sure. I usually do three wraps, green pesto in one layer and red pesto in the other.
Melted gorgonzola is also top tier for homemade pizza.
A pint glass filled with about 150ml of spiced rum fresh out of the freezer, a can of cold coke, the juice of half a lime and a couple of ice cubes. It is all I ever wanted.
Quote from: Juggz on May 15, 2020, 09:32:25 PM
A pint glass filled with about 150ml of spiced rum fresh out of the freezer, a can of cold coke, the juice of half a lime and a couple of ice cubes. It is all I ever wanted.
I would be on me ear :laugh:
Can of diet coke and a big white magnum, sat here watcin ufc fights.. buncha spicy bois... lovely
Quote from: Aborted on May 15, 2020, 10:09:37 PM
Can of diet coke and a big white magnum, sat here watcin ufc fights.. buncha spicy bois... lovely
Jaysus I'm getting a longing for one of those almond magnums now.
I have a litre of spiced rum right there and you are actually making it sound attractive. i must have the beer goggles on
Try that recipe, man, it will make all other booze seem crude and unattractive.
The only thing i don't have is the lime but I'll sub in lemon juice and see how it goes
right so i tried the recipe in a smaller amount (2 not quite doubles) with the same ratio, 1 with the lemon and 1 without it. the lemon one was a bit worse but they were both delicious so it seems that hunger is the best sauce after all
The fuck are you at putting a lemon in it, you'd be as well off ignoring it.
I went on a relaxed video call for beer and then came off it at ust the right time to catch a canadian friend also on the rip, eight hours in the difference. Unusually good craic for an evening at home.
Sneaky home visit from the brother yesterday. Just nice to have coffee and a chat.
Quote from: ochoill on May 16, 2020, 04:59:11 AM
The fuck are you at putting a lemon in it, you'd be as well off ignoring it.
I went on a relaxed video call for beer and then came off it at ust the right time to catch a canadian friend also on the rip, eight hours in the difference. Unusually good craic for an evening at home.
Ah yeah the one without the lemon was much better. I suppose a lemon is not a good substitute for a lime. Still plenty left in the bottle anyway to try again later
I bought a load of knitted face masks on Facebook really cheap. Score!
:laugh:
Mushrooms, not of the psychedelic variety. I love nothing more than a full plate of mushrooms.
The bird reading, the kid having a nap, me out on the balcony with 'Schizophrenia', 'Unchain the Wolves' and 'Wildfire' with a jumbo bag of taytos and a cold drink, 25 odd degrees. Ah here boyz, yes!
The bird gone off with the daughter, me in the kitchen with The Best of Pink Floyd and Nirvana, and a warm can of excelsior left over from last night calling to me to be drank, about 10 degrees out.
And still it's a case of "Ah here, yes!". Simple pleasures indeed and I take them where I can
The swallows are back nesting in my shed. Out earlier, a couple of deer croseed the road in front of me. Lovely smell of wild mint in the hedges. It's summer again.
Wash that down with Brown Bear double IPA in front of The Madness Of King George. Grand. What what.
Local coffee shop opened up today after 2 months (takeaway),absolute bliss sinking the creamy latte awhile ago!
You're not one of them mugs, like the 20 or so I saw queuing outside Starbucks? Maybe it's only a Limerick thing. Fuckin spas. It's coffee, like!
You can't compare queueing up for Starbucks with going to a local place! People queueing for Starbucks have been taking a shot of the Koolaid with their coffee for years.
No, I'm not in fairness, there is a sizable difference. It just reminded me of the many dopes I saw a day or two ago. Is it trendy to buy coffee in Starbucks?
Quote from: Emphyrio on May 25, 2020, 02:47:06 PM
You're not one of them mugs, like the 20 or so I saw queuing outside Starbucks? Maybe it's only a Limerick thing. Fuckin spas. It's coffee, like!
Na local place,woud rarely drink the Starbucks stuff
Starbucks, Costa and all that shite, I don't get the attraction. You'll get a better dose from a percolator and decent natural ground coffee, much better. Thry just throw sugary, syrupy crap into fairly poor gear.
The terraces in the bars are open from today here, at 30% capacity. Filled up right and quick this morning.
Soldering a fuckload of preamp wires and switches in a guitar cavity and it working.
I don't hate Costa or Starbucks coffee,its grand,but you can't beat coffee a local place.
A big wide shite. One of those ones that the word excoriate was invented for. It feels like a cavity block being forced through your body, emptying you out completely, your eyes spinning, sunspots appearing at the edge of your vision and a warm glow of endorphins filling your brain to fizz and pop away the for the rest of the day. You half expect your medulla oblongata to be attached to the back of it, which might account for the big doped-up grin and saucer eyes that last at least 24 hours. Simply divine.
:laugh: :laugh:
Years back i was cycling down in Kerry for the day,after i downed a massive milk chocolate protein drink.Hopped into the car and headed back for Cork,about 10 kilometres from Macroom i got an unmerciful rumble in my stomach!.Basically everything in my stomach felt like it just wanted to blast out my arse hole!.
Im in big trouble here!,i could barely drive the car,i was bent over the steering wheel in agony!,every last ounce of energy was trying to focus on not shitting my pants!.
I was absolutely sweating buckets!,driving about 150kpm on fuckin windy kerry roads to try and make it to Macroom to find a jax!.I can remember flying in the entrance of a hotel carpark (must have been doing 80kpm),abandoned the car across various spaces and doing a weird run/womble across the carpark,burst into the jax in the bar!.The moment of bliss when i got into the jax to find no one else in there!, and i could unleash whatever kind of ungodly sounds i wanted was utter heaven!
(To top it off i couldnt stand up after!,,the energy i burned trying to hold in the mother load coupled with the days cycling was just to much for me!)
Quote from: Paul keohane on May 25, 2020, 09:20:06 PM
I don't hate Costa or Starbucks coffee,its grand,but you can't beat coffee a local place.
I can only drink black coffee so they're fine for me. And to be fair to Costa, their large black coffee is like a bucketful of the stuff.
:laugh:
Nothing worse than having an audience when you need to unleash brown Hell!
Quote from: Paul keohane on May 25, 2020, 10:40:35 PM
:laugh: :laugh:
Years back i was cycling down in Kerry for the day,after i downed a massive mik chocolate protein drink.Hopped into the car and headed back for Cork,about 10 kilometres from Macroom i got an unmerciful rumble in my stomach!.Basically everything in my stomach felt like it just wanted to blast out my arse hole!.
Im in big trouble here!,i could barely drive the car,i was bent over the steering wheel in agony!,every last ounce of energy was trying to focus on not shitting my pants!.
I was absolutely sweating buckets!,driving about 150kpm on fuckin windy kerry roads to try and make it to Macroom to find a jax!.I can remember flying in the entrance of a hotel carpark (must have been doing 80kpm),abandoned the car across various spaces and doing a weird run/womble across the carpark,burst into the jax in the bar!.The moment of bliss when i got into the jax to find no one else in there!, and i could unleash whatever kind of ungodly sounds i wanted was utter heaven!
(To top it off i couldnt stand up after!,,the energy i burned trying to hold in the mother load coupled with the days cycling was just to much for me!)
:laugh:
I was a ways from the house the other day when the previous few days of laziness caught up with me - no movements for three days became a precarious 20 minute scramble back to the gaff.
I call it "Radcliffing".
Got home and laid a length of sea cable, happy out :laugh:
Gardening while working from home. It's so nice taking 5 minutes from time to time to wander in the sun and check up on things throughout the day.
Just got four chickens too, some characters, really add that extra bit of life to the garden now.
The simple things.
Sunning myself in the back garden with an ice cold Coke zero, some KP dry roasted (yes, those beauties again), noise cancelling headphones (for the noisy cunt neighbours) and some Cynic.
Whopper.
Quote from: Ducky on May 25, 2020, 10:50:05 PM
Quote from: Paul keohane on May 25, 2020, 10:40:35 PM
:laugh: :laugh:
Years back i was cycling down in Kerry for the day,after i downed a massive mik chocolate protein drink.Hopped into the car and headed back for Cork,about 10 kilometres from Macroom i got an unmerciful rumble in my stomach!.Basically everything in my stomach felt like it just wanted to blast out my arse hole!.
Im in big trouble here!,i could barely drive the car,i was bent over the steering wheel in agony!,every last ounce of energy was trying to focus on not shitting my pants!.
I was absolutely sweating buckets!,driving about 150kpm on fuckin windy kerry roads to try and make it to Macroom to find a jax!.I can remember flying in the entrance of a hotel carpark (must have been doing 80kpm),abandoned the car across various spaces and doing a weird run/womble across the carpark,burst into the jax in the bar!.The moment of bliss when i got into the jax to find no one else in there!, and i could unleash whatever kind of ungodly sounds i wanted was utter heaven!
(To top it off i couldnt stand up after!,,the energy i burned trying to hold in the mother load coupled with the days cycling was just to much for me!)
:laugh:
I was a ways from the house the other day when the previous few days of laziness caught up with me - no movements for three days became a precarious 20 minute scramble back to the gaff.
I call it "Radcliffing".
Got home and laid a length of sea cable, happy out :laugh:
I think almost more pleasurable than the act itself, (which is certainly one of the great pleasures in life) is the infinite number of ways that one can describe a sweet pungent shite. It's one of those things that our earliest ancestors were laughing to eachother about and no matter what advances in technology come about there'll still be men all over the multiverse communicating, through spoken language or telepathy, about the great pride they take in their excretory accomplishments.
It's a fundamental, shared experience :laugh:
A mate of mine had two lads in his Master's class that were a couple. Every Wednesday night was "poo night" where the two boyos would hang out and compare photos of their poo for the week. Apparently (with everything else working as it should), Thursday morning poops were usually most similar due to sharing a meal without fail on the previous evening 😳
Sure communal shitting has only been phased out in very recent history. Paradise lost indeed!
:laugh:
I also lament the fact none of us will ever lay a potential coprolite.
Quote from: Ducky on May 26, 2020, 04:18:01 PM
:laugh:
I also lament the fact none of us will ever lay a potential coprolite.
Would an Alaskan Pipeline count?
While we are on the subject, I was working on a house build out in the countryside years ago and there was no plumbing yet, so if needs be I had to go in the woods next to the site. The only four people there were myself and 3 Russian lads who had only the phrase "my friend" and pointing as a means of communication. Anyway I was busting for a shite during the day so I skipped down the roof and flaked it out to the woods. I said I'd go nice and far as I knew the smell would be rough and I shuffled through the undergrowth cramping along. Saw a big fallen tree, thought this will do, so skirted to one side of it and squatted and let an awful shite complete with loud relief sounds. Grand job, wiped up, stood up to lift the britches and as I looked over the other side of the fallen tree up looks one of the Russian lads from the squatting position at the very same lark letting one off and he says "Hello my friend!" real enthusiastically. It was probably funnier in my head but the shitting with an audience comment reminded me of it
:laugh: ii
:laugh: that's class.
There was one of those audio stories going around there during the coron lockdown on whatsapp. Some Dub lad who went out to the beach during the virus with the kids. Nothing was open and he suddenly got this unholy urge to go for a shite. Decided he'd run up into the dunes, praying noone would see him. So he's finishing up and next thing this labrador comes running up the dunes towards him. He's just about pulling up the pants when the owner pops the head over the dune saying 'Rosie where are you? Oh there you are. Oh we'd better clean this up'. Yer man there trying to shuffle down off the dune while yer one picks his big brown shite up in the plastic bag. Cat.
(Sounds better in a jarnowhorimean Dublin accent).
Jesus Christ that's a modern classic :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
:laugh: :laugh: jesus i hope that story is true!
Some typical taxi driver lad telling it. Just listened again and he says yer one came up the dune, picked it up and then starts telling him about the dog's diet. 'I wouldn't mind it's been pure water for the past few weeks' kinda thing. Horrendous :laugh:
Quote from: Pedrito on May 26, 2020, 07:11:03 PM
:laugh: that's class.
There was one of those audio stories going around there during the coron lockdown on whatsapp. Some Dub lad who went out to the beach during the virus with the kids. Nothing was open and he suddenly got this unholy urge to go for a shite. Decided he'd run up into the dunes, praying noone would see him. So he's finishing up and next thing this labrador comes running up the dunes towards him. He's just about pulling up the pants when the owner pops the head over the dune saying 'Rosie where are you? Oh there you are. Oh we'd better clean this up'. Yer man there trying to shuffle down off the dune while yer one picks his big brown shite up in the plastic bag. Cat.
(Sounds better in a jarnowhorimean Dublin accent).
I heard that one too. Classic. Hopefully a true story.
We can only pray it is :laugh:
Listening to a thunderstorm roll by. It's only a few kilometres away too, so it's loud as fuck.
Was out in the thunderstorm here last night. It's a great feeling so it is. Really exciting
if you have old slides or negatives, it's worth it to send them away to be scanned in uhd, you can learn a lot and have fun on photoshop with all the images of bygone decades, but in modern levels of detail.
Sitting in the garden with a glass of wine, watching the sun go down and don't have to be back working until Monday week :abbath:
The sound of fire :abbath:
Quote from: astfgyl on June 14, 2020, 09:53:22 PM
Was out in the thunderstorm here last night. It's a great feeling so it is. Really exciting
I'll never forget it babes xx
There's been a half hour of nonstop lightning and now possibly the heaviest rain shower I've seen in years.
Can't sleep, but class all the same.
Waking up at six on a Saturday morning and listening to records and reading with a cup of tea before the weekend madness begins.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on June 27, 2020, 07:24:20 AM
Waking up at six on a Saturday morning and listening to records and reading with a cup of tea before the weekend madness begins.
My phone screen is cracked to bits and I read that as wanking at six on a Saturday morning, and I literally thought that you were sneaking off for a special music induced wank ritual while the wife and kids were still sleeping, with a cup of tea in your hand :laugh: :laugh:
I got a right auld giggle out of that :laugh:
Reading between the lines :laugh:
Is that some sort of danger wanking? Dropping a hot cuppa while in the zone on your zone seems pretty risky.
At this age that's the level of risk it takes to get me over the finish line.
:laugh:
Just tried out Peckniff's Mistraal shower cream/bodywash. It's really great; cedar, vanilla, overall a smoky, woody fragrance, but not too sharp or acrid.
sometimes a new bathing product can really wake up your senses.
Ah fuck that, it's Wright's Coal Tar Soap or nothing for me
Quote from: astfgyl on June 30, 2020, 10:38:09 PM
Ah fuck that, it's Wright's Coal Tar Soap or nothing for me
I do like the distinctive smell of coal tar soap. It's very Old Spice but MORE
This probably should be in the Pet Peeves thread but.....
Picking out your Friday night selection of LPs and realising that the sleeves are sticky. Then smelling your hand thinking it's beer that one of your mates spilled on the sly two weekends ago but realising that it's actually tom cat piss... :laugh:
From the cunting stray that broke into the house on Monday night. The bastid... :laugh:
On hands & knees on the living room floor for half an hour there with rubber gloves, spray disinfectant and kitchen roll righting the urinal wrongs of Tom Arspraya... :abbath:
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on July 03, 2020, 07:26:10 PM
This probably should be in the Pet Peeves thread but.....
Picking out your Friday night selection of LPs and realising that the sleeves are sticky. Then smelling your hand thinking it's beer that one of your mates spilled on the sly two weekends ago but realising that it's actually tom cat piss... :laugh:
From the cunting stray that broke into the house on Monday night. The bastid... :laugh:
On hands & knees on the living room floor for half an hour there with rubber gloves, spray disinfectant and kitchen roll righting the urinal wrongs of Tom Arspraya... :abbath:
last week I left a window open by mistake for a few hours, came back to the house- tom cat, fucken annoying
When you've spent the whole day debugging code and then finally getting a nice [Finished in 0.5s].
Calls for a toke!
Having a toke is one of life's great pleasures, with or without the debugging victory.
On the subject of Tom cats, I had a cat with 3 kittens and a big dirty Tom got in the window and ripped the throats out the 3 of them. I reckon killing him with my bare hands would have been one of life's more simple pleasures, but my wife convinced me to let him go.
When you're studying part time and you manage to get all of your study done at work. Relaxing evening ahead. :abbath:
Getting in home from a walk just as the last track on the album you were listening to ends.
Perfect timing.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on July 06, 2020, 07:25:08 PM
When you've spent the whole day debugging code and then finally getting a nice [Finished in 0.5s].
Calls for a toke!
Or when you have spent hours looking for a solution and you find it.
Quote from: Ducky on July 19, 2020, 06:46:59 PM
Getting in home from a walk just as the last track on the album you were listening to ends.
Perfect timing.
That is a great one, and quite the opposite of what happens to me when I go for a short spin in the car. A lot of the stuff I listen to has long songs and I often find myself sitting in the car waiting for the end of a tune before getting out so as not to break the mood. But as it's the simple pleasures thread I shall focus on the times it does work out and those are great indeed!
A genuine simple pleasure is - whenever I feel like checking out something new, be it metal or otherwise -, knowing I can pop on here and find something recommended within a minute or so. And, on top of that, if I don't like it, there's a bonus opportunity to rip the piss out of someone.
*Pops off to check out Imagika Om... consider yourself forewarned Kurt Cocaine! :P :abbath:
Yeah I've discovered so much good music sifting through this and the old board. Pity the MI "recommend a non-metal album" is consigned to the internet dustbin, that was a treasure trove.
It was, savage thread. Untold choons and bands discovered.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on July 20, 2020, 03:58:32 PM
A genuine simple pleasure is - whenever I feel like checking out something new, be it metal or otherwise -, knowing I can pop on here and find something recommended within a minute or so. And, on top of that, if I don't like it, there's a bonus opportunity to rip the piss out of someone.
*Pops off to check out Imagika Om... consider yourself forewarned Kurt Cocaine! :P :abbath:
Kev likes it and so will you. Get back on it boyo... :abbath:
Quote from: Caomhaoin on July 20, 2020, 04:52:23 PM
It was, savage thread. Untold choons and bands discovered.
nly
Tried getting at it through the wayback machine myself, to no avail. Thing only goes 5 pages deep into any given thread. Definitely a pity.
One of my simple pleasures is when I am lying in bed and playing my favorite tunes..is very relaxing for me...8-]]
Quote from: Ducky on July 20, 2020, 04:25:36 PM
Yeah I've discovered so much good music sifting through this and the old board. Pity the MI "recommend a non-metal album" is consigned to the internet dustbin, that was a treasure trove.
It was, although the loss of the Puns thread hurts more.
Quote from: Crystal_Logic on July 28, 2020, 01:13:51 PM
Quote from: Ducky on July 20, 2020, 04:25:36 PM
Yeah I've discovered so much good music sifting through this and the old board. Pity the MI "recommend a non-metal album" is consigned to the internet dustbin, that was a treasure trove.
It was, although the loss of the Puns thread hurts more.
You mean almost every thread, right?
The morning Ham Shank to start the day.
Would you reckon Ciaran Tracey had the site backed up?
Ham, cheese and crisps sandwich, can't beat the classics
Quote from: Trev on July 31, 2020, 02:30:54 PM
Ham, cheese and crisps sandwich, can't beat the classics
The Mrs saw me putting taytos in a sandwich last week, you'd swear I'd been playing with myself. This coming from a woman who puts cereal in her coffee.
Cereal in coffee is a new one! Are we talking All Bran or something like Coco Pops?
One summer I worked with a bunch of Americans and was partial to the odd Tayto sandwich. They all looked on in bemusement and disgust.
By the time we were finished and saying toodle-oo, they were all hooked on the humble crisp sandwich. One lad was kinda upset because he sure as fuck couldn't get smokey bacon Taytos at home in the US and knew that was his last one for a while :laugh:
Nah, muesli, and it took me a while to stop gurning in disgust whilst she did that. I've seen a spanish woman dip a toasted cheese and ham sangwidge into coffee in a bar once.
The auld lads ordering brandy at 8am before work is so common here that I don't even bat an eyelid anymore.
I've done the toasted sandwich dipped in coffee myself. It's not bad.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on July 31, 2020, 03:27:29 PM
Quote from: Trev on July 31, 2020, 02:30:54 PM
Ham, cheese and crisps sandwich, can't beat the classics
The Mrs saw me putting taytos in a sandwich last week, you'd swear I'd been playing with myself. This coming from a woman who puts cereal in her coffee.
Almost anything goes in sandwiches. Taytos are basically a topping to any sort of sandwich, absolutely required. Leftover dinners are best polished off in sandwich form - a proper pan fried grilled cheese with leftover bolognaise or chilli in it is pure supreme.
Pizza sandwich is also magnificent, even if it's a lot of bread. Best use two slices of brown to offset the white dough pizza crust. Pasta bake doesn't hold up well but cheap packet "instant" pasta is designed for a sandwich, like that knorr pesto one in the dusty packet.
Turning your work alarm off for the coming week.
Was meant to be going to Spain today for a week but the West Coast will be a fine alternative Mon-Sat coming.
A Lidl pretzel and a cup of coffee, delicious :)
Lidl's filled lemon doughnuts are the Kings Of Things.
C/C++
Got intrigued by the sandwich dipped in coffee, ended up ruining my sandwich and cuppa
A big steak dinner.
A Mince Stir Fry.
A big durty shite
Quote from: Giggles on August 02, 2020, 12:14:08 PM
A big durty shite
Very true. I just had one and I feel about 2 stone lighter. I had to get a stick to the thing into bits so it would flush.
Poo knife!
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on August 01, 2020, 10:10:08 AM
Turning your work alarm off for the coming week.
Was meant to be going to Spain today for a week but the West Coast will be a fine alternative Mon-Sat coming.
Fine alternative me hole... :laugh:
33.5 hours after we set off on our epic 6 day West of Ireland road trip we were back home yesterday evening on our own couch.
Couldn't see 2ft in front of the bonnet yesterday in Sligo and Mayo. Heard the weather was going to be even worse today. Phuck that!
Luckily no hotels or B&Bs were booked as we have the van kitted out so we just turned on our heels and headed home.
We're going to the Mourne Mountains on Friday instead for a couple of days when the weather improves.
"Staycation"...... :laugh:
A nice hot mug of Lyon's Taaaay :)
A sunny, early morning walk in the mountains and getting back in good time to laze on the couch and watch the motogp.
Getting outbid last minute on eBay on something after seeing it cheaper elsewhere.....deadly
This type of memory cheers me up no end when I'm having an off day
https://youtu.be/KTjDxHTlzg0
Quote from: Pedrito on September 14, 2020, 10:16:09 PM
This type of memory cheers me up no end when I'm having an off day
https://youtu.be/KTjDxHTlzg0
Enexit
Quote from: ochoill on August 01, 2020, 12:17:50 AM
Pizza sandwich is also magnificent, even if it's a lot of bread. Best use two slices of brown to offset the white dough pizza crust. Pasta bake doesn't hold up well but cheap packet "instant" pasta is designed for a sandwich, like that knorr pesto one in the dusty packet.
I think I said this on an old MI thread, but lasagne on toast is unreal. Big slab of lasagne between to bits of crispy, buttery toast.
Quote from: Bigmac on September 15, 2020, 08:15:51 AM
Quote from: ochoill on August 01, 2020, 12:17:50 AM
Pizza sandwich is also magnificent, even if it's a lot of bread. Best use two slices of brown to offset the white dough pizza crust. Pasta bake doesn't hold up well but cheap packet "instant" pasta is designed for a sandwich, like that knorr pesto one in the dusty packet.
I think I said this on an old MI thread, but lasagne on toast is unreal. Big slab of lasagne between to bits of crispy, buttery toast.
Ah jesus yeah that sounds unreal.
I made the most amazing toastie cheesies last weekend with a mix of white cheddar and blue cheese, finely sliced pear and fried bacon. They were something else.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on September 15, 2020, 05:51:49 PM
I made the most amazing toastie cheesies last weekend with a mix of white cheddar and blue cheese, finely sliced pear and fried bacon. They were something else.
Are you having a laugh? That sounds absolutely disgusting.
It was delicious.
I think it sounds delicious. I'm going to make that toastie for my missus who is vegan. Bread and pear, mmmmmmmm.... :P
The only thing blue cheese goes well with is the other rubbish in the bin. Vile stuff. I'm intrigued by the pear, though.
Pear is decent with cheese and meats. Yeah I'd give that toastie a go, it sounds great. I've had a sort of pear chutney with black pudding before and it was a lovely combination.
Pear and blue cheese is a classic combo.
Blue cheeses are the nobility (old and blue-blooded) of cheese; definitely worth acquiring a taste for, it's not far off the difference between (albeit fancy and delicious) grape juice and red wine.
Pear and black pudding is something I've definitely had in the past and remember being a killer combo.
Heating up the last 2 slices of last night's pizza for breakfast. Can't bayt it.
Quote from: Carnage on September 16, 2020, 11:56:36 AM
Heating up the last 2 slices of last night's pizza for breakfast. Can't bayt it.
That's how you can tell good pizza. By how good it is the next day reheated.
I sprinkle a bit of water on the slices. Stick in the microwave for 30 or 40 seconds and then bang into the preheated oven until they crisp up a bit. Perfecto.. :abbath:
10 mins. on a tray in the oven at 180. Perfick.
Quote from: Carnage on September 16, 2020, 12:03:55 PM
10 mins. on a tray in the oven at 180. Perfick.
10 minutes is too long to wait dawg.
Preheat the oven while you're sprinkling on the water and then microwave as I said. Bang the pizza in the oven and you'll be sorted in under 5 minutes total.
The bird bought some extremely expensive foie in Paris (where she works sometimes) and I was horrified to see her put fig jam on top of it. Savage combination as it turned out, and par for the course for the frogs anyway.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on September 16, 2020, 12:25:43 PM
Quote from: Carnage on September 16, 2020, 12:03:55 PM
10 mins. on a tray in the oven at 180. Perfick.
10 minutes is too long to wait dawg.
Preheat the oven while you're sprinkling on the water and then microwave as I said. Bang the pizza in the oven and you'll be sorted in under 5 minutes total.
The oven was preheated and I had time as I was making coffee anyway. Microwaving pizza makes shite of it, too soggy.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on September 16, 2020, 12:33:35 PM
The bird bought some extremely expensive foie in Paris (where she works sometimes) and I was horrified to see her put fig jam on top of it. Savage combination as it turned out, and par for the course for the frogs anyway.
Speaking of such things and bringing them back to cheese; roasted or flash-fried goats cheese drizzled with honey... :-*
Quote from: Carnage on September 16, 2020, 12:40:08 PM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on September 16, 2020, 12:25:43 PM
Quote from: Carnage on September 16, 2020, 12:03:55 PM
10 mins. on a tray in the oven at 180. Perfick.
10 minutes is too long to wait dawg.
Preheat the oven while you're sprinkling on the water and then microwave as I said. Bang the pizza in the oven and you'll be sorted in under 5 minutes total.
The oven was preheated and I had time as I was making coffee anyway. Microwaving pizza makes shite of it, too soggy.
Trust me lad, my technique works a treat.
30 or 40 seconds in the microwave and about 4 minutes in the oven (5 if you like it extra crispy) Perfect crispy pizza...
Don't even bother reheating, cold breakfast pizza is the king
When you look in the Pet Peeves thread and it reminds you to take in your dry washing before it rains.
:laugh:
:laugh: very good Ducksoy... :laugh:
Glad to be of service! :laugh:
The missus thinking you've only had 3 bottles when you've actually had 6 cos you've been discretely using the recycling bin.
Also, a BBQ listening to Depeche Mode.
Quote from: Emphyrio on September 19, 2020, 06:23:14 PM
Also, a BBQ listening to Depeche Mode.
A BBQ with good taste, but does it also taste good?
Surely Depeche Mode in any situation can qualify as a simple pleasure?
On the bottles of beer thing, my wife regularly asks me how the fuck did I get so bad off only 3 cans due to my very discreet knack of switching between empties and fulls.
Painting tonight, and now that I have finally gotten the hang of cutting in, I'm really enjoying it for a change
Quote from: ochoill on September 16, 2020, 10:48:21 AM
Pear is decent with cheese and meats. Yeah I'd give that toastie a go, it sounds great. I've had a sort of pear chutney with black pudding before and it was a lovely combination.
Pan fried pear and pork chops for Sunday dinner tomorrow. A Nigel Slater recipe, very simple and an old favourite of mine. Fry chops and sliced pear in garlic and oil. Remove. Dash of white wine and stock onto sticky bits in pan. Reduce to sauce. Serve with new potatoes and zingy salad and glass of wine.
Being in charge of a BBQ is great for covert drinking, or at least because it's an important job people are afraid to criticise the cook.
Have painting to look forward to myself this week. Not looking forward to that cutting in lark. Pure cunt of a job.
I bought a pack of brushes in tesco which are shite for most of the wall but pure brilliant for the cutting in. No more masking off for me and the lines are straight as fuck. If you are looking for an easy way out they are called paint saving brushes and have pure plastic looking cunts of bristles on them but really do the job. Pack of 5 sizes for a tenner or less.
Painting is also great for the covert drinking but it gets harder and harder as I go on. One night during the lockdown I was painting in the little shitter under the stairs and I was properly harpooned coming out of there after a couple of hours. My wife was delighted with me. Luckily that time I avoided cutting in at all by painting it white. Would have been some messy result otherwise.
Smashin'. I'll pick up a pack of them.
Dime bar Milka. Unreal.
Drinkin & smokin
I went to a classical recital with the missus in the Triskel yesterday, masked up and socially distanced. Just hearing the first few bars of live music played by someone in the same room as me was a fucking sublime joy.
A tall glass of stone cold milk
Rib-Eye Steak, potatoes, green beans and a whole load of garlic butter. Simple and fucking amazing.
Can't bate a nice bit of rib eye. The little medallion of fat, when cooked hard, is incredible.
Had a striploin myself, some oven chips and sauteed chopped peppers, onions, mushrooms & garlic. Supoib. The bottle of West Indies Guinness with it wasn't shite either.
Quote from: Carnage on September 20, 2020, 09:44:55 PM
Had a striploin myself, some oven chips and sauteed chopped peppers, onions, mushrooms & garlic. Supoib. The bottle of West Indies Guinness with it wasn't shite either.
Add in pepper sauce and that is the exact same dinner I had earlier. It was class.
That slightly scary sinus wakeup call you get when you accidentally put too much Colmans English Mustard in your sambo.
I love that, the sign of a good sandwich.
Driving just under the limit :)
Quote from: Caomhaoin on September 27, 2020, 04:41:04 PM
Driving just under the limit :)
From what I saw in Spain there's no such thing as a limit there :laugh:
They'll fine you alright. Serbian police are so corrupt that drink driving is widespread amongst lads with a few quid. I got pulled over (for no reason) on the motorway there and it was a case of 2500 dinars (20 bar) and 'my friend drive the speed limit because there is another car waiting 25 kms away and you will pay again, it's clear it's a rented car my brother'.
Cunts 🤣
The first slug of a fresh can, late of a school day night.
Sitting down on my lunch break (working from home) to scratch down the schematic for a test build of a pedal. Rattled out the first chord shape that came to hand, accidentally wrote a riff, abandoned the pedal work, lashed out the drum machine, and 20 minutes later have some semblance of a weird noise rock song. The simple pleasure being in how it just absolutely whipped up out of the air, and in the joy of being able to catch something i'll never exactly replicate again because it came out of testing a pile of parts on a breadboard.
Is there any way you could perhaps consider making it more crab-like? The song or the breadboard or even both?
Quote from: astfgyl on October 20, 2020, 03:48:55 PM
Is there any way you could perhaps consider making it more crab-like? The song or the breadboard or even both?
:laugh: i eventually try to sort of 'crab' all of them. As nature intended
Quote from: ochoill on October 20, 2020, 01:41:11 PM
Sitting down on my lunch break (working from home) to scratch down the schematic for a test build of a pedal. Rattled out the first chord shape that came to hand, accidentally wrote a riff, abandoned the pedal work, lashed out the drum machine, and 20 minutes later have some semblance of a weird noise rock song. The simple pleasure being in how it just absolutely whipped up out of the air, and in the joy of being able to catch something i'll never exactly replicate again because it came out of testing a pile of parts on a breadboard.
Lovely. It's always cool if something comes out in random spontaneity.
Saying; "Fuck off and find your own" to people who know you've been out picking.
And it's always dole heads too.... :laugh:
Quote from: blessed1 on September 16, 2020, 10:12:57 AM
Quote from: Eoin McLove on September 15, 2020, 05:51:49 PM
I made the most amazing toastie cheesies last weekend with a mix of white cheddar and blue cheese, finely sliced pear and fried bacon. They were something else.
Are you having a laugh? That sounds absolutely disgusting.
I can vouch for him. I once ordered a pizza at Knockanstockan from that big blue bus pizza parlor that does be at quite a few of the festivals. It had blue cheese, pear and walnut on top of your regular cheddar/mozzarella. Fucking absolutely gorgeous, I ate three of them over the weekend.
I shall try your ridiculous cheese toastie McLove
Nothing ridiculous about it. Classic food combination. Make sure to mix the blue cheese with cheddar so it's not too overpowering. Balance is everything. Thinly slice your pear, fry it off a bit before assembling and fire them under the grill. Go on, treat yourself. It's a long weekend.
Package I'd ordered back in May just arrived, I'd long chalked it down to being lost in the post, nice
Ah yes, that is indeed a beautiful moment
Making your own (delicious) granola for a fraction of the price of that sugar-laden poison they sell in the supermarkets.
Laid down a new herringbone pattern solid oak floor in our living room. Sanded and varnished it. Came up well. Took a bit of work but I got there. I am pleased/relieved.
Jaysus fair play. I thought I was a hero clicking together a bit of laminate!
Quote from: Nazgûl on October 23, 2020, 06:12:29 PM
Quote from: blessed1 on September 16, 2020, 10:12:57 AM
Quote from: Eoin McLove on September 15, 2020, 05:51:49 PM
I made the most amazing toastie cheesies last weekend with a mix of white cheddar and blue cheese, finely sliced pear and fried bacon. They were something else.
Are you having a laugh? That sounds absolutely disgusting.
I can vouch for him. I once ordered a pizza at Knockanstockan from that big blue bus pizza parlor that does be at quite a few of the festivals. It had blue cheese, pear and walnut on top of your regular cheddar/mozzarella. Fucking absolutely gorgeous, I ate three of them over the weekend.
I shall try your ridiculous cheese toastie McLove
Ah the big blue bus. Fucking gutted Knockanstockan is gone. Legend of a festival. Best small fest this country ever produced.
It's not gone forever is it?? Unreal festival so much fun
Quote from: astfgyl on November 02, 2020, 06:16:12 PM
Jaysus fair play. I thought I was a hero clicking together a bit of laminate!
Haha thanks. There was a fair bit of swearing/sweating. My knees and back were bollixed by the end of it.
I think I figured out how to upload photos from my phone. Sorry if these are a bit big.
(https://i.imgur.com/mv9t5cO.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/1bEPruj.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/IgsGyXi.jpg)
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on October 29, 2020, 08:51:21 AM
Making your own (delicious) granola for a fraction of the price of that sugar-laden poison they sell in the supermarkets.
What are the ingredients? Always wanted to start that
Quote from: Blackout on November 03, 2020, 04:36:56 PM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on October 29, 2020, 08:51:21 AM
Making your own (delicious) granola for a fraction of the price of that sugar-laden poison they sell in the supermarkets.
What are the ingredients? Always wanted to start that
250g Porridge Oats
3 tablespoons Honey
3 tablespoons (melted) Coconut Oil
Dried fruits (mixes can be bought in Supermarket) to your liking.
Nut mixes (Almond, Walnut, etc)
Seed mixes (Pumpkin, Sunflower, etc)
Ground Cinnamon (to your taste)
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Place the mixture on a baking try and mix well.
Preheat oven to 175°C and put in for 20 minutes.
Take out and mix the mixture around every 5 minutes or so.
Keep an eye on the mix after the 15 minute mark to ensure that the granola doesn't get burned, because every oven is different.
Edit: add the dried fruits AFTER the mix is baked in the oven and has cooled sufficiently.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on November 03, 2020, 10:28:47 AM
Quote from: astfgyl on November 02, 2020, 06:16:12 PM
Jaysus fair play. I thought I was a hero clicking together a bit of laminate!
Haha thanks. There was a fair bit of swearing/sweating. My knees and back were bollixed by the end of it.
That's a fine bit of work there. No wonder you were delighted. If I did that I'd be dragging in strangers off the road to have a look
Quote from: astfgyl on November 03, 2020, 07:04:31 PM
Quote from: StoutAndAle on November 03, 2020, 10:28:47 AM
Quote from: astfgyl on November 02, 2020, 06:16:12 PM
Jaysus fair play. I thought I was a hero clicking together a bit of laminate!
Haha thanks. There was a fair bit of swearing/sweating. My knees and back were bollixed by the end of it.
That's a fine bit of work there. No wonder you were delighted. If I did that I'd be dragging in strangers off the road to have a look
And promptly get arrested.
Quote from: Giggles on November 02, 2020, 09:04:56 PM
It's not gone forever is it?? Unreal festival so much fun
The landowner passed away I think and I heard it's kaput. Awful shame.
Just had a phantom shit. What sorcery is this?
Putting a Guinness stew together here. I would give up women if I could ride the odours in this kitchen!
Lads strolling about in December in t-shirts. My (Spanish) missus is always amazed at this.
Mind you, all I wear is a hoodie while she's wearing half a wardrobe to keep warm.
Half day today and then the guts of three weeks offski. Elated isn't the word :)
Arrived in the in-laws yesterday evening. Wee lad whisked off by the grandparents as soon as he woke up this morning; got almost 11 hours sleep until midday today. Incredible feeling! :laugh:
Hahaha, lovely stuff. :laugh:
Well deserved I'm sure......
I never understood why people have kids. Sounds like absolute torture 😆
Quote from: blessed1 on December 22, 2020, 01:32:44 PM
I never understood why people have kids. Sounds like absolute torture 😆
I'm sure you'd enjoy the '30 seconds' involvement Ollie... :laugh:
Quote from: blessed1 on December 22, 2020, 01:32:44 PM
I never understood why people have kids. Sounds like absolute torture 😆
I always thought the same, then they squirt out in the delivery room, and that's you snookered. You care about someone else more than yourself for the first time in your life.
That being said, I was pissed off with him once and told him that if I could get all the money back that I'd spent on the little prick in his 8 years of existence and all the other shit in anticipation of him before that I could have bought a nice holiday gaff with no mortgage.
It's when the se i
Quote from: Caomhaoin on December 22, 2020, 03:55:49 PM
Quote from: blessed1 on December 22, 2020, 01:32:44 PM
I never understood why people have kids. Sounds like absolute torture 😆
I always thought the same, then they squirt out in the delivery room, and that's you snookered. You care about someone else more than yourself for the first time in your life.
This is pretty much it, but then when a second pops out two years later you really start to reevaluate those life choices
Quote from: Caomhaoin on December 22, 2020, 03:55:49 PM
Quote from: blessed1 on December 22, 2020, 01:32:44 PM
I never understood why people have kids. Sounds like absolute torture 😆
I always thought the same, then they squirt out in the delivery room, and that's you snookered. You care about someone else more than yourself for the first time in your life.
This doesn't really help understand why we have kids in the first place; only why we don't kill the little pricks after they've arrived :laugh:
Finishing work for the year, getting a nice bonus and a few bottles of wine from the boss. Now I'm full of stir fry and about to crack a bottle open. Shwayt.
A day off tomorrow.
Nigella on telly.
Oh ya, and holidays.
Quote from: Emphyrio on December 22, 2020, 08:39:19 PM
Nigella on telly.
Oh ya, and holidays.
Did any of you see the 'coke' video some legend mashed up about her.
Got it on WhatsApp yesterday, it's fookin class. :laugh:
Some tits
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on December 22, 2020, 08:47:54 PM
Quote from: Emphyrio on December 22, 2020, 08:39:19 PM
Nigella on telly.
Oh ya, and holidays.
Did any of you see the 'coke' video some legend mashed up about her.
Got it on WhatsApp yesterday, it's fookin class. :laugh:
Brilliant :laugh: jesus she's some saucy wench all the same boy
Quote from: Emphyrio on December 22, 2020, 08:39:19 PM
Nigella on telly.
Oh ya, and holidays.
With her meekrowahvey oven?
TV was muted now I think of it.
A bullshit generator to sooth your mind...
https://sebpearce.com/bullshit/
Christmas day. Grand now that I got there.
A glass of Rioja at 11.30am. It's the only day you'd get away with it :laugh:
Nice. Had a drop of the craytur in my coffee while taking the dog for a Christmas morning walk this morning.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on December 25, 2020, 11:43:40 AM
A glass of Rioja at 11.30am. It's the only day you'd get away with it :laugh:
Rioja is where I spent the last few days; now up in the mountains of Navarra watching the snow fall :-* :abbath: :abbath: :abbath:
Drinking schaldy cyans of Dutchie?
Getting a great kick thinking of all the wonderful situations people get into, but with 6 cans of Dutch Gold instead of anything classy. Like Christmas dinner or Wedding reception or such like. Or some unreal spectacle of nature, but with Dutch Gold.
I had 2 cans of Excelsior with my Christmas dinner. Simple pleasures indeed.
Honeycomb Kit Kat and a cup of tea. My word! Why wasn't I informed about this before?
Quote from: Eoin McLove on December 26, 2020, 10:03:33 AM
Honeycomb Kit Kat and a cup of tea. My word! Why wasn't I informed about this before?
Nice, and I'll raise you half a Christmas dinner for breakfast with a double helping of stuffing.
Now for a nice walk around the hills.....
Homemade sherry trifle.
Having a thoughtful missus. Same as last year, I'd to come home a week earlier than her for work. As soon as I sent her the "Back safe now" message, she replied telling me where she'd hidden a hamper of fancy craft beverages and snacks in the flat, bless her cotton calcetines!
She's a keeper alright. Niiiice.... 8)
Level 5! Woohoo!!!
Quote from: Eoin McLove on December 30, 2020, 06:09:21 PM
Level 5! Woohoo!!!
I don't know how you can study at Christmas.
He's playing Tetris.
Out on my nice old stroll this morning and saw some gobshite (probably freckled) had fucked the takeaway rubbish contents of his/her car out on the grass verge near our house.
Just as I was mumbling "ya durty fookin prick" I spots me a nice damp €50 in amongst the rubble.
See, early morning walks are good for your health and bank balance.
Happy New year.... 8)
No work for a month. Delighted. D
Looking out the kitchen window at two foxes going about their business. The joys of preserved lands.
Having two slices of hot toast washed down with a nice cupán tae in the morning.
Few púcs with a Corkonian in the park in the centre of Madrid to get the blood moving for the day.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 04, 2021, 01:12:39 PM
Few púcs with a Corkonian in the park in the centre of Madrid to get the blood moving for the day.
I know a Cork lad living in Spain who slaps a sliotar around a park in Madrid to the bewilderment of locals.
Is your hurling compadre from just outside Newmarket/Kanturk and a Liverpool supporter?
He's from Youghal, and yeah, strange looks abound alright!
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 04, 2021, 01:21:45 PM
He's from Youghal, and yeah, strange looks abound alright!
Not the same lad so.
If you see a fella in his early-40s, in an indie band t-shirt, showing off his silky skills trying to impress some young wans - that'll be my buddy.
The pleasure of putting the tree and decorations back in the attic, knowing it's finished for another year.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on January 04, 2021, 01:30:48 PM
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 04, 2021, 01:21:45 PM
He's from Youghal, and yeah, strange looks abound alright!
Not the same lad so.
If you see a fella in his early-40s, in an indie band t-shirt, showing off his silky skills trying to impress some young wans - that'll be my buddy.
There is a good dose of Cork lads tipping around here alright. What's your buddy's first name? If I've never met him I probably know someone who has :)
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 04, 2021, 01:54:34 PM
There is a good dose of Cork lads tipping around here alright. What's your buddy's first name? If I've never met him I probably know someone who has :)
Sean Duggan. Affectionately known as "Scatter".
Only three more lockdowns till Christmas....
Posted this in Non Metal Albums, but it belongs here too.
Ordering a record you're excited to hear, getting it in the post less than 24 hours later, on a Friday before work ends.
8)
Coffee & toast, listening to Robbie Basho whilst looking out at snow covered hills.
Paradise found.....
https://open.spotify.com/album/4CN4exJ6KbjKhKdcSUcpoC?si=Aww_YaaCSkyFdoHMyl75gw
20 cms of snow fell in madrid there, and the Roinn Oideachas announced the schools are closed until Wednesday. Tellin' ye now lads, that is a beautiful way to kick off the year.
Getting back into doing some small woodwork projects in the evenings/weekends.....head to the shed with a flask of tea....turn on the radio....bliss
Bought (or attempted to) two pairs of guheys off Footlocker online there in November at €60 each. Heard nothing for ages as the order somehow didn't go through on their end.
They said they'd give me a refund but again, heard nothing for ages. So I got PayPal involved and got my €120 back yesterday.
I got my good lady to order one of the pairs yesterday at the knockdown price of €40 delivered.
When that order shipped this morning I got her to order the other pair today, again on sale at €40...
Nice wee saving of €40 altogether, so not all bad in the end.
Dozing off in front of the snooker with a bellyful of Chinese takeaway.
What are guheys??
Runners I'd wager. Surprisingly rich vocabulary in Ireland for those. A buddy of mine was going on about his 'tackies' before, took me a good while to work out what he was on about.
Guhies are indeed runners.... 8)
I thought it might have been some new fangled type or make of runner. Tis a new one for me, guhey, or guhie, or gooey, or whatever :laugh:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on January 11, 2021, 09:22:28 PM
I thought it might have been some new fangled type or make of runner. Tis a new one for me, guhey, or guhie, or gooey, or whatever :laugh:
It could even be spelled guhey. I never seen the word written down but it's what we called them as kids. ;D
Yeah as far as I know 'tackies' is unknown outside the borders of Limerick.
When I was in college in Cork (having been there only once in my life before that) some of their lingo bewildered me aswell. 'He's odd with you because you pure flah'd the situation like'.
Scotland is probably rightly viewed as where you find the most unintelligible dialect of English in these islands but I defy any Johnny Blow-In to spend a fe W days in Knocknaheeny or Darndale and understand the vocabulary never mind the accent!
Invite them down to most of tipp it will be a struggle as well. Or try bringing them to kilkenny without getting sick, although that isn't the accent and only appears to apply from may to September.
Was having a conversation with the daughter the other day and she was all "we don't have any accent do we". The innocence of youth..
"Not since I beat the mid Atlantic my so called life out of you"
Quote from: astfgyl on January 11, 2021, 09:55:16 PM
"Not since I beat the mid Atlantic my so called life out of you"
:laugh:
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 11, 2021, 09:47:44 PM
but I defy any Johnny Blow-In to spend a fe W days in Knocknaheeny or Darndale and understand the vocabulary never mind the accent!
I wouldn't put some poor bastard anywhere near Darndale for longer than it takes to drive through it
Quote from: astfgyl on January 11, 2021, 09:55:16 PM
Invite them down to most of tipp it will be a struggle as well. Or try bringing them to kilkenny without getting sick, although that isn't the accent and only appears to apply from may to September.
Was having a conversation with the daughter the other day and she was all "we don't have any accent do we". The innocence of youth..
"Not since I beat the mid Atlantic my so called life out of you"
Kilkenny CITY is certainly easier on the eye than Tipp Town. Equally awful on earholes.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 11, 2021, 10:14:39 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on January 11, 2021, 09:55:16 PM
Invite them down to most of tipp it will be a struggle as well. Or try bringing them to kilkenny without getting sick, although that isn't the accent and only appears to apply from may to September.
Was having a conversation with the daughter the other day and she was all "we don't have any accent do we". The innocence of youth..
"Not since I beat the mid Atlantic my so called life out of you"
Kilkenny CITY is certainly easier on the eye than Tipp Town. Equally awful on earholes.
Man, tipp town is surely top 5 material for most depressing places on the island. Kilkenny Bigger Town is a grand spot to be fair
Hash.
The quintessential simple pleasure. A capital idea if ever there was one.
Quote from: astfgyl on January 12, 2021, 10:12:02 PM
Hash.
The quintessential simple pleasure. A capital idea if ever there was one.
Had the first proper hoot off a bit of green there for the first time in more than a year over the last week. Made a pinner one day as a test, was fearing for my life having not been near it in so long but it went down a treat. Out in the -3° crispy weather in town for a long stroll, early morning, a grand refresher.
Subsequently fucked it up completely by getting brave and packing the bowl out twice as bad as planned the next morning, having to talk myself down from a whitener while in the middle of town, total disarray, dose of the stills and general impending doom for breakfast. Not ideal.
Quote from: ochoill on January 14, 2021, 11:53:14 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on January 12, 2021, 10:12:02 PM
Hash.
The quintessential simple pleasure. A capital idea if ever there was one.
Had the first proper hoot off a bit of green there for the first time in more than a year over the last week. Made a pinner one day as a test, was fearing for my life having not been near it in so long but it went down a treat. Out in the -3° crispy weather in town for a long stroll, early morning, a grand refresher.
Subsequently fucked it up completely by getting brave and packing the bowl out twice as bad as planned the next morning, having to talk myself down from a whitener while in the middle of town, total disarray, dose of the stills and general impending doom for breakfast. Not ideal.
Delighted for you.
Quote from: astfgyl on January 15, 2021, 12:33:58 AM
Quote from: ochoill on January 14, 2021, 11:53:14 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on January 12, 2021, 10:12:02 PM
Hash.
The quintessential simple pleasure. A capital idea if ever there was one.
Had the first proper hoot off a bit of green there for the first time in more than a year over the last week. Made a pinner one day as a test, was fearing for my life having not been near it in so long but it went down a treat. Out in the -3° crispy weather in town for a long stroll, early morning, a grand refresher.
Subsequently fucked it up completely by getting brave and packing the bowl out twice as bad as planned the next morning, having to talk myself down from a whitener while in the middle of town, total disarray, dose of the stills and general impending doom for breakfast. Not ideal.
Delighted for you.
The first or second part of his post? :laugh:
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on January 15, 2021, 04:52:28 AM
Quote from: astfgyl on January 15, 2021, 12:33:58 AM
Quote from: ochoill on January 14, 2021, 11:53:14 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on January 12, 2021, 10:12:02 PM
Hash.
The quintessential simple pleasure. A capital idea if ever there was one.
Had the first proper hoot off a bit of green there for the first time in more than a year over the last week. Made a pinner one day as a test, was fearing for my life having not been near it in so long but it went down a treat. Out in the -3° crispy weather in town for a long stroll, early morning, a grand refresher.
Subsequently fucked it up completely by getting brave and packing the bowl out twice as bad as planned the next morning, having to talk myself down from a whitener while in the middle of town, total disarray, dose of the stills and general impending doom for breakfast. Not ideal.
Delighted for you.
The first or second part of his post? :laugh:
Both. But in a different tone for each.
Discovering that if you skip a YouTube video right to the end and hit the Replay loop when it shows, the video/song will play back without any ads.
Handy for those without Vanced or AdBlocker.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on January 18, 2021, 01:45:25 PM
Discovering that if you skip a YouTube video right to the end and hit the Replay loop when it shows, the video/song will play back without any ads.
Handy for those without Vanced or AdBlocker.
Yeah? Nice one.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on January 18, 2021, 01:45:25 PM
Discovering that if you skip a YouTube video right to the end and hit the Replay loop when it shows, the video/song will play back without any ads.
Handy for those without Vanced or AdBlocker.
Sweet..Kurt you're an absolute treaseure trove of good info. Your missus must be delighted with ye!
Quote from: Pedrito on January 18, 2021, 03:38:00 PM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on January 18, 2021, 01:45:25 PM
Discovering that if you skip a YouTube video right to the end and hit the Replay loop when it shows, the video/song will play back without any ads.
Handy for those without Vanced or AdBlocker.
Sweet..Kurt you're an absolute treaseure trove of good info. Your missus must be delighted with ye!
Just as well, as she can't get back to Spain any time soon. :laugh:
You've given me an idea for another thread Peadar ya boy ya!
Having the week's food cooked for me & the missus and sitting at the table having a nice big Erdinger listening to the latest Perry Farrell album.
And all before 6pm....
Torrents and blank CDs
Getting a decent work promotion today. Something bright in this miserable period.
Quote from: Blackout on February 10, 2021, 05:13:29 PM
Getting a decent work promotion today. Something bright in this miserable period.
Time for celebration. Get the torrents and blank CDs out
:laugh:
Quote from: astfgyl on February 10, 2021, 05:35:35 PM
Quote from: Blackout on February 10, 2021, 05:13:29 PM
Getting a decent work promotion today. Something bright in this miserable period.
Time for celebration. Get the torrents and blank CDs out
Have I travelled back to 2003
Quote from: Blackout on February 10, 2021, 07:34:00 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on February 10, 2021, 05:35:35 PM
Quote from: Blackout on February 10, 2021, 05:13:29 PM
Getting a decent work promotion today. Something bright in this miserable period.
Time for celebration. Get the torrents and blank CDs out
Have I travelled back to 2003
This day just keeps getting better
For those of you stuck in 2003.... :laugh:
https://rawkbawx.rocks/torrents.php
As I said to Pedrito before, it's great for Metal torrents BM especially...
Ah grand I'll check that out sound. I usually find what I want on rutracker it seems to be immune to piracy law
Quote from: astfgyl on February 10, 2021, 09:29:41 PM
Ah grand I'll check that out sound. I usually find what I want on rutracker it seems to be immune to piracy law
Yep, the Russian one is good too. I just find Rockbox to have a better selection of Metal for my liking tbh...
Joey Logano wrecking.
Especially when he's leading on the last lap. :laugh:
Lockdown level 5 extended until the end of April. Yesss! I can't wait to see what that will be like.
It will be riddled with simple pleasures for sure
Any form of human interaction
The smoothness of a freshly shaven head. Been ages since I took the razor to it.
Had a volume issue with my amp and found a simple solution. Amp seems fixed. Delighted.
Did you turn it up?
Or just off and on again?
Plugged it in.
Volume was fluctuating on its own so after a quick Google I sprayed the pots and hey presto.
Keep it on 11 and you'll never have that problem again.
He has elderly neighbours so he can't go past 9.
That was a joke about the watershed. You're welcome.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on February 23, 2021, 07:55:58 PM
He has elderly neighbours so he can't go past 9.
That was a joke about the watershed. You're welcome.
He won't have for much longer if the government has anything to do with it.
Popped across the border today to get booze for the '8 more weeks of lockdown' party at the weekend and saw that my favourite offie had Red Stripe Jamaican beer back in stock after a few years of me asking them to get it again.
Fuck waiting for Saturday night. Four cans of Red Stripe and a big J will have me trippin ballz in a while. 8)
First day of the year where it's warm enough for shorts and a t-shirt.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on February 26, 2021, 02:59:29 PM
First day of the year where it's warm enough for shorts and a t-shirt.
Ah, you're in Australia already?
I've long held that summer begins in February but this year I've realised just how wrong I've been all this time. Summer starts in January.
Correct. Shorts season begins as soon as the sun comes out. Gotta make a headstart on them pasty limbs.
Fake tan is where it's at lads. Looks great and smells great....
After a week Zooms, Looms and apes (in no particular order), settling in with various tasty beers is more than welcome. And the missus back to work Monday, while I re-engage with Zooms, Looms and apes for another fortnight is killing her buzz. Which is obviously another simple pleasure.
Takeaway fish & chips from a new place in town. Smashing feed, stuffed now and panning out in front of an open fire and game of rugby.
Quote from: Emphyrio on February 26, 2021, 04:54:52 PM
After a week Zooms, Looms and apes (in no particular order), settling in with various tasty beers is more than welcome. And the missus back to work Monday, while I re-engage with Zooms, Looms and apes for another fortnight is killing her buzz. Which is obviously another simple pleasure.
I have the opposite of that, where my wife is relaxing on the 350 while I look forward to work 5 days a week. It shouldn't matter because I'm going either way but it still hurts.
Can't get into the zoom beer buzz either because I can't handle staring right into someone's face while I drink.
Simple pleasure for this evening is drinking off the hangover. 2 cans in and the pain in my head is nearly gone
I should probably have 2 cans lined up for tomorrow so.
It's the only way out. Feel so good now, I'm ready to get stuck in again
I went out for my first run in almost a year this morning after spending half of last year in physio. I was surprised at how fit I felt still, I thought I'd be in a heap but I enjoyed it. I haven't run in the morning in twenty years and I always assumed I wouldn't be lively at that hour (7am) but I found the peace and quiet really pleasant to run in. It helped that it was a bright clear, cool morning with mist on the fields. Dunno if I'd manage it at 6am before work but I might try next week....
Not a simple pleasure as such, as I couldn't afford to be doing it every week, but a good solid massage, 1.5 hours with a little oriental woman with magic hands. Floated home, and didn't even need hand relief ;)
Rap battle fails
Stumbling upon the fact that Autopsy have released a live album.
The old iTunes purge. It doesn't sound like much, but deleting the stuff you never listen to and clearing up space is brilliant.
Madrid has forbidden the feminist March on Monday, and watching them foam at the mouth with primeval, volcanic rage is just beautiful.
They should come out by all means! Get those freedom truncheons ready boys, and don't forget that you can't discriminate in distributing freedom slaps based on gender:)
I hope the nice polismen don't hit the ones with their diddys out. I likes them ones....
We should be thankful for feminism, on second thought :)
https://youtu.be/xeAerBwVL14
aMEN :laugh:
Quote from: Caomhaoin on March 05, 2021, 06:42:33 AM
We should be thankful for feminism, on second thought :)
https://youtu.be/xeAerBwVL14
:laugh:
McInnes is the funniest fucker out there tbh.
'Not only do you get all the milk, the cow thinks it's cool to give you the milk'
😂
Getting up at half six and the sky already getting bright.
I get up at 5 AM every morning to study French and work out, and eating the breakfast on my balcony with the sun coming up is the best part the day. All mildly downhill after that.
Getting up just in time for dinner :abbath:
Quote from: The Heretic on March 08, 2021, 09:27:42 AM
Getting up just in time for dinner :abbath:
Where the hell are ya, Turkey or somewhere? :laugh:
Letting the hens out of the coop as the sun is coming up in the morning. They've an enthusiasm for Mondays I could never possibly match.
I found nothing pleasurable about being out at 6 this morning, after 3 hours sleep, checking on ewes due to lamb.
I did however have a very pleasurable feed of home-made chips with that new Chef chip shop curry sauce there.
Its grand tack that sauce.
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on March 08, 2021, 01:02:46 PM
I found nothing pleasurable about being out at 6 this morning, after 3 hours sleep, checking on ewes due to lamb.
I did however have a very pleasurable feed of home-made chips with that new Chef chip shop curry sauce there.
Its grand tack that sauce.
Tis nice alright. Take those home-made chips, get some decent German sausages - bockwurst or something - slice it over the chips, add a liberal splash of that sauce and a bit of hot curry powder. Bingo - currywurst.
Get a nice Helles to wash it down.
Piers Morgan throwing a hissy fit when cornered...
What a fuckin blouse.
Doing a jigsaw puzzle....great way to relax and pass the time....
Getting a Nicolas Cage mask sent anonymously from Germany. "Face coverings must be worn in this store"
Two and a half hour online update from my companies CEO, which basically means logging on to it and taking the morning off, lovely day for it too
Finishing at 2pm and off till Monday. Will probably dig out the BBQ grill for tomorrow. Perfect timing with the weather.
Lovely aul temperature today alright. More of this sort of thing, please
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on March 16, 2021, 12:13:04 PM
Lovely aul temperature today alright. More of this sort of thing, please
Might be the simplest of all the simple pleasures, that one.
Garnish with cans just for presentation's sake but nothing too fancy.
Jameson Crested on ice with Lime. Heaven.
Post pizza veg out. A bottle of wine may be opened.
Hah. I had pizza too and the belt is loosened. Cheers
Just got home and herself has the living room transformed into an Irish bar; bottles of Guinness, bottle of whiskey, a few tri-colours, Guinness pie in the oven, early Clannad blaring out, and the wee lad in his Ireland hoody. No mick could hope for a greener spic!
Enjoy that man. Nice wee reminder of the fair Isle right there.
Faith and ye found yerself a grand cailín there so ye did, ratatata....
Enjoy lad.
Rub it in, sher!
Quote from: Emphyrio on March 17, 2021, 07:43:06 PM
Rub it in, sher!
Says him with his passion fruit cheesecake! :laugh:
Fair point.
Went for a sunset stroll on the beach with the mrs, home now relaxing with a glass of whiskey while waiting on the takeaway to arrive courtesy of some JustEat vouchers from Vodafone.
this moment of genius...
https://youtu.be/WwsQ_5Wm4oo (https://youtu.be/WwsQ_5Wm4oo)
I worked Paddy's Day and now have a long weekend. Been flat out painting fences all morning which is a job I could easily have put on the long finger, so I'm very pleased with myself. Smug you might even say. And handsome, which can't be ignored.
Pot of tea, a few books with the young fella fed and the exercise and other boring shite done, nobody littering around annoying me. Ah yeah :)
More or less anything in the sunshine.
Finding old compilation CDs I put together from free CDs from Terrorizer and the like. One I did 16 years ago still sounds decent, despite there being a few bands on it that I'm not a fan of.
Quote from: The Heretic on March 18, 2021, 10:57:34 PM
this moment of genius...
https://youtu.be/WwsQ_5Wm4oo (https://youtu.be/WwsQ_5Wm4oo)
:laugh:
Quote from: Carnage on March 19, 2021, 07:03:04 PM
Finding old compilation CDs I put together from free CDs from Terrorizer and the like. One I did 16 years ago still sounds decent, despite there being a few bands on it that I'm not a fan of.
Happy fucking days!
I had a shoe box of compilation tapes I made, recording stuff off the metal show on RTE radio 2 years ago, and I'm fucked if I can find them anywhere.
I'm sickened about it, I've a bad feeling the mother might have binned them :(
Jesus but I knocked some enjoyment out of making them tapes, used to be on tinder hooks all week listening to me tapes,waiting for Sunday and the metal show to be on again. Simple times, ya wouldn't catch young lads at the likes these days, too much bother for them.
Where the hell is John Kenny now by the way, is he on the wireless at all any more?
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on March 19, 2021, 11:40:17 PM
Quote from: Carnage on March 19, 2021, 07:03:04 PM
Finding old compilation CDs I put together from free CDs from Terrorizer and the like. One I did 16 years ago still sounds decent, despite there being a few bands on it that I'm not a fan of.
Happy fucking days!
I had a shoe box of compilation tapes I made, recording stuff off the metal show on RTE radio 2 years ago, and I'm fucked if I can find them anywhere.
I'm sickened about it, I've a bad feeling the mother might have binned them :(
Jesus but I knocked some enjoyment out of making them tapes, used to be on tinder hooks all week listening to me tapes,waiting for Sunday and the metal show to be on again. Simple times, ya wouldn't catch young lads at the likes these days, too much bother for them.
Where the hell is John Kenny now by the way, is he on the wireless at all any more?
Some memories and c90's from the metal show. Nothing like the buzz of waiting to record that on the sunday night and then going into the school in the morning with the tape in the pocket in case some of the pals missed it or we'd end up in someone's house after and on would go the tape
I had shitloads of tapes too, I used to trade them with a mate in Dublin for copies of stuff he'd picked up in the States. Mostly shite coming from him but I enjoyed putting the tapes together. I had notebooks full of tracklists, track times etc., still come across one occasionally.
More innocent times for sure.
I was going through old stuff and I found a C90 that I made for my wife back in the day. Toe curling stuff there, trying to get her to like the metal. :-[
(https://forum.metalwarfare.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fnedroid.com%2Fcomics%2F2011-01-13-beartato-badmemories.png&hash=18b05607ff1b610e5da85e7650dd6ae5c7882cae)
i think about this exact comic strip almost weekly
Turning the TV off, playing death metal records and giving drawing a go, graysons art club inspired me, this is one of my greatest pleasures at the moment
Sipping a nice West Cork Single Malt whiskey whilst watching Adrian Dunbar's Coastal Ireland.
Perfect Sunday evening....
Middle age, I welcome you.
If I had known it was this pleasurable, I wouldn't have fought it off for so long... :laugh:
Finishing a 16k run at a canter this morning and feeling fuckin' invincible for a good hour after, just like after a big fat, selfish line of the Bonnie Prince Charlie. Haven't moved in 8 hours except to have a piss and scratch my arse a couple of times, and now for a guilt free take-away :)
16k is awesome. Never got past 10k as I'd need to lose a few pounds before putting more pressure on my joints.
If you're at 10, and you have time to run 4 times a week, you could easily double that total in 6-8 weeks. Try 5-8-5 (Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday)and then 12 on Sunday next week, guarantee you'll finish it as easy as 10.
You can add 1.5k to the long run each week and it doesn't hurt as much as you'd think.
You can continue consuming as you wish, although alcohol will kill any weight loss and momentum!
Good news....
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/summers-last-half-year-end-century-rcna436
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on March 22, 2021, 10:02:10 AM
Good news....
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/summers-last-half-year-end-century-rcna436
I don't think it applies to Ireland.
Pot of coffee, lemon curd muffin, Neurofen for the hangover. Sweet.
It's just starting to get bright as I'm going to work in the mornings now so I don't bother with the full beam lights on the yoke.
It's amazing how many dipshits give you the full beams because they don't see you dipping your lights when they dip theirs.
Well I be's primed and have my hand on the lever ready to give them the fulls when they start acting de ballix.....
Cunts!
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on March 25, 2021, 06:10:36 AM
It's just starting to get bright as I'm going to work in the mornings now so I don't bother with the full beam lights on the yoke.
It's amazing how many dipshits give you the full beams because they don't see you dipping your lights when they dip theirs.
Well I be's primed and have my hand on the lever ready to give them the fulls when they start acting de ballix.....
Dipshits! :laugh:
Just found out earlier that an odious fake cunt of a colleague is leaving the company with immediate effect.
Meet this cretin 5 or 10 times a day and it's like he hasn't seen you in 30 years each time.
Loud overbearing prat..... Adiós.
Living in a house, rather than a flat/apartment, for the first time in almost 12 years. Just a nice feeling about it. And, related, having a gas rather than electric hob. I just find them so much more enjoyable to cook on; instant heat, the blue glow, clicking up the pilot spark, dunno, there's just something about them that I dig.
I hope you share the burden of cooking :laugh:
Nah, I enjoy those aspects of a gas hob in exclusively aesthetic and abstract ways, while I pace around the kitchen spouting feminist soundbites in the hopes that mi mujer will give me and my needle-dick some of the female attention we are so desperately lacking. That's what I've learnt about myself on here this week anyway :laugh:
Hectic week alright!
An ice cold bottle of Stella in the midday sun.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on April 03, 2021, 11:59:48 AM
An ice cold bottle of Stella in the midday sun.
Top notch 👍
A cheese and pickle sandwich with a cupán tae and a brownie after. Bliss.
Beers after preparing the garden for planting, delicious
Those sweet Saturday night beers, well earned, after a week's work 8)
Had been planning on taking today off but ended up having to do a 12 hour shift. Feet up now with a lovely Guinness in hand while herself is doing the cooking 8)
Mad Egg burgers are incredible.
Double weekend calls for double beers. YOLO I believe its the term.
You only YOLO once.
:laugh:
Feet up with a cup of tea and an orange Twirl.
Spent the whole day and evening sitting in a mate's garden, eating barbecue, listening to tunes, drinking wine, little lad entertained by their dog all afternoon. The most I've felt like I was on holidays in about a year, and I was only a five minute walk from our new gaff. AND a "green" entrepreneur happened to drop in, whose acquaintance I was thrilled to make. We're jammin'...
Monday Bank holiday beers, when no job to get up for. Should care but don't.
10 days in a row off work for booking three and a half days :abbath:
The Mrs took the car this morning, and I wasn't looking forward to the train journey to work, but it's half empty, no wankers cutting out in front, traffic jams or burning arses and hands on the hot upholstery.
Takes almost 3 times as long, but lads, it's grandest to dump the wagon every now and again.
The string on the bag of coal when it zips out first time is pretty special.
You've mastered that???? I'm destined to forever be butchering away at those bags with a breadknife
Ah jaysus no, not mastered, but I get it about half the time and it's a real consistent great time every time when it works. Right up there with stabbing the foil on a jar of coffee with a fork.
Successfully building and maintains a fire without briquets or coal is very satisfying, even though I only get to do it in the auld pairs gaff. I have to shoo the mother away when I get the rolled up newspaper out though...'Jesus you'll set the chimbeley on foier'!
Getting a bottle of Chateau De Laubade Armagnac and slowly sipping a decilitre of it. Pure heaven.
Box of Maltesers
Getting a Kit Kat Chunky, and it not having any wafer, just total chocolate.
So....a Toblarone then
A bowl of soup after a long fast. Unreal.
A well earned dump.
How do you "earn" a dump? :laugh:
Nothing is free in this life.
Gluten is....
DMT for breakfast ❤️
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on April 10, 2021, 10:08:34 AM
DMT for breakfast ❤️
Would a canín or two not have done ya ? 😂
Breakfast of champignons!
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on April 10, 2021, 10:08:34 AM
DMT for breakfast ❤️
:laugh: A multidimensional wake up.
Quote from: Necr0rceN on April 06, 2021, 04:36:34 PM
10 days in a row off work for booking three and a half days :abbath:
Same as that... :abbath: :abbath: :abbath:
Back to the daily grind in the morning, though.
Used the time off to get loads done around the gaff, too.
Finally put a new utility together in the new extension. Units, counters, fridge, freezer...
Kitted out the poly tunnel. Set out beds, filled with fresh soil and compost. Decked a potting area and walkway down the centre. It looks fucking great. Can't wait to put all the seedlings in their new home.
Sunshine. Fills me with hope for the day. Up the hills somewhere with a flask of tea and a bit of smoke is on the cards
Now That's What I Call Middle Age 45:
Feet up in front of an open fire, golf on the telly, and a nice bottle of wine on the go. There are slippers present.
Hot whiskey & Lemsip followed by a bout of sneezing. Orgasmic.
Quote from: Carnage on April 11, 2021, 10:30:31 PM
Now That's What I Call Middle Age 45:
Feet up in front of an open fire, golf on the telly, and a nice bottle of wine on the go. There are slippers present.
Sounds like heaven.
I'll have to settle for the pre work week anxiety :'(
I'm on fuck all hours at the moment between the plague and my boss after fucking up his knee, so everyday's a weekend day for a while.
Luckily I've a few bob saved or this wouldn't be as enjoyable.
I left a comment on a student's assignment telling them not to use vague language like "Researchers have shown..." but to instead always give exact references, like "Jane Scientist et al. (2016)..."
Just opened the returned corrected version to see this: "Jane Scientist et al. (2016) have shown that..." :laugh: :abbath: :abbath: :abbath:
This has definitely made my Monday.
:laugh: thick cunt or smart arse? Keep us posted.
Having a shower hose in the bath right beside the jacks. Shove yer toilet roll.... :abbath:
Hello weekend... 8)
Jamming tonight for the first time properly since about October. I am going to flake in cans and let out pure horror wails, musical or otherwise
Saturday. Off to the wilderness!
Clonmel?
:laugh: not far off!
Sitting outside in the sunshine playing acid techno and watching a family of 5 buzzards hovering above the fields.
Two of them sit on the tree right in front of our house waiting for the cows to calve. Afterbirth, yum yum, yum....
Classic movie + tasty joint. Especially when the classic movie is They Live.
I've just realised on reading Chris' there that there is a bit of sticky Lebanese on top of the bookshelf that I'd forgotten about completely :)
Man, They Live is everywhere lately. I'd never even heard of it before about two weeks ago when I saw it on Netflix. I have now tried watching it twice and both times turned it off for being completely mind numbing shite. Do you have to fast forward the first half hour for it to get unboring?
It's certainly not famous for anything that happens in the first half hour, let's say that.
It's very silly but it's good craic. Satire, and all that.
By coincidence, today would have been Roddy Piper's 67th birthday.
It's just so boring.
Well, next time you start it, skip the bit you've now seen twice!
Watched it for the first time myself during the week, expecting big things....jeez...like the Shepherd says, the last half will do ya.
Actually fuck that, just catch the ridiculously protracted fight scene for a laugh
A greasy Chinese with a litre of lucozade for this awful hangover.
Metalwarfare ring fights.
Obviously I'll only take on Chris but there is an undercard there kids.
I can see 6 figures being raised for this big lads.
Kurt Cocaine versus anyone with the balls to back up their argument...apart from Chris, he'll be getting a hiding in the main event.
I
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The rage is HARD.!!
Came home to a parcel with my two Lock Up T-shirts, they arrived much earlier than expected. And I've just had possibly the tastiest steak I've ever eaten.
Having the gaff to myself, plugging in the guitar for the first time in months and a few funereal riffs effortlessly spilling out 8)
Quote from: Eoin McLove on April 20, 2021, 03:28:10 PM
Having the gaff to myself, plugging in the guitar for the first time in months and a few funereal riffs effortlessly spilling out 8)
Pure unmatched joy
4/20 dudes! #erryday
Homemade pizza....
(https://imgur.com/a/d6yr2Er)
The forests. Feels like where humans should be hanging around instead of concrete
Amen to that. I used to live in the middle of nowhere, trees all around us. To this day, when I hear a wood pigeon's call I get that feeling of contentment.
I grew up beside a forest and spent a lot of time in there as a kid. You just can't beat that environment.
Same here. What would be the best Forest trails in Ireland?
There are some savage forest trails here in Munster, Glengarra in Tipp, Glenbower in Killeagh, Gougane Barra, Glengarrif. Now the county is open I'm visiting one each weekend. The Coillte site is not bad to help select a forest, also the AllTrails app is good too. Got it for $5 during Cyber Monday.
Quote from: Necr0rceN on April 25, 2021, 11:56:34 PM
There are some savage forest trails here in Munster, Glengarra in Tipp, Glenbower in Killeagh, Gougane Barra, Glengarrif. Now the county is open I'm visiting one each weekend. The Coillte site is not bad to help select a forest, also the AllTrails app is good too. Got it for $5 during Cyber Monday.
Twas Glengarra I was in yesterday evening. Absolutely smashing spot. Going to try Gougane Barra one of the days soon, I've never been but heard it was class
Gougane Barra is a deadly spot.
Quote from: ochoill on April 26, 2021, 02:40:59 PM
Gougane Barra is a deadly spot.
Ah sound, might give it a miss so. I'm trying to avoid risk as much as possible these days.
Quote from: astfgyl on April 26, 2021, 04:12:08 PM
I'm trying to avoid risk as much as possible these days.
Not with your humour though :laugh:
And they're saying this is a bad thing...?
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2021/0426/1212155-fsai-warning-sweets-cannabis/
Quote from: astfgyl on April 26, 2021, 04:12:08 PM
Quote from: ochoill on April 26, 2021, 02:40:59 PM
Gougane Barra is a deadly spot.
Ah sound, might give it a miss so. I'm trying to avoid risk as much as possible these days.
:laugh: Jesus.
Quote from: astfgyl on April 26, 2021, 04:12:08 PM
Quote from: ochoill on April 26, 2021, 02:40:59 PM
Gougane Barra is a deadly spot.
Ah sound, might give it a miss so. I'm trying to avoid risk as much as possible these days.
FFS :laugh:
Quote from: Necr0rceN on April 25, 2021, 11:56:34 PM
There are some savage forest trails here in Munster, Glengarra in Tipp, Glenbower in Killeagh, Gougane Barra, Glengarrif. Now the county is open I'm visiting one each weekend. The Coillte site is not bad to help select a forest, also the AllTrails app is good too. Got it for $5 during Cyber Monday.
That alltrails app looks the biz.
I use Alltrails a bit meself, it's decent. That, Strava, and Google maps combined, sounds like overkill but for some trails the Alltrails app won't load up the map exactly but it will show on Strava, oddly. I often mark the places I want to visit on maps and use the others as needed when I hit the area.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on April 26, 2021, 06:03:34 PM
And they're saying this is a bad thing...?
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2021/0426/1212155-fsai-warning-sweets-cannabis/
QuoteSweets containing significant levels of cannabis components are being sold online and have resulted in at least one person being admitted to hospital after suffering serious side effects.
I ate a bag of these after a 3 week tolerance break. Thoroughly disappointed so I was, barely got anything off of them. I felt a bit relaxed, like I'd smoked some CBD bud, but I definitely was not high - pure waste of money.
My mate split a bag with his missus and they got fuck all off a them too. Another mate of mine thought they were decent, so maybe the dosages are a bit wonky, or maybe (most likely) that teenager in the article just freaked out and went to hospital.
QuoteDr Byrne said the FSAI is warning consumers about the dangers of eating sweets with cannabis products and said people should only ever buy food from reputable sources and check the food labels.
Warning consumers about the dangers of eating a reputable product that sells thousands in the U.S and Canada? Just fucking legalise it already! It won't be simple, but it most definitely will be pleasurable.
Larry Graham from Sly & The Family Stone recounting, in self-accompanied funky beat poetry style, how he supposedly invented the slap bass style. You watch a guy with swagger and strut like this and you gotta say to yourself, "Hmm, I'm really not squeezing nearly enough out of life!"
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=275731949771333
My pedalboard is finished. Like, actually finished.
Quote from: Emphyrio on April 29, 2021, 03:06:25 PM
My pedalboard is finished. Like, actually finished.
No it isn't. It never is.
Quote from: Emphyrio on April 29, 2021, 03:06:25 PM
My pedalboard is finished. Like, actually finished.
Pics or it didn't happen
...
Needs more pedals I think
Healthy amount of Earthquaker Devices on there
Ya, just added the Afterneath. Gonna velcro it all a bit tidier but that's me done and dusted now. Defo!
Jesus :abbath:
Friday. Bank holiday and a week off work. Delightful.
Gonna be sipping beer and listening to tunes in 45 minutes outside the house in the glorious Irish sunshine. Whoop! Whoop!
I don't really know where to put this, but since I always enjoy watching things like it, I guess I'll put it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daIMIv8perM
Chicken wings with Franks Hot Sauce after a long day of work
Quote from: Emphyrio on April 30, 2021, 10:39:30 AM
Ya, just added the Afterneath. Gonna velcro it all a bit tidier but that's me done and dusted now. Defo!
Savage altogether.
Had the absolute pleasure of being in the company of Aidan Killian last night.
What a beautiful and humourous storyteller...
https://youtu.be/Cw1x4R8DZgA
Edit: wrong thread. Meant for Stand Up Comedy thread....
That pedal board gives me anxiety ha ha
The like - dislike ratio of this video and the inevitable turning off of the comments under some lame arsed pretence. Beautiful 😂
https://youtu.be/MIYGFSONKbk
'One must have two mommies, one a bulldyke, to be a great warrior'
- The Art of War
Think you meant to post this in the "Simpleton Pleasures" thread, where all the other sad tiny man and Ted Cruz related news goes.
'Simpleton Pleasures', there's that 'wit' again, ouch!
Have any of you ever seen a trannys 'pussy'?
An open wound that has to be sterilized and dilated every day for life. And because the ballsack is used on the inside, any cunt sick enough to attempt to stick his rod in there is going to have his micky chaffed by internal pubes.
No wonder the suicide rate is so high. These poor people (usually kids) are beisold a sick and dangerous lie.
Love that the channel and tagline is GoArmy like it's some sort of pep rally.
It's literally a recruitment drive, so pretty much is some sort of pep rally. The polemic created by men generally seen as pathetic and weak, perfectly exemplified here by...Ted Cruz, for better or worse, will work in favour of the military. "Liberals" more and more represent such a significant portion of people with adequate education for tactical positions that they absolutely can no longer pass up the need to appeal to them. And since most of those spending their energy rallying to ratio YouTube videos probably wouldn't even be useful as grunts, the army aren't losing out in real terms on any front.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEnxmzqXJN8&ab_channel=RTRT
Got a laugh out of some of the comments.
Quote from: Bigmac on May 25, 2021, 03:51:15 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEnxmzqXJN8&ab_channel=RTRT
Got a laugh out of some of the comments.
This is incredible :laugh:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 25, 2021, 03:45:20 PM
It's literally a recruitment drive, so pretty much is some sort of pep rally. The polemic created by men generally seen as pathetic and weak, perfectly exemplified here by...Ted Cruz, for better or worse, will work in favour of the military. "Liberals" more and more represent such a significant portion of people with adequate education for tactical positions that they absolutely can no longer pass up the need to appeal to them. And since most of those spending their energy rallying to ratio YouTube videos probably wouldn't even be useful as grunts, the army aren't losing out in real terms on any front.
How can you say they won't be losing out when they forego all the things that have made good soldiers since the dawn of time (check out the Chinese army video) in favour of ticking boxes for race and non-traditional upbringings etc etc?
The arrogance behind the statement you made insinuating that anyone downvoting the video is scarcely good enough to be a grunt (try being a grunt in Russian recruit training) is unbelievable. I downvoted and laughed and cringed at it. Who are you to question my credentials? (Ooooh more than a faint whiff of Imperial Leather Mike from my last phrase there).
I'm sorry, your credentials? Qualities of good soldiers since the dawn of time? Could you explain to me which noble quality of warfare is exemplified by cackling about down-voting a video on YouTube?
You know, masculinity, fearlessness, thirst for glory , toughness?
Colonel Woke is back with a bang....
I don't think anyone is saying anything negative about certain types of people joining the Army. It is how effective these Army personnel are on the battle field. No matter how painfully "inclusive" you want everything to be, there needs to be a modicum of common sense applied when recruiting for certain professions.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 25, 2021, 04:42:27 PM
Could you explain to me which noble quality of warfare is exemplified by cackling about down-voting a video on YouTube?
Quote from: Caomhaoin on May 25, 2021, 04:46:47 PM
You know, masculinity, fearlessness, thirst for glory , toughness?
Might want to have another go at that.
Ah lads, it's all so fucking tedious and predictable.
Quote from: Blackout on May 25, 2021, 04:47:09 PM
there needs to be a modicum of common sense applied when recruiting for certain professions.
Yes. For tactical positions you need well-educated people more and more unlikely to be impressed by videos of shaved heads pulling on leather boots. The US is headed, and this is Putin who has said it recently, for absolute military dominance. That is something which is related less and less to physical battlefields and more and more to the ability to design and operate complex tactical machines. It's no surprise that all of the cackling comments imagine war to still be predominantly a whites-of-the-eyes thing. That image will remain, and always attract people with good foot soldier qualities. But the army needs much, much more than that in today's world. We can't expect an idiot like Ted Cruz to understand that of course, but we don't have to be like Ted Cruz.
I'm not even saying there's nothing to critique about the video, but there's no critique that I can see, just sad men cackling away. Anyway, listen, the US army, even if I don't like the fact, know what they're about strategically speaking. And it could even be the case that they went out of their way to bait idiots like Cruz, since it will work in their favour reaching their target audience with these particular ads.
Some of the comments you've made today are absolutely bizarre, considering you outed yourself as a Marxist-Leninist quite a whiles back.
Six gruelling tours of duty across the Middle East and SE Asia will do that to a man.
Another good country gone down the drain. Sickening that you can't even protect your kids anymore....
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/521582-canada-father-jailed-transgender-child/
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on May 25, 2021, 07:57:10 PM
Another good country gone down the drain. Sickening that you can't even protect your kids anymore....
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/521582-canada-father-jailed-transgender-child/
Holy shit. How can anyone defend this?
Ah look Kev, you're after confusing poor KC by posting about your "anti-woke" frissons in here and now he's all outraged in the wrong thread.
How do you get the jail for that?
Quote from: Caomhaoin on May 25, 2021, 08:24:06 PM
How do you get the jail for that?
As you can see above, people entrenched in their ideologies respond with sarcasm and word salads to muddy what is an absolutely abominable decision to jail a father for attempting to protect his child.
This is still the wrong thread, but unsurprisingly RT is not exactly a reputable source of news when it comes to certain subjects.
Here's why he was sent to jail, yiz eejits: repeatedly doxing his own child, against his own child's wishes, and against a court order, when said child was 16:
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-dad-jailed-6-months-after-repeatedly-exposing-transgender-son-s-identity-despite-publication-ban-1.5390847
Want a reminder of what real dicks look like? Check out this "christian" website still using the father's real name, essentially further doxing the child, and - for good measure - blatantly misgendering the now 17 year old lad:
https://www.christianpost.com/news/dad-jailed-for-objecting-to-daughter-taking-testosterone-released.html
I ain't the one with blinding ideologies in this story.
If you don't honestly see the issue in a 14 year old being prescribed puberty blockers as wrong you're entrenched in an ideology mate. The fact you can get jailed for having genuine concern with your child taking body altering substances then you're an absolute fool.
Sorry, you're right; everyone knows the best way to protect your child is to wrap them up nice and tight in a media circus.
He was speaking out against a Dr prescribing puberty blockers. I would do the same despite court orders advising me not to because the law is wrong.
So maybe don't have kids if you don't think you'd have the wherewithal to pursue what you see as justice without openly and repeatedly calling a media circus down on the head of your now publicly exposed child as they are traversing, by any accounts, a pretty complex period, yeah?
Or you could not enact a law that punishes people for speaking out against puberty blockers for fucking children to appease a minority of nutcases.
THERE IS NO LAW AGAINST SPEAKING OUT AGAINST PUBERTY BLOCKERS! HE WAS JAILED FOR REPEATEDLY DOXING HIS OWN KID IN THE MEDIA!!!
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 25, 2021, 10:18:34 PM
THERE IS NO LAW AGAINST SPEAKING OUT AGAINST PUBERTY BLOCKERS! HE WAS JAILED FOR REPEATEDLY DOXING HIS OWN KID IN THE MEDIA!!!
Ssshhhhhhhhhh..... Calm down pet....
Doxing or 'protecting'? It's all in the wording....
RT compared to what? Western MSN/M?
Jajajajajajaja Jajajajajajaja Jajajajajajaja :laugh:
Western media couldn't lie straight in bed... :)
Every parent on this planet should have the right to protect their children up to the age of 18 no matter what these paedo enabling creeps say.
Puberty blockers for kids? Anyone who supports that is fucked in the head.
The suicide (and attempted suicide) rates of these kids and young people show that.
The amount of kids and young people who regret taking on the process (HRT and alignment surgery) is phenomenal, but they won't report that on MSM or the big social media platforms.
Disgusting time in history this. I can't wait for the collapse....
Tall Abraham Lincoln said (I'm paraphrasing here a bit) 'America will never be conquered, if we fall, we will have destroyed ourselves'.
I sincerely believe that most people with common sense can see the glaring flaws in this leftist zeitgeist, but the 'mob' is, in a way, scarier than the socialist secret police agencies in Eastern Europe. They have the polis doing Tiktok dances with rabid vandals in the UK, arresting people for making videos with their dogs doing a nazi salute and denying the most basic tenets of human biology.
Don't get me started on the fucking medical staff dancing around the cancer wards either.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on May 26, 2021, 06:04:07 AM
RT compared to what? Western MSN/M?
Compared to objective journalistic standards jajajajajajajajajajajajajajajaja
Quote from: RTBut what else could a father do...
What is this? A primary school debating club?? There was plenty he could have done that wouldn't have involved throwing his, let's say, confused child into the uncomfortable glare of the media limelight. I'd say that was awesome for the child's psychological state!
Plenty to criticize about puberty blockers, etc., etc., but again it seems pretty clear that this is the story of a father who, by his own admission, was roped in by groups pushing their own agenda, who used him as (his own word) a "pawn", didn't really give a shit about the well-being or welfare of his kid specifically, and despite repeated warnings this dupe father had the book thrown at him. And he's now out on bail. End of story.
These simple pleasures are getting pretty niche
Lol
:laugh:
Something to be cheerful for all those of us who do the 8+ hour slog each day....
https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/irish-onlyfans-star-niamh-oconnor-24227191
Watching our 8 week old kitten catch a bluebottle in the window and chomping it straight down.
The dexterity of these creatures, even at such a young age is astounding.
Walking around Dublin and jaysus the amount of fine things about because of the weather.
Any trannies about?
You're such a cunt :laugh:
That doesn't really answer his question.
They have these little book exchange places in public parks in France, kinda give a book, take a book affairs. Found about €200 worth of deluxe hardback editions in the one opposite the little fella's crèche this morning; volumes of Rousseau and Céline. Absolute score.
I hear the spire is their fave place.
Joints.
Knees, elbows, knuckles, that sort of thing
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on June 03, 2021, 07:25:37 PM
That doesn't really answer his question.
They have these little book exchange places in public parks in France, kinda give a book, take a book affairs. Found about €200 worth of deluxe hardback editions in the one opposite the little fella's crèche this morning; volumes of Rousseau and Céline. Absolute score.
On to the 'I'll get to it later' shelf , spine out to impress the boish from the department :)
Quote from: Blackout on June 03, 2021, 07:29:48 PM
I hear the spire is their fave place.
Now that Nixer has enlightened me to the fact that trannies are on Tinder, I think I'll go on there and use my beautiful enGROSSing charm to its full effect...
just because you bleed out of your rectum doesn't mean you menstruate luv
Punching down cackling bully bigot intolerant.
If you refuse to 'date' a gender dysphoric, you are a transphobe.
I am a transphobe. I am not gay.
Ya, you keep on about it.
I repeat: I AM NOT GAY
Send me your (younger) sisters....
must be 25+
Sitting in the garden enjoying the solar eclipse 8)
Reducing some shallots, garlic, black pepper, fennel seeds and a bay leave in the pan here. Jaysus, the smell is only something else! Might need to smoke it up now, not to enjoy it, just - as I learnt from Otto - to enhance it!
Cycling around Inis Mor on acid for a few days. Prob the closest to heaven I've been.
Sounds pretty much like you're there, to be honest!
Enjoy, and certainly don't waste a second of it on any of the shite we come out with here! Haha
Came back on Monday after 4 days of bliss. Wasn't online once over the 4 days nevermind this lark.
A mug of hot tea and a buttered scone with strawberry jam. Simple :laugh:
Finding out you don't have to worry about where rent and child-rearing money are going to come from for at least another 14 months. Phew!
My brother in law is some kind of rocket scientist with a young kid like you and he's always sweating over his next dose of cash. As my auld says, 'get out on the roads, always solid money for a lad who'll work'
I'd be a fried tomato in less than an hour if I was working on the roads here at the moment! Funny you should put it that way though, as the novelty this time around is it actually pretty much is cash; an off-the-books (but legal) donation from a bona fide patron released in 12 installments. Fierce aul feckin' renaissance feel off it!
I'm glad I don't have kids.
So was I. It's one of those things where you won't miss em if you never have em but you wouldn't do without them if you do. Until they become teenagers. Then they won't even be your kids anymore, they will be fell creatures set in the place of the loving children you once knew. So yeah, both approaches are valid.
The unbridled love you have for them, especially ages 3-5/6, is irreplaceable. They start with the backchat then, but you get used to it. The teenage shit I don't want to even consider.
I see couples out with their little hellions screaming their heads off and the parents getting more and more frustrated and I think to myself and laugh, "Yeah, kids are a blessing".
They could be alright for spare parts, if the have to right type of blood or you need a new kidney, but fuck, all you'd have to put up with to get it, I don't think it would be worth it.
My hearing's gradually improving, so that's something.
What eardrops did you use Carnage? Im kinda blocked in my right ear at the mo. Mine get blocked every 2 odd years. Apparently it's endemic in hayfever sufferers.
Exterol, about €8.50 a bottle.
I'm not convinced they made any difference, I used them for 5 days and there was no improvement until I stopped. To be honest, I think I ruptured my eardrum and it wasn't a wax build up, but I don't know. My brother swears by them, he gets his ears done every year or so too.
The hayfever thing is interesting, I never had it 'til 5 or 6 years ago but it hit hard then. Flares up sporadically, but there might be a link. Doc on Monday, regardless.
Yeah i was worried about it until my doctor mentioned about the hayfever then it made total sense.
No damage to my ears, there's air trapped behind my eardrums, the difference in pressure is what's affecting my hearing. Antihistamines will sort it, but it's nearly back to normal now anyway.
Fair to say that I am relieved.
Anyone else find their allergies worse than usual this year? I've been getting eaten alive by the midges in a far worse way this year than I remember ever happening before. So the simple pleasure here is antihistamine and eurax cream. Otherwise I'd have scratched myself to death.
No, which is surprising given how much time I've spent in the bog so far. The doc today told me to stay on the antihistamines as long as the weather's hot and dry, as that was what he reckoned was the cause of what happened to me. My sinuses have been a bit raw the last few weeks but when the hayfever kicks in, I've usually got the runny eyes and ears going. None of that so far this year. I'm gonna stay on them for a while anyway.
I might have to do the same and just take an anti hist every day until the midges leave me alone. I must have 200 bites on the legs this minute and I even have em under my eyes and along my scalp. This is my third time getting the awful doing in the last month so preventative measures will likely be the order of the day. Normally I'd be fairly sensitive to it but it's next level shit this year
I rarely have much trouble from them, for whatever reason. At a barbecue/piss up in a mate's a few weeks back the other were being eaten alive and I was fine, and most of them smoke.
I reckon the late spring is the cause of them being so bad, everyrhing seems to be a month late and on overload to catch up.
To be fair the wife and kids were with me and nothing happened them at all. It must be just me they despise!
Quote from: astfgyl on June 28, 2021, 10:36:31 PM
I might have to do the same and just take an anti hist every day until the midges leave me alone. I must have 200 bites on the legs this minute and I even have em under my eyes and along my scalp. This is my third time getting the awful doing in the last month so preventative measures will likely be the order of the day. Normally I'd be fairly sensitive to it but it's next level shit this year
I mentioned this stuff, Smidge, recently on here - can't recall the thread. This stuff works wonders - I have tested in all over the world - tropical island, bogs, fields, back garden. And it's not like Deet which will eat plastic. https://store.adventure.ie/smidge.html
(https://www.smidgeup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/smidge_consumer.jpg)
Quote from: StoutAndAle on June 29, 2021, 11:57:00 AM
Quote from: astfgyl on June 28, 2021, 10:36:31 PM
I might have to do the same and just take an anti hist every day until the midges leave me alone. I must have 200 bites on the legs this minute and I even have em under my eyes and along my scalp. This is my third time getting the awful doing in the last month so preventative measures will likely be the order of the day. Normally I'd be fairly sensitive to it but it's next level shit this year
I mentioned this stuff, Smidge, recently on here - can't recall the thread. This stuff works wonders - I have tested in all over the world - tropical island, bogs, fields, back garden. And it's not like Deet which will eat plastic. https://store.adventure.ie/smidge.html
(https://www.smidgeup.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/smidge_consumer.jpg)
Sound for that. I may get on it because the urge to scratch myself into a bloody mess is very strong this minute and fuck I don't want to do this again this summer
White Boy Summer
Some lad got arrested for putting stickers up with the above phrase on them.
(((They))) are getting worried...
Getting thai food and beers for the match tonight. Heaven!
New Thai place opening in town soon, now that you mention it. They will be sampled.
I'm going for camile. The local one is savage.
Heat. I've been working all day, pissing sweat since 9:20 this morning. I love it.
Some craic reading about people complaining about the heat in Ireland.....at 26C.
The biggest Irish club in Queensland is in a mining town in the north of the state. Highest it got to 45.9 degrees on the 29th of January 1990.
Irish homes don't have air conditioning though so not really comparable to other countries.
True enough. If you are an office drone its always 24C. I had in mind Giggles comment about working out in it when I added that comment.
Well my office is an old Georgian building that's roasting in the current weather. Have a big fan going like the clappers.
Quote from: 91/30 on July 17, 2021, 10:28:21 AM
True enough. If you are an office drone its always 24C. I had in mind Giggles comment about working out in it when I added that comment.
No complaining going on here lad. I genuinely fucking love it.
I also love it. It's so rare that it is a sin to complain about it.
The 8 month long winter is a different though
No, fuck that. 29⁰ is too warm. I'm sitting in a shaded room and the sweat is out through me.
Pour the heat into my body
I live for this weather. I love the freezing cold and snow too mind, but this is the best
Give me this sort of weather over winter any day.
You can have too much of a good thing though, and spending four hours in a field in Ashbourne with no breeze, and no shade isn't that much fun.
I see NI has had its hottest day on record today. 31.2c.
I think that sounds really low for the record but it might not stand for long
It certainly was a glorious day today. Had a BBQ at Hillsborough Park then a 99. Wee fella had ice cream over his face and loved it, then round to the play park. Who needs foreign travel with weather like that?
I was saying to a lad yesterday that if this place had the weather it'd be right up there with the best. But then I suppose it wouldn't be the same place to look at
Said it many a time even the most stinking parts of the city feel like youre on a romantic European get away when the sun is bouncing off the red brick terraced houses.
Quote from: Mower Liberation Front on July 17, 2021, 08:38:38 PM
Give me this sort of weather over winter any day.
You can have too much of a good thing though, and spending four hours in a field in Ashbourne with no breeze, and no shade isn't that much fun.
I don't think you've quite grasped the concept of this stay at home holiday lark bud :P
Quote from: Thorn on July 18, 2021, 03:55:07 AM
Quote from: Mower Liberation Front on July 17, 2021, 08:38:38 PM
Give me this sort of weather over winter any day.
You can have too much of a good thing though, and spending four hours in a field in Ashbourne with no breeze, and no shade isn't that much fun.
I don't think you've quite grasped the concept of this stay at home holiday lark bud :P
He might have been at the hay or the turf (if there are bogs around Ashbourne?)
:laugh: Trust me, he wasn't
Outdoor dining in the sunshine, just feels so good and helps soften the hangover a bit.
Drew home the last of the turf today myself, fuck me the heat in the bog was mind bending, soaked in sweat and all the dust sticking to me. Luckily though we have our own well here, Ice cold fresh spring water on tap, coming from 100 foot down in the ground. Its like sweet sweet nectar. A day like today reminds me how lucky I am to have it, that treated mains water is fucking rank.
I was wheeling ours in at midday yesterday.
Fuck. That.
Is turf not banned now thanks to the Green Party? I'd imagine a country Gard would be licking his breakfast roll - soaked lips at such an easy arrest.
Not everywhere, only in certain types of bogs. So far. I can see the logic in restricting and ultimately banning it, but until a viable alternative is presented, it's going to continue.
We're lucky, my uncle gets ours cut and only charges us for that, it'd cost four times as much otherwise.
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on July 18, 2021, 08:16:00 PM
Drew home the last of the turf today myself, fuck me the heat in the bog was mind bending, soaked in sweat and all the dust sticking to me. Luckily though we have our own well here, Ice cold fresh spring water on tap, coming from 100 foot down in the ground. Its like sweet sweet nectar. A day like today reminds me how lucky I am to have it, that treated mains water is fucking rank.
Was living in the countryside for a time and the well water was fucking wonderful compared to the town shite. When I moved back into town I couldn't drink it anymore, having given all my life thinking it was grand. So I got one of those RO filters under the sink and it still isn't like the proper stuff. Ah well
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Quote from: Mower Liberation Front on July 17, 2021, 08:38:38 PM
Give me this sort of weather over winter any day.
You can have too much of a good thing though, and spending four hours in a field in Ashbourne with no breeze, and no shade isn't that much fun.
I don't think you've quite grasped the concept of this stay at home holiday lark bud :P
He might have been at the hay or the turf (if there are bogs around Ashbourne?)
Nah, was playing baseball.
And fuck stay at home holidays, roll on September and NYC.
Got out for a little sharp shock of a hill run today. My knees have been fucked for the past year or more but I made it around and neither legs nor lungs completely exploded. I might be limping about tomorrow but this evening I can bask on the pleasant, self-satisfied glow of minor achievement 8)
The runners high would give half a Mitsubishi Turbo a run for its money.
When I did the half marathon I was essentially immobile for a couple of days but the self satisfaction of having run for just under two hours solid without stopping boosts the auld self esteem and well being immensely.
Extreme glee all round seeing (seeing the headline, not the match of course) the US women's soccer team getting spanked by the Swedes.
Spanked you say?
Was that cock swerving media whore Rapinoe playing?
I haven't had a G&T since the infamous Łodz incident. Having one now and it's very satisfying indeed 8)
Hendrick's, slice of lemon, frozen slice of lime, tonic. Unreal.
Ah, it's a grand ol tipple indeed.
A coupla years ago went for dinner and a coupla pints. Had 2 g+t after and nearly lost the use of my legs. Mad drink.
It'll do the job, no doubt about it. I still bear the scar!
Quote from: Eoin McLove on July 23, 2021, 11:41:56 AM
I haven't had a G&T since the infamous Łodz incident. Having one now and it's very satisfying indeed 8)
Along with your bubble bath and sex & the city box set?
Quote from: Carnage on July 23, 2021, 11:56:26 AM
Hendrick's, slice of lemon, frozen slice of lime, tonic. Unreal.
Nice. I'd go with that but 2/3 tonic and 1/3 bitter lemon. Delicious.
A great drink to try random stuff with. We have a local peach and summer fruits gin here that we've mixed up a couple of times with tonic, one leaf of fresh mint, one frozen strawberry, and one small, fresh chili. Killer.
Is this Metal Warfare or Petal Warfare?
Why? Did you get your log-ins mixed up again?
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on July 23, 2021, 03:04:41 PM
Why? Did you get your log-ins mixed up again?
Wha? You need to get a life mate.
Imagine a world where there really was another forum called Petal Warfare, and imagine you were a member of both, and then imagine one day you logged-in to one of them, and then imagine that for some reason you suddenly couldn't figure out which one it was you'd logged into, and then imagine you went into a thread to ask someone where you were by posting:
Quote from: Blackout on July 23, 2021, 02:54:45 PM
Is this Metal Warfare or Petal Warfare?
That's wha'.
I dedicate this post to Andy, the biggest fan of joke explanations on MW, if not in the world.
Big fan of gin myself, Gordons, or if I'm feeling fancy, Bombay saphire. Anything but Cork Dry Gin which is fucking bottled poison.
I was drinking it long before it became mad popular there a few years ago, I used to get funny looks and homophobic slurs hurled at me but I didn't care less, I could drink a bottle of it, have great craic and be up and running in the morning no bother after it.
Now when ya order it they want to give it to ya in a fucking fish bowl with half the botanical gardens floating in it, fuck off, slim jim glass, bit of ice, no lemon, lime or fucking cucumber, I'm a man you cunt.
Now that you mention it, I had my first ever blackout (great potential for an "Oo-er!" MW insider joke there) on a bottle of gin; about four hours of shenanigans retold to me the next morning that I'd no recollection of. It was a session in my own place, my folks' place that is, and I knew there was something amiss when I woke up legs in the hallway, face on the front doorstep.
Thunderstorms. Exhilarating stuff.
Not a rumble nor a drop of rain here all day. It clouded over and cooled down for a while alright, but now it's just oppressively humid. Fuck.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on July 23, 2021, 04:34:01 PM
Imagine a world where there really was another forum called Petal Warfare, and imagine you were a member of both, and then imagine one day you logged-in to one of them, and then imagine that for some reason you suddenly couldn't figure out which one it was you'd logged into, and then imagine you went into a thread to ask someone where you were by posting:
Quote from: Blackout on July 23, 2021, 02:54:45 PM
Is this Metal Warfare or Petal Warfare?
That's wha'.
I dedicate this post to Andy, the biggest fan of joke explanations on MW, if not in the world.
My bad. Read you up wrong.
Quote from: Carnage on July 23, 2021, 06:56:11 PM
Not a rumble nor a drop of rain here all day. It clouded over and cooled down for a while alright, but now it's just oppressively humid. Fuck.
If anything here the humidity has gotten worse after the thunderstorm and the marble-sized hailstones.
Got a bit testy at the mention of a second account there :-X
Quote from: astfgyl on July 23, 2021, 08:27:55 PM
Quote from: Carnage on July 23, 2021, 06:56:11 PM
Not a rumble nor a drop of rain here all day. It clouded over and cooled down for a while alright, but now it's just oppressively humid. Fuck.
If anything here the humidity has gotten worse after the thunderstorm and the marble-sized hailstones.
It passed just south of us, from the look of the radar & satellite maps. Ye would have gotten the brunt of it in Tipp.
Quote from: Giggles on July 23, 2021, 08:28:50 PM
Got a bit testy at the mention of a second account there :-X
I thought the jig was up.
Ha, I see now. I didn't think of that.
It's finally just about cooled down enough to sit and watch a movie in comfort, with a nice cold beer.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on July 23, 2021, 04:34:01 PM
Imagine a world where there really was another forum called Petal Warfare, and imagine you were a member of both, and then imagine one day you logged-in to one of them, and then imagine that for some reason you suddenly couldn't figure out which one it was you'd logged into, and then imagine you went into a thread to ask someone where you were by posting:
Quote from: Blackout on July 23, 2021, 02:54:45 PM
Is this Metal Warfare or Petal Warfare?
That's wha'.
I dedicate this post to Andy, the biggest fan of joke explanations on MW, if not in the world.
Much obliged.
Should have spent the whole morning working, but when I found myself home alone, I decided instead to grab me Bloom bewk, throw on some Planxty and sit back in the aul reading chair for an hour. Jaysis, but it was only mighty.
Pizza and a Bloody Mary for breakfast. Ahh, at my age, at my age...
We have a sort of Graveyard, to coin Trey Spruance's term, of riffs and ideas for Third Island that lately we went through (four bastarding hours of multitracked but rough jams) and trimmed to a half hour of 10-30 second ideas in a single mp3 then deleted all the sessions to force us to rewrite anything we like. I have listened to this I dunno how many times, seeing what jumps out as a writing point to expand on the best of it. Today one of the ideas got stuck in my head but in a way where I had the song mentally fleshed out in minutes and I am at home with it coming together now like I know it my whole life. What a lovely feeling. I am also full of drink
My back is fucked, but it's that satisfying pain you get from a hard day's work and the end of a job - in this case, finishing bringing turf home & into the shed.
Spending hours hunched over the laptop, however, was a bad idea for the rest of the evening.
Quote from: ochoill on July 31, 2021, 11:27:55 PM
We have a sort of Graveyard, to coin Trey Spruance's term, of riffs and ideas for Third Island that lately we went through (four bastarding hours of multitracked but rough jams) and trimmed to a half hour of 10-30 second ideas in a single mp3 then deleted all the sessions to force us to rewrite anything we like. I have listened to this I dunno how many times, seeing what jumps out as a writing point to expand on the best of it. Today one of the ideas got stuck in my head but in a way where I had the song mentally fleshed out in minutes and I am at home with it coming together now like I know it my whole life. What a lovely feeling. I am also full of drink
Schooner spritzers? Hopefully not...
Quote from: astfgyl on August 01, 2021, 12:25:55 AM
Quote from: ochoill on July 31, 2021, 11:27:55 PM
We have a sort of Graveyard, to coin Trey Spruance's term, of riffs and ideas for Third Island that lately we went through (four bastarding hours of multitracked but rough jams) and trimmed to a half hour of 10-30 second ideas in a single mp3 then deleted all the sessions to force us to rewrite anything we like. I have listened to this I dunno how many times, seeing what jumps out as a writing point to expand on the best of it. Today one of the ideas got stuck in my head but in a way where I had the song mentally fleshed out in minutes and I am at home with it coming together now like I know it my whole life. What a lovely feeling. I am also full of drink
Schooner spritzers? Hopefully not...
Lol is that how bad it is, I fair hope that's all you have left
No it's a load of those belgian terrors from Lidl.
Quote from: ochoill on August 01, 2021, 12:49:42 AM
Quote from: astfgyl on August 01, 2021, 12:25:55 AM
Quote from: ochoill on July 31, 2021, 11:27:55 PM
We have a sort of Graveyard, to coin Trey Spruance's term, of riffs and ideas for Third Island that lately we went through (four bastarding hours of multitracked but rough jams) and trimmed to a half hour of 10-30 second ideas in a single mp3 then deleted all the sessions to force us to rewrite anything we like. I have listened to this I dunno how many times, seeing what jumps out as a writing point to expand on the best of it. Today one of the ideas got stuck in my head but in a way where I had the song mentally fleshed out in minutes and I am at home with it coming together now like I know it my whole life. What a lovely feeling. I am also full of drink
Schooner spritzers? Hopefully not...
Lol is that how bad it is, I fair hope that's all you have left
No it's a load of those belgian terrors from Lidl.
No I was just wondering if the tune will be as bad as the one you recorded when you were drinking that Schooner was all
Yeah it's the Lidl shit. Not much else going for 75c a can
Quote from: astfgyl on August 01, 2021, 12:57:50 AMNo I was just wondering if the tune will be as bad as the one you recorded when you were drinking that Schooner was all
Yeah it's the Lidl shit. Not much else going for 75c a can
Hey sure it still exists. That was also the time I arrived on with the stuff that was the worst gack known to man and we had a bucket every 20 minutes to convince ourselves something was happening.
https://youtu.be/Wntr2m8_JnA
Quote from: ochoill on August 01, 2021, 01:06:34 AM
Quote from: astfgyl on August 01, 2021, 12:57:50 AMNo I was just wondering if the tune will be as bad as the one you recorded when you were drinking that Schooner was all
Yeah it's the Lidl shit. Not much else going for 75c a can
Hey sure it still exists. That was also the time I arrived on with the stuff that was the worst gack known to man and we had a bucket every 20 minutes to convince ourselves something was happening.
https://youtu.be/Wntr2m8_JnA
As bad as this is on a relisten, my main problem is why you ever let me put that up as the artwork, for fucks sake it's a 14 year old phone photo of Quin Abbey with a times new roman font on it
Come back Everything Else, all is forgiven...
My coffee of choice is back on the shelf. Small victories, but you take them when they come.
The bastard short sharp shock of a run I've been doing over the past few week- I just more or less (more I think) doubled the fucker and didn't keel over with a heart attack. Also, my gimpy knees which had me in physio last year seem to be holding up 8)
Good man. I use an app called run double which keeps a record of distance. Highly recommended.
I never bring my phone so it'll be lost on me. I never know what exact distance I'm covering but the legs and lungs have no problem telling you when you're working hard.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on August 07, 2021, 10:28:58 AM
I never bring my phone so it'll be lost on me. I never know what exact distance I'm covering but the legs and lungs have no problem telling you when you're working hard.
Fair enough. Fair rewarding to see your progress though.
Yep, defo.
When the joint is in, headphones on, comfortably horizontal and listening to Sleep's Dopesmoker with zero distractions for an hour.
Niiiice.
Away for a coupla days in Cork, having pints of Murphy's. Jubbly.
AC?DC in the local park yesterday, first live music since last March. Was very enjoyable with a few cans, and plenty of nutters around too. Great fun afternoon out.
Quote from: Emphyrio on August 09, 2021, 07:27:32 PM
Away for a coupla days in Cork, having pints of Murphy's. Jubbly.
Are you staying in the city or county? Try Mok's and The Sportsman's on Barrack St./Bandon Rd. for truly glorious pints of stout and craic, if you don't mind a quick stroll out of the city centre*.
Beamish and Guinness anyway. I haven't had a Murph's in about 20 years.
*I have not been in a pub since March 2020. I am presuming that both of these are still open for business.
Staying in Ballincollig but spent the day in Kinsale today. Lovely spot. Few more Murphy's in the hotel this eve.
The Blade Runner score event is back on for September, a friend informed me the other night. Hotel booked (€83 for the Gibson, great to have a sister working for Dalata), looking forward to actually going to something.
Had my first feed of the year of field mushrooms yesterday, came on a lovely patch of them when I was moving sheep.
There's nothing on planet earth that tastes as nice as them with a pincheen of salt, fucking yummy.
Sitting in the stand at Gortakeegan, watching the Mons.
And it wouldn't be a proper game at Gortakeegan without the cows in attendance too. :laugh:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8xCLupXMAAnQmy?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
Seeing the Dubs lose.
Had it in the radio. Mighty, mighty stuff.
Depending on your outlook it'll be gas/lousy when they invariably lose to Kerry.
Happy enough after that match either way. Glad to have been the ones that slowed Dublin's roll.
I think most of the country will be behind Mayo at this stage, you'd be hoping the perennial bridesmaids finally get the ride.
70 years is a nice round number. Would be also nice if the one remaining member of the '51 team got to see us win given the madness surrounding the whole thing.
Re: Mayo. Be grand to see them win it but in a way it'd be better if it happened after the last lad died so the legend of the curse would live on.
Simple pleasures: Cleaning out medicine drawer, find makings of 3 joints. Delight.
That sound as you pop the tightness out of your lower back. Just one loud pop. Ahhhhhhhhhhh.
Responding to every question of "Who do you will win the big game?" from customers with "United, and hopefully Ronaldo will get a couple of goals." :)
A sure-fire way of annoying people on the day that's in it. Well played
Quote from: Mower Liberation Front on September 11, 2021, 03:57:58 PM
Responding to every question of "Who do you will win the big game?" from customers with "United, and hopefully Ronaldo will get a couple of goals." :)
Could be misconstrued as Tan carry on outside the big city :)
Glass of wine with lunch that rapidly turns into, "Think I'll work from home this afternoon too!"
*glug-glug-glug-glug-glug-glug-glug-glug-glug
I had a few beers this evening. I could easily have sat up drinking all night...
I did ('til 5 anyway). Paying for it now.
Switched to Guinness during the lockdown, it's great and all that but the next day...
Dunno about that. I was on Carlsberg for the first time in years a couple of weeks ago and I was shitting razor blades for days after. Guinness makes your shites and farts a bit more dramatic the following day, but that's a plus I reckon. Better value for money.
Not for me TBH. Shite #2 accomplished, and I hate all things scatological.
Shitting is one of the simplest of all pleasures.
Especially after a feed of cans
Paper airplanes. Made a couple for the young lads and they're going well instead of instantly nosediving
A plane that is only 1/3 full, giving you a full row to yourself... And nobody in front to put their seat back either.
Seeing a smarmy thieving bastard get named and shamed. Very naughty Brendan.
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/former-ireland-rugby-star-brendan-mullin-accused-of-stealing-500000-from-bank-of-ireland-while-he-was-a-director-40873004.html
As good a thread as any to post this but to be back seeing live music is incredible! Went to the Edinburgh Playhouse last night to see Steve Hackett and it was brilliant! Just to be in a venue with a beer in hand after so long was a real pleasure!
Yep. Went to Primordial in London a few weeks back. It was like gigs never went away. Less than a month til full gigs are back.
Nice to see R.Kelly finally get a guilty verdict.
If he gets the electric chair he'll be frying without wings.
It's a stretch, I know, but sure.... we take what we can get.
Edit. That joke would also work if he got a job working in the vegetarian branch of KFC.
Still haven't left the gaff, eh?
:laugh:
On the subject of gigs, I have a ticket to the siege. Looking forward to that
Looking forward to bumping into a lad off his bin on mushies at The Siege... :laugh:
Another simple pleasure is, I'm just after finding a dozen Steam Brew imperial stouts that I'd forgotten about when I moved into this house back in July.
Whopper, a couple will be had before we head to the pub later.
That Imperial stout is animal stuff.
I'll have to try act normal at the siege now or the thin mask of anonymity will slip
Moved into a new gaff and spent the morning setting up tv, consoles & surround sound. Nothing more satisfying than finally getting all the cables neatly arranged.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on September 28, 2021, 12:57:39 PM
If he gets the electric chair he'll be frying without wings.
It's a stretch, I know, but sure.... we take what we can get.
Edit. That joke would also work if he got a job working in the vegetarian branch of KFC.
If I may, McLove - I've done a little punching up on your gag;
If R. Kelly is found guilty of all charges then he might get the death penalty.
When asked for a statement regarding an electric chair verdict, Mr. Kelly responded - "I believe I can fry".
Putting on popcorn and it cooks so perfectly there's a mere 2 kernels left unpopped.
The intense pleasure of waking up early and getting all exercise, study etc done before 9 and having the entire day to sit around scratching my balls watching sport and eating completely guilt free :)
The first sip of cold Guinness Extra Stout of the weekend 8)
Anyone get that little gizmo and special cans to make pub esque pints of Guinness at home? The brother claims it's not far off the real deal.
Tempted but it'll cost €40 to try it out (€15 for 6 cans, €25 for the yokeybob). I'm told it's great but is it worth that much?
It's pricey enough but if you're fond of the plain, it'd save you a packet over the long term. The brother said the little yoke has a fairly long lifespan. Plus the caníns do contain the correct amount of scoop to make a proper pint.
Have heard good reports from mates back home alright.
It's grand and does taste a bit smoother but I'd still prefer to pick up a few slabs of the widget cans when they're on offer. They pour an excellent pint IMO, Guinness Foreign Extra is still the top dog though :abbath:
Quote from: Carnage on October 16, 2021, 02:43:50 PM
Tempted but it'll cost €40 to try it out (€15 for 6 cans, €25 for the yokeybob). I'm told it's great but is it worth that much?
My brother called over to my house the weekend before last with the pouring spout and 6 of the cans. It's a bit of a novelty and it tasted decent but I can't see myself buying one unless the cost of the cans themselves come down in price.
I've mentioned this before but, for me, canned Beamish is the daddy. €7 for 4 Beamish or €15 for 6 Guinness.
As BOF mentioned too - a slab of Guiness will only cost about 40 quid as well.
Keep your eyes peeled for the Guinness offers this week for Halloween. Dunnes Stores already have the 539ml x 24 cans in at €26....
I always stock up on these offers when they're in...
The new Guinness cans are great completely different than the draft widget ones. Normal draft cans taste like piss I stopped drinking them years ago and Guinness is my drink of choice. I prefer the Surger cans from up the North to the new ones down here. The consistency in the new cans sold in Ireland sometimes is not great. A can won't surge properly if it is too cold, a lot of times the glass will overflow and sometimes the device will leak down the side of the can when you are pouring it into a glass which can be annoying. The hangovers are bad. I don't generally get hangovers but after a few of the nitrosurge I definitely feel it the next morning.
I have been on the surgers since March of this year and I find them the best. Also no chance that the price of these will come down if anything it is going to go up.
I find draft cans consistently good and I drink it straight out of the can. Not arsed with the gimmick of the surge thing.
Varying reports about the surge thing so far, I can't see it being worth it. The draught cans are grand, and Tesco have slabs for €26 at the moment, so it's a no-brainer really.
The draught cans are more than grand; they're better than the vast majority of tinned beers you can get if you ask me.
Quote from: open face surgery on October 18, 2021, 02:09:49 PM
I find draft cans consistently good and I drink it straight out of the can.
I agree with this.
I had a nosy at the yoke to see what it looked like https://youtu.be/UMlvXcBP0rE
To be fair, it does look like a nice pour. Do I need one? No. But I wouldn't be upset if somebody bought me one for xmas 😂
Realising I have an extra day off tomorrow ::)
Flying past people sitting in traffic because they don't realise most bus lanes are only certain hours
Ha, I don't even drive and I love that
Quote from: Trev on October 26, 2021, 04:09:30 PM
Flying past people sitting in traffic because they don't realise most bus lanes are only certain hours
When you want to take the 1st exit off a roundabout, and there is a long que of traffic in the left hand lane approaching the roundabout, but the right hand lane que is non existent - so you use it, drive all the way around the roundabout and beat the que :abbath:
In work and thinking, ahhh Wednesday- only two more days to the weekend. Then realising it's actually Thursday 8) 8) 8)
Just put on a second geansai and feeling lovely and cosy. Might put on a second pair of socks to really bring this up to bliss levels of comfort.
The company handed out Christmas jumpers last December. Of course the younger lads there were too cool to wear them so I grabbed 5 or 6 of the cozy feckers. One of those under the auld Penny's black hoodie is the right job.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on October 28, 2021, 08:27:36 AM
In work and thinking, ahhh Wednesday- only two more days to the weekend. Then realising it's actually Thursday 8) 8) 8)
Told 4 different people to have a good weekend on both emails and calls today to realise about 3pm it was only Thursday.
One of the most obvious signs I'd become officially a grown up was realising a free work fleece was the greatest gift a man can get
Tell me more about this fleece.
Watching one of the diesel machines we make driving across the plant to rescue one of the electric machines we make. Priceless... :laugh:
Watching all the postmodern retards lose their minds over that 'Patriot Purge'.
Edit: Rather than allow Kev to derail yet another thread with his political obsessions, I'll take this to one of the dumpster fire threads...
Like a solitary cold beer in the fridge on a hot day after work, my posts related to anything political (even though this one isn't, just an honest to Jaysus Simple Pleasure) are irresistible to the boy.
By the way, the extremely dark pot calling the kettle black there.
I seldom drink during the week but tomorrow is a public holiday in Oz for Cup Day- horse racing!- and I have just come home from a hard, hot day of work and there are two cold cans in the fridge. Lock and load, my friends 8)
Working from home 3 days a week from today. Jesus lads it makes such a difference not having to deal with the morning commute.
My simply awesome and cool vegan lifestyle. More people should try it.... really.
I discovered a fucking cool vinyl record shop in the city today that was stocked with loads of quality metal. NWN!, Dark Descent, Invictus, High Roller, Peaceville and Buried Beyond Time and Dust titles all represented among others. There was even a Vircolac record on the display shelf. A nice surprise 8)
Respectable prices?? There's one great vinyl shop in Bordeaux, outside of your massive HMV style stores, but the prices can be eye watering.
The prices are hefty enough but that's to be expected over here.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on November 21, 2021, 06:18:15 AM
I discovered a fucking cool vinyl record shop in the city today that was stocked with loads of quality metal. NWN!, Dark Descent, Invictus, High Roller, Peaceville and Buried Beyond Time and Dust titles all represented among others. There was even a Vircolac record on the display shelf. A nice surprise 8)
Not sure where you are in Oz man but maybe also check out Explosive Action channel on YT , a lifer in Oz somewhere with a humongous collection, gives regular updates on his pickups and also has a few vidz up of his record shopping trips over there, possibly Melbourne, not sure. Anyway , cool lad to check out.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on November 21, 2021, 11:23:21 AM
Respectable prices?? There's one great vinyl shop in Bordeaux, outside of your massive HMV style stores, but the prices can be eye watering.
I'd love HMV to come back, there's fuck all left now in Dublin
Quote from: Eoin McLove on November 21, 2021, 11:37:21 AM
The prices are hefty enough but that's to be expected over here.
Still gonna be considerably cheaper than postage from Europe or the US.
Quote from: Thorn on November 21, 2021, 12:51:47 PM
Quote from: Eoin McLove on November 21, 2021, 06:18:15 AM
I discovered a fucking cool vinyl record shop in the city today that was stocked with loads of quality metal. NWN!, Dark Descent, Invictus, High Roller, Peaceville and Buried Beyond Time and Dust titles all represented among others. There was even a Vircolac record on the display shelf. A nice surprise 8)
Not sure where you are in Oz man but maybe also check out Explosive Action channel on YT , a lifer in Oz somewhere with a humongous collection, gives regular updates on his pickups and also has a few vidz up of his record shopping trips over there, possibly Melbourne, not sure. Anyway , cool lad to check out.
Nice, I'll give it a look.
Matt yeah, postage is nutty. Even for fucking CDs...
Our stuff arrived today and I spent the evening alphabetising my LPs. The fucking state of the packing job they did. Utterly shocking. Some of the boxes had no packing whatsoever but miraculously the records seem to have come through unscathed 8)
CDs, tapes and books next.
Ah nice! Have fun with that man.
Cheers dude, will do 8)
The next plan is to get a recording setup together so I can start recording some of the ideas that have been running through my brain for the past six months or year.
Having "Watched" beside your username. Soooo cool.... :laugh:
You've been upgraded to moderated now.
KC on the verge of getting the heave-ho.
Quote from: Emphyrio on December 04, 2021, 12:39:10 PM
KC on the verge of getting the heave-ho.
Now I can't tell; simple statement or simple pleasure? :laugh:
(I don't actually want him ban-hammered btw, but the chap has apparently developped Tourettes when it comes to posting.)
I fully agree that there's been an excess maggot-actin'. Reminiscent of Nixer's final days.
They are one and the same.
Tonight's pleasure- Saturday night beers 8)
Wouldn't surprise me if this site went the way of Metal Ireland with the current set-up. Especially since one particular person has about 20 paragraph heavy posts a day here.
I think the coronavirus thread has really done untold damage to people's grasp of causality.
Watching Lewis Hamilton cultists absolutely losing their fucking shit. :laugh:
It's hilarious. They're bending over backwards to give it to him. Enquiry happening now, no doubt the result will be overturned.
Pot of coffee and a Tesco cranberry & orange muffin. Jaysus.
Leftover fried rice 8)
Cup of cocoa, heating on, last couple of chapters of the book I'm reading and everyone else, well, elsewhere in the gaff. Lovely :)
I'm at the other end of the day here but yeah, Saturday morning waking up at six, cup of tea, book and Turn Loose the Swans followed by Stormcrowfleet. Can't argue with a morning like that 8)
Lot to be said for making a habit out of getting up early. A solid breakfast, a bit of reading, choons and a run if you can manage it, while the rest of the world is snoozing, it's great for the head.
Big time. I'm up at 5.30 for work so if I wake up at 6 on the weekend then I've had an extra little bit of kip and get to enjoy that early morning time to myself before the inevitable madness ensues.
Coco Pops.
Is see the Kurt free zone is as enthralling as ever :laugh:
Yep, it's all about you, Nixer.
As above: house to myself, pot of coffee, The World At War on the box. Bliss.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on December 20, 2021, 09:36:18 AM
Yep, it's all about you, Nixer.
Gerrrouh ya muppeh :laugh:
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on December 20, 2021, 09:34:44 AM
Is see the Kurt free zone is as enthralling as ever :laugh:
You'r very badly missed Kurt, its no fun when nobody is winding up Black Shepard Carnage with complete nonsense.
Presents wrapped. Just have to do a beer/wine run and get a few essentials and I'm fucking done for christmas.
Baileys, its like crack.
Quote from: ldj on December 24, 2021, 02:16:10 AM
Baileys, its like crack.
I've been drinking it all week with a shot of brandy in on top of it. Unreal.
Quote from: blessed1 on December 24, 2021, 07:11:59 AM
Quote from: ldj on December 24, 2021, 02:16:10 AM
Baileys, its like crack.
I've been drinking it all week with a shot of brandy in on top of it. Unreal.
Got hammered on those in Cork 25 years ago, we used to call them Belfast Bombers. Presumably because of the resulting hangovers.
Baileys is bested only by cheap Wine for nasty hangovers.
Feet up, having a beer and watching Die Hard with the young fella.
Quote from: jobrok1 on December 24, 2021, 03:07:47 PM
Feet up, having a beer and watching Die Hard with the young fella.
Now you're talking!! :abbath: :abbath:
Happy trails, jobrok.
Made proper eggnog from scratch for the first time. Serious stuff, like brandy creams bigger better brother.
Lash of roast beef and cranberry sauce sandwiches, cup o tea, yearly accumulator ready, dodgy box football on and progeny and spouse elsewhere.
Fuckin' A, as they say in the states :)
Last day of work before a week off, 38° (get fucked!), did an hour and a half of work and a lot of farting about, and snuck off to the boozer at 12 for a few scoops 8)
Thinking about the same people who think that men can get pregnant are the ones who want to control 'misinformation on the internet'... :laugh:
What a truly joyous world we live in.. ;D
Finishing the beers and then hitting into the Bundeberg rum :-[
Stew with bread and butter 8)
Strong mug o tae and a big pile of biscuits to dunk into it.
I didn't make lunch last night so I went to a cafe and didn't really know what I wanted. I saw BLT on the menu and ordered that, not expecting much. I ended up having one of the most delicious BLTs of my life! I think I'm instantly addicted :-[
Sour cream and onion TUC biscuits, Jeasus they're fucking savage.
We might all end up knifing each other over the various subtleties of Joe Rogan's Nazi message but before that bloodbath, one thing we can all agree on is drinking wild amounts of sauce and banging our heads to heavy metal. I'll be in trouble in the morning but sure...
Hehe, one of those nights eh :abbath:
Oh yeah! My skull is a bit throbby this morning ::)
Waffle with melted cheese squished into bread with a bit of ketchup/mayo, 2 dennys black pudding thrown in for good measure. Hafners sausages on the side after a bite of the sambo. Amazing.
Quote from: The Butcher on January 30, 2022, 07:56:21 PM
Waffle with melted cheese squished into bread with a bit of ketchup/mayo, 2 dennys black pudding thrown in for good measure. Hafners sausages on the side after a bite of the sambo. Amazing.
Jaysus you're very fond of yourself :)
Sex
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 30, 2022, 08:01:24 PM
Quote from: The Butcher on January 30, 2022, 07:56:21 PM
Waffle with melted cheese squished into bread with a bit of ketchup/mayo, 2 dennys black pudding thrown in for good measure. Hafners sausages on the side after a bite of the sambo. Amazing.
Jaysus you're very fond of yourself :)
Until the heart attack occurs from copious amounts of waffle (both consumed and dished out) :laugh:
Few tins of the Guinness Nitro tonight and spinning some vinyl. Bliss
Quote from: Necro Red on February 04, 2022, 11:14:50 AM
Few tins of the Guinness Nitro tonight and spinning some vinyl. Bliss
Got given the Nitro kit and a dozen cans for Christmas. Messy aul shite and nowhere near worth over double the price of the draught cans...
Extra stout or nothing. Stuff is lovely, can or bottle, fridge or shelf. Simple and pleasurable.
Ya, big fan of the extra stout but do love the draft as well.
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on January 20, 2022, 12:43:46 AM
Sour cream and onion TUC biscuits, Jeasus they're fucking savage.
Saw them this morning out shopping and thought of hour post. They are extraordinary!
They are decent. Any tuc crackers are decent with cheddar cheese. Or paté as well that's lovely on them
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on February 04, 2022, 12:14:46 PM
Quote from: Necro Red on February 04, 2022, 11:14:50 AM
Few tins of the Guinness Nitro tonight and spinning some vinyl. Bliss
Got given the Nitro kit and a dozen cans for Christmas. Messy aul shite and nowhere near worth over double the price of the draught cans...
Draft cans are piss I don't know how anyone who says they enjoy Guinness can say they are anything else.
'Cos they're still better than cans of most other stuff.
Quote from: mickO))) on February 05, 2022, 04:27:25 PM
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on February 04, 2022, 12:14:46 PM
Quote from: Necro Red on February 04, 2022, 11:14:50 AM
Few tins of the Guinness Nitro tonight and spinning some vinyl. Bliss
Got given the Nitro kit and a dozen cans for Christmas. Messy aul shite and nowhere near worth over double the price of the draught cans...
Draft cans are piss I don't know how anyone who says they enjoy Guinness can say they are anything else.
G'way ouh of it will ya... :laugh:
I'll give you one tip though, drink draught cans at room temperature. Fuck putting them in the fridge.
Far tastier when not chilled...
This is also very true. Jaysus KC, I'd suggest we go on the sesh sometime, but I think we'd have killed each other well before the night was over :abbath:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on February 05, 2022, 06:18:16 PM
This is also very true. Jaysus KC, I'd suggest we go on the sesh sometime, but I think we'd have killed each other well before the night was over :abbath:
Hahahaha, and a big bag of mushies too... I think we'd be grand Chris... :laugh:
Apart from lager, I don't chill any of my beers really, red ales, IPAs, etc are far tastier at room temperature...
Sure, what am I saying? Now that astfgyl's returned, we can get back to organizing our mitsubishi-fuelled Metal Warfare love-in!
I went off the draft cans about 12 years ago and moved onto the Foreign extra which is great. Then when I was living abroad you could get 330ml bottles of draft that didn't have a widget which believe it or not tasted great. Then around this time last year I moved onto the surger and then the nitro surge. The surger cans you can only get up the north are the best of the lot.
Literally just filled up my iKegger keg with cans of nitro which I will be enjoying tonight. First time trying the nitro in the keg. The surgers from the North taste great coming from the keg almost as good as most pints you would get in the local pubs.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on February 05, 2022, 06:43:31 PM
Sure, what am I saying? Now that astfgyl's returned, we can get back to organizing our mitsubishi-fuelled Metal Warfare love-in!
:laugh: I'll mod for ye lads. I'm filled to the brim with peace and love and understanding if I get the proper yokes
Kurt's back... :-*
The latest update to YouTube Vanced added in a feature that auto skips sponsored content in videos, no more in-video shilling :abbath:
A cup of tea with a big hape of Digestives .
Quote from: Eoin McLove on February 23, 2022, 05:13:18 AM
A cup of tea with a big hape of Digestives .
No dark chocolate on them is the mark of the heretic
Delighted to see a lying sack of shit shown up by David McCullagh this evening :abbath:
https://mobile.twitter.com/rtenews/status/1497283552014213122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1497283552014213122%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rte.ie%2Fnews%2F2022%2F0225%2F1282888-ukraine-russia%2F
Fair dues boss.
Wow, that's extremely retarded. If that's the calibre of ambassador around the place, I have a bridge to sell to some fuckers.
David McCullagh also gave a stirring apology over his error in judgement at the impromptu party in rte while they were telling the rest of us not to touch each other. A real performer that guy.
He did give that chap a good grilling though to be fair to him.
I saved a woman's life today! I was in the post office and this oul one in front of me was about to buy a shitty thin little packet to post a vinyl and I stepped and and told her not to, that she needs a proper vinyl mailer. OK, "saved her life" is maybe a slight exaggeration.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on February 28, 2022, 02:48:55 AM
I saved a woman's life today! I was in the post office and this oul one in front of me was about to buy a shitty thin little packet to post a vinyl and I stepped and and told her not to, that she needs a proper vinyl mailer. OK, "saved her life" is maybe a slight exaggeration.
You saved two lives blud. Hers and the recipient's... :abbath:
Discovering Dragonforce cdrs in my collection and fucking them in the bin
Quote from: Thorn on March 01, 2022, 06:13:49 PM
Discovering Dragonforce cdrs in my collection and fucking them in the bin
:D
Make me laugh out loud !
:abbath:
Quote from: Mr Barlow on March 02, 2022, 04:25:38 PM
Quote from: Thorn on March 01, 2022, 06:13:49 PM
Discovering Dragonforce cdrs in my collection and fucking them in the bin
:D
Make me laugh out loud !
I burned a disc of Chinese Democracy lately after reading a book about GnR and I got a few songs in and Axl started reminding me of Tina Turner so I took out the disc and threw it in the fire. Great fun.
Another simple pleasure I've discovered of late is doing the eggs for the breakfast in the omelette maker and they come out the best ever. No more bollixing with the frying pan for me
I saw one of those omelette makers for 20 quid or so in Ye Olde Lidl. You recommend it then? I suppose if it's no use I could always take it out the back and fuck it over the hedge.
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Jesus bollixing christ would someone move those 'quote' and 'edit' icons apart...
Quote from: Thorn on March 13, 2022, 01:11:49 PM
I saw one of those omelette makers for 20 quid or so in Ye Olde Lidl. You recommend it then? I suppose if it's no use I could always take it out the back and fuck it over the hedge.
Highly recommended. Picked mine up for a tenner in Centra and it'd be worth double for how easy it makes the eggs. Lovely sunny side up cooked to perfection.
Birds twittering, evenings getting longer, lambs in the fields, buds on trees, the smell of cut grass - I love this time of year.
Absolutely. Summer begins in February when you start seeing the snowdrops and feeling the stretch.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on March 21, 2022, 04:02:05 PM
Absolutely. Summer begins in February when you start seeing the snowdrops and feeling the stretch.
Absolutely. I love getting the ballix froze off me as I skip around in me beachwear of a crisp February morn...
Summer is in lads. Don't ruin it
Milk. Bought this Tipperary No GMO fancy shit down the hardware shop the other day and fuck me if it isn't worth twice the price of the Avonmore stuff. I dunno if I can go back now after tasting this absolute nectar from the gods.
It's all that UHT shit over here. I used to drink milk at home, not a hope now. Maybe to colour a mug of coffee but that's it.
Yeah, I get the feeling fresh milk is even harder to come by in Spain than here. And you're lucky to find a single bottle of full fat fresh milk at that! The notion of semi-skimmed and skimmed milk is so ridiculous to me. Who the fuck who cares about fat intake is nevertheless drinking so much milk that they have to worry about that? Never looked into it, but I'm positive the whole thing started primarily as a marketing ploy.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on March 27, 2022, 10:50:50 AM
It's all that UHT shit over here. I used to drink milk at home, not a hope now. Maybe to colour a mug of coffee but that's it.
Yeah it's the same here. I was highly confused first time I went to the big fuck off supermarket and couldn't figure out where the fridge of milk was.
On a simple pleasure note, there's a stupid trend here of people wearing baseball caps with images of animals on them and the name of the animal. I always get a great laugh when I see someone wearing this one:
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2532/9670/products/101-3548-BLK-F01.jpg?v=1620163977)
Throwing on an episode of Father Ted from time to time.
Jaysus lads scaldy enough with the uht milk. It must feel like being on the train all the time
Realising ol' Corey screams "Giz the keys to the Lada" halfway through Spit It Out.. :laugh:
https://youtu.be/ZPUZwriSX4M
1.20m mark...
Playing Johnny the Fox - Jailbreak's often overlooked companion album, but possibly the better of the two.
:laugh: :laugh: :abbath: :abbath:
Milkshake out of that Five Guys place. Pure pleasure.
Being poisoned from the drink and staggering around the kitchen munching things that shouldn't go together but they're fuckin lovely at the time
Quote from: astfgyl on April 24, 2022, 11:07:50 AM
Being poisoned from the drink and staggering around the kitchen munching things that shouldn't go together but they're fuckin lovely at the time
You won't believe this, I ate a meanies and taco sauce sandwich last night
Jesus Christ that's fuckin awful beyond awful
Getting into the drink at half 4 on a friday when I won't see work until next thursday. Fucking delightful and I'm soundtracking it with The Downward Spiral because that's what's going to happen
Insert internet salute here.
Quote from: astfgyl on April 29, 2022, 04:32:35 PM
Getting into the drink at half 4 on a friday when I won't see work until next thursday. Fucking delightful and I'm soundtracking it with The Downward Spiral because that's what's going to happen
I've got about 3 weeks of pure college stress left in me, the thoughts of doing something like this is a shining light at the end of a large intestine.
Walking past the turn off for my estate because there's still 15 mins. left on the album I'm listening to. No rush home...
I hardly ever go out walking with the headphones these days but I do often sit outside the gaff in the car to finish out an album, staring into thin air and it's wonderful
Tuning down to C# and blasting out Sabbath riffs !
When the Mrs leaves me alone in the gaff to watch two soccer matches and the hurling (even though Kilkenny lost).
A night out at a pub in Ireland. You do forget how enjoyable it is just to spend a few hours down your local, even if it's changed a bit over the years.
The swallows are back nesting in the shed and I just saw two wood pigeons fighting in the tree out behind our place. Plus there's great drying out. Getting more and more summery by the day.
Getting a tax refund this morning after having to go to the hairdressers and pay the Mrs €260 (!) bill because her credit card didn't work yesterday.
It all evens out :)
Got a tax refund this week just shy of a grand. Much needed after a bad run of luck. Having a beer out the back watching the swallows darting over head. 8)
Quote from: Hellyeah on May 13, 2022, 08:36:37 PM
Got a tax refund this week just shy of a grand. Much needed after a bad run of luck. Having a beer out the back watching the swallows darting over head. 8)
Quote from: Hellyeah on May 13, 2022, 08:36:37 PM
Got a tax refund this week just shy of a grand. Much needed after a bad run of luck. Having a beer out the back watching the swallows darting over head. 8)
There's a pair of blackbirds who mate in May in a hedge in my garden. Fucking chirping on 24/7 at the cat. Head melted.
Localisms...
while out driving the kids back from basketball yesterday traffic was built up for some reason. Big massive jeep coming against us with the windows down talking to the car in front of us. Gets to us and departs words of wisdom - "you might want to turn around, the traffic lights are goosed". :)
Is goosed used anywhere else besides Cork in this context? Some of our new locals the past few years would be scratching their heads as to what he was talking about.
I hadn't heard it for a long time and it had me smiling like a simpleton for a good while. A new one on the kids as well 8)
Im West wicklow and "goosed" would be common speak around these parts.😀
Goosed was used in Mayo growing up as well.
Yup, goosed is used in the greater Dublin area.
Often get goosed here in tipp as well
Curried beans. Regular beans with a spoon of Madras powder in em saved me a fortune
Fish Fingers
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/see-a-rare-alignment-of-all-the-planets-in-the-night-sky
If we manage to see it at all, it'll be one of the simplest pleasures of all - gazing at the night sky as man has presumably engaged in since the dawn of time
That tired feeling after doing a job I'd put off for ages (weeding). Mighty. Shower and pints now, methinks.
Oh, and the swallows have hatched! Obviously just the one egg that fell out that time.
A solid afternoon of knockout hurling on the box. Anthony Daly, Davy Fitz, Marty Morrissey and the boyz.
Listening to Layne Staley at his height. What a waste.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 18, 2022, 01:37:34 PM
A solid afternoon of knockout hurling on the box. Anthony Daly, Davy Fitz, Marty Morrissey and the boyz.
Good man. I always miss them. How do you watch the games, Kev?
I got a dodgy box from a lad from Youghal who moved down to Australia. 100 quid a year for the subscription and I have every channel plus a load of films and series.
Ah right, grand job so. Is the dodgy box a predominantly Irish phenomenon? Only caught the end of the Galway v Cork match but it was tight. Clare had a great last 15 mins.
Clare blew Wexford clean out of it at the end they'll probably get the better of Kilkenny if they play like that in the semi. Limericks year again though I'd say, that particular empire isn't about to fall just yet.
It's a glorified Amazon Stick. Yer man's cousin provides the service, most of his clients are at home. It's a few quid but saves me arsing around looking for P2P etc.
Dodgy box is a master job altogether.
Just discovered I can run Chrome as a floating window on my phone so it doesn't knock YouTube off in the background and I can watch stuff/listen to things while posting online. Handy.
That's ingenious how do you do that?
Quote from: astfgyl on July 07, 2022, 12:23:28 AM
That's ingenious how do you do that?
hold and swipe the right hand side of your screen from the very edge and it should pull up a menu of what floating apps you can have. I'm guessing it only works on some phones but fuck it sure try it out.
Passing the NCT.
Hearing a Scottish lad use the expression 'sweetie wife' to describe a gossipy, nosy male. Beautiful :)
Quote from: ochoill on July 07, 2022, 08:47:00 AM
Quote from: astfgyl on July 07, 2022, 12:23:28 AM
That's ingenious how do you do that?
hold and swipe the right hand side of your screen from the very edge and it should pull up a menu of what floating apps you can have. I'm guessing it only works on some phones but fuck it sure try it out.
Doesn't work on the hape of shit I have here. Ah well.
Filmmaker mode on the telly. I never knew that the picture enhancing thing that the telly does that makes films look like shit was called the "soap opera effect".
On holidays in Kerry with the family and catching glimpses of nature and spectacular scenery with and without the kids...
Young fella got an opportunity to go out on a small rib, and he ended up with 4 dolphins playing tag out on the bow. He was well chuffed.
Next day we found a "common" lizard ar an trá sa Baile an Scelig.
Followed soon after by a huge blue dragon fly. I saw the shadow first and I was wondering what was hovering about. It must have been about 10 inches long, and had some wingspan.
Last week I did the Emlagh Loop on my own. Fair to say I was surprised when I came across 2 Alpaca's in one field I had just entered and one started running towards me! I ran to the next corner fairly sharpish rather than discovering the reason! 🏃💨 🦙
Same walk I discovered 2 gannets dead on the beach. Reading up afterwards I discovered you should report such findings in case of disease. Dept of Agroculture got back to me within 30 minutes (at 10pm Sat night) and collected them early the next morning. They've sent away to test for Avian Bird Flu but I see since that another bird has been detected with it in Kerry since while waiting on those results. Colonies have been devastated in Scotland and Wales the past few weeks. :-X
A glorious walk on the Kerry Way yesterday between Caherdaniel and Waterville (without the kids for sure!) a woodpecker flew past us. Plenty of smaller dragonflies about.
On a cycle today we visited a small beach and found loads of sea life. They were amazed to see huge crabs battling it out, and huge shrimp swimming around them.
On the way back from the beach an Irish Stoat ran across the cycle way. I hadn't seen one in about 15 years.
Scenery wise, it's hard to beat the views from the Kerry Way in glorious sunshine around the Iveragh Peninsula. Whether looking out at the Skelligs, down on the sandy beaches every which way, passing lakes and waterfalls, or up at the mountains it has it all really.
Provided you get the weather! I always feel sorry for tourists on the foggy days where you can't see past your nose, and knowing what they're missing as their buses move on.
First time seeing Bealach Oisín. I was hungover to feck the day after Napalm Death and from Killarney to Waterville I ended up on some back road, grass in the middle of a narrow road a lot of the (Kerry) Way, but oh what a find!
I was listening to Solstafir "Ótta" and it was exactly like what you'd expect to come across in Iceland, so the music well suited the landacape. You're going through damp boggy plains, with the Reeks (of Putrefaction) backdrop all around. Was rushing for dinner so I didn't have a chance to soak it in from the top. I made up for it a few days later with some climb on a mountain bike 😮💨
Yeah it'd be a great country if we had dependable weather for it 😀
We used to go to Balkinskelligs for holidays when I was a kid (a friend of my mother's had a house there, near the pier, the back garden ended at the beach), it was a grand spot then, I've heard it's very built up now. Amazing beach though, just like Renvyle beach in Connemara.
Fun fact: that's where Howard Marks used to land his gear in the '80s.
My auld lad is from Ballyferriter, right on the peninsula a few miles from Dingle. Unreal part of the world for scenery. Between West Kerry and West Cork, you have a good dose of paradise on earth, provided, as Brian alludes to, you have the sunshine. It's gone a bit IRELAND FOR SALE in Dingle, and there are a few too many holiday homes in the area now, but if you can get reasonably priced accommodation (does that exist anymore?), savage :)
Fairly fond of Kerry too, always had a good relax and soak in the scenery any time we stayed there. Can't remember exactly where but we stayed out past Sneem one time and all the way down, it stayed foggy, and for the first two days it was overcast, drizzly, and thick fog. It was nice in its own way but we didn't even know what the place around us looked like until the weather lifted on the third day - it was something else. Gorgeous spot.
Pity our stays down there didn't overlap a bit longer, Brian. Still though! That hike around Derrynane was fine way to pass a morning.
Still can't believe Bridies wasn't open when we passed it. I was really looking forward to a drink at that stage. The only day they opened late FFS :laugh:
Did Luigi go with you on the Waterville hike in the end?
Hehe, yeah we were talking on the Waterville hike about the cruel blow that was anticipating a cold pint in Bridie's on the Derrynane hike 🙈 Barman tried to wind us up when we got to Waterville by saying they weren't open yet :laugh: And said the nearest gents was a mile up the road....
Luigi said he was on driving duties for the week with the family so he didn't join us.
Jward didn't make it either in the end as he ended up tiling some houses in Mitchelstown for Ukranian refugees (in a self-depreciating, unPC manner to others on the whatsapp group who didn't know him or his sense of humour!! 😱).
Next time sure. Seeing as others are attesting to the beauty there, here's a panoramic photo taking of what tourists can often drive past unawares of what's behind the fog...
Looks beautiful indeed.
That's class.
My sister's on Ballinskelligs beach at the moment, the bitch. Such a day for it.
I was filling trailerloads of turf. By god I'm getting drunk tonight.
Me Mickey.
I just love that guy
Quote from: Caomhaoin on July 16, 2022, 05:28:19 AM
My auld lad is from Ballyferriter, right on the peninsula a few miles from Dingle. Unreal part of the world for scenery. Between West Kerry and West Cork, you have a good dose of paradise on earth, provided, as Brian alludes to, you have the sunshine.
Another huge fan of Kerry here. I absolutely love driving the Conor Pass on a sunny day. The views as you crest it and start coming down towards Dingle are absolutely spectacular. Spoilt for choice then as to whether you tour about the peninsula, head for inch beach or head over to Killarney for more unreal scenery around the black valley. Heaven on earth indeed on a fine day.
I'd also rate Sligo very highly for the scenery. Haven't done any touring about Donegal yet but I imagine it's spectacular too.
We are blessed in this country when the weather is good. It really is spectacular. Laois isn't great to be fair but most of the other counties have something.
Back to pleasures, sitting here in the rain in my shorts and it feels lovely
I grew up in Beara, the Peninsula on the South side of Kenmare Bay. Scenery to kill for during the warmer brighter months, in fairness. And relatively unspoiled compared to most other areas
But it's bleak as fuck all Winter long.
I still much prefer to holiday on the Kerry side of the Bay in Caherdaniel, though. They got all the best beaches facing South... plenty of them to choose from all within a few miles. Loads of walks and hikes to Pick from.
And there's plenty about for the odd day trip here and there. Valentia Island, Kells Bay, Wayervile, Lough Currane, etc. Ballinskellig beach is nice, but the town and area around it has been ruined.
Senator Hawley :)
Cans left over after a festival. Feels like free drink.
Rocket Queen, driving with the windows down. Bliss. It's a pity suppin cans simultaneously is frowned upon.
Air conditioning. The only proof I've ever seen that there is a loving God who cares about his creations. Back in the flat now and feeling like a sweaty unairconditioned peasant.
The first cold sip of beer on a Saturday evening :-*
Quote from: Eoin McLove on August 13, 2022, 11:42:42 AMThe first cold sip of beer on a Saturday evening :-*
It is the greatest. The weather here at the minute is lethal so I went for a few Druids and a pint glass with ice here, it is going down like silk.
A peeve and a pleasure combined: the peeve was having to sort out the backyard enough to make it useable, after letting it go to rot since last year. Next door's Ivy had met my own and formed a sort of floating bush on the wall, it had grown into the shed doors, some local cats decided my stones are a fantastic shitbox, and I had a stack of stuff for a skip, including a microwave, that vines had completely enclosed.
The pleasure: I decided at 5.00pm that it was a shame to leave it in shit, and by 6.30 had it useable again.
Chanced taking a rake to the vines and had 90% of them off the wall in 10 minutes. Trimmed the rest back by hand. THE FUCKING PLEASURE in having it come back off the wall like peeling tape off a roll, the pleasure of an empty yard again, the pleasure of more light into the kitchen. Unreal.
Did the garden myself lately tis grand so it is. Dunno if it qualifies as a simple pleasure though given the heartache it caused me
Quote from: astfgyl on August 14, 2022, 04:46:24 PMDid the garden myself lately tis grand so it is. Dunno if it qualifies as a simple pleasure though given the heartache it caused me
It's still fairly unusable but I took into a few cans beside the bins last night out there, if you stand at the right angle you can't get the smell coming off them.
:laugh: :laugh:
I can picture exactly where you were standing
Watching the kitten Don Hector Salamanca develop into the ultimate psychopathic predatory killing machine.Confirmed kills to date; 2 bluebottles,2 butterflys and a fly
The sound of rain hammering down outside when you're warm in bed.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on August 18, 2022, 01:32:25 PMThe sound of rain hammering down outside when you're warm in bed.
Pure joy, particularly when it's blowing against the window.
The Queen of cunts dying.
Pure joy.
I hope she died screaming and is rotting in hell with all those that went before her, and may a similar fate await those that come after her.
A plague on their septic fucking houses.
Bit strong lad.
Yeah, ludicrous stuff. She was alright in a batty kind of way. I think it will be a slightly sad day when the few lingering royal families are dissolved as they are a direct link to history. I'm no royalist by any stretch, but they have so little influence on daily life (I know the prime minister has his weekly formalities but I can't imagine its much more than that) that dismantling them for the sake of it seems a bit short sighted. Prince Andrew yada yada... lock the cunt up for sure, but otherwise let the weirdos moulder in their castles. It's a somewhat intriguing spectacle.
String that nauseating fucker Harry up, not because he's a 'royal', rather because he and his narcissistic spastic of a wife are a pair of gimps that even the Politburo nostalgic from Bray would find difficult to defend.
Not a fan of the royals but it is the end of an era..I have to say in later years I had a respect for her of sorts..
I tried, but I couldn't muster up a shit to give one way or the other. I neither wanted her dead nor care that she's dead. King Charles I'm sure will be a load of whatever too. Oh well.
Simple pleasures? Woke up on a hard kitchen chair at 4 this morning after falling asleep listening to October Rust and microwaved a packet of noodles and ate them with satay sauce from Lidl on them. Was on a par with something like Christmas dinner in terms of sheer enjoyment. Crawled up to the bed then to get the 2 and a half hours sleep before getting up for work and it was kind of like that feeling of getting back into bed after getting up for a piss only way better.
Simple pleasures abound
Saturday evening beers with a bit of Type O on d'telly.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on September 10, 2022, 12:07:24 PMSaturday evening beers with a bit of Type O on d'telly.
I have seen a glimpse of my near future
Quote from: astfgyl on September 08, 2022, 11:40:19 PMSimple pleasures? Woke up on a hard kitchen chair at 4 this morning after falling asleep listening to October Rust and microwaved a packet of noodles and ate them with satay sauce from Lidl on them. Was on a par with something like Christmas dinner in terms of sheer enjoyment. Crawled up to the bed then to get the 2 and a half hours sleep before getting up for work and it was kind of like that feeling of getting back into bed after getting up for a piss only way better.
Simple pleasures abound
This is all win, bravo!
:laugh: cheers lad, it really did feel like a flawless victory!
Was on a flight today and the air hostess accidentally sold me a litre bottle of Jim Beam for 4 euro, was going to correct her but remembered Ryanair were the only company who didn't refund me when an interrail trip I had booked in 2020 got cancelled by covid.
That's brilliant. Tbf I would've said nothing and drank it even if they were the soundest airline in the world. Revenge is one of the simplest of all pleasures really isn't it
Got a CD in the post (The Mission: God's Own Medecine reissue, new) from a Discogs buy, the case was cracked but they threw in a replacement case for it. It's a small thing, but a nice touch.
I keep a supply of new CD cases for this very reason...that was a nice touch alright, never encountered it.
That moment when practicing something on guitar when finger muscle memory kicks in after weeks of frustration....
Tell me about it. Thirty years later and I've finally almost nailed Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Sitting outside on a covered patio while the rain is coming down in sheets, watching one of the best thunderstorms I've seen in years.
That sounds like absolute heaven.
Mine: I have a dodgy (definitely banjaxed) ankle but copious amounts of Shiraz and high volume headphone action are the way to go. I've only cried once tonight so far.
And that was to cry for a refill!
Whacking up the volume when the missus shuts the front door behind her.
One of my own favourites right there
:abbath:
I should have been celebrating four days on me own and loud obnoxious music as the Mrs is away for a few days, but instead I was shitting and puking all night and didn't even go to work. Finally got a cup of tea down just there.
Quote from: Thorn on September 28, 2022, 01:52:39 PMWhen the missus shuts the front door behind her.
Allow me to shorten that for you :)
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
;D fair play, that works too
A free gaff is a rare thing of beauty these days. Flaking on the couch with a steady stream of tea, records playing and maybe a good book. Can't bate it.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on September 28, 2022, 11:22:46 PMA free gaff is a rare thing of beauty these days. Flaking on the couch with a steady stream of tea, records playing and maybe a good book. Can't (mastur)bate (to) it (as well).
While we're fixing things
The post-pub buzz where you whack on the haedphones and have a can - except I'm out of cans and opened a bottle of Malbec instead. Grand now but I'll pay for it in the morning.
I got into that habit for a coupla years. Ending up going to bed after 5am. Bad news.
Having illicit sex, eating meat, gambling, and doing drugs while chanting hare krishna hare krishna, krishna krishna hare hare hare rama hare rama, rama rama hare hare.
Early start lad?
You replied to the now deleted spam thread it was an homage to :laugh:
Got the E11 fault on the washer dryer (I know, I don't fuckin want it either but I don't have the room for the two separate utilities). Thermal sensor damaged. Should be something you've to call a lad for, but I managed to repair the bastard myself by rebuilding the sensor and soldering the thermistor in place in such a way it is much less likely to break. The pleasure being repairing something that you would previously have been way way out of your depth with using skills learned elsewhere. It was like a bulb going off when I saw what needed to be done.
Not the simplest of pleasures. Oh what times I've had with the dreaded e11 fault. I'll take fixing something for half a point
Quote from: astfgyl on October 03, 2022, 08:58:46 PMNot the simplest of pleasures. Oh what times I've had with the dreaded e11 fault. I'll take fixing something for half a point
Oh no the actual task was misery - moving the machine in particular was a pain in the hole because of how tight it was to the counter top, the actual thermistor repair was fine, putting the machine back involved a rake of roaring - but the pleasure was in unexpectedly knowing what I was doing rather than chancing my arm and hoping for the best, the usual method of repair.
Watching NFL pitch invaders getting taken out by a linebacker. Boom. :laugh:
Quote from: ochoill on October 03, 2022, 09:16:25 PMQuote from: astfgyl on October 03, 2022, 08:58:46 PMNot the simplest of pleasures. Oh what times I've had with the dreaded e11 fault. I'll take fixing something for half a point
Oh no the actual task was misery - moving the machine in particular was a pain in the hole because of how tight it was to the counter top, the actual thermistor repair was fine, putting the machine back involved a rake of roaring - but the pleasure was in unexpectedly knowing what I was doing rather than chancing my arm and hoping for the best, the usual method of repair.
My only method of repair, absolutely chancing something I know nothing about with a little YouTube on the side
Squishing the Fish. :laugh:
Inspired by BSC there in the peeves thread - a good cuppa, a film, and a joint, nice and late in the evening when there's fuck all to bother you, is an ultimate pleasure combo. Got a stove in the house lately so we can add a roasting fire and crispy weather outside in here too.
Yeah, that'd all be good and well... if I didn't feel physically revolted by the knowledge that your joint-accompanying tea has no milk in it! >:( :abbath: >:( :abbath: :laugh:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on October 13, 2022, 12:50:33 PMYeah, that'd all be good and well... if I didn't feel physically revolted by the knowledge that your joint-accompanying tea has no milk in it! >:( :abbath: >:( :abbath: :laugh:
:laugh: you've never experienced drymouth like this
Extra wide parking spaces. Especially when you're driving a van.
Getting up early, having breakfast and then back to the sack. Ah lads :)
Falling onto the floor at half 7 and being in work for 9.
Oh wait that's not good it's awful. My face..
https://twitter.com/ai_metal_bot?t=SjiMjAeOW4xyQB3qDm8MOA&s=09
Came across this twitter feed of a bot generating a metal band name, album title, and artwork. Some brilliant stuff in there
Quote from: Trev on October 15, 2022, 09:53:39 PMhttps://twitter.com/ai_metal_bot?t=SjiMjAeOW4xyQB3qDm8MOA&s=09
Came across this twitter feed of a bot generating a metal band name, album title, and artwork. Some brilliant stuff in there
Never mind that, have you heard the new First Cipher - Insidious Abductor: Extraterrestrial Torment? It's fucking septic
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Double dole payments for Halloween. Yes please and thank you.
Quote from: Giggles on October 26, 2022, 03:52:07 PMDouble dole payments for Halloween. Yes please and thank you.
Get a job hippy :abbath:
Seeing the council digging the absolute shit out of the neighbour's landscaped garden. The cunts filled in the open drain outside their place and didn't think of connecting drainage to the pipe which runs through my place, meaning the upstream water got dumped into my place in heavy rain. The cunts had no interest in resolving the issue, either. Yesterday, a lad from the council called out, had a good chat and showed him the situation. Today he brought the digger.
Even more pleasurable, they cut through the cunt's water pipe.
Best of all, yer one drove out of her driveway as I was coming back and I got to see the sour expression on her cunty face. Deeee-fucking-licious.
I'm guessing you're not much of a fan of theirs. Nothing like a nice hostile relationship with the neighbours. I used to live next to a woman that I hated so very much I found it invigorating.
Quote from: Ollkiller on October 26, 2022, 04:18:08 PMQuote from: Giggles on October 26, 2022, 03:52:07 PMDouble dole payments for Halloween. Yes please and thank you.
Get a job hippy :abbath:
I work part time :abbath:
Quote from: hellfire on October 26, 2022, 06:54:54 PMI'm guessing you're not much of a fan of theirs. Nothing like a nice hostile relationship with the neighbours. I used to live next to a woman that I hated so very much I found it invigorating.
I never really had any dealings, or any reason to dislike them, until this. They refused to connect the work they had done and the repeated flooding of my gaff afterwards. Water was coming out of the ground making shit of my place. I had to dig and find the pipe outside my place and actually show them the fucking pipe to get them to accept the pipe actually existed. Even then, they were not interested in doing anything about it. At one point, she suggested the water in the drain was not their problem and I should pay to have any work done on their property. Fuck them. I don't want a war with any neighbour but they can get fucked. They are nothing to me. Hopefully, I'll never have a reason to engage with them ever again. When I think of her face this afternoon, though, it will warm my heart as long as I live. It was a beautiful moment.
Hearing my son laughing in his sleep. What mad stuff goes on in a three year old's dreams I wonder :laugh:
Wandering around all the local shops in this shitty weather and they're all out of lemsip.
Returned home and made a gigantic mug of hot poitín. A couple of ibuprofen and this potential peeve has transformed into a pleasure indeed 8)
Quote from: Eoin McLove on November 01, 2022, 07:00:00 PMHearing my son laughing in his sleep. What mad stuff goes on in a three year old's dreams I wonder :laugh:
Not the exact same but I got a good laugh last night out of the 7 year old sleepwalking into the teenagers room and pissing on his floor. I woke up to the older lad going "what are you d... NO NO NO". Couldn't have happened to a nicer fella
Quote from: astfgyl on November 03, 2022, 12:37:05 PMQuote from: Eoin McLove on November 01, 2022, 07:00:00 PMHearing my son laughing in his sleep. What mad stuff goes on in a three year old's dreams I wonder :laugh:
Not the exact same but I got a good laugh last night out of the 7 year old sleepwalking into the teenagers room and pissing on his floor. I woke up to the older lad going "what are you d... NO NO NO". Couldn't have happened to a nicer fella
:laugh:
Quote from: astfgyl on November 03, 2022, 12:37:05 PMQuote from: Eoin McLove on November 01, 2022, 07:00:00 PMHearing my son laughing in his sleep. What mad stuff goes on in a three year old's dreams I wonder :laugh:
Not the exact same but I got a good laugh last night out of the 7 year old sleepwalking into the teenagers room and pissing on his floor. I woke up to the older lad going "what are you d... NO NO NO". Couldn't have happened to a nicer fella
:laugh: classic
:laugh:
Getting out to the hills early for a walk/ run after a night of cans*. That'll sweat the bastard out 8)
*Meeting up with a few Aussie metalheads for pints this afternoon to undo my good work... sherlukkit.
Stopped in out of the rain for a pint of Old Speckled Hen (English pub, but a proper one), a packet of crisps, and a few pages from the bewk I have on the go. Even Fairytale of New York coming on (first of the season!) only added to the whole simple pleasure of it.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on November 21, 2022, 03:52:22 PMStopped in out of the rain for a pint of Old Speckled Hen (English pub, but a proper one), a packet of crisps, and a few pages from the bewk I have on the go. Even Fairytale of New York coming on (first of the season!) only added to the whole simple pleasure of it.
Lovely. My kind of afternoon.
Only thing with me is that I'd go in for one pint out of the rain and end up coming home 6-12 hours later with a giant wok that I had liberated from the rubbish skip of a local Chinese restaurant.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on November 21, 2022, 04:27:48 PMQuote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on November 21, 2022, 03:52:22 PMStopped in out of the rain for a pint of Old Speckled Hen (English pub, but a proper one), a packet of crisps, and a few pages from the bewk I have on the go. Even Fairytale of New York coming on (first of the season!) only added to the whole simple pleasure of it.
Lovely. My kind of afternoon.
Only thing with me is that I'd go in for one pint out of the rain and end up coming home 6-12 hours later with a giant wok that I had liberated from the rubbish skip of a local Chinese restaurant.
All of the above is great (I'll leave the wok with you though). Nothing like getting in out of the winter's rain, especially if there's an open fire.
Have a couple here:
Large bottle of Guinness for breakfast was great this morning.
The other one is getting good and baked and going for a winter's walk with the crisp leaves underfoot and the cold air on my cheeks. It's a special kind of stoning when it's like that but there hasn't been the weather yet this year. Am looking forward to it all the same
Looking at the album covers on the Dying Victims website :abbath:
Quote from: Thorn on December 06, 2022, 06:36:19 AMLooking at the album covers on the Dying Victims website :abbath:
The new Megaton Sword looks deadly. Paolo Gerardi varying his style quite a bit to great effect.
Spotted that alright, put me in mind of Considered Dead a bit
That exactly it. Mixed with One Foot in Hell.
Seeing results from paying dentists a fortune. Longstanding issues finally being sorted, though I've eaten my last crusty roll.
Quote from: Carnage on December 06, 2022, 11:23:31 PMSeeing results from paying dentists a fortune. Longstanding issues finally being sorted, though I've eaten my last crusty roll.
I'm actually putting off the dentist because of what it's going to cost me but of course the longer I do so the more it's going to cost. Still have all of my own teeth as well but not for long
I'm down a few from over the years but keeping the rest, which is a relief. I thought I'd be losing a few more.
My own fault for neglecting them.
What kind of stuff are ye lads smoking if you're worried about losing teeth!?
Quote from: Giggles on December 08, 2022, 04:08:37 PMWhat kind of stuff are ye lads smoking if you're worried about losing teeth!?
I was thinking the same 😄
Quote from: blessed1 on December 08, 2022, 04:35:09 PMQuote from: Giggles on December 08, 2022, 04:08:37 PMWhat kind of stuff are ye lads smoking if you're worried about losing teeth!?
I was thinking the same 😄
The good shtuff
Just years of gradually increasing neglect, embarrassingly.
Cup o tae, pecan slice out of the Lidl bakery, everyone out of my sight for a few hours and the bit of telly. Fuckin' sound.
Quote from: Carnage on December 08, 2022, 04:56:07 PMJust years of gradually increasing neglect, embarrassingly.
I have never flossed in my life, I vape and I'm fairly sure I brush my teeth arseways and the last three or four times I've been to the dentist I only needed a cleaning, I think I have two fillings total. You must be up to something carnage :)
Aytin' shite. Had a seriously sweet tooth for years, thankfully grown out of it now but the damage was done and I'm only now putting it right.
Flossing is the business, makes a difference alright. My gums were in shite 'til I went into the dentist and started taking proper care of them, flossing and all (I never did because it always got caught, different floss now, grand stuff). All good now.
My auld lad used to be a disaster as a chap, his teeth got all grey, 40 major a day, taking as much care with brushing as you or I would scratching our holes. He's now predictably an oral hygiene zealot, too late though old man!
Quote from: astfgyl on November 27, 2022, 02:19:25 PMThe other one is getting good and baked and going for a winter's walk with the crisp leaves underfoot and the cold air on my cheeks. It's a special kind of stoning when it's like that but there hasn't been the weather yet this year. Am looking forward to it all the same
Today's the day!
I have been waiting for you, o winter spirit
Quote from: astfgyl on December 09, 2022, 01:25:50 PMQuote from: astfgyl on November 27, 2022, 02:19:25 PMThe other one is getting good and baked and going for a winter's walk with the crisp leaves underfoot and the cold air on my cheeks. It's a special kind of stoning when it's like that but there hasn't been the weather yet this year. Am looking forward to it all the same
Today's the day!
I have been waiting for you, o winter spirit
I'm with you on that. Love this weather and I just stocked up on a load of mdma for Xmas.
Happy days, can't wait for tomorrow lol
Serious weather,full moon hanging over the ocean at 8am this morning, above a streak of silver shimmering light.
Ireland is class when it's not constantly wet and windy.
Herb, wine and The Cure in Orange 'One Hundred Years' and 'A Forest' being the obvious highlights.
Quote from: Giggles on December 09, 2022, 04:55:25 PMSerious weather,full moon hanging over the ocean at 8am this morning, above a streak of silver shimmering light.
Ireland is class when it's not constantly wet and windy.
It is, and it's not just the ring of Kerry and the Wicklow mountains. I went geocaching (remember that?) around my home county of Kilkenny and into Carlow and Laois, areas you wouldn't associate with natural beauty. Me bollix, there are some outrageous spots dotted all over the island, even the south east and the midlands. Lads get a bad taste in their mouths after stopping in Tullow, Tipp Town or Portarlington for a hot chicken roll and being appalled by how horrible those towns are. Get out into the countryside for a spin and you'll be amazed.
Even just driving the country roads in the Midlands when the sun is out is a spiritual experience. The fields with the sun on them, the hawthorn in full bloom, the beasts in the fields... it's epic.
Quote from: blessed1 on December 09, 2022, 01:37:45 PMQuote from: astfgyl on December 09, 2022, 01:25:50 PMQuote from: astfgyl on November 27, 2022, 02:19:25 PMThe other one is getting good and baked and going for a winter's walk with the crisp leaves underfoot and the cold air on my cheeks. It's a special kind of stoning when it's like that but there hasn't been the weather yet this year. Am looking forward to it all the same
Today's the day!
I have been waiting for you, o winter spirit
I'm with you on that. Love this weather and I just stocked up on a load of mdma for Xmas.
Happy days, can't wait for tomorrow lol
Lovely job, enjoy! :)
Quote from: Caomhaoin on December 10, 2022, 06:57:42 AMQuote from: Giggles on December 09, 2022, 04:55:25 PMSerious weather,full moon hanging over the ocean at 8am this morning, above a streak of silver shimmering light.
Ireland is class when it's not constantly wet and windy.
It is, and it's not just the ring of Kerry and the Wicklow mountains. I went geocaching (remember that?) around my home county of Kilkenny and into Carlow and Laois, areas you wouldn't associate with natural beauty. Me bollix, there are some outrageous spots dotted all over the island, even the south east and the midlands. Lads get a bad taste in their mouths after stopping in Tullow, Tipp Town or Portarlington for a hot chicken roll and being appalled by how horrible those towns are. Get out into the countryside for a spin and you'll be amazed.
It's a fuckin beautiful country when it's not pissing rain and sometimes even when it is.
Seriously beautiful morning in Clare. Just walked the dog, picture postcard stuff.
A bit of herb would be nice anyone with a bit to spare? All my likely mates left the country.
Quote from: Don Gately on December 10, 2022, 11:43:42 AMSeriously beautiful morning in Clare. Just walked the dog, picture postcard stuff.
A bit of herb would be nice anyone with a bit to spare? All my likely mates left the country.
Flagmount in Clare is one of my favourite parts of Ireland. I do cycle from there to Scariff and back in a loop and do a bit of camping down there in the summer.
Christmas shopping done, thank fuck. Waiting for a few things to come in the post but all I have to do now is wrap.
The sheer orgasmic pleasure of seeing Ingerland going out of the world cup.
To be clear, I couldn't give a flying fuck how it went for any 'team' - it's not a sport and doesn't matter at all - but the fact that we don't have to listen to the Ingerlish wittering on about it forever and ever and ever is a blessed relief.
I must be getting old or something cos last night was the first game I wouldn't have minded them winning. Maybe it's the lingering of Thierry Henry's handball subconsciously.
Beautiful weather to look out at currently but not looking forward to driving in it later. Fingers crossed for a snow day tomorrow!
Quote from: Carnage on December 10, 2022, 06:30:15 PMChristmas shopping done, thank fuck. Waiting for a few things to come in the post but all I have to do now is wrap.
I have nothing done and the fear is severe, it'll be a next week job at this rate for almost all of it.
Seeing England getting beaten in football, so seeing that they were knocked out of the World Cup by France was just beautiful :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
I finally picked up a wooden spoon that I like, after years of settling for one's that didn't suit me for basis reasons. Having the right utensils for cooking makes the job such a pleasure.
Funny looking at the last post on here as today's simple pleasure is picking up a new chopping board :laugh:
Quote from: Eoin McLove on December 12, 2022, 08:16:24 AMI finally picked up a wooden spoon that I like, after years of settling for one's that didn't suit me for basis reasons. Having the right utensils for cooking makes the job such a pleasure.
On a similar note, nothing beats a good quality knife for food prep. (Tempted to put shite knives in the pet peeves thread ;) )
And another one given the time of year - watching Indiana Jones with the kids this time of year. Brings back great memories. :'( ;D
Being a tourist in my own country for the first time in years with the Mrs.
Far fewer psychos and junkies in Dublin than I expected. The price of a pint and something to eat has gone mental though, small gripe in the grand scheme.
Quote from: stearl on December 21, 2022, 04:17:26 PMAnd another one given the time of year - watching Indiana Jones with the kids this time of year. Brings back great memories. :'( ;D
I've gotten onto a strong buzz of reliving classic flicks with the younger lads lately and it's class. A real simple pleasure indeed.
Same as that but with no young fella.
Found enough for one big hit of mdma in a drawer beside my bed I had totally forgotten about.
Quote from: blessed1 on December 31, 2022, 11:27:12 PMFound enough for one big hit of mdma in a drawer beside my bed I had totally forgotten about.
*virtual hug
And happy new year from the near future, yiz pack of feckers 8)
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on December 31, 2022, 11:35:46 PMQuote from: blessed1 on December 31, 2022, 11:27:12 PMFound enough for one big hit of mdma in a drawer beside my bed I had totally forgotten about.
*virtual hug
And happy new year from the near future, yiz pack of feckers 8)
Haha thanks, it literally just hit me 5 mins ago lol. Happy New year!
Happy New Year lads.
I drank viciously and horsed in pinners until 4am, including such classics as "Baileys with added Jameson" and "why is that Corona left open, what a waste, I can't go to bed until that's gone". I have also been awake since 7am with the child. This is not simple, or a pleasure
Sláinte dudes. Here's to another year of duelling!
Quote from: blessed1 on December 31, 2022, 11:27:12 PMFound enough for one big hit of mdma in a drawer beside my bed I had totally forgotten about.
I had a couple of yokes put away for the occasion but I couldn't bring myself to take them with the puking bug I seem to have. Great score for you though!
Happy new year lads
Quote from: ochoill on January 01, 2023, 07:56:22 AMHappy New Year lads.
I drank viciously and horsed in pinners until 4am, including such classics as "Baileys with added Jameson" and "why is that Corona left open, what a waste, I can't go to bed until that's gone". I have also been awake since 7am with the child. This is not simple, or a pleasure
Young kids and hard sessions are a terrible combo. Often went through a day after the night before feeling minutes from death but with the added bonus of looking after multiple small children who need feeding and their arses wiped. Hard luck
Early morning to myself, leftover pizza, a pint of coffee, and peace & quiet to read a bit.
Quote from: Carnage on January 05, 2023, 07:26:28 AMEarly morning to myself, leftover pizza, a pint of coffee, and peace & quiet to read a bit.
Lucky fucker. Usual school run and work shit here. I wouldn't even care what was on the pizza if I could have that instead of this!
I'd give a lot for a bit more work shit at the moment TBH, but aside from that the clutch is gone so I'm relegated to the house for the moment. The pizza*/coffee breakfast combo can't be beaten though.
*Apache big chief (pepperoni, meatballs, sausage) with extra peppers & chili shake, FYI.
The physical act of opening a brand new book.
I'm with you on that. Keep yer Kindles and tablets, it's a ritual reading page by page.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on January 10, 2023, 10:40:25 AMThe physical act of opening a brand new book.
Stealing a book from the auld lad that I sent him as he was recovering from surgery. The auld bastard never even opened it!
Day off, hearing about the suffering of others, vaporizer with plenty of supplies and last couple of special buns with cup of tea.
Getting a thorn out of my finger that had been bugging me since yesterday.
Watching Ricky Gervais corpsing videos. So funny.
Remembering to put the bins out
I've heard of getting binned but this sounds like another level!
Usually I'm far too binned to remember!
Using up some spare annual leave from last year and taking off to Galway last minute for 4 nights. Took a spin up to Achill yesterday. Never been, clear crisp day, deserted. Spectacular.
Quote from: Hellyeah on February 08, 2023, 08:31:27 PMUsing up some spare annual leave from last year and taking off to Galway last minute for 4 nights. Took a spin up to Achill yesterday. Never been, clear crisp day, deserted. Spectacular.
Achill and Belmullet are spectacular. Heaving in the summer so you got the right time to visit.
Quote from: Ollkiller on February 08, 2023, 10:33:39 PMQuote from: Hellyeah on February 08, 2023, 08:31:27 PMUsing up some spare annual leave from last year and taking off to Galway last minute for 4 nights. Took a spin up to Achill yesterday. Never been, clear crisp day, deserted. Spectacular.
Achill and Belmullet are spectacular. Heaving in the summer so you got the right time to visit.
Come on lads, over to the Irish Places of Interest thread with ye
Edit, I haven't been to either of those places
:laugh:
A lad I play soccer with has two tickets for Ireland v Tonga at RWC and letting them go to me at less than face value as I did him a very insignificant favour. Young fella nearly burst into tears and when I told him we were off to Nantes :)
Tears of joy rather than the bitter and horrified ones he spilt when we watched Celtic get hammered 1-5 by Real Madrid.
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Proper Italian pizza 8)
A clean reversing camera on the car
Quote from: ochoill on February 11, 2023, 06:40:21 PMA clean reversing camera on the car
Fuck those cameras can't drive with em at all. Using a yoke from the garage the last few days and I've turned into the missus in terms of reversing ability. I've also smashed my head on the steering wheel twice by clutching on the brake pedal in the automatic bastard
Waking up after a session and surprisingly not having a hangover! :o 8) :abbath:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on February 11, 2023, 07:23:03 PMWaking up after a session and surprisingly not having a hangover! :o 8) :abbath:
That's one of the best!
Good thing too; one of the lads had a headache last night so I gave him me last paracetamol.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on February 11, 2023, 08:37:37 PMGood thing too; one of the lads had a headache last night so I gave him me last paracetamol.
It was the noble deed that saved you. The subconscious is a wonderful thing
Not having kids.
Quote from: blessed1 on February 18, 2023, 02:16:14 PMNot having kids.
My lad is having his nap so me and the missus just had a sneaky smoke and then what often follows :) Last night I watched The Empire Strikes Back with him and this evening we'll carry on reading The Hobbit together. Once you get into a flow that suits you, life with kids can also be a series of simple pleasures.
But if you'd got me on certain other days, I'd have wholeheartedly agreed with you :laugh: :abbath:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on February 18, 2023, 02:23:41 PMQuote from: blessed1 on February 18, 2023, 02:16:14 PMNot having kids.
My lad is having his nap so me and the missus just had a sneaky smoke and then what often follows :) Last night I watched The Empire Strikes Back with him and this evening we'll carry on reading The Hobbit together. Once you get into a flow that suits you, life with kids can also be a series of simple pleasures.
But if you'd got me on certain other days, I'd have wholeheartedly agreed with you :laugh: :abbath:
Nah man, every single thing about it seems like torture to me haha.
I get the impression everybody says it's amazing cos they can't admit how shit it actually is lol
:laugh:
Parents definitely do not give reliable testimony :laugh:
It's grand and also sometimes not grand. It gives lots of great times but it comes at a cost of a certain amount of freedom for a few years
Well one of ye did just post
Quote from: astfgyl on February 06, 2023, 10:40:16 PMRemembering to put the bins out
as a simple pleasure so I guess you guys are just on different wavelengths.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Playing HDToday through the TV, handy.
Quote from: blessed1 on February 18, 2023, 02:27:53 PMQuote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on February 18, 2023, 02:23:41 PMQuote from: blessed1 on February 18, 2023, 02:16:14 PMNot having kids.
My lad is having his nap so me and the missus just had a sneaky smoke and then what often follows :) Last night I watched The Empire Strikes Back with him and this evening we'll carry on reading The Hobbit together. Once you get into a flow that suits you, life with kids can also be a series of simple pleasures.
But if you'd got me on certain other days, I'd have wholeheartedly agreed with you :laugh: :abbath:
Nah man, every single thing about it seems like torture to me haha.
I get the impression everybody says it's amazing cos they can't admit how shit it actually is lol
Parenting is both the absolute best and absolute worst thing anyone could ever do.
Quote from: Pain Medicine on February 18, 2023, 05:19:48 PMWell one of ye did just post
Quote from: astfgyl on February 06, 2023, 10:40:16 PMRemembering to put the bins out
as a simple pleasure so I guess you guys are just on different wavelengths.
If you've forgotten as many times as I have, remembering anything is a simple pleasure
Watching Braveheart with my 10 year old Celtic daft young lad. Tears, fears and laughs. Brilliant.
When the Scots flash the English he just blurted out 'MICKEYS'😂😂😂
Lovely clear sky earlier. Jupiter, the Moon and Venus in a row just after sunset, looked mighty.
Seen that myself, it looked class with that sliver of a crescent moon 🌙
I'm in wetherspoons here in Waterford and it feels like the old days. Drink cheap as shit and the place is packed. Buzzing. As soulless as it is, the cheap pints is enough to fill it up.
If this takes off, the Irish pub is fucked
How much a pint?
Quote from: Giggles on February 26, 2023, 08:00:11 PMHow much a pint?
2.45 a pint. All the drink is ridiculously cheap as is the food. Full Irish for 7 quid and there's loads on it
Quote from: astfgyl on February 25, 2023, 07:29:20 PMI'm in wetherspoons here in Waterford and it feels like the old days. Drink cheap as shit and the place is packed. Buzzing. As soulless as it is, the cheap pints is enough to fill it up.
If this takes off, the Irish pub is fucked
The absolute dregs of society go in there. The only good thing about it is that it takes the scum out of all the other city centre places.
Quote from: hellfire on February 26, 2023, 09:17:45 PMQuote from: astfgyl on February 25, 2023, 07:29:20 PMI'm in wetherspoons here in Waterford and it feels like the old days. Drink cheap as shit and the place is packed. Buzzing. As soulless as it is, the cheap pints is enough to fill it up.
If this takes off, the Irish pub is fucked
The absolute dregs of society go in there. The only good thing about it is that it takes the scum out of all the other city centre places.
Ah I dunno man. I mean I did say it was soulless in itself other than the cheap drink but when everyone in there can drink 8 pints of some 6% shit for 20 euro and have 40 cent change as well as the ability to eat an extensive menu of soakage for peanuts at the same time as the electric bill is gone through the roof along with the diesel and the food well then I feel like it's a fantastic thing regardless of the few shitehawks. The shitehawks always get weeded out after the first few months in any new place anyway so I reckon all those dregs of society will be back looking for a new home before long.
I also see what's so evil about the potential for the future of this but fuck I'm not paying 6 quid a pint and getting my shit pushed in for a bit of food along with it when I can have this instead.
Honestly it felt like the 90s with the place full of pints and food and shit decor and all and even kids running around in there.
I loved it
2.45 a pint!! Is that for beer, own brand I guess. That's great value.
I went out the other week, midweek for a match(off next day). Shit game 5 pints , 27.50euro. I felt violated, as I live rural. :'(
Quote from: Hellyeah on February 27, 2023, 07:20:06 PM2.45 a pint!! Is that for beer, own brand I guess. That's great value.
I went out the other week, midweek for a match(off next day). Shit game 5 pints , 27.50euro. I felt violated, as I live rural. :'(
Yeah it's some stuff I never heard of but it was lovely. They were pulling the pints coronation Street style and there's a massive massive choice of poison but the brands can be gotten too, maybe at 3.50 each. You can also taste all of the beers before committing to any of them which is class. In a way I don't want this to take off because it'll be the Lidl of pubs but I really hope it puts manners on the LVA for once and maybe they might rethink their strategy of squeezing the fuck out of me for fuck all pints and go with a strategy of making me actually want to go there, because if the local could even somewhat compete I'd still choose there.
I'll give an example: Jaeger bomb in there for 3.50 but it's nearly 8 quid in the local here so yknow as much as I don't want the local to die, fuck em as well for their choice of strategy. The Irish pubs react to the lack of footfall by upping the prices for the few poor cunts who do still go there rather than dropping the price and simply selling more pints by getting more heads in the door so yeah fuck em and whatever excuse they are using to do this to the punter. It has been their strategy for years the gouging fucks
Edit: also by dropping the price a bit and getting more in the door it also makes it more attractive to people walking past and hearing the craic therein rather than sticking the head in and there's 3 lads cradling their pints because drinking them too fast makes it too pricey.
The LVA and their members deserve this wholeheartedly. Me oul lad ran a pub and he always said the LVA were only a crowd of wankers and he was fuckin right
Agree completely with all of the above. Was over In Galway couple of weeks back, everywhere was dead and still charging 6.50 a pint. Oul lads mid afternoon cradling pints for an hour.
Agree with getting the numbers in. Only I wanted to see said match I would not have bothered, looked in the window beforehand and thought this looks grim.
Wetherspoons imo is like the Netflix model.
Make it cheap to get them in the door, and once they are in they will stay.
Good luck to them.
Like seriously, if the price of pints was equivalent to drinking at home the pints would win every time
Edit: to the LVA: please don't interpret that as lobbying harder than ever for more expensive drink at home; make it more attractive to go to the pub
While I understand the need to push back on ever increasing prices, I do fear what a race to the bottom will result in - the cultural homogeneity of our society, every city starts to look the same, Starbucks, Mcdonalds, Premier Inn and every other bland corporate glass and steel monoliths oozing out uniformity that you can think of.
To rejig Henry Fords quote - "Any customer can go into any pub that he wants, so long as it is Wetherspoons.".
Krispy Kreme about to open in Galway, with a Wetherspoons in the works too. A town that had a lot of character is losing it bit by bit, not to mention becoming dangerous to wander around by night. I'll have a look in the pub out of curiosity but I prefer a quiet boozer to spend a few hours in, so it wouldn't have any appeal for me.
Quote from: The Butcher on February 27, 2023, 11:23:49 PMWhile I understand the need to push back on ever increasing prices, I do fear what a race to the bottom will result in - the cultural homogeneity of our society, every city starts to look the same, Starbucks, Mcdonalds, Premier Inn and every other bland corporate glass and steel monoliths oozing out uniformity that you can think of.
To rejig Henry Fords quote - "Any customer can go into any pub that he wants, so long as it is Wetherspoons.".
I agree with that completely and I'm hoping the gouging fucks that we currently have can see it coming and do something about it. It's not lost on me at all but I'm so sick of getting ripped off in this country from every angle that I welcome the shake up and hope the locals are shitting in their solid gold pants with their fucking rip off bar menus and robbing bastard drink prices
Teasing my cat across the floor with a laser pointer...
Quote from: Carnage on February 27, 2023, 11:58:16 PMA town that had a lot of character is losing it bit by bit, not to mention becoming dangerous to wander around by night.
Really? I've always found Galway safe enough - definitely safer than Cork, Limerick or Dublin anyway.
Eyre Square has become very dodgy in the last couple of years and there's been a lot of trouble around Shop St. (the main street heading down toward the river) lately too. I've never had any hassle myself but I haven't been out in Galway for a while.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on February 28, 2023, 03:38:13 PMQuote from: Carnage on February 27, 2023, 11:58:16 PMA town that had a lot of character is losing it bit by bit, not to mention becoming dangerous to wander around by night.
Really? I've always found Galway safe enough - definitely safer than Cork, Limerick or Dublin anyway.
Have to stand up for Limerick here, in the past decade at least it has gone grand at night, nothing out of the ordinary for a city at least. My wife had mentioned some stat a few years back about Galway having the highest number of sexual assaults in the country but I couldn't find anything online to back it at the minute. Anecdotally at least it's the grandest here, I often walk it very late night, alone, poisoned, with headphones on (coming home from Dolan's or the jamspace usually lol).
'Grandest' is so limerick specific, love it.
Wasn't there a thread on MI about local expressions and sayings around the country?
Quote from: Caomhaoin on February 28, 2023, 04:50:44 PM'Grandest' is so limerick specific, love it.
Wasn't there a thread on MI about local expressions and sayings around the country?
That's a Tipp expression
Quote from: Carnage on February 28, 2023, 03:54:33 PMEyre Square has become very dodgy in the last couple of years and there's been a lot of trouble around Shop St. (the main street heading down toward the river) lately too. I've never had any hassle myself but I haven't been out in Galway for a while.
Am I fanning the flames by asking why exactly that it's supposed to have become so dangerous of late?
Quote from: ochoill on February 28, 2023, 04:31:28 PMHave to stand up for Limerick here, in the past decade at least it has gone grand at night, nothing out of the ordinary for a city at least. My wife had mentioned some stat a few years back about Galway having the highest number of sexual assaults in the country but I couldn't find anything online to back it at the minute. Anecdotally at least it's the grandest here, I often walk it very late night, alone, poisoned, with headphones on (coming home from Dolan's or the jamspace usually lol).
Ah yeah - I wasn't saying any of the other three cities were overly dangerous - just that one could come up against a bit of hassle faster in those locales than you would expect in Galway.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on February 28, 2023, 05:00:58 PMQuote from: ochoill on February 28, 2023, 04:31:28 PMHave to stand up for Limerick here, in the past decade at least it has gone grand at night, nothing out of the ordinary for a city at least. My wife had mentioned some stat a few years back about Galway having the highest number of sexual assaults in the country but I couldn't find anything online to back it at the minute. Anecdotally at least it's the grandest here, I often walk it very late night, alone, poisoned, with headphones on (coming home from Dolan's or the jamspace usually lol).
Ah yeah - I wasn't saying any of the other three cities were overly dangerous - just that one could come up against a bit of hassle faster in those locales than you would expect in Galway.
Fair, and yeah in that respect I'd have been the same as you and thought Galway to be tame until herself gave me that other stat. More stories of lads getting bust or robbed on stags up there too but again same craic, just lads telling stories so no idea how the stats actually hold up.
Quote from: astfgyl on February 28, 2023, 04:59:11 PMQuote from: Caomhaoin on February 28, 2023, 04:50:44 PM'Grandest' is so limerick specific, love it.
Wasn't there a thread on MI about local expressions and sayings around the country?
That's a Tipp expression
North Tipp Best Tipp
Quote from: ochoill on February 28, 2023, 05:35:47 PMQuote from: StoutAndAle on February 28, 2023, 05:00:58 PMQuote from: ochoill on February 28, 2023, 04:31:28 PMHave to stand up for Limerick here, in the past decade at least it has gone grand at night, nothing out of the ordinary for a city at least. My wife had mentioned some stat a few years back about Galway having the highest number of sexual assaults in the country but I couldn't find anything online to back it at the minute. Anecdotally at least it's the grandest here, I often walk it very late night, alone, poisoned, with headphones on (coming home from Dolan's or the jamspace usually lol).
Ah yeah - I wasn't saying any of the other three cities were overly dangerous - just that one could come up against a bit of hassle faster in those locales than you would expect in Galway.
Fair, and yeah in that respect I'd have been the same as you and thought Galway to be tame until herself gave me that other stat. More stories of lad getting bust or robbed on stags up there too but again same craic, just lads telling stories so no idea how the stats actually hold up.
Quote from: astfgyl on February 28, 2023, 04:59:11 PMQuote from: Caomhaoin on February 28, 2023, 04:50:44 PM'Grandest' is so limerick specific, love it.
Wasn't there a thread on MI about local expressions and sayings around the country?
That's a Tipp expression
North Tipp Best Tipp
North Tipp only Tipp
Quote from: astfgyl on February 25, 2023, 07:29:20 PMI'm in wetherspoons here in Waterford and it feels like the old days. Drink cheap as shit and the place is packed. Buzzing. As soulless as it is, the cheap pints is enough to fill it up.
If this takes off, the Irish pub is fucked
The 'Spoons here in Cork is a fucking dream location if you, like me, just want to people watch and report it back on a local metal scene talkpage. I go there with my brother sometimes on a Friday after work for the first round or two and we just take it all in.
For example;
A few weeks before Christmas the brother says to me that we'll do our drinks now cos I was gone for most of December and January. Into the 'Spoons (The Linen Weaver is its given name but nobody in Cork uses it). Open the front door - there's a lad about 19 or 20 years old sitting on a stool in the way of us getting in.
"ID please."
I shoot the brother a look - I'm 41 and he's not far behind. But we'll play the game.
As I'm pulling out my driver's licence something crashes into the back of me. It's an electric wheelchair being driven by a lad who is fucking demented.
"Scccchusseee me" says the lad "I jhusst need to get passsht you dere, yeah".
"Are you not going to ask this cunt here for ID?" asks the brother "Or at the very lest breathalyse him? He's all over the shop there, look at him!"
"He was in here before" says the young bouncer. "Just out for a smoke"
"Clearly he was - the fucking STATE of him." says the brother.
"G'wan in, if ye're goin' in" says the bouncer.
Up to the bar - two pints - lovely.
The brother takes a long thoughtful pull on his pint as he surveys the scene.
"Over there, stools, quick" he says nodding in the direction of where the lad in the wheelchair and his pals are.
Everyone of this group of people is destroyed from booze.
"I SWEAR teh god now righ'... if that prick EVA' EVA' said somethin' like that to me... I'd tell him to stick his job up his hole. Fuckin' fool."
Oh good - it's a Christmas work do. In a 'Spoons.
"Have you fags, Robert?" asked one of the others.
"Nuh. Nuh fags" answers the lad in the wheel chair.
"Yew fuckin' do. Stop lyin'!"
"Nuh... nuh lyin'cha"
She goes in under his wheelchair to a little basket yoke and starts rooting around.
"Fugg off!" roars Robert
"Shu'up you, Rob" says yer one and keeps digging. All of a sudden a MASSIVE Huzzar vodka bottle is rolling across the floor of The 'Spoons. Robert's eye is drawn to it.
"Me boddle! Me boddle for la'hur!"
"Shu'up, Rob - see I found your fags!" and she shows him a pack of cigarettes.
"Dere mine, yeh fucking tramp! Yeh fuckin' TRAAAAAA......"
On the 2nd evocation of the word "tramp" however our brave young hero, Robert, proceeded to puke all over himself and his snazzy Christmas jumper.
"HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Oh Christ! Oh Christ!" one of his group starts panicking.
"What'll we do?!" asks another one of them.
"Put on his hoodie over it! Quick! Before we're caught!"
So they shovel poor Robert into his hooded sweatshirt and start zipping it up over the puke puddle.
"Oh Jesus. I'm going to be sick meself here!"
As they're nearing the top of the zip, the aforementioned snazzy Christmas jumper begins to light up from underneath the hoodie.
"ME BODDLE!!!" roars Robert.
One of the party goes to retrieve the Huzzar and puts it back in the little basket.
"Shut up yeh big baby, yeh!"
And they go back to drinking. They were still there when we left about an hour later.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on February 28, 2023, 05:37:55 PMQuote from: astfgyl on February 25, 2023, 07:29:20 PMI'm in wetherspoons here in Waterford and it feels like the old days. Drink cheap as shit and the place is packed. Buzzing. As soulless as it is, the cheap pints is enough to fill it up.
If this takes off, the Irish pub is fucked
The 'Spoons here in Cork is a fucking dream location if you, like me, just want to people watch and report it back on a local metal scene talkpage. I go there with my brother sometimes on a Friday after work for the first round or two and we just take it all in.
For example;
A few weeks before Christmas the brother says to me that we'll do our drinks now cos I was gone for most of December and January. Into the 'Spoons (The Linen Weaver is its given name but nobody in Cork uses it). Open the front door - there's a lad about 19 or 20 years old sitting on a stool in the way of us getting in.
"ID please."
I shoot the brother a look - I'm 41 and he's not far behind. But we'll play the game.
As I'm pulling out my driver's licence something crashes into the back of me. It's an electric wheelchair being driven by a lad who is fucking demented.
"Scccchusseee me" says the lad "I jhusst need to get passsht you dere, yeah".
"Are you not going to ask this cunt here for ID?" asks the brother "Or at the very lest breathalyse him? He's all over the shop there, look at him!"
"He was in here before" says the young bouncer. "Just out for a smoke"
"Clearly he was - the fucking STATE of him." says the brother.
"G'wan in, if ye're goin' in" says the bouncer.
Up to the bar - two pints - lovely.
The brother takes a long thoughtful pull on his pint as he surveys the scene.
"Over there, stools, quick" he says nodding in the direction of where the lad in the wheelchair and his pals are.
Everyone of this group of people is destroyed from booze.
"I SWEAR teh god now righ'... if that prick EVA' EVA' said somethin' like that to me... I'd tell him to stick his job up his hole. Fuckin' fool."
Oh good - it's a Christmas work do. In a 'Spoons.
"Have you fags, Robert?" asked one of the others.
"Nuh. Nuh fags" answers the lad in the wheel chair.
"Yew fuckin' do. Stop lyin'!"
"Nuh... nuh lyin'cha"
She goes in under his wheelchair to a little basket yoke and starts rooting around.
"Fugg off!" roars Robert
"Shu'up you, Rob" says yer one and keeps digging. All of a sudden a MASSIVE Huzzar vodka bottle is rolling across the floor of The 'Spoons. Robert's eye is drawn to it.
"Me boddle! Me boddle for la'hur!"
"Shu'up, Rob - see I found your fags!" and she shows him a pack of cigarettes.
"Dere mine, yeh fucking tramp! Yeh fuckin' TRAAAAAA......"
On the 2nd evocation of the word "tramp" however our brave young hero, Robert, proceeded to puke all over himself and his snazzy Christmas jumper.
"HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Oh Christ! Oh Christ!" one of his group starts panicking.
"What'll we do?!" asks another one of them.
"Put on his hoodie over it! Quick! Before we're caught!"
So they shovel poor Robert into his hooded sweatshirt and start zipping it up over the puke puddle.
"Oh Jesus. I'm going to be sick meself here!"
As they're nearing the top of the zip, the aforementioned snazzy Christmas jumper begins to light up from underneath the hoodie.
"ME BODDLE!!!" roars Robert.
One of the party goes to retrieve the Huzzar and puts it back in the little basket.
"Shut up yeh big baby, yeh!"
And they go back to drinking. They were still there when we left about an hour later.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
It has that shit written all over it!
Please tell me that you are considering some sort of career as a reporter or critic, you'd be fuckin brilliant at it
:laugh: :laugh: this just makes me want to go there even more!
Quote from: astfgyl on February 28, 2023, 04:59:58 PMQuote from: Carnage on February 28, 2023, 03:54:33 PMEyre Square has become very dodgy in the last couple of years and there's been a lot of trouble around Shop St. (the main street heading down toward the river) lately too. I've never had any hassle myself but I haven't been out in Galway for a while.
Am I fanning the flames by asking why exactly that it's supposed to have become so dangerous of late?
Fighting, muggings, pissheads falling around the place looking for fights - the usual shite.
Eyre Sq. in particular, it's badly lit, rarely policed. There's a big Supermac's at the top that's a wanker magnet when pubs are letting out, lots of trouble there. A student lost an eye there a few years back, someone launched a firework into her face. A friend of mine runs a pub just off it, has had loads of requests from the Gardy for CCTV footage from outside.
It's all gotten more common in the last few years, for whatever reason.
Quote from: Carnage on February 28, 2023, 05:56:45 PMQuote from: astfgyl on February 28, 2023, 04:59:58 PMQuote from: Carnage on February 28, 2023, 03:54:33 PMEyre Square has become very dodgy in the last couple of years and there's been a lot of trouble around Shop St. (the main street heading down toward the river) lately too. I've never had any hassle myself but I haven't been out in Galway for a while.
Am I fanning the flames by asking why exactly that it's supposed to have become so dangerous of late?
Fighting, muggings, pissheads falling around the place looking for fights - the usual shite.
Eyre Sq. in particular, it's badly lit, rarely policed. There's a big Supermac's at the top that's a wanker magnet when pubs are letting out, lots of trouble there. A student lost an eye there a few years back, someone launched a firework into her face. A friend of mine runs a pub just off it, has had loads of requests from the Gardy for CCTV footage from outside.
It's all gotten more common in the last few years, for whatever reason.
I honestly thought it was going to be Arabs. My bad :-X
Quote from: ochoill on February 28, 2023, 05:42:27 PM:laugh: :laugh: this just makes me want to go there even more!
That's the general vibe I was banging on about but with extra kids
Live in cork now and lived in Galway before. There would be more chance of a scrap in galway than cork. Especially round eye square some nights. Found galway pretty awful to live in. The traffic is outrageous and found it way easier to make friends in cork. Galway is grand for a weekend. Thata about it for me. Limerick is miles better that about 10 years ago. I find cork very safe anyway. And just way more options for music and the likes.
Imagine what we could have if Cork City Council were anything but the most useless cunts going
Quote from: Ollkiller on February 28, 2023, 06:48:06 PMLive in cork now and lived in Galway before. There would be more chance of a scrap in galway than cork. Especially round eye square some nights. Found galway pretty awful to live in. The traffic is outrageous and found it way easier to make friends in cork. Galway is grand for a weekend. Thata about it for me. Limerick is miles better that about 10 years ago. I find cork very safe anyway. And just way more options for music and the likes.
So it's definitely not the Islam boys then? I'm slightly disappointed
Tbf I find everywhere in the country to be safe because it's actually me that everyone else doesn't want to meet really
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on February 28, 2023, 08:09:44 PMImagine what we could have if Cork City Council were anything but the most useless cunts going
They are abysmal alright.
Quote from: astfgyl on February 28, 2023, 05:42:08 PM:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
It has that shit written all over it!
Please tell me that you are considering some sort of career as a reporter or critic, you'd be fuckin brilliant at it
Ha! Nah - I just live for the craic.
This thread pops up on my timeline every now and again and is a real pleasure, I re-read it almost every time.
https://twitter.com/AuldBlueEyes/status/1484629819950350336?t=uAeitNJvM1oaK7HWItyL7w&s=19
I don't even know where to begin picking the funniest entries in it, every one of them is solid gold.
Haha, fuckin' hell that was amazing :laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 02, 2023, 09:42:29 AMHaha, fuckin' hell that was amazing :laugh: :laugh:
It's amazing, some of them you'd have to read twice to believe anyone would even say these things in court lol
Quote from: ochoill on March 02, 2023, 10:52:53 AMQuote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 02, 2023, 09:42:29 AMHaha, fuckin' hell that was amazing :laugh: :laugh:
It's amazing, some of them you'd have to read twice to believe anyone would even say these things in court lol
That's brilliant alright. Yer man posting them is the singer with Horse.
A glass of Ribena.
Lovely.
Quote from: astfgyl on February 28, 2023, 06:24:33 PMThat's the general vibe I was banging on about but with extra kids
A lovely coda to the whole 'Spoons thing happened earlier in work.
I was in our canteen having my lunch. There was a lad from HR, Shane, sat at another bench. Normally I have tunes or a podcast on but I'm glad that I didn't today.
One of the newer lads, Darragh, comes into the canteen.
"Shane, I need a day off. March 27th, yeah. I need it off" says Darragh. Big mad stare up on him.
"Um, could it not..." starts Shane choking on his bowl of noodles "... could it not wait til I finish lunch?"
"I HAVE TO HAVE IT OFF!" erupts Darragh shifting from foot to foot.
"I'm not saying that you can't, Shane. I'd just like to enjoy my lunch in peace"
"It's me young lad's CONFIRMATION! I HAVE to it OFF!" Darragh says, fist balling.
"It's no problem. Just let me eat this and I'll put it on board. Relax".
"Right... RIGHT! Fair enough. It's just my ex has me under pressure after the whole St. Patrick's Day thing** and I just told the young fella that I'd take him for his lunch and stuff".
"No bother" says Shane "Are you taking him somewhere nice?"
"The Linen Weaver, it's a restaurant in town"
"Oh" says Shane who doesn't drink at all and lives in West Cork "sounds nice."
Now... I haven't had too many interactions with this Darragh lad but I can't resist.
"The Linen Weaver?" says I "The Wetherspoons in town?"
"Yeah. Yeah" says Darragh "It's my young lad's favourite. We spend hours there on my access days of a Saturday afternoon. Loves the mixed grill and the chicken thing. Gets his magazine to read. I'm taking him in there. You're from the Northside so you probably don't have proper pubs with windows and stuff."
"Lovely" says I... game on - "And sure if you can't get it off - you could take him to curry night instead."
"Eh... no. I only have him Saturdays and for his confer, never have him during the week usually." replies Darragh as he rounds on Shane.
"I def'ny have it off now yeah?"
"Yep" says Shane "Enjoy it"
"Not a bother - couple of scoops and a dinner will be lovely." and off he goes.
I spent the next few minutes laughing to myself. I hope that young lad doesn't bring his confirmation money the 'Spoons, his oul fella will drink it on him.
Although the 'Spoons is cheap so he might get home with 60% of it.
**Note to self - find out about St. Patrick's Day.
:laugh: Keep us updated!
Drinking cans of Stella Artois after a tough week. :o
Quote"Yeah. Yeah" says Darragh "It's my young lad's favourite. We spend hours there on my access days of a Saturday
That's why they have access days
Vitamin G and Vomitor live vids 8)
All responsibilities taken care of early, and Celtic v Hearts followed by a double header of Six Nations games on the couch eating poorly. Classic.
Also have a free day from now until sometime in the morning, so I'm off to record bass with a lad, drink cans, and knock to the pub as a reward later. Grand auld evening
The drink.
I imagine you're having or had what the Germans call a 'katerbier' :)
Long weekend Sunday beers 8)
Quote from: Caomhaoin on March 12, 2023, 10:20:48 AMI imagine you're having or had what the Germans call a 'katerbier' :)
I had to look that up, jesus no, the attempt would put me back in bed
Katerbier
I've a slab of Rivet in front of my rivethead. Pain tomorrow, I predict.
Quote from: astfgyl on March 12, 2023, 01:05:35 PMKaterbier
Ya my German teacher pulls me up for not capitalising the nouns, also for trying to pretend I understand the dative case. Good laugh though, the Katerbier :)
Beers and Patrick Walker singing. Oof!
Landed in New York today and found out weed is now legal here. 8) :abbath:
"Hey, I'm rollin' here!!"
Watching the Dutch farmers upset the applecart. Glorious :)
Quote from: Caomhaoin on March 16, 2023, 12:35:47 PMWatching the Dutch farmers upset the applecart. Glorious :)
Only if you go looking for it. Story doesn't seem to exist in the media here, unless I've missed some opinion piece demonising them..
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2023/03/16/dutch-farmers-protest-party-shakes-up-senate-with-election-win/
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 16, 2023, 03:09:15 PMhttps://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2023/03/16/dutch-farmers-protest-party-shakes-up-senate-with-election-win/
Aha very good so I hadn't missed the complete denial of the protests themselves that was only to be found on social media (don't go find it, let me have this one lol) but I did miss the election part entirely.
Great result really so rutte and his pals at the wef can go suck a fat Micky the rotten fucks. :)
The exchange between him and Thierry Baudet over his reading of Klaus Schwab's book was an absolute classic that was also memory holed by pretty much all media but was very telling about where rutte's allegiances lie.
Anyway I'm sure the wef will come up with a way around it
The feeling of coming back to life after a couple of rum and cokes to cure a hangover. Or at least postpone it another day. Today is that day, but that would be for another thread! :-X
There's no feeling like the cure kicking in tbf. The relief.
Some laugh alright. Provided, obviously, that it doesn't turn in to another rip and that's you needing snookers the day after.
Quote from: astfgyl on March 19, 2023, 09:41:24 PMThere's no feeling like the cure kicking in tbf. The relief.
I was feeling shoddy today but I am out in a pub now getting a few fear relievers in, grand
Just got a package from the UK worth £70 with no customs charges 8)
Quote from: Caomhaoin on March 19, 2023, 09:45:22 PMSome laugh alright. Provided, obviously, that it doesn't turn in to another rip and that's you needing snookers the day after.
This is it. 3 to 5 beers to cure the hangover and then leave it alone.
Quote from: Ollkiller on March 13, 2023, 10:42:19 PMLanded in New York today and found out weed is now legal here. 8) :abbath:
So New York is damn expensive now. Bang of weed everywhere now. Not like Amsterdam where it has to be in a cafe. You can smoke a joint on the street on from what I saw no one gives a shit. Way to have it really.
The Met was awesome and went to the Bronx, Yonkers and Queens the days I wasnt in Manhattan. Leas expensive and just as much craic.
My sister and her husband recently moved to NYC, 6 grand a month to rent a two bedroom apartment. 6 grand! What's that, 8 months of mortgage payments here or at home?
Quote from: Caomhaoin on March 21, 2023, 03:35:36 AMMy sister and her husband recently moved to NYC, 6 grand a month to rent a two bedroom apartment. 6 grand! What's that, 8 months of mortgage payments here or at home?
Crazy money alright. Was talking to a few people there who said you can get a room for 1200 to 1600 dollars a month. Still nuts money.
Digging out some old cds and realising they are scratched to fu#k,only to remember I still have my old dell PC and can instantly burn new copy's which I have just done. ::)
Was out at work today, clearing up a massive mess. Leaking roof, water everywhere, stock to be moved/thrown out, cleaning up/mopping... all that shite. Got manky, covered in stagnant water, hurt my back lugging boxes and fittings around, blah blah balh.
The simple pleasure is the post shower/dinner flop on the couch, fire on, with that specific tiredness/contenment you only enjoy after a physical day and a job done. Have a coupla beers and a bottle of wine in the gaff that are calling, too...
Quote from: Hellyeah on March 22, 2023, 08:27:44 PMDigging out some old cds and realising they are scratched to fu#k,only to remember I still have my old dell PC and can instantly burn new copy's which I have just done. ::)
Whenever that happens me I do the same, just burn a copy off the hard drive and throw it in the box along with the scratched original. Tis grand to be burning CDs
Couple of tuna sangwidges, mug o'tae, bowl of flavoursome crisps and a Still Game marathon for the afternoon. Git it right up yis, magic :)
Quote from: Hellyeah on March 22, 2023, 08:27:44 PMDigging out some old cds and realising they are scratched to fu#k,only to remember I still have my old dell PC and can instantly burn new copy's which I have just done. ::)
Were you able to rip them on the PC without skips?
I have a great (entirely mad) and scratched to bits CD of Kosovar Albanian pop music.
It plays no bother in the car as the CD player has some sort of cache system for playback.
No go on every CD player inside the house.
I've found a local shop that sells 2nd hand PS3 and PS4 games and charges $3 to buff out and recondition discs if all sorts.
Quote from: 91/30 on March 27, 2023, 10:13:12 AMQuote from: Hellyeah on March 22, 2023, 08:27:44 PMDigging out some old cds and realising they are scratched to fu#k,only to remember I still have my old dell PC and can instantly burn new copy's which I have just done. ::)
Were you able to rip them on the PC without skips?
I have a great (entirely mad) and scratched to bits CD of Kosovar Albanian pop music.
It plays no bother in the car as the CD player has some sort of cache system for playback.
No go on every CD player inside the house.
I've found a local shop that sells 2nd hand PS3 and PS4 games and charges $3 to buff out and recondition discs if all sorts.
Yeah they copied no bother without skips. We're skipping all over the place in cd player and car.
Have ripped them to PC also with no problems. Dont know how the PC can read a scratched cd and the hifi can't.
Done this with dvds also.
Copy is always perfect.
Drigh: simultaneously drunk and high.
Always a gamble though. Delicious hot, anxiety-inducing cold! :abbath:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on April 01, 2023, 09:33:12 PMDrigh: simultaneously drunk and high.
Always a gamble though. Delicious hot, anxiety-inducing cold! :abbath:
Had a mate over for a smoke last night. He doesn't drink but I never stop drinking so I decided to stay away from tobacco for the evening ie only the pipe no joints and would you believe it I was fucking grand once I didn't bring the tobacco into things. It's making me think
My 15 year old car passing its nct today. Ford focus which I've owned for the last 12 years or so.
You can keep your electric eco box.
I'm happy out with my 1.6 petrol with a cd player. 8)
First thing I went looking for when buying the car lately was the cd player. Delighted when I found it in the glove box
Quote from: astfgyl on April 04, 2023, 01:36:34 PMFirst thing I went looking for when buying the car lately was the cd player. Delighted when I found it in the glove box
Yeah it's a must have imo. Curious as to why they put them in glove box,(most don't have them) when a simple slit In the dash would suffice. All for aesthetics I guess.
I know I shouldn't but I like to change them on the move.
CD from Amerikay in the post yesterday, and no customs charge. I was sure I'd get hit, so hooray.
Quote from: Hellyeah on April 04, 2023, 06:45:45 PMQuote from: astfgyl on April 04, 2023, 01:36:34 PMFirst thing I went looking for when buying the car lately was the cd player. Delighted when I found it in the glove box
Yeah it's a must have imo. Curious as to why they put them in glove box,(most don't have them) when a simple slit In the dash would suffice. All for aesthetics I guess.
I know I shouldn't but I like to change them on the move.
I'm regularly to be found leaning sideways trying to change a disc
Full moons rising 🌕
I went out for a gentle stroll this evening, feeling a little tender after a heap of cans last night. I got there, took out my phone and put a podcast on but as I started walking I felt the urge to run so put the phone away and took off. I wasn't sure if I would have it in me but it was good. I even tackled a big hoor of a hill that I was planning on dodging. Don't worry, I've already patted myself on the back 8)
Saturday afternoon watching 30 young lads beat each other with sticks. I mean there's a sliotar involved at times but that's sort of beside the point of denting each others shins
Further to that, looking at the young lads face after losing 3 games in a row at the féile was priceless and my laughing only made him thicker which made me laugh more
Quote from: astfgyl on April 08, 2023, 12:53:34 PMSaturday afternoon watching 30 young lads beat each other with sticks. I mean there's a sliotar involved at times but that's sort of beside the point of denting each others shins
"The national sport in Ireland, apart from talking, is hurling. A cross between hockey and murder." - Ken Bruen, I forget what book it was.
Quote from: Carnage on April 08, 2023, 03:46:05 PMQuote from: astfgyl on April 08, 2023, 12:53:34 PMSaturday afternoon watching 30 young lads beat each other with sticks. I mean there's a sliotar involved at times but that's sort of beside the point of denting each others shins
"The national sport in Ireland, apart from talking, is hurling. A cross between hockey and murder." - Ken Bruen, I forget what book it was.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: would you believe I had that quote in my head several times today watching the three scrappy u15 games. I don't even watch much hurling on the telly until the good stuff kicks in for the summer but I'm constantly subjected to the chronic local stuff which I enjoy watching immensely
When you listen to an album to the point of wanting to order it, then order it and force yourself not to listen to it anymore until the postman arrives. The anticipation that goes with that, love it :abbath:
Going back to the start of the pet peeves thread and seeing the evolution of society and also realising that nothing ever changes
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on April 23, 2023, 01:44:01 PMWhen you listen to an album to the point of wanting to order it, then order it and force yourself not to listen to it anymore until the postman arrives. The anticipation that goes with that, love it :abbath:
Musical edging?
:laugh:
The satisfaction of finishing scanning a pile of CDs into the laptop/phone, when they've been building up for months. It was that or the pub and I thought if I was going to waste my time, I might as well save a few bob and get some feeling of accomplishment in the process.
Nice little one today. There's a shop called Hi-Fi Exchange that I drive past on my way home from work every day and I've been meaning to drop in. I needed one of those doo-dahs that you attach to the record player when you get a 7" with an oversized centre hole. As you can probably see, I'm quite technically minded.
Today I finally said, fuck it, and cut across a few lanes of busy rush hour traffic and went in. I explained as well as I could what I was after and the dude disappeared into a back room while I oohed and ahhhed over loads of old equipment, most of which I couldn't name or of whose function I could hardly even conceive. He comes out five minutes later with the exact little job, covered in dust, probably having sat rotting on an old stereo for a decade or two.
That's the exact thing! How much is it?
Ahhh, you can have it for free.
Really? How can you run a business if you give your stuff away, I laughed.
He just goes, If you want to support the business, give us a good review.
Fucking sound!
So I've been busy all evening setting up false social media accounts and calling him a paedo. It's the Irish way.
Seriously though, it's cool when someone looks out for you like that. It probably was only worth a couple of dollars but he could have charged me anything but just handed it to me. Cool motherfuckers still exist in this world 8)
:laugh: :laugh:
Finding an old half packet of cigarette papers in the back of a press after tearing the house apart at 11pm. Seriously, what else worth so little can bring such pleasure....And relief 8)
Quote from: Thorn on May 22, 2023, 11:15:48 PMFinding an old half packet of cigarette papers in the back of a press after tearing the house apart at 11pm. Seriously, what else worth so little can bring such pleasure....And relief 8)
I got so stung a few weeks ago that I used the back pages out of one of those carbon copy invoice A5s for a pinner. It wasn't great
Ha, thought got me thinking when we use to have fuck all tobacco as teens and would resort to rolling up the contents of a teabag. Fuckin' hell what kind of third world existence were we eking out in the early nineties :laugh:
Quote from: Thorn on May 24, 2023, 02:53:10 AMHa, thought got me thinking when we use to have fuck all tobacco as teens and would resort to rolling up the contents of a teabag. Fuckin' hell what kind of third world existence were we eking out in the early nineties :laugh:
:lol: fuck you'd try anything though for a smoke. I used to have a little wooden smoke box that I would empty the dog ends of fags out into when I was done with them so I could skin it up later when I inevitably ran out.
Lying with your head on the ground so your eyes are lined up with the floor, using the phone light to spot any debris that may be potential bud crumbs. Joint would smell like burnt hair and biscuits but sure better than no smoke. Don't miss student life.
Being on a vape for months and giving in to the comparative deliciousness that is pre-rolled cigarettes.
I haven't had a cig in years but I'm hopelessly addicted to vaping. Got the easyway book in the post last week so I may crack into it soon.
Have quit smoking once again as of Monday, although I'll still smoke when I drink, so I dunno where that lands me.
I envy people who can smoke socially. I'm like a lunatic after a day off them.
One joint (split between two of us) a day, is pretty much the extent of my smoking for the last decade or so. Always with rolling tobacco, and one of those you can get now with no added chemicals. At a session I might smoke a couple rollies, but sessions are less and less frequent. I'd have to be locked or out of it to smoke an industrial cigarette these days though. Find they taste like burning factory, though used to smoke my Camels or Johnny Blue not a bother at all.
I quit when I was 30 but it crept back in when I was drinking, which I'm grand with as they're lovely. This was my 3rd stint back smoking daily over 7.5 years and the longest at about 5 months. Until the next time.
I smoke fags, the vape and joints on a daily basis :laugh:
So, the shisha only on special occasions? :laugh:
Quote from: blessed1 on May 25, 2023, 04:59:26 PMI smoke fags, the vape and joints on a daily basis :laugh:
Wow so cool.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on May 25, 2023, 05:17:25 PMQuote from: blessed1 on May 25, 2023, 04:59:26 PMI smoke fags, the vape and joints on a daily basis :laugh:
Wow so cool.
Cheers ya big homophobic retard
Good man :)
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 25, 2023, 12:11:24 PMOne joint (split between two of us) a day, is pretty much the extent of my smoking for the last decade or so. Always with rolling tobacco, and one of those you can get now with no added chemicals. At a session I might smoke a couple rollies, but sessions are less and less frequent. I'd have to be locked or out of it to smoke an industrial cigarette these days though. Find they taste like burning factory, though used to smoke my Camels or Johnny Blue not a bother at all.
2 joints a day between you will turn the two of you right wing. Agree about the 20 fags Vs the rollies, as in the fags are awful but the rolls are grand
Stopped in an Irish pub on way home from Carpenter Brut (good but not great), seisiún in full swing. Get talking to lad at bar, young fella from Ballincollig, serves me happy hour price Guinness for the hour and a half I'm there. Sound out. And a hefty session too, at least a dozen musicians.
Woke just as the sun was rising this morning, opened the window and lay there for a while listening to the birds singing. Must be a wren's next just by the house, its song was just lovely to wake up to.
And the swallows are back nesting in the shed, hooray!
Quote from: Carnage on May 30, 2023, 08:07:54 PMWoke just as the sun was rising this morning, opened the window and lay there for a while listening to the birds singing. Must be a wren's next just by the house, its song was just lovely to wake up to.
And the swallows are back nesting in the shed, hooray!
Get the Merlin ID app to confirm your curiosity, it's fantastic!
Walking a riverbank with the young fella the other week, he asked what was the blue bird he just saw, while I was looking the other way, and it came up straight away that the sound was a kingfisher! Gutted as I've wanted to see one for so long, but delighted for him and he's still talking about it :)
Love listening to birds and seeing them in my garden. Have spent hours at the kitchen window watching them.
Yep, it's one of life's simple pressures alright. There's a spot here I go for exercise and it's a racket of cockatoos, parakeets, lorakeets, kukaburras, the odd lyre bird if you're lucky, and other as yet to be identified winged rodents. You can't beat it.
Quote from: Snare on May 31, 2023, 10:06:20 PMQuote from: Carnage on May 30, 2023, 08:07:54 PMWoke just as the sun was rising this morning, opened the window and lay there for a while listening to the birds singing. Must be a wren's next just by the house, its song was just lovely to wake up to.
And the swallows are back nesting in the shed, hooray!
Get the Merlin ID app to confirm your curiosity, it's fantastic!
Walking a riverbank with the young fella the other week, he asked what was the blue bird he just saw, while I was looking the other way, and it came up straight away that the sound was a kingfisher! Gutted as I've wanted to see one for so long, but delighted for him and he's still talking about it :)
I've never seen one and I've always lived by rivers. One day.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on May 31, 2023, 10:29:38 PMYep, it's one of life's simple pressures alright. There's a spot here I go for exercise and it's a racket of cockatoos, parakeets, lorakeets, kukaburras, the odd lyre bird if you're lucky, and other as yet to be identified winged rodents. You can't beat it.
Try Merlin ID and it will identify all those ones ya don't know. Yout can download a pack based on the continent you're on and pulls up all their data if you're interested.
It's gone to the stage where I switch off the bandcamp tunes during hill walks and the like, and see what birds it picks up. It's getting a bit like Pokemon catching Uncommon and Rare birds ;D I really like the Willow Warbler, wouldn't have known who that was making the noises before.
If I'm out for a stroll I'll have a podcast on the phone but without earphones in so I can do pick up the sounds of nature. If I'm doing a proper burn up the hills then it's au natural all the way. I'm famous for it!
:laugh:
Throwing together a quick dinner and it being the nicest thing you've eaten in ages.
Defrosted a steak but was too lazy to cook veg/spuds etc. so ended up chopping it up, throwing it in the pan with half a pepper and a small onion chopped small, splash of soy sauce (it was a peppered steak so didn't need seasoning), into a wrap with some grated double gloucester and a squirt of garlic mayo. Jaysus. 10 mins. from the decision to aytin'.
Quote from: Carnage on June 01, 2023, 03:26:14 PMThrowing together a quick dinner and it being the nicest thing you've eaten in ages.
Defrosted a steak but was too lazy to cook veg/spuds etc. so ended up chopping it up, throwing it in the pan with half a pepper and a small onion chopped small, splash of soy sauce (it was a peppered steak so didn't need seasoning), into a wrap with some grated double gloucester and a squirt of garlic mayo. Jaysus. 10 mins. from the decision to aytin'.
Ah yeah that sounds unreal. Love it when something so handy comes together that well.
Fair play but my wife cooks, fuck that.
Seeing bats out flitting around at dusk. Flying in tandem, almost like they're playing with each other. Lovely stuff.
Goth
Quote from: mishima on June 03, 2023, 08:50:58 PMSeeing bats out flitting around at dusk. Flying in tandem, almost like they're playing with each other. Lovely stuff.
I see/hear them regularly around the train tracks I cross on the way home. Lots of insects around the lights, it's tailor made for them.
Quote from: ochoill on June 04, 2023, 02:31:38 AMQuote from: Eoin McLove on June 03, 2023, 02:33:46 PMSaturday night cans and youtube crawling.
That was my plan for last night but instead I ate a special kebab and a large taco chip and couldn't bring myself to drink at all after it other than a large glass of Andrews liver salts in an attempt to purge myself of the evil
Headphones, eyes closed and half a gram of mushies. Unbeatable.
A gram beats it :laugh:
Only if the wife is away
Let's so he wins the retard olympics
Exactly yo Matt
Convinced the wife that I wasn't drunk or on mushies yesterday :(
Quote from: open face surgery on June 09, 2023, 11:55:19 PMA gram beats it :laugh:
And 2 grams beats it again! :laugh:
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 10, 2023, 09:49:29 AMConvinced the wife that I wasn't drunk or on mushies yesterday :(
You did the right thing man
5g heroic dose, silent darkness. Better fuckin pray neither the wife nor anybody else stumbles upon you in that state :laugh:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on June 10, 2023, 12:34:25 PM5g heroic dose, silent darkness. Better fuckin pray neither the wife nor anybody else stumbles upon you in that state :laugh:
I got stumbled upon year before last like that, rolling around the sitting room laughing me bollix off with the little dog for company. I'll put it this way, there was no denying it.
Mid-winter barbecuing, large cold bottle of Guinness Extra Stout and Mourning Beloveth 'Dust'. Beat that 8)
Went to Kerry for a few days last week to visit a mate who had recently moved back there.
Spent a fair bit of time driving around taking in the sights. It's bloody incredible down there.
The whole trip was like a fucking tonic. A complete change of pace and scenery for a few days can be so beneficial.
My old man is from Ballyferriter out past Dingle and every summer we'd go down there I loved it. Lot of your buses etc on the ring of Kerry in summer and dingle is a bit of a tourist trap these days but nowhere more beautiful if you ask me.
I asked my great grandmother when I was a chap why anyone would want to leave the dingle peninsula...
'A gasúr, you can't eat the view'
Ballinskelligs, near Cahirsiveen and Waterville. It used to be a nice small village when I was a kid, but I believe it's full of holiday homes now. We'd go there every summer, grand and quiet. Learned to play pool in the local pub (which featured in Mr. Nice - Marks used to land his drugs there). Beautiful long sandy beach, rock pools for the kids to explore an' all. Best place in the world for me.
Kerry is fucking smashing I haven't been there in a few years but it has something truly special going on there
Except Tralee of course.
Different kind of special going on there
Haven't actually spent any time in Tralee other than passing through now and again. Last place I stayed down there was Inch and it was class. The house itself had a minor claim to fame over some writer that stayed there (very minor because I can't remember the name) but sitting eating the breakfast taking in that view was something spectacular. Unfortunately I was working for Aldi at the time so by the Tuesday I was already dreading the following Monday and it was a bit like trying to enjoy the few days before prison or something. Bit like that film the 25th hour.
Brought the young lad to spashworld in Tralee when he was 4 or 5. Good craic. I have relations living in Tralee but it's a horrible town.
Just getting flashbacks of some old MI user from Killorglin, I think, who had some properly hairy booze/substance related yarns.
Can't remember the username but if memory serves, he rode some wan on his grandmother's grave while under the influence.
Mouldy stuff, but gas.
Fuck that's grim
Ah I've done worse. So have you ya cunt :)
:laugh: I ain't sayin nuthin!
Your granny on some wan's grave? :laugh:
You socialists have a different code.
Some wan's spectre is haunting Europe...
Chris the problem you have is that you're from Wicklow, a county with no chance of glory, even in the Mickey Mouse cups. No wonder you are a pain in the hole.
I identify as a Dubliner :laugh: That's a joke (except when it comes to GAA :laugh: ). Although, after 15 years living abroad answering the question "Ware een Iurlande?" with "Do you know Ireland well? No? Yeah, Dublin, I'm from Dublin." :laugh:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on June 24, 2023, 10:26:40 PMI identify as a Dubliner :laugh: That's a joke (except when it comes to GAA :laugh: ). Although, after 15 years living abroad answering the question "Ware een Iurlande?" with "Do you know Ireland well? No? Yeah, Dublin, I'm from Dublin." :laugh:
No self respecting Irishman who is not a Dubliner would ever tell anyone they are from Dublin.........unless.......good God........are you a lizard person?
Maybe you don't know where I'm actually from :laugh:
The mammy's side are all Dubs, born and bred, so it always felt like home. Especially the few years when it was!
Don't have a clue where you'r from my man.
Sorry to hear about your mothers side being Dubs though, we all have our crosses to bear.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on June 25, 2023, 12:32:11 AMMaybe you don't know where I'm actually from :laugh:
The mammy's side are all Dubs, born and bred, so it always felt like home. Especially the few years when it was!
Why would you ever advertise that
That actually rings a bell about a granny's grave, christ...
But just driving around Kerry seems an awful waste. Get out of the car and get on a bike or throw on some hiking shoes and fully immerse in things. My hike the June bank holiday with my 11 year old son along the mass rock route from Caherdaniel to Derrynane was glorious!
Honestly the last few posts have given me a sort of yearning that I didn't know I had
To be fair, grannys nowadays are a lot hotter than they were 25 years ago...
Quote from: Snare on June 25, 2023, 11:55:21 PMThat actually rings a bell about a granny's grave, christ...
But just driving around Kerry seems an awful waste. Get out of the car and get on a bike or throw on some hiking shoes and fully immerse in things. My hike the June bank holiday with my 11 year old son along the mass rock route from Caherdaniel to Derrynane was glorious!
There was a bit more to what I said, but I take your point of course. I'd need to have made the trip on my own to do more along those lines, as I was with mates. But still, as a visit, I loved every second of it.
The Mournes are next on the list.
Quote from: Giggles on June 26, 2023, 12:21:45 AMTo be fair, grannys nowadays are a lot hotter than they were 25 years ago...
Mine isn't.
This thread is really making me want to spend a few days in Kerry
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At least it wasn't Kerry katona :laugh:
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https://youtu.be/8noCAW7z5Bk
Got reminded of this earlier. Reckon it's one of my favourites of all time. Line getting caught wanking times a hundred. Just brilliant, heartwarming stuff.
Edit: ah jaysus "deeply moronic and indefensible" for having a wank. Could be my favourite clip of anything other than https://youtu.be/2NAwHwKr2xQ
Total cringe that first clip, just retire or get a new job, don't go on national TV to say you went to therapy for a "Tommy tank" :laugh:
The 2nd,was working a warehouse job at the time, got to watch the match in canteen but at fulltime whistle back to work, plus they docked us 90mins wages the c#nts.
Imagine fuckin docking the wage for one of the greatest moments in Irish soccer history.
Fuck sake
Edit: could maybe understand if you'd given the 90 mins watching the lad wanking but not this
What's worse was I was working for a Japanese pharma company at the time.
And they wonder why I left!!! :laugh:
A free pint.
Just sold a bass to a lad. I had mentioned in the ad it was the same model used by Roger Patterson and Tony Choy back in the day. Fair play to him, he looked them up, discovered Atheist and loves them. It's always cool to meet someone young who digs the good stuff beyond the big bands.
Yep, fair play to him, there's hope yet.
Seeing the first signs of spring in the trees.
Schadenfreude. I don't take pleasure in genuine misfortunes but sometimes I hear a story that makes my dark heart swell.
My oul fella is retired about 7 years. As a single man - there's nobody else in the house to keep him company/for him to annoy (delete as applicable). He discovered that there's only so many books you can read a week and rounds of golf that you can play.
Like most men of his age - he didn't have many close friends over the course of his middle age due to moving to an office in Dublin for the bones of 15 years.
After moving back to Cork, he reconnected with a few of his old pals - most of whom have dogs so the oul lad went and got two of the thickest dogs imaginable from the rescue place.
Quote from: Stout's Oul FellaThese are two of the stupidest dogs I've ever met. No wonder someone tried to drown them in a sack.
There's a core group of lads that go walking every morning/afternoon/lunchtime with their hounds. Basically, it's a knitting circle for men in their late 60s.
They walk through a park every day and they've been lobbying the local council to put in benches, dog shit bins, trees, better lights etc. Recently they had a small victory - 5 benches along the path and some bins.
The benches arrived and the old boys were there to see them put in. They all took turns getting a photo on it and then sending the photos to each other in their WhatsApp group. They also all took turns telling the local FG councillor to fuck off when he tried to have a photo taken and claim it as a victory on his Facebook.
Not 24 hours later some local scuts had a drinking session on the new benches and, after they were done, set said benches alight.
Next morning there was anger amongst the Warfarin crew (... hmmm... Metal Warfarin...).
One of the lads, Don, piped up with "Fucking scum! Are there cameras around here? These young fellas need a good hiding! Knackers is all they are. Not a single one of them are worth a slap and this is the shit that they do!"
Everyone murmured in agreement.
"I think there might be a camera by the entrance there look." pointed my oul fella.
"I'd batter the cunt who did this. The animal. And whoever dragged him up." continued Don.
"The corpo probably sent it to the guards already but I know your man in the hut" said Chipper Supper - of the other lads.
A few days later my old man rang me and asked if I'd consider welding up a few pieces of box section and making steel benches that won't burn or break - "As your good deed for the week" he says.
"I will, I suppose." says I "Was there a camera in the end?"
"Yeah there was, yeah. Don's idiot grandson and his pals were caught. Haven't seen Don since."
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"Next morning there was anger amongst the Warfarin crew (... hmmm... Metal Warfarin.".. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
The smell of cooking from our Indian nextdoor neighbours' kitchen, just lovely. Could equally have posted in the Pet Peeves thread as it was torment not being able to eat it!
Quote from: Carnage on July 28, 2023, 09:14:45 PMThe smell of cooking from our Indian nextdoor neighbours' kitchen, just lovely. Could equally have posted in the Pet Peeves thread as it was torment not being able to eat it!
Love Indian food, always same when I smell it anywhere. Been years since I had a proper feed of it.
I made the world's fucking worst curry here this evening, trying to copy the bog standard Irish Chinese chipper style sauce from scratch but didn't blend the onions in it, put in the world of peas by mistake, made it too runny, and cheaped out by using breaded chicken in the oven instead of fillets for it. Taste was fine but it was a watery veg mess. Totally scalded by it. It isn't a curry I would usually bother make myself (Indian and Thai usually) and thought sure it's so simple how could it go wrong? Easily, and very, as it turns out.
@ ochoill there's nothing worse than putting the effort in to cooking a feed for it to turn out dirt. By the sounds of it with the Thai and Indian you know what your doing which makes it worse. I like to think I'm a dab hand at the oul cooking but nothing worse than tryna make some wild card new recipe and ending up explaining to lady it's just teething problems.
I maintain it takes 3 tries to get any new dish perfected
YouTubers who just make a video and never ask you to LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE NOTIFICATION BELL COMMENT DOWN BELOW.
Bald and Bankrupt (although I hear he's a bit of a sex pest) has one of the best channels going and just makes the fucking things without annoying the viewer.
Took a trip to Scariff yesterday to check out the harbour festival they have every year. Wasn't expecting much but it turned out to be great craic. There was a Queen tribute band playing and they knocked the socks clean off me! Singer was unreal.
I'll definitely head back next year for it.
Quote from: blessed1 on August 05, 2023, 01:04:09 PMTook a trip to Scariff yesterday to check out the harbour festival they have every year. Wasn't expecting much but it turned out to be great craic. There was a Queen tribute band playing and they knocked the socks clean off me! Singer was unreal.
I'll definitely head back next year for it.
Wonder if those are the same lads who played in thurles a couple of weeks back? They were decent anyway
Quote from: blessed1 on August 05, 2023, 01:04:09 PMTook a trip to Scariff yesterday to check out the harbour festival they have every year. Wasn't expecting much but it turned out to be great craic. There was a Queen tribute band playing and they knocked the socks clean off me! Singer was unreal.
I'll definitely head back next year for it.
You've outed yourself here as a pure class cunt so no bothers big lad.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on August 05, 2023, 06:59:40 PMQuote from: blessed1 on August 05, 2023, 01:04:09 PMTook a trip to Scariff yesterday to check out the harbour festival they have every year. Wasn't expecting much but it turned out to be great craic. There was a Queen tribute band playing and they knocked the socks clean off me! Singer was unreal.
I'll definitely head back next year for it.
You've outed yourself here as a pure class cunt so no bothers big lad.
;D You're some pathetic worm of a person.
The new episode of Radical Research is out.
It's about Voivod.
It's 2h45m :laugh: :abbath:
Sunlight. It's been such a dull cunt a summer that a day like this is genuinely uplifting.
Quote from: Bürggermeister on September 04, 2023, 04:03:29 PMThe new episode of Radical Research is out.
It's about Voivod.
It's 2h45m :laugh: :abbath:
That on YouTube or is it some subscription thing?
Podcast, but I think you can listen to it here too
https://radicalresearch.org/episode-100-voivod-is-the-engine-that-powers-us/
Sound, I'll check that out later throw it on while I'm studying
Simple Pleasures / Random Thoughts crossover here.
When I lived in Vancouver there was a spot very near two of the flats I lived in called Siegel's Bagels. Can't even begin to explain how scoff their bagels were, you could get all sorts off them, and they were open pretty much 24 hours a day so I often ended up there at 3am after a feed of cans and ate it sitting on the curb outside (takeaway only sure).
Anyway I thought lately about their Montreal Smoked Meat Bagel and can't get it out of my mind. Unbelievable munch, layers of wafer thin smoked beef stacked up until they were falling out the sides, with mustard and a pickle on it, in whatever bagel you want (everything bagel being my go-to). I haven't been able to find anything close to it since I got home. The bones of a decade trying out different types of bagels, different pastrami, anything to get close to it but it is untouchable. Just whatever way they cured the meat was delicious, it was peppery but not overwhelming, had a nice sweetness with the spice of it, and was crumbly soft to bite but stacked thick so you could get a good meal out of it.
Just look at this shit: https://tryhiddengems.com/posts/montreal-smoked-meat-bagel/
My wife came home with some plain bagels from Dunnes yesterday that were closer to this type of bagel again so the hunt is back on for some decent smoked beef. I need to make one of these.
Morto for poor eejit Dave Kennedy, but things like this happening are absolutely a simple pleasure:
https://twitter.com/Craic_Den_/status/1702214433655734539
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Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on September 14, 2023, 10:18:47 AMMorto for poor eejit Dave Kennedy, but things like this happening are absolutely a simple pleasure:
https://twitter.com/Craic_Den_/status/1702214433655734539
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Ah fuck this is lethal
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A glorious clip. Your one getting her photo taken with the rock is just the cherry on top.
Pure Ted.
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Somehow or other I managed to Never hear a single Primus song in my life before 3 weeks ago.
Often heard of them, saw them mentioned as influences on other bands, heard Claypool mentioned as an unreal bassist, but never looked into them.
Fuck me, they are unreal.
I'm in the grips of a new musical obsession.
What a pleasure to have decades of a back catalog of music to enjoy.
I never took to anything I've heard past the first four (though it's a long time since I was last up to date with them), but Suck On This, Sailing The Seas Of Cheese and Pork Soda are all 5/5, with Frizzle Fry not far behind. Phenomenal bassist alright. Took a long time for them to click with me.
In keeping with the thread title: clean sheets.
Funny one in work today. I saw a young dude rambling about in a Lifelover t-shirt so naturally I went up to him for a chat. The look on his face with this middle aged fart looking not remotely metal chatting to him about fucking Silencer :laugh: it was priceless. Turns out he has his own one man DSBM band and, while a bit early days, you can hear the chap has a knack for a riff. I was encouraging him and telling him to focus on his own musical identity. It is always great to see young lads involved in making dark fucked up music so you never know, he might be the next big thing in the depths of the Black Metal underground 8)
https://erythema.bandcamp.com/album/light
Watching my brother act the absolute scut at 40.
A buddy of ours is getting married tomorrow. He's an only child and both his parents are dead. His missus only has a sister so they were going down a fairly simple route. No priest, no church, no hotel do. Just a registry office job and done.
Over a pint a few weeks ago the bould Podsie (my brother) says to me;
"Are we going to let Cummins just go about his day after he ties the knot?"
"If that's what he wants..." says I.
"Fuck that" says Pods and grabs his phone "Cummins. Yeah... I'm grand... You?... Shut up a minute. Stout and I are talking here and you're going to have a party in your gaff after the wedding... We'll sort it. Yeah... Serious... Yeah... well clean the fuckin' house then! Christ. OK. Right."
Hangs up, give me a cheeky wink that tells me we're on.
WhatsApp group arranged. Over 30 bodies ready to pitch in and then get pished. Everyone has a job. I'm doing the grub, Podsie is getting the booze. He rings me yesterday;
"Alright. I'm passing by your work in an hour - hop in the van and we'll go get the booze in the Tesco near your place and then I'll drop you home."
"Why do I have to go? You're the booze man."
"Cos I can't push two fuckin' trolleys, yeh sap!"
Into Tesco and there's slabs of Guinness and Heineken, bottles of spirits, mixers and nothing else being piled high into the trolleys. Not willy-nilly mind you. The man has a list.
We notice a security guard is lingering.
"Alright, kiiiiiid?!" says Pods "It's all for a wedding - our buddy is gettin' married. We're doing a BBQ from him." throwing him a thumbs up and a smile. Meanwhile, outside, a storm rages and rain pisses down.
We start pushing our trolleys towards the till.
"One sec there" says Pods and disappears returning a minute later with a massive pack of Huggies nappies plus milk formula.
To my knowledge - my brother doesn't have any kids.
"What in the name of fu..." I start but he's gone to the nearest till which appears to be operated by Ireland's sourest woman. Unabated Podsie struts up - the charm turned to 11 coupled with the 10000 watt Hollywood smile.
"Alright, girl?" he says to the woman who's about 60. "How's your day going?"
"Grand so far, love. Are ye having a party?" - he's after sweetening the sour oul wan already.
"Yeah. We're doing a BBQ for a fella we know. Not just the three of us like. A good few of us. "
"Ah! Fabulous!"
"Are you single yourself? Tis going to be a great night. I'll shoot you the address. You can Revolut me for the cans like."
"Oh. Em. No, love - you're grand but have a lovely time." and she finishes ringing up all the booze "That'll be €494 with your Clubcard".
Podsie leaves out a long whistle.
"I didn't think that it'd be that much now - to be straight and honest with you..."
And leans over putting the milk formula and nappies to one side.
"How much does it come to without these please?"
:laugh: Good man. I expect the follow up to this post in the Return Of The Fear thread in due course.
Quote from: Carnage on September 28, 2023, 05:16:34 PM:laugh: Good man. I expect the follow up to this post in the Return Of The Fear thread in due course.
Could be a heavy one alright. I have cleared my Saturday and Sunday.
Finishing work on a Friday evening and knowing it'll be at least Monday before getting back to that feeling of wanting to drive a steel nail through someone's forehead
The look of bovine non-comprehension on peoples faces if they ask you for your number and you tell them you don't have a phone.
I'ts fucking priceless, it's like ya told them ya have three cocks or something.
Love it..Wish I could still do it :(
Gave about 3 years without a phone and it was great. I eventually succumbed to the WhatsApp groups for the kids training and stuff like that. It's fairly unavoidable. Pity.
I hate the fucking things, especially them fucking smart phones.
The mobile phone itself is a grand idea if used responsibly, very handy for people travelling and in emergencies and the like.
When they put cameras on them the whole thing went to pot.
Quote from: ochoill on September 11, 2023, 09:57:03 AMSimple Pleasures / Random Thoughts crossover here.
When I lived in Vancouver there was a spot very near two of the flats I lived in called Siegel's Bagels. Can't even begin to explain how scoff their bagels were, you could get all sorts off them, and they were open pretty much 24 hours a day so I often ended up there at 3am after a feed of cans and ate it sitting on the curb outside (takeaway only sure).
Anyway I thought lately about their Montreal Smoked Meat Bagel and can't get it out of my mind. Unbelievable munch, layers of wafer thin smoked beef stacked up until they were falling out the sides, with mustard and a pickle on it, in whatever bagel you want (everything bagel being my go-to). I haven't been able to find anything close to it since I got home. The bones of a decade trying out different types of bagels, different pastrami, anything to get close to it but it is untouchable. Just whatever way they cured the meat was delicious, it was peppery but not overwhelming, had a nice sweetness with the spice of it, and was crumbly soft to bite but stacked thick so you could get a good meal out of it.
Just look at this shit: https://tryhiddengems.com/posts/montreal-smoked-meat-bagel/
My wife came home with some plain bagels from Dunnes yesterday that were closer to this type of bagel again so the hunt is back on for some decent smoked beef. I need to make one of these.
I laughed reading this. I understand this kind of forlorn craving from the other side; I'm in Canada now and I crave a Chinese takeaway from back home all the time (there's nothing like it at all here). The odd times I am back (about once every two years), I usually have about one a day and gain about a stone in the two weeks :laugh:
See also: chippy sausages.
Sitting back listening to shite from in-laws for years then finally getting the chance to put them in their place...magnificent..
Spill.
Quote from: Mooncat on October 01, 2023, 04:37:06 PMI laughed reading this. I understand this kind of forlorn craving from the other side; I'm in Canada now and I crave a Chinese takeaway from back home all the time (there's nothing like it at all here). The odd times I am back (about once every two years), I usually have about one a day and gain about a stone in the two weeks :laugh:
See also: chippy sausages.
I did love the Chinese food in Van but it is a totally different thing to the stuff back home, there were definitely days where I just wanted a 3 in 1 and there is just nothing like it there. Conversely I gave out recently that there's no shitty cheap by-the-slice pizza here in Limerick. I suppose it's just a perpetual hanger over anything else :laugh:
Chinese with chips is the best thing Paddy every invented :P
Quote from: Eoin McLove on October 05, 2023, 08:41:57 AMChinese with chips is the best thing Paddy every invented :P
It is up there with the crisp sandwich. It doesn't even need to be a curry either, a sweet and sour or a satay with chips is fuckin lethal too.
There's a place in town here - Burger & Bao - that does some great scoff and some chinese chipper staples (3 in 1's, usual meal deals of curries & rice & starter). It is all delicious but the bizarre peak of the menu for me is the BBC chips. Beef, Bacon, cheese, cream sauce, scallions, whatever they have it all flavoured with, loaded up onto chips. It is unbelievable, I don't know what way they make that sauce or cook the beef but the flavour is supreme.
I'm fuckin starving
You probably don't want to know so never find out, just keep eating.
Student who complimented my Bell Witch shirt, you just got yourself an A. Though I wonder now, does he actually know them? Or has he just been biding his time, waiting for the day I wear a shirt with a legible logo... 🤔
More generally, seeing rock and metal shirts every day on lads and ladies in their late teens/early twenties: Queen, Sabbath, Pantera, Prince, Zeppelin, Metallica, all in just the last week. Not only cool to see, but remarkable that what I don't see is shirts of whoever current rock and metal bands may be popular.
Quote from: ochoill on October 05, 2023, 10:05:10 AMQuote from: Eoin McLove on October 05, 2023, 08:41:57 AMChinese with chips is the best thing Paddy every invented :P
It is up there with the crisp sandwich. It doesn't even need to be a curry either, a sweet and sour or a satay with chips is fuckin lethal too.
There's a place in town here - Burger & Bao - that does some great scoff and some chinese chipper staples (3 in 1's, usual meal deals of curries & rice & starter). It is all delicious but the bizarre peak of the menu for me is the BBC chips. Beef, Bacon, cheese, cream sauce, scallions, whatever they have it all flavoured with, loaded up onto chips. It is unbelievable, I don't know what way they make that sauce or cook the beef but the flavour is supreme.
I'm fuckin starving
I've often stared at it from across the way at Mother Mac's but never ventured in. That sounds like an ideal post-Siege concoction though, can't wait.
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on October 05, 2023, 11:00:04 AMI've often stared at it from across the way at Mother Mac's but never ventured in. That sounds like an ideal post-Siege concoction though, can't wait.
Unsurprisingly, Mother Macs is my haunt too :laugh: I am forever in there. It closes early enough but it would line the stomach well for a feed of drink, I have often bought one and ate it in Mac's while on the Guinness.
I think it's my favourite pub in Limerick, or at least, I somehow end up there for at leats one on every visit.
There's one to keep it on topic, Mother Mac's, a fantastic simple pleasure.
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on October 05, 2023, 11:14:05 AMI think it's my favourite pub in Limerick, or at least, I somehow end up there for at leats one on every visit.
There's one to keep it on topic, Mother Mac's, a fantastic simple pleasure.
Mother Mac's is nice enough. I prefer Crew up the road from it though. Much better beers.
Tom Collins' is a mighty pub as well. One of life's simple pleasures (Limerick Edition) is getting a stool at the bar there early on a Friday afternoon and lowering pints of Guinness into yourself until it's time for dinner in The French Table.
The bang of a good fart. I mean one you've let yourself, not someone else's. I'm not a weirdo.
There's a pub between in Limerick between Mother's and Crew called Power's.
Stopped off one Saturday afternoon with the brother and a few other lads. It's an interesting place. Like if you wanted to drink in a Boyle Sports/Dole office hybrid.
We were finishing our pints and on the way to Crew when the brother says;
"Watch it, boys - this could get tasty."
Looking across the room, there were two lads having an argument.
One of them roars;
"Take 'aff ya fuckin' hat, yeh mouthy prick!" and shoves the other lad who immediately breaks down bawling crying and says in a London accent;
"I ain't even allow-had ta see ma fackin' kids!"
This stuns the Irish combatant who drops his fists, looks around him at the spectators, puts a conciliatory hand on the sobbing English lad's shoulder and says;
"You'd want to keep your mouth shut until you go home to England."
"England? Oi live in fackin' Kilaloe!"
Quote from: Eoin McLove on October 05, 2023, 12:36:05 PMThe bang of a good fart. I mean one you've let yourself, not someone else's. I'm not a weirdo.
As in the smell or the noise?
Quote from: StoutAndAle on October 05, 2023, 12:49:05 PMThere's a pub between in Limerick between Mother's and Crew called Power's.
Stopped off one Saturday afternoon with the brother and a few other lads. It's an interesting place. Like if you wanted to drink in a Boyle Sports/Dole office hybrid.
We were finishing our pints and on the way to Crew when the brother says;
"Watch it, boys - this could get tasty."
Looking across the room, there were two lads having an argument.
One of them roars;
"Take 'aff ya fuckin' hat, yeh mouthy prick!" and shoves the other lad who immediately breaks down bawling crying and says in a London accent;
"I ain't even allow-had ta see ma fackin' kids!"
This stuns the Irish combatant who drops his fists, looks around him at the spectators, puts a conciliatory hand on the sobbing English lad's shoulder and says;
"You'd want to keep your mouth shut until you go home to England."
"England? Oi live in fackin' Kilaloe!"
:laugh:
I know the place. I used to live right on that crossroads on William st in a flat over the bookies. Some fuckin sights. I loved it though, that's when I realised I really love living in a city.
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on October 05, 2023, 11:14:05 AMI think it's my favourite pub in Limerick, or at least, I somehow end up there for at leats one on every visit.
There's one to keep it on topic, Mother Mac's, a fantastic simple pleasure.
It is my favourite too. Great Guinness, unmerciful selection of whiskey, great staff, good crowd go there.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on October 05, 2023, 12:26:59 PMMother Mac's is nice enough. I prefer Crew up the road from it though. Much better beers.
Tom Collins' is a mighty pub as well. One of life's simple pleasures (Limerick Edition) is getting a stool at the bar there early on a Friday afternoon and lowering pints of Guinness into yourself until it's time for dinner in The French Table.
Crew is great sport too and their own beers are lovely, but the majority of lads I drink with don't go craft anymore so Macs for Guinness is the go to. Crew on a sunny day is amazing, street drinking, great buzz.
Collins' used to be a favourite of mine but I don't visit as much any more. Mixed crowd, the back is all students, the front is all regulars and older heads, and it is perpetually busy. I do agree though, get that barstool and hole out there for a few hours and the Guinness goes back like silk.
I mean look I also end up in The Commercial and Pharmacia too and they're grand but still, Macs all the way here.
Off the booze for 10 weeks today and a wedding this week so need to start greasing the wheels. Gonna have 2 pints in Brogans after work and I've got a chub thinking about them. I can't imagine ever getting a goo for lager the way I get one for Guinness. It's its own entity.
There's a very tame robin that hangs around the house, just had it flying around the kitchen. No harm done and it flew straight out the door, just nice to see that it's alive and well.
Quote from: The Heretic on October 04, 2023, 04:06:45 PMSitting back listening to shite from in-laws for years then finally getting the chance to put them in their place...magnificent..
I have a fuckin right good one about that:
So I was talking to the father in law one day and it came up with him saying about how all soccer players are pussies etc usual stuff from a rugby and hurling fan nothing new there, but anyway I was making the case that John Terry was a hardy cunt and going on about the time he had a broken back and played out the match with it. On comes the lad and says not possible, if he had a broken back he'd be paralysed so he couldn't have had. Nah I says, it doesn't mean his spinal cord was severed or anything just that he had a fractured vertebra so not all broken backs mean that you're paralysed like. Well this shit went on for a good half an hour until I got thick with him being such a thick cunt and we left it at that, disagreeing to disagree.
At least 5 years later didn't the father in law have a terrible accident on his electric pushbike and ended up very bad off in hospital for weeks. Eventually he gets out but still has to spend a bit of time in a sort of half hospital nursing home effort where I went to visit him.
How's tricks lad? Says I.
Ah I'm broke up he says, it turns out I broke a couple of vertebrae in the fall.
No you didn't I said.....
Sure you're hardly telling me that the doctors and the scans are wrong are you?
No, I says... but sure if you had a broken back you'd be paralysed
:) :) :)
Got the cunt
Quote from: astfgyl on October 05, 2023, 10:49:28 PMQuote from: The Heretic on October 04, 2023, 04:06:45 PMSitting back listening to shite from in-laws for years then finally getting the chance to put them in their place...magnificent..
I have a fuckin right good one about that:
So I was talking to the father in law one day and it came up with him saying about how all soccer players are pussies etc usual stuff from a rugby and hurling fan nothing new there, but anyway I was making the case that John Terry was a hardy cunt and going on about the time he had a broken back and played out the match with it. On comes the lad and says not possible, if he had a broken back he'd be paralysed so he couldn't have had. Nah I says, it doesn't mean his spinal cord was severed or anything just that he had a fractured vertebra so not all broken backs mean that you're paralysed like. Well this shit went on for a good half an hour until I got thick with him being such a thick cunt and we left it at that, disagreeing to disagree.
At least 5 years later didn't the father in law have a terrible accident on his electric pushbike and ended up very bad off in hospital for weeks. Eventually he gets out but still has to spend a bit of time in a sort of half hospital nursing home effort where I went to visit him.
How's tricks lad? Says I.
Ah I'm broke up he says, it turns out I broke a couple of vertebrae in the fall.
No you didn't I said.....
Sure you're hardly telling me that the doctors and the scans are wrong are you?
No, I says... but sure if you had a broken back you'd be paralysed
:) :) :)
Got the cunt
That's long grass at its finest!
Long runs the fox
Turning the corner on my fitness after relative laziness over winter 8)
Have been away for a few weeks, was unable to watch any of the rugby world cup during that time. Just catching up now watching the SA match, with Scotland to follow, while knowing the scores. Without the tension, this SA match is sublime entertainment.
Chick Fil-A.
Ah you soon be back to good ol' Tommy's
Another week. :-\
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Just got an email to say tonight's Go_A gig has been postponed due to the weather, rescheduled to December.
That's much better than finding out at the venue in the pissing rain after a two hour drive and has really cheered me up 😂
Who are Go_A?
Had to look that up myself, from Wikipedia:
"Go_A is a Ukrainian folktronica band formed in 2012. The band represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, performing "Shum", and placed fifth in the final."
Sounds like a lucky escape TBH.
Ah that's a fairly shite description. Sort of like a more techno-ish Prodigy vibe with some folky elements and some eastern-european shrieking on top. Interesting enough stuff and I don't think I lose too many Metal points.
I'd like to thank the person who looked into a buzzing Bee-hive and thought:
"Those bastards are hiding something delicious in there I know it."
Giving Type o Negative, October rust a spin on Halloween night.
Always seem to visit this around now, must be the dark nights.
1996 Wtf.
Finding the missing battery from the remote in the very first place you look. Literally just put my hand under the draft excluder at the door and lo and behold..
Quote from: The Butcher on October 29, 2023, 09:23:27 AMI'd like to thank the person who looked into a buzzing Bee-hive and thought:
"Those bastards are hiding something delicious in there I know it."
:laugh: I'd never thought of that
Why else would they be stinging you and sacrificing their lives in the process if they didn't have something brilliant in there? Imagine them as being as smart if not smarter than a human but just they look like that but otherwise as sentient as oneself and then they have this stuff that they have to protect from the evil giants but then the evil giants take them prisoner and build prison colonies where they use forced labour to produce the magical stuff that no other species is meant to find out about and they've turncoated on their own species by being so weak in character
The more I think about it the more ashamed I think those bees should be in their little bee boxes
Fuckin uncle Tom pieces of shit
Quote from: Hellyeah on October 31, 2023, 08:46:40 PMGiving Type o Negative, October rust a spin on Halloween night.
Always seem to visit this around now, must be the dark nights.
1996 Wtf.
That could come out tomorrow and still be ahead of its time. In a league of its own
Hammerheart Records reopening their online store.
Ah, nice! I thought they just threw in the towel getting Napalm Records to distro their stuff instead.
They did exactly that for a while and the demand was such that they had to reopen on their own. I guess I wasn't the only 'head who refused to direct funds to Napalm due to their velveteen bodice bands. At least that's what I always associate Napalm with.
That and excessive postal charges. Nearly as bad as Nuclear Blast.
I hear ya, I had to scrap a NB order the other week as it was unfeasible at the prices
A Wispa that's been cooling in the fridge. Hard to beat.
I put all chocolate bars in the fridge, so much better
Big time.
Same yeah, any chocolate at all, the colder the better. I put wispas in the freezer for dipping in tea.
Shit... now that's extreme! Might give it a go next week after the shop 8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVGV6lvNTR4
All Cadburys is shit these days. Changed the recipe ages ago and it's awful. You have to go to a speciality chocolate shop to get anything that resembles real choclate nowadays.
I stripped my old Minidisc player this evening to replace the eject belt, which had perished. No spare screws after putting it all together. No smoke, no sparks, either. It looks like I've got the fucker working again. I'll bet the shit I still have on discs wasn't worth the effort but, still, I'm quite pleased with myself.
Smokey And The Bandit on telly. Grand.
Quote from: Bürggermeister on December 08, 2023, 10:33:15 PMI stripped my old Minidisc player this evening to replace the eject belt, which had perished. No spare screws after putting it all together. No smoke, no sparks, either. It looks like I've got the fucker working again. I'll bet the shit I still have on discs wasn't worth the effort but, still, I'm quite pleased with myself.
Love that sort of thing. Took apart an old tascam 4 track a few years ago and got it going again. Was delighted to dig out the old tapes and reminisce. Unfortunately the tunes were shit :laugh:
Speaking of repairs, anyone ever repair a walkman ? I think the belt inside mine may have perished but don't wish to break it in order to open it. Are there walkman repair people nowadays? Highly doubt it.
Quote from: leatherface on December 09, 2023, 09:58:08 PMSpeaking of repairs, anyone ever repair a walkman ? I think the belt inside mine may have perished but don't wish to break it in order to open it. Are there walkman repair people nowadays? Highly doubt it.
I replaced a belt last night
It works!
A belt-replacement video of the model I have:
https://youtu.be/MLYwjnD1Rjg?si=BQcqyEaLM9FGsWeu
Bought the belt from here:
https://fixyouraudio.com/instructions/general-repair-instructions/
Get a set of screwdrivers
P0 should do you
Goodluck!
I got mine here, they were bang on.
https://www.ebay.ie/str/websparepartseu
I have a cassette deck I'm going to try to replace the belts on next.
There are still electronics repair places who might have a go at your walkman. If you go to any electrical supplies place and ask they should know someone.
Thanks both for the links/advice about cassette players. Definitely a specialist project, will do what I can.
Jigsaw puzzles, what a way to forget your troubles for a few hours..
The shimmering brilliance of Katatonia's 'Impermanence '
Sorted a frankly obscene amount of Belgian ales there now for the Christmas stock. Always go fantastically with the fire.
Wine. It's just mighty.
Waddled into my local tonight, met a coupla lads I hadn't seen for years, had a great time. The oul' "my eldest is in college in Ennis" and so forth is a leveller...
Ennis has a college?
News to me too.
Quote from: Don Gately on December 16, 2023, 03:17:49 PMEnnis has a college?
I think its just one small building that acts as an outside campus for LIT.
But agreed with the above sentiment that wine is class. Throwing back a bottle of red with the dinner always goes down a treat.
Got an email from Amazon the other day, telling me I was getting a ~€7 refund on an SD card I bought 2½ years ago. I presumed it was an error and ignored it but sure enough, it went into my account today. This is the third refund I've gotten on that SD card, about €13 all told. It's not much but anything back from those pricks is welcome.
Quote from: Carnage on December 19, 2023, 01:49:13 AMGot an email from Amazon the other day, telling me I was getting a ~€7 refund on an SD card I bought 2½ years ago. I presumed it was an error and ignored it but sure enough, it went into my account today. This is the third refund I've gotten on that SD card, about €13 all told. It's not much but anything back from those pricks is welcome.
Very same happened to. €13 refund on some 4Ks I bought about 2 years ago !
Something to do with import fees, it would have been around the time UKexit kicked in I suppose. I know there were issues with fees then, hence the first refund(s).
That feeling when you've just come through a busy and stressful time at work and can relax over the Xmas holidays...bliss
On a related note, when the shops have all closed on Christmas eve and there's no more can be done. Bliss
Aye. Enjoying a pint of Arthur's best now before getting home and putting the feet up in front of the fire.
Yknow I actually like the day itself but it isn't half some awful load of bollix leading up to it.
Kept with tradition as well and left the wife's present until last
If you've everything done it's grand, if you're running around last minute shopping it's hell on Earth. All I had to do today was buy wine for tomorrow and that was done as soon as the offie opened. So relax now.
The awkward bit is I'm stuck beside an ex and her father (forner teacher of mine), who had no idea I was with his daughter and is all talk. Great fun dropping the odd innue do he wouldn't pick up on, and watching her squirm!
Guinness - it's great!
Sittin back watchin' Distant Sky with the good lady, glass or several of red...bliss.
Thinking about animal life experience the way this lad is:
https://twitter.com/RTEOne/status/1743761908606394587
This weather. Don't give a fuck how cold it gets as long as it's not sideways raining
:laugh: is that a meterological term?
Quote from: Giggles on January 11, 2024, 12:14:02 PMThis weather. Don't give a fuck how cold it gets as long as it's not sideways raining
It's the wind that bothers me. Don't mind the cold and even the rain is doable as long as it's not windy along with it
Listening to people at work lose their shit over SuperValu Park. 😂
Meeting someone for an actual coffee, instead of the usual hape of pints it usually becomes.
Quote from: Carnage on January 16, 2024, 03:42:09 PMMeeting someone for an actual coffee, instead of the usual hape of pints it usually becomes.
Jesus, I had to check if it was the pleasure or peeve thread there
I'm off it for January. Starting to get cabin fever (beer in the fridge & wine in the press don't help matters) but I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard.
Was working the Missus' market stall last Saturday, so doned the 'Winter Warmers'.
Christ! Long John's are just gloriously cosy in weather like this.
Left them on all day, slept in them, left them on all day Sunday and slept in them again!
Begrudgingly had to peel them off myself for a much needed shower Monday morning. :laugh:
Straight into the wash with them and back on again this morning! ::)
Quote from: Carnage on January 16, 2024, 07:00:54 PMI'm off it for January. Starting to get cabin fever (beer in the fridge & wine in the press don't help matters) but I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard.
Get it out of the fridge quick or you'll have no chance, tis too alluring glistening in the fridge light
Out of the fridge and into my cavenous maw. The idea was to avoid the pub, more a money saving thing than a non-alcoholic month, but I just haven't been bothered. Knowing my luck they'll go out of date!
My dry January lasted about a day and a half and didn't start until about the 3rd.
Drinking is a rather simple pleasure in itself. Until it gets complicated that is :laugh:
Quote from: jobrok1 on January 17, 2024, 04:30:57 PMWas working the Missus' market stall last Saturday, so doned the 'Winter Warmers'.
Christ! Long John's are just gloriously cosy in weather like this.
Left them on all day, slept in them, left them on all day Sunday and slept in them again!
Begrudgingly had to peel them off myself for a much needed shower Monday morning. :laugh:
Straight into the wash with them and back on again this morning! ::)
:laugh:
That's a great idea!
The socks I'm wearing (I do change them unlike you! :laugh: ) add about an inch to my height they are so thick!
Quote from: Jward on January 18, 2024, 01:06:50 PMThe socks I'm wearing (I do change them unlike you! :laugh: ) add about an inch to my height they are so thick!
That reminds me!
I have a little Xmas pressie for you. 🤣
Thought I might catch up with you before the hols, but never happened.
Quote from: Carnage on January 17, 2024, 10:13:36 PMOut of the fridge and into my cavenous maw. The idea was to avoid the pub, more a money saving thing than a non-alcoholic month, but I just haven't been bothered. Knowing my luck they'll go out of date!
Funny I'm the opposite, trying to take the break from drinking at home, but it's ok if I'm out. My dry Jan lasted a week, then about a week of crashing, now trying to get it back on track :laugh:
Simple pleasure: The British Import Store in my city. Got myself a bunch of bags of Monster Munch yesterday. Plus some import sausages (you cannot get a sausage like back home anywhere here, they just don't exist). It's the home comforts that are the best!
There's a folk club on in my local tonight, and I'm sorely tempted as it's generally good craic (even if the music quality varies a lot) but I'l probably skip it. I wouldn't have the willpower to not have a pint or ten.
Quote from: jobrok1 on January 18, 2024, 03:15:40 PMQuote from: Jward on January 18, 2024, 01:06:50 PMThe socks I'm wearing (I do change them unlike you! :laugh: ) add about an inch to my height they are so thick!
That reminds me!
I have a little Xmas pressie for you. 🤣
Thought I might catch up with you before the hols, but never happened.
More feckin socks :laugh:
Just made a very spicy curry for lunch, just the thing when the weather is so relentlessly shit outside.
We have a pair of Robins that come to the back door every say, very tame/brave and we've taken to feeding them. I was out in the shed earlier, it was blowing a gale and pissing down outside and one of them followed me in. Nothing unusual in that, they're very curious but after a couple of minutes it started singing, amd it was the best thing that's happened to me in ages. Just lovely.
That's class re the robins. He was probably organising a gang to call over though to check out his new crib (before fighting them away of course).
Simple pleasure for myself - my 12 year old daughter selecting my Morphosis hoody from 1993 to wear with her combats :laugh: She hasn't heard a note of them but still twas class for the photo with Santa :abbath:
Robins are great wee birds. There is one that has been hanging round the garden lately and has spent most of the time chasing chaffinches away from the area under the bird feeder.
Had a few in the past who would appear every time I did some work in the garden, just waiting for you to dig up a juicy worm or something. Not afraid to sit on the spade or fork if you went to do something else.
Aye, when I was filling wheelbarrows of turf to bring around to the shed during the summer, one'd sit on the pile watching despite all the sudden movement and noise. They've been hanging around since, not afraid to come in the back door either, even though there're dogs about. I hope they get through this weather OK.
Quote from: Carnage on January 23, 2024, 01:28:32 PMWe have a pair of Robins that come to the back door every say, very tame/brave and we've taken to feeding them. I was out in the shed earlier, it was blowing a gale and pissing down outside and one of them followed me in. Nothing unusual in that, they're very curious but after a couple of minutes it started singing, amd it was the best thing that's happened to me in ages. Just lovely.
Lovely little things indeed, they cheer you up!! :)
Private gig, nice.
Driving in to work this morning at half five, Forest of Equilibrium on the stereo and one of the most spectacular electrical storms I've ever seen lighting up the sky. As the Yanks might say,'twas awesome, bai.
MDMA.
Simple.
Pleasurable.
I won
Can't wait for work in the morning as well
Acquired a new hi-fi for myself recently. Mostly for my CD collection, which I felt was being neglected. I had been looking for something decent that wasn't a portable or music played through PC speakers. Plus the thoughts of streaming from my phone to Bluetooth speakers or the likes just doesn't appeal to me. Grand for getting you out of a tight spot, of course. Spent a fair bit of time going down the separates rabbit hole but couldn't decide on a particular combination.
Eventually settled on a Panasonic job. CD/USB/Bluetooth/aux in/optical in etc. Can hook the TV up to it as well. Class stuff. Really good sound, to me anyway. Unlikely to get the YouTube audiophile chaps worked up, but still.
Like I say, I felt that my CD collection was being neglected (especially my recent purchases) and I wasn't listening to entire albums so much. I definitely wanted to get back to that.
And I have done. And it's bloody brilliant.
Just the act of putting on a CD, sitting back with the laptop and editing photos or reading is a tonic.
Yeah ,you can't beat it, I have three of them in the house so the collection always gets priority while YouTube listening can be done at work (intermittently!)
I'd love to go back to the days of opening up the Argos catalogue and seeing page after page of flashy, hi tech, sub woofer, 5cd trays stereos and hifis...there's a token one or two now, almost an embarrassed little afterthought for the people who would still use those things
I got one recently, a hand me down from my sister (who got it from my brother, who got it from a cousin). Grand job, 3 CD tray, 2 tape decks (though they won't be used, I'll be getting rid of my tapes soon enough), no turntable but I despise vinyl so that suits me. Like that, I play more albums through now and pay more attention to them than when I'm playing stuff from the phone to a sound bar or speaker. I did get a bluetooth receiver to connect it to my phone but I haven't used it much TBH.
That's it , there must be heaps of them sitting gathering dust in gaffs around the country. Even as many being fucked in skips no doubt.
I've been on the cds for ever but I did go through a stage of having no cd player for about a year other than the laptop. Have about 4 of them now not to get caught again! As is being said, it makes me listen to full albums, which is where it's at really
The smell of leeks cooking in butter
Nice. Can't beat an aul leek fondue either, slowly reduced in butter, cream, dab of mustard, and a dash of white wine.
I'm leeking just thinking about it.
Quote from: mishima on January 26, 2024, 06:23:11 PMAcquired a new hi-fi for myself recently. Mostly for my CD collection, which I felt was being neglected. I had been looking for something decent that wasn't a portable or music played through PC speakers. Plus the thoughts of streaming from my phone to Bluetooth speakers or the likes just doesn't appeal to me. Grand for getting you out of a tight spot, of course. Spent a fair bit of time going down the separates rabbit hole but couldn't decide on a particular combination.
Eventually settled on a Panasonic job. CD/USB/Bluetooth/aux in/optical in etc. Can hook the TV up to it as well. Class stuff. Really good sound, to me anyway. Unlikely to get the YouTube audiophile chaps worked up, but still.
Like I say, I felt that my CD collection was being neglected (especially my recent purchases) and I wasn't listening to entire albums so much. I definitely wanted to get back to that.
And I have done. And it's bloody brilliant.
Just the act of putting on a CD, sitting back with the laptop and editing photos or reading is a tonic.
Can I ask which Panasonic model is it?
Quote from: The Heretic on January 28, 2024, 09:21:49 AMCan I ask which Panasonic model is it?
'Tis this one:
https://www.panasonic.com/uk/consumer/home-entertainment/hi-fi/sc-pmx92.html
Quote from: mishima on January 28, 2024, 11:03:02 AMQuote from: The Heretic on January 28, 2024, 09:21:49 AMCan I ask which Panasonic model is it?
'Tis this one:
https://www.panasonic.com/uk/consumer/home-entertainment/hi-fi/sc-pmx92.html
Thank you, that looks like a nice piece of kit! Ive been looking at separates as well and just got lost with all the options plus it always ended up pricey and space is a consideration. Would you say there's enough power to "feel some oomph" from the music (totally subjective I know) rather than just high volume?
Quote from: The Heretic on January 28, 2024, 12:58:00 PMThank you, that looks like a nice piece of kit! Ive been looking at separates as well and just got lost with all the options plus it always ended up pricey and space is a consideration. Would you say there's enough power to "feel some oomph" from the music (totally subjective I know) rather than just high volume?
Yeah It's a minefield alright. I was looking at the Marantz MCR612 (pricey!) and the Denon D-M41 (no USB) as they both had built in amps. I wasn't prepared to start down the separate amp route. If I was, I'd need to hear them before deciding. Fuck blind buying at those prices.
As for my Panasonic, I have no regrets! Plenty of heft and clarity. No subwoofer port, if that's an issue for you. Bass is absolutely fine on this though. Listening to the last Reveal album right now and it sounds great.
Something else worth mentioning is that the speaker cables that come with it are a bit on the short side. Maybe 4ft each? Not an issue for me with my setup here, but it may be for you.
I have an eversolo DMP A6, it's a streamer and DAC with an LCD screen on the front that displays the artwork to what you're listening to.
I really like it as I also mainly listen to albums in full, and having the artwork displayed is something kind of tangible, compared to just streaming via Bluetooth to a speaker. I would of course like to put on CDs/records and have a collection like when I was younger but am not really willing to invest the money/time/space in my home.
Quote from: mishima on January 28, 2024, 01:43:25 PMYeah It's a minefield alright. I was looking at the Marantz MCR612 (pricey!) and the Denon D-M41 (no USB) as they both had built in amps. I wasn't prepared to start down the separate amp route. If I was, I'd need to hear them before deciding. Fuck blind buying at those prices.
As for my Panasonic, I have no regrets! Plenty of heft and clarity. No subwoofer port, if that's an issue for you. Bass is absolutely fine on this though. Listening to the last Reveal album right now and it sounds great.
Something else worth mentioning is that the speaker cables that come with it are a bit on the short side. Maybe 4ft each? Not an issue for me with my setup here, but it may be for you.
Thanks very much, that's great information, the 4ft cables wouldn't be an issue for me really as its for a small office type space so should be ok! Cheers!!
I was the same. Had no proper CD player on my home system for the last few years. Made do with an old Philips discman that has served me faithfully for over 20 years now. And played almost all my CDs in the car, only.
But I bit the bullet a few weeks ago and nabbed a Technics CD separate to go with the rest of the set up, from a fella in Macroom. Glad I did as I had really been neglecting the CDs at home.
Quote from: The Heretic on January 28, 2024, 04:11:39 PMThanks very much, that's great information, the 4ft cables wouldn't be an issue for me really as its for a small office type space so should be ok! Cheers!!
No worries! Let us know what you go with.
Finally after 5 years reunited with part of my collection. Smuggled about 80 records, 35kg+ in two small 7kg allowance hand luggage bags Dublin > San Francisco > Auckland. Thankfully no hassle as I was nervous I was going to be weighed at one of the check ins. Feel like a kid Christmas going through the stuff I forgotten I had, here's a selection of some of the stuff that made the cut. Demilich somehow made it in there too even with me roasting it controversial opinions thread 😆
(https://i.ibb.co/qdNGWZ0/IMG-6596.jpg) (https://ibb.co/pxfDRmW)
Class. Quite the "where to start?" conundrum with that lot! :laugh: :abbath:
Altars!!!! So many amazing albums in one picture.
Tis!
Great taste in music on display right there, must be some feeling getting 'em back under your roof. Have you much more to go?
Quote from: Thorn on January 29, 2024, 10:38:48 AMGreat taste in music on display right there, must be some feeling getting 'em back under your roof. Have you much more to go?
Nothing crazy, about another 80lps, and other 12"/10"/7"s/Tapes that I had to be ruthless with, didn't really want to bring anything I wasn't already familiar with either, there's was plenty of stuff there I'd probably barely played. One of the things I'm raging I didn't make room for is the order from chaos box set but it's a bit of a beast at 12 records.
Six Nations and a bottle of wine, fucken lovely.
Quote from: Bürggermeister on February 02, 2024, 07:55:52 PMSix Nations win and a bottle of wine, fucken lovely.
Fixed that for you honeybunny...
Getting fucked up from about 5 different chemicals is fun until about this hour when one has things to do in the morning.
Important to not be late for the thing that has me feeling like getting this fucked up
Quote from: Bürggermeister on February 02, 2024, 07:55:52 PMSix Nations and a bottle of wine, fucken lovely.
Great win but fuck me, wasn't until about 74 minutes that my nerves actually calmed.
Quote from: Mithrandir on January 28, 2024, 10:31:39 PMFinally after 5 years reunited with part of my collection. Smuggled about 80 records, 35kg+ in two small 7kg allowance hand luggage bags Dublin > San Francisco > Auckland. Thankfully no hassle as I was nervous I was going to be weighed at one of the check ins. Feel like a kid Christmas going through the stuff I forgotten I had, here's a selection of some of the stuff that made the cut. Demilich somehow made it in there too even with me roasting it controversial opinions thread 😆
(https://i.ibb.co/qdNGWZ0/IMG-6596.jpg) (https://ibb.co/pxfDRmW)
Fuckin' hell. Sweating more than yer man at the start of Midnight Express bringing that gold through the airport!😂
The robin is back, after a 3 week absence. This makes me very happy indeed, I'd written it/them (I'm not convinced that there's a pair in it) off after the last storm but it showed up today, chirping loudly to anmounce its presence. I'm assuming it was off mating somewhere, the mild weather would suggest it.
Good to hear! I have a pair here in our front garden in full flow every morning, tis great to see and hear on the way to work.
It's amazing how emotionally invested in something that has nothing to do with you you'd become, an actual wild animal. It cheered me up no end to see it back yesterday. Back again today, great to see.
We have three or four (they are slightly enigmatic and difficult to spot) black cockatoo currently nesting in a stand of trees behind our house. The white ones are great craic but you see them everywhere and always in large numbers but the black ones tend to hang out in pairs so they must have a couple of young with them. A real treat seeing them about.
Had a kestrel and a barn owl knocking about in a house I used to live in out the country and it was a real buzz hearing and seeing them about the place. When I'd be cycling into work early in the mornings 5am ish, I'd often encounter them along the way. Still a lot of stuff around here like finches and shit and robins nest here too, which is cool to see.
I'm delighted that the weather's warming up, it means I can leave the window open a crack and hear the dawn chirus every day. Nothing like it, there's a few trees behind our garden and always full of birds, last summer there was a very vocal wren that I loved to hear.
Day drinking
Quote from: ochoill on February 24, 2024, 04:23:51 PMDay drinking
Lol I'm fucked already
Won't be driving at all
Brighter mornings when I'm leaving for work. About bloody time.
Going to and coming from work in the dark takes it out of you after a while.
I have a mate in Svalbard and she wouldn't have seen daylight since the end of October :-X
Quote from: ochoill on February 24, 2024, 04:23:51 PMDay drinking
It's great but I'm not able for it at all anymore. Went into Galway last Thursday and had a few around the town, was hammered by the time I got the train home and in bed around half 8. Getting old is shite.
Absolute schadenfreude, but hey ho
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-68414524
Cunts bought the place, torched it and knocked down the smouldering rubble so they could redevelop the site. Rebuilding it, exactly as it was, will not be easy or cheap at all. Beautiful.
The fire
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-66426703
The demolition two days later
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-66442399
Great to see some cunts get their comeuppance. Some jail time for the arson would be a nice touch, too.
Quote from: Bürggermeister on February 28, 2024, 10:24:17 AMAbsolute schadenfreude, but hey ho
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-68414524
Cunts bought the place, torched it and knocked down the smouldering rubble so they could redevelop the site. Rebuilding it, exactly as it was, will not be easy or cheap at all. Beautiful.
Brilliant! :laugh:
Snow drops and crocus. Give you hope it might actually warm up!
Waiting for it to kick in
Quote from: ochoill on February 24, 2024, 04:23:51 PMDay drinking
Young man's game, only possible on holidays and maybe Paddy's weekend now.
I've been off the sauce for 8 months at this stage. It's grand to be honest and my simple pleasure is the existence of decent tasting zero beers. Sometimes you just want that experience that only drinking a cold beer can deliver and I find the little zero heroes hit the spot perfectly. Also nice to be able to go for an afternoon in the pub discussing metal with a few heads and being able to drive home 8)
Kev can confirm if this is the same all over Spain, but certainly in the north it's accepted with zero (!) remark at all to drink alcohol free beer in bars, etc., like up to a quarter of people sitting on a terrace might have a 0% in front of them, something I haven't seen anywhere in France. Hasn't made me make the switch, but it definitely makes for a sounder atmosphere for those making the choice, for whatever reason.
Yeah, very common. Some of them aren't bad, and they do hit the spot. I think your brain is so accustomed to the beer in sense out paradigm that you do feel slightly altered after having a zero or two:)
Quote from: Caomhaoin on March 10, 2024, 11:01:48 AMYeah, very common. Some of them aren't bad, and they do hit the spot. I think your brain is so accustomed to the beer in sense out paradigm that you do feel slightly altered after having a zero or two:)
Yes noticed that I put it down to rhe chemicals or high sugar content. Probably the latter
Oh yeah, defo. I've been out and drank five or six and jumped in the car feeling woozy until I reminded myself I hadn't drank any alcohol :laugh:
Quote from: Caomhaoin on March 10, 2024, 09:01:23 AMQuote from: ochoill on February 24, 2024, 04:23:51 PMDay drinking
Young man's game, only possible on holidays and maybe Paddy's weekend now.
It is a rare occurrence for me nowadays but I'll take advantage of the opportunity. Siege now in three weeks so it will happen then again, surely, if I can get in on time.
Just spotted a pair of Bullfinches in the garden. Not sure if they are a pair, but a male and a female having a snoop around. Buzzing as I haven't seen one in ages.
Quote from: ochoill on March 11, 2024, 09:58:26 AMQuote from: Caomhaoin on March 10, 2024, 09:01:23 AMQuote from: ochoill on February 24, 2024, 04:23:51 PMDay drinking
No wife or young lad this weekend so I've lads from Donegal, Sao Paolo and Nigeria calling over Saturday for 'the rugby'. I dunno lads, the last few hangovers have been so chastening that I feel a mixture of elation and despair at the prospect.
Young man's game, only possible on holidays and maybe Paddy's weekend now.
It is a rare occurrence for me nowadays but I'll take advantage of the opportunity. Siege now in three weeks so it will happen then again, surely, if I can get in on time.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on March 14, 2024, 03:54:00 PMQuote from: ochoill on March 11, 2024, 09:58:26 AMQuote from: Caomhaoin on March 10, 2024, 09:01:23 AMQuote from: ochoill on February 24, 2024, 04:23:51 PMDay drinking
No wife or young lad this weekend so I've lads from Donegal, Sao Paolo and Nigeria calling over Saturday for 'the rugby'. I dunno lads, the last few hangovers have been so chastening that I feel a mixture of elation and despair at the prospect.
Young man's game, only possible on holidays and maybe Paddy's weekend now.
It is a rare occurrence for me nowadays but I'll take advantage of the opportunity. Siege now in three weeks so it will happen then again, surely, if I can get in on time.
I was under the impression you were in the AA or something from your posts
After a few double ups I've finally catalogued all/most of my records on discogs and the app has a feature where you shake your phone and it will show a random release from your collection. Its has been great when I'm not sure what I want to listen to, I've been finding loads of cool stuff I haven't listened to in a long time or had completely forgotten about.
Didn't know about shaking the phone gives you something random! Like yourself I do find the random item is useful for those times you can't decide what to listen to.
That's a great function. Actually must log back into discogs and redo my collection, think it's been six or seven years now and I have a few additions since then!
Quote from: Caomhaoin on March 14, 2024, 03:54:00 PMNo wife or young lad this weekend so I've lads from Donegal, Sao Paolo and Nigeria calling over Saturday for 'the rugby'. I dunno lads, the last few hangovers have been so chastening that I feel a mixture of elation and despair at the prospect.
Lol best of luck. I had some fairly cruel hangovers lately too that have made me reassess the drink approach. Not as in taking it easy or anything but more swapping out what I know kills me for stuff that doesn't put me in the horrors. It's been lagers only for a couple of weeks and the next days of each rip have been the solid finest.
Cut my hair on a whim and fucked it all into a bin. Such freedom, should have done it ages ago.
To be fair, it was a lot thinner than the last time I had long hair (18 odd years ago) and the oul' ponytail was a lot narrower when it was tied back. Middleage hair is a pain in the hole. Only let it grow again during the Covid kablammo. Nice to finally let go.
The fact that I did it after coming home from an 8 pinter is wholly coincinental.
I've been shaving my head for years now and wet shaving it for nearly 3 years. Can't bate the sleek look and feel. I'm more aerodynamic which shaves milliseconds off my time when I'm doing the shopping on a Saturday morning, and every millisecond counts when it comes to weekend chores.
Oh I'm a bald veteran, been shaving it for a long time. Just let it grow back during the lockdown for the craic.
That newly shorn feeling, spreading a cold palm across yer dome - glorious. Everyone should do it at least once, male or female.
Poor bastards 😂
I should point out (for Caomhaoin's sake) that I still have a full head of hair, 'tis just a bit thinner in excelsis. Cut short now and it's grand. I also could not give a fuck if I went bald in the morning, I'd just rather it being gone than going. The inbetween shit is a pain in the scrotum.
My auld fella claims to still have a full head of hair based on the 'fact' that he hasn't gone Alan Averill on top (he didn't actually mention Alan, it was some non-metal spa). He's not accepting reality like a man of his vintage should.
I mean, I can't see my own head from above obviously but I'm told I'm doing OK by others. Genuinely couldn't give a fuck but I'd like to know if it's thinning out so I could shave it and go out with dignity.
I still have a tuft up front but I'm almost at the stage of where I need to make the hard decision, not to go full shaved but to get it cut tight..its a cunt of a decision to make but its better than looking desperate to cling on...
I think there's something to be said for getting a comb over. Imagine shamelessly doing that to your family and friends. Putting them in that awkward osition every time you get a haircut and they are like... eh... nice comb over. I mean, no, not comb over! What comb over?? Anyone for KFC?!
I've had long hair since I was 15 and too stubborn to change it. My two older brothers started getting pretty thin in their mid to late 40s though, so I've got about five years until the choice is taken from me!
Every now and then I have to look at cameras in work and I see the penalty spot on the top of my head but I can't see it face on so I've mostly put it to the back of my mind, if you'll excuse the pun!
Had long hair and dreads as a young lad but once I shaved it off I sort of accepted my fate that those days were not coming back.
Ah well..
The beard going white is worse anyway
Ah yeah, looking in the mirror I'm starting to remind myself of how ex French prime minister Edouard Philippe looked a couple of years ago. Healthy dose of the Irishman's curse mixed in on top though :laugh:
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I am gone bald, proper penalty spot, and I am gone fucking grey. Had long hair twice when I was younger, Mohawks, Undercuts, dyed blonde, blue, pink, all sorts of shit. But in between, and regularly since, I just skin my own head every month-ish and have that bit of grown out shit in times between. The grey in my beard is particularly bad. I'm like a Calico cat
Not to mention the old badger balls.
Thank god the balls haven't gone off yet but when they do it's the end for me and pubes. Well I say that now but maybe I won't need it to look young by then
Some hateful cunt I used to work with said I looked like a badger because of the white in my beard. I thought it looked distinguished. Look more like a polar bear with each passing day.
Ah jesus lads ,I'm on this site for a bit of relief but fucking hell, 'badger balls' has put a whole new worry up me..
Wait til we tell you about badger ball baiting!
What happened to the Simple Pleasures thread anyway?? Someone seems to have edited the pet peeves or random thoughts thread name to Simple Pleasures as a bit of a laugh...
I love the grey coming in, but just get on with it. No time for the transition, I want it to just be grey and get it over with. I can't really see it myself but I'm assured by my loving family that it's there alright. No badger balls yet but my chest is about 50/50.
Having a three day weekend after having to work two six day weeks in a row.
Here's one I had this evening. Was in the shop and the stuff I bought came to about 52 quid so I couldn't tap the card but I had the wife's card and I couldn't remember the pin. So the lad says grand hang on, voided off a beer from the shopping and threw it into the bag. Now tap away he says. Sound out and I don't know him or anything.
So the simple pleasure was him not being a pure jobsworth about it and simply helping a lad going about his day
Quote from: astfgyl on March 16, 2024, 11:53:49 PMHere's one I had this evening. Was in the shop and the stuff I bought came to about 52 quid so I couldn't tap the card but I had the wife's card and I couldn't remember the pin. So the lad says grand hang on, voided off a beer from the shopping and threw it into the bag. Now tap away he says. Sound out and I don't know him or anything.
So the simple pleasure was him not being a pure jobsworth about it and simply helping a lad going about his day
Did he know you?
Quote from: The Heretic on March 17, 2024, 06:55:40 AMQuote from: astfgyl on March 16, 2024, 11:53:49 PMHere's one I had this evening. Was in the shop and the stuff I bought came to about 52 quid so I couldn't tap the card but I had the wife's card and I couldn't remember the pin. So the lad says grand hang on, voided off a beer from the shopping and threw it into the bag. Now tap away he says. Sound out and I don't know him or anything.
So the simple pleasure was him not being a pure jobsworth about it and simply helping a lad going about his day
Did he know you?
To see yeah but not to any extent.
Chips with soy sauce.
I haven't had this experience since leaving Ireland because the Chinese restaurants here don't serve chips (dumbasses). I picked up some chips to go with dinner and had the little flashback to eating cold leftover Chinese with a heap of soy sauce lashed on top and had to relive the experience. As good, maybe even better, than I remembered 8)
Quote from: Eoin McLove on March 22, 2024, 08:12:29 AMChips with soy sauce.
I haven't had this experience since leaving Ireland because the Chinese restaurants here don't serve chips (dumbasses). I picked up some chips to go with dinner and had the little flashback to eating cold leftover Chinese with a heap of soy sauce lashed on top and had to relive the experience. As good, maybe even better, than I remembered 8)
Yup that's a good one, would prefer the Soy over vinegar on chips. Sometimes a bit of Worcestershire sauce. Made up a few chips the other night and put a load of parmesan and hot sauce through them, unreal too. Topped chips in general are a pleasure, poor on their own but a great vessel for savagery.
Sure while we're on the topic of Worcestershire sauce and simple pleasures, it's amazing the way the former can elevate a bog standard cheese toastie to another level.
Quote from: John Kimble on March 22, 2024, 09:48:30 AMSure while we're on the topic of Worcestershire sauce and simple pleasures, it's amazing the way the former can elevate a bog standard cheese toastie to another level.
It's amazing. I couldn't eat a cheese toastie without it now.
Four day weekend 8)
Quote from: Eoin McLove on March 22, 2024, 08:12:29 AMChips with soy sauce.
I haven't had this experience since leaving Ireland because the Chinese restaurants here don't serve chips (dumbasses). I picked up some chips to go with dinner and had the little flashback to eating cold leftover Chinese with a heap of soy sauce lashed on top and had to relive the experience. As good, maybe even better, than I remembered 8)
Same where I am. Fuck me I miss the UK/Ireland style greasy Chinese. Also can't get a chippy sausage anywhere. Always put on about a stone when I come home to visit because Chinese takeaway and chippy is all I eat the entire time I'm back. Worth it for the month or so of feeling like crap after the visit :laugh:
Quote from: Eoin McLove on March 28, 2024, 12:11:14 PMFour day weekend 8)
With a sprinkling of annual leave on top to get 10 days for the price of 4 - priceless.
Oh wait no it wasn't
Quote from: astfgyl on March 28, 2024, 06:18:16 PMQuote from: Eoin McLove on March 28, 2024, 12:11:14 PMFour day weekend 8)
With a sprinkling of annual leave on top to get 10 days for the price of 4 - priceless.
Oh wait no it wasn't
I am back in on Tuesday for three days then Friday I fly out to Japan for two weeks. A bit of black metal and noise at that NWN/Hospital fest in Osaka followed by CULTURE! I'm going to be fat as fuck after two weeks in Japan.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on March 28, 2024, 06:36:30 PMQuote from: astfgyl on March 28, 2024, 06:18:16 PMQuote from: Eoin McLove on March 28, 2024, 12:11:14 PMFour day weekend 8)
With a sprinkling of annual leave on top to get 10 days for the price of 4 - priceless.
Oh wait no it wasn't
I am back in on Tuesday for three days then Friday I fly out to Japan for two weeks. A bit of black metal and noise at that NWN/Hospital fest in Osaka followed by CULTURE! I'm going to be fat as fuck after two weeks in Japan.
Lol ya lucky bastard I'm going to be spending my special few days in fucking Thurles :laugh: :laugh:
All I can hope is that it's not pissing rain but at least I'll have the spare hours to go fishing with the two small lads and not catch anything vs being at work wishing I had the hours to do it.
Still.. fuck ya
Quote from: Eoin McLove on March 28, 2024, 06:36:30 PMQuote from: astfgyl on March 28, 2024, 06:18:16 PMQuote from: Eoin McLove on March 28, 2024, 12:11:14 PMFour day weekend 8)
With a sprinkling of annual leave on top to get 10 days for the price of 4 - priceless.
Oh wait no it wasn't
I am back in on Tuesday for three days then Friday I fly out to Japan for two weeks. A bit of black metal and noise at that NWN/Hospital fest in Osaka followed by CULTURE! I'm going to be fat as fuck after two weeks in Japan.
Also stuck in for tomorrow and Tuesday off for a bit of a run at the weekend (and some Siege recovery).
Jaysus I would love to go to Japan, I looked up a good bit about the place online and have a mind to visit there in a few years when the kid is older. Aside from all the cultural and tourist stuff there, I would absolutely eat myself sideways and go find some shows in Tokyo (know a lad who lived there before and said there is often underground shows of all sorts of metal/hardcore/noise varieties on).
Quote from: astfgyl on March 28, 2024, 06:18:16 PMQuote from: Eoin McLove on March 28, 2024, 12:11:14 PMFour day weekend 8)
With a sprinkling of annual leave on top to get 10 days for the price of 4 - priceless.
Oh wait no it wasn't
This is me currently but managed to squeeze even more out of it. Fucking dreading Tuesday.
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on March 28, 2024, 06:55:18 PMQuote from: astfgyl on March 28, 2024, 06:18:16 PMQuote from: Eoin McLove on March 28, 2024, 12:11:14 PMFour day weekend 8)
With a sprinkling of annual leave on top to get 10 days for the price of 4 - priceless.
Oh wait no it wasn't
This is me currently but managed to squeeze even more out of it. Fucking dreading Tuesday.
Ah hard luck lad. I spose all good things must come to an end....
Best part of having any job is not being there
Yeah, Japan should be really interesting. Such a different culture from ours. On one hand it appears to be hyper modern yet tradition is strong there too. I can't figure out their attitudes toward sex. Are they incredibly advanced or are they misogynistic brutes.... it seems like a place of paradox, e even down to the food. Lots of healthy fish and rice but almost no veg, and what there is is deep fried to fuck :laugh: I can't wait to s Beherit, Sabbat etc. But I also can't wait to see all of the Japanese gardens- or as I believe they are called over there, gardens- and the traditional architecture which is stunning. I would love to make it to a tea ceremony but with a four year old in tow that's unlikely to happen.
I can't figure out the tits without nipples thing either :abbath:
And the pixellated mickeys :laugh:
A young wan with a nice arse walking at perfect jiggle pace...
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Quote from: The Wretch on March 29, 2024, 05:30:12 PMA young wan with a nice arse walking at perfect jiggle pace...
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Yep.
Really gets the pixels flowing
:laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: astfgyl on March 28, 2024, 07:09:13 PMQuote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on March 28, 2024, 06:55:18 PMQuote from: astfgyl on March 28, 2024, 06:18:16 PMQuote from: Eoin McLove on March 28, 2024, 12:11:14 PMFour day weekend 8)
With a sprinkling of annual leave on top to get 10 days for the price of 4 - priceless.
Oh wait no it wasn't
This is me currently but managed to squeeze even more out of it. Fucking dreading Tuesday.
Ah hard luck lad. I spose all good things must come to an end....
Best part of having any job is not being there
Dheara I'm badly off. But yeah, agree 100%. Need to give this particular job the sack sooner rather than later.
Records and pints till then :abbath:
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on March 29, 2024, 07:30:43 PMQuote from: astfgyl on March 28, 2024, 07:09:13 PMQuote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on March 28, 2024, 06:55:18 PMQuote from: astfgyl on March 28, 2024, 06:18:16 PMQuote from: Eoin McLove on March 28, 2024, 12:11:14 PMFour day weekend 8)
With a sprinkling of annual leave on top to get 10 days for the price of 4 - priceless.
Oh wait no it wasn't
This is me currently but managed to squeeze even more out of it. Fucking dreading Tuesday.
Ah hard luck lad. I spose all good things must come to an end....
Best part of having any job is not being there
Dheara I'm badly off. But yeah, agree 100%. Need to give this particular job the sack sooner rather than later.
Records and pints till then :abbath:
Thank fuck we always have the music and booze to escape to!
Imagine just going to work 5 days a week and then sitting in front of rte for the evening or whatever is the digital equivalent like the Netflix top 10 or whatever
Putting the clocks forward on your nightshift, ooh yeah baby
Shite yeah, mine must have gone back last night, or they will tonight :(
Putting on a fresh hoody for the first time. Glorious
Quote from: Giggles on March 31, 2024, 12:57:25 PMPutting on a fresh hoody for the first time. Glorious
Unless it's one of those ones that's wider than it is long after getting it delivered
Def Pet Peeve there.
Quote from: Giggles on March 31, 2024, 12:57:25 PMPutting on a fresh hoody for the first time. Glorious
Had this simple pleasure² last week when the fresh hoody in question was the last Anthems in M they had after the gig :abbath:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on April 01, 2024, 05:25:28 PMQuote from: Giggles on March 31, 2024, 12:57:25 PMPutting on a fresh hoody for the first time. Glorious
Had this simple pleasure² last week when the fresh hoody in question was the last Anthems in M they had after the gig :abbath:
If I'd known you were there I'd have at least come down and have the one argument with you! Or a pint maybe and we could have argued over the hue of it :laugh:
I was well up for an argument over the fact they only had Murphys! :laugh:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on April 01, 2024, 06:56:50 PMI was well up for an argument over the fact they only had Murphys! :laugh:
Ah jaysus that's rough :laugh:
I just stuck to the Heineken because it was the easiest one to remember the name of
Quote from: astfgyl on March 31, 2024, 11:13:46 PMQuote from: Giggles on March 31, 2024, 12:57:25 PMPutting on a fresh hoody for the first time. Glorious
Unless it's one of those ones that's wider than it is long after getting it delivered
Similar enough that I'll count it as a peeve, the lack of standard sizing. Ordered two shirts recently, both large. One is down to near my knees, the other I'd have to be a fucking Olympic gymnast to squeeze into.
I could at least understand if it was from different places, but they were both from the same poxy site
The American ones seem to be wide and short, the European ones long and skinny. I'm tall and it's a pain in the hole to get a big t-shirt and the fucking thing barely goes below the oul belly button.
When your hangover finally fucks off. May not have been simple, but it sure is pleasurable to not feel like total shit anymore!
Quote from: Trev on April 01, 2024, 09:16:22 PMSimilar enough that I'll count it as a peeve, the lack of standard sizing. Ordered two shirts recently, both large. One is down to near my knees, the other I'd have to be a fucking Olympic gymnast to squeeze into.
I could at least understand if it was from different places, but they were both from the same poxy site
Sing it. I have plenty of T-shirts I can't wear for this reason, that or shrinkage in the wash.
Fucking Behemoth - I bought a T-shirt off them a few years ago, 3XL (2XL usually does but I like them loose). Skintight to the point of being ridiculous. So I contacted them to swap it for a bigger size - went for 5XL as the other one was so small. When it came it was like a fucking tent. On top of that I had to pay for the postage for the return and the new one, about €16/€17 all told.
Go with Gildan, they're a standard size. FOTL shrink like fuck and can be all over the place sizewise in general.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on April 01, 2024, 06:56:50 PMI was well up for an argument over the fact they only had Murphys! :laugh:
Up until recently it was only Ireland's Edge so count your blessings.
Ireland's Edge. Christ on a bike, the culturally diverse stout for shiny, happy young ones who enjoy their black stuff on sun kissed gazebos on long ,hazy Summer days. Bah! (I despise that fucking ad.)
Drank a can of that shit once. Like fucking water
Pish altogether. My outlook on it is further coloured by the fact that I bought a four pack of the stuff to try it, dropped a can as I was putting them into the fridge, wherein it exploded into said fridge. The clean up took ages.
Quote from: open face surgery on April 01, 2024, 11:41:43 PMQuote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on April 01, 2024, 06:56:50 PMI was well up for an argument over the fact they only had Murphys! :laugh:
Up until recently it was only Ireland's Edge so count your blessings.
:laugh:
Fair comment.
Quote from: astfgyl on April 02, 2024, 09:29:08 AMDrank a can of that shit once. Like fucking water
Same as that rockshore shite. Pure piss.
Jaysus I got 6 cans of that fuckin Rockshore in the bargain bin down the offy one night. Grand job I says until I tasted the first one and realised that I was basically going to be on the fuckin water for the night. Was absolutely scawbalded because I bought them at 5 to 10 so there was no going back and fixing it.
Never again with that awful piss. Actually that isn't a fair comparison because piss probably has an actual taste off it.
:laugh: :laugh:
Same here, on special in the centre. Save a few euro me thinks, night ruined.
Edit: wrong thread!
Quote from: Hellyeah on April 03, 2024, 10:05:18 PM:laugh: :laugh:
Same here, on special in the centre. Save a few euro me thinks, night ruined.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: makes fuckin Coors Light taste like quadruple hopped horse strength IPA
Rockshore is eunuch lager. Anything that's 4% or less should be considered non-alcoholic.
I only buy Polish beer nowadays - Tyskie and Żywiec. I hope to fuck they don't lower the percentage and change to 440ml cans like the rest of the cunts. Don't think I could take it!
Quite fond of the oul Tyskie myself and indeed would far rather simply pay the extra euro or two than have the cunts shrink it on me. Never drank the Żywiec must give that a go as well
Getting fond of the aul perlenbacher bottles from lidl. Plus you don't have to pay the deposit return, so you can throw them in the nearest hedge when your done. :P :P
Island's Edge can get to fuck. Off the market now anyway.
I would have thought a few more of you lads would have gone down the home-brew route.
Here's a stout (5.4% ABV) made in a plastic bucket out in the garage last month.
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I remember getting you to give me a few pointers on the home brewing back the way but it seemed like a lot of setting up and I just kept putting it on the long finger. I must dig up what you gave me in case any of the other lads might be quicker off the mark. Edit: still have the best of intentions off getting it going but I'm well on the road to hell in that regard by now
Also my mouth is watering thinking about drinking that strong stout now
The girlfriends cousin does the home brew but has gone all mad scientist with it. Has charts and everything but his finished product is sensational. Better than 99% of the craft stuff sold. Getting the right water he said is the most important part. Distilled I think. I must get on it. We used to do the bucket ale back in the college days. Manky as hell but two pints and you were flying.
Quote from: Ollkiller on April 04, 2024, 03:24:18 PMThe girlfriends cousin does the home brew but has gone all mad scientist with it. Has charts and everything but his finished product is sensational. Better than 99% of the craft stuff sold. Getting the right water he said is the most important part. Distilled I think. I must get on it. We used to do the bucket ale back in the college days. Manky as hell but two pints and you were flying.
I would under no circumstances used distilled water for brewing. Certainly you need clean water - to that end add a campden tablet to take out any chlorine and perhaps add some gypsum to change the hardness.
You can go down all sorts of rabbit holes in terms of water pH etc. but really once your water is clean (filtered is even better) plus all your gear is spotless and santised then you can make great beer without being in Dexter's Lab or whatever.
I've only done the homebrew wine and it took the fuckin head off me. Shit was evil. No idea what percent it was but a couple of glasses would put a serious dent in me.
Quote from: astfgyl on April 04, 2024, 04:06:46 PMI've only done the homebrew wine and it took the fuckin head off me. Shit was evil. No idea what percent it was but a couple of glasses would put a serious dent in me.
You have to be careful with the gravity for sure.
I told Ochoill and Leoos a story about a lad that I work with who asked me to show him how to homebrew a while back.
If I get a chance tomorrow I'll post it here.
Homebrew myself the last 10 or so years. Great hobby. Certainly there's many different routes you can go down. Theres the mad scientist lads, gear/equipment/mini brewery lads, people who try and clone beers or those that experiment all the time. Personally I like to keep it simple as possible process wise and I make fairly forgiving styles that I enjoy that aren't readily available in the standard offy/supermarket where its 90% pale ale. So a variety of stouts, ales and bitters.
I'm actually brewing tonight. A Belgian stout fermented with a saison yeast. Garage is always full of beer and I rarely shop buy now. Happy days !
Quote from: StoutAndAle on April 04, 2024, 04:53:28 PMQuote from: astfgyl on April 04, 2024, 04:06:46 PMI've only done the homebrew wine and it took the fuckin head off me. Shit was evil. No idea what percent it was but a couple of glasses would put a serious dent in me.
You have to be careful with the gravity for sure.
I told Ochoill and Leoos a story about a lad that I work with who asked me to show him how to homebrew a while back.
If I get a chance tomorrow I'll post it here.
Looking forward to this if it comes.
Also the way Grim is describing it there would be the sort of thing I'd be interested in, few buckets going in the shed where the greatest effort is put into drinking the thing rather than goofing out on the science of it. Just the simplest possible start at making something drinkable - a simple pleasure so to speak, like growing weed in a greenhouse with horseshit type thing rather than the hydroponic extravaganza
Went to Disneyland Tokyo today. I had never been to any Disneylands before this and was half dreading it. We arrived an hour early and seeing the amount of people amassing at the gate lowered my expectations further. I thought I'll really have to put on a brave face. Ended up having an absolute blast. What an experience ???
Haven't done a home brew in ages, must fix that. It's a lot simpler than you'd think if you haven't done it, main thing is sterilising and cleaning everything.
Ireland's Edge was a really weird venture, dunno what the target market was cos Beamish seems to be the standard choice for young people anyway.
The CD player stopped working a few days ago, wouldn't spin up. Just took it apart, cleaned it, reseated the cables and it's working again. Lovely.
I was hoping to have a similar simple pleasure yesterday having taken the hoover apart and cleaned it out, but no such feckin' luck :laugh:
That both sucks and doesn't suck.
Ditto, it's a pain. Mine works for a few mins. then overheats and dies. Been putting off replacing it for ages but might bite the bullet and get a new one.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on April 15, 2024, 06:03:33 PMI was hoping to have a similar simple pleasure yesterday having taken the hoover apart and cleaned it out, but no such feckin' luck :laugh:
You see the issue is you can use a hoover to clean out a CD player but the CD player isn't worth a shite to help clean out the hoover...
Quote from: Bürggermeister on April 15, 2024, 06:31:19 PMThat both sucks and doesn't suck.
:laugh:
Walked into that one!
Quote from: Bürggermeister on April 15, 2024, 05:57:27 PMThe CD player stopped working a few days ago, wouldn't spin up. Just took it apart, cleaned it, reseated the cables and it's working again. Lovely.
Should be in Pet Peeves but the motor is fucked after all. Went again, got it going but I'll have to replace the motor. To ebay I go.
Doing some clearing out earlier and found my old iPod! It's now charged and has revealed itself as an absolute gold mine of long forgotten tunes 8)
Watching guitar and amp repair/restoration videos on youtube.
I have some understanding of basic common guitar setup and repairs - Not that I'm particularly good at it mind you - so I get most of what those guys are doing, and even guitar build videos aren't a complete mystery, as I used many of the same tools for a good few years when I worked in furniture and door manufacturing.
But I have fuck all idea of electrics and amp builds, yet I still find it very relaxing and therapeutic watching experts at work.
Quote from: The Wretch on April 18, 2024, 09:49:13 PMWatching guitar and amp repair/restoration videos on youtube.
I have some understanding of basic common guitar setup and repairs - Not that I'm particularly good at it mind you - so I get most of what those guys are doing, and even guitar build videos aren't a complete mystery, as I used many of the same tools for a good few years when I worked in furniture and door manufacturing.
But I have fuck all idea of electrics and amp builds, yet I still find it very relaxing and therapeutic watching experts at work.
I was watching a locksmith dismantle the lock on a safe today and I was absolutely fascinated by it. Watching the way he filed down the pins and set it all back together and then finally understanding how a lock actually works when the key goes in was just brilliant.
Edit: I was watching it in real life rather than youtube but I have seen some locksmith stuff on YouTube as well and that was also decent
I worked with a guy who ended up starting a repair business, and he has even built/designed effects pedals, so I have seen some of that stuff up close, but I'm still non the wiser what the fuck is actually happening most of the time.
But the videos are like ASMR or something. Just the process of them replacing capacitors, or working out how to repair reverb or something on a vintage amp is fascinating, and hypnotizing.
Sunshine on the first day of summer. Birds singing and a free day off work that I didn't know about until yesterday evening. Two different kinds of (lovely) hash. Missus gone to work, kids at school. Perfect.
Hopefully the postman doesn't throw a spanner in the works with a few unexpected bills or something
Edit: was wondering what to listen to and suddenly remembered that Ochoill has been on at me about Quebec by Ween for about 3 weeks so I threw that on and it's the spot on perfect soundtrack for the sort of sitting outside in the garden in a pair of shorts staring into oblivion that I'm dipping in and out of here.
Transdermal Celebration is some tune so it is
Quote from: astfgyl on May 01, 2024, 10:50:30 AMwas wondering what to listen to and suddenly remembered that Ochoill has been on at me about Quebec by Ween for about 3 weeks so I threw that on and it's the spot on perfect soundtrack for the sort of sitting outside in the garden in a pair of shorts staring into oblivion that I'm dipping in and out of here.
Transdermal Celebration is some tune so it is
The whole thing is lethal and I gave two rainy nights in Spain listening to it on the headphones, watching the sea, supping cheap cans. Delightful