Pet Peeves

[Giggles]

I'm willing to bet that you are OAP, because the majority of your posts that I see, you're whinging about something and telling it to fuck off.

[Carnage]

Fuck off. 

[Eoin McLove]

Aussie heat. We have been waiting for summer to start for months and it's here at last. Yesterday we had our first properly hot day- 37°. It is now 5.30am, I'm heading out the door to work and it's already 28° 

[Carnage]

Do you reckon you'll acclimatise in time? I just couldn't imagine getting used to that, the couple of hot summers we had here recently were torture and that was just a few days at a time, let alone months of it (and hotter).

[Eoin McLove]

I more or less survived it last year so I should be ok. The rental we are in is a bit of a shoddy kip which doesn't help. It is terrible at keeping the heat out in summer and worse at keeping it in during winter. We lock ourselves in the sitting room, which is the only room with air con,  and just brave the kitchen and jacks when necessary. Otherwise the rest of the house is too hot to spend any time in.

[Bürggermeister]

There's a great Shit Merch opportunity for black metal bands to lads in your predicament. They should rebrand Deep Freeze (a spray version of the opposite of Deep Heat) with some grim and frostbitten illegible logo and flog it as canned Norwegian frost. Spray it all over and feel like yer riding a glacier.

[Bürggermeister]

First day back in work after over a week off, just not in the mood for it at all.

[mickO)))]

Do you reckon you'll acclimatise in time? I just couldn't imagine getting used to that, the couple of hot summers we had here recently were torture and that was just a few days at a time, let alone months of it (and hotter).

Air conditioning makes all the difference even though Obama, Greta and the rest of the private plane gang keep telling us that we should not be using it anymore. If you move to a warm country the number one rule is never rent a place that does not have air conditioning.

[Caomhaoin]

Absolutely. I have one directly over my bed and another in the living room, Madrid is just obnoxiously hot in summer. 

[Eoin McLove]

Making a cup of tea with a tablespoon 

[Caomhaoin]

Prince fucking 'Arry and the media covering everything related to him and his idiot wife. FUCK.OFF.

[StoutAndAle]

You have to top up a physical Leap card using the TFI app on your phone via NFC. Then scan the card to get onboard.

Why doesn't TFI just set up the Leap app so that your phone can be used to board a bus/train via NFC?

Surely it's the same thing as when I see people paying for coffee and shit using their phones or watches? 

Or am I missing something?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

they've that here for the trams and buses, but they had to replace all the on-transport scanner yokes for it to work.

[StoutAndAle]

I suppose that's the reason. It would be too much effort for Bus Eireann etc.

While we're on this - why can't we just use our debit cards or public transport?

In London you can use the Oyster card or your own contactless debit/credit card (the brother tells me that Revolut is the way to go for option - no bank fees on top of the travel costs) and it charges/acts the same as an Oyster.

[Ollkiller]

Prince fucking 'Arry and the media covering everything related to him and his idiot wife. FUCK.OFF.

The english love the royals. What ya gonna do