Pet Peeves

[John Kimble]

Shit ATM's. You know the ones that aren't affiliated to any particular bank.
Please enter card - takes an age
Please enter PIN - another few mins
Please enter amount - choose €20
This machine cannot dispense less than €50 - returns card
Puts card back into machine to a chorus of harrumphs from the disgruntled queue behind you

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

And often charge you €3 for every withdrawal! 

[mickO)))]

And often charge you €3 for every withdrawal! 

Thankfully that doesn't seem to be a thing in Ireland yet as far as I am aware but give it time. Luckily the garage around the corner from the house has an AIB bank link.

[Ducky]

On a related note, I wonder how many of you lads here I've bumped into over the years? Obviously I've no way to know but it won't be none anyway.

Coroza lads I've bumped into in the kasbah playing above third island and I've seen a good few of you saying you were at gigs I was at but still no real world conformation of having met anyone from here. Mad really.

Would have loved to bump into the Shepherd at emperor for the craic but I was too busy being off my shitter I suppose. Oh don't worry man I'm not going to try get off with you or anything but it would be great some day to put a few faces to my many arch enemies on here.

Wait actually what's the plural of nemesis? Is it nemesis? Grand, still room for new thoughts after all these years lol

I've probably met a bunch over the years as any time I'd head to gigs in Dublin I'd stay over with Bane/Barry and he'd always bump into someone he knows at the gigs.

[Ducky]

I fucking was the second night yeah, Across Deaths.
Oh Christ, don't say I was talking shite to ya, I was absolutely fucking bongoed!

The four lights used to be a great spot allright. Didn't realize the buck died. That's a pity.

Thought I hit reply to this but clearly I rolled over and went to sleep... but yeah, we were chatting briefly! I was the dipshit at the bar in the Death "Human" t-shirt fanboying over your t-shirt     

Yeah the old Four Lights is/was part of Sligo's DNA, it's a huge loss to the town. Plus your man who ran it was an absolute gentleman as well.

Ah beJaysus I do remember ya man. Hows things.
I think I was on the way to drain the spuds when I was talking to ya, which is lucky for you, ya dodged the bullet of having to listen to me drunkenly  waxing lyrical about things I know fuck all about!
It was a good auld night that, Craic Sabbath were mighty.
your t-shirt is lovely too by the way .

I lived in Sligo for a fair few years myself, really liked the town but as you said above, its all changed since.

Ah that's gas. Small world/country. I was also of the well on variety even at that point and prone to shitetalk - there used to be a table quiz on there every week (moved to the Belfry a while back), myself and a few heads won a bunch of times. Prize is 50 quid voucher for the bar that you can spend whenever, so we basically have a 200 quid bar tab that we otherwise would have trouble spending as we'd never go to the Garavogue for a night out (it attracts a rougher element), so we said fuck it, we'd head in for Whiplash

I missed the Saturday, which boiled me piss a bit as I wanted to see the Sabbath tribute.

Did you live in the town? I'm a dirty townie from Forthill meself

Free drink is a dangerous thing, it has been known to lead to near fatal levels of shit talk!
The change in atmosphere in the Garavogue after whiplash was palpable, it went from a feeling of general comradery to every man for himself in the space of 10 minutes.
I lived in Tonaphubble (wrong spelling I'd imagine but ya know the place) and Caltragh Heights. Its the guts of 15 years since I lived there man.

Oh wow yeah they flipped on some err, Cranberries and Foo Fighters after the gig. I'd imagine that the post gig playlist was very restrictive. I bailed out almost immediately afterwards as I was dying for a shite and wasn't using the jacks in there

I've stayed on for the odd pint there after the table quiz and it's really not a good vibe at all. Same shite music every week that some "DJ" is playing. Was there one night and he played the same fucking Spice Girls song twice in the space of an hour. But with Anderson's (AKA The Velvet Room) closing down there's basically no live bar/venue left in town. So it's great that the weekend went ahead, and I'm sure the bar was happy for the cash, but Garavogue and metal (even if it's of the System of a Down tribute variety) don't make great bedfellows at all.

Yeah I know Tonaphubble (which is the correct spelling!) as that's where I live (and am sitting right this moment!) these days. Small world     

[Carnage]

Is Shoot The Crows still open? Had a decent night or two there a couple of decades ago.

[Ducky]

Shoots is indeed still there, same lads running it still!

Savage pint of Guinness there altogether.

[Carnage]

Indeed. I was in it one day, on the way to Letterkenny and made the mistake of getting a Smithwicks. It was only when I went back with it that I was informed that it was a Guinness pub. "Sure nobody drinks that shite".

[John Kimble]

Today's peeve...lads still banging on about Rice and Grealish playing for England. Bad enough from the armchair pundits out there but worse coming from someone like John Aldridge

Liverpool legend blasts Rice and Grealish as 'not right on so many levels'

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/grealish-rice-england-ireland-aldridge-33624310#ICID=Android_IrishMirrorNewsApp_AppShare

FFS like, get a grip. I'm not a particularly big fan of either but anyone can see they're a fair cut above what passes for an Irish international these days. Hardly comparable to what Aldridge experienced during the Charlton era when Ireland could give England a run for their money. It's a completely different era. I get it, we all get a bit of a kick out of the old enemy bottling it in the latter stages of competitions, but they're on completely different level to us now and have been for quite a while. Does anyone honestly think someone with the chance of competing for World Cups and Europeans would be lured away at the prospect of representing a country ranked 58th in the world. Grealish and Rice are Brits born and bred. The fucking state of us the other night.

[Thorn]

Yep, agree with all of that

[Ducky]

Indeed. I was in it one day, on the way to Letterkenny and made the mistake of getting a Smithwicks. It was only when I went back with it that I was informed that it was a Guinness pub. "Sure nobody drinks that shite".

Ha, I was in it a few weeks back and have been mad for a pint of Special these last few months, and your man gave me a "really?" look

Related peeve - barmen not having a clue what a pint of Special is.

[The Heretic]

Today's peeve...lads still banging on about Rice and Grealish playing for England. Bad enough from the armchair pundits out there but worse coming from someone like John Aldridge

Liverpool legend blasts Rice and Grealish as 'not right on so many levels'

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/grealish-rice-england-ireland-aldridge-33624310#ICID=Android_IrishMirrorNewsApp_AppShare

FFS like, get a grip. I'm not a particularly big fan of either but anyone can see they're a fair cut above what passes for an Irish international these days. Hardly comparable to what Aldridge experienced during the Charlton era when Ireland could give England a run for their money. It's a completely different era. I get it, we all get a bit of a kick out of the old enemy bottling it in the latter stages of competitions, but they're on completely different level to us now and have been for quite a while. Does anyone honestly think someone with the chance of competing for World Cups and Europeans would be lured away at the prospect of representing a country ranked 58th in the world. Grealish and Rice are Brits born and bred. The fucking state of us the other night.

Aldridge is a legend but does tend to spout some awful shite a lot of the time...

[Anvil]

Not sure if they should be a pet peeve or not... But is it normal for employers to just offer the standard rate for overtime? 

[Trev]

Not sure if they should be a pet peeve or not... But is it normal for employers to just offer the standard rate for overtime? 

The place I'm in now has a good few part time people, and they have to work up to a full weeks of hours at their basic before getting OT rates

But in general for full time staff, every place I've always worked is always time and a half at a minimum

[Anvil]

Yeah, first time I have ever been asked to do overtime for my normal rate... Cheap bastards!