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The A/R Off Topic Thread

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    #3062
    donothoponpop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,608 ✭✭✭donothoponpop


    Woddle wrote: »
    Just got rid of the sky sports package, a savings of €33 a month :(

    Good start! We got rid of Sky a couple of years back, now just have some freeview channels. You'd be surprised how soon you don't miss it. The kids watch much less TV, read more books, and I've never seen Xfactor, Jedward, the Late Late Show, or RTE News since. Ignorance is bliss, the whole recession is passing us by:D

    (still have to pay the bloody TV licence even though we can't get Irish channels though...)


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    #3063
    --amadeus--
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,096 ✭✭✭--amadeus--


    Woddle wrote: »
    Just got rid of the sky sports package, a savings of €33 a month :(

    Haven't had it in years. When the kids were smaller I didn't get to see matches at the weekends and sitting down in the evening to live darts from Peterborough just didn't appeal. Pretty much any match you could want to watch you can stream now anyway


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    #3064
    RayCun
    Registered Users Posts: 15,704 ✭✭✭✭RayCun


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncEQvCQAlvs


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    #3065
    rovers_runner
    Registered Users Posts: 2,665 ✭✭✭rovers_runner


    Woddle wrote: »
    Just got rid of the sky sports package, a savings of €33 a month :(

    Woddle, I can give send on a link for watching all the sports Sky have and then some via the PC/Laptop.


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    #3066
    --amadeus--
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,096 ✭✭✭--amadeus--


    rovers_runner wrote: »
    Woddle, I can give send on a link for watching all the sports Sky have and then some via the PC/Laptop.

    I'd be interested in that too please


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    #3067
    Woddle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,492 ✭✭✭Woddle


    He's ruining the toy show


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    #3068
    donothoponpop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,608 ✭✭✭donothoponpop


    Woddle wrote: »
    He's ruining the toy show

    2008 salary €533,333, took a 10% pay cut in 2009 (bless him).

    The revolution starts with ditching the TV remote. ;)


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    #3069
    Woddle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,492 ✭✭✭Woddle


    donothoponpop wrote: »
    2008 salary €533,333, took a 10% pay cut in 2009 (bless him).

    The revolution starts with ditching the TV remote. ;)

    Myself and the better half had a chat and the upc box is going, I'll still have basic €12 a month.


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    #3070
    Krusty_Clown
    Registered Users Posts: 19,525 ✭✭✭✭Krusty_Clown


    Woddle wrote: »
    Myself and the better half had a chat and the upc box is going, I'll still have basic €12 a month.
    Basic analog UPC is like 23 euro a month or something similar (assuming you don't have any other service offerings), which is why the UPC digital PVR offering is so compelling.


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    #3071
    donothoponpop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,608 ✭✭✭donothoponpop


    Woddle wrote: »
    Myself and the better half had a chat and the upc box is going, I'll still have basic €12 a month.

    versus:

    €160 license a year to pay for Ryan Turbidy and Joe Duffy etc,

    Freeview with:

    BBC1,2,3,4
    ITV
    Channel 4, More 4, E4, Film 4

    Pop, Tiny Pop, PopGirl, Cbeebies, (these are the ones you'll have to sell.)

    Sky News if you want to take a Murdoch view of the world.

    The rest is torrent downloads (I pay the TV license, and buy DVD's of films worth keeping: this means I don't go to hell).

    Mucho Sky bill savings. Means you spend more time reading books and online, but that's a win for the A/R/T forum:D


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    #3072
    neilc
    Registered Users Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭neilc


    rovers_runner wrote: »
    Woddle, I can give send on a link for watching all the sports Sky have and then some via the PC/Laptop.
    Me too, please;)


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    #3073
    Woddle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,492 ✭✭✭Woddle


    Krusty_Clown wrote: »
    Basic analog UPC is like 23 euro a month or something similar (assuming you don't have any other service offerings), which is why the UPC digital PVR offering is so compelling.

    I get a 50% discount of the basic because they have all their connections for the area on the side of my house, had to remind them of this point a few months back.


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    #3074
    tunguska
    Registered Users Posts: 3,545 ✭✭✭tunguska


    Treadmill time again.........feck.


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    #3075
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Given all this horrible white crap outside, anyone got any gym recommendations? :mad:


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    #3076
    menoscemo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    Looks like the snow shoes are coming out again today!!


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    #3077
    Woddle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,492 ✭✭✭Woddle


    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Given all this horrible white crap outside, anyone got any gym recommendations? :mad:

    Tallaght complex centre, Balrothery, not too far and pay as you go.


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    #3078
    tunguska
    Registered Users Posts: 3,545 ✭✭✭tunguska


    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Given all this horrible white crap outside, anyone got any gym recommendations? :mad:

    West park gym. You'll pretty much have the place to yourself aswell, all the general population folk give up at this time of the year and retreat into an alcohol fuelled haze that'll last until january 2nd.


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    #3079
    TFBubendorfer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,340 ✭✭✭TFBubendorfer


    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Given all this horrible white crap outside, anyone got any recommendations? :mad:

    HTFU :D


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    #3080
    BeepBeep67
    Registered Users Posts: 8,082 ✭✭✭BeepBeep67


    It's grand once you get out


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    #3081
    xebec
    Registered Users Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭xebec


    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Given all this horrible white crap outside, anyone got any gym recommendations? :mad:

    Find some fields or grassy area, run around that - if possible add in a river/stream crossing so you know how we felt this morning :)

    And I agree with TFB, it's about finding something that works in this weather, not chickening out of it :P


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    #3082
    donothoponpop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,608 ✭✭✭donothoponpop


    Just back in from 12 miles of snow ploughing fun. Anyone in Dublin who is complaining about the snow need to make it their business to get up into the mountains tomorrow, and hit the trails (3 rock, Kilmashogue, Tallaght Hills, or further into Wicklow. Lots of public transport options, you've got to embrace these opportunities- snow running is the best running! Trail shoes if you gottem.

    [IMG]http://lh4.ggpht.com/_oEcvTzEYVmA/TPEY4x9TQUI/AAAAAAAAAQg/KiIvuuAvsIQ/s640/PB270011.JPG" height="480" width="640"[/IMG]


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    #3083
    menoscemo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,915 ✭✭✭✭menoscemo


    Phoenix Park was absolutely beautiful for running in today. Lovely fresh snow everywhere and hardly any walkers or cyclists to get in your way just a few fellow nutters runners :D.


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    #3084
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    menoscemo wrote: »
    Phoenix Park was absolutely beautiful for running in today. Lovely fresh snow everywhere and hardly any walkers or cyclists to get in your way just a few fellow nutters runners :D.

    I was going to go out this morning just after I postponed my XC debut but I'd just had breakfast so didn't want to do it, by the time that had settled I couldn't have been bothered. Was out with the dogs and it looked crap. :(

    Hopefully it snows again tonight, I'll be there in the morning for a long run if there's a nice fresh layer of snow to cover the ice on the roads to the park. Lots of runners there this afternoon as well.

    DP that looks amazing, I'd happily go out there now for a run.


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    #3085
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    xebec wrote: »
    Find some fields or grassy area, run around that - if possible add in a river/stream crossing so you know how we felt this morning :)

    And I agree with TFB, it's about finding something that works in this weather, not chickening out of it :P

    Just showing off now... :(


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    #3086
    Slogger Jogger
    Registered Users Posts: 5,441 ✭✭✭Slogger Jogger


    The upside to the snow is the kind of running as per the photos posted by donothoponpop and beepbeep67 earlier today.

    The downside is having to spend 2 and a half hours clearing snow from outside the gaff, to give myself any chance of being able to drive the car out on Monday. Not hopeful. Still, a decent workout.


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    #3087
    geld
    Registered Users Posts: 534 ✭✭✭geld


    Another downside is not having any water in the house due to a burst water main. It's not supposed to be back till midnight.

    I haven't had a shower today and I still have to wash the mud from the BHAA race off me from this morning.:eek:

    Mrs Geld says she understands but I migt have to sleep on the couch tonight!;)


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    #3088
    RacoonQueen
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 20,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭RacoonQueen


    Out and about earlier on, driving through a junction, look to my right and see some guy out on a MTB with his kid on the crossbar. No helmet. On an icy road. Seriously dude, are you for real?! :eek:


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    #3089
    Hard Worker
    Registered Users Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭Hard Worker


    I just thought I'd post the following text messages I received from Lezan Kimutai, Kenyan athlete:
    "Am watching the protestance in the street of Dublin whats going on over their?"
    I sent an explanatory response that Joe Higgins would have been proud of.
    Lezan came back with the following:
    "Thats so pity. Its seems life his too bad over. Not only irish many country in africa suffer alot. We have to accept and life mast"
    English is only his third language, but I think we get the message. Who would have thought that Ireland would be headline news in Kenya?


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    #3090
    Woddle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,492 ✭✭✭Woddle


    Just saw this on the weather forum






    Interesting warning from Met Eireann!


    Issued at 29 November 2010 - 11:40
    WEATHER ADVISORY
    Heavy snowfalls expected tonight, tomorrow and tomorrow night in east Leinster with accumulations of 5-10cm of snow in inland locations and 10-20cm in Counties Louth and Dublin and 15-25cm in County Wicklow.

    Valid from: 18:00 29/11/2010
    to: 00:00 01/12/2010

    This exceptionally cold weather will continue through the week.
    Night-time temperatures will drop as low as -10C (or lower) and daytime maxima of zero to 4 degrees C.
    Further snow showers will occur with a high risk of significant accumulations in the east.
    Freezing fog also.


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    #3091
    tunguska
    Registered Users Posts: 3,545 ✭✭✭tunguska


    You're all mad running in the snow. Seriously folks its not worth the risk, hit the treadmill instead. You can have a great session on a treadmill if you're creative enough.


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