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It's PanDENmonium! [Off Topic Chat]

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    An File wrote: »
    Why did we never do a Limerick beers?!

    I think like most things in my life, an attempt was made and it failed miserably. :P :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭pajor


    Had a bit of an existential crisis last night in a bar in Dublin. After yet another week on the road for work.
    One week here has me reevaluating what I want out of my life and my twenties.
    I think me and Limerick have about run our course. I need out.

    Dublin pubs will do that to you. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭Junco Partner


    pajor wrote: »
    Dublin pubs will do that to you. :pac:

    That they will. This is a wicked town. Usually I can't wait to get home after being on the road but I'm still here in Dublin a day after finishing up here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭Junco Partner


    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    I'm the same now tbh. I've been in Limerick for over 5 years now, and it's starting to feel like I'll never get out of here....
    When I left college , the plan was to work for a year. Save some cash. Then go back and do a course. Now it's three years later. And while there's lots of things I have an interest in doing. None of them require a college degree. So I'm just kind of hanging around in limbo. Limericks grand and all but it's empty half the year. I'm working nights on an ever changing roster so I don't get to go out and meet people much. Pretty much all the friends and relationships I've had here have been through work so I'm starting to wonder what it actually is I'm waiting around for.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    When I left college , the plan was to work for a year. Save some cash. Then go back and do a course. Now it's three years later. And while there's lots of things I have an interest in doing. None of them require a college degree. So I'm just kind of hanging around in limbo. Limericks grand and all but it's empty half the year. I'm working nights on an ever changing roster so I don't get to go out and meet people much. Pretty much all the friends and relationships I've had here have been through work so I'm starting to wonder what it actually is I'm waiting around for.

    I'm rather terrified of falling into the same trap if I'm honest. I had this great plan of heading to Denmark to do a Masters as soon as I get my degree, but more and more I'm thinking it'd probably be smarter to work for a year or two, save money, and then go when I've got more of a cash safety net (Denmark is expensive as all hell from what I can make out).

    But I know me, I'll get comfortable fast if I get into a routine of 9-5 again like while I was on placement. Not even kidding, I was looking at houses to buy in Limerick on Daft recently thinking "Y'know, if I were earning €X (which is not too much higher than what I was earning on placement) I could potentially afford this place... how cool would that be!".

    And honestly, the happiest I've been in years was when I had that 9-5 routine. I know if I fell back into it, I'd find it extremely hard to break out and go back to college again...


    TL;DR -> Growing up and having to make actual long term life decisions is hard y'all!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭Junco Partner


    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    I'm rather terrified of falling into the same trap if I'm honest. I had this great plan of heading to Denmark to do a Masters as soon as I get my degree,

    But I know me, I'll get comfortable fast if I get into a routine of 9-5 again

    And honestly, the happiest I've been in years was when I had that 9-5 routine. I know if I fell back into it, I'd find it extremely hard to break out and go back to college again...


    TL;DR -> Growing up and having to make actual long term life decisions is hard y'all!

    Canada was my grand plan, until I became friends with someone who went over on the two year visa and had an absolutely horrible time and came back no better off financially.

    The work routine is a double edged sword .It's great to have cash and be able to afford things after living the student(flat broke) life. But routine becomes comfort becomes stagnation.
    Now I'm slowly clawing my way up the ladder here but it's become boring.

    I just don't want to fall into the trap of sitting around waiting for my real life to begin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭pajor


    I've been in an office job for very close to 6 months and I hate it now. The stress is probably slowly killing me, dread going into work almost everyday. When I see my more knowledgable and experienced colleagues get so stressed too, I know it's not for me forever. And all I do is sit at a computer all day, not what I want to do with my life.

    I am sorta minted though, money is great, so I can save loads. Nice balance in the 'oul savings account helped along with loads of government allowances over here. But the money is not worth it. Definitely an early life lesson for me. Good pay is not worth being unhappy in your job.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    pajor wrote: »
    I've been in an office job for very close to 6 months and I hate it now. The stress is probably slowly killing me, dread going into work almost everyday. When I see my more knowledgable and experienced colleagues get so stressed too, I know it's not for me forever. And all I do is sit at a computer all day, not what I want to do with my life.

    I am sorta minted though, money is great, so I can save loads. Nice balance in the 'oul savings account helped along with loads of government allowances over here. But the money is not worth it. Definitely an early life lesson for me. Good pay is not worth being unhappy in your job.

    Definitely.

    I think the reason I'm so eager to get back into the 9-5 was that that was the first time in a good few years that I was more or less completely happy. Sure, the job had its bad days when nothing went right, but by and large getting up in the morning to head in was never that much of a struggle. Just the atmosphere there suited me perfect at the time, even though we were earning below minimum wage so I wasn't exactly rolling in cash (even taking into account Castletroy rent during the summer :P).

    Like, with college right now, it's a struggle every day to actually force myself to go in, get work done, etc. It's not helping that things beyond my control are sort of disintegrating around me too.

    I dunno, I guess I just want some change from being in UL, be that working or moving country, either way I think I'm just done with the place at this stage...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,776 ✭✭✭Jhcx


    I bought a laptop the other day and it concerts into a 15" tablet and its quite weird having a massive touch screen in front of you. i feel so futuristic cause im so used to my laptops and desktops with the old fashioned keyboards and mouse... someday it will just be touchy touchy everywhere. although i will admit trying to right click using tough screen proves very difficult. come on Microsoft fix this :pac:



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,787 ✭✭✭SureYWouldntYa


    Was a bit drunk at a party last night

    Sort of promised granny I'd become a priest

    Feck


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Was a bit drunk at a party last night

    Sort of promised granny I'd become a priest

    Feck

    That is one of the strangest promises I've heard anyone make while drunk...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,787 ✭✭✭SureYWouldntYa


    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    That is one of the strangest promises I've heard anyone make while drunk...

    Can't break the news to her either

    Might just be easier to become one


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,068 ✭✭✭LoonyLovegood


    Tell her you've found the love of a good person of indeterminate gender and can't become a priest?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Tell her you're becoming a priest of the Satanic Order and that you look forward to commending her soul to Beelzebub when she passes.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭Nerdkiller1991


    Was a bit drunk at a party last night

    Sort of promised granny I'd become a priest

    Feck
    Sure, why wouldn't ya?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,787 ✭✭✭SureYWouldntYa


    Sure, why wouldn't ya?

    story of my life


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭Junco Partner


    Dublin peeps. Trying to decide on things to get my dad for his fiftieth. Want it to be a day trip to Dublin where we'll be forced to interact. A combo of being Irish and introverts gives us a very non communicative father/son relationships. If people could give reccomendations on good places to go in Dublin ? Historically /culturally significant. Good places to eat.
    At the minute all I've settled on is a distillery tour and pints in o donughues. Two of our great loves. Whiskey and The Dubliners.
    But I don't know Dublin well enough to think of much else things to do up there. Could possibly make it an overnight thing so will have to fill two days


  • Registered Users Posts: 713 ✭✭✭Cherry Blossom Girl


    Dublin peeps. Trying to decide on things to get my dad for his fiftieth. Want it to be a day trip to Dublin where we'll be forced to interact. A combo of being Irish and introverts gives us a very non communicative father/son relationships. If people could give reccomendations on good places to go in Dublin ? Historically /culturally significant. Good places to eat.
    At the minute all I've settled on is a distillery tour and pints in o donughues. Two of our great loves. Whiskey and The Dubliners.
    But I don't know Dublin well enough to think of much else things to do up there. Could possibly make it an overnight thing so will have to fill two days

    The Kilmainham Gaol tour is really good, if you're into that kind of thing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,776 ✭✭✭Jhcx


    so im out of a job now for he next 5 month and trying to find the motivation to go to the gym just aint happening :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭pajor


    Jhcx wrote: »
    so im out of a job now for he next 5 month and trying to find the motivation to go to the gym just aint happening :(

    If you have a limited time of unemployment, enjoy it! Wouldn't mind it myself atm.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,157 ✭✭✭✭HugsiePie


    pajor wrote: »
    If you have a limited time of unemployment, enjoy it! Wouldn't mind it myself atm.

    Things are getting quiet in the hotel i work so hours are being reduced and Im so excited! This weekend Im only working 1day instead of 3 and my excitement cant be contained! I cant wait to stay in Galway for a weekend, visit my sis at her college, study instead of work, sculpt that thing I really want tobut just haven't had the time, etc.

    I love my job, its a dreamjob tbh and I love working weekend nights too (it makes not having plans to go out cause Ive no friends at home less sad cause "sure I had to work anyways") but omg able to actually make plans that I can commit to eg visiting my sis, is going to be awesome!!!!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,891 ✭✭✭iamanengine


    I'm working 4 nights a week on top of college, ughhhh :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭Junco Partner


    I'm working 4 nights a week on top of college, ughhhh :(

    That's a challenge. Fair play.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,068 ✭✭✭LoonyLovegood


    I'm working six mornings a week, plus college. It's actually hell


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭Junco Partner


    I'm working six mornings a week, plus college. It's actually hell
    I used to get of the bus on a Friday and basically work till I got back on the bus to college Sunday night. Lasted a year.
    Big respect to those who can actually make it through college like that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,157 ✭✭✭✭HugsiePie


    I used to get of the bus on a Friday and basically work till I got back on the bus to college Sunday night. Lasted a year.
    Big respect to those who can actually make it through college like that.

    Oooooh that what I do now! But alaas Im only working 1 day this weekend :D:D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭Junco Partner


    HugsiePie wrote: »
    Oooooh that what I do now! But alaas Im only working 1 day this weekend :D:D:D

    Alas? You seem too happy about it for it to be an alas kind of situation :p.
    Or was it a sarcastic alas.
    :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,157 ✭✭✭✭HugsiePie


    Alas? You seem too happy about it for it to be an alas kind of situation :p.
    Or was it a sarcastic alas.
    :p

    Its both good and bad I suppose, bad my hours are being cut but good I get sme free time which I am very excited about :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭Junco Partner


    HugsiePie wrote: »
    Its both good and bad I suppose, bad my hours are being cut but good I get sme free time which I am very excited about :D
    Youre rationalizing. Cut hours is always bad. Because it's rarely temporary. My shops not too bad cause I work like a dog so I get my hours but the other locations in town give terrible hours even to those who work hard and they are all broke and depressed


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,157 ✭✭✭✭HugsiePie


    Youre rationalizing. Cut hours is always bad. Because it's rarely temporary. My shops not too bad cause I work like a dog so I get my hours but the other locations in town give terrible hours even to those who work hard and they are all broke and depressed

    Well I work weddings so its pretty seasonal work like....there arent as may Noveber weddings as there are June ones :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭Junco Partner


    So I missed the last bus home by about a minute. Most of the Galway hostels seem to have no vacancy.
    I have a new found understanding for those who sleep rough albeit only one solitary nights worth of understanding.
    Not easy to.
    So so so cold.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,776 ✭✭✭Jhcx


    pajor wrote: »
    If you have a limited time of unemployment, enjoy it! Wouldn't mind it myself atm.

    Thats questionable if i even get back. But id rather not be free in my current mind frame. just not safe in my mental health


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    I want to make a series of videos called "Misleading Titles". The first entries in the series are:

    "Stroking a Big Black Cock" - wherein a young woman from the inner city goes back to nature on a farm out in the west of Ireland, adopts a black rooster with whom she quickly develops a bond akin to that of a pet.

    "Creampie Compilation" - wherein Jamie Oliver makes several different pastries filled with whipped cream.

    "Pussy Licking for Beginners" - wherein a mother cat teaches her kittens how to clean themselves.

    "Banging Hard with Sasha Gray" - wherein pornstar Sasha Gray learns to play the drums.

    "Big Tits in the Woods" - wherein David Attenborough marvels at extra large examples of Bluetits in a forest.


  • Registered Users Posts: 818 ✭✭✭MauraTheThird


    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    I want to make a series of videos called "Misleading Titles". The first entries in the series are:

    "Stroking a Big Black Cock" - wherein a young woman from the inner city goes back to nature on a farm out in the west of Ireland, adopts a black rooster with whom she quickly develops a bond akin to that of a pet.

    "Creampie Compilation" - wherein Jamie Oliver makes several different pastries filled with whipped cream.

    "Pussy Licking for Beginners" - wherein a mother cat teaches her kittens how to clean themselves.

    "Banging Hard with Sasha Gray" - wherein pornstar Sasha Gray learns to play the drums.

    "Big Tits in the Woods" - wherein David Attenborough marvels at extra large examples of Bluetits in a forest.

    Roared laughed out loud in the library and I only have you to blame!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,891 ✭✭✭iamanengine


    So I missed the last bus home by about a minute. Most of the Galway hostels seem to have no vacancy.
    I have a new found understanding for those who sleep rough albeit only one solitary nights worth of understanding.
    Not easy to.
    So so so cold.

    Damn man, I would have offered you my couch had I seen this in time :O


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭Junco Partner


    Damn man, I would have offered you my couch had I seen this in time :O
    S'cool. I lasted a few hours on a bench until I noped the funk out of there. Galway to ballinasloe is a very expensive taxi but I think I made the right call.
    I'm just lucky I make enough that I can take that hit. Will never pass a homeless person by again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    From thinking of the above horrific video titles in the shower this morning, to mking this nifty càcà milis this evening, just another day in the wacky world of wnolan1992!

    https://twitter.com/wnolan1992/status/651837483425091584


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,157 ✭✭✭✭HugsiePie


    wnolan1992 wrote: »
    From thinking of the above horrific video titles in the shower this morning, to mking this nifty càcà milis this evening, just another day in the wacky world of wnolan1992!

    https://twitter.com/wnolan1992/status/651837483425091584

    My virgin kitchen?

    Boy youre doingit wrong



    Now THATS how you bake :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭Junco Partner


    HugsiePie wrote: »

    Now THATS how you bake :cool:

    I've been Baking wrong all these years


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    HugsiePie wrote: »
    My virgin kitchen?

    Boy youre doingit wrong



    Now THATS how you bake :cool:

    That's one way...

    Or you could do this...



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭Junco Partner


    Do you ever randomly meet people when out and about and strike up a conversation or have one struck up upon you.
    This conversation invariably turns out to be fantastically interesting and you are glad to have had this person(s) pass through your life,albeit briefly.
    And then you realise: you forgot their name as soon as they told you.
    The once engrossing conversation becomes fraught with tension. Your mind becomes a frantic roll call. "Was it Karen? Mary? Tim?"
    Each time they say your own name all you can think is "They know! They're mocking me, they know I forgot so they're rubbing it in that they remembered"

    "It was really cool meeting you , Junco"

    "You too.... Pal"
    Visible shivers as I cringe.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,776 ✭✭✭Jhcx


    I had a nightmare last night that something happened to my arm and it had to be cut off. but just to preserve my tattoo they cut it just below it. But my first panic attack was that id never be able to drive again :( So now im online looking to know when advanced robotic arms will be available just in case it ever happens


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,891 ✭✭✭iamanengine


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,849 Mod ✭✭✭✭suitcasepink


    Right lads how do I dress up as jailbait for Halloween? :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,573 ✭✭✭pajor


    deise_girl wrote: »
    Right lads how do I dress up as jailbait for Halloween? :)

    7ruxCiwl.png


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    deise_girl wrote: »
    Right lads how do I dress up as jailbait for Halloween? :)

    I feel like answering this question will only serve to portray me in a negative light, as such, I'm out.

    PseudoFamous is surely lurking creepily around with an appropriate answer to this though. :P


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,921 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Step 1: Watch "Of Mice and Men"
    Step 2: dress up like Curley's wife
    Step 3: avoid puppies and big strong men called Lennie


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,068 ✭✭✭LoonyLovegood


    Oh, Halloween, my favourite time of year.

    I've to bring a two year old trick or treating this year. What am I letting myself in for?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,891 ✭✭✭iamanengine


    Oh, Halloween, my favourite time of year.

    I've to bring a two year old trick or treating this year. What am I letting myself in for?

    Sweet, sweet candy!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,157 ✭✭✭✭HugsiePie


    I need a purple shirt for mine....anyone know where I can find one cheap. Theyre all like 20euro online and pennys only have mens ones. Also....can I dye a white linen shirt purple with juice/red cabbage/etc?


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