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MitchKoobski

Well there goes my job.

Suppose now I can follow my dream of being a wrestler?

CMpunked

MitchKoobski wrote: »

Well there goes my job.

Suppose now I can follow my dream of being a wrestler?

Thats awful, Mitch.
What were you at?

*edit* just seen it on twitter.

That sucks. I hate when the head office muppets avoid questions and use ploys to make it all nicey nicey. :mad:
Speaking of TalkTalk, i hear Vodafone are also pulling out of ireland.

glenjamin

Sorry to hear that mate

gimmick

This recession is incredible, and it seems to be showing no signs of going away.

Tough break dude.

jmolloy

sorry to hear that man, it's a tough market out there was trawling job sites all morning myself but best of luck

The Volt

Sorry to hear Mitch. Is the CWU in there? I know they ran a strong campaign against Vodafone a while back

MitchKoobski

Naw we have our own guys who look after us. Good lads, but the company have themselves covered.

Diabhal Beag

Nothing I can say to make ya feel better man but keep on the lookout.

Cherry_Cola

Sorry to hear that Mitch. I've only started officially job hunting the past two days so it will be interesting to see how I get on.

Will definitely have to emigrate though due to the nature of the work.

jaykhunter

sorry to hear that mate. balls in the meantime u can catch up on gaming/tv shows/movies hopefully something will come up

starviewadams

CWU did shag all for me and a few of my ex workmates when we got let go from Eircom/Capita a few years back.

Best of luck on the job search though.

MitchKoobski

In the space of 6 hours I've been made redundant, on Radio 1, on WLR and on RTÉ News.

I was interviewed on the Six One news (Thomas Atkins), interviewed by WLR Radio, and played a clip of me on Radio One. Then on the news yer man from the chamber of commerce commented about what I said on WLR, said he was disappointed I thought there were no jobs in Waterford.

Penn

Sorry Mitch. ****ing sucks but nothing you can do but get moving and get something else.

D2D

Sorry to hear about that Mitch. That's really sh!tty forum on their part mate:mad::(

JP Liz V1

Sorry to hear about that MitchKoobski good luck with job hunt

glenjamin

MitchKoobski wrote: »

In the space of 6 hours I've been made redundant, on Radio 1, on WLR and on RTÉ News.

I was interviewed on the Six One news (Thomas Atkins), interviewed by WLR Radio, and played a clip of me on Radio One. Then on the news yer man from the chamber of commerce commented about what I said on WLR, said he was disappointed I thought there were no jobs in Waterford.

At least you got your 15 minutes of fame. Tubridy will be calling you next

The Volt

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

Dancor

Sorry to hear about that Mitchkoobski, keep the chin up lad.

Rjd2

Aye can't really add anything that you won't have been told, keep your head up and look for something as soon as possible, hopefully something will pop up soon.

Bounty Hunter

yeah can only say dont let it get you down Mitch but that obviously sucks... worst case scenario have the next monday morning off after Night of Champioins and then move to asia and teach English :pac:

jmolloy

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

The ex-Ireland international has released a video to accompany the song, which shows him at Curracloe Beach, on YouTube, and it has so far attracted over 5,000 hits.
Paul McGrath's music video for Goin' Back shows him on Curracloe Beach (YouTube)
There was overwhelming praise for the centre back, possibly from fans of his performance on the pitch, with one viewer posting: 'Well done Macker you are a legend,' and another suggesting he may even be a contender for the coveted Christmas number one spot.
However, other commentators have questioned how tuneful the sportsman's voice is.
Goin' Back will be followed by an album of cover tracks, titled Handle with Care, which features hits such as Elvis Costello's Good Year For The Roses and Christy Moore's The Contender.

A percentage of the profits from the album, which is released on September 23rd, will go to the Acquired Brain Injury Foundation and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Ireland.
Speaking to the Irish Independent, McGrath said: 'It's something new. It's something novel but it's just songs that I liked when I was a young man so I just put a few of them out there to see how it worked.'
He added that it will be 'one off', much to the disappointment of his fans.

Diabhal Beag

The man could murder half the country and we'd still love him. Great man.

starviewadams

Finally got around to setting up my laptop and xbox so that I can watch my downloads on my telly,Have nearly a decade of Raw to get through!

Cherry_Cola

Had a hard drive fail on me today with over 500gb of wrestling on it

Charisteas

No way Cherry Cola, feel for you man. But most of it is probably still widely available to re-acquire though.

I've got around 1.5 TB of wrestling media. It's barely growing anymore now though, at first it was a hobby but after a while it seemed like a chore.

I may make a list soon!

Cherry_Cola

It's annoying alright but should manage to get most of it again anyway. It's the first drive I've had fail on me so a valuable lesson was learned anyway.

Gonna invest in a few more TB drives over the weekend and backup everything again.

If anyone else is into the whole downloading scene, then I'd highly recommend picking up a WD TV Live. Excellent bit of kit that connects to your TV and plays in full HD. You just connect a hard drive or can stream over a network also.

Rjd2

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

The man could murder half the country and we'd still love him. Great man.

That performance against Italy:):):):)

Charisteas

Cherry_Cola wrote: »

It's annoying alright but should manage to get most of it again anyway. It's the first drive I've had fail on me so a valuable lesson was learned anyway.

I had a hard drive fail on me once, but it turned out to be the actual external power cable that had broken, not the drive itself. Lucky for me I tried a different cable and it worked, otherwise I may have completely ditched the drive.

So maybe try a different cable before you discard the drive.

grames_bond

Cherry_Cola wrote: »

If anyone else is into the whole downloading scene, then I'd highly recommend picking up a WD TV Live. Excellent bit of kit that connects to your TV and plays in full HD. You just connect a hard drive or can stream over a network also.

link?

gimmick

Cherry_Cola wrote: »

Had a hard drive fail on me today with over 500gb of wrestling on it

Always back up. ALWAYS. Once a month should suffice.

Cherry_Cola

Yeah I'm in the process of backing everything up to DVD's and new drives now. Gonna take a while to backup over 6TB's but it'll be worth it in the end.

I tried everything to resurrect it but there was no way to get it going again.

Here's the link for the TV live gadget I was on about:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Live-Media-Player/dp/B002LZUHMI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315571341&sr=8-1

gimmick

6tbs is a crap load of stuff. My backup HD is a 1TB and I reckons its half full at best, and I have a lot of stuff on it.

Cherry_Cola

Yeah it's quite a bit alright. I've backed up most of my dvd's on there so that accounts for a lot of it. I also have probably every season of every major tv show from the last 10-15 years too.

Went a little crazy with my 100mb broadband connection when living in the UK. Back to 2mb now again

Charisteas

Cherry_Cola wrote: »

Yeah I'm in the process of backing everything up to DVD's and new drives now. Gonna take a while to backup over 6TB's but it'll be worth it in the end.

6TB wow!!!

Keep the wrestling and porn, and delete the rest (if there's anything left )

I just downloaded the entire Beavis and Butthead collection, should get me through the rainy autumn.

jaykhunter

wow that's huge, 6TB. i think i've cumulatively 6TB but half of that is backups.

grames_bond

Charisteas wrote: »

I just downloaded the entire Beavis and Butthead collection, should get me through the rainy autumn.

getting prepared for their triumphant return are we?!

Bounty Hunter

Just watched a movie called Leap Year. now I knew it wasnt going to be good before I watched it but I watched it for the missus (Rom Com with someone going to Ireland in it) but OMFG it was the worst piece of sh!t ive potentially ever seen. Made Hall Pass which I watched last month on the plane over here (I find it hard to stop watching a movie half way through no matter if its terrible or not) seem like a feckin oscar movie.

GTR63

Well **** Carragher after today,they'd of never of scored had he not tangled Walters to the ground, don't even get me started on Henderson. Rotten weekend overall with that result & Milan unconvincingly drawing last night. I'm not even going to bother watching the game vs Barca a defeat there is only a matter of how much. Anyone else getting up for the Rugby tomorrow?

Bounty Hunter

GTR63 wrote: »

Well **** Carragher after today,they'd of never of scored had he not tangled Walters to the ground, don't even get me started on Henderson. Rotten weekend overall with that result & Milan unconvincingly drawing last night. I'm not even going to bother watching the game vs Barca a defeat there is only a matter of how much. Anyone else getting up for the Rugby tomorrow?

what time is kick off in your neck o the woods? got a feeling itl be ideally timed for me here

GTR63

Bounty Hunter wrote: »

what time is kick off in your neck o the woods? got a feeling itl be ideally timed for me here

7am kick off over here.

Bounty Hunter

GTR63 wrote: »

7am kick off over here.

awesome, 2pm kick off here which is ideal for a Lazy Sunday. Sleep in then the match, then a chinese national holiday on monday

GTR63

U21 champs now take that Des Cahill you fat headed wanker.

Diabhal Beag

GTR63 wrote: »

U21 champs now take that Des Cahill you fat headed wanker.

The cousin made a great save. Was good to go to Thurles and win for a change.

rovert

Oh ****
http://twitter.com/#!/pinkysimovitch/status/112667167153074176

GTR63

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

The cousin made a great save. Was good to go to Thurles and win for a change.

Boy it went a LOT smoother than last years final did thats for sure,we won both finals quite comfortably despite the media talking our chances down. Watching the 80's Flash Gordon film reminds me of how much of a Legend Brian Blessed is.

DEFTLEFTHAND

rovert wrote: »

Oh ****
http://twitter.com/#!/pinkysimovitch/status/112667167153074176

Excuse my ignorance guys but who was pink diva and whats her connection to boards?

Bounty Hunter

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Excuse my ignorance guys but who was pink diva and whats her connection to boards?

Billy Gunn's ex / mistress. She did a series of youtube vids pretty much screwing up the Ass man's life (Marriage) revealing all about their time together but tbh that was Billy's own fault for cheating on his missus. The story was picked up on boards and some other message boards (which she found out about) before the dirt sheets got hold of it and she actually joined up to boards.ie under the PinkDiva tag. She then also came on the boards/TBC podcast twice and was good craic although im not sure if the second one made it to air (maybe the interview did but I was on the show that week and coincidentally every time ive been on we have had technical problems and we never made it to air).

Her big ass (im sure she has a nice ass) thread can be found in the hot links thread under the threads of infamy post.

grames_bond

Jaysus Ireland have been woeful in this game!! We look like a Sunday league team!

Furious-Red

Yup has been a terrile game so far

DM_7

I was in Sports World the other day and they had a picture up of O'Leary, Wallace and Fitzgerald. Three bad/unfortunate choices to be the poster boys of a campaign.

Ireland had a bad build up so its not that surprising to see them struggling to put play together in the first half. The fitness of the Irish will see them through easy enough.