Guinness n' Rollies 2: Off Topic Chat Thread

Liam McPoyle

D'Agger wrote: »

You can't beat a good steak

What you go see?

Got my hands on Cloud Atlas and Requiem for a Dream so must try watch them this week.

This is the End,dumb as hell but pretty funny.

Requiem for a Dream is one of those movies that I heard pretty much everyone rave about but it completely underwhelmed me,be interested in your thoughts.

D'Agger

Coleman Slawski wrote: »

This is the End,dumb as hell but pretty funny.

Requiem for a Dream is one of those movies that I heard pretty much everyone rave about but it completely underwhelmed me,be interested in your thoughts.

Only ever heard people raving about it also so yeah looking forward to seeing it - has a rating of 8.4 or so on IMDB so I'd expect it to be good

CastorTroy

I nearly fell into the Monsters Inc trap on Saturday as well but was constantly changing over to watch bits of it. Pixar rocks. I really need to see Ratatouille, Brave and Cars 2. I've seen the others.

When it comes to books, I'm really bad as well. Too many other things to do when could be reading books. I read comics and play the 3DS. Took me about a year to get through a Dexter book. Doing better with Dexter is Delicious.
How's Inferno, miamee? Is there a really pointless subplot involving the female character in this one as well?

I replayed Portal 2 at the weekend. Completely unintentional.

Hope to go see This is the End this week. If only to get the The Doors song out of my head.

miamee

CastorTroy wrote: »

I nearly fell into the Monsters Inc trap on Saturday as well but was constantly changing over to watch bits of it. Pixar rocks. I really need to see Ratatouille, Brave and Cars 2. I've seen the others.

When it comes to books, I'm really bad as well. Too many other things to do when could be reading books. I read comics and play the 3DS. Took me about a year to get through a Dexter book. Doing better with Dexter is Delicious.
How's Inferno, miamee? Is there a really pointless subplot involving the female character in this one as well?

I replayed Portal 2 at the weekend. Completely unintentional.

Hope to go see This is the End this week. If only to get the The Doors song out of my head.

Of course there is, lol. Well there is a female side kick character anyway who is helping him to escape. There gave been a few mentions of her colourful past so I'm looking forward to that unravelling :pac:
I saw Dan Brown at the Dublin Writers Festival this year and you know what? He is an interesting, nice, down to earth, simple guy. His father is a scientist and his mother a church pastor or something, hence his obsession with science and religion and how they fit together (or not).

CastorTroy

With DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons, the female characters and their backgrounds were relevant to the story yet in the lost symbol, all the research the character was doing that he went into such detail with had nothing to do with the main story

miamee

I haven't actually read the Lost Symbol, just the other two. I'm sure it won't impact on my enjoyment of the book

CastorTroy

I very rarely read/watch/play anything without completing the earlier ones in the series. Just a bad habit I have which is why I fall so far behind in things. Something comes out, looks good, I find out it's a sequel to about 2 or 3 others so then I think I have to complete the others before I do this one.

Guessing it's like OCD

Kev.OC

Came home from the pub at around 3am last night/this morning and it was still like 20 degrees out.

The Black Oil

That's mad.
Wouldn't want to be in Arizona now - poor sods.

Kev.OC

God no. Pushing up into the high forties there, I believe. Not fun at all.

Pepe LeFrits

Was there two summers ago - 47 degrees during the day at 30 degrees at midnight. Crazy, might as well have been living on a moon base for all my ability to go outside.

Zombienosh

^ Sounds like hell. If it goes over 20 I die.

D'Agger

Bring on the heat!

Hoping to have a BBQ

Barna77

Man flu

Heat is on me, I'm dying slowly...

Sephiroth_dude

Hello friends first time poster,long time lurker .

D'Agger

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Hello friends first time poster,long time lurker .

Welcome! Have a coffee, relax and as always, pants are optional

ToxicPaddy

D'Agger wrote: »

...pants are optional

How come I'm only finding out about this now???

D'Agger

ToxicPaddy wrote: »

How come I'm only finding out about this now???

Shareholders meeting for January - did you not get the minutes?

ToxicPaddy

D'Agger wrote: »

Shareholders meeting for January - did you not get the minutes?

Nope.. :mad:

Zombienosh

You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel.

D'Agger

Zombienosh wrote: »

You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel.

See - no pants on Zombienosh!

CastorTroy

Yeah, think you may have to clarify to him that by pants you're referring to trousers and not underwear.

Liam McPoyle

Passed my exam, only one more and Im qualified.

w00t!

D'Agger

Coleman Slawski wrote: »

Passed my exam, only one more and Im qualified.

w00t!

H'on the Coleman Slawski

Well done man!

ToxicPaddy

Coleman Slawski wrote: »

Passed my exam, only one more and Im qualified.

w00t!

Congrats..

Mind if I ask what the qualification is? If ya do, tell me to sod off :P

Liam McPoyle

Not at all,it's a diploma in insurance,when I get the last one I will be CIP - a certified insurance practitioner, basically the insurance equivalent of the QFA's.

Doesn't mean much in the grand scheme other than I get a €400 bonus from my job and it makes me much more marketable if and when I'm looking for a new job!

awec

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Sephiroth_dude

Smashing weather down here in cork again .

D'Agger

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Smashing weather down here in cork again .

I can confirm this - I've a match this evening in it - can't wait for it!

Sephiroth_dude

D'Agger wrote: »

I can confirm this - I've a match this evening in it - can't wait for it!

What do you play?

awec

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D'Agger

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

What do you play?

Gaelic Football, or at least I attempt to, dying unfit last night so I was!

awec wrote: »

That means you're for beers?

I'm free for the weekend alright man but I must get onto some people and see if I've a place to stay if I do stay up - plus assess finances - still feeling the pinch after the holidays.

I won't know until tonight if I'm going to head up or not - I'll give you a text tomorrow morning/afternoon and let you know what my story is

Kev.OC

You guys - "Hey Kev, what did you get up to today?"

Me - "Oh, not much. Just jumped out of a perfectly good aeroplane!" :cool:

The Black Oil

Pics?

And you didn't think to update boards whilst half way through the air? :pac:

Kev.OC

Nope. :P Wanted to see all the scenery through my eyes, not the screen on my phone.


Pics as requested;

D'Agger

Kev.OC wrote: »

You guys - "Hey Kev, what did you get up to today?"

Me - "Oh, not much. Just jumped out of a perfectly good aeroplane!" :cool:

Nice one man, pics look awesome!

That looks AWESOME
Want to do that!

The Black Oil

Nice one, fair play. :cool:

Sephiroth_dude

Those pics are awesome

Kev.OC

When we jumped, the wind turned us upside down, so I was falling to the ground back-first looking up at the plane flying off into the distance. I've never seen a plane from that angle before...

It is definitely something I'll be doing again though.

Anyone get up to anything interesting for the weekend?

The Black Oil

We could have an annual throw a tGCer out of a plane event. :pac:

ToxicPaddy

The Black Oil wrote: »

We could have an annual throw a tGCer out of a plane event. :pac:

Do we get to vote on who gets thrown out??

D'Agger

Kev.OC wrote: »

It is definitely something I'll be doing again though.

Anyone get up to anything interesting for the weekend?

Glad to hear you'll be doing it again!

I had a good weekend - didn't make it to Dublin (Sorry about that all!) as I had no place to stay. So instead I chilled Friday, went to the gym Saturday after the Lions match and had a BBQ with my mates and watched Office Space then gym yesterday morning, watched Kerry dismantle Cork for 35mins, had another BBQ - first time having BBQ'd steak which is immense!

So a quiet one but still productive and nice

The Black Oil wrote: »

We could have an annual throw a tGCer out of a plane event. :pac:

I'm all for this tbh!

CastorTroy

ToxicPaddy wrote: »

Do we get to vote on who gets thrown out??

Is there a separate vote on whether they get a parachute or not?

Kev.OC

D'Agger wrote: »

first time having BBQ'd steak which is immense!

:eek:

What sort of rock have you been living under!?

D'Agger

Kev.OC wrote: »

:eek:

What sort of rock have you been living under!?

Well I've never been to many BBQs and it's not something we did loads of as a family when I was younger - Killarney being the wettest town in Ireland! So anytime I had a BBQ I just had burgers and sausages, was nice to have a thick, juicy angus steak!

Was so wrecked after work yesterday I fell asleep on the couch until 8 and missed training - gutted

Liam McPoyle

Did the first night of couch 25k last night,little bit stiff today but not too bad, beautiful day and management sent an email around saying that because of the weather anyone in non customer facing roles could dispense with the ties for the week,yahoo!

D'Agger

Coleman Slawski wrote: »

Did the first night of couch 25k last night,little bit stiff today but not too bad, beautiful day and management sent an email around saying that because of the weather anyone in non customer facing roles could dispense with the ties for the week,yahoo!

Well done man, first step done, just keep it up and you'll be flying in a couple of weeks

I'd love to have no tie for the week - the humidity is unbearable today down in Corcaigh, I maintain it's from the steam coming out of the Cork GAA lads ears from Sunday (H'On the Kingdom )

Question though - do most of you folk get a casual Friday? We do it for Bank Holidays only and I think it should be a weekly thing at this stage

ToxicPaddy

D'Agger wrote: »

Well done man, first step done, just keep it up and you'll be flying in a couple of weeks

I'd love to have no tie for the week - the humidity is unbearable today down in Corcaigh, I maintain it's from the steam coming out of the Cork GAA lads ears from Sunday (H'On the Kingdom )

Question though - do most of you folk get a casual Friday? We do it for Bank Holidays only and I think it should be a weekly thing at this stage

We have casual day everyday here, shorts and t-shirts are the flavour of the day at the moment..

Surely the bosses would at least let you remove the ties for the day thats in it?

Liam McPoyle

We get casual Friday the last Friday of every month and now and again in between, shorts and t shirts would be awesome, colour me jelly.