Brandy and Cigars: Off topic thread

Pawwed Rig

So many undesireables around Dublin 2 these days;)

Barna77

Week off!

Slattsy

Destroying a pulled pork burrito at my desk before going on the sauce

Panthro

Went out to my car this morning, sat into the drivers seat...
Noticed the glove box open...
Then noticed a plastic glove on the passenger seat...
Not mine...
'Hmm...I wonder what has become of my Ipod and the book for my car I pondered..'
Theiving <insert obscenities here>.

The Black Oil

That's a balls.

Kev.OC

That's sh1t.

Forgive my ignorance, but why would they steal the book for your car?

Pawwed Rig

FA Cup final or Barca v Atletico????

Panthro

Its Sunday and I've been up since half seven.
This is new.
Happy Sunday!

ToxicPaddy

Panthro wrote: »

Its Sunday and I've been up since half seven.
This is new.
Happy Sunday!

Been up since 9.30, no idea why I woke up so early, so decided to make the most of the sun, only there wasn't any.. :mad:

Then I decided to clean my place and begin that long overdue clearout of crap I've been promising myself to do for a long time now.

Soooo here I am sitting taking a break with a cuppa surrounded by a huge pile of crap and the place looks worse than before I started

Think I under estimated how much junk I have acquired :cool::P

D'Agger

Got my new vehicle - like a child with the thing, very quick and really comfy

That new lazyboy recliner I got came in handy today after heading out last night! Watched 50/50 for about the 15th time - love that movie!!

ToxicPaddy

D'Agger wrote: »

Got my new vehicle - like a child with the thing, very quick and really comfy

That new lazyboy recliner I got came in handy today after heading out last night! Watched 50/50 for about the 15th time - love that movie!!

C'mon, what ya get?? Don't keep us in suspense!!

Slattsy

I guess Golf or a Focus.

The Black Oil

Bit of an upgrade on this, eh? :pac:

D'Agger

Slattsy wrote: »

I guess Golf or a Focus.

Had a focus saloon, upgraded to a pessat cc, it's been a major upgrade

Slattsy

Lovely motor. Good choice.
Hope she goes well for ya.

Panthro

Congrats on the new wheels, you dirty D'Agg!:pac:

ToxicPaddy

D'Agger wrote: »

Had a focus saloon, upgraded to a pessat cc, it's been a major upgrade

Ohhh nice set of wheels.. Think pics are required.

Jeez they are obviously paying you too much.. :P

Barna77

Amsterdam, here we go!

Pepe LeFrits

Awesome weekend. Winning the FA Cup after 9 years really was special.

Pawwed Rig

Ha, you must have been in shock after 8 minutes

Pepe LeFrits

It wasn't the first time that's happened this season, so I wasn't entirely surprised.

I still expected them to come back from it though, but you never know for sure.

Knex*

D'Agger wrote: »

Got my new vehicle - like a child with the thing, very quick and really comfy

That new lazyboy recliner I got came in handy today after heading out last night! Watched 50/50 for about the 15th time - love that movie!!

Ahh, nice! I don't know the conversational protocol for a new car, but I'm gonna go with, "Congrats"

Also, still have to watch 50/50. On my to-do list for sure.

Watched the BBC Sherlock series recently. Really enjoyed it.

D'Agger

Knex. wrote: »

Ahh, nice! I don't know the conversational protocol for a new car, but I'm gonna go with, "Congrats"

Also, still have to watch 50/50. On my to-do list for sure.

Watched the BBC Sherlock series recently. Really enjoyed it.

Cheers - myself and my buddies were talking about the 'well wear' comment that gets banded about - I swear I had never heard it until I was about 22 and now I hear it all the time....which brings me to an interesting theory/concept I came across yesterday: The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon

Here & here

I recently watched Sherlock too - brilliant show, the casting is brilliant - particularly enjoy Mycroft!

Watch 50-50, pretty sure it's my favourite movie, has everything - including Anna Kendrick

Knex*

Never heard of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, but reading up on it, its something I had thought about before as a concept.

Always assumed it was just your brain being on more of a high alert mode for whatever the new thing is. Nice to have it backed up with some proper words and research though

D'Agger

Knex. wrote: »

Never heard of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, but reading up on it, its something I had thought about before as a concept.

Always assumed it was just your brain being on more of a high alert mode for whatever the new thing is. Nice to have it backed up with some proper words and research though

I'm glad I just have a name to put against that feeling/phenomenon

That youtube channel Stuff you should know is pretty handy I have to say - been listening to their podcasts lately

Hermione*

Knex. wrote: »

Watched the BBC Sherlock series recently. Really enjoyed it.

Love that show!

Interesting read re: that phenomenon, D'aggs. Congrats on the wheels!

Back to my desk after a week travelling in America on business. Drowning in emails

D'Agger

Hermione* wrote: »

Love that show!

Interesting read re: that phenomenon, D'aggs. Congrats on the wheels!

Back to my desk after a week travelling in America on business. Drowning in emails

Ah emails after time off....nothing like speed reading them and deleting them over the course of an hour

What parts of the States did you travel to Hermione?

Knex*

Ctrl + A + Delete.

Emails sorted

Side note: People who put in mail read receipts should be burned at the stake.

D'Agger

Knex. wrote: »

Ctrl + A + Delete.

Emails sorted

Side note: People who put in mail read receipts should be burned at the stake.

You should look up a batch file that disables it and email it to them....they'll double click it and nothing will happen.....or will it? :pac:

Knex*

D'Agger wrote: »

You should look up a batch file that disables it and email it to them....they'll double click it and nothing will happen.....or will it? :pac:

In college I wrote a few batch files to annoy some of mates. Had them saved on a USB and when people left their comps free, game time started. My favourite was one that opened and closed their CD drive intermittently.

Drove them mental during project times :pac:

I'm far too easily amused...

D'Agger

Knex. wrote: »

In college I wrote a few batch files to annoy some of mates. Had them saved on a USB and when people left their comps free, game time started. My favourite was one that opened and closed their CD drive intermittently.

Drove them mental during project times :pac:

I'm far too easily amused...

One of the lads at work keeps doing that to networked PCs when he can see the user - you can run command prompt on a networked computer using PSExec. Caught me with it too the fúcker!

Knex*

D'Agger wrote: »

One of the lads at work keeps doing that to networked PCs when he can see the user - you can run command prompt on a networked computer using PSExec. Caught me with it too the fúcker!

I know it well

The Black Oil

I used to work with someone who demanded read receipt for every mail. Daft. Interesting to know there are little tGC pixies out there running interference...

Gongoozler

I used to work with three people who did this. I wondered did they know they had it on for all messages, but it's a thing you have to turn on, besides you'd get a receipt and it comes in as a regular message so yeah they knew.

Managed ten minutes of a jog this evening. Not too bad I suppose

Hermione*

D'Agger wrote: »

Ah emails after time off....nothing like speed reading them and deleting them over the course of an hour

What parts of the States did you travel to Hermione?

New York and Philadelphia. It's a tough life

Liam McPoyle

Quality episode of Game of Thrones and Im now watching Hestons Great British Foods, great show!

Knex*

Hermione* wrote: »

New York and Philadelphia. It's a tough life

Awesome. Try any Philly Steaks? Tasty stuff!

Americans actually get antsy when it comes to comparing food state by state. Chicago and New York have quite an aggressive Pizza war, by all accounts.

Coleman Slawski wrote: »

Quality episode of Game of Thrones

I felt a little disappointed by it, for some reason.

Liam McPoyle

Really?

I thought it played out superbly.

Have you read the books?

Knex*

Coleman Slawski wrote: »

Really?

I thought it played out superbly.

Have you read the books?

Haven't read them yet, no. Yourself?

I know they need to fill the story out, so it can't be blood and thunder every show, but I pretty much guessed who was going to be in the fight from the first minute, and everything else was fairly straight forward and unsurprising.

Still enjoyable, I suppose. They've had some cracking episodes, so probably a non realistic expectation thing more than anything.

Pawwed Rig

Serious question, are the books worth reading or is it the standard fantasy fayre? Not a huge fan of the genre but if it was an exceptional example, better than say Tad Williams Dragonbone Chair, I will give them a read.

More a sci fi man for the books although I am finding it more and more difficult to find good sci fi. I don't seem to like the popular stuff like Iain Banks or Alastair Reynolds and have read all the Arthur C Clarke, Jack Chalker etc multiple times

Liam McPoyle

I really enjoyed them. Part one of A Feast for Crows I found to be a bit of a drag but I zipped through the rest.

Im by no means a sword and sorcery fan either, I read alot of horror stuff, crime fiction, noirish stuff etc so the series was a bit of departure for me.

Id recommend them anyway.

Pawwed Rig

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Serious question, are the books worth reading or is it the standard fantasy fayre?

I have only read the first one and for the most part it is not "Fantasy Fayre" at all until almost the last 10 pages when "Here be Dragons" and one scene in the middle with Wraiths.

For the most part the book was a political war drama, centred around the hostile take over of a monarchy in one land and the Tribal culture in another. And the distant effects of each on the other.

I assume the later books however go more and more down the Dragons and Undead and Sorcery Routes.

D'Agger

Hermione* wrote: »

New York and Philadelphia. It's a tough life

Awwwwshum! Hope you'd a good time! Would like to see NYC at some stage, take a jaunt through Central Park etc etc

Coleman Slawski wrote: »

Quality episode of Game of Thrones and Im now watching Hestons Great British Foods, great show!

Yup - very much enjoyed it! Oberyn - saw that coming but still very much excited about it

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Serious question, are the books worth reading or is it the standard fantasy fayre? Not a huge fan of the genre but if it was an exceptional example, better than say Tad Williams Dragonbone Chair, I will give them a read.

More a sci fi man for the books although I am finding it more and more difficult to find good sci fi. I don't seem to like the popular stuff like Iain Banks or Alastair Reynolds and have read all the Arthur C Clarke, Jack Chalker etc multiple times

I should start by pointing out that I'm shocking at reading but GOT - I tried reading the first book, and after seeing the TV show first, I couldn't deal with its (IMO) over description of everything. Every single scene / page seemed to be dragging it out until it finally got to the point.

Even if I hadn't seen the show I think I'd have found the books annoying.

Pepe LeFrits

I read the books after watching S1 of the show and knowing what was coming, I found the first book a slog. As D'Aggs says, they are description heavy. I devoured the rest of them though; despite their girth I had to know what happened next.

D'Agger

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

I devoured the rest of them though; despite their girth

Knex*

Jaysus Pepe, talk about lining yourself up :pac:

Pepe LeFrits

D'Agger

I'm hoping to remember this slip up Pep....so as to remind you of it always

Panthro

Pepe LeFrits wrote: »

I devoured the rest of them though; despite their girth.

:pac:

Pawwed Rig

Haha love it