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The 'trampoline wars' FG Off Topic Thread

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    #4082
    Mollyb60
    Registered Users Posts: 6,598 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    fixXxer wrote: »
    Was it the farming that made it depressing? I kinda wanted to be a hunter gatherer again after that chapter.


    Yeah a lot of it just seemed to be about how amazing things were back in the good old days and how we're all just a bunch of miserable bastards now murdering cows and ripping babies (animals) away from their mothers and torturing them before we kill them and eat them. And sure we're all gonna die horribly anyway because we're destroying the planet and humans are just the worst. The End.


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    #4083
    Trigger
    Registered Users Posts: 17,538 ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    quickbeam wrote: »
    If you're talking about the Yuval Noah Harari book, I didn't much like it at all. I thought it be more focussed on our evolution. It did in the early part, but everything after that was a bore.

    I read all my books. I've never done audio.

    You should try do both together, line up the audiobook with the chapter you start, it's pretty decent way to consume a book, most narrators put on accents etc for characters so it can give you that added dimension


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    #4084
    Trigger
    Registered Users Posts: 17,538 ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    Mollyb60 wrote: »
    Yeah a lot of it just seemed to be about how amazing things were back in the good old days and how we're all just a bunch of miserable bastards now murdering cows and ripping babies (animals) away from their mothers and torturing them before we kill them and eat them. And sure we're all gonna die horribly anyway because we're destroying the planet and humans are just the worst. The End.

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    #4085
    Ectoplasm
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭Ectoplasm


    Necro wrote: »
    I got into audiobooks when I had an hour long commute to work each way, found the time absolutely zoomed by listening to it.

    *Side note* Great to see the OT thread alive again, it had been rather quiet for a while up till recently :D

    I like audio books but I'm really sensitive to who is reading them. If it's a 'bad' voice it kills the book for me.

    Also agree with your side note :)


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    #4086
    fixXxer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,283 ✭✭✭fixXxer


    Our take away driver wouldn't take his tip because of social distancing :-/


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    #4087
    [Deleted User]
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    BOO!

    :D


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    #4088
    sullivlo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    Ectoplasm wrote: »
    I like audio books but I'm really sensitive to who is reading them. If it's a 'bad' voice it kills the book for me.

    YES!!!

    I listened to an entire series of books written by Joy Ellis and read by Richard Armitage and he makes the books. He performs them, not just reads them.

    In contrast, Marian Keyes read her last book for the audiobook version and I couldn't warm to her. The story itself was good, but I didn't enjoy her performance.

    I loved The Body (Bill Bryson) audiobook. I tend to listen to books on the commute in the car. Obviously no commute now so listen to them when doing activities like sewing or cleaning, or when out walking, or when I'm in bed colouring (to relax).

    Turned on Spotify for the first time in a few weeks today while trying to correct tests and it made me wonder why I hadn't tuned in previously. Couldn't get behind the idea of this week's throwback Thursday so ended up listening to a random reggatone album from 2005. As you do. Had a great auld bop. Didn't correct all of the tests but sure plenty of time for that tomorrow.


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    #4089
    [Deleted User]
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    Richard Armitage. Was he in The Hobbit and also that mini series The Stranger?


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    #4090
    sullivlo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Richard Armitage. Was he in The Hobbit and also that mini series The Stranger?

    Apparently so!


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    #4091
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Trigger wrote: »
    You should try do both together, line up the audiobook with the chapter you start, it's pretty decent way to consume a book, most narrators put on accents etc for characters so it can give you that added dimension

    I follow a few "Booktubers", and have heard this recommended there too, esspecially if you're struggling with a book. Maybe it's worth a go, but I quite like having my own interpretation of what characters sound like.


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    #4092
    [Deleted User]
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    sullivlo wrote: »
    Apparently so!

    I like him. Definitely a voice I could listen to.


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    #4093
    [Deleted User]
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    Like Molly, our mob have been playing family bingo every Sunday for a few weeks now. I won the full house yesterday. 75 smackeroonies!!!


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    #4094
    kitten_k
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    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Like Molly, our mob have been playing family bingo every Sunday for a few weeks now. I won the full house yesterday. 75 smackeroonies!!!

    Are you Molly's granny?? :D:p


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    #4095
    [Deleted User]
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    kitten_k wrote: »
    Are you Molly's granny?? :D:p

    She’s the favourite grandchild. She knows that she’ll be getting that full house winnings in the form of 7,500 penny sweets!

    :D


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    #4096
    Mollyb60
    Registered Users Posts: 6,598 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Like Molly, our mob have been playing family bingo every Sunday for a few weeks now. I won the full house yesterday. 75 smackeroonies!!!
    75 quid for a full house! Holy **** yous are high rollers. We're doing €3 for a line, €5 for 2 lines and €10 for the full house. There's 8 of us playing.
    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    She’s the favourite grandchild. She knows that she’ll be getting that full house winnings in the form of 7,500 penny sweets!

    :D

    YUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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    #4097
    [Deleted User]
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    We are totaling up who has the most lines and full houses after 6 games. If there’s a draw after the 6 games, those players have a line-off or house-off.Winner takes all.

    It’s 10 euro to play and a 1/3 goes to the winner of the lines, 2/3 to the house winner.

    Our family spread out over Ireland, UK, Australia & USA and we all pay into a PayPal account.


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    #4098
    Mollyb60
    Registered Users Posts: 6,598 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    Amazing. I bow before your vastly superior organisation skills.


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    #4099
    Electric Nitwit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,945 ✭✭✭✭Electric Nitwit


    I really want to put this gif in the female song competition thread but I think it's better to ignore the blow-in know-it-alls, so I'll tell you guys here instead :p

    Yzmi1H.gif


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    #4100
    MrsFlushdraw
    Registered Users Posts: 2,880 ✭✭✭MrsFlushdraw


    In case anyone isn't reading the last few posts in the last game thread. I was saying to Molly that if she was coming to Malta and looking for accomodation, and any others that might fancy some sunshine when this all passes. I am the accountant in a resort there. I will do my best to get ye good rates!

    https://saliniresort.com/


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    #4101
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,422 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Ireland seems to have gone trampoline-crazy. I cannot find one in any online store at the moment, everywhere is out of stock

    Edit: Never mind, got one :D


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    #4102
    tusk
    Registered Users Posts: 5,882 ✭✭✭tusk


    Necro wrote: »
    Ireland seems to have gone trampoline-crazy. I cannot find one in any online store at the moment, everywhere is out of stock

    Edit: Never mind, got one :D

    my bedroom window overlooks a good 30 back gardens. Over the last 3 weeks trampolines have multiplied exponentially. I think they may be planning a coup.


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    #4103
    fixXxer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,283 ✭✭✭fixXxer


    Watch out for the first stormy day of winter, you'll probably get a couple for free :D


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    #4104
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,422 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    tusk wrote:
    my bedroom window overlooks a good 30 back gardens. Over the last 3 weeks trampolines have multiplied exponentially. I think they may be planning a coup.

    Almost everywhere was sold out, eventually found one on Littlewoods but every other site was out of stock till July/August :eek:

    It's ahem.... a bit bigger than we planned for but needs must and all (wanted a 10 footer but had to get a 14 footer)


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    #4105
    [Deleted User]
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    Feck ya, Necro! You jinxed the weather when you purchased that trampoline.

    Or I did when I bought new garden furniture :D


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    #4106
    Necro
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 51,422 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote:
    Or I did when I bought new garden furniture

    That's actually also on the list but I need to see how much garden I'll have left post trampoline arrival first :pac:


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    #4107
    sullivlo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭sullivlo


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Feck ya, Necro! You jinxed the weather when you purchased that trampoline.

    Or I did when I bought new garden furniture :D

    I am probably in the minority but I welcome the brief change in weather. I have a metric ****tonne of work to do but there's no urgency on it so I have been putting it off because of the sun. Now that it's not sunny I will be doing the work and then having it out of the way for when the sunshine returns.


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    #4108
    Green&Red
    Registered Users Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭Green&Red


    Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »
    Feck ya, Necro! You jinxed the weather when you purchased that trampoline.

    Or I did when I bought new garden furniture :D

    Delighted to see the rain this morning!


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    #4109
    fixXxer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,283 ✭✭✭fixXxer


    Rain washing the pollen away thank goodness


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    #4110
    Trigger
    Registered Users Posts: 17,538 ✭✭✭✭Trigger


    sullivlo wrote: »
    I am probably in the minority but I welcome the brief change in weather. I have a metric ****tonne of work to do but there's no urgency on it so I have been putting it off because of the sun. Now that it's not sunny I will be doing the work and then having it out of the way for when the sunshine returns.

    *Insert Walrus joke here*


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    #4111
    y0ssar1an22
    Registered Users Posts: 16,890 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    anyone ever read wheel of time? they're making a tv show on it:

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7462410/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

    it has been cast but no other details really.

    hopefully it will be high end production like GOT or the witcher, rather than the disaster that was legend of the seeker (those books went of the rails towards the end)


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