Off Topic Thread 4.0

Stheno

mfceiling wrote: »

I also retired my S5 and went with a moto g5s plus. Not the greatest phone in the world but it's amazing how they've moved on in 3 years. I basically use mine to take pics, send invoices, browse the net and listen to music. We've come a long way from the Nokia 3310!!

I must be the crappiest user of a mobile I surf the web make calls and check whatsapp

mfceiling

Stheno wrote: »

I must be the crappiest user of a mobile I surf the web make calls and check whatsapp

Not far off that tbh Stheno...bar taking photos of set out drawings in work I'm pretty much a low user of the bells and whistles that come with today's phones.

Neil3030

Stheno wrote: »

I must be the crappiest user of a mobile I surf the web make calls and check whatsapp

That's me too, just add using Google maps.

Like seriously, bring out a phone with a browser, whatsapp, camera and google maps, and nothing else to drain the battery, I'll snap your hand off.

errlloyd

I think I am probably one of those phone addicts you read about. All of the following are things I do Primarily with my phone.

Casting Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, EirSport
Controlling Lights, Smart Plugs, Heating
Alarms and Cooking Timers
Recipes Tutorials
Fitbit and Eurylife Smart Scale tracking
Scanning receipts managing work expenses
Google Pay (for almost everything)
Revolut / Digital Cards (for almost everything else)
Spotify / Castbox
Managing instagram marketing for a business
Dublin Bikes / Topping up Leap Card / Mytaxi / Uber
Online shopping via Asos and Amazon apps
Manage all boarding cars with relevant airline app
Food from Deliveroo / Uber Eats / Just Eat
Mindfullness with Headspace
NFL Fantasy
RB Digital for Magazines
Kindle (Read a whole book off my phone last week).
Whatsapp / FB Chat / Snapchat / Text

http://imj.ie/semenly-harmless-back-pain-an-unusual-presentation-of-a-subcutaneous-abscess/

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/man-treated-in-hospital-after-injecting-himself-with-own-semen-1.3759941

man injects himself with semen to cure back pain.

wtf?

troyzer

Addison Yummy Fashion wrote: »

http://imj.ie/semenly-harmless-back-pain-an-unusual-presentation-of-a-subcutaneous-abscess/

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/man-treated-in-hospital-after-injecting-himself-with-own-semen-1.3759941

man injects himself with semen to cure back pain.

wtf?

As you do.

I walked outside this morning and my balls just up and disappeared.

mfceiling

Corbyn giving a speech in the house of commons....

"I was in Brussels last week speaking to government ministers and heads of state, and do you know what they said to me?"

*voice from back*

"Who are you?"

Even the lad sitting behind him could barely hold in the laugh.

swiwi_

Addison Yummy Fashion wrote: »

http://imj.ie/semenly-harmless-back-pain-an-unusual-presentation-of-a-subcutaneous-abscess/

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/man-treated-in-hospital-after-injecting-himself-with-own-semen-1.3759941

man injects himself with semen to cure back pain.

wtf?

Once treated an elderly guy with heart valve infection. Usually see this sort of thing with drug users. Anyway turned out he kept syringes at home and had a thing where he’d suck up the water from the toilet bowl into the syringe then inject himself.

The things people do.

There was also the guy with the ubiquitous plastic aubergine where the sun don’t shine but that is more mundane TBH. I suppose the choice of aubergine rather than carrot was a touch of originality.

stephen_n

swiwi_ wrote: »

Once treated an elderly guy with heart valve infection. Usually see this sort of thing with drug users. Anyway turned out he kept syringes at home and had a thing where he’d suck up the water from the toilet bowl into the syringe then inject himself.

The things people do.

There was also the guy with the ubiquitous plastic aubergine where the sun don’t shine but that is more mundane TBH. I suppose the choice of aubergine rather than carrot was a touch of originality.

What prey tell did he think the toilet water would do?

swiwi_

stephen_n wrote: »

What prey tell did he think the toilet water would do?

Some sort of buzzard ideas he had. Don’t think it was a fetish more a weird scientist type.

stephen_n

swiwi_ wrote: »

Some sort of buzzard ideas he had. Don’t think it was a fetish more a weird scientist type.

Like a how many times can I do this without killing myself kind of experiment :eek:

Yeah_Right

swiwi_ wrote: »

Once treated an elderly guy with heart valve infection. Usually see this sort of thing with drug users. Anyway turned out he kept syringes at home and had a thing where he’d suck up the water from the toilet bowl into the syringe then inject himself.

The things people do.

There was also the guy with the ubiquitous plastic aubergine where the sun don’t shine but that is more mundane TBH. I suppose the choice of aubergine rather than carrot was a touch of originality.

People from Canterbury are weird.

Neil3030

Jack Bogle died yesterday

Founder of the Vanguard investment company and pioneer of passive indexing; a man who reveled in how much Wall Street despised him, and probably did more to help ordinary people reap the benefits of the stock market than anyone else in history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC8rWTGZhak

CatFromHue

worst waiter ever!

https://twitter.com/PA/status/1085935464861847552

troyzer

Has anyone seen some of the videos of this yellow vest protest in Dublin?

Scarleh.

MOLF Hunter

troyzer wrote: »

Has anyone seen some of the videos of this yellow vest protest in Dublin?

Scarleh.

And that's the trouble...in France people of all races and ages band together for a protest...in Ireland it's something to be laughed at....bankers baby...bankers!

troyzer

MOLF Hunter wrote: »

troyzer wrote: »

Has anyone seen some of the videos of this yellow vest protest in Dublin?

Scarleh.

And that's the trouble...in France people of all races and ages band together for a protest...in Ireland it's something to be laughed at....bankers baby...bankers!

It was embarrassing how few were there and yet they were making all of these lofty claims about toppling the government.

There were anti vaccine signs, anti flouride signs and I think I saw an anti cell tower mast sign.

This is the problem with protesting in Ireland

MOLF Hunter

troyzer wrote: »

It was embarrassing how few were there and yet they were making all of these lofty claims about toppling the government.

There were anti vaccine signs, anti flouride signs and I think I saw an anti cell tower mast sign.

This is the problem with protesting in Ireland

It needs organisation...it needs the scale of the water charges... which actually worked...
It needs the gardai...to protect the people .. not the elite lawbreakers....and it need the majority to get up off their asses

irishbucsfan

Absolutely daft stuff. The vests themselves mean almost nothing here.

It's the political equivalent of people who turn up to the Aviva for their day out when Ireland play just to be seen and have something to do.

Squidgy Black

The problem with the Irish yellow vests are that they claim to be speaking for all of Ireland, when in reality they haven't a breeze and it's just a small minority of idiots.

They held a protest at 3pm on a week day outside the Dail, and when nobody showed up they started claiming people were just keyboard warriors. Even though everyone was in work at that time, making a living for themselves.

I don't even know what they are meant to be protesting and the more I find out about the yellow vest protests elsewhere the more I think they are vacuous attempts to moan about things the Government has little control over.

CatFromHue

This is what The Examiner had for their demands

Yellow Vest Demands

1. We demand, Citizens initiated Referenda similar to Switzerland.
2. Immediate halt on all evictions and cameras allowed in all civil courts.
3. We demand that Leo Varadkar declare a General Election & resign.
4. Cervical Cancer HSE staff responsible fired & Simon Harris resign.
5. Constitutional protection of Ireland’s water from privatisation.
6. Medicinal Cannabis legalised immediately.
7. Abolish Vulture Funds.
8. Prohibition on TDs from being housing Landlords or beneficiaries.
9. Mortgage debt write off for all family homes similar to what Iceland did.
10. Return Ireland’s Oil & Gas reserves to public ownership.
11. An effective means to Remove corrupt Gardai, civil servants & judges.
12. Public banking prioritised over private Banking greed.
13. Immediate distribution of Food/fuel vouchers for people going hungry and cold.
14. Cap rent per bedroom to €400 per month.
15. Abolishment of the TV Licence.
16. Enforce full corporate tax rate on multinationals and collect revenues owed.
17. A Raise in minimum wage to actual living costs.
18. Abolish household charge and property tax.

My understanding of our corporate tax is that our effective corporate tax rate is actually higher than a lot of other European countries.

The rest is just generic anti Govt stuff which if it were ever enacted would make Ireland a far worse place to live.

CatFromHue

CatFromHue wrote: »

This is what The Examiner had for their demands



My understanding of our corporate tax is that our effective corporate tax rate is actually higher than a lot of other European countries.

The rest is just generic anti Govt stuff which if it were ever enacted would make Ireland a far worse place to live.

I'm actually not in favour of most of that list so I probably won't be joining the march.

Do the crowd in France have similar nonsensical manifestos?

Just for a bit of fun:


1. We demand, Citizens initiated Referenda similar to Switzerland. When we genuinely need a referendum and don't get one then fair enough. Otherwise I don't see the need and it's open to abuse (brexit).

2. Immediate halt on all evictions and cameras allowed in all civil courts. Absolute nonsense, everyone would stop paying their mortgages over night and the country would literally collapse.

3. We demand that Leo Varadkar declare a General Election & resign. Why?

4. Cervical Cancer HSE staff responsible fired & Simon Harris resign. Investigate what happened, why and make recommendations to reduce risk of similar happening again. Discipline appropriately and terminate employment where gross negligence. Why would Harris resign?

5. Constitutional protection of Ireland’s water from privatisation. This doesn't warrant constitutional protection, a law is sufficient.

6. Medicinal Cannabis legalised immediately. Full exploration of side effects and efficacy and implemented in line with existing medical guidelines and standards. I would however decriminalise recreational cannabis.

7. Abolish Vulture Funds. Provide an alternative way to manage distressed or substantially devalued assets or no deal on this one.

8. Prohibition on TDs from being housing Landlords or beneficiaries. This is pointless. The residential tenancies board helps lessee's enfranchise their substantial rights in Ireland. The main problem with the housing market (private and rented) is the bargaining power of the supplier against the people on the demand side. Either people refuse to pay what is sought or engage in some collective bargaining or the governments legislates for allowable profit margins for accommodation. Prohibiting TD's from being landlords would require you to prohibit TD's from being involved in any other form of commerce or it's unenforceable.

9. Mortgage debt write off for all family homes similar to what Iceland did. I don't know what Iceland did but anything to help people in negative equity should be considered within reason.

10. Return Ireland’s Oil & Gas reserves to public ownership. Only if we have the capacity to actually do something with those reserves. I'd rather we invested in green and renewable energy.

11. An effective means to Remove corrupt Gardai, civil servants & judges. Stupidest item on this list. Does this even require an explanation?

12. Public banking prioritised over private Banking greed. I'm very much against greed but this is purely virtue signalling with no indication of what kind of policy the protesters want. I would expect this from someone doing their junior cert.

13. Immediate distribution of Food/fuel vouchers for people going hungry and cold. Going to need proof that a reasonable number of people are falling outside the existing social safety net to justify this. I was cold and hungry at my kids training this morning - so where do I collect my vouchers?

14. Cap rent per bedroom to €400 per month. See 8 above.

15. Abolishment of the TV Licence. I don't watch RTE but I think having an independent tax payer funded public service TV station is worth while and worth paying for, even if just for the news.

16. Enforce full corporate tax rate on multinationals and collect revenues owed. I'm in favour of global tax harmonisation.

17. A Raise in minimum wage to actual living costs. I've no issue with a raise in minimum wage but 'living costs' should not be the sole derivative and it's a problematically simple way of calculating a minimum wage.

18. Abolish household charge and property tax. Property tax is actually one of the fairer ways to tax.


This entire list is mind blowingly immature, anti-government with little rationale, stupendously socialist with no reference to where the money will come from, regularly illegal and it seems to be in favour of handing the power of law enforcement to some new body or just generally to society.

It's utter madness. When people write absurd things on boards.ie I've taken to juts ignoring them and not responding. This is the social equivalent.

DGRulz

The crowd in France was just over fuel wasn't it? Or has it evolved since Macron gave in?

Squidgy Black

DGRulz wrote: »

The crowd in France was just over fuel wasn't it? Or has it evolved since Macron gave in?

That was the catalyst, but the whole movement was around protesting over the cost of living, tax reforms, the afore mentioned citizens inititiave referendums and Macron's resignation.

sydthebeat

Passed by a field cut for hay this morning..... 20th January.... World's gone mad.

awec

sydthebeat wrote: »

Passed by a field cut for hay this morning..... 20th January.... World's gone mad.

Can you not cut hay in January or something?

prawnsambo

sydthebeat wrote: »

Passed by a field cut for hay this morning..... 20th January.... World's gone mad.

That's not hay. It's silage. Pretty normal to have an early cut.

sydthebeat

sydthebeat wrote: »

Passed by a field cut for hay this morning..... 20th January.... World's gone mad.

You only need a week or two of mild weather and there's only been one proper frost yet. It's not the norm but not totally out of the ordinary either.

thomond2006

Squidgy Black wrote: »

That was the catalyst, but the whole movement was around protesting over the cost of living, tax reforms, the afore mentioned citizens inititiave referendums and Macron's resignation.

This Irish equivalent is little more than a whinge from a tiny minority. It's a joke.

The suggestion to ban evictions cracks me up. Whatcha mean I have to REPAY a loan?! Corrupt government! Bankers! GRR!

The misuse of capital letters on the list of demands is another crime altogether.

Squidgy Black

thomond2006 wrote: »

This Irish equivalent is little more than a whinge from a tiny minority. It's a joke.

The suggestion to ban evictions cracks me up. Whatcha mean I have to REPAY a loan?! Corrupt government! Bankers! GRR!

The misuse of capital letters on the list of demands is another crime altogether.

The argument I never understand that they peddle around evictions, is that they blame the banks. I've seen plenty of comments on news sites and Facebook where they blame the bank, saying it's the bank's fault for approving the mortgage on a house that was beyond their means.

Now obviously the banks went mental with their 110% mortgages etc, but surely it's their own fault for not being a grown adult and realising there's no way in hell they could sustainably live that way?

And it's not as if the banks are just preying on them to miss their first repayment and dragging them out of the house that same day, a family member defaulted on their mortgage and the bank spent months trying to arrange payment plans etc with them, before she finally left after about a year of not paying her mortgage.

Bazzo

That list of demands looks like they passed a pen and piece of paper around a pub and published whatever came back. It's all over the place.

thomond2006

NFC Championship game coming down to the wire.

Buer

thomond2006 wrote: »

NFC Championship game coming down to the wire.

Have you heard about our lord and saviour Breesus, King of the Drews?

stephen_n

Car bomb in Derry and nut jobs on the journal comments section claiming it was the British Secret Service trying to take the focus off Brexit. The Journal is always reliable for a few funny comments, but some of them are on a different planet altogether :pac:

thomond2006

Buer wrote: »

Have you heard about our lord and saviour Breesus, King of the Drews?

Goff made some big plays to get the game to OT.
Here we go...

Buer

thomond2006 wrote: »

Goff made some big plays to get the game to OT.
Here we go...

Not as big as the officials!

thomond2006

Greg Zuerlein. Phenomenal.

Buer

Some kick. Probably the best kicker in the NFL over the past 2 seasons.

I'd be extremely bitter if I was a Saints fan, though. Most straightforward call possible that would have all but handed the game to the Saints was ignored. Can't blame Payton for still losing the rag with the officials several plays later.

thomond2006

It was an amazing non-call. 100 times out of 100 that gets called in the regular season, where we have seen DPI called for feck all contact.

Dave_The_Sheep

Squidgy Black wrote: »

The argument I never understand that they peddle around evictions, is that they blame the banks. I've seen plenty of comments on news sites and Facebook where they blame the bank, saying it's the bank's fault for approving the mortgage on a house that was beyond their means.

Now obviously the banks went mental with their 110% mortgages etc, but surely it's their own fault for not being a grown adult and realising there's no way in hell they could sustainably live that way?

And it's not as if the banks are just preying on them to miss their first repayment and dragging them out of the house that same day, a family member defaulted on their mortgage and the bank spent months trying to arrange payment plans etc with them, before she finally left after about a year of not paying her mortgage.

Depends on the bank. If it's a bank we (taxpayers) nationalised, they can go **** themselves. No bank that was bailed out should be allowed to repossess a home. If the owner can't pay, the state should take ownership. The bank should be told to go **** themselves, as should the previous owner.

I've no sympathy for those that choose to not pay. But they're a minority. There's bigger boogymen in our society than mortgage-defaulters.

thomond2006

AFC championship is equally fantastic.

yerrahbah

What a crazy game

thomond2006

This is stunning entertainment.

thomond2006

Going to overtime. Amazing.

yerrahbah

Brilliant game.

yerrahbah

Some great third down conversions by Patriots in OT. Great drama and great game.

thomond2006

I hate the OT rules of a TD winning the game on the first drive but KC had three 3rd & longs to get the ball back and didn't get it done.

What a pair of games. Incredible entertainment.