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    #1832
    Buer
    Registered Users Posts: 24,234 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    If they just actually enforced the 2 weeks it would hugely cut the travel. Make it absolutely necessary and unavoidable. Im doing it right now and it’s awful

    But you have us, at least.


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    #1833
    Former Former
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,728 ✭✭✭Former Former


    Deleted User wrote: »
    At what point are you over the virus and cannot spread it further? Do you get another test once you feel better?

    You are at your most infectious around the time that symptoms appear, when the virus is most concentrated in your upper respiratory tract and therefore most likely to be thrown out when you sneeze/cough/talk/shout.

    As time goes on, your body either gets rid of the virus (mild case) or concentrates deeper in your lungs (not good) and so either way you're less likely to pass it on.

    The advice to isolate for 14 days after your symptoms resolve is probably conservative but that's a good thing IMO.


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    #1834
    Clegg
    Registered Users Posts: 17,097 ✭✭✭✭Clegg


    Is there a rugby equivalent of Manchester United? Play a great attacking brand of football when the pressure is off, but as soon as Champions League qualification/an FA Cup final place is on offer, they bottle it.


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    #1835
    [Deleted User]
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    Former Former wrote: »
    You are at your most infectious around the time that symptoms appear, when the virus is most concentrated in your upper respiratory tract and therefore most likely to be thrown out when you sneeze/cough/talk/shout.

    As time goes on, your body either gets rid of the virus (mild case) or concentrates deeper in your lungs (not good) and so either way you're less likely to pass it on.

    The advice to isolate for 14 days after your symptoms resolve is probably conservative but that's a good thing IMO.

    Cheers. I realised after asking that this is definitely something I should know already.


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    #1836
    thomond2006
    Registered Users Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    Clegg wrote: »
    Is there a rugby equivalent of Manchester United? Play a great attacking brand of football when the pressure is off, but as soon as Champions League qualification/an FA Cup final place is on offer, they bottle it.

    Clermont up until a few years ago were famous for butchering finals.


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    #1837
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Clegg wrote: »
    Is there a rugby equivalent of Manchester United? Play a great attacking brand of football when the pressure is off, but as soon as Champions League qualification/an FA Cup final place is on offer, they bottle it.

    Leinster pre 09...


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    #1838
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,586 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Invariably the problem you will have with those deciding to go ahead and take holidays is that Irish travel advice is not consistent with advice from pretty much the rest of the continent. The Italians are happy for you to go there, and they are happy for their citizens to travel abroad and return there.


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    #1839
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    In Dunnes today, I'd say 85% had masks on. Saw a lot of kids with masks on, have gotten masks for my lads also which they wear anywhere indoors in public.


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    #1840
    Former Former
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,728 ✭✭✭Former Former


    Clegg wrote: »
    Is there a rugby equivalent of Manchester United? Play a great attacking brand of football when the pressure is off, but as soon as Champions League qualification/an FA Cup final place is on offer, they bottle it.

    Do their fans relentlessly overhype their players too?

    If so, I think we're talking about Ulster


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    #1841
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Former Former wrote: »
    Do their fans relentlessly overhype their players too?

    If so, I think we're talking about Ulster

    Roger Wilson was twice the player Heaslip was but never got picked....something, something Leinster bias.


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    #1842
    Yeah_Right
    Registered Users Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭Yeah_Right


    Clegg wrote: »
    Is there a rugby equivalent of Manchester United? Play a great attacking brand of football when the pressure is off, but as soon as Champions League qualification/an FA Cup final place is on offer, they bottle it.

    The All Blacks from 1987 till 2011?


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    #1843
    Bridge93
    Registered Users Posts: 7,018 ✭✭✭Bridge93


    Surely Leinster from early 2000s to 2008


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    #1844
    jacothelad
    Registered Users Posts: 5,931 ✭✭✭jacothelad


    stephen_n wrote: »
    Is that the same interferon they use for treating hepatitis C?


    Hep/C is treated with a weekly dose of pegylated interferon-α (IFN-α).


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    #1845
    swiwi_
    Registered Users Posts: 4,491 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    jacothelad wrote: »
    Hep/C is treated with a weekly dose of pegylated interferon-α (IFN-α).

    ...back in the day...


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    #1846
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    I was going to make a joke about pegylated interfering but it read too much like Venjur


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    #1847
    Neil3030
    Registered Users Posts: 17,148 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    Tech experts - what company would provide the most bang for my buck with a linux-based notebook/laptop?

    I primarily need RAM and processing speed/power. Graphics and HD capacity is less important.

    It can be a hideous lump of a thing if needed; I'm wfh using an external monitor.


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    #1848
    Neil3030
    Registered Users Posts: 17,148 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    My evening googling is settling on a lenovo x1 carbon gen 8.


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    #1849
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    My personal laptop is a Lenovo, albeit windows based.

    It's decent enough


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    #1850
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    Depends what the use case is really!


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    #1851
    Former Former
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,728 ✭✭✭Former Former


    Neil3030 wrote: »
    My evening googling is settling on a lenovo x1 carbon gen 8.

    I have one from work, lovely piece of kit.


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    #1852
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Neil3030 wrote: »
    My evening googling is settling on a lenovo x1 carbon gen 8.

    image-asset.jpeg


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    #1853
    [Deleted User]
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    I was gonna suggest lenovo too but haven't bought a laptop in ages so wasn't sure. My work laptop is lenovo running Linux. Lenovo are the opposite of apple in my mind. Ugly and functional.


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    #1854
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,648 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Neil3030 wrote: »
    My evening googling is settling on a lenovo x1 carbon gen 8.

    We've been looking at trying to swing a couple of them as dev laptops in my place, lovely pieces of kit (not aesthetically though)


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    #1855
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,740 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    I had one of the earlier generations of the X1, it was great except for this absolutely stupid touchbar they replaced the function keys with. It was absolutely rubbish cause it never had the keys you want and you had to cycle through the options.

    I think they removed it again though.


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    #1856
    kuang1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭kuang1


    I had a dream last night and this ad was on TV in the dream.
    Can't get it out of my head since.
    This is a cathartic post.

    https://youtu.be/wYj5o4kQsXs


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    #1857
    Neil3030
    Registered Users Posts: 17,148 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    Depends what the use case is really!

    Primarily programming, data analysis etc.


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    #1858
    Neil3030
    Registered Users Posts: 17,148 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    Thanks for all the feedback. One review says the gen 7 is basically the gen 8, so save the few quid and go with the former. Would people agree?


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    #1859
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,648 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Neil3030 wrote: »
    Thanks for all the feedback. One review says the gen 7 is basically the gen 8, so save the few quid and go with the former. Would people agree?

    Pretty much the exact same function wise, just a later gen processor but shouldn't be much in the difference.

    Just make sure to max out RAM on the config you buy, or at least get as much as you can because it's soldered so no upgrading.


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    #1860
    stephen_n
    Registered Users Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    Squidgy Black wrote: »
    Pretty much the exact same function wise, just a later gen processor but shouldn't be much in the difference.

    Just make sure to max out RAM on the config you buy, or at least get as much as you can because it's soldered so no upgrading.

    That’s the most annoying bollox from manufacturers.


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    #1861
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,648 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    stephen_n wrote: »
    That’s the most annoying bollox from manufacturers.

    Yup it's absolutely ridiculous. But it's one of the trade-offs for the whole race to the thinnest form factor shíte (which I've also never really understood). And it means they get to also charge outrageous prices to bump up the ram.


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