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Oulwans n' Oulfellas Rock On!

  • 08-05-2021 7:22pm
    #1
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,018 ✭✭✭✭


    New general discussion thread, continuation of this thread, Take it away!


    Saving hamsters, one thread at a time.


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
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    Gods waiting Room - Welcome :)


  • #3
    New Home
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    622157.jpg


  • #4
    Red Hare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Red Hare


    The waiting room?

    I am thinking of the hamsters, imagine being a hamster in a waiting room at the ould age of 18 months :cool:


  • #5
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    We discussed this many moons ago and at that stage I voted for 'Last of the Summer Whine'. On mature reflection, it's not as good as 'Rock On'!

    About the vaccinations, some of my friends got theirs from their GP but most had to go to Citywest as wot I done! My family members had already registered before me and have also made follow up phone calls. Can't understand why they're waiting so long when the rest of us were done weeks ago. They'll just have to wait I suppose.


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
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    Jellybaby_1 wrote: »
    We discussed this many moons ago and at that stage I voted for 'Last of the Summer Whine

    So why wasn’t the original thread title maintained?


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  • #7
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    Deleted User wrote: »
    So why wasn’t the original thread title maintained?

    So the two wouldn't get conflustered I s'pose! A mod would know more than me though. I have to leave now as I'm working on something. I hope we can get more folk in here as it's been very quiet.


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jellybaby_1 wrote: »
    I hope we can get more folk in here as it's been very quiet.

    WHAT YOU SAY I CAN”T HEAR YA! :P


  • #9
    Red Hare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Red Hare


    We are the new normal


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
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    Thread needs an appropriate song

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


  • #11
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    Deleted User wrote: »
    WHAT YOU SAY I CAN”T HEAR YA! :P

    I SAID, IT'S BEEN VERY QUIET IN HERE! TURN UP YER HEARING AID! :D


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  • #12
    Alice1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭Alice1


    I registered t'other day for the vaccine. Just waitin'


  • #13
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    Fingers crossed for you Alice, hope it happens soon for you.


  • #14
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,754 ✭✭✭degsie


    Alice1 wrote: »
    I registered t'other day for the vaccine. Just waitin'

    Who's your doctor? Dr. Hook?;)


  • #15
    Red Hare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Red Hare


    Dr Hook _ And the operator said 40 cents more for the next 15 minutes...


  • #16
    Red Hare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Red Hare


    https://www.techsilver.co.uk/product/grandpad-tablet-for-elderly/?wmc-currency=EUR&gclid=Cj0KCQjws-OEBhCkARIsAPhOkIafLnOmz97aZTAwuuHWjB6ZNKK5z3l4amKdroNKvDA21jqfto7nBqwaApEQEALw_wcB&v=d2cb7bbc0d23

    I heard about these - they are supposed to be great

    Dr Hook - Sylvia mother, said sylvia busy, too busy to come to the phone...


  • #17
    Red Hare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Red Hare


    What happened to page 666? Its gone - just like that :pac:
    How did I get onto page 2 and didn't notice page 1? :rolleyes:


  • #18
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,018 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Pay attention at the back there!

    I - wait for it - got my hair cut today!! Then went for a long natter, mask-less, in a friend's kitchen. Both of us fully vaccinated and over the waiting period. Its almost like normal!


  • #19
    Alice1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭Alice1


    degsie wrote: »
    Who's your doctor? Dr. Hook?;)
    I registered on the HSE website thingy. Don't know if I'll be going to my own doctor or some vaccination centre. Darlink went to our own doctor but he's medically vulnerable or something.


  • #20
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,787 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    I am getting old quick, so I thought I would just stop in to say hey.
    JYZ3T9l.gif


  • #21
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,018 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Getting old seems to be like steps of stairs. Every now and again something happens to demonstrate that you are less able, then that continues for a bit till the next step comes along. I have an idea that I am currently feeling about 10 years older than my age, due to medical stuff and not helped by covid restrictions.

    I am finally having to accept that my ambition to build a block wall in the garden is not matched by my physical ability. My head still knows how to do it, but the blocks are much heavier these days than they used to be.


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  • #22
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    You're right about those blocks Looksee. I find the soil in my garden has turned to concrete, I can't dig like I used to! :(


  • #23
    Red Hare
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    Putting on socks is like the Olympics! :pac:


  • #24
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    I can see this is going to be one of those threads! :D


  • #25
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,638 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Am I too late for the launch party of this thread? Dang it.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #26
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,018 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I don't think it was so much launched as escaped from its mooring OG :)


  • #27
    Alice1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,661 ✭✭✭Alice1


    OldGoat wrote: »
    Am I too late for the launch party of this thread? Dang it.
    Never too late me dear. Good to see you !


  • #28
    Red Hare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Red Hare


    Gorgeous day, Rise n Shine, Cock a doodle dooo - I have made the burgers already while ye were sleeping ... bbq season is now open!:)


  • #29
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,018 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    The burgers would be a bit damp and gloomy round here!


  • #30
    Red Hare
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    Im a sorry to hear that, I will do some talking to the Sun and get him to move over and shine on you babes!!
    We don't need sunshine in Dublin - ye can have it - i'm hot stuff anyway:cool:


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  • #31
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    Saturday is normally a lazy day round here but the sun took his hat off so I did some laundry, which is good news because now I don't have to do it on Monday, but its also bad news because now I have ironing to do! Drat, I should have thunk that out a bit more! :mad:


  • #32
    Red Hare
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    So it feels like ages have flown bye, in the meantime the delta variety of covid has arrived.
    There are all these mixed messages .
    While its not great! It is a whole lot better than last year. Even the winter has finally ended 😃


  • #33
    New Home
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    Red Hare wrote: »
    So it feels like ages have flown bye, in the meantime the delta variety of covid has arrived.
    There are all these mixed messages .
    While its not great! It is a whole lot better than last year. Even the winter has finally ended 😃
    How can you tell? I could clearly see clouds of my breath two nights ago. :mad:


  • #34
    looksee
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    Its the same temperature inside as out.


  • #35
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    Well, I put me cardi on today! Now that's unexpected!! :mad:


  • #36
    Alice1
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    Me too Jellybaby! Tis chilly but on upside I think there's chocolate in the kitchen cupboard. Chocolate is always good,


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  • #37
    Red Hare
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    Yep its definitely gone cool again.
    Hopefully we will get an indian summer.
    I really miss the 4/5 months of sunshine we used to get when i was a child :
    May hot
    June hotter
    July very hot
    August very hot
    September hot
    October pleasant

    Global warming isn’t working well for us here in the green isle!,


  • #38
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    Heating is on today in June for the first time ever! What's to become of us all?


  • #39
    New Home
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    My mother remembers it snowed in June, the year my brother was born.


  • #40
    Jellybaby_1
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    New Home wrote: »
    My mother remembers it snowed in June, the year my brother was born.

    Was that the year of The Big Snow? :) Or the year of The Even Bigger Snow?


  • #41
    New Home
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    No, that was the year of the "It's snowing in June!!". :pac:


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  • #42
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    New Home wrote: »
    No, that was the year of the "It's snowing in June!!". :pac:


    Shhhh, don't speak too soon! :eek:


  • #43
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    Well the childer have talked me into gettin' one o'dem Revolut cards. Holy moley, what has the worrild come to! So I downloads de app, see, and I starts fillin' in all me essential information like........and den it froze, it froze I tells ya! So me youngest child got on her magic phone and 'chats' to Revolut about me problem. Even me child didn't know wot dey wur talkin' about. So I deleted dat app yoke straight away. Now I'm after gettin' an email from Revolut and I've just read 35 pages of tees and cees, and I'm still none de wiser. Aw let's just go back to pounds, shillins and pence, please. It'll save me a lot of worry and frettin'. I'm fair fed up with it all so I yam. :(


  • #44
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,018 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ok, so I googled it.
    Buy crypto, gold and manage your money with spending analytics

    Almost the first sentence on the site. I don't feel any need to buy crypto (wut?), I am not likely to buy gold, and after some 7 decades of handling money I don't need analytics to tell me when I am overspending.

    So, no thanks. I'm good. On-line banking I admit to being a convert to, but whatever revolut is, I can manage without.


  • #45
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    Well seemingly you can transfer money onto the Revolut card, then you can just pay for your shopping or anything you buy and there are no annual charges or fees. The kids don't use it for anything else. We wouldn't do that crypto thing at all. We get charged fees on our credit cards and I hoped by getting the Revolut we could avoid the fees. Also the kids, when they are away, can use the Revolut and are not charged for currency exchange. Sounded good to me.


  • #46
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,018 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    But I don't have bank fees anyway, golden years.


  • #47
    Garlinge
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    I have a Monzo card which is very similar but needs a UK address. I find it handy for travelling and buying small items like a coffee. I also am happier using it for online stuff. It instantly registers a sale on your phone (app), an audible sound of coins falling :) and you see your balance etc. I only put a certain amount of money onto it so if it is lost, stolen or hacked, the loss is limited. It has come to my rescue several times when I found I had mislaid the main credit card. No problem using it in Euroland. It has other fancy features that I dont use. I can also send money to my daughter in UK who has same card.


  • #48
    Jellybaby_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 994 ✭✭✭Jellybaby_1


    looksee wrote: »
    But I don't have bank fees anyway, golden years.

    The charges I was referring to were from the credit card companies, not the bank charges. Revolut don't charge fees.
    Garlinge wrote: »
    I have a Monzo card which is very similar but needs a UK address. I find it handy for travelling and buying small items like a coffee. I also am happier using it for online stuff. It instantly registers a sale on your phone (app), an audible sound of coins falling :) and you see your balance etc. I only put a certain amount of money onto it so if it is lost, stolen or hacked, the loss is limited. It has come to my rescue several times when I found I had mislaid the main credit card. No problem using it in Euroland. It has other fancy features that I dont use. I can also send money to my daughter in UK who has same card.

    That sounds the same as Revolut.


  • #49
    Garlinge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭Garlinge


    Yes it is the same as Revolut but needs a UK address to set up.


  • #50
    Garlinge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭Garlinge


    Woo Hoo found my way back into Ould Wans.... but will I manage it next time? not a happy bunny with new set up... but early days and maybe things will be sorted.



  • #51
    Red Hare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Red Hare


    I like the visuals of the new system but I am a bit worried about using the look button. The new like buttons seems to be a link to facebook, but maybe its just my paranoia - I will try to like you post Garlinge and we will see what happens!



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