dantes85 Forum Posts (363)

RE: youtube videos

Very good, must learn how to make those.

RE: Orange Candle.

Cool idea, nice post.

RE: NETFLIX..

To hell with all that, I get it for free here:



Any films, any tv shows you want, an hour after they're aired in the US.

RE: beware this man

Is that a hard-man thing, to pretend you've killed someone to try to scare people?

Don't they have that problem in the States, when someone gets murdered, a bunch of loopers wrongly confess to the crime. .

RE: Worst and best chat up lines.

Worst one I've ever heard. . .

You must have eyes like spanners. . .

















Cos everytime you look at me my nuts tighten!!

RE: WHAT,S YOUR FAVORITE MEMORY FROM YOUR SCHOOL DAYS

Mitching off and getting the train to Dublin with my friend. We'd spend all day playing the display guitars in the music shops and talking to townies. We had no money except the train fare, but we didn't need any to have fun.

RE: Breaking Bad

It's fan-frickin-tastic! Watched them all last year, new season out around September 2012.

RE: Comedy

George Carlin, Dylan Moran and Picnicface. Not many people seem to have heard of George Carlin.

RE: For the Adventurous among us...

Hey there. Did one when I was 19, great fun. Thought about the charity skydive before - but it's too much money for me to raise, especially right after Xmas.

Best of luck and Happy Landings!!!

RE: Will you boycott the property tax/water tax?

You're right, there's no water shortage here. There's a problem keeping up with Dublin's demand at times, that's it.

Water desalination is pretty expensive, it's only done in countries where it's necessary - like Spain, and some wealthy Arab states.

The existing water network in Ireland is only 40% efficient. That means that on average 60% of pumped water is lost in transmission before it reaches the end user. One justification for water charges was that they would use the money to fix the water network but:
Installing all the water meters required COSTS MORE THAN FIXING THE PIPELINES. So in other words - stealth tax.

Introducing water rates has a two-fold meaning. For one, it has to do with EU business competition, and for the second it's a stealth tax.

RE: mother nature 2012

That should have appeared in quotes on the above post. I blame technology!!

RE: mother nature 2012

Ha ha, maybe - maybe not. One problem is that they've found these fossilised sea creatures EVERYWHERE on land. Geologists think that at one time most or all of the land mass of the Earth was under water. They (apparently) even found these fossils on top of Mount Everest - though it is thought that, during cataclysmic global events, mountains rose and others fell. We know that mountains are created by both volcanic activity and tectonic plates pushing against each other - so we can assume that this kind of activity will be present again in the future. So Everest may have been at a significantly lower height at a previous time.

One thing that's interesting is that we now know that homo sapiens have been around for approx. 200,000 years. But - recorded history is thought to have began at around 3000 BC. That means that humans are only thought to have developed written history around then. Or, in other words, there's not that many written records from before 3000 BC - that's when the Egyptians are thought to have started building pyramids, and the Ancient Greeks came on the scene around that time too.

Now, to me, 195,000 years is alot of time to spend throwing stones at each other - so it could be possible that other human civilisations existed before 3000 BC, only to be mostly wiped out by some global event. There's another theory that some Ancient cities, as we know them today, were actually built on the ruins of even older cities from a previous era - whose occupants mysteriously vanished thousands of years ago.



Ha ha, Mr. Sundance, will your iPhone still tell time in 3000 years? If so, I want one!!

RE: music thread

Hey Wolf, try this: [ youtube ] url here [ / youtube ]

You have to remove all the spaces, even the ones after the brackets.

Here's some Grinderman!!

RE: mother nature 2012

Hey there. We could be in for some rough weather, if the last few years are anything to go by.

The Mayan calender seems to refer to a global/astronomical cycle that occurs roughly every 5000 years. The world doesn't end, rather it suggests that at the end of each cycle we get extreme weather and natural disasters - such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, climate change, etc. Part of it may have to with a magnetic pole reversal that has occurred regularly through history. That may cause the Earth to rotate in the opposite direction after the polar magnetic shift, which in turn causes a massive tidal wave to sweep the planet. Some have referred to the biblical story of "Noah's Ark" from around 3000 BC as a possible past occurrence of the phenomenon.

Whether it's true or not, it's interesting to examine the evidence surrounding the speculation.

RE: I am posting this song because ~~~~~~~~ ?

I am posting this because it's a slice of pure awesomeness. . .

RE: NEW YEAR'S EVE

Yeah, you'd be as blue as the ocean when you got out.
Will do!

RE: NEW YEAR'S EVE

House in Clare sounds great L. Used to go there surfing at this time of year, but we had to call it off last 2 years because of the weather, roads.

So this year, dinner with friends, drinks, howl at the moon etc.

RE: 16 days.....she should ve joined CS

Should have joined CS?

She announced on tv a few months ago that she had joined a dating site, but it didn't work out for her. She also referred to the people that use dating sites as something like freaks and losers. So if her personality is that bad, then why bother pitying her?

Has this happened to you before?

I sincerely apologise for being human and therefore inherently flawed. I am certain you have never allowed anyone to slip in your back door.

Rgds. This Guy

Has this happened to you before?

There does appear to be a problem there in general - in that young people now cross lines that previous generations wouldn't. They seem to be lacking in sense at times, they don't consider the consequences of their actions. Possibly because most of the time there aren't any. But I don't believe in corporal punishment in schools, I think it's up to the parents to discipline children and teach them respect.

Has this happened to you before?

He got in the back door, which I forgot to lock. Fairly stupid, I know. I reported it last night. No I don't mind sleeping here, think I scared that young lad well enough to make him think twice about coming back. Am going to get a small cctv system for the front in the new year, that will help me to id more of them in the future. :)

Has this happened to you before?

Thanks for all the advice folks, but as a follow up to this thread, my early morning callers returned this morning. One of them gained entry at the back of the house, thought no one was home, and went back to give his mate out front the all clear. By the time the second one got to the front of the house, I was making my intentions clear to the first.

This was at 7.30am, one of them was drinking a can! Got a good look at one of them, so am going to report it this time.

RE: Underage Drinking????

It's the Gardai making the most effective use of limited resources. They can't police all the shops selling alcohol, nor can they catch all the underage drinkers; they just don't have the manpower.

So they set up a few little "stings" like that every now and then, because it gets people talking. You'll talk about it, the staff, the owners, and word gets around that these "stings" are in the area. So, by doing something as small as that underage sting once, ie making an example, they can enforce their law on most of the local businesses. So then they have less drunk teenagers to deal with and less shops to police.

Has this happened to you before?

I think it's mostly drunk students and FAS lads. There's been a lot of petty vandalism and crime in the area: they break car windows but don't steal anything, overturn bins and throw the rubbish around, and some theft.

The worst thing with these people is that they're unpredictable; especially when drunk. They regularly damage apartments I maintain - at one party they interfered with the main 63 amp switch fuse and blew it to smithereens. So they're not the brightest bunch either.

My Dad has a monitored alarm system, however Garda response times are so bad that it's really more for peace of mind.

It's a shame, but there's not alot that can be done with them. The best thing I can think of is to get a hurley, get better locks, and bring the car in at night. As long as I can't get sued or prosecuted for walloping them, it's fine.

Has this happened to you before?

Are those walls there to keep YOU in, or to keep intruders out?

Has this happened to you before?

Probably were students, this is a student town. Recently left college myself, don't recall banging on doors in the middle of the night for sport either.

The last time it was two drunks who got lost and decided to hammer on my bedroom window at 4.15am to ask for directions. Just don't get it, what kind of muppets do that

Has this happened to you before?

At 5am this morning, a group of people came to my front door and started knocking. After a while, I could hear them moving around the windows at the front. I decided to wait them out, as confronting a drunken rabble alone would not have been the best move. A few minutes later, after some shouting from outside, they ran up the driveway again and began banging on the door.

My house isn't very secure, and beating them with a poker could land me in more trouble than the intruders themselves. This has happened twice this year, with a big theft of powertools added on top.

My father, who lives in the same area, has just turned 60 and I'm starting to worry about his safety. Basically, I think that non lethal weapons such as pepper spray and stun guns should be made legal for home defense, particularly for older individuals vulnerable at home. Feel free to discuss, relate similar experiences or offer any other alternatives.

RE: Ireland wants more of your money

I took him for some adolescent spamming in his room. If we report his profile he can't troll on here for at least another week.

RE: Ireland wants more of your money

Couldn't agree with you more. At the end of day, we're all European people in the "eurozone". Not banks, politicians or taxable assets.

RE: Ireland wants more of your money

Hey there. The person who started this thread isn't actually Irish, it's someone who's been trolling on the Irish forums claiming to be from Korea. He's been trying to stir up some racial tension by saying that he's sponging off our social welfare system with no ambitions towards employment.
If your country is thinking of leaving the euro system, you are not alone. Most Irish people did not support the bank bail out here, had it gone to referendum, it would have been voted out. It was a decision made by a hopelessly inadequate politician who acted rashly without consulting the population. AS an Irish person, I don't want any German money, nor do I want to be represented by, or held accountable for financial corruption that was not of my making.