What do you work as?

[kingdom hoop]

heh heh. I just can't wait to hear you and Lim til i die arguing on Saturday :D

It's going to be crazy. I'm not going to talk at all for the next few days, rest the vocal chords so that I can unleash them with all my venomous fury on Saturday. We'll need you to be at your refereeing best. :D

No don't worry, if I do start arguing when I'm drunk, rarely happens, I usually stop pretty quickly as I realise my argument is bs or the other person is immovable. I can usually tell one or the other within thirty seconds.

I like that opposite ends idea though, let the tension build as we eye-ball each other to death. I can tell you I won't be backing down, no matter if I ruin everyone's night. I'm more important, and that's final.

[Green Tribe]

It'll be entertaining as we'll probably have handbags with AntoMcC, soccerc and Schloooomp at the other end also;):D

[soccerc]

It'll be entertaining as we'll probably have handbags with AntoMcC, soccerc and Schloooomp at the other end also;):D

Don't expect fireworks from me. I get very mellow after a pint or two.

I'll leave the handbagging and mascara applying to the younger generation:D

[Magicme]

As long as us girls dont start fighting. It will be ok. Have heard Flannagans is a bit of a muddy pit........ :D

[kingdom hoop]

I already gave you a round of applause for coming around to agreement with my point

A point you missed and argued with in the first place!!!

So now that we've found that common ground

:eek: :D

Come back to me after you've had an objective look at the last few pages.

Specifically, look at my first post this morning. Then tell me how we've found the common ground. You made absolutely no comment on my culture/development point as a part explanation for why men or women fall into certain industries!!! So how could we have possibly found the common ground when you can't even acknowledge where I'm standing??

Oh and I never argued with your point at all. I just said it was too simplistic a way of explaining things for my liking. Which it still is. :)


It'll be entertaining as we'll probably have handbags with AntoMcC, soccerc and Schloooomp at the other end also

Lol, I'll make it my business then to have this issue resolved by Saturday! To leave time for what is truly important, slagging Bluebeard for his Longford Town gaffe! I'm very much like soccerc, it'll be all love, peace and happiness as far as I'm concerned, with an appropriate splash of shenanigans and tomfoolery thrown in here and there.

[AidoM]

As long as us girls dont start fighting. It will be ok. Have heard Flannagans is a bit of a muddy pit........ :D

Are the girls heading for the mud wrestling pit ? (look all text, no smilies)

[Magicme]

No Aido, how could you think that? *feigns horror*

[Green Tribe]

heh heh, get back on the xmas meet-up thread then and draw us up an agenda!:D

[Green Tribe]

Are the girls heading for the mud wrestling pit ? (look all text, no smilies)

No, kingdom hoop and Lim til i die are though...:eek:

[Magicme]

Now that I would pay good money to see!!

[Green Tribe]

Now that I would pay good money to see!!

I bet you would ;)

[Réiteoir]

IT Technical Support for a company which deals with River Flow Surveys (we do a lot of work in Ireland coincidentally, including a project on the Camac a few years back and a recent trip to Sligo)

I spent the majority of this morning writing a formula in Excel to take raw data strings and convert them into the correct UK Postcode Format.


IF(LEN(C1)=7,LEFT(C1,4)&" "&RIGHT(C1,3),IF(LEN(C1)=6,LEFT(C1,3)&" "&RIGHT(C1,3),IF(LEN(C1)=5,LEFT(C1,2)&" "&RIGHT(C1,3))))

[paul_oshea]

ah damn its a pity i wont be there for the meetup :(

It wont be the same without me.....:D

[OneRedArmy]

if I do start arguing when I'm drunk, rarely happens, I usually stop pretty quickly as I realise my argument is bs You'll never make it as a lawyer with an attitude like that!

[kingdom hoop]

ah damn its a pity i wont be there for the meetup :(

It wont be the same without me.....:D

Come on Paul, Bluebeard is making the pilgrimage over from London on Saturday. Don't be giving us these frowns, just do it! And don't try tell us you actually have something to do on Saturday.

I very much doubt your jager-bombing capability by the way, and will continue to do so until I see it in action.

[kingdom hoop]

You'll never make it as a lawyer with an attitude like that!

:D Very true. Maybe I'm not cut out for it. Though I'm sure the fine art of mendacity will be beaten into me in lawyer school! It's funny though, if my posts here are anything to go by, presumably they are, then I tend to look for mutual satisfaction as against staunch protection of my views. Must mean I'll be an arbitrator/mediator type lawyer and not a criminal one.

Actually, I've had a change of heart of late, or daily vacillation more like, and am leaning more towards a career in the foreign service as a path towards ultimately ending up as President of this fair country. I'd love to work in the Irish Embassy in say Buenos Aires for a few years. Must look into it.

[KevB76]

Kev, like LTID, you've missed my point by picking out an isolated comment instead of looking at my general point. (curiously though you won't see me lobbing sarky similies and red-faced men at you)

I clearly said in my most recent post that I saw stereotyping as a major problem in this discussion, as a barrier to letting each individual find their right career path.

While in general I tend to enjoy your posts, they are sometimes long winded and admittedly I didnt read the entire thing on this occassion.

However the statement I quoted, which you made, is sexist, and I make no apolgies for pointing it out. It kind of flies in the face of the general point you were making.

As for the smilies, I like to use them, some people dont, does it really matter ? :)

[kingdom hoop]

While in general I tend to enjoy your posts, they are sometimes long winded and admittedly I didnt read the entire thing on this occassion.

However the statement I quoted, which you made, is sexist, and I make no apolgies for pointing it out. It kind of flies in the face of the general point you were making.

As for the smilies, I like to use them, some people dont, does it really matter ? :)

Nice, I've liked your posts too. But yeah that long-windedness is something that needs curbing. I generally, as I'm doing now :D, try to explain things as best as possible to get as full a picture as possible, so I don't know what will be forsaken. I also tend to think and type so often new thoughts come into my head as I progress and I don't want to leave them out. I also have a tendency to share my opinions at will so I'm sure you see my problem! Maybe I'll make a little plan of where I'm going first. (this is not a test case)

I appreciate that "men on average would tend to do the job a bit better" seems sexist on first reading if taken out of context. So I would try to acquit myself from such a shameful tag as I said 'on average' (which was intended to rule out those like your sisters) and the 'do it better' thing is because I was probably thinking that as the sector is male dominated it should mean that men are more suited/attracted to it for whatever reasons, and if they are suited to it then they should do the job better. Sorry for any confusion.

As for smilies, fire away, I was probably just feeling sorry for myself that I don't use the negative ones all that much and yet there I was not thinking I did anything wrong but being faced with a barrage of what in truth are only small little faces that shouldn't bother me in the slightest. :)

[paul_oshea]

Come on Paul, Bluebeard is making the pilgrimage over from London on Saturday. Don't be giving us these frowns, just do it! And don't try tell us you actually have something to do on Saturday.


thats cos bluebeard has no friends over here and its his only time to go out. Even though I told him I would bring him out and introduce him to the other kind i.e. females he has declined :D

Nice try on the reverse psychology, but I am well aware of my capabilities, besides if i wasn't the receipts from tiger tiger prove so - £150, i started to buy myself 2 becks and 2 jagerbombs on the cc to make the required purchase amount as the lads kept going awol :( still great night.

Would love to make it,but after having a big gang of mates over the weekend before last, the parents over this weekend, a giant HDTV costing £750 plus £400 on amp and speakers etc I am unbelieveably broke, so much so I had to get my father to help out with my management fees for the flat :(

[kingdom hoop]

All sounds a bit convoluted to be true. :(

[paul_oshea]

All sounds a bit convoluted to be true. :(


huH?!

[kingdom hoop]

huH?!

I knew it! Feigning ignorance is always a tell-tale sign of a fibber.







Paul, I was initially joking, and also am above. Sorry to hear of your current financial peril and that you can't join us for the festivities on this occasion. Best regards.

[paul_oshea]

I knew it! Feigning ignorance is always a tell-tale sign of a fibber.







Paul, I was initially joking, and also am above. Sorry to hear of your current financial peril and that you can't join us for the festivities on this occasion. Best regards.

ok well i kinda did lie, the gf helped me out as early xmas present for the amp and speakers :D

The lads were over for the ros dinner dance :D

But, when you put it like "financial peril", you are getting me worried :eek: Maybe i should take things more seriously....i dont seem to worry too much, as im lucky it usually works out for me!!!

[kingdom hoop]

Maybe i should take things more seriously.

Definitely, you never know when a spot will open up for that rhinoplasty you've been waiting so long for. Don't splash the cash willy-nilly, and especially not on the Ros dinner dance. What a waste of money. :D


By the way, I only used peril as it reminds me of pearls, which remind me oysters, which remind me of Guinness, which is where I want my mind to be. :p

[Bluebeard]

thats cos bluebeard has no friends over here and its his only time to go out. Even though I told him I would bring him out and introduce him to the other kind i.e. females he has declined :D


News to me - last time I recall you were trying to get me to play GAA of the wrong variety! You never said it was a mixeed team. You are on the wrong side of London though, I believe, aren't you?

I didn't think I'd any friends over in the Old Country either though - why else did you think I'd leave.

Oh, yes, don't let anyone in Dublin 11 know I'll be back. I got into some, eh, difficulties last time I was there.

Enough of this tomfoolery. I have to go back to work as a very manly Hair Sculptor.

[paul_oshea]

News to me - last time I recall you were trying to get me to play GAA of the wrong variety! You never said it was a mixeed team. You are on the wrong side of London though, I believe, aren't you?

I didn't think I'd any friends over in the Old Country either though - why else did you think I'd leave.

Oh, yes, don't let anyone in Dublin 11 know I'll be back. I got into some, eh, difficulties last time I was there.

Enough of this tomfoolery. I have to go back to work as a very manly Hair Sculptor.


BlueBeard, I was half messing, but i confused you with someone else!! BUt if yer up for pints sometime, do let me know. somewhere central as a compromise!

[Lim till i die]

Come back to me after you've had an objective look at the last few pages.

With your writing style it would take days and I'm an absurdly busy man at the moment


Then tell me how we've found the common ground.

You agree that you cannot judge someones "manliness" or otherwise by their profession.

Which was after all my original point


You made absolutely no comment on my culture/development point as a part explanation for why men or women fall into certain industries!!!

Because it doesn't concern me.

As obvious as the answers may be to anyone with the most basic knowledge of society and physcology I don't care and it is a debate which has faff all to do with my original point which was of course:

that you cannot judge someones "manliness" or otherwise by their profession.


So how could we have possibly found the common ground when you can't even acknowledge where I'm standing??

we found common ground on the bit where I'm arguing:

that you cannot judge someones "manliness" or otherwise by their profession.


Oh and I never argued with your point at all.

Sensible chap


I just said it was too simplistic a way of explaining things for my liking. Which it still is.

I never even tried to explain anything. Merely stated a fact (IMO). This fact being:

that you cannot judge someones "manliness" or otherwise by their profession.


Anything else has merely been you (with great gusto to give you your due) arguing amongst yourself :)

[Lim till i die]

heh heh. I just can't wait to hear you and Lim til i die arguing on Saturday

I'm a Limerickman

When I fight, I fight to kill.

That way even if I lose I win ;)

[KevB76]

Nice, I've liked your posts too.

Hint of sarcasm there ?


But yeah that long-windedness is something that needs curbing.


Dont change man, I like your style of banter. I'll make an effort in future to read the whole post before reacting to specific comments :)

[Lim till i die]

Hint of sarcasm there ?



Dont change man, I like your style of banter. I'll make an effort in future to read the whole post before reacting to specific comments :)

WTF?!?!?!

What About,


We're Limerickman

When we fight, we fight to kill.

That way even if we lose we win

You used to be cool Kev not anymore :(















:p

[Na Chlairsigh]

full time student...part time Zamboni driver (I flood the ice in an Ice Rink)

[kingdom hoop]

With your writing style it would take days and I'm an absurdly busy man at the moment


:D Wait, wait. YOU think you can complain about someone's style?? I'm aghast. Truly aghast. 'Potential Pulitzer Prize winning writer kingdom hoop slammed by slippery bravura-revelling counterpart in dramatic foot.ie showdown.' :p



You agree that you cannot judge someones "manliness" or otherwise by their profession.


I never fully agreed with that actually. It implies that you can judge someone's manliness in the first place. Thus, your point is nebulous and incomplete. Which I said at the outset, and sought to investigate. Unfortunately you were happy to stick with your narrow view. This lead to you calling some of my comments sexist, as you couldn't understand what I was saying without a broader perspective. Now, I think I'll take MY ball and go play somewhere else. :D



*tempestuously scuttles off crying*



Hint of sarcasm there ?


Not in the slightest Kev. As soon as I saw your location thing I knew we were onto a winner!

[Lim till i die]

:D Wait, wait. YOU think you can complain about someone's style?? !

Yep.


I never fully agreed with that actually.

Oh right.

Applause withdrawn


Thus, your point is nebulous and incomplete.

For your purposes perhaps but then I never set out to sate whatever inner need you have for answers to whatever inner question you have.


Which I said at the outset, and sought to investigate.

Here's what you said at the outset:


And what's your argument?

Smartasses are great, if they have an answer.


Inadvertently I think you found the answer, but were probably revelling in your bravura too much to notice. The job of a repo-man is one thoroughly unsuitable to all but the most manly of women. For example, can you imagine some lass coming to the door of a burly lumberjack telling him she must take away his chainsaw cos he's defaulted on the hire purchase payments?

How could you think chasing random people, not knowing what could be in store, trying to prise their prized possessions off them, does not require brave and intimidating attributes usually the preserve of men?

I hope you open a business some day. You'll get great custom from me. No money, but your stock turnover figures will be best in class. WTF, if someone doesn't pay up after numerous warnings nothing should happen? Wonderful logic. Are prison guards 'a special kind of scumbag' for not releasing prisoners?

Before setting off on your own little diatrabe about something I had no concern with to start with although to give you your due you were man enough to say:


I'd asked for your opinion - which turned out to be a good one.

And:


The point is that obviously the mere fact of having a certain job doesn't inherently make one person more manly than another, or allow you to automatically state without knowing the people, 'oh a builder, now he's a proper man compared to a doctor'.

So fairplay


Unfortunately you were happy to stick with your narrow view.

I was happy to make my point which was:


that you cannot judge someones "manliness" or otherwise by their profession.

A point on which I'm sure I would find broad agreement and which is therefore pretty self explanatory in my opinion


This lead to you calling some of my comments sexist

This comment here in your first post on the issue:


How could you think chasing random people, not knowing what could be in store, trying to prise their prized possessions off them, does not require brave and intimidating attributes usually the preserve of men?

Is sexist.

Get over it.

There was no context in your first post just you pitching down on the wrong side of the argument, a position you have been backtracking from ever since by moving the argument over into territory which never concerned me to begin with.

More power to you btw, it's quite amusing when scanned


as you couldn't understand what I was saying without a broader perspective.

LMFAO.

On an aside, if some people maybe couldn't understand you, could this per chance go down as a criticism of your pulitzer prize like style and maybe something you could look at to ensure future glory???


Now, I think I'll take MY ball and go play somewhere else.

You do that, the game finished long ago anyway


*tempestuously scuttles off crying*

Don't cry Kingdom Hoop :(

[kingdom hoop]

Out of curiosity, why did you bother going back pages to find quotes if the topic doesn't concern you? I acknowledged your mantra long ago. Surely what I said is irrelevant if your only concern was that mantra and that mantra alone?

[Green Tribe]

KH, go post an agenda on Dublin Xmas foot.ie meet-up, you're good at doing that

[John83]

Could a mod move Kingdom Hoop & Lim till I die's conversation to a different thread. It's way off topic and dominating the thread.

[kingdom hoop]

KH, go post an agenda on Dublin Xmas foot.ie meet-up, you're good at doing that

:D Nice little veiled affront there! (or maybe it was just a compliment, I'm not sure)

I think I'll leave that to Bluebeard - he's really the creative one. Whatever creativity I did have has been weaned from me and substituted with spiteful hatred for LTID owing to his recent antics on this thread. :p

[kingdom hoop]

Could a mod move Kingdom Hoop & Lim till I die's conversation to a different thread. It's way off topic and dominating the thread.

Sorry about that John. Rubbish will do fine as far as I'm concerned Sligoman. Well, put LTID's posts in the rubbish. Put mine in POTM nominations for November. :D

[Green Tribe]

:D Nice little veiled affront there! (or maybe it was just a compliment, I'm not sure)

I think I'll leave that to Bluebeard - he's really the creative one. Whatever creativity I did have has been weaned from me and substituted with spiteful hatred for LTID owing to his recent antics on this thread.

ok i'll hassle the longford lover then:D

[citizenerased]

:D Nice little veiled affront there! (or maybe it was just a compliment, I'm not sure)

I think I'll leave that to Bluebeard - he's really the creative one. Whatever creativity I did have has been weaned from me and substituted with spiteful hatred for LTID owing to his recent antics on this thread. :p

is that you dawson?

[Bluebeard]

Kingdom Hoop - what did I say during the Summer about messing with the Limerick Massive?

"Don't", I believe...

Green Tribe - that was an uncalled for alliterative allegation, based on a moment of weakness you helped inspire. You'll pay for that this weekend...

[paul_oshea]

[QUOTE=Bluebeard;828349]You'll pay for that this weekend...QUOTE]


.....from behind :D

[Green Tribe]

Kingdom Hoop - what did I say during the Summer about messing with the Limerick Massive?

"Don't", I believe...

Green Tribe - that was an uncalled for alliterative allegation, based on a moment of weakness you helped inspire. You'll pay for that this weekend...

heh heh, could've said worse i suppose

POS - i'll ignore your comment:mad:

[paul_oshea]

ah come on, im picturing bluebeard as a big cuddlie teddybear with a ginger beard smiling as he.....

[Green Tribe]

I'll leave you to fantasize about bluebeard and teddy bears....:eek:

[AidoM]

ah come on, im picturing bluebeard as a big cuddlie teddybear with a ginger beard smiling as he.....

I think you've met him but yet again you cannot remember :o

[Bear Eleven]

I'll leave you to fantasize about bluebeard and teddy bears....:eek:


Keep me out of this please.

[AidoM]

Keep me out of this please.

Lesson 1 in using the quote appears to have worked :p

[Green Tribe]

Lesson 1 in using the quote appears to have worked :p

Congrats Bear :D

[Bluebeard]

ah come on, im picturing bluebeard as a big cuddlie teddybear with a ginger beard smiling as he.....

Hmmm. Given what seems to be on your mind, I'm glad I didn't take up your invitation to meet some of your "ladies":eek:

Fortunately, for all his other curses, the all powerful creator, should he be out there, did not curse me with a ginger beard. As you should have guessed, it is a rather pale shade of blue...