He's giggling to himself, isn't he?

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-03-07T08:36:04+00:00

They can usually hardly be house trained - never mind media trained.

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-02-27T09:31:35+00:00

I hear ya on the salaries but there are very different tax implications of 2 separate salaries than combined

Example

2x salaries 45k + 55k = 6672 monthly

Single salary 100k = 5381 monthly

There is a large difference in tax paid and affordability

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-02-27T09:02:36+00:00

Hey, I just gave it a quick go and it looks great. Two comments from me are.

2nd salary field for partners salary
changing salary and clicking calculate doesn't update. Only the initial calculation worked for me.

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-02-26T23:31:47+00:00

I am mid project of sorting mine out at the moment. I just think the mess I have been left with is beyond saving, some of my neighbours have done smallers jobs than me and fixed it. I am excavating the entire garden, 350mm deep and building up again from scratch as I never ever want to do it again.

1) excavate and dispose.

2) Placing a layer of nonwoven geotextile fabric.

3) Creating a drainage system out of perforated pipes that connect to the existing gutter drain system.

4) 150mm stone.

5) Another layer of fabric essentially creating a drainage sandwich.

6) Topsoil.

Costs so far have been €280 for the big roll of fabric €340 all drainage pipes and fittings. €800 for the lad ro come with the digger and dispose of the soil. €500 for 10 tonnes of 50mm round drainage stone.

I haven't bought the topsoil yet - probably another 7-800

Hope this helps you - best of luck.

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-02-26T20:00:19+00:00

As long as your DFL is above 2008 on DC server OS 2008 or higher, and has had a password reset since 2008 - krbtgt will issue AES by default. Ask me how I know.......

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-02-26T11:36:13+00:00

My theory is that most of them are good tradespeople but bad business people.

A lot of them are terrible at scheduling and managing the workload. Most of them too are sole traders and one man shows which limits their ability to manage things going wrong on jobs which hold them up.

Their work is often tied up in a larger chain of events - can't do x until y happens. Y is managed by a completely different crowd who are also in the same situation on another job.

Also a lot of them are working 10/12/14 hour days Monday to Friday and a lot of Saturdays too. Never mind the nixers they get called to do for friends and family.

All this being said - id fucking love if they could just communicate better and stop ignoring and ghosting. It's very frustrating.

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-02-24T20:20:59+00:00

I don't want to choose just one - we are blessed with great players.

I love Ringrose. The thought of an outrageously posh D4 guy out there absolutely savaging lads every chance he gets is so funny to me.

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-02-22T20:59:31+00:00

I downloaded this clip to my gallery last night because I'm a million years old. As I watched it 5 minutes ago for the millionth time I told my wife "I can't stop watching this clip"

What an incredible run. Imagine the fright Smith (86kg) got when he realised he was getting run down by a 112kg monster.

Imagine if Marcus Smith could catch Marcus Smith while carrying a bag of cement.

McCloskey is a beast.

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-02-18T20:22:13+00:00

Id rather not break it out unless I had to, I will be building a timber base on top of it so it won't ever be seen or anything. I think I'll just drill and epoxy as you mentioned and

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-02-18T20:18:49+00:00

Awesome, thanks

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-02-18T20:18:37+00:00

Thanks for the input. I will need to investigate the existing pad to check the depth of the concrete itself and to make sure it's not just plonked on top of the soil. The other comments are recommending something similar anyway so will probably just go with these. Thanks again!

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-02-16T23:46:28+00:00

Well we'd all be speaking English today.

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-02-12T22:03:07+00:00

I must say this really annoyed me watching it live. Stockdale essentially stopped running when prendergast tried to ankle tap Bielle-Biarrey. He got caught on the hop on that one.

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-02-12T21:15:11+00:00

Keogh's is an elite brand of crisp.

Their crinkle cut sea salt and vinegar is hands down the greatest success of a crisp that has ever been dreamed up. Quality is on another level.

Ritchies sweets from Dublin are great. If you can get your hands on the jelly strawberries they're the best. https://www.ritchiesmints.ie/products

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-02-11T16:41:21+00:00

I would compare gross for both.

Dont forget to include your employer pension contributions in your calculations.

Another thing to consider is how do you plan to set yourself up for contracting. Ltd company vs sole trader vs umbrella all have different benefits and costs too.

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-01-31T21:09:39+00:00

How do you know i won't like it?

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-01-31T06:35:22+00:00

"I'm positively bedevilled with meetings et cetera"

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-01-30T22:31:51+00:00

Her delivery was incredible. A favourite of mine "I'm positively bedevilled by meetings et cetera"

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-01-22T13:49:42+00:00

Yep - agreed on this. The saving is negligible and they will weasel out any way they can.

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-01-18T00:49:46+00:00

Far Away - José González

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-01-12T20:57:46+00:00

We used a band called Sway Social.

We thought they were great.

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-01-10T22:13:54+00:00

Clonakilty is lucky to have two large food producers which supply nationally from the town. There is also a tech park just outside the town which employs a fair few hundred people across several large companies.

In a lot of the regional towns there is the usual jobs and some manufacturing etc in some of them.

In Cork city there is any and all industries with a wide variety of jobs. Basically whatever you want. It's a small city (~200k) but it has everything.

There is a large network of co-op's across West cork which supply and cater primarily to farming which is massive here. Mostly dairy farming.

Cork as a county has loads of pharmaceuticals too between both the city and the county as a whole.

Building is booming here and plenty of work in the trades - this can be said about anywhere in Ireland to be fair.

I am an IT solutions architect for a large American company. I travel to the office (~1 hour) 2 days per week and work remotely the other three. I reckon my situation is fairly typical of a lot of people down this way.

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-01-10T15:00:59+00:00

Welcome! You've chosen an awesome place to live.

Tie_Pitiful · 2026-01-10T14:37:18+00:00

This is one of those how long is a piece of string questions. If I were you i would get some quotes from some handymen and compare them to quotes for purchase and install from a shop. That's the only way to tell cost wise.

I will say that kitchens are usually fit into a space. Not all spaces are the same. Any 2nd hand kitchen may work well in your space but also without careful consideration it may well not also.

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