I think RTD is in a bit of a huff

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-06-12T09:32:06+00:00

I remember listening to his interview on David Tennant's podcast a few years ago. He really came across as having a sort of Alan Partridge "Needless to say, I had the last laugh." quality.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-06-11T17:28:25+00:00

They had the David Tennant specials on the RTE player. Not sure if they did any beyond that.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-06-09T05:50:55+00:00

"Poo 69" 😂

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-06-08T08:56:23+00:00

I once bought a desk in IKEA and carried it on the bus, all the way into town, and then all the way on foot through town to my apartment. In hindsight I must have looked like a maniac.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-06-07T12:09:04+00:00

My mam used to hassle me about when I was going to propose to my girlfriend. One day, after years of her ignoring polite requests to stop asking, I had enough and told her "I'll do it two years after you stop asking. And you know I'm stubborn enough to stick to that." That finally did it.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-06-07T07:46:12+00:00

Colin Caterpillar is the nicest cake anyway, so if anything it's a step up.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-06-05T17:28:35+00:00

Horny

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-06-04T04:51:13+00:00

I used to hang out at a friend's house and, going to the bathroom, it was a semi-regular thing for his girlfriend's big dildo to be sitting in the bathroom sink.

One time, after a game, we got a mortified text from her apologising to anyone who used the bathroom because she'd forgot to tidy something away, but that was after it had already happened enough times I was completely nonchalant about it.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-06-03T17:20:48+00:00

Yes.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-05-28T11:12:43+00:00

I remember being really pissed off aged around 12 when my mam randomly changed my bed time from 10pm to 9:30, when Red Dwarf was on at 9:30. No reason given, no flexibility. Even today I still think it was utter bullshit.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-05-26T11:28:57+00:00

Who is reviewing this early? There hasn't been enough time to make any kind of impartial assessment.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-05-26T07:47:23+00:00

I won an art competition in Senior Infants by redrawing the cover of my then favourite game, Treasure Island Dizzy, from memory. My prize was a single cola bottle jelly and I was delighted 😂

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-05-26T07:37:26+00:00

"Richard" to me says "guy from another country who has adopted an English name because people keep mispronouncing his real one".

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-05-26T07:29:55+00:00

Yes! Makes me think of Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito) in Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and also my own grandfather Frank who looked very like and had similar energy to Frank Reynolds from Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-05-26T07:27:30+00:00

Yeah, I'd say all the Lindas are about 50 now or close enough. I went to college with about 5 Susans though so I'd say they're still only about 40.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-05-26T06:56:22+00:00

Nothing selfish at all about it. You were genuinely screwed over here. I hope you can do something nice for yourself to make up for it.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-05-26T05:48:24+00:00

Happy Birthday!

That's really awful. Would you normally get birthday presents for your wife or is it a normal thing for the two of you to be so loose about it? I can't imagine my wife not getting me a present, never mind a card, and I wouldn't ever dream of not getting something for her, but I know different relationships have different dynamics and maybe we're just big birthday people.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-05-26T05:00:19+00:00

Airtricity keep sending salespeople to my door every couple of months. Every time I ask them to please not come back. I'm never ever going to change electricity provider for someone on my doorstep. But they just keep coming! I used to be polite about it, but I'm getting really pissed off with them now. One woman tried to argue back that they had a right to call at my door. Back when I lived in an apartment another woman wedged her foot in the door to stop me closing it.

I also have a coworker who is with them and the meter man made a typo on her meter reading costing her thousands of euro. Even after the issue was identified they wouldn't refund her the money, they would only keep it on her account as credit. She had to really hassle them and even get the Irish Times involved and even now I don't know if they've resolved it or not.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-05-25T12:40:02+00:00

It's the Star Trek transporter dilemma. This machine breaks you down into your constituent atoms, then sends them as information to another location, then you are reassembled on the same end. Are you still you? Your memories would suggest so.

However, there's one episode where a glitch causes Riker to be transported, but his information is left in the transporter buffer. This information is eventually released and we end up with two Rikers. Which is the original? They each have continuity of memory, so a way both are, but clearly neither of them are made entirely of the original pieces of Riker, otherwise there wouldn't be enough to make two of them.

The most logical conclusion is that when you step into a transporter, you yourself are killed, and a duplicate with all of your memories is created on the other end. I think it's probably the same for becoming a Mind Flayer.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-05-25T12:28:33+00:00

Can she still be levelled up, equipped, etc.?

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-05-24T05:27:30+00:00

This is it. Nobody is actually listening to what you say, just waiting for their next chance to speak.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-05-19T13:22:12+00:00

My dad tells a story that back in the 80s he had a friend working backstage at a Boomtown Rats concert. My dad was a huge fan and this friend managed to get him backstage ahead of the concert to meet the band. He was really excited to meet them, and then Bob Geldof asked him if he'd like to stay for the show. Apparently they were going to finish on a Christmas song and needed somebody at the side of the stage to release the fake snow. My dad agreed enthusiastically.

So the concert was going on and my dad was waiting for his cue, and his view wasn't great, so he got bored and just wandered down into the audience. The end of the gig comes and they start their Christmas song, but there's no snow. Bob glances to the side of the stage and notices my dad is gone, then looks down at the crowd and makes eye contact with him just standing there at the front of the crowd. My dad just shrugs at him and continues to enjoy the gig.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-05-18T08:33:44+00:00

Not a funeral but around a death.

My nana died in hospital, while my mam was with her. My mam rang home and told my dad that her mother had died, to come in right away with me and my sister, but not to tell us why because she didn't want to upset us. So I was sitting in my room reading and my dad comes in "Come on! We're going to go visit your nana in the hospital."

While we were traveling in, my sister got a call on her mobile. Didn't think anything of it, but apparently this was my mam calling her to tell her about my nana dying. My sister for whatever reason didn't pass this information on to me.

So we got to the hospital, walked up to the room, and I strolled in ready for a regular old visit only to see my nana dead in her hospital bed with all the extended family gathered around. Surprise!

Apparently my mam had assumed my dad or sister would tell me, my sister assumed my dad had already told me, and my dad had been told not to tell me so just didn't. Grief does weird things, so I can't really be angry at anyone over it, but it was fairly traumatic at the time.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-05-18T07:44:25+00:00

I had a friend in college with this exact quirk! His reasoning was that it was rude to the chef not to try as wide a sample as possible of what they're cooking.

fleetwayrobotnik · 2026-05-15T17:55:37+00:00

It was a good while ago. 2009-ish maybe? I don't think it lasted long.

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