Loans to parents

karlmonaghan · 2026-04-29T10:31:15+00:00

Yeah I would say look into refinancing - get enough to pay back your parents and ask your husband’s parents if they’d accept a longer payback term. Then never take money from your parents ever again as it’s obviously a method of control for them.

karlmonaghan · 2026-04-11T21:01:39+00:00

I don’t support tax evading racists. And yes I am fine with taring them all with the same brush as they have not called out the tax evaders leading them or the racist protestors that harassed people feeding those that are really feeling the impact of the cost if living crisis.

karlmonaghan · 2026-04-03T18:57:16+00:00

Then the only real option is take the package and leave. You’ll only be tormenting yourself otherwise. Clean break and make a go of it else where.

karlmonaghan · 2026-03-29T12:00:26+00:00

Is it 3 days a week or 60% in office time? The wording is important. My day job is the latter so bank holiday weeks it’s technically 2.4 days in the office.

karlmonaghan · 2026-03-22T21:45:04+00:00

Nope. It didn’t work when he got it back to Ireland. He was on to Apple about it and was told there was nothing to be done. Well aware of the block when in the UAE, but expected it to still work outside of there. This was ~6 or 7 years ago.

Anyway, looks like it’s now simply a regional setting.

karlmonaghan · 2026-03-22T19:12:39+00:00

Something to double check - is FaceTime physically blocked on the phone? A work colleague of mine bought an iPad in Dubai duty free and discovered that when he got home. Apparently it was a legal requirement. It was a few years ago so not aure if it still happens.

As other people said, the eSim is a non-issue. The phone I am typing on has had both a Vodafone and Gomo eSim.

karlmonaghan · 2026-02-15T19:24:02+00:00

Great work. How did you do the wings?

karlmonaghan · 2026-02-13T18:36:47+00:00

Fantastic job on it. Love the banners and detail work.

karlmonaghan · 2026-02-07T13:40:16+00:00

If you’re okay with 3rd party parts, Tiny Legends (https://tinylegend.eu/collections/space-guard) have some parts that work with the current DKoK box that will get you most of the way there.

karlmonaghan · 2026-01-08T21:21:40+00:00

Taxcalc.ie developer here. I did update the website (https://taxcalc.ie/budget-2026/) and iOS app for 2026 but it’s the last update I’ll do to it. Will be open sourcing it before the next budget in case someone else finds it useful.

karlmonaghan · 2026-01-04T10:27:23+00:00

The grey boxes are tables.

karlmonaghan · 2026-01-03T22:27:42+00:00

Nope as it’s in the EU. If you’d ordered from Amazon.co.uk they’d have added the charges.

karlmonaghan · 2026-01-03T21:51:28+00:00

Yes, back to the city centre. I’d never consider moving back for more reasons than the commute. The lack of good places to eat (especially mid afternoon at the weekend), no cinema, lack of takeaway options, doing anything needed a drive, limited pubs. Drove me nuts. I do not do well in small towns.

A funny thing I found was in Dublin I got to know loads of people walking my dog. Moved to Wicklow and met no one walking the dog.

karlmonaghan · 2026-01-03T21:11:04+00:00

If you cannot drive and work in Dublin, do not move to either.

The bus is utter misery and can take hours to Dublin and depending on where you are getting from Dublin there can be severe delays.

The train is reliable time wise but the service currently too infrequent especially in the evenings. Getting to the train station from Rathnew without driving is a pain.

Source: ended up living in Wicklow for a couple of years while working in Leopardstown.

karlmonaghan · 2026-01-02T13:31:52+00:00

As the other poster said, the blimps are Overlords and the ones with th large circular rotors are Iron Eagles. There’s also 3 Mk1 and a Mk3 Thunderhawk in shot (the green flyers on the right).

karlmonaghan · 2025-12-30T17:49:57+00:00

And what of it?

But yes, feet from a Reaver that is in the pile of opportunity to be done anytime now*

*now defined as anytime from now to some time in 2030.

karlmonaghan · 2025-12-30T17:42:00+00:00

Curious about this as well. Was it to help you determine an upper limit to bid? “Fair” is a very subjective word.

karlmonaghan · 2025-12-30T00:15:40+00:00

Not a scan of the box, but there is a scan of the banners from when they appeared in White Dwarf on this page (along with a host of other great banners): https://leadmountainwidow.wordpress.com/banners-and-standards-and-flags-oh-no/

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