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The media have way oversold the trump-Russia collusion angle and it’s becoming clearer. They’ve built it up so that anything short of a video of trump and Putin giving each other foot rubs seems like a damp squib. They also way overplayed this idea that Russia “hacked” the electionComment
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Maybe. Basically just need vms for about 200 and a maybe a dozen or so servers.Originally posted by RichieM View Post
Eye watering fees is right. I find it hard to believe they aren't taking the piss somewhat.People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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For a bunch that are so innocent there are an awful lot of guilty pleas going onOriginally posted by PSV58 View PostPeople say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Pretty stupid all the hype Black panther is getting when Get Out should but won’t win best picture this year.
ill be sick if that Churchill propaganda crap and Gary Oldmans fatsuit win anythingLast edited by Guest; 19-02-18, 17:30.Comment
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There is a very telling piece during todays Start the week where a Neuroscientist talking about how we don't like facts to get in the way of our prejudices about the MMR vaccine debate with Ben Carson where Carson had all the facts and figures but Trump had a story about a 'Horse sized vaccination needle' and his employees child getting sick. She admitted that for a while it almost put her off getting her own children protected!
Stupid is in the ascendant and as hard to beat back as japanese knotweed
Its a good listen In the Hitch corner you have Steven Pinker at his most Panglossian and in the PSV Corner Rob Rieman resents any positive thought being thunk and thinks that children learning maths ahead of Nietzsche is the path to Fascism IMO he's confused about what actually happens in school and life. Tali Sharot the Neuroscientist was good value too.
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That Soirse Ronan flick must be the most overrated film of all time a nothing film. Don't care about awards etc but jayz it terribleOriginally posted by PSV58 View PostComment
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Rented a car in Italy last August and came home to a speeding fine which I got by email in Italian. Ignored it. Noticed a couple of charges of €48.xx for admin fees between September and December on my card. Looked into it and it was an admin fee for each time they flag the outstanding ticket. Did nothing and card expired last month so no more charges.
Then today got a letter in the post saying I'd to pay €190 within 60 days or else it'll be €361.
I've to go to Italy next year for a wedding and don't need hassle. Can I ignore it without consequence?Comment
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..."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big PhilComment
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Really liked Get Out but think The Shape of Water and Three Billboards are both better than it.Originally posted by PSV58 View Post
Saw black panther yesterday, really enjoyed it.
Enjoyed Ladybird too, thought Laurie Metcalf was excellent in it.Comment
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Bit of a long one here but could do with some advice. Never found myself in this kinda situation before.
Seems I've run into an awkward situation when I walk the dog. Small dog, only 8 months old so still in playful puppy stage, great with kids and other dogs etc.
Sometimes there's kids on the estate out playing and a few of them come over to pet the dog. I don't have a problem with it, just make sure he doesn't jump on any of them, let them have a quick pet and walk on. The kids are always outside their own houses playing and a few weeks ago one of the mothers came out and called her son over. I thought nothing of it, the next time she called him and told him to move his scooter from the driveway onto the grass (which I thought was weird, I was.always told to move things off the grass not onto it) and both times this kid has come to pet the dog since she's called him away.
I presume my play here is to just cross the street if these kids are out playing and not stop to let them.pet the dog, makes me feel really awkward tbh and could turn into a headache I don't need with this mother.
Other kids on the estate actually knock in and take the dog out for a while and they run around like mad eejits with him so I don't know why this mother seems to have taken some kind of dislike to me/the dogComment
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How do you know she doesn't think her son is bothering you? or maybe she has a fear of dogs and is worried for the young lad.Originally posted by dobby View Post
Ask her? Walk on the same side of the road as her house and stop and let the kids pet outside her place, if she comes out just mention it to her and if she wants you to keep the dog away, no hassle, if she thinks the young lad is bothering you, correct her.
In any case, all the attention is great for the puppy. Will socialise him quickly.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
All efforts were made to make this thought original but with the abundance of thoughts in the world the originality of this thought cannot be guaranteed.
The author is not liable for any issue arising from the platitudinous nature of this post.Comment
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Nah its plain to see they're defo not bothering me. Gf said the same about her having a fear of dogs alright.Originally posted by Theresa View Post
Wanted to ask her last time but when I walked towards the house she just went inside.
Agree about the attention being good for him, he just lies down with really small kids now which is great and let's them pet him. Plays with the bigger kids without biting or jumping. Just a lot of tail wagging lol. Very happy pupComment
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I'd like to think.I don't tbh but it's genuinely bothering me that she might think I'm some kind of weirdo or am I way over thinking itOriginally posted by Keane View PostComment
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Scenes in the wigan man City match. Controversial red card for city on the stroke of half time. Two coaches exchanging heated words by the looks of it and things carry on in the tunnel. 0-0 at the moment, could make for a good second halfComment
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Fucken scenes!!!
Will Grigg on fire your defence is terrified!!Comment
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..."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big PhilComment
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Hup Wigan. Top trolling from the stadium DJ playing Wonderwall at full time
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Bit different from winning the FAI cup with Sligo.Comment
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GAmes like that and spurs game at weekend had me slipping,almost believing in the magic of the cup.then you realize pep and the lads will be popping the bubbly open at not having to play FA cup games while chasing the champ league,or am I just a hopeless cynicComment
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Maybe ,see Sergio giving a fan a slap thereComment
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Lol. Actually read that twice. Almost took the bait. WpOriginally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostComment
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Pep and the coaching staff quite probably, but not the players.Originally posted by PSV58 View Post
Fairly sure most players would be happier to play 2 games a week every week for the rest of the season rather than extra training sessions or whatever.Comment
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I'm having a similar issue with a toll charge on a car rental, am heading there this week won't be renting a car so not anticipating any problems. But that is with the rental company not the law and I have heard stories about people being held up over unpaid fines over there.Originally posted by thechamp87 View PostTurning millions into thousandsComment
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..."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big PhilComment
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The Death of Stalin is, er, an interesting subject to base a comedy on.
Felt it didn't quite get there but a worthy effort to be sure."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."Comment
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Held up upon reentry when you show your passport? I'll probably just pay it to avoid any hassle next year when I've to go back.Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostComment
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Yeah but afaik they only scan non eu passports on entry so its if you get stopped or have to do any business that you'll run into it.Originally posted by thechamp87 View PostTurning millions into thousandsComment
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..."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big PhilComment
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..."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big PhilComment
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I don't recall learning or hearing any of this in school. I just thought the famine was the famine because of blight and crop failure. No food etc etc so people just died for lack of food, a natural disaster if you will. Never even occurred to me why they couldn't eat animals though. Turns out it was the British and up until the other day I had no idea.
Unless that is the British have their side of the story.
But this definely wasn't mentioned at school. They probably didn't want everyone joining the IRA or something.
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I'd guess the latter honestly, but people are strange also.Originally posted by dobby View PostComment
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Originally posted by tylerdurden94 View PostI liked Get Out a lot. But I think the twist was obvious from early on, weren't even trying to hide it.Originally posted by PSV58 View Post
Probably slightly jaded as the girl at the counter when I was buying my tickets was ranting about how amazing it is. Which was a bit annoying. She knew I was going to see it, she sold me the tickets, just let me watch it.
Might be allergic.Originally posted by dobby View Post
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Any time I have to clean up after a party I put it on...makes it much weirder.Originally posted by Elshambles View PostComment
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Really? It was definitely covered when I was in school. Although maybe not as animated as the above video. I would have though it was somewhat widely known.Originally posted by rounders123 View Post
Ireland wasn't only producing potatoes in the 1840s. There was also plenty of wheat oats, livestock (somewhere in the order of millions of sheep, pigs and oxen). Most likely producing enough food to feed the country during the famine, despite the failure of potato crops. Some maintain that Ireland was a net exporter of food over the course of the famine.
The British weren't exactly stealing stockpiles of food from the Irish. The crops at that point belonged (legally, perhaps not rightfully) to the various absentee landowners and/or merchants. The government did fuck all to protect the people and allowed them free reign to export for max profit.
The Irish famine of 1782–83 was much less devastating, many aren't even aware of it. A contributing factor to that is the fact that the ports were closed to keep food in ireland. A consideration not afforded us in the 1840's.Comment
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Either you went to school in the UK or else you weren't listening, but it was definitely in the Irish history curriculum.Originally posted by rounders123 View PostComment
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I liked Michael Collins too.Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostAn homage to the horrific churchill got your movie-going seal of approval though. You have to decide if you are properly on the side of homicidal maniacs or not
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I'll tell you what wasn't covered in the Irish history curriculum.Originally posted by 5starpool View Post
The fact that the catholic church went on a booming building spree during the famine. While millions died of starvation they were hiring celebrity architects to build gothic palaces.
They built dozens of elaborate buildings during this time, spending the equivalent of over a billion in today's money.
St. Aidan's cathedral in Enniscorthy is a prime example. Augustus Welby Pugin was adding gold leaf to it's ornate ceiling while millions died.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for thatComment
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Now there's a name.Originally posted by Lazare View Post
People just don't have resonant names like that any more."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."Comment
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"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."Comment
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Waiting for jack to come in asking me what Obama and Hillary were up to during the famine.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for thatComment
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Great listen, thanks for sharing. For me I think people are offended by the idea that things are getting better, because they're disturbed by how it has been achieved. Your hardcore socialists, your Marxists, your SJWs, are so completely convinced of the utter corruption of the world. Any evidence that liberal, democratic capitalism is a positive force is a personal insult.Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostThere is a very telling piece during todays Start the week where a Neuroscientist talking about how we don't like facts to get in the way of our prejudices about the MMR vaccine debate with Ben Carson where Carson had all the facts and figures but Trump had a story about a 'Horse sized vaccination needle' and his employees child getting sick. She admitted that for a while it almost put her off getting her own children protected!
Stupid is in the ascendant and as hard to beat back as japanese knotweed
Its a good listen In the Hitch corner you have Steven Pinker at his most Panglossian and in the PSV Corner Rob Rieman resents any positive thought being thunk and thinks that children learning maths ahead of Nietzsche is the path to Fascism IMO he's confused about what actually happens in school and life. Tali Sharot the Neuroscientist was good value too.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09rwszj
It really shows how morally depraved they are. When someone tells them about the astonishing scale of human progress, their reaction is a negative one. They're offended by how it has been achieved. It's astounding."I can’t find anyone who agrees with what I write or think these days, so I guess I must be getting closer to the truth." - Hunter S. ThompsonComment
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here it is in picture formOriginally posted by AndyFatBastard View Post
People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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You do have to consider that the Catholic church at that time was perhaps the only great institution of the masses. By embarking on a large scale building program they were creating a lot of employment and skills particularly outside the Pale. In way they evolved a sort of social welfare system in the way that the military often did and indeed still does in many dysfunctional states.Originally posted by Lazare View PostTurning millions into thousandsComment
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That video is absolute toss.Originally posted by rounders123 View Post
The causes of the Irish Famine were multiple, as were the exacerbating factors and outcomes. That video ascribes active motive to the British for which there is very little evidence. It assumes an active conspiracy to kill or displace "the Gael" however the evidence doesn't back this up. Let's take a look at just one of the claims, that it was an attempt to eliminate Irish culture and language.
The Irish language was a lost or losing cause by the 1830's, more than a decade before the famine. The introduction of compulsory national schools in English was the last straw in a series of events that had lead to that situation. The primary driver in the decline of the Irish language appears to have been its decoupling from social mobility. Positions in the civil service or any state job were dependent on having English as a spoken language. William Labov's work in Sociolinguistic Patterns suggests that when social mobility is detached from a form of speech then mothers will tend to promote the more socially advantageous form of speech for their children. As such, Irish mothers, particularly in the East where the Civil Service was a real opportunity for Catholics after the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, likely promoted spoken English over Irish for the decade and a half preceding the Famine.
Another claim is how the British forced the Irish to build criss-crossing roads to nowhere. However that fact is not contextualised. For a start it isn't mentioned that the forced labour was part of "Outdoor Relief", a form of poverty relief that avoided the necessity for the poor to enter institutions such as poor houses - a place where death was a near certainty during the famine period. As such it was considered (at the time) to be infinitely preferable to the alternative. The entire system had been designed in 1601 and was reformed shortly after the famine - in part because of what had happened in Ireland and in part for broader economic reasons.
I am not for one moment apologising for the British or attempting to explain away the famine. I am merely pointing out how utterly propagandist and hyperbolic that video is. History is a difficult subject to discuss because ascribing motive across centuries when different moral standards and current thinking applied is notoriously difficult. That video takes the most extreme possible interpretation of what happened in the 1840s and presents it as indisputable fact. No historian worth his salt would do that. Everything has context. There is simply insufficient evidence to support the central thesis of that video - that the famine was an intentional and co-ordinated genocide.
I should note that some Irish historians have argued that the famine was a genocide of sorts. Certainly it is a debatable issue, but not of the level that video suggests.You are technically correct...the best kind of correct
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The book that film is based on is one of the most myopic historical biographies I've ever read.Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostI liked Michael Collins too.
Tim Pat-Coogan has a great line in his (far less flattering) biography of De Valera where he says "De Valera is the only commander from 1916 without a street named after him in Ireland. The State could not find one long enough or crooked enough".You are technically correct...the best kind of correct
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I am just sitting at my desk reading about Brits, potatoes or lack thereof and along comes my boss who throws an envelope almost violently on my desk and walks off without a word. Wtf is this, thinks I. Open it up and there is a generic bla bla inflation 3% raise. I had been thinking, you know, maybe I should move to London and switch up my job and this confirms it.
I continue reading onwards and the letter is like haha nah, a 21% increase backdated to the start of the year more currently reflects your role at the company in italics. The letter trolled me. I mean I do think I shouldn't stick to the same place forever and my whole career as a developer has been here essentially, but when they do things like fly the whole company + families to Universal studios for a holiday, don't mind when I'm off for 3 months with some broken bones and still give out raises wordlessly (without having some inane meeting about performance) they make it feckin' hard to ever want to leave.
TL;DR: Uplift
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Out of hospital to skate in the 1000M heats, involved in another fall, finished second in a re-run to qualify for next round, but disqualified. Fun week for her.Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View PostComment
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