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Originally posted by PSV58 View PostWtf are RTÉ doing having John mcgurk of Gript on prime time to debate the protests at the weekend ?
balance? Fucking idiots- there is no upside to this- just giving a platform to plausibollocks
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I've been boycotting sodastream for ages because of that factory in the occupied territories. But it seems they, ahem, shut that factory in 2015, and then shut themselves by selling themselves to Pepsi in 2018. I need an alert system for when to lift boycotts."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostDavy coning on to Prime Time to talk about Elliott got a feeling I'll be watching this one from behind the sofa
sure like tis grand that kinda thing happens down the country, the only problem is mobile phones.
Reading Elliott's statement he must have been holding back the laughter when stating he had a phone call and without thinking needed to sit down.﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Africa's biggest problems are governmental and environmental. The former is, at best, continuing on a track of corruption and extremely weak democratic institutions. The latter is worse - desertification and habitat destruction are accelerating, and population growth only exacerbates this.
So I wouldn't share your optimism...."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostI've been boycotting sodastream for ages because of that factory in the occupied territories. But it seems they, ahem, shut that factory in 2015, and then shut themselves by selling themselves to Pepsi in 2018. I need an alert system for when to lift boycotts.Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View Post
Though you'd want to boycott Pepsi because of the Michael Jackson connection? Even if he was ahead of the curve with the face masks.
I'd happily boycott Pepsi for striking agreements with places to only sell Pepsi because they know thats the only way people will drink their crap."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostDavy held up well, he looked and sounded more shook than I've ever seen him.
Whatever points he was trying to make just unravelled."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
No way - he said that?! Surely not.
"I was standing over the horse waiting to help with the removal of the body, in the course of which, to my memory I received a call and, without thinking, I sat down to take it. Hearing a shout from one of my team, I gestured to wait until I was finished"
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post
Could have been a lot worse.
Actually, someone media-savvy like GAB could have done a polished job in that slot and left everyone feeling vaguely sorry for Elliott, paving the way for a comeback. Opportunity missed."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostI've been boycotting sodastream for ages because of that factory in the occupied territories. But it seems they, ahem, shut that factory in 2015, and then shut themselves by selling themselves to Pepsi in 2018. I need an alert system for when to lift boycotts.
Some of their cylinders have an anti refill mechanism built in but it doesn't really work unless you fill them under too high a pressure.Turning millions into thousands
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Banana Watch update.
Here is some banana art made from merely bruising the banana.
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostI was given a Sodastream as a present last year and I get great use out of it just for fizzy water which I use loads of. After a while using it you stop noticing how much you are not spending on plastic bottles and instead notice the €20 a go they are charging for a refill of gas that only carbonates 60L. When this lockdown came along it became impossible to get refills so I looked into getting set up to refill them myself. Bought an adaptor from a UK site and a 10 L cylinder of food grade CO2. The gas arrived today and was very much bigger than I expected at nearly a meter tall but was really easy to set up. I'm expecting the cost of a refill to drop from €20 to less than €2 a go.
Looks a bit mad
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Only if he was wearing a horse's head mask.
Actually, someone media-savvy like GAB could have done a polished job in that slot and left everyone feeling vaguely sorry for Elliott, paving the way for a comeback. Opportunity missed.
Jaysus BBC giving it another big feature now Lizzie Kelly and all.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Environmental destruction is temporary?
Phew, tell the Sahara to go into retreat!
Its amazing how many places that are written off as zero-hopes suddenly click when things come together. We live in one. Our population fell from about 4 mil post independence to 2.5 mil at lowest ebb. Every young person shipped out, almost until the 80s. The butt of jokes all around the world. Paddy Irishman. And look at us now. Africa will be a whole new step in the growth of the world. Righting the final wrong. Its going to be great."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by shrapnel View Post
Deets please. Got a, sodastream a few months ago instead of buying countless San pelegrino bottles, love it, so keen to try this out as well as refills run out pretty quickly.
Say goodbye to expensive cylinder refills, our CO2 Refilling Adapter is used to refill SodaStream cylinders from larger donor cylinders, and does so in the safest and easiest way possible.
there are cheaper versions for instance
Then you need to get a cylinder of food grade CO2 initial cylinder will be about double the price of refills and the price varies a lot depending on where you get it. Cheapest are fire extinguisher companies who do it as a sideline.
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Originally posted by shrapnel View Post
makes awesome steak tartare.
i'd read somewhere that the french equine butcher market was massively responsible for the continuation of the huge number of horse breed lines. Without it, so many would have gone extinct.
The opposite happens now, take for example the homogenising of pig breeds in China to produce more food, and then the inevitable outbreak of disease.
Won't be long until the next pandemic develops from these scenarios.﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿
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SP, Id chain that cylinder to something if it was me
Can be dangerous if for some reason they set off on a wee trip for themselves
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Bought a bottle of 18 year old scotch whiskey (caol ila) , I’ll be opening it up soon and mixing it with a dash of Bitcoin investor tears
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I didn't expect this to work so well. • Includes text generated by OpenAI's GPT-3 at my request: https://openai.com • Art by Chris Quay: https://www.chrisqua...
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
I read something a few years ago about population that used Ireland as an example - essentially showing for all countries that their growth spurt happens precisely when they have enough young brightly educated folk. That it was an unstoppable force. I think it was a New Yorker article maybe. The point was - the whole thing is nothing to do with policies, political parties, public services, etc once you get to that tipping point, it was just inevitable. That was my vague reading of where Africa is headed.
Would that be the type of thing that ye would look at in geography? I'd be curious to hear if thats just one particular view I read, or some sort of accepted wisdom.
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostI was given a Sodastream as a present last year and I get great use out of it just for fizzy water which I use loads of. After a while using it you stop noticing how much you are not spending on plastic bottles and instead notice the €20 a go they are charging for a refill of gas that only carbonates 60L. When this lockdown came along it became impossible to get refills so I looked into getting set up to refill them myself. Bought an adaptor from a UK site and a 10 L cylinder of food grade CO2. The gas arrived today and was very much bigger than I expected at nearly a meter tall but was really easy to set up. I'm expecting the cost of a refill to drop from €20 to less than €2 a go.
Looks a bit mad
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
I thought once you had an educated pop your growth rate declines massively? Usually, once a country gets developed life expectancy lengthens, there's less child mortality, so for a short period the pop grows massively, but once people get educated birth rates drop, eventually the country goes into population decline (Germany/Japan etc)/
China took off after the One Child policy. Hitch loves China right? Well there's our perfect example right there - the Commies recognised that 'to be rich is glorious' but also were savvy enough to acknowledge that having overpopulation was not compatible with the goal of becoming an economic superpower.
Now you can argue about the means they took to achieve this policy objective (forced sterilisations, forced abortions etc - but it is a dictatorship after all so why would we be surprised) but it indubitably worked.
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Postairport, lol
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Originally posted by Silver-Tiger View PostThis is a tough look for Davys
Looks like Pascal Donohoe calling them a disgrace and a slap on the wrists is all they'll receive.
The CEO being one of the 16 certainly helps!
Could you do time for this type of carry on in the States?"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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I was reading about the economy of Mauritius last week, they've done a very good job for themselves. Especially with sod all natural resources.
I was also looking through tables of wealth inequality across countries, and I noticed that Holland is about the most equal whereas their neighbor Belgium is one of the most unequal. I found that strange.
Anyone any insight into that, particularly Belgium's inequality?
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
I thought once you had an educated pop your growth rate declines massively? Usually, once a country gets developed life expectancy lengthens, there's less child mortality, so for a short period the pop grows massively, but once people get educated birth rates drop, eventually the country goes into population decline (Germany/Japan etc)/"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Elshambles View PostSP, Id chain that cylinder to something if it was me
Can be dangerous if for some reason they set off on a wee trip for themselvesTurning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Only if he was wearing a horse's head mask.
Actually, someone media-savvy like GAB could have done a polished job in that slot and left everyone feeling vaguely sorry for Elliott, paving the way for a comeback. Opportunity missed.
No punches pulled and taking both the personal and helicopter view.Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
I'm not buying that overpopulation is a driver for massive future growth tbh.
China took off after the One Child policy. Hitch loves China right? Well there's our perfect example right there - the Commies recognised that 'to be rich is glorious' but also were savvy enough to acknowledge that having overpopulation was not compatible with the goal of becoming an economic superpower.
Now you can argue about the means they took to achieve this policy objective (forced sterilisations, forced abortions etc - but it is a dictatorship after all so why would we be surprised) but it indubitably worked.Last edited by Hitchhiker's Guide To...; 03-03-21, 10:35."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by hotspur View PostI was reading about the economy of Mauritius last week, they've done a very good job for themselves. Especially with sod all natural resources.
Originally posted by hotspur View PostI was also looking through tables of wealth inequality across countries, and I noticed that Holland is about the most equal whereas their neighbor Belgium is one of the most unequal. I found that strange.
Anyone any insight into that, particularly Belgium's inequality?
Taxes are European-norm high in both IIRC."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Anyone got any more details on the extremely woke RTÉ presenter who has abruptly left his job
all I’ve got is what pops up when you google his name on Reddit but all threads deleted- looks like another al Porter situation
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Originally posted by hotspur View PostI was reading about the economy of Mauritius last week, they've done a very good job for themselves. Especially with sod all natural resources.
I was also looking through tables of wealth inequality across countries, and I noticed that Holland is about the most equal whereas their neighbor Belgium is one of the most unequal. I found that strange.
Anyone any insight into that, particularly Belgium's inequality?
Often gini figures look at income inequality rather than wealth inequality. Also, some countries which are more sparsely populated can have a lower gini than is true. I don't know the answer for Belgium specifically but I'd said there is a myriad of different figures which will give you a different narrative.
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On the hedge fund note: I was talking to a guy a few days ago - Irish guy. Set up and runs a massive (imo - 50bn) hedge fund. Fully down to earth. Going to speak to the students next week as he likes to give back (he gives back in much more substantial ways also). I was working out afterwards given how successful his hedge fund is he's surely a billionaire - with standard fee structures of 2% per annum and 20% profit above benchmark?"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostOur population fell from about 4 mil post independence to 2.5 mil at lowest ebb.
Republic was 3.0m around independence, and lowest was 2.8m in post war years.
The entire Island was 4.2m at independence. Never really dropped from there. Stayed at that level to the 60s, then it climbed to today.
Population was 8.2m at the outbreak of the famine.
Still a long way short of that today.
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Originally posted by Mellor View PostWhere are you getting those numbers from. Didn’t sound right, so glanced at Wikipedia. I think you’re confusing stats for the Republic and for the Island.
Republic was 3.0m around independence, and lowest was 2.8m in post war years.
The entire Island was 4.2m at independence. Never really dropped from there. Stayed at that level to the 60s, then it climbed to today.
Population was 8.2m at the outbreak of the famine.
Still a long way short of that today."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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I see from the lecture notes also a rather shocking quote from a minister at the time. And an even more shocking use of green text. I think because it was a course delivered to people from Boston, and I assumed they would want to hear about Ireland written in green.
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Originally posted by PSV58 View PostAnyone got any more details on the extremely woke RTÉ presenter who has abruptly left his job
all I’ve got is what pops up when you google his name on Reddit but all threads deleted- looks like another al Porter situation
metoo'd if you look at the wayback archive of the reddit link you were given.
He was front and centre of the believe women bit at the start of metoo as wellLast edited by DeadParrot; 03-03-21, 12:14.People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
Get a shiny metal Revolut card! And a free tenner!
https://revolut.com/referral/jamesb8!G10D21
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostAre you sure? The Gini coefficient is about the same for both. 25 vs 26. Ireland is 28...
Taxes are European-norm high in both IIRC.
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