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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Boris can't really dump someone on the grounds of playing offside now can he? (well he could, but it would be hypocrisy on a grand scale)This too shall pass.
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Originally posted by AndyFatBastard View PostAnyone got any tips for changing the direction work is going when the orders are coming from on high in a very large company? Major groupthink going on and most people at my level think it's going to be awful but I'm the only one speaking up. So far all I seem to have done is make management double down. Polish the CV time or is there a productive way to say no to something I know is going to be bad for our customers?"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. Thompson
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
I don't have blind faith in either NPHET or the government. I probably have more faith in the NPHET doctors than the government tbh.
We have definitely fucked some things up in our pandemic experience; the decision to reopen for a 'meaningful Christmas' being No 1 (and led to an awful Jan-Apr), but compared to our peer group of countries we have definitely performed above the average. Of course being an island gives us a massive inbuilt advantage so some of the credit gets removed there.
Let me pose two questions back to you and let's see if we can get anywhere:- Which peer countries do you think have performed better than us in the pandemic and why?
- If you think the current restrictions are unnecessary, can you explain what you think the government's motives are?
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View Post
Just got this gift today so this:
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I asked what my followers like to eat and will share some screenshots of that an what my friend has been eating for dinner this week too
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I think in general you can veggie up the meals you usually eat with alternatives or just cook new things and see what you like, make curries, burritos, bolognaise, soups, roast stuff potatoes/veg, lasagne, pizza, whatever. It shouldn't need to be too different, just using a few different ingredients like beans,lentils, buts, fake meat things like that. It's not a big deal if you slip up or whatever, just try to find some veggie meals you like and start adding to it as you go along.
For breakfast I have smoothies (I'm sponsored by myprotein now so use a lot of protein powder and that craic, in smoothies or pancakes etc), porridge (with things on top like seeds, peanut butter, berries), granola with yogurt and toppings, scrambled tofu, avocado toast, or straight up have a regular lunch kinda meal. For lunch and dinner it could be anything tbh.
You seem to have a high ratio of female to male followers
Also, was it just me whose eyes went straight to the first one's lovely painted toes instead of the food?
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Boris can't really dump someone on the grounds of playing offside now can he? (well he could, but it would be hypocrisy on a grand scale)
Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Sickpuppy View PostThey had 25000 at a football match last week poor Holohan must have cried seeing people enjoy themselves.
Originally posted by Sickpuppy View PostCan you imagine our debt in the next few years what sort of a country are the children now going to have ?
IMO there are aspects about solidarity, social protection and healthcare that we can be very positive about but if there is an economic collapse as a direct result of the money spent then any gains and the trends towards healthcare for all and universal basic income will get the blame.
Anti lockdown sentiment remains a tiny but extremely loud minority, it will disappear in time and whether it lasts a few weeks longer than absolutely necessary is irrelevant.
Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Lao Lao View Post
You seem to have a high ratio of female to male followers
Also, was it just me whose eyes went straight to the first one's lovely painted toes instead of the food?
She always looks amazing with that kinda stuff, runs acc with me.
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View Post
That bit is a batshit crazy outpouring of reading too much of gobshites like Cummins. Do you really believe that or is it just your anger venting?Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Poor sick puppy, he is completely right about the flattened curve. Hospitals are empty, vaccinations are effective against the new strains and the 20-30 somethings are mixing in huge groups anyway.
I think that we are at the point where having the conversations around are we being to risk adverse makes sense and isn’t anti lockdown tinfoil hatness.
Nphet have to be very conservative - it’s their job to model the worst numbers and try to protect 101% of the population.
The govt made a balls up at Christmas and don’t want to be caught out again.
I’m not too sure on where I stand on opening up myself but we are very close or maybe over the tipping point where economic v’s public health risk is shifting the other way.
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Originally posted by RichieM View PostI’m not too sure on where I stand on opening up myself but we are very close or maybe over the tipping point where economic v’s public health risk is shifting the other way."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View PostI'm thinking opening up is logical. The whole reason for it was to protect the vulnerable. They are now vaccinated.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
The problem is the virus can shift those goalposts very rapidly indeed. And we're constantly using lagging indicators to assess where we think we are.
I don’t think the question of lockdown is now as simple as science on one side and Gemma O’D on the other.
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Originally posted by 6starpool View Post
As of yesterday, only 24% of the 60-70 age group was fully vaccinated. That should be largely addressed over the next couple of weeks but then there is the couple of weeks after the second dose for maximum protection. That's the gaping hole at the moment, and the one any delay would be designed for I suspect. Another month and that gap should be filled, by and large.
fair enough that changes a lot - I think they are Astra and one dose of Astra is pretty poor against this variant.
Well ignore everything else I posted
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People talk about the virus like it’s a sentient being with great intelligence. If it was the Black Death plague I’d be hiding myself. Two of my friends wives won’t leave the house women in there early 40s petrified to go outside. Never want to work in the office again. I take it all back Tony holohan for president. Iceland has just lifted all restrictions of course smaller population than us they also jailed bankers not like Ireland let them transfer it to the wife.
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Went out to see The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard last night. There was a grand total of me and two random other people in the whole cinema. The 16-year-old who had enough free time to escort me to the screen from the ticket checkin desk, was lamenting that cinemas are gone for good.
And yet, and yet, despite the uncomfortable seats, and having to listen to the two other pricks loudly crunching popcorn from their seats at the other end of the cinema, it was highly enjoyable and would have been a tiny fraction of the fun sitting at home watching it on the tv/screen.
It might be time to devote an evening or two to going back to the cinema and sending a message that its still got a chance.
"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWent out to see The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard last night. There was a grand total of me and two random other people in the whole cinema. The 16-year-old who had enough free time to escort me to the screen from the ticket checkin desk, was lamenting that cinemas are gone for good.
And yet, and yet, despite the uncomfortable seats, and having to listen to the two other pricks loudly crunching popcorn from their seats at the other end of the cinema, it was highly enjoyable and would have been a tiny fraction of the fun sitting at home watching it on the tv/screen.
It might be time to devote an evening or two to going back to the cinema and sending a message that its still got a chance.
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Originally posted by Dice75 View Post
Meant to ask you.....when i met you at Peter Rabbit why were there a load of older teenagers up the back, i couldnt see what they were at - drinking or whatever or filming?"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWent out to see The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard last night. There was a grand total of me and two random other people in the whole cinema. The 16-year-old who had enough free time to escort me to the screen from the ticket checkin desk, was lamenting that cinemas are gone for good.
And yet, and yet, despite the uncomfortable seats, and having to listen to the two other pricks loudly crunching popcorn from their seats at the other end of the cinema, it was highly enjoyable and would have been a tiny fraction of the fun sitting at home watching it on the tv/screen.
It might be time to devote an evening or two to going back to the cinema and sending a message that its still got a chance.
I tried to book 3 different movies in 4 different Cinemas yesterday afternoon. Family of 4. Got through to seat picking stage a couple of times but couldnt actually pick seats.
Rang a couple of them only to be told that "website should be showing as booked out" or "you can book in two sets of two but you wont get a refund if you book first two and cant get the second two"
My own fault for leaving it to last minute .
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Joker in The Stella was one of the best nights out I've had in years.
Such an amazing place. Such a fitting movie too I thought, suited the style and atmosphere of the place beautifully.
Can't wait to go back.
Would be meh to cinemas generally but the overall experience there is a thing of class.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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I went to The Quiet Place 2 with two buddies last week and there was a decent crowd in the screen, probably 100 people? Love love love going to the cinema, the whole experience, massive bag of popcorn, the trailers. Please let it remain part of our lives! I'd rather pubs disappear than cinemas, and I do miss the pub...
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It's always been the cinema for me ahead of theaters, art galleries, book and poetry readings, concerts or operas. I guess the problem cinema has vs the rest is it's not live, so can easily become home entertainment. At what point does a big home movie room become a cinema? It's a lovely neutral meetup point all the same, particularly for dating. Hitch?Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Originally posted by Wombatman View PostIt's always been the cinema for me ahead of theaters, art galleries, book and poetry readings, concerts or operas. I guess the problem cinema has vs the rest is it's not live, so can easily become home entertainment. At what point does a big home movie room become a cinema? It's a lovely neutral meetup point all the same, particularly for dating. Hitch?
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Originally posted by Sickpuppy View Post
Hopefully have never yo date again the cinema is woeful for dates have to sit in silence can’t even see the woman man or other. I used to love the Phoenix park beside where I lived free and a chance to get them in for a cup of tea .I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View PostHancock gone.
People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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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!
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I have a question. My uncle, unfortunately, passed away a few months ago, albeit at a reasonably satisfactorily elderly age (despite his protestations). My mum is in charge of his estate and can't seem to find any assets. Not a penny. Which seems unlikely as he would have earned a fair bit over the years developing properties. But he might easily have spent it all. Is there a standard way, without too much cost, that she can search for whether he had any registered assets in Ireland across banks, funds, properties, etc?"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Some less moralising country anyway that doesn't judge people's personal lives.Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Some less moralising country anyway that doesn't judge people's personal lives.
Being Minister for Health (or rather Secretary, what's with that usage?), that put him in a rather invidious position....
And he's a twat. So it's (a) funny and (b) nice to see him hoist on his own petard."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Wombatman View Post
Yeah, it wouldn't be like the Tories to ram family values and moral hazards down peoples throats."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Was it not that he broke the covid restrictions (rather than having a mistress, which is clearly standard in Boris-land)?
Being Minister for Health (or rather Secretary, what's with that usage?), that put him in a rather invidious position....
And he's a twat. So it's (a) funny and (b) nice to see him hoist on his own petard."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostI have a question. My uncle, unfortunately, passed away a few months ago, albeit at a reasonably satisfactorily elderly age (despite his protestations). My mum is in charge of his estate and can't seem to find any assets. Not a penny. Which seems unlikely as he would have earned a fair bit over the years developing properties. But he might easily have spent it all. Is there a standard way, without too much cost, that she can search for whether he had any registered assets in Ireland across banks, funds, properties, etc?
Does he even have an ATM card, which at least would tell you who his bank was? You could start there."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
I don't mind the 'he's a twat' angle, as long as we're not all calling on our inner-priest and morally judging people. And lets not pretend it has anything to do with covid regs.
I want to reiterate my apology for breaking the guidance, and apologise to my family and loved ones for putting them through this"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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More importantly today was spent fitting in ten or so suitable homes for sale in Bray into a Google Maps walking circuit, and expending 24,000 steps to visit them all and admire or disparage them from the outside.
It seems its quite easy to wipe out 80% of candidate homes simply based on exteriors. One home managed to not have a footpath, so every exit of the house would involve legging it across a road with cars screaming around two hairpin turns on either side. Other homes were clearly the 50-year-old hooker at the 50-year-old hooker party that had had a recent boobjob and felt that meant they no longer belonged to the elderly hooker club. That included one home selling itself as an upmarket abode where most of the neighbours seemed to have caravans in good working order in the back garden and heaps of broken down cars. Other houses, a surprising number, their most admirable external features turned out to be camera tricks.
In the end, we felt there was two candidate homes, and in a surprise turn, the runaway fav is 200k under our mortgage approval limit. A reasonably bogstandard estate house, but in a nice looking estate (near Boghall, which aside from a horrible name for a place, seems to have some highly dodgy areas, but the estate is away from the dodgiest of areas). The other is a bit more of a budget buster on the lovely Parnell Road. Lets see how it works out.
Bray has some amazing houses. Lovely architecture that really looks unique. Putland, Herbert, Parnell roads.
One that didn't make the final list, but which we'll view next week anyway, as its maybe a contender, if not for the size, is this. What thoughts would anyone have on this place?
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"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Literally no paperwork in the house (or office) at all?
Does he even have an ATM card, which at least would tell you who his bank was? You could start there."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostMore importantly today was spent fitting in ten or so suitable homes for sale in Bray into a Google Maps walking circuit, and expending 24,000 steps to visit them all and admire or disparage them from the outside.
It seems its quite easy to wipe out 80% of candidate homes simply based on exteriors. One home managed to not have a footpath, so every exit of the house would involve legging it across a road with cars screaming around two hairpin turns on either side. Other homes were clearly the 50-year-old hooker at the 50-year-old hooker party that had had a recent boobjob and felt that meant they no longer belonged to the elderly hooker club. That included one home selling itself as an upmarket abode where most of the neighbours seemed to have caravans in good working order in the back garden and heaps of broken down cars. Other houses, a surprising number, their most admirable external features turned out to be camera tricks.
In the end, we felt there was two candidate homes, and in a surprise turn, the runaway fav is 200k under our mortgage approval limit. A reasonably bogstandard estate house, but in a nice looking estate (near Boghall, which aside from a horrible name for a place, seems to have some highly dodgy areas, but the estate is away from the dodgiest of areas). The other is a bit more of a budget buster on the lovely Parnell Road. Lets see how it works out.
Bray has some amazing houses. Lovely architecture that really looks unique. Putland, Herbert, Parnell roads.
One that didn't make the final list, but which we'll view next week anyway, as its maybe a contender, if not for the size, is this. What thoughts would anyone have on this place?
Find Semi Detached Houses for Sale in Bray, Wicklow. Search 36 Semi Detached Houses for sale on Daft.ie now.
On reaching the entrance hall, one steps into the bay-windowed sitting room with its welcoming open fireplaceGlazed double doors invite one to the eat-in family kitchen, well fitted, and featuring a vaulted ceiling over the dining area also enjoying double doors to the rear garden.
We confidently recommend inspection to the most discerning purchaser."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Nothing. There's no money in his bank (she has access to that), and he was just renting a room in a house in Dublin for the last 30 years, so there's no identifiable asset there. But he would have made a lot from building over the years. He was extremely reclusive and very strongly into religion, so he might have simply donated it. Its just he went quickly and wouldn't have had a chance to sort anything out. Ah, its all a bit *something* talking about money and dead people, but its more there is a suspicion that there might be something that he would have wanted passed on, but having no idea how to check. One thought is he might have a few bits of land somewhere."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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