I guess they will probably put up a pair like for instance Fitzgerald and Simon or McGuinness and Leo on the understanding that the big hitter only goes if we keep trade.
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostI guess they will probably put up a pair like for instance Fitzgerald and Simon or McGuinness and Leo on the understanding that the big hitter only goes if we keep trade.“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
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Read 11.22.63 again , excellent. In his afterword SK says he had intended to dedicate it to Jack Finney who wrote Time and Again however a new granddaughter got that honour.
Had completely forgotten about Time and Again, must have read that about 25 years ago. Hope I have it buried somewhere.
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That's a neat little vignette of 'political discourse in America in the year 2020'
Not exactly Webster's Second Reply to Hayne."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostTrump gaining back some ground, 11/10. He was touching 2/1 not too long ago.
The question is will the floaters believe him, having seen his errr, unique executive style, at work for the last 4 years?"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
His tactics are exactly what won him the election last time. Scare the shit out of the voters and drag everyone into the gutter.
The question is will the floaters believe him, having seen his errr, unique executive style, at work for the last 4 years?
I think it'll be Biden but I wouldn't put any significant money on it. Trump is a 35% plus shot here.You are technically correct...the best kind of correct
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America dragged itself through the gutter. Can't break the link between the electorate choosing Trump, and his actions.
I'm not sure how America gets away from Politics == Sports though. It's all a little culty for my liking. You're either blue or your red or you're an outcast. Really big problem imo. You will end up with this exact problem happening time and time again unless there is some revival of the centre ground.
It's completely and absolutely fine to vote Democrat one year for their policies and then choose Republican 4 years later as their policies for the coming period 'align' better. It should be utterly normal to be able to do that.
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Originally posted by Keane View Post
Yeah that's fair enough. In this case I can vouch for the cologne splits this guy does, they are A1 and would expect the whiskey to be similar. His thread is here, I think it's been universal positive feedback for the years he has been doing it
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/show...p?t=2057732087
On the legalities of it I was surprised it got off the ground without issues but all the major websites for aftershave (there appear to be many!) look to have been doing similar for years. I'd say it's probably a trademark greyish area. It's possible there are more stringent rules around spirits but I wouldn't know
I was reading through that thread trying to find where he had added the drinks. I though one was drinking the stuff the way he was going on.
Will keep an eye out for the Whiskey.
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Trump is an outlier and a direct reaction to a black president. You cannot argue his reign has been unprecedented. The blue/red choice has always been there however there has been nothing like Trump . His lies are in the 100s , he has tried to reconstruct actual facts before our eyes and STILL he has apologists and supporters who dismiss his daily infantile behaviour and blindly follow. In my lifetime I've never seen the US so disrespected on the world stage. This is more than partizan politics . It's quite staggering what is now accepted as normal these past 4 years .
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Originally posted by Kayroo View Post
He has a baked in Electoral College advantage, so Biden needs a 5-6% margin to overcome that in all likelihood. There are a LOT less undecideds this time compared to last time too.
I think it'll be Biden but I wouldn't put any significant money on it. Trump is a 35% plus shot here.
Seeing as you are here, what is your take on Woulfe?
And I don't want to know what the rules are, I simply want to know do you think he should\should not resign from the SC (and why)?"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Emmet View PostIt's completely and absolutely fine to vote Democrat one year for their policies and then choose Republican 4 years later as their policies for the coming period 'align' better. It should be utterly normal to be able to do that.
I like that."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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I Was walking down past a garden, little boy in the garden shouts, Hey you wanna play football? Give it here, give it here I said.
I threw the ball in the air then kicked in way up the road and it landed in a skip. Why did you do that he cried? That's a life lesson for you my lad, a life lesson. He whimpered a bit more, then his mother came out obviously annoyed with me and said.. For fks sake, you only get to see him weekends. Why be such a bastard.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostJust doesn't seem like proper democracy in the US. As in you have to belong to only one of two parties to be elected. Its an oligopoly to the monopoly of dictatorship.
I think they were more prevalent and indeed influential in the past; there was a relatively strong Socialist Party in the 20s\30s and of course the Progressive\Bull Moose Party won over a quarter of the vote in the 1912 election.
But they are mostly crowded out of the market now by the two big beasts.
You could equally argue that a clear choice of two options is better than a confusing smorgasbord of a dozen small parties who will have to coalesce in some fuzzy manner? Don't know, we Irish can hardly argue about that as we had a 2.25 party system for most of our democratic history...."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Hello!
Seeing as you are here, what is your take on Woulfe?
And I don't want to know what the rules are, I simply want to know do you think he should\should not resign from the SC (and why)?
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You are technically correct...the best kind of correct
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
if it was you, I bet you would have resigned by nowYou are technically correct...the best kind of correct
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Son no2 has a persistent cough so ordered a home kit (got one for myself as well just in case) as better be safe than sorry before they start school again in a week or so. Supposedly, we get it tomorrow, send it back, and should get the results within 3 days. Let's see how well it works.
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostTrump gaining back some ground, 11/10. He was touching 2/1 not too long ago.
Is it fair to say Trump is not a good politician but is good at politics?
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Originally posted by coillcam View Post
"I'll exercise my constitutional right to take the 5th".
Do you really think that Kayroo would ever answer a question like that in a public forum?
Supreme Court justices are just as much national leaders (just not very visible ones) as high-ranking politicians or distinguished broadcasters.
Now to watch the legal eagles circle to protect their own."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Jam-Fly View Post
I got some at 7/4. Easy say now I should've gone bigger and laid off. Hard to see anything bigger than 5/4 not being a good bet, odds were surely always going to come closer to 50/50 near election time.
Is it fair to say Trump is not a good politician but is good at politics?
All presidents are successful politicians by definition.
But becoming president effectively out of nowhere in the way he did is a feat unmatched in US politics.
Love him or loathe him, you have to give him due recognition for that."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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...Last edited by Hitchhiker's Guide To...; 28-08-20, 12:17."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Like Dev returning from the US and deciding that Ireland should also be a free country?
The pig swimming in their own shit doesn't even smell it. Online payment tech and basic stock checking is like 20-year-old technology. I'd imagine the people of fucking Burundi visiting the country would also be appalled with the state of Irish tech.
An Post is just crap relative to other Irish delivery companies which all give realistic delivery windows. I don't know how they go home from work each day not feeling scarlet about how they are running their business.No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.
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Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View PostFirst they came for the EU Commissioners and I did not speak out because I was not an EU Commissioner.
Then they came for the judges and...………………..
So, now that there is clear accountability at the top of our democracy (well we await the judiciary to confirm they operate to the same standards), now - if needed - actual enforcement measures can be implemented. Like fines for people in shops without masks for example. Or those hosting house parties. Or publicans not enforcing the regs.
All these things would be very hard to do if there was a lack of accountability at the top."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by oleras View PostRemember that one friend that went off on a J1 and came back berating everything here and saying how everything over there was so much better...and you told him to fuck back there if its so good....
She was an Ozzie living over here and she was a cunt of the highest order. I've never seen anybody so negative about Ireland ever. And it wasn't just that absolutely every single thing imaginable was better in Oz than in Ireland, it was the constant lack of effort she put in to anything, only to then moan about it.
As she was with my best mate, I genuinely went out of my way to try get on with her but eventually one night, with a few beers on me, I turned to her mid one of her rants and said, 'If everything is so fucking amazing in Australia, why don't you fuck off back there'
They broke up not too long after that and she moved to London and I think eventually back to Oz, we surprisingly didn't stay in touch.
The best bit about it was a few years after they broke up, I was down in my mates house on Christmas morning and somehow she came up in conversation. My mates mam (who is like my 2nd mother) saw my eyes roll at the mere mention of her name and asked me what I thought. I launched into how much of a cunt she was (in a gentle Christmas morning way of course) and his mam completely agreed with me, said she always hated her but didn't want to say anything at the time. The two of us spent the the next hour or so highlighting how my mate had such shite taste in women
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Originally posted by oleras View PostRemember that one friend that went off on a J1 and came back berating everything here and saying how everything over there was so much better...and you told him to fuck back there if its so good....Jayzus, Sheila! I forgot me feckin' trousers
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Like Dev returning from the US and deciding that Ireland should also be a free country?
The pig swimming in their own shit doesn't even smell it. Online payment tech and basic stock checking is like 20-year-old technology. I'd imagine the people of fucking Burundi visiting the country would also be appalled with the state of Irish tech.
An Post is just crap relative to other Irish delivery companies which all give realistic delivery windows. I don't know how they go home from work each day not feeling scarlet about how they are running their business.
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Whilst in Manchester many moons ago , a friend of mine was ordering some fast food. The girl in the shop mocked his accent and continuously said cant understand you. I let her off twice then ordered his food very loudly in a mock Corrie accent . My mate collapsed laughing thinking I was joking but no I was going to empty the mustard (ah the mustard forum) if she continued. She got the message all right . The food was shite.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostWe should start a poll on which aspect of living in Ireland HH will complain about next.
My money is on schooling\childcareThis too shall pass.
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Originally posted by Jam-Fly View Post
I got some at 7/4. Easy say now I should've gone bigger and laid off. Hard to see anything bigger than 5/4 not being a good bet, odds were surely always going to come closer to 50/50 near election time.
Is it fair to say Trump is not a good politician but is good at politics?
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostWe should start a poll on which aspect of living in Ireland HH will complain about next.
My money is on schooling\childcare
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...Last edited by Hitchhiker's Guide To...; 28-08-20, 14:56."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Nah, there's a bus, the 155, from outside the door straight to DCU. We were further away public-transport wise while living in Howth.“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
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155 isn't the worst through town. Like it will still be terrible at times but it at least follows the Luas line down Dawson St, past Trinity and onto O'Connell St,. There's some of them (39,70 etc) which go a lunatic route via Dawson Street, Molesworth St, around the far side of Trinity near Pearse Station and eventually reaching O'Connell Bridge via the quays. Literally adding 20 minutes journey time for about 200 metres of as the crow flies.
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Originally posted by rounders123 View Post
Shut up with this laying off talk.Anyone upcoming up soon on the podcast?. If you were to ask me who to talk to regarding the poker hinterland id say Fintan Gavin. So how about it?.
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View Post
Tell us that again after you've been on it a few times. Maybe it's not as bad as I expect, but I'd usually get off a bus and walk the last few km in the city centre, because it's quicker.
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