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by 490808
Tue Mar 15, 2022 5:53 pm
Forum: Ukraine
Topic: The tactics
Replies: 46
Views: 18048

Re: The tactics

Read it and see, official BBC website. the BBC is not bound by any laws to tell the truth on the BBC world wide service, its funded and under the oversight of the Foreign Secretary, in other words a propaganda arm of the UK government. I understand it can be difficult to accept you have been played...
by 490808
Tue Mar 15, 2022 4:40 pm
Forum: Ukraine
Topic: Sanctions
Replies: 45
Views: 20600

Re: Sanctions

List of Irish companies ‘trading with Russia’ sent to Department of Foreign Affairs Couple of thoughts here, firstly if The Department of Foreign Affairs don't know who here is still trading with Russia we need a new DFA, secondly if the Ukrainian embassy are saying they have past this list one the...
by 490808
Tue Mar 15, 2022 3:57 pm
Forum: Motors
Topic: Renewing insurance - how much and who with?
Replies: 6
Views: 3865

Renewing insurance - how much and who with?

Just got my AXA renewal. Its more than 5 weeks before it needs renewing. They seem to post out the renewals earlier every year? Any they sensibly state that last years insurance was €450 and this years is €420. Thats fully comp on an ancient driver with wife (also ancient) as named driver. Car is a ...
by 490808
Tue Mar 15, 2022 3:07 pm
Forum: Technology & Internet
Topic: Mikrotik ...... and other routers and AP's?
Replies: 1
Views: 1595

Mikrotik ...... and other routers and AP's?

I have a bit of a thing for Mikrotik atm, so thought I'd start a thread. As Mikrotik make routers then it could just as easily be a general thread for chatting about routers but I'll stick with Mikrotik to start off. I mentioned in another thread that this https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B017W43...
by 490808
Tue Mar 15, 2022 2:17 pm
Forum: Nature
Topic: Nature photos
Replies: 320
Views: 71054

Re: Nature photos

I can remember seeing both those pictures. They might be illustrations in a book but I suspect they might have been posters on a classroom wall at school - long long ago. So I wonder if they were educational posters. .... So went looking and found this nice little compelation of classroom nature pos...
by 490808
Tue Mar 15, 2022 2:11 pm
Forum: The Smoking Room
Topic: Funny pics, vids, etc ..
Replies: 393
Views: 152414

Re: Funny pics, vids, etc ..

If its oldies, then this is dead funny provided your not too woke?

by 490808
Tue Mar 15, 2022 1:59 pm
Forum: The Smoking Room
Topic: Sad Demise of the "Right to Repair" Bill at the hands of the US Government
Replies: 10
Views: 2669

Re: Sad Demise of the "Right to Repair" Bill at the hands of the US Government

I see this as very badly thought out.

Look at it another way. Say the right to repair means that more people that couldn't otherwise afford say top end phones get to use second hand repaired one. Guess what the aspirations of the group will be for their next phone.
by 490808
Mon Mar 14, 2022 5:29 pm
Forum: Motors
Topic: What are you paying for your diesel/petrol?
Replies: 138
Views: 49329

Re: What are you paying for your diesel/petrol?

quodec wrote: Mon Mar 14, 2022 5:26 pm Bit the bullet and paid €189.9 for diesel in Dundalk today! Cheaper elsewhere but wasn't prepared to queue up. So, good value in an paradoxical sort of way!!!!
Just convince yourself that all the guys queuing up were burning fuel decreasing the value of the lower price.
by 490808
Mon Mar 14, 2022 3:41 pm
Forum: Ukraine
Topic: The tactics
Replies: 46
Views: 18048

Re: The tactics

... Take a moment and think for yourselves, the media says Russia is taking heavy casualties to its Conscription army, Conscription in Russia is a 12-month draft, which is mandatory for all male citizens ages 18–27, with a number of exceptions. Putin has stated there are ZERO Conscription forces in...
by 490808
Sun Mar 13, 2022 11:35 pm
Forum: The Smoking Room
Topic: Funny pics, vids, etc ..
Replies: 393
Views: 152414

Re: Funny pics, vids, etc ..

This almost seems inappropriate

by 490808
Sun Mar 13, 2022 9:12 pm
Forum: Ukraine
Topic: The tactics
Replies: 46
Views: 18048

Re: The tactics

I'm wondering how much of a deliberate tactic it is for the Russians to keep blocking the refugees?

A city full of civilians eats everything quicker than a city that is just full of fighters.
by 490808
Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:28 pm
Forum: Ukraine
Topic: The tactics
Replies: 46
Views: 18048

Re: The tactics

If the Ukrainians can disrupt the Russian supply lines then I think they can drag this out for a long time.

If they just sit and take the punishment then I think Russian artillery will win the day.
by 490808
Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:20 pm
Forum: Any Other Business
Topic: Funny donedeal ads
Replies: 4
Views: 2059

Re: Funny donedeal ads

Off on a tangent already :D

Spotted this on eBay https://www.ebay.ie/itm/164151971818?ha ... Sw5P1gFJEl

Anyone else wonder why its for sale?
by 490808
Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:08 pm
Forum: Ukraine
Topic: The tactics
Replies: 46
Views: 18048

The tactics

I thought it might be worth a separate thread on Just the military side of the war in the Ukraine. To put it bluntly I don't see how Ukraine can win against Russia but the defence of Kiev could end up a massive meat grinder on the scale of Verdun. What Russia has in spades is Artillery and they seem...
by 490808
Sun Mar 13, 2022 1:22 pm
Forum: Farming & Forestry
Topic: Howard series E rotovator restoration... fixup
Replies: 13
Views: 4629

Re: Howard series E rotovator restoration... fixup

Add Owatrol to any hand paint you use and use it neat or 50:50 with aluminium primer on bare metal to stop new rust.

It will add to the price but sometimes when you leave off a job and want to keep the rust off its handy.

I love the product but think the price is obscene.
by 490808
Sun Mar 13, 2022 12:41 pm
Forum: Ukraine
Topic: Prepping For Inflation
Replies: 56
Views: 14553

Re: Prepping For Inflation

I've been using these guys https://coaldirectireland.com/ for the last 3 (4?) years. Just phone up with a credit card. Delivery is included in the price. Delivery on a pallet and normally 20kg bags which are easy enough to shift if the driver can't get the pallet near to where you want them. Normall...
by 490808
Sun Mar 13, 2022 11:30 am
Forum: Ukraine
Topic: Will Russia Invade Ukraine Tonight.
Replies: 753
Views: 160076

Re: Will Russia Invade Ukraine Tonight.

NotThatDevnull wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2022 11:24 am Probably as they have agreed to a load of Indian immigration.
UK ministers eager to ease immigration rules for Indian citizens
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... n-citizens
But not for any of the reasons you posted earlier.
by 490808
Sun Mar 13, 2022 11:25 am
Forum: The Smoking Room
Topic: Rod Stewart fills in potholes near his home as ‘no-one else can be bothered’
Replies: 1
Views: 1213

Rod Stewart fills in potholes near his home as ‘no-one else can be bothered’

https://www.breakingnews.ie/entertainment/sir-rod-stewart-fills-in-potholes-near-his-home-as-no-one-else-can-be-bothered-1272970.html I'm posting this as it reminds me of something similar that happened on the Borders of Kilkenny. Someone with a big estate, big house, massive gardens, stables, stud ...
by 490808
Sun Mar 13, 2022 11:14 am
Forum: Motors
Topic: What are you paying for your diesel/petrol?
Replies: 138
Views: 49329

Re: What are you paying for your diesel/petrol?

Can't remember the exact amount but Tesco in Waterford had the price of both sub €1.80 during the week. I remember petrol was cheaper than Diesel at about €1.75.
by 490808
Sun Mar 13, 2022 11:12 am
Forum: Ukraine
Topic: Prepping For Inflation
Replies: 56
Views: 14553

Re: Prepping For Inflation

7 quid on the bag of coal. That's a lot! Flour going to go up likely quite a lot, as Ukraine will not plant much this year. I usually get all my flour in large bags from Kilkenny mills but unfortunately one cannot bulk buy flour in advance as it does not keep, even if well stored. Being dependent o...
by 490808
Sun Mar 13, 2022 11:10 am
Forum: Farming & Forestry
Topic: Howard series E rotovator restoration... fixup
Replies: 13
Views: 4629

Re: Howard series E rotovator restoration... fixup

Howard made some great machines.An old boss took his leg off with a walk behind one (old story I've told before he hit a buried drain cover the back end of the rotovator came up and he tried to control it and pulled it down on his leg). That one looks fairly solid whats the parts availability if you...
by 490808
Sat Mar 12, 2022 3:35 pm
Forum: Ukraine
Topic: Sanctions
Replies: 45
Views: 20600

Re: Sanctions

NotThatDevnull wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 3:33 pm That is something that has puzzled me for a while, why are they Oligarchs in Russia and Billionaires in the west?
Denis O’Brien of Esat Digifone fame, If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
And you keep quacking.
by 490808
Sat Mar 12, 2022 3:15 pm
Forum: Ukraine
Topic: Will Russia Invade Ukraine Tonight.
Replies: 753
Views: 160076

Re: Will Russia Invade Ukraine Tonight.

Tin foil hat time. We know the EU has printed trillions of €uro out of nothing. The entire EU could be at jeopardy if the €uro collapses New immigrants are needed to kick the can down the road, new immigrants take out loans that are added to the nations GDP. The EU public has reached the limit on t...
by 490808
Sat Mar 12, 2022 1:37 pm
Forum: Ukraine
Topic: Will Russia Invade Ukraine Tonight.
Replies: 753
Views: 160076

Re: Will Russia Invade Ukraine Tonight.

The gullible west summed up in one post, and it all by choice, you could be informed but prefer not to be, sad. https://i.postimg.cc/SQwgGZVN/a-HR0c-HM6-Ly9p-Z25vcm-Fud-GFu-ZHVua-W5mb3-Jt-ZWQu-Y29t-L3dw-LWNvbn-Rlbn-Qvd-XBsb2-Fkcy8y-MDE3-Lz-Ew-L1-Bv-ZGNhc3-Qt-Q292-ZXIt.webp When the penny drops you ...