Del.Monte wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:51 am More wasting of money on pointless referendums and accordingly I will be spoiling my vote.

Better to vote for the status quo in that case, if the Government is intent on changing something and you either disagree or are ambivalent, then spoiling your vote only facilitates them.

knownunknown wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:36 pm All that’s left is: he’s crazy(basically I don’t like him but I’m not sure why). Conditioned perfectly by the media.

So you think all the rants we're witnessing are just a media conspiracy? What about the ones on Truth Social?

The point was the connection between trump and Putin that you and the op made which was a lie propagated by the media, funded by Hilary Clinton with help from the DNC(all proven ).the world was far safer under trump’s presidency, he’s not deranged and his obsession with power is not bad in and of i...

What should change it is new evidence. You’re still stuck circa ~2016 which is no surprise considering how much the media repeat the lies while the corrections never seem to reach the same amount of people. https://apnews.com/article/durham-trump-russia-probe-7e84f94ca9cf7905cbc5eddc108575b3 https:...

I remember during the crazy Celtic tiger days, you had Morgan Kelly and David McWilliams on TV predicting that it would end but I don't recall anyone saying in the early 10s that we should be building social housing, indeed the narrative was pretty much that we had enough houses until the end of ti...

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/louth/drogheda-news/louth-hotel-to-take-in-500-international-protection-applicants-from-march/a35460218.html Another case of foisting on the local community. I smell a rat here, the hotel was only sold a few months ago and I wonder if it was bought to order. It'l...

And Fergus Finlay on Newstalk this afternoon saying that Ireland should be prepared to take in 100,000 refugees from Gaza.. ffs....is there no end to the madness? Another political dinosaur with too much money and too much time on his hands telling the plebs what's good for them, while making sure ...

You are quoting a video which suggests otherwise in which trump was warning Europe not to become dependant on Russian energy, and thus enrich “Vlad”. How does that fit into your analysis? Of Trump? It doesn't change it. In my view, he is a deranged megalomaniac who will say whatever it takes to sui...

If you’ve been following this sort of thing you’d realize the hyperbole. When president he demanded that nato countries should increase their contributions, increase to the amount previously pledged as it had become practice for many countries to donate less then they had promised. When he brought ...

More than half of the population of Gaza are ethnic Egyptians. Fact The Egyptian border is adjacent to Rafah. Fact The Egyptian border with Gaza is controlled by Egypt. Fact The Egyptian border is closed and unlikely to reopen anytime soon. Fact. Seems nobody in the MENA region really gives a fcuk a...

Car tyre center said my tyres were grand! Original set and I dont think ever rotated as per olden days.... 7 yrs old and c 24 kms You'll get a "fail advisory" because the tyres are over six years old. I wouldn't worry too much, I've been getting that since 2017 on my wife's 2010 Fiat Pand...

In my experience, a mechanic or service garage, will send the wheels out to a tyre fitting centre and charge you for the privilege.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/italy-pm-giorgia-meloni-makes-loaded-comment-on-islam-at-far-right-event/articleshow/106079509.cms?from=mdr Good to see some EU politicians finally voicing what a lot of us think. The wokes in our country will no doubt dismiss it as ...

Link broken in my last post.

Always reminds me of the summer of 1966, walking on South William Street with the (then) love of my life. There was a record shop at the top, near Mercer's Hospital, and they played it over and over.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/06/rowan-atkinson-blamed-for-poor-electric-car-sales-by-peers/ It's all Mr Bean's fault that the arse is falling out of the EV market! :) Jesus wept. Billions spent on promoting EVs, Governments passing leg,islation penalising ICE cars and they blame a cartoo...

Speaking of protest I heard report yesterday evening on Newstalk and it would put RTE to shame in the pravda stakes. They mentioned both protests, but every single interview was with the counter protest in support of dodgy immigrants. Nothing, zilch, SFA from the many thousands that were at the ant...

JayZeus wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 10:58 pm Bucky isn’t as clever, witty or entertaining as he likes to believe.

Bucky’s ‘hot take’ is more of an argument for auto-correct than anything else. A spelling and grammatical hot mess is more accurate.

Is "piece of mind" from post no. 41 above, an example of this?

Cobham wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 3:33 pm There was also the further skill of selecting the correct coins from the till and passing to the customer!

A bridge too far, in this case.

Yeah but it doesn't matter in lots of places nowadays since they have the tills that works out the change. Mankind sorry humankind has been losing stored knowledge, capabilities and skills over time. The old manual skills of cooper, blacksmiths, cobblers, etc were once so widespread, now there are ...

To paraphrase Monty Python's John Cleese - this place wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it. It's not Guburnor or the site's fault that the bulk of younger people can only take/give information in 3 second snapchat/tiktok sound bites or prefer to get their information f...

knownunknown wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:49 am I, for one, look forward to bucky’s contributions

Bucky has set a high bar for him/herself, let's see if they can reach it.

My biggest fear is the song migjt be an earworm and I hear it while I cycling or trying to go asleep. I think we shold just send Jedward every year until we wear the opposition down into letting us win. Song? Now there's a misnomer if ever I heard one. Let's face it, the wokes have won, music is wh...

Beatty wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:45 pm This stuff is mad

Sorry, couldn't watch that shite all the way through, FFS if they want to make a point, just make it. What was the result? In as few words as possible please.

My new favourite "word" I love to hate is snuck, another creation of those barbarians across the Atlantic, I'm sure. It has, however, slipped into common usage across the Anglophone world and I've even heard it, perish the thought, on the Beeb. I'm surprised my generation ever managed to c...