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dob wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:45 pm

fishfoodie wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:35 pm

EnergiseR wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:23 pm And all the thick bastards online going yippee. I think this eclipses the Shinners performance in the election for all out stupidity. The Governments performance in all this was so inward facing and bathed in short termism that it makes me sick. Leo can fück off and Micheál can do the same and as for docile Ryan...The Brits must be breaking their bollox laughing.

Yep. We just lost the most important job in Europe, for Ireland; to appease the mob.

Now Ireland will have a massively reduced influence over what kind of, & how fast we can put together a Trade deal after the Hard Brexit happens; & the same wankers in the mob will be bitching about the inevitable consequences we see then.

Not that I don't see your point here, but would it have been too much to ask for Hogan to have enough cop on to just not go to the golf dinner? I know he probably couldn't have had any idea how it would blow up, but still.

It's very clear that they didn't believe/weren't aware they were breaching the guidelines. Apologies should have sufficed.

People do things and then you mop it up. That's politics. The absolute state of politics in this country and I lay the blame squarely at Varadkars door. FF may have started the decline with their sticky fingers but it could have been arrested

Meehole having a good stab at being our shittest t-shock in double quick time.

It's done, I don't agree with it, but draw a line under it.

And on the resumption of the Dáil next week repeatedly hit the shinners on that big jaw they've left hanging out.

Camroc2 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:02 pm It's done, I don't agree with it, but draw a line under it.

And on the resumption of the Dáil next week repeatedly hit the shinners on that big jaw they've left hanging out.

It's not something that a line can be drawn under, I fear.

Gav wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:07 pm

Camroc2 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:02 pm It's done, I don't agree with it, but draw a line under it.

And on the resumption of the Dáil next week repeatedly hit the shinners on that big jaw they've left hanging out.

It's not something that a line can be drawn under, I fear.

just respond to anything from SF with "when is Michelle O'Neil stepping down?"

How many counties did you drive through during lockdown,Mary Lou ?

Camroc2 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:20 pm How many counties did you drive through during lockdown,Mary Lou ?

How many different donut shops did you visit during lockdown Mary Lou?

I just realized what this goat fuck reminded me of ..... "Saipan"

Another moronic piece of self-destruction; & saying fuck the National interest.

Hogan was an idiot, no doubt; but if he'd made a grovelling apology, it should have sufficed.

Please God we get an Irish replacement. McGuinness from the EU parliament would be great

Give it up lads. The Shinners are Teflon. There are about 10 journos in this country who have decided the agenda and that is it. They are doing this because they are bitter, Fionnan; the patriarchal feminist social left agenda something something bollox, Kitty/Una/New bird Naomi. It's an unstoppable freight train of bullshit and the best thing to do is get lost in podcasts and rugby and wake up someday to Minister Cullinan explaining why all lessons will be through Irish except Irish

Highly unlikely for an/any Irish replacement to be given that plum portfolio. Strange days when Brexiteers and Shinners are giggling happily.

VDL has done herself no favours either. Her attempt to assert credibility has shat all over the independence of the EU Commission from domestic oversight.

Fcuk chaos. It’s overrated.

I’m reminded in rugby terms of just how much the French pissed themselves laughing at us when the IRFU decided to take the moral high ground and bin The Claw for doing unto the French what the French had spend decades doing unto everyone who pulled on an oppo jersey. We are a useless sanctimonious holier than thou shower of shit at times. Hogan was a gobshite. What has followed is out of all proportion to a gobshite being a gobshite.

Lets start a campaign for Daniel O’Donnell to be the new Trade Commissioner. If that’s ok with everyone else, that is. That meek enough for everyone???

Your Trade Commissioner needs to be a player, not a frigging compliance officer.

It's fücked. I am getting rid of the IT off Facebook and only coming on Nama to laugh at everybody when we have money left

Edit. No money left. Having money would be no laughing matter

I think we've cut our nose off to spite our face but it was always a wonder how well Hogan managed to do, while clearly being a bit of an eejit.

I'm really angry. We are a nation of fucking idiots

well with Barnier doing the trade deals with UK, the trade commissioner seems to be mainly doing negotiations with Australia, USA and South American countries.

Who will the EU Council choose? Who will we put forward?

Gav wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:24 pm Lilyw is probably having a furious, drunken wank right about now.

You ok there love? You seem a bit obsessed with me. It's very roomy here in your head.

I do strongly object to the word "drunken".

Look the writing was on the wall years ago. We should have paid more attention to Ming and all the other twats getting elected. I remember Ming shiteing on about parish pump this and parish pump that when he was regularly trotted out as he had a funny beard and what did he do when he got elected: parish pumped the fück out of it with zero come back from the media. I knew it was problematic I just didn't realise how stupid people are. The Indos laid the path for the Trots and the Shinners and we just waved them in

iarmhí wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:48 pm well with Barnier doing the trade deals with UK, the trade commissioner seems to be mainly doing negotiations with Australia, USA and South American countries.

Who will the EU Council choose? Who will we put forward?

We ain't getting that unless a deal was struck which I doubt. It's too big a commission for us to get a second bite of the cherry

Always remember that the EU is a political construct.

Coveney being mentioned as a possible replacement, and if we send a politician of that calibre, all is possible.

Blackrock Bullet wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 4:25 pm https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40038119.html

Killeen again. He was telling us we were doomed in May.

Another Zero Covid, narrow interested academic that is getting unrelenting and uncritical free column space in the media. It's still funny that he was boasting to everyone that he knew this was a big deal in March.

"Clueless in Cork" ...

Camroc2 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 5:18 pm 164 cases, no deaths.

We are now a month into this mini-surge.

Have a dessert menu

CM11 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:45 pm I think we've cut our nose off to spite our face but it was always a wonder how well Hogan managed to do, while clearly being a bit of an eejit.

Nose ? Have we checked if we have a Bollix left ? ...

CM11 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:45 pm I think we've cut our nose off to spite our face but it was always a wonder how well Hogan managed to do, while clearly being a bit of an eejit.

How was he clearly an eejit?

Gav wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 8:05 pm

CM11 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:45 pm I think we've cut our nose off to spite our face but it was always a wonder how well Hogan managed to do, while clearly being a bit of an eejit.

How was he clearly an eejit?

Give me a bit time here, let me count the ways ...

lilyw wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:50 pm

Gav wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:24 pm Lilyw is probably having a furious, drunken wank right about now.

You ok there love? You seem a bit obsessed with me. It's very roomy here in your head.

I do strongly object to the word "drunken".

Have you cleaned yourself up yet?

Send Leo though he would probably make everything dependant on us raising our 12.5% 'because it's the right thing to do'

What the government needs to be doing is making infrastructural announcements like this )though I note the begrudging nature of the headline), 1 every week.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environ ... -1.4339195

Camroc2 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 5:18 pm 164 cases, no deaths.

We are now a month into this mini-surge.

Have a dessert menu

Camroc2 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 8:11 pm What the government needs to be doing is making infrastructural announcements like this )though I note the begrudging nature of the headline), 1 every week.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environ ... -1.4339195

Alas Cammy there is nothing the government could do. This is culture wars. People are entrenched. You’re talking about people who basically won the life lotto by being in Ireland and they think they have it worse than Yemen.

Complete diversion. Watching Jurrasic Park with the kids. And along with a number of kids movies from my teen/early adulthood that I've watched with them recently what's stood out is the slow build up. An hour in before anything 'happens' which seems to be a stark contrast to modern movie making. Did this happen slowly or what? And am I being old and curmudgeonly to bemoan no major setup for modern movies? Or at the very least there has to be a big action scene in the first act.

Or am I just imagining it?

CM11 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 9:20 pm Complete diversion. Watching Jurrasic Park with the kids. And along with a number of kids movies from my teen/early adulthood that I've watched with them recently what's stood out is the slow build up. An hour in before anything 'happens' which seems to be a stark contrast to modern movie making. Did this happen slowly or what? And am I being old and curmudgeonly to bemoan no major setup for modern movies? Or at the very least there has to be a big action scene in the first act.

Or am I just imagining it?

I think you're imagining it. Movies of the '70s and '80s often had an action sequence to open (Star Wars, Godfather 2, Bullitt, Dirty Harry, .....).

Munster man!!!!! wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:36 pm What I want to see now is public out cry for SF attending that funeral, is there an investigation into that up north ?

MLMD must now resign.

Actually don't bother. Hogan was probably a sacrificial lamb to continously attack her over her double standards.

28 in hospital, 4 in ICU 2 on ventilators.

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/ne ... t-2020.pdf

Camroc2 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 9:56 pm 28 in hospital, 4 in ICU 2 on ventilators.

https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/ne ... t-2020.pdf

Pour the fucking cognac

lilyw wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 9:49 pm

CM11 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 9:20 pm Complete diversion. Watching Jurrasic Park with the kids. And along with a number of kids movies from my teen/early adulthood that I've watched with them recently what's stood out is the slow build up. An hour in before anything 'happens' which seems to be a stark contrast to modern movie making. Did this happen slowly or what? And am I being old and curmudgeonly to bemoan no major setup for modern movies? Or at the very least there has to be a big action scene in the first act.

Or am I just imagining it?

I think you're imagining it. Movies of the '70s and '80s often had an action sequence to open (Star Wars, Godfather 2, Bullitt, Dirty Harry, .....).

...every James Bond fillum, ever.


I didn't see Peter Jackson's King Kong, but apparently it took them forever to bring Kong into it. Jack Black said something in an interview during filming about how "NOBODY has seen the monkey!" Pacing of a film is a unique thing to each film, some burn slowly and some start off with a bang.

If there has been a change in pace, you can probably blame, say, Tarantino for jumbling the order of events to put the exciting part at the start.

Would love some more detail on the hospital admissions. ICU is pretty much at its lowest, which is great. So are the hospital admissions observation/precautionary? We've had a fair few over the last week or two but no lengthy stays.

CM11 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 10:12 pm Would love some more detail on the hospital admissions. ICU is pretty much at its lowest, which is great. So are the hospital admissions observation/precautionary? We've had a fair few over the last week or two but no lengthy stays.

I imagine it is precautionary when patients develop any sort of chest problem.

dob wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 10:05 pm

lilyw wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 9:49 pm

CM11 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 26, 2020 9:20 pm Complete diversion. Watching Jurrasic Park with the kids. And along with a number of kids movies from my teen/early adulthood that I've watched with them recently what's stood out is the slow build up. An hour in before anything 'happens' which seems to be a stark contrast to modern movie making. Did this happen slowly or what? And am I being old and curmudgeonly to bemoan no major setup for modern movies? Or at the very least there has to be a big action scene in the first act.

Or am I just imagining it?

I think you're imagining it. Movies of the '70s and '80s often had an action sequence to open (Star Wars, Godfather 2, Bullitt, Dirty Harry, .....).

...every James Bond fillum, ever.


I didn't see Peter Jackson's King Kong, but apparently it took them forever to bring Kong into it. Jack Black said something in an interview during filming about how "NOBODY has seen the monkey!" Pacing of a film is a unique thing to each film, some burn slowly and some start off with a bang.

If there has been a change in pace, you can probably blame, say, Tarantino for jumbling the order of events to put the exciting part at the start.

Ok, I'll buy dangling a bit of action isn't new but there's way more substance/interesting dialogue in the older movies. I guess it's primarily down to it being easier to film realistic action scenes for the most part.

You can legitimately give out about our "direct provision" system for refugees, but at least it means we don't end up with cases like this :

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-gl ... t-53904251