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A ficking shithole full of rednecks from Tyrone and Armagh. The place should have been torched, preferably with all the munchies still in it. Would have been some fire with all the polyester football jerseys in it.

More of a Dukes man myself.

Is there anyone in the world (besides me) who can enjoy themselves without sipping the devils brew?

I can orior but they should be open.

Flew home on a good friday a couple of years ago and there was a crowd of english ones going to dublin on a stag weekend. 
I don't think any of the Irish on the plane had the heart to break the bad news....

What pints says. If you want to observe the holy day you'll not do it in the pub. If people want to open their pubs then let them go ahead. The law has run its course.

Hurt Locker is the best i have seen in the past year. I thought it was excellent and the ending was just fine. Might not have been explosive or the expected Hollywood ending but was deliberately mundane in showing the quiet family life versus the madness of their work in Iraq.

Fuel injection system goes tits up in any diesel car you are into big dough. My uncle has just forked out over a grand for a new fuel pump in his Merc.

Since having my issues I've heard about a lot of people suffering with tdci injection system. It's sickened me that much I'm thinking of shifting my car on.

Would you uncle not get a reconditioned pump from DES?  Are DES in Shercock?

I know everyone has personal favourites, but what make is known to be relatively reliable? Toyota?

Gonna invest within a few months.

Japanese car (avoid Lexus. Theres a reason that they may be cheap) are reliable but I reckon if you talk to Taxi drivers they will give you an idea of what cars are best and most reliable.  I would have said Mercedes would be very reliable and in older models you get a lot of bang for your buck.

FIAT
Fix it again Tony

Aye DES in Shercock. Wish I had known about them before wasting 300 quid in Lindsays. I must ring my uncle right enough and ask him as he was talking about a second hand pump out of Molloys up beside me here. He lives in N Antrim.

The wife is looking a 7 seater and I might take her wagon. Anyone here driving the big bus yet? Recommendation?

I know everyone has personal favourites, but what make is known to be relatively reliable? Toyota?

Gonna invest within a few months.

What sort of dough?

Not fashionable, but I have never heard any complaints about Honda. Despite their recent troubles the people I know driving Toyota ( father in law and brother in law both drive an Avensis) have never had a minutes bother.

Fuel injection system goes tits up in any diesel car you are into big dough. My uncle has just forked out over a grand for a new fuel pump in his Merc.

Since having my issues I've heard about a lot of people suffering with tdci injection system. It's sickened me that much I'm thinking of shifting my car on.

just after shelling out the better part of £300 to a ford dealer to get my car connected to a computer, change a turbo inlet pipe and recalibrate an injector which is probably on its way out anyway, would make you weep.

Its £70 odd quid for the diagnostics, absolute rip off for a 5 minute job, hoors..

Its not just me then?! I have had serious bother with the car since before Xmas (tdci focus). Was cutting out all the time and took it to those robbing c***ts Lindsays on advice from my local mechanic as it needed a diagnostic. A 70 quid diagnostic later they told me it needed a new inlet monitoring valve at 200 odd quid. Shelled out for it and the f**king thing cut out 5 minutes after leaving their garage! They took it and rediagnosed it as needing new injectors at £1200!!!!! When I asked about the 300 paid already the response was that they were responding to the error code and therefore fixed it in good faith! Bastards.

Got my injectors reconditioned in DES in Cavan for 500 and just collected her today. Money box on wheels!

I can't be arsed Reading either the first or second article.

Why were the shinners pushing for this vote this side of the elections. If they and the stoops were serious about pushing this through couldn't they have left their pettiness at the door, actually talked to each other and agreed to vote en bloc for the  motion after the election?

[kinda just saying it's pointless]

Basically a mini-blog, where you can post anything up to 140 characters in length. Closest thing I can think of, is the status on Facebook.

Ziggy I know what twitter is, kinda just saying it's pointless.
What about my other point?

Ridiculous statement. Facebook and Twitter are the two biggest marketing tools on the planet.

How is it ridiculous, I don't use it, therefore to me its pointless! I don't particularly want to know when someone else's "celebrity" passes wind.

Do you use Facebook? If so, why is it any more useful or relevant than Twitter?

All they are are another method of communication. Just because you don't use one doesn't make it pointless.

He didn't say they were pointless. He said they were pointless (of no point) to him. Would agree with him on the subject of Twitter.

The public sector. c***ts are striking again.

Interesting article revealing what we all know...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7052482.ece

[It stated that salvation is possible to those who are not Roman Catholics or Eastern Orthodox. The prayers and rituals of other religions may help or hinder their believers. Some practices may prepare their membership to absorb the Gospel. However, those rituals which "depend on superstitions or other errors... constitute an obstacle to salvation." Members of other religions are "gravely deficient" relative to members of the Church of Christ who already have "the fullness of the means of salvation."]

One of many documents to come out of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council (often referred to as "Vatican II") during the early to mid 1960s  was the "Dogmatic Constitution on the Church - Lumen Gentium." Chapter 1, sections 14 to 16 discuss salvation of Catholics and others. 5 An "Assessment of this Council" reads:

    "5. The non-Christian may not be blamed for his ignorance of Christ and his Church; salvation is open to him also, if he seeks God sincerely and if he follows the commands of his conscience, for through this means the Holy Ghost acts upon all men; this divine action is not confined within the limited boundaries of the visible Church." 6

In the year 2000, Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, -- now Pope Benedict XVI -- issued a document: " 'Dominus Iesus' on the unicity and salvific universality of Jesus Christ and the Church." It stated that salvation is possible to those who are not Roman Catholics or Eastern Orthodox. The prayers and rituals of other religions may help or hinder their believers. Some practices may prepare their membership to absorb the Gospel. However, those rituals which "depend on superstitions or other errors... constitute an obstacle to salvation." Members of other religions are "gravely deficient" relative to members of the Church of Christ who already have "the fullness of the means of salvation."

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_savn.htm

I wondered where Rumsfeldt got the idea for his known & unknown speech.

Ratz is some craic. No other church in Christianity is as based on superstition as the Catholic Church.

[While this is a sweeping statement and not meant to apply to every individual, to me, protestant people are imbued with a sense of hatred/mistrust that premeates the the consciousness to varying degrees.]

Was a tour guide in Armagh city as a student and had to bring Molyneux and about 10 of his church chums on a private tour of the Trian. The Gullivers Travels exhibition is in an old converted Presbyterian church. When we entered the exhib, Moly told his buddies that it was carved into one of the stones that no papist was to enter it's realms. This was met by a round of applause. WTF. I was livid but of course was not in a position to say anything. It was disgusting.

While this is a sweeping statement and not meant to apply to every individual, to me, protestant people are imbued with a sense of hatred/mistrust that premeates the the consciousness to varying degrees.

One of the tenets of the OO is for it's members to do all it can to fight against the forces of Rome. That thinking has permeated the Protestant consciousness.   

You start by saying this doesn't apply to every individual but all prods hate taigs. Contradictory, and bullshit if you don't mind me saying.

The screen on my digital camera smashing.
You can still take pics-but have no idea what they look like. Only got it last July. 

I bet it still has a viewfinder you can look through. Cameras weren't invented 10 years ago.

JL seemed a bit of a space cadet alright.
As for Dana, going into one about 'influencing the public vote/I'm not here to be a judge'. You'd think we were all on the edge of our seats waiting to hear her opinion.
Ryan seemed to be a bit bemused by the whole thing.

Johnny Logan is following a long line of crooners who think they've "still got it", despite all evidence to the contrary.