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#101
GAA Discussion / Who are Louth?
July 12, 2010, 11:34:08 PM
I have been a keen follower of Irish History and the GAA but why oh why are Louth now being seen as something to talk about?

I know they have Drugheda and Dundalk but they areen't real resorts at all. Whay are Louth in the news and why isn't the Portglenone monastry who use monk-excrement as fuel?
#102
General discussion / 3 Dead People for Dinner
June 15, 2010, 09:52:23 AM
If you could bring back three dead people for a 3-hour dinner and drinks, who'd it be?

It'd go for:

Jesus or Moses - just to see if they were serious
Billy the Kid - he'd have some stories about the lads in the film
Jeremy Beadle - he'd be playing pranks like hiding around corners but would need to wear a glove.
#103
General discussion / Fit Footballers
June 14, 2010, 10:48:40 AM
Joking aside, who do people think are the best looking footballers at the World Cup. My top three are:






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#104
General discussion / Man and Beast
May 27, 2010, 11:26:32 AM
It's funny that I was thinking about this the other day and then this appeared on the radio:

Love-Struck Kangaroo Hunts Aussie Women

A frisky kangaroo has caused mayhem after stalking women in an area known as the Honeymoon Ranges in northern Australia.

Female residents in the isolated town of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory have complained that the animal has been lurking and making its intentions vey clear.

The Northern Territory News, which more often makes headlines by reporting on the sexual antics of its human population, gave the problem front page attention under the headline "Horny Roo Stalks NT Women".

It quoted one witness saying: "I turned around and saw this big kangaroo behind me, so I hastened my steps.

"It seemed a bit odd, but I continued walking and didn't think much about it. Then on the return walk he was there waiting for me," she said.

"He started circling me. There was no doubt about what he wanted, the randy old thing - it was a huge kangaroo and quite intimidating."

Male red kangaroos can grow over six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds, and can cause serious injury or death if they attack.

The kangaroo was described by the newspaper as a "jolly jumper", and made his amorous intentions clear.

She added: "I yelled at him to go away, waved my hands about and let him know I wasn't interested, but he was persistent - I'll give him that."

It also bounded into a local speedway race meeting in the town, which is located about 500 miles south of Darwin.

Tanya Wilson said: "I thought it was strange that a kangaroo would come to such a noisy place, but I grew up around kangaroos so I went up to say hello.

"There I was having a nice chat to him when I heard others calling out to me, warning me to step away," the mum-of-three said.

She added: "I didn't take any notice of them because I didn't think I had anything to worry about - I thought he was just a cute, friendly kangaroo."

But other speedway fans could tell what the roo wanted and the newspaper reported that one man tried to intervene and was punched in the face by the animal before it hopped off.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100514/tod-love-struck-kangaroo-hunts-aussie-wo-870a197.html



It brought me back to what I was thinking. Is it possible that a man or woman and an animal could live togther in blissful harmony in a house. We need to remember that before the advent of clothes, cars, teachers and the internet, we were all like animals, probably just growling and mating ad hoc. Then all those things came along and we stood up staright and got jobs and the law arrived.

There's no reason not to think that a bear or horse is just a wee bit behind us as Orwell thought.

I quite like the idea of marrying a bear and having breakfast together in Paris or anywhere. Does anyone think this can happen?

#105
General discussion / Your funeral
May 18, 2010, 02:49:01 PM
I have been giving this serious thought lately and have finally taken the courage and told my solicitor that I want to be cremeated and scattered. I always abhorred the thought of being burned in a box but I recently had a death in the family (my dog) and knowing that he is under the ground in the garden breaks my heart, especially when it's cold. I have an awful temptation around midnight with a few drinks in me to go outside, dig him up and cuddle him in the hope that he opens his eyes one last time and smiles. However he is 6 months dead and is probably rotting and full of maggots so that'd be even more scarring.

I told my solictor that I want something by Westlife at my cremeation and I want champagne and laughter even canned laughter if people are moping about and being sad.

What are other people doing?

Also, I have asked him to make me be scattered down Donegall Street in Belfast.
#106
General discussion / The Good Things I Saw Today
May 13, 2010, 09:36:51 AM
I was reading a few days ago and a boys says to get up every morning in a positive mood and your whole world will change. He says to smile at people and their whole demeanear changes towards you and you'll find you'll get opportunites you never did before. I tried it all this week and it's amazing the difference. People smile back at you and even maybe wink.

It got me thinking but we seem to be down on a lot of things. On this board we'll talk about loads of negative things. We never say nice things about each other and are angry a lot. Like, why not start a thread with 'The good things I saw today' ? It could be men helping old women across the street or someone doing something dramatic for their neighbour like opening an oil cannister or babysitting and maybe they personally are gravely ill or have a disease.

The newspapers tell stories of the bad things in life like earthquakes and starvation. Why don't we ignore them and just write about good things and then the bad things might not happen.

I'll start:

Today I bought a packet of Kimberleys for a stranger.
#107
General discussion / Dragon's Den Ideas
April 28, 2010, 10:09:55 AM
I think people are full of ideas and many are afraid to go the full way with it due to fear of rejection and revulsion. I was wondering if any one here had good ideas for things that don't exist.

Here are 2 of mine:

I've seen this magic sand stuff that children play with that never gets wet. You play with it in the water but when you lift it out it's dry. It's amazing. So, why not make towels ot of this material. You can dry yourself forever and the towel will never get wet.

This I saw on the TV as a joke but I think it can save marriages and partnerships. Every man has a collection of brown bags that have pictures of famous people or even ordinary people you want on them. Then, when you are mating with your partner, you can put the bag over their head and enjoy the experience even better. This would work brilliantly for ageing couples or lads who pull average girls. The same can be done for women. Gay people can do the backs of heads.
#108
General discussion / There ARE aliens
April 26, 2010, 11:25:40 AM
Despite being ridiculed for years I have been proved right about the aliens as Stephen Hawkings admits there are aliens and he has never been wrong as far as I know. I also agree that we need to be careful with them as they might be more developed than us and will abuse us and then move on. They will probably evern laugh at us. There was a programme lately that suggested Mars had life billions of years ago but they got bored with the planet and the constant heat so they moved off on big ships for a spin around the solar system, probably finding a patch to land on in another planet. And they're miles ahead of us. They would have discovered the internet a long time ago and probably have devised devices beyond our imagination. I'd say they'd be intimidating reading our minds and being taller and stronger, maybe living forever with false hearts and eyes. Maybe, just maybe, David Icke and boys like Ian Paisley and All Gore were right all along!!!

Contacting Aliens 'A Bad Idea', Warns Hawking

Aliens are very likely out there, according to eminent scientist Stephen Hawking - but we should keep quiet and hope they don't notice us.
In a new documentary for the Discovery Channel, the theoretical physicist warns against making contact with any extra-terrestrials.

Professor Hawking, who retired as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge last year, claims such space life would only abuse Earth's resources and move on.

"We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet," he said.

"I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet.

"Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach."

"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans."

The documentary, which begins on May 9, explores the British scientist's vision of the universe.

While most aliens were in all probability simple organisms such as microbes, Professor Hawking said it would only take a few intelligent ones to spell disaster for humans.

"To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational," he explained.

"The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like."
#109
General discussion / Don't Swim With Your Mouth Open
April 23, 2010, 12:09:35 PM
Apart from the obvious hazards of swallowing a bucket full of water from the sea, I was reading this week that a shark or whale was washed ashore somewhere in the world. This fish had been swimming in the sea. When they opened it up, instead of finding small fish and planxty, the found cans and stuff like that.

Here it is:

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/04/washed-up-whale-found-with-gallons-of-our-garbage-in-its-gut.php

And this was found inside a bird:



That's amazing. Because the bird must be scavanging. It hardly collects that in the air!!!
#110
General discussion / How much alcohol do you drink?
April 14, 2010, 01:27:08 PM
I have been reading a lot lately. It says that although we think the French and those from Italy have more respect for alcohol and wine than we do, there is a high percentage of winos and hobos in those countries too. I have been thinking if what people considered to be harmful in terms of weekly quantity. I was watching a drama on Kevin Madden's heart surgery and the surgeon there was an Italian man. He works at fixing and mending hearts, valves and arteries. He says that he drinks red wine every day, and this is a man who fixes hearts.

What I am asking is this? What do you consider too much that'll do you bad? I read recently in an audio book that the liver is one hell of a tough organ in your body. There are drunk hobos on the streets who drink masive amounts every day and live 20-30 years in that constant state.

I would drink about two bottle of wine at the weekend. During the week I would open a bottle of wine on a Monday but just with my dinner. I refuse to leave an opened bottle in the fridge as it is never the same. I would finish it with my partner and maybe open another one. I try not to do that every day but only if I'm not eating dinner. At the weekends I drink a bottle of wine on a Friday and a few cans of beer and maybe a short for bedtime and do the same on a Sunday. On Saturday I do not drink wine but would drink 5-6 pints in the club. On Wednesdays I'd take two beers and maybe three glasses of wine.

I don't think that is a lot. Do people think they drink too much?
#111
General discussion / Self Help
March 22, 2010, 11:09:15 AM
I am not talking about the programmes you see on ITV or BBC but I think everyone should think about reading self help books. I spent twenty years of my life denying who I was and living the life of someone else who was inside my body. But it wasn't me. I started reading a book by a man called Gary van Warmerdam

This is him.



I know he looks a bit American with his smile and beard but he's fine.

He has taught me to not judge people before I meet them. He tells me that everything I think about isn't real. All the thoughts I have are beliefs and values with no substance. The only real thing is what actually happens in front of you . This means that I don't worry about things at all. AN example of this was when I was told my car might have been clamped and crushed when I left it in Newry overnight. Someone told me this in truth. I was able to listen to his words, realise that that man could be wrong. Also, if it was crushed what could I do about it? I would just get on with life.

There are some faults ie if you were standing talking to someone on a train line and a train was hurtling towards you at 100 mph and it was only a few metres away, it's best to 'think' and walk off the line I suppose.

But in general he has made me a very happy person and this is his website - http://www.pathwaytohappiness.com/. You can email him here - gary@pathwayto happiness.com. I have emailed him many times about wee problems around the house. He has never replied but by emailing him I found out I'd worked out the problem magically.

I was wondering if any one believes in self-help to any extent at all, or am I making my life more complicated? Can anyone recommend any? What is Dr Phil like?
#112
General discussion / Salt.
March 01, 2010, 10:47:37 AM
I remember reading an article in a magazine about salt. It said that it rots your arteries but it has amazing healing properties. Does anyone know about this?

Salt is going to be a think of the past soon it seems. Also our roads are going to be unpassable in 2 years. This will be a possible good thing as more and more will use bikes and their legs!

Northern Ireland's salt resources 'almost exhausted'
Northern Ireland road salt resources will only stretch to two more winters, according to the salt mine that supplies the Roads Service.


Salt reserves in the Carrickfergus mine are almost exhausted and will be gone by 2012 unless it gets the go-ahead to start extending tunnels towards Ballycarry, mine owners Irish Salt Mining and Exploration Co Ltd said.

Ireland's only salt mine centres on Kilroot in Carrickfergus and exploits the eastern edge of what was once a land-locked stretch of sea that eventually evaporated. It produces 500,000 tons of road salt every year which is transported throughout Ireland, across to England and even to New York.

Workers battled round the clock during the recent cold snap to keep salt supplies flowing at a time when district councils in England were running short. But the mine warned that salt supplies in the existing mining operations are running low.

It has applied for planning permission to extend north-west towards Ballycarry and carry out blasting operations below land containing 40 homes. The company employs 54 full-time workers and is one of only three salt mines in the UK.

In an environmental statement submitted as part of the planning application, it warned: "The remaining salt reserves in the existing permitted mine areas will be depleted by 2012. If planning permission was refused for the proposed extension both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland would no longer have an indigenous operational rock salt source. Northern Ireland would no longer have a plentiful supply of rock salt for road de-icing during winter months."

The company has already undertaken tests on lands in the proposed new mine area which have confirmed the presence of large salt deposits.

It added: "Results from the exploratory drilling exercise established that there are significant resources of salt within the proposed mine extension area."

A mine extension would create 10 additional jobs and would require £20m to be invested over its lifetime, it said.

"Applications for planning permission are a standard part of any mining operation, extending the licensed area as one area becomes worked out," the company told the Belfast Telegraph.

"The reason for submitting the application now is to ensure that the new area can be developed and operational in time to avoid any disruption to supplies. There have been various consultations with local residents over the past couple of years to answer questions and ensure that any concerns are properly addressed.

"Local residents have also been invited to visit the mine to see the operation for themselves."

"The Carrickfergus mine is the only road salt mine in either Northern Ireland or Eire. The severity of this winter has emphasised the critical importance of having a local supply. The new permission is a routine step in securing supplies for the future."

Resident Len McAuley who lives off Bridgend Road above where blasting has been taking place, told the Carrickfergus Advertiser he had some misgivings about extending the tunnels.

"I think they have to stop it somewhere. They need the salt but they can't just keep taking everything out — it leaves a cavity and it affects the water table," he said.

But neighbour Tom Wallace said he did not oppose the application, even though he hears explosions from the mine every day.

"Men have to work and you have to salt the roads. People need the salt. I have no objections," he said.



Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/environment/northern-irelands-salt-resources-almost-exhausted-14703009.html#ixzz0gv95VDEN
#113
GAA Discussion / The Irish News?
February 25, 2010, 12:22:41 PM
I used to buy the Irish News every day. It was the thing you always did. Now I hardly buy it. I know that a lot of old people do not read the internet and I know that the death notices are important but I think the GAA and Sports coverage is just as good on here or on the other internet sites. Is it just me or do people think they read less newspapers compared to before as you have already read 100 views on a match on here before you get the paper the next day?

#114
General discussion / Death
February 25, 2010, 11:50:57 AM
I think I'd like to die between the ages of 72 and 78 in my sleep with a massive heart attack. Even being run over flat by a train or bus would be a good way to go.

Does anyone have a vision of how they would like to die and when?
#115
General discussion / What will life be like in 20 years?
February 22, 2010, 12:26:56 PM
I think we will be able to talk to people using brain waves/signals and that computers will be virtual or in the palm of your hand and you can read it across your eyeballs. I don't think cars will change but less petrol models.

How do you see the future in terms of technology?
#116
General discussion / Heated toilet seats
February 11, 2010, 11:23:34 AM
I was thinking of buying a heated toilet seat. I dread the morning time when I know Im going to get a shock. Does anyone have one and what is it like? Can you get electrocuted?
#117
General discussion / Homophobia and racism in Ireland
February 08, 2010, 10:00:28 AM
Do people think Ireland is less tolerable towards homosexuals or people of non-white race than other countries or is it the same everywhere?

I despair sometimes at the things i hear from the public and that includes the elderly and politicians towards these normal groups.
#118
General discussion / Deleted posts
November 29, 2009, 06:41:27 PM
For why would my posts be deleted. That's about 10in a row. Am I pressing the wrong button?