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[hardly boasting about your Michelin star experience]

3 course meal and near enough a whole bottle of wine for £80? You're hardly boasting about your Michelin star experience the way some folk are suggesting.

The bit in bold is exactly what I'm suggesting

Out for a meal on Sat afternoon.. bill was £80 a head! Is what it is, had a great time and decent food..Ya only live once!

Anyone else baffled as to the point of this post?

The point is.. people complaining about going out and spending money in Belfast when they are aware of the cost!

Go out, enjoy it and stop your gurning.

Or just sit in

Lol, case #1467 of MR2 posting on a thread on the board with the sole reason being to tell people not to be talking about the thread topic.

Coincidentally, also case #47562 of MR2 posting on a thread about his incredible wealth

£80 a plate ye say

Settle down Rockefeller

When a bald man takes a redner, does the whole dome change colour?

Out for a meal on Sat afternoon.. bill was £80 a head! Is what it is, had a great time and decent food..Ya only live once!

Anyone else baffled as to the point of this post?

As pointed out by others that's nothing to do  the split season.
It's a good argument for abolishing the Provincials or the link between them and the AI.

It's isn't about the split season. They could run any kind of championship in the time available.

OK, so we're agreed

This has everything to do with the structure of the championship and the relative weaknesses of the provincial championships compared to Ulster

And nothing to do with the split season

Finally, Franko. I can't believe it.
 

Sorry I was confused, maybe I got the wrong end of de schtick but I thought your messaging was mixed

Tis a great day for sure 

As pointed out by others that's nothing to do  the split season.
It's a good argument for abolishing the Provincials or the link between them and the AI.

It's isn't about the split season. They could run any kind of championship in the time available.

OK, so we're agreed

This has everything to do with the structure of the championship and the relative weaknesses of the provincial championships compared to Ulster

And nothing to do with the split season

Have always believed that car insurance should be nationalised and any profits redeployed to fund road upgrades

I get all the arguments about lazy civil servants etc etc

But ask yourself - would it be possible for anyone to deliver a worse service than car insurance companies?

And at least with my model there may be SOME pressure on them to act honourably

Rather that the thieving bastards they currently are

Football has a natural bias towards Kerry and Dublin anyway given the history and because the GAA weaponised Dublin for reasons unknown.

This weaponised for reasons unknown is hlx. Dublin has a large population and it is entirely proper that the GAA spend money there on getting people involved in every new suburb. What is profoundly wrong is that they are allowing this desirable activity affect national competition by refusing to split the county team.

The biggest plus for Kerry and Dublin is that they can afford to peak later in the year as their provincial championships are a bit of a run out mostly with very little jeopardy attached to them.

The split season turns the ulster championship into a disadvantage.
I think this is why the provincials have to beshunted to the start of the season and the league and championship merged. 

Shock horror

Seafoid desperately tries to pin blame for GAA issue on the split season

Zero correlation between these issues

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv2yn4nr97qo

What harm was it doing.

Equally what good was it doing and why would a council spend money on it?

The article clearly outlined what good it was doing and why money was spent on it.

A fairly negligible amount I'd guess.

Any experts out there think Bitcoin has topped out again? That was advice I was getting over the weekend

Yeah, I wouldn't be buying now.  It's been about 3 months of pretty straight up price increases, so I would expect a consolidation for a while.  I see a decent chance it drops to $32k-ish within the next 6 or 8 weeks.
Of course it continue to go straight up, but I don't think that's the most likely outcome given it's run up in advance of the spot ETF announcement.

I'm still very confident of it going much higher by the end of 2025 (based on its cycle history), but I could see a short term cool off.

Still going up -  fairly rapidly recently. Any reasons why?

I use it mostly for euro exchanges, free money lately, can't go on much longer.

Volume of it since ETFs were approved has been ridiculous, after Greyscale stopped dumping it the price was always going to rise.

Nvidia had massive profits a few days ago and because a lot of Bitcoin mining is done by GPUs it's benefited from those profits. Also Old Timers (Stock markets) are at their highest levels since the 2008 crash means that money is flowing out into other ventures.

Charts aren't good for the end of 2025 so if anyone's Holding any crypto imo I'd be wanting to sell everything latest next June

Not sure I'd be paying too much attention to 20+ month forecasts for something as volatile as Crypto

I have a son who is a teacher, temporary contract from September to June, does not get paid for A/L, going on 3 years now. Therefore does not get paid for three months of the yea. He is seriously considering leaving the profession. Can't get a mortgage as job is not secure. The number of friends he knows on similar situation.

Genuine question.

If there is such a shortage of young teachers, then how is it that there are such a number of young teachers stuck on temporary contracts and unable to secure a permanent post?

What am I missing here, because I can't see any explanation for this glaring discrepancy?

[If you watched the Waterford game yesterday, there was rucks aplenty in that game, conditions didn't help but its winter/spring hurling.]

What county standard pitches are bigger than Corrigan?

Ballycastle?

Probably the only one. Is Dunsilly county standard? Probably not

I would have thought Ballycastle would be bigger, I'm just noting the fact that I think we are hurting ourselves at times playing there. I know the options are limited.

I do think sometimes we look at pitches and feel one pitch is far bigger or wider or both, but when we actually get the tape out, there isn't a lot in it..

If you watched the Waterford game yesterday, there was rucks aplenty in that game, conditions didn't help but its winter/spring hurling.

I'd certainly take teams to the bigger grounds but if that opens up more space for them it could also go against us

Tight grounds will limit both teams and actually give you a tighter game in the scores

But we are limited in venues and Corrigan, until Casement (if ever) is built and allow Antrim to play there we have to go to Corrigan

Walsh Park is one of the smallest county grounds in the country.

I didn't say it wasn't small, its how hurling has developed. Pitch size won't stop rucks in hurling. Possession hurling is a big part of that

It won't stop them - but it will reduce them - all other things being equal.

Take the area of Walsh Park (Corrigan is similar afaik) vs Croke Park

In terms of square metres of the pitch per player - 15v15 in Walsh Park is equivalent to 17v17 in Croke Park

[If you watched the Waterford game yesterday, there was rucks aplenty in that game, conditions didn't help but its winter/spring hurling.]

What county standard pitches are bigger than Corrigan?

Ballycastle?

Probably the only one. Is Dunsilly county standard? Probably not

I would have thought Ballycastle would be bigger, I'm just noting the fact that I think we are hurting ourselves at times playing there. I know the options are limited.

I do think sometimes we look at pitches and feel one pitch is far bigger or wider or both, but when we actually get the tape out, there isn't a lot in it..

If you watched the Waterford game yesterday, there was rucks aplenty in that game, conditions didn't help but its winter/spring hurling.

I'd certainly take teams to the bigger grounds but if that opens up more space for them it could also go against us

Tight grounds will limit both teams and actually give you a tighter game in the scores

But we are limited in venues and Corrigan, until Casement (if ever) is built and allow Antrim to play there we have to go to Corrigan

Walsh Park is one of the smallest county grounds in the country.

I was speaking to a Ukrainian living in Ireland the other day who absolutely detests Zelensky and the Ukrainian government She is from near the Donbas region, speaks Russian (only pigeon Ukrainian) and used the phrase "I am not pro Russian, I am Russian". Her gripes were that they are more culturally and societally to Russia than a Ukraine. Said they felt trapped in a country they didn't associate with and refused to acknowledge it 👀
She mentioned the Azov battalion as well.

Basically they are trapped here now because her husbands passport was cancelled for leaving the country in wartime.
I was suprised because we don't hear this point of view much but it was interesting to hear her point of view.

WTF is she doing here, should she not be in Russia? It takes up on sixth of the land on earth, there should be room for her there.

Ironically, that's what Paisley et al used to say about Catholics in the north.

Give yer head a wobble

What did we all make of MON hugging the Prime Minister of the UK?

Are SF the new Stoops? Surely diehard combatants are looking at this thinking WTF? Or families of IRA men killed by the British are saying to themselves what was this all about?

Incredible scenes. 

Would you rather she told him to eff off?

Was that the only two options? Hug him or f@ck him off?
It would appear that the IRAs campaign of violence was pretty pointless if the SF deputy leader was going to hug the British Prime Minister. Could you imagine MMcG hugging Thatcher?

    

By your logic Sunak should refuse to deal with Macron because of Napoleon

Desperately clutching much?

i never understood the fascination  with sunday drinking

I can imagine most of the Sunday pint men in your local were happy enough with this