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Yeah the creator says he is finished with his story, but side stories now look inevitable

Squid game picking up a bit of flack. Not sure it's warranted. Decent enough final series. I particularly enjoyed hide and seek.

[so she'll not get one until she's 11]

Have a 4 year old and another due in 2 months. Tablet wise she would only get to use the iPad  in the morning after breakfast for 20mins on weekends in the morning just while we get sorted for the day. (Or for 30 mins when I want peace to watch the football)

Then after that it's just like the wife and I's childhoods, get the old school classics on TV like Telebtubbies, Postman Pat, Fireman Sam etc then Bluey or whatever's on CBeebies.

Hasn't any access to internet or anything outside of the iPad and she's restricted to education gaames and YouTube kids on it. Even then that YouTube kids algorithm has thrown up some things that wouldn't say are suitable so I block those channels.

I'm sure going into primary school I'll get the "but so and so gets to do it" but sure I'll deal with being the bad guy then lol.. Phone wise we're 5 mins away from the school so she'll not get one until she's 11.

My ones didnt get a phone until they finished primary school.  Didnt allow snapchat for a year or so after that too, and I'll be honest it was probably too soon.  It's a curse of a thing.

[Don't know what Chelsea's strategy is though, they're just signing players for the sake of it it seems]

I see Kepa Arizabalaga has signed for Arsenal for 5 million. He originally cost Chelsea 71 million. What a mess. Mendy was much better for Chelsea.

Was solid for Bournemouth last season, very good deal for just £5m.

Don't know what Chelsea's strategy is though, they're just signing players for the sake of it it seems

Just signed Pedro and recently signed Delap.  Does Jackson now leave? Nkunku is a cert to go surely.

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Raglan Road.

On a side note I recently went to see the 7 drunken nights tour - the story of the Dubliners, in the Waterfront.  A great night's entertainment

For a young one Olivia Rodrigo is a decent performer

Saw her doing Fontaines' "I Love You" and actually thought it was a decent version.

As an Armagh fan, I'd be more worried about Kerry than any of the remaining teams.  Kerry score goals and we concede goal chances. That's a match made in hell for us. I hope we seriously improve in this regard or we could be in trouble.

At the other end I still think that we will get a good total of say 26 points.

Why no Soupy, is he hurt?

Hand injury last day out

Just supporting the local community activities, like Camlough last year 

Teenager (13) looking to get phone for first time.

What price per month contract would we be talking about?

Any good deals currently on market - just normal type phon for 'teenagery' stuff.

My 2 wouldn't entertain anything other than an IPhone as basically they said they would be slagged with an android. I could of course be being played here lol. I much prefer android.

Cheapest decent iPhone at the time was a 13 at something like 26 quid a month in tesco. No idea at the deals and options now.

Hard to know what way Armagh will approach this game, considering they have already topped the group.  I suspect that there wont be as many changes as there could be.  A few players who maybe need some extra minutes will get them here... I'm thinking Grimley, Oisin O'Neill (if fit), McElroy and McCormack.  I'd be a great believer in momentum.  I dont think Armagh will take the foot off the pedal at all.

Galway will have some fire in them for this one. They obviously have the talent in that forward line to cause Armagh serious problems. Armagh will have to be tighter than they were at times v Dublin.

Social media seems to be completely overran with these tools, with incessant far right comments on the simplest of posts.  I saw a yank tourist post yesterday enjoying their time in Dublin and their post was filled with comments about how Ireland is overrun with immigrants and that it isnt safe.  What's going on with this targeted push of hate?  Are these paid bots or is it just the empty vessels make the most noise scenario? 

[Music is my radar]

I never liked the whole Blur v Oasis craic.  It's ok to like them both. Top 3 for me...

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Music is my radar

Hyped up by the  tabloids and their record companies to sell  newspapers/records.

Sure didn't Blur and Oasis (Noel, anyway)   take the stage together  once?

PS. Music is my radar is one weird , but  strangely likeable track. Always remember hearing it first on TOTP , and my younger  brother and I laughing  our heads off at it (sounded even weirder performed live). What  is this shite, we thought?  But it  sort of grew on me over time.

Yeah it's a weird one.  Different than most of their stuff but it's one that I find I would seek out if I wanted to hear a bit of Blur, so I had to include it.

I thought a Blur  top 3 would  have had more contributions given the  age demographics on the board

Speaking of the demographics of the board, it might be worth adding the Stereophonics to the list.

His first 11 games were extraordinary. Best I've ever seen at Spurs.

But the last 6 months were the worst football I've ever seen and I've seen some awful stuff at spurs.

What we don't know yet and won't know for a year or so is whether the squad isn't as good as it seems, or if they gave up on him.

Levy paying big bucks for Thomas Frank to buy him out of his current Brentford contract.

I wonder about teams like Brentford and Brighton.  Are they so well setup that most managers will do well anyway? We will soon see with Frank if that's where he lands, because Spurs are a mess (as usual).