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#1

General discussion / Re: Deposit Return Scheme (for...

Last post by armaghniac - Today at 10:23:40 AM

Both Tesco and M&S in Newry selling bottles with the logo but not the deposit, so bottle smuggling is the new thing.

#2

General discussion / Re: Deposit Return Scheme (for...

Last post by gerrykeegan - Today at 10:22:38 AM

We have very few bottles or cans come into the house so in the main it's fine. But it seems to be a nightmare with people who do have lots. I was heading to LIDL last night, a couple where just ahead of me and thought I was going to the machine. The girl stopped and said do you want to go in front of us, we could be here forever.

#3

General discussion / Re: Eurovision final here we c...

Last post by Armagh18 - Today at 10:19:36 AM

May send the Turkey again.

#4

Laois / Re: Laois U20s and Minors 2024...

Last post by Laois Rising - Today at 10:19:18 AM

How wrong I was-that Offaly team is more than a few steps ahead of us. The pace and skill of their forward line is a joy to watch. We went man on man and they absolutely blitzed us with every forward getting out ahead of their man and having the accuracy in their shooting. I think their first seven shots all within the first 5/6 minutes sailed straight between the posts. They were determined to set down a marker from the very off while our players seemed like they were trying to warm into the game in the first few minutes. We were never at the pitch of Offaly and the game was already a foregone conclusion after 10 minutes.

At least half a dozen of that team in years to come will form the backbone of an Offaly senior side which I fear will reach a level that Laois may not be able to get to.   

#5

General discussion / Re: Deposit Return Scheme (for...

Last post by AustinPowers - Today at 10:18:48 AM

What  are people's  experiences of  the scheme so far?

[without the likes of yourself riding in on your high horse to accuse them of being narrow minded bigots.]

#6

General discussion / Re: Eurovision final here we c...

Last post by JoG2 - Today at 10:16:11 AM

Well, truthsayer, you say the satanism is just young ones dressing up and having a but if craic, but it is more than that in Bambi Thug's case. She literally self-identifies as a witch.

Some lads here love to think they are awfully progressive and trigger happy smearing other people as narrow minded bigots. Whatever makes you feel good about yourselves. Personally, I think a grown adult actually believing herself to be a witch and running about in plastic horns, chrome nails and covered in body paint looks absolutely f**king ridiculous.

I saw some of the clips of "celebs" arriving at the met gala the other day in the most ridiculous outfits you could imagine. One was a woman wearing a dress that she was wrapped so tight in that she literally couldn't walk into the venue and had to be lifted and carried, upright, by her minders. I thought she looked f**king ridiculous but I suppose she's just really progressive and I'm a closed minded bigot.

And they may well think Wranglers, tucked in checked shirts and brown slip on boots are ridiculous.. Surely each to their own?

They may well think so. And they should be absolultely entitled to think as much without the likes of yourself riding in on your high horse to accuse them of being narrow minded bigots. Similarly, while I think a grown adult is entitled to self-identify as a witch, wear plastic horns and chrome claws and insist on being called 'they', I'm still allowed to say that I think they come across as absolutely ridculous.

No high horse here...calling a person a 'freak' etc because they look or behave differently, surely thats not cool in any man's language?

And yes, if course you're allowed to call someone 'absolutely ridiculous' , but it has to be a 2 way street, no?

I've called nobody a freak but there's a mentality among some that any criticism of Bambi is used as an excuse to throw around accusations of bigotry or intolerance. And of course it's a two way street. That's why I said Bambi would be perfectly entitled to regard someone in jeans and a tshirt who doesn't self-identify as a f**king witch, as ridiculous.

As good a place as any to leave it

[Who's the other one?]

#7

General discussion / Re: European Leagues.

Last post by Armagh18 - Today at 10:14:09 AM

Joselu is something else though. Doesn't matter if it's the Bernabeu or Stoke on a wet windy night, the man delivers!!!

More like he couldn't do it on a wet windy night in Stoke. Crazy that 2 failed former Stoke strikers were leading the line at the end of a Champions League Semi Final.

Who's the other one?

Always great to see stories like this. Only got his first Spain cap last year too at 32. Unbelievable night for him and his family.

Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting

Thanks. They just missed each other at Stoke too I see. Very similar strike rate as well.

seen something the other day that a member of that Stoke 15/16 squad has played in CL semi finals something like 12 of the last 20 years.

#8

Laois / Re: 2024 Joe McDonagh Cup

Last post by Laois Rising - Today at 10:12:31 AM

Granted Portlaoise is a football first, hurling second club but with the numbers living in Portlaoise a long term plan at revitalising hurling in the club should yield some quality players. Obviously, it will take a ground up approach but with the population there and with the funding that is available to counties there is no excuse really.

It's a great point you make regarding the townlands in Laois. GAA in urban areas in Laois is really struggling in many of our towns and has been for a long time. Showing some initiative, getting good people involved and putting the work in at underage as Abbleyleix/(Ballyroan) and Portarlington have done shows what is possible. Portarlington is a football town but is now starting to feed players into underage hurling county squads. Not something anyone would have foreseen a few years back.   

#9

General discussion / Re: Eurovision final here we c...

Last post by tonto1888 - Today at 10:11:42 AM

Well, truthsayer, you say the satanism is just young ones dressing up and having a but if craic, but it is more than that in Bambi Thug's case. She literally self-identifies as a witch.

Some lads here love to think they are awfully progressive and trigger happy smearing other people as narrow minded bigots. Whatever makes you feel good about yourselves. Personally, I think a grown adult actually believing herself to be a witch and running about in plastic horns, chrome nails and covered in body paint looks absolutely f**king ridiculous.

I saw some of the clips of "celebs" arriving at the met gala the other day in the most ridiculous outfits you could imagine. One was a woman wearing a dress that she was wrapped so tight in that she literally couldn't walk into the venue and had to be lifted and carried, upright, by her minders. I thought she looked f**king ridiculous but I suppose she's just really progressive and I'm a closed minded bigot.

satanists and witches arent the same thing ffs. Something tells me people here lack understanding of what satanism is. As for the freakshow comments. Little boys trying to look tough

#10

General discussion / Re: Eurovision final here we c...

Last post by Milltown Row2 - Today at 10:07:55 AM

I've worked out over the years that the control buttons on the remote for the TV allow you to turn over and not be offended, it also works for Stephen Nolan