This didn't make me go wtf? but I didthink it was quite interesting. I heard about the Sterile Insect technique on QI and read a little about it. Apparently many species of female insects only mate once so scientists produced sterile males through radiation and released them into an area where they wanted to reduce an insect's population. It's been used to eradicate the tsetse fly from parts of Africa, a very dangerous fly which carries the often fatal "sleeping sickness" disease. They say it could used on mosquitoes - now that is good news.
This is from wiki -
The sterile insect technique is a method of biological control, whereby overwhelming numbers of sterile insects are released. The released insects are normally male as it is the female that causes the damage, usually by laying eggs in the crop, or, in the case of mosquitoes, taking a bloodmeal from humans. The sterile males compete with the wild males for female insects. If a female mates with a sterile male then it will have no offspring, thus reducing the next generation's population. Repeated release of insects can eventually wipe out a population, though it is often more useful to consider controlling the population rather than eradicating it.
The technique has successfully been used to eradicate the Screw-worm fly (Cochliomyia hominivorax) in areas of North America. There have also been many successes in controlling species of fruit flies, most particularly the Medfly (Ceratitis capitata), and the Mexican fruit fly (Anastrepha ludens).
Insects are mostly sterilized with radiation, which might weaken the newly sterilized insects, if doses are not correctly applied, making them less able to compete with wild males.
However, other sterilization techniques are under development which would not affect the insects' ability to compete for a mate
Many many years ago, I used to deposit money in my Henry the Hippo bank account. Every now and then I would visit the bank and ask them to update my wee blue book.
They would update it and I would at the balance and say to myself "hmmmm, that's interesting"
Placenames always do it for me. Whether they're similar to the English version when as Gaeilge or not, I don't know why, but I always go 'hmmm, that's interesting' after I see a placename when travelling on the road.
This thread will never be as big as the What the f**k thread. ;)
I love the How it's Made/How do they do that programmes on Discovery and always find myself saying mmmm that's interesting be it seeing how anything from a Winnebago to a wine barrel is made.
Quote from: laoislad on October 05, 2012, 09:20:12 PM
This thread will never be as big as the What the f**k thread. ;)
I love the How it's Made/How do they do that programmes on Discovery and always find myself saying mmmm that's interesting be it seeing how anything from a Winnebago to a wine barrel is made.
I think my 'My things that make you feel good/put you in a good mood' thread never had a chance to take off!!
Quote from: Farrandeelin on October 05, 2012, 08:59:17 PM
Placenames always do it for me. Whether they're similar to the English version when as Gaeilge or not, I don't know why, but I always go 'hmmm, that's interesting' after I see a placename when travelling on the road.
+1
Quote from: lynchbhoy on October 05, 2012, 11:28:02 PM
Quote from: Farrandeelin on October 05, 2012, 08:59:17 PM
Placenames always do it for me. Whether they're similar to the English version when as Gaeilge or not, I don't know why, but I always go 'hmmm, that's interesting' after I see a placename when travelling on the road.
+1
I'd be a +1 on that too. I put it down to getting older.
Welcome back Lynchbhoy. You've been a stranger round here.
Quote from: Farrandeelin on October 05, 2012, 08:59:17 PM
Placenames always do it for me. Whether they're similar to the English version when as Gaeilge or not, I don't know why, but I always go 'hmmm, tht's interesting' after I see a placename when travelling on the road.
Dinnseanchas is the name for it Farren. Fascinating subject. I studied it at Uni many moons ago. Our brethern in the north would be amazed by the stories behind the names of the places they live in. Ballyhackamore in East Belfast is a classic.
Quote from: 5 Sams on October 05, 2012, 11:41:47 PM
Quote from: Farrandeelin on October 05, 2012, 08:59:17 PM
Placenames always do it for me. Whether they're similar to the English version when as Gaeilge or not, I don't know why, but I always go 'hmmm, tht's interesting' after I see a placename when travelling on the road.
Dinnseanchas is the name for it Farren. Fascinating subject. I studied it at Uni many moons ago. Our brethern in the north would be amazed by the stories behind the names of the places they live in. Ballyhackamore in East Belfast is a classic.
Hackballscross is better.
Quote from: laoislad on October 05, 2012, 11:44:58 PM
Quote from: 5 Sams on October 05, 2012, 11:41:47 PM
Quote from: Farrandeelin on October 05, 2012, 08:59:17 PM
Placenames always do it for me. Whether they're similar to the English version when as Gaeilge or not, I don't know why, but I always go 'hmmm, tht's interesting' after I see a placename when travelling on the road.
Dinnseanchas is the name for it Farren. Fascinating subject. I studied it at Uni many moons ago. Our brethern in the north would be amazed by the stories behind the names of the places they live in. Ballyhackamore in East Belfast is a classic.
Hackballscross is better.
And so is Pollawaddy and Crucksbullagadawn.
Quote from: Lar Naparka on October 05, 2012, 11:54:30 PM
Quote from: laoislad on October 05, 2012, 11:44:58 PM
Quote from: 5 Sams on October 05, 2012, 11:41:47 PM
Quote from: Farrandeelin on October 05, 2012, 08:59:17 PM
Placenames always do it for me. Whether they're similar to the English version when as Gaeilge or not, I don't know why, but I always go 'hmmm, tht's interesting' after I see a placename when travelling on the road.
Dinnseanchas is the name for it Farren. Fascinating subject. I studied it at Uni many moons ago. Our brethern in the north would be amazed by the stories behind the names of the places they live in. Ballyhackamore in East Belfast is a classic.
Hackballscross is better.
And so is Pollawaddy and Crucksbullagadawn.
Really though Muff has to be the best of them all.
Quote from: Tony Baloney on October 05, 2012, 11:36:17 PM
Quote from: lynchbhoy on October 05, 2012, 11:28:02 PM
Quote from: Farrandeelin on October 05, 2012, 08:59:17 PM
Placenames always do it for me. Whether they're similar to the English version when as Gaeilge or not, I don't know why, but I always go 'hmmm, that's interesting' after I see a placename when travelling on the road.
+1
I'd be a +1 on that too. I put it down to getting older.
Welcome back Lynchbhoy. You've been a stranger round here.
Thanks T - but I'm still posting - camanchero by day at work and from this account at home.
Seldom post as work has been hectic since Christmas.
Farandeelin is right though placenames are interesting. I find the disparity between the Irish and English versions of a place sometimes amusing.
Places like tubercurry in Sligo were obv renamed phoenetically due to the occupying English folks poor pronunciation of the Irish word!
Tubbercurry or tobair corraig ( well of the rock)
That and the association of surnames to particular counties is another anorakism of mine which proves I'm not missed on her sad fcuker that I am!
Quote from: lynchbhoy on October 06, 2012, 12:03:12 AM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on October 05, 2012, 11:36:17 PM
Quote from: lynchbhoy on October 05, 2012, 11:28:02 PM
Quote from: Farrandeelin on October 05, 2012, 08:59:17 PM
Placenames always do it for me. Whether they're similar to the English version when as Gaeilge or not, I don't know why, but I always go 'hmmm, that's interesting' after I see a placename when travelling on the road.
+1
I'd be a +1 on that too. I put it down to getting older.
Welcome back Lynchbhoy. You've been a stranger round here.
Thanks T - but I'm still posting - camanchero by day at work and from this account at home.
Seldom post as work has been hectic since Christmas.
Farandeelin is right though placenames are interesting. I find the disparity between the Irish and English versions of a place sometimes amusing.
Places like tubercurry in Sligo were obv renamed phoenetically due to the occupying English folks poor pronunciation of the Irish word!
Tubbercurry or tobair corraig ( well of the rock)
That and the association of surnames to particular counties is another anorakism of mine which proves I'm not missed on her sad fcuker that I am!
Ah didn't realise you had a new handle.
Quote from: laoislad on October 05, 2012, 11:44:58 PM
Quote from: 5 Sams on October 05, 2012, 11:41:47 PM
Quote from: Farrandeelin on October 05, 2012, 08:59:17 PM
Placenames always do it for me. Whether they're similar to the English version when as Gaeilge or not, I don't know why, but I always go 'hmmm, tht's interesting' after I see a placename when travelling on the road.
Dinnseanchas is the name for it Farren. Fascinating subject. I studied it at Uni many moons ago. Our brethern in the north would be amazed by the stories behind the names of the places they live in. Ballyhackamore in East Belfast is a classic.
Hackballscross is better.
Agreed.But my point is that all our friends in the Orange Order who live in Ballyhackamore don't realise that they live in a place called after a big pile of shite!
Quote from: lynchbhoy on October 06, 2012, 12:03:12 AM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on October 05, 2012, 11:36:17 PM
Quote from: lynchbhoy on October 05, 2012, 11:28:02 PM
Quote from: Farrandeelin on October 05, 2012, 08:59:17 PM
Placenames always do it for me. Whether they're similar to the English version when as Gaeilge or not, I don't know why, but I always go 'hmmm, that's interesting' after I see a placename when travelling on the road.
+1
I'd be a +1 on that too. I put it down to getting older.
Welcome back Lynchbhoy. You've been a stranger round here.
Thanks T - but I'm still posting - camanchero by day at work and from this account at home.
Seldom post as work has been hectic since Christmas.
Farandeelin is right though placenames are interesting. I find the disparity between the Irish and English versions of a place sometimes amusing.
Places like tubercurry in Sligo were obv renamed phoenetically due to the occupying English folks poor pronunciation of the Irish word!
Tubbercurry or tobair corraig ( well of the rock)
That and the association of surnames to particular counties is another anorakism of mine which proves I'm not missed on her sad fcuker that I am!
Tubbercurry is not unique in this regard. I'd say the majority of placenames in the west are named in this fashion. Take Tonlagee on Achill Island. "Arse to the wind" is the literal translation. The weather out there can be rough at times and the often best way to approach the place on foot is to turn yer back to the wind.
Hundreds of similar examples all over the place.
Sometimes the literal translations can be interesting as well. Take Trouthill in East Mayo. Cnoc Breac is the Irish form; breac can mean either speckled or a trout since the hoor is speckled to begin with.
There's a village/townland in Roscommon named Ephin. (No, that's not a misspelling.) BTW, your last sentence makes no Ephin sense whatever. ;D
Tandragee- home of Tayto Castle in Co. Armagh, my personal favourite
Quote from: heganboy on October 08, 2012, 05:48:36 PM
Tandragee- home of Tayto Castle in Co. Armagh, my personal favourite
This prompted me to look up Tandragee's Wiki entry whereupon I found this little gem. It also happens to fit nicely into this thread.
2001 Census
Tandragee is classified as an intermediate settlement by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (i.e. with population between 2,050 and 4,500 people). On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 3,050 people living in Tandragee. Of these:
24.9% were aged under 16 years and 14.3% were aged 60 and over
48.0% of the population were male and 50.0% were female 10.5% were from a Roman Catholic background and 86.9% were from a Protestant background
2.0% of people aged 16–74 were unemployed.
For more details see: NI Neighbourhood Information Service
Carol Vorderman's arse.
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on October 08, 2012, 08:32:22 PM
Quote from: ONeill on October 08, 2012, 08:17:02 PM
Carol Vorderman's arse.
You know the rule.....1!
Allow me to do the honours....
(http://livinglavidamoda.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/carol-vorderman.jpg)
Just looking at Carol's shapely figure.... and I've forgotten entirely what I was going to post.
Orior's posts.
Oh yes, I remember now.
The Sun and the Moon are roughly the same size when viewed from the Earth.
Quote from: ONeill on October 08, 2012, 08:17:02 PM
Carol Vorderman's arse.
Seen worse...
(http://www.mydochub.com/images/carol-vorderman-bum.jpg)
I've just discovered The Visual Thesaurus (http://www.visualthesaurus.com/app/view). Brilliant.
That's fantastic
Cool, I mean hmmmm ...
Ian Paisley and Jeffrey Donaldson set up peace-building company
Two DUP MPs have set up a company which they say will give peace-building advice to overseas governments and organisations.
QUBRIC Limited, which was registered with Companies House in August, has Ian Paisley and Jeffrey Donaldson as two of its four directors.
Mr Donaldson described the enterprise as "a social company".
He said any profit would go towards "supporting projects in working-class Protestant areas".
"QUBRIC is really a response to international interest in the Northern Ireland peace process," he said.
"It has not been established for commercial motives. It is about providing specialist advice in conflict resolution."
Mediator
The latest House of Commons register of interests describes the Lagan Valley MP as an unremunerated director.
It states the same in respect of Mr Paisley, adding he has a 25% shareholding.
The North Antrim MP said: "This is an excellent opportunity to advance the benefits of the Northern Ireland peace process and the role of unionists within it."
Another of QUBRIC's directors is Emma Little, a barrister and special adviser to Northern Ireland's First Minister, Peter Robinson.
Mr Donaldson said she was a director "in her own right, not as a representative of the first minister".
The two MPs have done peace work in other capacities.
Mr Paisley was an unpaid United Nations mediator in the peace process in the west African country of Guinea-Bissau.
Mr Donaldson, as chairman of the Causeway Institute, participated in a peace conference in Afghanistan, amongst other initiatives.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19909598
Quote from: give her dixie on October 12, 2012, 01:10:24 PM
Ian Paisley and Jeffrey Donaldson set up peace-building company
Two DUP MPs have set up a company which they say will give peace-building advice to overseas governments and organisations.
QUBRIC Limited, which was registered with Companies House in August, has Ian Paisley and Jeffrey Donaldson as two of its four directors.
Mr Donaldson described the enterprise as "a social company".
He said any profit would go towards "supporting projects in working-class Protestant areas".
"QUBRIC is really a response to international interest in the Northern Ireland peace process," he said.
"It has not been established for commercial motives. It is about providing specialist advice in conflict resolution."
Mediator
The latest House of Commons register of interests describes the Lagan Valley MP as an unremunerated director.
It states the same in respect of Mr Paisley, adding he has a 25% shareholding.
The North Antrim MP said: "This is an excellent opportunity to advance the benefits of the Northern Ireland peace process and the role of unionists within it."
Another of QUBRIC's directors is Emma Little, a barrister and special adviser to Northern Ireland's First Minister, Peter Robinson.
Mr Donaldson said she was a director "in her own right, not as a representative of the first minister".
The two MPs have done peace work in other capacities.
Mr Paisley was an unpaid United Nations mediator in the peace process in the west African country of Guinea-Bissau.
Mr Donaldson, as chairman of the Causeway Institute, participated in a peace conference in Afghanistan, amongst other initiatives.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19909598
Hmmm. Jeffrey did his utmost to maintain a divided society here, he'd be a good man to offer advice on mediation!
[bHmmm. Jeffrey did his utmost to maintain a divided society here, he'd be a good man to offer advice on mediation][/b]
And also on jumping ship - "Where's Jeffrey?"
Plus hotel bills - he's an expert on those too [allegedly].
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogY44aX5pHU
The cardboard bicycle
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1015/breaking20.html
(http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1015/breaking20.html)
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/78a22320-d892-11df-8e05-00144feabdc0.html
Jeremy Siegel, professor of economics at the Wharton School in Philadelphia, produced a model, in his The Future for Investors, that suggested that westerners'comfort in retirement was almost wholly dependent on productivity growth in the developing world. If the developing world keeps raising productivity at 6 per cent per year, then the US could meet the needs of its ageing population while barely raising the retirement age from 62. If, however, developing world productivity growth stalls completely, then the US retirement age by 2050 will have to rise to 77.
Quote from: seafoid on October 15, 2012, 02:33:42 PM
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/78a22320-d892-11df-8e05-00144feabdc0.html
Jeremy Siegel, professor of economics at the Wharton School in Philadelphia, produced a model, in his The Future for Investors, that suggested that westerners'comfort in retirement was almost wholly dependent on productivity growth in the developing world. If the developing world keeps raising productivity at 6 per cent per year, then the US could meet the needs of its ageing population while barely raising the retirement age from 62. If, however, developing world productivity growth stalls completely, then the US retirement age by 2050 will have to rise to 77.
Seafoid, Love your footnote, although I don't think Joe Canning was about when I heard it first. Was it because of O'Muircheartaigh or O'Hehir that it became a well known phrase? Hmmmm....
Kaliningrad Oblast
I only realised this week that Russia has this exclave on the Baltic Coast between Poland and Lithuania. After all these years looking at maps of Europe I never noticed it before.
I took notice of it while looking on Google Maps at a region that had a border but no name. And I spoke to myself those immortal words, "hmmmm, that's interesting."
Quote from: thejuice on October 17, 2012, 10:45:50 PM
Kaliningrad Oblast
I only realised this week that Russia has this exclave on the Baltic Coast between Poland and Lithuania. After all these years looking at maps of Europe I never noticed it before.
I took notice of it while looking on Google Maps at a region that had a border but no name. And I spoke to myself those immortal words, "hmmmm, that's interesting."
Think i saw this place on Palins New Europe documentary, think it was very pro russian, probably the result of some dodgy border drawing after the war.
I think it's an entity because Russia require a Baltic port to access the Atlantic, the next viable option for them would be Murmansk and I think it sometimes freezes in winter, making it less accessible. That and the fact Russia's Cold War fleet, including many nuclear submarines now rot in Murmansk docks.
Kaliningrad was a German city, called Königsberg before 1945.
It had a glorious history. Kant lived there.
It was totally destroyed by the Soviets and the people were either murdered or expelled.
This is in German but the before and after pictures show the extent of the damage.
http://www.welt.de/welt_print/article2372749/Auf-den-Spuren-Kants-durch-Koenigsberg.html
This book explains what happened to Germany after the war was over
http://www.bookshop.kennys.ie/book/UK/9780719567667/After_the_Reich
QuoteKaliningrad Oblast
I only realised this week that Russia has this exclave on the Baltic Coast between Poland and Lithuania. After all these years looking at maps of Europe I never noticed it before.
This was East Prussia before the war, the Russians took the northern part around Königsberg to get a port as you say. Obviously all of the Germans were removed, one way or the other, and Poland got the southern part of East Prussia. In Soviet times Kaliningrad was joined to the USSR, via Lithuania, but now it is surrounded by the EU. One part of the world that changed utterly during the war.
it would be interesting to visit, but the Russian visa thing is a pain.
Also "interesting" in those parts is the Königsberg autobahn, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlinka) which was partly built but then largely unused because of the other changes.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Berlinka_%28Highway%29_2006.jpg/250px-Berlinka_%28Highway%29_2006.jpg)
(http://www.autobahn-online.de/images/alt13.jpg)
The Russians demolished the flyovers and used the concrete as fill in their bit.
Quote from: BarryBreensBandage on October 17, 2012, 10:37:28 PM
Quote from: seafoid on October 15, 2012, 02:33:42 PM
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/78a22320-d892-11df-8e05-00144feabdc0.html
Jeremy Siegel, professor of economics at the Wharton School in Philadelphia, produced a model, in his The Future for Investors, that suggested that westerners'comfort in retirement was almost wholly dependent on productivity growth in the developing world. If the developing world keeps raising productivity at 6 per cent per year, then the US could meet the needs of its ageing population while barely raising the retirement age from 62. If, however, developing world productivity growth stalls completely, then the US retirement age by 2050 will have to rise to 77.
Seafoid, Love your footnote, although I don't think Joe Canning was about when I heard it first. Was it because of O'Muircheartaigh or O'Hehir that it became a well known phrase? Hmmmm....
They use it all the time on TG4 and Raidio na Gaeltachta . "Cic mór mílteach" is another nice one
It rings a lot better that "a huge one down".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/20/thomas-quick-bergwall-sweden-murder
It reads like a real-life Scandinavian crime novel. In the 1990s, Thomas Quick confessed to more than 30 murders, making him Sweden's most notorious serial killer. Then, he changed his name and revealed his confessions were all faked
What does your footnote mean Seafoid?
Quote from: Santino on October 21, 2012, 10:20:35 AM
What does your footnote mean Seafoid?
Let me Google Translate that for you:
(http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu206/Hardyarse/googletranslate.png)
I had no idea that google function existed! Hmmmm, now that is interesting
The electoral colleges in the USA.
That Michelle obamanation kicked the Prez out of the hoose because of an alleged affair with an intern..................................How democratic of him! ;)
Quote from: stew on October 24, 2012, 12:29:15 AM
That Michelle obamanation kicked the Prez out of the hoose because of an alleged affair with an intern..................................How democratic of him! ;)
Any DNA around this time?
http://150greatthingsabouttheunderground.com/2012/09/08/48-the-houses-in-leinster-gardens/ (http://150greatthingsabouttheunderground.com/2012/09/08/48-the-houses-in-leinster-gardens/)
Somebody (ONeill?) introduced lettersofnote.com to the board some time ago. It's a gem. Here's a brilliant letter from a former slave to his old master, who had written asking him to return to work (for pay) on the plantation:
Dayton, Ohio,
August 7, 1865
To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee
Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin's to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance.
I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get twenty-five dollars a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy,—the folks call her Mrs. Anderson,—and the children—Milly, Jane, and Grundy—go to school and are learning well. The teacher says Grundy has a head for a preacher. They go to Sunday school, and Mandy and me attend church regularly. We are kindly treated. Sometimes we overhear others saying, "Them colored people were slaves" down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master. Now if you will write and say what wages you will give me, I will be better able to decide whether it would be to my advantage to move back again.
As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five dollars a month for me, and two dollars a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to eleven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back, and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and three doctor's visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy, and the balance will show what we are in justice entitled to. Please send the money by Adams's Express, in care of V. Winters, Esq., Dayton, Ohio. If you fail to pay us for faithful labors in the past, we can have little faith in your promises in the future. We trust the good Maker has opened your eyes to the wrongs which you and your fathers have done to me and my fathers, in making us toil for you for generations without recompense. Here I draw my wages every Saturday night; but in Tennessee there was never any pay-day for the negroes any more than for the horses and cows. Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his hire.
In answering this letter, please state if there would be any safety for my Milly and Jane, who are now grown up, and both good-looking girls. You know how it was with poor Matilda and Catherine. I would rather stay here and starve—and die, if it come to that—than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and wickedness of their young masters. You will also please state if there has been any schools opened for the colored children in your neighborhood. The great desire of my life now is to give my children an education, and have them form virtuous habits.
Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.
From your old servant,
Jourdon Anderson.
Brilliant!!
Sorry Stew??????
Can you elaborate - or are you extracting the urine?
Is POTUS acting the maggot with some intern?
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/1115/shipwrecks-off-coast-of-ireland.html
The following letter may be of interest to some.. It was written by my great grandfather, James Salmon, around the beginning of the 20th. century to one of his daughters who had emigrated to the US.
Teachers didn't have it easy back then!
http://mayogodhelpus.com/history/jimmysalmon.html (http://mayogodhelpus.com/history/jimmysalmon.html)
Curneen,
Claremorris,
Ireland.
March 2, 1902.
Dear Daughter,
I received your letter and was very glad to hear of all of ye to be in good health as the departure of this letter leaves us in at present, thanks be to God. I am getting weaker so my tenure is but short now to live. I got a letter from Sligo telling me that my old sister, Biddy, is dead and buried since last harvest. Abby Hehir is dead and buried since last harvest. She died in Boyle in the workhouse, I believe. Another friend of yours, Peg Finan is dead also. I wrote to them last November but they did not answer till a few days ago. I wanted to know how my old sister was getting on but it was from ye I got the account of her death.
They mentioned in their letter that it was in her daughter's house she died without getting any sickness. That was at Kesh. She was buried at Gurteen. I was grieved and sorry to that I was not there at her death and funeral. The Lord have mercy on her soul. Margy Drury is expecting a letter from you.
Our teacher, Mr. Egan, must go three nights a week for six weeks, from seven till ten, to Claremorris, where instructors from Dublin are to teach them how to sing and dance and march. Every school must give ten shillings for a drill-book. This drill-book will instruct the teachers how to drill the scholars. They must be drilled like young army recruits. Mr. Egan must have his fiddle in school with him. He must take his scholars out and march them down to the old mill, while he plays the marches and shows them how to change step. Very lucky for Egan that he can play the fiddle and is also a very good dancer. He never thought it would come to the time of day when he would have to bring his fiddle to school and he a dancing master, a singing teacher and drill master. Besides, he is almost out of his mind; he has so much to do. Though their salaries are to be cut, they must be more up-to date now.
Teachers must be in school at seven in the morning and if the inspector gets there ahead of them and finds them late, he can dismiss them. There must be a wide space in the window for flowers and also a grate around the fireplace. Egan knows how long it will take him to go from his own house to the school in the morning. But if he meets a man on the way, the man may ask him about the war or when the property is to be sold.
"'I can't speak to him for fear the inspector may be before me at the school." Then the man may say that I am getting so grand that I won't speak to the people."
That puts him (Egan) about very much to think that he is of that mind. They have drawings of all sorts of grand things in the schools which scholars must copy. So you now see that school masters have enough to do.
Well, our property has seen sold at last, since the 20th of the last month. (Feb 20, 1902) There is no more about the Burkes and that is little loss. The Congested Board has brought the property for £29,000. The rent is now down to one-half. I was paying the Burkes eleven pounds- now I pay only four. The board is buying up all the big farms. They bought Lord Dillon's and are now giving it to the tenants. Sure, the best land in Ireland is in the big farms, which was the cause of banishing the Irish people far from home. Those who will live will see great changes for the better in Ireland and I pray it won't be long.
It is the Congested Board that is handling the land purchase for the government. The government does not wish to appear that they would turn against the Landlords and the Graziers. They are making the balls and the Board is firing them. They know that the irish are not for them. They know that if the war is prolonged, the irish soldiers will be the best that will join for them. As for all the English they are sending to the war, they are no good unless they get enough to eat but the Irish fight better if half starved. So the government will now see to give better homes to the Irish in order that they will be more loyal than at present.
Your mother joins me in sending our Kind Love.
Your father,
James Salmon.
Puts me in mind of Kilkelly, Ireland
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23susanalbumparty&src=hash (https://twitter.com/search?q=%23susanalbumparty&src=hash)
Wrong thread Dec, should be in the "What The Fcuk" :P
Heard on the radio yesterday that the former tv host Nicholas Parsons' dad was a doctor............ who seemingly delivered Margaret Thatcher into the world.
True or not ........ who knows?
Quote from: Canalman on November 21, 2012, 03:56:44 PM
Heard on the radio yesterday that the former tv host Nicholas Parsons' dad was a doctor............ who seemingly delivered Margaret Thatcher into the world.
True or not ........ who knows?
Parsons' father was a GP in Grantham at the time Thatcher was born.
Quote from: Canalman on November 21, 2012, 03:56:44 PM
Heard on the radio yesterday that the former tv host Nicholas Parsons' dad was a doctor............ who seemingly delivered Margaret Thatcher into the world.
True or not ........ who knows?
If he was, and if he did, he has a hell of a lot to answer for. (Nicholas Parsons is up there with Bob Monkhouse and Leslie Crowther as the Smarmiest tv hosts of my time :o).
The wages map of Britain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2012/nov/22/wages-map-britain
Statistical proof that the North of England continues to get shafted
This I gotta have!
http://hackable-devices.org/shop/product/tv-b-gone-kit (http://hackable-devices.org/shop/product/tv-b-gone-kit)
Quote from: Hardy on November 25, 2012, 03:10:37 PM
This I gotta have!
http://hackable-devices.org/shop/product/tv-b-gone-kit (http://hackable-devices.org/shop/product/tv-b-gone-kit)
Brilliant - let me know how it goes. ;)
Robot uprising risk to be studied
Cambridge researchers are to assess whether technology could end up destroying human civilisation.
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) will study dangers posed by biotechnology, artificial life, nanotechnology and climate change.
The scientists said that to dismiss concerns of a potential robot uprising would be "dangerous".
Fears that machines may take over have been central to the plot of some of the most popular science fiction films.
Perhaps most famous is Skynet, a rogue computer system depicted in the Terminator films.
Skynet gained self-awareness and fought back after first being developed by the US military.
'Reasonable prediction'
But despite being the subject of far-fetched fantasy, researchers said the concept of machines outsmarting us demanded mature attention.
"The seriousness of these risks is difficult to assess, but that in itself seems a cause for concern, given how much is at stake," the researchers wrote on a website set up for the centre.
The CSER project has been co-founded by Cambridge philosophy professor Huw Price, cosmology and astrophysics professor Martin Rees and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn.
"It seems a reasonable prediction that some time in this or the next century intelligence will escape from the constraints of biology," Prof Price told the AFP news agency.
"What we're trying to do is to push it forward in the respectable scientific community."
He added that as robots and computers become smarter than humans, we could find ourselves at the mercy of "machines that are not malicious, but machines whose interests don't include us".
Survival of the human race permitting, the centre will launch next year.
This (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1be_1354268561) was uploaded just an hour ago. It will be interesting to follow the comments on reddit.com (search for "Kids film themselves jumping a "special ed" kid") to see how long it will take before they're picked up by the cops.
think that belongs more in the 'what the fcuk' thread. wains can be right horrible bastids
You're right, but the interesting bit will be following the first (for me, anyway) case on line where the perpetrators shopped themselves on facebook and watching it through to the arrest.
Quote from: quit yo jibbajabba on November 30, 2012, 11:35:55 AM
think that belongs more in the 'what the fcuk' thread. wains can be right horrible bastids
You would like to think that if there is any natural justice in the world that the little fat hard man would get exactly what he deserves.
Problem will be that it will probably blamed on society or the parents or the school >:(
Quote from: Hardy on November 30, 2012, 12:19:14 PM
You're right, but the interesting bit will be following the first (for me, anyway) case on line where the perpetrators shopped themselves on facebook and watching it through to the arrest.
Is that not a bit fucked up?
What?
Entertaining yourself by waiting on the impending arrest of several American adolescents.
Entertaining myself? Where did you get the idea to make that up?
Quote from: Hardy on November 30, 2012, 12:19:14 PM
You're right, but the interesting bit will be following the first case on line where the perpetrators shopped themselves on facebook and watching it through to the arrest.
I have a child with special needs and I would hope his brother and a few of his mates would get to them before the courts did.
Hardy, I see where you are coming from with the filming - sometimes you have to ask who are the ones with the disability.
Quote from: trileacman on November 30, 2012, 12:34:35 PM
Quote from: Hardy on November 30, 2012, 12:19:14 PM
You're right, but the interesting bit will be following the first (for me, anyway) case on line where the perpetrators shopped themselves on facebook and watching it through to the arrest.
Is that not a bit fucked up?
Quote from: Hardy on November 30, 2012, 04:51:29 PM
What?
Quote from: trileacman on November 30, 2012, 06:49:25 PM
Entertaining yourself by waiting on the impending arrest of several American adolescents.
Quote from: Hardy on November 30, 2012, 07:44:40 PM
Entertaining myself? Where did you get the idea to make that up?
Quote from: trileacman on November 30, 2012, 08:09:17 PM
Quote from: Hardy on November 30, 2012, 12:19:14 PM
You're right, but the interesting bit will be following the first case on line where the perpetrators shopped themselves on facebook and watching it through to the arrest.
I hope you know where you're going with this.
Quote from: Hardy on December 01, 2012, 01:28:06 PM
Quote from: trileacman on November 30, 2012, 12:34:35 PM
Quote from: Hardy on November 30, 2012, 12:19:14 PM
You're right, but the interesting bit will be following the first (for me, anyway) case on line where the perpetrators shopped themselves on facebook and watching it through to the arrest.
Is that not a bit fucked up?
Quote from: Hardy on November 30, 2012, 04:51:29 PM
What?
Quote from: trileacman on November 30, 2012, 06:49:25 PM
Entertaining yourself by waiting on the impending arrest of several American adolescents.
Quote from: Hardy on November 30, 2012, 07:44:40 PM
Entertaining myself? Where did you get the idea to make that up?
Quote from: trileacman on November 30, 2012, 08:09:17 PM
Quote from: Hardy on November 30, 2012, 12:19:14 PM
You're right, but the interesting bit will be following the first case on line where the perpetrators shopped themselves on facebook and watching it through to the arrest.
I hope you know where you're going with this.
A group of American adolescents lure another innocent adolescent into a car park where they film themselves assaulting the lad. Your reaction to this abhorrent behaviour is to refer to the incident as "interesting" in a thread entitled "Things that make you go .....Hmmm, that's interesting."
Yeah i think that's a bit fucked up.
And I think you're a moron and that people as stupid as you are dangerous.
Quote from: Hardy on November 30, 2012, 11:24:50 AM
This (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1be_1354268561) was uploaded just an hour ago. It will be interesting to follow the comments on reddit.com (search for "Kids film themselves jumping a "special ed" kid") to see how long it will take before they're picked up by the cops.
The cops have arrested the little scumbags after 4chan got a hold of this video
http://atlasobscura.com/place/the-wang-saen-suk-hell-garden
Fermanagh make better beer than footballers.
Just after trying out a Inishmacsaint (made in Derrygonnelly) and it is a tasty beverage.
Quote from: Hardy on November 04, 2012, 01:15:55 PM
Somebody (ONeill?) introduced lettersofnote.com to the board some time ago. It's a gem. Here's a brilliant letter from a former slave to his old master, who had written asking him to return to work (for pay) on the plantation:
Dayton, Ohio,
August 7, 1865
To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee
Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin's to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance.
I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get twenty-five dollars a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy,—the folks call her Mrs. Anderson,—and the children—Milly, Jane, and Grundy—go to school and are learning well. The teacher says Grundy has a head for a preacher. They go to Sunday school, and Mandy and me attend church regularly. We are kindly treated. Sometimes we overhear others saying, "Them colored people were slaves" down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master. Now if you will write and say what wages you will give me, I will be better able to decide whether it would be to my advantage to move back again.
As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five dollars a month for me, and two dollars a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to eleven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back, and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and three doctor's visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy, and the balance will show what we are in justice entitled to. Please send the money by Adams's Express, in care of V. Winters, Esq., Dayton, Ohio. If you fail to pay us for faithful labors in the past, we can have little faith in your promises in the future. We trust the good Maker has opened your eyes to the wrongs which you and your fathers have done to me and my fathers, in making us toil for you for generations without recompense. Here I draw my wages every Saturday night; but in Tennessee there was never any pay-day for the negroes any more than for the horses and cows. Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who defraud the laborer of his hire.
In answering this letter, please state if there would be any safety for my Milly and Jane, who are now grown up, and both good-looking girls. You know how it was with poor Matilda and Catherine. I would rather stay here and starve—and die, if it come to that—than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and wickedness of their young masters. You will also please state if there has been any schools opened for the colored children in your neighborhood. The great desire of my life now is to give my children an education, and have them form virtuous habits.
Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.
From your old servant,
Jourdon Anderson.
Minder mentioned it on the twitter thread.
Here is a letter from President Harry Truman to a music critic who wrote about Truman's only child's attempt at singing.
Transcript
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Dec. 6. 1950
Mr. Hume:-
I've just read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that you are an "eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay."
It seems to me that you are a frustrated old man who wishes he could have been successful. When you write such poppy-c**k as was in the back section of the paper you work for it shows conclusively that you're off the beam and at least four of your ulcers are at work.
Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!
Pegler, a gutter snipe, is a gentleman alongside you. I hope you'll accept that statement as a worse insult than a reflection on your ancestry.
H.S.T.
With an average pH of 4.3, beer has almost the same acidity as a woman's vagina.
Why are people from the Netherlands called Dutch? The answer is interesting enough in itself and worth googling. But the interesting, indeed amazing thing to me is that this is a question that never occurred to me before.
Haven't googled but is it something to do with Deutsch as in German??
Quote from: LeoMc on December 09, 2012, 10:10:08 PM
Fermanagh make better beer than footballers.
Just after trying out a Inishmacsaint (made in Derrygonnelly) and it is a tasty beverage.
Aye, tasty right enough.
Quote from: Hardy on December 14, 2012, 03:29:03 PM
Why are people from the Netherlands called Dutch? The answer is interesting enough in itself and worth googling. But the interesting, indeed amazing thing to me is that this is a question that never occurred to me before.
The name of the country just means low lands and the people are named after their language which is a form of German.
Quote from: seafoid on December 14, 2012, 04:29:25 PM
Quote from: Hardy on December 14, 2012, 03:29:03 PM
Why are people from the Netherlands called Dutch? The answer is interesting enough in itself and worth googling. But the interesting, indeed amazing thing to me is that this is a question that never occurred to me before.
The name of the country just means low lands and the people are named after their language which is a form of German.
http://hotword.dictionary.com/demonym/
I also learned a new word today - demonym. It means the name for the people who live in a place, e.g. Corkonians, Dubliners, Balubas, etc.
What's stuck in the muck at the bottom of Lough Salt in County Donegal, Ireland? It could be that 20 of Old Tom Morris' golf balls are down there.
A team of divers has begun searching one of Donegal's deepest lakes for 20 gutta percha balls that the legendary golf pioneer and four-time British Open champion is said to have knocked in there as part of an exhibition while he was designing the nearby Rosapenna Golf Course in 1891.
"We've carried out some research and spoke to local people whose parents were around when Tom Morris was here and they told us how he stood up on the hill overlooking Lough Salt and drove the balls into the lake," dive leader Gus O'Driscoll told BBC News.
"It soon became a tradition after that for golfers on their way home from the Rosapenna to stop off and drive balls into the lake," he added. "That checks out because we've seen thousands of balls on the bottom of the lake and we have recovered some which date back to the 1940s and '50s."
Because there are so many balls at the bottom of the lake, locating Morris' models is an even more difficult task than scouring the bottom of a deep, dark lake would be otherwise. But the reward could be great.
The gutta percha balls that Morris used in his heyday sold for a shilling (about 8 cents) apiece at the time. Now, however, these "little pieces of sporting history" are worth about $25,000 each, or more than $500,000 if all 20 are found, according to the Independent newspaper in Ireland.
"The balls we are looking for were designed by Morris himself and he used them when he won the Open four times in the 1860s," O'Driscoll told the Independent. "It would be fantastic to get one of them."
Despite the balls' potential value, however, the divers aren't looking solely to cash in. If they do manage to salvage some of the spheres, they plan to make a donation the Rosapenna Golf Club.
"There's a statue of Old Tom Morris at the entrance to the course he designed," said O'Driscoll, "and it would be lovely to give the club one of his original golf balls to put on display n the clubhouse."
US employee 'outsourced job to China'
A security check on a US company has reportedly revealed one of its staff was outsourcing his work to China.
The software developer, in his 40s, is thought to have spent his workdays surfing the web, watching cat videos on YouTube and browsing Reddit and eBay.
He reportedly paid just a fifth of his six-figure salary to a company based in Shenyang to do his job.
Operator Verizon says the scam came to light after the US firm asked it for an audit, suspecting a security breach.
According to Andrew Valentine, of Verizon, the infrastructure company requested the operator's risk team last year to investigate some anomalous activity on its virtual private network (VPN) logs.
"This organisation had been slowly moving toward a more telecommuting oriented workforce, and they had therefore started to allow their developers to work from home on certain days. In order to accomplish this, they'd set up a fairly standard VPN concentrator approximately two years prior to our receiving their call," he was quoted as saying on an internet security website.
The company had discovered the existence of an open and active VPN connection from Shenyang to the employee's workstation that went back months, Mr Valentine said.
And it had then called on Verizon to look into what it had suspected had been malware used to route confidential information from the company to China.
"Central to the investigation was the employee himself, the person whose credentials had been used to initiate and maintain a VPN connection from China," said Mr Valentine.
Further investigation of the employee's computer had revealed hundreds of PDF documents of invoices from the Shenyang contractor, he added.
The employee, an "inoffensive and quiet" but talented man versed in several programming languages, "spent less than one fifth of his six-figure salary for a Chinese firm to do his job for him", Mr Valentine said.
"Authentication was no problem. He physically FedExed his RSA [security] token to China so that the third-party contractor could log-in under his credentials during the workday. It would appear that he was working an average nine-to-five work day," he added.
"Evidence even suggested he had the same scam going across multiple companies in the area. All told, it looked like he earned several hundred thousand dollars a year, and only had to pay the Chinese consulting firm about $50,000 (£31,270) annually."
The employee no longer worked at the firm, Mr Valentine said.
The average male will ejaculate 7,200 times in his lifetime.
Quote from: Gazzler on February 05, 2013, 10:13:08 AM
The average male will ejaculate 7,200 times in his lifetime.
Come again??
http://maps.pobal.ie/#/Map
Why NI has an M1, M2, M3 & M5 but no M4.
http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/roads/historymotorwayplans.html
Never knew it.
Come on. Surely something interesting has happened in the last seven weeks.
The smallest bird in Ireland is not the wren, but the goldcrest
http://www.birdwatchireland.ie/IrelandsBirds/Kinglets/Goldcrest/tabid/1070/Default.aspx (http://www.birdwatchireland.ie/IrelandsBirds/Kinglets/Goldcrest/tabid/1070/Default.aspx)
Quote from: Orior on April 29, 2013, 01:15:42 PM
The smallest bird in Ireland is not the wren, but the the goldcrest
I thought it was the AndreaCorr.
I thought this was in the hmmm. that's interesting/things that make you go WTF bracket.
Vietnam Vet Found after 44 Years (http://www.thejournal.ie/missing-vietnam-vet-found-john-robertson-885986-Apr2013/)
A NEW DOCUMENTARY called Unclaimed claims to introduce the world to former Army Sergeant John Robertson, lost over Vietnam in 1968 and left behind for over four decades.
The Toronto Star reports Edmonton filmmaker Michael Jorgenson found Robertson, 76, living in a rural Vietnam village stooped with age, unable to speak English, remember his birthday, or names of the children he left behind in the U.S.
QuoteThe first recorded use of the ubiquitous texting abbreviation OMG wasn't uttered by a precocious teen in the 1990s, but by one Lord Fisher in a letter to none other than Winston Churchill.
(http://timenewsfeed.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/letter.jpg?w=753)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJQFZLRCMAAaNQV.jpg)
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/oct/11/truth-about-world-war-ii/
The harshness of the discipline men like Zhukov imposed on their troops is nowhere better illustrated than by Roberts's calculation that no fewer than 158,000 Red Army soldiers were executed by command of their own officers during the war, with tens of thousands more being sent to "penal battalions" in which the fatality rate was 50 percent or higher. Where Roberts merely mentions such statistics, however, Beevor succeeds in conveying the full horror of the conflict on the Eastern Front. Among many memorable vignettes is a scene from the winter of 1941–1942, where a Red Army officer near Kursk
saw a horrifying sight. An enormous space stretching to the horizon was filled with our tanks and German tanks. In between them there were thousands of sitting, standing or crawling Russians and Germans frozen solid. Some of them were leaning against each other, others hugging each other. Some propping themselves with a rifle, others holding a submachine gun. Many of them had their legs chopped off. This had been done by our infantry who had been unable to pull off the boots from the Fritzs' frozen legs so they chopped them off in order to be able to warm them up in the bunkers.
The Dambusters raids, celebrated as a triumph of British ingenuity, would now be considered as a war crime.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/bea2c458-14fd-11e1-a2a6-00144feabdc0.html
Lunch with the FT: Stewart Lee
Towards the end of lunch, though, he becomes quite angry about present conditions. There's no way he would have made it to Oxford today, he says. "For a start, I was adopted. In the 1960s, the process took three months, now it can take three years. That's going to affect people differently. I might have been damaged by longer in care. And I wouldn't have gone anyway because of the debts. There's no way I would take that on. Thirdly, a whole generation of people are being made to feel that they shouldn't be studying the arts. They're being told that their degree has got to be cost-effective."
He especially regrets the disappearance of the old "support networks", such as the unemployment and housing benefits, that enabled artists to live cheaply and find their way. "It's all over. There'll come a point when somebody will suddenly realise – there's loads and loads of Coldplay but there isn't a Radiohead, there's loads and loads of ITV1 sitcoms, and things with Robert Lindsay in a house, but there isn't a League of Gentlemen. Someone will be reading an embossed novel about a missing artefact, and they will suddenly think, 'Didn't there use to be books that were not just a list of events?' " (Lee's well-known parody of a typical Dan Brown sentence goes: "The famous man looked at the red cup.") In 40 years, he reckons, people will be saying, "Where's all that stuff gone that was ... good?"
The Future is NEAR
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/futuristic-high-speed-tube-travel-could-york-los-171007828.html?vp=1
Quote from: seafoid on May 29, 2013, 03:52:49 PM
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/bea2c458-14fd-11e1-a2a6-00144feabdc0.html
Lunch with the FT: Stewart Lee
Towards the end of lunch, though, he becomes quite angry about present conditions. There's no way he would have made it to Oxford today, he says. "For a start, I was adopted. In the 1960s, the process took three months, now it can take three years. That's going to affect people differently. I might have been damaged by longer in care. And I wouldn't have gone anyway because of the debts. There's no way I would take that on. Thirdly, a whole generation of people are being made to feel that they shouldn't be studying the arts. They're being told that their degree has got to be cost-effective."
He especially regrets the disappearance of the old "support networks", such as the unemployment and housing benefits, that enabled artists to live cheaply and find their way. "It's all over. There'll come a point when somebody will suddenly realise – there's loads and loads of Coldplay but there isn't a Radiohead, there's loads and loads of ITV1 sitcoms, and things with Robert Lindsay in a house, but there isn't a League of Gentlemen. Someone will be reading an embossed novel about a missing artefact, and they will suddenly think, 'Didn't there use to be books that were not just a list of events?' " (Lee's well-known parody of a typical Dan Brown sentence goes: "The famous man looked at the red cup.") In 40 years, he reckons, people will be saying, "Where's all that stuff gone that was ... good?"
I take his overall point but how are Radiohead somehow artistically superior to Coldplay? Just because he likes one and not the other? Arrogant cnut. I'm not a big Coldplay fan but they're alright. I prefer them to Radiohead anyway, whose music does nothing for me. But that's just my own personal taste.
I don't think he is insulting Coldplay. It is just that they are the current head of the marketable music producers club and fair play to them. Radiohead don't care whether their music is marketable and experiment wildly. I am a fan of Radiohead but some of their stuff I find insane. But I wouldn't want them to change.
Quote from: muppet on June 01, 2013, 11:00:24 AMsome of their stuff I find insane. But I wouldn't want them to change.
A bit like how I think of Mayo people.
The original Atari 2600 ET game, I remember playing it back in the day, god awful pointless game.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22766511 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22766511)
http://dublin1798.com/
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ecd1f15a-d1ad-11e2-b17e-00144feab7de.html
Dozens of online tracking companies collect details of web activity then sell them to the highest bidder. Companies combine this data with other details about individuals then churn the information through algorithms to determine the type of credit card offers that people see, how long they wait on a customer-service helpline and even when they might die.
"You can't understand any conflict, you can't understand– not so much the intricacies, the realities, because there's a huge barrage of propaganda and in order to break through the propaganda you have to know the details. It's impossible to do details in 300 words."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jquFBluif6M
The Alcubierre Drive
wait- how fast?
http://intellihub.com/2013/05/29/nasa-admits-alcubierre-drive-initiative-faster-than-the-speed-of-light/
May 30, 2013
Traveling faster than light has always been attributed to science fiction, but that all changed when Harold White and his team at NASA started to work on and tweak the Alcubierre Drive. Special relativity may hold true, but to travel faster or at the speed of light we might not need a craft that can travel at that speed. The solution might be to place a craft within a space that is moving faster than the speed of light! Therefore the craft itself does not have to travel at the speed of light from it's own type of propulsion system.
It's easier to think about if you think in terms of a flat escalator in an airport. The escalator moves faster than you are walking! In this case, the space encompassing the ship would be moving faster than the ship could fly, keeping all the matter of the ship intact. Therefore, we can move faster than light, in a massless cloud of space-time.
What is the Alcubierre Drive? It's actually based on Einsteins field equations, it suggests that a spacecraft could achieve faster-than-light travel. Rather than exceed the speed of light alone in a craft, a spacecraft would leap long distances by contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind it. This would result in faster than light travel (1). Physicist Miguel Alcubierre was the first that we know to identify this possibility. He described it as remaining still on a flat piece of space-time inside a warp bubble that was made to move at "superluminal" (faster than light) velocity. We must not forget that space-time can be warped and distorted, it can be moved. But what about moving sections of space-time that's created by expanding space-time behind the ship, and by contracting space-time in front of the ship?
This type of concept was also recently illustrated by Mathematician James Hill and Barry Cox at the University of Adelaide. They published a paper in the journal proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (3).
It was once believed that Einsteins theory of special relativity means that faster than light travel is just not possible. This is a misconception, special relativity simply states that the distance you travel depends on how fast you move, for how long you're moving for. So if you are driving at 70 mph you will have covered 70 miles in one hour. The confusing part is that, no matter how fast you are moving you will always see the speed of light as being the same. It's similar to sound, if you close your eyes and imagine that the only sense you have is hearing, you will identify things by how they sound. So if a car is driving at a rapid speed and honks its horn, we know that the horn is always tooting the same tone, it's just the car's motion that made it appear to change.
Special relativity also showed us that the atoms and molecules that make up matter are connected by electromagnetic fields, the same stuff light is made up of. The object that would break the light speed barrier is made up of the same stuff as the barrier itself. How can an object travel faster than that which links it's atoms? This was the barrier.
The only problem with our modern day science is that creating distortions in space-time require energy densities that are not yet possible for humans, or so they say. NASA scientists are currently working on tweaking Alcubierre's model.
Faster-than-light travel, also known as hyper space or "warp" drive from what the masses know for sure is currently at the level of speculation. Although there is already a lot of evidence that shows it is possible and has already been accomplished, mainstream science is still catching up. We are at the point right now where faster-than-light travel is still theoretical, but possible.
At the same time, we have to look at other factors that are now coming to light. As former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor Dr, Brian O'leary Illustrates. This topic has recently had another media explosion and congress recently discussed and looked at evidence for Earth like planets recently found by Kepler Telescopes. Three "super-Earths" to be exact that are most probably teeming with life (4). Furthermore, former congressmen and women recently participated in a citizens hearing on the subject of UFOs a few weeks ago.
http://www.feaklefestival.ie/programme.html
Doctor Daniele Volpe is not an ordinary Italian neurologist. In addition to heading up the Parkinson's Rehabilitation unit at the St. John of God hospital in Venice, he is a musician who loves traditional music and visits Ireland frequently to play music.
The story begins in June of 2010 in Peppers Pub, when the Italian doctor noticed a man with an unsteady gait enter the pub. "Someone with Parkinson's," he remembers thinking. About 20 minutes later the band opened the floor for a dance, and Dr. Volpe was surprised to see the man with Parkinson's among the dancers. What followed was incredible: the man who walked so unsteadily required no assistance to dance. Indeed, the man went through the moves effortlessly, as if he were a different person. Thus Dr. Volpe learned about the Reel step. He teamed up with Dublin-based researcher Timothy Lynch and on Dr Volpe's return to Venice, they sent 24 patients with Parkinson's to weekly set dancing classes for six months. A larger research study led by the University of Limerick, with input from Meg Morris at the University of Melbourne, is due to be rolled out in Ireland in the coming months. The studies have confirmed positive rehabilitative effects from Irish Set Dancing. Doctor Volpe will present his latest findings "The Therapeutic Effects of Irish Set Dancing in the treatment of Parkinson's Disease." at a conference to be held in Feakle on Tuesday, 6th August.
As part of the 26th Annual Traditional Music Festival, Dr. Volpe's dance group of Parkinson's patients are to be special guest performers and Doctor Volpe will present his latest findings. He will be accompanied by the set dancing fraternity from Venice, Italian Musicians and the mayor of Bendeno. A truly unique event not to be missed!
The evening will be complimented by an Art Exhibition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam)
QuoteThe strip search prank call scam is a series of incidents that occurred over roughly a decade before an arrest was made in 2004. These incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police detective, and convincing managers to conduct strip searches of female employees or perform other unusual acts on behalf of the police. The calls were usually placed to fast-food restaurants in small rural towns.
Over 70 such occurrences were reported in 30 U.S. states, until an incident in 2004 in Mount Washington, Kentucky, finally led to the arrest and charging of David Stewart, a 37‑year-old employee of Corrections Corporation of America. On October 31, 2006, he was acquitted of all charges in the case, though he is suspected of making other calls as well.
I was listening to discussion on radio last night about the pope's press conference on the plane where he was saying that no to Women Priests but he wished that there was greater input from women.
What is Hmmm, that's interesting was the statement that you don't need to be a priest or a bishop to be a Cardinal.
http://www.geekosystem.com/samuel-beckett-andre-the-giant/
http://alphahistory.com/weirdhistory/1827-john-lennon-jim-morrison-theft/ (http://alphahistory.com/weirdhistory/1827-john-lennon-jim-morrison-theft/)
In the summer of 1827 John Lennon and Jim Morrison appeared before the Carrickfergus Assizes, charged with stealing sugar, tea and sundry other articles. They were found guilty and although their offences were punishable by death, Lennon and Morrison were sentenced to transportation for life. According to press reports, they did not accept this verdict well:
"No soon as sentenced was passed, Morrison said "To hell with you!" and, when removing them from the dock, Lennon turned about and threw a penny with force towards the Judge. It struck the head of a gentleman who was sitting under the bench... We have seldom witnessed such a degree of depravity as they evinced."
- See more at: http://alphahistory.com/weirdhistory/1827-john-lennon-jim-morrison-theft/#sthash.s3qLEitE.dpuf
http://imgur.com/a/M9ks5?desktop=1
http://rt.com/business/man-outsmarts-banks-wins-court-221/ (http://rt.com/business/man-outsmarts-banks-wins-court-221/)
Read the small print!!
Quote from: Declan on August 13, 2013, 08:27:02 AM
http://rt.com/business/man-outsmarts-banks-wins-court-221/ (http://rt.com/business/man-outsmarts-banks-wins-court-221/)
Read the small print!!
Brilliant, made my day Dec. ;)
Quote from: Declan on August 13, 2013, 08:27:02 AM
http://rt.com/business/man-outsmarts-banks-wins-court-221/ (http://rt.com/business/man-outsmarts-banks-wins-court-221/)
Read the small print!!
I think the headline is as misleading as the Russian man's contract. He hasn't won any money yet. He just won the first case which meant he didn't have to pay the bank what they thought he owed them. Still a heartwarming tale though.
If you have a bit of time, this is a good read:
http://patrickcombs.com/95g/
Man cashes fake cheque and bank accidentally honours it!
There is same volume of water on the Earth today as there was when the dinasaurs ruled.
How do I know? I measured it.
According to BP, there is 50 years worth of oil left of the planet
Fair enough Orior, 50 more years will do some of us.
Quote from: Orior on August 16, 2013, 01:05:28 PM
According to BP, there is 50 years worth of oil left of the planet
There'd be a few more years if they weren't spilling it all over the gulf of Mexico
Quote from: Orior on August 16, 2013, 01:05:28 PM
According to BP, there is 50 years worth of oil left of the planet
200+ years of carbon based fuel. BP don't own any coal though.
I'd say BP is only spoofing.
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Can you imagine how high the oil would be even if that we're true in, say, 25 years if a majority were still dependant entirely on oil for transport? The transition has already begun and in 10 or 15 years alot will have changed.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/aug/15/nsa-they-know-much-more-you-think/?page=2
"During the past decade, the NSA has secretly worked to gain access to virtually all communications entering, leaving, or going through the country. A key reason, according to the draft of a top secret NSA inspector general's report leaked by Snowden, is that approximately one third of all international telephone calls in the world enter, leave, or transit the United States. "Most international telephone calls are routed through a small number of switches or 'chokepoints' in the international telephone switching system en route to their final destination," says the report. "The United States is a major crossroads for international switched telephone traffic." At the same time, according to the 2009 report, virtually all Internet communications in the world pass through the US. For example, the report notes that during 2002, less than one percent of worldwide Internet bandwidth—i.e., the international link between the Internet and computers—"was between two regions that did not include the United States."
Accessing this data is possible through a combination of techniques. Through the most effective of them, the NSA can gain direct access to the fiber-optic cables that now carry most kinds of communications data. According to a slide released by Snowden, the cable-tapping operation is codenamed "UPSTREAM" and it is described as the "collection of communications on fiber cables and infrastructure as data flows past." It also appears to be both far more secret and far more invasive than the PRISM program revealed by Snowden. Although PRISM gives the NSA access to data from the individual Internet companies, such as Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft, the companies claim that they don't give the agency direct access to their servers. Through UPSTREAM, however, the agency does get direct access to fiber-optic cables and the supporting infrastructure that carries nearly all the Internet and telephone traffic in the country.
As part of its cable-tapping program, the NSA has secretly installed what amount to computerized filters on the telecommunications infrastructure throughout the country. According to the leaked inspector general's report, the agency has secret cooperative agreements with the top three telephone companies in the country. Although the report disguises their names, they are likely AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint:
NSA determined that under the Authorization it could gain access to approximately 81% of the international calls into and out of the United States through three corporate partners: Company A had access to 39%, Company B 28%, and Company C 14%.
The filters are placed at key junction points known as switches. For example, much of the communications—telephone and Internet—to and from the northwestern United States pass through a nearly windowless nine-story building at 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco. This is AT&T's regional switching center. In 2003, the NSA built a secret room in the facility and filled it with computers and software from a company called Narus. Established in Israel by Israelis, and now owned by Boeing, Narus specializes in spyware, equipment that examines both the metadata—the names and addresses of people communicating on the Internet—and the content of digital traffic such as e-mail as it zooms past at the speed of light.
The agency also has access to the telephone metadata—the numbers called and calling and other details—of all Americans. Phone calls from telephone numbers that have been selected as targets can be routed directly to the agency and recorded. According to William Binney, the former NSA senior official, the NSA has established between ten and twenty of these secret rooms at telecom company switches around the country."
I suppose I could start a "Things that make you go, 'Hey, that's clever'" thread, but I'll just stick this in here. I liked it. (But don't read it unless you're prepared to comply with the request at the end.)
Meat (http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html)
Christie Brinkley aged 59
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/18/article-2396699-1B5B880F000005DC-644_306x650.jpg)
Laoislad would probably still take Debbie McGee.
The future of electricity in fuel cells, this looks like it could be big!!
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-25/business/41446704_1_fuel-cells-warren-citrin-wind-power
At Redox Power Systems, the future of electricity lies in fuel cells
By Steven Overly,August 25, 2013
The executives at Fulton-based Redox Power Systems are making a bold bet: The homes and businesses of the future will be powered by an extraterrestrial-looking apparatus loaded with fuel cells that convert natural gas and air into electricity.
The technology promises to be more efficient and environmentally friendly than the systems that power many buildings today, but the company has to first overcome the economic and social barriers that often beset renewable energy ventures.
"We have to show off a bit and show we can do what others can't," chief executive Warren Citrin said. "The best way to do it is by example."
Citrin expects a fully functioning prototype of its PowerSERG 2-80, known to its inventors as "the Cube," will be complete by December. From there, Redox must raise money from investors to ramp up production and start selling to commercial real estate developers and builders.
The device, which measures one cubic meter, can be kept in a basement or on the roof, where it will generate up to 80 kilowatts of electricity, depending on the number of fuel cells inside. One cube could power several houses or a gas station. A few could keep a grocery store lit.
The technology has been under development for a quarter century in a University of Maryland laboratory that's currently staffed by three scientists, eight graduate students and six undergraduates.
They continue to push the science forward by testing materials that may conduct more electricity or discovering processes to make the power conversion more efficient, said Eric D. Wachsman, who heads the project as director of the university's Energy Research Center.
But fuel cell technology isn't the only renewable energy source available. In fact, it is often dwarfed in both attention and investment by more widely known alternatives, such as solar and wind power or biofuels.
"Solar and wind are great when the sun is out and the wind is blowing, but you want your power to come on whenever you flip the switch," Wachsman said. The batteries used to store the energy for use at other times are expensive, he added.
Fuel cell technology has also fallen out of favor with some investors and companies who say it has failed to deliver the kind of power capacity scientists initially expected and that the cost of the technology puts it out of reach for most homes and businesses.
Chris Ainscough, a senior engineer at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, said the latest fuel cell technologies have proven to be as efficient, if not more so, than alternative energy sources. The key, however, is bringing down the cost.
"That's when you see the tipping point and you see people start to adopt this," Ainscough said. "You saw this with hybrid vehicles. You saw fuel costs spike and people said, 'I can save money on my horrible commute with a hybrid'."
Wachsman said the technology has improved in recent years such that the fuel cells developed and patented by the University of Maryland in particular are able to generate enough electricity at a low enough cost to make the cells commercially viable.
"It was always ready to be commercialized," Wachsman said. "It was just finding someone to finance it."
Redox Power Systems has emerged as that someone. The company expects to charge $1,000 per kilowatt for the cube, a price that Citrin claims costs less than many competitors.
Citrin started data and display software company Solipsys in 1996 and sold it to Raytheon about seven years later for an undisclosed sum. He first became aware of the fuel cell technology as a member of the engineering school's board of visitors.
Citrin went to his former partners from Solipsys to provide the initial funding for Redox, he said, in order to mitigate some of the technology's risk before seeking venture capital. The company could be at that point by the end of this year, he said.
their website
http://www.powerserg.com/
Skyscraper melts car.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23930675 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23930675)
A new London skyscraper dubbed the "Walkie Talkie" has been blamed for reflecting light which melted parts of a car parked on a nearby street.
Martin Lindsay parked his Jaguar on Eastcheap, in the City of London, on Thursday afternoon.
When he returned about two hours later, he found parts of his car - including the wing mirror and badge - had melted.
Mr Lindsay said he "could not believe" the damage. The developers have apologised and paid for repairs.
The 37-storey skyscraper at 20 Fenchurch Street, which has been nicknamed the "Walkie Talkie" because of its shape, is currently under construction.
20 Fenchurch Street which has been nicknamed the "Walkie-Talkie" 20 Fenchurch Street which has been nicknamed the "Walkie-Talkie"
'Dangerous'
Mr Lindsay, director of tiling company Moderna Contracts Ltd, said: "I was walking down the road and saw a photographer taking photos and asked, 'what's happening?'
"The photographer asked me 'have you seen that car? The owner won't be happy.'
"I said: 'I am the owner. Crikey, that's awful.'"
The wing mirror, panels and Jaguar badge had all melted, Mr Lindsay said.
"You can't believe something like this would happen," he added. "They've got to do something about it.
"It could be dangerous. Imagine if the sun reflected on the wrong part of the body.
"On the windscreen, there was a note from the construction company saying 'your car's buckled, could you give us a call?'"
In a joint statement, developers Land Securities and Canary Wharf said: "We are aware of concerns regarding the light reflecting from 20 Fenchurch Street and are looking into the matter.
Melted Jaguar Mr Lindsay said his car's wing mirror, panels and Jaguar badge had melted
"As a precautionary measure, the City of London has agreed to suspend three parking bays in the area which may be affected while we investigate the situation further."
Mr Lindsay said the developers had apologised and agreed to sort out the £946 repair costs.
Quote from: DrinkingHarp on September 03, 2013, 08:42:02 AM
The future of electricity in fuel cells, this looks like it could be big!!
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-08-25/business/41446704_1_fuel-cells-warren-citrin-wind-power
At Redox Power Systems, the future of electricity lies in fuel cells
By Steven Overly,August 25, 2013
The executives at Fulton-based Redox Power Systems are making a bold bet: The homes and businesses of the future will be powered by an extraterrestrial-looking apparatus loaded with fuel cells that convert natural gas and air into electricity.
The technology promises to be more efficient and environmentally friendly than the systems that power many buildings today, but the company has to first overcome the economic and social barriers that often beset renewable energy ventures.
"We have to show off a bit and show we can do what others can't," chief executive Warren Citrin said. "The best way to do it is by example."
Citrin expects a fully functioning prototype of its PowerSERG 2-80, known to its inventors as "the Cube," will be complete by December. From there, Redox must raise money from investors to ramp up production and start selling to commercial real estate developers and builders.
The device, which measures one cubic meter, can be kept in a basement or on the roof, where it will generate up to 80 kilowatts of electricity, depending on the number of fuel cells inside. One cube could power several houses or a gas station. A few could keep a grocery store lit.
The technology has been under development for a quarter century in a University of Maryland laboratory that's currently staffed by three scientists, eight graduate students and six undergraduates.
They continue to push the science forward by testing materials that may conduct more electricity or discovering processes to make the power conversion more efficient, said Eric D. Wachsman, who heads the project as director of the university's Energy Research Center.
But fuel cell technology isn't the only renewable energy source available. In fact, it is often dwarfed in both attention and investment by more widely known alternatives, such as solar and wind power or biofuels.
"Solar and wind are great when the sun is out and the wind is blowing, but you want your power to come on whenever you flip the switch," Wachsman said. The batteries used to store the energy for use at other times are expensive, he added.
Fuel cell technology has also fallen out of favor with some investors and companies who say it has failed to deliver the kind of power capacity scientists initially expected and that the cost of the technology puts it out of reach for most homes and businesses.
Chris Ainscough, a senior engineer at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, said the latest fuel cell technologies have proven to be as efficient, if not more so, than alternative energy sources. The key, however, is bringing down the cost.
"That's when you see the tipping point and you see people start to adopt this," Ainscough said. "You saw this with hybrid vehicles. You saw fuel costs spike and people said, 'I can save money on my horrible commute with a hybrid'."
Wachsman said the technology has improved in recent years such that the fuel cells developed and patented by the University of Maryland in particular are able to generate enough electricity at a low enough cost to make the cells commercially viable.
"It was always ready to be commercialized," Wachsman said. "It was just finding someone to finance it."
Redox Power Systems has emerged as that someone. The company expects to charge $1,000 per kilowatt for the cube, a price that Citrin claims costs less than many competitors.
Citrin started data and display software company Solipsys in 1996 and sold it to Raytheon about seven years later for an undisclosed sum. He first became aware of the fuel cell technology as a member of the engineering school's board of visitors.
Citrin went to his former partners from Solipsys to provide the initial funding for Redox, he said, in order to mitigate some of the technology's risk before seeking venture capital. The company could be at that point by the end of this year, he said.
their website
http://www.powerserg.com/
Finally a post that actually makes me go...Hmmm, that's interesting.
Thanks DH.
The day Harry Redknapp brought a fan on to play for West Ham
According to one of football's most endearing fairytales, Harry Redknapp once pulled an abusive fan from the crowd and put him on the field for West Ham. This allegedly happened in 1994, but no video and scant evidence of the incident exist. Jeff Maysh chased this mystery for over a decade before finally catching up with the fan in question
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/sep/05/harry-redknapp-played-fan-west-ham?CMP=twt_gu
Quote from: Harold Disgracey on September 06, 2013, 01:04:07 PM
The day Harry Redknapp brought a fan on to play for West Ham
According to one of football's most endearing fairytales, Harry Redknapp once pulled an abusive fan from the crowd and put him on the field for West Ham. This allegedly happened in 1994, but no video and scant evidence of the incident exist. Jeff Maysh chased this mystery for over a decade before finally catching up with the fan in question
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/sep/05/harry-redknapp-played-fan-west-ham?CMP=twt_gu
great story that
This is worth a look.
http://www.boredpanda.com/must-see-historic-moments/ (http://www.boredpanda.com/must-see-historic-moments/)
http://www.bridgesofdublin.ie/
Wasn't sure where to put this....
Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPxv4Aff3IA#t=274
Quote from: ballinaman on October 21, 2013, 05:10:43 PM
Wasn't sure where to put this....
Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPxv4Aff3IA#t=274
Maybe the Iraelis are more like some of their Arabic neighbours than they realise?
Quote from: ballinaman on October 21, 2013, 05:10:43 PM
Wasn't sure where to put this....
Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPxv4Aff3IA#t=274
Wow, horrible stuff. I've always found African people to be some of the friendliest, warmest people I know.
Quote from: Asal Mor on October 25, 2013, 07:01:18 PM
Quote from: ballinaman on October 21, 2013, 05:10:43 PM
Wasn't sure where to put this....
Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPxv4Aff3IA#t=274
Wow, horrible stuff. I've always found African people to be some of the friendliest, warmest people I know.
Anywhere I have gone I have found warm friendly people, I'm sure Israel is the same.
We have our headbangers that like to shout abuse in the streets too, but in fairness by any standards that is quite a despicable mob.
Quote from: Harold Disgracey on September 06, 2013, 01:04:07 PM
The day Harry Redknapp brought a fan on to play for West Ham
According to one of football's most endearing fairytales, Harry Redknapp once pulled an abusive fan from the crowd and put him on the field for West Ham. This allegedly happened in 1994, but no video and scant evidence of the incident exist. Jeff Maysh chased this mystery for over a decade before finally catching up with the fan in question
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/sep/05/harry-redknapp-played-fan-west-ham?CMP=twt_gu
Thats the best story i've read in ages, really cheered me up. Thanks for sharing
Quote from: muppet on October 25, 2013, 07:06:56 PM
Anywhere I have gone I have found warm friendly people, I'm sure Israel is the same.
I'm sure there are but I just mean that in my experience Africans are the friendliest people in the world.
Quote from: Asal Mor on October 25, 2013, 07:49:53 PM
Quote from: muppet on October 25, 2013, 07:06:56 PM
Anywhere I have gone I have found warm friendly people, I'm sure Israel is the same.
I'm sure there are but I just mean that in my experience Africans are the friendliest people in the world.
I wasn't contradicting you. This would be a subjective issue anyway.
Ireland the 6th best place in world to be a woman :)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24650912
Quote from: muppet on October 26, 2013, 12:58:22 PM
Quote from: Asal Mor on October 25, 2013, 07:49:53 PM
Quote from: muppet on October 25, 2013, 07:06:56 PM
Anywhere I have gone I have found warm friendly people, I'm sure Israel is the same.
I'm sure there are but I just mean that in my experience Africans are the friendliest people in the world.
I wasn't contradicting you. This would be a subjective issue anyway.
You're sound muppet (presume you're African). I was a bit contrary yesterday. :)
Quote from: Asal Mor on October 27, 2013, 02:55:49 AM
Quote from: muppet on October 26, 2013, 12:58:22 PM
Quote from: Asal Mor on October 25, 2013, 07:49:53 PM
Quote from: muppet on October 25, 2013, 07:06:56 PM
Anywhere I have gone I have found warm friendly people, I'm sure Israel is the same.
I'm sure there are but I just mean that in my experience Africans are the friendliest people in the world.
I wasn't contradicting you. This would be a subjective issue anyway.
You're sound muppet (presume you're African). I was a bit contrary yesterday. :)
Correct. I'm from sub-Saharan Mayo.
Gunshot underwater...
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bagk6X8IgAAf-YB.jpg:large)
Bayern jingle bells
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLCQkvhnG4A
11 month old Emma's Dad fills out her application for a creche.......
(http://static.happyplace.com/assets/images/2014/01/52cddb4380c9a.jpg)
James Last live at the Rose of Tralee - must have been in 83
The crowd love it when he starts the theme tune to the Sunday Game.
They probably even forgave Seamus Darby.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjieoLrQkm0
About 5 minutes in
The German commentator didn't get it. He thought it was atmosphere music.
There was an article in the Irish times about TSG last summer.
http://www.irishtimes.com/the-seasons-of-sundays-in-their-own-words-1.1476526?page=2
Carney returned in 1982 and '83. In those days, the All-Ireland winning team often came into studio with the cup on the night of the final.
JC: "The winning team always came in before they went back to their hotel. They loved it. Because GAA players were never on the TV in those days, not like now. So they were all delighted to come in so that their mammies would see them with their medal on the telly. But when Offaly came in the night of the '82 final, we had a problem. Maurice Reidy had put together a package of clips from Kerry's four-in-a-row in preparation for them making it five-in-a-row. But they didn't obviously. "Maurice was heartbroken, first of all because he was a good Castleisland man and secondly because the bloody thing wouldn't be shown. They
were great about it though. Eugene McGee and Richie Connor were fantastic. Richie said, 'Sure go on and show the Kerry five-in-a-row thing, we'd love to see it.' When it went out then, everybody loved it. It kind of didn't matter that Kerry hadn't won."
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2005-11-14-domino-bird_x.htm
Sparrow knocks over 23,000 dominoes before being shot
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A sparrow knocked over 23,000 dominoes in the Netherlands, nearly ruining a world record attempt before it was shot to death Monday, the state news agency reported.
The unfortunate bird flew through an open window at an exposition center in the northern city of Leeuwarden where employees of television company Endemol NV have worked for weeks setting up more than 4 million dominoes in an attempt to break the official Guinness World Record for falling dominoes on Friday night.
Only a system of 750 built-in gaps in the chain prevented the bird from knocking most or all of the dominoes over ahead of schedule, "Domino Day" organizers were quoted as saying by the NOS news agency.
The bird was shot by an exterminator with an air rifle while cowering in a corner.
Red Army singing Get Lucky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkghlXjlgv0
High performance car not matched by high performance driver:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OkESh5IQM8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OkESh5IQM8)
Hydranges. Cut the flowerheads dry them out shred them and mix with tobacco. Smoke for high the same as weed. Legal! And growing in your garden or soon will be.. :D
Quote from: lawnseed on February 09, 2014, 07:23:01 PM
Hydranges. Cut the flowerheads dry them out shred them and mix with tobacco. Smoke for high the same as weed. Legal! And growing in your garden or soon will be.. :D
Not sure I agree with that post Lawnseed. Has this weed been tested on chimps etc etc?
Quote from: Orior on February 09, 2014, 07:57:36 PM
Quote from: lawnseed on February 09, 2014, 07:23:01 PM
Hydranges. Cut the flowerheads dry them out shred them and mix with tobacco. Smoke for high the same as weed. Legal! And growing in your garden or soon will be.. :D
Not sure I agree with that post Lawnseed. Has this weed been tested on chimps etc etc?
Paris gardens raided for hydrange flowers just read about it. Im not promoting mind altering substances i m saying eeemm thats interesting..for some people who are into that stuff
Quote from: lawnseed on February 09, 2014, 07:23:01 PM
Hydranges. Cut the flowerheads dry them out shred them and mix with tobacco. Smoke for high the same as weed. Legal! And growing in your garden or soon will be.. :D
This explains everything.
Just saw this on a BBC article about emigration.
The number of Brits living outside the UK but in another EU country is 2.2 million - about the same as the number of EU citizens who are now living in the UK (2.34 million).
Wonder how Irelands numbers compare or are most of our emigrants outside the EU.
Quote from: seafoid on February 07, 2014, 07:52:18 AM
The bird was shot by an exterminator with an air rifle while cowering in a corner.
The poor bird! Fcukin domino world record. Could they be more worthless?
I was watching the documentary by Neil Delamere last night on St Patrick. In it it was said that the practice of leaving spaces between words in text was first adopted by the Irish. Hmmm.
Quote from: Denn Forever on March 18, 2014, 10:29:43 AM
I was watching the documentary by Neil Delamere last night on St Patrick. In it it was said that the practice of leaving spaces between words in text was first adopted by the Irish. Hmmm.
Idontbelieveyou.
(http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu206/Hardyarse/parrot_zpse4e1a158.jpg) (http://s648.photobucket.com/user/Hardyarse/media/parrot_zpse4e1a158.jpg.html)
While sitting down, lift your right foot off the floor and swing your leg from the knee down to make clockwise circles.
While doing this, draw the number '6' in the air with your right hand.
See what happens to your foot circles.
There's nothing you can do about it.
from 2008
http://www.housingwire.com/blogs/1-rewired/post/if-you-do-nothing-else-today
Steve Eisman had become a poorly kept secret. Five hundred people called in to hear what he had to say, and another 500 logged on afterward to listen to a recording of it. He explained the strange alchemy of the C.D.O. and said that he expected losses of up to $300 billion from this sliver of the market alone. To evaluate the situation, he urged his audience to "just throw your model in the garbage can. The models are all backward-looking. The models don't have any idea of what this world has become.... For the first time in their lives, people in the asset-backed-securitization world are actually having to think." He explained that the rating agencies were morally bankrupt and living in fear of becoming actually bankrupt. "The rating agencies are scared to death," he said. "They're scared to death about doing nothing because they'll look like fools if they do nothing."
Dynamite stuff.
Quote from: Hardy on April 03, 2014, 11:30:43 AM
While sitting down, lift your right foot off the floor and swing your leg from the knee down to make clockwise circles.
While doing this, draw the number '6' in the air with your right hand.
See what happens to your foot circles.
There's nothing you can do about it.
Tried for 10 minutes but couldn't beat it. Nosey cnuts in the office staring at me put me off.
A small band of Hindu worshippers in India are claiming that drinking fresh cow urine can help cure all diseases - including cancer. Drinking cow urine to treat medical ailments is a centuries old practice in the Hindu religion. But the unusual treatment - which is not medically proven - has resurfaced in recent years, in the North Indian city of Agra, Uttar Pradesh.
Quote from: ONeill on April 10, 2014, 02:06:44 PM
A small band of Hindu worshippers in India are claiming that drinking fresh cow urine can help cure all diseases - including cancer. Drinking cow urine to treat medical ailments is a centuries old practice in the Hindu religion. But the unusual treatment - which is not medically proven - has resurfaced in recent years, in the North Indian city of Agra, Uttar Pradesh.
Something like the "training" sessions in the movie Beerfest, except they used ram's piss...drink that and you can drink anything!!!
Quote from: ONeill on April 10, 2014, 02:06:44 PM
A small band of Hindu worshippers in India are claiming that drinking fresh cow urine can help cure all diseases - including cancer. Drinking cow urine to treat medical ailments is a centuries old practice in the Hindu religion. But the unusual treatment - which is not medically proven - has resurfaced in recent years, in the North Indian city of Agra, Uttar Pradesh.
I know a few publicans who seem to believe the same thing.
Quote from: Hardy on April 03, 2014, 11:30:43 AM
While sitting down, lift your right foot off the floor and swing your leg from the knee down to make clockwise circles.
While doing this, draw the number '6' in the air with your right hand.
See what happens to your foot circles.
There's nothing you can do about it.
Reminds me of a quote from Goodfellas
Quote
Jimmy: Who is this?
Vinnie{over phone}: This is Vinnie.
Jimmy: Vinnie, what happened?
Vinnie{over phone}: Well we-...
Jimmy{interrupting}: You get it straightened out?
Vinnie{over phone}: No, we had a problem... and uh, we tried to do everything we could.
Jimmy: What do you mean?
Vinnie{over phone}: Well, you know what I mean. He's gone, and we couldn't do nothing about it. That's it.
Jimmy{exasperated}: What do you mean? What do you mean? Uh...
Vinnie{over phone}: He's gone. He's gone.
Heres something.. Unless im dreaming are there two versions of the sly stallone film "demolition man"? In the show I rembember stallone is invited to dinner with ramond coctoe (your man from yes minister) together with sandra bullock to "Taco belle"
In the version I saw this morning they were invited to "Pizza hut" whats going on?
You got a good pot strain is all.
Bennett from Commando
(http://vcrvcr.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/commando-bennett.png?w=640&h=358)
was also the biker from The Village people
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A0JrrX4J1J4/SZoOCQswZbI/AAAAAAAACFY/QCFG47p1UQ4/s320/VillagePeopleBiker.jpg)
;)
Quote from: lawnseed on April 11, 2014, 04:28:31 PM
Heres something.. Unless im dreaming are there two versions of the sly stallone film "demolition man"? In the show I rembember stallone is invited to dinner with ramond cocteau (Nigel hawthorne) together with sandra bullock to "Taco belle"
In the version I saw this morning they were invited to "Pizza hut" whats going on?
haaa hahahah...
there are two versions pizza and taco belle both filmed together "pizza hut" is the European version because they commanded more European market share at the time of the movie
you see a thing that makes you go hmmm.. 8)
^^^
Yer man is high
Quote from: Puckoon on April 12, 2014, 08:28:11 AM
^^^
Yer man is high
Ahh come on thats a real bit of trivia puck. Next time that shows on youll want to see if its the US version or the european version.. :D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-27157504 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-27157504)
Is the same job being done for us by the Irish army west of Donegal or do the rooskies have free reign there?
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BmE1goZIUAAzBrp.jpg:large)
My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for.
Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away.
Fabric softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring. But, it's hard to get that April Fresh scent out of your clothes.
Quote from: Orior on May 18, 2014, 10:29:41 PM
My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for.
Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away.
Fabric softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring. But, it's hard to get that April Fresh scent out of your clothes.
Who is April Fresh?
Math problems from a North Korean school textbook during Kim Il Sung's reign.
"If 17 boys and 18 girls are singing anthems of praise to Kim Il Sung, how many children are singing altogether?"
"A girl has a basket with 5 apples in it. She meets an American soldier. He steals 3 apples. How many apples does she have left?"
From Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick. An awesome book by the way.
The Leidenfrost effect (http://www.wimp.com/leidenfrosteffect/)
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140623-the-real-life-hoverbike (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140623-the-real-life-hoverbike)
Quote from: Hardy on June 05, 2014, 12:48:28 PM
The Leidenfrost effect (http://www.wimp.com/leidenfrosteffect/)
Thanks Hardy
That is very interesting
Quote from: seafoid on June 24, 2014, 08:04:24 PM
Quote from: Hardy on June 05, 2014, 12:48:28 PM
The Leidenfrost effect (http://www.wimp.com/leidenfrosteffect/)
Thanks Hardy
That is very interesting
Indeed.
http://ideas.ted.com/2014/06/23/guess-which-country-does-the-most-good-for-the-planet/
http://www.goodcountry.org/overall
Quote from: AFS on June 25, 2014, 12:17:24 AM
http://ideas.ted.com/2014/06/23/guess-which-country-does-the-most-good-for-the-planet/
http://www.goodcountry.org/overall
And the caveat from the originator, Simon Anholt:
The Good Country Index doesn't measure what countries do at home: not because I think these things don't matter, of course, but because there are plenty of surveys that already do that. What the Index does aim to do is to start a global discussion about how countries can balance their duty to their own citizens with their responsibility to the wider world, because this is essential for the future of humanity and the health of our planet. So it's not at all about the experience of actually living in the country, but all about how it's perceived to measure up on the global stage.
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on June 25, 2014, 12:33:42 AM
Quote from: AFS on June 25, 2014, 12:17:24 AM
http://ideas.ted.com/2014/06/23/guess-which-country-does-the-most-good-for-the-planet/
http://www.goodcountry.org/overall
And the caveat from the originator, Simon Anholt:
The Good Country Index doesn't measure what countries do at home: not because I think these things don't matter, of course, but because there are plenty of surveys that already do that. What the Index does aim to do is to start a global discussion about how countries can balance their duty to their own citizens with their responsibility to the wider world, because this is essential for the future of humanity and the health of our planet.
So it's not at all about the experience of actually living in the country, but all about how it's perceived to measure up on the global stage.
Without delving into the detail, my guess is that we are tops because we export Guinness. And Aran sweaters.
Tops? You're only seventh.
(Sitting in for laoislad today.)
Quote from: Orior on June 25, 2014, 10:03:48 AM
Quote from: Fear ón Srath Bán on June 25, 2014, 12:33:42 AM
Quote from: AFS on June 25, 2014, 12:17:24 AM
http://ideas.ted.com/2014/06/23/guess-which-country-does-the-most-good-for-the-planet/
http://www.goodcountry.org/overall
And the caveat from the originator, Simon Anholt:
The Good Country Index doesn't measure what countries do at home: not because I think these things don't matter, of course, but because there are plenty of surveys that already do that. What the Index does aim to do is to start a global discussion about how countries can balance their duty to their own citizens with their responsibility to the wider world, because this is essential for the future of humanity and the health of our planet.
So it's not at all about the experience of actually living in the country, but all about how it's perceived to measure up on the global stage.
Without delving into the detail, my guess is that we are tops because we export Guinness. And Aran sweaters.
Our chief export is listed as -
The Craic.
It also says that the EU are investigating to see if we are properly taxing
The Craic. "We understand that companies such as Mocrosoft and Apple are having the Craic in Ireland and that Anglo had The Craic for years before that. But we must ensure that Ireland honours its fiscal commitments and endeavours to tax The Craic properly" said a source, who didn't wish to be named as he said he was only having The Craic.
Map of which disease will most likely to kill you
http://theweek.com/article/index/264247/this-map-shows-the-disease-most-likely-to-kill-you
I'm averaging exactly 1.000 posts per day over the last 2,808 days.
Greatest comeback since Dr Hook.
2 years
Ah FFS look what the cat dragged in!!!
Quote from: saffron sam2 on July 20, 2014, 11:39:40 PM
I'm averaging exactly 1.000 posts per day over the last 2,808 days.
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Quote from: saffron sam2 on July 20, 2014, 11:39:40 PM
I'm averaging exactly 1.000 posts per day over the last 2,808 days.
Can't wait for tomorrows update!
Quote from: LeoMc on July 21, 2014, 04:09:09 PM
Quote from: saffron sam2 on July 20, 2014, 11:39:40 PM
I'm averaging exactly 1.000 posts per day over the last 2,808 days.
Can't wait for tomorrows update!
An eager forumwaits
This could have went in the Photography thread I suppose but maybe not everyone looks at that thread. Some great pictures taken by the Air Corps.
http://jrnl.ie/1600591
Fantastic photos
Sounds a bit like a commercial presentation but great if it works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEtRxakTyMM
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/airspace-closed-over-iceland-volcano-as-it-starts-to-erupt-205847274.html
http://anglodutchland.com/About/AngloDutch%20Guide.htm
Maybe Russell Brand isn't such a bad guy.
http://educateinspirechange.org/alternative-news/fox-news-five-attack-russell-brand-response-priceless/
Quote from: Denn Forever on September 06, 2014, 11:04:09 AM
Maybe Russell Brand isn't such a bad guy.
http://educateinspirechange.org/alternative-news/fox-news-five-attack-russell-brand-response-priceless/
Yeah he spoke very well here. I'd never seen Fox News but I'm amazed at some of the casual racism that goes on there.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lost-franklin-expedition-ship-found-in-the-arctic-1.2760311
Aid for back breaking work.
http://www.takepart.com/photos/7-healthcare-innovations-saving-lives-developing-world/a-better-way-to-collect-water?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2014-09-16
Quote from: Denn Forever on September 20, 2014, 02:11:35 PM
Aid for back breaking work.
http://www.takepart.com/photos/7-healthcare-innovations-saving-lives-developing-world/a-better-way-to-collect-water?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2014-09-16
The hippo water roller. Simple but ingenious.
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2014/07/04/annik-honore-dead-ian-curtis-les-disques-du-crepuscule/
Belgian-born journalist and music promoter Annik Honoré — girlfriend of Joy Division's Ian Curtis at the time of his death, the alleged inspiration for "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and the co-founder of the Les Disques du Crépuscule and Factory Benelux labels — died this week at the age of 56, according to press reports and associates.
Le Soir, a Belgian newspaper, reported that Honoré died Thursday "following a serious illness."
Last night, Joy Division bassist Peter Hook performed in Nottingham, England, and dedicated show-opener "Atmosphere" to Honoré. He tweeted: "Hope she's sat up there with Ian. RIP."
Quote from: Asal Mor on September 21, 2014, 12:56:48 PM
Quote from: Denn Forever on September 20, 2014, 02:11:35 PM
Aid for back breaking work.
http://www.takepart.com/photos/7-healthcare-innovations-saving-lives-developing-world/a-better-way-to-collect-water?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2014-09-16
The hippo water roller. Simple but ingenious.
Wheel invented in Africa!!
I just watched the Louis Theroux documentary about big game hunting in Africa. I hadn't realised before that the money it brings in allows wild animals to flourish within the big game farms(which are huge and more like national parks than what we'd know as farms). In places without big game hunting animal numbers have been depleted. The hunting paradoxically keeps the animals alive. It's pretty ironic that every so often a picture of some hunter with their kill pops up on social media, to reams of abuse about how horrendous it is to kill an endangered animal.
It's a bit like Lough Corrib where the fishermen are keeping the lake stocked.
Malandragem. It's a Brazilian word for cuteness in sport.
Like the Mikey sheehy free in 78 or that last Kilkenny goal in the AIF when the defender was taken out of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZmXWHH6N78
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pfbiH2vTj4
BBC NI political correspondent Martina Purdy to become an nun?!?!?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-29548729
Fair play,to her. Brave decision.
Quote from: Denn Forever on October 10, 2014, 05:31:53 PM
Fair play,to her. Brave decision.
Do you think she'll have to grow a wee wispy nun-beard? Are they optional?
This dude must be related to Syferus
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/international/2014/1010/651509-gilbraltar-boss-if-were-minnows-so-are-brazil/
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/technology/nude-snapchat-photos-reportedly-accessed-by-hacker-group-1.1959655
Nude Snapchat photos reportedly accessed by hacker group
Giant database of pictures which users thought were deleted released on chat forum
Snapchat allows users' messages to vanish after seconds.
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A giant database of Snapchat photos, reportedly including naked "selfies", has been released by hackers who have been collecting the files for years, it has been reported.
Business Insider said the notorious chat forum 4chan had referred to the hack as "The Snappening". It said underground photo-trading chat rooms had been filled in recent weeks with rumours.
The site claimed a third-party Snapchat client app had been collecting every single photo and video file sent through it for years, giving hackers access to a 13GB library of Snapchat pictures that users had believed were deleted.
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Users of 4chan have downloaded the files and are creating a searchable database that will allow people to search the stolen images by Snapchat username.
Snapchat said today it's not at fault for a leak of images from its service. Photos from Snapchat users were posted onto the internet yesterday, even though the Los Angeles-based startup bills itself as a service that deletes pictures after they're sent.
In a statement today, the company said it wasn't responsible for the incident and blamed third-party apps that people had been using with Snapchat for the leak.
"We can confirm that Snapchat's servers were never breached and were not the source of these leaks," Mary Ritti, a spokeswoman for the company, said in a statement.
"Snapchatters were victimised by their use of third-party apps to send and receive Snaps, a practice that we expressly prohibit in our Terms of Use precisely because they compromise our users' security."
Snapchat, which is valued at $10 billion (€7.93 billion), apologised for a breach earlier this year that caused data such as users' phone numbers to be exposed. The startup also had to settle claims by the USFederal Trade Commission in May that it deceived users by falsely promising its photo messages would "disappear forever" after they were shared, even though there are several workarounds. "
Good on ya Sister Marty. I'd join the Reds if they'd have me.
John Trudell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsAnIpt3zcE
I was at a trade show for civil engineers in government positions, a vendor was showcasing this product for culvert lining but it seems the uses for the Concrete Cloth are endless.
http://www.wimp.com/bluetarp/#close
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_(given_name)
Jennifer is a feminine given name, a Cornish form of Guinevere/Gwenhwyfar[1] adopted into the English language during the 20th century.
It may mean "white enchantress"or "the fair one"[2] (from Proto-Celtic *Windo-seibrā "white phantom"). A Cornish form, it is cognate with the Welsh form Gwenhwyfar and with the Old Irish Findabair.[3]
Despite the name's similarity to the Old English words jenefer, genefer and jinifer, all of which were variants of Juniper used to describe the juniper tree,[4] there is no evidence that it comes from these.
It became a common first name for females in English-speaking countries during the 20th century.
The Welsh form Gwenhwyfar, which seems to be cognate with the Irish name Findabair, can be translated as "The White Enchantress" or "The White Fay/Ghost", from Proto-Celtic *Uindo- "white, fair, holy" + *seibara "magical being" (cognate with Old Irish síabair "a spectre, phantom, supernatural being [usually in pejorative sense]").[1][2][3][4][5]
Geoffrey of Monmouth rendered her name as Guanhumara in Latin (though there are many spelling variations found in the various manuscripts of his Historia Regum Britanniae). The name is given as Guennuuar in Caradoc's Vita Gildae, while Gerald of Wales refers to her as Wenneuereia. In the 15th century Middle Cornish play Bewnans Ke, she was called Gwynnever.
http://www.architecturendesign.net/25-of-the-most-creative-sculptures-and-statues-from-around-the-world/
This book looks very interesting-Haunted Ireland by Tarquin Blake
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/looking-for-a-haunting-tonight-we-ve-found-13-of-ireland-s-most-haunted-places-1.1982476?page=2
Glenuilin, Co Derry
Abhartach, the original male vampire – and arguably the first vampire legend in the world – is buried here, standing upright and upside down. Abhartach comes from laght-abhartach, "sepulchral monument of the dwarf", as this vicious blood-drinking black magic-practising monster was short of stature. The druids called him "red blood sucker" and said that he could not be killed unless he was pierced with a sword made of yew wood, then buried head downwards. The locals give the "bad ground" around his grave a wide berth, especially after dark.
Some say that Bram Stoker's word Dracula comes from the Irish droch-fhola, pronounced droc'ola, meaning "bad blood".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29915801
12 data maps that sum up London
Quote from: Franko on November 12, 2014, 04:56:07 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29915801
12 data maps that sum up London
Hmm, that
is interesting.
Quote from: muppet on November 12, 2014, 05:10:25 PM
Quote from: Franko on November 12, 2014, 04:56:07 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29915801
12 data maps that sum up London
Hmm, that is interesting.
all the Chelsea fans
Were they Liverpool in a previous life ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
Love to read about unsolved cases like this
Sonic Wine Decanter that makes cheap wine taste better.
Great wee gift for Christmas!!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2837672/The-gadget-makes-wine-taste-good-Sonic-Decanter-uses-sound-waves-age-cheap-plonk-boost-flavour-20-minutes.html
Quote from: Never beat the deeler on November 18, 2014, 09:34:20 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
Love to read about unsolved cases like this
Excellent!
Quote from: Never beat the deeler on November 18, 2014, 09:34:20 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
Love to read about unsolved cases like this
That was solved on Prison Break ;)
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/08/1327465/-Cartoon-Capt-Kirk-vs-the-internet#
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/27/acdcs-brian-johnson-if-theres-a-bad-parenting-issue-the-us-moral-majority-blames-rocknroll-you-cant-fix-stupid
"Angus and Malcolm were first exposed to rock stardom just shy of half a century ago, in 1965, when their older brother George became famous in Australia with his group the Easybeats – the Antipodean answer to the Beatles. "At first, I didn't even know," Young says. "I knew my brother was in bands, but I'd never seen him play. I remember coming home from school and seeing all these people outside the house, and I couldn't get in the house. There was all these police, all these schoolgirls ... I'm this little kid saying to the policeman: 'I live in this house!' 'Yeah kid, sure.' I went right round the block then asked the people behind: 'Can I go over your fence so I can get in my house?' That's how I found out my brother had a hit. My father, he said: 'You tell no one.' At school I couldn't say what my brother did. There'd be some kids at the bottom of the street saying: 'Angus, that's your brother.' And I'm going 'I'm not allowed to talk about it."
'""I thought that at times it was not Malcolm with me," Young says. "He would say at the time: 'I have good days and I have bad days.' Later on, when he got diagnosed – he had brain shrinkage, and he got diagnosed in America and they gave him some medication to help him – I said: 'Are you going to be fit for this? Because it's going to be a hefty tour.' And he said: 'We'll do it. We'll do it.' That was how he was. It was hard work for him. He was relearning a lot of those songs that he knew backwards; the ones we were playing that night he'd be relearning. He was his own driver. He himself had that thing, where you've just got to keep going."
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141106-the-man-who-makes-diamonds (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141106-the-man-who-makes-diamonds)
How to make a diamond from scratch - with peanut butter
(http://i.imgur.com/FRm24qK.png)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/26/human-rights-abuses-libyans-mental-health-problems-report
"Widespread and gross" human rights violations in Libya, including disappearances, arrests, torture and deaths, have left nearly a third of the population suffering from mental health problems as violence and lawlessness continues, according to a new report.
Research by Dignity – the Danish Institute against Torture – shared with the Guardian, paints a devastating picture of the human consequences of the regionalism, tribalism and factionalism that have wracked the north African country since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi three-and-a-half years ago.
"Libya has a practice of not seeking help for psychological problems, and the few trained psychologists and psychiatrists have very limited experience of treating trauma and consequences of torture and war," the report said.
"In addition, severe social stigma exists regarding those affected by mental illness. Psychiatric symptoms are attributed to the act of pagan symbols like the evil eye, magic or sorcery."
Ahlam Chemlali, one of the Dignity field workers, recalled how "videos of rape and torture were so widespread and popular that people would name characters from the videos, like the 'butcher from Misrata' or the 'rapist from Brega' as if they were actors playing in a horror snuff movie. Filmed torture seems to have been a consistent way of spreading or exposing fear."
The report recalls the exhilaration in Benghazi when the Libyan revolution began in February 2011 but concludes that both the short-term consequences of the internal conflict and the long-term legacy of 42 years of Gaddafi's rule remain unaddressed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31042477
This is wrong on so many levels. I know I need to remember any God's amount of passwords and PINs but I'd rather that than this the ultimate big brother.
Quote from: Fiodoir Ard Mhacha on January 30, 2015, 01:33:54 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31042477
This is wrong on so many levels. I know I need to remember any God's amount of passwords and PINs but I'd rather that than this the ultimate big brother.
I think this will be the norm in 10 years time.
Quote from: Orior on January 30, 2015, 04:36:23 PM
Quote from: Fiodoir Ard Mhacha on January 30, 2015, 01:33:54 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31042477
This is wrong on so many levels. I know I need to remember any God's amount of passwords and PINs but I'd rather that than this the ultimate big brother.
I think this will be the norm in 10 years time.
We have any number of 'chips'. Fingerprints, retina etc.
Quote from: muppet on February 04, 2015, 11:27:32 AM
Quote from: Orior on January 30, 2015, 04:36:23 PM
Quote from: Fiodoir Ard Mhacha on January 30, 2015, 01:33:54 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31042477
This is wrong on so many levels. I know I need to remember any God's amount of passwords and PINs but I'd rather that than this the ultimate big brother.
I think this will be the norm in 10 years time.
We have any number of 'chips'. Fingerprints, retina etc.
apparently tears are even better as a unique identifier
Quote from: seafoid on February 04, 2015, 11:46:07 AM
Quote from: muppet on February 04, 2015, 11:27:32 AM
Quote from: Orior on January 30, 2015, 04:36:23 PM
Quote from: Fiodoir Ard Mhacha on January 30, 2015, 01:33:54 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31042477
This is wrong on so many levels. I know I need to remember any God's amount of passwords and PINs but I'd rather that than this the ultimate big brother.
I think this will be the norm in 10 years time.
We have any number of 'chips'. Fingerprints, retina etc.
apparently tears are even better as a unique identifier
Dunno, they usually only arrive AFTER you've been refused entry.
Or after they accidentally dropped a breezeblock on your toe.
My next car: http://www.aeromobil.com (http://www.aeromobil.com)
Quote from: muppet on February 15, 2015, 10:12:30 PM
My next car: http://www.aeromobil.com (http://www.aeromobil.com)
Not bad but it's a bit ungainly in it's car form. They need to build one that's as compact as a regular car but opens up like a Transformer.
Quote from: muppet on February 15, 2015, 10:12:30 PM
My next car: http://www.aeromobil.com (http://www.aeromobil.com)
You're lucky as you have the licence to drive her on the ground and the sky, what about the rest of us plebs??? Would be some craic trying to get out of the traffic after an AI win to just open the wings and let her go...but shure that won't bother you anyway :P
Quote from: Asal Mor on February 16, 2015, 10:10:25 AM
Quote from: muppet on February 15, 2015, 10:12:30 PM
My next car: http://www.aeromobil.com (http://www.aeromobil.com)
Not bad but it's a bit ungainly in it's car form. They need to build one that's as compact as a regular car but opens up like a Transformer.
They have compromised a bit both ways. I wouldn't like to be driving that as a car on an exposed motorway in a gale. The rear looks light and very open. Also the position of the propeller behind the main body of the car looks to me like it will restrict air getting to the prop and thus reduce efficiency in the air.
But it certainly looks nice and only needs a few hundred meters to take off and land. If someone put a 500m strip in the middle of each city you could see people using these to beat the traffic.
The current estimate though is that it will cost 'hundreds of thousands of dollars'.
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Go God!
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/25/afghan-refugee-1984-national-geographic-cover-embroiled-id-row
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11491835/GPs-should-tell-their-patients-to-go-for-a-walk.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/11491835/GPs-should-tell-their-patients-to-go-for-a-walk.html)
Top 10 Embarrassing Diplomatic moments:
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1880208_1880218_1880202,00.html (http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1880208_1880218_1880202,00.html)
I thought this was particularly good:
Are you from Poland? Then President Jimmy Carter wants to sleep with you.
That's what his translator, Steven Seymour, told the then-Communist country during the U.S. President's 1977 visit.
Carter said he wanted to learn about the Polish people's desires for the future; Seymour said that Carter desired the Poles.
Carter said he was happy to be in Poland; Seymour said he was happy to grasp at Poland's private parts.
Carter talked about leaving the U.S. to go on a trip; Seymour said that he had abandoned America forever.
Then he spoke Russian — to a nation struggling under the thumb of the Soviet Union.
Straight outta Ballinashloe
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/apr/20/ciaran-og-arnold-i-went-to-the-worst-of-bars
This made me go .....Hmmm, that's interesting:
Quote from: Niall Quinn on April 22, 2015, 02:42:28 PM
New Zealand is oddly not in(a)-continent.
I thought this was interesting.
http://www.newstalk.com/Dail-revoked-laws-Ireland-British-rule-King-James-II-Statute-Law-Repeal-Bill (http://www.newstalk.com/Dail-revoked-laws-Ireland-British-rule-King-James-II-Statute-Law-Repeal-Bill)
Apparently we still recognise King James II as our King, and we are at war with Denmark and France. We also should be fasting every first Wednesday on account of the plague in London.
Quote from: AZOffaly on April 23, 2015, 11:26:16 AM
I thought this was interesting.
http://www.newstalk.com/Dail-revoked-laws-Ireland-British-rule-King-James-II-Statute-Law-Repeal-Bill (http://www.newstalk.com/Dail-revoked-laws-Ireland-British-rule-King-James-II-Statute-Law-Repeal-Bill)
Apparently we still recognise King James II as our King, and we are at war with Denmark and France. We also should be fasting every first Wednesday on account of the plague in London.
In fairness that would be a good deal.
Quote from: AZOffaly on April 23, 2015, 11:26:16 AM
I thought this was interesting.
http://www.newstalk.com/Dail-revoked-laws-Ireland-British-rule-King-James-II-Statute-Law-Repeal-Bill (http://www.newstalk.com/Dail-revoked-laws-Ireland-British-rule-King-James-II-Statute-Law-Repeal-Bill)
Apparently we still recognise King James II as our King, and we are at war with Denmark and France. We also should be fasting every first Wednesday on account of the plague in London.
they should keep the one about being drunk and swearing on Sundays, it might make going to football matches more tolerable!!!
The heist: What I've learned about the Hatton Garden raid
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32431557 (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32431557)
Chimps on the piss!
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33050939 (http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33050939)
Enjoyed this documentary about medieval times. Modern times aren't that much different in terms of the powerful elite running the game.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00b0wj7 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00b0wj7)
Solar Power: Smartflower Home Solar System Plug and Power.
https://homes.yahoo.com/news/solar-power-smartflower-home-solar-164340709.html
If the sun moves, doesn't it follow that a solar power system should, as well? Based on the concept of a sunflower, the Austrian-made Smartflower POP system wants to be a micro, rather than a macro, solution for those seeking to start moving off the grid. Unshackling solar power from the idea of a fixed array, this portable system can be placed on supports in an owner's back yard, offering an option its creators hope will allow more people to begin going green.
"Our ambition is to establish the first all-in-one solar system on the market," says Linnea Nelson, the company's international marketing manager. "We oriented ourselves after the principle form follows function, and that brought us to the flower blossom design."
The design was inspired by a conversation founder and CEO Alexander Swatek was having with friends about the challenges and difficulties of rooftop solar installations. As he began sketching out his ideas on a napkin, the scribbles began coalescing into a portable, adjustable flower-shaped system that follows the sun's path throughout the day, generating more power than a comparably sized, fixed set of panels.
Translated to a workable prototype by GP designpartners, the 2.31kw Smartflower system claims to provide a plug & play power source that takes just an hour to set up. For 10,500 euros (roughly $11,759), consumers in Europe can pick up this 750 kilogram (1,653 pound) system that works with bi-axis suntracking and GPS coordinates, generating roughly 45 percent more power than a typical rough system set at a 30 degree angle. According to Linnea Nilsson, the company plans to expand into the United States next year.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33251042&post_id=1154830511199103_1154830504532437 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33251042&post_id=1154830511199103_1154830504532437)
The conversation is better than the action. ;D
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150702-black-hole-has-cosmic-burp (http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150702-black-hole-has-cosmic-burp)
Should they have called it a fart though?
Quote from: Never beat the deeler on April 23, 2015, 09:47:51 AM
This made me go .....Hmmm, that's interesting:
Quote from: Niall Quinn on April 22, 2015, 02:42:28 PM
New Zealand is oddly not in(a)-continent.
It's part of Australasia... maybe I'm wrong but always had it down as a continent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZVX921Z0wc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZVX921Z0wc)
Brewin' up a storm...
Da da da da da da da da da da da
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lOCqNF5570 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lOCqNF5570)
Never saw this race before.........
Liquid water on Mars!!
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/28/us/mars-nasa-announcement/
Never heard of this.
http://www.sun-gazing.com/extra-shoelace-hole-used-wish-knew-earlier/
Have you ever wondered why there is an extra shoelace hole at the top of your shoe? Many running and hiking shoes have the extra hole and most people don't ever use it. Instead, they skip threading the lace through the last top hole and tie them as usual. After watching this video you will now know why they are there and how to use them to your advantage.
The extra holes can be used to prevent blisters on your heels and stop your feet from cramming forward into the front of the shoe. When you tie laces using the "heel lock" or "lace lock" technique it creates more friction between the laces at the top of the shoe which are closest to your ankle. This serves to make and keep the heel/ankle area tight and snug in place without having to re-tighten your whole shoe. Even if you do not have the extra shoelace hole you can still use the method on the top hole instead.
Read more at http://www.sun-gazing.com/extra-shoelace-hole-used-wish-knew-earlier/#6jFYuRuUeF1Hh8At.99
Quote from: AZOffaly on April 23, 2015, 11:26:16 AM
I thought this was interesting.
http://www.newstalk.com/Dail-revoked-laws-Ireland-British-rule-King-James-II-Statute-Law-Repeal-Bill (http://www.newstalk.com/Dail-revoked-laws-Ireland-British-rule-King-James-II-Statute-Law-Repeal-Bill)
Apparently we still recognise King James II as our King, and we are at war with Denmark and France. We also should be fasting every first Wednesday on account of the plague in London.
The Stuarts were bad news. Never did anything for us.
Quote from: seafoid on September 29, 2015, 08:54:34 PM
Quote from: AZOffaly on April 23, 2015, 11:26:16 AM
I thought this was interesting.
http://www.newstalk.com/Dail-revoked-laws-Ireland-British-rule-King-James-II-Statute-Law-Repeal-Bill (http://www.newstalk.com/Dail-revoked-laws-Ireland-British-rule-King-James-II-Statute-Law-Repeal-Bill)
Apparently we still recognise King James II as our King, and we are at war with Denmark and France. We also should be fasting every first Wednesday on account of the plague in London.
The Stuarts were bad news. Never did anything for us.
All right, but apart from the fountain pen, the diving bell, public transport, road signs, paper money, the fire service, the microscope, the seed drill, coffee shops and the the three piece suit, what have the Stuarts ever done for us?
Quote from: AZOffaly on April 23, 2015, 11:26:16 AM
I thought this was interesting.
http://www.newstalk.com/Dail-revoked-laws-Ireland-British-rule-King-James-II-Statute-Law-Repeal-Bill (http://www.newstalk.com/Dail-revoked-laws-Ireland-British-rule-King-James-II-Statute-Law-Repeal-Bill)
Apparently we still recognise King James II as our King, and we are at war with Denmark and France. We also should be fasting every first Wednesday on account of the plague in London.
Surely the creation of a new state null and voids the legislation of the old?
Quote from: CD on September 29, 2015, 09:14:37 PM
Quote from: seafoid on September 29, 2015, 08:54:34 PM
Quote from: AZOffaly on April 23, 2015, 11:26:16 AM
I thought this was interesting.
http://www.newstalk.com/Dail-revoked-laws-Ireland-British-rule-King-James-II-Statute-Law-Repeal-Bill (http://www.newstalk.com/Dail-revoked-laws-Ireland-British-rule-King-James-II-Statute-Law-Repeal-Bill)
Apparently we still recognise King James II as our King, and we are at war with Denmark and France. We also should be fasting every first Wednesday on account of the plague in London.
The Stuarts were bad news. Never did anything for us.
All right, but apart from the fountain pen, the diving bell, public transport, road signs, paper money, the fire service, the microscope, the seed drill, coffee shops and the the three piece suit, what have the Stuarts ever done for us?
Diving bell much?
CIE??
FIAT currency???
3 piece suits????
Worse than Fianne Fáil. :)
Mighty crack altogether in Wyoming: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/large-crack-in-the-earth-discovered-in-wyoming/ (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/large-crack-in-the-earth-discovered-in-wyoming/)
Think there was something very similar near Yellowstone quite recently? Some Geological shit going down, there may be trouble ahead.
http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=34640
f**king love Iceland.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12010573/Was-Titanic-inquiry-scuppered-by-the-Freemasons.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12010573/Was-Titanic-inquiry-scuppered-by-the-Freemasons.html)
Wasn't sure where to put this. There is a better one which includes light rail as well somewhere.
(http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/amount-of-space-required-cars-bus-bicycles-poster-image43.jpg)
That's quite an eye opener muppet.
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151123-the-last-king-of-ireland (http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151123-the-last-king-of-ireland)
Quote from: muppet on December 01, 2015, 05:19:40 PM
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151123-the-last-king-of-ireland (http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151123-the-last-king-of-ireland)
Amazingly that link cannot be visited from the North...
"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee"
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Tory Island lies off the coast of County Donegal in Ireland, aerial, Baelor's Fort (Credit: Credit: David Lyons/Alamy)
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The last king of Ireland
Royalty is elected and legends live on through this strange, tiny island off the coast of County Donegal.
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By Nicola Busca
1 December 2015
Ireland's tiny Tory Island isn't home to much. There are 150 inhabitants, one road, one church, one grocery store (which doubles as a post office), one lighthouse, one hotel, one hostel, one social club and – despite the 1800 Acts of Union that unified the kingdoms of Ireland and Great Britain – one king.
Patsy Dan Rodgers has ruled Tory Island for over 20 years (Credit: Credit: Philip Dunn/Alamy)
Patsy Dan Rodgers has ruled Tory Island for over 20 years (Credit: Philip Dunn/Alamy)
His name is Patsy Dan Rodgers, he's 71 years old and he has lived on the 5km-long and 1km-wide County Donegal island since he was four. He became king in 1993, though not – as you might expect – by inheritance. Instead, as per the island's custom, he was elected.
It's a tradition that, according to Rodgers, dates back the 6th Century, when Saint Columba (Colm Cille, in Irish) disembarked on Tory in order to spread Christianity. "He came to the island, and it was all pagans," said Rodgers. "The islanders agreed to meet him, and Saint Colm Cille had a conversation with a man called Duggan."
Life on Tory Island is quiet, but at the whims of the weather (Credit: Credit: Nicola Busca)
Life on Tory Island is quiet, but at the whims of the weather (Credit: Nicola Busca)
Duggan, Rodgers continued, expressed to the saint his fears about the pirates who were descending onto the island and destroying its houses. Saint Columba gave Duggan the honour of being the king of Tory, adding that the island would survive the peril if Duggan challenged the pirates. When Saint Columba's prediction turned out to be real, the pagans converted to Christianity and erected a monastery in the saint's memory. (Destroyed in 1595, the monastery's surviving bell-tower remains one of Tory's symbols today).
Columba also gave Duggan a present: a pot of clay with magical properties (it kept away rats and protected fisherman while at sea). The holy clay – which has left the island without rats since then – is still believed to be magic and can be handled exclusively by the oldest family member of the Duggan clan.
"From that day to this day, the islanders are very serious" about the tradition of the king, Rodgers said.
Fishing boats line the port of this remote Irish island (Credit: Credit: Gareth McCormack/Alamy)
Fishing boats line the port of this remote Irish island (Credit: Gareth McCormack/Alamy)
Today, the king undertakes duties such as ambassadorial obligations on the mainland and abroad; welcoming visitors when they arrive at the harbour and saying goodbye to them when they leave; and entertaining tourists at night by playing the accordion or telling them stories about his home land.
As well as king, Rodgers is also a painter. Together with Tory's other artists, he keeps alive the island's 50-year-old tradition of primitive painting, which was started by English painter Derek Hill when he first visited Tory in 1956. Rodgers' main subject is the island itself: sun-kissed in the summer and flagellated by violent Atlantic storms in the winter.
Patsy Dan Rodgers in his kingdom (Credit: Credit: Nicola Busca)
Patsy Dan Rodgers in his kingdom
(Credit: Nicola Busca)
It isn't just the king's paintings that are influenced by Tory. His temper also seems to have been shaped by the same extreme sceneries as his artwork. Like the sea roughened by a hurricane, Rodgers can be indomitable, particularly when speaking about the island's future or how people look to him as a leader. But when the blizzard calms down, he speaks gently again.
"People think I am higher up than I am," Rodgers said, "that I have powers to do things for the island and if something goes wrong, I should be able to fix it. I try to do my best, but I don't feel I should really be looked at like that."
The Anvil on the Tory Island coast (Credit: Credit: Stephen Emerson/Alamy)
The Anvil on the Tory Island coast (Credit: Stephen Emerson/Alamy)
Although the kingship is the most famous of Tory's traditions, the island's legends date back even further than the 6th Century, and they strongly tie in with some of Ireland's most important mythology. King Balor – a one-eyed giant and lord of the supernatural race of Fomorians – is said to have lived in Dún Bhaloir (Balor's Fort), a promontory stronghold on Tory's east coast that dates from the Iron Age. In the tower of Tor Mór – the island's highest point – Balor allegedly kept his daughter Eithne in prison, fearing the prophecy that said he would be killed by his grandson, the warrior of the light, Lugh. The fort, naturally defended on three sides by 90m-high cliffs and on the land side by four massive banks, is believed to date back to 700 BC, while the first archaeological evidence of human occupation on the island dates from around 2500 BC.
Legends aside, the landscape surrounding Balor's Fort is breath-taking. At the end of the only road that leads to the island's east side – through East Town, one of Tory's only two settlements – the path turns into a small track, and then passes over a natural land-bridge that connects the two sides of the island. After a wire fence, the walk proceeds uphill toward the fort's ruins.
The wild, rocky coast of Tory Island (Credit: Credit: Klaus Bossemeyer/Alamy)
The wild, rocky coast of Tory Island (Credit: Klaus Bossemeyer/Alamy)
Even if it's hard to identify the fort – there's little of it left and there isn't any sign – the scenery is well worth the effort. Dramatic and steep cliffs; waves that shatter against Tory's northern, rocky face; sharp ridges that scare hikers at first glance – it's easy to understand why this side of the island has inspired all sort of legends. When walking around the stone field that dominates the cliffs, pay extra care to the cliffs' edges; one strong wind could send you off course.
The landscape is totally different on the island's western side, where storms and winds have sanded away all its rough edges, leaving nothing on the ground except for small bushes.
"It is very hard to live here in the winter," said Eilis Rodgers, the daughter of former Tory king Patrick Rodgers (unrelated to the current king). "One year, in the night, a big wave threw a plastic tank against my house and it destroyed a window. I remember I heard a big crack, but no one was hurt."
Colourful cottages in the small village of Tory Island (Credit: Credit: Gareth McCormack/Alamy)
Colourful cottages in the small village of Tory Island (Credit: Gareth McCormack/Alamy)
In 1974, because of massive Atlantic storms, Tory Island was cut off from the mainland for almost two months. The Irish government tried to resettle the islanders in Donegal.
"From the 11th of January 1974 – seven weeks and three days", remembered the king, "At that time, we had three shops and we were able to divide with one another. I wouldn't say we would not help one another now, but it's completely different now."
"They [the government] offered every family of the island a house on the mainland and they encouraged 130 people. That was very, very sad," Rodgers continued. "It was a war with us but we fought, and here we are today, still on the island."
Of the 150 people who live on Tory Island year-round, there are 21 children, eight of whom were born in the last four years. However, both the survival of the community and its peculiar "royal" tradition are now in danger.
"I am not sure I want to be king until I die," Rodgers confessed. "For the benefit of the island I hope there will be somebody else, but it depends on who is more active on the island. I wish I could decide who can be the next king, but it's not the case."
Tourism is the main source of income for the islanders. But extreme weather conditions and – according to Rodgers – access challenges are negatively affecting Tory's survival.
The king greets all visitors who ferry to Tory Island (Credit: Credit: Design Pics Inc/Alamy)
The king greets all visitors who ferry to Tory Island (Credit: Design Pics Inc/Alamy)
"I would love for this island to be powerful for friends and visitors that travel so long," Rodgers said. "I want them to be able to buy handcrafts or paintings, or have a good meal, or find a good place to stay."
"But to double the number of visitors, the ferry has to be replaced," Rodgers continued. "Other islands with roughly the same population of Tory have two ferries and they can board double as many people. Other islands are so strong, and we have the same culture and language. We seem to be lost along the road, and that's not fair at all."
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http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151123-the-last-king-of-ireland (http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151123-the-last-king-of-ireland)
Amazingly that link cannot be visited from the North...
"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee"
:-X
Bizzarre.
Trypophobia (https://www.facebook.com/techinsider/videos/449113715286990/)
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Trypophobia (https://www.facebook.com/techinsider/videos/449113715286990/)
I wonder if it would be related to illness and how some of the worse ones look
Palmarian Catholic Church, interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmarian_Catholic_Church
http://www.academia.edu/1640168/Romance_Tourism
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This thread will never be as big as the What the f**k thread. ;)
I love the How it's Made/How do they do that programmes on Discovery and always find myself saying mmmm that's interesting be it seeing how anything from a Winnebago to a wine barrel is made.
I think my 'My things that make you feel good/put you in a good mood' thread never had a chance to take off!!
why don't you try it anywez ?
Women who are considered too fat, too old, or too ugly to pull young, thin sexual partners in Chicago or Hamburg are also considered to be too fat, and too old, or too ugly in Barcelona or Honolulu. Travel between and within affluent countries does not reposition the citizen on economic, gendered, or race hierarchies of power. But travel to Jamaica or other poor or indebted nations does
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY4YQREDAXY
A 3-D video rendering of what Rome looked like in 320 AD. The crafstmanship, engineering and forethought to the work done in ancient Rome boggles the mind when you look at all the technology we use today.
http://www.vox.com/2016/2/28/11129238/rome-reborn-video
Quote from: DrinkingHarp on February 29, 2016, 06:24:34 AM
A 3-D video rendering of what Rome looked like in 320 AD. The crafstmanship, engineering and forethought to the work done in ancient Rome boggles the mind when you look at all the technology we use today.
http://www.vox.com/2016/2/28/11129238/rome-reborn-video
Excellent.
Quote from: DrinkingHarp on February 29, 2016, 06:24:34 AM
A 3-D video rendering of what Rome looked like in 320 AD. The crafstmanship, engineering and forethought to the work done in ancient Rome boggles the mind when you look at all the technology we use today.
http://www.vox.com/2016/2/28/11129238/rome-reborn-video
Great, even the model of ROme in the museum is amazing.
Amazing too that they could not keep this going in some sense, but that it all fell asunder.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160229-the-place-where-you-can-walk-through-the-universe (http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160229-the-place-where-you-can-walk-through-the-universe)
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Quote from: DrinkingHarp on February 29, 2016, 06:24:34 AM
A 3-D video rendering of what Rome looked like in 320 AD. The crafstmanship, engineering and forethought to the work done in ancient Rome boggles the mind when you look at all the technology we use today.
http://www.vox.com/2016/2/28/11129238/rome-reborn-video
Great, even the model of ROme in the museum is amazing.
Amazing too that they could not keep this going in some sense, but that it all fell asunder.
http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-reasons-why-rome-fell (http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-reasons-why-rome-fell)
Invasions by Barbarian tribes
The most straightforward theory for Western Rome's collapse pins the fall on a string of military losses sustained against outside forces. Rome had tangled with Germanic tribes for centuries, but by the 300s "barbarian" groups like the Goths had encroached beyond the Empire's borders. The Romans weathered a Germanic uprising in the late fourth century, but in 410 the Visigoth King Alaric successfully sacked the city of Rome. The Empire spent the next several decades under constant threat before "the Eternal City" was raided again in 455, this time by the Vandals. Finally, in 476, the Germanic leader Odoacer staged a revolt and deposed the Emperor Romulus Augustulus. From then on, no Roman emperor would ever again rule from a post in Italy, leading many to cite 476 as the year the Western Empire suffered its deathblow.
Economic troubles and overreliance on slave labor
Even as Rome was under attack from outside forces, it was also crumbling from within thanks to a severe financial crisis. Constant wars and overspending had significantly lightened imperial coffers, and oppressive taxation and inflation had widened the gap between rich and poor. In the hope of avoiding the taxman, many members of the wealthy classes had even fled to the countryside and set up independent fiefdoms. At the same time, the empire was rocked by a labor deficit. Rome's economy depended on slaves to till its fields and work as craftsmen, and its military might had traditionally provided a fresh influx of conquered peoples to put to work. But when expansion ground to a halt in the second century, Rome's supply of slaves and other war treasures began to dry up. A further blow came in the fifth century, when the Vandals claimed North Africa and began disrupting the empire's trade by prowling the Mediterranean as pirates. With its economy faltering and its commercial and agricultural production in decline, the Empire began to lose its grip on Europe.
The rise of the Eastern Empire
The fate of Western Rome was partially sealed in the late third century, when the Emperor Diocletian divided the Empire into two halves—the Western Empire seated in the city of Milan, and the Eastern Empire in Byzantium, later known as Constantinople. The division made the empire more easily governable in the short term, but over time the two halves drifted apart. East and West failed to adequately work together to combat outside threats, and the two often squabbled over resources and military aid. As the gulf widened, the largely Greek-speaking Eastern Empire grew in wealth while the Latin-speaking West descended into economic crisis. Most importantly, the strength of the Eastern Empire served to divert Barbarian invasions to the West. Emperors like Constantine ensured that the city of Constantinople was fortified and well guarded, but Italy and the city of Rome—which only had symbolic value for many in the East—were left vulnerable. The Western political structure would finally disintegrate in the fifth century, but the Eastern Empire endured in some form for another thousand years before being overwhelmed by the Ottoman Empire in the 1400s.
Overexpansion and military overspending
At its height, the Roman Empire stretched from the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the Euphrates River in the Middle East, but its grandeur may have also been its downfall. With such a vast territory to govern, the empire faced an administrative and logistical nightmare. Even with their excellent road systems, the Romans were unable to communicate quickly or effectively enough to manage their holdings. Rome struggled to marshal enough troops and resources to defend its frontiers from local rebellions and outside attacks, and by the second century the Emperor Hadrian was forced to build his famous wall in Britain just to keep the enemy at bay. As more and more funds were funneled into the military upkeep of the empire, technological advancement slowed and Rome's civil infrastructure fell into disrepair.
Government corruption and political instability
If Rome's sheer size made it difficult to govern, ineffective and inconsistent leadership only served to magnify the problem. Being the Roman emperor had always been a particularly dangerous job, but during the tumultuous second and third centuries it nearly became a death sentence. Civil war thrust the empire into chaos, and more than 20 men took the throne in the span of only 75 years, usually after the murder of their predecessor. The Praetorian Guard—the emperor's personal bodyguards—assassinated and installed new sovereigns at will, and once even auctioned the spot off to the highest bidder. The political rot also extended to the Roman Senate, which failed to temper the excesses of the emperors due to its own widespread corruption and incompetence. As the situation worsened, civic pride waned and many Roman citizens lost trust in their leadership.
The arrival of the Huns and the migration of the Barbarian tribes
The Barbarian attacks on Rome partially stemmed from a mass migration caused by the Huns' invasion of Europe in the late fourth century. When these Eurasian warriors rampaged through northern Europe, they drove many Germanic tribes to the borders of the Roman Empire. The Romans grudgingly allowed members of the Visigoth tribe to cross south of the Danube and into the safety of Roman territory, but they treated them with extreme cruelty. According to the historian Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman officials even forced the starving Goths to trade their children into slavery in exchange for dog meat. In brutalizing the Goths, the Romans created a dangerous enemy within their own borders. When the oppression became too much to bear, the Goths rose up in revolt and eventually routed a Roman army and killed the Eastern Emperor Valens during the Battle of Adrianople in A.D. 378. The shocked Romans negotiated a flimsy peace with the barbarians, but the truce unraveled in 410, when the Goth King Alaric moved west and sacked Rome. With the Western Empire weakened, Germanic tribes like the Vandals and the Saxons were able to surge across its borders and occupy Britain, Spain and North Africa.
Christianity and the loss of traditional values
The decline of Rome dovetailed with the spread of Christianity, and some have argued that the rise of a new faith helped contribute to the empire's fall. The Edict of Milan legalized Christianity in 313, and it later became the state religion in 380. These decrees ended centuries of persecution, but they may have also eroded the traditional Roman values system. Christianity displaced the polytheistic Roman religion, which viewed the emperor as having a divine status, and also shifted focus away from the glory of the state and onto a sole deity. Meanwhile, popes and other church eladers took an increased role in political affairs, further complicating governance. The 18th-century historian Edward Gibbon was the most famous proponent of this theory, but his take has since been widely criticized. While the spread of Christianity may have played a small role in curbing Roman civic virtue, most scholars now argue that its influence paled in comparison to military, economic and administrative factors.
Weakening of the Roman legions
For most of its history, Rome's military was the envy of the ancient world. But during the decline, the makeup of the once mighty legions began to change. Unable to recruit enough soldiers from the Roman citizenry, emperors like Diocletian and Constantine began hiring foreign mercenaries to prop up their armies. The ranks of the legions eventually swelled with Germanic Goths and other barbarians, so much so that Romans began using the Latin word "barbarus" in place of "soldier." While these Germanic soldiers of fortune proved to be fierce warriors, they also had little or no loyalty to the empire, and their power-hungry officers often turned against their Roman employers. In fact, many of the barbarians who sacked the city of Rome and brought down the Western Empire had earned their military stripes while serving in the Roman legions.
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The richest 1% of Americans earn 1 in 4 dollars earned in the US and own 40% of everything in the US.
Quote from: seafoid on March 07, 2016, 07:55:56 AM
The richest 1% of Americans earn 1 in 4 dollars earned in the US and own 40% of everything in the US.
How much do they contribute to the tax take?
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Quote from: seafoid on March 07, 2016, 07:55:56 AM
The richest 1% of Americans earn 1 in 4 dollars earned in the US and own 40% of everything in the US.
How much do they contribute to the tax take?
not enough
They get a lot of productivity increases, the parasites
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/15/40-years-of-economic-policy-in-one-chart/
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Quote from: muppet on March 07, 2016, 12:11:03 PM
Quote from: seafoid on March 07, 2016, 07:55:56 AM
The richest 1% of Americans earn 1 in 4 dollars earned in the US and own 40% of everything in the US.
How much do they contribute to the tax take?
not enough
They get a lot of productivity increases, the parasites
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/15/40-years-of-economic-policy-in-one-chart/
All 3.2 million of them?
http://www.wired.com/2016/03/meet-people-transnistria-stuck-time-soviet-country-doesnt-exist/?mbid=psocial_atlasobscura
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http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151012-feral-the-children-raised-by-wolves (http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151012-feral-the-children-raised-by-wolves)
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Young athletes should not undergo routine screening to prevent sudden cardiac arrest because it is not proven to save lives, according to a new study.
The findings show the harms outweigh any benefits, and no robust evidence exists to confirm it actually prevents deaths, according to the study authors at the Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre.
Around 0.001pc of young athletes die from sudden cardiac arrest every year, often caused by an underlying cardiovascular condition, the British Medical Journal reports.
Pre-participation screening is an attempt to identify these conditions and prevent deaths. However, there are disagreements about the harms and benefits.
Researchers carried out the study of screening programmes in non-professional athletes aged 18-34 years.
Commenting on the findings, Dr Deirdre Ward, a cardiologist at the Centre for Cardiovascular Risk in Younger Persons at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin, said the evidence backing mandatory screening is slim.
"It sounds like a no-brainer to test everyone, but it is not as simple as that," she said.
"You could end up banning 10 times as many people from sport as those who have conditions. When we meet families where a sudden death has occurred they want every child in the country be screened. The centre we run is for families with a one-in-two risk, rather than one-in-1,000 risk."
ECGs don't pick up all symptoms associated with cardiac disease, and the sensitivity of this test is generally low. Overall, 25pc of people with a condition that may lead to a sudden cardiac death would not be identified, say the authors, and there are a high number of false positives.
Irish Independent
http://sluggerotoole.com/2016/04/28/overwhelmingly-the-main-victims-of-dissident-republicans-are-catholic-do-we-have-a-response/ (http://sluggerotoole.com/2016/04/28/overwhelmingly-the-main-victims-of-dissident-republicans-are-catholic-do-we-have-a-response/)
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I had never connected Professor Brian Cox to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCtK0E50OLc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCtK0E50OLc)
House prices in England and Wales 1995 to 2015
http://m.imgur.com/hZhne6L (http://m.imgur.com/hZhne6L)
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I had never connected Professor Brian Cox to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCtK0E50OLc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCtK0E50OLc)
How did
you not know that bit of trivia?!
Top tune from a great era of dance music. Knocks spots off the modern day rubbish.
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Tory Island lies off the coast of County Donegal in Ireland, aerial, Baelor's Fort (Credit: Credit: David Lyons/Alamy)
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The last king of Ireland
Royalty is elected and legends live on through this strange, tiny island off the coast of County Donegal.
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By Nicola Busca
1 December 2015
Ireland's tiny Tory Island isn't home to much. There are 150 inhabitants, one road, one church, one grocery store (which doubles as a post office), one lighthouse, one hotel, one hostel, one social club and – despite the 1800 Acts of Union that unified the kingdoms of Ireland and Great Britain – one king.
Patsy Dan Rodgers has ruled Tory Island for over 20 years (Credit: Credit: Philip Dunn/Alamy)
Patsy Dan Rodgers has ruled Tory Island for over 20 years (Credit: Philip Dunn/Alamy)
His name is Patsy Dan Rodgers, he's 71 years old and he has lived on the 5km-long and 1km-wide County Donegal island since he was four. He became king in 1993, though not – as you might expect – by inheritance. Instead, as per the island's custom, he was elected.
It's a tradition that, according to Rodgers, dates back the 6th Century, when Saint Columba (Colm Cille, in Irish) disembarked on Tory in order to spread Christianity. "He came to the island, and it was all pagans," said Rodgers. "The islanders agreed to meet him, and Saint Colm Cille had a conversation with a man called Duggan."
Life on Tory Island is quiet, but at the whims of the weather (Credit: Credit: Nicola Busca)
Life on Tory Island is quiet, but at the whims of the weather (Credit: Nicola Busca)
Duggan, Rodgers continued, expressed to the saint his fears about the pirates who were descending onto the island and destroying its houses. Saint Columba gave Duggan the honour of being the king of Tory, adding that the island would survive the peril if Duggan challenged the pirates. When Saint Columba's prediction turned out to be real, the pagans converted to Christianity and erected a monastery in the saint's memory. (Destroyed in 1595, the monastery's surviving bell-tower remains one of Tory's symbols today).
Columba also gave Duggan a present: a pot of clay with magical properties (it kept away rats and protected fisherman while at sea). The holy clay – which has left the island without rats since then – is still believed to be magic and can be handled exclusively by the oldest family member of the Duggan clan.
"From that day to this day, the islanders are very serious" about the tradition of the king, Rodgers said.
Fishing boats line the port of this remote Irish island (Credit: Credit: Gareth McCormack/Alamy)
Fishing boats line the port of this remote Irish island (Credit: Gareth McCormack/Alamy)
Today, the king undertakes duties such as ambassadorial obligations on the mainland and abroad; welcoming visitors when they arrive at the harbour and saying goodbye to them when they leave; and entertaining tourists at night by playing the accordion or telling them stories about his home land.
As well as king, Rodgers is also a painter. Together with Tory's other artists, he keeps alive the island's 50-year-old tradition of primitive painting, which was started by English painter Derek Hill when he first visited Tory in 1956. Rodgers' main subject is the island itself: sun-kissed in the summer and flagellated by violent Atlantic storms in the winter.
Patsy Dan Rodgers in his kingdom (Credit: Credit: Nicola Busca)
Patsy Dan Rodgers in his kingdom
(Credit: Nicola Busca)
It isn't just the king's paintings that are influenced by Tory. His temper also seems to have been shaped by the same extreme sceneries as his artwork. Like the sea roughened by a hurricane, Rodgers can be indomitable, particularly when speaking about the island's future or how people look to him as a leader. But when the blizzard calms down, he speaks gently again.
"People think I am higher up than I am," Rodgers said, "that I have powers to do things for the island and if something goes wrong, I should be able to fix it. I try to do my best, but I don't feel I should really be looked at like that."
The Anvil on the Tory Island coast (Credit: Credit: Stephen Emerson/Alamy)
The Anvil on the Tory Island coast (Credit: Stephen Emerson/Alamy)
Although the kingship is the most famous of Tory's traditions, the island's legends date back even further than the 6th Century, and they strongly tie in with some of Ireland's most important mythology. King Balor – a one-eyed giant and lord of the supernatural race of Fomorians – is said to have lived in Dún Bhaloir (Balor's Fort), a promontory stronghold on Tory's east coast that dates from the Iron Age. In the tower of Tor Mór – the island's highest point – Balor allegedly kept his daughter Eithne in prison, fearing the prophecy that said he would be killed by his grandson, the warrior of the light, Lugh. The fort, naturally defended on three sides by 90m-high cliffs and on the land side by four massive banks, is believed to date back to 700 BC, while the first archaeological evidence of human occupation on the island dates from around 2500 BC.
Legends aside, the landscape surrounding Balor's Fort is breath-taking. At the end of the only road that leads to the island's east side – through East Town, one of Tory's only two settlements – the path turns into a small track, and then passes over a natural land-bridge that connects the two sides of the island. After a wire fence, the walk proceeds uphill toward the fort's ruins.
The wild, rocky coast of Tory Island (Credit: Credit: Klaus Bossemeyer/Alamy)
The wild, rocky coast of Tory Island (Credit: Klaus Bossemeyer/Alamy)
Even if it's hard to identify the fort – there's little of it left and there isn't any sign – the scenery is well worth the effort. Dramatic and steep cliffs; waves that shatter against Tory's northern, rocky face; sharp ridges that scare hikers at first glance – it's easy to understand why this side of the island has inspired all sort of legends. When walking around the stone field that dominates the cliffs, pay extra care to the cliffs' edges; one strong wind could send you off course.
The landscape is totally different on the island's western side, where storms and winds have sanded away all its rough edges, leaving nothing on the ground except for small bushes.
"It is very hard to live here in the winter," said Eilis Rodgers, the daughter of former Tory king Patrick Rodgers (unrelated to the current king). "One year, in the night, a big wave threw a plastic tank against my house and it destroyed a window. I remember I heard a big crack, but no one was hurt."
Colourful cottages in the small village of Tory Island (Credit: Credit: Gareth McCormack/Alamy)
Colourful cottages in the small village of Tory Island (Credit: Gareth McCormack/Alamy)
In 1974, because of massive Atlantic storms, Tory Island was cut off from the mainland for almost two months. The Irish government tried to resettle the islanders in Donegal.
"From the 11th of January 1974 – seven weeks and three days", remembered the king, "At that time, we had three shops and we were able to divide with one another. I wouldn't say we would not help one another now, but it's completely different now."
"They [the government] offered every family of the island a house on the mainland and they encouraged 130 people. That was very, very sad," Rodgers continued. "It was a war with us but we fought, and here we are today, still on the island."
Of the 150 people who live on Tory Island year-round, there are 21 children, eight of whom were born in the last four years. However, both the survival of the community and its peculiar "royal" tradition are now in danger.
"I am not sure I want to be king until I die," Rodgers confessed. "For the benefit of the island I hope there will be somebody else, but it depends on who is more active on the island. I wish I could decide who can be the next king, but it's not the case."
Tourism is the main source of income for the islanders. But extreme weather conditions and – according to Rodgers – access challenges are negatively affecting Tory's survival.
The king greets all visitors who ferry to Tory Island (Credit: Credit: Design Pics Inc/Alamy)
The king greets all visitors who ferry to Tory Island (Credit: Design Pics Inc/Alamy)
"I would love for this island to be powerful for friends and visitors that travel so long," Rodgers said. "I want them to be able to buy handcrafts or paintings, or have a good meal, or find a good place to stay."
"But to double the number of visitors, the ferry has to be replaced," Rodgers continued. "Other islands with roughly the same population of Tory have two ferries and they can board double as many people. Other islands are so strong, and we have the same culture and language. We seem to be lost along the road, and that's not fair at all."
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That's some terrible quoting there hi.
Was watching a progam on BBC 2 sunday night about the great north road goes on the coast around the glens of Antrim. Stunning scenery but a bitch if you had to commute along it.
The interesng point was when they were taking about a kingdom, Dál Riata, that was made up of Antriim and the western islands of Scotland. Had never heard of it before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A1l_Riata
Quote from: Denn Forever on October 13, 2016, 11:41:51 AM
Was watching a progam on BBC 2 sunday night about the great north road goes on the coast around the glens of Antrim. Stunning scenery but a bitch if you had to commute along it.
The interesng point was when they were taking about a kingdom, Dál Riata, that was made up of Antriim and the western islands of Scotland. Had never heard of it before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A1l_Riata
Coastal parts of the Glens probably have more in common with their Scottish neighbours than anywhere else in Ireland.
Quote from: Jeepers Creepers on October 13, 2016, 01:03:07 PM
Quote from: Denn Forever on October 13, 2016, 11:41:51 AM
Was watching a progam on BBC 2 sunday night about the great north road goes on the coast around the glens of Antrim. Stunning scenery but a bitch if you had to commute along it.
The interesng point was when they were taking about a kingdom, Dál Riata, that was made up of Antriim and the western islands of Scotland. Had never heard of it before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A1l_Riata
Coastal parts of the Glens probably have more in common with their Scottish neighbours than anywhere else in Ireland.
Back then it was as handy to take the boat 12-15 miles across the water as it was to head inland. The fact that you can see the Mull of Kintyre means it's not a journey into the unknown either.
Last ever greyhound race at Wimbledon stadium going off in a few minutes. Home of the Derby for many years and scene of some great nights!
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a Satirical party than ran for government positions between 1960's and 1990's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party_of_Canada_%281963%E2%80%9393%29
It declared that the rhinoceros was an appropriate symbol for a political party since politicians, by nature, are: "thick-skinned, slow-moving, dim-witted, can move fast as hell when in danger, and have large, hairy horns growing out of the middle of their faces".[5]
Some of their policies are very good
Repealing the law of gravity[18][19]
Providing higher education by building taller schools[10][20]
Instituting English, French and illiteracy as Canada's three official languages[10]
Tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset[19]
Eliminating unemployment by abolishing Statistics Canada, thereby eliminating the bureaucrats that measure unemployment. [21]
Making Montreal the Venice of North America by damming the St. Lawrence River[22]
Abolishing the environment because it's too hard to keep clean and it takes up so much space[10]
Annexing the United States, which would take its place as the third territory in Canada's backyard (after the Yukon and the Northwest Territories—Nunavut did not yet exist), in order to eliminate foreign control of Canada's natural resources[23]
Ending crime by abolishing all laws[24]
To provide more parking in the Maritimes and to create the world's largest parking lot respectively, paving the Bay of Fundy and the province of Manitoba [10][19]
Turning Montreal's Saint Catherine Street into the world's longest bowling alley[10]
Amending Canada's Freedom of Information Act: "Nothing is free anymore; Canadians should have to pay for their information".[25]
Making the Canadian climate more temperate by tapping into the natural resource of hot air in Ottawa.[25]
Storing nuclear waste in the Senate: "After all, we've been storing political waste there for years".[25]
Adopting the British system of driving on the left; this was to be gradually phased in over five years with large trucks and tractors first, then buses, eventually including small cars, and bicycles and wheelchairs last.[12]
Selling the Canadian Senate at an antique auction in California[19][23]
Putting the national debt on Visa[26]
Declaring war on Belgium because a Belgian cartoon character, Tintin, killed a rhinoceros in one of the cartoons[20][27]
Offering to call off the proposed Belgium-Canada war if Belgium delivered a case of mussels and a case of Belgian beer to Rhinoceros "Hindquarters" in Montreal (the Belgian Embassy in Ottawa did, in fact, do this)[20][27]
Painting Canada's coastal sea limits in watercolour so that Canadian fish would know where they were at all times[22]
Banning guns and butter, since both kill[22]
Banning lousy Canadian winters[10]
Building a bridge spanning the country, from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland.[28]
Making the Trans-Canada Highway one way only.[28]
Changing Canada's currency to bubble gum, so it could be inflated or deflated at will.[29]
Donating a free rhinoceros to every aspiring artist in Canada[23]
Counting the Thousand Islands to see if the Americans have stolen any[8]
(https://evogeneao.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/tree_of_life/tree-of-life_2000.jpg)
Baluba.
I thought that this was a real irish saying e.g. ya big baluba. Was shocked when I learned that it was a name of a tribe in the Congo that was involved in the killing of the Irish soldiers on the UN misssion in the 60s.
The Nutbush dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXpkScjXtnk
Quote from: laoislad on January 25, 2017, 10:50:06 AM
The 7th largest building in the world by useable volume is the Tesco Distribution centre in Donabate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...gest_buildings
Worst attempt at a hyperlink ever.
Quote from: seafoid on November 27, 2016, 10:04:51 AM
The Nutbush dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXpkScjXtnk
Another form of line dancing (if you look where they are standing)!
http://99percentinvisible.org/ (http://99percentinvisible.org/)
Interesting LaoisLad.
I've drove past it lots of times and wondered what the hell it was.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_buildings (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_buildings)
https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.490083,-6.1864401,1312m/data=!3m1!1e3 (https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.490083,-6.1864401,1312m/data=!3m1!1e3)
Quote from: Orior on January 25, 2017, 11:05:20 AM
Quote from: laoislad on January 25, 2017, 10:50:06 AM
The 7th largest building in the world by useable volume is the Tesco Distribution centre in Donabate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...gest_buildings
Worst attempt at a hyperlink ever.
That will be f*** all use after Brexit.
Will AI make us immortal? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgVI2vBxQK4&feature=youtu.be)
Quote from: Hardy on February 08, 2017, 10:48:33 AM
Will AI make us immortal? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgVI2vBxQK4&feature=youtu.be)
I never realised Elon Musk was an idealist
f**k Stephen Fry is insufferable
Wasn't sure where to post this. Middle class problem alert! Kids might miss rugby match due to ski trip.
http://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/rugby/schools-cup/friends-fear-being-frozen-out-of-rugby-schools-cup-35455350.html
Quote from: Hardy on February 08, 2017, 10:48:33 AM
Will AI make us immortal? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgVI2vBxQK4&feature=youtu.be)
Imagine meeting a 600 yr old from the 16th century. And where all the extra food would come from.
Quote from: seafoid on February 16, 2017, 05:03:46 PM
Imagine meeting a 600 yr old from the 16th century. And where all the extra food would come from.
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Go to any DUP meeting and you get an idea....
Quote from: gallsman on February 16, 2017, 04:11:28 PM
Wasn't sure where to post this. Middle class problem alert! Kids might miss rugby match due to ski trip.
http://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/rugby/schools-cup/friends-fear-being-frozen-out-of-rugby-schools-cup-35455350.html
One of my boys was playing Belfast Harlequins at Deramore Park last weekend. Very poor Quins attendance due to mid - term skiing with mater and pater!
Nate Silver's website predicts the EPL
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/soccer-predictions/?ex_cid=rrpromo
Claire McNamara's CNN Doppelganger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRaVZPcVr4o
Quote from: seafoid on February 16, 2017, 05:03:46 PM
Quote from: Hardy on February 08, 2017, 10:48:33 AM
Will AI make us immortal? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgVI2vBxQK4&feature=youtu.be)
Imagine meeting a 600 yr old from the 16th century. And where all the extra food would come from.
Yeah you'd probably need one of those bread mountains to feed him ::) except... the bread would go off cos he would just eat the same amount of food as anyone else at any one time.
Besides I think your rather missing the point of the video. If AI is possible and it is starting to appears to be, then....... the chances of us currently living in Base1 reality are in the billions.... so any of the food that you, I or a 600 year old man eat is likely to be a figment of our imagination.
Battery technology advancing more rapidly than expected, enhancing solar power usability. (http://www.treehugger.com/energy-policy/tesla-kills-duck-big-batteries.html)
London Bridge is down, what happens when the Queen dies
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge
Quote from: Boycey on March 18, 2017, 02:51:09 PM
London Bridge is down, what happens when the Queen dies
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge
Really interesting read
Quote from: Boycey on March 18, 2017, 02:51:09 PM
London Bridge is down, what happens when the Queen dies
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge
It was designed for an empire that no longer exists
Britain's National Grid generating electricity today without coal fuel for the first time since the Industrial Revolution.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/28/witch-history-of-fear-ronald-hutton-review
For the final section of his book Hutton narrows his focus to Britain, and answers the question that has long kept sensible people awake at night: in a battle between witches and fairies, who would win? The answer, cheeringly, turns out to be the fairies, along with their cousins the elves, pixies and imps. During the early-modern period, these quaint little people were much in evidence in the folk traditions of the Celtic fringe. And crucially it was in these areas – Wales, Ireland, the Highlands – that witchhunting failed to catch fire. While East Anglia trembled under the terrifying visitations of the Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins, and Lancashire got busy torturing the citizens of Pendle, the outlying parts of Britain and Ireland jogged along gently.
There have been all sorts of attempts to explain this – the Irish didn't want to shop anyone to the Protestant authorities, the Welsh had a culture of reparation towards witches rather than prosecution – but this isn't enough. Hutton suggests instead that believing in fairies provided a kind of inoculation against witch
Quote from: Tony Baloney on April 21, 2017, 11:35:25 PM
Britain's National Grid generating electricity today without coal fuel for the first time since the Industrial Revolution.
that's pretty big.
is that a permanent thing ?
Frampton weighs in 1lb overweight so the bout cannot be classed as a world title eliminator. A few hours later Gutierrez falls in the shower so the fight has to be rescheduled when presumably Frampton will make weight! :o
Bad graffiti painted on top of good graffiti.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-40773446 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-40773446)
Map of Shipwrecks around Ireland dating back to 1530
https://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/This-map-shows-3-554-shipwrecks-around-Ireland-as-12999705.php
Quote from: DrinkingHarp on June 17, 2018, 07:35:31 AM
Map of Shipwrecks around Ireland dating back to 1530
https://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/This-map-shows-3-554-shipwrecks-around-Ireland-as-12999705.php
If you want to go straight to the site, click here
https://dahg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=89e50518e5f4437abfa6284ff39fd640
Quote from: DrinkingHarp on June 17, 2018, 07:35:31 AM
Map of Shipwrecks around Ireland dating back to 1530
https://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/This-map-shows-3-554-shipwrecks-around-Ireland-as-12999705.php
Surely you mean around the 26 counties?
Spacecraft launch as seen from the International Space Station
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouBfzCgXHgk
Baby talc contains asbestos.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/johnson-johnson-knew-for-decades-asbestos-was-in-baby-powder-1.3731754
Like Behan, Bob Dylan used the melody of "The Merry Month of May" for his own song "With God on Our Side".[1] Behan criticized Dylan publicly by claiming the melody as an original composition.[5] He was annoyed because the first two verses of Dylan's song were a parody of his own song. Behan took the view that the provenance of Dylan's entire body of work must be questioned. Mike Evans writes that "legend has it" that, during an early tour of the UK by Bob Dylan, Behan rang him at his hotel room with an uncompromising tirade. When Bob Dylan suggested that "My lawyers can speak with your lawyers", Behan replied, "I've got two lawyers, and they're on the end of my wrists."[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Patriot_Game
I shít you not;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46944631 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46944631)
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/newsireland/miriam-o'callaghan-to-sue-facebook-for-defamation-in-landmark-irish-case/
What has been the UK's most successful stock market company since the launch of the FTSE 100 35 years ago......
British American Tobacco :o :o
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/jan/26/the-best-investment-of-the-past-35-years-sadly-it-was-cigarettes
Real bio fuel.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/03/mexican-company-making-biofuel-from-nopal-cactus-plants?fbclid=IwAR1RhWF8SFjf4xH_uVclkzNmuyIlejUgD3GQr767nqBRY0P4N4qeIXD17Q8
https://www.epidemictracker.com/
The man who inspired the Britney Spears track Toxic was someone that the song's co-writer Cathy Dennis had been dating in the early 00s, who broke up with her in 2003: Noel Fitzpatrick, The Supervet.
JFK's motorcade driver was from Stewartstown, Co. Tyrone.
Cricket was narrowly defeated in a vote to be included as a GAA sport.
Northern Ireland once held both records for the oldest and youngest players to play in the World Cup finals. Pat Jennings (41) and Norman Whiteside (17). Whiteside's record still stands.
Quote from: TabClear on January 28, 2019, 01:32:53 PM
What has been the UK's most successful stock market company since the launch of the FTSE 100 35 years ago......
British American Tobacco :o :o
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/jan/26/the-best-investment-of-the-past-35-years-sadly-it-was-cigarettes
So much for steering clear of declining industries....
Quote from: johnnycool on January 24, 2019, 01:50:52 PM
I shít you not;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46944631 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46944631)
Holy crap!
https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2019/0614/1055308-russia-wolf-head/
40,000 year old wolfs head....an original Dire Wolf....where's Jon Snow?
Quote from: Fionntamhnach on September 12, 2019, 03:37:01 PM
QuoteUS doctors are hoping to start offering women vaginal fluid transplants and have set up a programme to screen potential donors.
They believe some women could benefit from a dose of healthy vaginal microbes to protect against an infection called bacterial vaginosis (BV).
The Johns Hopkins University team say they were inspired by the success of faecal or poo transplants.
Although antibiotics can treat BV, it often comes back.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49646907
Could be used for DUPers as they are a shower of dry c***ts...
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on September 12, 2019, 05:53:31 PM
Quote from: Fionntamhnach on September 12, 2019, 03:37:01 PM
QuoteUS doctors are hoping to start offering women vaginal fluid transplants and have set up a programme to screen potential donors.
They believe some women could benefit from a dose of healthy vaginal microbes to protect against an infection called bacterial vaginosis (BV).
The Johns Hopkins University team say they were inspired by the success of faecal or poo transplants.
Although antibiotics can treat BV, it often comes back.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49646907
Could be used for DUPers as they are a shower of dry c***ts...
😂
https://qz.com/523746/a-photographer-edits-out-our-smartphones-to-show-our-strange-and-lonely-new-world
Was watching the History channel about the rise of the Nazi party and it was said that Hugo Boss designed thier military uniforms.
Quote from: Denn Forever on October 22, 2019, 11:06:04 AM
Was watching the History channel about the rise of the Nazi party and it was said that Hugo Boss designed thier military uniforms.
https://historycollection.co/10-famous-companies-collaborated-nazi-germany/10/
Details of a number of companies that had associations with the Nazis
Quote from: Denn Forever on October 22, 2019, 11:06:04 AM
Was watching the History channel about the rise of the Nazi party and it was said that Hugo Boss designed thier military uniforms.
Boss manufactured their uniforms, he did not design them.
https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/do-we-think-differently-in-different-languages/p07ry35k
Doireann Ní Ghrioghair was researching architect Daithi Hanly when she came across his "bonkers plans" for a new totalitarian Christian capital city outside of Dublin.
It was urban planning like Nazi architect Albert Speer's, Ní Ghrioghair says. "Where all the roads would lead into the main area with a big parliament building in the centre."
The plans included a triumphal arch, with a "column of the resurrection" and a "garden of heroes".
Hanly, who later became a Dublin City Council architect, outlined his vision for a new city, at the Hill of Tara in County Meath, in Aiséirghe, a magazine published by far-right group Ailtirí na hAiséirghe (Architects of the Resurrection).
https://www.dublininquirer.com/2019/10/30/in-the-coombe-an-exhibition-recalls-plans-for-totalitarian-christian-capital-city
Tyrone gaa
we didnt start the fire
James Craig April 1934, in response to George Leeke's question regarding Craig's Protestant Parliament:
The hon. Member must remember that in the South they boasted of a Catholic State. They still boast of Southern Ireland being a Catholic State. All I boast of is that we are a Protestant Parliament and a Protestant State. It would be rather interesting for historians of the future to compare a Catholic State launched in the South with a Protestant State launched in the North and to see which gets on the better and prospers the more. It is most interesting for me at the moment to watch how they are progressing. I am doing my best always to top the bill and to be ahead of the South
Later that year, speaking in the House of Commons at Stormont on the 21 November 1934 in response to an accusation that all government appointments in Northern Ireland were carried out on a religious basis, he replied: "... it is undoubtedly our duty and our privilege, and always will be, to see that those appointed by us possess the most unimpeachable loyalty to the King and Constitution. That is my whole object in carrying on a Protestant Government for a Protestant people. I repeat it in this House".[5]
If you're ever in conversation about bison behaviour in upstate New York:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo)
Red Hugh O'Donnell found?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/spanish-dig-unearths-human-remains-162425345.html
Quote from: DrinkingHarp on May 29, 2020, 07:53:17 PM
Red Hugh O'Donnell found?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/spanish-dig-unearths-human-remains-162425345.html
I wonder will they bring him back to Donegal Town.
Is there a statue?
In 1770, Crispus Attucks, a black man, became the first casualty of the American Revolution when he was shot and killed in what became known as the Boston Massacre.
(https://scontent.fdub4-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/107548976_2663163283905663_4218317519328016674_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_sid=ca434c&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ohc=pzRgwwiozLMAX8MsrWA&_nc_ht=scontent.fdub4-1.fna&_nc_tp=14&oh=6efd21e3ee0255801b7de445b4fcebb4&oe=5F29CF70)
Whoa, she's hot! ;D
Who is she?
My ceiling is too far up, I can't see a thing. Could you re-do it for wall-looking?
The DUP
run the same model as the extreme right AfD in Germany
https://www.ft.com/content/b8d27948-88c9-4b29-94ce-402001f63a2b
"The secret of the AfD's success is that it's a coalition of both extreme and moderate forces," said Wolfgang Schroeder, a political scientist at the Berlin Social Science Centre. "If Meuthen kicks out all the extremists, he'll destroy this successful formula."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/interactive-map-home-earth-191407253.html
Map itself
https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#240
On left top corner enter city
On top right scroll for time frame
Quote from: DrinkingHarp on September 09, 2020, 03:10:47 AM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/interactive-map-home-earth-191407253.html
Map itself
https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#240
On left top corner enter city
On top right scroll for time frame
Very interesting indeed. Ill show the young fella this. He'll love this
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/international/sporting-upsets-rossi-s-hat-trick-felt-to-us-like-the-day-that-football-died-1.4348837
Socrates, who died in 2011, said in his autobiography: "The team's defeat in Barcelona was a crushing blow to the Brazilian style of play. From that moment on the emphasis changed to focus on results.
"The business side of the game grew frighteningly quickly and money was channelled to the winners, even if they were poor-quality winners. Brazilian football would never be the same again. Even though it is often subconscious, we now try and copy European pragmatism. With that, our game has become more rational and tactically more rigid and it has lost some of the identity."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubs_(river)
The Doubs is a 453-kilometre (281 mi) river in far eastern France which strays into western Switzerland. It is a left-bank tributary of the Saône.[1] It rises near Mouthe in the western Jura mountains, at 946 metres (3,104 ft) and its mouth is at Verdun-sur-le-Doubs, a village and commune in Saône-et-Loire at about 175 m (574 ft) above sea level. It is the tenth-longest river in France.
The name comes from the Celtic word Dub which means black.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubs_(rivi%C3%A8re)
History of names can be fascinating if you're in to that kind of thing.
At one time Duibhlinn (black pool) and Ath Cliath (ford of the hurdles) were two separate but neighbouring settlements. So Dublin could easily have even up being anglicized as Duvlin, Blackpool or Hurdleford. But somehow it became Dublin and bizarrely Ath Cliath was picked as the Irish version, even though it's absolutely not the Irish for Dublin!
Quote from: Hound on December 05, 2020, 07:24:06 AM
History of names can be fascinating if you're in to that kind of thing.
At one time Duibhlinn (black pool) and Ath Cliath (ford of the hurdles) were two separate but neighbouring settlements. So Dublin could easily have even up being anglicized as Duvlin, Blackpool or Hurdleford. But somehow it became Dublin and bizarrely Ath Cliath was picked as the Irish version, even though it's absolutely not the Irish for Dublin!
There's precedence then for splitting the county...have a team Ath Cliath and a team Duibhlinn....probably still win the all Ireland though!
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on December 05, 2020, 08:07:17 AM
Quote from: Hound on December 05, 2020, 07:24:06 AM
History of names can be fascinating if you're in to that kind of thing.
At one time Duibhlinn (black pool) and Ath Cliath (ford of the hurdles) were two separate but neighbouring settlements. So Dublin could easily have even up being anglicized as Duvlin, Blackpool or Hurdleford. But somehow it became Dublin and bizarrely Ath Cliath was picked as the Irish version, even though it's absolutely not the Irish for Dublin!
There's precedence then for splitting the county...have a team Ath Cliath and a team Duibhlinn....probably still win the all Ireland though!
Aye but which one?
Quote from: seafoid on December 04, 2020, 08:31:42 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubs_(river)
The Doubs is a 453-kilometre (281 mi) river in far eastern France which strays into western Switzerland. It is a left-bank tributary of the Saône.[1] It rises near Mouthe in the western Jura mountains, at 946 metres (3,104 ft) and its mouth is at Verdun-sur-le-Doubs, a village and commune in Saône-et-Loire at about 175 m (574 ft) above sea level. It is the tenth-longest river in France.
The name comes from the Celtic word Dub which means black.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubs_(rivi%C3%A8re)
I know that place. A few years ago this lad in an Arnotts jersey was paddling vigorously upstream. Puzzled, I asked him where he was going, and he just waved his paddle at me shouting "Up the Doubs" .
Quote from: 6th sam on December 05, 2020, 09:26:33 AM
Quote from: seafoid on December 04, 2020, 08:31:42 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubs_(river)
The Doubs is a 453-kilometre (281 mi) river in far eastern France which strays into western Switzerland. It is a left-bank tributary of the Saône.[1] It rises near Mouthe in the western Jura mountains, at 946 metres (3,104 ft) and its mouth is at Verdun-sur-le-Doubs, a village and commune in Saône-et-Loire at about 175 m (574 ft) above sea level. It is the tenth-longest river in France.
The name comes from the Celtic word Dub which means black.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubs_(rivi%C3%A8re)
I know that place. A few years ago this lad in an Arnotts jersey was paddling vigorously upstream. Puzzled, I asked him where he was going, and he just waved his paddle at me shouting "Up the Doubs" .
Get out.
Quote from: RedHand88 on December 05, 2020, 09:43:36 AM
Quote from: 6th sam on December 05, 2020, 09:26:33 AM
Quote from: seafoid on December 04, 2020, 08:31:42 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubs_(river)
The Doubs is a 453-kilometre (281 mi) river in far eastern France which strays into western Switzerland. It is a left-bank tributary of the Saône.[1] It rises near Mouthe in the western Jura mountains, at 946 metres (3,104 ft) and its mouth is at Verdun-sur-le-Doubs, a village and commune in Saône-et-Loire at about 175 m (574 ft) above sea level. It is the tenth-longest river in France.
The name comes from the Celtic word Dub which means black.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubs_(rivi%C3%A8re)
I know that place. A few years ago this lad in an Arnotts jersey was paddling vigorously upstream. Puzzled, I asked him where he was going, and he just waved his paddle at me shouting "Up the Doubs" .
Get out.
People have been banned for less!
You can watch a live volcano in Iceland on YouTube, it looks better at night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O46nVKTdpBc
Huge Chinese rocket likely to have uncontrolled re-entry into Earth's atmosphere in the coming days
This will be an interesting one to follow.
China launched a module for its space station into orbit last week, but the mission launcher is heading back to Earth and is uncontrolled. China haven't said whether this was planned and they just don't care, or if there was some error.
The launcher is 30m long x 5m wide and weighs 21 metric tons. Almost impossible to predict how much and in how many fragments it will survive re-entry, but best guess is between 4 tonnes and 10 tonnes will survive. And then travel down to ground at about 350 km/h.
It orbits Earth every 90 minutes. Broadly, its orbit includes New York - Madrid - Beijing - Chile - Wellington. It's much more likely to hit sea or uninhabited areas, but the orbit is so fast, it's impossible to predict at this stage, so will be worth monitoring.
https://spacenews.com/huge-rocket-looks-set-for-uncontrolled-reentry-following-chinese-space-station-launch/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Coles
Coles is a member of the Labour Party.[17] He is also a member of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), having been converted through watching the 2020 TV series Normal People. Family ties led to him selecting Cork, Ireland as his county and St Finbarr's as his club.
Quote from: Hound on May 04, 2021, 04:35:43 PM
Huge Chinese rocket likely to have uncontrolled re-entry into Earth's atmosphere in the coming days
This will be an interesting one to follow.
China launched a module for its space station into orbit last week, but the mission launcher is heading back to Earth and is uncontrolled. China haven't said whether this was planned and they just don't care, or if there was some error.
The launcher is 30m long x 5m wide and weighs 21 metric tons. Almost impossible to predict how much and in how many fragments it will survive re-entry, but best guess is between 4 tonnes and 10 tonnes will survive. And then travel down to ground at about 350 km/h.
It orbits Earth every 90 minutes. Broadly, its orbit includes New York - Madrid - Beijing - Chile - Wellington. It's much more likely to hit sea or uninhabited areas, but the orbit is so fast, it's impossible to predict at this stage, so will be worth monitoring.
https://spacenews.com/huge-rocket-looks-set-for-uncontrolled-reentry-following-chinese-space-station-launch/
Any news on this badboy?
Quote from: Dire Ear on June 02, 2021, 11:25:03 AM
Quote from: Hound on May 04, 2021, 04:35:43 PM
Huge Chinese rocket likely to have uncontrolled re-entry into Earth's atmosphere in the coming days
This will be an interesting one to follow.
China launched a module for its space station into orbit last week, but the mission launcher is heading back to Earth and is uncontrolled. China haven't said whether this was planned and they just don't care, or if there was some error.
The launcher is 30m long x 5m wide and weighs 21 metric tons. Almost impossible to predict how much and in how many fragments it will survive re-entry, but best guess is between 4 tonnes and 10 tonnes will survive. And then travel down to ground at about 350 km/h.
It orbits Earth every 90 minutes. Broadly, its orbit includes New York - Madrid - Beijing - Chile - Wellington. It's much more likely to hit sea or uninhabited areas, but the orbit is so fast, it's impossible to predict at this stage, so will be worth monitoring.
https://spacenews.com/huge-rocket-looks-set-for-uncontrolled-reentry-following-chinese-space-station-launch/
Any news on this badboy?
https://spacenews.com/long-march-5b-falls-into-indian-ocean-after-world-follows-rocket-reentry/
Quote from: 93-DY-SAM on June 02, 2021, 02:18:27 PM
Quote from: Dire Ear on June 02, 2021, 11:25:03 AM
Quote from: Hound on May 04, 2021, 04:35:43 PM
Huge Chinese rocket likely to have uncontrolled re-entry into Earth's atmosphere in the coming days
This will be an interesting one to follow.
China launched a module for its space station into orbit last week, but the mission launcher is heading back to Earth and is uncontrolled. China haven't said whether this was planned and they just don't care, or if there was some error.
The launcher is 30m long x 5m wide and weighs 21 metric tons. Almost impossible to predict how much and in how many fragments it will survive re-entry, but best guess is between 4 tonnes and 10 tonnes will survive. And then travel down to ground at about 350 km/h.
It orbits Earth every 90 minutes. Broadly, its orbit includes New York - Madrid - Beijing - Chile - Wellington. It's much more likely to hit sea or uninhabited areas, but the orbit is so fast, it's impossible to predict at this stage, so will be worth monitoring.
https://spacenews.com/huge-rocket-looks-set-for-uncontrolled-reentry-following-chinese-space-station-launch/
Any news on this badboy?
https://spacenews.com/long-march-5b-falls-into-indian-ocean-after-world-follows-rocket-reentry/
Shite, I was hoping it would fall on Meath.
Not think Meath has enough problems? ! ;)
Quote from: Itchy on June 03, 2021, 03:36:37 PM
Quote from: 93-DY-SAM on June 02, 2021, 02:18:27 PM
Quote from: Dire Ear on June 02, 2021, 11:25:03 AM
Quote from: Hound on May 04, 2021, 04:35:43 PM
Huge Chinese rocket likely to have uncontrolled re-entry into Earth's atmosphere in the coming days
This will be an interesting one to follow.
China launched a module for its space station into orbit last week, but the mission launcher is heading back to Earth and is uncontrolled. China haven't said whether this was planned and they just don't care, or if there was some error.
The launcher is 30m long x 5m wide and weighs 21 metric tons. Almost impossible to predict how much and in how many fragments it will survive re-entry, but best guess is between 4 tonnes and 10 tonnes will survive. And then travel down to ground at about 350 km/h.
It orbits Earth every 90 minutes. Broadly, its orbit includes New York - Madrid - Beijing - Chile - Wellington. It's much more likely to hit sea or uninhabited areas, but the orbit is so fast, it's impossible to predict at this stage, so will be worth monitoring.
https://spacenews.com/huge-rocket-looks-set-for-uncontrolled-reentry-following-chinese-space-station-launch/
Any news on this badboy?
https://spacenews.com/long-march-5b-falls-into-indian-ocean-after-world-follows-rocket-reentry/
Shite, I was hoping it would fall on Meath.
I'd have picked Tyrone before Meath.
No need LL..............NO NEED
;) :D
Never knew about this. No Newgrage or Ceidé fields but still impressive.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-zimbabwe
Quote from: Fionntamhnach on November 16, 2022, 11:13:44 AM
World's population is now 8 billion, according to UN
QuoteIndia has increased by roughly 180 million people, and is set to surpass China as the world's most populous nation next year for the first time in almost 2,000 years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/63632981
Every fifth child born in the world in Chinese.
My brother has five children, so one of them must be Chinese. It could be Peter, or Niall, or Ying-Tong, or Stephen, or Sean. But I think it's Stephen.
Quote from: Fionntamhnach on November 16, 2022, 11:13:44 AM
World's population is now 8 billion, according to UN
QuoteIndia has increased by roughly 180 million people, and is set to surpass China as the world's most populous nation next year for the first time in almost 2,000 years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/63632981
I would be very worried if I were in charge of India. The average age at which rural women have their first child is less than 20. This accelerates the growth of the popuulation.
It's not clear how everyone can be fed long term. The Green Revolution boosted Indian agricultural output but instead of boosting living standards it drove population growth and the underground wells used to provide irrigation are not getting any bigger.
The Indian State of Uttar Pradesh had 170 million in 2000 and now has 233 million. It's about 5 times the size of the 26 counties.
Quote from: Orior on November 16, 2022, 11:52:42 AM
Quote from: Fionntamhnach on November 16, 2022, 11:13:44 AM
World's population is now 8 billion, according to UN
QuoteIndia has increased by roughly 180 million people, and is set to surpass China as the world's most populous nation next year for the first time in almost 2,000 years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/63632981
Every fifth child born in the world in Chinese.
My brother has five children, so one of them must be Chinese. It could be Peter, or Niall, or Ying-Tong, or Stephen, or Sean. But I think it's Stephen.
Niall sounds more Chinese to me ;D
Quote from: Orior on November 16, 2022, 11:52:42 AM
Quote from: Fionntamhnach on November 16, 2022, 11:13:44 AM
World's population is now 8 billion, according to UN
QuoteIndia has increased by roughly 180 million people, and is set to surpass China as the world's most populous nation next year for the first time in almost 2,000 years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/63632981
Every fifth child born in the world in Chinese.
My brother has five children, so one of them must be Chinese. It could be Peter, or Niall, or Ying-Tong, or Stephen, or Sean. But I think it's Stephen.
Who coordinates the sequence?
Hold, Hold, Push
Quote from: Fionntamhnach on November 16, 2022, 11:13:44 AM
World's population is now 8 billion, according to UN
QuoteIndia has increased by roughly 180 million people, and is set to surpass China as the world's most populous nation next year for the first time in almost 2,000 years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/63632981
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/27/megalopolis-how-coastal-west-africa-will-shape-the-coming-century
By the end of this century, the UN projects that Africa, which had less than one-tenth of the world's population in 1950, will be home to 3.9 billion people, or 40% of humanity.
Fun Fact: in 120 years time, there will be 8 billion different people walking on planet Earth.
The evenings start getting longer from today. The sun is still rising later so the net effect is less daylight until the solistice.
Quote from: LeoMc on December 14, 2022, 07:35:52 PM
The evenings start getting longer from today. The sun is still rising later so the net effect is less daylight until the solistice.
I thought there was a grand stretch this evening.
The Dublin Neurological Institute is hosting a 'Resilient Leadership' event with guest speakers Stuart Lancaster and Jim Gavin at Croke Park on Tuesday, February 7th. For those interested in purchasing a table or individual tickets, call 01-8545033 or email fundraising@dni.ie
Had to go somewhere, it's more a in the name of God 🤔
https://twitter.com/vatastore/status/1616664462924320768?t=5AZz4P2utBLNnXwSySKA3w&s=19
Another documentary on Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding was on tg4 tonight. Things have gone well for Nancy and badly for Tonya since 1994. However Tonya is still the only one who had a big successful, acclaimed Hollywood movie made about her.
Debris from the big bang. What we started from.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66844738
Football team called Hashtag United. w**k name
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag_United_F.C.?wprov=sfla1
https://www.facebook.com/100078696501298/posts/pfbid0qXGfJSJnaDd13edkudeuHrEJRLPtMLwzrZ1H1BktP7ekWazgqULUo7rhXwRbtFprl/?mibextid=fNONUu
Crown Bar in Wexford banned singer from singing rebel songs. Said you can continue to gig here but no rebel songs allowed. He told them where to stick their gigs and they are getting some abuse on facebook comments. You love to see it.
Quote from: Armagh18 on November 13, 2023, 09:55:08 PMhttps://www.facebook.com/100078696501298/posts/pfbid0qXGfJSJnaDd13edkudeuHrEJRLPtMLwzrZ1H1BktP7ekWazgqULUo7rhXwRbtFprl/?mibextid=fNONUu
Crown Bar in Wexford banned singer from singing rebel songs. Said you can continue to gig here but no rebel songs allowed. He told them where to stick their gigs and they are getting some abuse on facebook comments. You love to see it.
I'm offended by him not being allowed to sing rebel songs.
Quote from: Armagh18 on November 13, 2023, 09:55:08 PMhttps://www.facebook.com/100078696501298/posts/pfbid0qXGfJSJnaDd13edkudeuHrEJRLPtMLwzrZ1H1BktP7ekWazgqULUo7rhXwRbtFprl/?mibextid=fNONUu
Crown Bar in Wexford banned singer from singing rebel songs. Said you can continue to gig here but no rebel songs allowed. He told them where to stick their gigs and they are getting some abuse on facebook comments. You love to see it.
What do you expect from the Crown bar, they probably put on lunches for the militia in 1798?
Hmm, did someone get thrown a brown envelope by the tobacco companies ?
https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/1127/1418684-new-zealand-smoking-ban/
BBC News - Huge ancient city found in the Amazon
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67940671