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#1
General discussion / Re: Price of a Pint
March 27, 2024, 11:45:51 AM
can mind the days back in the mid 90's when you could get a pint in Queens Student Union for £1. Going by the BOE Inflation calculator that would be just under £2 now.
#2
General discussion / Re: Price of a Pint
March 27, 2024, 11:43:49 AM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on March 26, 2024, 02:51:59 PMOut for a meal on Sat afternoon.. bill was £80 a head! Is what it is, had a great time and decent food..Ya only live once!

how many drinks with the meal?

#3
General discussion / Re: Weather
March 27, 2024, 10:49:31 AM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on March 27, 2024, 10:39:00 AM
Quote from: clarshack on March 27, 2024, 10:29:53 AM
Quote from: Aaron Boone on June 15, 2023, 10:43:32 PMNeed some rain for the grass. Need some growth.

You got plenty of Rain since then!. It's been another sh*te month of weather and won't be surprised if it turns out to be the wettest March ever. Its been pretty much like this since the middle of last July and it's no wonder a lot of people in this country are depressed.

Depressing and then some! Back garden is like marshlands, Tbf not great in the summer months either with the wet weather.. No sign of it changing any day soon

Have stayed off the normal country road to work and using the motorway and main roads as the country roads are flooded and dangerous with plenty of surface water about, localised flooding in places!

I'd say the lying water can be as dangerous as snow, at least with the snow you shouldn't be going as fast

My garden's currently in the worst shape ever too!
#4
General discussion / Re: Weather
March 27, 2024, 10:29:53 AM
Quote from: Aaron Boone on June 15, 2023, 10:43:32 PMNeed some rain for the grass. Need some growth.

You got plenty of Rain since then!. It's been another sh*te month of weather and won't be surprised if it turns out to be the wettest March ever. Its been pretty much like this since the middle of last July and it's no wonder a lot of people in this country are depressed.
#5
General discussion / Re: The Fine Gael thread
March 25, 2024, 11:51:58 AM
Quote from: Hound on March 25, 2024, 08:44:07 AMThanks for that RH. I see the odd McDowell piece in the paper, i don't frequent his website.

McDowell's claim that SF was undemocratic wasn't because she was elected unopposed though.

If you believe some puppet master told Coveney, Donohue, Humohries, McEntee etc that they were not permitted to contest the election then that would be equivalent alright. Personally I don't think Harris is controlled by shawdowy puppet master figures. I think he really wants it and will make decisions (whether good or bad) himself and for his personal agenda of what he thinks would be successful. And he has persuaded most of his elected parliamentary colleagues to side with him. The other potential contenders were either not interested (SC and PD) or knew they would lose (everyone else).

Here's some of what McDowell said about SF (from the 2019 article that was linked):

I think Sinn Féin is still an undemocratic, marxist movement masquerading as a conventional political party. Most of its members are probably unaware of its true nature.

Let me pose two questions.

Why did Sinn Féin recently spend a large sum sending a delegation to the inauguration of the undemocratic marxist, Nicolas Maduro, as president of Venezuela?

How precisely was Michelle O'Neill chosen to succeed Martin McGuinness as leader of Sinn Féin in the North?

In the case of Maduro, the Provisional movement have long backed communist movements in that region. They sold their weapons technology to the Farc communists in neighbouring Colombia in exchange for millions of narco-dollars. They had, despite denials, a permanent representative in Castro's Cuba. The common thread was a belief that they were and are a revolutionary movement with a marxist orientation. Readers of An Phoblacht over the years will remember the constant stream of supportive articles for marxist revolutionary groups internationally.

It should come as absolutely no surprise that the party sent a delegation to Caracas to celebrate the subversion of democracy in what used to be one to Latin America's most liberal states.

This may not lie easily with the polished, bourgeois professional image which the Party seeks to create using Mary Lou McDonald and, until recently, the urbane Peadar Tóibín.

But the truth is that Sinn Féin is rigidly controlled by a small clique of Provo veterans who are puppet-masters in what appears to be a normal democratic party.

It was they who chose Michelle O'Neill. It is they who secured the unopposed election of Mary Lou as the party's Uachtarán. It is their network of commissars who impose order and discipline on the party's members. It is they who decide on strategy. It is they who will decide if and when the party resumes participation in the NI executive.

In true marxist style, the entire party is subject to what Lenin described as "democratic centralism".

Sinn Féin members of the Oireachtas do not choose their advisors, interns or secretaries. The party commissars make those decisions. By this means all vestiges of political privacy and autonomy are absent.

We are still somewhat in the dark as to whether the party confiscates its public representatives' earnings and allowances over certain average industrial wage thresholds to apply them to party purposes under the guise of a voluntary contribution to the support of the party.

Most Sinn Féin members, elected and un-elected, are outside the loop of decision-making. I do not believe for one minute that Mary Lou or Michelle is in charge of the party rather than the old gang in the backroom of the Felons' Club on the Andersonstown Road.

If the party does not make sufficient progress at the polls, either or both of them will receive a tap on the shoulder from the Felons' Club – not from the ordinary members.

Sinn Féin is not a democratic or republican party. It remains a carefully constructed façade for a small, manipulative and undemocratic clique with very different values.

He pretty much nailed it.
#6
Quote from: Jell 0 Biafra on March 23, 2024, 09:21:18 PMYeah, that was him.  He said it wasn't, but the stylistic similarities, and the threads he spent time on (and didn't) all pointed that way.

Clear as day that person is linked to one of the many NGO's in the South.
#7
Quote from: Jell 0 Biafra on March 23, 2024, 09:06:19 PM
Quote from: Armagh18 on March 23, 2024, 01:11:23 PM
Quote from: PadraicHenryPearse on March 23, 2024, 12:57:16 PMEG the return of previously (at least 2x) banned poster...

Not much concern shown for the 100 plus innocent victims. Are there calls from international leaders to wait for an internal investigation to determine the outcome or is that reserved for one state only.
Sid Waddell?

That was a few user-names ago.  He's been back (and banned) more recently.

Who was it recently? Tommy Mullan? Hopefully because that guy was seriously annoying.
#8
Maybe it's already been mentioned but the club draw in Laois.
#9
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and Hurling
March 22, 2024, 10:39:26 AM
That group of players kicked themselves out of the All-Ireland Minor Final in 2021 as well. Looks like it's something they really need to improve on.
#10
General discussion / Re: extortion
March 22, 2024, 10:33:28 AM
Quote from: RedHand88 on March 22, 2024, 10:10:52 AMJust a note on rates, the council workers got a big pay bump last year with backpay/bonus(?) after they went on strike. How else did you think it would be funded?

Yeah, knew at the time the Ratepayer was going to have to take the hit on that. It was a a massive victory for some local councillors though IIRC.

https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2024/january/mid-ulster-district-council-leisure-workers-to-continue-all-out-strike-for-improved-coaching-payments

They were still striking outside Cookstown the other day.
#11
General discussion / Re: extortion
March 22, 2024, 10:05:51 AM
Quote from: illdecide on March 22, 2024, 09:55:29 AMWhat are your thoughts on the way we are charged for things now...?. I believe majority of Companies are charging what they like and are allowed to get away with it.
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Insurance - Doubled and trebled for younger ones, simply telephone numbers.
Infrastructure - Schemes have doubled and trebled in price yet wages and materials have went up prob 10%.
Fuel/Electricity - They can basically charge what they feel like, apparently oil is cheaper now than it was 3-4 years ago.

Feel free to add to the list as there are just too many to list here on my own, i'd be typing all day but how are they allowed to get away with this, is there mo regulatory Authorities monitoring these and Governments not stepping in?. I can guarantee you if we had a recession like we had in 2008-2010 and you offered Contractors a large scheme for a fraction of the price they'd be able to do it. Total rip off and everyone is jumping on board with it because they can

As long as Man Utd and Liverpool are on the Tv keeping the masses entertained stuff like this is irrelevant!

In all seriousness though Rates is another one, seems to go up by 7-8% each year for reduced services.
#12
General discussion / Re: The Fine Gael thread
March 20, 2024, 02:15:49 PM
Quote from: mouview on March 20, 2024, 12:44:51 PMUndoubtedly, his greatest error as Taoiseach was to give Boris Johnson a compromise deal on Brexit when they met in the Wirral that time. Tories were sinking fast without it and it allowed Johnson put through an agreement he subsequently tried to renege on and never had any intention of upholding.

Not the time he leaked a confidential document to his mate?
#14
Jedwards tweets
#15
General discussion / Re: European Leagues.
March 12, 2024, 10:51:48 PM
Was the Arsenal keeper off his line for that last penalty?