Random Thoughts. Fairly self explanatory, but saves on new threads going up for every random thought.
Doing things in general can be likened to folding a sheet. Once the first fold is even a tiny bit off, the degree of not right gets more and more with each subsequent fold and at the end it is fairly squared off but not all the way square. I was thinking about this while I was folding a sheet and thinking about mixing a song at the same time.
Still a few of the mushies left over I see.
Just had the memory there of buying albums back in the day taking a chance on them. Hard times with the local music shop back in the day. Remember how hard you would have to look if you were living in the sticks? anything mildly metal or underground looking you'd nearly chance it hoping to god. And then there'd be fuck all else new coming in for ages I'd have to try and like whatever was the latest fucking thing I'd bought trying to like it whether it was good or not waiting to tape the metal show on sunday night for the fix or metalkerrangorizer might have a cd on it.
Funny how people are sometimes nostalgic for those days even though any album you want is a click or two away, and if your moral fiber isn't robust, you can have it without paying.
The big difference is that because of the paucity of options, one would become intimately familiar with the albums you did manage to get. I remember I was about 14 on holidays in Wales with the parents and I listened to the Black Album on the Walkman about 20 times when we were in the car. Not a hope of devoting that much time to any album now in such a short space of time.
Yes, so convenient now but I do miss the "hunt" for a record so to speak. The release date in printed magazines often your only guide, lost count of the amount of times you'd make your way into town only to be told it's not in yet. Though having made the journey I'd often pick up something else.
Or trawling through the second hand cd shops and picking up something just based on the artwork or song titles. I remember being about 13 or 14 seeing Bloodthirst by Cannibal Corpse and thinking I had to get it because it looked so fucking cool. Still reckon it's their best album
Halcyon days alright
Absolutely, picked up Autopsy's Acts Of The Unspeakable In George's Street Arcade one time, remember being drawn in by the titles . Got quite a shock when I opened the inlay on the bus home!
I feel that nobody truly appreciates anything that comes too easily and that is why I think the physical hunt for things was better than everything being there right now, even though I am as lazy as anybody and have youtube on this minute. But even the buzz of one of your friends getting a new cd and sitting in his house listening through while taping it to bring home was a nice bit of human interaction
Completely agree. Divine intervention comes to mind. Everyday of 5th year in school I would wake up and play Killing Fields before I went down for breakfast. My parents were really forgiving when I look back because I would play it full blast on my CD player. Sometimes I'd sleep in my school uniform just to get a few more minutes of Slayer in the morning. Breakfast meant very little back then or school or church nor exams nor GAA, I was literally devoted to Slayer and fuck everybody in the world..gas!
Similar for me with that album. I remember getting it on cassette on the day of release. Didn't even know what the artwork was like until I got to the store, that was such an amazing thing, the anticipation . Pouring over the inlay on the bus journey home I thought it was the most evil thing I'd ever seen. The chaps arm slashed, lyrics to 213 and Sex Murder Art really put the willies up me. Played that album to death, Rewound the tape again and again just to hear Bostaphs intro.
A criminally underrated album. Some class tunes on it. Killing Fields itself is about as badass as it gets really. Fast as fuck, Araya on fire, A perfect blend of hard-core and metal.
Yeah although not their absolute best it really is an under rated record. I think part of what made it special was their peers were terrified by the whole grunge thing. Slayer simply did not give a fuck and delivered what is still perhaps their most uncompromising album.
Ever since I started messing around with my own bit of music producing years ago, I haven't been able to just sit back and just enjoy a tune without trying to dismantle it in my mind. Picking it apart in a sort of three dimensional picture in my mind.
I wonder what it would be like to be one of those people who can just listen to things without really thinking about them.
As a well seasoned stoner, fuck stoner music. Seriously. It is really lowest common denominator shite.
I still enjoy going through racks of CDs or vinyl and picking stuff up just based on the art or the name. Fuck the 21st century and downloading bollocks ;D Recent examples of great pick ups based on art and name are Witch - Salem's Rise and Trial - Motherless. But there are plenty of albums I have I'll probably never even consider listening to again... Even though I am in my forties I'm still a sucker for a band name with Lucifer or Satan in it :laugh:
My best ever pick up based on art was Overkill - Horrorscope on tape in a shop in Armagh. Never been as blown away by an album (I was 12 or 13 and just getting into metal with bands like Maiden, Alice Cooper etc). Still my favourite Overkill album to this day.
I have bought a fair few over the years purely from the artwork and the faint hope I might have stumbled upon something good. The best one I can remember off the top of my head was my 15th or 16th birthday when I bought Strapping Young Lad - City purely because of the artwork. Was fucking delighted when I took it on home and threw it on. The minute All Hail The New Flesh busted in I knew I was on to a winner.
Quote from: Cryptic Stench on November 30, 2018, 07:32:01 AM
Yes, so convenient now but I do miss the "hunt" for a record so to speak. The release date in printed magazines often your only guide, lost count of the amount of times you'd make your way into town only to be told it's not in yet. Though having made the journey I'd often pick up something else.
i would do something similar to that only id go in wit hthe intention of buying a certain album and even if it was in stock id buy something completely different.
I used to love doing that. I picked up Control and Resistance back in the day purely because of the cover and it changed my musical path forever. It was more exciting, in general, back then when you bought music without ever hearing a note of it based purely on the history of the band or the scene they were associated with. I bought Unquestionable Presence because I read it had a guy from some band I had never heard of who were also selected by Chuck to play on his latest album. I thought "if they're good enough for Death..." and made the purchase.
Aside from our impending surveillance, scrutiny and slavery, the digital age has really taken a lot of the fun and mystique from music... as well as destroying it.
When browsing bandcamp, fb groups, or youtube, I would still consider the album art when making a decision on whether or not to listen to something found otherwise at random.
I'm definitely guilty of the same. There's just far too much stuff out there to click on every single album. Although there have been a few bands I've listened to because the album cover was hilariously terrible, but they turned out to be fantastic, such as Scanner's Hypertrace
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CRmW09GRABU/Utm7MBMouVI/AAAAAAAACXU/2ztxVUW7V1I/s1600/Front.jpg)
Which has me thinking, we should really get another "Shitty album covers" thread on the go
Who'd win in a fight- Terry Wogan's accent or his toupé?
i dunno who would win but they would surely make an unreal tag team
Modern chocolate bars are about 2/3 the size they were twenty years ago. At this rate, they will vanish before the ice of Antarctica. I suspect the media are also chocolate-change deniers. The future will be wet and not as tasty.
Quote from: Juggz on December 11, 2018, 08:58:57 AM
Modern chocolate bars are about 2/3 the size they were twenty years ago. At this rate, they will vanish before the ice of Antarctica. I suspect the media are also chocolate-change deniers. The future will be wet and not as tasty.
I often think about this but then I wonder if my hands just got bigger
I bought a twirl on Sunday... Was tasty but so small...
Quote from: ochoill on December 11, 2018, 09:14:20 AM
Quote from: Juggz on December 11, 2018, 08:58:57 AM
Modern chocolate bars are about 2/3 the size they were twenty years ago. At this rate, they will vanish before the ice of Antarctica. I suspect the media are also chocolate-change deniers. The future will be wet and not as tasty.
I often think about this but then I wonder if my hands just got bigger
That's what they want you to think.
The old reliable Frys Turkish Delight has held its own for many a year while all around it shrink and shrink.
I was going to say its peers, but it is peerless.
Quote from: astfgyl on December 14, 2018, 10:26:40 AM
The old reliable Frys Turkish Delight has held its own for many a year while all around it shrink and shrink.
I was going to say its peers, but it is peerless.
There are few chocolates that come close to the quality of a Fry's Turkish.
The Cadbury Rum and Butter was another classic, alas lost to the dim mists of ancient time with the bar of Top Deck
Top Deck. The greatest achievement in chocolate technology, ever.
Sometimes I buy a large bourneville and a large milky bar and try to forge my own sort of top deck with them when I eat it. it's grand but nestlé white chocolate is failrly fuckin miserable.
Quote from: ochoill on December 14, 2018, 01:43:49 PM
Sometimes I buy a large bourneville and a large milky bar and try to forge my own sort of top deck with them when I eat it. it's grand but nestlé white chocolate is failrly fuckin miserable.
A desperate man will perform desperate deeds.
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Quote from: Juggz on December 14, 2018, 12:44:46 PM
Top Deck. The greatest achievement in chocolate technology, ever.
Secret bars would like a word.
Did the fella who invented the belt also design pants that have the belt loophole yokes? The belt is a great invention, certainly much better than braces, but it'd be fuck all use without the loops on pants.
https://youtu.be/88GTUXvp-50 (https://youtu.be/88GTUXvp-50)
Quote from: Emphyrio on December 22, 2018, 06:09:09 PM
Did the fella who invented the belt also design pants that have the belt loophole yokes? The belt is a great invention, certainly much better than braces, but it'd be fuck all use without the loops on pants.
I'm thinking it was probably an oul string going between 2 holes at first or like the strings on a corset sort of job keeping it going and then some bright spark got the idea of the holes all the way around and then came the belt. maybe.
A reading from the gospel "according to Luke" ......... (insert story) .......... This is the word of "Our Lord".
Thanks be to god.
So is it the word of "Our Lord", or is it what Luke said? I had a lot of mass under my belt before I ever considered that one. Are they taking the piss reading it out every time as in "haha gotcha ye fuckin dopes", or is it just that nobody ever noticed it before?
You're not supposed to think about those things. Thinking about them makes the rest of it fall apart like a Chinese motorcycle, to paraphrase Larry Burns. If this is the word of our lord then how can there be so many different versions and translations? If god, Jesus and the holy spirit are the same thing, then god sent himself to be sacrificed to save humanity from himself.
Yeah I better stop thinking and keep it random. It wouldn't do to be going round thinking about things or anything like that. It might be bad for business.
I know there's loads of them but that one in particular, I honestly can't figure out if it's a deliberate pisstake
After reading a few of the earlier posts in this thread I have discovered that you can still buy CD walkmen for under 30 quid in Argos!
The standard icon for saving a file is a floppy disk but many people clicking on it would never have seen a real one in their lives.
Quote from: Juggz on January 30, 2019, 02:10:32 PM
The standard icon for saving a file is a floppy disk but many people clicking on it would never have seen a real one in their lives.
This came up on an FB thread lately with some other observations, like someone's daughter asking them why we "hang up" on a phonecall and not exit it.
I've moved to Office 365 in work and they've done away with text for a number of functions, just a little icon, and it struck me. Our PCs stopped coming with floppy drives over 10 years ago and over 3 years since they came with CD/DVD drives.
Mobile phones are still called phones when even though it's calling people is probably one of the lesser used functions
Yep..now ask yourself why we 'hang up' the phone, 'stay on the line', 'get off' the phone, why we ask people to 'hang on' etc etc and then we realise how complicated the English language can be.
Quote from: Juggz on January 30, 2019, 02:10:32 PM
The standard icon for saving a file is a floppy disk but many people clicking on it would never have seen a real one in their lives.
An auld lad that worked with me used to think the save button in SAP was the "Honda" button... :laugh:
Quote from: ochoill on January 30, 2019, 02:17:53 PM
Quote from: Juggz on January 30, 2019, 02:10:32 PM
The standard icon for saving a file is a floppy disk but many people clicking on it would never have seen a real one in their lives.
This came up on an FB thread lately with some other observations, like someone's daughter asking them why we "hang up" on a phonecall and not exit it.
The young 'uns have to be trolling us with that kind of thing surely, had the daughter never seen TV show or movie with a phone before?
When toasting bread, is it better to go with a shorter stint in greater heat or a longer spell in lower heat?
Few more factors to weigh up for the perfect slice. What type of bread, how thick of a cut etc. But for my tastes a high heat at less time is ideal, you still get the maillard reaction on the outer layer and a good crispness, but keep the slice from going like a cracker and completely drying. Best on a thick cut of white sliced pan, or a normal cut of McCambridge soda bread - but the McCambridge is best toasted in a high heat pan with a tap of butter on it first anyway.
Quote from: Juggz on February 12, 2019, 12:17:47 PM
When toasting bread, is it better to go with a shorter stint in greater heat or a longer spell in lower heat?
If you go with the higher heat for a shorter time make sure you've no interruptions. The smoke alarm has been set off a few times because of that :laugh:
I think the chicken I had for dinner earlier was off. There are rumblings.
Who would win in a scrap, Captain Planet or James Bond Jr.?
Captain Planet is the originator of the Good Friday Agreement, so his scrappin' skills are probably rusty as fuck.
"I want more life."
Would it be possible to circumcise Wolverine, if one was so inclined?
Whatever happened to Leather Mike?
https://youtu.be/PKTQqgckVz8
Reading a book is just staring at a dead piece of wood for hours and hallucinating
Will I or wont I sell my old game consoles and games? Snes..Megadrive..N64...Gamecube....PS1/2...etc etc....I haven't played them in almost 10+ years and the chances of playing them in the future are slim (not for lack of interest just lack of time) but its like selling part of my past....
Quote from: The Heretic on February 12, 2020, 12:33:30 PM
Will I or wont I sell my old game consoles and games? Snes..Megadrive..N64...Gamecube....PS1/2...etc etc....I haven't played them in almost 10+ years and the chances of playing them in the future are slim (not for lack of interest just lack of time) but its like selling part of my past....
Yeah that's a tough one. Like you said you never use them and probably never will but it's purely sentimental value now. And its a case of if you can keep lugging them around or storing them somewhere for no real reason other than sentiment.
I usually sold off the old consoles back when I was young and needed to fund the new one.
I had a quandary a few years back where I had a PS2, PS3, 360 and Wii.probably had over 400 games for them in total. The games were a pain to move, they obviously took up a fuck tonne of space and I rarely played any of the games more than once.
Binned almost everything, made a decent wedge, reclaimed a chunk of the room. One of the best choices I ever made.
Sell sell sell. The old consoles with a co-ax connection look shit on modern tellys. Get the SNES and Megadrive mini consoles with HD output and put every rom you can find on them.
Quote from: Juggz on February 12, 2020, 01:33:53 PM
Sell sell sell. The old consoles with a co-ax connection look shit on modern tellys. Get the SNES and Megadrive mini consoles with HD output and put every rom you can find on them.
Ahem I also have 3 CRT TVs :laugh:, I have a raspberry pi setup for the old Snes/Magadrive roms, can get near the either...What really really kills me is that I've played every Zelda up until Majoras Mask, then cant get near anything after that, newer Zelda games all sitting there never been opened, pure clusterfuck!! Unopened PS2 in a box, unopened Wii U....I think I'll have to make the hard call lads....
Buy a Switch with the proceeds and lock yourself in the jacks!
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: Ducky on February 12, 2020, 01:51:40 PM
Buy a Switch with the proceeds and lock yourself in the jacks!
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :abbath:
Goldeneye, Mario Cart and Star Wars: Shadow Of The Empire kept me entertained for years on the N64, I'd love to get those again. I'm sure, however, that nostalgia is a factor in that and playing them on a decent TV now would be a letdown.
Mario Kart is still fucking amazing on the SNES.
If you have a pc get an emulator and then maybe see if you can get matching controlers for the platforms they are on. Then the most storage you'd have would be some joysticks/pads etc
Super Mario Kart on SNES is still the best one.
I run emulators on Windows, have a SNES Mini for handiness (SNES is my fave retro console), but I've pondered going all in on the retro stuff (mid life crisis is looming , hey). NTSC consoles, Sony Trintron screen... it'd be spicy as fuck, but I just know I'd flog it all again.
The cat going over and back across the windowsill and me thinking "the fuck do you want now, I only fed you a few minutes ago". Imagine he had a toothache instead and no way to tell me about it. In his head then, "come on to fuck, help me you prick!"
Imagine the most bestest, the even mostestester most brilliantest, the most scandalousisticspistic high one ever got off of anything whatever did it..
Now imagine the horror of waking up some wednesday morning, (haven't taken any of it the night before, actually went to bed at half 10 after a cup of tea and a sandwich and slept decent) and feeling the exact same buzz when the alarm goes off and you've to get up for work.
Quote from: Juggz on February 12, 2020, 06:33:20 PM
Mario Kart is still fucking amazing on the SNES.
Agreed! :abbath: :abbath: :abbath: :abbath:
Mario Kart on the SNES is indeed amazing, but the N64 version is without a doubt my fave.
Quote from: Giggles on May 27, 2020, 03:08:10 PM
Mario Kart on the SNES is indeed amazing, but the N64 version is without a doubt my fave.
The best back-from-the-pub-with-mates drunken game ever.
I only played it on N64 :(
I have a SNES and an N64, both bought in around 2015/2016 from pawn shops and work well. Also have an NES mini. Have bought quite a few cartridges for both N64 and SNES. Speaking of SNES games I like, I picked up 'Pilot Wings' (relaxing), 'F-Zero' (to name quite a few) and of course bought 'Mario Kart' which I think is better than the N64 version but some of the levels on Mario Kart 64 are better even still, like 'Rainbow Road' or that weird castle.
Quote from: Carnage on February 12, 2020, 06:20:15 PM
Goldeneye, Mario Cart and Star Wars: Shadow Of The Empire kept me entertained for years on the N64, I'd love to get those again. I'm sure, however, that nostalgia is a factor in that and playing them on a decent TV now would be a letdown.
They're still good. Download Retroarch and the ROMs and you can play them on your laptop
N64 Emulators always withered me because of the controls - can't remember the name of the one I used but it's been about 8 years since I last attempted it and got beyond fried trying to replay Ocarina of Time because of them. I would however love to figure out a way of running Perfect Dark solely for the multiplayer. I've never used Retroarch but am comfortable with emulation in general (have used ePSXe, zsnes, and ccs64 fairly regularly) - would there be much issue setting it up to run off two usb controllers?
Perfect Dark multiplayer was ahead of its time. The level of customization you could go into setting up games was incredibly satisfying. I tried running it on an emulator about 12 years ago with not so good results. But I did download a port of it for the xbox 360 back in 2010 and played through the single player again and it was still great.
Kind of crossing into the gaming thread here, but I would love to play the two Rouge Squadron games for the N64 again.
https://forum.metalwarfare.com/index.php?topic=20.0
The 0.1% of germs not killed by antibacterial sprays etc. What germs are they?
Quote from: Emphyrio on May 29, 2020, 11:54:27 AM
The 0.1% of germs not killed by antibacterial sprays etc. What germs are they?
The Hells Angels of bacteria....
All the ones that kill people
Quote from: ochoill on May 28, 2020, 09:41:56 AM
N64 Emulators always withered me because of the controls - can't remember the name of the one I used but it's been about 8 years since I last attempted it and got beyond fried trying to replay Ocarina of Time because of them. I would however love to figure out a way of running Perfect Dark solely for the multiplayer. I've never used Retroarch but am comfortable with emulation in general (have used ePSXe, zsnes, and ccs64 fairly regularly) - would there be much issue setting it up to run off two usb controllers?
I have only one USB N64 controller and configuring it was no problem. Two PlayStation Classic controllers worked fine too. They have stuff about setting up controllers on their site.
Got a ton of gravel the other day and it got me thinking about the sheer scale of building the great pyramid. Fucking crazy really.
Never mind getting the foundations level :laugh:
The 12 x 12 patio I dug out was a challenge for me!
Doing the weekly shopping and before I left my wife asked me to pick her up sombre cereal. I asked her what she wanted and she said, ah sure whatever. I'm rambling through the cereal aisle and think, I should pick her up a box of all bran. Imagine the disappointment! Nothing says I love you like a snow shovel loaded with all bran fucked into the head. Wandering around the shop laughing to myself at the image, like a total fucking muppet.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on June 06, 2020, 11:46:29 AM
Doing the weekly shopping and before I left my wife asked me to pick her up sombre cereal. I asked her what she wanted and she said, ah sure whatever. I'm rambling through the cereal aisle and think, I should pick her up a box of all bran. Imagine the disappointment! Nothing says I love you like a snow shovel loaded with all bran fucked into the head. Wandering around the shop laughing to myself at the image, like a total fucking muppet.
You should have got her some (c)rye flakes...
Stupid predictive text. It always gives me sombre for some, on for in and dearth for dearth (see!). Cuntish.
All Bran is miserable. To be fair there's not a lot of cereals that are in any way exciting once you're not eating ones marketed for kids. Maybe an auld weetabix, they're always good, hot or cold. Any effort of crunchy nut cornflakes or clusters are also very good.
Crunchy nut corn flakes, ah yes.
I gave a best mans speech using an anecdote about that cereal to embarrass the groom.
Quote from: ochoill on June 06, 2020, 12:36:00 PM
All Bran is miserable. To be fair there's not a lot of cereals that are in any way exciting once you're not eating ones marketed for kids. Maybe an auld weetabix, they're always good, hot or cold. Any effort of crunchy nut cornflakes or clusters are also very good.
golden grahams, special k red berries
ricicles are sorely missed
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 06, 2020, 01:05:40 PM
Crunchy nut corn flakes, ah yes.
I gave a best mans speech using an anecdote about that cereal to embarrass the groom.
do tell
It won't be as good in text but I'll give it a go later when I come back from me shtroll.
(https://i.imgur.com/NzgtnB3.jpg)
#BLACKMETALLIVESMATTER
(Was surprised not to instantly find a meme of this when it popped into my head there.)
Quote from: ochoill on June 06, 2020, 12:36:00 PM
All Bran is miserable. To be fair there's not a lot of cereals that are in any way exciting once you're not eating ones marketed for kids. Maybe an auld weetabix, they're always good, hot or cold. Any effort of crunchy nut cornflakes or clusters are also very good.
Even as a kid most cereals were shite unless they came with a free Monster in My Pocket... still ate it because that's all there was.
Quote from: ochoill on June 06, 2020, 12:36:00 PM
All Bran is miserable. To be fair there's not a lot of cereals that are in any way exciting once you're not eating ones marketed for kids. Maybe an auld weetabix, they're always good, hot or cold. Any effort of crunchy nut cornflakes or clusters are also very good.
So what if they're marketed for kids, Trix is still the king of cereals.
Quote from: Ducky on June 25, 2020, 05:49:44 PM
Quote from: ochoill on June 06, 2020, 12:36:00 PM
All Bran is miserable. To be fair there's not a lot of cereals that are in any way exciting once you're not eating ones marketed for kids. Maybe an auld weetabix, they're always good, hot or cold. Any effort of crunchy nut cornflakes or clusters are also very good.
Even as a kid most cereals were shite unless they came with a free Monster in My Pocket... still ate it because that's all there was.
I'd disagree here. The 80s and 90s were the fresh years for cereals and breakfast products generally. In Ireland at least. Who can forget the novelty of burnt mouth due to Poptart? Or reddybrek with jam?
Shredded wheat with sliced banana and cold milk is a 90s classic.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on June 06, 2020, 12:33:21 PM
Stupid predictive text. It always gives me sombre for some, on for in and dearth for dearth (see!). Cuntish.
I once texted an ex asking if she had any Crunch Cunt Cornflakes in the gaff... Turns out I use the word 'cunt' in text a lot.
In how many movies does Tom Cruise play a chap called Jack?
Quote from: Scáthach on June 29, 2020, 09:52:38 PM
In how many movies does Tom Cruise play a chap called Jack?
hehe yeah, it often seemed to be the go to name for the quietly understated macho man, reluctant hero type in Hollywood for ages, probably identifies as Jackie now though
Hauntology (a portmanteau of haunting and ontology[1]) is a neologism introduced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book Spectres of Marx. As a philosophical concept, it refers to the return or persistence of elements from the past, as in the manner of a ghost. It has since been invoked in fields such as visual arts, philosophy, electronic music, politics, fiction and literary criticism.[2]
Derrida used the term to refer to the atemporal nature of Marxism and its tendency to "haunt Western society from beyond the grave."[3] It describes a situation of temporal and ontological disjunction in which presence is replaced by a deferred non-origin.[2] The concept is derived from his deconstructive method, in which any attempt to locate the origin of identity or history must inevitably find itself dependent on an always-already existing set of linguistic conditions.
I knew there was something at the back of my mind about old things coming back again, and the pandemic period really brought it to the front of the debate, for me at least.
Quote from: mugz on July 05, 2020, 12:19:50 AM
Hauntology (a portmanteau of haunting and ontology[1]) is a neologism introduced by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book Spectres of Marx. As a philosophical concept, it refers to the return or persistence of elements from the past, as in the manner of a ghost. It has since been invoked in fields such as visual arts, philosophy, electronic music, politics, fiction and literary criticism.[2]
Derrida used the term to refer to the atemporal nature of Marxism and its tendency to "haunt Western society from beyond the grave."[3] It describes a situation of temporal and ontological disjunction in which presence is replaced by a deferred non-origin.[2] The concept is derived from his deconstructive method, in which any attempt to locate the origin of identity or history must inevitably find itself dependent on an always-already existing set of linguistic conditions.
Has inspired some truly exceptional music...
https://youtu.be/jDc3Ix-Nexo
Same kind of vibe I was trying to get at when describing the artwork and first track to that new Cryptic Shift album too.
How does one progress from Mike to Mick, and why?
Quote from: Emphyrio on July 07, 2020, 05:36:32 PM
How does one progress from Mike to Mick, and why?
it was only ten pints from rick to dick after all
I just picked up a slug to put it out the window and fuck it was one slimy bastard. I wonder if there is an industrial application for such sliminess
Quote from: astfgyl on July 14, 2020, 11:01:14 PM
I just picked up a slug to put it out the window and fuck it was one slimy bastard. I wonder if there is an industrial application for such sliminess
makes me miss my ex-gf tbh
Random anecdote, but I was walking past a local youth/community center today and saw a couple of young lads about 13-14 going in with guitars and drums, about a half an hour later when I was walking home even before I was close to passing the center I could hear Crazy Train being jammed, was quite funny seeing people passing by heads turning to the building where the racket was coming from but very cool all the same.
Reminded me of when I was that age learning guitar, pissing off everyone who was unfortunate enough to hear it :laugh:.
Where was that man? Good friend of mine runs a community rock school in Ringsend and teaches them Sabbath, Lizzy, Zeppelin, etc.
In Crumlin Village, don't know if someone's running something there or anything though.
I keep thinking about how nature tried to evolve different crustaceans into the shape of a crab at least five different times
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
Unreal. Humans up next for the carcinisation, surely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOTBqOfwrSc
If the devil tortures lads for all eternity then some lads will already be a few thousand years into it, assuming it got going with the old testament. Some dose.
Eternity is a fair oul stretch, especially near the end.
Here's the bit that gets me. Eternity is eternity like and it goes on forever so does falling into hell 3000 years later make any difference or do those extra 3000 years mean anything to the damned. Do they get to be forever like "sure I was 3000 years into this before you even got going"? Madness really and I could go on for pages but I'll spare you all
It's the paradox of eternal damnation. If you were damned to eternity you'd already be there because eternity doesn't have a beginning nor an end point.
Quote from: Emphyrio on July 07, 2020, 05:36:32 PM
How does one progress from Mike to Mick, and why?
I know a lad who went the opposite way. He started getting airs and graces when he entered the 'executive' sphere at work. All his buddies refused point blank to call him Mike and doubled up by calling him 'Big Mick' and 'Mickey' (which he hates).
Good enough for him.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on October 25, 2020, 10:18:07 AM
It's the paradox of eternal damnation. If you were damned to eternity you'd already be there because eternity doesn't have a beginning nor an end point.
Yeah the old eternity is genuinely mind melting stuff. I often find myself wondering about say if the universe is infinite, where is that going on? And if it isn't infinite what is outside of that? No wonder people pick a god and stick with it.
I have Brian Cox's Human Universe on the shelf in the jacks and I'm not saying I agree or disagree with anything it says but it's not bad food for thought. My feeling is that humans are not built to understand any of it and looking up at the sky at night for example is a bit like being a dog looking at a crossword or sudoku.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on October 25, 2020, 10:42:33 AM
Quote from: Emphyrio on July 07, 2020, 05:36:32 PM
How does one progress from Mike to Mick, and why?
I know a lad who went the opposite way. He started getting airs and graces when he entered the 'executive' sphere at work. All his buddies refused point blank to call him Mike and doubled up by calling him 'Big Mick' and 'Mickey' (which he hates).
Good enough for him.
Going from Richie to Dick must be rough enough as well. Searched the name Dick Horn one day on google and lo and behold he exists.
I used to work as a postman and on one of my routes was a lad called William Ankers (I shit you not). Consequently the day came when, with a big grin on my face, I handed him his letter addressed to Mr W. Ankers. :)
lol that reminds me of when I worked in the mailing room for the revenue and was sending out a letter to a Mr. Gang Wang. Not as good as your one but gave me a decent sneer at the time
My downstairs neighbours for my first two years in Bordeaux were the Bastard family. Monsieur et Madame Bastard avec leurs trois petits Bastards. Imagine marrying someone and taking that on as your surname? I mean, okay, in French the word is "bâtard", but since everyone knows the wee hat ^ almost always signifies an "s" that was dropped at some point, not to mention all having some level of English...just change your name ffs!
I know a guy with the surname Gay. Must have got hell at school.
Although he likes when he meets new people saying "Hello. I am Gay. And so is my wife and kids. We are the Gay family."
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on October 25, 2020, 09:31:04 PM
My downstairs neighbours for my first two years in Bordeaux were the Bastard family. Monsieur et Madame Bastard avec leurs trois petits Bastards. Imagine marrying someone and taking that on as your surname? I mean, okay, in French the word is "bâtard", but since everyone knows the wee hat ^ almost always signifies an "s" that was dropped at some point, not to mention all having some level of English...just change your name ffs!
:laugh: Brilliant! Monsieurs first name wasn't Alan by any chance? (R. I. P. Rik Mayall)
Quote from: Scáthach on October 25, 2020, 10:05:55 PM
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on October 25, 2020, 09:31:04 PM
My downstairs neighbours for my first two years in Bordeaux were the Bastard family. Monsieur et Madame Bastard avec leurs trois petits Bastards. Imagine marrying someone and taking that on as your surname? I mean, okay, in French the word is "bâtard", but since everyone knows the wee hat ^ almost always signifies an "s" that was dropped at some point, not to mention all having some level of English...just change your name ffs!
:laugh: Brilliant! Monsieurs first name wasn't Alan by any chance? (R. I. P. Rik Mayall)
That was what I was trying to think of, Rik Mayall. That one was killing me there for a few minutes
Haha, shit, I can't actually remember what his first name was.
Myself and Pedro know an Irish lad in madrid who's surname is Fagg. Fagg, I mean Jaysus wept.
I heard the surname 'Topliss', Mr Topliss when I worked in the bank. I used to deal with UK customers as the post office credit card over there was underwritten by the BOI, and the best surname I heard was that belonging to a Mr. Moist. Fuckin' hell.
Worked in a furniture store years ago. Went through a bunch of CVs with my manager when we were hiring one time and found the ultimate misfortunate name: Baldeep Ghag.
Our neighbour two up from us has built this brand new shed in his back garden, but I think it looks more like a hang out area. Looks pretty cool, and I'd like to have one myself, maybe with a pool table, pinball machine, gaming table etc. He's in his 70s so wouldn't have anything cool like that.
The other day I noticed he put a confederate flagl plate on the door. The missus thinks this means he's a racist but when ever I see that flag, I think back to Saturday evenings when I was 4, watching the Duke's of Hazzard. Maybe he's a fan too?
Dukes of Hazzard was awesome, and yet whenever I hear the name mentioned now, the first thing that comes to mind is Jessica Simpson playing the goddess incarnate of rednecks (in the music video; I never did bother with the film). I think that video must be enough to short circuit just about any hot blooded woman-loving brain.
Remembered this one and when I think about it, it's class how much we know fuck all about, and also the fabled Deluge.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/divers-find-prehistoric-forest-dating-back-10-000-years-submerged-north-sea-norfolk-coast-10003703.html
Quote from: astfgyl on November 03, 2020, 12:27:00 AM
Remembered this one and when I think about it, it's class how much we know fuck all about, and also the fabled Deluge.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/divers-find-prehistoric-forest-dating-back-10-000-years-submerged-north-sea-norfolk-coast-10003703.html
https://youtu.be/IY-HDrhaLZk
You'll enjoy this so
Quote from: astfgyl on October 25, 2020, 10:59:21 AM
Quote from: Eoin McLove on October 25, 2020, 10:18:07 AM
It's the paradox of eternal damnation. If you were damned to eternity you'd already be there because eternity doesn't have a beginning nor an end point.
Yeah the old eternity is genuinely mind melting stuff. I often find myself wondering about say if the universe is infinite, where is that going on? And if it isn't infinite what is outside of that? No wonder people pick a god and stick with it.
It's going on around us. If it's all just an endless series of big bangs, is this universe a unique moment in time, or has such a universe existed before?
Quote from: ochoill on November 03, 2020, 02:22:00 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on November 03, 2020, 12:27:00 AM
Remembered this one and when I think about it, it's class how much we know fuck all about, and also the fabled Deluge.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/divers-find-prehistoric-forest-dating-back-10-000-years-submerged-north-sea-norfolk-coast-10003703.html
https://youtu.be/IY-HDrhaLZk
You'll enjoy this so
I'll see your Dutch dam the North Sea plan and raise you one German plan to dam the Mediterranean.
https://theconversation.com/atlantropa-the-colossal-1920s-plan-to-dam-the-mediterranean-and-create-a-supercontinent-47370
This belongs absolutely nowhere else and doesn't really warrant a big discussion, just came across it and thought it was gas
https://youtu.be/BXXXSk9p5mY
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on November 10, 2020, 12:20:04 PM
This belongs absolutely nowhere else and doesn't really warrant a big discussion, just came across it and thought it was gas
https://youtu.be/BXXXSk9p5mY
That video is situated on the very brink of a veritable rabbit-chasm!
It's not a bad place
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on November 10, 2020, 12:20:04 PM
This belongs absolutely nowhere else and doesn't really warrant a big discussion, just came across it and thought it was gas
https://youtu.be/BXXXSk9p5mY
I love it
Quote from: Cailleach on November 03, 2020, 02:56:30 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on October 25, 2020, 10:59:21 AM
Quote from: Eoin McLove on October 25, 2020, 10:18:07 AM
It's the paradox of eternal damnation. If you were damned to eternity you'd already be there because eternity doesn't have a beginning nor an end point.
Yeah the old eternity is genuinely mind melting stuff. I often find myself wondering about say if the universe is infinite, where is that going on? And if it isn't infinite what is outside of that? No wonder people pick a god and stick with it.
It's going on around us. If it's all just an endless series of big bangs, is this universe a unique moment in time, or has such a universe existed before?
Is there even such thing as time as we see it? The infinity thing might mean that this has all happened before an infinite number of times and is happening now an infinite number of times and will happen an infinite number of times after this. Infinity is my favourite head melter of all and I give it a few minutes thought pretty much every day. One of the craziest things is that no one can explain it but at the same time it can be condensed to a single unit with a symbol for equations. Brilliant.
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on November 10, 2020, 12:20:04 PM
This belongs absolutely nowhere else and doesn't really warrant a big discussion, just came across it and thought it was gas
https://youtu.be/BXXXSk9p5mY
That's class and sort of unsettling. AI versions of things are always sort of creepy. Like Google Dreaming for example. reminds me of salvia
I think we need to talk about Danny...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3xKyWemAr0
I just received in the post a free calendar from EWTN, a Catholic tv station from Irondale, Alabama.
Postage was over 5 dollars, any wonder they're also looking donations from the 'eternal word television network family'.
It is a nice calender though...
That Spar ad. Mute the tv when it's on, and you've got a trailer for a film about a serial killing Christmas tree.
This is absolutely huge news, both for molecular biology and machine learning:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4
The Great Conjunction didn't look the grandest through the thick clouds. Always the fucking same with the astronomical phenomena in this country
Yeah, I was hoping to get a look at it too. And the sky was clear yesterday of course :laugh:
And would you believe it I just went out for a fag and not a cloud in the sky. Maybe we'll catch the next one..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGLdlX6I_So
https://the-big-bang-theory.com/quotes/quote/4010/
https://www.nin.wiki/Not_The_Actual_Events
In that order.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on November 30, 2020, 06:18:00 PM
This is absolutely huge news, both for molecular biology and machine learning:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03348-4
Neeeeeeeeerd!
Eoin McLove mentioned Freakout in the Emperor thread. The name rings a bell but I'm trying to place it, was it a small basement shop somewhere between (the old) Tower Records and the George's St. arcade? Blast from the past anyway.
Yeah, I have South William Street in my head. Either that street or one parallel to it. I also remember getting the first Rancid album in there. Cool little spot.
I bought some noise compilation there that I ended up giving to a former Cradle Of Filth drummer, and the first Masters Of Reality album, which went down much better. They had an early double vinyl pressing of Zappa's Freak Out! on the wall for ages, I always meant to buy it (if it was, in fact, for sale - it probably wasn't) but the place was closed when I got around to it. Odd spot, always something of interest there.
https://youtu.be/khkKfMotNoI
.......
^
Jesus. Best watched on mute, that one.
I just don't know what to say about it
Semi good :laugh:
I was a Toyah fan when I was younger - I didn't say I was a fan of her music - if I'd seen (not heard) that then, I would have crippled myself. Not bad for a woman in her 60s.
But yeah, lockdown is clearly breaking people.
Clickbait at the bottom of pages is fair funny at times
Best I've seen today says "better grab a tissue before you see samantha fox at 54". Of course I left its ambiguity intact by not clicking.
How does a fella get rid of a DVD porn collection?
Ceremonial pyre would be a worthy send off
In good conscience I couldn't look at porn being destroyed.
Depending on what country you're in, Ebay have an adult section. Not accessible everywhere, though.
Sounds like hassle, I'd give it to a charity shop but dunno how appreciative they'd be. I don't see Busty Anal Blondes 13 alongside Daniel O'Donnell Live in Mountrath '96.
Not yet!
Quote from: Emphyrio on February 06, 2021, 04:20:08 PM
How does a fella get rid of a DVD porn collection?
A notice on the corkboard in work.
You can get shredders that take CDs if there's a few bushes nearby to scatter them under, wouldn't have the same effect as traditional magazines but twice the mystery.
Sure throw them as a job lot in the classifieds section here; you might be surprised!
Ya fuckit, why not.
Why is guitar so hard to learn.
Not having enough time/bring arsed to practice. Plenty of seemingly straightforward things can make one look like useless if you've never done it before. Changing a car tyre, making filtered coffee, and changing a socket for the first time...looking like a spa for me doing all those for the first time.
Torn up porn mags under bushes is a lost tradition. Another casualty of the modern age like the turf cutting
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis
I'd often heard of it and knew the basic premise but other than one or two documentaries never bothered to look at it. Anyway it's a bit of fun because it can't be proven or disproven, much like everything else. Actually proving one exists at all isn't actually a thing that can be proven or is even measurable in any way. So we could come up with any old theory and never be able to prove it either way because we can't prove we don't live in a simulation in the first place. So the earth is just as likely to be square as it is flat.
I always liked thinking of that thing of every single moment creating a new stream of reality every time a choice is made. The way I was thinking of it then was; how detailed does it get, and to what degree of accuracy is the time division or the level of choice? Ie nanoseconds and down to a single atom of distance for example would be extremely accurate on our own scale but on its own scale, it's as accurate and inaccurate as everything else because of the impossibility and inevitability of infinity. So then there are an infinite number of possibilities happening an infinite number of times and for an infinite length of time and no theory can explain it away or show that it's real either.
The only frame of reference that we have is our own perspective and for all we know, everyone else is a figment of our imagination but we actually don't even have a genuine imagination anyway so it's a figment of someone else's imagination, whom may or may not exist but also may be the designer of the simulated universe we live in, and they in turn are merely products of someone else's simulation and so on into infinity where everything is both the beginning and the end and is infinitely big/small/inevitable/impossible/real/imagined/etc./etc./etc also even the etc./etc to infinity, right down to whether I have lost even a single atom or perhaps a quark out of one of the atoms or 1 micro-electron out of the interaction that I just made or didn't make an infinite number of times with the rollie I've just smoked or not smoked or an infinite number of things in between smoking and not smoking right down to how many quarks were there in any given electron in any given atom in any given molecule in any given breath out from the fag I either smoked or didn't smoke.
Do ye ever give much consideration to the idea of it all or how every bit of scientific theory is only adding to the magic rather than solving it? Ie someone learns about atoms only to find there's always more and shit can be zoomed into and out of to an infinite extent?
Anyway it's the random thoughts thread in either your reality or mine or maybe there is only one reality and we are all experiencing it as we know we are.
Thank fuck it's Sunday
Go. To. Sleep.
Oh I did about 5 minutes later. That old simulation theory finished me off
Jajajajajajaja.... :laugh:
Good man...
Astfgyl is after putting me in mind there of a quote from Poul Anderson, the American science fiction author.
" I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way, did not become still more complicated."
Pretty much sums it up I think.
Frankenstein's monster got a proper raw deal. He didn't even have a name.
Edit: Wrong thread.
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on February 28, 2021, 08:38:13 PM
Astfgyl is after putting me in mind there of a quote from Poul Anderson, the American science fiction author.
" I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way, did not become still more complicated."
Pretty much sums it up I think.
Yeah it's best to hold on to those thoughts for leisure time. I love the circular nature of it all though.
Just watching a lad playing the trombone and keyboard simultaneously on (the insufferably smug) Other Voices. Fair play to him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6-IuHtthcM
This could go nearly anywhere on the board so here will do. Bit of NIN on the soundtrack for bonus points
With a surge in public drinking and the amount of turds on city footpaths - I'm basing this on Cork - are they definitely all dog shite?
Hopefully not, for comedy value. Rte did a piece on the town I live in once upon a time and called it out for being a dogshit town. Rightly so as it happens but much consternation ensued in the Tipperary star. Funny shit
That container ship is going to cause a fair whack of misery in unforeseen ways. Scurvy is back already
Edit: it must be up there with some of the costliest mishaps ever, even taking into account John Terry's peno vs United in the 2008 Champions League final
Quote from: astfgyl on March 26, 2021, 07:51:25 PM
That container ship is going to cause a fair whack of misery in unforeseen ways. Scurvy is back already
Edit: it must be up there with some of the costliest mishaps ever, even taking into account John Terry's peno vs United in the 2008 Champions League final
Imagine being the captain of the first ship to finally pass through the canal once it's unblocked, knowing you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing anyone has ever done. How would you cope.
Something in the name of that ship
Quote from: Bigmac on March 27, 2021, 01:46:09 PMImagine being the captain of the first ship to finally pass through the canal once it's unblocked, knowing you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing anyone has ever done. How would you cope.
I've been seeing that quote all over Facebook today, I confess I have no idea what it means.
I was equally nonplussed but I think it equates to "you have this one chance to do something other than wave while the whole world watches ...."
I would bet any money there would be a wave at best
Jeasus ya have to feel sorry for the poor bastard of a captain.
I got stuck under a railway bridge with a big hoor of a New Holland wheel digger years ago, 7 o clock Monday morning job, fucked with a hangover, and I had a joint or two smoked to settle the auld stomach.
Held up three trains leaving Dublin while the bridge was inspected by a group of rail engineers, had a group of council lads out because there was oil spilled on the road from a burst pipe and there was four gards there because traffic was backed up for about a mile either side of the bridge.
I felt like a proper cunt, so I can only imagine how that poor bastard is feeling.
Quote from: Carnage on March 28, 2021, 12:45:28 AM
Quote from: Bigmac on March 27, 2021, 01:46:09 PMImagine being the captain of the first ship to finally pass through the canal once it's unblocked, knowing you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing anyone has ever done. How would you cope.
I've been seeing that quote all over Facebook today, I confess I have no idea what it means.
Run your ship aground and block the canal for a second time.
Oh OK. Funny though?
Looks like the captain of the ship took his chance for glory prior to getting it stuck..
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/pkdjzb/cargo-ship-suez-canal-dick-pic-ever-given
What I'd give to have every pint knocked out of hands by gobshites with backpacks at gigs.
Quote from: astfgyl on March 29, 2021, 08:51:28 PM
Looks like the captain of the ship took his chance for glory prior to getting it stuck..
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/pkdjzb/cargo-ship-suez-canal-dick-pic-ever-given
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
That's actually real and all. Do you think the captain knew what they were at?
Quote from: Giggles on April 06, 2021, 02:10:59 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on March 29, 2021, 08:51:28 PM
Looks like the captain of the ship took his chance for glory prior to getting it stuck..
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/pkdjzb/cargo-ship-suez-canal-dick-pic-ever-given
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
That's actually real and all. Do you think the captain knew what they were at?
The dick pic makes me very suspicious
This morning on the motorway, I saw three crows eating the guts out of another crow, all while Ace of Base "All that she wants" was belting out of the car radio. This scene will stick with me for a while
Now That's What I Call Sky Burial 101
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on April 08, 2021, 03:29:34 PM
Now That's What I Call Sky Burial 101
:laugh:
Fuck, I'm robbing this for a song title, thanks.
Quote from: ochoill on April 08, 2021, 03:20:52 PM
This morning on the motorway, I saw three crows eating the guts out of another crow, all while Ace of Base "All that she wants" was belting out of the car radio. This scene will stick with me for a while
Not sure if that makes you or the crows racist but definitely someone is, apart from AoB.
Those crows are the aces of base desires
Quote from: open face surgery on April 08, 2021, 05:12:52 PM
Quote from: ochoill on April 08, 2021, 03:20:52 PM
This morning on the motorway, I saw three crows eating the guts out of another crow, all while Ace of Base "All that she wants" was belting out of the car radio. This scene will stick with me for a while
Not sure if that makes you or the crows racist but definitely someone is, apart from AoB.
It's the crows, surely.
Also all I can see when I look at AoB is "Altar of Base"
Quote from: ochoill on April 09, 2021, 11:56:49 AM
Quote from: open face surgery on April 08, 2021, 05:12:52 PM
Quote from: ochoill on April 08, 2021, 03:20:52 PM
This morning on the motorway, I saw three crows eating the guts out of another crow, all while Ace of Base "All that she wants" was belting out of the car radio. This scene will stick with me for a while
Not sure if that makes you or the crows racist but definitely someone is, apart from AoB.
It's the crows, surely.
Also all I can see when I look at AoB is "Altar of Base"
Now THERE'S a fucking mashup and a half I'll be eager to make.
All Life Converges To Another Baby........the sky's the fucking limit
Why is both bbc1 and bbc2 showing exactly the same thing?!
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/ai-tech-studied-kurt-cobain-create-new-nirvana-song
I don't think it sounds very believable but it's a nice thought that there could be something akin to new Nirvana music out there
I thought it was more akin to Marilyn Manson than Nirvana. It's shite either way.
Ah yeah it's a useless song. Dunno if that type of thing could ever work anyway given that it can only work on what already exists from a given artist and of course lacks the human invention
I hate the very idea of it. Had avoided it until one of the lads said to check it out and my ire was validated.
The full moon must be playing havoc with the birds heads in the morning time. Killed two of the little hoors this morning. A blackbird and a sparrow I think. Two others came close to meeting bird god too. Saw a couple fresh dead on the way to work on the road this morning too.
RIP Blackie & Sammy.....
Oddly I was only thinking there was more roadkill than usual yesterday. Saw 2 rats and 2 birds on my way home last night.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on April 29, 2021, 06:54:33 AM
The full moon must be playing havoc with the birds heads in the morning time. Killed two of the little hoors this morning. A blackbird and a sparrow I think. Two others came close to meeting bird god too. Saw a couple fresh dead on the way to work on the road this morning too.
RIP Blackie & Sammy.....
I think they do be daredevilling on purpose the way they fly right out in front of the car. Took a good few of their lives when I lived in the countryside.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on April 29, 2021, 06:54:33 AM
The full moon must be playing havoc with the birds heads in the morning time. Killed two of the little hoors this morning. A blackbird and a sparrow I think. Two others came close to meeting bird god too. Saw a couple fresh dead on the way to work on the road this morning too.
RIP Blackie & Sammy.....
NSFPIt was a Robin. Feck!
I always wanted to know what Robin tastes like on the grill.
The kitten is going to find out shortly....
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on April 29, 2021, 03:41:09 PM
The kitten is going to find out shortly....
She devoured it. A bunch of feathers float around our yard.
I wonder where the two Spaddies (Spanish Paddies) have disappeared to..?
The swallows are back nesting in the shed. Late this year.
Quote from: Carnage on April 29, 2021, 05:12:42 PM
The swallows are back nesting in the shed. Late this year.
Yep, only spotted the first one there on Monday myself.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on April 29, 2021, 05:11:54 PM
I wonder where the two Spaddies (Spanish Paddies) have disappeared to..?
Pedrito esta merodeando...
How many times a day I hear a tune on national radio and think it has to be the worst song ever, only for it to be trumped by something even worse within 20 minutes.
This is pretty cool if it works https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/23/eabb3424.full
I dunno yet if it will give the true age of the pyramids or anything but it sounds promising. Anyone else here into the marvels of the ancient sites?
18 months for slapping Macron is a bit excessive.
Good story to tell, but.
Reminded me of Bill Bailey's bit about lists of things you should try before you die:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2p3Q9px4kU
:laugh: The Macron slap was about as successful as that attempt! Hardly worth the 18 months at all
Dunno where this one fits but it's pretty funny
https://conservativebrief.com/cringeworthy-cnn-interview-42532
Edit: Actually pretty funny does it no justice at all. It's surely the most awkward interview I've ever seen and it's fucking hilarious.
Edit 2: Also never mind the political leanings of the article, the interview is classic enough on its' own.
18 months in the jail
I found a dead shrew yesterday. Typical, the first actual shrew I encounter and it's a goner, poor wee thing.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Roadkill-Cookbook-B-Peterson/dp/0898152003 :laugh:
Night five now of jetlag. After around three hours of sleep I'm waking up at around half one and up for the rest of the night. Being stuck in quarantine for another week and a half doesn't help. Not much of a routine going. That said, while I'd prefer to be in a normal sleep pattern, there is something not entirely unpleasant about being up all night listening to music and reading. I tend to go to bed early and rise early in my usual daily routine so there's certainly a novel aspect to it. As long as I can break the cycle soon...
Hey McLove, are you going to be one of those lads now that come home at Christmas, boasting in the pub about all the money your making in "Oz", using terms like "way of life" and "standard of living", and suggesting that the lads that stay in Ireland must be thick cunts because of how brilliant it is over there?
Please don't, its fucking unbearable.
I don't know who you are or where you live but I'll be sure to send you a Christmas card.
:laugh:
Thanks, just address it to, The Thick Cunt, Ireland, and I'm sure I'll get it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WieIZB-ZeuQ
:laugh:
Those bees are the gift that keeps giving
The swallows in the shed have fledged, which is nice. There seem to be four chicks.
Quote from: Carnage on June 26, 2021, 06:25:17 PM
The swallows in the shed have fledged, which is nice. There seem to be four chicks.
Ah nice, always good to see. Any chance of a picture? Cheers.
I'll try and get one tomorrow but they're in an awkward spot, and skittish as you'd imagine. They bugger off as soon as I get near.
There was a nest of starlings in next door's ESB box (there's a hole in the door where the lock had been busted out), they fledged a while back.
Ah yeah they would be, nervous and protective of the newborns.
Cheers Man.
Just got a message from Amazon telling me that I'm being refunded import fees from a boxset I bought in January. I knew there'd been a recent issue during that Amazon Day shite, but going back that far? Feck it, I'll take the tenner.
Jesus, I'd take to the drink again if it wasn't for the hangovers.
Who'd win in a fight between the Pet Shop Boys and Erasure?
Quote from: Kunt 4 Life on June 29, 2021, 07:31:09 PM
Who'd win in a fight between the Pet Shop Boys and Erasure?
What is a Pet Shop Boy meaning?
As the story goes, "pet shop boys" is American slang for homosexuals who derive sexual gratification from putting hamsters up their behind.
Like that Richard Greer thing? Wonder what would happen if Freddy Starr came round for tea while that was happening?
I think Richard Gere has the gerbil, but that was apparently an apocryphal story.
Quote from: Kunt 4 Life on June 29, 2021, 07:31:09 PM
Who'd win in a fight between the Pet Shop Boys and Erasure?
I dunno who'd win but it would be a high pitched battle
Tennant and Bell woukd scratch each others' eyes out, the carnage would be between Lowe and Clarke. Always the quiet ones you have to look out for. My money would be on Clarke.
https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1410333104045187073
Didn't know where to post this but Ringo Starr is like the Liverpool version of Proscriptor McGovern these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBDN--nxedk&ab_channel=ringostarr
That Rory Gallagher live album that came out last year is fucking fantastic.
Sure is! Great to hear live versions of tracks from 'Against The Grain'
That album was the 1st Rory album I bought and one of the first CDs I bought as well, from HMV in Patrick St
And people say he has no sense of humour https://youtu.be/1Gbu5eEmkQA :laugh: Give It Up For Vladmir,
Quote from: CorkonianHunger on July 12, 2021, 07:55:11 PM
Didn't know where to post this but Ringo Starr is like the Liverpool version of Proscriptor McGovern these days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBDN--nxedk&ab_channel=ringostarr
:laugh:
Eastern European women are the pits. My neighbour came to my door yesterday afternoon (I think she's Lithuanian, barely any English even though she's living here 8 years) to see if I would 'fix gas tank'....
I changed the bottle of gas over for her to the new full one and she still looked pissed off. What is it about that scowl look most of the women there have? Too sexy by far... :laugh:
This is how machine learning needs to be used:
https://twitter.com/kevinbparry/status/1415001165570400263
Don't get anything from "Best Kebab", (the irony is not lost on them), in Sligo Town unless you're needing a clear out. The other chap in the house and myself got a Megabox, (as they call it), between us and we both got the shits.
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on July 14, 2021, 04:16:09 PM
Eastern European women are the pits. My neighbour came to my door yesterday afternoon (I think she's Lithuanian, barely any English even though she's living here 8 years) to see if I would 'fix gas tank'....
I changed the bottle of gas over for her to the new full one and she still looked pissed off. What is it about that scowl look most of the women there have? Too sexy by far... :laugh:
Tell me about. Turn up five minutes late to pick up the young fella because of traffic.
'There's no traffic you are irresponsible man, you hate your son'.
That's a mild interaction.
If you're in traffic, you are traffic.
Yeah and traffic here is extremely stressful, everyone is a prick on the road except for me.
Has about half of the forum disappeared for anyone else? The 'metal discussion' part of the forum is gone for me as well as most of the 'market' section, as in I can't see them in the options on the front page.
I made some server configurations earlier but nothing which should have made any forums disappear. Can you post a screenshot of the front page?
Can you see this? https://forum.metalwarfare.com/index.php?board=1.0
I can see it through that link but not on the front page, the front page looks like this for me.
(https://i.imgur.com/gG1S63D.png)
Ah, you must have accidentally hidden it! Click the little + icon at the top right of the "metal discussion" bar and all the forums will appear. There only are the 2 boards in the market section so you're not missing anything there
Ah, I'm a dope :laugh:, cheers!
I can't wait for e-scooters to be fully legalised. Sick of the morning traffic.
Any of you lads have experiences with picture discs?
Seen Invictus have the two Holy Terror full lengths in as picture discs but I've never bought one before and I've heard the sound isn't that good either, any of you have any?
I have both those Holy Terror pic discs and have no problem with the sound of them but I'll add a caveat , I'm not as pernicikity about things sounding tip top as others would be.
I have them both as well and the sound is good. Although, I've never done a back to back with a black vinyl version.
I have HT - Mind Wars and Nifelheim - Servants of Darkness and no issue with either.
Sound lads, I'll give them a go, great albums.
So I just counted all my CDs as a way to pass the time and I have at least 900. And that's not counting box sets, classical CDs or compilations. And this is AFTER I've been culling the collection!!
Last time I counted it was well over a thousand. I reckon I must have been approaching at least 1500 CDs at one point
I also sifted my LPs, but still got about 200 of those
And all the bootleg FLACs....
I have a 1TB hard drive that they're all getting ripped to in lossless format. I got to E last year and gave up though.....
In some ways looking at the endless digital files makes me feel more overwhelmed than staring at shelves of CDs.
I like the tactile aspect of playing records; gets you in the right frame of mind to concentrate on the music in a way clicking Play on your computer doesn't.
Meeting a mate for a pint later, first one since last October. Not bothered myself TBH, I can't imagine there being much joy in it 'til things are back to normal.
Most places aren't too enthusiastic about the rules. Was somewhere last week and could walk up to the bar and limits on tables were ignored as well as everything else except putting on the mask going to the bar.
Know another place in town here where the owner says he won't be arsed with the proof and I hear one can pretty much do as they want once in the door so you never know it might be decent fun depending where you go
I stuck my head in the door of another pub on the way to where we were supposed to meet. Phone number taken and that was it, ended up staying there for the night. Left around 12:45. Grand.
Still not pushed TBH, our local hasn't opened yet. He can't get staff.
At what point did the phrase 'there are very few superlatives to describe' become an acceptable replacement (mostly in a sporting context) for actually attempting to use superlatives?
You ever get that feeling some things are fated, in ways one can't explain........... they just seem destined to play out that way.
Oh yes. It's all fated bud. Ain't no escapin' it.
I wonder what Leather Mike is up to and I wonder if he ever looks at this forum. I miss him.
Forget Leather Mike, we need to get fake leather Lord Randall Plunkett in here!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/07/people-think-youre-an-idiot-death-metal-irish-baron-rewilds-his-estate
What a legend.
Fair fucks.
While I applaud his efforts re. rewilding, it should be pointed out that the yellow plant there in the photo in the middle of that article is ragwort, a noxious plant which is illegal to have growing on your land, It spreads seed like fuck and is poisonous if ingested by ruminants when it's dying off in autumn.
The good Baron would want to get pulling that fairly lively or he'll find the place covered in it.
I guess he doesn't have many ruminants to worry about anymore, except the few wild ones. Isn't rewilding about taking a long-term strategic approach? Allowing environments to be reinhabited by the full array of wild flora and fauna species that are precisely not found in areas that were used as the basis for declaring ragwort as agri enemy number 1?
Edit: Those are genuine questions, btw. I gather your bread and butter is working the land, at least in part, so you'd have better insight than what I've picked up on randomly here and there.
From the little I know of ragwort, it seems to dominate the landscape when it gets in and crowds out all other vegetation resulting in more of a monoculture than would be the aim of the rewilder. But it does pose an interesting dilemma when you factor in the hands off approach that is central to that project.
Well, as I said, its illegal to allow it to grow on your land,it spreads voraciously and will become a problem for neighboring farms where there are ruminants, It also kills wild deer.
It grows at a very fast rate and will take over his land, stealing nutrients and sunlight from other plants and grasses and in fact destroying the biodiversity there presently.
If he wants 300 hectares of ragwort in a few years time and to have the law and the neighbors on his back then by all means let it grow away.
If he wants to maintain the biodiversity of his rewilded land and stay within the law then he needs to pull the ragwort now, before it gets out of hand.
Well, apparently it's been seven years now "with no weeding", so maybe the ragwort is outperformed by other species in a situation of genuine rewilding, as opposed to short term neglect...? And is the danger to wild deer genuine? Will wild animals eat or avoid living ragwort plants? And if they don't avoid it, will that simply become part of population control, in a country where deer culls are still in force?
Either way, I'm guessing that the "rewilding" status gives him protection against certain laws that would otherwise apply to the land designated as such. Unsurprisingly though - given that apparently there's almost none of it happening on the island - there is essentially no information available on rewilding and the law in Ireland. Maybe, for example, he has to respect certain distances between his rewilded zones and neighbouring agricultural land...? Who knows, but clearly weeding and the concept of rewilding don't exactly go together.
The funny thing about Ragwort is that when it's in bloom it isn't poisonous but animals find it unpalatable and won't eat it, when it dies off in autumn it becomes sweet and animals love eating it, unfortunately this is also the stage at which it is poisonous. this means it's dangerous if it gets into meadow that is then saved for hay of silage.
Re. the law, my understanding is that ragworth must be controlled regardless of whether the land is classed as rewilded or not. It is a listed plant.
Since we're in the random thoughts thread, you'll forgive me hopping straight to this one: "Tune!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbgKEjNBHqM
You have bloom on the brain from reading fucking Ulysses lad.
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on August 07, 2021, 03:13:32 PM
It grows at a very fast rate and will take over his land, stealing nutrients and sunlight from other plants and grasses and in fact destroying the biodiversity there presently.
If he wants 300 hectares of ragwort in a few years time and to have the law and the neighbors on his back then by all means let it grow away.
If the entire island decided to start rewilding overnight, could we end up as an island of mostly ragwort many years down the line?
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on August 07, 2021, 03:53:01 PM
You have bloom on the brain from reading fucking Ulysses lad.
:laugh:
Quote from: Giggles on August 07, 2021, 03:55:47 PM
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on August 07, 2021, 03:13:32 PM
It grows at a very fast rate and will take over his land, stealing nutrients and sunlight from other plants and grasses and in fact destroying the biodiversity there presently.
If he wants 300 hectares of ragwort in a few years time and to have the law and the neighbors on his back then by all means let it grow away.
If the entire island decided to start rewilding overnight, could we end up as an island of mostly ragwort many years down the line?
No. What is presently grassland. would be overtaken by different invasive species such thistle,rush, broom, briar, ragwort etc. depending on its soil type, ph value, moisture level, etc. for a period of time until the trees finally take over and return the island to its natural state, that of a forest.
Just flicking through the TV channels and stumbled on The Sopranos. Meadow has an Ulver poster on her bedroom wall !
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on August 07, 2021, 02:34:44 PM
While I applaud his efforts re. rewilding, it should be pointed out that the yellow plant there in the photo in the middle of that article is ragwort, a noxious plant which is illegal to have growing on your land, It spreads seed like fuck and is poisonous if ingested by ruminants when it's dying off in autumn.
The good Baron would want to get pulling that fairly lively or he'll find the place covered in it.
Growing up any farmer who had a fair amount of these on his land was regarded as a bit of a fuckin eejit.
Pulling them out is the only way to get rid of them.
I spent many the summer day trying to rip the bastards out, not easy when they get to around a metre in height.
I hadn't realised until tonight how grey my hair is. Grand.
Do pubes go grey too?
Quote from: Kunt 4 Life on August 08, 2021, 01:57:50 PM
Do pubes go grey too?
I'll be shaving all mine off as soon as that kicks in. Thus far my beard is gone fairly white, but the body hair has refused to join the party.
Quote from: astfgyl on August 09, 2021, 12:03:11 PM
Quote from: Kunt 4 Life on August 08, 2021, 01:57:50 PM
Do pubes go grey too?
I'll be shaving all mine off as soon as that kicks in. Thus far my beard is gone fairly white, but the body hair has refused to join the party.
I'm dusted all over, it isn't too disappointing
My chest hair went grey years ago. I usually have the head shaved but let it grow out the last few months so I've probably been half grey for years.
Quote from: Kunt 4 Life on August 08, 2021, 01:57:50 PM
Do pubes go grey too?
"There's thing that people never warn you about as you grow up and get older. My pubes are going grey. In a certain light my willy now looks like Stewart Granger." - Billy Connolly.
I want to see that oul boy in the Specsavers ad rock out to a proper Thin Lizzy track like Thunder and Lightening ,not that Mammy 's favourite Dancin in the Moonlight.
Thunder and Lightning is some ripper to be fair
I've introduced my 3 year old the pull my finger joke. He loves it
I'm wondering why there is a lad walking down the street with his headphones on the outside of his hood while heavy torrential rain falls all about him.
They don't look very waterproof. His hoody isn't in the least bit waterproof. His hood looks large enough to accommodate them being inside. Maybe the volume is stuck on loud, so his thick hood is acting as a muffler?
The swallows in the shed have a second clutch, which is a good sign. Shite everywhere though.
The 53rd President of The United States Of America will probably have posted a picture of his... or her....... his dinner or arse on Instagram by now.
Holy shit this is hilarious:
https://twitter.com/RudiKinsella/status/1425450516436471811
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on August 12, 2021, 02:19:37 AM
Holy shit this is hilarious:
https://twitter.com/RudiKinsella/status/1425450516436471811
Saw this yesterday evening, the fuckin laughing.
:laugh: he should stick to having cunts pummel him in the head.
Total David Brent 😂
:laugh:
Jaysus... :laugh:
Finally wrote some music today after about six months of doing nothing due to frustration around finding the right people to play with and what style I want to focus on.
I want to avoid the phrase 'stoner' as it gives ideas of Sleep/EW worship which isn't what I'm going for, but more like Lizzy inspired melodies filtered through Sabbath heaviness.
Hopefully I can find the right people and get something proper together.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on August 12, 2021, 02:19:37 AM
Holy shit this is hilarious:
https://twitter.com/RudiKinsella/status/1425450516436471811
:laugh: he was one step away from saying "his poor mother".
A couple of weeks required to essentially roll back 20 years in Afghanistan by a movement of Pakistani madras educated (Taliban just means students) orphans fleeing the Soviet attempt at depopulation in the latter part of their war there.
You'd think you're average Afghani could be forgiven for having a serious chip on his shoulder.
In fairness to the Taliban, they came back strong when they got their chance. An awful waste of 20 years of abject misery there for the same outcome as before.
Quote from: Mr Barlow on August 07, 2021, 06:18:47 PM
Just flicking through the TV channels and stumbled on The Sopranos. Meadow has an Ulver poster on her bedroom wall !
They got a 2 for 1 cause there's one in AJ's room at one point as well.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on August 07, 2021, 11:55:20 AM
Forget Leather Mike, we need to get fake leather Lord Randall Plunkett in here!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/07/people-think-youre-an-idiot-death-metal-irish-baron-rewilds-his-estate
We, along with Sacrilegia and Vircolac are featured in his movie, The Green Sea. Haven't seen it. Seems like a nice fella.
The oil delivery man today turns up in a bright red tshirt with a giant plunger on it and the words Toilet Clogging Champion. Pat Mustard he was not.
Reminds me of Lar from TTOW having a gallery of his own massive turds on his phone, which he proudly displayed to me one night I happened to bump into him on a date with some young wan I barely knew and he'd never met, haha.
I had a random thought this evening. I bought Toxicity when it first came out, and that was now 20 years ago!!
I bought it too man. Time and place eh? Few drinks in I could dig it again I'm sure.
I got Toxicity for my birthday or Christmas that year. What a disappointing follow up to the debut.
It was instantly not as good as the debut, definitely, but I still enjoyed it.
I think at that stage I was obsessing over mad shit like Khanate which maybe didn't help, but I thought it lacked a lot of the creativity of the debut. Their sound was so original when they came out, and in 98 the metal landscape was pretty dire so it really hit hard as being something with real artistic value. At that point I was beginning to realise that most of the Metal Hammer recommended stuff was dogshit so to hear a band from that era who actually had substance was a real joy. By 2001 though, I was diving headlong into the underground stuff which was/ is a boundless treasure trove and the element of surprise had worn off SOAD. Plus, the lyrics were quite bad compared to the debut. That pogo song... awful. I haven't listened to it in 20 years though, so maybe I'd enjoy it going in with low expectations.
I weep for us all. I genuinely and honestly do.
That's a random thought no relation to the thread
I'd love to hear Mental Orgasm by Zyklon-B live.
For long drives Thin Lizzy is the best, Sabbath albums are obligatory also, Pogues and the Dubliners work a treat too!
Quote from: Ealaín on August 23, 2021, 04:33:53 AM
For long drives Thin Lizzy is the best, Sabbath albums are obligatory also, Pogues and the Dubliners work a treat too!
Absolutely. And Megadeth for the motorway, when you can put the foot down.
Aye, but no one uses their indicators over here so you keep getting stuck between third and fourth gear so Jethro Tull fits that pace.
The feckin gee-bags... :laugh:
Can anyone remember the threads on MI where, if Tom G Warrior was mentioned in any way, a particular user would crop up posting absolutely bizarre shit about him? Can anyone remember their username?
I was explaining this to Astfgyl earlier and he didn't even remember the thread, I'm hoping some other old forum heads might. Sometime around when everything was being hall-of-famed it cropped up again, I had done a little digging out of curiosity and found another rake of posts tied to that name (or similar) that were absolutely unhinged, across a number of forums and social media, but can't seem to find any now with no username to start from.
I remember that. I think it was a spurned ex lover :laugh:
Highly bizarre that stuff. It was like how one of those true crime shows start.
Wasn't that an old Siege thread? I think the name was maybe Dark Raven or something along those lines
Ya, there were screenshots and everything. She was fuckin tapped.
Quote from: Trev on August 30, 2021, 07:08:00 AM
Wasn't that an old Siege thread? I think the name was maybe Dark Raven or something along those lines
Tried searching Dark Raven with a few related terms but nothing came up. If I end up quiet in work tomorrow I'll have a better look, off to the wayback machine and MI itself I imagine.
I don't even think she was a spurned lover, fairly sure it transpired she didn't even know him at all but was cruelly obsessed. I think how it is just another bizarre thread of a person criss crossing the internet, weaving this weird fantasy, is kind of interesting.
I remember those posts, can't remember her name but I don't think it was Dark Raven. I'm fairly certain that it was a Tryptikon thread that spawned her madness.
Ya, I think it was a Triptykon gig in Cork that started it. She def wasn't called Dark Raven.
This has been wrecking my head, so had a look on the wayback machine, managed to find the thread, but only one page of it is saved it seems, and it doesn't include any of her mental rambling
https://web.archive.org/web/20170827001514/http://www.metalireland.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=52893&start=135
I'm pretty curious now myself although I couldn't remember a note of it when Ochoill was saying it to me
That and someone who had a fake profile of Lars Ulrich which was endlessly entertaining
You think, 'I'm young at heart'.
Then you talk to a young person and you think, 'I'm a pain in the hole at heart'.
Youth is wasted on the young. If we'd known when young what we know now, we'd have started being a pain in the hole much earlier, that's what that proverb means.
I've been so annoyed lately by general everything that my thoughts now come to me in gang vocals.
Who genuinely wants, as in will actually use, freebie posters one all too often gets with vinyl these days?? Just seems a totally pointless additional waste. Should be an opt in. I don't need a load of folded pieces of massive glossy paper, thanks.
Why is it that you need to show your C19 vaccination cert if you want to go into your local pub/coffee shop/brothel/restaurant/etc. but you don't have to do so going into a gym?
A few things here;
1. A coffee shop employee asked me for it as I got to the door.
2. I have been to exactly one pub since the rules were relaxed and as I pulled out my phone to show the barman he just said "I'll trust that you have it, you're grand"
3. Maybe other gyms are checking but in the one that I go to, I just swipe in and that's it - you only have to wear a mask as you enter/exit.
Was up in Paris on Saturday and had to show it to have lunch sitting outside. I knew ahead that this was the case, but it's absolutely ridiculous. French government deserves every single one of its anti-vax trouble makers.
Two of my local pubs (and probably the rest of the pubs in town) don't ask for proof, they're just happy to get the custom.
I know a couple of people working in different restaurants and they're not asking people either.
Up north seems like business as usual with nightclubs rammed with students.
All while wearing no masks, but then you have to out one on to go into the supermarket :laugh:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on September 28, 2021, 12:06:05 PM
Who genuinely wants, as in will actually use, freebie posters one all too often gets with vinyl these days?? Just seems a totally pointless additional waste. Should be an opt in. I don't need a load of folded pieces of massive glossy paper, thanks.
Me, for one!
Ya, I've a few of them up but only classics. Not arsed putting everything up.
And then from 22nd of next month it's all gone out the window anyway. Madness. As I said in this or another thread, wasn't asked to show anything while flying last month. Have been in a few pubs and haven't been asked either.
It's the only way I would have ever got posters from the likes of Jag Panzer and Holy Moses up on the walls of the cave.
The Nirvana "Nevermind" 30th anniversary box-sets are priced at €135 for the CD version and between €210-250 for the vinyl version (unclear yet because production issues have meant it won't be out till 2022).
Who the fuck is this thing aimed at? 50 year olds who work in offices and never gave two fucks about buying the record the first time (or any time) around?
The 20th Anniversary edition is €8 in Golden Discs.
I'd pick that up for 8 quid. Must tip to golden discs
"New album dropping soon"...
At what point did albums stop getting "released" and start getting "dropped"?
The lingo is changing for the worse I'm afraid, Anything done decisively or with authority is now performed 'like a boss', and a simple arrival is now 'rocking up'. I refuse to use either of those phrases, or the one you mentioned above.
All the fawning over Nevermind and it's 'genius' on the various op-eds written by clueless hacks since yer man and his court case is wrecking my head. Is it a seminal album? Maybe, and I did love it and rode the arse clean off it as chap, but the H&M shirts, Grohl and the retrospective and cynical mickey sucking taints it.
Grohl can fuck right off but I wouldn't let all that shit stuff ruin the music. I still listen to Nirvana regularly because of all the great tunes. Might be a time and place thing I guess, as in I doubt it would make the same impression now
Yup. Same as that.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on October 02, 2021, 08:21:22 PM
The lingo is changing for the worse I'm afraid, Anything done decisively or with authority is now performed 'like a boss', and a simple arrival is now 'rocking up'. I refuse to use either of those phrases, or the one you mentioned above.
I've no problem with any of those phrases, just genuinely curious as to when and how that change came about. Could be more of an American thing, now that I think about it.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on October 02, 2021, 08:21:22 PM
All the fawning over Nevermind and it's 'genius' on the various op-eds written by clueless hacks since yer man and his court case is wrecking my head. Is it a seminal album? Maybe, and I did love it and rode the arse clean off it as chap, but the H&M shirts, Grohl and the retrospective and cynical mickey sucking taints it.
"yer man and his court case" have little to do with it, a bit of anecdotal and silly colour. It's 30 years old, that's why it's getting all (prob too much, dunno, haven't read a word of any of it) the attention. Comparing 1991 to 1961, it's interesting to note how few albums of 61 were deemed important 30 years later. Course, by the mid 60s all that had changed, but there's only really a handful of albums each year prior to that which would make it into an "essential" canon of (loosely defined) popular music. Nirvana are still a phenomenon with young people today, much more so than Elvis was among young people when his stuff was 30 years old.
Beatles are probably a better comparison but I get the point.
Haven't seen anything for Nevermind being 30, apart from one pop up ad for the new edition. The Black Album has been fucking everywhere though
Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp all down, which is no harm TBH.
Vodafone also down now apparently, which is intriguing - and a maseive pain in the arse for customers, I'm sure. No link between the Facebook 'group' and them, as far as I know.
Quote from: Trev on October 03, 2021, 08:23:42 PM
Haven't seen anything for Nevermind being 30, apart from one pop up ad for the new edition. The Black Album has been fucking everywhere though
Really? I don't watch live TV much (does anyone any more?) but on the All4 app the add pops up every few shows.
It's nearly always one of the ads before I watch something on YouTube too - that and fucking Mail Chimp. I guess it might be down to the fact that I watched the new BBC documentary on Nirvana's time in the UK and a few other grunge things recently.
There's a huge Metallica billboard for the re-release on my way home alright.
I haven't seen anything re nevermind turning 30 other than here. It would be an improvement on the Centra ads in between every song on YouTube
Could it be due to the cover model suing? It's looking like the cover is gonna be changed according to grohl.
Jesus fucking Christ that's some of the stupidest shit ever. That can't be really going to happen surely
Nevermind turning 30 was everywhere for me.
I had the worst dream last night, like a 0 out of 10 for imagination dream. I was wandering around my own boring kitchen, in my own boring house, my own boring cock in my own boring hand, trying to but not being able to think of anything to wank about. And that was it. I'm firing my subconscious mind.
Have any northerners got their 100 quid card yet to spend in the high street?
I hear people are buying 100 pound Amazon vouchers in Tesco and spending the money online.
Is there a way to post a picture here? I haven't a clue
We don't want to see your cock
Oh.
I'll leave it so
Why are young people all basing their look on Jeffrey Dahmer at the minute?
Today I found out the Goo Goo Dolls released four or five albums on Metal Blade, what the fuck was that about?
https://twitter.com/PaulieBroughall/status/1469282113681870849
Quotea thread of my Irish counties painted like things they look like
This most definitely fits in with the random dimension of this thread anyway. The projects folk do come up with! The final image of the entire country is pretty cool, has to be said.
If Tik Tok is essentially populated by influencers and wannabe influencers, which at least in my total ignorance I'm adamant it is, who is left to be influenced?
Who influences the influencers?
Your oul one.
No wonder I've no time for them so!
Quote from: StoutAndAle on November 15, 2021, 09:15:20 AM
Why are young people all basing their look on Jeffrey Dahmer at the minute?
I said the same thing to the missus the other day. Probably some influencer on Instagram started a trend by wearing those old looking glasses
The fucking heads on the young lads here in Aus this weather. Mullets that look like they've been ruthlessly administered by Mad Max's steel toe boots. Fucking disgraceful looking shit. They look like mangey street dogs. I can't imagine many young ones can be into it.
Mullets are back here an' all, seems to have started with the rugby players. Fucking shameful.
What's worse is that, now I'm growing my hair out, it's starting to look a bit mullety. Time for the trimmers.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on December 27, 2021, 10:58:59 AM
The fucking heads on the young lads here in Aus this weather. Mullets that look like they've been ruthlessly administered by Mad Max's steel toe boots. Fucking disgraceful looking shit. They look like mangey street dogs. I can't imagine many young ones can be into it.
Mullets and rats tails never died out in Aus and New Zealand. Used to encounter plenty of them when working in construction over there.
Speed sign says 60. Next sign says reduce speed. Next speed sign says 60.
Someone explain this one to me.
Happy Christmas lads
Whey-heyyy, he's alive. HH lad....
Quote from: astfgyl on December 28, 2021, 08:45:58 PM
Happy Christmas lads
Merry Christmas man! Good to have a sign of life ;)
Was in a HMV in Cardiff today and they had a copy of Burzum's last album for sale, didn't pick it up because I've no interest in any of his later stuff but still a bit surprising.
Is Ghislaine Maxwell the Countess Bathory of our time?
Quote from: ldj on December 29, 2021, 09:19:50 PM
Was in a HMV in Cardiff today and they had a copy of Burzum's last album for sale, didn't pick it up because I've no interest in any of his later stuff but still a bit surprising.
I wouldn't buy a Burzum record in HMV. I have them all. Bought from underground distros. That's where they belong. I buy Accept albums in HMV.
Quote from: astfgyl on December 28, 2021, 08:45:58 PM
Happy Christmas lads
Belated Happy Christmas man! Have a good oul New Year.
More a random observation, came across the German translation of 'tank buster' reading a book about the winter offensive in '45.
Panzerknacker.
Class :)
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 05, 2022, 03:57:18 PM
More a random observation, came across the German translation of 'tank buster' reading a book about the winter offensive in '45.
Panzerknacker.
Class :)
That's a double entendre if ever there was one :laugh:
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Brilliant
It'll be used!
Anyone the original video link for this
Quote from: Caomhaoin on January 05, 2022, 03:57:18 PM
More a random observation, came across the German translation of 'tank buster' reading a book about the winter offensive in '45.
Panzerknacker.
Class :)
(https://i.imgur.com/xNYkxCd.jpeg)
#100years
#HomeRuleIsRomeRule
There's a riff in 'Corporal Jigsore Quandary' off of Necrotism that sounds exactly like the chorus melody from Rio by Duran Duran and since I noticed it I can't not notice it.
Someone trying to remake Weekend at Bernie's down in Carlow?
Father Ted Bundy.
Andy Cairns circa 94 as inspiration for David Brent?
Connecticut. What a stupid name.
Not 'til today did I realise that it was spelled that way, I would have missed the second C. Every day's a school day.
Connect four was invented there sure (hence the name)
Quote from: Emphyrio on January 25, 2022, 04:25:15 PM
Connecticut. What a stupid name.
Not as bad as Massivetwoshits next door to it.
Quinnehtukqut.
https://youtu.be/o5FT3IGXtAk
I was just thinking, if say a modern classical composer like Rachmaninov heard Dream Theater, he'd probably say:
"Jesus that singer is awful."
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage link=topic=47.msg61200#msg61200
"Jesus that singer is awful."
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:laugh:
Fucked his voice up on the Images & Words tour, and hasn't been the same since.
Fuck me but glasses are expensive - or rather, mine are because I'm as blind as a bat.
Why do the Americans wave their flags and play their National Anthem so much when they hate the guts out of each other?
The real ones are waving it aggressively at the fake ones.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on February 04, 2022, 08:32:20 PM
The real ones are waving it aggressively at the fake ones.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Quality.
It's Axl's birthday today. He is 60. This is not a drill.
If someone is sent for execution, and on the way they trip, and cut their head, blood pouring out, is there any point getting them a plaster or do they have a duty of care until they snuff them out?
😂
I read a short story by Borges a couple of years ago that was about a lad standing in front of a firing squad and making a wish not to be killed. The wish gets granted and he stops time with the builders screaming eternally an inch from his face!
I'd murder a KitKat.
In the public toilets and the shite that the last fella left won't flush. A real good floater like a balsa wood shit or something.
Anyway, was wondering if shitting down on top of his shit should be a feeling of dominance or subservience.
Hopefully one of ye will get back soon as I can't hold this forever and need to know how to deal with it mentally. I don't mind feeling bad or good but I want to be ready
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Can't help you regarding dominance or subservience, but I would feel pretty hesitant about shitting on a shit in a water toilet... just the thought of getting splash-back from that is making me skin crawl!
On a semi related point... Are we ever going to get to the point where paper becomes such a scarce resource that big roll becomes either a luxury product or is phased out altogether. Basically, are we ever gonna go full Demolition Man?
Once we get the 3 shells figured out the world will finally be saved.
Life is sort of becoming a tribute to the future as laid out in Demolition Man as it is so hopefully it'll feel like a natural progression when it comes and we won't be too wistful for the feeling of soft tissue on shitty sphincter and all the associated wars and famines and drought and tsunamis that inevitably must come with the physical wiping of the hole
Ye still use paper? Fuck sake, I've been ripping bits off cereal boxes for the past few years now. If you give them a bit of a run under the cold tap first it softens them up a bit
Isn't that what the little mini sink in the jacks is for, washing your arse? I got one in when I got my apartment renovated but it's never been used.
Any users here?
Quote from: ochoill on February 10, 2022, 03:27:26 PM
Ye still use paper? Fuck sake, I've been ripping bits off cereal boxes for the past few years now. If you give them a bit of a run under the cold tap first it softens them up a bit
I imagine a cardboard shortage will coincide with a paper one but at least you're willing to branch out.
Branches, the real man's arsewipe.
That bark is very rough.
Well what's the worst you've had to use lads?
Mine is a centra bag
I would, and have, used and then chucked my own boxers when in a bind before turning to anything as bad as a plastic bag, or cardboard for that matter.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on February 10, 2022, 04:36:05 PM
Isn't that what the little mini sink in the jacks is for, washing your arse? I got one in when I got my apartment renovated but it's never been used.
Any users here?
I wouldn't go near a bidet without a snorkel and a pair of armbands.
Tayto bag. That was a lowpoint.
Quote from: astfgyl on February 10, 2022, 09:58:54 PM
Well what's the worst you've had to use lads?
Mine is a centra bag
lost a sock one time in the cubicle roulette. wasn't a great sock to use either
Quote from: Carnage on February 10, 2022, 10:24:31 PM
Tayto bag. That was a lowpoint.
Jaysus. The orange bic razor vs my 5-blade Shaving System of a centra bag.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on February 10, 2022, 10:09:03 PM
I would, and have, used and then chucked my own boxers when in a bind before turning to anything as bad as a plastic bag, or cardboard for that matter.
The boxers is the worst I've gone, pretty effective too
Friend of mine went popped down one of the little alleys around Croke Park on the day of the football final and used a Tayto bag that he found on the ground. Ended up in A&E a few days later because his hoop got so infected and swollen he couldn't shite
Jesus, bad as it was at least I used my own! Boxers have been done also, a wad of receipts from my wallet another time.
The receipts are a godsend often had to use em
Does industrial music hate things more than metal does and if so does that make it heavier?
Nah, listen to The Young Gods, they're practically hippies.
EBM and industrial metal though... nihilism in the former and edginess seem to lead each, respectively. Where you'd slot Godflesh is the test, if ever there was audio bleakness, it's there.
I quite like The Young Gods but fair enough if we're going that way or the likes of nin then no, but yeah the ebm stuff is pretty bleak and Streetcleaner is as bleak as anything but I feel like it's more metal than industrial. I've always been a bit torn as to that though as indeed to whether metal or industrial is heavier although the lines of everything are pretty blurred these days
Remember when you were a young lad and you'd see a cunt with glasses and you'd think brainy cunt and not blind cunt. And then you'd see a baldy cunt and you'd think baldy cunt and not virile cunt!
😂
Quote from: Eoin McLove on March 04, 2022, 11:21:49 AM
Remember when you were a young lad and you'd see a cunt with glasses and you'd think brainy cunt and not blind cunt. And then you'd see a baldy cunt and you'd think baldy cunt and not virile cunt!
quality ha ha
Go on ye baldy cunts
Shadows on a cave wall
You're welcome. Listen to NIN.
Tony Martin, sure, there's some Dio and some Coverdale in there, but there's also an unmistakable resemblance to the prick who sang the theme tune to Enterprise.
Stylish:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/30/dyson-launches-zone-air-purifying-bluetooth-headphones-with-visor
Why do old women dye their hair purple? Is it a thing for over 70s or something?
As women age the range of light that reaches their weakening eyes narrows until they are only able to detect light from the infra red spectrum (if they live long enough they eventually resort to echo location- hence the phrase "going batty"). What looks like candy floss to the untrained eye is in fact a complex coded follicular system of communication. When a granny nods at you in the street don't be fooled! She's not saying an innocent, polite hello but rather signaling to all the other grannies in the vicinity that there is fresh meat in town. Watch your back!
Once you go slack, you never go back.
Have a great weekend Metal brrrrooootherrrrrs :abbath:
I wonder if Blasphemy shit with their shades on.
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Just looked at the lineup for Coachella festival there. Absolutely nothing in it for me. I shouldn't be surprised but that's 3 whole days with nothing. I'm well out of the loop
A few groups I'd watch, though I'm guessing their likes would be on at about 11 a.m.: King Gizzard, Badbadnotgood, Spiritualized. Stromae prob a good show. But otherwise, not really a place I'd expect to have a line-up I'd be interested in. Went the way of Electric Picnic quite quickly.
Run The Jewels are worth a watch, enjoyed the first 3 releases, not sure have they done anything since though
Just had sheep's head for the first time. Surprisingly disconcerting having quite human looking teeth staring out of the plate at you. Tasty all the same!
Have you tried pigs ear in Spain? Not is bueno señor! But better than 'callos' (tripe). First time I had dinner at the in laws the aunt made that.
Tout est bon dans le cochon !
Though I doubt that covers teeth either. Tripe is pretty popular in France too, chopped up and presented inside a sausage-like skin, but as a kid I'd friends from Kerry who introduced me to tripe on toast with white sauce. Loved that I did.
Quote from: astfgyl on April 16, 2022, 07:00:39 PM
Just looked at the lineup for Coachella festival there. Absolutely nothing in it for me. I shouldn't be surprised but that's 3 whole days with nothing. I'm well out of the loop
Fatboy Slim & Spiritualised - that's it.
Edit: On mature recollection, wouldn't be bothered about FS.
More often than not I'll make it to the end of a film having not learned the name of a single character.
You know you're over the hill when you get excited about a new hoover.
Once upon a time I could lift my own bodyweight over my head, now I can't lift a bag of cement without grimacing.
It's always puzzled me that the biggest cheer you hear at a GAA match (well Junior B when I was playing) is when some big lump of a corner back or full back blasts the sliotar into row Z.
You'd barely a ripple for a 70 yard point by comparison.
Quote from: Carnage on April 19, 2022, 01:58:27 PM
You know you're over the hill when you get excited about a new hoover.
On a microwave buzz at the moment but it's not a patch on the thrill of researching a good hoover.
The one I got was shite. Just a little handheld thing for shelves and tight corners in the bedroom but it lasted 10 mins. before overheating. Not even 10 continuous mins., I cleaned the filter 3 times in between.
On the other hand, my new pan is flying it.
Quote from: Carnage on April 20, 2022, 05:11:55 PM
The one I got was shite. Just a little handheld thing for shelves and tight corners in the bedroom but it lasted 10 mins. before overheating. Not even 10 continuous mins., I cleaned the filter 3 times in between.
I'd to dump one of those handheld yokes too. Bagless, which I thought was great til the cuntin thing kept opening during the vacuum undoing all my hard work. Life was easier when I was a messy fucker.
Being accountable to a woman who doesn't tolerate the socks and teabags in the sink helps aswell.
Dan Carlin's 'blitz' podcasts, as in 'quickfire' running over five hours. The man is so listenable though. A non historian who loves history.
He does 'go on' though :)
I realise the importance of protest and fully acknowledged the positive results it has yielded throughout history. And yet, when I see people protesting (regardless of their political affiliation) I can't help thinking, 'what a pack of annoying, whiney cunts'.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on April 27, 2022, 02:47:15 AM
I realise the importance of protest and fully acknowledged the positive results it has yielded throughout history. And yet, when I see people protesting (regardless of their political affiliation) I can't help thinking, 'what a pack of annoying, whiney cunts'.
Yeah same, 'get into bed ye cunts'.
I just feel like the protests are never violent enough to make any difference. All one has to do is wait them out and it just goes away.
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007984990261&groupid=174988685368&ref=m_notif¬if_t=group_highlights
Quickly turned to shite for this Aussie halfwit
"We value your privacy"
Do we fuck
A lot of lads walking around with anchor tattoos. I don't get it, is it some kind of 'dog whistle'?
I once fell asleep langers when I was in college and someone drew an anchor on my arm and wrote HMS GAY underneath :)
:laugh:
Quote from: astfgyl on April 29, 2022, 04:34:58 PM
"We value your privacy"
Do we fuck
"We value it", as in they place a value on it to resell it to advertisers.
See also, "Your privacy is important - to us."
And the Consent / Legitimate interest bullshit so many of these sites have.
"No I do not consent"
"Well, we have a legitimate interest so we're going to ignore that"
Post-punk was better when it was made by goths.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on April 16, 2022, 10:42:42 PM
Have you tried pigs ear in Spain? Not is bueno señor! But better than 'callos' (tripe). First time I had dinner at the in laws the aunt made that.
I'm in Andalucía. Bull's tail (rabo de toro) is not something I would try again, even mixed into croquettes. YICK.
Two words you never hear said together any more; porn stash.
Father in law said to me today did I want a few dvds he was going to throw them in the fire. What are they says I, and he tells me they're blue movies he picked up in Paris back about the turn of the century. Would he not watch them? No he says, I put en on and I got fuckin sick. They're hardly that bad are they? Ah god he says these are beyond the beyond, no fuck it I'll wait until herself goes to bed and put em on the fire...
... Are you sure you don't want them?
How bad were they? Did it show a ladies bum?
It must have been something special he didn't want to describe it but was still willing to let me take em away. He wouldn't normally be too shy about describing something so I'm thinking fisting or something along those lines but then I reckon he'd have told me if that was it.
Thought it coincidental that only happened today and the first post I read is about nobody having a porn stash anymore
I remember at uni somebody had some dodgy animal porn on VHS. It had legal copywrite warnings at the start so where the fuck in the world was this legal to buy?!??!
Ballymena?
I've only been subjected to animal porn once in my life and it was on the bus to a MI yule fest thing one year, courtesy of Scobes :'( :abbath:
Please tell me it was just a video somebody showed you and not a live event.
I ain't sayin' nothin'
https://youtu.be/nP7CV0gnDmk
Irish people out foreign are so easily identifiable. In Germany in 2006 at the World Cup, I saw three lads from a distance of at least 50 yards, and, without the aid of GAA jerseys, I told my German buddy there was no doubt in my mind they were Irish. Couple of hours later we were all in a boozer arguing the toss over McCarthy/Keane.
I was in the gym last week and I identified another lad, granted he was wearing what turned out to be a Bordeaux GAA shirt. Never thought of asking him if he knew Chris.
I don't know any Irish here at the moment. They were pretty easy to spot when they numbered around 10,000 and descended on the city for 48 hours during the Euros there a few years ago. One of the most fun weekends of my whole time in France.
Just remembering the day a Spanish coworker dropped the classic line from Terminator 2 in conversation, in his own words: 'Sayonara, Baby!'" To my surprise that's how they translated it there since everything is dubbed. But the lad couldn't fucking believe me that the original was in Spanish.
Japanese....what a weird translation choice.
https://youtu.be/ZbZgISozI5M
😂 that's mad.
Hope the government don't make any rash decisions about this monkeypox situation...
'Ukraine declares end to fighting' is how the media is spinning Ukrainian surrender in Mariupol. There's being biased and there's Ministry of Truth guff like this.
Some guff alright. I'm no supporter of either of them anyway so fuck em. Can Ukraine go back to being crooked as fuck now or will they still be saints and the new Saint Patrick and all that shite? Will Russia piss off home? Tune in next week to find out
My favourite character in the series was the ghost of Kiev. I especially loved all the Ukraine flag flyers banging on about Russian propaganda while having the shit propagandised out of them by their own media. I suppose we'll still take our couple of hundred thousand refugees anyway for the triple distilled virtue that comes with it. Well, it comes for taking white refugees the brown and black ones can eat shrapnel and be happy with it
Russell Brand makes the good, if obvious, point of news agencies acting merely as propaganda devices for the 'regime' or the opposition. Until recently, most people would have assumed that applied only to rogue or totalitarian states.
WAR CRIMES STAND WITH UKRAINE PUTIN IS HITLER RUSSIA CAN NEVER WIN ONLY DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEFEAT HATE RUSSIA LOVE UKRAINE AGRESSION MINDLESS WAR NEW HOLOCAUST EXISTENTIAL THREAT NATO NATO RUSSIA PARIAH GREATER RUSSIA TAKE THE PRICE HIKE PROTECT DEMOCRACY.
We are in a post-news society.
Quote from: astfgyl on May 21, 2022, 04:11:46 PM
My favourite character in the series was the ghost of Kiev. I especially loved all the Ukraine flag flyers banging on about Russian propaganda while having the shit propagandised out of them by their own media. I suppose we'll still take our couple of hundred thousand refugees anyway for the triple distilled virtue that comes with it. Well, it comes for taking white refugees the brown and black ones can eat shrapnel and be happy with it
Yeah the admitted it was bullshit and the BBC still spun it as some kind of noble morale boosting device. Ha ha ha, they must be mistaking us for Soviet peasants in the 60's.
This Liz Truss character, despite being made a fool of by Lavrov a few months ago, can't stop with the big bad 'this pussy grabs back' chest beating, it's some new ball of shite daily.
'Moldova should be equipped to NATO standards'. Yeah good man, we'll sort out that out there later, no bothers at all yep, next week at the latest. What a fuckin' eejit.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on May 21, 2022, 04:17:40 PM
WAR CRIMES STAND WITH UKRAINE PUTIN IS HITLER RUSSIA CAN NEVER WIN ONLY DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEFEAT HATE RUSSIA LOVE UKRAINE AGRESSION MINDLESS WAR NEW HOLOCAUST EXISTENTIAL THREAT NATO NATO RUSSIA PARIAH GREATER RUSSIA TAKE THE PRICE HIKE PROTECT DEMOCRACY.
We are in a post-news society.
Modern news has always been like this in times of war. Look at US and UK media treatment of Russia before, during, and very quickly after WWII. Stalin went from tyrant to hero and back to tyrant in almost the blink of an eye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMtkwpfcOKo
Putin was getting it all ways from the media long before a shot was fired in this current conflict.
I'm familiar with the glorification and demonisation of Stalin and USSR, and of course, you are correct. The intensity of the propaganda and the total dearth of quality, courageous journalism is something new. Part of the blame lies with us all having little super computers in our pockets of course, but Ukraine is at war with Russia. Why does the rest of the world have to have its news replaced with pathetic, transparent propaganda and censorship of what websites we can look at? Tax payer funded RTE (with more ads than a free YouTube account) extolling the virtues of our little country with no tanks, fighter aircraft and enough ammunition for about a week joining NATO and making ourselves legitimate targets in future conflicts over a far away conflict in a country that before Feb 24 this year, nobody gave a shit or knew the first thing about? Get ta fuck ye cunts.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 21, 2022, 04:31:58 PM
Quote from: Caomhaoin on May 21, 2022, 04:17:40 PM
WAR CRIMES STAND WITH UKRAINE PUTIN IS HITLER RUSSIA CAN NEVER WIN ONLY DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEFEAT HATE RUSSIA LOVE UKRAINE AGRESSION MINDLESS WAR NEW HOLOCAUST EXISTENTIAL THREAT NATO NATO RUSSIA PARIAH GREATER RUSSIA TAKE THE PRICE HIKE PROTECT DEMOCRACY.
We are in a post-news society.
Modern news has always been like this in times of war. Look at US and UK media treatment of Russia before, during, and very quickly after WWII. Stalin went from tyrant to hero and back to tyrant in almost the blink of an eye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMtkwpfcOKo
You're wrong lad. I mean you're right but not only in times of war.
Anyone falling for the lets go ukraine narrative was born yesterday and i would pity them if they weren't so dangerous to the life which i have become accustomed to.
I did really used to pity people, I really did until they all got done by the covid bollix and now I think they are asking for it.
Fool me once etc.
Wake up before it's too late lads, I'm telling ye this as a friend. There's still a small chance.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on May 21, 2022, 04:47:06 PM
The intensity of the propaganda and the total dearth of quality, courageous journalism is something new.
How much more intense do you want than a two hour film (and it wasn't the only one) extolling the virtues of Stalin because he'd just become an ally? And if you think journalism hasn't always been biased, then it's more likely because you, because all of us were less worldly wise in the past. There's an almost by-definition conservative bias towards believing everything was better in the past. It goes hand in hand with the conservative bias towards believing that improvement needs to be a return to some paradise lost. I don't buy it.
Some things were definitely better in the past.
You're right to an extent about the news, I guess it wasn't coming from us at all hours and from all angles. My fascination and subsequent sympathy with the Serbs stemmed from me asking my auld fella why John Finnerty and pals kept saying only the Bosnian Serbs were up to no good, or words to that effect. Can't mind what he said but even 25 years + ago, they were a gang of shillers.
The thing about news is that someone somewhere has to decide what to tell you is news and which parts to leave out. There are many Irish stories of interest that don't involve Vogue Williams, for example. It serves its purpose in setting the desired agenda and I doubt it has ever been any different.
Fair point about the hearkening back to the past thing, which is likely connected to age as much as anything, because it's easy think things were less fucked when we were kids and it didn't apply to us, or we had more immediate concerns which were mostly concentrated in our mickeys.
Quote from: astfgyl on May 23, 2022, 04:50:22 PM
has to decide what to tell you is news and which parts to leave out.
Absolutely right, I've always thought and said this to people, it's what they're not saying is where the key is. like 'round the clock coverage of 'Putin's invasion of Ukraine' meanwhile a media blackout on Mohammad Bin Salman and his coalition bombing Yemen back to the stone age. There's no questioning of clear bias.
Aye that's it and god knows what else they aren't mentioning. You can be sure you'll have to go looking
Quote from: astfgyl on May 24, 2022, 02:13:20 PM
Aye that's it and god knows what else they aren't mentioning. You can be sure you'll have to go looking
The WHO global pandemic treaty for instance, zero mention of it on RTE that I've seen, and I've been keeping my eye out for it. In fact it hasn't even been mentioned in the Dail other than one question from Willy O'Dee to that cunt Mehole Martin where he asked if legal advise has been sought on the matter, given that they are going to sign away the constitutional rights of the Irish people. Mehole replied that he didn't know and changed the subject. this wasn't reported on the news needless to say ,in keeping with the total media blackout on the subject as a whole.
Not to worry though, its for our own good, shut up, nothing to see here, move along now, here's the latest on the Depp v Heard trial.
For the moment, they're not going to sign anything away since it's not even in the timeframe of a working draft yet. What did you want RTE (presuming you mean the telly news too) to report on?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/world/who-pandemic-treaty.html
QuoteThe agreement calls for negotiators to deliver the result of their deliberations in May 2024.
RTE website did cover it:
https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2021/1122/1262410-coronavirus-who/
Amendments to the Constitution of Ireland are only possible by way of referendum. Probably one of the very few decent ideas Dev had!
I hear several of the amendments in that treaty have been scrapped lately. I don't think it went down as well as was hoped but for sure the lads who make money off it will give it their best shot (pun intended)
Quote from: The Butcher on May 25, 2022, 09:28:25 AM
Amendments to the Constitution of Ireland are only possible by way of referendum. Probably one of the very few decent ideas Dev had!
The thing is they don't have to amend the constitution man, they'll just invoke the emergency powers act of 1939 and give control over to the WHO on public health grounds. Its septic.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 25, 2022, 09:20:32 AM
For the moment, they're not going to sign anything away since it's not even in the timeframe of a working draft yet. What did you want RTE (presuming you mean the telly news too) to report on?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/world/who-pandemic-treaty.html
QuoteThe agreement calls for negotiators to deliver the result of their deliberations in May 2024.
RTE website did cover it:
https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2021/1122/1262410-coronavirus-who/
You'r a gas man, on one hand ya ask why would it be reported on since there is nothing to report, while on the other hand ya say it has been reported on, which one can only assume means there is something to report.
Anyway, that aside, yes, I was referring to the T.V. news and given that our department of health are involved in the discussions around its creation I would suggest it deserves at least a mention, it is after all an issue of national importance. The timeline for its implementation is irrelevant, negotiations are afoot presently.
I just asked you a question: what did you need them to say, specifically in the 30 minute telly slot, for you not to presume there's a mainstream media blackout on the subject, despite it being reported in the biggest international and national online mainstream media? Not everything you don't want to happen is part of a grand cover up which can only be known about via places that eschew mainstream media so much they don't even know what's on it. Sometimes people don't see things reported in the mainstream media simply because they're not really looking at it.
I was referring specifically to RTE news man, which is the only news reporting a lot Irish people, the older generation in the main, are exposed to and rely on to keep them informed of important issues.
RTE are supposed to be a public service broadcaster and I would suggest they have failed in their duty to the Irish people by never mentioning the fact that this treaty is being negotiated, what the basic framework of the treaty is, how it would affect the people of Ireland should it be ratified and outlining the basics of the WHO constitution with particular attention being given to articles 19,20 and 21 of said constitution.
If you were to do a survey of Irish people I think you would be shocked to find the number of people who have no idea that this Treaty is being discussed.
I fall into that camp of not seeing things reported on rte because I don't watch it, so that's a fair point.
I do however also know that the average person on the street here hasn't a notion of what that treaty entails. I know because I mention it often enough to see that people haven't a clue, and by the time they do hear about it it'll already be fact checked as conspiracy theory that there's even the remotest possibility it will ever have any possible negative effect on your life.
Of course the whole reason for doing anything like this treaty for right or wrong is indeed for it to have an effect on your life at some point. Perhaps a bit of an explainer for the folks who don't read online news would be fair enough and maybe when the time comes people might get one after it's been signed.
Here's some things we do know..
This treaty that no-one knows about the details of (including me) will be designed to facilitate greater influence over national policies by the WHO during times when a pandemic is declared by the WHO (because that's what they're saying it is for).
The WHO happens to be fronted by some Somalian lad (accused of doing dicey shit in his own country) with no medical qualifications. It's second largest donor is a private citizen https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/who-funds-world-health-organization-un-coronavirus-pandemic-covid-trump/ who just happens to be heavily invested in the vaccine industry but also has no medical qualifications whatsoever. It's generally accepted that he just really really really just wants to help people (you) because he's a philanthropist.
Has rte explained any of that, for the people who watch it? Does anyone reckon that people would think any differently about any of it if it were to be put to them like that? I'm not sure.
They can find out if it made any difference to them or not in due course but as we already know, none of that counts for shit if an emergency is declared here and the constitution suspended. It happened, it'll happen again.
Lads, the final
DRAFT (please look up what this word means) is due in 2024,
after which it would still have to be signed, ratified, and ultimately enforced. On which point, here's an extract from Article 20 of the WHO constitution, which you're brandishing as some kind of contract signed in blood:
Quoteif [a Member] does not accept such convention or agreement within the time limit, it will furnish a statement of the reasons for non-acceptance.
Holy god! If a member state decides to opt out of a decision, the WHO will come down on them like a ton of bricks and demand that they... say why they're not accepting! Outrageous. Stop the presses! No, not good enough, get those cameras rolling and interrupt all broadcasts on all channels: the people, even those who don't really care about the news all that much, must be informed! Russell Brand and the bloke from Right Said Fred say it's the end of democracy!
Not saying, by the way, that these things aren't worth following, discussing, getting informed on, critiquing etc. Just stop turning everything you don't like and don't hear about from 6-1 news into a conspiracy. It's absolutely devoid of rationality and actually negates rather than strengthens your voice, because you sound paranoid. And that's because it is paranoid to claim that something not squeezed into the 30 minute telly news slot is for that sole reason therefore the subject of a conspiracy cover up.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 26, 2022, 07:16:53 AM
Lads, the final DRAFT (please look up what this word means) is due in 2024, after which it would still have to be signed, ratified, and ultimately enforced. On which point, here's an extract from Article 20 of the WHO constitution, which you're brandishing as some kind of contract signed in blood:
Quoteif [a Member] does not accept such convention or agreement within the time limit, it will furnish a statement of the reasons for non-acceptance.
Holy god! If a member state decides to opt out of a decision, the WHO will come down on them like a ton of bricks and demand that they... say why they're not accepting! Outrageous. Stop the presses! No, not good enough, get those cameras rolling and interrupt all broadcasts on all channels: the people, even those who don't really care about the news all that much, must be informed! Russell Brand and the bloke from Right Said Fred say it's the end of democracy!
Check my post again, I didn't mention any conspiracy theory other than fact checkers would say it's one. All the things I said are factual, including the part in the earlier post where I said it's being adjusted because a lot of the amendments don't appear to be acceptable to member states.
Saying all that we all know in our heart of hearts that however the WHOs position is strengthened, it'll be to bate more vaccines into everyone. Whether one thinks it's a good or bad thing is up to themselves. I couldn't care less as long as no-one tries to mandate it again to be fair.
And again I dunno what is or isn't on six one because I don't watch it at all
I was mainly addressing Morrigan.
But as for the "amendments" to the "treaty" you're talking about, there have been no "amendments" since the "treaty" doesn't exist yet. There are only propositions which are part of negotiations towards a final draft not expected within the next two years.
Yes, proposed amendments. But you knew that's what I meant. Anyway I seriously only care if it leads to lockdowns and mandates. If it is as appears to be and can't override national sovereignty then they can all do what they like. I've my mind made up about the WHO and their carry on. I'm sure the opposition to it will be full of shit too in their own way!
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 26, 2022, 09:31:19 AM
I was mainly addressing Morrigan.
But as for the "amendments" to the "treaty" you're talking about, there have been no "amendments" since the "treaty" doesn't exist yet. There are only propositions which are part of negotiations towards a final draft not expected within the next two years.
If you read back on my posts you will find that I also have never made any suggestion of a conspiracy or a cover-up in relation to the treaty, you are in fact the only one who has alluded to such.
I
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on May 25, 2022, 03:08:19 AM
this wasn't reported on the news needless to say ,in keeping with the total media blackout on the subject as a whole.
Not to worry though, its for our own good, shut up, nothing to see here, move along now, here's the latest on the Depp v Heard trial.
I guess "total media blackout on the subject as a whole", besides being false, means something where you come from that makes it not a suggestion of a conspiracy or a cover-up. I'm just saying, cool the beans; just 'cos it's not on Six One news, don't mean shit, no reason to be going paraphrasing poor dead Bill Hicks.
Black shepherd I agree with you that we shouldn't jump the gun on assuming there is a cover up, I'd call it more a push to the side. There is a danger of falling into the trap of counter intelligence.
But when you say it comes across as paranoid for delving too much into it, well yes in general but with the treaty, I would agree with that if the last two years didn't happen. But they did and I can clearly remember the reality we were living in I wouldn't have imagined. Bands and gigs lined up evaporated, getting grilled from guards when trying to walk my dog out the countryside, being ordered out of shops for not wearing a mask despite exemption and losing friends for my views on the whole situation.
So when the WHO are talking about "strengthening" pandemic response and we just lived through the initial response, I dunno about you but Ill be taking that very seriously. I've had enough confrontation in the last two years to last me a lifetime, I don't want anymore.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 26, 2022, 10:42:12 PM
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on May 25, 2022, 03:08:19 AM
this wasn't reported on the news needless to say ,in keeping with the total media blackout on the subject as a whole.
Not to worry though, its for our own good, shut up, nothing to see here, move along now, here's the latest on the Depp v Heard trial.
I guess "total media blackout on the subject as a whole", besides being false, means something where you come from that makes it not a suggestion of a conspiracy or a cover-up. I'm just saying, cool the beans; just 'cos it's not on Six One news, don't mean shit, no reason to be going paraphrasing poor dead Bill Hicks.
Fuck ya!! ,sickened.
to be fair to ya the way I worded that does sound like I was talking about an all out cover-up, fair cop, but I was only referring to RTE news. It was a poor choice of words on my part.
All I'm saying is that I would be very wary of giving the WHO any more power than they already have, I don't trust that their aims are what they say they are and the way they are funded coupled with their association with the UN makes me very uncomfortable.
Quote from: Lunar blood on May 27, 2022, 12:20:37 AM
Black shepherd I agree with you that we shouldn't jump the gun on assuming there is a cover up, I'd call it more a push to the side. There is a danger of falling into the trap of counter intelligence.
But when you say it comes across as paranoid for delving too much into it, well yes in general but with the treaty, I would agree with that if the last two years didn't happen. But they did and I can clearly remember the reality we were living in I wouldn't have imagined. Bands and gigs lined up evaporated, getting grilled from guards when trying to walk my dog out the countryside, being ordered out of shops for not wearing a mask despite exemption and losing friends for my views on the whole situation.
So when the WHO are talking about "strengthening" pandemic response and we just lived through the initial response, I dunno about you but Ill be taking that very seriously. I've had enough confrontation in the last two years to last me a lifetime, I don't want anymore.
That's pretty much where I'm at with the WHO. Wouldn't trust them as far I'd throw them but equally never thought about them before the carry on of the last couple of years. Now I've looked at their buzz though.
https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/
Einstein's thoughts on socialism make interesting food for thought.
KC's been awfully quiet recently
Quote from: Giggles on May 30, 2022, 01:18:23 PM
KC's been awfully quiet recently
You not on the shit pit? He has plenty of interesting stuff going over there
Leave the hippies at it in their allotments but I think lads could do with keeping this in mind before yarping on about pesticides etc. Fuckin' hell.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/world/asia/sri-lanka-organic-farming-fertilizer.amp.html
You know when you are driving and a pedestrian does something to annoy you- HEY FUCKHEAD, WATCH IT! I'M DRIVING HERE!
Then you get out of your car and are walking into the shops when a driver does something to annoy you- WATCH IT, CUNT! ARE YOU TRYING TO RUN ME OVER OR WHAT???
Zero shame 8)
Quote from: astfgyl on May 30, 2022, 05:45:09 PM
Quote from: Giggles on May 30, 2022, 01:18:23 PM
KC's been awfully quiet recently
You not on the shit pit? He has plenty of interesting stuff going over there
I didn't realise that he was confined to one place. I had a look at it, very funny maneuver by Hambeast :laugh:
Quote from: Giggles on May 31, 2022, 12:57:51 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on May 30, 2022, 05:45:09 PM
Quote from: Giggles on May 30, 2022, 01:18:23 PM
KC's been awfully quiet recently
You not on the shit pit? He has plenty of interesting stuff going over there
I didn't realise that he was confined to one place. I had a look at it, very funny maneuver by Hambeast :laugh:
It was certainly an inventive one! Pity he can't even go on the main forum though
Jesus christ. Shit pit is right.
Ah join him lads
Forgot he was horsed off. That explains why it's been fairly normal on here.
Thought it was just General Discussion he was blocked out of.
No apparently it's everywhere. Pity mugz never got a shit pit..
If the Winnie the Pooh serial killer film does well enough, will that mean a spinoff featuring Eeyore as a suicide bomber will follow?
Yup for fuckin Friday.
Got me thinking about how feelings about certain days of the week become so ingrained over time. Even during the lockdown when Friday made no difference, it still made a difference.
Yep. I work part time and can essentially pick my hours, so days of the week are meaningless. Even so, I stayed late yesterday to finish what I was at, so I'd have an extra day for the bank holiday weekend. TFI Friday and all that.
That said, I'd be a much better bank holiday weekend if I had my bloody wages.
Ah don't feel too bad, I got mine and I'm still broke!
At what point in a century does society start referring to the decade as, say, the 90s and not the 1990s? We aren't in the 20s right now, we are in the 2020s- the 20s are the 1920s. Is there a tipping point in a century when enough people from the previous century have died off when you are able to drop the prefix? Hmmm.....
Imagine travelling back in time and spending an evening drinking with your 17 year old self. You're not allowed to give sage life advice, or recommend buying shares in this, that or the other, and you can't strangle 'him/her'; you simply have to hang out and endure an evening with your young and all- knowing vacuous self.
I think there might be a good idea for a horror story in that.
I was going for it until the no strangling part
Just worked my way backwards through these, in stitches:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L9XbSH_-jY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP4rpogDsiY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asqTYoJ75U4
Actually that going back to hang out with your 17year old self thing sounds like it'd be a blast. It'd end up being a video game marathon. :laugh:
Probably the wrong thread to post this but I'm not starting a new one. And Random Thoughts probably covers it.
A lad that I grew up with died last week. He was 2 or 3 years older than the rest of our group but he seemed to fall in with us because on our estate he was too young to hang out with his brothers and their crew.
This lad was born in 1978 or 1979 and there was nobody else on the street the same age as him. There appears to have been either a fallow period in terms of riding or a few successful years of the rhythm method in Ireland because most of our street was born in 1981. Maybe it was something to do with the Pope's visit, I dunno.
Anyway. This poor fucker died. On his own. In a house that he shared with his mother. She was away on holiday. His older brother got the call from the hospital to say that he was gone.
I hadn't seen this lad properly in 20 years bar in the local pub or GAA club at Christmas but yet his death seems to be hovering over me since I went to his wake and funeral.
Not a contemplation of my own mortality. Just a general sadness that I can't seem to shake off.
I suppose as we all hit 40 these things start to come at us in far more frequent bursts.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on June 13, 2022, 03:07:58 PM
I suppose as we all hit 40 these things start to come at us in far more frequent bursts.
That's it in a nutshell.
In cork city here and not a large bottle of Guinness to be found anywhere. Some bullshit.
Then to make matters worse, when I ask for one they offer me the pint instead and I'm haunted by the quote from pulp fiction because it "ain't the same fuckin' ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same fuckin' sport" as is well known by anyone who has ever drank the large bottle.
Then there's no cd shops other than golden discs, to which the same quote applies when it comes to looking for good cds.
Guinness pint bottles are the business. I love pints as well though.
Had two bottles of the West Indies stuff there over the weekend, one of them with the last of the full Irish stock we had from last trip back. Heaven.
Aye that West Indies stuff is class. Had a few of the Guinness pint bottles recently for the first time. Bloody gorgeous.
I love Irish Guinness Extra Stout but the foreign stuff is hard going. It's too strong for my delicate taste buds. And even the Aussie stuff which tastes fairly close to the Irish stuff is 6% as opposed to the Irish 4.2% and it rips the arse out of me the next day so I've had to opt for the cans of Draught instead of late. Sunday is a write off otherwise.
Quote from: astfgyl on June 14, 2022, 06:36:49 PM
In cork city here and not a large bottle of Guinness to be found anywhere. Some bullshit.
Then to make matters worse, when I ask for one they offer me the pint instead and I'm haunted by the quote from pulp fiction because it "ain't the same fuckin' ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same fuckin' sport" as is well known by anyone who has ever drank the large bottle.
Then there's no cd shops other than golden discs, to which the same quote applies when it comes to looking for good cds.
I'm pretty sure that Sin É, The Mutton Lane Inn and The Corner House have pint bottles of Guinness. The Castle Inn might as well. Off the shelf and in the fridge.
Pretty correct about the records shops though - there's Plugd and Bunker Vinyl too. Not sure what the selection of CDs is like in the new Plugd Records.
Thanks to Astfgyl there, about six lads discovered the joys of the pint bottle extra stout at the Templemore Metal Fest. You could actually see one lad being revolutionised by stout as the first taste of it passed his lips. Saw them drink nothing else for the night. Fuckin fond of it myself but I don't frequent anywhere in Limerick here that does it and the Guinness on Tap where I do go (Collins', Mother Macs) is top tier so no complaints.
I've never tried the pint bottle's of Guinness before, I'll have to give them a crack.
I like pints on draught but I often find most pubs serve Guinness way too cold, at home I'd have it room temperature or maybe slightly chilled but it's not a drink to be served ice cold imo.
Quote from: ldj on June 15, 2022, 10:46:56 AM
I've never tried the pint bottle's of Guinness before, I'll have to give them a crack.
I like pints on draught but I often find most pubs serve Guinness way too cold, at home I'd have it room temperature or maybe slightly chilled but it's not a drink to be served ice cold imo.
The bottles are lovely and in a good pub, they keep them on the shelf instead of the fridge, so you'll enjoy that too.
Re. the cold pints, I was told before it's easier and faster to pull a good looking cold pint, so that's why a lot of places do it. But I agree, slightly below room temp is grand, no need for it to be chilled as badly as most places have it.
The cooler in my local was down a while ago, he was serving pints at room temperature, it was vile.
A friend's brother used to get a 'warm Guinness' in Sean's in Athlone - pull and let settle as normal, then give it 10 seconds in the microwave. Even the thought of it makes me wretch.
:laugh: that's a crime against fucking humanity, for God's sake.
I used to get a warm guinness in the square bar and the A1 here in Limerick - both closed now. They had the keg left unchilled and at room temp under the bar, with a short line to the tap. They were lovely, it was right creamy, took them about a year to pull it though and the head would lift up over the rim like a foam.
Quote from: Carnage on June 15, 2022, 11:08:33 AM
A friend's brother used to get a 'warm Guinness' in Sean's in Athlone - pull and let settle as normal, then give it 10 seconds in the microwave. Even the thought of it makes me wretch.
We'll be needing that vomit emoji now please.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on June 15, 2022, 08:52:54 AM
Quote from: astfgyl on June 14, 2022, 06:36:49 PM
In cork city here and not a large bottle of Guinness to be found anywhere. Some bullshit.
Then to make matters worse, when I ask for one they offer me the pint instead and I'm haunted by the quote from pulp fiction because it "ain't the same fuckin' ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same fuckin' sport" as is well known by anyone who has ever drank the large bottle.
Then there's no cd shops other than golden discs, to which the same quote applies when it comes to looking for good cds.
I'm pretty sure that Sin É, The Mutton Lane Inn and The Corner House have pint bottles of Guinness. The Castle Inn might as well. Off the shelf and in the fridge.
Pretty correct about the records shops though - there's Plugd and Bunker Vinyl too. Not sure what the selection of CDs is like in the new Plugd Records.
Ah nice one, I'll head into those pubs and check. I passed sin é and all but thought it looked a bit trendy
Quote from: Carnage on June 15, 2022, 11:08:33 AM
The cooler in my local was down a while ago, he was serving pints at room temperature, it was vile.
A friend's brother used to get a 'warm Guinness' in Sean's in Athlone - pull and let settle as normal, then give it 10 seconds in the microwave. Even the thought of it makes me wretch.
Remember when extra cold first came out that microwave thing was fairly common
Also the foreign extra stout is fairly poisonous
Foreign Extra is lovely but it'd only be for special occasions for me, it's great at Christmas when it's acceptable to get mangled at home on a Tuesday afternoon.
Any fans of Kilkenny Ale actually? I've always wondered what the buzz is, I think it's far superior to Smithwicks yet the price of it is extortionate, nearly 3 quid a can in Dunnes last time I saw, and the only place I've seen it on draught is the Thomas House.
Quote from: astfgyl on June 15, 2022, 12:03:45 PM
Ah nice one, I'll head into those pubs and check. I passed sin é and all but thought it looked a bit trendy
Sin É? Not really. One of the finest pubs on this island and one of my regular haunts for 20 years. Haven't been since 2020 though. I'll be heading there this weekend though to make up for lost time.
All sorts booze in there really. As my father said to me years ago when we were having a few pints in there:
"In this place you could be sat between a barrister and junkie".
Quote from: ldj on June 15, 2022, 12:16:23 PM
Any fans of Kilkenny Ale actually? I've always wondered what the buzz is, I think it's far superior to Smithwicks yet the price of it is extortionate, nearly 3 quid a can in Dunnes last time I saw, and the only place I've seen it on draught is the Thomas House.
Most Irish or English pubs I've been to over here have Kilkenny rather than Smithwicks on tap. I order it fairly regularly but can't really give you a good comparison answer since it's been years and years, for the same reason, since I've had a Smithwicks.
I don't mind the foreign but some of them are like treacle so I wouldn't sit into a heap of them.
Quote from: ldj on June 15, 2022, 12:16:23 PM
Any fans of Kilkenny Ale actually? I've always wondered what the buzz is, I think it's far superior to Smithwicks yet the price of it is extortionate, nearly 3 quid a can in Dunnes last time I saw, and the only place I've seen it on draught is the Thomas House.
Haven't seen it on draught for decades, used to go mad for it when I lived in Dublin. Not great from cans in my experience.
I miss pints of Caffreys, a few of those on payday always went down well.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on June 15, 2022, 12:21:08 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on June 15, 2022, 12:03:45 PM
Ah nice one, I'll head into those pubs and check. I passed sin é and all but thought it looked a bit trendy
Sin É? Not really. One of the finest pubs on this island and one of my regular haunts for 20 years. Haven't been since 2020 though. I'll be heading there this weekend though to make up for lost time.
All sorts booze in there really. As my father said to me years ago when we were having a few pints in there:
"In this place you could be sat between a barrister and junkie".
I shouldn't be judging a book by the cover really. I'll get in there for one at the first chance.
Also haven't seen the Kilkenny ale on draught in 20 years. I always thought it was a bit flat at the time. Large bottle of McArdle's isn't bad while we're on the ale buzz
Still finding it hard to get used to specs, after not wearing them for 20+ years. If I wore them more often it'd go more smoothly, I'm sure but the freedom of contacts is hard to cut back on.
I used to wear glasses for about 20 years and once I broke the last 2 pairs I just stopped. No contacts either. Went from being blind as a bat without them to not needing them at all after the initial adjustment.
That's short sightedness though, I don't think it'd work for reading glasses. And maybe I just got used to it rather than it improved at all. Either way, no specs for me 😃
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Found these on Twitter. Outraged doesn't begin to describe it
Bee Gees- The Mercyful Fate of 70s disco.
Because of the high pitch?
I'm getting fair sick of getting threatened with high temperatures every time I open a new tab on my phone.
The last heatwave here, the news gave the cause as winds coming from North Africa, and in the same breath going on about 'climate change'.
There probably is an issue with rising temperatures, who knows, but FFS like. Scaremongering should at least be coherent ya spa.
Maybe the winds coming from North Africa have been intensified as a result of climate change? Not much of an idea myself, but don't see why the two things would be mutually exclusive.
Last year half the city was covered in red dust blown up from the Sahara. People told not to go out if unnecessary to avoid breathing it in. I'm not a weatherman but I assumed climate change to refer to rising temperatures rather than wind patterns.
I'm neither confirming nor denying it's existence as I'm too limited to know either way, but they love to do your thinking for you on the news.
Your pal Macron is some lad. Looked like he actually wanted to climb up on Zelenskyy earlier in the week. Closet gay as well as a granny grabber :)
Hahahaha
Of course, you understand that wind is primarily driven by temperature differences? Like, that's how and why wind happens.
Quote from: Carnage on June 19, 2022, 04:12:26 AM
Of course, you understand that wind is primarily driven by temperature differences? Like, that's how and why wind happens.
Yes, I mean the intense heat in central and southern Spain is caused by temperature and therefore wind variations from Africa. It usually doesn't happen this early in the year. I realise now it looks like I'm contradicting myself, but I merely wanted to point out that it may simply be because temperatures/wind sometimes vary/are unpredictable, rather than blaming it on 'climate change' (the Al Gore/Greta Thunberg stuff).
The Guardian (unbelievably) covered the story with barely a mention of Teslas and solar panels.
The mean temperature of the entire globe is rising. That's the bottom line and that includes Africa and any winds coming from there. It may be that these will have been the hottest days for all of 2022 and that there won't be any severe heatwaves in July, August or September, but even if that does turn out to be the case, it's not just that this heatwave was early; several all time maximal temperature records have just been beaten in France and Spain, so even discounting the time of year it happened, in certain places it was the hottest they've ever reached. The idea people need to get into their heads is that the weather we just had for the last 5 days straight may, in 5 or 10 or 15 years, be pretty representative of the norm from June to August. And the folks in India have been getting it way worse. As soon as climate events like they've just had start stretching out a bit more in time, people are going to start looking north in droves.
It's still the seasons as described in Monty python's The Holy Grail here anyway
Somebody called Gerry Cinnamon is playing large stadiums around Ireland.
Who the fuck is Gerry Cinnamon?
Quote from: StoutAndAle on June 20, 2022, 09:44:58 AM
Somebody called Gerry Cinnamon is playing large stadiums around Ireland.
Who the fuck is Gerry Cinnamon?
FFS thanks to Google - now I know something about this Scottish 'warrior poet'
Quote from: 91/30 on June 20, 2022, 09:54:25 AM
FFS thanks to Google - now I know something about this Scottish 'warrior poet'
I looked him up after posting - the name was trending online - he's playing in gaffs that are normally reserved for the likes of The Cure and stuff.
One look at him in his hat and fringe was enough for me to know he's a gowl.
Liked by gowls who wear Celtic tracksuit tops over striped shirts to weddings and funerals.
Yeah he's pretty much 'folk' music for people into lad rock, Oasis and the like.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on June 20, 2022, 10:09:22 AM
Quote from: 91/30 on June 20, 2022, 09:54:25 AM
FFS thanks to Google - now I know something about this Scottish 'warrior poet'
I looked him up after posting - the name was trending online - he's playing in gaffs that are normally reserved for the likes of The Cure and stuff.
One look at him in his hat and fringe was enough for me to know he's a gowl.
Liked by gowls who wear Celtic tracksuit tops over striped shirts to weddings and funerals.
I saw the John Lennon or maybe Bob Dylan 70's capeen on him and that was enough. Anyway I'd say he's a prod
Quote from: StoutAndAle on June 20, 2022, 09:44:58 AM
Somebody called Gerry Cinnamon is playing large stadiums around Ireland.
Who the fuck is Gerry Cinnamon?
A girl at work was telling me a while back how excited she was to have tickets for Gerry cinnamon and I thought about how old I was getting.
Never heard of the cunt before that
I've just seen Muse play a bit of a Slipknot song, that was unexpected.
A lot of people doing the whole 'happy solstice' thing today, pretty sure it's tomorrow though, isn't it?
Stupid people shouldn't be allowed have children. They should have to sit an IQ test instead first. The Chinese might be on to something :laugh:
The stupid are the last pc friendly target left. We're lucky to have them
https://mobile.twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1540373247627329536
Pretty cool. Might throw it in the docs thread once I look at the full thing
Drew Barrymore is a proper Baberham Lincoln- schawiiing!
Did Dave Mustaine ever sell the house?
Quote from: 91/30 on June 27, 2022, 10:35:53 AM
Did Dave Mustaine ever sell the house?
Where do you think Leather Mike has gone!
It's been wrecking my head since yesterday, who was the big tall nordie lad from MI who got all the abuse off of Vadge etc?
Quote from: Eoin McLove on June 27, 2022, 11:19:01 AM
Quote from: 91/30 on June 27, 2022, 10:35:53 AM
Did Dave Mustaine ever sell the house?
Where do you think Leather Mike has gone!
Ran across Leather Mike in metal FB groups a few times since the end of MI, wonder if he ever came across this place.
Kevin Bacon in an Immolation shirt, that's it, that's the post.
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Quote from: ldj on June 29, 2022, 04:47:55 PM
Kevin Bacon in an Immolation shirt, that's it, that's the post.
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I'm sure his son is in some Crust/Death Metal Band
He was in Black Anvil. We played with them in Norway a few years ago. Sound guy.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on June 27, 2022, 11:19:01 AM
Quote from: 91/30 on June 27, 2022, 10:35:53 AM
Did Dave Mustaine ever sell the house?
Where do you think Leather Mike has gone!
I'm still here ;)
New band are recording a single on July 17. I'll be substantially more active after that
Ah, your cover is blown ::)
Pure scooped
If you die and it's nothingness, were you ever really here at all?
Also thinking about the Sorites Paradox, which is:
(A) 1 grain of sand cannot make a heap
(B) If n grains of sand cannot make a heap, then n+1 grains of sand cannot make a heap. (That is, one grain of sand can't make the difference between whether or not you can make a heap.)
(C) It follows that there are no heaps.
(D) But there are heaps.
Does it also apply to hapes?
I'll have to consider that over a hape of cans this evening!
Quote from: astfgyl on July 01, 2022, 03:32:57 PM
I'll have to consider that over a hape of cans this evening!
Lovely cans...
That's the famous Sorites Canadox.
😂😂😂
Have Jimmy Bower and Alan Moore ever been seen in the same room together? Hmmm...
The 80s
Do Graves at Sea have an in joke where they see which one of them can write the dumbest lyrics and go with that?
There's red wine. There's white wine. There's rosé wine. There's orange wine.
But if someone says that something is wine coloured it's not red/white/rosé/orange.
You'd say Burgundy more often than not wouldn't you? Or Maroon if it's Galway GAA gear for whatever reason.
The bit in Disturbed's "Down With the Sickness" about his mother hitting him is really something. "Mad" Davey Draiman and all that :laugh:
Tipperary Town has to be the worst kip of a town on the island. It really is the worst kind of shithole imaginable.
Quote from: astfgyl on July 09, 2022, 01:34:59 PM
The bit in Disturbed's "Down With the Sickness" about his mother hitting him is really something. "Mad" Davey Draiman and all that :laugh:
I had a listen to that there again 😄
Quote from: astfgyl on July 11, 2022, 02:55:12 PM
Tipperary Town has to be the worst kip of a town on the island. It really is the worst kind of shithole imaginable.
Most towns in Tipp are rough out. Clonmel! Good Jaysus.
Clonmel is some sort of utopia compared to Tipperary Town. It really has to be seen to believe how fucking terrible it is
Quote from: blessed1 on July 11, 2022, 03:03:52 PM
Quote from: astfgyl on July 09, 2022, 01:34:59 PM
The bit in Disturbed's "Down With the Sickness" about his mother hitting him is really something. "Mad" Davey Draiman and all that :laugh:
I had a listen to that there again 😄
The sound FX he does for getting the slaps are spectacular
"Clonmel is some sort of utopia compared to Tipperary Town. It really has to be seen to believe how fucking terrible it is"
Thurles, a very dark town that Tipp can aspire to with proactive counsellors and chamber of commerce. Carrick trotting after Tipp. I wonder what the common denominator is....
Tipp Town is grim as fu#k. Characters from the star wars bar would blend, in broad daylight
Quote from: Lurker on July 15, 2022, 06:29:42 PM
"Clonmel is some sort of utopia compared to Tipperary Town. It really has to be seen to believe how fucking terrible it is"
Thurles, a very dark town that Tipp can aspire to with proactive counsellors and chamber of commerce. Carrick trotting after Tipp. I wonder what the common denominator is....
Thurles can't hold a candle to Tipp town, as bad as it is in itself. Been going around lately asking people can they think of a worse place than Tipp town and no-one has come up with anything yet. There is precisely nothing in Carrick either but Tipp doesn't even have a river to jump into
🤣🤣
Had the dubious pleasure of living in Carrick for a while. There is the strangest dole culture there. I was in a pub one tone where they were having a retirement party for someone who never worked a day.
440mls. 330ml I get. 500ml makes total sense but 440ml... And my pint glass looks incomplete after pouring a can. Suppose that's what I get for being a posh cunt and using a glass.
Quote from: astfgyl on July 11, 2022, 04:34:59 PMClonmel is some sort of utopia compared to Tipperary Town. It really has to be seen to believe how fucking terrible it is
There is nowhere on earth as grim as Tipp town. Amazingly depressing place and, as the traffic is always brutal no matter what time you have the misfortune to pass through it, you get time to really absorb how fucking horrible it is.
In what way horrible? Genuine question
It's like the life has been drained out of it and it's just there, rotting away, like time moved on and left it behind. It's the town of the fucken Langoliers.
:laugh: fair enough
Quote from: Bürggermeister on July 21, 2022, 10:25:53 PMIt's like the life has been drained out of it and it's just there, rotting away, like time moved on and left it behind. It's the town of the fucken Langoliers.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Summed up to perfection
These ones going to the high court claiming injuries and being caught our posting pictures of themselves on social media working out or whatever...morons isn't the word...
Agreed, posting videos on trampolines etc fu#king dopes.
Why is prince pegging trending along with prince William affair? Has some dodgy story came out?
Banging his wife's bestie, it appears. That's fairly tame for those inbred deviants, to be fair. God save the king, etc.
Quote from: Kunt 4 Life on July 28, 2022, 11:02:29 PMWhy is prince pegging trending along with prince William affair? Has some dodgy story came out?
Because apparently he likes taking it up the ass and his wife wouldn't oblige him :laugh:
Cunts taking an interest in them is a mystery to me.
If the future king of England-THE FUTURE KING OF ENGLAND!- can't even get his rear box stove in by his wife's best friend without society getting up in arms, well that's a world I don't want to live in.
It's PC gone mad, Ted.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on July 29, 2022, 12:35:15 AMCunts taking an interest in them is a mystery to me.
Yep. If you care, then I am better than you.
The Inbred Kardashians
Of all the things I was expecting from a Clannad gig, drum, flute and multiple bass solos weren't among them.
The swallows in the shed have had another brood of chicks, when is nice. The pile of shite under the nest, however, is not.
Managed to procure an old Ipod. I destroyed my one in an attempt to fix it. Fuck spotify like!
Small bit of a Bandcamp hack I came across. When it comes to opening your heart/wallet just add to basket and the nag screen disappears. Bad form in a way but there it is.
Why do I feel revulsion at the idea of opening a stranger's post but absolutely zero distress at fucking it straight in the bin! Surely fucking it out is worse??
:laugh: so true.
Sickened by the attack on Salman Rushdie. Truly fucking appalling.
Apparently he's recovering well. Very lucky.
Yes, but still in critical condition and he might lose an eye. He has a long recovery ahead. Hopefully he'll be back writing soon and it will be interesting to see how this will impact his creativity in future. Imagine a fucking 24 year old attacking a defenceless 75 year old man. Pure and utter scum.
Ah yeah it was an awful act. I see he's pleading not guilty as well for some reason.
Pleading insanity maybe? He won't get his virgins if he wimps out now.
I shouldn't, but :laugh:
I guess anyone doing something as insane as that has a case to make for insanity. Read there was a $3 Mil bounty on Rushdie's head but I don't think yer man had any chance of collecting it the way he went about it so I doubt that was the deciding factor for him in this case either. The old religion really fucks with people's heads.
Anyone who does something like that is certainly insane or damaged in some way, but should that exonerate them? If you are brainwashed by religion or a cult and you act in their name does that mean you aren't acting of your own volition? Maybe. But should that even matter? The heart says one thing and the mind something else.
No I feel it shouldn't exonerate them at all but that's another whole minefield there
I hear you can get monkeypox from your dog now
Probably shouldn't fuck your dog so.
https://youtu.be/L-a_lfQnDvE?t=77
Went to call a lad on messenger on the laptop there and was looking at the address bar while it was ringing. Saw this beaut:
"initialize_video=false&is_e2ee_mandated=false&nonce"
How did it know yer man was a nonce?
A false nonce which is the worst kind. At least subject your poor victims to some good metal, you monster!
:laugh:
Death to false nonces!
Imagine if someone maybe, oh I don't know, maybe broke their phone and their arm in the one week and somehow ended up with their only viable method of contact being the fucking private messages on this forum. Could you imagine such a creature? As it happens, I can
Whoever it is, that's how to keep it fucking trve
If ever one needed proof that God really hates wanking...
I mean, if you're God, why would you ever wank? The other possibilities are infinite!
Why wouldn't he? He surely has a lovely, velvety penis to play with.
Where there's a willy there's a way
Where there's a god's willy, there's a million ways!
:laugh: all involving velvet of some sort
https://youtu.be/8jzEoX764x4
I don't know where else to post this but I can't get it out of my head anyway.
Was just reading an essay about the russian mobile incinerators in a paper from around a week ago and fucking move over pravda there's a new rag in town. Casting a critical eye on it, I don't think I've seen worse propaganda in real life. The hilarious part is that there are actually people believing it, which I thought was only an olden days thing. Fuck people are stupid beyond belief. If I had a phone I'd screenshot it but I don't so oh well. it's by David Patrikarakos in the Daily Mail from 6th August if anyone wants to tear their hair out while they're standing with ukraine. Here's another question, when one is standing with ukraine what is the correct etiquette? Should one stand still or does it count while walking/going to work etc? Will a simple flag in the bio beside my palestine and trans flags do the trick or do I actually have to do anything?
Maybe a yemen flag or something will salve my conscience as I consume consume consume
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
Was reading this which I hadn't heard of. It sounds like something I'd be doing myself in the day to day. I do like a good fallacy.
This, although it's a rendering of sorts
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FaqtRiFX0AI_KX5?format=png&name=small
Quote from: astfgyl on August 24, 2022, 10:45:21 PMThis, although it's a rendering of sorts
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FaqtRiFX0AI_KX5?format=png&name=small
Just posting this again because it really amazes me. I've given hours and hours thinking about the likes of this over the years. What even are we?
Blood libel wasn't randomly on my mind, fascinating story here for folk interested in history and/or genetics:
https://twitter.com/AdamRutherford/status/1564997067294007296
QuoteThe deaths of 17 medieval Jews: An incredible new genetics paper has just dropped: The earliest Jewish genomes and the story of where they are from and how they died is incredibly important, and central to the origin of contemporary antisemitic conspiracy hatred.
Why is it Toe-blerone and not Toble-rone? :(
Who'd win in a kung fu fight, Father McGruder from Brain Dead or Father Servo from NieR:Automata?
Quote from: Eoin McLove on September 02, 2022, 01:29:29 PMWhy is it Toe-blerone and not Toble-rone? :(
My old man calls a hotdog a hot dog. There must be some lad that eats the Toble rone.
Yknow the way the shape of a bar of chocolate can alter the taste in its way?
Well does anyone reckon that the pronunciation can have a similar effect on the perceived taste? Or even the name itself even if the pronunciation is entirely unambiguous, eg reckon a "Rape Sodomizing Catshit bar" might somehow taste worse than a "everyone loves fluffy clouds bar" even if it's the exact same bar in 2 different packets? Then we get to the intonation, and is it Catshit or cat shit or cat's shit?
Hot dog :laugh:
I sometimes hear Brits on telly pronounce icecream in a bizarre way. You know how most people stress the ice part- well these other folk (scum essentially) put the same emphasis on both parts... so ICE-cream becomes ICE-CREAM. It makes me fall out of my rocking chair and puts the heart across me every single time. One of my slippers went straight into the stove on one occasion and I had to fish it out with my pipe.
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet" - not if it was called a 'prolapse flower'.
Well as I always maintain, if meat balls were called ball meat nobody would go fucking near them.
The fat on bacon, which me and every other self respecting Irish person refers to as "bacon fat" is called "fat bacon" by relatives of mine for some inexplicable reason.
Its not a big deal, but they deserve to burn for all eternity in the hottest part of the fires of hell for it.
A sodo mizing would be too good for the lot of the mispronunciating animals. Do you hear, a SODO MIZING
I know a lad who says 'either though' instead of 'even though'. It's been pointed out to him on several occasions over the 25 years I've known the man.
'I won't be changing lads'.
That's a paddlin'!
Any Cork-based coffee drinkers who happen to pass by this way and are interested in participating in a brain/gut microbiota study:
https://www.echolive.ie/arid-40954751.html
Is there anything to be said for another mass?
Which belief is the best belief, believing in Man or believing in God? I'm wondering which one would be the best for a beginner such as myself.
Maybe it's now what you believe specifically, but how you utilise the belief?
Which god? There are so many of them to choose from.
Quote from: Bürggermeister on September 08, 2022, 10:26:46 AMWhich god? There are so many of them to choose from.
This one
https://youtu.be/oPI3n3J7BuE
How did John Hurt become a household name? He is such a dull and uncharismatic actor.
Quote from: Bürggermeister on September 08, 2022, 10:26:46 AMWhich god? There are so many of them to choose from.
Again it's a tough one. I was half thinking about going for multiple gods like the Romans or pagans. Crom Cruach doesn't sound too bad either
Quote from: Eoin McLove on September 08, 2022, 12:17:13 PMHow did John Hurt become a household name? He is such a dull and uncharismatic actor.
He's a good stage actor, but generally speaking in film I'd agree with you; most usually remarkable by being unremarkable. The answer to your direct question is basically The Elephant Man, Alien, and, for our parent's generation, I, Claudius.
Small part but his turn in A Man For All Seasons was excellent. Great in I, Claudius but that was a very stagey production anyway.
Anyone reckon Kurt has served his time yet or are lads still happy with him in the shit pit? I thought he was grand and it's pretty bleak over there.
Served his time and then some, an innocent man persecuted for fuck all, exiled from his people without just cause, its a fucking disgrace.
No such thing as the principles of natural justice here apparently.
I'd have him back in a heartbeat. I thought he was just having a laugh for the most part. It's not like he was hurting anyone
I'll just say again that I never understood his shit pit was going to be a quarantine. I thought it was just to be a place for him to go and shit so he could relieve his fecal content urges without shitting all over General Discussion.
I also thought that and I also thought it was a great solution to not banning a lad
Yeah and his music recommendations are always my favourites things on here.
The rave stuff? Fuckin kills me. I'd still stick up for him in general despite that! :laugh:
I think the site is really healthy at the minute. There seems to be more activity across the two main forums than there ever has been before. Letting Kurt back in to turn every discussion into a celebration of himself sounds risky. Maybe tag him in and me out :laugh:
Yeah, I only came back because I thought he was gone 😂
I'm not, nor ever have been, on any forum other than this and I've never been on social media or any of that shite so I have no idea of the etiquette that should be followed with regard to posting on these things to be honest.
All I can say is that I was never bothered or offended by anything KC posted and in fact I found a lot of his posts quiet entertaining.
Sure if ya know ya don't agree with or are annoyed by a lads point of view or worldview just ignore his posts,no?
There's one or two lads on here give me a pain in my hole but I would never suggest they should be sent to Siberia because I don't happen to agree with them.
I couldn't give a fuck about anyone's political opinions or personal opinions on bands or any of that. Kurt just managed to turn every discussion into bullshit by somehow bringing every topic back to his own wonderful personality. He's a troll, essentially, and trolling just kills off any chance of quality discussion happening. Bring him back if you all feel he deserves another chance but I can see him single handedly killing the chance of any quality chat from happening.
Fair enough man, having googled what a troll is :-X, I can see your point with regard to the disruption of conversation.
I really shouldn't be sticking my nose in this business at all, sure I'm only a blow-in and a lot of lads like yourself have vested a lot of time and energy into making this forum what it is.
I'll stay out of it.
I haven't invested any energy other than my own hot air but I do think it's good to have a decent local forum to discuss the important matters of the day.
KC was given many warnings and temporary bans before the shit pit was created. I don't like banning people or deleting posts but it was becoming a chore having to deal with him. I'd asked him several times to tone it back a bit and if anything he seemed to be getting worse. I can't be reasonable with somebody who refuses to be reasonable so unfortunately I can't see any other way to handle it.
I didn't realise he'd been given many warnings. A little surprised he didn't come back with a different account all the same.
I've just learned what "Nonce" means, now that it's trending with Prince Andrew on twitter: Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise.
Mildly interesting.
Yeah, I've seen that before. It originated in Broadmoor prison/nuthouse where they housed sex offenders with the general population. They has to send them out to exercise at different times
That's exactly where I saw it came from today but I'd never really thought about it before. Here's something else funny I came across on the way: https://www.indy100.com/viral/nft-company-nonce-finance-problem-b1878973
Dentist tomorrow morning, Dave Chappelle in the evening. A mixed day, for sure.
Please god, one will make up for the other!
Hopefully. I can take or leave Chappelle TBH but sure stand up is always better in person.
I've actually never been to a stand up show but I'd assume if the crowd is into it, it improves things?
Yeah, a good atmosphere definitely lifts it. And of course if the performer is bombing, it's excruciating. I can't imagine him getting a bad reaction.
They're gonna have some fun setting up the seats after the Machine Head show tonight.
Where's he on? I'd have guessed the 3 arena but wouldn't have thought Machine Head would be in there
Aye, the 3 Arena. Is that not where the Machine Head gig is? Double headliner, maybe they're banking on filling it between them.
Quote from: astfgyl on September 13, 2022, 06:06:08 PMI've actually never been to a stand up show but I'd assume if the crowd is into it, it improves things?
Jaysus. Go to one. They are great craic if the comedians halfway decent.
I really should I dunno why I never did
Quote from: Carnage on September 13, 2022, 08:38:27 PMIs that not where the Machine Head gig is? Double headliner, maybe they're banking on filling it between them.
Haha, reading a bit stoned here my brain pictured this as a Machine Head/Dave Chapelle double headliner, and then that made me remember Flynn's beat poetry; now, there's a guy who'll get a laugh out of you! :laugh:
Worse he gets too, even in those recent studio livestreams he's absolutely cringeworthy. Bad enough at any age but in your 50s? Jaysus.
Pandora's Dodgy Box
It's not every day a priest asks you for your phone number. No siree.
I'd ease up on the anti-aging cream, hoss.
Is it pronounced Billy Joel or Billy Joel?
I always pronounced it Joel but the yanks seem to pronounce it Joel.
Quote from: astfgyl on September 13, 2022, 06:06:08 PMI've actually never been to a stand up show but I'd assume if the crowd is into it, it improves things?
It kind of helps but not at the same level of a crowd being into a band makes the show better. I saw Chapelle back in 2016 and he was great even though I never found his TV show that funny. Can't attend the show here but it was only announced a few weeks ago and sold out straight away so my guess is the crowd will be well up for it.
The only live comedian I have ever walked out on was Chris Tukcer a few years ago he was awful .
Tonight's one is a one-off in the middle of his tour with Chris Rock. I'm kind of glad Rock won't be there TBH, I find him poor in general. No word on a support act, might be someone local doing a half hour, if there is one at all.
I saw Chris Rock a few years ago as well at a separate show was ok but probably wouldn't go to see him again. Just be glad Joe Rogan didn't come with Dave. He is the only comedian I have seen who would come close to rivaling Chris Tucker for how bad the performance was. I still to this day can't understand how Joe has made a career out of comedy.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on September 13, 2022, 10:53:55 PMQuote from: Carnage on September 13, 2022, 08:38:27 PMIs that not where the Machine Head gig is? Double headliner, maybe they're banking on filling it between them.
Haha, reading a bit stoned here my brain pictured this as a Machine Head/Dave Chapelle double headliner, and then that made me remember Flynn's beat poetry; now, there's a guy who'll get a laugh out of you! :laugh:
He's either filming himself looking out the window or nothing for me
How long before Competitive Mourning becomes the next sport invented by the Brits, that the rest of the world ends up beating them at?
The swallows have migrated (working title for the second MDB album). I find this very sad.
After getting rear-ended (quick, call the priest!) on Friday my car was picked up this afternoon to be assessed. I had to walk over to the creche to collect the little dude and realised a good hour long walk in the evening is just what I need as I'm out of shape and not getting enough exercise in work right now due to being on light duties with a minor injury. Silver linings!
Quote from: Mower Liberation Front on September 18, 2022, 10:05:41 PMHow long before Competitive Mourning becomes the next sport invented by the Brits, that the rest of the world ends up beating them at?
They are riding the situation in fairness.
Quote from: Mower Liberation Front on September 18, 2022, 10:05:41 PMHow long before Competitive Mourning becomes the next sport invented by the Brits, that the rest of the world ends up beating them at?
Quote from: Caomhaoin on September 19, 2022, 12:48:25 PMThey are riding the situation in fairness.
This article has to be satire. It reads like something from a Chris Morris/"The Day Today" script.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/19/belfast-hopes-unity-of-queen-funeral-will-help-mend-past-rifts
And this;
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/19/standing-room-only-as-new-yorks-churchill-tavern-sees-queen-on-her-way
Seems appropriate to add this
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/queen-queue-funeral-mother-children-b2170618.html#comments-area
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/geology-from-50-light-years-webb-gets-ready-to-study-rocky-worlds
Plenty of could should and might in here but it's fun to speculate
Quote from: 101_North on September 19, 2022, 07:44:05 PMSeems appropriate to add this
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/queen-queue-funeral-mother-children-b2170618.html#comments-area
Absolutely peak Morris/Iannucci there. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
"The Woman King"
So.... The Queen?
Thick as shit
The budget. From what I gather the cost of living increase will far outstrip anything we think we are being given. Me being me, I blame the current load of shit on government policy in the first place. That's just me though, maybe some of you will disagree.
Did it make anyone happy?
Every time I listen to 'The Soul Must Sleep' by Primordial and he says,
"So let us depart!"
I think...
"Sublet us the apartment".
And now you will too 8)
A damning indictment of our times :laugh:
This is it.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on October 01, 2022, 08:37:57 AMEvery time I listen to 'The Soul Must Sleep' by Primordial and he says,
"So let us depart!"
I think...
"Sublet us the apartment".
And now you will too 8)
Ah there's some rake of these, for me it's Pantera, Walk: "Can't you see, I'm easily, bothered by your sister?"
:laugh:
Winamp still going strong. Just got a 2022 update!
Neither a pet peeve nor a simple pleasure, but occupying a midpoint between the two perhaps. Today I was going to collect my son from creche, pushing an empty pram so already looking half fucking mental, and I got a fit of the giggles. I don't wear headphones so I couldn't even pretend I was laughing at a funny podcast or something, just a pure fuckin nut :laugh:
Quote from: Eoin McLove on October 07, 2022, 10:33:12 AMNeither a pet peeve nor a simple pleasure, but occupying a midpoint between the two perhaps. Today I was going to collect my son from creche, pushing an empty pram so already looking half fucking mental, and I got a fit of the giggles. I don't wear headphones so I couldn't even pretend I was laughing at a funny podcast or something, just a pure fuckin nut :laugh:
https://twitter.com/scottishbants2/status/1571597037308878848?t=MH8028hdV2dqIJYeBQQxOw&s=19
Haha, I was looking for that vid too! :laugh:
Great to get the chance to bring it back out!
Quote from: astfgyl on October 07, 2022, 01:22:52 PMQuote from: Eoin McLove on October 07, 2022, 10:33:12 AMNeither a pet peeve nor a simple pleasure, but occupying a midpoint between the two perhaps. Today I was going to collect my son from creche, pushing an empty pram so already looking half fucking mental, and I got a fit of the giggles. I don't wear headphones so I couldn't even pretend I was laughing at a funny podcast or something, just a pure fuckin nut :laugh:
https://twitter.com/scottishbants2/status/1571597037308878848?t=MH8028hdV2dqIJYeBQQxOw&s=19
Brilliant!
Quote from: astfgyl on October 07, 2022, 01:22:52 PMQuote from: Eoin McLove on October 07, 2022, 10:33:12 AMNeither a pet peeve nor a simple pleasure, but occupying a midpoint between the two perhaps. Today I was going to collect my son from creche, pushing an empty pram so already looking half fucking mental, and I got a fit of the giggles. I don't wear headphones so I couldn't even pretend I was laughing at a funny podcast or something, just a pure fuckin nut :laugh:
https://twitter.com/scottishbants2/status/1571597037308878848?t=MH8028hdV2dqIJYeBQQxOw&s=19
???
Driving whilst hungover has to be up there with the most horribly devised tortures, especially if the traffic is slow. Lads have killed their selves over less.
Yokes.
Fucking lovely.
Still of that opinion?
Coming in from the pub at 12:30 AM, pouring out wine, and still being able to order a kebab - it's great, but it's shite.
And now I have the post kebab belly, not aided by the wine. The black metal is helping a bit, though.
Quote from: blessed1 on October 09, 2022, 02:28:59 PMQuote from: astfgyl on October 08, 2022, 09:23:59 PMYokes.
Fucking lovely.
Absolutely
Great batch around at the minute. Some sort of owls with Panama written on the back of em. Clean as a whistle, strong as a horse.
Quote from: astfgyl on October 10, 2022, 01:30:03 PMQuote from: blessed1 on October 09, 2022, 02:28:59 PMQuote from: astfgyl on October 08, 2022, 09:23:59 PMYokes.
Fucking lovely.
Absolutely
Great batch around at the minute. Some sort of owls with Panama written on the back of em. Clean as a whistle, strong as a horse.
It's mainly mdma I can get these days.
Hadn't had any in about 2 years due to not being able to get it and finally found some good stuff in the last month.
Quote from: blessed1 on October 10, 2022, 05:20:15 PMQuote from: astfgyl on October 10, 2022, 01:30:03 PMQuote from: blessed1 on October 09, 2022, 02:28:59 PMQuote from: astfgyl on October 08, 2022, 09:23:59 PMYokes.
Fucking lovely.
Absolutely
Great batch around at the minute. Some sort of owls with Panama written on the back of em. Clean as a whistle, strong as a horse.
It's mainly mdma I can get these days.
Hadn't had any in about 2 years due to not being able to get it and finally found some good stuff in the last month.
That's another absolute winner right there I fuckin love that stuff too but there's been only shite of it round here last couple of years. Hopefully now with the return of the yokes the good times will come back and it'll be the wild West of 2019 all over again
Anyone addicted to Discogs ? Currently picking up original master Judas Priest cds amongst others. Gonna have me in the poor house !
Quote from: Mr Barlow on October 16, 2022, 07:58:47 PMAnyone addicted to Discogs ? Currently picking up original master Judas Priest cds amongst others. Gonna have me in the poor house !
I was really getting into it but then I got locked out of my PayPal account so that put a stop to me fairly quick
I try to avoid purchasing on Discogs as much as possible. Only if something is hard or impossible to get will I consider it.
Is there a reason for that? Maybe something there I don't know. I don't use discogs much, but I don't avoid it either.
Great for grabbing obscure CDs for fuck all 8)
Quote from: Eoin McLove on October 17, 2022, 08:59:32 AMGreat for grabbing obscure CDs for fuck all 8)
Can hit you with the postage. That's were it all adds up !
True.
I grabbed a spanking new in the plastic copy of Moby's Animal Rights on there for 13 dollars including postage and the same thing was on Amazon and eBay for 120 euros 2nd hand. Also scored a couple of Green Velvet CDs on it for fuck all when they couldn't be got pretty much anywhere
Quote from: astfgyl on October 17, 2022, 08:28:58 AMQuote from: Mr Barlow on October 16, 2022, 07:58:47 PMAnyone addicted to Discogs ? Currently picking up original master Judas Priest cds amongst others. Gonna have me in the poor house !
I was really getting into it but then I got locked out of my PayPal account so that put a stop to me fairly quick
Did they fine you $2500 for going against the mainstream narrative?
They probably would at this stage! What's the alternative to it while we're here? Something not politically aligned would be nice if such a thing exists so that rules out the likes of gab pay as well. Guess I'll have to keep my extreme Christianity under wraps for the time being
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on October 17, 2022, 08:52:31 AMIs there a reason for that? Maybe something there I don't know. I don't use discogs much, but I don't avoid it either.
I had a few items in condition well below the standard they claimed, a lot of sellers with postage costs that are way overblown, one lad who tried to say he wasn't paid and the drama of trying to get one Spanish lady to send an lp was worthy of Shakespeare. Been using it for about 15 years. For about the last five I've been treating it as a seller of last resort.
I've had good and bad experiences with Discogs - once the wrong edition of a CD was sent, another time the condition was well below what was listed. Once I complained I got full refunds on both but for one of them I had to involve Discogs itself as I was being ignored. Generally grand though, but I'd usually only go there for out of print or limited edition releases as the prices vary wildly.
Quote from: hellfire on October 17, 2022, 06:46:11 PMI had a few items in condition well below the standard they claimed, a lot of sellers with postage costs that are way overblown, one lad who tried to say he wasn't paid and the drama of trying to get one Spanish lady to send an lp was worthy of Shakespeare. Been using it for about 15 years. For about the last five I've been treating it as a seller of last resort.
Okay yeah, I'd have done the same. I've been lucky I guess. Would have been raging if my oop Bolt Thrower or Slough Feg had been subpar quality. But like that I don't use it all that much.
Is there still a big website people use for cheap new vinyl? Always forget the name of it.
Notable deaths: Liz Truss.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on October 20, 2022, 02:16:53 PMNotable deaths: Liz Truss.
Man what an awful death too!
Sunak will be rubbing his hands
Why did she go? I'm missing out on what's going on.
She proved that you actually could get worse than Boris, performing more U-turns than a DHL driver who delivers exclusively to cul-de-sacs. She showed she genuinely hadn't a clue what she was doing, yet had still made it to the top position. Amazing performance.
With luck, her poisonous disregard of the NI agreements will now also be seen just as woefully blinkered and destructive as her economic policies. That's wishful thinking on my part, that the party who thought she'd be a good PM have that clarity of thought.
Almost tanking the economy in one day has to be some sort of record.
It was all pretty spectacular by any measure. She was an obvious eejit for a long time anyway.
Mad craic :laugh:
How come whenever there is flooding the news inevitably shows images of somebody paddling through the streets or down through an orchard.
"Oooohhh, a FLOOOOOD! Now I get it..."
I think they should shake things up a bit. "Victoria experienced record rainfall over the post twenty four hours", followed by a video of fifteen clowns climbing out of a Mini Minor.
"Hundreds of houses have been left under water in New South Wales", and an image of someone bungee jumping off a bridge.
Anything at all rather than another cunt in a canoo.
I love those news videos where the reporter is in a boat and people are walking past with the water not even up to their shins
Speed.
Yay or nay?
Nay. Unless I'm drunk and you're offering, in which case invariably yay.
:laugh: that's how it always happens!
Does anyone take speed sober? I've never touched the stuff but it is usually produced to give lads a sort of drinking crutch.
Extreme dieters.
Quote from: ochoill on October 23, 2022, 10:22:40 PMDoes anyone take speed sober? I've never touched the stuff but it is usually produced to give lads a sort of drinking crutch.
Remember the time you got spiked? Lol lol lol lol lol
No. Nobody takes that shit sober
I used to work in a bar with a lad who would take speed to "get him through the night's work" - normally a 6 hour stint...
He would offer it around to everyone else on the shift.
"Bitta speed, there, lah - if you want it. Nah? OK. Here, what about you? Bitta speed, there lah... if you want it. Nah? OK... How about you?"
I would shake my head and refuse his generous offer, then reach for my coffee. Or, as I like to call it, "the poor man's speed".
He was about 15 years older than everyone that worked in the pub.
The same fella would do rails of cocaine over post-work/after clean-up pints. At first surreptitiously but after the first 2 pints (and visits to the jacks) he would just start banging it up his nose in front of us until we were all tired of his stories about being lethal at Shotokan karate/street-chop motorcycles/other shit that never seemed to have a conclusion.
I can't listen to lads on the coke they're a pain in the hole the way they think they're so great just for throwing a few lines up their noses
I wonder did Kerry King ever regret going full tribal tattoo in the nineties.
I dunno about Kerry king but I see a few lads around here who are likely regretting the decision to do it by now.
Quote from: astfgyl on October 24, 2022, 01:51:24 PMI can't listen to lads on the coke they're a pain in the hole the way they think they're so great just for throwing a few lines up their noses
Fucking awful drug. Next day is torture. Thankfully I did it a few times many years ago ago and decided it wasn't for me. Being around people who are on it when you're not is painful.
Being around anyone on something you're not is generally a fuckin melt.
Not a fan, but have to say I've always found coke to be one of the "cleanest" come-down drugs. Speed, pills, even good quality molly can throw you a deeply unpleasant day or two after, but never once found that with coke. Most stuff you can get "at our level" has been danced all over though, so you never know what's giving you gyp the next day.
Speed is the worst thing I've ever taken, like coke it makes me talk (more) shite but has a dirty edge to it that has led to me throwing hands once or twice. Never again. But sure I don't touch anything stronger than pints these days anyway.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on October 25, 2022, 12:33:03 AMNot a fan, but have to say I've always found coke to be one of the "cleanest" come-down drugs. Speed, pills, even good quality molly can throw you a deeply unpleasant day or two after, but never once found that with coke.
Ya, same as that. Drink has, by far, the worst after effects. I've taken coke sober countless times and have had no comedown or afters.
Speed is generally an anxiety hangover. Pills and MD give me zaps for days after. Presumably from doing the dog on both when I was younger.
If you get clean mdma and don't overdo it I find it's the least worst of the lot.
I fucking despise coke. It just makes me feel like I'm going to have a heart attack and it turns people into arrogant muppets.
Quote from: open face surgery on October 25, 2022, 10:23:00 AMQuote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on October 25, 2022, 12:33:03 AMNot a fan, but have to say I've always found coke to be one of the "cleanest" come-down drugs. Speed, pills, even good quality molly can throw you a deeply unpleasant day or two after, but never once found that with coke.
Ya, same as that. Drink has, by far, the worst after effects.
I had to give it up. Between medication I'm on and being 40 I couldn't handle the soul destroying mornings after anymore.
Quote from: hellfire on October 25, 2022, 11:35:50 AMQuote from: open face surgery on October 25, 2022, 10:23:00 AMYa, same as that. Drink has, by far, the worst after effects.
I had to give it up. Between medication I'm on and being 40 I couldn't handle the soul destroying mornings after anymore.
Quote from: open face surgery on October 25, 2022, 10:23:00 AMYa, same as that. Drink has, by far, the worst after effects.
I had to give it up. Between medication I'm on and being 40 I couldn't handle the soul destroying mornings after anymore.
Quote from: open face surgery on October 25, 2022, 10:23:00 AMQuote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on October 25, 2022, 12:33:03 AMNot a fan, but have to say I've always found coke to be one of the "cleanest" come-down drugs. Speed, pills, even good quality molly can throw you a deeply unpleasant day or two after, but never once found that with coke.
Ya, same as that. Drink has, by far, the worst after effects. I've taken coke sober countless times and have had no comedown or afters.
Speed is generally an anxiety hangover. Pills and MD give me zaps for days after. Presumably from doing the dog on both when I was younger.
What's the fuckin story with those zaps by the way? I don't remember having those at all as a younger chap but I'd get them now. I think with the speed it's the straight up lack of sleep and the drink immunity that does the trick there.
Quote from: Ollkiller on October 24, 2022, 11:21:37 PMQuote from: astfgyl on October 24, 2022, 01:51:24 PMI can't listen to lads on the coke they're a pain in the hole the way they think they're so great just for throwing a few lines up their noses
Fucking awful drug. Next day is torture. Thankfully I did it a few times many years ago ago and decided it wasn't for me. Being around people who are on it when you're not is painful.
I don't mind the buzz off it in itself that much but the price ensured I never really got into it. As mentioned above as well it's very rare to get anything approaching good quality either. And I stand by saying it makes lads think they're great simply because they're taking it, contrasting with mdma or pills where people think everyone and everything is great. Well until that point in the morning where I think I never want to see anyone or remember anything I've ever said ever again!
I always drink with anything I do as well so I dunno what the comedowns are like by themselves really. Haven't long left at it all anyway, the mind and the flesh and all that
That's one thing I never understood about coke. Why is it so expensive when it doesn't even get you that high?
Mdma should be the expensive one if you ask me!
MDMA is cheaper to produce and travels a lot less to get to you.
Ah right, never thought of that. Makes sense now that you mention it lol
Wish I could make my own
Quote from: astfgyl on October 25, 2022, 05:17:42 PMQuote from: open face surgery on October 25, 2022, 10:23:00 AMQuote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on October 25, 2022, 12:33:03 AMNot a fan, but have to say I've always found coke to be one of the "cleanest" come-down drugs. Speed, pills, even good quality molly can throw you a deeply unpleasant day or two after, but never once found that with coke.
Ya, same as that. Drink has, by far, the worst after effects. I've taken coke sober countless times and have had no comedown or afters.
Speed is generally an anxiety hangover. Pills and MD give me zaps for days after. Presumably from doing the dog on both when I was younger.
What's the fuckin story with those zaps by the way? I don't remember having those at all as a younger chap but I'd get them now. I think with the speed it's the straight up lack of sleep and the drink immunity that does the trick there.
I'd imagine it's the receptors in your brain trying to recover. They weren't as fried when we were younger.
Probably right there. I'm not keen on it whatever is the cause.
Anyone remember the horror of the legal highs? Had many a harrowing few days from those things. Bzp is awful tack
The Guardian has an article (https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/oct/25/how-to-make-the-most-of-a-slow-cooker) today on slow cookers and how to harness their money/energy saving powers - low-cost meals and little electricity.
Buying tougher (cheaper) cuts of meat is part of the advice. I agree with this entirely. Slow cook fatty off-cuts of beef/pork/lamb and it will yield you magnificent results in stews/curries/ragus after a day of being rendered.
However - The Guardian's article instead suggests that one should use 2 pheasant joints... :laugh:
Slow cooker is a master job when I remember to turn it on in time. May head down now for the bit of pheasant for this evening
Quote from: astfgyl on October 26, 2022, 09:32:06 AMProbably right there. I'm not keen on it whatever is the cause.
Anyone remember the horror of the legal highs? Had many a harrowing few days from those things. Bzp is awful tack
Only did the legal highs once and felt like had drank 20 cans of red bull. Next day was torture. Fuck that.
Incidentally at one the sieges in bakers place everyone was openly taking legal highs, and I was there openly taking my savage illegal pills. That was the only upside to legal highs.
Quote from: Ollkiller on October 26, 2022, 04:17:13 PMQuote from: astfgyl on October 26, 2022, 09:32:06 AMProbably right there. I'm not keen on it whatever is the cause.
Anyone remember the horror of the legal highs? Had many a harrowing few days from those things. Bzp is awful tack
Only did the legal highs once and felt like had drank 20 cans of red bull. Next day was torture. Fuck that.
Incidentally at one the sieges in bakers place everyone was openly taking legal highs, and I was there openly taking my savage illegal pills. That was the only upside to legal highs.
Good description of the buzz there. Took a couple together after being warned not to before and it culminated with me lying on the ground outside Penney's on Parnell Street after being awake for over 3 days. Couldn't stand for a minute. Think I was codded into it by the picture of a couple of decent looking women on the packet. Got that other methadrone shit once too, 14 hours straight of the hardest possible peak. Never again.
Those legal highs were disgusting.
I remember the first time I tried 2ci and I stupidly snorted the stuff.
The burn was so bad for about 10 mins I couldn't even open my eyes.
Then when it passed and I could open them again I was tripping so hard and hallucinating like mad.
Weird stuff altogether.
It made everything taste like absolute shit as well.
2ci wasn't and isn't legal. Both that and 2cb are great. The burn of the former is indeed insane. Methadrone was fuckin horrible shite altogether and the whole city stank ofnit at one point. Ugh.
Was the buzz nice at all? I never got that 2ci stuff at all but I remember one lad telling me it really enhanced the buzz of other things and that you can get even better stuff on the dark web but after the doing I'd gotten from bzp and methadrone and even the dreaded spice, I declined. Grand to be auld and tapering off rather than looking for new things but as a young lad I'd have definitely went for it.
Quote from: open face surgery on October 26, 2022, 05:33:48 PM2ci wasn't and isn't legal. Both that and 2cb are great. The burn of the former is indeed insane. Methadrone was fuckin horrible shite altogether and the whole city stank ofnit at one point. Ugh.
Aye. Nearly sure that's the tack I took (methadrone). Awful stuff.
Quote from: astfgyl on October 26, 2022, 05:37:14 PMWas the buzz nice at all? I never got that 2ci stuff at all but I remember one lad telling me it really enhanced the buzz of other things and that you can get even better stuff on the dark web but after the doing I'd gotten from bzp and methadrone and even the dreaded spice, I declined. Grand to be auld and tapering off rather than looking for new things but as a young lad I'd have definitely went for it.
Ya, both are lovely. Did 2cb again in August after prob 10 years. Great buzz.
Methadrone was great the first time but less and less so everytime after. Par the course, I suppose.
Quote from: astfgyl on October 26, 2022, 05:37:14 PMWas the buzz nice at all? I never got that 2ci stuff at all but I remember one lad telling me it really enhanced the buzz of other things and that you can get even better stuff on the dark web but after the doing I'd gotten from bzp and methadrone and even the dreaded spice, I declined. Grand to be auld and tapering off rather than looking for new things but as a young lad I'd have definitely went for it.
I'd stick to the mushrooms.
The hallucinations were nice but everything else about it was so dirty.
2cb is lovely, been to plenty of gigs on it. You fairly go from zero to hero in about 30 seconds if you snort it, but yeah it burns like fuck. And I don't like snorting things.
Initially thought Spice was alright when we couldn't find the real stuff. But I found that by the third day of smoking, something just felt wrong. Pure monged buzz of it, wouldn't ever smoke it again.
Tickets for Sigur Ros next week mustn't have sold well, resale tickets are going fairly cheaply. €30 (before fees) for standing, not much more for seated, been a while since I saw anything in the 3 Arena going for that cheap. I'd head myself if I didn't have Godflesh on Friday and wasn't so skint.
Probably a stupid question but with Ticketmasters dynamic pricing, if a gig isn't selling well would that not mean that ticket prices should be cheaper than at the time of announcement? If there's loads of unsold tickets a day or two before the gig could you feasibly get one on the cheap. Or do they only use dynamic pricing when it involves the price going up? Cunts of the highest order anyway but..
Just thinking back to that Ozzy gig which never happened, they said "tickets from...", so I think they start from a minimum price and work up from there.
To both: Probably the case alright. I'd have thought they'd have sold out though, and that resale tickets in particular would be fairly pricey this close to it.
Top lip numb after a trip to the dentist, this must be how those Botox tarts go through life.
I see Peter Gabriel is playing the 3 Arena the day after Maiden. Very tempted, tickets are reasonable enough too (~€67), much cheaper than Maiden, for instance.
Jaysus I'd be interested in Peter Gabriel as well
Seen that Sean Penn gave his Oscar to Zelensky there. So cringe and gimpy but it got me to thinking. When Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, where were all the flags and the bullshit?
The plebs had enough on their plate with the economic shambles I suppose.
Certainly shows how the media and the cunts in control are manipulating public opinion.
Quote from: Bürggermeister on November 07, 2022, 01:26:52 PMJust thinking back to that Ozzy gig which never happened, they said "tickets from...", so I think they start from a minimum price and work up from there.
You think that gig will ever happen? When was it suppose to be? 2018? And it's supposed to be June 23?
Must be a record of suchs.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on November 09, 2022, 12:45:43 PMSeen that Sean Penn gave his Oscar to Zelensky there. So cringe and gimpy but it got me to thinking. When Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, where were all the flags and the bullshit?
The plebs had enough on their plate with the economic shambles I suppose.
Certainly shows how the media and the cunts in control are manipulating public opinion.
Tis a load of bollix. The US are only concerned with their own interests and pretending to care about Ukraine because it suits them. Not saying Russia is good either because it's the same for them saying they only want to help those in Donbass but they really want a buffer v US/NATO. In the meantime Europe is in the middle doing the bidding of the US, feigning concern now because it suits whatever they want from it. Anyway I'm not even looking to get into it and don't pay attention for the most part because of the propaganda from all sides
Anyway, moving on:
Bungalow Bliss. Only heard of this yesterday which is surprising given the impact it has had on our landscape here.
Typo Netagive.
Both peeve and pleasure - ordered a pair of jeans online (I can't buy off the peg, too much of a fat bastard). They arrived today but the wrong size was in the bag. Tried them on out of desperation and they seem to fit OK, so it seems I've lost a bit of weight. Which is nice.
Quote from: Carnage on November 16, 2022, 04:06:36 PMBoth peeve and pleasure - ordered a pair of jeans online (I can't buy off the peg, too much of a fat bastard). They arrived today but the wrong size was in the bag. Tried them on out of desperation and they seem to fit OK, so it seems I've lost a bit of weight. Which is nice.
I had to get work issued trousers from a specialist shop. I was going to go up another size as I'd outgrown (horizontally) the last years issue. The Asian woman working in the shop imparted a bit of Zen wisdom, sez she "don't go up another size or you'll grow into them as well". Trousers still tight as fuck but still the same size
How long before Musk is chopped into cubes, since it looks like he's hellbent on destroying Twitter before the end of the year? Those Saudi investors can't be happy with losing their $20bn+ investment.
I don't honestly get the big deal about the Twitter thing. I'm on it all the time and I can't see any difference at all. He can fuck off with his 8 quid but other than that it seems like some left right pantomime villain bollixing is basically all it is
"oh poor us, they won't censor the opposing viewpoints anymore"
Get a fucking life
I've never used Teitter because, well, I can read and have books. Same reason I've never cared for soccer. Just... no.
Quote from: astfgyl on November 19, 2022, 07:55:51 PMI don't honestly get the big deal about the Twitter thing. I'm on it all the time and I can't see any difference at all. He can fuck off with his 8 quid but other than that it seems like some left right pantomime villain bollixing is basically all it is
I am no fan of Musk but when he took over the employees called for advertisers and the like to pull out due to his take over which resulted in financial loss that lead to the layoffs. The employees brought this on themsleves but of course that is not the way the story is being reported.
Manchester Pride are asking boozers not to screen World Cup matches. Ha ha, best of luck with that.
Musk isn't such a free speech extremist as he's made out, even though Trump, Jordan Peterson and the Babylon Bee have been reinstated. Alec Jones isn't coming back. Nevertheless some of the gimpy bullshit coming from some opponents is, as usual, cringeworthy. 'Burning down democracy'. These fools sound like Zelensky, everything has to be MAX POWER language and absolutes.
Quote from: mickO))) on November 20, 2022, 11:15:59 AMQuote from: astfgyl on November 19, 2022, 07:55:51 PMI don't honestly get the big deal about the Twitter thing. I'm on it all the time and I can't see any difference at all. He can fuck off with his 8 quid but other than that it seems like some left right pantomime villain bollixing is basically all it is
I am no fan of Musk but when he took over the employees called for advertisers and the like to pull out due to his take over which resulted in financial loss that lead to the layoffs. The employees brought this on themsleves but of course that is not the way the story is being reported.
It's a load of bollix really that whole thing. Was painted as some sort of anti woke or something when really it's just a billionaire trying to make more billions and getting on the inevitable backlash against the modern left as a way of doing so without actually doing so.
https://twitter.com/TheDarkNatur3/status/1595950481511063552?t=ME_8G9E3gTG6KZLjKaYsEw&s=19
I've been laughing at this for a couple of hours now. What a situation and the face on the kangaroo is hilarious
I wonder if not playing on DMDS kills Necrobutcher inside. It must.
Is it just me or are the TV directors lingering more than usual on any displays of muslim worship by players at the World Cup?
It's a Muslim evangelism strategy. First take away the alcohol, then show them how to pray.
I haven't seen footage of any of the players drinking or riding each other. Fiendishly clever editing.
You have to get up very early in the morning, but I mean like really, really, really early, to get one over on these Muslim prayer evangelists.
Threw a few ginger nut biscuits on the fire last night to see what the burning is like in them. I reckon they'd make a fantastic bit of kindling to really get the fire roaring. Really amazed at what burning was in them and fuck all ashes out of em either
Can you drink the duty free you bought in the airport? Just found out my flight is delayed by 3 hours and don't fancy being gouged in a bar.
As long as you don't have a connecting fight, get stuck in.
At NASA you can play Virtual Rock, Paper, Scissors
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Can you imagine how different Christmas would be if it turned out Noddy holder was a nonce?
They wouldn't be able to play that classic Slade song any more and it just wouldn't be Christmas.
Luckily he definitely is not a nonce just to be clear.
If giving one, Charlie's Christmas Day Speech could be a laugh.
"Mummy's pegged it, I'm so old I'll probably get sod all time to be king, and my brother's a nonce"..... ("Oh I wish we didn't have Diana killed")
Quote from: Kunt 4 Life on December 15, 2022, 03:38:05 PMCan you imagine how different Christmas would be if it turned out Noddy holder was a nonce?
They wouldn't be able to play that classic Slade song any more and it just wouldn't be Christmas.
Luckily he definitely is not a nonce just to be clear.
I remember reading an interview with him before when he said come each January he gets a massive royalty cheque for anywhere from 500k-1m, not bad for something he knocked together after a night on the piss
I hope santy came to ye all lads. Happy Christmas.
:abbath: :abbath: :abbath:
First year in thirty years or more that I didn't get any metal. Gay.
Merry Christmas lads. Sitting here with all the santy presents open and set up and instead the child is playing with a bag of chopped up pallets for kindling that next door gave us.
Small fella eating the wrapping paper off his presents. Ape. Happy Christmas.
Getting a rake of vinyl then not being able to sneak off into the
cave to listen to it, aarrrggghhh
Have a good one ye all.
Jesus Christ what a miserable return on my investment of wishing ye all the best. McLove didn't even get any metal ffs
I have single handedly ruined Metal Warfare Christmas, which is like a present in itself :-*
Quote from: Eoin McLove on December 25, 2022, 08:19:34 PMI have single handedly ruined Metal Warfare Christmas, which is like a present in itself :-*
Yeah man you fucked it up good and proper
Steven Tyler from Aerosmith is now in hot water for his rock star excess in the ´70s but how many more are next? There wouldn't be enough time/ space.
Quote from: leatherface on January 01, 2023, 01:23:31 PMSteven Tyler from Aerosmith is now in hot water for his rock star excess in the ´70s but how many more are next? There wouldn't be enough time/ space.
Yep I'm sure every 70s rock star is currently shitting it over how much hush money they'll have to pay to complete strangers that they may or may not have fucked about 50 years ago
Pathetic
Tis a load of bollix indeed
Quote from: astfgyl on January 01, 2023, 01:37:08 PMYep I'm sure every 70s rock star is currently shitting it over how much hush money they'll have to pay to complete strangers that they may or may not have fucked about 50 years ago
The case in hand is quite a bit more tangled than that. There is absolutely no denying the facts of what happened (Tyler recounted them in his own book), so the woman in question is absolutely not a complete stranger either. The fact that she either became or returned to strong catholic beliefs in the intervening period, including becoming a vocal anti-abortionist, is certainly not coincidental in her present actions though.
Were Tyler and others indulging themselves to the exclusion of any regard for the well-being of others? Yes. They were also, for the most part, addicts, Tyler at the time certainly was. And they had teams of people whose jobs were to facilitate both their addictions and their related cravings; to get them their drugs and their girls and whatever else they wanted. They were getting rich, but the record companies were getting much richer. Tyler has his share of the blame, all the more so given what he wrote in his own book, and the disregard with which he wrote it, despite (at the time) almost 40 years of sober hindsight to consider it through. The girl's parents have their share of the blame. And the entire record industry at the time also have their share of the blame, since their active interventions to get the girls and the drugs to the guys is no secret. But if Tyler has to bear his share of the responsibility for his own actions as an addict 50 years ago, it does seem a stretch too far to entirely remove any responsibility from the girl herself. She was a minor from a broken home she seemingly wanted to escape, he was an addict. Neither of them should have been allowed make any life-altering decisions, such as transfer of legal guardianship. But that's what happened. Because that's what they both wanted at the time it happened. It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out, but not impossible we see defense for Tyler try to cast Holcombe's accusations as more motivated by her current moral and political preoccupations than by genuine sentiment of having been wronged from the beginning (though it seems clear that if an abortion was strong-armed through by Tyler and team, then this she felt as a wrong right from the start... and if that is the case, then it was just that; wrong. Whatever one may feel about abortion rights, obliging a woman to have an abortion against her will is obviously at least as wrong as obliging her to have a baby she doesn't want to have.)
So, yeah, a particularly complicated case precisely because it's not some random groupie.
I had read a bit about it and did get most of that but I was more referring to the inevitable me toos that'll follow for his peers. As regards the Tyler thing, as you say there's nothing simple there and he's admitted as much himself. The abortion part is a bit fucked up but how would anyone ever prove what happened there, 50 years later. It should probably just be left to the two of them at this stage
I don't think this will open any new floodgates for ageing rock stars that weren't opened by the original me too movement. This isn't a landmark case, and that's because of the amount of non-circumstantial evidence involved. There won't be other cases like it unless someone like Lori Maddox or Pamela des Barres decide to have a complete change of attitude, which seems unlikely. It might inspire a handful of other women to come forward out of the blue, but this is a unique case and so won't help their causes, so I don't think we should jump from it to presuming it's going to be the cause of something you're for the moment imagining will happen and will be "a load of bollix." As Nietzsche never said, be careful when you imagine that others will lose the run of themselves that you also do not lose the run of yourself.
Nietzsche never said a lot of things. Maybe it won't lead to anything else but I'm a bit cynical about these things. I still think it should be left to em all these years later
Normally I'd agree with you, but Tyler shot himself in the foot by dragging her back into the spotlight as a sex object (I'll leave you check the details of his exact words yourself), without consulting her, for the benefit of his own book sales only around ten years ago. There's a decent chance none of this would be happening now had he not done that.
Ah fair enough. Sounds like he brought it on himself in that case. You'd think lads would check the legality of what they're admitting to before putting it out in a book. I wonder can he claim artistic licence to some extent?
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on January 01, 2023, 02:37:49 PMI don't think this will open any new floodgates for ageing rock stars that weren't opened by the original me too movement. This isn't a landmark case, and that's because of the amount of non-circumstantial evidence involved. There won't be other cases like it unless someone like Lori Maddox or Pamela des Barres decide to have a complete change of attitude, which seems unlikely. It might inspire a handful of other women to come forward out of the blue, but this is a unique case and so won't help their causes, so I don't think we should jump from it to presuming it's going to be the cause of something you're for the moment imagining will happen and will be "a load of bollix." As Nietzsche never said, be careful when you imagine that others will lose the run of themselves that you also do not lose the run of yourself.
Good analysis, hadn't looked into the case in detail. Thought it was metoo hysteria like astgfyl did.
I think with Lori Maddox and the like, they've made money out of the situation through books and other media so may have a much harder time claiming anything out of it.
Was just listening to DEP - Miss Machine and it struck me for the first time that the album title could be a play on the term Hit Machine rather than referring to some bird or something. Never really thought about it at all tbh and now everything has changed and I'm like Mickey Rourke at the end of Angel Heart... 'I know who I am, I know who I am....'
Funny how these things can just strike at times. It's only taken that thought (check back cover) 19 years to make it's way through.
Lisa Bonet, now she really was a hit machine in Angel Heart! :-* :abbath: (Abbath standing in for voodoo imagery there)
Yes she most certainly was! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Is body positivity just an excuse for an unhealthy lifestyle?
Quote from: Necro Red on January 05, 2023, 11:05:04 AMIs body positivity just an excuse for an unhealthy lifestyle?
They're dying. Do what you want I suppose, but having a go at lads for going to the gym etc 'unless the motivation is the right one' is ridiculous.
Great piss take by Double B.
https://youtu.be/nCN_zdiEMMs
Just watching Digging For Britain here and there's a lad in a Burzum longsleeve onscreen frequently. I wonder will the professionally offended brigade pick up on it and have an oul' complain?
Random thought, the album Painkiller by Judas Priest improves greatly after the opening title track.
Threw on a fry this morning, big pot of coffee, the lot. Singing away to myself in the kitchen and all's well until I notice one of the dogs cringing in the corner. Jesus, I knew I was tone deaf but I didn't think I was that bad.
For billions of years the universe existed with no living entity present to observe it. How can something exist without an observer? What does that even mean? A tree falls in a forest... The kind of paradoxes that give me the utter willies.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on January 11, 2023, 11:03:30 AMFor billions of years the universe existed with no living entity present to observe it. How can something exist without an observer? What does that even mean? A tree falls in a forest... The kind of paradoxes that give me the utter willies.
I'm currently trying to get my head around time apparently not existing before the "big bang" and the whole spacetime concept...
Haha yeah. Time itself, according to physics, appears to be a very weird and counter-intuitive phenomenon. Give Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time a read.
If time just measures change in the universe then a time before time (d'oh!) must mean what, a pause? A total and complete stillness between epochs of activated spacetime?
And then if there is a pause where time cases to exist, how long does it go on for? What is the difference between eternity and 10 to the minus 33 of a second if there is no way to measure it...
And no mind there to observe and process the information. God's head must have been melted.
I'll give that "The order of time" a look. Love that type of stuff. "The universe in your Hand" is another fantastic read about the cosmos.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on January 11, 2023, 11:38:05 AMGod's head must have been melted.
I'd have thought that was the type of thing god absolutely lives for
Quote from: Ollkiller on January 11, 2023, 01:06:08 PMI'll give that "The order of time" a look. Love that type of stuff. "The universe in your Hand" is another fantastic read about the cosmos.
Who's it by?
Mr.Universe
I don't believe that for a second... is it true?
Quote from: Eoin McLove on January 11, 2023, 08:28:29 PMQuote from: Ollkiller on January 11, 2023, 01:06:08 PMI'll give that "The order of time" a look. Love that type of stuff. "The universe in your Hand" is another fantastic read about the cosmos.
Who's it by?
Christophe Galfard. Link https://www.amazon.co.uk/Universe-Your-Hand-Journey-Through/dp/1447284100/ref=asc_df_1447284100/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310810203983&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10857281265109645139&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007850&hvtargid=pla-455011446911&psc=1&th=1&psc=1
Amazing book
Nice one, Olly. I'll keep an eye out.
Grand oul stretch in the evening lads
Also, spray painting. Never using a brush again for skirtings, doors or fireplaces
Is it worse watching your team holding out under relentless pressure for a win/draw or being on the other side, total dominance but huffing and puffing?
I'd rather they suffered for the draw than give the match knocking on the door to no avail
The standards of 'graffiti' in this country is fairly low. The majority seem to be a couple of letters with fuck all thought put into them.
I have to say, the Polish lads around here have really brought the standard up a bit over the last couple of decades but you're right it's still missing a certain panache overall. I wouldn't mind if someone would do a cover up on the few shitty names scrawled on the wall across the road from me as they are really bleak looking the way they are
I think graffiti, at least for me, lost its charm the older I got. You come to realise that it's been all more or less the same few things recycled for 50 years. I'm sick of looking at it. The walls along the highways over here are tagged with the same few names. You have, say, 'Draw' whose tag is everywhere. You'll have stretches of around 100 meters with the same tag scrawled one after another the whole way along. Paint the fucking thing, you tagging fuck!!!
Yep a shot of creativity is sorely missing from almost all of it.
I've a couple for today: first off Liz Hurley is going well for 57
Next, this week I've seen 4 different late to middle aged women that look like Robert Mugabe. None of them are black either, they just have his looks
https://www.thejournal.ie/green-comet-visible-from-earth-5977790-Jan2023/
Did i hear it's to be pissing rain this weekend? Hopefully not
Enoch Burke..wtf? I can see his point regarding his stance on the whole "they" thing, but I'm not sure what he's up to now unless he's laying the groundwork for further legal action down the road...
Quote from: astfgyl on January 27, 2023, 02:05:54 PMhttps://www.thejournal.ie/green-comet-visible-from-earth-5977790-Jan2023/
Did i hear it's to be pissing rain this weekend? Hopefully not
I hope not, I'm dusting the telescope off tonight(ohh...matron!!) for this event...
Apparently we'll have a good few days to hope for a chance so here's hoping anyway. I'll be buzzing to get a look at it
How come a wee is often called a wee wee but never called a wee wee wee?
Quote from: Eoin McLove on January 27, 2023, 06:40:54 PMHow come a wee is often called a wee wee but never called a wee wee wee?
Get it started
Anyone see the green comet? Clear skies here last night and not a thing even with the binoculars
So I took a holiday from social media for a few weeks. Had a quick squint at it this morning and suddenly gender theory (? Lol theory), covid (terror and vaccines) and the war in Ukraine (military industrial complex shareholders rejoice!) all came roaring back into existence.
Isn't that fantastic? No it really isn't.
You're far better off without it. It's all fucking brain poison.
Yep it's all pretty much awful and life simply goes on without it all
I've been away from it for over 4 years and I haven't missed it for a second. Total shit yet so addictive.
Quote from: blessed1 on January 28, 2023, 07:19:02 PMQuote from: Eoin McLove on January 28, 2023, 06:31:44 PMTotal shit yet so addictive.
That really does sum it up.
yeah just the +1 here as well. The whole thing would make me care about things that I really shouldn't care about at all.
Half of the shit I see people giving out about here is so far off my radar that it is meaningless to me. At the same time, especially with the PC shit, it can get under your skin and drive you mad. It is so easy to be drawn in to guff that's fucking irrelevant except for its poisonous effect on your mental health.
I'm still on social media, though a lot less than before. Still, primary place I've heard about the "PC shit", last few years anyway, is here :laugh:
Ah it has its uses tbf but I have to make a conscious effort not to get drawn in to the stupid stuff. It's great for sport and music discussion and hobbies etc but all the what's a woman and what's a racist shit seems to creep in after a while. As for here, I dunno what anyone can even say about the pc shit anymore
I see Public Image Ltd are vying for the chance to represent Ireland at this year's Eurovision.
That was on Friday night, they came fourth by all accounts. I can't imagine anything more embarrassing for anyone involved - other than 'winning', obviously.
Quote from: Carnage on February 05, 2023, 04:02:47 AMThat was on Friday night, they came fourth by all accounts. I can't imagine anything more embarrassing for anyone involved - other than 'winning', obviously.
Oh right, I just saw it on the new tab on the phone and assumed it hadn't happened yet. I'm now assuming it was a bad song to come fourth
Aren't PiL English?
Maybe one of their grannies is Irish :laugh:
Doesn't John Lydon actually have an Irish granny or is that confabulation?
Think both his parents were Irish, or one of them anyway
I vaguely remember seeing something about his Irish background somewhere over the years
With 50k Ukrainians in the Free State do ye think we'll become a serious contender in Ice Hockey?
We're doing mighty at the running now but that's boring shite to watch.
Johnny Rotten's mother was from Cork and father from Tuam, as far as I remember. Def plenty of Rottens in Tuam.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on February 05, 2023, 09:48:12 AMAren't PiL English?
You could be wrong, you could be right
Quote from: 91/30 on February 05, 2023, 12:30:20 PMWith 50k Ukrainians in the Free State do ye think we'll become a serious contender in Ice Hockey?
We're doing mighty at the running now but that's boring shite to watch.
Dunno about the Ukrainians but with the Nigerians and Polish I'd expect our soccer team to improve in the next decade or so
It's Eurovision, they're all bad songs. But yeah, fairly awful.
Quote from: astfgyl on February 05, 2023, 12:36:40 PMQuote from: 91/30 on February 05, 2023, 12:30:20 PMWith 50k Ukrainians in the Free State do ye think we'll become a serious contender in Ice Hockey?
We're doing mighty at the running now but that's boring shite to watch.
Dunno about the Ukrainians but with the Nigerians and Polish I'd expect our soccer team to improve in the next decade or so
GAA too. My brother coaches underage and he told a lot of polish young lads (could be any variety of NE European, he's not exactly what you'd call a culture vulture) play, but almost none keep it up, one or two at junior level. Pity really.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on February 05, 2023, 01:54:33 PMQuote from: astfgyl on February 05, 2023, 12:36:40 PMQuote from: 91/30 on February 05, 2023, 12:30:20 PMWith 50k Ukrainians in the Free State do ye think we'll become a serious contender in Ice Hockey?
We're doing mighty at the running now but that's boring shite to watch.
Dunno about the Ukrainians but with the Nigerians and Polish I'd expect our soccer team to improve in the next decade or so
GAA too. My brother coaches underage and he told a lot of polish young lads (could be any variety of NE European, he's not exactly what you'd call a culture vulture) play, but almost none keep it up, one or two at junior level. Pity really.
Did your brother have any thoughts as to why they drop out? Is it too expensive for their parents I wonder? I suppose many of them are in lower paying type jobs.
I wouldn't say expense is a factor. I'd say they would be more inclined to stick with the soccer rather than the GAA.
That's a lot to do with it, they simply prefer the soccer at the end of the day
Perhaps they'd rather kick the balls instead of holding them in their hands :D
As an aside, I know of a Lithuanian lad who said that he never licks his wife's pussy because he thinks that licking pussy is "gay", and apparently that is the general consensus among him and his male friends in Lithuania.
Which is really ironic if you think about it...
Quote from: Giggles on February 06, 2023, 09:39:12 PMPerhaps they'd rather kick the balls instead of holding them in their hands :D
As an aside, I know of a Lithuanian lad who said that he never licks his wife's pussy because he thinks that licking pussy is "gay", and apparently that is the general consensus among him and his male friends in Lithuania.
Which is really ironic if you think about it...
They sound gay as fuck to be honest..
Do Lithuanian women have bigger balls than the men? Maybe that would explain it.
Quote from: Giggles on February 06, 2023, 09:39:12 PMPerhaps they'd rather kick the balls instead of holding them in their hands :D
As an aside, I know of a Lithuanian lad who said that he never licks his wife's pussy because he thinks that licking pussy is "gay", and apparently that is the general consensus among him and his male friends in Lithuania.
Which is really ironic if you think about it...
They must mean that licking male pussy is gay
Quote from: Giggles on February 06, 2023, 09:39:12 PMPerhaps they'd rather kick the balls instead of holding them in their hands :D
As an aside, I know of a Lithuanian lad who said that he never licks his wife's pussy because he thinks that licking pussy is "gay", and apparently that is the general consensus among him and his male friends in Lithuania.
Which is really ironic if you think about it...
Uncle Junior Soprano influence, perhaps?
That episode with Tony having the piss out of him over it was so funny.
*Sniff sniff 'Hey did you guys stop at a sushi bar'?
Maybe he meant that it's gay to lick your wife's pussy while somebody else's penis is inside it?
That's pretty bi though, he must have meant something else
The build up to the battle of Stirling bridge in brave heart still looks amazing. Historical bridge being omitted is almost forgivable :)
Not sure where else to put this;
Anyone know the name of the ZZ Top song that appears to share a lot its riff DNA with Foghat's "Slow Ride"? Sound like it's from earlier in their career.
Heard it somewhere the other day - first I thought that it was Foghat but the vocals sounded more like Billy Gibbons. Couldn't get to my phone in time to try to identify it.
A cursory skim of the lesser known tracks on their 1970s albums has not borne fruit.
EDIT: Might not be ZZ Top! Sounded like them though. :laugh:
Truffle. Epic Christian doom metal with a taste for fungi.
Could really do with something like an oul moon landing for a bit of positivity. That must've been some buzz at the time.
Now I don't really want to get into the did or didn't they go there, but it's a bit mad that the likes of Russia and China haven't done it in the intervening years either, given that it could be done all those years back. I mean there's no shortage of info in the public domain on how the Americans went there and the power of a Casio calculator and all that so I'm wondering why not just copy how it was done then?
Would love to see humans spend their trillions on something like that rather than blowing each other up
Is there any benefit to filling up the tank with 'premium' fuel? Does anybody make a conscious/educated decision whilst doing so?
Quote from: Caomhaoin on February 17, 2023, 02:31:36 AMIs there any benefit to filling up the tank with 'premium' fuel? Does anybody make a conscious/educated decision whilst doing so?
Before the prices went nuts I used to pay the few cent more for the good stuff.
I have no idea if it made any difference.
John Hurt- the Father Stone of Hollywood?
I don't remember Fr. Stone having Fr. Damo bursting through his chest though...
Quote from: StoutAndAle on February 14, 2023, 03:39:38 PMNot sure where else to put this;
Anyone know the name of the ZZ Top song that appears to share a lot its riff DNA with Foghat's "Slow Ride"? Sound like it's from earlier in their career.
Heard it somewhere the other day - first I thought that it was Foghat but the vocals sounded more like Billy Gibbons. Couldn't get to my phone in time to try to identify it.
A cursory skim of the lesser known tracks on their 1970s albums has not borne fruit.
EDIT: Might not be ZZ Top! Sounded like them though. :laugh:
Sounds a bit like "Someobody Else has been shaking your tree" to these ears- first part anyway. Great song
Quote from: 91/30 on February 19, 2023, 05:40:02 AMSounds a bit like "Someobody Else has been shaking your tree" to these ears- first part anyway. Great song
Thanks for that - it sounds a bit like the song I heard but (in my memory) it was almost a clone of the Foghat track.
Like I said - might not even be ZZ Top.
Just found out that Lori Black, former bassist of the Melvins, is Shirley Temple's daughter, bit mad.
Never buy cheap cream crackers.
Remember those army surplus para-boots that seemingly every second person had back in the early to mid 1990s?
I got a pair when I was about 12 because my buddy's cool older brother had them. I wore the shit out of them but I kept them polished. then got them re-soled and did it again and again... They were my school shoes, my going out with the lads boots, my work boots... I had them well into my early-30s.
I threw them out a few years ago because I hadn't worn them in a while even though they were still OK.
I am sorry to fuck that I binned them. Can't find a photo online of the exact ones either.
Vintage - as the children say.
TL:DR - Remember army surplus shops owned and run by genuine nutcases? Places where you could buy boots, a flick comb, a Black Widow catapult, a German army parka and a pellet gun at the age of 12.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on February 28, 2023, 11:53:57 AMRemember those army surplus para-boots that seemingly every second person had back in the early to mid 1990s?
I got a pair when I was about 12 because my buddy's cool older brother had them. I wore the shit out of them but I kept them polished. then got them re-soled and did it again and again... They were my school shoes, my going out with the lads boots, my work boots... I had them well into my early-30s.
I threw them out a few years ago because I hadn't worn them in a while even though they were still OK.
I am sorry to fuck that I binned them. Can't find a photo online of the exact ones either.
Vintage - as the children say.
TL:DR - Remember army surplus shops owned and run by genuine nutcases? Places where you could buy boots, a flick comb, a Black Widow catapult, a German army parka and a pellet gun at the age of 12.
Would have been these, wore out a good few pairs myself
https://www.armyandoutdoors.com.au/products/german-combat-boots-type-2000?currency=AUD&variant=31980245418061&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&gclid=Cj0KCQiA6fafBhC1ARIsAIJjL8mXMULVwzec6cGuAweZKqEnNzykm2vNQh8B-8j4Wbi3JC0yByPJ7OcaAupOEALw_wcB
Quote from: StoutAndAle on February 28, 2023, 11:53:57 AMTL:DR - Remember army surplus shops owned and run by genuine nutcases? Places where you could buy boots, a flick comb, a Black Widow catapult, a German army parka and a pellet gun at the age of 12.
Were they not
all like that? :laugh: There was no cooler place to go when you were that age. And don't forget they were also where you bought your schoolbag too!
Boots, jackets, combats, bags and yes, a Black Widow catapult when I was a kid. Those moleskin jackets lasted forever, I lived in them for decades.
Quote from: 91/30 on February 28, 2023, 12:26:53 PMWould have been these, wore out a good few pairs myself
https://www.armyandoutdoors.com.au/products/german-combat-boots-type-2000?currency=AUD&variant=31980245418061&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&gclid=Cj0KCQiA6fafBhC1ARIsAIJjL8mXMULVwzec6cGuAweZKqEnNzykm2vNQh8B-8j4Wbi3JC0yByPJ7OcaAupOEALw_wcB
Yeah, man - those are similar - mine didn't have the vented padded top/tongue and pull tab at the top - but pretty close.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on February 28, 2023, 12:29:41 PMWere they not all like that? :laugh: There was no cooler place to go when you were that age. And don't forget they were also where you bought your schoolbag too!
Oh yeah. The canvas schoolbag - great for writing band names onto but shit for carrying your books.
There's a place in Boston and another down in The Bowery in New York that are still like that. Reminiscent of the one-armed lad from "The Simpsons". Mad fuckers who you half expect to hit hard into a
Viet-fuckin'-NAAAAAAAAAM flashback while you ask about a pair of Dickies trousers.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on February 28, 2023, 12:36:06 PMQuote from: 91/30 on February 28, 2023, 12:26:53 PMWould have been these, wore out a good few pairs myself
https://www.armyandoutdoors.com.au/products/german-combat-boots-type-2000?currency=AUD&variant=31980245418061&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&gclid=Cj0KCQiA6fafBhC1ARIsAIJjL8mXMULVwzec6cGuAweZKqEnNzykm2vNQh8B-8j4Wbi3JC0yByPJ7OcaAupOEALw_wcB
Yeah, man - those are similar - mine didn't have the vented padded top/tongue and pull tab at the top - but pretty close.
German paratrooper boots, there were a few small variations in the 1990s. Best boots I ever wore, you'd look like a fuckin eejit in Doc Martens beside them
Quote from: 91/30 on February 28, 2023, 12:40:34 PMGerman paratrooper boots, there were a few small variations in the 1990s. Best boots I ever wore, you'd look like a fuckin eejit in Doc Martens beside them
I stopped buying Dr Martens about 5 or 6 years ago. Ever since they moved the production to China, the quality has gone to shit. I had a pair where the sole split on me after 5 months. Tough shit was DM's response. Docs are €200 a throw these days.
I've been wearing Red Wings ever since. Iron Rangers, 875s, Sawmills and Harvesters.
I bought a pair of Red Wing Harvesters a few years ago and they are the business. If you're serious about footwear there's not a lot of better companies out there. They're similar to that paraboot but not at the same price-point as the old surplus boots though! :laugh:
https://redwingamsterdam.com/blogs/blog/get-warm-with-the-red-wing-harvester
How did Living Colour write and record such a great song in Cult of Personality and then let the guitarist ruin it with such a wank guitar solo.
I picked up a pair of steel toe Docs a few years ago and they are going strong. I must have got a lucky pair.
I used to do my clothes shopping in Army Bargains off Capel St in the 90s. It was the ex army combats myself and my mates used to go for so they were already worn in. I remember one of the lads got a pair spattered with red paint or something. They were, like, soooo cooool :laugh:
Quote from: StoutAndAle on February 28, 2023, 12:52:06 PMQuote from: 91/30 on February 28, 2023, 12:40:34 PMGerman paratrooper boots, there were a few small variations in the 1990s. Best boots I ever wore, you'd look like a fuckin eejit in Doc Martens beside them
I stopped buying Dr Martens about 5 or 6 years ago. Ever since they moved the production to China, the quality has gone to shit. I had a pair where the sole split on me after 5 months. Tough shit was DM's response. Docs are €200 a throw these days.
I've been wearing Red Wings ever since. Iron Rangers, 875s, Sawmills and Harvesters.
I bought a pair of Red Wing Harvesters a few years ago and they are the business. If you're serious about footwear there's not a lot of better companies out there. They're similar to that paraboot but not at the same price-point as the old surplus boots though! :laugh:
https://redwingamsterdam.com/blogs/blog/get-warm-with-the-red-wing-harvester
Telegram from the depths of the MW gulag!:
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on March 01, 2023, 10:27:15 AMIf someone could mention to StoutAndAle on the Ramdom Thoughts thread to search for 'German Para Boots' on eBay....
I got a great pair on ebay a few years ago for a little over €30...
Quote from: Giggles on March 01, 2023, 01:11:05 PMTelegram from the depths of the MW gulag!:
Quote from: Kurt Cocaine on March 01, 2023, 10:27:15 AMIf someone could mention to StoutAndAle on the Ramdom Thoughts thread to search for 'German Para Boots' on eBay....
I got a great pair on ebay a few years ago for a little over €30...
Sound out. :abbath:
Anyone reckon that the natural language spoken by someone influences their sense of self? Like if one was of the "I said" persuasion rather than the "said I" one? Was thinking about the Irish vs the English language and the Irish puts the self after the thing you've done but the English places the self right at the start before you've done anything. Those are obviously only two examples but ones I'd be most familiar with and I'm thinking along the lines of what effect the commonly spoken language has or doesn't have on the national tendencies of a population, whether to approach things from a position of dominance or subservience depending on where the self appears in the order of things.
And then if one learns a new language, can that affect their perception of self as a result?
That's it, I've finally filled every board without a single response.
Quote from: astfgyl on March 02, 2023, 12:25:59 AMAnyone reckon that the natural language spoken by someone influences their sense of self? Like if one was of the "I said" persuasion rather than the "said I" one? Was thinking about the Irish vs the English language and the Irish puts the self after the thing you've done but the English places the self right at the start before you've done anything. Those are obviously only two examples but ones I'd be most familiar with and I'm thinking along the lines of what effect the commonly spoken language has or doesn't have on the national tendencies of a population, whether to approach things from a position of dominance or subservience depending on where the self appears in the order of things.
And then if one learns a new language, can that affect their perception of self as a result?
I'm not clever enough to get into an in-depth discussion on this - but, like every thick cunt going, I'll still wade in with my thoughts.
As an Irish person who grew up speaking English (like most of us) with working class grandparents, from an under-educated area of Cork - my default mode is to go with "says I". However - being fortunate enough to grow up with parents and an uncle who prized reading and the quality of language skills (probably in their efforts to rise in station if not class from their own parents) that I also learned when and where to use things like "I said".
Perhaps it's because Ireland and the Irish had its language taken away from us that we, in an act of defiance, made English more elastic thank its native speakers.
There's something beautiful about the way Flann O'Brien, Brendan Behan, James Joyce even Roddy Doyle take the words of the English language and bend them so that their meaning can be the same but different or totally different.
I also speak German fairly fluently and some Danish. I was told by a colleague of mine who is from Berlin but works at our Munich office that I speak German perfectly but, in casual conversation, it's in the style and rhythm of a Bavarian farmer - that it is totally devoid of any sense of self or personality compared to when I speak in English.
So maybe when one is learning a new language - the format is that of the lowly educated or underclass perhaps because it is easier.
I often find myself thinking that as the English foisted the language on our forebears that we have the right to fuck with it as we wish.
And we really do
So what you're saying is, the worster someone's use of proper English, the better? :)
Glad to see you've come around so; stooping to policing how someone has been raised to employ language is never a good look.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 06, 2023, 01:15:02 PMSo what you're saying is, the worster someone's use of proper English, the better? :)
Glad to see you've come around so; stooping to policing how someone has been raised to employ language is never a good look.
:laugh: :laugh:
Good strike!
However she was raised though, she was still talking shite as she regularly does.
Computer games.
This one came to me while I was having a crack at mirrors edge 2 there a few minutes ago.
So gaming is fun, like lots of other things. We can probably all agree on that.
Thinking about how graphical improvements over the years have made games more immersive an experience by dint of their apparent realism, saying it's far better to score a real looking goal with the little celebration dance or whatever or far better to set a lad on fire when he looks like he really doesn't like it rather than some c64 shit where he looks like he doesn't care if he lives or dies yknow the buzz anyway.
Now, with the advent of hyperrealism in gaming and the potential damage that the well documented addictive nature of something like that potentially has for interpersonal relationships going into the future, should we draw a line somewhere and where might we draw such a line? Should we limit the development of the thing so that the graphical improvements never get good enough to convince anyone that it's actual reality? That's one option.
Should we let it be developed to its most realistic possible outcome so that people can replace their sad lives with it and potentially have a happier existence than they might even possibly have, perhaps even a humanitarian solution when looked at it that way, but not disregarding the potential for the fact that it might ruin the otherwise potential-carrying lives of people who could perhaps have done far better in the perceived real world without this so maybe allow the thing to improve but limit the time that one might be allowed in to experience the false reality?
Next would the best thing to do be to allow both things to happen, ie let games get more and more real until anyone who wishes to do so may live out their days in the games of the future and those who wish not to can do other stuff in the real world?
Like would it be right for us to create basically the matrix and give people the freedom to opt out? Sounds good but then the lads who are stuck with the vr headsets on would be at the absolute mercy of those who were not and then rakes of other dilemmas are raised with either answer but of course there's no absolute answer to any of that because.....
The answer is usually to be found in the common ground and even at that it is never terribly well defined.
Fun times
Quote from: astfgyl on March 09, 2023, 11:43:05 PMShould we let it be developed to its most realistic possible outcome
Like would it be right for us to create basically the matrix and give people the freedom to opt out?
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It won't be computer games people will be talking about - it will be trying to determine the authenticity of video/audio, deep fakes of politicians as an example, we'll get to a point of no return and if we think fake news is bad now, it's only going to get much much worse. At least when we are about to pop our clogs, someone will have redone the entire last 2 seasons of Game Of Thrones for us and done it some justice :laugh:
ChatGOT
Quote from: The Butcher on March 10, 2023, 12:33:43 AMsomeone will have redone the entire last 2 seasons of Game Of Thrones for us and done it some justice :laugh:
If recent porn search trends are anything to go by, then you'd best believe that in the future we'll be able to climb a virtual tower and admire Jamie Lanister fucking his sister :abbath:
The redone last 2 seasons does sound rather enticing! :laugh: The deepfakes thing is definitely going to cause a lot of shit going forward too. Could be already happening for all we know
Twitter is already fucked to death with deepfaked videos so yeah it is already happening.
Quote from: ochoill on March 10, 2023, 08:16:32 AMTwitter is already fucked to death with deepfaked videos so yeah it is already happening.
https://twitter.com/okeefe_reborn/status/1634728696060977153?t=nbKFle6ftRMWy1WfvTVdQw&s=19
Look on
Edit: hopefully it just stays in the porn industry from here in because it has too much potential to hurt people when it gets outside of that
Noticed a load of young lads lately with a moustache. Not sure if there's some sort of early Movember thing going on or if they're back in fashion
Quote from: Trev on March 12, 2023, 10:53:04 PMNoticed a load of young lads lately with a moustache. Not sure if there's some sort of early Movember thing going on or if they're back in fashion
Yeah they can keep that wherever they put the low cut necks for men. Perhaps a union of the two might be at the cutting edge before we know it
The 'stache has been trending since last summer. Long may it continue :abbath:
I've a beard like a found animal at the minute so I can't give out here. Also often had handlebars over the years but they got much harder to get away with as I got fatter lol
Can't stop thinking about jambons this morning, starving, waiting for a delivery in work. Surely, outside of rolls and sandwiches, they are the best deli item of the lot? They have it all. Fair enough the chicken curry slice is pretty good too but they make me feel like i'm time travelling back to secondary school, jambons are much more contemporary and less distracting that way.
I often get two, with a black pudding or two and a hash brown, and make a sort of sandwich of it all using the jambons as the bread. Unreal.
A jambon is a nice thing alright. As long as it hasn't been cremated!
Quote from: Eoin McLove on March 13, 2023, 09:12:50 AMA jambon is a nice thing alright. As long as it hasn't been cremated!
Absolutely, it has to be done right or it is terrible. This is what made me pivot away from the hot dog lattice, everywhere cooks them until they are like porcelain, they need to be slightly soft or they're no good
Ah the famous glass lattice the fuckin cunts
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/14/opinions/saddam-hussein-iraq-war-interrogations-george-piro-bergen/index.html
Dunno where to put this, just thought it was an interesting read that I'd come across
Following on tangentially from part of a weird dream I had last night, imagine meeting yourself and having a conversation. I don't mean meeting an older you who might impart some important wisdom or life lesson or an earlier you who you could maybe give a bit of positive direction to, but the you of right now. The you who has the exact same thoughts, mental capacity and limitations, ability and limitation in terms of articulating your thoughts and emotions, the exact same hobbies and interests of the moment. What the fuck would you say to each other* :laugh:
* you might just end up punching each other in the face.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on March 15, 2023, 09:41:25 PMWhat the fuck would you say to each other*
"Are our missuses doppelgangers too? Doesn't matter, you call yours, I'll call mine, game on." :abbath:
It's like thinking outside the box, but not quite, and better :laugh:
Quote from: Eoin McLove on March 15, 2023, 09:41:25 PMFollowing on tangentially from part of a weird dream I had last night, imagine meeting yourself and having a conversation. I don't mean meeting an older you who might impart some important wisdom or life lesson or an earlier you who you could maybe give a bit of positive direction to, but the you of right now. The you who has the exact same thoughts, mental capacity and limitations, ability and limitation in terms of articulating your thoughts and emotions, the exact same hobbies and interests of the moment. What the fuck would you say to each other* :laugh:
* you might just end up punching each other in the face.
The more I think about this, the madder it gets. There is no conversation you could have because the other you would rapidly come to the same thoughts and opinions but it wouldn't even qualify what you're thinking since you are just agreeing with yourself. You'd have nothing to say. Definitely just end up scrapping lol. Wasn't there a TV series with Paul Rudd in it that was this concept?
Anyway better dreams than I have, when I remember them they are bizarre, though last year I woke up laughing from one where I found a copy of a CD and it broke the illusion completely. Ended up making a mock up of it to send to someone:
(https://i.ibb.co/VtxDMpz/received-590515058759561.jpg) (https://ibb.co/nbBfQ8Y)
Waking up laughing is such an odd experience, especially when the dream rapidly slips out of your grasp as you come back to consciousness. Or you have some vague impression about the joke but it makes zero sense in the real world. Slightly mind bending.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on March 15, 2023, 11:50:45 PMWaking up laughing is such an odd experience, especially when the dream rapidly slips out of your grasp as you come back to consciousness. Or you have some vague impression about the joke but it makes zero sense in the real world. Slightly mind bending.
I always remember what it was that made me laugh, probably from trying to think about it again so quickly, but yeah the context and sense of it is always totally gone. I love it though. Do wish in general I could remember dreams better but seems to be slipping away altogether as I get older.
Quote from: ochoill on March 16, 2023, 09:36:16 AMI always remember what it was that made me laugh, probably from trying to think about it again so quickly, but yeah the context and sense of it is always totally gone. I love it though. Do wish in general I could remember dreams better but seems to be slipping away altogether as I get older.
Paul McCartney says in the "Anthology" documentary that he got "Yesterday" fully formed from a dream. He woke up and it was in his head.
I never heard music in my dreams (that I can remember) until a few months ago. And now it won't stop. Odd.
I wish that I was a better musician so that I could grab a guitar and play one of them.
Probably end up being the theme tune from "Bosco".
Does anyone else not like St. Patrick's Day?
Don't get me wrong - I love having an extra day off but it's such a nothing, messy day. Every decent bar is full of fuckwits who don't normally booze in there and who don't normally drink 9 pints.
Kids in pubs bored and restless with parents who are scuttered leaving the already overwokred bar staff to become defacto stentorian babysitters.
This may stem from my years working in pubs...
Quote from: StoutAndAle on March 16, 2023, 10:25:19 AMPaul McCartney says in the "Anthology" documentary that he got "Yesterday" fully formed from a dream. He woke up and it was in his head.
I never heard music in my dreams (that I can remember) until a few months ago. And now it won't stop. Odd.
I wish that I was a better musician so that I could grab a guitar and play one of them.
Probably end up being the theme tune from "Bosco".
:laugh: I was in a band with a lad who presented the Inspector Gadget theme as a riff one day, convinced he came up with it (and that it was good), Bosco would be an improvement on that anyway.
Re. dream music - I often hear of lads coming up with music like that, one that stuck with me was Devin Townsend. Where not necessarily from a dream, he would have ideas going to bed or very late that he would act on, and set up his home studio to accommodate this particular whim of creativity. It stuck with me because countless times I have thought of something lethal musically either way too late to deal with or when already in bed and, of course, forgot it completely when a guitar finally came to hand. Voice notes only do so much.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on March 16, 2023, 10:37:58 AMDoes anyone else not like St. Patrick's Day?
Don't get me wrong - I love having an extra day off but it's such a nothing, messy day. Every decent bar is full of fuckwits who don't normally booze in there and who don't normally drink 9 pints.
Kids in pubs bored and restless with parents who are scuttered leaving the already overwokred bar staff to become defacto stentorian babysitters.
This may stem from my years working in pubs...
God no, it's a big pile of shite. Grand when you're in your late teens/early twenties and getting hammered during the day is a thrill, but it's like the whole enforced jollity of christmas, just pointless.
Quote from: ochoill on March 16, 2023, 10:43:09 AMQuote from: StoutAndAle on March 16, 2023, 10:25:19 AMPaul McCartney says in the "Anthology" documentary that he got "Yesterday" fully formed from a dream. He woke up and it was in his head.
I never heard music in my dreams (that I can remember) until a few months ago. And now it won't stop. Odd.
I wish that I was a better musician so that I could grab a guitar and play one of them.
Probably end up being the theme tune from "Bosco".
:laugh: I was in a band with a lad who presented the Inspector Gadget theme as a riff one day, convinced he came up with it (and that it was good), Bosco would be an improvement on that anyway.
Re. dream music - I often hear of lads coming up with music like that, one that stuck with me was Devin Townsend. Where not necessarily from a dream, he would have ideas going to bed or very late that he would act on, and set up his home studio to accommodate this particular whim of creativity. It stuck with me because countless times I have thought of something lethal musically either way too late to deal with or when already in bed and, of course, forgot it completely when a guitar finally came to hand. Voice notes only do so much.
I had a dream that I was finally after getting to see nin live but I was disgusted because during a real heavy new tune, Trent reznor was bouncing up and down but he was on an obvious horn so I didn't want to look at him and it was ruining the good vibes.
Also, as befits the tenacious d song, every night before bed while I'm taking off my shoes, I write the best fucking riff ever. Sometimes I run down and grab the bass and all but by the time I start trying to tap it out it's long gone. The misery. I've tried humming into the phone and all and been caught by the missus doing it and she thinks I'm retarded but I've never gotten a single one back. I think McCartney is talking shit but it adds to the mystique or something so maybe he even believes it now.
And @ochoill, I remember that inspector gadget story about as well as the time I wrote a full akercocke riff thinking I'd come up with it myself.
You were always fond of a solo that sounded like the national anthem as well
Quote from: Carnage on March 16, 2023, 01:54:53 PMQuote from: StoutAndAle on March 16, 2023, 10:37:58 AMDoes anyone else not like St. Patrick's Day?
Don't get me wrong - I love having an extra day off but it's such a nothing, messy day. Every decent bar is full of fuckwits who don't normally booze in there and who don't normally drink 9 pints.
Kids in pubs bored and restless with parents who are scuttered leaving the already overwokred bar staff to become defacto stentorian babysitters.
This may stem from my years working in pubs...
God no, it's a big pile of shite. Grand when you're in your late teens/early twenties and getting hammered during the day is a thrill, but it's like the whole enforced jollity of christmas, just pointless.
This. Have worked in pubs myself and what a load of shit. I'm actually glad they've made it into an extension of pride week this year and fuckin Slava Ukraine last year because it's no worse than waving the tricolour at Tom's local butcher or the fucking lions club or whatever else.
Unfortunately I'm condemned to the bastard parade forever because the kids are all in clubs of one type or another.
I'll be clapping the young lad peacocking his way up the town before I clap the back of his head later over the state of his room and how bad his teachers say he's doing
Also I have had several dreams about finding a type o album that doesn't exist while looking through the rock and Pop down in heartbeat city
Quote from: astfgyl on March 16, 2023, 02:14:34 PMAnd @ochoill, I remember that inspector gadget story about as well as the time I wrote a full akercocke riff thinking I'd come up with it myself.
You were always fond of a solo that sounded like the national anthem as well
I think about the Akercocke riff regularly but jesus I fair forgot about the solo like the national anthem. Ages I spent writing it only for it to be ruined so badly with those five words that I think the whole song got scrapped and all. fuckin brutal. It really was like the national anthem too :laugh:
Quote from: Carnage on March 16, 2023, 01:54:53 PMQuote from: StoutAndAle on March 16, 2023, 10:37:58 AMDoes anyone else not like St. Patrick's Day?
Don't get me wrong - I love having an extra day off but it's such a nothing, messy day. Every decent bar is full of fuckwits who don't normally booze in there and who don't normally drink 9 pints.
Kids in pubs bored and restless with parents who are scuttered leaving the already overwokred bar staff to become defacto stentorian babysitters.
This may stem from my years working in pubs...
God no, it's a big pile of shite. Grand when you're in your late teens/early twenties and getting hammered during the day is a thrill, but it's like the whole enforced jollity of christmas, just pointless.
As above, great having the day off but the whole happy paddy's day makes me cringe. Was up in Dublin today doing delivery's and the place is ramned with tourists. I really feel sorry for them as I believe we have nothing to offer. Our capital is an over hyped, rip off kip imo.
I would not go near the place only I have to for work.
I'd say from a tourist's perspective, it's no more a rip-off than London, Paris, Venice, etc., let alone the Nordic countries.
OC/Dc
Could've hit the TV or film thread with this but watching the War of the Worlds series here and there's a couple of Irish actors and it feels to me like their acting isn't great compared to the French or English but then it occurred to me that they're probably of equal calibre and it's because I don't speak their language or dialect that I miss a lot of the subtle nuances of performance that give away their acting where the Irish lads I know their lingo too well and I can see their lying (or acting if you prefer)? Like the way the acting nearly always looks unreal in subtitled stuff but who knows if it was my own lingo might it actually be shit acting and now I'm on thinking about well wondering about the possibility that there's no such thing as a good or bad performance because it's goodness or indeed badness is entirely subjective and likely strongly influenced by the native language of the individual witnessing said performance?
I actually stopped noticing by episode 2 because I was too horrified by the Boston dynamics dogs
Just noticed that the bottle of cork dry gin is akin to the pyramids at giza in that it has 8 sides in and around the equinox.
Unreal so I took a good hard whoosh straight out of the neck
What was that German thing about getting the cure through drink?
I'm on it
Katerbier. So says my pal from Franconia. Lad from Berlin who I play soccer with says Konterbier. So you have two goes at it :)
Quote from: Caomhaoin on March 25, 2023, 04:20:22 PMKaterbier. So says my pal from Franconia. Lad from Berlin who I play soccer with says Konterbier. So you have two goes at it :)
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
I'm going to have to try each a few times
https://twitter.com/DanielKarath/status/1639300321422745600?t=rE0urI8BMiM60JDWtN_NFQ&s=19
Hey shepherd, what's the craic like where you are, has the place gone nuts? You'd never know these days.
That video really reminds me of the this is fine meme
Quote from: astfgyl on March 25, 2023, 05:29:28 PMhttps://twitter.com/DanielKarath/status/1639300321422745600?t=rE0urI8BMiM60JDWtN_NFQ&s=19
Hey shepherd, what's the craic like where you are, has the place gone nuts? You'd never know these days.
That video really reminds me of the this is fine meme
Well, the entrance to city hall in Bordeaux got set alight there on Thursday evening, so there was that. And I haven't had to teach classes for the last two weeks because the students have blockaded the university, but I have had to babysit at home a few days when the wee lad's teachers were on strike. So, overall, life as usual in France! Would absolutely love to see Macron forced to back down over his reform though; he remains as absolutely unbearable as ever. Bring back Sarko, all is forgiven! :laugh:
Have to hand it to the French really when it comes to the government going against them. Haven't been following it closely really only the odd bit on Twitter, but would you reckon Macron will stick this one out?
Just popping in to say that The Journal has to be up there with the worst propaganda outlets anywhere.
Does anyone here read it, and why would anyone read something that's obvious biased lies after that has been made clear? Fair enough to not know, but once you do know you're basically reading something as bad as tucker Carlson or breitbart or whatever, just from the other side.
Didn't put this in the pc thread because it's more a general thing as to why people purposely read things from outlets that are proven liars in order to back up their own worldview instead of simply not reading that outlet or reporter ever again. Vote with the feet and maybe one of them will start telling the truth. And I'm not saying I haven't been caught either, I've been done a few times but then I stop looking at them. I wonder though do these publications put out stuff that's obvious crap just to get people to click into it in their outrage or are they seriously trying to influence folk by lying to them? Both are bad anyway
As an aside, I have noticed that all the main papers here have significantly dropped the prices of their online subs. I wonder why..
It's a business, and you've nailed it - people will read stuff for confirmation bias and every man jack of us is guilty of it.
Tucker Carlson is a comedian though, I'm certain I'm not the only one who watches it for his quips or deliberate mispronunciation of Don Lemon, Karine Jean-Pierre etc :)
If time travel existed, wouldn't we have had people going back to Long Beach in 1984, just to yell Motherfucker at the end of Revelations, right? But there's only the one guy does it...
Dunno where else to put this, but I read that Blaze Bayley is in hospital after having a heart attack yesterday. Fingers crossed he'll be alright, he seems like a nice enough chap.
The amount of human shells, broken souls and walking dead due to heroin (and other) addiction around Cork City is really something at the minute.
Day and night you can see these skeletal zombies in the city centre. Only seems to be getting worse.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on April 05, 2023, 09:08:55 AMThe amount of human shells, broken souls and walking dead due to heroin (and other) addiction around Cork City is really something at the minute.
Day and night you can see these skeletal zombies in the city centre. Only seems to be getting worse.
Meth is huge at the minute and from talking to a few people it is gaining rapidly on, and even replacing in some cases, heroin addiction.
Had to deal with a lot of heroin addicts in my last job and towards the end there in the last few months they got very patchy in turning up for the methadone. Now to be fair they only used it to keep themselves going until the evening for the real gear but word around the campfire now is that they've moved on to the crack instead and they really fucking look like it too.
I'm pretty liberal with my views on drugs in general but the gear is some awful awful plague and if what I'm hearing is true, what's coming next is going to be somewhat worse
It's ridiculous these days. Should be treated as a public health emergency and funded accordingly.
Yep that's fair I'd agree with that
Quote from: astfgyl on April 05, 2023, 05:15:35 PMHad to deal with a lot of heroin addicts in my last job and towards the end there in the last few months they got very patchy in turning up for the methadone. Now to be fair they only used it to keep themselves going until the evening for the real gear but word around the campfire now is that they've moved on to the crack instead and they really fucking look like it too.
I'm pretty liberal with my views on drugs in general but the gear is some awful awful plague and if what I'm hearing is true, what's coming next is going to be somewhat worse
It was the crack I meant actually, that's the second time I made that mistake talking about it recently lol.
Yeah but it's no craic
Well I won't be placing any orders with ochoill anyway! :laugh:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on April 05, 2023, 07:48:08 PMWell I won't be placing any orders with ochoill anyway! :laugh:
:laugh: it's the excitement of the lottery, you never know what you could be getting!
A little aside (maybe for another thread and there is a much longer story surrounding it all) but some lads I know, many years back now, had a huge ziplock bag duct-taped over filled with miscellaneous unbranded chemicals - Big mix of any sort of buzz, all tablets unmarked and misshapen but they had a range of about 20-30 things they could be, mostly antidepressants. They would just take a handful of whatever was in there each night they were out to see what would happen, with incredibly bad and mixed results lol
Quote from: ochoill on April 05, 2023, 08:38:51 PMQuote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on April 05, 2023, 07:48:08 PMWell I won't be placing any orders with ochoill anyway! :laugh:
:laugh: it's the excitement of the lottery, you never know what you could be getting!
A little aside (maybe for another thread and there is a much longer story surrounding it all) but some lads I know, many years back now, had a huge ziplock bag duct-taped over filled with miscellaneous unbranded chemicals - Big mix of any sort of buzz, all tablets unmarked and misshapen but they had a range of about 20-30 things they could be, mostly antidepressants. They would just take a handful of whatever was in there each night they were out to see what would happen, with incredibly bad and mixed results lol
Funnily enough meself and another lad gave a weekend at that very same thing and it was fuckin awful
Quote from: ochoill on April 05, 2023, 08:38:51 PMQuote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on April 05, 2023, 07:48:08 PMWell I won't be placing any orders with ochoill anyway! :laugh:
:laugh: it's the excitement of the lottery, you never know what you could be getting!
A little aside (maybe for another thread and there is a much longer story surrounding it all) but some lads I know, many years back now, had a huge ziplock bag duct-taped over filled with miscellaneous unbranded chemicals - Big mix of any sort of buzz, all tablets unmarked and misshapen but they had a range of about 20-30 things they could be, mostly antidepressants. They would just take a handful of whatever was in there each night they were out to see what would happen, with incredibly bad and mixed results lol
Has to be a tale in there for The Fear thread
I know the lad he's talking about and the same chap got his hands on ether another time. He's basically a one man fear and loathing but has all the outward appearance of being totally normal
Anyway that's not what I came in for, I noticed lately that uTorrent was acting the cunt so I grabbed qbittorrent and it's working a treat. For anyone who is an evil thief like me, or has simply lost their old copy of Det Som Engang Var..
A new one for me here; sitting in a café opposite the train station in Bayonne, after an early start from Bordeaux, just noticed a lump behind my knee. Yesterday's boxers! 8)
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on April 13, 2023, 10:41:33 AMA new one for me here; sitting in a café opposite the train station in Bayonne, after an early start from Bordeaux, just noticed a lump behind my knee. Yesterday's boxers! 8)
:laugh:
Couple of things:
The upper peninsula of Michigan and how my knowing about that once resulted in 50 yanks trying to get me as fuckeyed as possible
And
Has anyone else here drank the pint cans of 5 plus percent Polski boys Ekstra which is going in costcutters?
Edit 2: those cans will fucking break you up
And also
Probably something about war or conspiracies or capitalism or communism and how no-one wants to meet in the middle anymore. Some random combo of that shit
And to finish
Fuck all, it's the random thread after all
Actually there's more
Was going to say Rando instead of Random and then I suddenly thought of Mando and how with the way the story has gone since the kick in of season 3 of the mandalorian that he has sort of become the Rando - Lorian now that the woman king has taken his place with the dark saber
Edit: discuss?
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/nasa-finds-dragon-bones-mars-26686079?_ga=2.239416963.1470288474.1682100606-1436454524.1661876523
I just woke up in a queer lads house and no joke the cunt woke up singing show tunes.
You couldn't fucking make it up
Had an obvious woman trying to tell me they were going to turn into a man last night as well but they promised they wouldn't do it after I told them I wanted to ride the fanny off em.
Wife was raging
:laugh:
:laugh: christ, that's brilliant
I have recently found out the salt/coffee trick and it has changed everything. Having been given some very bitter cups lately I chanced it, and have used it in basically any cup that hasn't came out of my cafetiere in the last two weeks. Amazing.
Edit: I wanted to know why it worked so I looked it up and there was a suggestion of a half a teaspoon of salt in a cup, absolutely fucking not, a pinch or two is plenty in any cup. Also the reason it hasn't went in my cafetiere cup isn't because I'm any good at making it, probably the opposite, I just like the taste of it as is with a little bitter off it.
Quote from: ochoill on May 04, 2023, 04:53:50 PMI have recently found out the salt/coffee trick and it has changed everything.
Jesus.
Mary.
And.
Joseph.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on May 04, 2023, 05:15:36 PMQuote from: ochoill on May 04, 2023, 04:53:50 PMI have recently found out the salt/coffee trick and it has changed everything.
Jesus.
Mary.
And.
Joseph.
Fuckin lol
Look trust me it's a real thing: https://perfectdailygrind.com/2021/03/exploring-the-science-behind-adding-salt-to-coffee/
It's been about 4.5 years since MI was assassinated.
I wonder how CT feels about it now.
I wonder what he thinks about this site.
I wonder if he's still with us 👀
I still wish he had left the site up as it was a shame to lose all those reviews and some funny threads.
Quote from: Giggles on May 05, 2023, 12:22:59 AMIt's been about 4.5 years since MI was assassinated.
I wonder how CT feels about it now.
I wonder what he thinks about this site.
I wonder if he's still with us 👀
I just googled Metal Ireland, to see the difference, and it just sends you to here lol. Also IMA and a ticketmaster gigs listing, then off into blogs like overdrive etc. It is like MI never even existed bar the few of us here who chat about it.
Quote from: blessed1 on May 05, 2023, 09:01:13 AMI still wish he had left the site up as it was a shame to lose all those reviews and some funny threads.
Just looked up www.metalireland.com on the Wayback Machine/Web Archive there and pulled a snapshot of the Hall of Fame threads if you're interested http://web.archive.org/web/20170118204655/http://www.metalireland.com/community/viewforum.php?f=14
Some pages are missing from the threads, if the first page doesn't open the second one might etc.
Looking at that list of "amazing threads" now, it's pretty sad that the majority of them are basically bullying the shit out of somebody. I wonder if CT was ever embarrassed to be the host of such absolute shitehawkery.
There's some good stuff on the site that you can get off the archive but a lot of it is "you had to be there" really. Some of the threads though the slating was deserved (Creations Tears etc) and there are other instances where the loss of the forum has come up for for a variety of reasons, but most of what's on the archive is useless beyong giving the few of us a bit of a laugh and nostalgia.
As a little aside, can anyone remember the name of your one who cropped up in a few threads, she was obsessed with Tom G Warrior and was either stalking him or making up stories about him but nobody knew which?
Quote from: Giggles on May 05, 2023, 12:37:07 PMLooking at that list of "amazing threads" now, it's pretty sad that the majority of them are basically bullying the shit out of somebody. I wonder if CT was ever embarrassed to be the host of such absolute shitehawkery.
Well he did pin 'The MI Threads Hall of Fame' to the top of the page :laugh:
Who could forget the quality antics of Skot Fury?
Aye CT let certain folks do/say as they pleased - few of the truly horrible bastards on here now, still spouting utter shit.
Quote from: The Butcher on May 05, 2023, 01:15:40 PMQuote from: Giggles on May 05, 2023, 12:37:07 PMLooking at that list of "amazing threads" now, it's pretty sad that the majority of them are basically bullying the shit out of somebody. I wonder if CT was ever embarrassed to be the host of such absolute shitehawkery.
Well he did pin 'The MI Threads Hall of Fame' to the top of the page :laugh:
Ha, yeah I did think of that after I posted it :laugh:
But towards the end of MI, CT was working with some established media, BBC I think, and maybe he didn't want to be linked to all that shite. Street cred and all that.
He did a couple of podcasts on David Koresch which were very good.
I get the impression he didn't really listen to all that much metal towards the end anyhow.
He was always giving top marks to these pure shite alt rock bands and crap like that.
Watched a documentary about Harry Nilsson the other nice.
The man never had a good haircut in his entire life.
Quote from: Giggles on May 05, 2023, 12:37:07 PMQuote from: blessed1 on May 05, 2023, 09:01:13 AMI still wish he had left the site up as it was a shame to lose all those reviews and some funny threads.
Just looked up www.metalireland.com on the Wayback Machine/Web Archive there and pulled a snapshot of the Hall of Fame threads if you're interested http://web.archive.org/web/20170118204655/http://www.metalireland.com/community/viewforum.php?f=14
Some pages are missing from the threads, if the first page doesn't open the second one might etc.
Looking at that list of "amazing threads" now, it's pretty sad that the majority of them are basically bullying the shit out of somebody. I wonder if CT was ever embarrassed to be the host of such absolute shitehawkery.
This place is better than the old one. Took a while but there's not half as many bandwagons going
https://youtu.be/XExEXdlMlUw
Nothing else happening in the world. Bad enough it's on RTÉ, but it's on 2 RTÉ channels.
Didn't see a note of the shite. They can fuck right off.
Did see this though...
https://www.bobmoran.co.uk/other-work/rex-ardeat
A man walked past me earlier and had a little bead of liquid snot hanging off the tip of his nose. He smiled and nodded to me and the little bead of liquid snot dripped onto his jacket.
He might well have saved many lives as a respected surgeon. He may be the most philanthropic man of his generation, using most of his wages to rebuild towns that have been devastated by natural disasters in third world countries. He might be some sort of genius whose books I have read and have resonated deep in my soul, but to me he will forever be the man with the little bead of liquid snot that dripped into his jacket.
Black pudding is class...
Quote from: The Heretic on May 11, 2023, 04:11:59 PMBlack pudding is class...
I second that, the little discs of loveliness that is black pudding and white pudding you can get in Lidl are amazing.
Interesting, the Aldi stuff is shite. Noted.
Black and/or white pudding in a roll, lots of brown sauce. Pure heart attack fodder but lovely.
Quote from: Carnage on May 11, 2023, 04:56:14 PMInteresting, the Aldi stuff is shite. Noted.
Black and/or white pudding in a roll, lots of brown sauce. Pure heart attack fodder but lovely.
Pure comfort food!!
My go to wrap is spicy chicken, black pudding, hash brown, cheese, and taco sauce - black pudding on everything, black pudding goes with everything
Got a black pudding salad in the elm tree down in cork the other day.
Fuckin unreal
Imagine if you had to hug your pipe for an hour whenever you pulled him off or else he wouldn't put out for a week
As funny as that is now think of sexualising something you think of in masculine terms
Happy wanking lads
Even better, imagine you had to seduce your Mickey whenever you fancied a wank like you had to get him locked and/or butter the little bastard up some other way like taking him out for dinner but it's just you sitting in the local kebabish trying to push little bits of chicken down the eye of your dirty little pipe so that he will be willing for you to pull him until he blows the load now that you've fed him.
Ye fuckin animals ye know what ye are and what ye are is liars if ye don't admit that ye are queers for pulling pipe
Quote from: The Heretic on May 11, 2023, 04:11:59 PMBlack pudding is class...
Black pudding, topped with a of mix of avocado, feta, mint and lime juice, a crispy edge but still runny fried egg and as much hot sauce as you can handle piled on a buttery bagel
That's a feed worthy of seducing yourself
In my work travels today, called in to a charity shop and picked up a rake of CDs and a dozen tapes. Mixed bag of genres as I get bored listening to the one style. Bought 4 CDs of Sri Lankan pop music at 10c a piece for the craic and came across a Sri Lankan bootleg double CDr of (and I kid ye not) 'Daniel O'Donnell & Mary Duff Live in Sri Lanka'
I thought it was some sort of joke but the internet has a few stories of him travelling there and "the bombings weren't going to keep him from his fans" A right Hard case
I had been attempting to help him clear out some WordPress malware in the weeks preceding it's closure. From what I can gather it was an impulse decision to close it. No idea what changed in a few days. I have no gripe with the guy whatsoever. He might have taken the site from us but he was also the one who gave it to us. I miss it but it was a dead horse by the time he shut it off.
Quote from: nukeabuse on May 12, 2023, 01:01:01 AMQuote from: The Heretic on May 11, 2023, 04:11:59 PMBlack pudding is class...
Black pudding, topped with a of mix of avocado, feta, mint and lime juice, a crispy edge but still runny fried egg and as much hot sauce as you can handle piled on a buttery bagel
That's a feed worthy of seducing yourself
jaysus that at sounds like it could be just crazy enough to work
Strange story that HMV are reopening in Henry Street - selling LPs and CDs
https://www.newstalk.com/news/hmw-to-open-first-dublin-store-in-seven-years-1466530?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2_iF0gN3qLJhPIIjg76mTf2h8jjn0FBINiZJE7MQGoF1loXfJZQHqepgk#Echobox=1684392035
Grand job. I'd love to see the return of the music shops. How viable it is outside of Dublin or the other cities though I dunno. I thought hmv was wound up altogether
Deadly. The prices will no doubt give you the willies, but still :laugh:
Hadn't been in hmv in years until started working in the city again. In the interim they have really changed their focus to thenadult collector market, t-shirts, funko pops, etc etc downstairs and for the first floor music section I'd say 60% is vinyl at least in Belfast anyway. They probably have one of the wider vinyl selections in the car ty including a lot of metal of mainly metal blade, century media big label stuff. Shame about the price but no much worse than anywhere at this point
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Quote from: Carnage on May 19, 2023, 01:45:13 AM.
Get back here with your shart! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
:laugh: :laugh:
Thought we'd forget as easy as that
Forgot it myself until I saw it this morning. :laugh:
Quote from: Carnage on May 19, 2023, 10:16:53 PMForgot it myself until I saw it this morning. :laugh:
The good news is that you're not the first and you won't be the last. Shepherd will never admit it though
Sharting every day of the week
Fuck Guinness.
There's an article on the BBC news website today ebout a big ol gathering of satanists in Boston if anyone wants something to read. Or you could.just have a titter at the pictures, particularly the satanic plush toys and dumbed down, cosplay shtick of the whole thing.
Quote from: astfgyl on May 19, 2023, 10:50:37 PMQuote from: Carnage on May 19, 2023, 10:16:53 PMForgot it myself until I saw it this morning. :laugh:
The good news is that you're not the first and you won't be the last. Shepherd will never admit it though
I think any current or former career drinker has their fair share of scat anecdotes. I sure as shite do, but they're for special occasions, and late at sessions rather than sober on the internet :laugh:
'Twas nothing catastrophic, thankfully. More of a 'sudden change of expression' incident.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 20, 2023, 06:42:40 PMQuote from: astfgyl on May 19, 2023, 10:50:37 PMQuote from: Carnage on May 19, 2023, 10:16:53 PMForgot it myself until I saw it this morning. :laugh:
The good news is that you're not the first and you won't be the last. Shepherd will never admit it though
I think any current or former career drinker has their fair share of scat anecdotes. I sure as shite do, but they're for special occasions, and late at sessions rather than sober on the internet :laugh:
Aye that's a fair point. I save mine for special occasions too! :laugh:
Quote from: Carnage on May 20, 2023, 07:00:37 PM'Twas nothing catastrophic, thankfully. More of a 'sudden change of expression' incident.
That's one of the hallmarks, that sudden drop of the facial features
If you're poor but you feel like treating yourself and being a bit posh, next time your having one of your nasty poor man shites, flush the toilet halfway through, close your eyes and imagine you are on a bidet. It'll save you a trip to France.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on May 27, 2023, 02:39:33 AMIf you're poor but you feel like treating yourself and being a bit posh, next time your having one of your nasty poor man shites, flush the toilet halfway through, close your eyes and imagine you are on a bidet. It'll save you a trip to France.
The jacks in places where muzzies (Aussie muslims) are working have a sort of garden hose arrangement for washing their holes.
Probably requires a bit of manual dexterity and practice not to blow the ball bag off or burst your ring piece. Fair dues to them.
Ah yes, the old swashbuckler. It has claimed many an unsuspecting barse.
The fuckin shit music that my wife likes to blast out on a regular day is like torture.
Can't believe people actually think that's grand music I really can't
https://earth.app.goo.gl/?apn=com.google.earth&isi=293622097&ius=googleearth&link=https%3a%2f%2fearth.google.com%2fweb%2fsearch%2f66%25c2%25b036%25e2%2580%259911.97%25e2%2580%259d%2bS,%2b99%25c2%25b043%25e2%2580%259915.01%25e2%2580%259d%2bE%2f%40-66.60356126,99.71993691,155.22146875a,551.53002875d,35y,96.96169896h,44.99800033t,0r%2fdata%3dCmwaQhI8Gf32deCcplDAIa3RvC0i7lhAKig2NsKwMzbigJkxMS45N-KAnSBTLCA5OcKwNDPigJkxNS4wMeKAnSBFGAIgASImCiQJJM_W2emWQUARhByCDUiVQUAZooXHWNJ4VMAhMMXgukt5VMA
What is that?
an install link for Google earth by the looks of it
I actually saw that on Ancient Aliens when I was watching it last week dubbed in Spanish :laugh:
#IWANTTOBELIEVE
Quote"What is remaining now to be cleared underground are some military bases still in the hands of the Negative military (including those in Antarctica), then underground tunnels (including those between US / Mexico, California / Nevada and China / Myanmar) , which are being used for human trafficking by Illuminati, Mafia and the Triads, and also child abuse centers below some castles of the Black nobility and below some churches and Catholic schools under Jesuit control. Top priority of the Resistance and the Positive military now is to rescue as many children as possible still captured there."
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 30, 2023, 11:18:52 PMI actually saw that on Ancient Aliens when I was watching it last week dubbed in Spanish :laugh:
#IWANTTOBELIEVE
I saw it on Twitter yesterday. So apart from the crazy stuff, what does anyone think it might be? There's a reason I didn't go to the conspiracy thread with it
Quote from: Bürggermeister on May 31, 2023, 08:42:52 AMQuote"What is remaining now to be cleared underground are some military bases still in the hands of the Negative military (including those in Antarctica), then underground tunnels (including those between US / Mexico, California / Nevada and China / Myanmar) , which are being used for human trafficking by Illuminati, Mafia and the Triads, and also child abuse centers below some castles of the Black nobility and below some churches and Catholic schools under Jesuit control. Top priority of the Resistance and the Positive military now is to rescue as many children as possible still captured there."
Yeah that's surely what it is
Quote from: astfgyl on May 31, 2023, 01:26:27 PMI saw it on Twitter yesterday. So apart from the crazy stuff, what does anyone think it might be? There's a reason I didn't go to the conspiracy thread with it
It's a rock formation in the Antarctic which, through millions of years of water and iceflow, in the area of the most inhospitable weather on this planet, has formed a seemingly unusual shape. I say seemingly, because very little of the rock surface is exposed there... for now. Never lose sight of just how deadly, in the traditional sense, Antarctica is. It's not a place lads can stand around a hole, leaning on shovels. It's also not a place you can cart in tonnes of raw materials and JCBs and dig an underground fortress. Even then, you wouldn't leave the door open :)
Edit-> if I was going to make a guess, I'd say it looks a bit like a lava tube, have seen them in Lanzarote. As the area has been covered in ice for quite a long time, it's possible the receding ice levels are uncovering things usually hidden and it's not a place man has really explored and documented in a real sense. This is a long way of saying it's natural and not man-made nor an alien base.
Related recommended reading - Captain Scott by Ranulph Feinnes. Only someone who knows the level of suffering Antarctica offers humans, first hand (sorry), has really done justice to what those poor bastards went through. It's a great, great read.
Yeah that's more like the sort of thing I was wondering, ie what sort of natural process throws up an anomaly like that. Not like the supposed pyramids there that are obvious parts of a mountain range when zoomed out, this doesn't fit with the landscape around it really. Lava tube was the closest thought I had too, not secret nwo hq or all that.
We ran out of ideas quick there didn't we!?
So now that we've written off the ancient aliens and the Illuminati then our curiosity is sated, is that it?
Good lord
I'd murder a chicken fillet roll and two packets of crisps ???
Any chance of a screenshot of that yoke, I'm not downloading another app just to have a look?
Quote from: Eoin McLove on June 02, 2023, 01:32:17 AMI'd murder a chicken fillet roll and two packets of crisps ???
Oh you bollocks...
Quote from: Eoin McLove on June 02, 2023, 01:32:17 AMI'd murder a chicken fillet roll and two packets of crisps ???
Lettuce tomato and mayonnaise, and normal cheese and onion tayto. As appetising as anything, especially if you're hungover :)
I'm not hungover now, but I surely will be again at some point in the future. Pre-emptive strike.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 02, 2023, 03:59:26 AMQuote from: Eoin McLove on June 02, 2023, 01:32:17 AMI'd murder a chicken fillet roll and two packets of crisps ???
Lettuce tomato and mayonnaise, and normal cheese and onion tayto. As appetising as anything, especially if you're hungover :)
Brown wrap
Spicy chicken
Hash brown
Black pudding
Cheese
Taco Sauce
Prawn cocktail crisps
Lucozade
Quote from: astfgyl on May 30, 2023, 10:36:17 PMWhat is that?
No seriously that link is dense, give me a screenshot or something that opens in a browser/maps and we can look at it
Quote from: ochoill on June 02, 2023, 08:07:35 AMQuote from: astfgyl on May 30, 2023, 10:36:17 PMWhat is that?
No seriously that link is dense, give me a screenshot or something that opens in a browser/maps and we can look at it
I dunno I've the app on the phone. Maybe there's a laptop way I can do it I'll see in a bit
Quote from: astfgyl on June 02, 2023, 08:10:45 AMQuote from: ochoill on June 02, 2023, 08:07:35 AMQuote from: astfgyl on May 30, 2023, 10:36:17 PMWhat is that?
No seriously that link is dense, give me a screenshot or something that opens in a browser/maps and we can look at it
I dunno I've the app on the phone. Maybe there's a laptop way I can do it I'll see in a bit
Find the same thing in Maps, more lads have that. Or screenshot it
Couldn't get it to work in maps it wouldn't go to those coordinates
You'd swear we were at the cutting edge of conspiracy here. As I said, I saw it on Ancient feckin' Aliens a month ago; no need to download an app, the yoke is all over the internet:
https://nypost.com/2020/11/14/youtuber-sparks-theories-after-spotting-dome-covered-antarctica-cave/
Thats OTT now :)
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on June 02, 2023, 09:00:25 AMYou'd swear we were at the cutting edge of conspiracy here. As I said, I saw it on Ancient feckin' Aliens a month ago; no need to download an app, the yoke is all over the internet:
https://nypost.com/2020/11/14/youtuber-sparks-theories-after-spotting-dome-covered-antarctica-cave/
The thing itself is interesting but your man in the video is dense. I was assuming Astfgyl there wanted a non-conspiratorial answer anyway, that's all I wanted to see it for. I've seen weirder geological shit in the flesh than something that looks like a flat panel on Google Maps so yeah I am also guessing volcanic.
Didn't watch the video or read the article, but that's the image.
Quote from: ochoill on June 02, 2023, 11:57:04 AMQuote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on June 02, 2023, 09:00:25 AMYou'd swear we were at the cutting edge of conspiracy here. As I said, I saw it on Ancient feckin' Aliens a month ago; no need to download an app, the yoke is all over the internet:
https://nypost.com/2020/11/14/youtuber-sparks-theories-after-spotting-dome-covered-antarctica-cave/
The thing itself is interesting but your man in the video is dense. I was assuming Astfgyl there wanted a non-conspiratorial answer anyway, that's all I wanted to see it for. I've seen weirder geological shit in the flesh than something that looks like a flat panel on Google Maps so yeah I am also guessing volcanic.
I didn't see any video, I just saw a comment on Twitter with the coordinates with the usual tripe responses. Was just looking for the genuine curiosity type answers here
Would any of the woke lads, if push came to shove, 'date' a trans woman? Would Chris?
Food for thought :)
As a wise man once said "A hole's a hole."
I'm almost certain someone on MI said he brought a 'bird' back to his hostel room and found a handful instead of a nice bit of slop.
'I just laid back and thought of Carol Vorderman'
As long as its a looker
No way the Russians blew up that dam. Might never know who did like nordstream but it's too nonsensical to be the Russians themselves. However that hasn't stopped all of the Western leaders saying it was them immediately and ramping up the rhetoric accordingly. Varadkar and Martin were straight out of the traps with it. Eejits.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 06, 2023, 07:54:08 PMI'm almost certain someone on MI said he brought a 'bird' back to his hostel room and found a handful instead of a nice bit of slop.
'I just laid back and thought of Carol Vorderman'
Iirc there was a couple of lads on mi who said they'd have a go but they were bi rather than just virtue signallers.
Quote from: astfgyl on June 07, 2023, 11:27:26 AMNo way the Russians blew up that dam. Might never know who did like nordstream but it's too nonsensical to be the Russians themselves. However that hasn't stopped all of the Western leaders saying it was them immediately and ramping up the rhetoric accordingly. Varadkar and Martin were straight out of the traps with it. Eejits.
The propaganda is so obvious and dumb. I was watching listening to a pro Russian podcast the other day, they were regurgitating the Russian equivalent, albeit with more talk of 'sabotage' etc.
You'd think people in power would have learned by now not to swallow wholesale the first thing Reuters say in the middle of a propaganda campaign.
Quote from: astfgyl on June 07, 2023, 11:28:52 AMQuote from: Caomhaoin on June 06, 2023, 07:54:08 PMI'm almost certain someone on MI said he brought a 'bird' back to his hostel room and found a handful instead of a nice bit of slop.
'I just laid back and thought of Carol Vorderman'
Iirc there was a couple of lads on mi who said they'd have a go but they were bi rather than just virtue signallers.
Imagine being that committed to being tolerant and love is love that you'd take a mickey just to prove a point.
Is the presumption of the question that 'dating' a trans woman is some kind of pinnacle of (consenting adult) transgression? Like over and beyond being gay?? The respective worlds you and I inhabit are so different Kev, it's difficult to know exactly where you're coming from. But when it comes to aesthetics, transgression is always where it's been at for me. I got into metal because it was transgressive with respect to the musical/artistic and moral norms of my christian upbringing. I always felt repelled by the throbbing vein of homophobia running through metal precisely because it wasn't transgressive but rather completely conservative with respect to those same norms. It's why Crowley was so attractive to me in my 20s. You can claim to be the most anti-christian church burner going, but as long as you're homophobic you're still getting at least one big old gold star from christianity and almost every other organized religion. Are Crowley's writings "woke" propaganda? :laugh:
So, I don't know about "dating", since I don't live on the set of Friends, but if at any point of my adult life I had met a trans woman who turned me on, and the feeling was mutual, I wouldn't have hesitated to jump in a bed with her and see what kind of experience arose (pun intended). And if that had happened while I was already going out with someone, hey, the more the merrier! "The passions become evil and malignant when regarded with evil and malignant eyes," as Nietzsche (the one homophobic metallers don't read) once said.
Quote from: astfgyl on June 07, 2023, 11:27:26 AMNo way the Russians blew up that dam. Might never know who did like nordstream but it's too nonsensical to be the Russians themselves. However that hasn't stopped all of the Western leaders saying it was them immediately and ramping up the rhetoric accordingly. Varadkar and Martin were straight out of the traps with it. Eejits.
Blowing the dam shortens the length of the perimeter russia have to defend as you cant cross land that's flooded. So theres a good chance russia did blow the dam. It dosent help Ukraine's advance at all.
Chris, fair enough, but I mean the wokesters who are 100%, or there abouts,heterosexual.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 07, 2023, 12:38:03 PMQuote from: astfgyl on June 07, 2023, 11:27:26 AMNo way the Russians blew up that dam. Might never know who did like nordstream but it's too nonsensical to be the Russians themselves. However that hasn't stopped all of the Western leaders saying it was them immediately and ramping up the rhetoric accordingly. Varadkar and Martin were straight out of the traps with it. Eejits.
The propaganda is so obvious and dumb. I was watching listening to a pro Russian podcast the other day, they were regurgitating the Russian equivalent, albeit with more talk of 'sabotage' etc.
You'd think people in power would have learned by now not to swallow wholesale the first thing Reuters say in the middle of a propaganda campaign.
I'm not even saying Ukraine did it either. There's no evidence for either scenario as it stands only arguments over why each might have done it but that didn't stop our boys coming out with the statements in the slightest.
It's mental that in 2023, we can't get a single neutral report on a major military confrontation. Or is it? Maybe it's a sign of the times.
I have to say I expected no less from the outset. Things are bad enough on a normal day but when you combine standard wartime propaganda with social media amplification it's another beast altogether. I honestly tune out of most of it after 5 minutes of attempting in vain to see if I can deduce any truth from it.
The BBC is the left's Praetorian Guard, the cunts never ever stop. Take a cursory look over their headlines and see.
The same BBC whose chairman resigned a month ago over a potential conflict of interests involving Boris Johnson? The same BBC who repeatedly smeared Corbyn (Panorama specials, etc.) in the run up to the 2019 election that Johnson ultimately won? Without even getting into the accuracy or inaccuracy of that smearing, it certainly was being anything but the guard for the left in choosing to broadcast it when it did. And it could just as easily not have broadcast it at that point in time. Overall, things have become a good bit more complex at the BBC over the last couple of decades than "defenders of the left".
I don't think they're defenders of the left or right, just another facet of the government's nudge unit, whoever happens to be in government. Licence fees and all that, same as rte.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 07, 2023, 07:20:40 PMIt's mental that in 2023, we can't get a single neutral report on a major military confrontation. Or is it? Maybe it's a sign of the times.
I'd say this has never been a thing in the history of humanity in fairness? Could be wrong but I reckon when the stakes are high all bets are off in this regard
Was it not you, Kev, complaining recently about the BBC reporting something and including a disclaimer along the lines of, "Our journalists were not able to independently verify this information"? That kind of disclaimer is about the most neutrality you can hope for when key information has its primary sources inside the governments of two nations engaged in an information war.
A lot of the stuff gets confirmed by both sides, albeit with different spin on it and that's about the best one can hope for with it as said above.
There's also stuff like the pipeline and the dam where we might never figure out what happened. In those cases I default to blaming the yanks and then stop thinking about it.
Funny how we all think they're somehow more likely to report the truth when it's not about war though.
Reminiscent of that friend everyone has who can't stop telling lies.
Just had mad weather here. Thunder and lightning like I've never seen - constant (and I mean constant) thunder for half an hour, lightning every couple of seconds for the same length of time, serious rain/hail and wind with it. Felt apocalyptic, like being in Twister. Flooding around the town including a section on a fucking hill. Calm as can be again now. Mad.
Yep, it's just hit here in Donegal, all the young ones running to get their stuff charged in case of a power cut. No Tiktok eh, apocalyptic indeed.
Every cloud...
Quote from: Carnage on June 13, 2023, 05:17:07 PMJust had mad weather here. Thunder and lightning like I've never seen - constant (and I mean constant) thunder for half an hour, lightning every couple of seconds for the same length of time, serious rain/hail and wind with it. Felt apocalyptic, like being in Twister. Flooding around the town including a section on a fucking hill. Calm as can be again now. Mad.
Yer grand lad, just get the smart meter installed and stop with the beef and we'll have all this climate under control in a jiffy. If you manage to live Spartan enough for long enough, we'll throw in our new weather on demand service for a reduced fee in a couple of decades.
Edit: sorry actually, our weather on demand service is available at the reduced rate for new customers only.
Now seriously, I do love a good thunderstorm. Who doesn't?
Listening to twenty somethings, so full of confidence and sure in their own slightly self-effacing wonderfulness and budding intelligence. Remembering being like that. Wanting to fucking vomit.
Also knowing that in another twenty years time I'll look at forty year olds being more or less exactly the way I am now and thinking, I remember being like that. What a fucking muppet. There's no escape from being a pain in the hole human!
Had this conversation recently, about how obnoxious I/we were at that age. Knew it all, was in love and nothing/nobody else mattered. Trivial things being of the utmost importance. All that shite.
Fucking cringeworthy looking back from middle age, and yeah - I dread to think how Pensioner Me will view Current Me.
Sure if you don't hate yourself from 5minutes ago you're not growing as a person
I hate myself five minutes in the future. It's good to stay on top of the game.
Came across this: http://irishclowns.com/
Surprisingly, I'm not on it
Edit: turns out I am, under the clowns section
I heard the term "pronoia" this morning, for the first time. It has had various meanings over the years but the way it was presented was an older and more traditional form, in the sense that the universe generally conspires in your favour. The opposite of paranoid. It struck me that it would make some of the threads on here into very entertaining reading if the spin was pro, rather than para :laugh:
I wonder who really won this fight he's talking about? ;D
https://youtube.com/shorts/b_qdOe-o4ms?feature=share
Planning on pulling a sickie and then actually getting sick! Sure what's the fucking point in that >:(
Quote from: blessed1 on June 20, 2023, 10:07:30 PMI wonder who really won this fight he's talking about? ;D
https://youtube.com/shorts/b_qdOe-o4ms?feature=share
It would have been more impressive if he'd ripped his tshirt off, he missed out there..
Was thinking the same :laugh:
:laugh: Yeah, I thought he was going to go full Hulkamania
https://allthatsinteresting.com/my-lai-massacre-photos
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Defenders of the free world and all that. Been reading as much as I could on this lately and fuck is it one of the worst things possible. Really sticks in the craw whenever these lads talk about justice, democracy and the rule of law etc. Must balance this one with other countries' stuff so I don't get caught up in thinking there's good and bad guys
Dunno what thread to go in with this and I don't follow it closely for obvious reasons of not having time to try verify everything, but what the fuck is that whole carry on with Putin and Wagner group? Is it a bluff or what's going on there?
Do pro-choice people really believe what they say?
Pro murder of unborn babies, you have to be a maniac.
Create the world in which it is always better for any woman, regardless of her circumstances or the circumstances of the conception, to have rather than not to have a baby and then maybe an argument can start to be constructed for mitigating the "choice" dimension.
Total coincidence, but I actually watched this documentary about the radical feminist movement of the 60s and 70s last night. You should give it a go Kev :laugh: :laugh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB54kDZg5t0
No, I don't think so.
Create a better world for women by butchering unborn babies? You and your pals in the Southern Poverty Law Centre can get tae fuck.
The challenge to create such a world, or even imagine and begin to work towards it, is the burden of those that wish to do away with choice in this matter, was my point. It certainly can't go back to the way it was before.
Double post
Quote from: Ollkiller on June 25, 2023, 02:33:47 PMQuote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 02:03:47 PMNo, I don't think so.
Create a better world for women by butchering unborn babies? You and your pals in the Southern Poverty Law Centre can get tae fuck.
So would you have a Handmamids Tale version of the world so. You're equating being pro choice as the same as fuck yeah murder those babies. It's not. I'm against abortion but still voted yes in the referendum. It's a woman's choice. Not mine to make for them.
Quote from: astfgyl on June 25, 2023, 12:39:24 PMDunno what thread to go in with this and I don't follow it closely for obvious reasons of not having time to try verify everything, but what the fuck is that whole carry on with Putin and Wagner group? Is it a bluff or what's going on there?
Total bonkers stuff. Freely marched to within 200kim or so of Moscow on a fucking highway. Like their airforce could have taken them out at anytime but didnt. Defo had some backing in the Kremlin or elsewhere. Or a total con. Weird as hell.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on June 25, 2023, 01:38:15 PMCreate the world in which it is always better for any woman, regardless of her circumstances or the circumstances of the conception, to have rather than not to have a baby and then maybe an argument can start to be constructed for mitigating the "choice" dimension.
That sounds fair but a lot of those are lazy bastards who didn't take precautions for one reason or another. Yes there are cases where it can seem somewhat justified to murder the unborn but those are rare ones compared to the number of terminations actually carried out. I don't think it should be criminalised because of those odd cases where it's life or death but even those are not black and white stuff. Pro choice? No bother then make the choice to stop taking pipe and you'll be fine. Worked in a pharmacy for years and had to deal with many many morning after requests, which the extremists would say it's wrong but I don't think it is, vs the notion that people can elect to do it up to birth which is abhorrent to me. There's somewhere in between those extremes where we might find reasonable discussion and the evolution of morality but then if you start stacking stones on top of each other or say grains of sand well then when does it become a pile of stones or sand rather than a few pieces? The way things are presented you'd think it has to be one or the other and I agree with your point that I'm quoting to a large extent but still wouldn't support on demand services
There is no justification for abortion
There absolutely is. To say otherwise is ridiculous. I've no interest in this conversation beyond saying that.
Well you are full of shit then.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 05:16:57 PMThere is no justification for abortion
If a woman is pregnant and gets cancer, what would you suggest?
That's a retarded question.
I know it seems like there's an easy ultimate moral high ground there Kev, because back when I was in the church it's the position I had been passed down and held myself for years, until I started listening to people instead of doctrine. But the moral high ground doesn't consist in condemnation; condemnation is almost always a moral low road (WWJD!). The moral high ground for any pro-life movement worthy of the name would consist in working towards reconstructing society in such a way that new life is always a guaranteed positive, firstly for the mother, and secondly but most importantly for the children themselves. If you like, you can consider abortion legislation as having been predominantly a legal solution to a social failing. But, perhaps not ironically, historically speaking those who became the loudest pro-life voices had been those most instrumental in creating the situations that were driving more and more women to seek dangerous illegal abortions. They cared more about dogma than life. Generally speaking, absolutist statements are reflections of dogma rather than life.
Absolute shite. Defend abortion, i.e the butchering of unborn children.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 06:10:13 PMAbsolute shite. Defend abortion, i.e the butchering of unborn children.
Another irony is that men just like you used to call women hysterical because they thought the latter weren't capable of being rational and detached when it came to important issues but instead resorted to emotional language and tactics :)
You're saying the pro-choice movement is pro-murder. I'm saying the pro-life movement are
merely anti-abortion and couldn't give a pragmatic shit about the lives of the babies they claim to want to "save".
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 05:54:25 PMThat's a retarded question.
It's a totally appropriate question. A cousin of mine 10 years ago get a cancer diagnosis whilst pregnant. Kept the kid. Back then couldnt have an abortion. Which would have greatly increased her chance of survival. And shes dead now.
Shocker, another post with no merit.
There is no justification for abortion.
Quote from: Ollkiller on June 25, 2023, 06:22:47 PMQuote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 05:54:25 PMThat's a retarded question.
It's a totally appropriate question. A cousin of mine 10 years ago get a cancer diagnosis whilst pregnant. Kept the kid. Back then couldnt have an abortion. Which would have greatly increased her chance of survival. And shes dead now.
How is it an appropriate question? How often does that happen?
Savita Halappanavar.
You're eseentially stamping your feet and throwing a tantrum here. Not a good look.
Thanks, good man.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 06:24:29 PMQuote from: Ollkiller on June 25, 2023, 06:22:47 PMQuote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 05:54:25 PMThat's a retarded question.
It's a totally appropriate question. A cousin of mine 10 years ago get a cancer diagnosis whilst pregnant. Kept the kid. Back then couldnt have an abortion. Which would have greatly increased her chance of survival. And shes dead now.
How is it an appropriate question? How often does that happen?
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 06:24:29 PMQuote from: Ollkiller on June 25, 2023, 06:22:47 PMQuote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 05:54:25 PMThat's a retarded question.
It's a totally appropriate question. A cousin of mine 10 years ago get a cancer diagnosis whilst pregnant. Kept the kid. Back then couldnt have an abortion. Which would have greatly increased her chance of survival. And shes dead now.
How is it an appropriate question? How often does that happen?
Ah here. Right. Of to do something useful.
What's your argument? Butcher the unborn to extend the life of the mother?
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 06:29:05 PMWhat's your argument? Butcher the unborn to extend the life of the mother?
Yes. If the mothers life is in danger then yeah. The mother can have more kids.
So, we butcher a baby to save the mother?
At the end of the day lads, whether you are in or out on the whole thing you are justifying killing the unborn. I'm of the opinion that sometimes that's indeed justified but that's as rare as fuck and if you weigh it up in favour well then your justification must be very good and very fucking proper ie self defence I only killed him because he'd have killed (sometimes in the mental sense rather than the physical ie rape and shit) me otherwise. Outside of that you're all sick fucks to think that's any way acceptable and whatever political view you have that says otherwise is wrong.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 07:11:01 PMSo, we butcher a baby to save the mother?
Sometimes kev I think that position can be justified but it's far fuckin rarer than it's presented as
If you are pro baby murder, fuck you. Endy fuckin story
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 08:01:46 PMIf you are pro baby murder, fuck you. Endy fuckin story
Are u ok hun? Conversation is very 2018.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 08:01:46 PMIf you are pro baby murder, fuck you. Endy fuckin story
Pro mother murder then? Being accepting of certain circumstances falling outside of the status quo doesn't mean you're for it at all. I'm dead against it but I accept there will be an odd case that doesn't fit and I still find those whole situations abhorrent too. I think if people put their Mickey out of fannies or if fannies were less accepting of Mickey then it'd all look different. Most abortions are elective being fair about it and I dislike that as much as the next person. I also have 5 kids so I'm obviously not a supporter of it at all
Plus, you sort of have to go into the whole thing of at what point is a baby considered an actual, living human, I mean, if we're gonna be strict about it pretty much any lad on Earth commits genocide every time he has an oul thomas the tank.
Quote from: Ollkiller on June 25, 2023, 08:10:16 PMQuote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 08:01:46 PMIf you are pro baby murder, fuck you. Endy fuckin story
Are u ok hun? Conversation is very 2018.
I disagree with that attitude as well because it's dismissive of something that is actual life and death at the end of the day and should supersede political leanings.
How silly are we all really?
You either like trump no vaccines no trans etc or you like Biden and vaccines and it's a shit binary way of looking at stuff that is entirely fed by algorithms designed to simply keep you and I engaged.
We're fuckin Irish anyway and should certainly not be caught up in the shit yank black or white politics
Quote from: ldj on June 25, 2023, 08:13:26 PMPlus, you sort of have to go into the whole thing of at what point is a baby considered an actual, living human, I mean, if we're gonna be strict about it pretty much any lad on Earth commits genocide every time he has an oul thomas the tank.
That was what I meant when I was asking how many grains of sand is a pile of sand and where does one draw the distinction. It's not easy at all so to my mind you do make it legal but the morality aspect is troubling
Quote from: ldj on June 25, 2023, 08:13:26 PMPlus, you sort of have to go into the whole thing of at what point is a baby considered an actual, living human, I mean, if we're gonna be strict about it pretty much any lad on Earth commits genocide every time he has an oul thomas the tank.
That's totally retarded.
Don't let Calvin (or a host of other dogmatic nutbars) hear you say that idea is retarded! :laugh:
Clumps of cells are not babies. There's a cut off point for a reason. Claiming otherwise, now that's retarded.
Anyway, what's wrong with the odd murder?
Quote from: Carnage on June 25, 2023, 09:31:40 PMClumps of cells are not babies. There's a cut off point for a reason. Claiming otherwise, now that's retarded.
Anyway, what's wrong with the odd murder?
That's the stack of grains becoming a pile again. We can all agree that one grain doesn't constitute a pile and we can agree that a pile of grains isn't one grain, but where do we start to draw the distinction between one and the other? Two grains? Three grains? There's a very fuzzy line but either absolutist position is surely wrong
I love seeing the very first light creeping into the sky in the morning. And butchering babies.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 09:04:53 PMQuote from: ldj on June 25, 2023, 08:13:26 PMPlus, you sort of have to go into the whole thing of at what point is a baby considered an actual, living human, I mean, if we're gonna be strict about it pretty much any lad on Earth commits genocide every time he has an oul thomas the tank.
That's totally retarded.
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Quote from: Eoin McLove on June 25, 2023, 09:53:54 PMI love seeing the very first light creeping into the sky in the morning. And butchering babies.
Two of my own favourites right there :abbath:
the forum address must be pinging like a motherfucker in agencies round the world with these turns of phrase. this is your chance to get noticed. write a cryptic haiku, get recruited. i've seen films with less plausible beginnings. and documentaries.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on October 27, 2020, 12:50:30 PMI despise abortion but I accept it for rape, incest or risk to the mother.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 08:01:46 PMIf you are pro baby murder, fuck you. Endy fuckin story
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Hopefully.
Yes that should definitely be enough of that.
A few hours ago I found out that a school friend, someone I'd known for 35 years, a really nice guy, hung himself on Friday. One of the few people from my year (120+) who was absolutely sound out, genuine, and a downright decent man. Hardworking, generous, and try as I might I can't picture him without a smile on his face.
Puts a lot of the above into perspective. Can't be arsed.
Sorry to hear that.
Yeah man sorry to hear that
Sorry about that man, you'r having a bad few days of it.
Bit 'tired and emotional' the other night but it's just shit news about Mike, it hit harder than I'd expected. Sorry for being a prick about it.
Random thought: are we at that age now (I'm 47, a lot of us are similarly aged I think) where our friends and contemporaries are starting to die? That's the second from my school year to go in the last year or so, fourth overall that I know of.
Another thought I'd had lately is that, statistically speaking at least, a few from the same year must be grandparents by now. That's fucking depressing.
Quote from: Carnage on June 27, 2023, 04:18:44 PMBit 'tired and emotional' the other night but it's just shit news about Mike, it hit harder than I'd expected. Sorry for being a prick about it.
Random thought: are we at that age now (I'm 47, a lot of us are similarly aged I think) where our friends and contemporaries are starting to die? That's the second from my school year to go in the last year or so, fourth overall that I know of.
Another thought I'd had lately is that, statistically speaking at least, a few from the same year must be grandparents by now. That's fucking depressing.
Yep I'm at that stage as well, I try not to think about it too much, but at the same time its good to have awareness to make the best of things. I know we all bitch and give out about things that aren't really that important in the whole scheme of things, and its good to vent (a bit), but perspective has to be kept on what's important, easier said than done I know when shit hits the fan, that's why its good to bounce off people, trouble shared etc...
I'm in the 47 club also :) and we all bitch and moan about the trivial stuff. Not trying to hijack the tread but 7 weeks ago after a tough week I thought, I dropped into my mam to have a coffee.
I found her in the garden after having a massive stroke, the next day she was gone at only 70 years of age.
No ill health or symptoms prior and was absolutely flying full off life.
We were very close and she was more like a big sister to me.
When you lose someone very close to you I believe its a serious reality check and now more than ever I realise I have more years behind me than ahead. :'(
Jesus man, sorry to hear that. It's a tough time.
Quote from: Carnage on June 27, 2023, 09:08:01 PMJesus man, sorry to hear that. It's a tough time.
Cheers man. I can honestly say it was the worst day of my life finding her like that. The first week I really thought I was going insane. My head was in turmoil, no sleep and was completely exhausted after the funeral.
Look after yourself and give yourself time to process and remember your friend smiling as i do my Mam.
Sorry to hear all that bad news, chaps.
My heart goes out to you in that situation man. Hope you've got some sound shoulders around you to lean on if and when you need them.
Awful stuff. Best of luck getting through that one man.
Cheers guys, sorry about that, just felt like venting and getting it out of my head.
Anyway back onto random thoughts (the lighter stuff)
The garden is pretty much in full bloom and with the intermittent showers no evening watering, so I can just enjoy with a cold one after a day's work. :)
Nothing only weeds in my garden...
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Jesus christ. Let it go.
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Stick to the metal when boozing.
Quote from: Giggles on June 25, 2023, 11:09:01 PMQuote from: Caomhaoin on October 27, 2020, 12:50:30 PMI despise abortion but I accept it for rape, incest or risk to the mother.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 08:01:46 PMIf you are pro baby murder, fuck you. Endy fuckin story
What's your point. Exactly you don't have one spastic.
Pack it in. Please.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 30, 2023, 01:53:15 PMQuote from: Giggles on June 25, 2023, 11:09:01 PMQuote from: Caomhaoin on October 27, 2020, 12:50:30 PMI despise abortion but I accept it for rape, incest or risk to the mother.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on June 25, 2023, 08:01:46 PMIf you are pro baby murder, fuck you. Endy fuckin story
What's your point. Exactly you don't have one spastic.
Its blindingly obvious what his point was. You have your stance. We get it. Now move on.
Had anyone ever invented a drum stool that doesn't turn itself into a spinning top after five minutes :o
Just built a little cardboard smartphone projector there with the kids for a bit of fun.
Fuckin hape of shit
Saw them in Tesco or somewhere a while back, was wondering were they any good. Appreciate the consumer advice.
Twas Tesco indeed. The front lens can't be adjusted enough to focus the thing and if you want to make it bigger the phone doesn't produce enough light to enable that either. Can probably fix the lens thing, but even then it'll just be the phone screen projected in 1:1 on the wall and the room has to be pitch black too so yeah, no
Edit: maybe I could bring it out on a sunny day and show the lads how to make a death ray for the plastic soldiers. Be one way of getting me tenner's worth
Twitter's new limit thing is fairly shit on the face of it but I've no idea how many posts is normally see in a day so I'll have to see exactly how shit it is in practice
They seem to have blocked non-members from seeing anything at all. That won't end well.
Soundcloud appear to have killed off the funtionality to embed links today. Again, another curious business decision.
I joined a Blade Runner group on Farcebook an hour ago and it's already incredibly rewarding. Such nerds, but it's my favourite film and it's gratifying to not be the only one to dissect it so much.
I think I'm done with going to gigs but I'm not sure exactly why. It's too costly? I'm too old at 50+? I'm too miserable? I like my slippers too much? It's a young metallers game? It's my time to leave the hall?
Answers on a postcard please....
I stopped going to gigs four years ago. I had a kid (my mickey is still in ribbons), Covid hit, moved country and was generally burnt out on the experience having been to gigs on a near weekly basis for years. I went to two in the past couple of months and had a great time. Emperor was a cool gig but it was mid week and I drove in solo so it was tame. Myself and the wife hit Unto Others on a Friday night a week or two later- our first date night in years- had a heap of pints and had a fucking great night. Might have been the break from it and turning the experience back into a special occasion made all the difference. In a few years you'll say fuck it and go see a band and have a hoot but a few years in with the slippers is needed sometimes :laugh:
Yeah a break without thinking about it too much may do the trick! The strange thing is I'm also buying more CD's now than ever, so its not a loss of grá for the aul metal, its just gigs seem like a hassle nowadays (for Dublin gigs anyway) while in other cases they aren't that much of a hassle really and its just me. It is a post lockdown thing? I dunno. Anyway I have plenty of other stuff I'm doing in my spare time in any event so I'm always busy but gigs are the one thing that's taking a backseat...hopefully not forever :abbath: :abbath: :abbath:
Can't say I particularly missed gigs during covid. Well, missed playing them but otherwise, didn't care.
I think everyone needed a break from gigs by around 2020. It was just too much.
The two-hour drive to Dublin for gigs is a pain in the hole, never mind driving back afterwards. I set a limit of €50 for gigs a long time ago, too, which takes any faffing around and rules out most of the big and, usually, shite gigs and venues. I'm also of an age where I've already seen most of the bands I enjoy, usually several times, and there aren't too many bands who get better as they get on in years. Add in overall gig fatigue and being sick and tired of topless, fat sweaty cunts brushing off you, lads trying to carry several pints through the crowd and spilling them all over you and the cunts with phones in the air, it takes a very special band to make me want to go to Dublin. I've gone to just a handful of gigs post-covid and enjoyed them but fucking hated the 4 hour commute for them.
Instead of going to loads of gigs for the sake of it, I make more of an event out of seeing bands I've never seen, usually with a trip abroad. I'm going to see Watchtower in Germany in September and Living Colour are touring in Europe in December, I'm more motivated in going to something like that.
Quote from: Bürggermeister on July 04, 2023, 01:43:41 PMInstead of going to loads of gigs for the sake of it, I make more of an event out of seeing bands I've never seen, usually with a trip abroad. I'm going to see Watchtower in Germany in September and Living Colour are touring in Europe in December, I'm more motivated in going to something like that.
Definitely agree with this - one of my fav gigs turned out to be Hans Zimmer at the Apollo in London (2014). Felt like the sound was coming from everywhere, literally got chills when they introduced the choir for the Crimson Tide track. Saw him last year in 3arena and the sound (as usual) was nowhere near the quality the Apollo had to offer.
I could blame it on covid but I knew I'd reached gig fatigue just beforehand when I had a ticket to see Sacred Reich but couldn't be arsed to drive up on show night...
Like what others have said, the thoughts of the commute up just wiped the good from gigs and especially when they are bands I've seen multiple times before.
Since gigs have come back I'm very slow to make the trek to Dublin. Also not helped that any time I drive up now, even more cycle lanes and traffic changes make it an even bigger balls to get there.
With respect to bigger gigs, I went to both Metallica in Slane and Tool in the Point but I'll never spend that kind of money to see any band anymore. I think many folks are getting fatigued by this if you check out the attendances for the likes of the recent Metallica tour or the Leppard/Crue gigs... vast areas of arenas empty but they still insist on 200 euro plus ticket packages etc.
I don't mind the commute but I get the train and have no way back after, so have to stay in Dublin. Hotel prices are the killer, it's gotten ridiculous now. Swans in August will be my last one unless something special comes along.
The lack of gigs during covid came at the right time for me too. Just constantly either playing or going to gigs for the previous years.
Its seeing the same bands as well that caused it. Going to gigs now beyond metal to bands I've never seen I find good now. Mostly at festivals now. The thoughts of going to 1 gig in Dublin dosent appeal anymore unless it's a bucket list band I haven't seen before.
Generally not arsed travelling to Dublin for gigs given everything involved in it but I live about 10 minutes walk from Dolan's in Limerick so am at most of the metal gigs there and make an attempt to go to whatever else I can too (in any venue here) - what with work / child / money / bands / life in general it works to about two a month. Can't argue, enjoy them all, ideal night out is seeing any sort of music. Tend to prefer small & medium gigs over bigger events.
Done with the big stuff as well and there's fuck all doing in Tipp gig wise so it's either Limerick (Therapy? and Paradise Lost there this year) or Dublin (Swans and Emperor coming up there) but the Dublin ones are a pain in the hole unless someone is driving. Had a lift to GODFLESH so I was off me shitter tbf but generally not going to pay the required coin to stay there and how much do I really want to see most bands really is the question
Having a good one there a minute ago while reading about the geological makeup of Japan. So like that's lots of volcanic features there and it got me thinking that the soil would be somewhat newer than somewhere more geologically stable then, so is that how evolution works with trees and stuff that certain ones do better in such circumstances and etc then over vast timespans the whole world of trees die out same as the fauna but more slowly and I could picture it all in my head like a time lapse satellite image changing colour and I got to thinking about scaling it all out and viewing a time lapse of the whole world breathing and changing and how time itself is entirely relative and thus what I'm imagining is actually happening but I'm too small to perceive the change and then we get to the old favourite infinity and I guess if the observer is large enough we could be moving at the speed of light or at absolute zero levels of activity depending on perspective so which are we really only what we perceive of ourselves on our own timeline and we both exist for but a flicker and for an eternity all at once.
Think I'm going to go play with the cats and the dog for a bit after that one, now that we've been levelled in psychological terms
Interesting idea but aren't there ancient banzai trees in Japan? Maybe they don't have anything on the scale, time wise, as the big reds in California or those ones in Tasmania... no idea.
No matter how old the trees they're still only newborns in geological terms. Actually thinking about how the fossil record shows certain types of plants and trees dominating over eras, how old might those trees have been? Could have had 50,000 year old trees and not know it from the fossil record. What length were days back in the day as well maybe each ring still represents a turn of the earth but maybe the turns were way longer and we're speeding up in rotation instead of slowing down, as seems to be suggested?
Can't bate a bit of wonder
Haha true enough. I think the general thinking is that earth is slowing down in its spin. Makes a logical sort of sense but then again, when you start getting into the weeds of astrophysics you have to leave all intuitions at the door. Might make more sense that proto- trees (I'm going to copyright that) could have survived to 50,000 years if the earth was spinning more quickly, shortening the days, seasons and years. But sure, I think the earth is flat and the dinosaur fossils were laid in stone by God to fuck with us, cast doubt upon his existence and keep a bit more elbow room in heaven for the trve elite.
Yeah it could be 50000 real quick years at the start and would they have known it was quick at the time or imagine going back in a time machine but when you got there the days went by like pages from a flick animation you'd be scalded the dinosaurs would be moving so quick as well like speeded up stop go stuff and they'd be more terrifying than ever for the ten seconds you managed to live in the horror stop go flick book
Misheard lyrics
I always thought the line was "my knees are so raw" from INXS' I Need You Tonight...it is, apparently, "your moves are so raw". Just found this out 5 mins ago while randomly scrolling shite. That is all.
I've been singing the wrong lyrics for the chorus of Iron Maiden for about 35 years (Whole world, wherever, wherever you are...), only saw them in print about a year ago.
I think my favourite is I genuinely thought Frank Black was screaming "RED PAAAANTS" in Caribou, the Pixies song, for the first month or so of listening.
It's "REPENT". Of course it is. Fucking eejit I was at 16.
Quote from: Carnage on July 12, 2023, 08:28:29 PMI've been singing the wrong lyrics for the chorus of Iron Maiden for about 35 years (Whole world, wherever, wherever you are...), only saw them in print about a year ago.
I just looked them up and it has only now dawned on me that they repeat the same verse and chorus three fucking times :laugh:
Yeah, it's great for getting the blood pumping but it's not an objectively good song TBH.
There's a part in that Country Roads song where he says mountain mama. I always thought it was mount your mama ;D
Very country roads.
Country Loads
While listening to WASP this morning I only realised that Blackie was singing 'I wanna be somebody SOON' every second line and not 'TOO' all the time. Seriously, how has it taken me decades to notice that
Quote from: Thorn on July 13, 2023, 04:42:42 PMWhile listening to WASP this morning I only realised that Blackie was singing 'I wanna be somebody SOON' every second line and not 'TOO' all the time. Seriously, how has it taken me decades to notice that
I think I always alternate between the two because I have never read the lyrics. Good to know 8)
https://youtu.be/I5PT65I2ny8
Was watching a video on Rumble (I know!) about a chap called Stanley Plotkin, who is considered one of the leading lights in vaccinology. The video is 9 hours of him being cross examined by a fellow called Aaron Siri and fuck me pink how this lad didn't get the electric chair is beyond me. I've about 6 hours watched so far and each is more damning than the last. I reckon it would turn even the most fervent into an ardent skeptic. I was already skeptical tbf but this is a ridiculous journey into the tangled web of money and bullshit that comes from the very top of the pharmaceutical industry and the development of vaccines in general. Given that this chap is the leading expert, they can all fuck off with the lot of them. Now, for right or wrong I think this is the inevitable result of pushing anything too far. Also it's from 2018 so it's not a reaction to the covid debacle (debacle is the polite way of putting that!).
I'll give the link but don't bother your bollix defending him or anything to do with him or the whole charade unless you see this lad's affiliations and hear his testimony under oath. I think nobody with a brain would believe him but I also think that he gets paid enough from his work to fully believe every bit of what he says and I'm not saying he's lying.
Didn't put this in the covid thread because that one is better off dead but this is about the whole concept, the efficacy of the product and the sheer amount of absolute shite you get pumped with in terms of propaganda and actual product (also me, I've been pumped with it all too).
https://rumble.com/v38d9ux-full-9-hour-deposition-between-stanley-plotkin-and-aaron-siri.html
I will look forward to never hearing about this again because none of you will watch it, but even to me it's nuts stuff I'm hearing here.
Turns out Rumble is blocked in France! Although, I'm not even in France...how odd! Anyway, turns out same full vid is on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/DFTsd042M3o
Bit of a summary of the arguments against him here for anyone, like me, who has no intention of watching any of that video though :laugh:
https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6926/rr-9
Can only agree about need for transparency re conflicts of interest.
Couldn't think of anywhere else to put it so I'll ask here. Those of you who are not on Facebook, how do you hear about new releases and such? Would love to give it the chop but fomo keeps me on there.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on August 18, 2023, 07:21:50 PMTurns out Rumble is blocked in France! Although, I'm not even in France...how odd! Anyway, turns out same full vid is on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/DFTsd042M3o
Bit of a summary of the arguments against him here for anyone, like me, who has no intention of watching any of that video though :laugh:
https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6926/rr-9
Can only agree about need for transparency re conflicts of interest.
Ah grand, I hate linking rumble because it's generally a load of unbelievable shit. Like I said I'm over the six hours of it watched over a few days and it's nuts, the web of whatever the fuck is going on there. The most amazing part is where the chap straight up says that handicapped people are subhuman and the fucking shit that the vaccine industry has actually gotten up to they're as bad as the fuckin US government or even worse for lying and doing shit things. Although no-one will watch it here, I honestly think it's worth the time. It's far worse than conflicts of interest and that becomes apparent very early into proceedings
Quote from: hellfire on August 18, 2023, 09:47:34 PMCouldn't think of anywhere else to put it so I'll ask here. Those of you who are not on Facebook, how do you hear about new releases and such? Would love to give it the chop but fomo keeps me on there.
Honestly, I get it by word of mouth or on here and maybe the odd bit on twitter. I never go on facebook either but I have an account so I can follow links now and again. I'm also interested in the answer to this, but I'm assuming you mean non-metal stuff as well?
Metal Storm website has a specific up-to-date list of new releases everyday.
Quote from: hellfire on August 18, 2023, 09:47:34 PMCouldn't think of anywhere else to put it so I'll ask here. Those of you who are not on Facebook, how do you hear about new releases and such? Would love to give it the chop but fomo keeps me on there.
I use FB too mostly just to see what is new or popular in various genre groups but still, ignoring the obvious (Twitter and Instagram) - word of mouth, friend recommendations, emails from Bandcamp of artists I follow releasing music, browsing genre tags on Bandcamp, looking up bands & artists playing the city that I see on posters/online, following full album youtube channels. They would be the main ones
Yeah, the main reason I'm still on Facenook is for band updates. Bandcamp gives me a lot but there's also the few people for whom I have no other contact details...
Don't have facebook but one thing I do religiously on a Friday is visit the Plastic Head website and look through the new releases - though the PlasticHead website has been down for the past couple of weeks.
Also Invisable Oranges have a semi regular upcoming releases as well which sometimes points out something I didn't know about - https://www.invisibleoranges.com/umr-8132023-8192023/
Quote from: Thorn on August 18, 2023, 10:05:32 PMMetal Storm website has a specific up-to-date list of new releases everyday.
Didn't know that existed but have now booked marked that page, will be very handy - cheers!
https://metalstorm.net/events/new_releases.php?page=1#167715
:abbath:
Those two lists Anvil put up may be what I'm looking for. Any forum recommendations apart from this one?
Revelations of Doom
Always makes me chuckle to myself when I look up something like, in this case, the Gorongosa National Park (watching a documentary on it) and one of the first informations Google gives is that it's almost closing time.
"Babe quick, get the little lad ready! We've only an hour to get to Mozambique!!!" :laugh:
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The Spanish translation of I, Claudius is called Yo, Claudio. This brought to mind Razor Ramon in ancient Rome.
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These reel things appear on my Facebook of American female stand up comedians. They can last about a minute or two and they've one major thing in common.
They're not fucking funny.
At all.
Now there is one Called Taylor Tomlinson who I would absolutely buck the hole off but she's as funny as the time I had my ingrown toenail cut out when the anesthetic didn't work.
Don't click on them and they'll stop appearing: the algorithm is punishing you for your own morbid curiosity :laugh:
Ah fuck I get suckered with those too, they all look so damn good looking :laugh:
(A far cry from Jo Brand and the like anyway)
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on August 27, 2023, 07:01:51 PMDon't click on them and they'll stop appearing: the algorithm is punishing you for your own morbid curiosity :laugh:
I know I know ive only myself to blame but it's a scab I can't resist picking.
There are funny women out there...
Like Dame Edna and Eddie Izzard.
I'm a rugby fan, a Connacht fan and a fan of Finlay Bealham, Connacht's tighthead prop. He's famously a fan of metal, Amon Amarth and all that shite. After checking dates, it turns out he's about 6 months older than Vulgar Dislpay...
It just got me to thinking - that era would be 'classic rock' to people of that age but to metal fans, would they view it through the same lens?
I don't think of 30 year old albums in those terms, but then I'm much older than my chosen test subject.
Is this like how I think of Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, is that how they think of GNR and Nirvana?
The difference being that Vulgar Display is still quite a heavy sounding album, would that be the equivalent of one of us old fuckers hearing Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 30 years later, for instance?
I know what you mean. I've a sort of time warp thing going as well where I think music from the 90s still sounds new.
On a related note I was at work lately talking about films and I mentioned Heat, saying I was going to watch it later. "Is that old?" says the wan. "Nah it's from the late 90s" says I. "I wasn't even born then ya fuckin eejit" she says.
:'(
I had a similar thing a few years ago when I mentioned seeing Maiden in the Point in 1990 to a lad, he said "I wasn't even born". The same lad is a singer in 2 bands now.
Quote from: astfgyl on September 02, 2023, 09:41:54 AMI know what you mean. I've a sort of time warp thing going as well where I think music from the 90s still sounds new.
To be fair quality music of any genre is absolutely timeless. There's no shortage of music that doesn't age well at all but the good stuff still sounds fresh and exciting no matter how old it is.
You know those people who look Chinese but aren't. I wonder if there are Chinese people who look extra Chinese. A bit TOO Chinese! Even the Chinese look at them and wonder... are they?
A mate called around earlier and - out of the blue - handed me a prized possession: Faith No More's Angel Dust on first press double vinyl, signed by all of the band and framed. Sweet.
Now this should be in the Simple Pleasures thread, if not for the fact that he said something along the lines of "you'd be getting it eventually anyway, so why wait?" Has me worried, he said he was alright and didn't hang around long enough for a proper chat so I reckon I'll have to keep an eye on him. He's had a lot of shit thrown his way recently.
christ man that's more than a little unnerving, I'd be having a word with his nearest and dearest if I was you
Aye. That's not good talk at all.
Yeah, I might give his mother a call, I'd rather run the risk of ruffling feathers and be wrong than the alternative.
Yeah, it's that or take him for a pint and get him talking a bit
Quote from: Carnage on October 12, 2023, 07:31:48 PMYeah, I might give his mother a call, I'd rather run the risk of ruffling feathers and be wrong than the alternative.
Good man. Yeah dig him out for a pint somewhere unusual to break the habits a bit and maybe let a few people know to keep an eye. Fair dues for spotting it too.
Hope your mate'll be okay. Can only echo the above advice: give him a call, "Here let me grab you at least a pint for that vinyl man," kinda thing.
Bring him out for two pints and see what other records he has!
Nah man, just acting the cunt. Follow the advice above or call his folks as you said if you are worried. Get him chatting if he's stressed or depressed.
Can't really add to what has been said, if it's out of character which seems the case could be a cry for help. Good luck to yas.
Spoke to his mother and she's aware of the situation, as worried as I am. It's not just me who's picked up on it, he's been off with a few people. She lives a couple of hundred yards down the road from him so she can keep an eye on him at least.
He's not up for pints, says he wants some time to himself, fucked up with the town, that kind of thing. I might suggest a visit/ few cans at his, see how that goes...
Jaysus that's an awful situation to find yourself in.
Fuckin hell, sorry to hear that.
Hope ye get it sorted out man, poor fella.
Some fucker videoed a gig I was at a couple of weeks ago. Grand, but the fucker was right behind me (which I had no idea of) for the whole thing and it's like watching myself watching a gig, which is a bit of a fourth-wall head-wrecking experience.
Anyone else here slightly OCD about things? It's fucking mad the way some small 'issues' escalate. The sky remote from the living room went missing yesterday, this is something most normal people would probably just gloss over and get on with but not me...no, I've spent about a full day searching high and low for the damn thing to no avail. Now, when I get mildly stressed about things, my usual coping mechanism is to start tidying around me. I then decided that the back garden was due a clean so I went outside and got started. Had a few brief moments for a vape (btw I'm off the smokes almost twenty years and I've started up this bad habit to deal with stress) and a ponder, then noticed a sizeable crack in the rear outside wall of the house which I reckon first appeared when we got an extension done about 4 years ago. This is first time it really started to bother me though. So now I've gone from a missing remote control to the house falling down around me, all in the space of a few minutes. From that giant leap, I then started fretting about paying a mortgage on a house which is crumbling around me, and realising I'll have work well into my 60s to pay the damn thing off.
I just decided to hit reset momentarily and I'm in the kitchen, watching my young fella playing Mario on his Switch without a care in the world. I'd say that lasted all of five minutes before I started berating myself for worrying about a stupid remote control when so many poor unfortunates are in their homes, right now, listening to the sounds of rockets firing overhead. Time for a beer maybe.
I just went to empty the dishwasher and was wondering why the glasses were still manky, until I copped that I hadn't turned the bloody thing on in the first place. So I went from worry that the machine was banjaxed to relief that it was still (barely) working, and then to worry that I'm heading into The Doddery Years.
I poured boiling water into the open coffee jar earlier instead of my mug. Bad shit :-\
Quote from: John Kimble on October 22, 2023, 05:20:25 PMAnyone else here slightly OCD about things? It's fucking mad the way some small 'issues' escalate. The sky remote from the living room went missing yesterday, this is something most normal people would probably just gloss over and get on with but not me...no, I've spent about a full day searching high and low for the damn thing to no avail. Now, when I get mildly stressed about things, my usual coping mechanism is to start tidying around me. I then decided that the back garden was due a clean so I went outside and got started. Had a few brief moments for a vape (btw I'm off the smokes almost twenty years and I've started up this bad habit to deal with stress) and a ponder, then noticed a sizeable crack in the rear outside wall of the house which I reckon first appeared when we got an extension done about 4 years ago. This is first time it really started to bother me though. So now I've gone from a missing remote control to the house falling down around me, all in the space of a few minutes. From that giant leap, I then started fretting about paying a mortgage on a house which is crumbling around me, and realising I'll have work well into my 60s to pay the damn thing off.
I just decided to hit reset momentarily and I'm in the kitchen, watching my young fella playing Mario on his Switch without a care in the world. I'd say that lasted all of five minutes before I started berating myself for worrying about a stupid remote control when so many poor unfortunates are in their homes, right now, listening to the sounds of rockets firing overhead. Time for a beer maybe.
Our Sky remote has a feature that if you hold down a button on the Digi box, it starts beeping. Handy as fuck.
Quote from: Thorn on October 22, 2023, 09:12:14 PMI poured boiling water into the open coffee jar earlier instead of my mug. Bad shit :-\
:laugh: :laugh:
There's been mornings I've been close but never actually done it. Amazing :laugh:
Amazingly worrying!
Quote from: John Kimble on October 22, 2023, 05:20:25 PMAnyone else here slightly OCD about things? It's fucking mad the way some small 'issues' escalate. The sky remote from the living room went missing yesterday, this is something most normal people would probably just gloss over and get on with but not me...no, I've spent about a full day searching high and low for the damn thing to no avail. Now, when I get mildly stressed about things, my usual coping mechanism is to start tidying around me. I then decided that the back garden was due a clean so I went outside and got started. Had a few brief moments for a vape (btw I'm off the smokes almost twenty years and I've started up this bad habit to deal with stress) and a ponder, then noticed a sizeable crack in the rear outside wall of the house which I reckon first appeared when we got an extension done about 4 years ago. This is first time it really started to bother me though. So now I've gone from a missing remote control to the house falling down around me, all in the space of a few minutes. From that giant leap, I then started fretting about paying a mortgage on a house which is crumbling around me, and realising I'll have work well into my 60s to pay the damn thing off.
I just decided to hit reset momentarily and I'm in the kitchen, watching my young fella playing Mario on his Switch without a care in the world. I'd say that lasted all of five minutes before I started berating myself for worrying about a stupid remote control when so many poor unfortunates are in their homes, right now, listening to the sounds of rockets firing overhead. Time for a beer maybe.
I'm awful for stuff like that, it's soul destroying by times. What also wrecks my head is when I build something out of wood or steel, unless it's spot on to the millimeter I can't let it go...do I need to join an emo band?
Quote from: John Kimble on October 22, 2023, 05:20:25 PMAnyone else here slightly OCD about things? It's fucking mad the way some small 'issues' escalate...
I'm definitely on that boat, man and I know exactly what you mean. I can take a seemingly mundane problem and within 10 minutes be at the very height of mania or obsession with it. And then it'll fester and gnaw at my psyche for hours, days or weeks sometimes. I have lost weeks of sleep just lying in bed playing out "what-if" catastrophes. To the point where I find myself bawling crying over something that will NEVER happen. Which can lead to being tightly-wound, depressed or just down for ages.
I also have the classic check and re-check and re-check and re-check things. To the point that now I take a photo of my front door to make sure it's locked or my cooker to make sure it's off.
If I'm in the house on my own and I have to leave for work then I won't have a breakfast that involves turning anything on (except the coffee machine which has a 45 min auto-off) like the grill or the stove because I will have to go back and double-check it 10 times before I leave.
If I was cleverer then I would read up a bit more on things like self-sabotage and stuff. But I'd end up spriralling that way too. I set out to leave my house 10 minutes earlier than I need to but, without fail, I find myself checking doors and windows and then bolting upstairs to make sure that the iron is unplugged or phone charger is plugged out. Even when I
know that I haven't used the iron or charged my phone.
When I do finally get out of the house, I have to do my checks on the door by holding the locked handle and mumbling a mantra-like thing to reassure myself that it's locked. If a neighbour is coming out of their house at the same time and says something to me like "Morning to you, Stout" I give back cheery "How's it going?" and then wait for them to leave so that I can re-start my mantra.
This is not new either. I've been like this since I was a kid. I think that it partially stems from having parents who were both more interested in themselves and would intervene with anger, a belt or making hurtful, end-of-days comments towards me if I upset their routines or did something stupid.
The childhood fear of making a mistake and being reprimanded for it plays into it, I guess. This is borne out by the fact that if my wife & I leave home at the same time and she locks up - the thought of the door being unlocked never once enters my mind.
Oddly - this compulsion does not follow into my professional life. I do a job, I check it over once. If something needs correcting, it's corrected and then I sign it off.
I'll go back to talking about puking in New York bars now.
Quote from: Thorn on October 22, 2023, 09:12:14 PMI poured boiling water into the open coffee jar earlier instead of my mug. Bad shit :-\
I make my coffee in one of those mocha yokes...
Was in such a tired stupor one morning I ended up pouring my coffee into my porridge.
Still ate it!
Her good self used to have coffee with milk and oats for breakfast on a regular basis after doing that by mistake one morning :laugh:
Quote from: StoutAndAle on October 23, 2023, 03:24:56 PMQuote from: John Kimble on October 22, 2023, 05:20:25 PMAnyone else here slightly OCD about things? It's fucking mad the way some small 'issues' escalate...
I'm definitely on that boat, man and I know exactly what you mean. I can take a seemingly mundane problem and within 10 minutes be at the very height of mania or obsession with it. And then it'll fester and gnaw at my psyche for hours, days or weeks sometimes. I have lost weeks of sleep just lying in bed playing out "what-if" catastrophes. To the point where I find myself bawling crying over something that will NEVER happen. Which can lead to being tightly-wound, depressed or just down for ages.
I used to ruminate something awful too but it sort of died off a bit after a few years - I learned a little how to talk myself down, not from looking it up or anything but in some situations a few things clicked and the level of then in general improved. Hard to explain here really and it's also a rotten hard thing to take help with because all outside help just pushed further down the spiral, people tryimg to de-escalate you feels like they are making light of it and it gets worse. Still happens on occasion but doesn't escalate as much luckily - but yeah I completely get you here and it has a rotten knock on effect for days.
I have various degrees of everything else mentioned in the quotes on OP here. Most not as severe but the locking doors and double checking everything, yeah definitely.
Quote from: jobrok1 on October 23, 2023, 04:47:10 PMQuote from: Thorn on October 22, 2023, 09:12:14 PMI poured boiling water into the open coffee jar earlier instead of my mug. Bad shit :-\
I make my coffee in one of those mocha yokes...
Was in such a tired stupor one morning I ended up pouring my coffee into my porridge.
Still ate it!
Yep, I think ye have me trumped there hehe
I think it's amusing how people are so quick to jump at calling Varg a Nazi. It seems to me like the third least worst of his personality traits that one might get upset about.
Surely far and away in first place is the brutal butchery of one of his best friends. In terms of severity and in terms of down right cold, misanthropic activity that is the gold standard. But meh,whatever.
Silver would then have to go to the multiple arson attacks on buildings of cultural rarity and value. So much history lost in all of that. But meh, whatever.
The bronze medal then must go to his far right xenophobic and racist beliefs. Oh my god, Varg said something mean about black people! What a disgusting, inhuman monster. I bet he doesn't even compost. Ban him!! :laugh:
All three fall nicely under the National Socialist spa personality though, no? Extreme violence against people you decide are plotting against you, burning religious buildings and destroying their history and culture, racism and xenophobia were all core tenets of Nazism. He ticks a lot of boxes, let's say, even if he doesn't wear a brown shirt and armband.
Sure hasn't he even occupied France?
Jaysus, he has 8 kids now. Is he trying to create his own master race?
Just amusing myself here, genitalmen. That's the height of it. Don't read too much into my brain farts 8)
Of the three aspects, although fleshed out by the fact that he is a murderer who burnt churches, it's his pseudo-scientific racist rants that have the highest potential for inspiring others to violence.
And not to compost.
"What if we started an unnotable deaths thread just for Matthew Perry?"
Human compost, if you will.
Edit. Shit news in fairness. He seems to have been a very troubled dude and you would hope he might have managed to get himself together. Maybe he did but the decades of abuse caught up with him. RIP.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on October 29, 2023, 01:47:02 AM"What if we started an unnotable deaths thread just for Matthew Perry?"
Matthew perished
I didn't even remember posting that last night :laugh: I think the first thing that came into my head when I read it was the most recent thing I recalled about him, which was when he shat on Keanu Reeves for no reason anyone could fathom.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on October 30, 2023, 01:43:48 AMI didn't even remember posting that last night :laugh: I think the first thing that came into my head when I read it was the most recent thing I recalled about him, which was when he shat on Keanu Reeves for no reason anyone could fathom.
Ah I thought he actually shit on him, that was a disappointing google
:laugh: :laugh:
The more you put a white t-shirt in the wash the less white it becomes. So the grubbier your white t-shirt looks, the cleaner it is :o
Wash at 40 degrees lad :laugh:
Yep that 30 degree shit isn't worth a shit in a good few ways
That Clonakilty black pudding advert that comes up on YouTube lately (maybe it's on telly too but I don't have the channels to find out) - speaks straight to my soul but years too late. "Why not put black pudding in everything and see what happens?" Yeah I'm way ahead of you there.
Although they did have it in a stir fry which sounds decent and I haven't tried, I might give it a go, usually just put a fried egg on top and no meat in the actual mix, their suggestion seems to be crumb it out throughout a sort of noodle dish. I imagine you could do a decent fried rice with it in the mix there. Often used it in an omelette with chillies and scallions (and soy sauce) so not too far of a stretch there if the rice was left spare.
Can't bayt black pudding, lovely in a roll or wrap. Break it up and mix it in with scrambled egg. Mighty.
YEEEESSSSS!!!!!!!!! I make a black pudding pasta. Black pudding, bacon, bell peppers, courgette and away you go. Savage. I'm yet to have something with bp that I haven't liked.
Love black pudding! Was pleasantly surprised when I went to Edinburgh a few years ago to find out haggis is pretty much the same thing, and they put it on everything
There isn't anything that can't be improved on by the addition of black pudding.
Yer wan in the ad is fierce pleasing on the eye too, made even more appealing by the fact that she has black pudding!
Also - white pudding can get ta fuck so it can.
White pudding is lovely you madman, just not in the same league as its swarthy cousin.
And yes, yer wan is most pleasant. A singer/sonwriter by the name of Polly Barrett, apparently.
Bye bye-bye-bye-bye....
there's nothing that can't be done with a good black pudding. I actually went on the clonakilty tour and all in the hope they would fill me up with many black puddings but instead I got to dress up like a 19th century butcher and that was that pretty much
Black Pudding is the business with White a close second, I can't understand anyone not liking it, and many don't, but it's their loss...
Yeah, black pudding in cooking is savage. Gotta have a bit of white pudding for the aul full Irish, and I love it as part of that, but funnily enough it's never occurred to me to try adding it to any other dishes.
Can't for the life of me remember the name of it, but there was/is a fancy pizza place on George's Street and that's where, at least 20 years ago, I first had the blinkers lifted off me by a black pudding and rocket pizza.
My youth hangover cure was always 2 birds eye waffles in bread with ketchup/mayo mix, throw 2 black pudding in one sambo, 2 white in the other, rasher in there too and have 3 Hafner sausages on the plate ready to chomp on while eating the sambos. Amazing I never burnt down the gaff grilling at 3am :laugh:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on November 07, 2023, 08:34:15 AMCan't for the life of me remember the name of it, but there was/is a fancy pizza place on George's Street and that's where, at least 20 years ago, I first had the blinkers lifted off me by a black pudding and rocket pizza.
There was a spot here in Limerick (Cobblestones it was called) that did a full Irish pizza - sausages, both puddings, rashers, and a fried egg on top, also with a bit of rocket. Merciless feed. Closed now though. Have made a chorizo and black pudding pizza a few times at home, with the BP crumbled across it and some feta too, unreal combination but I could never find a veg to suit it. Red onions and peppers grand yeah they work, but didn't add much bar loading it down.
Quote from: The Butcher on November 07, 2023, 09:26:35 AMMy youth hangover cure was always 2 birds eye waffles in bread with ketchup/mayo mix, throw 2 black pudding in one sambo, 2 white in the other, rasher in there too and have 3 Hafner sausages on the plate ready to chomp on while eating the sambos. Amazing I never burnt down the gaff grilling at 3am :laugh:
:laugh: I still go for a waffle sandwich after a night out. Great soak for the hangover. The air fryer nowadays makes me much less likely to burn the house down at least.
I'll have to grab a shtick of the black stuff this weekend after reading all this. I wonder would it work on the bbq ???
That's what it was! Black pudding, chorizo and rocket, amazing :abbath:
Have since seen full Irish pizzas alright, though personally I was always put off by the egg on it. I'm not so fussy about it now, but I used to be one of those visceral disgust at even a drop of tomato sauce getting on the fried egg people, sausage and bacon barricade to keep egg and baked beans as separate as possible :laugh:
Madness. You have to split the yoke and mix it into the beans. Jets of ketchup firing in from all angles, naturally.
Guess I'm not fully over it... I feel ill picturing that :laugh:
Beans have no place on a breakfast plate. I will die on this hill.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on November 07, 2023, 10:04:08 AMI'll have to grab a shtick of the black stuff this weekend after reading all this. I wonder would it work on the bbq ???
Can you get decent pudding in Aus? When I lived in Canada it was rare enough I'd come across it and when I did it was locally made stuff. It was grand but pricey and about as good as the Denny's €1 block here lol. But I imagine if it was cut lengthways and thin it would bbq up nicely.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on November 07, 2023, 11:13:22 AMGuess I'm not fully over it... I feel ill picturing that :laugh:
This reminded me of a time, decades ago now (Jesus) when Astfgyl, as viciously against the ketchup as you were there, decided on a session to have a taste of the Chef ketchup out of the glass bottle while we were poisoned. He tried to shake a little bit out of the bottle into his mouth, with his head back, but sure of course that wasn't working fast enough, so I hit the bottle a good clatter with the palm of my hand to help him out. Half the bottle came out, filled the entire void of his mouth :laugh: I've never seen such terror on a lad's face. Think it ruined him for the stuff for life.
I love ketchup, just not with egg. And I love a mouthful of baked beans and sausage (oo-er!), but the tomato sauce from the beans, if a drop got on the fried egg I would literally wipe it off before eating it haha
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on November 07, 2023, 01:10:26 PMI love ketchup, just not with egg.
A friend for a cheap n quick munch would break an egg into a cup, whisk it about with a fork, into the microwave for 35-45 seconds, squirts the aul ketchup in and mixed it about again with a fork and would eat it with a spoon. It sounded like the most disgusting thing until I tried it one night post drink and needed a quick fix - and wasn't too bad :laugh:
Quote from: ochoill on November 07, 2023, 12:35:16 PMThis reminded me of a time, decades ago now (Jesus) when Astfgyl, as viciously against the ketchup as you were there, decided on a session to have a taste of the Chef ketchup out of the glass bottle while we were poisoned. He tried to shake a little bit out of the bottle into his mouth, with his head back, but sure of course that wasn't working fast enough, so I hit the bottle a good clatter with the palm of my hand to help him out. Half the bottle came out, filled the entire void of his mouth :laugh: I've never seen such terror on a lad's face. Think it ruined him for the stuff for life.
Some of the Astfgyl tales you tell on here genuinely make me laugh out loud :laugh: :laugh:
I like the ol' egg over-hard, so bring on the beans! Am in total agreement though that a soft yolk mixing with the beans is akin to a turd falling into my drink.
Quote from: Carnage on November 07, 2023, 11:26:22 AMBeans have no place on a breakfast plate. I will die on this hill.
They're the most important part! Ties it all together. I don't think beans are an official ingredient of an Ulster fry though...
Or a full Irish. In my day the closest you'd get to veg was a bit of fried tomato, which I'm also not a fan of TBH.
Fried tomato is a waste of space on the plate when you could stack your hash browns in that corner. A moat of beans, ketchup and gooey egg holding the bacon at bay.
Hash browns are manky, fried spuds is what should be there.
Rashers, sausages, black & white pudding, fried egg, mushrooms, fried spuds, toast & tea. Bit of brown sauce on the side and you're sorted.
Do people have chip pans still? Chips 10 times better than the ones cooked in the oven but don't seem to see them in people's houses anymore.
Quote from: Kunt 4 Life on November 10, 2023, 10:17:06 AMDo people have chip pans still? Chips 10 times better than the ones cooked in the oven but don't seem to see them in people's houses anymore.
The price of cooking oil and getting rid of the used oil makes them rarely used anymore, plus you can use them to burn the house down...
True they were an absolute death trap but you cant deny they made some tasty chips
Tried to convince a lad last night that you're supposed to load up your air fryer with oil like a chip pan, to obviously no success, but the stupidity of it gave me a good laugh.
Quote from: Kunt 4 Life on November 10, 2023, 10:36:28 AMTrue they were an absolute death trap but you cant deny they made some tasty chips
Totally agree, I used to make my own battered sausages and burgers with it, savage...
Quote from: ochoill on November 10, 2023, 10:49:42 AMTried to convince a lad last night that you're supposed to load up your air fryer with oil like a chip pan, to obviously no success, but the stupidity of it gave me a good laugh.
:laugh:
That's the sort of thing you know someday you'll see some TV3 journo reporting on outside a local hospital.
Fuck sake :laugh:
We never had a proper deep-fat fryer at home when I was a kid, just this thing we called the chip pan, looked like it had been recovered from a nuclear meltdown.
The mother threw water on one when it caught fire. The scorch mark on the ceiling was epic. She is quite lucky with whatever way she was standing. She still has a face!
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on November 10, 2023, 12:11:33 PMWe never had a proper deep-fat fryer at home when I was a kid, just this thing we called the chip pan, looked like it had been recovered from a nuclear meltdown.
Yep, same for years. Looked like the elephant's foot in Chernobyl at the end.
Quote from: hellfire on November 10, 2023, 01:58:43 PMThe mother threw water on one when it caught fire. The scorch mark on the ceiling was epic. She is quite lucky with whatever way she was standing. She still has a face!
Don't they tell you thats not what you should do?
This is why we cant have nice things.
I can assure you that it is the wrong thing to do. Unless your intention is to make a giant ball of fire spring forth from a flaming chip pan. Damp towel over it lads.
And you could use the used chip fat oil to draw on the lawn, and it would remain visible for months...
Was playing a game of sim City one evening and got hungry for a few chips so I filled up a saucepan with chip oil and boiled it up (oven chips like fuck that) and went back in to terrorise the citizens while I waited.
Oh of course the fuckin yoke went on fire didn't it so I was all clever and wet a towel and smothered it out nicely like that no panic like but I put the pot on the worktop and it fuckin burned through it. Missus was like a dog and the smell never came out of the place but other than that it was a flawless victory of staying calm under pressure and the threat of certain death so I considered myself heroic in the end.
Then while I was being a hero as I was, a tornado fucked up my city
Remember Phileas Fogg tortilla chips? The nicest of the lot, they disappeared in the late '90s. Greatly missed so after a bit of googling the closest we'll come seems to be to buy a bag of plain tortilla chips and throw a fuckload of cajun seasoning in with them.
Tried that. No. It's OK but not quite there.
I reckon mix a bit of cayenne pepper and it'll be closer. Perchance a dash of chili powder. I shall report my findings anon.
Oh yeah, I remember them. Nice.
https://www.historydefined.net/marina-abramovic/
Was just reading that, thinking about what it says about human nature. Then I started wondering about what it says about herself and the type of people she's hanging around with.
Either way it was interesting enough
I wonder if there was an element of egging on, or some kind of explicit suggestion made to the crowd. Or perhaps there was a plant or two in the audience whose job it was was to start taking things in a darker direction. Maybe that's just my 2023 brain unable to wrap itself around the reality that art used to actually be dangerous rather than an often boring, self indulgent reflection of modern woke ideals. One thing is a certainty, I think. A performance like that wouldn't work at all today because everyone would be terrified of going near her let alone cutting her clothes off.
Fair point, it wouldn't have been much of a performance if everyone was simply nice about it.
Haha yep. It wouldn't have revolutionised performance art if she just stood there unmolested for hours :laugh:
:laugh:
https://www.newstalk.com/news/luke-oneill-heavy-metal-music-might-reduce-climate-change-1615839?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1700399769-1
My old pal Luke here with a point I've alluded to myself once or twice. We'll have to introduce him to a bit of the old straight edge stuff like Earth Crisis
https://youtu.be/VGhcSupkNs8?si=8RQgYe2fc5iaDLTI
Stick with it. It takes a couple of strange turns but his level of commitment is amazing, and watching it all is rewarded by a brilliant payoff at the end.
Quote from: Carnage on November 20, 2023, 01:28:07 PMhttps://youtu.be/VGhcSupkNs8?si=8RQgYe2fc5iaDLTI
Stick with it. It takes a couple of strange turns but his level of commitment is amazing, and watching it all is rewarded by a brilliant payoff at the end.
Ah bobby fingers lethal. I didn't know he had a new video up, his others are class. Waiting until this evening to watch this.
Might be his best yet, just mental.
That was quite literally incredible :laugh:
I'd never heard of him before. Bobby Fingers that is, not Bezos.
I've seen a few others, but nothing on that scale or with that dedication and commitment to the joke. His voicover delivery is perfect.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on November 20, 2023, 10:12:10 PMThat was quite literally incredible :laugh:
I'd never heard of him before. Bobby Fingers that is, not Bezos.
If it wasn't obvious from the videos (I actually can't remember if he says it or not lol) it's Mr. Chrome out of the Rubberbandits
Yeah, a mate just told me now. The accent and vibe of the humour had me wondering but I thought I might be imagining it. Fair play to him for getting his own thing going, specially as it's this good.
That is absolutely amazing. Fuckin hell. Figured it must be him fairly early on cause I know he does model making and the King Kong Company bit sealed it. He's joined them as far as I know. I couldn't wish him more success in making stuff like that. Class.
Didn't know who he was at all but came across him about a year ago and he's brilliant
Watched the other videos there. All amazing.
He's lethal. The only one I haven't seen is the Michael Jackson one, keeping it for tonight. That Bezos one is spectacular but the work he puts into them all is savage.
Spectacular and the very last line is a dinger. Got a good lol out of it.
That was unbelievable, been binging more of his stuff all morning when I really should have been working!
It's great the way he can easily explain the process in making them whole still having a laugh with it
Incredibly talented fucker, across a good few disciplines.
Shirley temple bar is a bit of a legend isn't he
I had the best idea ever.
Nursing home costs are crippling for families. This is well known.
Grandad starting to go on the blink?
Get him to commit a serious crime while he still can.
Problem solved at no cost to his family.
Quote from: astfgyl on November 25, 2023, 02:44:39 AMShirley temple bar is a bit of a legend isn't he
When he started to do Telly Bingo as himself instead of Shirley it just felt wrong. I had got used to Shirley doing the ould bingo.
The lad himself does come across well in any interview I've heard.
Quote from: astfgyl on December 02, 2023, 07:08:24 PMI had the best idea ever.
Nursing home costs are crippling for families. This is well known.
Grandad starting to go on the blink?
Get him to commit a serious crime while he still can.
Problem solved at no cost to his family.
:laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on December 02, 2023, 07:42:24 PMQuote from: astfgyl on December 02, 2023, 07:08:24 PMI had the best idea ever.
Nursing home costs are crippling for families. This is well known.
Grandad starting to go on the blink?
Get him to commit a serious crime while he still can.
Problem solved at no cost to his family.
:laugh: :laugh:
I'm honestly surprised that this brilliant idea didn't gain more traction. Not aimed at you at all but has anyone actually considered what that means for us as a society that lads that need to be locked up have a better all round deal than lads who need 24 hour nursing? If a lad goes to jail there's no Fair Deal scheme to take his house or anything and there's free medical care and meals and anything else that's needed but if grandad has dementia then he loses his house that he paid for so now can't leave it to his kids or the kids have to pay extortionate costs to keep him there under care but if he just kills someone in cold blood, he'll be looked after in every aspect at no cost to his family and he won't even have my home stolen by stealth by the government. This is true and I've been practicing the routine on people in real life and no one has actually thought of it before but when I say it, I can see the lighbulb blowing in all their heads.
It's a bit like the way nobody noticed that putting the number 1 in front of their name instead of the suggested number after it when they make their email address gives them their own name @whatever.com but they get to be number 1 of it. Actually try that one and if you haven't the same name as me (you don't but I still had to be number whatever) I guarantee you can have your own name with the number 1 in front of it even if you have the world's most common name.
How did no-one realise that jail is preferable all round to the nursing home or indeed that you don't have to be number 63 if you don't want to?
The dementiati and infirm are, of course, notable for their swiftness of foot, cunning and being able to remember and follow instruction.
Bizarrely enough, over here in Oz there was a case earlier in the year of an oul granny in a nursing home, suffering from dementia, who "attacked" a cop with a bread knife and was shot dead, wisps of smoke rising off her zimmer frame as she was reduced to ash.
And only yesterday there was a 91 year old man arrested for murdering his 85 year old wife. Don't fuck with dementia patients, they're mad!
I remember reading about that old woman getting done actually now you mention it.
What happens to prisoners with dementia here?
They kill cunts.
All the more reason to get em in there then!
Thousands Are Sailing. Has a more hair raisingly emotional and hauntingly beautiful song ever been written? I don't think so. Yeah yeah, The Coffin Ships... it's a cool song but it doesn't even come close.
Has it got more poignant since you've emigrated? Serious question btw and also I'm assuming it's an old song but I've never heard of it so I could be way off the mark but I'm thinking it's like listening to Fiddlers Green after someone has died versus a regular day
Hmmm, maybe so but it always was a poignant number. If you haven't heard it, check it out. Just a stunning piece of music all round, but McGowan's lyrics take it to other levels.
There's some amazing a lines in that song. Not usually a big lyric man but they stand out especially in that song
Watched a performance of the Irish Rover on YouTube last night and fuck me I've never seen a lad give it socks like that on a tin whistle. Watched it twice it was so good
Who'll cry for Brush...
Apparently this is the new Kanye West album cover...look familiar to anyone :laugh: .
(https://preview.redd.it/kanyes-new-album-cover-references-famous-nazi-black-metal-v0-963h8nd67p5c1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=3523e4a72d052ee1ff806d2c16d3d2b89fbeaf0c)
Just a bit!
Quote from: Eoin McLove on December 07, 2023, 10:51:02 PMHmmm, maybe so but it always was a poignant number. If you haven't heard it, check it out. Just a stunning piece of music all round, but McGowan's lyrics take it to other levels.
Philip Chevron wrote that song. Great song alright.
Was just gonna say.
I take it all back so :laugh:
Quote from: ldj on December 11, 2023, 08:43:11 PMApparently this is the new Kanye West album cover...look familiar to anyone :laugh: .
It gets even funnier than that
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Kanye_West_and_Ty_Dolla_Sign_%28%C2%A5%24%29_%E2%80%93_Vultures.png)
Also found out this morning that the long instrumental off Filosofem was sampled into a Kanye West track years ago. Gas.
Quote from: ochoill on December 18, 2023, 08:07:08 AMQuote from: ldj on December 11, 2023, 08:43:11 PMApparently this is the new Kanye West album cover...look familiar to anyone :laugh: .
It gets even funnier than that
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Kanye_West_and_Ty_Dolla_Sign_%28%C2%A5%24%29_%E2%80%93_Vultures.png)
Also found out this morning that the long instrumental off Filosofem was sampled into a Kanye West track years ago. Gas.
Would love to hear the Counts thoughts on that
Any of you know much about TVs? I've a problem with mine since the other night. So every 15-20 minutes, it glitches out, freezes for about 10 seconds and then restarts itself and goes again for about the same length of time. Doesn't matter what I'm streaming from - sky box, dodgy box, built in streaming - it does the same on them all, which has me thinking it's either the telly itself or maybe a network issue of some sort, router or something but I've tried the usual resetting back to factory and latest update and of course turning it off and on again but same result every time.
Can't find anything online to help, so are there any tech heads on here who might have any ideas?
I'm used to those modern flatscreen things clapping out after a year or two but I've only had this a year and it doesn't feel like a hardware problem to me. It's a 50 inch Samsung one if that makes any difference.
That kid in the darts this week. He's 16! He's fucking 16 years old, he fucking looks over 40. What a horrific life he must be leading, but will become an inspiration to many. Mental.
(https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023WYF_Littler05-7128.jpg)
What the fuck! 16 with a lifetime of pints under his belt. What an athlete. I'm assuming that picture is him. I was actually watching the darts for about 2 hours earlier and I couldn't tell you who any of them were. Wasn't the worst entertainment all the same.
Quote from: astfgyl on December 30, 2023, 06:01:41 PMAny of you know much about TVs? I've a problem with mine since the other night. So every 15-20 minutes, it glitches out, freezes for about 10 seconds and then restarts itself and goes again for about the same length of time. Doesn't matter what I'm streaming from - sky box, dodgy box, built in streaming - it does the same on them all, which has me thinking it's either the telly itself or maybe a network issue of some sort, router or something but I've tried the usual resetting back to factory and latest update and of course turning it off and on again but same result every time.
Can't find anything online to help, so are there any tech heads on here who might have any ideas?
I'm used to those modern flatscreen things clapping out after a year or two but I've only had this a year and it doesn't feel like a hardware problem to me. It's a 50 inch Samsung one if that makes any difference.
It's broken
Play this on it and pretend Phil is your TV.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2-V8kYT1pvE
If it's under two years old, though, get onto the shop to replace or repair it. Those fat cat tyrants in Brussels are on your side for this one ;)
https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers/consumer-contracts-guarantees/consumer-guarantees/index_en.htm
Quote from: John Kimble on December 31, 2023, 09:40:13 AMQuote from: astfgyl on December 30, 2023, 06:01:41 PMAny of you know much about TVs? I've a problem with mine since the other night. So every 15-20 minutes, it glitches out, freezes for about 10 seconds and then restarts itself and goes again for about the same length of time. Doesn't matter what I'm streaming from - sky box, dodgy box, built in streaming - it does the same on them all, which has me thinking it's either the telly itself or maybe a network issue of some sort, router or something but I've tried the usual resetting back to factory and latest update and of course turning it off and on again but same result every time.
Can't find anything online to help, so are there any tech heads on here who might have any ideas?
I'm used to those modern flatscreen things clapping out after a year or two but I've only had this a year and it doesn't feel like a hardware problem to me. It's a 50 inch Samsung one if that makes any difference.
It's broken
Starting to come to that conclusion myself. Luckily it's still under warranty so I sort of hope it stays broken now
That Littler fella is great. Not massively into the darts but heading over to it tomorrow with a few mates so been brushing up. Should be a good session.
I'd say the drinking at the darts would be something out of the Stout and Ale handbook
Quote from: Bürggermeister on December 30, 2023, 10:24:27 PMThat kid in the darts this week. He's 16! He's fucking 16 years old, he fucking looks over 40. What a horrific life he must be leading, but will become an inspiration to many. Mental.
(https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023WYF_Littler05-7128.jpg)
He would fit in well in this era..
He's some talent, that's for sure. Well able to keep his calm on the big stage. Thought it was funny that his oul' wan had to sit in on his interview yesterday 'cos he's underage.
He wasn't born until a few months after Van Barneveld won his last world championship, that must have killed Barney after being beaten.
Ya, he's class. Mad to be that composed at that age but I suppose he isn't wide, he is, to the world so maybe easier to be unphased. Unfortunately we have evening tickets tomorrow so won't see him.
https://twitter.com/begorabejaysus/status/1741199158248181789?t=CTGhueKMBcQxxJr04LX-Nw&s=19
I think this lad was at the darts
The benchmark is set.
Anyone I know who's gone reckoned it was good craic anyway. You'll be watching it all on the big screen but the atmosphere is good.
Quote from: Carnage on December 31, 2023, 05:10:38 PMAnyone I know who's gone reckoned it was good craic anyway. You'll be watching it all on the big screen but the atmosphere is good.
Ya know a few that went and said it was good craic. They go through your wallet and pockets at the security check so hide those bags of coke in your trainers.
Noted.
Right, time to get the night's drinking underway. Happy New Year yiz inimitable kvnts! :abbath:
More practical advice! :laugh:
Happy new year to you all lads
Sláinte from the future, fuckheads.
All the best for 2024 lads. I say lads as I'm guessing it's a bit of a "sausage fest" round these parts. :laugh: :laugh:
Happy New Year lads!
Quote from: Hellyeah on December 31, 2023, 10:27:17 PMAll the best for 2024 lads. I say lads as I'm guessing it's a bit of a "sausage fest" round these parts. :laugh: :laugh:
I actually don't think there are any women at all on here. I vaguely remember one coming on promoting some band or other for about a day but that was that.
Haven't even the decency to have a hangover here today, a very tame entry to 2024
Was that Claire23? Wiping up the sweat from the floor? 😂
:laugh:
Every year, the loss of the classic threads hurts that little bit more.
:laugh: I bet it was and all because I can't think of any others. Wasn't claire23 some bloke out of one of the NI bands in the end?
Would you rather be probed by the police or probed by an alien.
Anyone else notice the amount of flies that are about for this time of year? Mental stuff...
Quote from: Eoin McLove on January 10, 2024, 09:54:32 PMWould you rather be probed by the police or probed by an alien.
I've thought about it and I dunno tbh. They both seem like terrible experiences.
Quote from: The Heretic on January 12, 2024, 10:43:14 AMAnyone else notice the amount of flies that are about for this time of year? Mental stuff...
Coming out now is like a death sentence for the cunts. I often wonder what effect WiFi signals and such like would have on their internal clock. Maybe none but I dunno either
Rain seems to be the one weather prediction nobody ever gets wrong
Were I a weather forecaster here, I would simply predict rain every day and then I would be nearly always right
It's how I imagine Scotland or Northern England
Imagine having been blessed to be a dwarf in the 80s. Straight to Hollywood. You'd be cashing checks in no time. PC culture fucked the little man.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on January 21, 2024, 05:26:47 AMImagine having been blessed to be a dwarf in the 80s. Straight to Hollywood. You'd be cashing checks in no time. PC culture fucked the little man.
You are right, they just seem to do a lot of porn and backyard wrestling these days.
Two noble traditions indeed.
Hugh Grant has run them out of the business.
Was reminded this morning of the greatest sax solo of all time, short song but skip to 0:48 if you have no patience. https://youtu.be/Pt76-vvCGWs?si=K34ljMC9wBKuYR8h
Quote from: ochoill on February 06, 2024, 01:42:05 PMWas reminded this morning of the greatest sax solo of all time, short song but skip to 0:48 if you have no patience. https://youtu.be/Pt76-vvCGWs?si=K34ljMC9wBKuYR8h
How did I forget about that :laugh: oh I know - trauma
:laugh: To be fair, it is the right note at least once
My personal favourite starts at about 3:30 here
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HIk7VnVwBNo&pp
3 minutes of that and I feel like how the tambourine player looks
Just put in the new washing machine there, the cycle seems to be a lot longer than the old one (8/9 years old) - 3 hrs 40 mins compared to 2 hrs 10 mins. Is that down to newer energy efficiency regulations I wonder? Same wash cycle for both (cotton, 30 degrees).
Yeah, ours is fairly new and takes forever too. My guess was the same as yours re energy efficiency, though I never dug in to verify.
This one has a B rating, no idea about the last one or how good/bad it was.
The energy ratings have changed in the last couple of years for appliances so what was a B could now be an F on the new rating.
I can confirm that new appliances take longer so as to reduce energy and water consumption.
(Note with the new washing machine you might get some pipe hammering due to the rapid shutoff of the valve to control water usage during the rinse cycle etc. I've just installed a hammer suppressor on mine)
Noted, cheers. Haven't used it yet, waiting 'til this evening.
Mine also takes years for the cotton wash. Assumed it was an eco thing myself. Don't forget to run it on the odd 90 degree wash while empty to keep the waste pipe clean
Aye. Should have taken a picture of the outflow pipe on the wall before I put it in, it's a right joke. 2 u-bends on it.
Quote from: stearl on February 08, 2024, 04:37:11 PMNote with the new washing machine you might get some pipe hammering due to the rapid shutoff of the valve to control water usage during the rinse cycle etc. I've just installed a hammer suppressor on mine
Yep, a bit of hammering alright, I'l be getting one of those.
Quote from: Carnage on February 08, 2024, 07:40:37 PMYep, a bit of hammering alright, I'l be getting one of those.
Bloody super efficient solenoid valves :abbath: :laugh:
The one I installed appears to have worked for now.
https://amzn.eu/d/dOMOe53
Ah lads meself and the (apparently grown up now) daughter are having some craic driving the wife up the wall by keeping on asking her to do things that she always asks us to do.
For everything else there's mastercard sort of job
Edit: made her take the cap off my beer and all
That referendum coming up....
The lads are up to something, mark my words. The referendum that nobody wanted or asked for or needed but all of a sudden it's essential to move with the times. Get a fucking grip if you're thinking of voting yes because this is represented by the very same lads that just voted against screwing the vulture funds about a week ago. It won't be for you, but the current wording is obviously a barrier to something or else the lads wouldn't be looking to change it. It's that simple really; tell me why or fuck off.
Have any of you checked your status on the voting register lately? You've been removed, in case you didn't know.
Shenanigans abound... change my mind, government lovers
I'm on it, although I had to enter my details again. I think it was adding PPS numbers to the profiles. Don't know that anyone was actually removed.
Enquired twice, never got an answer. Can you still check it in the post office I wonder?
You can check online
https://www.checktheregister.ie/en-IE/
That's what I've done, went through the steps twice, months apart. Ends with a promise of an answer by email. I've never gotten one.
Quote from: astfgyl on February 13, 2024, 12:05:30 AMThat referendum coming up....
The lads are up to something, mark my words. The referendum that nobody wanted or asked for or needed but all of a sudden it's essential to move with the times. Get a fucking grip if you're thinking of voting yes because this is represented by the very same lads that just voted against screwing the vulture funds about a week ago. It won't be for you, but the current wording is obviously a barrier to something or else the lads wouldn't be looking to change it. It's that simple really; tell me why or fuck off.
Have any of you checked your status on the voting register lately? You've been removed, in case you didn't know.
Shenanigans abound... change my mind, government lovers
I have had absolutely no exposure to this positively or negatively online or in any media - I have dropped off all social media bar IG and it doesn't get a mention there, and I don't watch the news. I knew it was happening and roughly what it was for so I went and read the changes to it there. I see absolutely nothing wrong with these changes and having had to jump through the fucking gauntlet of cares and supports offered by the state meself lately (a dense and ongoing bastard of a process) I can only see this making other supports for people in different situations to my own easier to access on a broader scale. I'll vote for it anyway. And you know I don't have any time for the current government.
Quote from: Carnage on February 13, 2024, 09:52:35 AMThat's what I've done, went through the steps twice, months apart. Ends with a promise of an answer by email. I've never gotten one.
Ah right, sorry. Had done it myself a few months ago, only got a reply a couple of weeks back. I think it's the local County Council who do the checking so some might be quicker than others.
I might wander into the council office when I'm in town later so, surely they'll have a record.
Quote from: ochoill on February 13, 2024, 09:53:25 AMQuote from: astfgyl on February 13, 2024, 12:05:30 AMThat referendum coming up....
The lads are up to something, mark my words. The referendum that nobody wanted or asked for or needed but all of a sudden it's essential to move with the times. Get a fucking grip if you're thinking of voting yes because this is represented by the very same lads that just voted against screwing the vulture funds about a week ago. It won't be for you, but the current wording is obviously a barrier to something or else the lads wouldn't be looking to change it. It's that simple really; tell me why or fuck off.
Have any of you checked your status on the voting register lately? You've been removed, in case you didn't know.
Shenanigans abound... change my mind, government lovers
I have had absolutely no exposure to this positively or negatively online or in any media - I have dropped off all social media bar IG and it doesn't get a mention there, and I don't watch the news. I knew it was happening and roughly what it was for so I went and read the changes to it there. I see absolutely nothing wrong with these changes and having had to jump through the fucking gauntlet of cares and supports offered by the state meself lately (a dense and ongoing bastard of a process) I can only see this making other supports for people in different situations to my own easier to access on a broader scale. I'll vote for it anyway. And you know I don't have any time for the current government.
Nah I ain't buying it. I'll cancel yours out
Quote from: astfgyl on February 13, 2024, 12:08:02 PMQuote from: ochoill on February 13, 2024, 09:53:25 AMQuote from: astfgyl on February 13, 2024, 12:05:30 AMThat referendum coming up....
The lads are up to something, mark my words. The referendum that nobody wanted or asked for or needed but all of a sudden it's essential to move with the times. Get a fucking grip if you're thinking of voting yes because this is represented by the very same lads that just voted against screwing the vulture funds about a week ago. It won't be for you, but the current wording is obviously a barrier to something or else the lads wouldn't be looking to change it. It's that simple really; tell me why or fuck off.
Have any of you checked your status on the voting register lately? You've been removed, in case you didn't know.
Shenanigans abound... change my mind, government lovers
I have had absolutely no exposure to this positively or negatively online or in any media - I have dropped off all social media bar IG and it doesn't get a mention there, and I don't watch the news. I knew it was happening and roughly what it was for so I went and read the changes to it there. I see absolutely nothing wrong with these changes and having had to jump through the fucking gauntlet of cares and supports offered by the state meself lately (a dense and ongoing bastard of a process) I can only see this making other supports for people in different situations to my own easier to access on a broader scale. I'll vote for it anyway. And you know I don't have any time for the current government.
Nah I ain't buying it. I'll cancel yours out
Alright look at it like this. Who does this change put at a disadvantage? Nobody, with how I see it there. In fact it gives advantage to a very common non-standard model of family in Ireland, unmarried couple looking after kids with only one person working, regardless of whether it is a man or a woman. Currently it is dictated to suit a traditional model of married couple with working husband and everyone else is out of the loop. The rewording doesn't exclude this situation and also includes a variety of possibilities. If this makes the lives of people easier then ultimately it's a non issue.
Don't fall for your own No True Scotsman there either - "Only people who trust the government would vote for this". That's a very nonsensical way of looking at it and is designed to make people gloss over the fact of it to align against it. Where it is good to say no to your government and have a voice, it is fine to agree with a constitutional change they suggest and doesn't immediately mean you agree with them.
I have still read absolutely zero for or against it and only read the plain constitutional changes of it this morning and see absolutely no issue - I gave some fairly decent reasoning here and am met only with "no fuck ya you're wrong" in response. There's no reason to play your cards so close to your chest here, can you give me a solid reason why I should vote against it? Come on you know I'm not thick so don't play it off so easily here.
Edit: as an addition to how I would weigh it up - if it puts you at no disadvantage but helps out people outside of your current situation, where is the problem voting for it? I would like to think people would weigh up something that affected me the same way. I have been lucky that no constitutional change has been needed to improve my life really. This has no affect on me but can do on a huge score of people so I would rather wish them well with a vote.
Quote from: Carnage on February 13, 2024, 09:44:30 AMEnquired twice, never got an answer. Can you still check it in the post office I wonder?
Call your local city council. I got a letter to resubmit there before Christmas. Called because it was red beside my PPS number. The girl said nobody was removed, it was just an updating exercise to get people who were on there a while to add their PPS number.
Quote from: ochoill on February 13, 2024, 09:53:25 AMQuote from: astfgyl on February 13, 2024, 12:05:30 AMThat referendum coming up....
The lads are up to something, mark my words. The referendum that nobody wanted or asked for or needed but all of a sudden it's essential to move with the times. Get a fucking grip if you're thinking of voting yes because this is represented by the very same lads that just voted against screwing the vulture funds about a week ago. It won't be for you, but the current wording is obviously a barrier to something or else the lads wouldn't be looking to change it. It's that simple really; tell me why or fuck off.
Have any of you checked your status on the voting register lately? You've been removed, in case you didn't know.
Shenanigans abound... change my mind, government lovers
I have had absolutely no exposure to this positively or negatively online or in any media - I have dropped off all social media bar IG and it doesn't get a mention there, and I don't watch the news. I knew it was happening and roughly what it was for so I went and read the changes to it there. I see absolutely nothing wrong with these changes and having had to jump through the fucking gauntlet of cares and supports offered by the state meself lately (a dense and ongoing bastard of a process) I can only see this making other supports for people in different situations to my own easier to access on a broader scale. I'll vote for it anyway. And you know I don't have any time for the current government.
Roderic O'Gorman has decided that it would not be in the "public interest" to publish the minutes of sixteen government meetings which examined the consequences of amending the constitution in the upcoming referendums in relation to tax laws, social welfare laws, pension laws, allocation of family assets, alimony and allowance including the laws in relation to family reunification for asylum seekers.
If the last few years have thought us anything it should be if the Government want you to vote yes on something then it most likely is not in your best interest.
Could you unpack a little bit the claim that over the last few years a majority of the referendums the government wanted the Irish people to vote yes on were not in their best interest??
Where did I say the last few referendums? I am referring to the Governments actions over the last few years with its unwillingness to listen to what the people want.
I agree the government should listen to what the people want, for example via referendums, which I'd be for more of. But that involves trusting that the people, in the main, are capable of sufficiently weighing up the actual issues for themselves rather than having to rely on mental shortcuts like "the government want me to vote yes, so I'll vote no." If what the people want is worth listening to, then the people are able to make up their own minds based on the issues, not on blanket anti-state paranoia. Which way do you want it?
Well then I am sure you would also agree that the Government should be up front and make it clear to people the pros and cons of what a yes vote would mean but instead they are refusing to publish the minutes of meetings discussing the negative side of what will happen if the yes vote wins. How else are people suppose to weigh up the actual issue when they are only shown one side of the argument.
I do agree with that, yes. The minutes should be published. As to what those minutes might reveal, the only guesses I can see for the moment are coming from Michael McDowell, so I'd be applying an equal pinch of salt there as to anything any sitting minister might be saying.
Quote from: mickO))) on February 13, 2024, 02:21:42 PMRoderic O'Gorman has decided that it would not be in the "public interest" to publish the minutes of sixteen government meetings which examined the consequences of amending the constitution in the upcoming referendums in relation to tax laws, social welfare laws, pension laws, allocation of family assets, alimony and allowance including the laws in relation to family reunification for asylum seekers.
Have you a link for this? Not goading here I just genuinely am out of touch with the discussion on this on any form of social media - unless here today counts :laugh:
I would absolutely agree the minutes of these meetings should be published too, they do themselves no favours with this shit. Like I said above I don't have much trust or faith in FF/FG as things stand but unfortunately have to suffer them on a regular basis. I couldn't see any downside myself to changing this and can only see positives for reforms to welfare and care realistically but am happy to be told otherwise. Modernising the constitution to suit modern life seems alright to me. Is there something else I am missing?
Only thing I found so far was a report (in Gript) quoting from a free-wheeling statement by McDowell. I'll take the core claim as fact, that there are minutes of meetings that haven't been published, but the other claims orbiting around that in the article... I'd wait and see myself! :laugh:
It came from here
https://www.michaelmcdowell.ie/mcdowell-condemns-o%E2%80%99gorman%E2%80%99s-department%E2%80%99s-foi-cover-up.html#:~:text=Minister%20Roderic%20O'Gorman's%20Department,of%20the%20last%20year%202023.
I didn't see it on Gript I don't even look at that site someone sent me a screen shot of the McDowell quote last night. When I pasted it into google the site above was the first result. The paragraph I posted is an exact quote from the site.
I don't know much about McDowell other than his name sounds familiar and he's a politician but I haven't seen anyone disputing what he is saying. It has been up for over a day so by now would expect someone to be calling him out if it were untrue. He is also not the first person to say things like this I have seen others make similar claims since the rumours of this referendum started this time last year.
He's a former Tánaiste, was at the centre of more (literally more) than his fair share of political controversies.
Here's something from the Indo on it I just saw:
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/taoiseach-says-there-were-upsides-and-downsides-to-choosing-proposed-wording-in-upcoming-referendum/a386089974.html
Quote from: mickO))) on February 13, 2024, 04:45:41 PMIt came from here
https://www.michaelmcdowell.ie/mcdowell-condemns-o%E2%80%99gorman%E2%80%99s-department%E2%80%99s-foi-cover-up.html#:~:text=Minister%20Roderic%20O'Gorman's%20Department,of%20the%20last%20year%202023.
I didn't see it on Gript I don't even look at that site someone sent me a screen shot of the McDowell quote last night. When I pasted it into google the site above was the first result. The paragraph I posted is an exact quote from the site.
I don't know much about McDowell other than his name sounds familiar and he's a politician but I haven't seen anyone disputing what he is saying. It has been up for over a day so by now would expect someone to be calling him out if it were untrue. He is also not the first person to say things like this I have seen others make similar claims since the rumours of this referendum started this time last year.
Cheers for the link. I agree with him that the info should be released but the rest of it is opinion and suggestion on his part. The NGO he names (Treoir) I had a look online about and I don't see why they wouldn't be involved in discussions like this - they're the information service for unmarried parents.
Something of an aside here but the term NGO is absolutely bandied about lately as if they are all nefarious, but literally any organisation can be an NGO. It isn't a particular type of organisation that has hidden hands in anything by any means but the phrase has become synonymous with this, some underlying control group that influences everything. There are plenty of groups that the state work with for legislation and constitutional changes and a lot of these groups work in social areas, there's going to be a crossover with them either looking for the state to raise services for people, or the state consulting them when working on things. It's normal but is sold as utterly evil. Not that you yourself now are saying that or anything but the term has again cropped up as the hidden hand in his article there when he mentions Treoir. Never mind that McDowell himself on a quick Google donates €60k a year to undisclosed NGOs :laugh:
I do think that there should absolutely be transparency to the whole thing but I can't see anything with meat on it in his suggestions on voting yes being terrible by any means and I would like to see a modernisation to both the constitution and the services related to the areas I can see linked to the section of it.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on February 13, 2024, 03:51:35 PMOnly thing I found so far was a report (in Gript) quoting from a free-wheeling statement by McDowell. I'll take the core claim as fact, that there are minutes of meetings that haven't been published, but the other claims orbiting around that in the article... I'd wait and see myself! :laugh:
Ahh Gript :laugh: yeah I will stay well clear of anything they have to say about it. Completely stone totally religiously biased and funded so, operating at a totally contrarian level. The joy of quitting twitter too is now I never have to suffer any of these rags ever again.
Quote from: ochoill on February 13, 2024, 03:34:05 PMQuote from: mickO))) on February 13, 2024, 02:21:42 PMRoderic O'Gorman has decided that it would not be in the "public interest" to publish the minutes of sixteen government meetings which examined the consequences of amending the constitution in the upcoming referendums in relation to tax laws, social welfare laws, pension laws, allocation of family assets, alimony and allowance including the laws in relation to family reunification for asylum seekers.
Have you a link for this? Not goading here I just genuinely am out of touch with the discussion on this on any form of social media - unless here today counts :laugh:
I would absolutely agree the minutes of these meetings should be published too, they do themselves no favours with this shit. Like I said above I don't have much trust or faith in FF/FG as things stand but unfortunately have to suffer them on a regular basis. I couldn't see any downside myself to changing this and can only see positives for reforms to welfare and care realistically but am happy to be told otherwise. Modernising the constitution to suit modern life seems alright to me. Is there something else I am missing?
Such a fuckin rant I had typed out to you earlier but I switched tab and fuck no to writing it out again
Was in the car with the young lads and the two boys said to me hey dad name something you hate that begins with G.
Well,I says, aaahhh, ummmm, ahhh .... Girls!
Ah dad sure didn't you say you love mam
Oh yeah I did well aaaahhh aammmmm aahhh
I dunno lads I give up...
The Government dad, do you not remember
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
It's working well so far anyway, even though I didn't do it on purpose
Edit: this must be mw version of kids say the darndest things, with Art Linkletter
This is my thoughts pretty much on it, wishy washy and vague. "Strive to support." The 'durable relationships' vote is a big no, the other one, a slight no, I'm not keen on the existing wording but what it's being replaced with seems worse to me.
https://www.thejournal.ie/women-in-the-home-catherine-connolly-6275205-Jan2024/?utm_source=twitter_short
Whatever about the others - Catherine is usually balanced/logical in her critique of legislature.
Quote from: astfgyl on February 13, 2024, 07:12:39 PMSuch a fuckin rant I had typed out to you earlier but I switched tab and fuck no to writing it out again
No it's grand we had it out down the phone instead so now nobody gets to read the resolution we came to on it all :laugh:
Absolutely the wrong thread for this anyway since it is simple pleasures. Actually talking bollix down the phone is a simple pleasure shared with only a handful of lads. Way better than text, voice notes of demented stories a close second though.
Quote from: ochoill on February 13, 2024, 10:15:32 PMQuote from: astfgyl on February 13, 2024, 07:12:39 PMSuch a fuckin rant I had typed out to you earlier but I switched tab and fuck no to writing it out again
No it's grand we had it out down the phone instead so now nobody gets to read the resolution we came to on it all :laugh:
Absolutely the wrong thread for this anyway since it is simple pleasures. Actually talking bollix down the phone is a simple pleasure shared with only a handful of lads. Way better than text, voice notes of demented stories a close second though.
A simple pleasure indeed!!!
Quotejaysus i don't remember this song fading out like this on this album that I'm absolutely on the fence about whether i think is any good or not
Song doesn't really fade out. You've gone deaf. Never hear anything againAieee
Quote from: The Butcher on February 13, 2024, 10:12:38 PMThis is my thoughts pretty much on it, wishy washy and vague. "Strive to support." The 'durable relationships' vote is a big no, the other one, a slight no, I'm not keen on the existing wording but what it's being replaced with seems worse to me.
https://www.thejournal.ie/women-in-the-home-catherine-connolly-6275205-Jan2024/?utm_source=twitter_short
Whatever about the others - Catherine is usually balanced/logical in her critique of legislature.
Good arguments from Connolly on the "women in the home" change. She does add that she is leaning Yes on the definition of the family one though. What is your reason for a big no on that?
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on February 14, 2024, 08:15:05 AMQuote from: The Butcher on February 13, 2024, 10:12:38 PMThis is my thoughts pretty much on it, wishy washy and vague. "Strive to support." The 'durable relationships' vote is a big no, the other one, a slight no, I'm not keen on the existing wording but what it's being replaced with seems worse to me.
https://www.thejournal.ie/women-in-the-home-catherine-connolly-6275205-Jan2024/?utm_source=twitter_short
Whatever about the others - Catherine is usually balanced/logical in her critique of legislature.
Good arguments from Connolly on the "women in the home" change. She does add that she is leaning Yes on the definition of the family one though. What is your reason for a big no on that?
What is a durable relationship? Marie Baker, the head of the electoral commission and an Irish judge who has served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland since December 2019 ->
https://www.independent.ie/videos/durable-relationships-could-be-defined-by-a-couple-getting-a-christmas-card-says-marie-baker/a765197551.html
Currently no definition and the government haven't been forthcoming with one. If the wording included the likes of 'Civil partnerships, cohabiting partners' then sure - I'm not fond of vague statements being slotted in, at least there's other wording as I've mentioned as examples that they could have opted for that reduces the scope for interpretation about what constitutes a relationship worthy of constitutional protection. Our definition of partnership already included gay couples and those cohabitation without marriage.
Once one has watched that video of Marie Baker, that headline is egregiously misleading as to its implications for the referendum: notably, at that point, it appears she is talking about how precedent case law has already interpreted the notion of durability. Unfortunately the video then cuts short. I think if you want to lean on that as an argument, it would be worth having the full transcript of her answer. Which I may try find later on.
The official information booklet says that it is a "committed and continuing relationship other than marriage".
I saw her quoted as "Subjectively, a relationship is durable if it's committed, if it presents itself as committed, if it means to be committed, if it intends to be committed.
"Durability can sometimes be how you're treated by other people. Are you invited as a couple to weddings? Do people send you postcards [or] Christmas cards to both of you? These are indicators of your commitment to one another.
"I'm satisfied that there's a core meaning of durability and durable, enduring. They are all words from the same group. I'm satisfied there are core meanings."
Fair enough about the transcript etc but the fact postcards are even mentioned as some kind of metric/indicator for durability is farcical to me. I'd be quite happy as I said with civil partnerships/cohabiting partners something along those lines. I don't agree with the current wording either by the way, but I'm not keen on replacing it with something vague - I don't see why we couldn't use the already defined wording above?
As I said, she is at that point talking about how precedent case law has already interpreted durability. Perhaps farcical, but already happened, not something that she is saying is going to happen as a result of a Yes vote. That's what is key and what the headline misleads on.
1:47 - "There have been a few cases in the courts in the last few years, judgements from the supreme courts and some judgements from the high court, which have identified the various indicators as to durability in a relationship, there are all kinds of things..."
Then, as part of that same line of argumentation related to case law in the last few years, she lists some of those indicators which have already been identified and applied in case law by lawyers, incl. whether the couple in question is effectively treated by third parties as a de facto unit.
Specific terms like "civil partnerships" or "cohabiting partners" provide clear, unambiguous legal definitions compared to 'durable relationships' - I know which terms reduce the room for interpretation and potential litigation.
This will go around in circles honestly - No one has defined what 'durable relationships' means yet. The government already admitted that the courts will have to define it - I'm not voting yes on something that is not set in stone yet ->
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2024/01/25/referendums-on-family-and-care-meaning-of-durable-relationship-will-be-interpreted-in-hard-cases/
As Marie Baker points out, and as is known, the constitution always ends up having to be defined on a case by case basis, in those cases that are "on the margins" (Baker's words). That is a feature of constitutional law, not a flaw. I'm not trying to convince you to vote Yes, your reasoning about bad wording is perfectly legitimate, but does need to be kept in perspective of how the law works. Basically, what you shared Connolly saying about the definition of "woman" is what Baker says already happens about the definition of "durable": the courts have to define it. That makes that aspect specifically at least a little bit of a red herring.
Quote from: The Butcher on February 14, 2024, 12:14:30 PMSpecific terms like "civil partnerships" or "cohabiting partners" provide clear, unambiguous legal definitions compared to 'durable relationships' - I know which terms reduce the room for interpretation and potential litigation.
This will go around in circles honestly - No one has defined what 'durable relationships' means yet. The government already admitted that the courts will have to define it - I'm not voting yes on something that is not set in stone yet ->
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2024/01/25/referendums-on-family-and-care-meaning-of-durable-relationship-will-be-interpreted-in-hard-cases/
It's about time myself and the cat got the recognition we deserve. Our relationship is quite durable.
https://merrionstreet.ie/en/news-room/news/government-statement-supreme-court-judgment-on-mccrystal-case.html
So is this not a thing anymore? Looks very much like it isn't.
Can anyone give me a hypothetical case where the proposed changes to the constitution will benefit anyone, or tell me who is marginalised by the current legal situation in this country?
Here's the craic...
The current wording is preventing the government from doing something or else they wouldn't be looking to change it.
Can anyone think of what that is? No.
Will the government tell you what it is? No.
Will they tell you some vague shit about inclusivity that doesn't actually tell you anything? Yes.
Someone please tell me of any group of people who will benefit in any legal sense from this changing of the wording. You can't, I'll bet.
So why in this case would anyone vote Yes other than they've been hoodwinked by the government's insistence that it's a good thing even though they won't tell you why?
Now consider how badly they want you to vote Yes and I bet in your own mind you won't be able to think of a single reason why.
This is an absolute Trojan horse.
Hah, nobody believed me but have you checked your status on the voting register?
Bet you can't wait to have your say on the next president
Voting card just delivered by the postie :abbath:
"They" did run a fairly extensive ad campaign several months ago asking people to check they were still registered. I don't even watch TV and I saw the bleeding ads :laugh:
They had them on social media too. I'm sure all the lads who can't buy gaa tickets for themselves online got straight on there to get themselves sorted out.
Quote from: astfgyl on February 23, 2024, 01:43:58 PMThey had them on social media too. I'm sure all the lads who can't buy gaa tickets for themselves online got straight on there to get themselves sorted out.
Edit: Further to this I was listening to a few auld ones in the charity shop this morning going on about how they didn't get a voting card for the referendum but when they do, they'll be voting no/ no because "even the lads on the radio and telly can't tell us what it means".
Unfortunately, I had to break it to them that they won't be getting a card unless they got themselves sorted on checktheregister.ie, which of course they hadn't. So yeah..... about that extensive ad campaign......
The boys pulled a stroke and it worked.
Presumably, despite their advancing years, they know where the local garda station, civil authority, or citizens advice bureau is? If they think they're not on the register, any of those places will sort them out. I hear these places generally have landlines too.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on February 24, 2024, 01:22:10 PMPresumably, despite their advancing years, they know where the local garda station, civil authority, or citizens advice bureau is? If they think they're not on the register, any of those places will sort them out. I hear these places generally have landlines too.
You obviously haven't seen what was done or you wouldn't be talking shite as you are there
All I'm saying is that you could have given them auld ones practical advice on how to make sure they have their say in the referendum, rather than scaring them with computer talk.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on February 24, 2024, 01:39:34 PMAll I'm saying is that you could have given them auld ones practical advice on how to make sure they have their say in the referendum, rather than scaring them with computer talk.
No I couldn't have done because the deadline was last Wednesday and the first inkling these poor bastards had that they won't be part of the Brave New World was when their voting card (which they've long since registered for years ago, until they were suddenly removed from voting for anything other than the presidential election until they went online and confirmed their ppsn and (bear in mind these cunts have never even seen an Internet, never mind a computer)) didn't turn up.
What has been done here is criminal and if anyone is slow enough to use their general political persuasion to convince themselves otherwise well then I actually feel sorry for them.
This is not left v right stuff at all, this is the government of Ireland committing a criminal offence against the populace. You'd be a fool not to see it.
They can still check the register to see if they're actually on it or not, and they may also yet receive the card by the post. Not having received your voting card has never been proof you're not registered and you don't even need it to vote, as long as you know where your polling station is. But if, having actually checked the register it turns out them auld ones were removed from it, then they can and should kick up a fuss. You could even help them. But either way, a lot of concrete steps omitted prior to the leap to Brave New World.
No they aren't removed. The craic is that everyone is registered to vote in the presidential election but omitted from other ones until they sort they themselves on that site. That's how mine was until I confirmed my ppsn and same for the wife and then I got the brother to check and his is the same as well.
Now I'm never willing to discount the chance that I might just be Paranoid and suffering from delusion (delusions of grandeur are my favourite though) so if anyone here hasn't updated their stuff and still got their card no bother then I'll eat my hat etc
There has been much confusion due to departmental language, but look at this screenshot of my entry on the register, which I've just checked now. Beside 'Election Type' it only says 'Presidential', but when I clicked on the "i" for more info button, it brought up the panel confirming that if you can vote in the Presidential election you can also vote in all the others. Indeed, you'll see that the presidential and the referendum registers are, contrary to what the wording may make it sound like, one and the same: "Referendum or Presidential." You'll also see that, since I haven't voted in Ireland in over 10 years, PPSN has a big red ? beside it. Yet I'm still entitled to vote in every category.
voterregister.png
My impression is that incompetent departments used confusing language, then certain folk grabbed the wrong end of the stick and ran wild with it, but actually everything is grand, or at least no more fecked than usual.
Unreal! So it's paranoia then? Well thank fuck for that I can get locked in peace :laugh:
Actually not even sarcasm btw
Edit: does this mean everyone will get a voting card then?
Far as I know I haven't received a voting card to my own auld one's place since 2012, but that's the address I'm still registered under. I'm actually fairly surprised I'm still on the register tbh, technically I shouldn't be.
I was removed from the register years ago and had to reapply and as far as I gathered it had happened again. If I'm wrong I'm hopefully wrong
I haven't gotten a card for the last few referendums, but I'm still on the register and always just head along with my id and there's never been an issue
Does that mean I could have been voting all along?
Well it doesn't because I presented myself at the voting station with my driving licence at the last general election and was told at the door that I couldn't vote. So perhaps it does work, but certainly not every time
Also, I'm never voting for von der leyen or gutierrez or ghebeysus again. They've had their chance :laugh:
Anyone else has a missus that watches Love Island and all that guff? I do.
Was watching it in the background the other night. Horrific people altogether. I was imagining a scenario where someone offers me, without comeback or consequence, an opportunity to flick a switch and I could kill everyone in the show. I would think of myself as being a moral person, for the most part, but I reckon I could live with that.
Thankfully no, the adverts for it are enough to have you effing and blinding at the tele
My daughter watches it but kicked me out after 5 minutes listening to me giving out yards about it and now I'm not welcome
Do Irish people abroad shout into their phones as loud as the foreigners do here on public transport?
Lad across the way from me roaring into his phone, and it in his hand on speaker. Sounds like a normal conversation, I'd hate to see him having an argument :laugh:
Don't cut your speed with custard powder lads
My dog passed away at the start of the new year, and I still really feel the loss and its gonna take time to get over it, but I cant understand this carry on, this removes all dignity surely?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13136799/freeze-drying-dead-pets-preserve-forever.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13136799/freeze-drying-dead-pets-preserve-forever.html)
Creepy as fuck.
That's just wrong, morose. If nothing else, it just draws out the grieving process.
Probably still be able to fetch better than the fucker I have now
That's cats for you.
Nowhere better to put this. Someone at Facebook/Meta is is serious trouble right now. Whole thing is crashing.
Hopefully it's all beyond repair.
Quote from: hellfire on March 05, 2024, 03:53:21 PMNowhere better to put this. Someone at Facebook/Meta is is serious trouble right now. Whole thing is crashing.
Last time this happened (facebook logging all the users out) was due to hackers getting in via the 'view as' bug. So wonder what was hacked this time :-[
Quote from: The Heretic on March 04, 2024, 11:02:50 AMMy dog passed away at the start of the new year, and I still really feel the loss and its gonna take time to get over it, but I cant understand this carry on, this removes all dignity surely?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13136799/freeze-drying-dead-pets-preserve-forever.html (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13136799/freeze-drying-dead-pets-preserve-forever.html)
I think there's a possible gap in the market here to make these things animatronic/radio controlled... surely there's someone out there willing to pay for it. You could leave Lulu the dog in her charging station until walkies time!
Quote from: The Butcher on March 05, 2024, 04:29:32 PMQuote from: hellfire on March 05, 2024, 03:53:21 PMNowhere better to put this. Someone at Facebook/Meta is is serious trouble right now. Whole thing is crashing.
Last time this happened (facebook logging all the users out) was due to hackers getting in via the 'view as' bug. So wonder what was hacked this time :-[
Would not like to be their head of security at this time.
Quote from: hellfire on March 05, 2024, 06:10:46 PMQuote from: The Butcher on March 05, 2024, 04:29:32 PMQuote from: hellfire on March 05, 2024, 03:53:21 PMNowhere better to put this. Someone at Facebook/Meta is is serious trouble right now. Whole thing is crashing.
Last time this happened (facebook logging all the users out) was due to hackers getting in via the 'view as' bug. So wonder what was hacked this time :-[
Would not like to be their head of security at this time.
Fuck em. They locked me out until I provide them with verified id so good luck and thanks and I hope it exploded
https://www.ontheditch.com/attorney-general-referendum/
I wonder why the government wouldn't release this and instead resorted to trying to bludgeon the populace into voting for something even they don't understand themselves?
A definite yes from me now!
Some eejits on here will actually vote yes tomorrow to wording that they can't possibly understand. This will happen.
Aside from feeling sorry for you, I would like to remind anyone voting Yes of the age old wisdom contained in the words "you don't buy a pig in a poke".
A yes vote to something that nobody understands is simply confirmation that you are willing to outsource your thinking, ie a soft intellect.
And no I didn't need the ditch to point it out as you can all see evidenced by my posts.
Quote"Hey"
"What?"
"Eat this"
"What is it?"
"I'll tell you after you eat it"
"Okay"
That is the mindset of anyone who votes yes tomorrow to something even the government can't define.
And yet I still think both will pass, such is the faith I have in people.
Edit: Actually I've changed my mind after seeing this clip, where they bedazzled me with buzz words like "Inclusive" and "Progressive" without actually even attempting to define what any of that means in terms of what is included or indeed what it progresses you towards. "But hey!, get it written into the constitution anyway why don't you" Yes they can keep it as vague as they like and people will still be swayed by a few buzz words.
Yes, that is how little regard they have for the intellect of their target audience, and I wouldn't blame them given that a yes vote is even a possibility.
Can't trust this government and their intentions. Plus as I thought the wording going from ensure to strive is weak like the AG suggests and that the courts will have to decide what a durable relationship is. A clear vote no no for me anyway.
Since my last posts here I have done some more looking into it all and reading on various interpretations of it and have changed my idea of it. Not entirely, but I won't be voting for the second part of it. The statements are too vague and as much as I would like to see the constitution modernised, there is severe doubt on the wording they are suggesting here. The main one being the second portion actually removing the state's obligation to provide for anyone at all, rather than support a broader range of carers other than mothers. Both the carer's association and a number of disability support groups have came out drastically against it, so this makes me tread back to what I said earlier - if I can see it do no harm here there is no issue. The harm has now been clearly pointed out to me. I am now 50/50 on the first part.
I don't agree with this:
Quote from: astfgyl on March 07, 2024, 07:15:24 PMA yes vote to something that nobody understands is simply confirmation that you are willing to outsource your thinking, ie a soft intellect.
This is a combination of no true Scotsman (you are a master at that hiy I spot it regularly) and slight gish. It isn't that nobody understands it - it is that nobody can clearly see an outcome on the change. They are two separate things no matter how you correlate them yourself. "Outsourcing your thinking" is a fool of a phrase. I am absolutely not the smartest chap going and I am happy to admit that, to take help and accept discussion on topics like these. I won't ever be ashamed of that because it is the only way I can understand them. I'm not an island of political ingenuity by any means. I saw no negative outcome, I had it clearly explained from a stance I could get behind and changed my view. The only other arguments I saw for voting no are "you don't know what they have planned for you" (with nobody even able to suggest an idea when pushed) or from a more religious conservative perspective of how it will change the nuclear family (which I completely avoid, full separation of church and state for me thanks).
In any case, my own views on the yes vote being harmless or beneficial were proven wrong on the second vote but not the first. That ditch article gives me less faith but means I have some more reading and thinking to do.
That's how I saw it, it goes from a state obligation (albeit to women only) on care but instead want to replace it with a general strive to support all types of carers. Leo came out in a video there recently saying he doesn't think it's the states responsibility to look after the elderly in terms of care type work. He suggested he'd look after his sisters kids if something happened to them or his parents. What about people with no siblings? Or people not on over 200k like himself. True intentions shown that the government and others do not want to provide this as our generations eventually become a big aging demographic, they only see the big cost coming down the tracks.
I agree a lot of the wording is archaic but I'm definitely not happy replacing it with either weak or vague language that many lawyers will have a field day with.
Quote from: The Butcher on March 07, 2024, 08:01:27 PMThat's how I saw it, it goes from a state obligation (albeit to women only) on care but instead want to replace it with a general strive to support all types of carers. Leo came out in a video there recently saying he doesn't think it's the states responsibility to look after the elderly in terms of care type work. He suggested he'd look after his sisters kids if something happened to them or his parents. What about people with no siblings? Or people not on over 200k like himself. True intentions shown that the government and others do not want to provide this as our generations eventually become a big aging demographic, they only see the big cost coming down the tracks.
I agree a lot of the wording is archaic but I'm definitely not happy replacing it with either weak or vague language that many lawyers will have a field day with.
I saw the very same video and it was basically strike three for me changing my vote. I would love to update it but absolutely not to remove the obligations of care the state already has in place.
Ah yeah lads, but what about
https://twitter.com/FineGael/status/1765776827950280805?t=yO0Dz2RiPVRvP5MNMzMuRw&s=19
Quote from: ochoill on March 07, 2024, 07:54:28 PMI don't agree with this:
Quote from: astfgyl on March 07, 2024, 07:15:24 PMA yes vote to something that nobody understands is simply confirmation that you are willing to outsource your thinking, ie a soft intellect.
This is a combination of no true Scotsman (you are a master at that hiy I spot it regularly) and slight gish. It isn't that nobody understands it - it is that nobody can clearly see an outcome on the change. They are two separate things no matter how you correlate them yourself. "Outsourcing your thinking" is a fool of a phrase. I am absolutely not the smartest chap going and I am happy to admit that, to take help and accept discussion on topics like these. I won't ever be ashamed of that because it is the only way I can understand them. I'm not an island of political ingenuity by any means. I saw no negative outcome, I had it clearly explained from a stance I could get behind and changed my view. The only other arguments I saw for voting no are "you don't know what they have planned for you" (with nobody even able to suggest an idea when pushed) or from a more religious conservative perspective of how it will change the nuclear family (which I completely avoid, full separation of church and state for me thanks).
In any case, my own views on the yes vote being harmless or beneficial were proven wrong on the second vote but not the first. That ditch article gives me less faith but means I have some more reading and thinking to do.
No it definitely means that nobody understands it, however you dress it up. I sit around the breakfast table at work every morning with people who watch rte every night and they have absolutely outsourced their thinking on it. An argument I heard for voting Yes this morning was that if we don't change it now, to this vague shit
that nobody understands then we might not get the chance to change it again for a long time.
I stand by my statement and won't be accepting the Scotsman on this one.
Besides, it won't apply to you now :laugh:
Came across this on twitter earlier
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I wonder did it even cross her mind
It did, she said a whole thing about it before performing the song. Which I know because you posted this and so I looked it up ;)
Really trying to motivate myself to head down to the polling place at lunchtime. My hatred of the current government are all I've got to propel me.
It just occurred to me that there are people voting to change the constitution today who think if a man puts on a dress he magically becomes a woman.
It put a shiver down my spine.
This morning I saw Irish people who'll be voting approvingly share a tiktok of Katie Hopkins, of all the feckin' Brit gowls, spouting uninformed shite about the workings of both the US (yeah, I dunno either, but it's what she did) and Irish constitutions. Shivers down the spine indeed. Especially as I don't have to exaggerate the reality of these people to make my point :laugh:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 08, 2024, 09:48:41 AMIt did, she said a whole thing about it before performing the song. Which I know because you posted this and so I looked it up ;)
Awkward one all the same. I read a few of the comments after about her saying her piece
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 08, 2024, 12:41:21 PMThis morning I saw Irish people who'll be voting approvingly share a tiktok of Katie Hopkins, of all the feckin' Brit gowls, spouting uninformed shite about the workings of both the US (yeah, I dunno either, but it's what she did) and Irish constitutions. Shivers down the spine indeed. Especially as I don't have to exaggerate the reality of these people to make my point :laugh:
There's been bull from both sides but one might think it wouldn't come from the government. Yet it did.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 08, 2024, 12:41:21 PMThis morning I saw Irish people who'll be voting approvingly share a tiktok of Katie Hopkins, of all the feckin' Brit gowls, spouting uninformed shite about the workings of both the US (yeah, I dunno either, but it's what she did) and Irish constitutions. Shivers down the spine indeed. Especially as I don't have to exaggerate the reality of these people to make my point :laugh:
Were ya anally rogering a tranny at the time?
Did it feel "transgressive"? :P
Quote from: astfgyl on March 08, 2024, 01:33:56 PMThere's been bull from both sides but one might think it wouldn't come from the government.
What? Who exactly would be thinking bull wouldn't come from the government?? What an odd thing to say.
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on March 08, 2024, 12:34:14 PMIt just occurred to me that there are people voting to change the constitution today who think if a man puts on a dress he magically becomes a woman.
It put a shiver down my spine.
Get out and enjoy life and stop getting triggered by shite that never really affects you.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 08, 2024, 02:05:48 PMQuote from: astfgyl on March 08, 2024, 01:33:56 PMThere's been bull from both sides but one might think it wouldn't come from the government.
What? Who exactly would be thinking bull wouldn't come from the government?? What an odd thing to say.
At least to the extent that they could maybe argue that it wasn't, but this time they went all in without a care for being caught out.
I know some of yous like Jordan Peterson and some of yous don't. I think this 8 min speech about globalisation is worth watching, it doesn't really have anything to do with his past comments/behaviours:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 08, 2024, 02:05:48 PMQuote from: astfgyl on March 08, 2024, 01:33:56 PMThere's been bull from both sides but one might think it wouldn't come from the government.
What? Who exactly would be thinking bull wouldn't come from the government?? What an odd thing to say.
Like, it was
this bad
https://twitter.com/MlMcNamaraTD/status/1766138182331191370?t=8MnlR4Ig2HFl6wyCf9zT-Q&s=19
Are ye ready for the words that will be potentially deleted from the constitution tomorrow?
Yeah ye are thinking it's "Woman", and yeah it is and all, but they could have replaced that with "Homemaker" and fixed it for equality across the board no problem but then they would have had a harder time deleting the "By Economic Necessity" part without it being noticed. As it doesn't seem to have been at all.
What is the significance of these words being trimmed out?
I've thought from the get go that these referenda wouldn't be happening at all unless the wording as it is will be a barrier to something specific that the government would like to do and thus it must be removed.
We will hear the punchline in time but it's not what it's purported to be at all.
I'm aware the die is cast now and what will be will be but the devil is always in the details
Imagine the wording had they just changed it to
"1° In particular, the State recognises that by their life within the home, a homemaker gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved.
2° The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that homemakers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home"
Bang goes your sexist lingo there and it's all inclusive and it keeps the pressure on the state to endeavour rather than strive. Now you can have two fellas or two women or single fellas or women or women with men all being recognised as having the chance to take the responsibility of being the homemaker and the state endeavouring to make life go in such a way that people can stay at home bringing up their kids if they so wish but don't have to based on sex.
Oh but no, that wouldn't do, would it? No we had to have the ball of shit that we just did have because the point was never what you were told it was or else the wording would have reflected that. And it didn't and it doesn't if it passes. But you won't be asked again if they get what they want, will you?
The difference between strive and endeavour is that strive is an effort; a striving while endeavour is a sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal. (not my own words, I was looking it up)
Can't be bothered typing out the other amendment and why it's a ball of shit but I'll get to it in time because it's there to be torn asunder easily as well
Quote from: Ollkiller on March 08, 2024, 03:22:06 PMQuote from: son of the Morrigan on March 08, 2024, 12:34:14 PMIt just occurred to me that there are people voting to change the constitution today who think if a man puts on a dress he magically becomes a woman.
It put a shiver down my spine.
Get out and enjoy life and stop getting triggered by shite that never really affects you.
Steady on there chief.
What's this "triggered" shite, who's triggered? (prick of a word by the way)
I had a random thought, I put it in the random thoughts tread, and I enjoy life just fine thanks.
Quote from: astfgyl on March 08, 2024, 11:06:34 PMAre ye ready for the words that will be potentially deleted from the constitution tomorrow?
Yeah ye are thinking it's "Woman", and yeah it is and all, but they could have replaced that with "Homemaker" and fixed it for equality across the board no problem but then they would have had a harder time deleting the "By Economic Necessity" part without it being noticed. As it doesn't seem to have been at all.
What is the significance of these words being trimmed out?
I've thought from the get go that these referenda wouldn't be happening at all unless the wording as it is will be a barrier to something specific that the government would like to do and thus it must be removed.
We will hear the punchline in time but it's not what it's purported to be at all.
I'm aware the die is cast now and what will be will be but the devil is always in the details
Imagine the wording had they just changed it to
"1° In particular, the State recognises that by their life within the home, a homemaker gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved.
2° The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that homemakers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home"
Bang goes your sexist lingo there and it's all inclusive and it keeps the pressure on the state to endeavour rather than strive. Now you can have two fellas or two women or single fellas or women or women with men all being recognised as having the chance to take the responsibility of being the homemaker and the state endeavouring to make life go in such a way that people can stay at home bringing up their kids if they so wish but don't have to based on sex.
Oh but no, that wouldn't do, would it? No we had to have the ball of shit that we just did have because the point was never what you were told it was or else the wording would have reflected that. And it didn't and it doesn't if it passes. But you won't be asked again if they get what they want, will you?
The difference between strive and endeavour is that strive is an effort; a striving while endeavour is a sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal. (not my own words, I was looking it up)
Can't be bothered typing out the other amendment and why it's a ball of shit but I'll get to it in time because it's there to be torn asunder easily as well
Spot on.
Quote from: Giggles on March 08, 2024, 06:51:16 PMI know some of yous like Jordan Peterson and some of yous don't. I think this 8 min speech about globalisation is worth watching, it doesn't really have anything to do with his past comments/behaviours:
This is supposed to be about January 6th? When does he stop talking about China? As paranoid a lead-with-fear, streaked-with-BS meandering ramble as I've ever seen him deliver. Paranoid and seeking victimhood right down to his "Do I have my five minutes or do I not?" after he'd been rambling for seven and a half minutes and is asked to please summarize. He's angry as hell and he's not going to take it anymore. Or doing anything useful about it. There, summarized.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 09, 2024, 01:02:17 AMThis is supposed to be about January 6th?
I'm not sure what it's supposed to be about, I just enjoyed the rant :sniffles:
Both look well defeated, especially the carers ref.
Funny part of the whole thing for me is that had they changed the wording to do what it was that they were selling it was going to do, I'd have been the very fella would've said yes yes or at least not turned up.
Great to see the No votes winning. At least it gives some hope that more and more people are waking up to whats going on around them.
Quote from: mickO))) on March 09, 2024, 01:07:26 PMGreat to see the No votes winning. At least it gives some hope that more and more people are waking up to whats going on around them.
Too right. The attempt to appear 'right on' with the language (in and of itself another room in the house of mirrors) was botched to the point that was bound to create either distaste or offence.
Of far more concern is this hate speech bullshit, sadly no referendum on thon.
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on March 09, 2024, 12:10:16 AMQuote from: Ollkiller on March 08, 2024, 03:22:06 PMQuote from: son of the Morrigan on March 08, 2024, 12:34:14 PMIt just occurred to me that there are people voting to change the constitution today who think if a man puts on a dress he magically becomes a woman.
It put a shiver down my spine.
Get out and enjoy life and stop getting triggered by shite that never really affects you.
Steady on there chief.
What's this "triggered" shite, who's triggered? (prick of a word by the way)
I had a random thought, I put it in the random thoughts tread, and I enjoy life just fine thanks.
The wording was probably wrong. And I agree triggered is a stupid word. What I was getting at was why would you be thinking of a man putting on a dress like its a bad thing. So fucking what. Who cares like. Each to their own.
Quote from: Ollkiller on March 09, 2024, 03:24:25 PMQuote from: son of the Morrigan on March 09, 2024, 12:10:16 AMQuote from: Ollkiller on March 08, 2024, 03:22:06 PMQuote from: son of the Morrigan on March 08, 2024, 12:34:14 PMIt just occurred to me that there are people voting to change the constitution today who think if a man puts on a dress he magically becomes a woman.
It put a shiver down my spine.
Get out and enjoy life and stop getting triggered by shite that never really affects you.
Steady on there chief.
What's this "triggered" shite, who's triggered? (prick of a word by the way)
I had a random thought, I put it in the random thoughts tread, and I enjoy life just fine thanks.
The wording was probably wrong. And I agree triggered is a stupid word. What I was getting at was why would you be thinking of a man putting on a dress like its a bad thing. So fucking what. Who cares like. Each to their own.
This is a thing that always comes up. I've no issue with any man putting on women's clothes if he likes, really none whatsoever and I'd sit in the pub with him as soon as a lad in men's clothes as long as he was sound.
What I won't do however, is believe he's a woman because he wants me to or some stupid government rule says I have to.
No no he can be in fantasy land all he likes but that's the line drawn for me if I have to play along. I'd even call him whatever woman's name he wants and respect his right to believe he's a woman, but like everything else these days it's after getting silly the last few years. Same for a woman that wants me to believe they're really a man, fire away but don't expect me to believe it.
No different in a way than meeting someone who believes in a different god like I don't mind if they do but I don't so they can either respect my beliefs as I do theirs, or alternatively, they can always fuck off with themselves.
I'd also stick up for a transvestite if other people were picking on them and they weren't bothering anyone.
Also this referendum is looking like a fuckin landslide. I didn't think myself it would go the way it's going
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ireland-referendum-paves-way-for-modern-families-and-womens-roles/ar-BB1jBinp
Do they know something we all don't?
Quote from: Ollkiller on March 09, 2024, 03:24:25 PMQuote from: son of the Morrigan on March 09, 2024, 12:10:16 AMQuote from: Ollkiller on March 08, 2024, 03:22:06 PMQuote from: son of the Morrigan on March 08, 2024, 12:34:14 PMIt just occurred to me that there are people voting to change the constitution today who think if a man puts on a dress he magically becomes a woman.
It put a shiver down my spine.
Get out and enjoy life and stop getting triggered by shite that never really affects you.
Steady on there chief.
What's this "triggered" shite, who's triggered? (prick of a word by the way)
I had a random thought, I put it in the random thoughts tread, and I enjoy life just fine thanks.
The wording was probably wrong. And I agree triggered is a stupid word. What I was getting at was why would you be thinking of a man putting on a dress like its a bad thing. So fucking what. Who cares like. Each to their own.
I agree with ya man, each to their own.
I was actually up to my elbow in a ewes vagina trying to separate a pair of lambs that were in a ball at the time and it crossed my mind as funny that people who couldn't define what a woman is were being given the opportunity to remove "mother" from the constitution, that's all.
I could have worded the post better myself in fairness.
I couldn't give a fuck if a lad wants to wear a dress, that's his business, and it certainly doesn't weigh on my mind.
Its the clowns that think by putting on a dress said lad should be considered a woman that annoy me.
And I deffo don't want to spark off this fucking stupid debate about "Gender" again.
https://twitter.com/francisjfoster/status/1768933619265831182?t=F--i4iiUDux3NvllinBe4Q&s=19
Random lol for Saturday morning
:laugh:
We've all been there.
Evil is the crowd that holds you down with a boot on your neck for the good.
Quote from: Carnage on March 16, 2024, 02:37:16 PM:laugh:
We've all been there.
I want some of whatever he's after having there :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Bowie had some bangers, no doubt, but most of his output was muck.
He had some fair dirt in the 80s but he's fairly solid otherwise.
Low is some masterpiece
Seconded, it's his finest hour by a long way.
I loved the Tin Machine album....some great stuff on it..
Quote from: astfgyl on March 09, 2024, 04:28:28 PMThis is a thing that always comes up. I've no issue with any man putting on women's clothes if he likes, really none whatsoever and I'd sit in the pub with him as soon as a lad in men's clothes as long as he was sound.
What I won't do however, is believe he's a woman because he wants me to or some stupid government rule says I have to.
No no he can be in fantasy land all he likes but that's the line drawn for me if I have to play along. I'd even call him whatever woman's name he wants and respect his right to believe he's a woman, but like everything else these days it's after getting silly the last few years. Same for a woman that wants me to believe they're really a man, fire away but don't expect me to believe it.
It's like Dave Chappelle said -"I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?"
Might not exactly be the right thread to post this in but I was working today and this one comes up to me and starts yapping. I couldn't quite get a grip on the conversation and it soon dawned on me I was talking to a complete nutter. Proper header who probably should have been in some kind of care.
She started telling me that THEY have taken her son, kidnapped him and she can't really talk about it. THEY were the Jews aka the Freemasons aka a Satanic cult. All the signs are there. Her son's name was whatever, which is named after a stone, which is a throat stone (?!), you use your throat for your voice, the voice to parliament! You think that's just a coincidence?? That's what they want you to think! They are fucking the kids and killing them, not necessarily in that order. It's all connected. It's a Satanic cult. Why do you think a bowls court is called a court?? It's all in the language, they want to keep us blind (I didn't point out the contradiction), that's why the bowls court is lit green! It's all connected. It's a satanic cult! Have you ever looked at the old twenty dollar note? It's all in there! The shadow which represents how it's all hidden, the points that cross, like the red cross on the Australian flag! A coincidence?? It's all connected! You've heard of queen Victoria? And Prince Albert ? Take the V and the A and put them on top of each other, you get the two Xs that is the Freemasons, those fucking scum, it's all connected. Like when they give out the wrist bands in hospitals, that's a code to decide which kids are killed and which can live, they cut out their hearts....
I don't know whose eyeballs were spinning more after ten minutes, hers or mine. Mad craic.
How is Australia treating you these days?
In a word, rare.
Has Kurt Cocaine suffered enough yet?
I think he has.
Also I dunno if it's a peeve one or a Random Thoughts but I really hate looking at the board and seeing that the responses to the top 4 or 5 are all mine.
And fuck off with the "well stop" or whatever responses
Quote from: astfgyl on March 28, 2024, 07:58:48 PMAlso I dunno if it's a peeve one or a Random Thoughts but I really hate looking at the board and seeing that the responses to the top 4 or 5 are all mine.
And fuck off with the "well stop" or whatever responses
Do the opposite. Post in all the threads, own the entire first page. :laugh:
Quote from: Mower Liberation Front on March 28, 2024, 10:08:12 PMQuote from: astfgyl on March 28, 2024, 07:58:48 PMAlso I dunno if it's a peeve one or a Random Thoughts but I really hate looking at the board and seeing that the responses to the top 4 or 5 are all mine.
And fuck off with the "well stop" or whatever responses
Do the opposite. Post in all the threads, own the entire first page. :laugh:
I think I've achieved that at least once with maybe the exception of the classifieds
Why don't the UAC just do the honest thing and rename the Circuit of Ireland Rally the Circuit of Dungannon? :laugh:
Being a musician has changed, the whole scene is so different. You used to be someone who played in shit bands to no-one and gradually worked your way up to decent bands who could draw a crowd. You encounteresd all kinds of shit and surreality which helped you evolve as a player and a human being. Now, there's a generation of people who are "paying their dues" by performing covers in front of a ring-shaped light in their bedroom. It's mental to me. They dress up, give it socks to a camera by themselves and this is where the next generation of players are learning their craft. No life experience, just a strange ring-shaped light which they shake their thing in front of. Fucking mental.
https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/major-rat-infestation-government-buildings-28940420
What a surprise :laugh:
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Anyone see the northern lights last night? Well I hope it was that anyway. Just walked out for a fag about midnight and there it was. One of the maddest things I've ever seen. Looked nothing like the pictures I've seen either as in this looked like it was coming from a single point source, like it was emanating from an invisible moon. Passed from East to west for an hour or more. Daughter got some pictures I'll get her to send em to me but yeah, pinks and greens cool stuff altogether
My missus saw them in Wicklow, mates in Mayo and you're down south, so they seem to have covered the country.
The photos I've seen are stunning. What a thing to behold. The Aurora Australis was on display last night as well but not around Melbourne. Horsham, which is a few hours further North did get them and South Australia and Western Australia were fairly lit up, as well as Tasmania.
Matt, I'll never forget Iceland. Your taxi overtaking ours and you all giving us the finger as we got caught at a red light and you zipped through. As we sat at the light I looked up and lo and behold, after two evenings out on the boat trying to see them to pretty much no avail, there they fucking are. And you lot missed it :laugh:
If only Jacko Boyle had lived in tipp he'd have seen the northern lights and his social worker wouldn't have had to kill him with sleeping tablets. I wonder if any of you remember Jacko?
The best thing about this was the lack of pre warning I was watching Jaws (class class film btw) with the young lads and next thing I went for a fag before the final showdown and here was this shit going on, and for once an actual clear night to see it. What a great surprise
Missed it - I was in the pub and got sent picures, but couldn't see anything outside with the light pollution. Happening again this evening apparently.
Was looking all evening towards the north, it was getting darker, and no sign of any aurora. Went outside to get something at the car and.. wow. Turns out the whole thing was directly overhead at the time. Ended up going out to Sliabh Beagh to get some better pics (though my camera crapped out - had to use my phone which was nowhere near as good) it was amazing, at one point even had that wavy curtain effect you see in bright green.
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Unreal. You lucky bastards, I would love to witness that in Ireland. It is such a rare treat
Quote from: Eoin McLove on May 11, 2024, 10:56:46 AMMatt, I'll never forget Iceland. Your taxi overtaking ours and you all giving us the finger as we got caught at a red light and you zipped through. As we sat at the light I looked up and lo and behold, after two evenings out on the boat trying to see them to pretty much no avail, there they fucking are. And you lot missed it :laugh:
Was it definitely me? I didn't go out on the boat, I went to the pub both nights. I do remember you saying you saw them though.
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That's around my gaff there.
A rare treat indeed. Class class class I'll wait up tonight as well for it if it's going to be on again
Quote from: open face surgery on May 11, 2024, 01:17:14 PMQuote from: Eoin McLove on May 11, 2024, 10:56:46 AMMatt, I'll never forget Iceland. Your taxi overtaking ours and you all giving us the finger as we got caught at a red light and you zipped through. As we sat at the light I looked up and lo and behold, after two evenings out on the boat trying to see them to pretty much no avail, there they fucking are. And you lot missed it :laugh:
Was it definitely me? I didn't go out on the boat, I went to the pub both nights. I do remember you saying you saw them though.
Ah you weren't out? I forgot about that.
Quote from: astfgyl on May 11, 2024, 01:31:17 PMIMG-20240511-WA0003.jpg
That's around my gaff there.
A rare treat indeed. Class class class I'll wait up tonight as well for it if it's going to be on again
Epic.
Amazing. Mad jealous as cloudy as f#ck here tonight. :'(
Went out last night for an hour waiting and saw nothing. Ah well at least I've seen it the once
Up here at the soccer pitch and there's two Syrian lads in their school jumpers having a kick about. Is there anything that screams poverty like school jumpers on a weekend? One of the poor fuckers has ne'er a sock under his boots either it looks painful
Quote from: Hellyeah on May 11, 2024, 09:58:59 PMAmazing. Mad jealous as cloudy as f#ck here tonight. :'(
Pity it was cloudy last night
Got these from Friday
Still a bit cloudy, but sure ... can add to it
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Fuck all in Cork City, haven't felt FOMO like this in ages
Those are class man
Quote from: astfgyl on May 12, 2024, 02:55:02 PMThose are class man
Sound
In real-time the colours are faint to the eye, becoming more vibrant once photographed
"There might be something there ..."
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"Holy fck!"
Why can't people just be nice, doesn't have to be holy Joe nice, just basic manners, awareness of others when out and about etc..wrecks my fucking head!!
Quote from: Jward on May 12, 2024, 05:42:09 PMQuote from: astfgyl on May 12, 2024, 02:55:02 PMThose are class man
Sound
In real-time the colours are faint to the eye, becoming more vibrant once photographed
"There might be something there ..."
<click>
"Holy fck!"
Yeah the pics the daughter sent me were certainly more vivid than the real thing
Quote from: The Heretic on May 14, 2024, 12:22:38 PMWhy can't people just be nice, doesn't have to be holy Joe nice, just basic manners, awareness of others when out and about etc..wrecks my fucking head!!
There's an abundance of self absorbed cunts, main character syndrome is a hell of a thing
Quote from: Born of Fire on May 14, 2024, 08:15:09 PMQuote from: The Heretic on May 14, 2024, 12:22:38 PMWhy can't people just be nice, doesn't have to be holy Joe nice, just basic manners, awareness of others when out and about etc..wrecks my fucking head!!
There's an abundance of self absorbed cunts, main character syndrome is a hell of a thing
Had this conversation with someone today while I was helping them carry some bags of rubbish down the road. Was it having a fag anyway but the thrust of the conversation was that it cost me no more to help than to watch.
And for just that fleeing moment, I was the main character :laugh:
Just heard that one of the lads from One Direction is on his fourth solo album.
Imagine....
Imagine the few that are still waiting for that and then apply same to everyone on this board and it dawned on me that there's an awful amount of nerds still in the world and I took comfort in that so I did
Also, random: spin south west is a truly awful station
Bruce Springsteen..I just don't see what the fuss is about...I'm not saying he's shite...I just don't get the fanboy adoration he gets....
Same. I've a brother-in-law who's absolutely obsessed with him, yet I've never been played anything that really grabbed me.
Occasional highlights but yeah, he's like Pearl Jam in that it all blends into one for the morst part.
Nebraska is fucking class though.
Nebraska is where it's at with him indeed
Watched a BBC doc about it one evening and had to check it out and lo and behold it was excellent. Very bleak but excellent.
He can fuck off with the rest pretty much
The Ghost Of Tom Joad is along similar lines, acoustic and stripped down. Not as good but worth a spin, as is Devils And Dust (another acoustic one).
I dunno I nearly reckon I wouldn't want to ruin the one good one by listening to any more of it. That one as it is, is perfect. Who was it did the cover of that Tom Joad tune? Didn't know it had any connection until now
RATM had a cover of the title track, I haven't heard it.
Only know the RATM version and it's great.
One of the best tracks on Renegades. Might actually stick on Renegades now, always dug the hell out of it back in the day.
QuoteBruce Springsteen..I just don't see what the fuss is about...I'm not saying he's shite...I just don't get the fanboy adoration he gets....
Yep, bog standard average bar rock. Not like he has a whopper personality or much charisma either.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 21, 2024, 07:45:58 PMMight actually stick on Renegades now, always dug the hell out of it back in the day.
Still dig the hell out of it, turns out!
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 21, 2024, 09:28:17 PMQuote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on May 21, 2024, 07:45:58 PMMight actually stick on Renegades now, always dug the hell out of it back in the day.
Still dig the hell out of it, turns out!
It's so underrated, most tracks on it are class! Absolutely love that heavy swinging groove from Housin'. How I Could Just Kill a Man is awesome too.
Quote from: Pagan Saviour on May 21, 2024, 09:10:42 PMQuoteBruce Springsteen..I just don't see what the fuss is about...I'm not saying he's shite...I just don't get the fanboy adoration he gets....
Yep, bog standard average bar rock. Not like he has a whopper personality or much charisma either.
He has the odd track I enjoy, but yeah, for the most part I agree. And he plays that shit for 3 or 4 hours, which would be interminable.
One thing that always annoyed me - aside from that strained constipated vocal style, and all of that awful self mythologizing and trying to make the mundane sound epic - is on his early stuff where he had far too many words and syllables shoehorned into a lot of his tunes. His songs overall could have done with some serious editing actually. For someone who apparently loves classic rock'n'roll, he missed one thing they all embraced - Brevity.
So much of his stuff is the most tedious kind of self indulgence. Well, this side of Phish, Blues Traveler and the fucking Grateful Dead.
I want to push Van Morrison off a cliff.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
He'd make a nice soft landing for Alanis Morisette.
Do you ever catch a glimpse of your elbows and think, fuck, my elbow skin looks like an elephant's hundred year old scrotum; might be time to revise my moisturizing regime.
Not lately but they used to be fairly leathery in the past. The backs of my ankles were like crocodile skin at one point.
You never thought about harvesting it and making handbags?
Are sticks of chewing gum a thing of the past?
Seems to be all the hard-shelled type now.
And along with it - can you not buy Wrigley's Juicy Fruit or Spearmint/Peppermint any longer either?
Extra and Airways are the gum du jour these days.
My problems are small - aren't they? :laugh:
Amazon for the win with the Wrigleys stuff but I hate that I have to use them for something as basic as decent chewing gum! Predictably the sticks are smaller though which might be one for the peeves thread!
Driving along today, not up to much, and Jamiroquai were on the radio. And it just reminded me of how much I hated them, or him. With his spasticated hats and his silly little dance. I'm not sure why they rile me up so much, but at once stage the sheer hatred got so intense, I had to let out an almighty roar. I think I probably hate Jamiroquai more than any one person, or even thing for that matter. But yet at the same time, it's rare enough that they cross my mind. Anyway...
Actually, now that I think of it, I did end up at a house party years ago after a night on the yokes. Lines of coke started to come out and I can remember this chick turn to me and say "they're so good" in reference to Jamiroquai playing in the background. I think I realised then that coke wasn't for me, nor were the people that took coke my kind of people. And worse than that, I'm pretty sure I agreed with her because she was easy on the eye and I was too polite to say otherwise
Jaysus, that's virtual insanity lad.
Quote from: John Kimble on June 04, 2024, 04:34:23 PMActually, now that I think of it, I did end up at a house party years ago after a night on the yokes. Lines of coke started to come out and I can remember this chick turn to me and say "they're so good" in reference to Jamiroquai playing in the background. I think I realised then that coke wasn't for me, nor were the people that took coke my kind of people. And worse than that, I'm pretty sure I agreed with her because she was easy on the eye and I was too polite to say otherwise
I don't think there's any sort of coke that could have me liking Jamiroquai. I wouldn't blame the powder for that. He fuckin fries the head off me any time I think of him as well tbh I'm just after picturing his shit there and yeah fuck him from a great height
Quote from: Carnage on June 04, 2024, 04:36:49 PMJaysus, that's virtual insanity lad.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
It's the cockiness that accompanies his complete lack of talent that does my head in. Thankfully he seems to have disappeared, so that's something.
I never knew much about jamiroquai other than I didn't like his clothes when he was on the TV 20 odd years ago.
But, I was tripping on shrooms in a forest a few years back, virtual insanity came on and I thoroughly enjoyed it
All this Jamiroquai chat has me remembering the Fast Show sketch about 'Jeremy Kwee' 😂🤣
https://youtu.be/66_--zvqGDw
Quote from: Giggles on June 04, 2024, 09:03:10 PMI never knew much about jamiroquai other than I didn't like his clothes when he was on the TV 20 odd years ago.
But, I was tripping on shrooms in a forest a few years back, virtual insanity came on and I thoroughly enjoyed it
And here was me thinking that a bad trip was just a state of mind but it turns out to be a real thing. Wait until I show you some cool stuff like Limp Bizkit.
Actually still Jamiroquai.. jaysus lol
Edit: that looks like it came across a bit too cool for school and it wasn't meant like that it's just I've never heard anyone say that before, that Jamiroquai was acceptable or anything like that and I didn't know how to react other than to display my own insecurities as a riposte.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on June 04, 2024, 03:06:48 AMDo you ever catch a glimpse of your elbows and think, fuck, my elbow skin looks like an elephant's hundred year old scrotum; might be time to revise my moisturizing regime.
Young lad asked me why my elbows look red and weird the other day. He didn't even wait for me to reply before saying, "Because you're old and you fart?" I mean, don't ask me a question if you already know the answer!
:laugh: nice.
I bet I am not the only one who has looked at their elbows in a mirror as a result of this thread. I have beautiful soft and smooth elbows - no idea how.
You could grate parmesan off mine.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on June 07, 2024, 11:01:45 AMYou could grate parmesan off mine.
🤮
Dry elbows and knees for me. Also since my early 40s, I have dermatitis flare ups on my feet which leads to dry skin/peeling too - should start a collection. :-[
#Dry skin mask# :abbath: :laugh:
My elbows are fine now that I've taken a look but my feet are not exactly delightful
Dunno where this goes really but I went down to vote and what an awful collection of shitehawks on that euro ballot. I mean fucking hell is this the pool we have to choose from? Really really bad I struggled to pick a top 3 and even the number 1 felt pointless. It's not even about one party over another or left right or any of that..
They are all just objectively terrible
Quote from: astfgyl on June 07, 2024, 08:15:15 PMDunno where this goes really but I went down to vote and what an awful collection of shitehawks on that euro ballot. I mean fucking hell is this the pool we have to choose from? Really really bad I struggled to pick a top 3 and even the number 1 felt pointless. It's not even about one party over another or left right or any of that..
They are all just objectively terrible
Spot on...an awful shower of cunts to choose from..
Ah jaysus I've been a voter for a long time but it has never looked bleaker. I actually wish I was a party man so that I could have blindly picked even one of them
27 candidates on my Euro sheet, the fucking thing was two feet long. And most of them cunts that have never set foot in my town.
Quote from: Carnage on June 08, 2024, 01:12:46 AM27 candidates on my Euro sheet, the fucking thing was two feet long. And most of them cunts that have never set foot in my town.
Most? I would say not one in my case. Not a single one.
Some of them went to the bother of getting their gimps on for sticking an oul poster up on the outskirts though so at least they cared enough to get that going.
State of it all
Quote from: astfgyl on June 05, 2024, 01:37:56 AMQuote from: Giggles on June 04, 2024, 09:03:10 PMI never knew much about jamiroquai other than I didn't like his clothes when he was on the TV 20 odd years ago.
But, I was tripping on shrooms in a forest a few years back, virtual insanity came on and I thoroughly enjoyed it
And here was me thinking that a bad trip was just a state of mind but it turns out to be a real thing. Wait until I show you some cool stuff like Limp Bizkit.
Actually still Jamiroquai.. jaysus lol
Edit: that looks like it came across a bit too cool for school and it wasn't meant like that it's just I've never heard anyone say that before, that Jamiroquai was acceptable or anything like that and I didn't know how to react other than to display my own insecurities as a riposte.
You're grand man :laugh:
I watched the music video there and can confirm that I still think he looks like a gimp. I still like the song and video though!
Quote from: Giggles on June 08, 2024, 07:18:52 PMQuote from: astfgyl on June 05, 2024, 01:37:56 AMQuote from: Giggles on June 04, 2024, 09:03:10 PMI never knew much about jamiroquai other than I didn't like his clothes when he was on the TV 20 odd years ago.
But, I was tripping on shrooms in a forest a few years back, virtual insanity came on and I thoroughly enjoyed it
And here was me thinking that a bad trip was just a state of mind but it turns out to be a real thing. Wait until I show you some cool stuff like Limp Bizkit.
Actually still Jamiroquai.. jaysus lol
Edit: that looks like it came across a bit too cool for school and it wasn't meant like that it's just I've never heard anyone say that before, that Jamiroquai was acceptable or anything like that and I didn't know how to react other than to display my own insecurities as a riposte.
You're grand man :laugh:
I watched the music video there and can confirm that I still think he looks like a gimp. I still like the song and video though!
Ah jaysus so uncool thank god I'm cool.
Hey lads,
Did any of ye ever get them "delusions of grandeur" things before? I never got em until last week and then I did one thing good and I got the delusion about being a benevolent force in the universe and I felt hopelessly compromised with regards to my integrity and it got me thinking yknow,
The oul delusions of grandeur are nearly a sort of precursor to losing the plot altogether
It's a delicate balance, hovering right on the razor blade of delusion without tipping over the edge into completely losing the plot. I don't think people appreciate that.
Sure if the delusions of grandeur persist and you also happen to develop strong narcissistic tendencies ya can always go into politics.
Being a complete raving fucking lunatic seems to be a boon in the political sphere these days.
Enoch Burke is an example of someone who needs a good ride to ease his frustrations with everyday life...
He's in the right place so. Another case lost today, the defamation one. The cunt'll never pay his bills, but if he did he'd owe a pretty penny by now.
Is social media dying off a bit, or is it just calming down after an initial massive explosion?
Logged onto Facebook for the first time in months earlier, scrolled through 76(yes I counted :laugh: ) suggested posts/promoted posts/random videos before I found something one of my mates put up
Got rid of twitter last year after it went to utter shit after the Musk takeover, and I only keep instagram for getting news on gig announcements
Just from talking to a few other people it seems the idea of posting your entire life is fading, and if you want to contact someone it's gone back to ringing or texting. Could just be my age either, I'm sure there still hordes of the younger generation that feel the complete opposite!
Is it not that Tiktok has the attention of the young people now?
It never ceases to amaze me, generally, that anyone votes for Tories over there. In light of the state of the fucking place now, after 14 catastrophic years and 5 (possibly 6?) of the most inept and dishonest PMs of all time, it still looks like the cunts will get about 20% of the vote. How could anyone logically think "Yeah, we need more of this"?
Quote from: Bürggermeister on July 05, 2024, 07:27:26 AMIt never ceases to amaze me, generally, that anyone votes for Tories over there. In light of the state of the fucking place now, after 14 catastrophic years and 5 (possibly 6?) of the most inept and dishonest PMs of all time, it still looks like the cunts will get about 20% of the vote. How could anyone logically think "Yeah, we need more of this"?
But sure look a FF here, destroyed the country and now look at them..as arrogant as ever and still get votes..
Fair point but, much as I loathe FF, it'd be hard to say they're as actively maliciously destructive as the Tories.
If you've ever wanted to see a metaphor get keelhauled, here ya go:
https://x.com/AccidentalP/status/1809109484712730692
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on July 05, 2024, 12:50:53 PMIf you've ever wanted to see a metaphor get keelhauled, here ya go:
https://x.com/AccidentalP/status/1809109484712730692
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Fuck sake he looked like he regretted that by about 3 mentions of the word ship
Reminded me of the 2 aliens off bosco
One for the Tipp lads:
https://waterfordwhispers.shop/products/tipperary-mutant-premium-wwn-t-shirt
Quote from: Carnage on July 08, 2024, 11:52:55 PMOne for the Tipp lads:
https://waterfordwhispers.shop/products/tipperary-mutant-premium-wwn-t-shirt
Fuck lol I'll have to buy one now ah shit
Quote from: Carnage on July 08, 2024, 11:52:55 PMOne for the Tipp lads:
https://waterfordwhispers.shop/products/tipperary-mutant-premium-wwn-t-shirt
:laugh: :laugh: lethal
Has anyone seen this shite that's potentially coming down the line. So this new deposit scheme for plastic bottles that they have rolled out, now the waste providers are complaining that because we are not putting the plastic bottles into our green bins at home their profits are being affected so bin charges are going up potentially, so we will not pay twice? I mean what the fucking fuck? So now if you choose do do the right thing and avoid the charges by not buying plastic bottles you still get fucked over, and they wonder why people dump stuff illegally?
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/green-bin-price-hike-now-inevitable-as-talks-falter-tds-and-senators-warned/a596979548.html (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/green-bin-price-hike-now-inevitable-as-talks-falter-tds-and-senators-warned/a596979548.html)
If you like, I could add this as a side issue to my campaign to nationalize ticketmaster..?
Quote from: The Heretic on July 09, 2024, 03:44:01 PMHas anyone seen this shite that's potentially coming down the line. So this new deposit scheme for plastic bottles that they have rolled out, now the waste providers are complaining that because we are not putting the plastic bottles into our green bins at home their profits are being affected so bin charges are going up potentially, so we will not pay twice? I mean what the fucking fuck? So now if you choose do do the right thing and avoid the charges by not buying plastic bottles you still get fucked over, and they wonder why people dump stuff illegally?
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/green-bin-price-hike-now-inevitable-as-talks-falter-tds-and-senators-warned/a596979548.html (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/green-bin-price-hike-now-inevitable-as-talks-falter-tds-and-senators-warned/a596979548.html)
What does that spastic responsible for the whole thing Ossian Smyth, come out with? "I don't think they will increase charges". The neighbours just got hit with a 15% increase in their refuse bill.
It was a scam from the start.
Ours went up as well. Cunts.
That's very Irish really, isn't it
Sure the bins up every year regardless.
Scam or no scam I've definitely seen less empty red bull and monster cans on the main road here left after the boy racers since it came in, as folks are a little more inclined to pick it up and get the return credits.
It'll probably lead to bands arguments though as whoever's cleaning the jam room will have a nice little side earner going😂
Somebody is under severe pressure at CrowdStrike today..
Quote from: The Heretic on July 19, 2024, 11:37:14 AMSomebody is under severe pressure at CrowdStrike today..
Hope so. My fuel card didn't work down in Limerick this morning. Put it down to this, pretty pissed having to stump up the cash, not as pissed as the truck driver beside me who put 350euro into his truck with same result. :'(
ffsakes...it looks like a bald Donald Trump
https://www.thejournal.ie/sinead-o-connor-wax-figure-6445825-Jul2024/ (https://www.thejournal.ie/sinead-o-connor-wax-figure-6445825-Jul2024/)
Is that one of the Clone Troopers?
Nothing compares to you Mr Powers...
It looks like a bald Thunderbirds puppet!
Quote from: Carnage on July 25, 2024, 04:08:36 PMIt looks like a bald Thunderbirds puppet!
it does!! :laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: Carnage on July 25, 2024, 04:08:36 PMIt looks like a bald Thunderbirds puppet!
:laugh: :laugh:
A mate said the same to me earlier today: still just as funny :laugh:
Saw a headline that Mattel have released the first blind Barbie. I didn't think the others could actually see but what the fuck would I know.
Just as well they couldn't see the places you were stuffing them into.
Quote from: Bürggermeister on July 25, 2024, 05:51:55 PMJust as well they couldn't see the places you were stuffing them into.
Looks like the cunts have been telling tales too :-[ :laugh:
My niece in law who is sight-impaired after a childhood illness was actually used in the promo ad for the Blind Barbie doll over here so I'm sympathetic to it. I'm less sympathetic to Bald Trump above.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/it-was-hideous-says-sinead-oconnors-brother-as-national-wax-museum-pulls-controversial-waxwork/a1591246063.html (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/it-was-hideous-says-sinead-oconnors-brother-as-national-wax-museum-pulls-controversial-waxwork/a1591246063.html)
meanwhile...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2014/jan/08/worlds-worst-wax-museum-in-pictures
Paywalled, but I get the drift. He's not wrong.
Quote from: The Heretic on July 26, 2024, 03:17:14 PMhttps://www.independent.ie/irish-news/it-was-hideous-says-sinead-oconnors-brother-as-national-wax-museum-pulls-controversial-waxwork/a1591246063.html (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/it-was-hideous-says-sinead-oconnors-brother-as-national-wax-museum-pulls-controversial-waxwork/a1591246063.html)
meanwhile...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2014/jan/08/worlds-worst-wax-museum-in-pictures
Some of those bad ones just needed to be renamed.
Michael Owen is a passable Jimmy Carr
Mussolini is Geordie Walker
Daley Thomspon is some asylum seeker
Elvis is obviously Steven Seagal
Tony Blair is Loki
Sarah Ferguson is Florence & The Machine
I'm guessing the Hitler one is supposed to be from after he was set on fire?
Daley Thompson is Borat.
U2 get shit on a lot, and to be fair they have been treading water for 25 years now but Joshua Tree is a stunning piece of work, it's in my top 10 albums of all time across all genres, and the way they reinvented themselves on Achtung Baby is one of the greatest feats in rock music, the zoo tv tour and that stage setup and concept was fucking unbelievable at the time...
I've never listened to Joshua Tree at all. Every now and again I read something about U2 and I'm tempted but so far no. Maybe I'm being a bit unfair putting the personality before the music
Quote from: The Heretic on August 04, 2024, 10:15:12 PMU2 get shit on a lot, and to be fair they have been treading water for 25 years now but Joshua Tree is a stunning piece of work, it's in my top 10 albums of all time across all genres, and the way they reinvented themselves on Achtung Baby is one of the greatest feats in rock music, the zoo tv tour and that stage setup and concept was fucking unbelievable at the time...
Agreed. They were a great,
great fucking band. The stylistic leap from Unforgettable Fire to Joshua Tree is one, the leap to Achtung Baby and all that ensued at that time is another. Most bands never even do it once.
Pop is my favourite U2 album, and I've been a fan since The Unforgettable Fire. Nothing after Pop is worth bothering with but by jaysus they were mighty in their day.
Quote from: Carnage on August 05, 2024, 01:11:32 AMPop is my favourite U2 album, and I've been a fan since The Unforgettable Fire. Nothing after Pop is worth bothering with but by jaysus they were mighty in their day.
Yeah Pop would be the last album from them that I liked, and it's a great album which gets shat on quite a bit, however I do think the tour for the the album was a bit of a basket case where they tried to outdo ZooTV, which was understandable, but just didn't work..
I love the video from that tour, Popmart I think it was? The lemon thing was a ball of shite but the rest of it was mighty.
I fucking loved the Discotheque single. They were good craic when they weren't all inserting themselves up Bono's hole.
Me older brother had Unforgettable Fire and Joshua Tree on hapes in the house when I was a kid, great albums.
I'm no expert on U2 by any stretch but I like the early stuff when I hear it on the radio. I remember when Achtung Baby came out and the singles were played a lot on The Beat Box and on the radio. I fucking despise everything I heard from that and the next one. There were a couple of good tunes thereafter- the one where Boner forgot his wife's birthday or something so he wrote a song for her as an apology... I can picture the video but the song title is gone. That was a cool tune. I think after that they became musical wallpaper.
The Sweetest Thing. Awful shite that one, it's an old song that was rerecorded for a greatest hits compilation, if memory serves.
I like it. Everything else around then we raw sewage.
I picked up that U2 double disc collection with the gold cover a few years back in Dealz and it hasn't managed to make its' way out of the plastic wrap yet. Every time I think of throwing it on I start thinking of Bono and I find something else to go with. Tis shallow, tbf
Chance picks in Dealz have been generally kind to me over the years and it's an awful pity they gave up on that because now I usually have nothing to do when the missus is going around the shops, picking things up and putting them down again
https://x.com/JohnCleese/status/1820173358547501374?t=a1OhNPHl57MTuVu68U-FQw&s=19
I did a wonderful amount of laughing at this today if anyone fancies something a bit more lighthearted
Quote from: astfgyl on August 05, 2024, 01:10:48 PMI picked up that U2 double disc collection with the gold cover a few years back in Dealz and it hasn't managed to make its' way out of the plastic wrap yet. Every time I think of throwing it on I start thinking of Bono and I find something else to go with. Tis shallow, tbf
Chance picks in Dealz have been generally kind to me over the years and it's an awful pity they gave up on that because now I usually have nothing to do when the missus is going around the shops, picking things up and putting them down again
I remember scoring the first five Jamiroquai albums out of Dealz for €7.50. A mighty day, so it was.
A completely random flashback, while working (and the mind wandering) to a decade or more ago. In Astfgyl's house some evening, one of his kids had left a cop car plastic toy down on the floor. It had a button on it for siren noises and catchphrases (police! hands behind your head! etc) that rotated each time it was pushed. I can't remember them all but spent the evening in stitches that "STOP STRUGGLING" was one of them.
That reminds me of a remote control Thomas The Tank Engine toy my nephew had, it would 'speak' as it moved. When you reversed it, it would say "backing up!", but in its particular English accent it sounded like "fackin' 'ell!"
Quote from: Carnage on August 08, 2024, 11:39:06 AMThat reminds me of a remote control Thomas The Tank Engine toy my nephew had, it would 'speak' as it moved. When you reversed it, it would say "backing up!", but in its particular English accent it sounded like "fackin' 'ell!"
:laugh: :laugh: I want one
Quote from: Ducky on August 05, 2024, 10:31:35 PMQuote from: astfgyl on August 05, 2024, 01:10:48 PMI picked up that U2 double disc collection with the gold cover a few years back in Dealz and it hasn't managed to make its' way out of the plastic wrap yet. Every time I think of throwing it on I start thinking of Bono and I find something else to go with. Tis shallow, tbf
Chance picks in Dealz have been generally kind to me over the years and it's an awful pity they gave up on that because now I usually have nothing to do when the missus is going around the shops, picking things up and putting them down again
I remember scoring the first five Jamiroquai albums out of Dealz for €7.50. A mighty day, so it was.
Astfgyl loves Jamiroquai so he does :laugh:
Didn't mind U2 til I saw them at Slane 01. Atrocious shite. Bono is an insufferable cunt.
Just saw the Australian break dancing with Raygun. Hilarious stuff
Quote from: astfgyl on August 13, 2024, 01:31:14 PMJust saw the Australian break dancing with Raygun. Hilarious stuff
Truly phenomenal.
Jemaine from Flight of the Conchords tweeted this today:
"I've been to Australia. That was their best dancer."
:laugh: :laugh:
It's amazing how easy it is to identify fellow Irish tourists anywhere, and without the aid of a GAA jersey or chat. We just have an aura, the gait and the horrific looking hairy milk bottle legs that no other race can match :)
Quote from: Eoin McLove on August 13, 2024, 01:37:04 PMQuote from: astfgyl on August 13, 2024, 01:31:14 PMJust saw the Australian break dancing with Raygun. Hilarious stuff
Truly phenomenal.
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I have to check out that shooter. I've heard good things.
Quote from: Caomhaoin on August 13, 2024, 08:08:14 PMIt's amazing how easy it is to identify fellow Irish tourists anywhere, and without the aid of a GAA jersey or chat. We just have an aura, the gait and the horrific looking hairy milk bottle legs that no other race can match :)
Yeah, 100%, nearly as easy as as picking out Special Branchmen in Sallins in the month of June.
The gait comes from years in silver kings in bad old rushy fields.
Same for ruskies, you can spot them before they open their mouths. The gold chains are a hint of course
Why are we seeing more situations where people on holiday get sick, hurt or whatever and there's a gofundme to help pay for treatments etc. I know there are exceptions but do people not get travel insurance or have the correct cover in place?
Are Skechers trying to promote slip on shoes as
their new innovation?
It would appear so.
There's an ad for them where a woman claims when she saw Sketchers slip on shoes it "altered her brain chemistry".
Makes me want to put my fist through the telly every time I see it.
I don't think much would alter Redknapp's brain chemistry, to be fair.
Did you ever see that clip where he tried hurling? He's an absolute fanny.
No, thankfully. He probably tried to hump the hurl like a dog.
I was going to say he was whining like a girl, but at least they play camogie.
Ginormous ballbag, but a very tiny penis.
Giant tits with tiny nipples or tiny tits with giant nipples?
Depends on what the tits are for or if they were my own...
Could be both, in a face off.
Had a couple of things to sort out in Dublin so was back for a flying visit. Around all over town today to see to final messages and meet up with family and friends: Docklands, Connolly, North Strand, Phibsboro, Luas from there to Stephen's Green, from there back to Docklands by foot. Still very much felt like the city I remember and love, warts and all! Prob won't be back again til Pantera now, but yeah, still feeling at home in Dublin. That's all.
Just remembered this morning you can often find music on the Internet Archive for free. Nothing hectic but still plenty of odds and ends so it's worth a look in occasionally. This morning I got that Vengaboys tune I am obsessed with off it anyway
This lad is badly damaged. You'd think Jesus would have taken him aside and had a fucking word by now
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0822/1466216-enoch-burke/
Quote from: Bürggermeister on August 22, 2024, 06:18:05 PMThis lad is badly damaged. You'd think Jesus would have taken him aside and had a fucking word by now
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0822/1466216-enoch-burke/
Aye. Whole family is damaged. Well there's one sibling who got out and they don't speak to her. You could make a case it's child abuse the way they raised those children. Mother is some wagon.
He's a great man to show up on time for work though :laugh:
:laugh:
The only way to cure that damage is with a lump hammer. Cunts, all of them.
Enoch is a prime example of someone who needs a good ride to clear his head...
If it didn't happen for him in the 'Joy I doubt he'll have much luck in the wild.
I'm deeply disappointed by finally seeing a full Jerry Sadowitz show.
I remember seeing one short clip years ago and thinking he was hilarious, but I couldn't find anything else. Then I heard that his stuff was "too controversial" for TV, youtube etc, and for years it was like he was memory holed. I thought, he must be totally fucking out there, given what is allowed.
But I watched a full gig there, and it was pretty weak stuff overall to be honest. A couple of good gags. But not that funny. Or that controversial or extreme either. But more than that, I just don't find him particularly engaging. Just a shouty Scottish fella trying to be shocking.
Still, in the "controversial comedian" stakes he is still more likable and amusing than Jim Jeffries I guess. But then again, so is a boil on your taint.
Quote from: The Wretch on August 23, 2024, 09:59:12 AMI'm deeply disappointed by finally seeing a full Jerry Sadowitz show.
I remember seeing one short clip years ago and thinking he was hilarious, but I couldn't find anything else. Then I heard that his stuff was "too controversial" for TV, youtube etc, and for years it was like he was memory holed. I thought, he must be totally fucking out there, given what is allowed.
But I watched a full gig there, and it was pretty weak stuff overall to be honest. A couple of good gags. But not that funny. Or that controversial or extreme either. But more than that, I just don't find him particularly engaging. Just a shouty Scottish fella trying to be shocking.
Still, in the "controversial comedian" stakes he is still more likable and amusing than Jim Jeffries I guess. But then again, so is a boil on your taint.
To me Jim Jefferies isn't as funny as what he thinks he is, always seems to be trying too hard, bit like Tommy Tiernan...
Quote from: The Heretic on August 23, 2024, 10:46:50 AMTo me Jim Jefferies isn't as funny as what he thinks he is, always seems to be trying too hard, bit like Tommy Tiernan...
Tommy is genuinely witty though, which makes his trying too hard all the more puzzling.
There is no underlying wit or point behind Jeffries act that I can see. He imagines he is terribly clever though.
Oasis reunion? Ticketmaster creaming themselves I'd say.
The Office UK is possibly the best comedy show (or show) ever, each time I re-watch it I discover something new that I missed before...
Quote from: Giggles on August 26, 2024, 11:02:46 AMOasis reunion? Ticketmaster creaming themselves I'd say.
Its a wet dream for them to be sure...
Liam more or less confirmed it on Twitter the other day so I assume they're announcing it ahead of schedule. Sae them in '96 so won't bother with it if they come here but I'm a fan and am hoping for some new music.
Quote from: The Heretic on August 26, 2024, 11:38:17 AMThe Office UK is possibly the best comedy show (or show) ever, each time I re-watch it I discover something new that I missed before...
A perfect tv show. Have you watched Detectorists? It took me two goes to get into it but it's one that stands up to multiple viewings.
Loved the first two albums and The Masterplan when I was a pup, and there's a few tracks on all of them that I still occasionally revisit (particularly from Definitely Maybe), but holy hell, talk about not being able to separate the art from fhe artist.
The Gallagher brothers are two of the most insufferable cunts to ever stand on a stage, and the double wisdom tooth extraction I'm getting done on Wednesday is more appealing than watching them live (particularly when you factor in the amount of banter-saurus/laddish types you'd have to contend with).
Extras is right up there with The UK Office. The show with Warrick life's too short I think it was called was also great.
I can't stand Oasis but is a reunion really that big of deal? Sure they played here as a band so many times and both come here on almost a yearly basis with the solo shite and play all the Oasis songs. Everyone I know who likes Oasis has already seen the full band live plenty of times.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on August 26, 2024, 12:11:40 PMQuote from: The Heretic on August 26, 2024, 11:38:17 AMThe Office UK is possibly the best comedy show (or show) ever, each time I re-watch it I discover something new that I missed before...
A perfect tv show. Have you watched Detectorists? It took me two goes to get into it but it's one that stands up to multiple viewings.
I haven't watched it no but I'll take up your recommendation for sure..cheers!
Quote from: Ducky on August 26, 2024, 12:16:03 PMLoved the first two albums and The Masterplan when I was a pup, and there's a few tracks on all of them that I still occasionally revisit (particularly from Definitely Maybe), but holy hell, talk about not being able to separate the art from fhe artist.
The Gallagher brothers are two of the most insufferable cunts to ever stand on a stage, and the double wisdom tooth extraction I'm getting done on Wednesday is more appealing than watching them live (particularly when you factor in the amount of banter-saurus/laddish types you'd have to contend with).
Liam is pure out and out cunt who wishes he was half as talented a Noel. I've warmed to Noel over recent years though, he seems to have mellowed out and can be funny as fuck...
His (Noel's) arrogance has become endearing in a way, he knows how to write (lift) a song and isn't shy about it, whereas the other cabbage has nothing going on and doesn't have enough intelligence to realise it.
The Office is brilliant. Hated it at first, but was left alone for the weekend in the house I was sharing about 20 years ago and binged the boxset, loved it. After Life is another bingeworthy one if you enjoyed The Office. Very dark in places. I've never seen Extras, Derek or the Warwick Davies one, I must give them a look.
Detectorists was so good. Not going to go overboard and claim it was as good as The Office, but def check it out if that's your comedy bag. Extras was also excellent. Must check out After Life: have heard mixed reviews, but I'm sure it's at least worth a shot.
First 2 seasons of After Life are incredible. Felt the third wasn't needed. Extras is class and Life is Short was good. Never watched Derek. Looks cuntish.
Detectorists is great.
I watched the first episode of The Detectorists a while back, it didn't do much for me. As good as Toby Jones is in everything, I can't abide Mackenzie Crook.
Quote from: open face surgery on August 26, 2024, 01:11:32 PMFirst 2 seasons of After Life are incredible. Felt the third wasn't needed.
The third definitely lacked something alright (a couple of characters, for a start), but wrapped it up nicely IMO. The final episode has some nice catharsis to it.
Oasis have always been utterly mediocre cunts IMO.
Noel can be funny at times to be fair. But Liam is one of the most insufferable wankers of all time. Aside from Robbie Williams, has there every been anyone whose smug self satisfaction is so out of whack with their actual talent? Gurning, posturing arsehole.
That whole, "letting your jacket fall past your shoulders" supposed hard man pose he used to do with journos always made me laugh. Leaving himself completely open for a full force punch in his monkey face. No wonder his teeth were knocked out by those eyeties years ago.
Quote from: mickO))) on August 26, 2024, 12:19:18 PMI can't stand Oasis but is a reunion really that big of deal? Sure they played here as a band so many times and both come here on almost a yearly basis with the solo shite and play all the Oasis songs. Everyone I know who likes Oasis has already seen the full band live plenty of times.
I'm only familiar with a few songs myself, but yeah I reckon it's a huge deal. We're in the era of big reunions and I think there's still a post-pandemic gig buzz going on.
Oasis split 15 years ago, so that's an entire generation that haven't gotten to see them. Whether or not Oasis is relevant with the youngsters today, I don't know, but I reckon there will be a lot of older heads going to this who probably spent the last 10 years raising kids and don't go out much anymore.
I love a bit of Liam drama. The more he acts like a cunt, the better :laugh:
This relatively early gig of theirs is savage!!
I used to work with a massive Oasis fan... I actually think he was a bigger prick than the cunts in the band.
I think I might have liked Oasis had Liam not been a member. A band member I mean :) Never could hack the sound of his voice and remember first hearing a track Noel did lead vocals on and wondering why on earth they ever let Liam at the mic in the first place: they could've just thrown him a pair of maracas and had him impersonate a mix of Bez and Ian Brown instead of just the latter! :P
I'd rather see Mary Harney and the Progressive Democrats make a return.
Noel's definitely the better singer, their Unplugged session is all the better for his not being there. The first High Flying Birds album is as good as most of the Oasis stuff, with the added bonus of no Liam. The live stuff I have with Noel on vocals is also much better.
They only really have one good album but it was a genuinely good album
Already it starts..people moaning about the price of Oasis tickets, vote with feet people otherwise get the lube out...
Has everyone started talking like this again?
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A_13z5-CAAAC-4j.jpg)
:laugh:
:laugh: can't bate the oul Viz
Someone give the number a go! :laugh:
Don't forget to spare a thought for auld Ollie Cromwell on his anniversary lads
May his chicken always be from a farm of poor hygienic reputation
Yis are all crazy. Liam's voice is the best thing about Oasis, it's the only thing about them that's individual and original. He'd have been a good punk singer in another life. I do understand how when you attach the voice to the man though it could make it seem insufferable... Noel on the other hand is such a limited singer :laugh:
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Ah fair enough so
"Ah he's only a cunt with a couple of pints in him"
Quote from: astfgyl on September 04, 2024, 07:25:41 PM20240904_192354.jpg
Ah fair enough so
It was malaria from a mosquito that bit him while he was here that killed the auld cunt.
Quote from: Bürggermeister on September 04, 2024, 07:29:02 PM"Ah he's only a cunt with a couple of pints in him"
Except in Ireland :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
There's just no rehabilitation for Ollie the oul bastard
Still kicking myself I didn't grab a Cromwell Irish tour t-shirt at the Reverend Bizarre gig in 05 :laugh:
Quote from: Eoin McLove on September 05, 2024, 01:21:36 AMStill kicking myself I didn't grab a Cromwell Irish tour t-shirt at the Reverend Bizarre gig in 05 :laugh:
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
How come Belfast can create this?
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/belfast-grand-central-station-to-be-a-game-changer-for-public-transport/a1948923413.html (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/belfast-grand-central-station-to-be-a-game-changer-for-public-transport/a1948923413.html)
And we are still stuck with that shithole Busáras...
Ah come on, you don't just fuck away concrete and stone enriched with 70 years of piss.
Nothing only bad memories of busaras. It should be outlawed to say it's grand, like holocaust denial or such like
Quote from: The Heretic on September 06, 2024, 11:14:30 AMHow come Belfast can create this?
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/belfast-grand-central-station-to-be-a-game-changer-for-public-transport/a1948923413.html (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/belfast-grand-central-station-to-be-a-game-changer-for-public-transport/a1948923413.html)
And we are still stuck with that shithole Busáras...
The best comment I have heard about this "How much is it going to cost to keep all that glass clean?"
It's s nice shiny glass building for basically the train in two directions would rather stand in the pissing rain for a real rail service that let me go to more than 1 town
Quote from: nukeabuse on September 06, 2024, 10:34:03 PMIt's s nice shiny glass building for basically the train in two directions would rather stand in the pissing rain for a real rail service that let me go to more than 1 town
Ah come on don't ruin the good vibes that come with the same basic infrastructure as before
Quote from: astfgyl on September 06, 2024, 09:04:06 PMNothing only bad memories of busaras. It should be outlawed to say it's grand, like holocaust denial or such like
Seeing as its the random thoughts thread, and seeing as ya bought it up.-
Is it o.k. to carry out research on the holocaust?
And say if ya did carry out research on the holocaust and found some of the accepted details to be questionable, would it be o.k. to discuss your findings, or would that be holocaust denial.
Hypothetically speaking.
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on September 06, 2024, 11:49:52 PMQuote from: astfgyl on September 06, 2024, 09:04:06 PMNothing only bad memories of busaras. It should be outlawed to say it's grand, like holocaust denial or such like
Seeing as its the random thoughts thread, and seeing as ya bought it up.-
Is it o.k. to carry out research on the holocaust?
And say if ya did carry out research on the holocaust and found some of the accepted details to be questionable, would it be o.k. to discuss your findings, or would that be holocaust denial.
Hypothetically speaking.
Ah it's absolutely questionable as I see it. I don't think that there wasn't a concerted effort by the nazis to fuck up the Jews and I think what happened in the camps even if it's less than what was said is still the actual worst possible thing ever but matched by every other imperial power ever through all of history. The thoughts of a single child being starved to death on purpose even without the gassing of many is just abhorrent to me on every level.
I finally understood how it could happen during the covid years and it really affected me bad seeing how others would sacrifice me and my family for non compliance. As long as everyone was in the inside looking out at me, eh?
I'd say I'll never be the same again tbh.
And still, saying all that, I think the holocaust might be different than the books but any bit of it at all is bad enough.
Next up is the whites anyway so we'll get to find out soon enough
Quote from: astfgyl on September 06, 2024, 11:59:48 PMQuote from: son of the Morrigan on September 06, 2024, 11:49:52 PMQuote from: astfgyl on September 06, 2024, 09:04:06 PMNothing only bad memories of busaras. It should be outlawed to say it's grand, like holocaust denial or such like
Seeing as its the random thoughts thread, and seeing as ya bought it up.-
Is it o.k. to carry out research on the holocaust?
And say if ya did carry out research on the holocaust and found some of the accepted details to be questionable, would it be o.k. to discuss your findings, or would that be holocaust denial.
Hypothetically speaking.
Ah it's absolutely questionable as I see it. I don't think that there wasn't a concerted effort by the nazis to fuck up the Jews and I think what happened in the camps even if it's less than what was said is still the actual worst possible thing ever but matched by every other imperial power ever through all of history. The thoughts of a single child being starved to death on purpose even without the gassing of many is just abhorrent to me on every level.
I finally understood how it could happen during the covid years and it really affected me bad seeing how others would sacrifice me and my family for non compliance. As long as everyone was in the inside looking out at me, eh?
I'd say I'll never be the same again tbh.
And still, saying all that, I think the holocaust might be different than the books but any bit of it at all is bad enough.
Next up is the whites anyway so we'll get to find out soon enough
The covid nonsense was an eye opener for many, in many ways.
It was a study in mass hysteria and heard mentality.
The history books will note that it killed 5 million and that the safe and effective miracle vaccines saved 100 million lives, and woe betide anyone who may question it.
I'd agree with ya re. the Holocaust. hypothetically speaking if it was 300,000 instead of 6,000,000 its still horrific, and hypothetically speaking if 150,000 perished of typhus as opposed to gassing its still awful, and if the other 150,000 died due to starvation caused by allied bombing of the supply lines, its still horrific.
Not sure about the white genocide craic.
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on September 07, 2024, 12:22:24 AMQuote from: astfgyl on September 06, 2024, 11:59:48 PMQuote from: son of the Morrigan on September 06, 2024, 11:49:52 PMQuote from: astfgyl on September 06, 2024, 09:04:06 PMNothing only bad memories of busaras. It should be outlawed to say it's grand, like holocaust denial or such like
Seeing as its the random thoughts thread, and seeing as ya bought it up.-
Is it o.k. to carry out research on the holocaust?
And say if ya did carry out research on the holocaust and found some of the accepted details to be questionable, would it be o.k. to discuss your findings, or would that be holocaust denial.
Hypothetically speaking.
Ah it's absolutely questionable as I see it. I don't think that there wasn't a concerted effort by the nazis to fuck up the Jews and I think what happened in the camps even if it's less than what was said is still the actual worst possible thing ever but matched by every other imperial power ever through all of history. The thoughts of a single child being starved to death on purpose even without the gassing of many is just abhorrent to me on every level.
I finally understood how it could happen during the covid years and it really affected me bad seeing how others would sacrifice me and my family for non compliance. As long as everyone was in the inside looking out at me, eh?
I'd say I'll never be the same again tbh.
And still, saying all that, I think the holocaust might be different than the books but any bit of it at all is bad enough.
Next up is the whites anyway so we'll get to find out soon enough
The covid nonsense was an eye opener for many, in many ways.
It was a study in mass hysteria and heard mentality.
The history books will note that it killed 5 million and that the safe and effective miracle vaccines saved 100 million lives, and woe betide anyone who may question it.
I'd agree with ya re. the Holocaust. hypothetically speaking if it was 300,000 instead of 6,000,000 its still horrific, and hypothetically speaking if 150,000 perished of typhus as opposed to gassing its still awful, and if the other 150,000 died due to starvation caused by allied bombing of the supply lines, its still horrific.
Not sure about the white genocide craic.
I'm not personally buying the white genocide angle myself I was just trying to be funny there. White people are the only race people can apply the old ethnic criticism to without fear of reprisal though, that's definitely a real thing
Quotehypothetically speaking if it was 300,000 instead of 6,000,000 its still horrific, and hypothetically speaking if 150,000 perished of typhus as opposed to gassing its still awful, and if the other 150,000 died due to starvation caused by allied bombing of the supply lines, its still horrific
Gee, I wonder what kind of sources not only reduce the death toll to 300,000 but also go a step further and wash the Nazis' hands of any direct role in those deaths!
Here are Hitler's own words from January 1942, i.e. the point in the war where the Final Solution (to getting the Jews out of Europe) was enacted:
QuoteOne must act radically. When one pulls out a tooth, one does it with a single tug, and the pain quickly goes away. The Jew must clear out of Europe. Otherwise no understanding will be possible between Europeans. It's the Jew who prevents everything. When I think about it, I realise that I'm extraordinarily humane. [...] For my part, I restrict myself to telling them they must go away. If they break their pipes on the journey, I can't do anything about it. But if they refuse to go voluntarily, I see no other solution but extermination. Why should I look at a Jew through other eyes than if he were a Russian prisoner-of-war? In the p.o.w. camps, many are dying. It's not my fault. I didn't want either the war or the p.o.w. camps. Why did the Jew provoke this war?
A good three hundred or four hundred years will go by before the Jews set foot again in Europe.
https://archive.org/details/HitlersTableTalk_1941_1944/page/n279/
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on September 08, 2024, 01:26:55 AMQuotehypothetically speaking if it was 300,000 instead of 6,000,000 its still horrific, and hypothetically speaking if 150,000 perished of typhus as opposed to gassing its still awful, and if the other 150,000 died due to starvation caused by allied bombing of the supply lines, its still horrific
Gee, I wonder what kind of sources not only reduce the death toll to 300,000 but also go a step further and wash the Nazis' hands of any direct role in those deaths!
Here are Hitler's own words from January 1942, i.e. the point in the war where the Final Solution (to getting the Jews out of Europe) was enacted:
QuoteOne must act radically. When one pulls out a tooth, one does it with a single tug, and the pain quickly goes away. The Jew must clear out of Europe. Otherwise no understanding will be possible between Europeans. It's the Jew who prevents everything. When I think about it, I realise that I'm extraordinarily humane. [...] For my part, I restrict myself to telling them they must go away. If they break their pipes on the journey, I can't do anything about it. But if they refuse to go voluntarily, I see no other solution but extermination. Why should I look at a Jew through other eyes than if he were a Russian prisoner-of-war? In the p.o.w. camps, many are dying. It's not my fault. I didn't want either the war or the p.o.w. camps. Why did the Jew provoke this war?
A good three hundred or four hundred years will go by before the Jews set foot again in Europe.
https://archive.org/details/HitlersTableTalk_1941_1944/page/n279/
I was speaking hypothetically.
Don't make the mistake of confusing what politicians say with what politicians do though.
Take a break from the internet, lad, FFS. The shite you're digesting is not doing you any good at all.
QuoteDon't make the mistake of confusing what politicians say with what politicians do though.
:laugh:
We're not talking about a local Teachta Dála saying on the campaign trail that they'll fill the potholes.
Gaping to replace break-dancing at the 2028 Olympics.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on September 08, 2024, 10:18:08 AMQuoteDon't make the mistake of confusing what politicians say with what politicians do though.
:laugh:
We're not talking about a local Teachta Dála saying on the campaign trail that they'll fill the potholes.
No. We certainly are not.
Look man, The point I was trying to make, probably somewhat ham-fistedly, is that the holocaust should be as open to discussion and investigation as any other historical event.
Labelling anyone who Questions any part of the official narrative as a "Holocaust denier" is abhorrent to frank and open historical research and discussion.
The second world war is something I'm very interested in, and as anyone with an interest in anything should do, I've attempted to look at it from all angles and the viewpoint of both sides.
I am by no means some kind of Nazi fanboy.
The truth of the matter, as with most things in life, lies somewhere in the grey areas between the extremes, the extremes in this case being 6,000,000 and 300,000.
Quote from: Bürggermeister on September 08, 2024, 07:47:58 AMTake a break from the internet, lad, FFS. The shite you're digesting is not doing you any good at all.
Answered above.
Digesting shite is dangerous, but one must taste it before they can discern whether it is shite or not.
I guarantee there isn't a lad on here that spends less time on the fucking internet than me by the way.
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on September 08, 2024, 12:33:02 PMLabelling anyone who Questions any part of the official narrative as a "Holocaust denier" is abhorrent to frank and open historical research and discussion.
Okay in principle, but the 300,000 figure, along with the explanation you gave for it, is literally wholesale flat-out denial of the events referred to as the holocaust of the Jews. There is no more fitting label for that "hypothesis" than "holocaust denial."
Quote from: son of the Morrigan on September 08, 2024, 12:33:02 PMThe truth of the matter, as with most things in life, lies somewhere in the grey areas between the extremes, the extremes in this case being 6,000,000 and 300,000.
The "truth of the matter" has no more to do with the 300,000 figure than the reality of the solar system has to do with the "hypothetical" notion that the earth is a flat disc being carried through space on the back of four elephants and a giant turtle. The 6,000,000 figure is itself debatable and debated though.
Also you may have misconstrued the context of the Hitler quote above when you said not to mistake what "politicians" say with what they do: it wasn't from a rally speech but a meeting with a tight circle of confidants, including Himmler himself (aka the Reichsführer-SS mastermind of the industrialized Final Solution, who ordered construction of the death factories in late 1941 through early 1942):
https://archive.org/details/HitlersTableTalk_1941_1944/page/n275
Ah lad, will ya stop acting the maggot. Your picking an argument here where there is none.
Cherry picking sentences and using them out of context in weak attempts at ridicule is beneath you.
Those Table Talk transcriptions are about as reliable a source of information as Anne Franks diary, as I'm sure you well know.
More than happy to discuss reliability of sources with you man, but this whole discussion would fit better into the PC thread, and we can leave this one get back to lighter matters... such as gaping holes of a very different variety ::)
:laugh:
Agreed.
Quote from: Eoin McLove on September 08, 2024, 10:42:52 AMGaping to replace break-dancing at the 2028 Olympics.
Splaygun!
:laugh:
New publicity spot for the Royal Armouries in Leeds is quality :laugh:
https://x.com/rebekkarnold/status/1835663229013405909
The eight weeks my nephew stayed with me over the summer has definitely rubbed off on me, I sort of understood what he was saying, no cap (or is it kap... who knows how they spell this new language).
:laugh:
I've been at that Royal Armouries twice, well worth a visit. In any language.
Quote from: Anvil on September 17, 2024, 09:41:30 AMThe eight weeks my nephew stayed with me over the summer has definitely rubbed off on me, I sort of understood what he was saying, no cap (or is it kap... who knows how they spell this new language).
It's "cap". Did he use "FRFR" before it? So it'll read "for real, for real, no lie".
Not sure how I know these things :laugh:
Quote from: Ducky on September 17, 2024, 10:57:52 PMQuote from: Anvil on September 17, 2024, 09:41:30 AMThe eight weeks my nephew stayed with me over the summer has definitely rubbed off on me, I sort of understood what he was saying, no cap (or is it kap... who knows how they spell this new language).
It's "cap". Did he use "FRFR" before it? So it'll read "for real, for real, no lie".
Not sure how I know these things :laugh:
Because you've got the riz!
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Quote from: Mooncat on September 18, 2024, 12:27:21 AMQuote from: Ducky on September 17, 2024, 10:57:52 PMQuote from: Anvil on September 17, 2024, 09:41:30 AMThe eight weeks my nephew stayed with me over the summer has definitely rubbed off on me, I sort of understood what he was saying, no cap (or is it kap... who knows how they spell this new language).
It's "cap". Did he use "FRFR" before it? So it'll read "for real, for real, no lie".
Not sure how I know these things :laugh:
Because you've got the riz!
If I had to look up what "the riz" was, does that mean I don't actually have it?
FML 2K24 :'(
This new language thing can fuck off. Does it come from people living their lives through Twitter or Instagram and now spouting the mindless drivel that appears on those platforms?
A few weeks back, an extremely camp lad shrieked "YAAAAAAAAAASS QWEEEEEEEEN! FLAUNT!"* at the top of his lungs when one of his friends walked into the pub.
I was sat about three feet away from him and it scared the ever-loving piss out of me. I almost jumped out of my skin, nearly dropped my pint and all.
At the current cost of a craft beer, I'd have had to kill the man (or whatever they identify as) in retribution.
*(I had to ask my wife to repeat what he/they'd said)
I want to congratulate whoever got Augustiner stocked regularly in off licences in Cork. If they're the some person who got Bradley's to lower their Augistiner prices simultaneously then double congratulations.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on September 19, 2024, 01:38:35 PMThis new language thing can fuck off. Does it come from people living their lives through Twitter or Instagram and now spouting the mindless drivel that appears on those platforms?
A few weeks back, an extremely camp lad shrieked "YAAAAAAAAAASS QWEEEEEEEEN! FLAUNT!"* at the top of his lungs when one of his friends walked into the pub.
I was sat about three feet away from him and it scared the ever-loving piss out of me. I almost jumped out of my skin, nearly dropped my pint and all.
At the current cost of a craft beer, I'd have had to kill the man (or whatever they identify as) in retribution.
*(I had to ask my wife to repeat what he/they'd said)
We're still living in a post Rupaul landscape. It seems the entirety of modern teen slang is from either Rupaul, or black ghetto slang from the early 90s.
Yas Qween? Tea? Reading? Werk? Shade? Realness? Sickening? Looks? Sashay? All from Rupaul's drag race.
All of the painted on face makeup you see where women treat the face they were born with as a light suggestion? Directly from Rupaul's drag race (and further popularized by the Kardashians).
I'll say it again
WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK!!!
If you type this sentence on YouTube, you deserve to die.
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on September 21, 2024, 10:12:19 PMI want to congratulate whoever got Augustiner stocked regularly in off licences in Cork. If they're the some person who got Bradley's to lower their Augistiner prices simultaneously then double congratulations.
How much is it in Brads now? It was nearly a fiver recently.
Back under €4 with a while, I think
Quote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on September 23, 2024, 11:16:19 AMBack under €4 with a while, I think
Nice. A lad that I homebrew with made up an Auggie clone last week, dropped me off two bottles. It is almost perfect, just a shade sweeter than the original - like Edelstoff.
(https://i.imgur.com/Wp1pvz1.jpeg)
Quote from: Eoin McLove on September 23, 2024, 01:24:46 AMI'll say it again
WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK!!!
If you type this sentence on YouTube, you deserve to die.
"Who's still listening in 2024?! :o :o :o "
Quote from: Ducky on September 23, 2024, 03:34:21 PMQuote from: Eoin McLove on September 23, 2024, 01:24:46 AMI'll say it again
WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK!!!
If you type this sentence on YouTube, you deserve to die.
"Who's still listening in 2024?! :o :o :o "
Those people have got to go.
The moral of this story is don't read youtube comments.
I've seen "we're so back", and variations of, loads today since being made aware of it. Cuntish.
Quote from: open face surgery on September 23, 2024, 09:01:30 PMI've seen "we're so back", and variations of, loads today since being made aware of it. Cuntish.
What does "were so back" even mean???
Back to what ? The primative? Maybe there all soulfly fans. :'(
YouTube comments are retarded, every now and then I get a notification that someone commented on something I wrote 15years ago!!! Do people sit in all night reading comments, going into the bowels of YouTube to troll someone who might not still be on the planet. Sad.
Quote from: StoutAndAle on September 23, 2024, 11:33:34 AMQuote from: Yung Led Zeppelin on September 23, 2024, 11:16:19 AMBack under €4 with a while, I think
Nice. A lad that I homebrew with made up an Auggie clone last week, dropped me off two bottles. It is almost perfect, just a shade sweeter than the original - like Edelstoff.
(https://i.imgur.com/Wp1pvz1.jpeg)
That looks (and sounds) mighty
I just checked in Bradley's and it's €3.50 for the helles, €3.75 for the Edelstoff. More than happy to just have 2 of those as a high quality treat than saving a bit on inferior hooch.
Poor oul P Diddley will be taking it up the ring for the next 25 ta life.
Shite budget for the workers again. Load of bollix
Have they done enough to buy off the masses again so that all the hospital clusterfuck will be forgotten?
Honestly I think the same shit will get back in regardless of what they do because there's no credible alternative.
Children's hospital costing that money but nothing can be found for kids with scoliosis...
435 grand per modular home for Ukrainians
1.5 million on a security hut
335 grand for a bike shed
The asylum bonanza for the ipas hotels and their backers
9 million for plastic pockets for schools to put kids phones in
No cut to vat but minimum wage increased
One fucking percent off the usc which was supposed to be gone a decade ago
Increases to carbon tax on fuel to negate any money the taxpayer might feel they've gotten back
Electricity credits instead of a functioning regulator that doesn't simply rubber stamp price hikes in the face of record profits
Increases to the dole to make working even less attractive for a large portion of the population
All this and much much more and the cunts haven't been burnt out of the dàil yet so I'd say it's a fair bet they'll walk back in
Further to my last reply
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And here's a great thread about the bollixing involved
https://x.com/Nick_Delehanty/status/1841431316744511801?t=vjBtgorNFAXzASAd9cQQhg&s=19
He's quote tweeted himself one or two posts in and that one is also worth delving into.
Our politicians are actual robbing scumbags and nobody seems to care. We're a mad fuckin country
I had pork belly with a side salad for my dinner. I suppose there's no chance they'd cancel each other out? :laugh:
https://www.grunge.com/732266/the-most-painful-ways-to-die-according-to-science/
Quote from: astfgyl on October 18, 2024, 08:41:11 PMhttps://www.grunge.com/732266/the-most-painful-ways-to-die-according-to-science/
Ah yeah according to science though, so I mean they are only the worst ways to die theoretically until one of us proves it
That was cheerful reading, you'd know christmas was coming.
That cif chlorine sounds horrific, ignites anything it touchs and the gases it produces are corrosive. Good read.
Quote from: ochoill on October 18, 2024, 09:01:34 PMQuote from: astfgyl on October 18, 2024, 08:41:11 PMhttps://www.grunge.com/732266/the-most-painful-ways-to-die-according-to-science/
Ah yeah according to science though, so I mean they are only the worst ways to die theoretically until one of us proves it
Exactly. Thank god someone got it. How was the pain measured and have the methods changed over the years? Lol
Jaysus, Siouxsie Sioux was something else in her day.
These WAGS that footballers have, especially in the premership, most of them don't look like much, on their wages I'd be expecting a better quality of gold digger....
Quote from: astfgyl on October 18, 2024, 08:41:11 PMhttps://www.grunge.com/732266/the-most-painful-ways-to-die-according-to-science/
Unit 731 ticked most of those off.
I haven't seen that I don't think.
I have seen this though:
https://x.com/MHealyRae/status/1848260244813562214?t=a2Ae9dbFPciLDMx4KStuNg&s=19
Wow
Kids and parents have it easy these days... fuckers will never know how hard it is to carve a turnip.
The worlds dumbest murderers like Nancy Brophy, Grant Amato and Chris Watts are as fascinating to me as Napoleon, Alexander the Great or James 'The Montrose' Graham.
Isn't it mad how albums are still set to a sort of confined general length, even given that digital is limitless? Like things are still "double albums" etc, based on vinyl, cassette and cd lengths when there's really no need to do so at all anymore unless one insists on living in the physical world.
Hopefully it'll stay that way because I'm in love with the standard album format as an art form, but it has been surprisingly resistant to change for a good long time now and do we think it will change, or is there a bit of fun to be had discussing why song and album lengths are "Standard"?
A good point, and a standard that seems to be sticking around, even on a subconscious level - if I'm doing compilations/playlists for the phone or (less so these days) iPod, I'll always limit them to what will fit on a CD for instance, and even have them as disc 1, disc 2, etc. if they go over that length.
No reason for a single to be within specific time limits either, the format is all but dead in physical form.
That being said, I know a lad whose band released a single track, 14 hour album on Earache a few years ago, so what do I know?
Yeah, it is. I think in and around 40 minutes is the perfect length. Longer than that and I'm reluctant to go for a repeat anyway.
If someone doesn't start drinking until their 30s, can they get away with easy enough hangovers, or would they automatically start much worse
Nah, drink is mainly an age thing and tolerance less so. I switched from shitty beers years ago and became a dyed-in-the-wool IPA only person. I'd consider myself to have a relatively high threshold for alcohol and I generally don't make a complete tit of myself on the rare occasion I go all out on a session. But fuck me I pay for it the next day. And sometimes the day after. I can definitely remember in the old college years going on an all night sesh and still functioning relatively ok the next morning. These days, if there's a work night out planned, I normally take annual leave the following day.
It's just horrible. The fear...the headaches...the nausea.
I used to be ruthless and invincible too but last year sometimes I realised the drink mixing was the real killer. That and stout. And IPAs. Shame because I love all these of those things. Now I just drink Tuborg, Harp, and Carlsberg - can easily put away 10-12 and stay awake until all hours but get up the next day and get on with it grand, usually 7-8am. I'm nearly 40. You just have to figure out what works I suppose
Quote from: ochoill on November 08, 2024, 10:50:30 PMI used to be ruthless and invincible too but last year sometimes I realised the drink mixing was the real killer. That and stout. And IPAs. Shame because I love all these of those things. Now I just drink Tuborg, Harp, and Carlsberg - can easily put away 10-12 and stay awake until all hours but get up the next day and get on with it grand, usually 7-8am. I'm nearly 40. You just have to figure out what works I suppose
The lies the lies :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Ah jaysus when I think about how fucking poisoned you've always been :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Actually he's fair enough about some of it as well. If I'm sitting at home I can't possibly get locked like I'll always just fall asleep before anything that could be even slightly misconstrued as being wankered, but if I go out and especially if I come into contact with any other humans at all, I am consumed by an instant ossification that no amount of drink or combinations of drink at home can ever get me to.
So I've learned to only go out of the house sometimes
Edit: as a prime example of this, I've just found a half mug of jagermeister on a shelf that can only be there since last Sunday and knocked it back but all that will happen is it will make me more tired.
Do that in a pub though, and there's a strong chance nobody will ever talk to me again. Mad really
Quote from: Trev on November 08, 2024, 08:39:29 PMIf someone doesn't start drinking until their 30s, can they get away with easy enough hangovers, or would they automatically start much worse
I actually didn't start drinking regularly until my 30s. Got drunk all of
twice in my 20s - once at a friend's wedding, and once sitting up with Barry (Bane from the old forum) while watching Death's "Live in LA" on repeat until the pair of us passed out on the couch :laugh:
Bizarrely, the catalyst for me finally having a sup was - counterintuitive as it may sound - diabetes. As in, I was diagnosed at 28 (recently vindicated with the fact I was rediagnosed with LADA, AKA "type 1.5", which is an autoimmune disease, not like the usually largely self-inflicted type2 - my original diagnosis). I'd usually have a fizzy pop in the pub, but with diabetes being handed a "full fat" sugared beverage instead of a diet was very bad news indeed. So I found it a lot easier to order a beer instead as there's no ambiguity in terms of glucose content.
I lived down in Cork in 2018 for a year when I was 36. Worked in an office with almost entiely married (with kids) women, so the options for meeting people through work weren't great. So I found myself heading to a lot of social events and having a sup. Work was also hellish, living situation wasn't great either (live in landlord - absolutely do not recommend), so after work I'd just head for a beer and food (I worked in the city center) by myself just to unwind. Usually brought a book too.
I remember heading home on holidays and meeting one of the boys for beers. He was genuinely shocked at how I could put the booze away. I'd stay with my brother when I was back home, and he had a "WTF" moment when I sat putting the nine bottles I got from the offie away with zero issue.
Hangovers? No bothers.
Nowadays (at 42)? Banjaxed and hungover with a few. Was out for a thing last night and had three pints of Smithwicks (3.8%) and the hangover this morning was murder. Boozing has scaled back massively, so my own anecdotal experience is taking up drinking in the 30s and the resultant hangovers felt bound to how much you were used to putting away.
48 years of age here and the hangovers are near non existent, just tired the next day. Defo drink more now than in my 20s. I think the trick is not mixing drinks even beers, and if I'm going on a big one hydration before going out and before bed. And definitely eat something mid session.
As astfgyl said find it hard getting pissed at home, just fall asleep but if I'm out especially at a gig I'm an absolute fiend for alcohol.
Example at kerbdog few weeks ago, mates falling asleep in hotel room at 3am (hardened drinkers)and I wanted to go back to bar for more.
Awake at 9am still half cut but functional, maybe genetics play a part in it.
I'm in my late 20's and have probably had 5 hangovers in my life. I think the choice of drink comes down to it, if I was properly on a session and stuck with beer all night I'd probably be fucked the next morning, but I've found if I have 3-4 beers then move on to a spirit/mixer, I'll be grand, think the mixer keeps me hydrated or something.
To be fair, sticking to the one thing certainly helps a lot
Quote from: astfgyl on November 10, 2024, 09:04:28 PMTo be fair, sticking to the one thing certainly helps a lot
Agreed, I remember a few years back going to an Opeth gig. For what ever reason pre gig was drinking hop House 13, drinking Heineken at gig and maybe carlsberg at hotel. Woke up next day and felt like a spike had been driven through my skull.
To this day have no memory of the gig. Absolutely zero.
Had one like that waiting up for the UFC and drank 6 cans of lager before moving on to 6 cans of Orchard Thieves (forgive me, it was new out at the time) but yeah can't remember any of the fights and the hangover was fucking excruciating. The blinding headache was almost unparalleled.
I was driving home just now and turning down onto our road which is a proper country road, unsealed, rough as a bear's arse and out of the way. A dude turns in front of me from an adjoining road... on a fucking unicycle! I didn't have so much as a stone to launch at the cunt
Wtf :laugh: :laugh:
Was watching a thing about some soundproof room that nobody can put down an hour in because it's so ridiculously quiet in there. Lads saying it was making them panic and whatnot.
Got to thinking then about how deaf people manage it. Like fully deaf ones.
It must be the lack of feeling the sound rather than the lack of noise that does it then. Even at seemingly no volume. Cool
Quote from: ldj on November 10, 2024, 08:34:55 PMI'm in my late 20's and have probably had 5 hangovers in my life. I think the choice of drink comes down to it, if I was properly on a session and stuck with beer all night I'd probably be fucked the next morning, but I've found if I have 3-4 beers then move on to a spirit/mixer, I'll be grand, think the mixer keeps me hydrated or something.
I used to be the same until I turned 30, now I'm on suicide watch for about 2 weeks after a big sesh.
I'd love a Creme Egg.
But the spit! The spit!!!
The what now?
80s probable urban legend that Cadbury's factory workers spat in the filling of the Creme Eggs.
Fuck it, I've eaten gallons of the stuff in that case. I hate to think what was in the Lindt eggs.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on November 28, 2024, 11:55:51 PM80s probable urban legend that Cadbury's factory workers spat in the filling of the Creme Eggs.
:laugh: I never heard this one before. Can't eat Weetabix without thinking about ateing into a load of beetles legs though
I pissed into mi wadi and watched a lad drink it. Then he asked for another glass so I got another lad to piss into that one and watched him drink that one as well.
He actually wasn't even the worst of them but when he asked the first time he had slightly bad manners
Being a true metalling Irishman in Australia poses its problems. I call everyone man or dude but over here they all use either mate or bro. Mate? Way to English. And bro? Dude....
Wouldn't be doing that Mate one anyway. It's Man and Lad all the way for me. Very handy though as I am absolutely shocking for forgetting names.
Hey lads do any of you use the swype texting on the phone?
Mine has suddenly forgotten all my saved words for no reason and it also seems to have forgotten basic words and phrases and context. Is there a better keyboard I can download because this one is shit now
Quote from: Eoin McLove on November 30, 2024, 07:32:31 AMBeing a true metalling Irishman in Australia poses its problems. I call everyone man or dude but over here they all use either mate or bro. Mate? Way to English. And bro? Dude....
Luckily in Australia "cunt" is also a perfectly acceptable term of friendship!
Quote from: Born of Fire on November 30, 2024, 10:37:34 PMQuote from: Eoin McLove on November 30, 2024, 07:32:31 AMBeing a true metalling Irishman in Australia poses its problems. I call everyone man or dude but over here they all use either mate or bro. Mate? Way to English. And bro? Dude....
Luckily in Australia "cunt" is also a perfectly acceptable term of friendship!
Same in tipp.
Unfortunately I found out the hard way that doesn't apply to all counties.
Wasn't too bad, I only upset a whole family that I knew for years was all. Tis grand again now thank god but it took a while
If my old man called someone 'mate', it was a signpost that they were about to be punched. Bear in mind that he was a very mild mannered secondary school teacher. I've kept up the tradition TBF.
My version of that is that if I meet you and despise you, you'll be greeted with 'hello' as opposed to 'hi', 'howya', anything else...
Ah yes, cunt- the universal term for comradeship :laugh:
It's the same here, mate or old mate, but I can't fluidly say mate in a sentence, it just sound's really awkward.
The worst part of the Irish/Down under language barrier, I have an 'R' in my surname and have had to change how I pronounce it from "Ore" to "Arrrr" like a pirate or else no one has a clue what I'm saying, feels so unnatural and silly every time.
Quote from: Mithrandir on December 01, 2024, 04:37:30 AMIt's the same here, mate or old mate, but I can't fluidly say mate in a sentence, it just sound's really awkward.
The worst part of the Irish/Down under language barrier, I have an 'R' in my surname and have had to change how I pronounce it from "Ore" to "Arrrr" like a pirate or else no one has a clue what I'm saying, feels so unnatural and silly every time.
Haha yep, I have retrained myself to sound like a pirate on that front. No maaaarcy, me boy!
I think if I threw mate into a sentence they'd be like, what the fuck did you just call me, cunt?
Came across this one on twitter.
Chat gpt won't say the name David Mayer no matter what. Thought it sounded like bullshit so I gave it a go:
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Try it, it won't do it.
Who the fuck is David Mayer??
I've no idea why it won't do it
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Chance would be a fine thing; now there's a phrase you never see used anymore!
I would often say chance would be a fine thing - often in reference to attractive members of the opposite sex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edXf_rjD6N4
@astfgyl, a buddy of mine signed up for Grok yesterday, here's what it had to say on the matter:
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Quote from: open face surgery on December 02, 2024, 04:54:37 PMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edXf_rjD6N4
Fair play to him there. Going all in.
Well if David Mayer can prevent his name even being discussed by AI, then I want to know how so I can do the same. I never heard of him anyway so if he has done something it has also had the opposite effect entirely so hard luck to him as well
What does astfgyl mean, now that you've sort of not really but in a sense brought it up? Maybe you are actually undetectable.
A Stranger That Fucks Girls You Love[/wistful sigh]?
Quote from: Eoin McLove on December 03, 2024, 09:08:04 PMWhat does astfgyl mean, now that you've sort of not really but in a sense brought it up? Maybe you are actually undetectable.
It's the demon from Terry Pratchett's Eric, but I forgot the old email password back in the day so I had to make a new one with a "y" in it.
https://wiki.lspace.org/Astfgl
He mentioned in the book about proper demons not using vowels.
Ah well, mystery over
Quote from: Carnage on December 03, 2024, 09:18:43 PMA Stranger That Fucks Girls You Love[/wistful sigh]?
Wait no, it's that one instead
Should just start making up different reasons like Heath Ledger's Joker explaining how he got his scars
Quote from: astfgyl on December 03, 2024, 09:45:52 PMQuote from: Eoin McLove on December 03, 2024, 09:08:04 PMWhat does astfgyl mean, now that you've sort of not really but in a sense brought it up? Maybe you are actually undetectable.
It's the demon from Terry Pratchett's Eric, but I forgot the old email password back in the day so I had to make a new one with a "y" in it.
https://wiki.lspace.org/Astfgl
He mentioned in the book about proper demons not using vowels.
Ah well, mystery over
Ahhh! I love Pratchett but have never read that one. I must keep an eye out.
It's one of his shorter ones roughly 250 pages. Read it in one sitting as a young chap while coming down off an acid trip and it made quite the impression on me. And I needed a demon sounding name to put to the bedroom metal recordings at the time so it simply had to be!
Book is great, has Rincewind in it which is always a great starting point for me
So it's a Discworld one? Maybe I did read it years ago. Rincewind is the business.
Ah yeah it's Discworld. I don't think it's one of the better known ones and I'd be nearly sure it's the shortest. Probably my favourite because of the time and place thing but if I was just taking them without that context it'd be surely one of the ones heavily featuring death would be the best or fuck it I dunno maybe it would have to be something with Rincewind
Or Vimes and co.
Actually Vimes and the lads are great as well. Thinking about it there isn't really any of the featured characters that I don't like. Just a great series all round. Well I wasn't as mad about some of the witch ones but that might be just the shepherd's crown as I like the others as well now I think of it
I love the witches 8)
Quote from: Eoin McLove on December 04, 2024, 06:53:14 PMI love the witches 8)
Nah they're cool except I just thought the shepherd's crown was shit
My first (and last) foray into acting was a production of Men At Arms when I was 18. The venue was located just behind the Garda's Barracks. They impounded a car earlier that evening and your man decided to ring in a bomb hoax. (https://www.irishtimes.com/news/30-families-evacuated-in-sligo-car-bomb-scare-1.325006)
We were also evacuated out of the venue, but all in costume. That was some craic walking into the local :laugh:
Quote from: Ducky on December 05, 2024, 04:02:49 PMMy first (and last) foray into acting was a production of Men At Arms when I was 18. The venue was located just behind the Garda's Barracks. They impounded a car earlier that evening and your man decided to ring in a bomb hoax. (https://www.irishtimes.com/news/30-families-evacuated-in-sligo-car-bomb-scare-1.325006)
We were also evacuated out of the venue, but all in costume. That was some craic walking into the local :laugh:
Ah lad!! That's fuckin brilliant :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: astfgyl on December 05, 2024, 09:38:47 PMQuote from: Ducky on December 05, 2024, 04:02:49 PMMy first (and last) foray into acting was a production of Men At Arms when I was 18. The venue was located just behind the Garda's Barracks. They impounded a car earlier that evening and your man decided to ring in a bomb hoax. (https://www.irishtimes.com/news/30-families-evacuated-in-sligo-car-bomb-scare-1.325006)
We were also evacuated out of the venue, but all in costume. That was some craic walking into the local :laugh:
Ah lad!! That's fuckin brilliant :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Yeah was mad craic altogether. We had some French tourists holler "is Halloween early in Ireland?" :laugh:
So we all sat in costume for the evening up in the pub. Was a great spot actually, McGarrigle's. Mass Extinction played there with Scavenger. As have Two Tales of Woe and Black Svan. And Mourning Beloveth.
And maddest of all, Grant Hart played a solo gig there in 2014. All that shit went on upstairs, where the ceiling was barely seven foot. Good times.
Anyone seen the video of the Tesla Optimus robot walking through the woods? Couldn't stop laughing yesterday at how much it looked like a lad coming off a hard session. The fuckin go of it was hilarious
Quote from: astfgyl on December 10, 2024, 02:00:19 PMAnyone seen the video of the Tesla Optimus robot walking through the woods? Couldn't stop laughing yesterday at how much it looked like a lad coming off a hard session. The fuckin go of it was hilarious
Its funny as fuck alright! :laugh:
:laugh:
New Tesla album: The Fear?
Quote from: Carnage on December 10, 2024, 03:01:41 PMNew Tesla album: The Fear?
Coming out of the woods like that of a morning the fear is definitely going to be peak shitness that evening.
He definitely didn't get the shift either, not in that condition :laugh:
Staggering around with a fragmented hard drive. Durty.
If they've mastered walking on uneven surfaces there's nowhere you'll be able to go to get away from it forcing a digital ID card on you.
Quote from: Bürggermeister on December 10, 2024, 10:07:42 PMIf they've mastered walking on uneven surfaces there's nowhere you'll be able to go to get away from it forcing a digital ID card on you.
Absolutely nowhere!! It's just the worst possible vibes off basically everything these days. There is nothing that couldn't be "improved" with Digital ID.
At least he looks like he will be up for the session I suppose..
WHO IS STILL LISTENING TO THIS IN DECEMBER 2024????
Good fucking Lord. It's not the stook that said it, it's the several thousand liking it that makes me want to set fire to everything.
I really thought we'd learned our lesson since
YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENS IN THE LAST PHOTO.
I would weep for humanity except for the realisation that they weren't great all along, but fuck me how like.
The twitter one as well: WHAT DO YOU NOTICE ABOUT THIS PHOTO?
Oh just block the cunts
Open AI seems to be following Boeing in "suiciding" their whistelblowers.
Can't wait to see how badly the guy's suicide not was written...
Speaking of AI, I've been playing with Grok for a few minutes and it's an awful lot better and more balanced than chat gpt. I'll still be bored of it in no time but it's a massive improvement in terms of political bias
https://x.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1869723532202295394?t=cXKPsz2-yU6waNKqIPWYDQ&s=19
Why do you subject yourself to this shite?
Quote from: Bürggermeister on December 20, 2024, 05:40:15 AMWhy do you subject yourself to this shite?
Just randomly came across a fella defending siblings riding, thought it was funny
Does he defend trying to bum your brother with the leg of a kitchen chair while he's in a dress, with two lads motionlessly growling "go on papi give it to him" off the couch to cheer ye on? I hope it does
All I can think of
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Quote from: ochoill on December 20, 2024, 09:24:29 AMDoes he defend trying to bum your brother with the leg of a kitchen chair while he's in a dress, with two lads motionlessly growling "go on papi give it to him" off the couch to cheer ye on? I hope it does
You forgot to mention the blood pissing out of the lad while he was getting raped with the leg of the chair and the 14 stitches to the chin that followed the next morning. Or the fact that the poor cunt only had 2 weeks to his wedding and also woke up the following morning with his mother standing over him telling him the wedding was off and it wasn't even true.
Yeah he was justifying all that as well
I know I don't usually mention anything about all roads leading to digital ID but I've just seen this little informational video from the UK government about how helpful they could be if people had them.
https://x.com/Lewis_Brackpool/status/1871218513970610422?t=Gp5idu5JovF7t1ZVfbWDEw&s=19
Thank god it's just for our own good
Lads what the fuck is the story with the woman who was on fire on the subway in New York the other day?
There are security guards just walking casually past and people filming instead of trying to put her out and she is just standing there doing the whole being on fire thing but not like wriggling or screaming or anything. It's just so fucking weird.
I set myself on fire once and I was wriggling like a fucking eel putting it out and it was definitely the most frightening few seconds of my life by a mile.
I'm assuming she was on the oul gear or fentanyl or something because of her reaction but how does anyone explain the reaction of the people watching it? One of the most fucked up things I've ever seen.
Haven't seen it but it sounds mental. And it was totally random, I believe so was your man just a nut job or what. Imagine setting someone on fire.
Ah it's as insane as anything I've ever seen, and from every possible angle I could think about it from. Just fuckin nuts altogether
Ya, mental video. Seemingly your man was sitting across from her watching her burn as well.
The fella who set her on fire is the one in the video waving the jacket in front of her.
Quote from: mickO))) on December 26, 2024, 11:32:52 AMThe fella who set her on fire is the one in the video waving the jacket in front of her.
Ah stop is that actually the lad that did it
yep
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/enoch-burke-returns-to-wilsons-hospital-school-in-defiance-of-court-order-on-first-day-of-new-term/a1160670304.html (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/enoch-burke-returns-to-wilsons-hospital-school-in-defiance-of-court-order-on-first-day-of-new-term/a1160670304.html)
At this stage he needs his mental health assessed, it's beyond ridiculous. His behaviour has long gone beyond the harassment threshold.
He's a great man to show up on time for work though
He's be a hero if he brought snacks and goodies with him.
While I do agree with his initial stance on the issue (dey, dem, tings, it or whatever the current flavour of the day is) the way he has gone about it
is batshit crazy, his career is fucked and also his siblings careers, their parents have a lot to answer for.
Quote from: Bürggermeister on January 06, 2025, 12:07:38 PMHe's be a hero if he brought snacks and goodies with him.
The line between hero and paedo seems kinda blurred there.
Quote from: The Heretic on January 06, 2025, 12:55:24 PMhis career is fucked and also his siblings careers, their parents have a lot to answer for.
Professional martyrdom is his career, the family business: teaching was just a stepping stone.
How to robots track their own parcels online?
Quote from: The Great Cull on January 11, 2025, 12:31:49 AMHow to robots track their own parcels online?
Check out The Dead Internet for the answer. It's mad
When people do the oul prostrating of themselves to the altar of whatever the fuck...
When exactly did the source of their wonderment tell them to get up again?
Why do they not just lie there, prostrate as is befitting of their positions?
Had that thought myself one of the days when things were so bad I nearly went down on my knees about it.
So I didn't take the knee. That time.
Sure what, the Lord now says get up, does he?
Now I could well end up taking the oul knee myself any of the days, and I'm absolutely not making little of any situation that might bring anyone to that particular juncture. Think it's important to say that, considering there might be men or women of faith here.
Still though,
When did God tell you to get up again, off your wretched knees lol
It's amazing what you take for granted. We had no power or water since the storm hit on Thursday night, power just came back this evening and the water's due to return in the morning (whenever the reservoir refills). What I wouldn't give for a cup of tea and a shower.
Quote from: Carnage on January 26, 2025, 12:10:29 AMIt's amazing what you take for granted. We had no power or water since the storm hit on Thursday night, power just came back this evening and the water's due to return in the morning (whenever the reservoir refills). What I wouldn't give for a cup of tea and a shower.
If you had to pick between the tea and the shower, which would you go for this minute??
I'd have the tea
Shower hands down, but it's a moot point as the power has gone again. I just got back into bed, at least it's warm.
Quote from: Carnage on January 26, 2025, 11:04:57 AMShower hands down, but it's a moot point as the power has gone again. I just got back into bed, at least it's warm.
At 11 this morning I'd have taken the shower as well.
We always seem to avoid the worst of any storms here in mid tipp. I guess it's the surrounding hills taking the sting out of it luckily enough
We have water back now but the power is still patchy. Half strength, lights are dim and it took an age to boil the kettle. At least I have the cup of tea! Not enough juice for a shower though, fuck.
We're lucky compared to a lot of the country (and world), safe and sound at least.
Ah yeah tbf we have it very temperate here in general we are lucky that way.
I would take a small bit less rain if it was going though
A bit late to the Bobby Fingers train, just watched some of his videos there. Fucking hell, it's fantastic!
I found this interesting, an exploration of CD vs. vinyl in terms of sound:
https://www.westword.com/music/why-cds-actually-sound-better-than-vinyl-6771562
It's a few years old but worth a quick read.
Saying one is "better" than the other is the problem. CDs offer a sound which is vastly closer to the original sound created by the musicians and engineers in the studio. It's a more accurate representation of the actual intended sound of the piece of music. Many people, though I'm definitely not one of them, prefer the compromised sound of a record. What's better is what the listener prefers the sound of, though.
I think records generally sound shit to be honest, however, I studied sound engineering for three years and trained to really listen, and when people buy analogue versions of recordings which have been digitised at some point of the process, i.e. most records printed and released today, I don't get that at all. How does an analogue reproduction of a digitised sound wave not sound digital? Still, the customer is always right, it's what people actually prefer that matters. It's good to see people buying music one way or the other, whatever format they choose. There's more to the music listening experience than just the medium it arrives as.
There's never any point in getting into the audiophile arguments with those lads.
The majority of the cunts have more money than sense for gear.
"Only SACDs (with the OBI) played in a hermetically sealed cocoon the way the engineers assistant intended is the true superior listening experience"
TWATS!
amazon.ie now exists. Took them long enough.
Any of you lads on Quora? Dunno how I came across it at first but I read one story about nazi horrors and now my email always has awful stories about the horrors of what humans do to each other and me being me, I fuckin read them.
What a fucking world
It's fucking daft with Quora how you need an account to look at more than one answer.
Quote from: Ducky on March 19, 2025, 03:02:02 PMIt's fucking daft with Quora how you need an account to look at more than one answer.
Do you? I must have signed up proper so but it was so long ago that I don't even know. Probably the sign in with Google thing if I did anything. It's not a bad site for random shit and it's nowhere near as vile as the likes of twitter
Have been watching clips of Michael Winslow. He was one talented fucker
I see there's a new naked gun movie with Liam Neeson in the role.
Saw a clip with a cheeky OJ joke so gotta give them credit there
The only good thing about it. A reboot nobody wanted.
awk now, im going to be a little bit more positive. its got our Liam now so it has, sham.
Technically not a reboot since it's a next generation, no..? I haven't and won't watch the trailer but will give the whole thing a go in an appropriate state when it becomes available.
Quote from: astfgyl on March 19, 2025, 02:52:03 PMAny of you lads on Quora? Dunno how I came across it at first but I read one story about nazi horrors and now my email always has awful stories about the horrors of what humans do to each other and me being me, I fuckin read them.
What a fucking world
I quite like Quora, good time killer in work. They will spam the christ out of your inbox though. Just scroll to the bottom of one of the emails and click unsubscribe and you'll be fine.
Quote from: Mooncat on April 04, 2025, 04:37:24 PMQuote from: astfgyl on March 19, 2025, 02:52:03 PMAny of you lads on Quora? Dunno how I came across it at first but I read one story about nazi horrors and now my email always has awful stories about the horrors of what humans do to each other and me being me, I fuckin read them.
What a fucking world
I quite like Quora, good time killer in work. They will spam the christ out of your inbox though. Just scroll to the bottom of one of the emails and click unsubscribe and you'll be fine.
Ah I'll just leave it there with the other 20000 unread things.
Showed ochoill my inbox once and he said it made him feel terrible just at the amount of unread stuff
Is there anything better than a quality ale or 2(4) in the nice weather.
I miss Club Shandy. I'd love a can of that now.
I remember thinking I was class drinking a can of that when I was 12. Twas a tasty drop, to be fair.
Yeah, it felt bold.
Exactly, ya :laugh: The fuckin innocence.
Quote from: Emphyrio on April 05, 2025, 06:41:10 PMa quality ale or 2(4)
So... 8? Very sly! :P :laugh:
I could certainly attempt to use maths like that.... :laugh:
Interesting read, have held these opinions for years as I simply can't tune out music, good or bad. If it's playing I have to listen.
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-background-music-wrong-tune-workplace.html
The balder my head gets, the hairier the rest of me gets. If I live until I'm 86 I'll look like a werewolf in a pink swimming cap, two bewildered eyes peering out of face like a fluffy, demented puppy. Then, and only then, will I have achieved true selfhood.
Has anyone bought from this lot in the past? Good rating on Trustpilot, just wondering if anyone has any firsthand experience of dealing with them:
https://www.aosom.ie/item/homcom-cd-dvd-media-storage-wooden-shelves-bookcase-display-shelving-unit-adjustable~836-014BK.html
Quote from: Carnage on April 28, 2025, 04:59:30 PMHas anyone bought from this lot in the past? Good rating on Trustpilot, just wondering if anyone has any firsthand experience of dealing with them:
https://www.aosom.ie/item/homcom-cd-dvd-media-storage-wooden-shelves-bookcase-display-shelving-unit-adjustable~836-014BK.html
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Quote from: Carnage on April 28, 2025, 04:59:30 PMHas anyone bought from this lot in the past? Good rating on Trustpilot, just wondering if anyone has any firsthand experience of dealing with them:
https://www.aosom.ie/item/homcom-cd-dvd-media-storage-wooden-shelves-bookcase-display-shelving-unit-adjustable~836-014BK.html
Meant to be typical Chinese cheap furniture (could be savage, could be shite).
They're legit enough though.
Those DVD shelves look decent though!
Aye, I was looking for something to stick my CDs together on, I reckon that would hold them after I fuck out all the burned ones. They're all over the place at the moment, between the bedroom shelves, boxes in the attic, even the hot press. I don't mind cheap or Chinese, as long as it doesn't fall apart. MDF though, might not take the weight long term.