Apologies to Nixer. I mixed him up with Kurt Cocaine.

Slievenamon is just a few km away from the house, been watching that fire spread for the last few days. Lots of people driving around the bóithríns looking to boost their insta rep with a dramatic photo. Amazingly, the emergency services are having to appeal to the photo opportunists not to block the roads so emergency vehicles have access to, you know, get water to try to contain the flames, boring stuff like that.

When I read that it makes me feel happy and a bit smug at not being active on social media any more. People are fucked in the head.

 !!!! DO NOT GET A PASSPORT CARD !!!!

Added it to my passport order last time, thought that'd be great, carrying around a small card instead of a big passport booklet, this is the way forward.

Got to Amsterdam with the buddies on Friday morning, and they breeze through with the normal passport being scanned on a self-service device for EU citizens.  Meanwhile dipshit here had to queue for 45 minutes with all nationalities and families with kids under 14.

Going back now and it's the same shit show, d'oh!

On the plus side, it was great to see some many Mayo people watching the game in Amsterdam and the whole pub roaring them on  :abbath:  :abbath:

Left earbud died today. That's 3 pairs now where that's happened, all when the warranty was out too.

Quote from: Snare on July 26, 2026, 06:59:29 PM!!!! DO NOT GET A PASSPORT CARD !!!!

Added it to my passport order last time, thought that'd be great, carrying around a small card instead of a big passport booklet, this is the way forward.

Got to Amsterdam with the buddies on Friday morning, and they breeze through with the normal passport being scanned on a self-service device for EU citizens.  Meanwhile dipshit here had to queue for 45 minutes with all nationalities and families with kids under 14.

Going back now and it's the same shit show, d'oh!

On the plus side, it was great to see some many Mayo people watching the game in Amsterdam and the whole pub roaring them on  :abbath:  :abbath:

Weird, I've always been through an EU-only queue there with mine, never more than a few minutes queuing.

Do people, fans, actually call James Hetfield "Papa Het"? I mean, do they really? Who?? Why?! This might be worse than the fact of Donald Trump being the leader of the western world. It might even be worse than the most horrifying predictions about AI- and I'm not just talking about the Towards The Sinister logo. Although, I am also talking about that.

Papa.

Het.

Papa Het.

Papahet...

What the fuck.

He had it on his "battle vest", did he not?  :laugh:

Imagine not cringing yourself to death  :laugh:  Next stop: Shit merch thread  :abbath:


Don't you know, metallica fandom is a family, and as with most families, it is a prerequisite that all members must play homage to their elders, firstly by affording them their proper honorific, and secondly by purchasing branded gubbins explicitly paying homage to that very honorific.

I've seen a few youtube clips of their recent tour where he's smoking a cigar while on stage (no smoking in public places don't obviously apply to the prick). What's even more cringeworthy is the more retarded members of his familam getting him to light a cigar for them while in the crowd. It's as retarded as the MAGA cunts with the bandages on their ears to pay tribute to Trump.