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    #4412
    Jan_de_Bakker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,403 ✭✭✭Jan_de_Bakker


    Knex. wrote: »
    Learned from a mate who's folks own a small hardware store out in the sticks somewhere, that you're required by law to have a tv license if you put up CCTV in your shop. Now that is robbery.

    That is unreal!

    What about if you purposefully rig your TV so it can't receive a signal and just connect it to a DVD/laptop ?

    Still need a licence yeah ?


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    #4413
    Pepe LeFrits
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 15,001 ✭✭✭✭Pepe LeFrits


    Grim way to start the day...


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    #4414
    Knex*
    Registered Users Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    There's so many issues with Trump, but I think the most concerning right now has to be that America has just elected a government of Global Warming deniers, in a time when the window to do anything about it is already closing.


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    #4415
    Knex*
    Registered Users Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    Jan_de_Bakker wrote: »
    That is unreal!

    What about if you purposefully rig your TV so it can't receive a signal and just connect it to a DVD/laptop ?

    Still need a licence yeah ?

    Sorry, just seeing this now. Not sure about that at all, actually. Although, considering its now a media license, if you have a laptop on the premise you'd likely need a license regardless.


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    #4416
    D'Agger
    Registered Users Posts: 13,385 ✭✭✭✭D'Agger


    Pepe LeFrits wrote: »
    Grim way to start the day...


    You're telling me, I had a vivid dream I missed a flight to the States last night, to the point where I woke up upset and disappointed with myself, took a minute for me to realise the alarm was blaring next to my face

    So then I Popeye it up and one eyed go on instagram for some visual stimulus to start my morning and it's Trump all over the place, saw CNN claiming he'd won, figured US media always does that before it's official....then I saw they were all at it

    So that cemented sadness and disappointment are the feels of the day it would seem


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    #4417
    Liam McPoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    Chumps win is akin to Leicester winning the league last year.

    I genuinely cannot get my head around it.

    When I think about it my brain starts swirling with random thoughts.


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    #4418
    Pawwed Rig
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    The world has jumped to the right. Liberalism seems to be in the process of bring rejected in favour of conservatism.


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    #4419
    um7y1h83ge06nx
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    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    The world has jumped to the right. Liberalism seems to be in the process of bring rejected in favour of conservatism.

    I'm happy that things are beginning to change a little on that front, but not that, in the US at least, that Trump will be the face of it.

    In this country in particular I would love if our parties could be more financially prudent. No regard given to whether or not money that is spent is spent wisely and is the return on investment adequate.

    We also have a bit of a problem in this country where many feel alienated from politics. I'm a married middle of the road 30-something, went to college, working full-time with a mortgage and I would find it very hard to find someone to vote for if there was an election (despite voting in previous elections).


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    #4420
    D'Agger
    Registered Users Posts: 13,385 ✭✭✭✭D'Agger


    Cataleya Screeching Typist wrote: »
    We also have a bit of a problem in this country where many feel alienated from politics. I'm a married middle of the road 30-something, went to college, working full-time with a mortgage and I would find it very hard to find someone to vote for if there was an election (despite voting in previous elections).

    This - we have people who turn up once a year & ask for a vote and if you've a problem then you can pop into their office in town which is open for about 4 hours a week

    I haven't checked but if a local politician put a card with the mediums of which I could contact him/her on, then I'd follow them on twitter/instagram etc. to see what they're doing, to be kept up to date on what they're doing for the local area/community, yet politicians in this country have a twitter that's a megaphone to throw out meaningless statements about how business is booming and everythings great. Rarely do we see realism or honesty in politics and that may never change.


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    #4421
    Knex*
    Registered Users Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    I genuinely researched the politicians in my area for the last election. Even wrote an email to one or two, and was left totally disillusioned with the options. Ended up not voting at all.

    Depressing state of affairs.


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    #4422
    smacl
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    Cataleya Screeching Typist wrote: »
    In this country in particular I would love if our parties could be more financially prudent. No regard given to whether or not money that is spent is spent wisely and is the return on investment adequate.

    As a step towards financial prudence I think we need far more transparency in terms of how the public purse is spent, to include a full list of all positions, the salaries paid, and the roles performed in return, inclusive of names for those above a certain multiple of the average industrial wage. Similarly, for all goods and services, which company was paid how much public money for what. Could be paranoia but I get the feeling there is a massive amount of dead wood in the system, that the tax payer gets miserable value for the taxes they pay, and that much of the public purse is pissed up against the wall.


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    #4423
    Liam McPoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    Some more upbeat news rather than Trump.

    Missus STN is pregnant!

    :D

    17.5 weeks gone so due mid April.

    We were in this morning for an early anatomy scan.

    So far so good and everything is developing normally.

    Massive relief after everything we went through over the last 12 months.

    We have decided we aren't going to find out the sex but are both convinced its a boy.

    I don't care either way tbh, once its born healthy and mother gets through the pregnancy and birth OK then its all good.


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    #4424
    smacl
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    Conratz, to your good self, Missus Nutz, and any future Nutletz.


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    #4425
    Panthro
    Registered Users Posts: 14,777 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Congrats Nutzz, you rascal!
    No better buachailll !!


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    #4426
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,334 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Congrats :) Donald would seem to be a suitable name.


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    #4427
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,307 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    Congratulations :)


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    #4428
    Liam McPoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,846 ✭✭✭✭Liam McPoyle


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Congrats :) Donald would seem to be a suitable name.

    Hah, can you imagine!

    We have a few ideas for either gender, nothing too mental. I know some people that have given their recent kids names from TV shows, a couple of lads that called their sons Jackson (I'm assuming from Sons of Anarchy) and a girl who called her son Mason. I believe Mason is a kardashian child.

    Different strokes for different folks I guess but it wouldn't be for me.


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    #4429
    Panthro
    Registered Users Posts: 14,777 ✭✭✭✭Panthro


    Here's Donny!


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    #4430
    D'Agger
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    Saul T Nutzz wrote: »
    Some more upbeat news rather than Trump.

    Missus STN is pregnant!

    :D

    17.5 weeks gone so due mid April.

    We were in this morning for an early anatomy scan.

    So far so good and everything is developing normally.

    Massive relief after everything we went through over the last 12 months.

    We have decided we aren't going to find out the sex but are both convinced its a boy.

    I don't care either way tbh, once its born healthy and mother gets through the pregnancy and birth OK then its all good.


    Congratulations you magnificent bastard :)


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    #4431
    Kev.OC
    Registered Users Posts: 825 ✭✭✭Kev.OC


    Congratulations, good sir. :)


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    #4432
    Wibbs
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    Nice one! Congrats to both of you. :)

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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    #4433
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,934 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Congrats big man! Well done!

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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    #4434
    BonsaiKitten
    Registered Users Posts: 1,798 ✭✭✭BonsaiKitten


    Huge congrats Saul! Better stock up on sleep now while you still can!
    Pepe LeFrits wrote: »
    Grim way to start the day...

    Should have heard my class talking about it, clearly parroting their parents. One told me "she's only with him for his money" and another chimes in with "what does that mean teacher?".

    Let's not go down that road kids...


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    #4435
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,341 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    Job going to make you old and wise, BK?

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



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    #4436
    BonsaiKitten
    Registered Users Posts: 1,798 ✭✭✭BonsaiKitten


    Well they asked was I 40 a while back... so yes, old at least. Dunno about wise!


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    #4437
    Pepe LeFrits
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 15,001 ✭✭✭✭Pepe LeFrits


    Kids have such an untapped supply of wisdom.

    I need to find something else to read during the quiet periods during the day. If I keep reading Guardian & Economist articles on Trump I'm going to dissolve.


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    #4438
    D'Agger
    Registered Users Posts: 13,385 ✭✭✭✭D'Agger


    How were the weekends folks?

    Currently making a comedown playlist on Spotify for myself, lashings of Bob Dylan in it, was up til 9am with the McGregor fight, 100% worth it though, great card


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    #4439
    Knex*
    Registered Users Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    I've two albums on repeat today that are helping me ease back into it.

    Black Sands - Bonobo
    Bon Iver - 22, A Million

    I can't tell you how much they help.


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    #4440
    Pawwed Rig
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    D'Agger wrote: »
    How were the weekends folks?

    Good. Was in Vienna for Ireland v Austria. A succesful weekend all in all.
    Probably drank slightly more than a normal weekend


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    #4441
    Knex*
    Registered Users Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    What did you make of Vienna, PR?

    A friend of mine spent a weekend there before, whilst touring some of Europe, and thought it was one of his favourite places that he visited. Beautiful city, by all accounts.


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