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DGRulz

So ... this has been a horrible weekend for Irish sport

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

DGRulz wrote: »

So ... this has been a horrible weekend for Irish sport

Yep.

Irish women 7's team lost in the SF of the Olympics qualifiers today too.

DGRulz

Every team I was supporting this weekend lost. All the various Irish teams and Team Remain.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Saw a slightly longer version of that clip from Sky News and he was talking to a Tory MP who is backing Johnson for Tory leadership.

OldRio

DGRulz wrote: »

Every team I was supporting this weekend lost. All the various Irish teams and Team Remain.

Yup. I've had better weekends that's for sure.

Felix Jones is God

This weekend has been so bad I'm almost looking forward to logging on here tomorrow and seeing pages and pages of redacted GOT posts so as not to be able to see any more shïte

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

Felix Jones is God wrote: »

This weekend has been so bad I'm almost looking forward to logging on here tomorrow and seeing pages and pages of redacted GOT posts so as not to be able to see any more shïte

How will Brexit impact on GOT, I wonder?

wp_rathead

Going to Independently Day 2, hopefully it cheers me up

Felix Jones is God

wp_rathead wrote: »

Going to Independently Day 2, hopefully it cheers me up

Independently.....you're going on your own you mean?

wp_rathead

Forever alone

Neil3030

Small crumb of good news, I found my dental retainer (yes, even in my 30s I still wear it at night) in a laundry hamper, so saved myself a few hundred quid getting a new one made.

pickarooney

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

How will Brexit impact on GOT, I wonder?

The Lannister millions will be used to service the Westeros Health Service now they don't have to take orders from that blonde woman in the east.

Neil3030

I think

I should really start watching Game of Thrones because it seems to be quite popular...

Neil3030

Neil3030 wrote: »

I think

I should really start watching Game of Thrones because it seems to be quite popular...

It got so popular .ak had to stop watching it...

wp_rathead

Independence Day was exactly what I needed - ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so good

mfceiling

Neil3030 wrote: »

Small crumb of good news, I found my dental retainer (yes, even in my 30s I still wear it at night) in a laundry hamper, so saved myself a few hundred quid getting a new one made.

Well I hid my young ones IPad mini on account of her bad behaviour. Trouble is I hid it so well that nobody can find it. It's been 2 weeks now and she's going more mental by the day.

Hi alzhimers *waves*

irishbucsfan

mfceiling wrote: »

Well I hid my young ones IPad mini on account of her bad behaviour. Trouble is I hid it so well that nobody can find it. It's been 2 weeks now and she's going more mental by the day.

Hi alzhimers *waves*

Haha that's brilliant

bilston

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Felix Jones is God wrote: »

This weekend has been so bad I'm almost looking forward to logging on here tomorrow and seeing pages and pages of redacted GOT posts so as not to be able to see any more sh te

How will Brexit impact on GOT, I wonder?

Cut in funding so it can no longer be filmed in NI?!

bilston

bilston wrote: »

Cut in funding so it can no longer be filmed in NI?!

It should all be filmed by the time happens in real terms so it won't or shouldn't have any effect on it.

Film making in the UK might take a dip as a lot of things are coming funded with European money so it's an industry that could take a hit

irishbucsfan

connemara man wrote: »

It should all be filmed by the time happens in real terms so it won't or shouldn't have any effect on it.

Film making in the UK might take a dip as a lot of things are coming funded with European money so it's an industry that could take a hit

HBO have already said there'd be no impact.

Film making might take a dip. Or it might get a huge boost. Completely depends on what happens.

Synode

molloyjh wrote: »

Technically we voted on 2 different things re Lisbon. We said No. They came back and asked why. A large proportion of the No vote said they didn't know why they voted No. The majority of the remainder voted No for things that were never in the Treaty in the first place. So the EU added an addendum to the Treaty that basically listed the main issues for the No vote and promised them that those things weren't actually in the Treaty. After receiving those assurances as part of the Treaty we were asked to vote again.

Also a second referendum is no less democratic than the first. You're as capable of saying No the second time as the first.

The problem here is that people want the right to vote but a lot of people don't want the responsibility that voting entails, which is to educate themselves on what they are voting on. If you can't trust the people to make informed decisions then are referenda not hugely dangerous despite the best of intentions?

Really annoys me when people talk about these referendums without acknowledging the fact that additional assurances were negotiated before the second votes. The line is always that "they" would have kept going until "they" got the result they wanted, which is complete bullsh1t

irishbucsfan

irishbucsfan wrote: »

HBO have already said there'd be no impact.

Film making might take a dip. Or it might get a huge boost. Completely depends on what happens.

Ah yeah I read that from HBO. Second last season is starting filming soon so that money has been is in place and more than likely everything is in place for the last.

All about the tax breaks.

If the studio's in Limerick and Galway take off. Films could be spread a lot more around the island. There are huge savings to be made just by filming near a studio.

Neil3030

Sure we've mountains in Kerry just film it down there?

Neil3030

mfceiling wrote: »

Well I hid my young ones IPad mini on account of her bad behaviour. Trouble is I hid it so well that nobody can find it. It's been 2 weeks now and she's going more mental by the day.

Hi alzhimers *waves*

You're being played man. She probably found it a few minutes after you hid it, rehid it, and is now sitting back while you descend into a panic over your inevitable cognitive decline. Also, she'll probably get a new iPad.

Evil ****ing geniuses, kids.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

connemara man wrote: »

It should all be filmed by the time happens in real terms so it won't or shouldn't have any effect on it.

Film making in the UK might take a dip as a lot of things are coming funded with European money so it's an industry that could take a hit

Northern Irish film industry could take a hit. There was an Arts Show special on the industry there recently and they were saying that something like GOT pretty much takes up all their talent and they don't have the resources to take on anything on too big a scale while it's there. They were saying that a lot of projects they have at the moment they have to get people in from the Republic to staff them. Obviously it depends on what the negotiations bring but of there's any restrictions on working there or movement between the two they could have problems. There's also a few training schemes aimed at increasing the pool of technical staff and other projects that are EU funded.

Long story short GOT is unlikely to be effected but the NI film industry as a whole could be.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Northern Irish film industry could take a hit. There was an Arts Show special on the industry there recently and they were saying that something like GOT pretty much takes up all their talent and they don't have the resources to take on anything on too big a scale while it's there. They were saying that a lot of projects they have at the moment they have to get people in from the Republic to staff them. Obviously it depends on what the negotiations bring but of there's any restrictions on working there or movement between the two they could have problems. There's also a few training schemes aimed at increasing the pool of technical staff and other projects that are EU funded.

Long story short GOT is unlikely to be effected but the NI film industry as a whole could be.

I'm one of the people that are freelancing up north at the minute. And I joked saying we'll be dealing with visas if the official exit is before next season of the show I'm working on. And my boss looked genuinely worried.

It's a kick in the teeth really as a lot of people have put in a lot of effort to make NI a viable filming location for this to happen. There's also the knock on effect on tourism and hospitality.

DGRulz

So, that last episode of GoT ... wow, just ... wow ...

I haven't actually seen it yet, I'm just preempting

awec

DGRulz wrote: »

So, that last episode of GoT ... wow, just ... wow ...

I haven't actually seen it yet, I'm just preempting

"wow" is a fair adjective.

Brilliant episode, possibly better than last week.

I'm hoping Game Of Thrones is good because basically since 10pm last Thursday nothing has gone well!

thomond2006

GoT Ep10:

Crazy death toll of characters in that episode. In the past the season finale has been a 'calm down' episode but...wow.