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Mad_maxx · 08-02-2021 12:07pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

This is a normal thing among black communities, the barber shops where I lived in Brixton were like pubs really, on Friday nights they'd all be drinking while getting their hair cuts. Looked like great craic.

its more an american thing , very common amongst old italian americans in New York and New Jersey too

Iscreamkone · 08-02-2021 5:30pm

What if your hair grows at a different rate to your friends?

What about bald friends?

Quazzie · 08-02-2021 5:33pm

Iscreamkone wrote: »

What if your hair grows at a different rate to your friends?

We tend to do it every 3 weeks so it suits everyone.

Iscreamkone wrote: »

What about bald friends?

We ostracise them. No one wants a baldy hanging about :P

09-02-2021 11:10am

Quazzie wrote: »

We ostracise them. No one wants a baldy hanging about :P

I remember one time seeing this in crumlin hospiteal

the lord only made so many perfect heads he covered rest of em with hair!

Thats what im going with anyway :-/

doublejobbing 2 · 09-02-2021 9:37pm

I don't really care how many billions Jeff Bezos has been allowed to accumulate. He seems like a complete tosser, but if he is paying his federal income taxes at whatever rate the President who the American people elected set those rates at, I don't really see the issue. He treats his staff like shiet, but as somebody who has never contributed to Jeff's wealth I see it as being between he and them to work out. Gutting his bank account and handing out x hundred per inhabitant of a few dozen African countries is fantasy economics that would only cause inflation to match the inhabitants new found wealth. Handing out this wealth to the governments of these countries for infrastructure would just be mishandled like it always has been. It's pie in the sky economics.

Same for Michael O'Leary. Should the super super rich be liable to heavier than 41% tax here? Possibly, but not 90% or whatever layabouts like Paul Murphy would suggest.

While some billionaires were handed their start up money and contacts etc etc O'Leary and plenty of other ones are where they are because their left toenail has put in a harder days work than your average PBP voter will do in a decade.

I don't envy the wealthy.

growleaves · 09-02-2021 10:03pm

I don't really care how many billions Jeff Bezos has been allowed to accumulate. He seems like a complete tosser, but if he is paying his federal income taxes at whatever rate the President who the American people elected set those rates at, I don't really see the issue. He treats his staff like shiet, but as somebody who has never contributed to Jeff's wealth I see it as being between he and them to work out.

He's a winner in the rigged market - benefiting from tax breaks, subsidies, political favours etc. More recently his bricks and mortar retail competitors have been barred from trading on spurious 'health' grounds or burnt out by BLM mobs while the police hang back and do nothing.

There are antitrust issues as Amazon is now one of the biggest companies in history.

Yes the staff have to stick up for themselves, for their dignity and to arrest the dwindling of their wages.

NIMAN · 09-02-2021 10:15pm

What if everyone refused to work for Amazon?

That would show them!

Antares35 · 09-02-2021 11:55pm

Most of the time, when you hear about awful cruelty towards horses and ponies, you can be pretty sure where it took place. When I see an article reporting that yet another horse has been whipped/ worked to death etc. I guess which part of Dublin it was, and nine times out of ten I am right. Usually the tenth one would be a sulky race in a different part of the country.

Quazzie · 10-02-2021 10:02am

Count Basie wrote: »

Are you black?

Nope. 100% Irish all three of us.

the purple tin · 10-02-2021 10:11am

Jack Nicholson's Joker is more memorable than Heath Ledger's.

partyguinness · 10-02-2021 11:36am

Quazzie wrote: »

Nope. 100% Irish all three of us.

There are black Irish people you know.

Quazzie · 10-02-2021 12:00pm

partyguinness wrote: »

There are black Irish people you know.

I know that, but we were clearly discussing ethnicity here, not nationality.

Antares35 · 10-02-2021 12:02pm

partyguinness wrote: »

There are black Irish people you know.

I actually had that reply typed up earlier then just didn't want to get into it

stefanovich · 10-02-2021 12:04pm

the purple tin wrote: »

Jack Nicholson's Joker is more memorable than Heath Ledger's.

100%

steddyeddy · 10-02-2021 12:04pm

Antares35 wrote: »

Most of the time, when you hear about awful cruelty towards horses and ponies, you can be pretty sure where it took place. When I see an article reporting that yet another horse has been whipped/ worked to death etc. I guess which part of Dublin it was, and nine times out of ten I am right. Usually the tenth one would be a sulky race in a different part of the country.

Well to be fair it's the whole racing industry. Especially greyhound racing.

partyguinness · 10-02-2021 12:23pm

Quazzie wrote: »

I know that, but we were clearly discussing ethnicity here, not nationality.

Well no, that was not clear at all.

Oh I see, ethnic Irish people can only be white and that is clearly what you meant.

Quazzie · 10-02-2021 12:26pm

partyguinness wrote: »

Well no, that was not clear at all.

Oh I see, ethnic Irish people can only be white.

I think I'm right about that. although I'm certainly open to correction, but I would've thought that the Celtic people were all Caucasian.

Antares35 · 10-02-2021 12:29pm

steddyeddy wrote: »

Well to be fair it's the whole racing industry. Especially greyhound racing.

There's nothing fair about any of it. I've rescued ex racers myself.

partyguinness · 10-02-2021 12:44pm

Quazzie wrote: »

I think I'm right about that. although I'm certainly open to correction, but I would've thought that the Celtic people were all Caucasian.

TBH I am only teasing. Sure you know the way some posters like to seize on any chance to get outraged.

The_Dark_Lord · 10-02-2021 4:55pm

The Adrian Kennedy era FM104 Phoneshow was one of the best Irish radio shows of the last 20 years.

realdanbreen · 10-02-2021 4:56pm

partyguinness wrote: »

There are black Irish people you know.

Mary?

partyguinness · 10-02-2021 5:58pm

realdanbreen wrote: »

Mary?

Connors

Did you smash it · 10-02-2021 10:21pm

I’ve watched about 6 episodes in total and am utterly bewildered by the phenomenal popularity of Line of Duty.

I tuned into it expecting a tight police procedural drama. What I got was the most ridiculously unbelievable and far fetched show with thrown together plots and uninteresting characters.

But it’s wildly popular for a reason I guess but I find it’s success inexplicable.

Mad_maxx · 10-02-2021 11:12pm

i reckon we will look back in years to come and accept that the very old should just have been let die from Covid

the rest of the population have paid far too high of a price in order to keep eighty year olds living a few more years

11-02-2021 2:21pm

Mad_maxx wrote: »

i reckon we will look back in years to come and accept that the very old should just have been let die from Covid

I can assure you I won't rank among them.

chrissb8 · 11-02-2021 8:57pm

stefanovich wrote: »

In Brixton! Ever been there? Ever walked down the street at night?? Lots of Irish there too. Lots of drugs. Lots of prostitution. Lots of different races engaged in it. I'm not referring to any stupid stereotypes about race. Piss off.

Yup. Used to go there twice/three times a week every week for 2 years straight. Up until recently, until I moved back to Ireland. Partied there, went for food there, watched the world cup there etc.

Never had anything offered to me, never saw prostitution just out and about on the streets. Never saw open drugs use, except for weed but that is synonymous with the area.

Brixton not without its problems does not have the in your face drugs/prostitution that you're making out are there for all to see. When were you there last?

The fact of the matter is Brixton like a lot of areas of London is out of the doldrums and becoming gentrified.

stefanovich · 11-02-2021 11:43pm

chrissb8 wrote: »

Yup. Used to go there twice/three times a week every week for 2 years straight. Up until recently, until I moved back to Ireland. Partied there, went for food there, watched the world cup there etc.

Never had anything offered to me, never saw prostitution just out and about on the streets. Never saw open drugs use, except for weed but that is synonymous with the area.

Brixton not without its problems does not have the in your face drugs/prostitution that you're making out are there for all to see. When were you there last?

The fact of the matter is Brixton like a lot of areas of London is out of the doldrums and becoming gentrified.

It would have been the 90s when I frequented the area and it was very very dodgy. Glad it’s improved.

Mules · 13-02-2021 1:25am

I believe Ireland has a strong victimhood mentality and as a result people don't tend to take personal responsibility for things. I think that's part of the reason for the compo culture we have

auspicious · 13-02-2021 3:35am

Monologue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1s82TI6izo

whisky_galore · 13-02-2021 7:36am

Antares35 wrote: »

Most of the time, when you hear about awful cruelty towards horses and ponies, you can be pretty sure where it took place. When I see an article reporting that yet another horse has been whipped/ worked to death etc. I guess which part of Dublin it was, and nine times out of ten I am right. Usually the tenth one would be a sulky race in a different part of the country.

Not an unpopular opinion.

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