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    #92
    GM228
    Registered Users Posts: 8,925 ✭✭✭GM228


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Licencing for all receivers started with The Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1904 :(

    As a matter of principle people didn't pay it then and won't pay it now in the 60s, but come the 21st century I'm sure we will all be law abiding citizens and pay the TV licence, probably at the same time we pay up for our flying car licence. :)


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    #93
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,850 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    That's not high definition, the French have been using 819 lines since 1949.



    The 625 to 405 converters are really really expensive. It wouldn't surprise me that at some point in the future they give up on it and point a 405 camera at a 625 TV and use that for the Luddites.

    The French? Who cares about that lot, sure De Gaulle keeps making noises like he's going to block us joining that coal club we applied to join last year.


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    #94
    [Deleted User]
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    GM228 wrote: »
    I wonder what Boards will be like in 2021?


    Won't have any need for it. Twill be all telepathy by then.


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    #95
    gigantic09
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    ollaetta wrote: »
    Just back from a weekend in Liverpool. Went to a gig in a place called The Cavern. Four lads called the Beetles or something playing. They weren't bad.


    Wow, how did you afford that?. Must have cost a fortune. I spent a year saving for a one way ticket.


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    #96
    GM228
    Registered Users Posts: 8,925 ✭✭✭GM228


    L1011 wrote: »
    The French? Who cares about that lot, sure De Gaulle keeps making noises like he's going to block us joining that coal club we applied to join last year.

    The ECSC/EEC/Euratom, those big European supranational union type clubs will never catch on, the Brits expecially will see to that...


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    #97
    Neyite
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    What career would you recommend for a young lady to keep her occupied until she marries at 18 and retires to become a full time homemaker?


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    #98
    Capt'n Midnight
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    L1011 wrote: »
    The French? Who cares about that lot, sure De Gaulle keeps making noises like he's going to block us joining that coal club we applied to join last year.

    I hear the Brits will redub the French program Le Manège enchanté so that the dog will be called DeGaulle


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    #99
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,827 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    GM228 wrote: »
    The ECSC/EEC/Euratom, those big European supranational union type clubs will never catch on, the Brits expecially will see to that...
    The Brits couldn't get into the coal club so they setup their own one with Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland.

    That'll show them.


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    #100
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,438 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    Neyite wrote: »
    What career would you recommend for a young lady to keep her occupied until she marries at 18 and retires to become a full time homemaker?

    She could get a job as a part time secretary for her local TD, providing that she is pleasing on the eye, or she has the right family connections of course.


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    #101
    appledrop
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    I hear the ESB are planning a new headquarters near Fitzwilliam Street and demolishing all those horrible Georgian buildings.

    Sam Stephenson is going to design a lovely new modern building, which I'd say the whole of Dublin will love.

    In 50 years time we will look back and say that was one of the best decisions we ever made.


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    #102
    appledrop
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    Neyite wrote: »
    What career would you recommend for a young lady to keep her occupied until she marries at 18 and retires to become a full time homemaker?

    Tell her to become a typist, sure thats a job that will always be needed!


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    #103
    L1011
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    appledrop wrote: »
    Tell her to become a typist, sure thats a job that will always be needed!

    Nah, everyone's getting phones on their desks now, switchboard telephonist is clearly the way to go.


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    #104
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,438 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    appledrop wrote: »
    I hear the ESB are planning a new headquarters near Fitzwilliam Street and demolishing all those horrible Georgian buildings.

    Sam Stephenson is going to design a lovely new modern building, which I'd say the whole of Dublin will love.

    In 50 years time we will look back and say that was one of the best decisions we ever made.

    I also hear there's plans in the pipeline for an ultra modern new office building for the Dept. Of Health on Poolbeg Street and a state of the art new shopping centre in Phibsboro.
    And just wait until you see what they have planned for the new Liberty Hall building. It will be a beacon of archaeology on the Dublin quays for years to come.


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    #105
    GM228
    Registered Users Posts: 8,925 ✭✭✭GM228


    Sgt Hartman wrote: »
    I also hear there's plans in the pipeline for an ultra modern new office building for the Dept. Of Health on Poolbeg Street and a state of the art new shopping centre in Phibsboro.
    And just wait until you see what they have planned for the new Liberty Hall building. It will be a beacon of archaeology on the Dublin quays for years to come.

    And I'm hearing great plans for high rise living in Ballymun, the first to get in home cable TV and all as standard.

    I think though I'll stick with the quality BBC Radio, mind you that Late Late Show may be worth watching.


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    #106
    appledrop
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    GM228 wrote: »
    And I'm hearing great plans for high rise living in Ballymun, the first to get in home cable TV and all as standard.

    Wow that sounds amazing, I'd say everyone will want to live there.

    I hope they give the flats a good name, after someone important.


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    #107
    dd973
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    I've given up on Liverpool F.C, they'll always be crap.


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    #108
    whisky_galore
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    appledrop wrote: »
    Wow that sounds amazing, I'd say everyone will want to live there.

    I hope they give the flats a good name, after someone important.

    Developments named after auld rebels will always be great places to live...


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    #109
    [Deleted User]
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    Anyone know a good winklepicker repair shop in the Athboy area?


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    #110
    artanevilla
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,335 Mod ✭✭✭✭artanevilla


    Saved up £100, hoping to buy our first house next week!


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    #111
    GooglePlus
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    Wore flared jeans and my father bet the head off me. Sister is pregnant out of wedlock so the mother has decided to give it away. Can't have the village thinking we're bad Catholics, the parish priest would have a meltdown and I'm only after getting on his good side, although it was a bit strange.

    Listened to the new Beatles album, father bet the head off me. The sister is cleaning clothes for the nuns in exchange for her baby. Seems like a nice place.


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    #112
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,295 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    There's going to be an important meeting held in the Vatican, I understand. There be might changes for the Catholic Church in the future.


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    #113
    some random drunk
    Registered Users Posts: 967 ✭✭✭some random drunk


    GooglePlus wrote: »
    Listened to the new Beatles album, father bet the head off me.

    Never heard of them :confused:


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    #114
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,295 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    some random drunk wrote: »
    Never heard of them :confused:

    They won't go far


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    #115
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    some random drunk wrote: »
    Never heard of them :confused:

    I'll probably be excommunicated for this but:

    Mark my words. They'll be more popular than Jesus someday.


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    #116
    [Deleted User]
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    Nah. The Rutles are where it's at, kids. You dig?



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    #117
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,827 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    some random drunk wrote: »
    Never heard of them :confused:
    They are a popular beat combo, or so I'm told.

    My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!


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    #118
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,295 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    They are a popular beat combo, or so I'm told.

    My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!


    We might hear that line again in a couple of years time


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    #119
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,295 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    John XXIII is a great Pope


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    #120
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,295 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Could you imagine a Polish Pope in the future?


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    #121
    [Deleted User]
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    branie2 wrote: »
    There's going to be an important meeting held in the Vatican, I understand. There be might changes for the Catholic Church in the future.

    Nonsense. If it ain't broke don't fix it I say


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