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  • #1712
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    onto second bottle of wine. first was decent and this is fantastic.

    also eating some peanuts.

    first wine was a nice red from Italy. this one is a red from Chile.

    Masterchef on good food. making my mouth water.


  • #1713
    brooke 2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    riffmongous wrote: »
    The Big Snow I thought. Black 47 is the famine alright though, and the new movie about the Famine

    Always heard it referred to by my parents as The Big Snow of 1947.


  • #1714
    GoneHome
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭GoneHome


    Went to the local pub with five of my extended family, it's a one of three pubs in a small rural village which gets a good crowd on a Saturday night but is very quiet during the week, the place was packed tonight!


  • #1715
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,043 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Murpho If you have a problem with people banging on about red alerts and curfews and taking shelter then address your issues to Leo Varadkar and his merry band of gob****es

    Hold on, you’re hardly THE Murph are you? Eoghan!?


  • #1716
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,768 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/storm-emma-teen-in-serious-condition-after-freak-fall-in-snow-36660965.html

    Stories like this is why the warnings are in place, to try and minimise incidents like it but that won't be good enough for many here.


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  • #1717
    misstearheus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,146 ✭✭✭misstearheus


    Where's this feicin' Blizzard lads.... Waitin' all afternoon for it. Red due to be lifted here tomorrow at 6am apparently. What a load of shyte.. I'm going to go downstairs and outside in a minute and if I don't see 10 inches of Snow I'll be very disappointed. It's probably feicin' as good as gone... Blizzard.... Blizzard me elbow...


  • #1718
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,768 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    They did tell people to take shelter!!

    At 4 on the dot!!! Repeatedly!!

    By the Taoiseach and other cabinet ministers and the full complement of RTÉ and met eireann staff!!

    They had to pick a time to provide clarity for people. What is the problem with that?


  • #1719
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,771 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    They did tell people to take shelter!!

    At 4 on the dot!!! Repeatedly!!

    By the Taoiseach and other cabinet ministers and the full complement of RTÉ and met eireann staff!!

    I was at home by 2 o'clock. It wasn't 4 on the dot, it was 4 at the latest. You misunderstood.


  • #1720
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,768 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Murpho If you have a problem with people banging on about red alerts and curfews and taking shelter then address your issues to Leo Varadkar and his merry band of gob****es

    Hold on, you’re hardly THE Murph are you? Eoghan!?

    I have no issue with what the government have done. Better than what you propose.


  • #1721
    bloodless_coup
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭bloodless_coup


    murpho999 wrote: »
    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/storm-emma-teen-in-serious-condition-after-freak-fall-in-snow-36660965.html

    Stories like this is why the warnings are in place, to try and minimise incidents like it but that won't be good enough for many here.

    Eh, seems to me if there was school and work open, it wouldn't have happened.


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  • #1722
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    misstearheus wrote: »
    Where's this feicin' Blizzard lads.... Waitin' all afternoon for it. Red due to be lifted here tomorrow at 6am apparently. What a load of shyte.. I'm going to go downstairs and outside in a minute and if I don't see 10 inches of Snow I'll be very disappointed. It's probably feicin' as good as gone... Blizzard.... Blizzard me elbow...

    its been going in Westmeath since 12 noon
    non stop


  • #1723
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,043 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Get the feeling there’s gonna be an awful lot of awkward questions for the authorities tomorrow.


  • #1724
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,440 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    murpho999 wrote: »
    They had to pick a time to provide clarity for people. What is the problem with that?
    I totally agree. I think that time also put pressure on businesses to close early so people with commutes could get home safely


  • #1725
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    cycle4fun wrote: »
    Its not even freezing in parts of the country now. Yet a Bl**dy curfew on schools, business etc all day.

    Its ok for those who will get paid to not work anyway.

    Curfew, curfew, curfew. Could you post a link to any mention of a curfew in Ireland in 2018??


  • #1726
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,771 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Get the feeling there’s gonna be an awful lot of awkward questions for the authorities tomorrow.

    There are some very awkward people about.


  • #1727
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,768 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Get the feeling there’s gonna be an awful lot of awkward questions for the authorities tomorrow.

    No they won't. They will be shown to have been correct.
    I can see that already when I look at my window here in Co Wicklow.

    Of course you won't be on here tomorrow to admit that.


  • #1728
    bloodless_coup
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,480 ✭✭✭bloodless_coup


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    Curfew, curfew, curfew. Could you post a link to any mention of a curfew in Ireland in 2018??

    To be fair, public transport shut down, government shutdown, private businesses shut down out of fear of liability. Might as well be a curfew.


  • #1729
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    This post has been deleted.


  • #1730
    nostro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭nostro


    murpho999 wrote: »
    https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/storm-emma-teen-in-serious-condition-after-freak-fall-in-snow-36660965.html

    Stories like this is why the warnings are in place, to try and minimise incidents like it but that won't be good enough for many here.
    doylefe wrote: »
    Eh, seems to me if there was school and work open, it wouldn't have happened.

    Exactly. This accident happened because the schools were closed. And there was a "weather warning" when he fell so your argument that warnings are needed because he fell makes no sense.


  • #1731
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,043 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    doylefe wrote: »
    To be fair, public transport shut down, government shutdown, private businesses shut down out of fear of liability. Might as well be a curfew.

    It’s probably cuz they can’t legally declare a curfew that they use the weasel words like advice and strongly recommend.

    Thank fcuk they can’t legally do it.


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  • #1732
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,968 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    doylefe wrote: »
    Eh, seems to me if there was school and work open, it wouldn't have happened.

    Probably would have happened to a lot more


  • #1733
    VinLieger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,968 ✭✭✭✭VinLieger


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    It’s probably cuz they can’t legally declare a curfew that they use the weasel words like advice and strongly recommend.

    Thank fcuk they can’t legally do it.

    Yep its a conspiracy i tells yeah, they want to lock us all up.....


  • #1734
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,849 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    doylefe wrote: »
    To be fair, public transport shut down, government shutdown, private businesses shut down out of fear of liability. Might as well be a curfew.

    But isn't actually a curfew. You can venture out at your own risk and you'll not be stopped.


  • #1735
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,043 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    murpho999 wrote: »
    No they won't. They will be shown to have been correct.
    I can see that already when I look at my window here in Co Wicklow.

    Of course you won't be on here tomorrow to admit that.

    They weren’t correct about 4pm. Even you have to admit that.


  • #1736
    Wheres Me Jumper?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,288 ✭✭✭Wheres Me Jumper?


    i swear if this country were ever to visit a shrink it would be diagnosed as BIPOLAR.
    We lurch from one daft extreme to the other.
    just wait for a week of dry weather, and well have those absurdly dressed D4 weather gurls tellin us to have no more than 2 showers a week, and not to flush unless you've pebble-dashed the bog.
    Leo will be addressing the nation on the geopolitics of global water shortages.


  • #1737
    murpho999
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,768 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    doylefe wrote: »
    Eh, seems to me if there was school and work open, it wouldn't have happened.
    nostro wrote: »
    Exactly. This accident happened because the schools were closed. And there was a "weather warning" when he fell so your argument that warnings are needed because he fell makes no sense.

    No: if the warnings had not been in place then more people would be out and about and these type of incidents would be have occurred more but many people here will be too blinkered here to grasp that.


  • #1738
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,066 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Man whinging about government recommendation to stay indoors ends up staying indoors to post about it on the internet.

    Fantastic.


  • #1739
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,771 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Wheres Me Jumper? wrote: »
    i swear if this country were ever to visit a shrink it would be diagnosed as BIPOLAR.
    We lurch from one daft extreme to the other.
    just wait for a week of dry weather, and well have those absurdly dressed D4 weather gurls tellin us to have no more than 2 showers a week, and not to flush unless you've pebble-dashed the bog.
    Leo will be addressing the nation on the geopolitics of global water shortages.

    Save up some of the snow. You will need it because the people of the West won't give you water from the Shannon.


  • #1740
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Some great fights going on across all the forums tonight.

    Cabin fever has already set in it seems.


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  • #1741
    Deusexmachina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Deusexmachina


    murpho999 wrote: »
    No they won't. They will be shown to have been correct.
    I can see that already when I look at my window here in Co Wicklow.

    Of course you won't be on here tomorrow to admit that.

    I’m in Co Wicklow. Cold night. Windy. Nothing that unusual


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