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Synode · 20-09-2018 11:38PM

https://m.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/ladies-football/ewan-mackenna-women-in-sport-have-been-fighting-hard-for-parity-clearly-on-this-occasion-it-didnt-suit-some-37334309.html

Very good article that sums it up for me

b.gud · 20-09-2018 11:45PM

shootermacg wrote: »

I've been through a lot of coffee makers. Problem for me is, for the day's I'm in the office, I just drink the stuff in there. It's pretty good (black no sugar). So I only have to make it at home four days max and sometimes just the once.

I finally bought one of these and I really just can't believe why I didn't do it earlier.

Link

No fuss, if you're in a rush use hot water, if you're a zombie in the morning like me, just cold. When done, bang out the coffee, bung it in the dish washer.

Sometimes you get caught up in the bells and whistles when the answer has been around for ages. As for the frothy milk ****e, just fart through a straw or something, I wouldn't know anything about that, I'm not from Dublin and I don't have a beard or skinny jeans.

Highly recommend a Moka pots they are a great tool to have around the house. Putting hot, a minute or two off the boil, water in to start the process is actually supposed to produce a nice coffee in the end as well as being more convenient. Don't boil it like you would a kettle as it'll spurt out the top and you'll get a kind of bitter coffee in the end. Heat it on a medium high heat and when the coffee starts to come out turn it down a bit and just before all the coffee comes out take it off the heat completely.

Also NEVER, NEVER throw your moka pot in the dishwater or use detergent when washing it, just wash it with hot water. Similarly regardless of what old wives tales you hear don't let it get a build up of old coffee as it does not help the flavour.

If you want frothy milk the easiest way to do it is to heat it up and use a french press, another great coffee tool to have around, to froth it. To froth it pour in the milk and just rapidly pull the plunger up and down.

kuang1 · 21-09-2018 12:04AM

This is doing wonders for enhancing my capacity for tolerance of those with different beliefs.

sydthebeat · 21-09-2018 02:31PM

oli fisher just became the first golfer ever to break 60 on the European tour by signing for a 59 in todays Portugal masters.... a remarkable -12 for the day

mfceiling · 21-09-2018 04:31PM

sydthebeat wrote: »

oli fisher just became the first golfer ever to break 60 on the European tour by signing for a 59 in todays Portugal masters.... a remarkable -12 for the day

That is savage going to be fair.

Darren Clarke was a few years ahead of me in school and I always kept an eye on him over the years. He twice shot 60 but to break that is deadly.

bilston · 23-09-2018 11:06PM

Incredible scenes in Atlanta as Tiger wins the Tour Championship.

The atmosphere was almost Ryder Cup like

thomond2006 · 24-09-2018 09:53AM

http://whatdoesborisowe.co.uk/

24-09-2018 11:37AM

There was Christmas music playing at home last night. Someone send help

stephen_n · 24-09-2018 11:51AM

Addison Yummy Fashion wrote: »

There was Christmas music playing at home last night. Someone send help

Here you go!

swiwi_ · 24-09-2018 12:03PM

stephen_n wrote: »

Here you go!

You can divorce your kids??

24-09-2018 12:21PM

That's the sort of click that ends up getting someone accidentally in trouble over their search history!

stephen_n · 24-09-2018 01:28PM

Deleted User wrote: »

That's the sort of click that ends up getting someone accidentally in trouble over their search history!

I would have thought you were permanently in incognito

errlloyd · 24-09-2018 02:14PM

stephen_n wrote: »

I would have thought you were permanently in incognito

I dunno why, the things that get Venjur going include James Ryan, Footwork and Myles Harrison commentating on BOD scoring v Munster in 2009. None of those would arouse suspicion on anyone else's machine.

24-09-2018 02:43PM

errlloyd wrote: »

I dunno why, the things that get Venjur going include James Ryan, Footwork and Myles Harrison commentating on BOD scoring v Munster in 2009. None of those would arouse suspicion on anyone else's machine.

Not suspicion, no.

OldRio · 24-09-2018 05:21PM

That's some gesture by JP McManus.

CatFromHue · 24-09-2018 06:22PM

Fairly nice all right.

I wonder how much it would cost to put a running track in each county?

Dublin (DCU I think), Limerick (UL), Westmeath (AIT), and Cork (CIT) are the only ones I know that have one.

I'm always amazed at how we turn out running athletes as we've nowhere near the facilities they need. When your man recently won a medal on the pommel horse event my first thought was did he actually train on a real horse!!

The Lost Sheep · 24-09-2018 07:10PM

CatFromHue wrote: »

Fairly nice all right.

I wonder how much it would cost to put a running track in each county?

Dublin (DCU I think), Limerick (UL), Westmeath (AIT), and Cork (CIT) are the only ones I know that have one.

I'm always amazed at how we turn out running athletes as we've nowhere near the facilities they need. When your man recently won a medal on the pommel horse event my first thought was did he actually train on a real horse!!

Full tartans?
Templemore, NUIG, Tullamore, Lees Road Ennis, RSC in Waterford are also there off top of my head. Probably quite a few more.
Major issue is more indoor arenas/tracks. There was virtually just Nenagh for years but now there's Athlone and the National Sport Campus in Abbotstown which are international standard which nenagh isnt

Bridge93 · 24-09-2018 08:16PM

Irishtown
Santry/Morton Stadium
Tallaght
ALSAA/DCU
Lucan

Think these are all still going in Dublin. UCD are putting one down again

prawnsambo · 24-09-2018 09:18PM

OldRio wrote: »

That's some gesture by JP McManus.

Unbelievable really. It's probably not going to be a huge amount when it's split up amongst the clubs, but it's money that would probably help get a sports capital grant.

ClanofLams · 24-09-2018 11:13PM

It's a nice thing to do by McManus and I know he gives a lot away to various organisations that he certainly has no requirement to but personally I find it more impressive when billionaires choose to pay tax here as Michael O'Leary does.

dregin · 24-09-2018 11:45PM

ClanofLams wrote: »

It's a nice thing to do by McManus and I know he gives a lot away to various organisations that he certainly has no requirement to but personally I find it more impressive when billionaires choose to pay tax here as Michael O'Leary does.

Jesus, just googled it. McManus hasn't paid a penny of tax here since 1995?! No fan of O'Leary, but yeah...

thomond2006 · 25-09-2018 11:44AM

It's quite clever.

Give away a fraction of the tax you would otherwise pay to charity and be acclaimed versus paying tax and receiving no acclaim.

pickarooney · 25-09-2018 02:53PM

thomond2006 wrote: »

It's quite clever.

Give away a fraction of the tax you would otherwise pay to charity and be acclaimed versus paying tax and receiving no acclaim.

Well, I think we'd all like to have some control over where our taxes are used instead of seeing them pissed up a wall in the HSE or wherever so hard to be too critical.

Podge_irl · 25-09-2018 03:33PM

pickarooney wrote: »

thomond2006 wrote: »

It's quite clever.

Give away a fraction of the tax you would otherwise pay to charity and be acclaimed versus paying tax and receiving no acclaim.

Well, I think we'd all like to have some control over where our taxes are used instead of seeing them pissed up a wall in the HSE or wherever so hard to be too critical.

It's not hard to be critical at all. There are a million very good reasons we have no control over it.

errlloyd · 25-09-2018 04:37PM

Podge_irl wrote: »

It's not hard to be critical at all. There are a million very good reasons we have no control over it.

Yeah, this has made me pretty sickened tbh. We give Bono so much ****, but AFAIK he pays his income tax here. U2 just don't pay corporate tax here. (could be wrong)

Zzippy · 25-09-2018 04:51PM

errlloyd wrote: »

Yeah, this has made me pretty sickened tbh. We give Bono so much ****, but AFAIK he pays his income tax here. U2 just don't pay corporate tax here. (could be wrong)

Think Bono avails of the tax exemption for "artists". I know some might argue his qualifications for that title, nevertheless AFAIK he doesn't pay tax here on income from his music. He may well pay a lot of other tax, e.g. capital gains tax when he sold his Facebook shares.

pickarooney · 25-09-2018 04:53PM

WTF, the legacy skin seems to have disappeared. I'm scared. Bring it back!

errlloyd · 25-09-2018 04:53PM

Zzippy wrote: »

Think Bono avails of the tax exemption for "artists". I know some might argue his qualifications for that title, nevertheless AFAIK he doesn't pay tax here on income from his music. He may well pay a lot of other tax, e.g. capital gains tax when he sold his Facebook shares.

Until 2006 he had that. Now that exemption doesn't apply to really high earners. I think it only applies to the first fifty thousand or so.

Buer · 25-09-2018 04:54PM

Zzippy wrote: »

Think Bono avails of the tax exemption for "artists". I know some might argue his qualifications for that title, nevertheless AFAIK he doesn't pay tax here on income from his music. He may well pay a lot of other tax, e.g. capital gains tax when he sold his Facebook shares.

Artists exemption is capped at €50k as far as I know.

thomond2006 · 25-09-2018 05:10PM

pickarooney wrote: »

Well, I think we'd all like to have some control over where our taxes are used instead of seeing them pissed up a wall in the HSE or wherever so hard to be too critical.

Except nobody would pay tax then!

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