Buer wrote: » A €3bn project that will serve hundreds of thousands for generations will be thrown in the bin because one road and its inhabitants will be discommoded for a portion of the project? It's f*cking bonkers.
Podge_irl wrote: » It will be open to pedestrians in some manner. Anyway, the only real relevant distance is the distance to Charleston Road which is quite a bit less than 1km. The "community" they are so desperate to maintain without the "Berlin Wall" of the metro will do just fine - communities are based on walking and you can still do that. A community is not defined by the ability to drive through somewhere.
troyzer wrote: » Lads just getting back to this Metro thing. They do have a bit of a point regarding Dunville avenue. It seems to be the only crossing point across the current track from Charleston road down to Milltown road. That's a decent 3km.
troyzer wrote: » They can certainly contaminate the wild population but they can't drive them to extinction via cross breeding. That's not how it works. Any farmed breed be it fish, cow or crop are genetically inferior to the wild population. I have no dog in this fight, I can be convinced either way. But it seems to me that Zippy is against fish farming in general as an industry.
troyzer wrote: » Whatever about the rest of it but this is not how evolution works. ^
Zzippy wrote: » troyzer wrote: » They can certainly contaminate the wild population but they can't drive them to extinction via cross breeding. That's not how it works. Any farmed breed be it fish, cow or crop are genetically inferior to the wild population. I have no dog in this fight, I can be convinced either way. But it seems to me that Zippy is against fish farming in general as an industry. troyzer wrote: » Whatever about the rest of it but this is not how evolution works. ^ Actually, it is. Incremental incursion of foreign genes into a population weakens genetic fitness. I'm not going to bother looking for you, but there are quite a few scientific papers on this. Basically salmon populations where genetic contamination has occurred from farmed fish display reduced survival. It may be only a couple of percent, but with low enough survival as it is, that is enough to deplete populations to extinction level within 20-50 generations. It is a recent occurrence so the eventual extinction events are based on mathematical modelling of populations, they haven't happened yet, but the genetic pollution certainly has. One study found 18% of salmon in the Crana River in Donegal had genetic material from farmed fish. Every escape of farmed fish increases that risk. I'm not against fish farming in general. I am against farming salmonid fish in cages in the open sea in bays that are close to our wild salmon rivers. I want salmon farming to move to closed circulation systems, where the risk of disease and parasite transfer is eliminated, escapes are not possible, and where salmon farmers have to bear the cost of waste disposal like all other farmers, and not pollute our bays with their pesticide-contaminated faeces.
troyzer wrote: » The individuals which don't interbreed will be selected and thus survive. That's how evolution works. I'm not disputing that sub populations which hybridise won't struggle, but it's unlikely that the entire wild population would hybridise which is what you'd need to wipe out the entire wild population. How much extra is it have a closed system of farming? What you're saying sounds reasonable but there has to be a catch.
mfceiling wrote: » I have now decided (whether he likes it or not) that Zzippy is my new best friend.
troyzer wrote: » As far as I know it's not that much more expensive on a per unit basis to produce RHD but when you're talking about massive factories, 1% gains here and there makes the difference. Anybody who's played that factory simulator game on Steam knows the craic. There will always be a glut of RHD cars from Europe. Over a third of the planet uses RHD and they're mostly countries which are growing rapidly. The trend is likely to actually increase towards RHD as Southern Africa and the Indian subcontinent get their **** together.
swiwi_ wrote: » Fair play to yiz with the Worlds best gin. Anyone tried it?
Bazzo wrote: » Dingle? Yeah it's nice enough though to be honest my gin palette can distinguish ****e, ok and good and that's about it. Fairly sure someone told me before that they only started doing gin to bring some money in while they were aging their whiskey.
Stone Gossard wrote: » That's correct... Irish whiskey needs 5 years to be saleable...gin is good to go in months, so they got that motoring along with the vodka...whisky is going for daft money now though
b.gud wrote: » 3 years I believe is the minimum for it to be considered Irish whiskey. But yeah you're right all those gin places are brewing it to keep them going until their whiskey comes of age, can't wait.
Dave_The_Sheep wrote: » Bizarre scenes. Chelsea keeper Arrizabalaga refuses to be subbed off, after being/feigning injured/injury twice in a few minutes, for a sub keeper who is a renowned penalty kick saver, just before extra time finishes.https://streamable.com/3eutt Goes on to the shootout to let in 4 penalties, including 1 he really should have saved. Sarri has to crucify him, surely, after this. Stick him in the reserves for a few years, until his contract expires, and fine the everliving **** out of him. (Obviously money will talk and as a 70 million pound investment, they won't let him expire, which is disgraceful)
troyzer wrote: » It's pretty funny. Sarri has to go, there's clearly no respect for him left from the players. In other news, the Irish Times et al are driving me insane calling the Favourite an "Irish production" without any qualification. It had five production companies involved, one of which is an Irish company. We're getting as bad as the Brits calling Saoirse Ronan Irish. I'm delighted that First Man won best special effects, it's the most visually stunning movie I've seen in years.
irishbucsfan wrote: » Two main production companies throughout, one of which was Lanthimos' who was brought on to the project by Ed Guiney. Without Element that film would never have been made. That's why it's considered an Irish production.
troyzer wrote: » It's not an Irish production. It's an Irish co-production. We'd be pretty pissed off if any number of films we consider to be Irish were called British productions because most of them were co-produced with British production companies.
irishbucsfan wrote: » Meh, it really does not matter whatsoever, but that film wouldn't have existed, let alone been acclaimed, without the Irish producers who rescued that script convinced Lanthimos to direct it.
Deleted User wrote: » Was thinking of getting a bottle as a gift for the misses albeit she only ever has it with tonic and I'm not sure if it's worth getting good quality liquor when it's just going into a mixer. Personally think gin is one of those drinks that is so noxious I actually find myself questioning the people that drink it. Tastes horrific to me.
Zzippy wrote: » It's vile. Give me a good whiskey any day.
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