Cass wrote: »

I wonder how many of the doomsday preppers are going to be disappointed about no Zombies?

Cass wrote: »

Moany ould so and so time.

LIDL announced they will have preferred shopping times for the elderly. A good idea and other supermarkets are either already doing it or are intending to do it. Here is the moany bit.

LIDL's statement says:

IOW we're not doing spit about it and we ask the same people that are climbing over their Granny to get the last sheet of bog roll to not do it for two hours in the morning.

This coming from the same company that told me when i rang them about people parking in the disabled bays without a permit (my Mother is disabled and had to park the other side of the car park because the three bays were being used by people with no permits):


Supervalu and Dunnes are not only doing this elderly hour but they are offering in some stored to only allow elderly in the shops, while stopping regular shoppers, and helping those that need it to get their shopping done including picking groceries, packing bags, etc.

As i said its a whinge/moan and i understand and even appreciate the intent, but you're either going to do it right or are just paying lip service and in this instance LIDL keep up their usual low standards or get them in and out as quick as possible with no regard for customers.

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

When sailors used the head - originally a board with a cutout hole beside the bowsprit (at the head of the boat) they used an old piece of rope wrapped at one end and frayed at the other (working) end. This was tethered by a small line to the boat and was dropped into the water for cleaning.

Be intresting to see how well that works with modern nylon,polypropylene ropes.

Cass wrote: »

Varadkar's announcement included the bit:

Was only a year ago that HIS government under the school drop out (otherwise known as our health Minister) threatened to fine and sanction nurses who went on strike for a pay rise.


The line i see others spouting and it pisses me off royally is:

It pisses me off because viruses don't walk across the borders, the people carrying it do. Close the borders as other countries have done and stop the influx of new cases.

When the foot and mouth hit the borders were closed, unnecessary transport stopped, and wash stations and checks at airports, ports, etc were immediately rolled out. The result was only one suspected case and after 30 days Ireland was declared safe from it with no loss to our livestock industry.

Seems people are not afforded the same level of consideration.

Cass wrote: »

I'm not a complete naysayer or "down with this sort of thing" and sometimes a rousing speech can do wonders. However for this man to:

• Threaten nurses last year then praise them this year
• Go to America with no parade, no public meeting, no handshake, essentially no reason just for the holiday
• To give a "Emergency statement" from the White House and not back from his office where he should have been in the first place
• To provide no new information or plan of attack but merely lip service
• To fail to act quickly (even now with a record 191 new cases today alone bringing the total to 557 as of this evening 19th March) on border control, and enacting more rapid control measures

................ then get kudos for his speech which was received very well by a larger than it should have quarter of our citizenry is, well frankly, annoying and embarrassing.

To me its like people who clap at pilots landing a plane or applaud a politician for opening a building (built with public money). As someone once said would you thank an ATM for giving you out your money?


I need doctors, builders, lorry drivers, nurses, supermarket workers, warehouse workers and every other soul out there risking their own health to keep our country running a billion, BILLION, times more than some tax dodging mouthpiece whose only role is to lecture us on our wrongs while guilting the poor into giving what little they have to the even poorer. :mad:

Rows Grower wrote: »

I'm going to go with "A".

Final answer.

Feisar wrote: »

I do often wonder what the likes of Bono thinks of himself in his own head. Is he so far up his own hole that he sees himself as some sort of altruistic philanthropist or does he have a good chuckle at the inane masses?

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

This utter utter Fukin MELT Ryan of the Watermelon party would do your head in listening to the rubbish he comes up with!!! Could you imagine this waste of valuable oxygen in charge of the country in the current state if he had formed a Govt with our dear leader of the profound and historic speeches??? Somewhere on the planet ,there are trees producing oxygen for Ryan and the Watermelons to exist.They should be made apologise to those trees for the waste of effort.:rolleyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5zkwkFPzHc

Cass wrote: »

Listening to Pat Kenny the other day on the wireless,

yubabill wrote: »

Used them in the "80's and did some of my best shooting with them. Changed over to Stingers around 1990 and thought my eyes were going to pot. years later, after I moved to 17HMR, saw that Stingers lose accuracy big time after 70/80 yds when they go trans-sonic.
Regretted moving away from the RWS, but was hooked by the power of the Stingers and convinced myself that my shooting was at fault.
Would probably use Velocitors if I was in the 22LR game today.

yubabill wrote: »

Want to know about societal lockdown, who recommends it and how long it will last?

At worst we can be looking at an 18 month according to a document seen by the Jerusalem Post in the UK lockdown.Estimate a decade worth of depression on the world too as worst case scenarios.