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No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

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  • #3692
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,689 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It would have done no harm, a lot didn't know what it was about, and then to get it on a Friday evening. I know my advisor was unreachable, only have an idea what it's for from here.

    Ye, had my dad on to me about it too. He got the text as well.


  • #3693
    CHOPS01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 767 ✭✭✭CHOPS01


    funkey_monkey wrote: »
    Just been reading this on the matter. Long but insightful:

    https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/not-the-foot-and-mouth.pdf

    Thread over on The Farming Forum dedicted to the subject. Harrowing for all those affected and even those not directly affected as they watched neighbouring farms go down.
    Horrible times.


  • #3694
    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Has anyone used Physiolith to correct the PH?
    Would it be short term like gran-lime or longer effect like ground lime?


  • #3695
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,345 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Has anyone used Physiolith to correct the PH?
    Would it be short term like gran-lime or longer effect like ground lime?

    There's some using it here. Yearly job I think too.


  • #3696
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,345 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Anyone any experience of the Pruex products?
    Expensive. Very expensive but if it works..

    Wrangler have you, used it?

    https://www.pruex.co.uk/blogs/news/tagged/ahs


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  • #3697
    longgonesilver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭longgonesilver


    The top rate of VAT is going back up from 21% to 23% at midnight on Sunday. It was reduced on September 1 for six months and there have been no announcements that it is being extended. The special 9% rate for hotels and restaurants is being extended.


  • #3698
    roosterman71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,012 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    longgonesilver wrote: »
    The special 9% rate for hotels and restaurants is being extended.

    Easy extend that when most of them are doing the sum total of **** all. Once they all open again, watch it go back to 13% (it was 13 I think)


  • #3699
    ganmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,748 ✭✭✭ganmo


    Good weather brings out the gob****es!

    Rant over


  • #3700
    carrollsno1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭carrollsno1


    ganmo wrote: »
    Good weather brings out the gob****es!

    Rant over

    Too fine a day for working all the same.

    Better living everyone



  • #3701
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,611 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    ganmo wrote: »
    Good weather brings out the gob****es!

    Rant over

    I'll bite.......what happened


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  • #3702
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,162 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Anyone recommend a crowd that make proper dog enclosures?

    Need to get a proper one done... seem a few on donedeal, but like everything, you’d like to hear good reports about a crowd...


  • #3703
    johnsparkexile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭johnsparkexile


    Dinzee Conlee wrote: »
    Anyone recommend a crowd that make proper dog enclosures?

    Need to get a proper one done... seem a few on donedeal, but like everything, you’d like to hear good reports about a crowd...


    Got 1 from Slaneyside Kennels last year, easy to deal with, good selection of runs. There on Donedeal but also have a good website. More than happy with what I got.

    I have no connection to the business, just a happy customer.


  • #3704
    Ard_MC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 515 ✭✭✭Ard_MC


    johnsparkexile wrote: »
    Got 1 from Slaneyside Kennels last year, easy to deal with, good selection of runs. There on Donedeal but also have a good website. More than happy with what I got.

    I have no connection to the business, just a happy customer.


    Found the same about them.


  • #3705
    The Rabbi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭The Rabbi


    RTE,every second ad is an initative of our wonderful government to tell you to keep up the good work,keep 2m social distance,stay close to home and the last few days all their experts telling parents not to congregate at the school gates when schools reopen.Oh holy suffering folk,ten minutes of the lunch time news taken up with reporters hanging around school gates interviewing children and parents.You just gotta love it


  • #3706
    laoch na mona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,971 ✭✭✭laoch na mona


    Reggie. wrote: »
    A the war machine has revved back up




    I don't think it ever slowed down, just had a less effective driver for a while


  • #3707
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,844 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Mod note moved Bank of Ireland posts to a new thread

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=116445927#post116445927

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #3708
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,390 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    ganmo wrote: »
    Good weather brings out the gob****es!

    Rant over

    Years ago I had my catalytic convertor stolen while it was parked at work. They did a few jeeps in the industrial estate that day. When a guard from the forensics department came to look at it, I said to him, that they were probably still stealing them. It was a couple of hours after they had stole it and it had started to rain.
    He smirked and goes ' Them boys don't work in the rain.'


  • #3709
    whelan2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,689 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    What do ye think of the photo of Gordon Elliott on a dead horse?


  • #3710
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,499 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    whelan2 wrote: »
    What do ye think of the photo of Gordon Elliott on a dead horse?

    I'd be more critical of the photographer for spreading it actually.
    I often sat on anything that was near if there was a chance of a good chat on the phone.

    who here would sit on a dead animal, have to say I probably would


  • #3711
    Omar Devone Little
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭Omar Devone Little


    wrangler wrote: »
    I'd be more critical of the photographer for spreading it actually.
    I often sat on anything that was near if there was a chance of a good chat on the phone.

    who here would sit on a dead animal, have to say I probably would

    Yes of course it’s the photographer fault.

    Next time I read some “farmers love their animals” post, I’ll remember your comment.


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  • #3712
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,499 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    Omar Devone Little wrote: »
    Yes of course it’s the photographer fault.

    Next time I read some “farmers love their animals” post, I’ll remember your comment.

    Mind them when they're alive, that's the important thing.


  • #3713
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,345 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    wrangler wrote: »
    I'd be more critical of the photographer for spreading it actually.
    I often sat on anything that was near if there was a chance of a good chat on the phone.

    who here would sit on a dead animal, have to say I probably would

    According to the Guardian it was taken last year and there's the possibility of a video of himself and staff partying in a bar during the lockdown being released also.

    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/mar/01/gordon-elliott-horrific-dead-horse-photo-racing-comment


  • #3714
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,499 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    Say my name wrote: »
    According to the Guardian it was taken last year and there's the possibility of a video of himself and staff partying in a bar during the lockdown being released also.

    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/mar/01/gordon-elliott-horrific-dead-horse-photo-racing-comment

    And I saw the Gusrdian reporting last week about 900 cattle on a boat for the last two months and no one will take them in.
    They seem to love sensationalism,
    Elliots an idiot if he's not abiding by the restrictions though


  • #3715
    laoch na mona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,971 ✭✭✭laoch na mona


    whelan2 wrote: »
    What do ye think of the photo of Gordon Elliott on a dead horse?


    Like obviously deaths are part and parcel of raising animals the big having a laugh while sat on a dead race horse is a bit tasteless, defintly doesn't make the yard look good.


    Will the horsey lot care? No but its a bit of bad PR and gives a bit of weight to anti horse industry arguments.


    image if a farmer saw a sheep killed and decided to pose with it for a laugh we'd all think they're a bit mad, So I kind of see it like that it makes Elliot look daft


    I've no doubt any horse in his care is well looked after while alive mind, given the money involved if nothing else


  • #3716
    Anto_Meath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭Anto_Meath


    It's a bit of a storm in a tea cup.. now he could have gotten a better place to sit, but as a farmer he would be used of the saying "where you have livestock you will have dead stock... It's not nice but it's part of the course. If there was a photo that suggested he had mistreated the animal then that would be a issues. There is people mistreating children in this country & there doesn't be as much written about it any week as there has been about this over the last few days..


  • #3717
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,345 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    There's another thread on the subject in the horse racing forum with 380 posts.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058164470


  • #3718
    BENDYBINN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,927 ✭✭✭BENDYBINN


    wrangler wrote: »
    I'd be more critical of the photographer for spreading it actually.
    I often sat on anything that was near if there was a chance of a good chat on the phone.

    who here would sit on a dead animal, have to say I probably would

    Not in a million yrs would I sit on a dead animal.....I’d say not many would.


  • #3719
    Omar Devone Little
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12 ✭Omar Devone Little


    wrangler wrote: »
    Mind them when they're alive, that's the important thing.

    As I said, I’ll remember your comment. You give farmers a bad name. Is it any wonder they’re so unpopular in this country.


  • #3720
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,499 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    BENDYBINN wrote: »
    Not in a million yrs would I sit on a dead animal.....I’d say not many would.

    When you're farming you get used to death I suppose.
    I'm an atheist too so believe we're only worm food after


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  • #3721
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,345 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    I remember years ago calling into a hunt masters yard as a child with my father bringing a mare to a stallion.

    Dead horses, cattle, sheep were all skinned and butchered on the farm and the portions fed to the hounds.

    In the field beside the yard was pile of bones with heads and legs attached. All piled up with the tractor loader.

    Gordon Elliot is a bit older than me and most likely of the hunting fraternity.
    The horse to him was probably a good seat.
    But it's still a bit senseless by him with the horse still on the gallops.

    The photographer and who ever released it knew exactly the type of reaction it would bring.

    Just heard on the news he's been temporarily banned from racing horses in the UK.


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