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    #272
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Tosh. Next thing you'll be saying that we'll be going into space!

    Going by the Flash Gordon serials at the cinema you wouldn't want to be going there


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    #273
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users Posts: 5,457 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    I heard they were building one of them double roads out on the Bray road, sure we'll be like America.


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    #274
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,292 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    Any news on Eoin O'Duffy these days?


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    #275
    Pandiculation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭Pandiculation


    You get a genuine insight into the aspirations of pre WWII Ireland in the ESB archives:

    https://esbarchives.ie/shannon-scheme-pamphlets/

    pg-ss-pr-4_f.jpg

    f_re-ph-36-1.jpg


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    #276
    branie2
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    Punting 365 wrote: »
    Well boys what's the plan for the summer? I've two weeks booked in Warsaw starting the last week of August. Can't wait, gonna be some session.

    It will be very memorable, but for all the wrong reasons.


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    #277
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Pandiculation wrote: »
    You get a genuine insight into the aspirations of pre WWII Ireland in the ESB archives:

    https://esbarchives.ie/shannon-scheme-pamphlets/

    pg-ss-pr-4_f.jpg

    f_re-ph-36-1.jpg


    Sure what would women do with all that spare time? Anyway it probably won't get far outside cities and towns as it would be too expensive to provide it to the countryside.


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    #278
    breezy1985
    Registered Users Posts: 24,362 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    RandomViewer wrote: »
    Going by the Flash Gordon serials at the cinema you wouldn't want to be going there

    Ya but the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one they say


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    #279
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,292 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I'l be safe at home


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    #280
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,881 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    I predict by the end of the century, everyone will be using Esperanto as a second language for global communication.
    "La vojo de la estonteco."

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #281
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    I predict by the end of the century, everyone will be using Esperanto as a second language for global communication.
    "La vojo de la estonteco."


    Gaelic will be spoken throughout Ireland as the first language anyway.


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    #282
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,292 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Gaelic will be spoken throughout Ireland as the first language anyway.

    I think it might be in certain parts of the country


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    #283
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,292 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    saabsaab wrote: »
    Occasions of sin!

    That's nothing compared to pictures in catalogues!


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    #284
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    branie2 wrote: »
    I think it might be in certain parts of the country


    Absolutely. It will spread from the Capital outwards.


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    #285
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Feckin hell ballinahown co Wicklow is gone

    https://www.townlands.ie/wicklow/lower-talbotstown/boystown/lackan/ballinahown/


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    #286
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    We be paying a shilling a pint before the year is over. I'll give it up if it crosses that.


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    #287
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,881 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    branie2 wrote: »
    That's nothing compared to pictures in catalogues!

    Greed lust and envy!

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #288
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    User ashjwilliams banned for life for taking the lords name in vein , bishop has been informed


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    #289
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users Posts: 5,457 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    f_re-ph-36-1.jpg

    Note the Schuko plug, no English electricity here!


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    #290
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users Posts: 5,457 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    I hear that Dun Laoghaire is getting the automatic phone, shocking that the northsiders had it first.


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    #291
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,881 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Charles Babbage wrote: »
    I hear that Dun Laoghaire is getting the automatic phone, shocking that the northsiders had it first.

    It will always be Kingstown to me.
    At least most people could spell that.
    If they could spell.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #292
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Conspiracy theory:

    I’m starting to think the farm the esb took from me for a shilling in blessington has nothing to do with electricity and is in fact to supply the bleedin dubs with water


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    #293
    Strumms
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    women-style-1940-ladies-vintage-watches-clothes.jpg

    Women wearing next to nothing and embarrassing Fr O’Neill.. BRAZEN !


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    #294
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,447 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    <snip>. State of them.


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    #295
    Cerveza
    Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭Cerveza


    Is there a pup payment for the next world war?


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    #296
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Cerveza wrote: »
    Is there a pup payment for the next world war?


    Payments! What madness, we already spent nearly one and a quarter million pounds on unemployment in 1939!


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    #297
    Pandiculation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭Pandiculation


    Charles Babbage wrote: »

    Note the Schuko plug, no English electricity here!

    To be fair, I doubt that was a snub to the English. They didn’t have a standard to adopt.
    At that time there was no UK standard plug. They’d umpteen different round pin plugs of various sizes and other designs that were all mutually incompatible and also had different voltages in different regions of the UK 200 - 250V AC some DC, only standardising completely in the case 1970s about 50 years after the ESB.

    All these things were just products of private companies.

    If anything, Ireland was more internationally focused and just adopted things that made most sense at the time - in that case we landed on 220V 50Hz and Schuko which would become the modern European standard after WWII. Adopting the weird British plugs later could yet be problematic post Brexit if you can’t get a CE approved mobile charger or WiFi plug that fits an Irish wall socket.

    We weren’t as inward looking on technical things as we might have been on conservative social issues.


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    #298
    Cerveza
    Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭Cerveza


    Punting 365 wrote: »
    Would you doomers ever lay off with the 'hurr duer war with Germany is inevitable' crap? What are the Germans gonna do? Invade France? Ever heard of the Maginot Line?

    Good man Francie.


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    #299
    saabsaab
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Punting 365 wrote: »
    Would you doomers ever lay off with the 'hurr duer war with Germany is inevitable' crap? What are the Germans gonna do? Invade France? Ever heard of the Maginot Line?


    You're right miles and miles of concrete bunkers and big guns no one will get through that alive. That and the French army is the biggest and most modern in the world.


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    #300
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,447 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Punting 365 wrote: »
    Would you doomers ever lay off with the 'hurr duer war with Germany is inevitable' crap? What are the Germans gonna do? Invade France? Ever heard of the Maginot Line?

    There's a rumour they didn't bother finishing it.


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    #301
    Cerveza
    Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭Cerveza


    I wrote a letter to Douglas Hyde to introduce free housing for the unemployed, discuss.


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