Random Waffle Thread

Beauchamp Bagenal wrote: »

Sure is. A friend of a friend works with addiction services and 90% of their patients are strung out on solpadine/nurofen etc. 1000s of Carlow people are hooked on every kind of drug.
Hardcore junkies on crack/heroin are in the low dozens.
Most of your high street chemists have been taken over by corporate Big Pharma and are pushing their products hard.
Next time you're in with your doctor, take a look of the collection of pens he gets from the pharma reps lobbying him and the chemists for the many variants of medication.
A local pharmacy here moved shop recently and the window display was like a shrine to panadol.

There's 20 chemists listed here giving out free 'vaccines'. You can be sure they are getting well paid.
https://carlow-nationalist.ie/2021/07/02/covid-vaccines-now-available-at-selected-co-carlow-pharmacies/

Beauchamp Bagenal wrote: »

I'm actually anti-covid.

Beauchamp Bagenal wrote: »

Take what you will. I won't need to take a vaccine for an illness I won't have.

See the whole 10 anti vaxers out protesting in front of Jennifer Murnane's office on Monday afternoon. Telling people walking by to take off their masks that they don't need them. Don't know who the head woman running it was but my god I've never met a more annoying uninformed eejit in my entire life, blowing a whistle and acting like it was all great fun.

Yes they were all there, and seen videos of some of them at the gatherings in Dublin last night also. The only positive is that there was only 10 of them, kike a small deluded cult! The only people I seen signing their petition were people who most likely wouldn't be let into pubs anyway.

Funny how a certain Councillor can park all day in the 30min free parking bay on Tullow Street without getting a ticket yet everyone else can. He doesn't have an office there, although a family member of his does. The town is short enough on free parking without people like him taking one up for the day and this is nearly every day the past few weeks.

Above I mentioned Maggie Bolgers & adjoining townhouse which're up for sale; the signs actually say Sherry Fitzgerald McCreery & not, as I previously stated Sherry Fitzgerald McDermott; McCreerys're a Kilkenny branch of the network.

McCreerys're also handling the sale of Crottys Bakery on Tullow St.

Also on Tullow St. Sherry-Fitz McDermott are handling sale of the vacant unit beside Goldmark Jewellers; there's an active/non-vacant unit, Teefahs Hairdressing, in between it & Crottys.

I think all four properties're opened by same person?

Think also it'll be a tough sale in all cases.....

Any recommendations for getting some not too expensive lino in Carlow?

Google is only throwing up a handful of results and am on a mega tight budget.

Some amount of action over in the barrow valley retail park, looks to be actually becoming a retail park with Jysk making it's presence known and I see the army surplus has relocated and from what I could see today a gym going into the units between the army surplus and meridian motors. Possibly Ben Dunne gym at long last I know they have planning several years ago.

Its not Ben Dunne, its just called The Gym. They have places in Monasterevin and Newbridge already. Probably the most well known gym in Ireland amongst the Fitness / Bodybuilding community. It will be big and a very good gym but also expensive.

Yea will be interesting to see how things go with the 2 gyms so close as they would have the same kind of clientele really. I used to go to Silverbacks down there myself but haven't went back yet since they've reopened. But I won't be going to the new one anyway, I just couldn't afford it. You're right about the Ben Dunne gyms too, they're great for price for the general user.

I'd say there's a good chance it might have been rates that made the decision for Army Surplus. I believe they pay rates to Laois coco in barrow valley which I'm told are cheaper than Carlow rates. Also the store was out of place in the unit it had at Four lakes. It could also have been the LL raising the rates for a road front unit. I find it grand for a browse but everything in it is cheap Chinese bits and bobs handy if you're stuck but not built for longevity.

I've never heard of Cantina coffee I may give it a look. I'd say theres a good chance this new gym may have a coffee dock of sorts.