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    #6302
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,785 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    It's not only consigned to the north side. A young lad was beaten and had his bike robbed by a gang of these feral pricks near ranelagh last week.

    Apparently he managed to get behind some railings which stopped him getting an even worse hiding.

    I'm seeing a lot of them around lately. Easy enough to spot. Grey tracksuit bottoms, Canada goose jacket and black runners seems to be the uniform of choice.

    I was driving home on Friday and met one of them coming towards me on his bike in the middle of the road (single road, one way traffic). Little prick tried to play chicken with me. Didn't annoy me as my van would have flattened him. He backed out long before I would have!!


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    #6303
    Lost Ormond
    Registered Users Posts: 3,778 ✭✭✭Lost Ormond


    mfceiling wrote: »
    It's not only consigned to the north side. A young lad was beaten and had his bike robbed by a gang of these feral pricks near ranelagh last week.

    Apparently he managed to get behind some railings which stopped him getting an even worse hiding.

    I'm seeing a lot of them around lately. Easy enough to spot. Grey tracksuit bottoms, Canada goose jacket and black runners seems to be the uniform of choice.

    I was driving home on Friday and met one of them coming towards me on his bike in the middle of the road (single road, one way traffic). Little prick tried to play chicken with me. Didn't annoy me as my van would have flattened him. He backed out long before I would have!!
    Most certainly not consigned to north side. Just had a few encounters up in particular around Malahide/Donabate at those rail stations...

    Lot of boredom and some usual haunts not open so congegrations elsewhere.


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    #6304
    Yeah_Right
    Registered Users Posts: 5,970 ✭✭✭Yeah_Right


    I've never seen any trouble in Malahide and I'd go there quite often for nights out or boozey lunches. It's also the closest DART station. Obviously I'm not saying it doesn't happen, just never seen it.

    Actually I did once see a bit of scumbag behaviour. When one of the Gallagher brothers was playing Malahide Castle, we went over in the afternoon to Gibneys for some food and drink and to watch an Oasis covers band. Was good fun but there were definitely a scumbags around. Would probably have been a lot worse after the show but we were gone by then.


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    #6305
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Former Former Former wrote: »
    It's never the same watching a show after years of hearing how good it is, it can never live up to the hype. I was the same with Breaking Bad, started watching after it finished and never saw the fuss.

    If you dislike extremely convenient coincidences and glaring gaps of logic, do not watch any more Line of Duty.

    Have gotten three episodes into season 2 and thrown in the towel. Actually I'd go further and say I regret wasting the 7 or 8 hours or so I invested.

    Poorly written, completely contrived plots and the less said about the acting the better.

    I have no idea how it's so popular.


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    #6306
    Dubinusa
    Registered Users Posts: 8,211 ✭✭✭Dubinusa


    Mare of East Town is brilliant.... so far.
    The undoing is very good too!


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    #6307
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    Yeah_Right wrote: »
    Was good fun but there were definitely a scumbags around. Would probably have been a lot worse after the show but we were gone by then.

    That was definitely me


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    #6308
    The Inbetween is mine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭The Inbetween is mine


    The details coming out of the Dalian Atkinson murder trial are horrendous tbh


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    #6309
    dregin
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    The Inbetween is mine wrote: »
    The details coming out of the Dalian Atkinson murder trial are horrendous tbh
    Just googled it. Absolutely disgusting stuff. Hope they throw the book at them.


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    #6310
    Clegg
    Registered Users Posts: 16,778 ✭✭✭✭Clegg


    The Eoghan Harris interview on Drive Time is incredible. It's the biggest car crash since the Maria Bailey interview a few years ago.

    https://twitter.com/drivetimerte/status/1390716388810149898?s=09


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    #6311
    swiwi_
    Registered Users Posts: 4,483 ✭✭✭swiwi_


    The Maria Bailey was waaaaay more car crash. This was just a sad old man with a chip on his shoulder.


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    #6312
    OldRio
    Registered Users Posts: 5,934 ✭✭✭OldRio


    Had my first AstraZenica vaccination on Wednesday. Great organisation at the vaccine centre in Sligo. Very well ran, a credit to all concerned. (Unlike the traffic management on the roadworks on the N4)

    Felt like crap on Thursday. Every joint in my body was acing. Tired as hell. Went to bed at 9.30pm and slept until 8.00am on Friday morning. Feeling great. Sat with a bottle of Rioja awaiting the Munster v Ulster match.


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    #6313
    Bazzo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,047 ✭✭✭Bazzo


    Not sure I understand UK politics at all. I have absolutely no clue what the Tories could do that would actually lose them votes.


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    #6314
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,589 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Bazzo wrote: »
    Not sure I understand UK politics at all. I have absolutely no clue what the Tories could do that would actually lose them votes.

    Have a realistic and sensible approach to British-EU relations.


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    #6315
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users Posts: 21,609 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    Bazzo wrote: »
    Not sure I understand UK politics at all. I have absolutely no clue what the Tories could do that would actually lose them votes.

    Say they hate the monarchy and say that Britain should be ashamed of their history.

    That'd lose them 90% of their voter base I'd imagine.


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    #6316
    bilston
    Registered Users Posts: 17,757 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    Bazzo wrote: »
    Not sure I understand UK politics at all. I have absolutely no clue what the Tories could do that would actually lose them votes.

    It all comes back to Brexit.

    A lot of working class Brits in the North of England supported Brexit, the Tories delivered it so at the moment they are getting their vote. Keir Starmer was clearly a Remainer so he doesn't get their vote.

    Brexit still dominates politics in the UK whether directly or indirectly.

    I don't know what Labour do, but a move back to the left would be disastrous for them. It's an obvious thing to say but I think Andy Burnham is their best hope, but he isn't even a MP and has just be re-elected Mayor of Manchester again, but he is someone who could potentially get the North of England back which is essential if they have any chance of winning the next election or the election after that.


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    #6317
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,589 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    Brexit has been "done" and the vaccine rollout is going well. Labour were on a hiding to nothing no matter what.


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    #6318
    Neil3030
    Registered Users Posts: 17,016 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    White people over 60, with a triple locked pension, and stable (high) house prices, are doing very well under the Tories.

    And as someone mentioned on Twitter, imagine how well the Democrats would do in the U.S., if 90% of America were white, and the Republicans backed universal healthcare.


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    #6319
    stephen_n
    Registered Users Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    Labour are screwed, half their party celebrated these results more than the Tories did. It’s impossible for Starmer to make policy on that basis. So Labour stand for nothing at the moment.


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    #6320
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    Neil3030 wrote: »
    White people over 60, with a triple locked pension, and stable (high) house prices, are doing very well under the Tories.

    And as someone mentioned on Twitter, imagine how well the Democrats would do in the U.S., if 90% of America were white, and the Republicans backed universal healthcare.

    If the Repugnant party did that they might actually lose votes. IMO a huge swathe of their voters (well off, white nationalists) are happy that poor people don't get the healthcare they can afford. America doesn't do socialism. It's all about getting ahead, and that means doing better than your neighbour. The American Dream...


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    #6321
    prawnsambo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,232 ✭✭✭✭prawnsambo


    Podge_irl wrote: »
    Brexit has been "done" and the vaccine rollout is going well. Labour were on a hiding to nothing no matter what.
    The British electorate is lost. Saw an interview this morning with some old codger who was fulminating about how Labour had shut the hospital, cut the number of police and closed the courts. The reason he blames Labour? The local MP was Labour and therefore it's all his fault despite the Tories being in power for over a decade.


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    #6322
    Interested Observer
    Registered Users Posts: 13,021 ✭✭✭✭Interested Observer


    prawnsambo wrote: »
    The British electorate is lost. Saw an interview this morning with some old codger who was fulminating about how Labour had shut the hospital, cut the number of police and closed the courts. The reason he blames Labour? The local MP was Labour and therefore it's all his fault despite the Tories being in power for over a decade.

    https://twitter.com/resophonick/status/1391288617449005058


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    #6323
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    They say an electorate gets the government it deserves. This is a textbook example.


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    #6324
    Bazzo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,047 ✭✭✭Bazzo


    Interested Observer wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/resophonick/status/1391288617449005058

    Oh Jesus


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    #6325
    Neil3030
    Registered Users Posts: 17,016 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    Nice of the beeb to host the interview on what appears to be the deck of the HMS Victory too.


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    #6326
    bilston
    Registered Users Posts: 17,757 ✭✭✭✭bilston


    Interested Observer wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/resophonick/status/1391288617449005058

    I guess he is talking specifically about things that have happened in his constituency which was under Labour, but obviously what happens in an individual constituency is the result of central government policy...NHS funding being the obvious one.

    It is up to Labour to get their message across that the Tories have caused damage to then country over the last 11 years. Blair successfully did it in the 90s, they have to do it again. That isn't the job of that BBC journalist.


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    #6327
    jacothelad
    Registered Users Posts: 5,911 ✭✭✭jacothelad


    Neil3030 wrote: »
    Nice of the beeb to host the interview on what appears to be the deck of the HMS Victory too.


    That is HMS Trincomalee....a frigate built just after the battle of Waterloo I think. It is a museum.


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    #6328
    thomond2006
    Registered Users Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    jacothelad wrote: »
    That is HMS Trincomalee....a frigate built just after the battle of Waterloo I think. It is a museum.

    Were you involved in the building project Jaco?


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    #6329
    jacothelad
    Registered Users Posts: 5,911 ✭✭✭jacothelad


    thomond2006 wrote: »
    Were you involved in the building project Jaco?


    First mate.........:D:D


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    #6330
    Teferi
    Registered Users Posts: 6,320 ✭✭✭Teferi


    bilston wrote: »
    It is up to Labour to get their message across that the Tories have caused damage to then country over the last 11 years. Blair successfully did it in the 90s, they have to do it again. That isn't the job of that BBC journalist.

    How are they meant to do that considering there is one left wing broadcast news and one or two left wing newspapers in the UK? Right wing media owns the UK and it has rotted the brains of the populace.

    Blair only did it by making a deal with the devil and I don’t think the Murdochs will be for turning again.


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    #6331
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    Lost a bit of weight today. 5 months of hair growth to be precise. Great to be back in the barbers! And got an appointment for the weekend for the second vaccine dose. Great start to the week :cool:


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