$55,000 on hair-dos in 1 year? And it still looks like that? I think Trump has a, “Mirror, Mirror on the wall” syndrome. Back in the day – in Tyrone, young lads would go to a barber’s and ask for, “A Peter Canavan” – I would doubt there was ever a demand for, “A Trump”?
Nigel
Fake trews.
Charger Salmons
‘ Increase of over 10,000 Pandemic Unemployment Payment claimants in a week ‘
Here’s the first trickle of the unemployment tsunami on its way.
Summer’s brief flicker of optimism is giving way to the Autumn and Winter of misery.
Fortunately my wine cellar is racked and ready.
GiggidyGoo
A clothes horse beside a cheap TV in a bedsit is not a wine rack.
Alexander the Great
Same. Join me for a brandy and port with your Eastern chums
Charger Salmons
Funnily enough I’m not a brandy chap,old chap.
The only spirits I drink are gin and the occasional Dalwhinnie single malt whisky.
My East European chums will drink anything they can lay their hands on.
And they can hold it, if you catch my drift.
Alexander the Great
That’s a shame, you are inadvertently denying yourself the pleasures of the cocaine of alcohol.
Of course true afficionados like myself prefer only the finest Armagnac in any case.
Charger Salmons
To tell you the truth I once attended a dinner party that carried on all night fuelled mainly by copious amounts of Courvoisier.
The resultant hangover was such a stinker the merest whiff of the stuff still makes me feel ill.
The only other comparable hangover I can recall was after consuming three bottles of inferior champagne at a 2,000 Guineas meeting but fortunately that one left no lasting damage to my olfactory senses.
By jove, I’m turning into Rowley Birkin QC.
…once had a 1961 Armagnac in Dunderry Lodge…the owner specialised in Armagnac but I’m with Charger on the gin with all the trimmings and the occasional Scotish malt…
Charger Salmons
Despite our occasional differences I’ve always had you down as a person of impeccable taste.
I draw the line at Cork Dry Gin though.
…CDC was an act of cynicism from Irish Distillers back in the day…they had a vice-like grip on the licenced trade and all pubs sold it, most exclusively…it was a grain spirit that had a few juniper berries shaken in it’s direction, otherwise it was called Hussar Vodka…and don’t even start me on Kiskadee…
Alexander the Great
Tom Jones said that in life he likes to indulge in the four C’s. Can you guess what they are?
What was the about the aircraft carrier that didn’t have any aircraft ?
HMS Queen Elizabeth is currently hosting the largest air group of fifth generation fighters at sea anywhere in the world – ever.
Sadly there is no room on board for single prop crop sprayers. https://mobile.twitter.com/UKDefJournal/status/1310528804616572928
Joe F
How is your pal Bozo doing in the polls lately old boy? Haven’t heard you on about it much. Marvelous.
Shayna
Sadly, Charger you weren’t invited to Cobra meetings. I’m struggling to remember where I heard this Winstonian quote: Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Somehow, I thought of you?
Cú Chulainn
Nice one centurion..!!
Shayna
Centurion – Fassbender on it , from Cork? Nicht! Ich bin O’Neill as ar an contane Thír Eoin.
GiggidyGoo
ROFL.
British and U.S. Marine Corps jets will be based on the carrier during its first deployment, because the U.K. does not have a sufficient inventory of available jets.
Plus, it’ll be at least 2023 before it has full operating capability. That’s at lease 11 months behind schedule. All sorts of reasons.
In hindsight, do you think Britain was right or wrong to vote to leave the European Union?
Right to leave: 39% (-2)
Wrong to leave: 50% (+4)
Via
@YouGov
, 23-24 Sep.
Changes w/ 8-9 Sep.
Charger Salmons
In hindsight do you think Ireland suffered international humiliation after being bounced into signing a 2nd Lisbon Treaty by the now disgraced and corrupt French politician Sarkozy ?
GiggidyGoo
Of course I do. I don’t disagree with everything you write you know.
Whatever that has to do with the (UK) numbers above. The worm has turned in the UK wouldn’t you agree? Boris and the Tories losing percentages big time and Labour just a couple of points behind (unlike the election), and now the ‘please take us back in – ers’ on 50%.
Charger Salmons
Polls are only interesting as an indication of the present and if they help predict the future.
Polling about an historical event is a total waste of time and money.
The only Brexit poll that mattered occured on 23rd June 2016.
It’s an indication of the deep hole that Labour are in that six months into the pandemic and with a new leader who is streets ahead of Corbyn in terms of electability they are still struggling to broach the 40% mark.
Who knows what will have happened in nearly four years time ?
Formerly known as @ireland.com
Thanks for the link, Charage.
This is good news:
Which of the following do you think would make
the best Prime Minister?
Keir Starmer: 37% (+2)
Boris Johnson: 30% (=)
Charger Salmons
Sadly for you cobber we won’t know until 2nd May 2024.
I beginning to think the only polls you understand Down Under are the ones the captured kangaroos dance around to get you lads going on the remote, fly-infested sheep station 300 miles from Wogga Wogga.
GiggidyGoo
MTAS review will not be published. A HSE cover-up. Somehow we are to believe that if MTAS co-operated with the review, it shouldn’t be published? The Boys protecting the boys.
GiggidyGoo
Charger on 8.6 on the Sure Have Inferiority Troubles scale already. Lockdown in the bedsit must be getting to him. Walter Mitty eat your heart out.
Charger Salmons
But will the magnificent men in their flying machines of the Irish Air Corps be able to keep the skies above us safe from Putin ?
Will they have enough staff to wind up the elastic bands ?
Heh x Pad’s Army
9.2 on the SHI Troubles meter. Bursting it out this morning. Fine weather. You can open the windows of the bedsit and take your dry jocks off the wine rack.
Paul Reid will go before the Oireactas Covid 19 Golf Society today and tell them that he hopes to avoid a tough winter scenario, but is planning for it. So his press release says.
Sure they know now, so why is he going in front of them? Google repetition effect on an audience.
Still planning?
The “planning for it” though has to make you laugh. Every year they’re planning for a rough winter, yet a plan never comes to fruition and each year is worse than the previous one.
What will be Donnelly’s excuse. There will be plenty of quotations of his spats with the Boy Harris. Let’s see what he is made of.
GiggidyGoo
Did I write ‘Golf Society’?. I meant ‘Committee’
Charger Salmons
Have I Got News For You is thirty years old today. Thanks for eleven years of comedy.
Malta engaging in battle with a little boy for a sharks tooth given to him by Sir David Attenborough is a really pathetic story. They should be thanking this great old man for bringing natural history to the world and giving life sentences to the evil 2 legged sharks in their own parliament for corruption and car bombing of an investigative journalist.
italia'90
First day post quarantine 3.0
Beautiful day out there. Sunrise was gorgeous too.
Tee time booked.
Clubs are in the car.
Expect to lose the €5, €5 + €5 to one of the younger family members.
No commissioners or members of the Oireachtas will be hurt at this outing.
I can not guarantee the same good fortune, if the little banker in the family tries his usual guff.
Have a sunny day all.
Nigel
Enjoy, Italia.
italia'90
Cheers Nigel. I picked a nice day :)
Even managed to play a few nice shots on a course I’m not familiar with.
Took the money too.
Junkface
At least Gwyneth Paltrow is looking good in the nuddy, so it’s not all bad news.
goldenbrown
ooops! looks like a large slice of Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure has borked after some patch hell
Global Microsoft outage brings down Teams, Office 365 and Outlook
there was a je-ne-say-kwaa to the way he hung the damp bladderwrack from his little member swollen with years of want and rejection
Otis Blue
Top notch Bladderwrack reference. Well played, Sir.
Johnny Green
-Moderator Announces Topics for First Presidential Debate
Sept 22, 2020
The first presidential debate will be held on Tuesday, September 29 at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH. The format for the first debate calls for six 15-minute time segments dedicated to topics announced in advance in order to encourage deep discussion of the leading issues facing the country.
Chris Wallace, moderator of the first 2020 presidential debate, has selected the topics for that debate.
Subject to possible changes because of news developments, the topics for the September 29 debate are as follows, not necessarily to be brought up in this order:
The Trump and Biden Records
The Supreme Court
Covid-19
The Economy
Race and Violence in our Cities
The Integrity of the Election
All debates start at 9:00 p.m. ET and run for 90 minutes without commercial interruption.-
(Ideally they’d devote one entire debate to climate change, but I won’t hold my brearh – be lucky if it even turns up as a topic at all.)
Johnny Green
The only change above i anticipate is regarding federal taxes,its always about death and taxes in the end,in this case the death of his political life over not paying any tax.
agreed on climate change but it is a Fox moderator !
JustSecurity laid out the tax issue,but its the 420 million debt (mortgages) personally guaranteed by POTUS,due on demand if he got a second term that most likely will be the focus this eve.
who are his lenders-where are they domiciled,etc ?
Biden +9 in Pennsylvania, 54-45%, among likely voters, per new ABC News/WaPo poll
—the second poll to find Biden up 9 in this swing state this week so far..
47% of likely voters in PA said they ‘strongly disapprove’ of Trump’s job as president, severely narrowing his path to win the state,NYT poll.
Russia,Russia if your reading…word is NYT is about ‘leak” the returns,allowing tax and fin professors to crowdsource his prosecution felony tax charges…or he wins!
Dems and R’s -house enter negotiations with lots ‘green provisions’ last night on a stimulus bill,including some new cannabis laws (CARES ACT),but most ‘green’ changes and laws,will come out the house/congress not white house now and in the next admin.
deep dive,warning its a fecking long read on the man who has kept trumps taxes a secret.
Mnuchin is a complex character,loathed by the R’s as not tough enough,disliked by D’s.
$55,000 on hair-dos in 1 year? And it still looks like that? I think Trump has a, “Mirror, Mirror on the wall” syndrome. Back in the day – in Tyrone, young lads would go to a barber’s and ask for, “A Peter Canavan” – I would doubt there was ever a demand for, “A Trump”?
Fake trews.
‘ Increase of over 10,000 Pandemic Unemployment Payment claimants in a week ‘
Here’s the first trickle of the unemployment tsunami on its way.
Summer’s brief flicker of optimism is giving way to the Autumn and Winter of misery.
Fortunately my wine cellar is racked and ready.
A clothes horse beside a cheap TV in a bedsit is not a wine rack.
Same. Join me for a brandy and port with your Eastern chums
Funnily enough I’m not a brandy chap,old chap.
The only spirits I drink are gin and the occasional Dalwhinnie single malt whisky.
My East European chums will drink anything they can lay their hands on.
And they can hold it, if you catch my drift.
That’s a shame, you are inadvertently denying yourself the pleasures of the cocaine of alcohol.
Of course true afficionados like myself prefer only the finest Armagnac in any case.
To tell you the truth I once attended a dinner party that carried on all night fuelled mainly by copious amounts of Courvoisier.
The resultant hangover was such a stinker the merest whiff of the stuff still makes me feel ill.
The only other comparable hangover I can recall was after consuming three bottles of inferior champagne at a 2,000 Guineas meeting but fortunately that one left no lasting damage to my olfactory senses.
By jove, I’m turning into Rowley Birkin QC.
https://images.app.goo.gl/56LyP78TpHgFhaid6
he heh
…once had a 1961 Armagnac in Dunderry Lodge…the owner specialised in Armagnac but I’m with Charger on the gin with all the trimmings and the occasional Scotish malt…
Despite our occasional differences I’ve always had you down as a person of impeccable taste.
I draw the line at Cork Dry Gin though.
* shudders at the taste of petrol *
…CDC was an act of cynicism from Irish Distillers back in the day…they had a vice-like grip on the licenced trade and all pubs sold it, most exclusively…it was a grain spirit that had a few juniper berries shaken in it’s direction, otherwise it was called Hussar Vodka…and don’t even start me on Kiskadee…
Tom Jones said that in life he likes to indulge in the four C’s. Can you guess what they are?
Don’t cheat!
https://mobile.twitter.com/popbitch/status/11752003666
What was the about the aircraft carrier that didn’t have any aircraft ?
HMS Queen Elizabeth is currently hosting the largest air group of fifth generation fighters at sea anywhere in the world – ever.
Sadly there is no room on board for single prop crop sprayers.
https://mobile.twitter.com/UKDefJournal/status/1310528804616572928
How is your pal Bozo doing in the polls lately old boy? Haven’t heard you on about it much. Marvelous.
Sadly, Charger you weren’t invited to Cobra meetings. I’m struggling to remember where I heard this Winstonian quote: Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Somehow, I thought of you?
Nice one centurion..!!
Centurion – Fassbender on it , from Cork? Nicht! Ich bin O’Neill as ar an contane Thír Eoin.
ROFL.
British and U.S. Marine Corps jets will be based on the carrier during its first deployment, because the U.K. does not have a sufficient inventory of available jets.
Plus, it’ll be at least 2023 before it has full operating capability. That’s at lease 11 months behind schedule. All sorts of reasons.
https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2020/06/26/heres-why-britain-is-struggling-to-form-a-fully-effective-carrier-strike-group/
Haven’t you ?
https://mobile.twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1310605735798112263
You really are some clown.
Interesting link alright. This one is even more interesting.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1310619761747910658
Election Maps UK
@ElectionMapsUK
In hindsight, do you think Britain was right or wrong to vote to leave the European Union?
Right to leave: 39% (-2)
Wrong to leave: 50% (+4)
Via
@YouGov
, 23-24 Sep.
Changes w/ 8-9 Sep.
In hindsight do you think Ireland suffered international humiliation after being bounced into signing a 2nd Lisbon Treaty by the now disgraced and corrupt French politician Sarkozy ?
Of course I do. I don’t disagree with everything you write you know.
Whatever that has to do with the (UK) numbers above. The worm has turned in the UK wouldn’t you agree? Boris and the Tories losing percentages big time and Labour just a couple of points behind (unlike the election), and now the ‘please take us back in – ers’ on 50%.
Polls are only interesting as an indication of the present and if they help predict the future.
Polling about an historical event is a total waste of time and money.
The only Brexit poll that mattered occured on 23rd June 2016.
It’s an indication of the deep hole that Labour are in that six months into the pandemic and with a new leader who is streets ahead of Corbyn in terms of electability they are still struggling to broach the 40% mark.
Who knows what will have happened in nearly four years time ?
Thanks for the link, Charage.
This is good news:
Which of the following do you think would make
the best Prime Minister?
Keir Starmer: 37% (+2)
Boris Johnson: 30% (=)
Sadly for you cobber we won’t know until 2nd May 2024.
I beginning to think the only polls you understand Down Under are the ones the captured kangaroos dance around to get you lads going on the remote, fly-infested sheep station 300 miles from Wogga Wogga.
MTAS review will not be published. A HSE cover-up. Somehow we are to believe that if MTAS co-operated with the review, it shouldn’t be published? The Boys protecting the boys.
Charger on 8.6 on the Sure Have Inferiority Troubles scale already. Lockdown in the bedsit must be getting to him. Walter Mitty eat your heart out.
But will the magnificent men in their flying machines of the Irish Air Corps be able to keep the skies above us safe from Putin ?
Will they have enough staff to wind up the elastic bands ?
Heh x Pad’s Army
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30987794.html
9.2 on the SHI Troubles meter. Bursting it out this morning. Fine weather. You can open the windows of the bedsit and take your dry jocks off the wine rack.
https://mobile.twitter.com/btsportrugby/status/1310652181964640256
Great player.Loyal servant to mighty England as well.
A great shame there were no fans there to mark the occasion.
When are the Dail science quislings going to get up on their hind legs and speak commonsense to the people ?
https://mobile.twitter.com/DesmondSwayne/status/1310617497389989889
is charger calling boris a buffoon now ?
Paul Reid will go before the Oireactas Covid 19 Golf Society today and tell them that he hopes to avoid a tough winter scenario, but is planning for it. So his press release says.
Sure they know now, so why is he going in front of them? Google repetition effect on an audience.
Still planning?
The “planning for it” though has to make you laugh. Every year they’re planning for a rough winter, yet a plan never comes to fruition and each year is worse than the previous one.
What will be Donnelly’s excuse. There will be plenty of quotations of his spats with the Boy Harris. Let’s see what he is made of.
Did I write ‘Golf Society’?. I meant ‘Committee’
Have I Got News For You is thirty years old today. Thanks for eleven years of comedy.
Malta engaging in battle with a little boy for a sharks tooth given to him by Sir David Attenborough is a really pathetic story. They should be thanking this great old man for bringing natural history to the world and giving life sentences to the evil 2 legged sharks in their own parliament for corruption and car bombing of an investigative journalist.
First day post quarantine 3.0
Beautiful day out there. Sunrise was gorgeous too.
Tee time booked.
Clubs are in the car.
Expect to lose the €5, €5 + €5 to one of the younger family members.
No commissioners or members of the Oireachtas will be hurt at this outing.
I can not guarantee the same good fortune, if the little banker in the family tries his usual guff.
Have a sunny day all.
Enjoy, Italia.
Cheers Nigel. I picked a nice day :)
Even managed to play a few nice shots on a course I’m not familiar with.
Took the money too.
At least Gwyneth Paltrow is looking good in the nuddy, so it’s not all bad news.
ooops! looks like a large slice of Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure has borked after some patch hell
Global Microsoft outage brings down Teams, Office 365 and Outlook
https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/28/microsoft_azure_office_outlook_outage
Charper Salmons photo skinny dipping
That’s not even porn. That’s dark web.
that’s unfair
there was a je-ne-say-kwaa to the way he hung the damp bladderwrack from his little member swollen with years of want and rejection
Top notch Bladderwrack reference. Well played, Sir.
-Moderator Announces Topics for First Presidential Debate
Sept 22, 2020
The first presidential debate will be held on Tuesday, September 29 at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, OH. The format for the first debate calls for six 15-minute time segments dedicated to topics announced in advance in order to encourage deep discussion of the leading issues facing the country.
Chris Wallace, moderator of the first 2020 presidential debate, has selected the topics for that debate.
Subject to possible changes because of news developments, the topics for the September 29 debate are as follows, not necessarily to be brought up in this order:
The Trump and Biden Records
The Supreme Court
Covid-19
The Economy
Race and Violence in our Cities
The Integrity of the Election
All debates start at 9:00 p.m. ET and run for 90 minutes without commercial interruption.-
live steam here.
https://www.debates.org
‘Race and Violence in our Cities’
Well of course, it IS Fox News.
(Ideally they’d devote one entire debate to climate change, but I won’t hold my brearh – be lucky if it even turns up as a topic at all.)
The only change above i anticipate is regarding federal taxes,its always about death and taxes in the end,in this case the death of his political life over not paying any tax.
agreed on climate change but it is a Fox moderator !
JustSecurity laid out the tax issue,but its the 420 million debt (mortgages) personally guaranteed by POTUS,due on demand if he got a second term that most likely will be the focus this eve.
who are his lenders-where are they domiciled,etc ?
Biden +9 in Pennsylvania, 54-45%, among likely voters, per new ABC News/WaPo poll
—the second poll to find Biden up 9 in this swing state this week so far..
47% of likely voters in PA said they ‘strongly disapprove’ of Trump’s job as president, severely narrowing his path to win the state,NYT poll.
https://www.justsecurity.org/72604/ten-quick-takeaways-from-the-new-york-times-bombshell-article-on-trumps-tax-returns/
Russia,Russia if your reading…word is NYT is about ‘leak” the returns,allowing tax and fin professors to crowdsource his prosecution felony tax charges…or he wins!
Dems and R’s -house enter negotiations with lots ‘green provisions’ last night on a stimulus bill,including some new cannabis laws (CARES ACT),but most ‘green’ changes and laws,will come out the house/congress not white house now and in the next admin.
deep dive,warning its a fecking long read on the man who has kept trumps taxes a secret.
Mnuchin is a complex character,loathed by the R’s as not tough enough,disliked by D’s.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/magazine/mnuchin-cares-act-stimulus.html
Cmere! What’s the story with my polite posts? Am I barred from even entering the room without the editors permission?
BS SEZ: Not at all Charlie. Should be fixed now.
Nope. Still the same. Happens a lot.