…careful with that soccerball stuff Daisy…apparently dropping like flies all over the world…even Broadsheet stalwarts like the BBs who could generate a soccerball comment on any thread have mysteriously disappeared…just saying…
TenPin Terry
Sinn Fein’s Eoin O’Broin photographed on the front page of the Irish Times I see …
bisted
…ah TwoTon…that’s Algie…I thought you little englanders were friends with the welsh since they helped you get brexit done…
scottser
Except its not really done, is it?
bisted
…the Scots have their whisky
The Welsh have their speech
Their poets are paid about tenpence a week
Provided no harsh word on England they speak
Oh dear, what a price for devotion…
Or will they wait until the Taoiseach rotation cranks around into that-time-already
And do a shimmy shuffle
Dara Callery isn’t the worst btw
Very well got @the grass roots
And as smart as McGrath, and considered more likable
An FF Minister with notions won’t be happy if he’s brought back to the table
So there might be a challenge to MiMa yet
Like before Callery gets to tool up with a few SPADs
Here’s hoping
It’ll be like getting another new bank holiday this year
Steph Pinker
Think of a number folks: double it, add millions, ad infinitum, halve it by the first number you thought of foolish taxpayers!
… and that’s just a taste of the stinking buffet table left behind for the rest of us to sniff.
Big Lad
Take it easy Bro…
The ‘Irish Field’ and the ‘Irish Post’ are NOT real newspapers.
You need a beard an €2,000n to read them.
Mad
Horse some invermectin inta ya Cynthia
missred
I committed the ultimate act of tyranny…. and watched the late late show to see the Eurovision entries. The young one who won was terrific, self penned catchy buzzy bubblegum pop song that’s perfect for competing in Europe. Also she is a Derry girl who said her granny hates the local priest, so she’s good in my books
Mad
I’m surprised there wasn’t a fluffy article on it here.
I felt her performance was poor first time around and would worry about her lack of experience. Good job when she did the lap of honour as well
You just know this bor-lox is going to continue until the May elections. Its only after the tories lose a fukload of seats that they’ll throw him under a bus, just like the last chump.
Mad
What harm if he sipped on a beer anyway?
He has done an excellent job leading his country back to normalcy during the pandemic
Fearganainm
It’s fun watching the slow motion train wreck. This one could run and run…
Gofundme should reimburse people who have donated automatically, and not use the ‘Apply for reimbursement by such and such a date or we send your money elsewhere.’
That’s a clever ploy by gofundme to keep the funds under their control thus keeping their percentage, as many donators won’t go through the refund hoops.
It could easily backfire on gofundme as potential users will see this and realise that their funds can be hijacked at the drop of a hat.
SOQ
Isn’t that what they normally do? They are doing themselves serious harm with this action because if they can do it once, they can do it again- there is talk of a boycott already.
Pressure was applied by the police who are probably sore at being squared up to at the border after the farmers weighed in, and they know the same will happen in Ottawa.
There is a lot of headlines talking about the funds been seized but in the speech made by Tamara Lich yesterday- “Over the last three days our accountants and lawyers have been working hard to deal with the legal details. This morning our lawyers have sent GoFundMe all the details they have asked for. I am confident that GoFundMe have all the information needed to immediately lift the suspension they have put on our campaign. I hope to hear from GoFundMe soon so that we can get the money to the truckers and keep our protest for freedom moving forward.”
A new £40million Game of Thrones studio tour opened to much fanfare in County Down this week and is expected to attract tens of thousands of tourists every year.
This year is also the 10th anniversary of the £110million Titanic Belfast which has transformed the former Harland & Wolff shipyard into the city’s dynamic Titanic Quarter.
Where is the equivalent investment in tourism here ?
The Titanic connection in Cork Harbour is a poxy exhibition above a pub and restaurant – the wooden pier from where all the passengers departed is abandoned and falling into the sea.
Dublin offers a couple of museums, a former jail and the added attraction of getting mugged outside your price-gouged hotel by a heroin addict.
Of course Ireland will piggy-back off the success of the North’s investment and forward planning but you’d think by now this country would stop looking to digouts from GB to cover up its own failings.
Kali
We were going to have a white water rafting attraction funded by the EU in Dublin, but loads of people got their knickers in a twist as it wasn’t apartments. Despite the endless houses and apartments going up everywhere, there should be no amenities
TenPin Terry
It’s rather like the ludicrous pursuit of Airbnb owners in Rent Pressure Zones in Dublin and other tourist areas which in reality is a smokescreen for successive governments’ abysmal housing policies.
The idea that someone is going to rent out part of their house for three months to tourists and then the other 9 months to some social welfare recipient is laughable.
Likewise the principle that selling their property is going to release untold bounties of low-cost housing is a joke. No-one on a low income is going to be able to afford them.
Instead all this policy does is reduce the availability of reasonably-priced holiday accomodation for tourists and allow hoteliers to rip-off visitors even more.
Cowboy car rental companies at Dublin airport are another major complaint from visitors on internet forums awash with stories of outrageous prices and sharp practices on rental returns with deposits witheld for minor existing scratches and bumps.
Failte Ireland don’t expect pre-pandemic tourist levels to return until at least 2024.
What is the government doing to try to speed that up ?
Mad
I was once charged a fee by Ryanair for a car rental I couldn’t avail of because of some technicality
SOQ
Dublin’s tourist industry is way ahead of Belfast’s- there is too many bloody tourists as it is. If there is one area where Belfast is ahead, it is the availability of affordable housing, but prices are rising fast there too now.
Belfast has an unique opportunity when it comes to inner city regeneration. During the troubles, very few lived there so they have much cleaner slate when it comes to building apartments and attracting start ups. And it is working- the whole area around the Cathedral Quarter right up to the Albert clock is buzzing at night.
TenPin Terry
Oh I agree about Dublin.
It punches well above its weight for a third-rate European capital with such inner city squalor and ominpresent skangers.
Outside of Dublin it seems to be a case of the Cliffs of Moher and driving the ‘ Wild Atlantic Way ‘ sure aren’t we grand.
I read one internet forum recently where an American visitor inquired of evening dining options in a small but reasonably popular tourist spot and was told, proudly, by a local that the local garage/Centra had a hot takeaway buffet but it closed at 9pm …
SailorGerry
An interesting read from the Society of Actuaries, not exactly a ratlicking conspiraloon source of info.
They are seeing rather large numbers of excess deaths in the US and attempt to establish what is causing them.
They see that vaccines seem to have a moderate negative correlation on excess all cause mortality.
A 15% to 20% increase in deaths above the norm and Covid 19 is a rather small portion of that total.
A number of undertakers and embalmers in the UK are also reporting the same- as well as US pathologists talking about unusual clotting patterns they have never seen before.
Ah here- there does be plenty of handbags flying around here now- not just me.
TenPin Terry
Perhaps I should have said the other feller be Nigel.
And the woman be you know who …
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
I always thought Nigel was a woman
TenPin Terry
No, that be Papi.
Before she went home after catching a dose and took her ball with her …
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
goading him won’t make him come back you know,
I’m not sure why Bodger had a go at him,
apart from hating you and let’s face it he’s not alone :) he seemed a decent sort.
TenPin Terry
Goading ?
Perish the thought.
Like you he loves to dish it out but joins the yellow-mattress brigade when there’s incoming.
And unlike you I don’t join in pile-ons.
It’s only the internet.These people are not really your besties …
Janet, dreams of an alternate universe
What incoming? All I feel is love :)
SOQ
‘He/she/US bs’ is an account not an individual Janet- the writing styles varied.
At least Daisy was/is consistently obnoxious- especially on Twitter.
Doxxy Chainsaw
My poor little SOQpuppet. Your strings are so easily pulled as you dance to my tune.
How did the FreedumpTruckers get on today?
SOQ
So are you saying that it wasn’t you abusing Dr. Marcus de Brun on Twitter?
Account now deleted obviously- but IP still on record.
And a mere 239 cases of mild death in Bongo-Boris-Land…
Micko
And 35 in Denmark died today. Which is 0.0006% of their 5 million population.
The 239 “mild deaths” you mentioned is 0.0003% of the 68 million UK population.
Which means Denmark had DOUBLE the deaths per capita than the UK
(on this single day that you chose to compare the two countries. Why… I dunno? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
Double – And they’re STILL opening up.
The Danes – What a bunch of bicycle loving, pastry eating, Lego inventing monsters! ;p
Fearganainm
Nicola Sturgeon 20 – Boris Johnson 17
Marvellous
GiggidyGoo
Heh x 3
SOQ
Boris snorting a few lines of decent is pretty much a given- but, Nicola Sturgeon’s inability to give any semblance of political leadership during Covid-19 will unite the island of Britain against Scottish independence.
As politicians go- she is clueless outside of her nationalistic theme.
Fearganainm
The little Moroccan boy has been rescued from the well he’s been trapped in for the past five days:
It’s a bit much when corruption doesn’t work properly, eh?
Ben Elliot’s a nephew of Charlie Windsor’s squeeze, Camilla, as well as being co-chair of the Conservative party – you’d think that palm-greasing should be well understood in those circles.
Roy Keane is in talks with Sunderland again. I hope his strategising has improved since this!
https://twitter.com/Carra23/status/1489734346479124486
…careful with that soccerball stuff Daisy…apparently dropping like flies all over the world…even Broadsheet stalwarts like the BBs who could generate a soccerball comment on any thread have mysteriously disappeared…just saying…
Sinn Fein’s Eoin O’Broin photographed on the front page of the Irish Times I see …
…ah TwoTon…that’s Algie…I thought you little englanders were friends with the welsh since they helped you get brexit done…
Except its not really done, is it?
…the Scots have their whisky
The Welsh have their speech
Their poets are paid about tenpence a week
Provided no harsh word on England they speak
Oh dear, what a price for devotion…
So
Who’s going to make way for Callery?
Or will they wait until the Taoiseach rotation cranks around into that-time-already
And do a shimmy shuffle
Dara Callery isn’t the worst btw
Very well got @the grass roots
And as smart as McGrath, and considered more likable
An FF Minister with notions won’t be happy if he’s brought back to the table
So there might be a challenge to MiMa yet
Like before Callery gets to tool up with a few SPADs
Here’s hoping
It’ll be like getting another new bank holiday this year
Think of a number folks: double it, add millions, ad infinitum, halve it by the first number you thought of foolish taxpayers!
… and that’s just a taste of the stinking buffet table left behind for the rest of us to sniff.
Take it easy Bro…
The ‘Irish Field’ and the ‘Irish Post’ are NOT real newspapers.
You need a beard an €2,000n to read them.
Horse some invermectin inta ya Cynthia
I committed the ultimate act of tyranny…. and watched the late late show to see the Eurovision entries. The young one who won was terrific, self penned catchy buzzy bubblegum pop song that’s perfect for competing in Europe. Also she is a Derry girl who said her granny hates the local priest, so she’s good in my books
I’m surprised there wasn’t a fluffy article on it here.
I felt her performance was poor first time around and would worry about her lack of experience. Good job when she did the lap of honour as well
Marvellous:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/04/police-have-photo-of-boris-johnson-with-beer-at-lockdown-party-say-reports
You just know this bor-lox is going to continue until the May elections. Its only after the tories lose a fukload of seats that they’ll throw him under a bus, just like the last chump.
What harm if he sipped on a beer anyway?
He has done an excellent job leading his country back to normalcy during the pandemic
It’s fun watching the slow motion train wreck. This one could run and run…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKs2hCeXwAEuele?format=jpg&name=small
Musha, God help them:
https://twitter.com/andyhazeldine64/status/1488971766450040833
GoFundMe has shut down the ‘Freedom Convoy’ fundraiser:
https://twitter.com/DavidWCochrane/status/1489741807378485252
February 19th is the deadline for getting your money back
And a class action lawsuit against the organisers is being heard tomorrow https://westernstandardonline.com/2022/02/honk-off-riled-ottawa-residents-file-10m-lawsuit-against-noisy-truckers/
Here you go, comrade. A lot of preparation time but a new treat for your buttery toast:
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/jan/19/how-to-make-the-perfect-boston-baked-beans-recipe-felicity-cloake
Gofundme should reimburse people who have donated automatically, and not use the ‘Apply for reimbursement by such and such a date or we send your money elsewhere.’
That’s a clever ploy by gofundme to keep the funds under their control thus keeping their percentage, as many donators won’t go through the refund hoops.
It could easily backfire on gofundme as potential users will see this and realise that their funds can be hijacked at the drop of a hat.
Isn’t that what they normally do? They are doing themselves serious harm with this action because if they can do it once, they can do it again- there is talk of a boycott already.
Pressure was applied by the police who are probably sore at being squared up to at the border after the farmers weighed in, and they know the same will happen in Ottawa.
There is a lot of headlines talking about the funds been seized but in the speech made by Tamara Lich yesterday- “Over the last three days our accountants and lawyers have been working hard to deal with the legal details. This morning our lawyers have sent GoFundMe all the details they have asked for. I am confident that GoFundMe have all the information needed to immediately lift the suspension they have put on our campaign. I hope to hear from GoFundMe soon so that we can get the money to the truckers and keep our protest for freedom moving forward.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxKAwBcBu0
They were initially going to send the unclaimed funds to other charities, then people started doing chargebacks, and they freaked.
Well either that or the calls from American politicians for an enquiry- which really wouldn’t be a good look no matter what the outcome was.
It’s now being done automatically:
https://twitter.com/gofundme/status/1489870510057877505
Nice to see they read Broadsheet. Now, it takes a minute to donate, so as everything can be automated, why 7 business days?
7 to 10, so let’s say 10.
Inferring that every transaction must be manually checked- from a company who’s entire business model is based on financial automation?
Dirty tricks all over the place.
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/02/02/matt-le-tissier-on-increase-in-soccer-player-deaths-in-2021/
Hopefully its just a few bruises we see this afternoon as the Irish triumph over the Welsh.
The Daily Mail tells us that Sean O’Rourke resigned after attending the golf knew-up.
Such an example investigative journalism.
O’Rourke retired from RTE well before the knees-up.
And the son following in his mothers footsteps. https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/politics/former-rte-host-sean-orourkes-25971774
Politics son – that’s the business to get into.
A new £40million Game of Thrones studio tour opened to much fanfare in County Down this week and is expected to attract tens of thousands of tourists every year.
This year is also the 10th anniversary of the £110million Titanic Belfast which has transformed the former Harland & Wolff shipyard into the city’s dynamic Titanic Quarter.
Where is the equivalent investment in tourism here ?
The Titanic connection in Cork Harbour is a poxy exhibition above a pub and restaurant – the wooden pier from where all the passengers departed is abandoned and falling into the sea.
Dublin offers a couple of museums, a former jail and the added attraction of getting mugged outside your price-gouged hotel by a heroin addict.
Of course Ireland will piggy-back off the success of the North’s investment and forward planning but you’d think by now this country would stop looking to digouts from GB to cover up its own failings.
We were going to have a white water rafting attraction funded by the EU in Dublin, but loads of people got their knickers in a twist as it wasn’t apartments. Despite the endless houses and apartments going up everywhere, there should be no amenities
It’s rather like the ludicrous pursuit of Airbnb owners in Rent Pressure Zones in Dublin and other tourist areas which in reality is a smokescreen for successive governments’ abysmal housing policies.
The idea that someone is going to rent out part of their house for three months to tourists and then the other 9 months to some social welfare recipient is laughable.
Likewise the principle that selling their property is going to release untold bounties of low-cost housing is a joke. No-one on a low income is going to be able to afford them.
Instead all this policy does is reduce the availability of reasonably-priced holiday accomodation for tourists and allow hoteliers to rip-off visitors even more.
Cowboy car rental companies at Dublin airport are another major complaint from visitors on internet forums awash with stories of outrageous prices and sharp practices on rental returns with deposits witheld for minor existing scratches and bumps.
Failte Ireland don’t expect pre-pandemic tourist levels to return until at least 2024.
What is the government doing to try to speed that up ?
I was once charged a fee by Ryanair for a car rental I couldn’t avail of because of some technicality
Dublin’s tourist industry is way ahead of Belfast’s- there is too many bloody tourists as it is. If there is one area where Belfast is ahead, it is the availability of affordable housing, but prices are rising fast there too now.
Belfast has an unique opportunity when it comes to inner city regeneration. During the troubles, very few lived there so they have much cleaner slate when it comes to building apartments and attracting start ups. And it is working- the whole area around the Cathedral Quarter right up to the Albert clock is buzzing at night.
Oh I agree about Dublin.
It punches well above its weight for a third-rate European capital with such inner city squalor and ominpresent skangers.
Outside of Dublin it seems to be a case of the Cliffs of Moher and driving the ‘ Wild Atlantic Way ‘ sure aren’t we grand.
I read one internet forum recently where an American visitor inquired of evening dining options in a small but reasonably popular tourist spot and was told, proudly, by a local that the local garage/Centra had a hot takeaway buffet but it closed at 9pm …
An interesting read from the Society of Actuaries, not exactly a ratlicking conspiraloon source of info.
They are seeing rather large numbers of excess deaths in the US and attempt to establish what is causing them.
They see that vaccines seem to have a moderate negative correlation on excess all cause mortality.
A 15% to 20% increase in deaths above the norm and Covid 19 is a rather small portion of that total.
To me that would be a bit of a worry.
https://www.soa.org/globalassets/assets/files/resources/research-report/2022/group-life-covid-19-mortality.pdf
A number of undertakers and embalmers in the UK are also reporting the same- as well as US pathologists talking about unusual clotting patterns they have never seen before.
Broadsheet on days when SOQ turns up …
https://mobile.twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1489727549227909121?cxt=HHwWgoC-_YTUyawpAAAA
Ah here- there does be plenty of handbags flying around here now- not just me.
Perhaps I should have said the other feller be Nigel.
And the woman be you know who …
I always thought Nigel was a woman
No, that be Papi.
Before she went home after catching a dose and took her ball with her …
goading him won’t make him come back you know,
I’m not sure why Bodger had a go at him,
apart from hating you and let’s face it he’s not alone :) he seemed a decent sort.
Goading ?
Perish the thought.
Like you he loves to dish it out but joins the yellow-mattress brigade when there’s incoming.
And unlike you I don’t join in pile-ons.
It’s only the internet.These people are not really your besties …
What incoming? All I feel is love :)
‘He/she/US bs’ is an account not an individual Janet- the writing styles varied.
At least Daisy was/is consistently obnoxious- especially on Twitter.
My poor little SOQpuppet. Your strings are so easily pulled as you dance to my tune.
How did the FreedumpTruckers get on today?
So are you saying that it wasn’t you abusing Dr. Marcus de Brun on Twitter?
Account now deleted obviously- but IP still on record.
When did this alleged abuse take place?
Joe Rogan opts for a ‘teachable moment’
https://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/joe-rogan-apologises-for-fing-horrible-resurfaced-clips-of-him-using-n-word-41316107.html
Clean up in progress:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/spotify-removes-joe-rogan-experience-podcast-episodes-1295727/
Denmark looks like it’s finally getting back to normal, bodes well for the future…
https://twitter.com/Gab_H_R/status/1489594863628730371/photo/1
And a mere 239 cases of mild death in Bongo-Boris-Land…
Denmark looks like it’s finally getting back to normal, bodes well for the future…
https://twitter.com/Gab_H_R/status/1489594863628730371/photo/1
And a mere 239 cases of mild death in Bongo-Boris-Land…
And 35 in Denmark died today. Which is 0.0006% of their 5 million population.
The 239 “mild deaths” you mentioned is 0.0003% of the 68 million UK population.
Which means Denmark had DOUBLE the deaths per capita than the UK
(on this single day that you chose to compare the two countries. Why… I dunno? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
Double – And they’re STILL opening up.
The Danes – What a bunch of bicycle loving, pastry eating, Lego inventing monsters! ;p
Nicola Sturgeon 20 – Boris Johnson 17
Marvellous
Heh x 3
Boris snorting a few lines of decent is pretty much a given- but, Nicola Sturgeon’s inability to give any semblance of political leadership during Covid-19 will unite the island of Britain against Scottish independence.
As politicians go- she is clueless outside of her nationalistic theme.
The little Moroccan boy has been rescued from the well he’s been trapped in for the past five days:
https://twitter.com/sh1fae/status/1490062813934596102
Some reports that he hasn’t come out alive.
Confirmed that he didn’t make it.
R.I.P. wee man
https://twitter.com/TheNationalNews/status/1490068136875511820
Damn. That poor boy.
Money for nothing:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/feb/05/give-me-back-my-200000-major-donor-tells-tories
It’s a bit much when corruption doesn’t work properly, eh?
Ben Elliot’s a nephew of Charlie Windsor’s squeeze, Camilla, as well as being co-chair of the Conservative party – you’d think that palm-greasing should be well understood in those circles.