Russia has lost 5,200 soldiers in the first four days of fighting in Ukraine, according to Kyiv’s ministry of defence.
If these figures are correct the invasion is clearly not going as swiftly as Mad Vlad expected.
As a comparison Russia lost 5000 soldiers in two years of the first Chechen War and 15,000 soldiers over ten years of fighting in Afghanistan.
Joe F
Maith an buachaill (jolly good old boy)
Which of your lovely posts from Cork republic would you like me to repost?
Iontach
TenPin Terry
The fact that Germany has suddenly agreed to massively increase military expenditure to the 2% of GDP expected of NATO country proves Donald Trump was right yet again.
As he was on a number of other big calls.
Brain-dead Biden’s disastrous foreign policy which has humiliated America will cost the Democrats the White House.
Ah that’s very good there Ten Pull Terry/Admiral Nelson/Charger Salmon etc etc
Now hang on a second while I refer to a completely dfferent website in Cork and give out about something you said nearly a decade ago.
Marvellous to be living in the past eh?
________________
Here; Joe. This is no craic at all – dunno why you do it every single day.
Broadbag
+ infinity!
It’s far more tedious than the collected ramblings of Charger.
Joe F and Giggidy’s (are they one and the same?) obsession is utterly pathetic. Imagine being so rattled by what someone wrote on another website that you pursue them to another site, watching like a hawk for them to post so you can repeat the same drivel over and over again, threatening to repost something like a wee baby (I’ve read what he wrote, it’s vulgar, he got banned, end of matter) get over it and grow up for feck’s sake and stop clogging the comments section with your variations on a copy and paste, it’s utterly embarrassing!
The Millie Obnoxious™
He thinks it’s terribly clever, no doubt.
You don’t have to like Charger/Terry but Joe following him around like a bad smell is worse. At least Charger offers something to think about even if you don’t happen to agree, or like the delivery of it
TenPin Terry
Interestingly the only other person on here who repeatedly refers to a 10-year-old People’s Republic of Cork post is GiggedyGoo.
Often within a couple of minutes of this ‘Joe’ feller like this morning.
At all times of the day or night.
It’s not even subtle at this point.
But leave her off I say.Nowt wrong with a bit of bantz although repetition is never a great look …
Speaking of which there are 332 posts so far on yesterday’s Papers thread – is this anywhere near a BS record Bodger ?
Micko
“there are 332 posts so far on yesterday’s Papers thread ”
Looks like Operation “Everyone Look At The War” is going perfectly according to plan.
Muuuhahahahaha Muhuhahahahaha (Rubs hands in evil way). ;P
scottser
millie, do you not find salmons predictable?
as for joe, he and salmons deserve each other. after all if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
TenPin Terry
Poor scottser.
Never the same since his imbecilic side-kick Papi got the hump and cleared off.
There seem to be two types of people on here – those prepared to engage in debate with style and humour.
And bottom-sniffers who jibber-jabber away with inane comments on everyone else’s stuff
You’re very firmly in the latter camp.
Try some original thought occasionally.
TenPin Terry
And GiggidyGoo disappears at the same time as her other user account.
Time for some sleep after a long graveyard shift in the Portakabin counting lorries.
How sad.
The Millie Obnoxious™
@scottser
I do. But I’ll take Terry/Salmons any day over Joe. It takes some wit and humour, and admittedly, dedication, to commit to the role as he’s done. Joe however is doggedly trailing around after Terry making great use of the copy/paste function, for no reason other than he doesn’t like the other poster’s contributions.
TenPin Terry
Here’s the thing.
Joe is GiggedyGoo.
And in every post Joe mentions multiple usernames and in every post GiggedyGoo reckons I’m Walter Mitty.
You couldn’t make up this irony if you tried.
Mad
Tired Out Timmy
Like attracts like and all that
ce
Star nails it again….
Steph Pinker
It was interesting to observe a couple of Italian players solidarity with Ukraine in the Aviva today.
benblack
Sporting events should be apolitical – or else an Olympic event.
George
Solidarity with people who are under attack is not political.
Sport should not be apolitical though. That is a con so that power is kept away from players and in the hands of people like Sepp Blatter. Convince players that they must be apolitical and they won’t strike in opposition to corruption. If footballers had refused to play until Sepp Blatter left then he would have been gone in a matter of days. If they refuse to play in Qatar then the world Cup does not happen in Qatar. Players are infantalised and controlled by this idea they must be apolitical. Why should they be?
f_lawless
Does your stance extend to politics you are directly opposed to?. If say, a group of football players staged a walkout during a match, protesting against government persecution of unvaccinated people as they perceived it, would your reaction really be along the lines of “good on them – while I don’t agree with their political stance, I applaud them exercising their right to make a political protest”?
Kim Cardassian
If you think government “persecution” of unvaccinated people is in anyway comparable with the crisis in Ukraine then you really should seek help. I genuinely mean that.
Nigel
Isn’t it wonderful when you demand people support things they oppose? Yes, Nazis have the right to march, but rather than oppose them with every fibre of your being, you should applaud them exercising that right!
George
I didn’t say “good on them” about anyone.
Sport and politics are already not separate. The powerful people in sports just want to keep sports people out of politics.
Steph Pinker
I said I observed, maybe it was coincidence? Nonetheless, it was subtle.
And yes, politics and sport are the twain that should never ever, ever meet etc.,
scottser
sport is inherently political – it has to be with that amount of money floating around it. you’d be naive to think otherwise.
stephen moran
That’s incredibly naive. When has sport ever been apolitical ? Why do countires dope their teenage athletes up to the gills. From the Nazis (Jessie Ownes), to the Eastern Bloc drugs scandal durin g the cold war, to Apartheid era rugby in SA, to a Pakistan / India test, rebel tours to SA, BLM taking the knee in NFL, the Black Panther salute in 1968 @ the Olympics, Munich massacre, Sweden, Poland & Czech refusing to play Russia in upcoming matches, the Russian touch judge in the 1966 WC final, Muhammad Ali refusing to go to Vietnam and being stripped of the world title, Moscow Olympic boycott over Afghan invasion…etc etc etc….an easier question would be when is sport NOT political
Steph Pinker
…speaking of subtlety …
WHOOSH……………………………….>>>>>
TenPin Terry
I’m intrigued to know why you included the ‘Russian’ linesman from Azerbaijan in the 1966 World Cup Final in your list of sporting political protests.
Looking forward to this.
Joe F
That was lovely stuff altogether that you wrote on cork republic a while back old boy
I must find it again and show what type you are
Iontach
stephen moran
Russian banks are offering 171 rubles per in the Asian market. It closed @ 83 Friday. Looks like it will be women & children after me @ the ATM’s today as people try to turn their rubles into something that will be worth more than a head of cabbage by midweek. But no doubt they will shut all the foreign exchange booths & ordinary peoples access to $/euros. Bank runs can be silent and QWERTY these days. SberBank is fully sanctioned by the US. They are 50% of the domestic market and cannot now access $ (i.e. that far worse than being cut off from SWIFT). Russia has bucket loads of reserves in theory ($640 billion) but the key question is can they access them i.e. it would appear that most of the foreign exchange reserves are held with other central banks (mainly European) & recall Afghanistan’s assets were frozen as were those of Iran but that is small beer compared to the number this – i.e there’s possibly $300 billion plus offshore Russia don’t now control without taking into account who is storing their gold (Bank of England is the biggest custodian for foreign central banks)
Otis Blue
The very idea that Harris and McEntee are in a race to succeed Varadkar merely confirms that FG is toast come the next election.
Steph Pinker
True – if true… but Coveney isn’t going anywhere soon; he’s biding his time in the long grass and allowing others test the water. There’s no way he’ll carry the mantle as FG leader with housing, health, Covid, Russia-Ukraine to name a few very important issues simmering, especially with SF omnipresent.
Coveney will let the party eat itself and he’ll be the head once a semblance of positivity becomes a feature of Irish life again .
TenPin Terry
Sadly and rarely I have to disagree with you Steph.
I’m afraid Coventry has gone from potential Taoiseach to whiney EU apologist who makes a total ass of himself when seriously cross-examined by a decent hack, which is rare enough these days in Ireland.
Harris has too many enemies.
McEntee is the one to watch.
Clever and cunning.
She’s Ireland’s Liz Truss.
bisted
…ah here…I’d be no fan of McEntee but she’s nowhere near as incompetent or gaff prone as Liz Truss!
TenPin Terry
Talking of incompetent it’s gaffe with an e.
bisted
…oops…but since we’re being pedantic…both of us appear to have left out the hyphen!
The more famous Lynne Truss would not have approved!
TenPin Terry
Where do you think a hyphen should appear in my post ?
And who is Lynne Truss ?
Thanks Millie.
I’m not a huge pedant about this stuff normally but I couldn’t resist a tease when it’s part of a post about incompetency.
Bisted is sound.
Likes the banter without engaging in vitiolic abuse.
You’ve not reached the her dizzy heights yet Charger.
scottser
liz truss: uk citizens should be able to go and fight for ukraine
UK MOD: please, whatever you do, do not go and fight for ukraine
UK DOFA website: if you go to ukraine to fight you can be prosecuted on your return.
i think liz is just about charger’s level.
Joe F
Ah that’s not very good stuff Ten Pull Terry/Charger Salmonella/Admiral Nelson
Just going to your lovely historic posts on cork republic
I think most people will love reading what you are like
Marvelous
Fearganainm
Liz Truss: Kremlin says decision to put nuclear bases on high alert due to comments made by Foreign Secretary
Coveney is a prince..a privileged corporate-lingoed spoofer….he failed at everything of substance that landed on his desk since the beginning…the ferrero gig is literally the only thing he can be good at as it’s all pure spoof….it’s either that, some thinktank gig or a couple of years sailing + corporate job the bro will find for him…as I understand it he’s not well liked inside FG along with Varadker…the time for spoofers is up…the fact that they’re kiting up the likes of me da’s seat and that other spoofer shows the paucity…so yeah could be FG’s time is up but it suits them the fire is hot and they don’t want to be there anymore
Otis Blue
Can’t see Varadkar, Coveney or Donohue having much appetite for the humdrum constituency matters that await them while in opposition.
Russia continues to send gas to W. Europe, mostly to NATO countries, and increased supply since the invasion started.
Much of it still transits Ukraine. Russian and Ukrainian managers and technicians still cooperate 24 hrs. Russia is still paying transit fees.”
SOQ
Even more so is the questions being raised about who is actually doing the censoring of the internet in the Ukraine right now.
Russia appears to be trying to keep the communication channels open while big tech and the US are trying to close them down so- who is trying to hide what?
Good morning to all the Cold War kids feeling a dose Cold War PTSD.
goldenbrown
morning Nigel
just bingeing on the Deutschland ‘83
back later (hopefully)
here, when does the run on jacks roll and the bottled water kick off? do you know where the nearest basement is? or howto dehinge a door to make a cave?
the big question for me is where are the iodine tabs??
;)
Nigel
Mood music: Bowie’s WhenThe Wind Blows or Pink Floyd’s Final Cut?
goldenbrown
ah anything Bowie for me
have ties to Berlin…he is always in the mix
Otis Blue
Pfft! They’re just lightweights
He did it once before, I’d trust him to do it again. David Hasselhoff, the World needs you.
“Look at the war, Look at the war, Look at the war, Look at the war, Look at the war, Look at the war and most importantly, don’t remember we were complicit in terrifying the absolute crapola out of you for the past two years”
“Phew… think we got away with it lads”
Tom J
Why were you scared?
bisted
…so all that bravado you displayed here was a lie…you weren’t breaking the covid restrictions at all…instead you were cowering indoors shunning all but your kids…tut tut…no wonder you never achieved ratlicker status…
I’m asking you why you were scared when there was nothing to be scared of.
Micko
“in terrifying the absolute crapola out of you for the past two years”
Ah Tom. The “you” in that sentence above, refers to YOU or another person. Not me
As in “you”, (Mr Tom) are sitting over there. Not me.
I can’t refer to myself with a second person pronoun!!
Tom J
(You) Micko, seem to think that everyone was scared when in actual fact not many people were, apart from you and a few others.
SOQ
Absolute BS- people were frightened out of their lives. Governments terrorised their peoples like never before.
Tom J
Like the Russian government terrorising the people of Ukraine.
Micko
The lads and lassies I see driving around wearing masks while solo in a “mechanically propelled vehichiiiiile” would indicate differently Tom.
But anyway… I can’t hang around to chat. I have to go and disinfect my grocery shopping for the seventh time this morning.
Tom J
Not looking forward to Halloween then, all them people wearing masks, you’ll really poo yourself.
Nigel
‘Absolute BS- people were frightened out of their lives.’
This is certainly a popular straw man with your lot, mocking people genuinely concerned about catching covid, but people in vulnerable groups are probably more scared now they’ve been told to feck off and die on their own time.
SOQ
Suddenly the pandemic has “vanished from our television screens” in the wake of the conflict in Ukraine, says the Independent Women’s Forum’s Dr Qanta Ahmed.
No Nigel- many people were terrorised- don’t try and play it down. The propaganda pumped out from the legacy media was disgraceful.
Nigel
If they were terrorised, it was by a highly contagious airborne virus that spread across the world in weeks and killed millions, not the media that kept them informed or governments that took measures against it. By contrast, the entirely invented and curated disinformation about the pandemic being fake and vaccines being poison are an actual human-driven terror campaign.
bisted
…the ratlickers must take some credit for the huge uptake in vaccines…their daily diet of patent nonsense would have been laughable if it wasn’t so dangerous…I cannot believe over 90% got vaccinated and tried to do what they felt was the right thing despite Golfgate, Merriongate etc…
Bodger
‘the ratlickers must take some credit for the huge uptake in vaccines’
No, it’s all on you.
SOQ
MANY viruses are highly contagious- the common cold is highly contagious- that is not the point, It was presented as being very VIRULENT when all the data was pointing to it being akin to a flu.
Alternative points of view, including from some very specialist experts were censored and dismissed as far right and conspiracy when in fact- they were right all along.
Stop trying to rewrite history.
Nigel
‘MANY viruses are highly contagious’
But not MANY spread across the globe in weeks and kill millions in two years.
‘It was presented as being very VIRULENT when all the data was pointing to it being akin to a flu.’
It is way more VIRULENT than the flu.
‘Alternative points of view, including from some very specialist experts were censored and dismissed as far right and conspiracy’
Far right conspiracies were dismissed by everyone except far right conspiracists and useful idiots.
Nigel
‘Suddenly the pandemic has “vanished from our television screens”’
‘Dramatic current events dominate daily news cycles shocker.’
Mad
It’s a very fair question
TenPin Terry
There was a right old barney down at the beach bar yesterday.
A Russkie was in his cups and mouthing off at the bar when a couple of American fellers took exception.
I think they were all oil rig workers ashore for a spot of R&R.
It was short and brutal but a joy to watch.
The Yanks never had to buy a drink for the rest of the day.
Apart from that all is good on gin and tonton island.
Marvellous™
Joe F
Ah that’s quite awful stuff Ten Pull Terry/Admiral Nelson/Charger Salmon etc etc
It’s quite a strange time to be posting from the Caribbean old boy?
Mind your language (cork republic)
Marvelous
GiggidyGoo
Walter Mitty strikes again!
TenPin Terry
A new and regular feature called Property Plonkers named after fools prepared to pay big moolah for cupboards.
Property Plonkers # 1
Bloody Nora.
€425,00 for a single-storey 538sq ft one-bedroom terraced house in Ranelagh with an F BER rating and planning permission for an extension that would cost another €240,000-€400,000.
And you can only get into the one bed from one side.
Still, at least the Irish Times says it’s a desirable address AND it has a 10 foot ceiling in the sitting room …
Madness.
It will end in tears.
It always does.
Ah that’s very averagel stuff Ten Pull Terry/Admiral Nelson/Charger Salmonella et al
That’s good stuff you were writing on that cork republic site old boy
Lovely language altogether, says it all when you have to resort to writing like that
Go hiontach (Marvelous)
this is good, the rats are starting to scurry around the decks, panicking
goldenbrown
lovely little bit of sabotage there…more of this please!
“Taras Ostapchuk, a Ukrainian crewman, was arrested by Civil Guard officers on Saturday after he tried to sink a yacht in Puerto Adriano, reportedly owned by the head of a Russian state arms firm, in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine”
A security specialist who hails from West Cork has predicated that Russia President Vladimir Putin will be assassinated by his own people. Dr Andy Scollick, who is a European Defence consultant, has previously worked in defence analysis as well as advising and was working across sectors in Ukraine as well as other European nations from 2014 to 2019. The consultant has been following the current situation with Russia closely, and today made a “hypothesis” that Putin would be killed by his own people “within the next seven days”. He said: “Prediction or, rather, hypothesis: Putin will be assassinated by his own people within the next 7 days.”
bisted
…is he known locally as Dr Andy-the Skibbereen Eagle-Scollick?
Fearganainm
(Alleged) Strange goings on in Cavan
“…A senior source said that when this happened a gun was pulled on the officer and he was forced into the car where he was badly beaten and doused in petrol. The garda was then dumped in a park near Loughan House open prison…”
“…An Garda Síochána, through the North Western Region Headquarters Control Room, identified the member’s location through the Garda AVPLS system. Uniform colleagues attended the scene supported by Armed Support Units. The members found their colleague in a disorientated state. His official marked patrol vehicle was present at the scene. There was a strong smell of an accelerant in the air, his Garda uniform was saturated with an accelerant and he had signs of physical injuries…”
In case your will to live and sense of sunny optimism are getting too strong: the new IPCC report on climate change: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/
“Climate change isn’t lurking around the corner ready to pounce. It’s already upon us, raining down blows on millions of people”
‘an atlas of human suffering & damning indictment of failed climate leadership’
On the plus side, with Russia choking its internet, there are remarkably few climate change denier trolls around. Present company excepted, obvs.
Fearganainm
Philip ‘Dog kicker’ Dwyer has been expelled from Justin Barrett’s National Party..
Presumably Dwyer would have liked to have announced the news on his Twitter account but someone, somewhere, got him expelled from there, too:
“You haven’t even started dying yet”
https://twitter.com/SamFromBrooklyn/status/1498028189733376005
Russia has lost 5,200 soldiers in the first four days of fighting in Ukraine, according to Kyiv’s ministry of defence.
If these figures are correct the invasion is clearly not going as swiftly as Mad Vlad expected.
As a comparison Russia lost 5000 soldiers in two years of the first Chechen War and 15,000 soldiers over ten years of fighting in Afghanistan.
Maith an buachaill (jolly good old boy)
Which of your lovely posts from Cork republic would you like me to repost?
Iontach
The fact that Germany has suddenly agreed to massively increase military expenditure to the 2% of GDP expected of NATO country proves Donald Trump was right yet again.
As he was on a number of other big calls.
Brain-dead Biden’s disastrous foreign policy which has humiliated America will cost the Democrats the White House.
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-threatens-germany-military-spending/
Ah that’s very good there Ten Pull Terry/Admiral Nelson/Charger Salmon etc etc
Now hang on a second while I refer to a completely dfferent website in Cork and give out about something you said nearly a decade ago.
Marvellous to be living in the past eh?
________________
Here; Joe. This is no craic at all – dunno why you do it every single day.
+ infinity!
It’s far more tedious than the collected ramblings of Charger.
Joe F and Giggidy’s (are they one and the same?) obsession is utterly pathetic. Imagine being so rattled by what someone wrote on another website that you pursue them to another site, watching like a hawk for them to post so you can repeat the same drivel over and over again, threatening to repost something like a wee baby (I’ve read what he wrote, it’s vulgar, he got banned, end of matter) get over it and grow up for feck’s sake and stop clogging the comments section with your variations on a copy and paste, it’s utterly embarrassing!
He thinks it’s terribly clever, no doubt.
You don’t have to like Charger/Terry but Joe following him around like a bad smell is worse. At least Charger offers something to think about even if you don’t happen to agree, or like the delivery of it
Interestingly the only other person on here who repeatedly refers to a 10-year-old People’s Republic of Cork post is GiggedyGoo.
Often within a couple of minutes of this ‘Joe’ feller like this morning.
At all times of the day or night.
It’s not even subtle at this point.
But leave her off I say.Nowt wrong with a bit of bantz although repetition is never a great look …
Speaking of which there are 332 posts so far on yesterday’s Papers thread – is this anywhere near a BS record Bodger ?
“there are 332 posts so far on yesterday’s Papers thread ”
Looks like Operation “Everyone Look At The War” is going perfectly according to plan.
Muuuhahahahaha Muhuhahahahaha (Rubs hands in evil way). ;P
millie, do you not find salmons predictable?
as for joe, he and salmons deserve each other. after all if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Poor scottser.
Never the same since his imbecilic side-kick Papi got the hump and cleared off.
There seem to be two types of people on here – those prepared to engage in debate with style and humour.
And bottom-sniffers who jibber-jabber away with inane comments on everyone else’s stuff
You’re very firmly in the latter camp.
Try some original thought occasionally.
And GiggidyGoo disappears at the same time as her other user account.
Time for some sleep after a long graveyard shift in the Portakabin counting lorries.
How sad.
@scottser
I do. But I’ll take Terry/Salmons any day over Joe. It takes some wit and humour, and admittedly, dedication, to commit to the role as he’s done. Joe however is doggedly trailing around after Terry making great use of the copy/paste function, for no reason other than he doesn’t like the other poster’s contributions.
Here’s the thing.
Joe is GiggedyGoo.
And in every post Joe mentions multiple usernames and in every post GiggedyGoo reckons I’m Walter Mitty.
You couldn’t make up this irony if you tried.
Tired Out Timmy
Like attracts like and all that
Star nails it again….
It was interesting to observe a couple of Italian players solidarity with Ukraine in the Aviva today.
Sporting events should be apolitical – or else an Olympic event.
Solidarity with people who are under attack is not political.
Sport should not be apolitical though. That is a con so that power is kept away from players and in the hands of people like Sepp Blatter. Convince players that they must be apolitical and they won’t strike in opposition to corruption. If footballers had refused to play until Sepp Blatter left then he would have been gone in a matter of days. If they refuse to play in Qatar then the world Cup does not happen in Qatar. Players are infantalised and controlled by this idea they must be apolitical. Why should they be?
Does your stance extend to politics you are directly opposed to?. If say, a group of football players staged a walkout during a match, protesting against government persecution of unvaccinated people as they perceived it, would your reaction really be along the lines of “good on them – while I don’t agree with their political stance, I applaud them exercising their right to make a political protest”?
If you think government “persecution” of unvaccinated people is in anyway comparable with the crisis in Ukraine then you really should seek help. I genuinely mean that.
Isn’t it wonderful when you demand people support things they oppose? Yes, Nazis have the right to march, but rather than oppose them with every fibre of your being, you should applaud them exercising that right!
I didn’t say “good on them” about anyone.
Sport and politics are already not separate. The powerful people in sports just want to keep sports people out of politics.
I said I observed, maybe it was coincidence? Nonetheless, it was subtle.
And yes, politics and sport are the twain that should never ever, ever meet etc.,
sport is inherently political – it has to be with that amount of money floating around it. you’d be naive to think otherwise.
That’s incredibly naive. When has sport ever been apolitical ? Why do countires dope their teenage athletes up to the gills. From the Nazis (Jessie Ownes), to the Eastern Bloc drugs scandal durin g the cold war, to Apartheid era rugby in SA, to a Pakistan / India test, rebel tours to SA, BLM taking the knee in NFL, the Black Panther salute in 1968 @ the Olympics, Munich massacre, Sweden, Poland & Czech refusing to play Russia in upcoming matches, the Russian touch judge in the 1966 WC final, Muhammad Ali refusing to go to Vietnam and being stripped of the world title, Moscow Olympic boycott over Afghan invasion…etc etc etc….an easier question would be when is sport NOT political
…speaking of subtlety …
WHOOSH……………………………….>>>>>
I’m intrigued to know why you included the ‘Russian’ linesman from Azerbaijan in the 1966 World Cup Final in your list of sporting political protests.
Looking forward to this.
That was lovely stuff altogether that you wrote on cork republic a while back old boy
I must find it again and show what type you are
Iontach
Russian banks are offering 171 rubles per in the Asian market. It closed @ 83 Friday. Looks like it will be women & children after me @ the ATM’s today as people try to turn their rubles into something that will be worth more than a head of cabbage by midweek. But no doubt they will shut all the foreign exchange booths & ordinary peoples access to $/euros. Bank runs can be silent and QWERTY these days. SberBank is fully sanctioned by the US. They are 50% of the domestic market and cannot now access $ (i.e. that far worse than being cut off from SWIFT). Russia has bucket loads of reserves in theory ($640 billion) but the key question is can they access them i.e. it would appear that most of the foreign exchange reserves are held with other central banks (mainly European) & recall Afghanistan’s assets were frozen as were those of Iran but that is small beer compared to the number this – i.e there’s possibly $300 billion plus offshore Russia don’t now control without taking into account who is storing their gold (Bank of England is the biggest custodian for foreign central banks)
The very idea that Harris and McEntee are in a race to succeed Varadkar merely confirms that FG is toast come the next election.
True – if true… but Coveney isn’t going anywhere soon; he’s biding his time in the long grass and allowing others test the water. There’s no way he’ll carry the mantle as FG leader with housing, health, Covid, Russia-Ukraine to name a few very important issues simmering, especially with SF omnipresent.
Coveney will let the party eat itself and he’ll be the head once a semblance of positivity becomes a feature of Irish life again .
Sadly and rarely I have to disagree with you Steph.
I’m afraid Coventry has gone from potential Taoiseach to whiney EU apologist who makes a total ass of himself when seriously cross-examined by a decent hack, which is rare enough these days in Ireland.
Harris has too many enemies.
McEntee is the one to watch.
Clever and cunning.
She’s Ireland’s Liz Truss.
…ah here…I’d be no fan of McEntee but she’s nowhere near as incompetent or gaff prone as Liz Truss!
Talking of incompetent it’s gaffe with an e.
…oops…but since we’re being pedantic…both of us appear to have left out the hyphen!
The more famous Lynne Truss would not have approved!
Where do you think a hyphen should appear in my post ?
And who is Lynne Truss ?
@Terry
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8600.Eats_Shoots_Leaves
For the inner pedant. I have a copy, myself.
Thanks Millie.
I’m not a huge pedant about this stuff normally but I couldn’t resist a tease when it’s part of a post about incompetency.
Bisted is sound.
Likes the banter without engaging in vitiolic abuse.
Liz Truss has a problem spelling.
She also informed the Commons that a US jail used barking dogs – to deter drones
And this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_wkO4hk07o
You’ve not reached the her dizzy heights yet Charger.
liz truss: uk citizens should be able to go and fight for ukraine
UK MOD: please, whatever you do, do not go and fight for ukraine
UK DOFA website: if you go to ukraine to fight you can be prosecuted on your return.
i think liz is just about charger’s level.
Ah that’s not very good stuff Ten Pull Terry/Charger Salmonella/Admiral Nelson
Just going to your lovely historic posts on cork republic
I think most people will love reading what you are like
Marvelous
Liz Truss: Kremlin says decision to put nuclear bases on high alert due to comments made by Foreign Secretary
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/kremlin-says-nuclear-bases-on-high-alert-due-to-comments-made-by-liz-truss-3589463
Does Liz Truss say stupid things because she is transitioning?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FL_nZetWUAcf0wD?format=jpg&name=medium
Hahahaha very good
Coveney is a prince..a privileged corporate-lingoed spoofer….he failed at everything of substance that landed on his desk since the beginning…the ferrero gig is literally the only thing he can be good at as it’s all pure spoof….it’s either that, some thinktank gig or a couple of years sailing + corporate job the bro will find for him…as I understand it he’s not well liked inside FG along with Varadker…the time for spoofers is up…the fact that they’re kiting up the likes of me da’s seat and that other spoofer shows the paucity…so yeah could be FG’s time is up but it suits them the fire is hot and they don’t want to be there anymore
Can’t see Varadkar, Coveney or Donohue having much appetite for the humdrum constituency matters that await them while in opposition.
Makes you wonder..
https://mobile.twitter.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1498090127146504193
“A strange truth.
Russia continues to send gas to W. Europe, mostly to NATO countries, and increased supply since the invasion started.
Much of it still transits Ukraine. Russian and Ukrainian managers and technicians still cooperate 24 hrs. Russia is still paying transit fees.”
Even more so is the questions being raised about who is actually doing the censoring of the internet in the Ukraine right now.
Russia appears to be trying to keep the communication channels open while big tech and the US are trying to close them down so- who is trying to hide what?
https://youtu.be/qIveKFTjW-Q?t=160
Good morning to all the Cold War kids feeling a dose Cold War PTSD.
morning Nigel
just bingeing on the Deutschland ‘83
back later (hopefully)
here, when does the run on jacks roll and the bottled water kick off? do you know where the nearest basement is? or howto dehinge a door to make a cave?
the big question for me is where are the iodine tabs??
;)
Mood music: Bowie’s WhenThe Wind Blows or Pink Floyd’s Final Cut?
ah anything Bowie for me
have ties to Berlin…he is always in the mix
Pfft! They’re just lightweights
He did it once before, I’d trust him to do it again. David Hasselhoff, the World needs you.
https://youtu.be/0zXiClnK8o
The media right now
“Look at the war, Look at the war, Look at the war, Look at the war, Look at the war, Look at the war and most importantly, don’t remember we were complicit in terrifying the absolute crapola out of you for the past two years”
“Phew… think we got away with it lads”
Why were you scared?
…so all that bravado you displayed here was a lie…you weren’t breaking the covid restrictions at all…instead you were cowering indoors shunning all but your kids…tut tut…no wonder you never achieved ratlicker status…
Yeah Tom!
https://youtu.be/DklJ9ITPisU
Shhhh Tom…. I’m trying to watch the war.
I’m asking you why you were scared when there was nothing to be scared of.
“in terrifying the absolute crapola out of you for the past two years”
Ah Tom. The “you” in that sentence above, refers to YOU or another person. Not me
As in “you”, (Mr Tom) are sitting over there. Not me.
I can’t refer to myself with a second person pronoun!!
(You) Micko, seem to think that everyone was scared when in actual fact not many people were, apart from you and a few others.
Absolute BS- people were frightened out of their lives. Governments terrorised their peoples like never before.
Like the Russian government terrorising the people of Ukraine.
The lads and lassies I see driving around wearing masks while solo in a “mechanically propelled vehichiiiiile” would indicate differently Tom.
But anyway… I can’t hang around to chat. I have to go and disinfect my grocery shopping for the seventh time this morning.
Not looking forward to Halloween then, all them people wearing masks, you’ll really poo yourself.
‘Absolute BS- people were frightened out of their lives.’
This is certainly a popular straw man with your lot, mocking people genuinely concerned about catching covid, but people in vulnerable groups are probably more scared now they’ve been told to feck off and die on their own time.
Suddenly the pandemic has “vanished from our television screens” in the wake of the conflict in Ukraine, says the Independent Women’s Forum’s Dr Qanta Ahmed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-87b_UOb50
No Nigel- many people were terrorised- don’t try and play it down. The propaganda pumped out from the legacy media was disgraceful.
If they were terrorised, it was by a highly contagious airborne virus that spread across the world in weeks and killed millions, not the media that kept them informed or governments that took measures against it. By contrast, the entirely invented and curated disinformation about the pandemic being fake and vaccines being poison are an actual human-driven terror campaign.
…the ratlickers must take some credit for the huge uptake in vaccines…their daily diet of patent nonsense would have been laughable if it wasn’t so dangerous…I cannot believe over 90% got vaccinated and tried to do what they felt was the right thing despite Golfgate, Merriongate etc…
‘the ratlickers must take some credit for the huge uptake in vaccines’
No, it’s all on you.
MANY viruses are highly contagious- the common cold is highly contagious- that is not the point, It was presented as being very VIRULENT when all the data was pointing to it being akin to a flu.
Alternative points of view, including from some very specialist experts were censored and dismissed as far right and conspiracy when in fact- they were right all along.
Stop trying to rewrite history.
‘MANY viruses are highly contagious’
But not MANY spread across the globe in weeks and kill millions in two years.
‘It was presented as being very VIRULENT when all the data was pointing to it being akin to a flu.’
It is way more VIRULENT than the flu.
‘Alternative points of view, including from some very specialist experts were censored and dismissed as far right and conspiracy’
Far right conspiracies were dismissed by everyone except far right conspiracists and useful idiots.
‘Suddenly the pandemic has “vanished from our television screens”’
‘Dramatic current events dominate daily news cycles shocker.’
It’s a very fair question
There was a right old barney down at the beach bar yesterday.
A Russkie was in his cups and mouthing off at the bar when a couple of American fellers took exception.
I think they were all oil rig workers ashore for a spot of R&R.
It was short and brutal but a joy to watch.
The Yanks never had to buy a drink for the rest of the day.
Apart from that all is good on gin and tonton island.
Marvellous™
Ah that’s quite awful stuff Ten Pull Terry/Admiral Nelson/Charger Salmon etc etc
It’s quite a strange time to be posting from the Caribbean old boy?
Mind your language (cork republic)
Marvelous
Walter Mitty strikes again!
A new and regular feature called Property Plonkers named after fools prepared to pay big moolah for cupboards.
Property Plonkers # 1
Bloody Nora.
€425,00 for a single-storey 538sq ft one-bedroom terraced house in Ranelagh with an F BER rating and planning permission for an extension that would cost another €240,000-€400,000.
And you can only get into the one bed from one side.
Still, at least the Irish Times says it’s a desirable address AND it has a 10 foot ceiling in the sitting room …
Madness.
It will end in tears.
It always does.
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/new-to-market/ranelagh-cottage-with-extension-plan-in-place-for-425k-1.4813368
Ah that’s very averagel stuff Ten Pull Terry/Admiral Nelson/Charger Salmonella et al
That’s good stuff you were writing on that cork republic site old boy
Lovely language altogether, says it all when you have to resort to writing like that
Go hiontach (Marvelous)
So what did you get up to at the weekend?
https://twitter.com/RealEddieHobbs/status/1497862211351556099
I don’t usually click on your links, but that’s very funny indeed. Thanks SOQ, all is forgiven.
Roman Abramovich: Chelsea owner trying to find ‘peaceful resolution’ to Ukraine invasion, spokesman says
https://news.sky.com/story/roman-abramovich-chelsea-owner-trying-to-find-peaceful-resolution-to-ukraine-invasion-spokesman-says-12553990
the rats are panicking
this is good, the rats are starting to scurry around the decks, panicking
lovely little bit of sabotage there…more of this please!
“Taras Ostapchuk, a Ukrainian crewman, was arrested by Civil Guard officers on Saturday after he tried to sink a yacht in Puerto Adriano, reportedly owned by the head of a Russian state arms firm, in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine”
https://www.sailweb.co.uk/2022/02/28/ukrainian-attempted-to-scuttle-yacht-of-russian-boss/
Fragging speculation mounts (OK, begins):
https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/prediction-russia-president-vladimir-putin-23232829
A security specialist who hails from West Cork has predicated that Russia President Vladimir Putin will be assassinated by his own people. Dr Andy Scollick, who is a European Defence consultant, has previously worked in defence analysis as well as advising and was working across sectors in Ukraine as well as other European nations from 2014 to 2019. The consultant has been following the current situation with Russia closely, and today made a “hypothesis” that Putin would be killed by his own people “within the next seven days”. He said: “Prediction or, rather, hypothesis: Putin will be assassinated by his own people within the next 7 days.”
…is he known locally as Dr Andy-the Skibbereen Eagle-Scollick?
(Alleged) Strange goings on in Cavan
“…A senior source said that when this happened a gun was pulled on the officer and he was forced into the car where he was badly beaten and doused in petrol. The garda was then dumped in a park near Loughan House open prison…”
“…An Garda Síochána, through the North Western Region Headquarters Control Room, identified the member’s location through the Garda AVPLS system. Uniform colleagues attended the scene supported by Armed Support Units. The members found their colleague in a disorientated state. His official marked patrol vehicle was present at the scene. There was a strong smell of an accelerant in the air, his Garda uniform was saturated with an accelerant and he had signs of physical injuries…”
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/crime/garda-doused-in-petrol-and-has-gun-pulled-on-him-during-brutal-assault-41393920.html
In case your will to live and sense of sunny optimism are getting too strong: the new IPCC report on climate change:
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/
“Climate change isn’t lurking around the corner ready to pounce. It’s already upon us, raining down blows on millions of people”
‘an atlas of human suffering & damning indictment of failed climate leadership’
On the plus side, with Russia choking its internet, there are remarkably few climate change denier trolls around. Present company excepted, obvs.
Philip ‘Dog kicker’ Dwyer has been expelled from Justin Barrett’s National Party..
Presumably Dwyer would have liked to have announced the news on his Twitter account but someone, somewhere, got him expelled from there, too:
https://twitter.com/philipdwyernp?lang=en-GB
Facebook takes down disinformation network targeting Ukraine
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/28/facebook-takes-down-disinformation-network-targeting-ukraine-meta-instagram