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In case you missed it (it’s been around since last year), behold one of many iterations of the El Risitas meme – based on this original video of Spanish comedy actor El Risitas (The Giggles) on a talkshow in 2007 relating a story about throwing pans into the sea during his earlier career working at a beach restaurant.

Multi-applicable infectious laughter for any occasion.

It is impossible to keep a straight face watching these.

Here’s one for the Nvidia 970 video card fiasco and another for the ridiculous American civil war game, The Order 1886.

via @glinner

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and finance minister Yanis Varoufakis

Germany and its allies are ready to let Greece leave the euro unless Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accepts the conditions required to extend his country’s financial support, according to Malta’s finance minister, Edward Scicluna.

Greece’s creditors are cranking up the pressure on Tsipras as he seeks a deal to prevent his country defaulting on its obligations as early as next month. By bowing to German demands, the premier risks a domestic backlash from voters and party members whom he’s promised an end to austerity.

German-Led Bloc Willing to Let Greece Leave Euro: Malta (Bloomberg)

Alternatively…

As Greece heads toward 11th-hour funding talks with its euro-area membership on the line, bondholders are surprisingly sanguine about its failure so far to secure a deal.

Forget the strategists at Commerzbank AG who say there’s a 50 percent chance it’ll leave the currency bloc, and those at Barclays Plc who put the exit risk higher even than in the 2012 debt crisis. The Bloomberg Greece Sovereign Bond Index shows those with money at stake aren’t seeing a significant increase in the chances of a euro-zone departure….

Investors Still Don’t Think Greece Will Exit the Euro Bloomberg)

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Last night

Scenes from Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast host to the Red Bull Crashed Ice Event for downhill skaters.

Randomer writes:

Yesterday’s heats for skaters from all over the world – including seven from the Republic – trying to get a chance for the finals tomorrow night.
They included the south’s Graeme Pollard, who is currently in 16th place, Paul Kennedy, who is 18th, and 21st-place Christopher McConnell.
More than 40,000 spectators are expected to attend over the two days of a series of races that will see competitors reaching around 65kph down the 430m-long track that leads down from the steps of Parliament Buildings at Stormont.
Crews of workers spent 34 days setting up the 10cm-thick artificial ice track and five days of round-the-clock work to create the massive 337,000 cubic litres of ice that is being kept frozen with 22,500 meters of cooling pipes.

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Yesterday: Some Assembly Required

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Are you free on Monday?

Do you like craft beer?

Sadhb Higgins writes:

Dublin’s favourite food festival, Dine in Dublin returns this weekend for the sixth year running from Monday 23rd February through to Sunday 1st of March and Gotham Café is kicking things off in supreme style with its quirky craft beer tasting night, what better way to spend a Monday?

Over 50 restaurants are participating this year working with the very best of fresh local produce, cooked to perfection and served up in style with quality festival offers available from the city’s most loved eateries.

This year is set to be bigger and better than ever with an exciting programme of events lined up including the Dine “Food Pavillion”, Disco Brunch with Dine in Dublin, Wine & Dine in Dublin at Ely IFSC and collaborations with Easons and Arnotts showcasing super chef demos from your favourite foodie authors and a host of special offers you won’t want to miss!

To celebrate the launch of Dine in Dublin 2015 we want to offer a Broadsheet reader and a friend the chance to attend an exciting Dine in Dublin event – Gotham Café’s craft beer tasting night hosted by Cameron Wallace of Cork’s Eight Degrees Brewery. Enjoy a night of foodie fun as Cameron talks you through a tasting session of some of his more popular brews while you soak up the city’s favourite pizza pies and delicious craft beers. Event takes place on Monday 23rd from 7pm til late.T o enter, just complete this sentence:

‘I deserve the Dine in Dublin craft beer event tickets particularly after the week I’ve had_________________________’

Lines MUST close at 1.45pm 4.45pm Midnight

Dine in Dublin (Twitter)

Dine In Dublin

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Staying in Sunday?

Reaction queen Gay Byrne questions Charles Spencer, Princess Diana’s brother.

Fergus McCormack writes:

In a rare personal interview, Charles Spencer, the 9th Earl Spencer and brother of Princess Diana, talks with remarkable openness and candour about his sister’s tragic death, his controversial oration at her funeral, their difficult childhood together and the challenge of guarding his own privacy, as the brother of the world’s most famous woman….

The Meaning of Life With Gay Byrne RTÉ One on  Sunday at 10.30pm.

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Nitro.

They have jobs.

And STUFF.

Amy Holmes writes:

Nitro is home to the Wombat Republic, an Australian founded, San Francisco headquartered, company who are changing the way the world works with documents. From the desktop to the cloud, Nitro makes it easy to create, edit, share, sign and collaborate – online or offline.

The company with their EMEA headquarters in Dublin, is on a fast growth path and is actively recruiting in the areas of; Customer Support and Success, Engineering: Cloud, Engineering: Platform, Engineering: Systems and Infrastructure, Marketing including an internship, Ops, Product and Sales. For more information check out TheWombatRepublic.com

We are taking Dublin by storm this week, with advertisements on buses, Luas and pavements, mobile billboards and cycle-by advertising will also be appearing at random and the whole week will culminate TOMORROW at the Career Zoo [National Convention Centre, Dublin] where real life Nitronauts will be on hand to outline the jobs on offer and the perks of working for Nitro.

We have a pile of Nitro ‘stuff’ (top) including a hoodie and moleskine notebook and what looks like two stickers to give away.

Nitro would like any tech-industry working Broadsheet reader to tell them about their Worst tech job EVER….with the best tale teller winning the swag.

Lines MUST close at 5.15pm  Midnight

Nitro (Jobs available)

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Sé writes:

This is Maitiú Ó Casaide, Young Musician of the Year. He says:

“We are really lucky that our culture and language are still alive. The government and the West Brits are making every effort to suppress our Gaelic identity.”

Impassioned young native speaker blowing off steam?

Calm, reasoned, mutually respectful debate, anyone?

60 Soicind le Maitiú Ó Casaide  (Nos magazine)

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