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Jupiter has aligned with Uranus.

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RWC2015 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 4:00 pmI hope we smash them.

Proper language.

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So fúcking what? Does this actually bother you? I've gone back and forth over this for decades, and at the moment I'm in the phase of thinking advertising is f**king amazing. Especially TV ads. Little 30 second clips that give you insight into what big businesses are thinking, and what they're thin...

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That's not a problem if you're paying rent and the rent is not itself fixed. Nardol's plans for caps can be reasonable too. It's a problem for the person owning the house who can't use the house as they wish, within reason. All for decent notice for long term tenants but no ability to get your hous...

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So fúcking what? Does this actually bother you? I've gone back and forth over this for decades, and at the moment I'm in the phase of thinking advertising is f**king amazing. Especially TV ads. Little 30 second clips that give you insight into what big businesses are thinking, and what they're thin...

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So fúcking what? Does this actually bother you? I've gone back and forth over this for decades, and at the moment I'm in the phase of thinking advertising is f**king amazing. Especially TV ads. Little 30 second clips that give you insight into what big businesses are thinking, and what they're thin...

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It’s part of a bigger thing. If you in the UK, you will hardly ever see any white couples in TV advertising. Every single couple is mixed race/purely ethnic minority. So fúcking what? Does this actually bother you? I've gone back and forth over this for decades, and at the moment I'm in the phase o...

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What the fudge has happened to this thread? (last bastion of sanity on the forum.) Fair enough the arguments about lawyers, and between the nordies and the people of sound mind, that's typical stuff. But these f**king nutters? Roaring about paedos and immigrants? There's been groups warning about th...

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Yes, I went to Cobh, did The Jameson Distillery Experience thing. Quite nice. They have a Jameson distillery in Cobh now? Cobh and Midleton both are part of the Greater Cork Megalopolis (which in spite of our Dublin obsessed politicians now numbers nearly half a million people) AND as you know stra...

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I wonder if Paddy Power would let me take a double on next year's 6N being both a "non-vintage year" and an "Ireland Championship." But they're usually fairly quick on spotting doubles based on the same result.

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Are we sure we want to give these lads money? They can’t even number their motorways correctly We will spend your money very well I’m getting this put in for the summer https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Backyardpool.jpg I'll send you a lorry load of Tanora, the tangerine based sof...

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Jeff the Bear wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:07 pm Just seen the Wales team. Who has the Welsh rugby communal lube supply? I assume it's a Dragons supporter.

Genuinely surprised Durex haven't got involved in some sports sponsorship yet. The Durex Lube Stadium. Come and Be Buggered.

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I see Twitter is split between northern Provo/republican types who rejoice at this money and see it as the next step in the road to a UI And southern tax payers who are raging that their money is being given to another country I’d say republicans up here are in for a hard lesson over the next few y...

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Well PJ didn’t learn from Murray and Zebo so chances are the next players offered a three way are unlikely to turn it down either That's drastically unfair on both Murray and Zebo, and PJ. Murray and Zebo engaged in something the woman was wholly on board with and bragged to her friends about after...

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I hope the IRFU put up a statue of Daniel O'Connell in Donnybrook after we Slam the Six Nations. Let the D4s know what ownership of something by the people who work for it means. I'll wait for the Marx statue until we win the World Cup. Edit: James Connolly when we get to the semi's. Fuckit, there's...

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And Irish rugby. PJ starting or on the bench, we would have won the QF against NZ. We'll never know. Just hope any up and coming young player doesn't behave like that again. It's good for nobody Well PJ didn’t learn from Murray and Zebo so chances are the next players offered a three way are unlike...

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Don't think it's a problem unless you want every game to be a spectacle/advertisement for the sport. When the game really goes with two teams "avin' it" it speaks a lot louder. The southern hemisphere (not the Saffas, obviously. Or the Argies,) can fudge off. Go back to your pokies and crippling ga...

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Is Willie complaining about having to pay for things?

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Don't think it's a problem unless you want every game to be a spectacle/advertisement for the sport. When the game really goes with two teams "avin' it" it speaks a lot louder. The southern hemisphere (not the Saffas, obviously. Or the Argies,) can fudge off. Go back to your pokies and crippling gam...

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anonymous_joe wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 7:51 pm Connacht are shíte. At least they've finally got that score.

Pure shite. You look at how the backline is lined up on a ruck and they look like the Welsh. Worse.

And I don't know what's worse than Welsh.

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For what it's worth, Cam's post is both erudite and nuanced. When he's not ranting about Luke McGrath v Conor Murray it seems he knows his shit. :P Erudite and nuanced, yes. Informed? A man asking the question (I assume they're a man) "Are Kepler, Copernicus et al "better" books than say Normal Peo...

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lemonhead wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:34 pm Origins weekend. Wearing club socks

Ref in the Leinster game was doing the same. I didn't pay close attention but she seemed in charge.

Edit: We should go back to it. Refs, at the least, wearing their club socks. Same for the Babas. Lions too.

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Good ref. Clear in his decision. Quick to make it. And it wasn't even obvious on TV from some angles. The kind of tackle you want rid of. Not malicious but reckless. And I hold nothing against the player who made it. Just consequences. The ref is the Italian fella, isn't he? Saw him a couple of year...

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For what it's worth, Cam's post is both erudite and nuanced. When he's not ranting about Luke McGrath v Conor Murray it seems he knows his shit. :P Erudite and nuanced, yes. Informed? A man asking the question (I assume they're a man) "Are Kepler, Copernicus et al "better" books than say Normal Peo...

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Art does best when there's a middle-class but brutal inequality. The dictatorship might actually work. :lol: The problem is as Cam points out, look at something like An Cailín Ciúin, it's done well, and has had input from the State and creatives. The problem is traditional arts, as you say. The fia...

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How much support for the arts is going to go to people who merit? The concern I've always had is the extent to which the Irish arts world is something of a closed shop. I haven't looked at in a few years but from what I can see there's support for the brick and mortar institutions, places that are ...

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Coming from a completely non-religious family and having attended primary and secondary schools that were nominally CoI or Catholic, respectively, but not in a very strong way, having parallel schooling systems which could exclude kids from success on the basis of their parents' flavour of religion...

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camroc1 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:33 pm The "arts" is a strange concept.

What do the visual arts, drama, music, literature have in common for starters, and under each of those headings bob lots of sub headings. ANd then there there is the implicit suggestion that we should have 'national'arts ?

We should get of the Irish rugby team.

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The arts (broadly) isn't supported. I'm sure we'll get the knobheads saying if you can't support yourself then you're not a "viable business." The arts and culture was never a viable business throughout history. It was always supported by something. Neither is education a viable business. You reap ...

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The only thing on RTE television that my license fee should cover is the News channel, Nationwide and Ear to the Ground. On Radio, all the current affairs on Radio 1 and John Creedon and Lyric (but widen the scope a bit from classical). TG4 should also be funded to record our culture. Everything el...

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Glad to see a rugby forum is talking about the one thing foundational to rugby, what school you went to. My wife finds it incredible how up here the school you went to defines you in the eyes of others not even in a religious way but as a person I.e. he went to Wallace/methody must be a decent lad ...

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The only thing on RTE television that my license fee should cover is the News channel, Nationwide and Ear to the Ground. On Radio, all the current affairs on Radio 1 and John Creedon and Lyric (but widen the scope a bit from classical). TG4 should also be funded to record our culture. Everything el...

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Mick Barry is one of the biggest idiots in the country I agree to, an extent. But I sent him an email and got a response from Barry pretty quickly. And I say response to differentiate from an automated reply. And it was without me needing to follow up. And I got a response from Michael McGrath (tou...

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Glad to see a rugby forum is talking about the one thing foundational to rugby, what school you went to.

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Fellas, years ago I asked some TDs about something, self-employment while on social welfare. Not unemployment benefit or whatever it's called, but anything that means you can't work a "proper" job, but could make some money and find some holistic benefit in selling jam in a market, or making beard ...

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I knew an old Welsh fella. Camp as it comes. Claimed to have been a dancer (paid to be on the platforms) in the clubs on Carnaby St. in the late 60s after leaving Wales. Eventually ended up working on sites. Came to Ireland I don't know when. Suddenly had health problems, I think, and had fellas he...

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It seems the WRU are telling people black clashes with green for colourblind people. " We have seen the WRU’s comments that their black away kit would be a colour-blind kit clash against Ireland’s green kit . This is not the case, as demonstrated by the kits worn by New Zealand [black] and Ireland ...

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I knew an old Welsh fella. Camp as it comes. Claimed to have been a dancer (paid to be on the platforms) in the clubs on Carnaby St. in the late 60s after leaving Wales. Eventually ended up working on sites. Came to Ireland I don't know when. Suddenly had health problems, I think, and had fellas hel...

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Fellas, years ago I asked some TDs about something, self-employment while on social welfare. Not unemployment benefit or whatever it's called, but anything that means you can't work a "proper" job, but could make some money and find some holistic benefit in selling jam in a market, or making beard y...

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If you can receive RTE, you need to pay the fee. It's not just for owning a TV. That hasn't been introduced yet https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/consumer/phone-internet-tv-and-postal-services/tv-licences/ Watching TV on your computer, phone or other device You don’t need a TV licence to watch ...

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