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In the scene with the little girl when De Caprio plays a villain, the character is similar to the hippy villain, Tex. That probably signifies something but I don’t know what! I did know about the Manson killings so had a sense of dread about what was going to happen but it was WTF! when it actually ...

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Liked but not loved is a good description of how I felt about Once Upon I Time... too. Rambling, affectionate look at late 60s Hollywood then a batshit ending. I thought the hippy chick/Manson family hitchhiker Brad Pitt picked up looked familiar so looked her up and it was Andie McDowell’s daughter...

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bessantj wrote:Just seen Animals, wasn't bad.

Yeah, quite enjoyed it considering how intensely annoying most of the characters were

Holliday Grainger’s Dublin scent was great. I was going to criticise the pianists N Ireland accent but checked and found he is actually from N Ireland...

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That’s interesting about profit margins - I didn’t know the numbers. Brew by Numbers have done a nice job with their taproom and host events during the week as well - I’ve been to a couple of cheese and beer tastings there. Sundays in Bermondsey are more chilled than Saturdays. I haven’t actually se...

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In other news, kernel will be opening a tap room again in an arch next to the brewery. I'll let you know when it's open, we start work on Wednesday Thats cool. I wasn't sure why they stopped the taproom a couple of years ago. Was it facilities or they didn't fancy the hassle of serving punters? I r...

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Was over in Belfast for the weekend and did a food tour. The tour guide worked for boundarybrewing.coop and he gave a bit of an overview of the craft scene in NI. He said it is really being held back by the restrictive licensing for pubs there. It is really expensive to have a license so then Diageo...

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irishrugbyua wrote:Kieran Hallett appointed Elite Player Development Officer(Backs) for Leinster Rugby.

Ex-Outhalf for Plymouth Albion and Cornish Pirates, was a coach with Exeter's academy.

He was briefly with Ulster as well, back in 2007.

mikerob

Apollo 11 was very good. Just the right balance between the covering the people, details of the mission and background and was well paced.

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Watched The Hummingbird Project - Jesse Eisenberg and Alexander Skarsgård in a film about a fictional engineering project. Enjoyed it, was interesting to see what goes into projects of that scale. I also enjoyed it. I work in telecoms and that aspect of the film was a bit more grounded in reality t...

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Zico wrote:
sorCrer wrote:Johnson on border checks: “The obvious way to do it is to make sure that you have checks on everybody who breaks the law, but you do it away from the border,”

So Boris will be shifting the border to the Irish Sea then.... the DUPers won’t be happy.

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Hopefully more than just a speedster... @DavidGillick: Aaron Sexton has just set 2 new Irish schools records of 10.43/100m & 20.69/200m, stunning runs! His 200m time is also a national junior record & fastest time by a European u20 this year! He’s got skills...but sadly for athletics he’s off to @Ul...

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Cartman wrote:Really liked Captive State
Most of it anyway
Worth a watch

I was looking forward to that but for some reason its UK release was pulled and AFAIK it wasn’t shown in any cinemas.

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This is utterly ridiculous, the EU leaders are meeting to try and narrow down the candidates for the top EU jobs and May is turning up. She should have absolutely no part to play in these decisions. We have let a bunch of anti EU arseholes inside the organisation now. Should tell her don't bother c...

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EU election results from NI - 1 seat each for DUP, Sinn Fein and Alliance. Alliance gain a seat, Ulster Unionist Party lose a seat. Alliance are Remain. Sinn Fein are publicly Remain but many would say are privately Leave as they know a clusterfeck involving the border would accelerate a united Irel...

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Yep, my recent experience with BBC iPlayer was they had updated mechanisms to detect and block VPNs, probably based upon volume of traffic from the IP address which is likely to be way above general domestic use. Workaround is to get a service with a dedicated IP address (that hasn’t been blocked) I...

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Folks, for anyone going to the RWC in Japan, some tickets for the Japan v Ireland game are now on sale through the ticketing website.

I didn't manage to get tickets for this game in previous ticket sales but have just bought a 10,000 Yen (about £70) ticket.

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I went to an EU elections hustings last night in leafy Chiswick, West London. Feck me, it was the shoutiest couple of hours I've heard for a while and I was wondering if punches were going to be thrown at one stage. 5 remainer candidates from Green, LibDem, Labour, Conservative and Change UK and 1 B...

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At a guess, this incident will have cost Jackson one million plus in earnings, maybe close to two million overall when you add the cost of his defence. As such, he'll find it harder to save for retirement and will find it a lot harder to get a cushy post playing job, be it within rugby or not. IMO,...

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If the employer believes an employee's behaviour isn't acceptable and the employment contract covers this, then it doesn't matter what the court verdict is. There doesn't even need to be charges against the person. If the verdict had been guilty then this makes it easy for the employer but even with...

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How many posts before someone brings up flegs...?

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I got a Brexit Party election leaflet addressed to me through my letterbox this morning.

Probably safe to assume they are scatter-bombing everyone rather than targeting supporters or swing-voters....

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Anyone know where I would be able to watch it in New York by the way?! Kent Ale House in Williamsburg. Their Facebook page says they are showing both Munster-Benetton and Ulster-Connacht games. It’s only one stop from Manhattan on the L train and very near the Brooklyn Brewery to do some other sigh...

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What did he expect after texting the leak using a Huawei phone.

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That Scania song... Hit the Diff... truly there are more things in heaven and Earth than I have ever dreamt of.

So is this the type of stuff that Hugo Duncan (the wee man from Strabane) plays on his radio show?

I’m not willing to take the risk of actually listening myself.

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I've heard of some back to back screenings with the previous one, which means about 6 hours of film watching. They need to bring back intermissions if a film's going to stretch significantly beyond the 2 hour mark. When the LotR movies came out we used to go watch them as a family in one of the big...

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Saw Dragged Across Concrete, cops/heist gone wrong film. Better than I thought it was going to be. It isn’t Heat, but what is? It is ridiculously overlong at 2hrs 40mins and my heart sank when I looked up the length but it generally held my attention throughout. Lots of dialogue, lots of violence bu...

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That can't be right Taz, our experts here say there is a technology solution. Also its easy. They just can't explain what it entails Also, despite having really obvious tech solutions to solve the Irish border problem, they also believe we'll be trapped in the backstop for eternity. As always, stra...

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Meh. JRM has wimped out when it comes to papish names. Should have gone for Hyginus, Hilarius and Simplicius.

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There is a sports bar near Farringdon station. It’s an identikit chain place but may be cheaper than paying the girls at the Griffin to watch sport instead of displaying their wares. http://www.sportsbarandgrill.co.uk/farringdon Otherwise Philomenas. It has a “Belfast fry” on the menu complete with ...

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When Mayor of London he did have some competent appointees but you’ve only got to look at something like the Garden Bridge for an example of Boris at his worst - a vanity project done for mates, bullying the organisation into bypassing established processes. At least it was only tens of millions wa...

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Yep. As far as the comrade is concerned, this is purely a party political exercise. If we leave the EU on no deal, so much the better. He just needs to convince his own side of the complete opposite until we exit That actually might be May's best hope of getting Labour to vote for her deal ! Think ...

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Yep. As far as the comrade is concerned, this is purely a party political exercise. If we leave the EU on no deal, so much the better. He just needs to convince his own side of the complete opposite until we exit That actually might be May's best hope of getting Labour to vote for her deal ! Think ...

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@RealDMitchell
I’ve signed this and, now I know that ⁦@theresa_may⁩ is on my side, I’m pretty sure she has too.

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Grauniad summary: - MPs now face a choice between passing Theresa May’s deal next week, and a no-deal Brexit. (See 4.12pm.) - Tusk did not explicitly rule out a long article 50 extension. But Theresa May’s comments earlier today effectively rule this out while she remains PM (see 12.08pm), and this ...

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So is this either/or right now?

Given May's negotiation is likely to be, 'we demand 30 June. 23 June, then? What about 16 June? 9 June is our final offer. OK... 23 May' once that is agreed, will that rule out any other option of extension to at least the end of the year?

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Is there that much to be learned from warm-up games? IIRC in 2015 the warm-ups maybe meant a few fringe players were off the list but they didn't change the core team. The 4th warm-up game v Wales at home is after the squad is announced anyway.

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I haven't been but remember reading somewhere that the traders have a low tolerance level for ordinary punters who faff around asking questions then end up buying nothing or a single steak. Their customers are people in the trade who know exactly what they want, maybe a bit of haggling, done, next. ...

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Ah, the Walkabout in the Bush, a fine rugby tradition. That was where Justin Harrison did some coke in the toilets before going on to gatecrash a Quins party and Andy Howell got into a fight with a QPR fan. Where he got flattened by one of the Quins backrow (name escapes me, maybe Tom Guest?) The n...

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Ah, the Walkabout in the Bush, a fine rugby tradition. That was where Justin Harrison did some coke in the toilets before going on to gatecrash a Quins party and Andy Howell got into a fight with a QPR fan. I used to go to the occasional Wasps game when they played at QPR and the Walkie was the favo...

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I don't feel I really know enough about what the DUP support of Brexit is about? Eg is it immigration, laws, trade related? I heard months ago that they were open to Norway+ - why not go down that route now which saves face and means no need for NI to ever be treated differently? If themmuns want i...

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