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And wandering about Barnard Castle saying "well you've never read Nate Silver's book on Superforecasting, have you?"

Who has time to read Who Moved My Cheese? or whatever the latest bestseller by Malcolm Gladwell is?

Sitcom Irony? Like when a character says you won't catch them on a plane and then suddenly Mr T is on a plane, fool

He goes to modern opera and when he says modern opera he means Phillip Glass, he doesn't bother with anything else

I wouldn't put it passed a certain amount of Irish people to vote him in for the craic.

That Irish leg is designed by someone who doesn't know the roads here

Ireland may be in the strange position of being able to vote for a President who has already withdrawn from running. We're coming for you France.

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Finally! She deserves it.

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And you ask me now about Olly Murs and I'm sure I'd get him mixed up with Olly Alexander

In Big Banana Feet, Connolly flies from Dublin to Belfast, that journey is about 3-4 hours in a car back then but the massacre changed everything.

Bands no longer toured Ireland and the ones that dared come where treated like demi-gods

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Yeah all the everyday places are reduced hours or closing leaving cinemas to become like the theatre

Leitrim was despised in the county. He was a terrible landlord but he was also a bugger for Traverse of the Presentment. That term is a legal mind melt but in practice you sued parishes for compo off the rates.

Leitrim was in Donegal because a recent road had encroached 2 inches into his land.

He was shot by bird guns, these are very low powered guns meant to fell birds without destroying the flesh.

We went to the road, it's on a massive curve surrounded by woodland. They were likely poaching when he came into view and they took their chance.

The accounts state, that the driver was killed outright, the secretary fell to the ground under the cart and was able to escape for help (another cart was also travelling down the road) unseen and that Leitrim fought his attackers until they eventually bludgeoned him to death with the butts

I'm seeing if a similarly violent line drawing depicting real events gets flagged

A black and white image of Lord Leitrim being shot for his political views. Those views being that he had better rights being rich than the people who lived in Donegal who were poor

The Murder of Lord Leitrim by gunshot. As @archivedelver demonstrates in his MA this image by the Illustrated Police News is absolute garbage

I'm still of the opinion that cinemas should put a lot of quality old stuff back on the big screen for a quick buck. I'm miffed we had to travel on Saturday because we missed Goldeneye which I would've bought a large combo to watch

Yeah but now everyone feels that way. They should've stopped at Endgame but then why would they? It was such a massive phenomenon

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But it reminds me of the GIF I post whenever TOTP is on and a tweeny boyband appears much to the derision of men who were in their twenties at the time

I'm finding this all incredibly healthy, sometimes things just pass you by or aren't for you (even if people think they are)

Of course not burnt stuff tastes nasty, we all know that. Roasting takes time and careful management. That's like claiming that one day cavemen left the grain out in the rain and it fermented and they drank it hence why we have beer. It's stupid if you even think about it for 5 minutes

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The trial of Soldier F is currently ongoing at the moment but the only news I get about it is on local news sites and a little on RTE.

Nobody is really talking about it

My big problem is Feta, I absolutely hate the tastes but sadly in most places if you want a salad you will have two options Chicken Caesar (which is fine but very samey) or something with Feta in it. It's just depressing