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Must have chaffed quote badly at the end.

Try to pull?

There's taking over someone's business and then there's taking over someone's business.

They should still be eturnable if the barcode is regitered, there's a grace period for rnning down stock

He does video now too I think, keeps it on for that

In general I'm big on the principal of self determination. I've got no real instinctive feeling on whether Catalunya should be independent, but I think that the people there should have a choice about it. But I have found some arguments that have been made by Catalan nationalists, like "we're...

Read a book recently, granted it was Simon Kuper's book on FC Barcelona but there was quite a bit of cultural history, that said in the city anyway traditionally the language was spoken by "la burgesia" as a way of imposing a social hierarchy in the city, which attracted workers from all over...

We were in Caernarfon last year for a night waiting to get the ferry back to Dublin the next morning. Was really taken with how much of a living language it was there. We were in a pub for dinner and drinks and the staff would deal with us and then when talking to each other just switch back...

...even if some will reject or lose their heritage or identity to a sense of Irishness in the same way that some of the Irish who went to Britain did.* * There's a story about Wayne Rooney being in school and his teacher telling him that with a name like Rooney he must be Irish. Young Wayne...

A mate had a story about meeting Mark E Smith in Barcelona the morning after partying all night and not going to bed, he was pretty rough but he helped Smith buy cigarettes from a machine in a bar (I think you had to get a token to operate it to stop kids from just buying cigs) and Smith advised...

For better or worse and without getting into the why's we are, linguistically, in the anglosphere (in this case I mean the countries who primarily speak English) and we're the smallest one (by a couple of hundred K). We hoover up cultural exports from all the big ones; not just the Brits, but...

Herself used to work there as well, doing workshops etc. Like you say, only a fraction is ever out. Maybe that's a criticism to be made of having the library, or at least having it there, the location in Dublin Castle isn't suitable for to house everything.

I don't know if it's a permanent exhibition but I was in the Cathal Brugha museum in the summer and there was a decent sized collection of asian stuff there. IIRC all part of a single lot purchased by a collector over the course of his life in the late 18th/early 19th century and then...

I thought Johnny was the big Tory in the Ramones.

Lankum got kicked off a festival bill in Leipzig because they played a Palestinian fundraiser here.

There was an argument I read a couple of years ago that with credit being so cheap at the time Ireland should borrow as much as it can for a wealth fund.

My favourite job was a 4 day stint I did at the K-Club during a European Open driving a caddy cart around the course with a roving TV camera crew that'd move between playing groups to get shots. Had great fun zipping around the place

I just went with the most Ukrainey sounding name I could think of.

"Right, take a while, I'm going to talk to Andrij in Ukraine now and I'll be back to you later."

Got 2 boosters yesterday. Covid arm much worse than flu arm.