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  1. Richie

    Climate change global warming natural disaster freak weather etc.

    Interesting, although that's only accounting for fuel usage and presumably doesn't include for the substantial carbon emitted in building the car itself (if you were factoring this into your calculation I guess you would divide the typical amount of carbon involved in car construction by the...
  2. Richie

    The Russian invasion of Ukraine

    The plane that released the Tsar Bomba dropped down a kilometre in the air when it was caught by the blast shockwave (about 50km away from the blast by then) but they managed to recover and get away. It made an 8 km diameter fireball, insane shit.
  3. Richie

    Climate change global warming natural disaster freak weather etc.

    Michael O'Leary popping up with personalized attacks on him every few months is single handedly enough to make me like Eamon Ryan and think he's doing a good job, whatever other doubts I have about him.
  4. Richie

    2020-21 Football thread

    He has over a dozen senior caps for the North, I think he's well out of our reach at this stage.. A bit annoying that they've leapfrogged us in the promising young player stakes (Evan Ferguson having tailed off a fair bit since that Newcastle hat trick).
  5. Richie

    What television series are you currently making your way through?

    Yeah it's HBO.
  6. Richie

    What television series are you currently making your way through?

    We Own This City - the David Simon / George Pelecanos minseries from a year or 2 back about corrupt plainclothes cops in Baltimore in the 2000s-2010s, the FBI investigation into them and civil rights lawyers investigating the force at the same time (with the nacent Black Lives Matter movement in...
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    Live set videos

  8. Richie

    2020-21 Football thread

    Following the Euro 2024 draw there.. Albania get to relive our Euro 2012 experience - drawn with Spain, Italy and Croatia in the obvious Group of Death, wonder if they'll manage any better than we did. England's group looks pretty nonthreatening, in with the Danes who've been quite mediocre...
  9. Richie

    Dublin Racist Riots

    It's an urban planning concept for a town or city where everything you need is within 15 minute's travel, basically a well planned mixed use urban area where you don't have to travel miles and miles to get basic necessities. It's been latched on to in the past few years by the most cynical...
  10. Richie

    2020-21 Football thread

    On El Tel dying.. I think there was a bit of a sliding doors moment when we got Trap instead of him managing Ireland (thanks partly to classic Eamon Dunphy ranting) - I know he was a wideboy Cockney geezer and all that but I suspect he would've done quite well with Ireland..
  11. Richie

    2020-21 Football thread

    That HITC Sevens channel is a good one to subscribe to, he churns out those mini documentaries and manages to go into a fair bit of detail, does a lot of stuff about the corrupt / uber-capitalist structure of modern football.
  12. Richie

    Dublin Racist Riots

    What do these fuckers have against public transport? 3 buses and a Luas destroyed..
  13. Richie

    What gig did you go to last night?

    That post is very funny & well thought out and I basically agree with him.. I appreciate that electronic music often doesn't really translate to a live performance setting and a lot of the time what you're basically getting is some form of playback with certain elements that have some live...
  14. Richie

    BREXIT

    Besides the anti-muslim stuff, they're apparently climate change deniers and heavily pro fossil fuel exploration (in a country that has large areas below sea level).. Seems to be a huge number of E.U. countries with far right nationalist parties now achieving 25% or more of the vote and in...
  15. Richie

    What gig did you go to last night?

    Sure - based purely on the eerie melancholy ambient music I think I was expecting some professorial Eno-ish type, not Neo's dad meets John Waters.. every line of stage banter had me laughing out loud (with the exception of him announcing his mom had just died). Enjoyed the tunes, even if I had...
  16. Richie

    2020-21 Football thread

    Kenny inevitably gets let go from the Ireland job.. Really wanted it to work, given his ambitions when he took over, but in fairness there've been very few high points over 3 years and this campaign has been especially humbling. I do think whoever takes over has a decent chance to see the...
  17. Richie

    What gig did you go to last night?

    William Basinski in the Sugar Club - had never seen a photo of him or heard him speak despite liking his music for a few years, his look & stage presence is hilariously different to what I had imagined..
  18. Richie

    What television series are you currently making your way through?

    Watching a show called Lodge 49, on the recommendation of someone on a podcast I listen to.. It got 2 seasons in 2018-19 before being cancelled, Wyatt Russell (son of Kurt & Goldie Hawn) plays the lead character, as an amiable somewhat dopey 30-something guy whose life has gone into drift after...
  19. Richie

    What movie did you watch last night?

    Killers of the Flower Moon - had a day off the next day so went to the late showing in the Lighthouse, finishing circa midnight.. It's a very good movie with a great evocation of the period/place, plenty of vivid scenes that stick in the mind and a lot of fine acting. That said, it is a heck of...
  20. Richie

    Fairweather Sports Tourist Thread

    We have a very similar record in rugby to Mexico in the soccer world cup, i.e. almost always get through the group stage, and then fall at the first knockout round.
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