Ireland (2 Viewers)

[egg_]

It is SUV land in tractor form out here though. Those things are about 1/4 million euro now and easily sit at 60kmh. All the old walls around the place end up getting fucked up by them during siliage season. Farms are contract projects now so farmers don't essentially own their own machinery as much now, and hire them for harvest only so the people driving them more or less are encouraged to drive as fast as possible to fit more contracts in the harvest window. Intensification at it's worst.

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[therealjohnny]

Still boggles my mind

 

[Unicron]

Still boggles my mind
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If you told me that one of that lineup was going to end ujp in a thrupple with David Haye I'd have put my life on it being Kierfer Sutherland.

 

[magicbastarder]

the health and safety authority: 'people of ireland, we are unable to guarantee your safety on the roads because people driving fucking enormous vehicles can't be trusted. best stay at home and lock your doors'.

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/uknews/cyclists-and-pedestrians-should-stay-off-the-road-when-silage-harvesting-is-underway-hsa-advises/ar-AA1aJI7G?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=37e2e3f9248945f088bef0ede3efbe5e&ei=10

turns out this was a 'miscommunication'.

 

[Cormcolash]

aka "We didn't actually run that past Eamonn before we posted it"

 

[Deadmanposting]

Bunch of blazers ruining it for everyone

Liffey Swim under threat over insurance issue and ongoing dispute

Swim Ireland wish to overhaul their affiliate’s constitution

www.irishtimes.com

 

[ann post]

Pricks

 

[Cormcolash]

Insurance is causing smaller events all over the place to be cancelled right now. Government has done absolutely fuck all to try and stop it - they won't give a shit until it hits a big name event.

 

[Deadmanposting]

Insurance is causing smaller events all over the place to be cancelled right now. Government has done absolutely fuck all to try and stop it - they won't give a shit until it hits a big name event.

This seems like a blackmail thing - "we won't take out insurance on the event til you accede to our demands"

The article is kind of not too clear though

 

[ann post]

Insurance is causing smaller events all over the place to be cancelled right now. Government has done absolutely fuck all to try and stop it - they won't give a shit until it hits a big name event.

It probably wont effect the Aviva stadium too much.

 

[nuke terrorist]

Insurance is causing smaller events all over the place to be cancelled right now. Government has done absolutely fuck all to try and stop it - they won't give a shit until it hits a big name event.

I read in the local paper yesterday that a fox hunt I never heard of had to be disbanded as no one would would give them insurance any more under any circumstances.
in further good news the hunt had over 5,000 left in their account which was donated to Trocaire and SVP.

 

[magicbastarder]

i had actually heard that mentioned as a way of shutting down a hunt in north county dublin - for someone to make a claim against them and that'd almost guarantee they'd not get cover come next renewal.
they were apparently known for entering land where they'd been explicitly informed they were not to enter - that alone would have been a red flag for an insurance company, were it to be proved.

 

[ann post]

I used to know one person who hunted foxes and he was a prick

 

[egg_]

I know someone who used to be a hunt saboteur and he is sound. Fox hunting is usually carried out by bourgeois townies, most proper culshies hate it

 

[magicbastarder]

my wife usually has harsh words for how they treat their horses too.

 

[Unicron]

I used to know one person who hunted foxes and he was a prick

I know some people who don't hunt but they love a hunt ball. Side effects from being from Kildare I suppose. Loads of horsey people around

 

[nuke terrorist]

my wife usually has harsh words for how they treat their horses too.

The poor dogs get the worst of it, I think.
I have seen them en masse loaded into trailers and it always looks grim.

People who grow up around horses make up the bulk of equestrian, horse racing / hunt folks. They don't know any different.

A road a few miles from me goes into a forestry where about a mile away from houses, a hunt keeps their dogs about 150 metres of that forestry track.

Someone who seems have learning difficulties was looking after the dogs.
He was living in a caravan on site and he seemed to have nowhere else to go.

A relative of that lad died suddenly (lovely man who everyone misses) and his brother was due to get his house.
But his brother gave it to lad who was looking after the hunt dogs who now has somewhere decent to live.

The very kind guy who gave him the house lives in small one bed council house himself.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

I know some people who don't hunt but they love a hunt ball. Side effects from being from Kildare I suppose. Loads of horsey people around

the relic's of aul dacency types abound in that scene as well.. (the few of them that are left)

 

[ernesto]

I've a massive pain in Mike hunt

 

[magicbastarder]

this is just a bit weird.

Irish watchdog opposed €1.2bn Meta fine, saying it would have no ‘meaningful dissuasive effect’

Case centres on Facebook’s transfers of personal data to the US in defiance of EU law

www.irishtimes.com