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  • #602
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,343 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    irishbucsfan wrote: »
    Yeah. I'm not far from awec but my snow is even heavier and even cooler and my story about leaving the apartment earlier was even more interesting.

    It definitely seems heavier today than it was yesterday. We were lied to!
    What story?


  • #603
    stephen_n
    Registered Users Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    Snows way heavier in town today than it was last night, about 4 inches in the last two hours.


  • #604
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,774 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    awec wrote: »
    Snow is really heavy here in Dublin 18, this is nuts! Was out for a walk earlier, up to my mid-shin in most places with some areas nearly hitting my knee.

    So we're talking about 4 foot then.


  • #605
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    awec wrote: »
    What story?

    Ah it was great


  • #606
    Buer
    Registered Users Posts: 24,176 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    The novelty is over. F*ck off snow.


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  • #607
    Neil3030
    Registered Users Posts: 16,981 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    thomond2006 wrote: »
    SA is screwed.

    Anyone with any kind of wealth is going to get out of there sharpish.

    Farming only constitutes 2.6% of of South Africa's GDP too. Even if they redistributed every farm evenly amongst the ~30million South Africans currently living in poverty, would it make the blindest bit of difference?


  • #608
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,136 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    I'm out of breadsticks :eek::mad:


  • #609
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    Neil3030 wrote: »
    Farming only constitutes 2.6% of of South Africa's GDP too. Even if they redistributed every farm evenly amongst the ~30million South Africans currently living in poverty, would it make the blindest bit of difference?

    No. Using the Zimbabwean example, those farms would instantly become about 90% less productive


  • #610
    Scythica
    Registered Users Posts: 961 ✭✭✭Scythica


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Of all the days. Of ALL the days for our boiler to get a fault.

    Literally spent hours outside defrosting are stupidly long 2 inch condensate pipe after a freezing night.

    ended up having a strop and broke the pipework, but made defrosting the ice inside a doddle..!! Boiler back up and running and then had to drive from Cornwall to Derby cos of my missus and her stubbornness to spend the weekend with her family...

    Half the roads you couldn't even see the lanes!!

    And now we're here... there's only non alcoholic beer!


  • #611
    Interested Observer
    Registered Users Posts: 12,999 ✭✭✭✭Interested Observer


    Buer wrote: »
    The novelty is over. F*ck off snow.

    Absolutely.


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  • #612
    Neil3030
    Registered Users Posts: 16,981 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    Zzippy wrote: »
    No. Using the Zimbabwean example, those farms would instantly become about 90% less productive

    When you see the billions South Africa export, in gold, iron, platinum, diamonds, fossil fuels etc, yet the government have the population convinced it's the farmers keeping everyone in poverty.... ho hum...


  • #613
    thomond2006
    Registered Users Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    Fcuking hell.
    BREAKING. massive garda and army operation underway in Tallaght after group of people have gone on rampage with stolen digger.
    Have so far partially demolished the CityWest Lidl store with the bucket of digger, and are said to be trying to rob an ATM machine nearby.

    https://twitter.com/conor_feehan/status/969683008923078656


  • #614
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    thomond2006 wrote: »
    Fcuking hell.

    They robbed the safe and were trying to dismantle it

    Building now on fire


  • #615
    Bridge93
    Registered Users Posts: 7,018 ✭✭✭Bridge93


    After all the furore the people of Jobstown made over being apparently "unfairly" made out to be scumbag over the Joan Burton debacle, they then conspire to do this.


  • #616
    stephen_n
    Registered Users Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    Bridge93 wrote: »
    After all the furore the people of Jobstown made over being apparently "unfairly" made out to be scumbag over the Joan Burton debacle, they then conspire to do this.

    In fairness that’s a very broad brush you’re using to paint your picture there.


  • #617
    thomond2006
    Registered Users Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    Let's put these people away for a stretch. This is animal behaviour.


  • #618
    Zzippy
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 14,166 Mod ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    Shocking scenes on the videos going around. Probably 30 people out of work as a result. Scum. I think it's clear from the audio on the videos that local people are shocked and not approving of what's happening, unfair to tar all with the one brush.


  • #619
    ScrubsfanChris
    Registered Users Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    Stheno wrote: »
    They robbed the safe and were trying to dismantle it

    Building now on fire
    The reports of fire were false. There's videos of gardai arresting people outside the Lidl and nothing is "on fire"

    One of those arrested was the JCB driver apparanty although he most likely wasn't acting alone.


  • #620
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    ScrubsfanChris wrote: »
    The reports of fire were false. There's videos of gardai arresting people outside the Lidl and nothing is "on fire"

    One of those arrested was the JCB driver apparanty although he most likely wasn't acting alone.

    My mistake


  • #621
    Jack Kanoff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Jack Kanoff


    A Centra was also robbed, that was in Jobstown, a consaw used to get thru the shutters.
    Long custodial sentences are needed here


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  • #622
    Bazzo
    Registered Users Posts: 7,047 ✭✭✭Bazzo


    Was just coming here to see if anybody else had seen the videos of the absolute carnage. I hope the scumbags behind that go away for a very long time, absolute animal-like behaviour.


  • #623
    Jack Kanoff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Jack Kanoff


    Bazzo wrote: »
    Was just coming here to see if anybody else had seen the videos of the absolute carnage. I hope the scumbags behind that go away for a very long time, absolute animal-like behaviour.

    There an interesting little sidebar to that, Johnny Connors and Allison Spittle...he mentioned something about not calling the Gardai in a tweet deleted...he was getting some abuse and Spittle kind of came to his aid...he's now threatening to sue her for defamation it seems. :D


  • #624
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    Bridge93 wrote: »
    After all the furore the people of Jobstown made over being apparently "unfairly" made out to be scumbag over the Joan Burton debacle, they then conspire to do this.

    The Lidl was in fortunestown, City West.


  • #625
    Jack Kanoff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Jack Kanoff


    Synode wrote: »
    The Lidl was in fortunestown, City West.

    The Centra that was broken into was in Jobstown I believe.


  • #626
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,343 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Jack Kanoff wrote: »
    The Centra that was broken into was in Jobstown I believe.

    They’re just round the corner from each other.


  • #627
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    awec wrote: »
    They’re just round the corner from each other.

    If by around the corner you mean a couple of miles then yeah


  • #628
    stephen_n
    Registered Users Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    Synode wrote: »
    If by around the corner you mean a couple of miles then yeah

    Jobstown and Fortunestown are right beside each other, no matter what point in either you are in, you could never be a couple of miles apart.


  • #629
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    stephen_n wrote: »
    Jobstown and Fortunestown are right beside each other, no matter what point in either you are in, you could never be a couple of miles apart.

    I'd post a google map but I'm on mobile. 2.1km between centra Jobstown and Lidl Fortunestown


  • #630
    Jack Kanoff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Jack Kanoff


    And people call me argumentative ! :)


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  • #631
    stephen_n
    Registered Users Posts: 12,920 ✭✭✭✭stephen_n


    Synode wrote: »
    I'd post a google map but I'm on mobile. 2.1km between centra Jobstown and Lidl Fortunestown

    I sit corrected, mile and half, honestly wouldn’t have thought that’s possible from driving through there.


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