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  • in reply to: how does your garden grow?… #362032
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    Cheers for the link to the sutton website and the tip! Is there anything else that you would recommend me plant which would be good for this time of year or in the autumn?

    Sutton catalogue is free when you request from site, thay have seeds to be planted now.

    Amazing I will get on to that right away! :P

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    Cheers for the link to the sutton website and the tip! Is there anything else that you would recommend me plant which would be good for this time of year or in the autumn?

    in reply to: Andy Murray – Wimbledon 2011 #361990
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    I have to agree with you on this! But I would love it if we got proved wrong!

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    Sorry I cannot warm to Braveheart. I’m sure his Mum is very nice however he comes across as obnoxious doesn’t appear to possess the killer instinct so abundant in the top three seeds. He certainly appears to have a saloon passage.to the semi finals, but I anticipate his problems rearing their heads by the last sixteen. Things such as injuries under pressure, allowing lesser playets to build up two sets to one leads, loss of concentration in rain delayed games (with the roof, shouldn’t be such a problem this time). All that said, he has a great chance but I feel he needs one of the.top seeds to fall early to boost his prospects. Djokovic is in the form of his life and is my idea of a worthy champion. He no longer has the worry of keeping up a winning streak and a win here would push him to world number one where he is already in all but rank. Acircumstance of events and Andy Murray could find himself in the final. The best event would be if he took it upon himself to be obnoxious Oncourt and made it to the final by beating the best by playing his best and leaving his offcourt persona to his Mum.

    Yeah I love djokvic, he definitely deserved to win against muarry at the Australian Open, muarry will have probably play against him again to get any where near the final, and to be honest I would put my bet on Djokvic wining that match!

    in reply to: how does your garden grow?… #361870
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    I’ve recently started growing my own vegetables, didn’t really have a clue what I was doing, so thank god I read this thread, definitely pointed me in the right direction.

    in reply to: What are you listening to? #361828
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    Bit against the grain of what you folks are listening to, but I’m listening to Everyday (Netsky remix) – Rusko
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD40VXFkusw

    Rusko is good too! :mrgreen:

    in reply to: What are you listening to? #361814
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    I mostly been listening to my favourite band Metronomy, can’t get enough of their new album

    Don’t know much about Metronomy, but see that they have a tune out about Torbay. The accompanying video shot in Torquay makes the place look quite glam :)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PnOG67f … r_embedded

    Metronomy are really good , I would definitely recommend you listen to them some more, all three albums they have now brought out have been orginal and exciting, I’m really impressed with the new album (The English Riviera) especailly the first two songs call the ‘The look’ and ‘The Bay’, that video shot in Torquay really does make it look glam! And to top it off they are impressive when they play live aswell. Have I sold them to you enough yet? :D

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    Max Clifford should start sponsoring the Premiership (or at least the League Cup) given the amount of money he makes out of it

    How very true. :x

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    I mostly been listening to my favourite band Metronomy, can’t get enough of their new album

    in reply to: Andy Murray – Wimbledon 2011 #361710
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    I really do want him to win wimbledon! But every year/grandslam seems to have the same result, performs really well in the opening rounds and quater finals, only for his nerves to get the better of him and fail in the semi final or final, so I’m sure if I would put a bet on him or not. Fingers crossed for wimbledon.

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    I agree with you too!

    in reply to: The Killing – BBC4 Saturday night #340972
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    I think it’s great that a subtitled series is being shown on British television, we should have more of this, it is not just films, but there are some great European series that we never get to see because they are not in English.

    in reply to: How to get on in life…. #340971
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    Nepotism is rife in every social class – people help out and recommend their own for jobs, therefore networking and who you know will always be important.

    They can put as many measures in place as they like to prevent ‘who you know’ being the deciding factor in getting work/intership, but let’s face it, there is no way to prevent it totally.

    Take hope in that there are people who have managed to pull themselves up by the boot straps and get on in life without mummy and daddy having the money and right connections to give them that leg up.

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    Forget have you seen this man, have you ever dreamed this man?

    http://www.thisman.org/history.htm

    in reply to: Ireland #338999
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    As a piece of invective, this takes some beating…

    Amongst others…

    "That’s what we do so well in Ireland – we rant and rave, we purge and we vent the pent, we get sloshed or high, then we return home in the early hours with our dignity between our legs, all limp and shriveled up, poxed and ridden, and we bend the deferential knee, bare our arses for the ritualistic buggery and we thank our sado-masochistic sodomites for giving us a good hammering. We did it for 800 years. It’s in our blood. And when the Brits left, we installed the church as sodomite-in-chief, just in case we might think ourselves free, self-determining, and independent. We daren’t ask or hold anyone accountable. What’s the use when the slick politicians will only lie and cheat their way out of culpability anyway? We’ll shoulder the burden and we’ll always be ready with the Vaseline.



    Besides, our politicians are incorrigible, especially the [expletive] in Fianna Fáil, who’ve been in power for most of our republic’s history. They’ve sold our future into slavery, thrown away our sovereignty, reduced a nation to penury, dismantled an infrastructure that was the envy of the civilized world, broken every institution, shown contempt for the people and utterly disgraced our country. They’ve said to our neighbours across the pond, ‘you were right all along; we were incapable of governing ourselves. We tried and look at the mess we made of things.’ Instead of focusing on the emergency state we now find ourselves in with mass emigration, mass unemployment, a colossal and unmanageable debt, inflation rising and a very bleak future in store, what do these [expletive] do? They propose patriotism for the rest of us and entitlement for themselves: we are expected to live on fresh air as they feather their own nests. I can only imagine if a man like Dan Breen were alive today to see what has been made of his sacrifice."



    I agree with every word. More here…

    http://www.counterpunch.org/crawford02012011.html

    I agree with every word of this as well.

    I would add that as a people the Irish (I am one) have a sick, twisted admiration for people who get one over on other people. My personal theory is that this came from when we were ruled by the British- pulling the wool over someone else’s eyes to get what you want would make sense in those circumstances.

    However, I think that that attitude is now ingrained in the Irish’s psyche and so now we do it to each other, and still congratulate each other for getting away with not paying that self-employed painter and decorator for painting your house "got the whole house painted for free! Feckin’ eejit" – without thought that that man who painted your house cannot take the financial hit of not being paid for his work.

    Admiration for politicians who screw up politically time and time again, yet never resign and are never pushed to resign. They can do whatever and say whatever they like with absolutely no consequences. In Britain, they resign. In Ireland, someone writes something in the newspaper and then the politician simply stays on never learning the valuable lesson that there are consequences for your ill-thought-out actions.

    Glad I got the hell out before the economic crash INEVITABLY happened. It was so obvious (and I’m not an economist, not good at maths etc. and even I could see it was going to happen and soon) when I left in 2007 that things were going to crash down, and no one did a thing about it.

    My plan was to leave and get settled elsewhere before the next wave of emigration happened and I would be competing at the same time with thousands of others Irish without a job. And I made the right decision. I am never moving back there.

    in reply to: A degree worth paying for? #338640
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    Yeah that’s all well and good…but WHY do they make these kind of subjects degrees? It sullies the work I put into getting my own degree in something useful. Why can’t there just be ‘a course’ in these topics. It belittles what a degree is about.

    Who allows people to decide what subject is worthy of degree status? Soon there’ll be BA’s in womens shoes, MA’s about Kylie Minogue’s hotpants….

    in reply to: Ireland #337496
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    He’ll be gone in March when the general election happens.

    But come on, blaming him is not going to do much good – Bertie was as bad. All the signs of an over-inflated economy too reliant on property have been there for years. It was bound to happen, just nobody bothered to look ahead and start implementing a stategy plan.

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