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Arquinsiel posted:Tricking the gung-ho idiot fash brigade into demanding funding of public services by putting them under the Department of Defence is a pretty good trick TBH. Just wait a few years and change the name to the "Department of Social Defence" and watch the rage pour in. america is currently doing this with teachers
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Shoehead posted:Where did you get it?????? gonadic io posted:america is currently doing this with teachers 
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Arquinsiel posted:Go watch Band of Brothers. I've watched it like 3 times! I wasn't concentrating on the hedgerows obviously
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Funnily enough, the terrain similarity is also why Saving Private Ryan filmed in Wexford neatly tying us back into using the Irish Defence Forces for non-military tasks 
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crispix posted:why does any country need a navy, people can't live in the sea can they?:!?
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Bedshaped posted:seeing a really really big field for the first time can cause irrevocable psychic damage to an irish person I have seen this actually happen to Dubs
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Shoehead posted:I have seen this actually happen to Dubs I remember a few years ago RTE ran a story about a bunch of Dubs going to a farm for the first time in their life.
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gonadic io posted:I'll be honest, I have at times wondered if getting the passport and moving here from england was like moving to from germany to czechoslovakia in 1933 or so We'll find out I think, depends on what happens with the EU imo. Ireland either needs the EU to continue to exist to muscle britain for us, or actual nuclear weapons.
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Southpaugh posted:We'll find out I think, depends on what happens with the EU imo. Ireland either needs the EU to continue to exist to muscle britain for us, or actual nuclear weapons. I must say it was very nice specifically for Ireland that joe "I'm irish" biden won and told the uk to gently caress off, you just know trump would have been immediately undermining the GFA for his mates boris and nige.
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Skull Servant posted:I remember a few years ago RTE ran a story about a bunch of Dubs going to a farm for the first time in their life. You were watching Bosco
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Skull Servant posted:I remember a few years ago RTE ran a story about a bunch of Dubs going to a farm for the first time in their life. My wife keeps seeing foxes and hedgehogs and cows and horses and it blows her mind every time. We're only in fuckin Bray
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Bray is like some kind of fringe existence between urban chaos and bogger decline.
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Shoehead posted:My wife keeps seeing foxes and hedgehogs and cows and horses and it blows her mind every time. We're only in fuckin Bray
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Pookah posted:Bray is like some kind of fringe existence between urban chaos and bogger decline. It’s a town full of fish people freaks.
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The only time I was shocked to see an animal was a pheasant and that's because I assumed it would have been shot.
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Pookah posted:Bray is like some kind of fringe existence between urban chaos and bogger decline. I'd say more urban decline and bogger chaos tbh
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Quantum of Phallus posted:It’s a town full of fish people freaks. Lovecraft inspired Irish Horror film when?
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lemonadesweetheart posted:Or instead they could just focus on the coast guard instead of a military force being used for non-military stuff. So it's not that simple. First the Navy is covered by the Minister (and the Department) of Defense. But Ireland is unique in that it's one of the only countries on Earth where our Coast Guard aren't a part of the Department of Defense. They are a part of the Department of Transport. Secondly this limits their jurisdiction. The Coast Guard are limited in how far away from Irish waters they can operate. Where as the Navy is nominally allowed operate much further from Ireland. Thirdly, while the Coast Guard is charged with enforcing Maratime Law, they are very limited in what they can do. Not only are they not armed, they don't even have powers of arrest. Basically they have to get assistance from the Air Force, Navy, the Guards or even the office of Customs for some of their duties. Essentially you need to have a Coast Guard and a Navy. Quantum of Phallus posted:It’s a town full of fish people freaks. One of my friends is from Bray. He says that on the weekends the people go down to the beach and stare at the sea until, willing it to be Monday again. I believe him.
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I was in the Bray Head Hotel about a decade ago when it was being used for a movie shoot, and it was without a doubt the most cursed building I've ever been on, they must have been doing ritual sacrifices or something in there every weekend back in the day
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Failed Imagineer posted:I was in the Bray Head Hotel about a decade ago when it was being used for a movie shoot, and it was without a doubt the most cursed building I've ever been on, they must have been doing ritual sacrifices or something in there every weekend back in the day Should have run and gotten the local vicar
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PowerBeard posted:Lovecraft inspired Irish Horror film when?
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Skull Servant posted:The only time I was shocked to see an animal was a pheasant and that's because I assumed it would have been shot. Reminds me of the time we were driving down this road and a pheasant with a deathwish came charging at us. We stopped in time and I had to shoo it to the side.
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Failed Imagineer posted:I was in the Bray Head Hotel about a decade ago when it was being used for a movie shoot, and it was without a doubt the most cursed building I've ever been on, they must have been doing ritual sacrifices or something in there every weekend back in the day What shoot out of interest? Feature, tv or student?
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Quantum of Phallus posted:What shoot out of interest? Feature, tv or student? It was the film Frank, I think I crop up as a random punter at the band's gig in an early scene
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Nice. Great film.
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Rust Martialis posted:Should have run and gotten the local vicar I suppose its possible that you might find a Vicar down amongst the wicklow milieu.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:What shoot out of interest? Feature, tv or student? They have shot so many things down in or outside that hotel. Back in my Extras days I was a background extra for a seaside scene in the adaption of the book Ice Cream Girls.
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bray is such a kip. i used to work in ardmore studios so if i wanted to get food after work, i'd have to go to bray. so depressing
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Had a good night at a birthday party in Bray Bowl where we had the run of the place, free booze and all the arcades were on free mode. Achieved a childhood goal by actually beating the TimeCop arcade, one of the most money-eating games of all time. I guess that didn't have a lot to do with Bré per se
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Skull Servant posted:The only time I was shocked to see an animal was a pheasant and that's because I assumed it would have been shot. Oh we have one of those living next to us, they've some voice on them. The Question IRL posted:One of my friends is from Bray. You literally can only do things like this in the winter, in the summer the seafront is wall to wall cityfolk and... shite I just reminded myself that the airshow will be back this year. We had to lock the doors the other year (they'll be covid locked still this year)
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The airshow is the only time I've bothered going to Bray in recent years. It really hilights how the town is not at all capable of handling that many dubs at once.
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Bray is a great spot and infinitely superior to its bougie twin, Greystones.
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The Bray to Greystones walk is nice enough. The further you go the nicer it is. Dalkey and Killiney are nice cycles as well if you like hills.
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Arquinsiel posted:It really hilights how the town is not at all capable of handling that many dubs at once. Also true of Dublin tbf
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Dublin suffers from employers insisting that everyone start and nine and quit at five or six PM. If presenteeism wasn't such a big fetish with Irish middle management it'd not be a problem at all.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:The Bray to Greystones walk is nice enough. The further you go the nicer it is. Dalkey and Killiney are nice cycles as well if you like hills. Was on it there a few days ago. The council have put up barriers near the greystones end to try stopping people doing the full walk. On account of some of the path being fairly eroded a few months back. Of course everyone just goes around the barriers anyway.
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Arquinsiel posted:Dublin suffers from employers insisting that everyone start and nine and quit at five or six PM. If presenteeism wasn't such a big fetish with Irish middle management it'd not be a problem at all. That sucks. I work from whenever I drag myself out of bed to whenever I get too bored, which is probably 10-5. Can't imagine going back to the clocking-in grind at this point
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I am now in much the same situation. Working 100% remote for a small company that works to task rather than to time. Thanks to being fast, I spend a lot of time reading forums.
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Arquinsiel posted:I am now in much the same situation. Working 100% remote for a small company that works to task rather than to time. Thanks to being fast, I spend a lot of time reading forums. i started WFH in April 2020 and my forums time has increased exponentially
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