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As a N.I. resident i fervently wish for the day when Bushmills distillery is put to the torch.  I like Suntory Toki or Maker's Mark for preference but my budget drives me to Tesco own band vodka if i want a drink... Baileys has gone way up in price this year. edit: cat: 
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Also a lot of the first whisky that people try is a loving poo poo blended one because it's cheap. There'd be more people who drink whisky were it not for having tried Bell's to see if they liked it and drawing conclusions based on that. That was me; first whisky when i was 18, never drank it again till i was 50.  edit: Both protestant owned.  
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I assume the VPN integrated into the the Opera browser for the PC is a pile of compromised code... cause i've been using it for several years without incident.
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Dec 5, 2022 15:22
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Just bought an Alto Recorder... i am currently making "NOISE" with it, the neighbours will not be amused. 
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Dec 5, 2022 21:23
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:About 4 or 5 years ago, I went to a recorder recital and there were all sorts of weird and wonderful recorders including one that had a really big box. Can't find a picture online. The big box one is probably a Contrabass Recorder, the ones we all tried (and probably hated, like myself) in school were Soprano Recorders. It's my xmas present (£23) to myself this year.
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Dec 5, 2022 21:35
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:It was more like this but the box at the bottom was bigger. Shape depends on the maker and they can be adjusted/added to depending on the sound wanted (sort of plug & play i guess). ------- He's playing Yamaha Alto like mine though his looks pricier. Now i'll have to learn how to breathe correctly for this thing. lol
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Dec 5, 2022 21:46
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Lungboy posted:Sup new instrument buddy. My daughter asked for a guitar for Christmas and I've always wanted to learn too so I bought myself a cheap one so we can learn together. That sounds like a wonderful thing to do together.  I attempted guitar/ukulele last year but my hand flexibility sucked too much, recorder feels less vexing.
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Dec 5, 2022 23:48
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OwlFancier posted:.... Unmute for enjoyment.  ------ I stopped doing the lottery when they put the price up, i won near bugger all while i was doing it. What gambling buzz i get nowadays comes from the monthly Premium Bonds draw, the odd £25 is a nice little plus when i'm doing the shopping. 
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Dec 9, 2022 19:06
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Well... he's fatter than me and i'm not into wearing thongs, shorts, badly fitting t-shirts and yellow caps... in fact his whole ensemble is atrocious.  ---------------- edit: frytechnician posted:Now that football's not coming home, let's get back to being angry at what a wreck our country is again please. Thank gently caress for that, now they can go back to talking about 1966 again. 
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Dec 10, 2022 22:11
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:Can I just check does anyone else here dislike the tories? ''Dislike'' is such a mild word. In my case start with detest and go downwards.
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Dec 12, 2022 08:52
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OwlFancier posted:If you want your gf to peg you you should sort that out before you get married. Honestly these royals are loving useless. First worthy gf to peg the prince gets the crown.... how difficult can it be? 
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Dec 12, 2022 15:59
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sebzilla posted:Lovely card A festive goatse.... from the kids.  ---------------- edit: Camrath posted:Can confirm. My little brother went to school with her (and made out with her at least once) and apparently she was ‘target fixated’ even as a mid-teen. Somebody did her genealogy and if you go back 4-5 generations they are upper class/minor nobility with links to the royal family, though i suppose that applies to a lot of people these days.
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Dec 12, 2022 18:09
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Thought for the day: I am now at an age that i can really appreciate wearing longjohns. 
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His Divine Shadow posted:Ugh, this morning. That's too warm indoors too, have to adjust my heating curve downwards or I'll go broke. Still it was nice to feel a warm floor for once. I wear carpet slippers in winter, the ''floor'' is always warm. 
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Payndz posted:"I always loved to make models when I was a boy. The exactness, the attention to every conceivable detail..." I've still got a kit of HMS Dreadnought that i never got around to building, will do it some day.
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History Comes Inside! posted:Shell are constantly trying to put mine up even after adjusting it for the price increases because by their estimates I’m actually about to double my energy use compared to previous winters, because they are either thick cunts, evil cunts, or some combination of the two. What's wrong with paying quarterly? They (Power NI) tried to get me onto DD every so often but have always submitted/had it read my metre reading and paid for it every quarter, not fond of DD for things like that.
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Guavanaut posted:
The last one on that sheet: Dale E Mail as the Hitler Party gave me a giggle.
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With the current weather i have the central heating on continuously and the hall thermostat set to 14C (it goes on for 3-5 minutes every 1/2 hour or so). Keeps the house acceptably tolerable to move a round in and if i close the living room doors that room goes up to a pleasant 18C.
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OwlFancier posted:I don't even store browsing history, let alone tabs beyond the browsing session. I'm exactly the same.
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Dec 19, 2022 07:47
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Currently doing all my internet stuff on a refurbished ancient Dell Optiplex 380 (2005 model) running Linux Mint. It's not optimal but i can't be arsed assembling a better one from my parts box, plus i like the look of the Dell. I know bugger all about monitors other than making sure the connectors match.
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WhatEvil posted:Maybe it's suing them on a point they know will fail in court so they can say "Well, we tried to sue the people (our mates) who supplied dodgy PPE but the judges, who are enemies of the people as we've previously established, said no". I think much the same, damage limitation by the Tories and lets them say; we did our job!
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Failed Imagineer posted:Along those lines: RTE Player perchance? All this historical stuff in Ireland and i can't be arsed to leave the house for a walk these days (and no, i haven't been to the Giant's Causeway).  ------ Nice Yule Crosses, wonder if xmas trees were derived from them at all.
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/lbc/status/1605585654670295042?s=46&t=s_Gjx-7-YyeN4rmDlI8tbQ That's not a bomb.... that's a two pounder shell (40mm ) from a British Pom-Pom gun.  I watch too far many Drachinifel vids for my own good. edit: they say it's from WW1 but that ammo was in use during both wars, looks like the primer is missing so probably safe to handle... a bit. Just Another Lurker fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Dec 21, 2022 |
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Nothingtoseehere posted:No. There was a single study out of Hong Kong Feb 2020 saying they could find virus RNA on surfaces up to 3 days afterwards, but virus RNA =! Infectious virus. Labs could never get a sample that could infect a petri dish from a surface, let alone actual people. Back when people actually did case tracing, there was basically no cases firmly linked to an infected surface rather than breathing in a infectious persons air. Covid has always been a airborne disease, not a surface contact one - all the hand washing and cleanimg surfaces promoted in the early pandemic by the WHO did nothing against covid (it was very useful against the common cold however) Yeah, they were very into surface contamination at the start of the epidemic, i was wearing disposable gloves & masks constantly for the first 18 months... better safe than sorry. On the plus side i still wear masks when shopping/banking etc and i haven't had a cold, flu or covid in all that time.... so far. 
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Only Kindness posted:It's probably something like that. Plenty of recipes (sic) should have a bit in them where one step should be "firmly grasp the bottle of _____ and hoik it into the bin". For my GCSE Home Economics practical i made Paprika Pork.... all she said once she tasted it was: "you put some paprika in that, didn't you", taste differs. edit: it wasn't a question.
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Microplastics posted:Workers over 50 encouraged to end early retirement If my old job offers me £700 per week after tax i shall indeed return... for 3-5 years then retire again.  Now im taking a Nytol and zoning out for the next 14hrs.
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Ughh... woke up, Merry Christmas to you all.  Now back to sleep.
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Happily i'm having another solitary xmas. Nice food and i opened up a bottle of rioja that has been sitting on a shelf for nearly 3 years (it's good).
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My condolences on your loss Clarence. 
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Splurged out and got two half price games for £12 on Steam (Empyrion & Delta V: Rings of Saturn), will dive into them when i get bored with Space Engineers again. I threw out my Freelancer cd a few years ago.... wtf was i even thinking then?!?! 
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Jel Shaker posted:as far as i can gather Epic store pays the publisher as normal, it’s just that they’re making mind boggling amounts of money off Fortnight so it’s pissing in the wind relatively speaking, but they’re trying to diversify their business and eat valves lunch Think i've gotten around twenty of their weekly "Free Games" over the last couple of years. Barely played any of them (my Steam Library overfloweth) but i only select titles that i would actually enjoy and are a good way to stop any impulse buying cravings i have. Steam purchases nowadays are limited to games that i have on my wishlist along with a big On Sale discount.
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Only Kindness posted:Speaking of vibeo gaems as we were, here's some for you. Once this game dies (before full release) there are going to be quite a few suicides irl. Disclaimer: i bought the £35 pack before "launch" and left it alone, playing an indefinite Alpha/Beta doesn't appeal to me.
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andyf posted:Bit late on the physical games chat, but as a wee lad who spent their days on an Amiga, there was an unrivalled sense of awe every time I’d take a look in the Electronics Boutique at the weekend, seeing what was new for the miggy, and then gawping at the sheer size of the game boxes for PC titles. Just vast, giant things. Presumably with some novel-esque game manuals inside and 300 floppy disks (pre CD days). My first computer was an Amiga 500 then the 1200 a few years later. I was in heaven, either playing Doom or losing days to Deluxe Paint.
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Looking forward to Irish Reunification in 2024! (according to the Star Trek TNG clip that wasn't aired in the UK... for some mysterious reason). Happy new year everyone. 
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Bobby Deluxe posted:It's because the country insists on referring to itself as the Ukraine, a pronoun dangerously close to they/them, so beloved of the blue haired, avocado munching antifa of the woke left. No it bloody well doesn't.
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crispix posted:banning the the is a campaign i can get behind I've always been quite fond of The The tbh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5hInz4EvTM
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domhal posted:One curious case of YouTuber madness is Wranglerstar, who used to post interesting but possibly anachronistic US Forestry Service tool maintenance shorts but has recently descended into or revealed an astonishing level of sovcit/prepper madness. Oh i remember watching him years ago. He's lost the bloody plot, i pity his family tbh they were nice. I stopped once he started doing bible readings... i assume they will end up in the same quanon mess in time.  edit: spelling Just Another Lurker fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Jan 3, 2023 |
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Microplastics posted:Illness update: My dentist prescribed me amoxicillin a few months ago for sinusitis, it only showed up as toothache all along my lower jaw (internal swelling was pressing on nerves). Got a 5 day course of 500mg tablets, by day 3 the diarrhoea had kicked in and i was sleeping as close to the toilet as possible, if you thing you are going to fart... it's never going to be a fart.  Do your very best to stay hydrated.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Amoxicillin has never had that effect on me! I used it a lot in Cairo because you could just go in the pharmacy and buy it and it was far & away the cheapest antibiotic around. It was listed on the info sheet as a possible side effect, nice to know i'm special.
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Juche Couture posted:Amazing how Starmer and Reeves just get more and more worthless. Any Irish parents/grandparents on either side of the family? It might have been easier if there was not a housing crisis atm.
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