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No more smoking. It’s a 30-year-old resolution more than anything.
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RTÉ has more “celebrity presenters “ ( loosely speaking) than good program content .TG4 do a much better job for a fraction of the price . Why are we funding the likes of Duffy and tubs with taxpayers money .. our money .
Nobody in their right mind would think these ego driven individuals deserve to be paid 10 times more than a nurse etc
A balanced and informative article with no discernible nudging in any direction! Can’t say the same for most articles on here. Thanks Mr. Kinsella. A breath of fresh air.
@Sean: It’s telling us what we already know. Carl will no doubt find his feet and a distinctive voice in this series, but I think he needs to add a wee bit more value.
I’m convincedc that he fabric of space ripped in half the first time cern turned on the large hydron collider and ever since we’ve diverged off into some other reality running parallel to the one we were originally in. This one is starting to increasingly feel like it’s someone elses nightmare. How do we wake ul from it?
Reeling in the Years. Steely Dan. Cool band. Real musicians, with strange, twisted (poetic, philosophical?) lyrics.
“Your everlasting summer and you can see it fading fast
So you grab a piece of something that you think is gonna last.”
(Well, you wouldn’t even know a diamond if you held it in your hand
the things you think are precious I can’t understand.)
very topical. reminds me of Vladamir Putain, perhaps. (really has aged in the last short while. You can see it in his face, this last 6 months. Watch his face twitching when speaking to the camera. He knows he is lying, that his army is falling apart, and that he will be killed by one of his buddies, if his secret police don’g get him first. His chef, wotsisname for example, and the rest of his psychopath gang, kadyrov the freak, shuigin, etcetera, will cut him up, the moment he turns his back. He knows it. So he threatens the world with nuclear weapons. Threatens the extinction of life.
Another good tune is Black Friday. Very topical.
The lyrics about a grifter, a rip off merchant from inner city USA, (who plans to split to Australia before the law catches up with him), (He will live a life of luxury, with nothing to do but feed the kangaroos.). He hasn’t achieved it yet. You imagine he might probably end up in jail. With all his buddies.
(“When Black Friday comes, I’m gonna stake my claim, I’ll guess I’ll change my name.”) Next year we are having a global famine. with Ukraine water supply shut off. Remember that Vladimir Putin caused this.
(before you start speaking about migrants. Putain, Puto, or whatever you call him, will be responsible for that, the global famine, more than any other ‘human’ on this planet )
There are some real monsters in this world, who are born without conscience, without human feeling. They lie, manipulate and deceive. There are psychopaths who would easily kill you if you turn your back, if they get the idea.
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