I’m still on the register and I emigrated 11 years ago!
― hyds (gyac), Saturday, 8 February 2020 10:17 (forty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I moved 10 and I was off it a year later
― plax (ico), Saturday, 8 February 2020 10:59 (four years ago) link
yer local td prob has a lot to do with it, ring is famous for managing the register around my home home
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 February 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
Because I'm a person of low moral character, there were until last year three things that were still sent to my mother's old place (and begrudgingly delivered the five minutes walk to where she lives now with my sister):
* Trinity Today, because alumni magazines will survive the death of the universe.* Bank statements for an AIB account which has, no word of a lie, €0.01 in it.* Things related to me being on the electoral register, which is mostly voting cards but last October, when my sister gave me a few years' worth of stuff at once, a jury duty notice for later that month!
They're very clear that you have to return the form with whatever you're pleading and any supporting information, and when I rang to ask what I should put, they said "Just put that you don't live in Ireland any more". This seemed too easy, so I later checked that at least I'd be taken off the electoral register and they said no, but we'll put you through now, and the next one said yes that'll be done, no we won't email you a receipt or anything.
My voting card arrived a few weeks ago, I'm told.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 8 February 2020 11:06 (four years ago) link
* Bank statements for an AIB account which has, no word of a lie, €0.01 in it.
the student account set up the thursday before first classes to get all the clobber, hah?
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 February 2020 11:11 (four years ago) link
i remember aib being allowed into my primary school to sign us all up for accounts with £1 in them
― plax (ico), Saturday, 8 February 2020 12:37 (four years ago) link
I think I got removed when I explained why I couldn't turn up in Bray for jury duty.
Last year BOI cottoned on to the fact that I might not be a student *checks notes* 19 years after I started university.
― seandalai, Saturday, 8 February 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
I also have an account with €0.01 in it, but I feel like I heard they charge you money to close them, so fuck that.
― hyds (gyac), Saturday, 8 February 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
Yessssshttps://img.rasset.ie/0013912e-614.jpg?ratio=1.78
The first voting nuns of #GE20 https://t.co/AFFn21sBTx pic.twitter.com/rxist2EfLJ— broadsheet_ie (@broadsheet_ie) February 8, 2020
― hyds (gyac), Saturday, 8 February 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
thank god, i was afrit
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 February 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
SF didn't run enough candidates
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Sunday, 9 February 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
Irish politics discussion thread
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Sunday, 9 February 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
Irish men the 'undisputed ugliest' in the world, according to dating website for 'beautiful people'https://t.co/sWt3Avya0D— Irish Daily Mirror (@IrishMirror) February 16, 2020
A new poll by picky international dating site beautifulpeople.com has seen Irish males slip to the foot of a table of the world’s most attractive nationalities.Just six per cent of Irish single men who applied to land their profiles on the elite Los Angeles-based site were successful - less than any other nationality, and officially Ireland’s worst-ever result in the site’s annual nation-by-nation ‘beauty charts’.In contrast Ireland’s women have climbed up the table to sixth overall in the world - their highest-ever ranking and tied with France, with an impressive 35 percent acceptance rate.Further analysis of Ireland’s data - which is taken from statistics from the island of Ireland as a whole - reveals Dublin to be home to the “most attractive” inhabitants, followed by Cork, Galway and then Belfast. However, romance-hunters from Limerick were most likely to be rejected.
― hyds (gyac), Monday, 17 February 2020 09:45 (four years ago) link
Come on though, you're top at something.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Monday, 17 February 2020 09:48 (four years ago) link
I think you’ll see the women aren’t included in that? 😶
― hyds (gyac), Monday, 17 February 2020 09:50 (four years ago) link
The men have written their name in the history books though.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Monday, 17 February 2020 09:50 (four years ago) link
cant be denied, taken as bunch the rural fellas are still carrying a lot of the impacts of generational famine-traceable poverty
and we dont rly have the climate to work on the beach bod or tan
hairlines ate an issue an all
just as well we have the charm
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 17 February 2020 10:06 (four years ago) link
have we a government yet
― hyds (gyac), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 07:54 (four years ago) link
just a civil service, itll be ok
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 08:43 (four years ago) link
Previous ministers stay in post till a new government forms so, yes.
― 29 facepalms, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 09:01 (four years ago) link
Idk why you thought I didn’t know this. xp we’re in safe hands with ye running the place anyway.
― hyds (gyac), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 09:03 (four years ago) link
*spends entire morning trying to compose a topical limerick that doesn't mis-stress the word "limerick" *
― mark s, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
Correct pronunciation is two syllables, fyi
― hyds (gyac), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 11:01 (four years ago) link
depends on whether you need to rhyme with mrick for the county or boyyyyyyyy for the cidddyyyy tbh
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 11:18 (four years ago) link
It’s pronounced “biy”.
― hyds (gyac), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link
*morning becomes longer*
― mark s, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 11:39 (four years ago) link
its pronounced langer
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 12:10 (four years ago) link
Dáil is trying to pick a Taoiseach, will I be fucked watching the whole thing? Depends how delayed this train is. Anyway, here’s the link.https://www.pscp.tv/w/cR7I43R3LTI4ODE2MzM4MTV8MXlOeGFReWFQbGd4at4X_ZE1eK-ehsBsOoH3XdQmmmHhCsuI4skHSWv1w5cn
― hyds (gyac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
Is it in order for TDs to address the chamber in Irish, how many of them do/can
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
its in order, id say more do than can tbh
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
game of them
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
lol
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
lolTrying to think how long it’s been since we had a Taoiseach who actually had Gaeilge? Is Michael D the nearest thing we have atm? Not that my spoken Irish is anything to brag about either (my worst LC subject!)
― hyds (gyac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
id be surprised
oh fuck
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
i was about to say michéal jesus
sorry michéal
What? I’m on a train with intermittent signal, pls take pity on me
― hyds (gyac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
bruton would v likely have had learned gaeilge i shouldve thought
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
gyac id literally half typed michéal martin prob has it and i remembered oof yes but never been taoiseach has he
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
v hard to say had enda it. id say he did maybe, hid a lot of light under a bushel did enda tbh
I thought MM would too with the name and being from cork like but no apparently not?
― hyds (gyac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link
i didnt do Irish from christmas 5th year on, after dropping to pass
chafed on me, the mandatory aspect, well, everything about gaeilge chafes on me except the gaeilge itself tbh
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
Lol I thought the prick had been elected somehow there don’t scare me please
― hyds (gyac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
hmm
id say mm, ek would speak it better than a lot who speak it badly and claim fluency, dye get me
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
mechawl will be taoiseach sooner than later, as well to brace for it
Only man ever to be Taoiseach to save face
― hyds (gyac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:32 (four years ago) link
What manner of humiliation will he put up with for the Wikipedia category? We can only watch and hope
― hyds (gyac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
it's gonna be the tradeoff equivalent of when the greens agreed to the bank guarantee in return for closing three mink farms in donegal
anyway its been a busy week at work and a quiet week in politics, but rest assured i wouldnt let ye miss anything
fg have stayed very firm, have actually stepped up direct attacks on sf in order to leave ff the pressured candidate
sf candidates, actually under the eye of the media that were happy just to lol cordite the party during the campaign, starting to look a bit dodge
ff, the longer theyre left, are starting to develop collective nervous tics
the second captains podcast on the immediate aftermath was exceptional btw, it asked pretty much everything i wanted to hear asked and most of the answers left me better informed or thinking a little differently
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
Best electoral system in the woreld.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
Yes I did see FG piling in on the SF candidate who was antisemitic And like yes definitely fuck her out imoBut alsohmmmFG like
― hyds (gyac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:43 (four years ago) link
The danger isn’t that SF will have dodgy candidates, the danger is that they’ll find a few more Mary-Lous and then everyone else is fucked
― hyds (gyac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
lol im running to irishtown for a kickabout, i demand u unpack that at length pls fore i return
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 20 February 2020 19:48 (four years ago) link