I thought of this pun and was distracted by events. Surely Beirní Breó?
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
I find it bizarre that James Nesbitt’s Wikipedia page makes no mention of that ad
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
its an interpretative language gyac imo
try searching under shamie nesbitt tb
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 00:20 (four years ago) link
Never drank a Breó
I wish you could still get Kilkenny here, you can still get it abroad
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 00:38 (four years ago) link
Breo had, I think, quinine in it. Like a pint of Harp cut with tonic water.
― 29 facepalms, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 08:01 (four years ago) link
we're kinda closing down for a bit
not a fan of attacking a taoiseach in these circs but that is a fairly ridiculous announcement
if you close schools you have to lead and announce all non-essential public staff are being told stay home.
cant ask businesses to react and not do so ourselves
strikes me that leaving airport to run according to its own judgement is also a copout
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 12:11 (four years ago) link
I don’t follow. What did he do?!
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 12:15 (four years ago) link
Ireland’s taoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced the closure of all schools, colleges and childcare facilities from tomorrow as part of a partial lockdown that will apply from 6pm tonight until 29 March.
― bagáistetd (seandalai), Thursday, 12 March 2020 12:28 (four years ago) link
sounds like chaos if parents still have to go to work
With you now deems. Yeah, that’s a total load of shit.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 12:36 (four years ago) link
It'll be fine, they'll just fine one person on every street that is already home and the kids can all stay with them.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 12 March 2020 12:38 (four years ago) link
sorry, busy here atm for obvious reasons
the half measure seems exactly wrong, is it, basically
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 12:55 (four years ago) link
and its not me being self serving to note that if you leave it to businesses and eg airport authorities to handle shit without direction, then yr lead becomes more important- leaving our non essential offices (400k odd ppl) open is no leadership at all
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link
can i get assistance here pls
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
how to grade severity of a pandemic where
you close schools
yet
keep 300k ppl in your purview going in to work
even where the work is non essential
unless you can work from home
which you havent allowed nor set up until now so very few can
oh and also unless we just closed your kids school
in which case we will pay you to stay home and babysit
fuckin messing
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
Sorry deems. Seems like a mess waiting to happen. You’d imagine the Easter weeks are covered at least but people are probably going to have to sort themselves out cos the government clearly didn’t give a fuck.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
i think closing schools was the right step, but you wanna see the head honchos flying around all over town today reacting
like.....lads ..... was this not discussed?
i havent been given access for remote working, so clearly im non essential. but somebody somewhere has decided that optics dictate that ill be commuting in during the pandemic regardless.
jesus waitll i get our useless union in front of me. palestine me hole lads.
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
You're a designated survivor for me Deems, that must count for something.
O'er here they decided the opposite: everyone should work from home but schools will not be closed. Lol.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
and not to begrudge parents the time because theyve been dropped in it too,but....like....who is going to pay private sector parents to stay home?
optics are shite tbh, at least if they had told every possible non-essential officer to stay home they could have looked businesses in the eye and said- as an employer, we're leading here.
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
"palestine me hole"?
― silby, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
social movement union that isn't giving him enough bang for his buck I suppose?
(extremely union activist voice: you are a member of your union and the majority of the work done is voluntary ie it's ineffectual that's partly your responsibility, you're a member not a service-user, your union is probably hamstrung by the legislation etc.)
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
sher look, ffs i dont mind coming in. ive been fatalistic about getting it til now, im fairly healthy, i dont have relatives or people that i will be in contact directly that i cannot avoid
but when yr employer points at you and says ey non-breeder, yr more compromisable, yr time's worth less or you have to cover for those with actual responsibilities (an ongoing struggle tbh), yr health is expendable here, it comes to a fairly self-pitying tantrum like this one every now and again im afraid.
ah well.
ill come in and read. pricks.
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
our office has been shut for the foreseeable - "reviewed on a weekly basis"
― Number None, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
jim- our union reps are paid to be so, and they block pretty much anything that would help productivity on idealistic grounds- like work from home!- and spend most of their time generating basically a big issue but without the good bits either ito content or actually helping the needy
but that's another thread. im a big believer in being a member of a powerful union if only because it keeps a powerful employer in line
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
right im over it
im off to play football lol
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
Jim otm re unions! I know how you feel deems, you might as well work on your novel at work cos there’ll be fuck all else happening. Think of Flann!
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link
had a stormer in a miserable night at footy, got stuck with the fuckin bibs too so ive definitely got it now
but im calmed down and will engage constructively with my worthy union tomorrow to see what influence i can exert to get wfh as standard in our backward dept
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 22:32 (four years ago) link
Seeing as we're all going to be spending a lot more time indoors, I have created a folder with every single episode of Reeling in the Years, 1962 - 2009. Enjoy. https://t.co/s1o8wQipGE— Evin Ryan (@youknowitsevin) March 15, 2020
ok everyone
covid is now Good
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 March 2020 22:58 (four years ago) link
Tesco nearby went into over drive at about 8. Piece going about online that everything is going into lock down at 11 tomorrow and that there will be limited access to shops so heaps of people there again. Shur I'll believe it when I see it.
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Sunday, 15 March 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
yeah ive seen that piece
its not that id be one bit surprised if it happened
its that anyone claiming to have heard it from anyone etc or whatever is an idiot
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 March 2020 23:37 (four years ago) link
xpost well a couple of workmates have heard it from friends of theirs but I don't know how credible they are either
I spent most of the day listening to weird ass paranoid sounding Miles Davis albums and finishing up reading Solar Bones (which coincidentally has a virus outbreak in it too). Probably finish this bottle of wine and be up at 7 bright eyed and bushy tailed for work tomorrow. I work in a call centre so I'm not looking forward to that at the best of times. There's almost 100 people in a big office with bad ventilation. There's an opportunity to work at home alright but I've yet to see how that will pan out
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Sunday, 15 March 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
jesus theres no fuckin excuse to have ppl still goin in is there
imo statement from govt should be clear
- if opportunity to wfh exists it should be taken to fullest extent- if work is non essential staff should stay home- if neither above is true then social distancing, flexible hours, reduced services, etc
this encouraging businesses and depts to look within their own hearts and make a call is fuckin nonsense
id wonder if the insurance industry isnt in their ear, whether a govt instruction has different legal connotations for claims vs a govt asking nicely etc
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 March 2020 23:47 (four years ago) link
We were told that there will only be contactless payments in the canteen though! Nothing to worry about here move along
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Sunday, 15 March 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link
jaysus thats only the finesht so
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 16 March 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
You might be onto something about the insurance industry in their ear. Also the huge amount of social welfare payments that would need to be made for people off work
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Monday, 16 March 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link
Thank you so much for that reeling in the years link, deems, that’s made a big difference to my family. 2020 is going to be insane. Pub closures and shots of people wearing masks in public to Dua Lipa’s Physical.
Not in a great way tbh, but stay safe out there people.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 16 March 2020 08:28 (four years ago) link
will report as i see it from ghost town northside
listen
dye know the fella sells the dodgy fags on moore st
surely ye know him
six three, eight stone, colour of a gravestone, directs operations from the junction
anyway, he was wearing a mask the last day and swear ta fuck that was when i knew it was end times
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 16 March 2020 08:42 (four years ago) link
No, it’s end times when the auld fella that shouts HERALD near O’ Connell Bridge does it.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 16 March 2020 08:50 (four years ago) link
he'll still shout HMMFFLLFFDD tbf
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 16 March 2020 09:10 (four years ago) link
actual garda has told my actual brother to go stock up early today
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 16 March 2020 09:34 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/gk52cjSyUS0
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Monday, 16 March 2020 09:42 (four years ago) link
lol i h8 reeling in the years so much
― plax (ico), Monday, 16 March 2020 19:36 (four years ago) link
you’ll come to love it in time
SuperValu in Greystones doing a good job on social distancing 👍😊 pic.twitter.com/JX32zrUH3T— Aengus Cox (@AengusCox) March 16, 2020
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 16 March 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
theres just no way ppl dont cut in
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 16 March 2020 19:56 (four years ago) link
sure they'd run over you to get into The Happy Pear on a good day
― Number None, Monday, 16 March 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
*spits*
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 16 March 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
leo is really bad at these fireside chats
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link
15k cases by end of month projected
cocooning
my god
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 March 2020 21:05 (four years ago) link
im fine with it
stop with the "hand of history on my shoulder" clunkers