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No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

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    #5552
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,570 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    My mothers aunt, a missionary nun passed away in South Africa Last Weekend. Amazing that we could all watch the funeral here in Kildare on youtube. Im not particularily religious but wasn't it some devotion to spend over 60 years of your life helping the less fortunate.

    Have to have allot of respect for her devotion and sacrifice, proper humanity.


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    #5553
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    My mothers aunt, a missionary nun passed away in South Africa Last Weekend. Amazing that we could all watch the funeral here in Kildare on youtube. Im not particularily religious but wasn't it some devotion to spend over 60 years of your life helping the less fortunate.

    Fair play to her...

    My sister did some voluntary work in Romania a good few years ago, in the orphanages.
    She said becoming a nun was seen as a way out, it was a valid career choice for want of a better description. It wasn't a vocation, nor was vocation mentioned by the church. It was just sold as a way out... :(

    Sister said she felt bad watching it, and wondered what happened the girls after...


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    #5554
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,555 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    A way out of what?


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    #5555
    Dinzee Conlee
    Registered Users Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭Dinzee Conlee


    whelan2 wrote: »
    A way out of what?

    Poverty I suppose - they were in the orphanage, and once they hit a certain age, that was it. They were out, and I don't know if there was much social welfare or social support there at the time...


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    #5556
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,447 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Well thats it. Reggie is now a full time farmer/ contractor/ ****e talker


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    #5557
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,555 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Well thats it. Reggie is now a full time farmer/ contractor/ ****e talker

    Yipee.


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    #5558
    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,627 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Well thats it. Reggie is now a full time farmer/ contractor/ ****e talker

    Retired? Jammy fecker!!


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    #5559
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,219 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    whelan2 wrote: »
    A way out of what?

    Poverty, exploitation, sexual slavery...


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    #5560
    trixi2011
    Registered Users Posts: 1,535 ✭✭✭trixi2011


    Best of luck in your retirement Reggie .


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    #5561
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,447 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    White Clover wrote: »
    Retired? Jammy fecker!!

    Oh yes. 21yrs used up. Official date is July 07th and ill be off the books but my last duty was yesterday


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    #5562
    mayota
    Registered Users Posts: 1,551 ✭✭✭mayota


    Congratulations Reggie, all the best for the future.


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    #5563
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 4,004 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Oh yes. 21yrs used up. Official date is July 07th and ill be off the books but my last duty was yesterday

    Fair play. My grandad did 21 yrs too and went to the congo in the 60s.


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    #5564
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,447 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    Fair play. My grandad did 21 yrs too and went to the congo in the 60s.

    Rough times there


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    #5565
    dzer2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Best of luck Reggie
    Welcome to the real world


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    #5566
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,556 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Time to start the vintage tractor collection Reggie.
    Steam engine be a nice addition too. :D

    Best of luck on your new chapter!


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    #5567
    kollegeknight
    Registered Users Posts: 3,295 ✭✭✭kollegeknight


    Congrats reggie


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    #5568
    Genghis Cant
    Registered Users Posts: 4,980 ✭✭✭Genghis Cant


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Well thats it. Reggie is now a full time farmer/ contractor/ ****e talker

    You had a good job and you left right? Left right, left right. :D


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    #5569
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,447 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Say my name wrote: »
    Time to start the vintage tractor collection Reggie.
    Steam engine be a nice addition too. :D

    Best of luck on your new chapter!

    Oh I've enough traction engines with the relations in England


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    #5570
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,447 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Genghis Cant wrote: »
    You had a good job and you left right? Left right, left right. :D

    GET OUT......


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    #5571
    funkey_monkey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,237 ✭✭✭funkey_monkey


    Reggie - do you cut with a Fendt and a Malone mower? I thought you still had the 'dini?


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    #5572
    wrangler
    Registered Users Posts: 11,158 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    funkey_monkey wrote: »
    Reggie - do you cut with a Fendt and a Malone mower? I thought you still had the 'dini?

    Fendt, begorrah, that'd be the pension lump sum surely.
    Must've burnt a hole in his pocket


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    #5573
    Jb1989
    Registered Users Posts: 2,469 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    Say my name wrote: »
    Time to start the vintage tractor collection Reggie.
    Steam engine be a nice addition too. :D

    Best of luck on your new chapter!

    Think he's gone by machinery at his stage,
    be chess and stamp collecting for him from now on.


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    #5574
    greysides
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 9,024 Mod ✭✭✭✭greysides


    Well done Reggie, thanks for your service.

    The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert

    The ultimate purpose of debate is not to produce consensus. It's to promote critical thinking.

    Adam Grant



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    #5575
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,570 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Reggie. wrote: »
    Oh yes. 21yrs used up. Official date is July 07th and ill be off the books but my last duty was yesterday

    Well done.


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    #5576
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,447 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    funkey_monkey wrote: »
    Reggie - do you cut with a Fendt and a Malone mower? I thought you still had the 'dini?

    Still the dini but that fendt did the rounds of the Midlands as a demo last year and atkins was trying to sell it to me


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    #5577
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,447 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Jb1989 wrote: »
    Think he's gone by machinery at his stage,
    be chess and stamp collecting for him from now on.

    Sitting on the porch grumbling about all the "young" people


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    #5578
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,556 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Jb1989 wrote: »
    Think he's gone by machinery at his stage,
    be chess and stamp collecting for him from now on.

    Ah you never know.

    He could be providing security next for Abdullah bin whoever.


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    #5579
    [Deleted User]
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    Jb1989 wrote: »
    Think he's gone by machinery at his stage,
    be chess and stamp collecting for him from now on.

    Different pair of slippers for every day of the week and two for Sundays


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    #5580
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,555 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Different pair of slippers for every day of the week and two for Sundays

    Smoking cigars too


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    #5581
    [Deleted User]
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    Smoking cigars too

    Blowing smoke rings :pac:


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