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SpitfireIV · 01-12-2021 11:21pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118253925#Comment_118253925

If you look at his hands you can see the image of a nun?! 😯😂

ShamNNspace · 01-12-2021 11:25pm

Sometimes its nice to feel the snow crackle beneath your feet and the cold dry air on your face to feel alive, nothing more ❄️❄️❄️ 🤔

bottlebrush · 01-12-2021 11:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118253778#Comment_118253778

Not familiar with the top gear episode, but that Palace is enormous. The guided tour I went on only covered 1/8th of the building and it took 2 hours. A symbol of a more authoritarian time but thankfully now in the hands of the state and known as the people's Palace.

Dempo1 · 01-12-2021 11:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118254256#Comment_118254256

I saw it from a distance and my god its enormous.

Link to part of the episode I was thinking about 😉

https://youtu.be/3-tgeaOpIWQ

01-12-2021 11:41pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118253642#Comment_118253642

I’m supposed to be going to Bran Castle on Saturday… but a Covid test is scheduled that day so I guess they’ll put it to Sunday instead.

bottlebrush · 01-12-2021 11:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118254310#Comment_118254310

Lucky you. I wish I was going again!

02-12-2021 12:27am

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Second biggest building in ground area, largest being Pentagon, I think.

02-12-2021 12:41am

Boards’ bot blocker won’t let me post FB link at all at all.

Ash.J.Williams · 02-12-2021 12:46am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118216381#Comment_118216381

https://youtu.be/YxD3pT8C9-A

Here’s my que

Pelvis Parsley · 02-12-2021 1:40am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118253986#Comment_118253986

We have a number of mutual friends. I'm kinda worried.

02-12-2021 8:35am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118254708#Comment_118254708

What’s that thing about degrees of separation?… in Ireland almost everyone I know is at least a “friend of a friend” of somebody else. It’s so much more quickly apparent on social media these days. In decades gone by it might just chance to come up in conversation, but back then there’d be a better context to it. Mostly the status of those “friendships” is that of fleeting acquaintance or very superficially based on a common interest or concern. In fact there is somebody on FB I have been “friends” with for over a decade, haven’t a fecking clue how it came about, she’s from Malaysia and thanks me or comments positively on almost every personal post, especially travel pics. Must have clicked to accept friendship request some time back, can’t remember. Seems to be a genuinely nice person, so no problem. It’s just that’s how social media works.

One thing I like about it is on account of my genuine interest in family matters; as an only child I have always focussed on wider family and I love to see the younger generations post pictures of their children, who are my new cousins. I have some strengthening connections with the younger generation and, eg at the inevitable funerals, am “conversation ready” to engage with them. Eg “I see you had a lovely trip to South America” or “I didn’t realise you were into art like myself!”, and I’ve been able to forge some genuine new warm friendships with some of the younger family members. Though it all seems so superficial at times, social media has actually served to fuel some real life friendships.

Dempo1 · 02-12-2021 9:03am

Always fascinated me the amount of friends Alledgedly people have on their Facebook profile pages.

I gave up on FB years ago realising it was ultimately a pile of nonsense, the messaage app requirement to access messages did it for me. I reckoned by the time I closed the account not more than 10% of actual friends used it regularly. I was just thinking had I been on it during the pandemic, I might have actually gone quite mad.

At its peak, I managed somehow to have 500 friends, most seemed to be friends of friends, some latched on for obscure reasons like I met them 20 years ago or I went to school with them, I doubt I interacted with them at school and certainly didn't on FB.

Some I know are literally obsessed with FB, I've personally never got it.

Various studies have proven its near impossible to actively engage regularly with more than 150 people, we're some get 900, 1200,2000 friends escapes me completely.

"Dunbar's number: Why we can only maintain 150 relationships - BBC Future" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191001-dunbars-number-why-we-can-only-maintain-150-relationships

thecretinhop · 02-12-2021 10:00am

https://youtu.be/KAsKdlnoV0A

Francis higgins 'talking' to joe about 300e crackers

christ dis is epic.

DoctorEdgeWild · 02-12-2021 10:16am

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Actively engaging isn't always the driving factor though.

For example, I did a lot of travelling, meeting people along the way, becoming close at the time, but then, inevitably, drifting out of contact. For me, I don't particularly feel the need to regularly contact them, nor they me, but it's a nice feeling to see the big moments in their life, marriages, kids etc. An occasional message at times like that is still a nice way to stay in each other's lives. Following on from that, if I happen to be in their country/city, I have met up for a coffee, or at least gotten advice/recommendations for places to go/stay/translations etc.

I agree that some people take it to the absolute obsession though, particularly evident with Instagram and the influencer lifestyle.

Like all social media, it's just a tool to be used, and some people use it well, others don't. It's a big part of my hobbies (art and theatre) and helps me a lot to organise those things.

Dempo1 · 02-12-2021 10:27am

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All fair points 😏 and I can certainly see some merits, just wasn't for me I guess 😐

DoctorEdgeWild · 02-12-2021 10:28am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118255269#Comment_118255269

I'm the same way with Instagram, don't see the appeal at all. Twitter pretty much the same. Possibly just getting old! 😂

Dempo1 · 02-12-2021 10:59am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118255280#Comment_118255280

New to Twitter myself, took me a while to learn how to DM and I'm definitely to old 😂

02-12-2021 12:36pm

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Very few people I am actual friends with use FB etc or are connected with me through such media as they would have set the account up simply to go along with the trend at the time. Yeah, that concept of somebody having thousands of Insta/FB friends etc is strange, and I think a lot of such people have commercially subscribed at some point. TikTok is an interesting one, at least you can be a bit creative on that and have fun. You become an entertainer with an audience. I only put up one or two videos on it, got distracted doing other things.

Twitter can be notoriously toxic, but it is in my experience by far the best way to communicate with an organisation if you want a prompt response. Matters can get resolved very quickly. It’s also a good place for people with shared interests. Eg I’m big into aviation and it’s the one place I can actually comment to working commercial pilots and learn little snippets from them. There’s a great web development community there too which share tons of stuff. Twitter is best when it comes to sharing info rather than as a platform for opinionated commentary, although righteous indignation is a good way at letting politicians know how the land lies with public opinion.

02-12-2021 12:48pm

Penis cancer as promised by Claire. Some women I know (including self) give a helpful medical check during any of that kind of business 🤣 Seriously I know a woman who identified her partner’s cancer, he couldn’t have actually seen it himself from his angle so to speak.

My faaader had to have circumcision when he had a prostate op when elderly, after strokes etc. was a horrible thing, the amount of swelling was way beyond anything you would see on pornhub with the addition of the barbed wire stitching. Agonising. Better to have any necessary circumcision before having to undergo prostate as there is less post-op swelling.

02-12-2021 12:55pm

No way, Claire is a circumcised man less sensitive… not in my experience 🤣🤣🤣

Dempo1 · 02-12-2021 1:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118255970#Comment_118255970

I'm just thankful Claire discussed Penis Cancer on the Radio, could you imagine her discussing this on the TV show, Mock ups, Plastic models etc so to speak 😳

Red Fred · 02-12-2021 1:42pm

Today:

A missing wedding ring

Missing People from yesterday

The kidnapping of babies - remarkable story sez Joe.

A young OAP waiting for his catteract op so to speak.

Promises to be a barrel of laughs

Dempo1 · 02-12-2021 1:50pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118256219#Comment_118256219

I think I'll go missing today also so to speak 😁

Losty Dublin · 02-12-2021 1:52pm

On the Liveline with Joe....

A matrimonial ring from his dead Ma who was deaded in the Mater, is missing; who can help?

More on yer man's white cheaaarrrr who was missing 41 years.
Stealing the brown chisellers. We ask if there's a buke in it?

A man who will be deaded by the time his cats or acts will dobedo be done on his oyeses.

All of this and more lister led calls, from 1:45....

02-12-2021 1:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118255217#Comment_118255217

I use FB particularly to keep contact with foreign contacts, some of them dating back to early 1980s. An example, met a really lovely Israeli guy in Shetland in 80s, we stayed in same guest house. He had a disability and speech problems and would give me a twice yearly phone call in the days of landlines when I would inevitably be out, and my mother would have to entertain him. Because of his speech issue and limited English, it was a struggle for them to have any kind of polite conversation but she knew just Joe decent a guy he was and wanted to express her appreciation that he always kept up contact through phone, postcards, letters etc. Now through FB we have a lovely easy way to keep contact.

Dan Jaman · 02-12-2021 1:55pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118251753#Comment_118251753

I like listening to Lyric when there's a lot of orchestral stuff on, but inevitably there comes along some crowd of yelling screechers to spoil it.

Dempo1 · 02-12-2021 2:00pm

It really was an ugly car da Wosley 😳

Dempo1 · 02-12-2021 2:06pm

If I hear "Meaningful Christmas " one more time today I'll scream

Dan Jaman · 02-12-2021 2:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118256330#Comment_118256330

Dat was de Land Crab version. The last proper Wolsely was long before that, the marque having been cursed with badge engineering from an early stage. I have a preference for the pre-Farina ones, like the Riley Pathfinder derived 6/90. Rare as hen's teeth now and highly priced.

Dempo1 · 02-12-2021 2:25pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118256432#Comment_118256432

Land Crab 🦀 very apt description 😁

I love vintage cars myself, had a few , most notably Fiat X19's , I'd heard some rare wosleys very valuable 👌

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