Liveline: Thread with no name, Host with no shame

Cawlur, I always wanted a tour of Ardnacrusha.

I had planned to visit a finished but not commissioned 1970/80's nuclear power station, but de Covid hit. Ended up being told to wash my hands for few years. I need to hurry up, because de current powers that be are planning to fuel that almost 50 years old reactor. Total madness! They must count in Joe years. But it is a vanity project to finish off dictator daddy's work. I suppose they could build a modern reactor and use it to power the original Westernhouse turbines, but we will see.

Anyway, until almost 30 years ago nursing was thought using an apprenticeship type system. The teaching hospitals had live in accommodation for student nurses, they did a few months training and then alternated between being on the wards and having classroom lessons.

This was all scrapped and Nursing became a university degree subject. The scrapping of the old system was what started our continuing nursing shortages.

The Marcos Project?

Sounds like a 70s thriller, riddled with graft, corruption, sleaze and betrayal.

Cawlur, It is like our Children Hospital on steroids. Multiple times over budget, delays, committees, fix the issues after 3rd party safety inspections (which I believe cost as much as the original project again), then let to sit there for 40 years unused with a minimum maintenance crew. They even had all the fuel rods ready, but eventually sent them back to America.

As Uncle Gaybo would say from on Banana Republic to another Banana Republic.

At least we only got at far as laying the foundations for our Nuclear Power plant before cancelling the project.

Recode, was your aul man involved in that project, I believe it was in Rosslare?

I am surprised at that. Both de grannies were nurses from well to do families. When one married my grandfather who was a solicitor, it was seen as marrying beneath her. Her parents objected and there was some sort of family rift there after. Then again to 'Da Wealthy Farmer' marrying a Banker/Doctor/Solicitor who had to put in a days actual work would have been a lower social class back them.

The dreaded DoS . A scary thing years ago on DOS in the floppy disk era. i wonder where i put that commodore (must be worth a few bob now to some anorack) .

Eurovision - Didn't see it, I've never heard de Irish song either TBH.......though I heard something about dem trying to be all woke and sh1t with somebody saying a man is a woman or vice versa.

......but I'd be happy with a show of bitter callers whinging about how we were cheated and "all dem eastern bloc countries just vote for each udder Joe" etc

"It's a disgace"

He’ll go down in history as the man with 2 bums!

I'm sure he said a few weeks.

He's drinking frothy beers and playing Boules with the locals in his French hamlet by day and enjoying domination in one of the many Cote d'Azur fetish clubs by night.

Maybe time to see a graveyard or the preserved remains of a local saint now and again.

Cawlur, It is AIB de Tax Payer has bailed out (I believe) a total of 3 times. I am losing count at this stage.

BOI sold their crown jewels, so got a 'smaller' bail out.

In any event, you appear to be correct. BOI will cover scam events. However, de foreign banks like Revolut will happily let customers swing.

You have a marvellous imagination I must say.

Was there no promo today?

Well I don't think it helped not having the UK voting last night.