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Nectar of the Gods. I know I’m in the minority, just have never got a real taste for any other beer.

Don’t get me wrong if it’s not available I’ll drink most other lagers but Carlsberg would always be my 1st choice in any off licence.
In bars it can be hit and miss because I’m assuming the keg lasts a long time with little sales so will swap to another if it’s not a good pint.

Same problem where I live, thats what im saying. But we dont tear the place apart and attack the Guards who are just trying to keep the peace.

It was nice in the late 1980s when I started underage drinking.

Yeah. It's a government problem to build the infrastructure for the people that are here. Doesn't matter who the people are. The problem is lack of housing

They were allowed as independent athletes.

90% of the Fleadh is diddly-eye rubbish. People trying to outdo each other by showing how perfectly Irish they are. Future teachers. Its the one music genre that gets tiresome very quick.

And the good 10%, having pints with mates, is ruined by how busy everywhere is.

That aussie b-girl (or b-lady) deserves all that criticism and ridicule she's getting, for her ... performance and her mickey mouse PhD and studies.

They are, as independent athletes who pass rigorous drug tests.

Russia were on a warning from the IOC long before they started the war in Ukraine for their state doping programme, and so many of their athletes had received bans for drug offences that they were going to be banned anyway.

Plenty of countries engaged in wars compete in the Olympics, Russia's dismissal was down to the doping.

Incidentally, once the World Cup was over, FIFA and UEFA swiftly kicked them out of the soccer scene the first chance they got, which was the Ukraine war. Russia went from unfit also-rans in a poor Confederations Cup in 2017 to energetic performances to a World Cup QF's in less than a year. They were quite clearly doped to the gills, plenty of opposition teams commented on it (the Spanish most ironically), and were hit with everything as soon as possible before it all came out.

A state run doping institute is what's keeping Russia from the Olympics, not any moral thinking from the notoriously immoral IOC.

Was going to comment on the Aghamore shooting thread.

I would value anything within my property boundry. House, contents, family and even pets above the life of any scrote bag burglar.

What kids?

They don't even understand what they're singing beyond the fact they know it annoys others.

I don't expect them to know the entire history of NI but they are hardly toddlers and did not lick this off the stones. One of them must have heard the presenter's accent or saw BBC and decided to be a troll.

If the shoe was on the other foot, little kids singing about marching through Fenian blood or chanting right wing slogans it wouldn't be so much "craic" then. I say good luck with this reunification business if this it what people think is fine to pass onto their kids.

Unless we can unequivocally agree that to stop this type of 'craic' we're just highlighting to everyone that we're not ready for a United Ireland in whatever shape it may be.

inspired by another thread on the site, I have no issue at all with inheritance tax.

If you get left money by someone, it's free money, you have done nothing to earn it, paying some tax is nothing to complain about when receiving free money.

Read some of Collins' musings. If you didn't know any better you'd think it was a rip off of Dev's "comely maidens".

The person leaving it to you has paid tax on it already though - it is theirs and they are giving it to a person of their choosing. It is akin to someone paying for your lunch, but then you having to go in and pay again.

How about a compromise? the person who inherits pays the taxes and the one who gave gets the taxes back.

I think a United Ireland would be a disaster for those in the 26 counties and hope it doesnt come to pass.

We love to talk about how the Irish built England, but we fail to recognise that if it wasnt for English jobs, and the "Queen's pound" coming back to these shores, huge tracts of western Ireland would have been completely abandoned. On that note, the worst treatment many of those people faced came about when working for Irish people in England.

Rugby is not what it is cracked up to be and any parent encouraging their kids take it up would want to take a look at themselves. It is getting more and more dangerous.

Athletics and many top level sports are absolutely riddled with performance enhancing drug use. The tests simply cannot track it if done in the 'correct' manner. Elite level athletes are generally highly self-oriented people who will do just about anything to win, if they think they will get away with it. All you have to do is look at how TUI's were abused in cycling to recognise the culture that is out there.

On that note, lionel messi's medical application of human growth hormone was taken over by barcelona's doctors when he was a child. Around the same time, numerous spanish teams (barca included) were working with doctors who were found to have been running doping programmes. The spanish government took the decision to destroy all the evidence without disclosing any of it. I think messi was probably doped in a similar way they used TUI's in cycling, and that a pile of top spanish footballers were protected by their government.

Absolutely. We pay lip service to the idea of meritocracy, and inheritance is the exact opposite of that. It's inheriting someone else's merit.

We wouldn't accept someone saying their mother had a PhD, so they can inherit a masters degree. Or their dad worked for 40 years as a plumber so they can inherit 20 years plumbing experience.

Some people work 30 years to own a house and others just inherit a house. It's a bonkers distortion of meritocracy.

If you're enthusiastic about inheritance, that's fine, but you need to accept you're also opposed to actual meritocracy.

It's more akin to having to pay for tax on the gifts at your own wedding.