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riadach wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

riadach wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

riadach wrote:: Well at least you didn't stand out in it for 85 mins, standing in a puddle, with nothing but a ridiculously unfashionable marquee-like poncho to protect from being pissed on non-stop while your team is being pissed on non-stop by the opposition. On top of that, paying 20 euro for the privilege of your own ticket, and another twenty as it was the decent thing to do for the ould fella.

And for all I put myself through, the f*ckers couldn't even catch a ball, and then Ronnie Drew goes and dies. I shall be writing all this down on a list and showing it to my maker when the time comes.

Pity about the match, and the poncho, but at least Wexford won't have to meet you. Very Happy

Again. Though if they had played against us today with they way we were, they would have walked over us easily. We're too inconsistent to win a championship.

Wexford knows a lot about inconsistency Mad

, although mainly in hurling.

Its certainly very odd. Can you think of any explanation for a good team falling apart ?

It is frustrating when you see your team outperforming the opposition to an embarrassing extent in one game, then in the next losing to the same degree. It's almost like having a team that's bipolar.

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cactus flower wrote:

riadach wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

riadach wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

riadach wrote:: Well at least you didn't stand out in it for 85 mins, standing in a puddle, with nothing but a ridiculously unfashionable marquee-like poncho to protect from being pissed on non-stop while your team is being pissed on non-stop by the opposition. On top of that, paying 20 euro for the privilege of your own ticket, and another twenty as it was the decent thing to do for the ould fella.

And for all I put myself through, the f*ckers couldn't even catch a ball, and then Ronnie Drew goes and dies. I shall be writing all this down on a list and showing it to my maker when the time comes.

Pity about the match, and the poncho, but at least Wexford won't have to meet you. Very Happy

Again. Though if they had played against us today with they way we were, they would have walked over us easily. We're too inconsistent to win a championship.

Wexford knows a lot about inconsistency Mad

, although mainly in hurling.

It is frustrating when you see your team outperforming the opposition to an embarrassing extent in one game, then in the next losing to the same degree. It's almost like having a team that's bipolar.

Its certainly very odd. Can you think of any explanation for a good team falling apart ?

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cactus flower wrote:

riadach wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

riadach wrote:

cactus flower wrote:

riadach wrote:: Well at least you didn't stand out in it for 85 mins, standing in a puddle, with nothing but a ridiculously unfashionable marquee-like poncho to protect from being pissed on non-stop while your team is being pissed on non-stop by the opposition. On top of that, paying 20 euro for the privilege of your own ticket, and another twenty as it was the decent thing to do for the ould fella.

And for all I put myself through, the f*ckers couldn't even catch a ball, and then Ronnie Drew goes and dies. I shall be writing all this down on a list and showing it to my maker when the time comes.

Pity about the match, and the poncho, but at least Wexford won't have to meet you. Very Happy

Again. Though if they had played against us today with they way we were, they would have walked over us easily. We're too inconsistent to win a championship.

Wexford knows a lot about inconsistency Mad

, although mainly in hurling.

It is frustrating when you see your team outperforming the opposition to an embarrassing extent in one game, then in the next losing to the same degree. It's almost like having a team that's bipolar.

Its certainly very odd. Can you think of any explanation for a good team falling apart ?

Big egos is usually the trick

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I'd go for that one. Dublin have a remarkable tendency to get complacent when they're victorious, even during the course of the same match.

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riadach wrote:: I'd go for that one. Dublin have a remarkable tendency to get complacent when they're victorious, even during the course of the same match.

They'd want to keep them as far away from croker as is feasibly possible before the quarter final stage and close the Evening Herald down.

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Maybe it's indicative of the standard of Leinster football winning the Leinster final gives no bearing whatseoever on how the team will fair afterwards. God be with the days when you had to bruise your way through with teams like Meath and Kildare providing excellent opposition to shape a team.

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riadach wrote:: Maybe it's indicative of the standard of Leinster football winning the Leinster final gives no bearing whatseoever on how the team will fair afterwards. God be with the days when you had to bruise your way through with teams like Meath and Kildare providing excellent opposition to shape a team.

The worst thing that happened this year was giving the yella-bellies a hammering. The headmatter ruled the handmatter from thereon

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SeathrúnCeitinn wrote:

riadach wrote:: Maybe it's indicative of the standard of Leinster football winning the Leinster final gives no bearing whatseoever on how the team will fair afterwards. God be with the days when you had to bruise your way through with teams like Meath and Kildare providing excellent opposition to shape a team.

The worst thing that happened this year was giving the yella-bellies a hammering. The headmatter ruled the handmatter from thereon

Agreed. Had the match against westmeath been our last one, we would have put up a better show today.

Oh and why on God's green earth is that gobshite, David Henry, still making the first team? He's like having a door to your house that you don't keep locked.

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riadach wrote:

SeathrúnCeitinn wrote:

riadach wrote:: Maybe it's indicative of the standard of Leinster football winning the Leinster final gives no bearing whatseoever on how the team will fair afterwards. God be with the days when you had to bruise your way through with teams like Meath and Kildare providing excellent opposition to shape a team.

The worst thing that happened this year was giving the yella-bellies a hammering. The headmatter ruled the handmatter from thereon

Agreed. Had the match against westmeath been our last one, we would have put up a better show today.

Oh and why on God's green earth is that gobshite, David Henry, still making the first team? He's like having a door to your house that you don't keep locked.

Ah I know how you feel....and he ain't a quality inter-county footballer....but I have to blame leadership...Píléar chose him...as he chose the entire team..and gave them leadership......the wrong leadership. Paddy Crosier was guilty of the same.

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cactus flower wrote:

SeathrúnCeitinn wrote:: Raining again in Dublin

This is not good news for the cactus shack. Crying or Very sad

The river is already higher than I've seen it since we first came here over ten years ago, and its catchment stretches up in your direction. We've moved several hundred books, rugs, drumkits, bags, boots, boxes of ?, and so on into higher parts of the house. It seems certain if we're not flooded tonight we will be by early next week. The water table is at this stage higher than the river.

Hope you'll be okay cactus. Hope you've loads of sandbags to keep the doors secure. They seem to work particularly well. I'll be thinking of you.

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SeathrúnCeitinn wrote:: Check out Belfast

If that underpass is where I think it is, it is one bit of engineering I could never understand. How do you drain an underpass in a bog?

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Squire wrote:

SeathrúnCeitinn wrote:: Check out Belfast

If that underpass is where I think it is, it is one bit of engineering I could never understand. How do you drain an underpass in a bog?

That underpass ... should those things be not built so as to drain out if anything like that happens?

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Auditor #9 wrote:

Squire wrote:

SeathrúnCeitinn wrote:: Check out Belfast

If that underpass is where I think it is, it is one bit of engineering I could never understand. How do you drain an underpass in a bog?

That underpass ... should those things be not built so as to drain out if anything like that happens?

Yes but that road runs through bog meadows (I think that is what it is called), so how do you drain the underpass. Obviously there must be a way engineers tend to take few risks, but I would have thought that the water table would be above road level. There is bad building ground generally in the very centre of Belfast, because it is alluvial.

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Squire wrote:

Auditor #9 wrote:

Squire wrote:

SeathrúnCeitinn wrote:: Check out Belfast

If that underpass is where I think it is, it is one bit of engineering I could never understand. How do you drain an underpass in a bog?

That underpass ... should those things be not built so as to drain out if anything like that happens?

Yes but that road runs through bog meadows (I think that is what it is called), so how do you drain the underpass. Obviously there must be a way engineers tend to take few risks, but I would have thought that the water table would be above road level. There is bad building ground generally in the very centre of Belfast, because it is alluvial.

It was completed something like a year ahead of schedule. I think I know why now.

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The highest wind MegaWattage recorded in Ireland so far was this year in January and it was 716MW - the maximum possible being about 860MW. It's getting close to that today Cool

716MW is about 20% of the nation's electricity needs over the day. My god it's black out there though ...

The weather thread - Page 24 Wind13

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Are we forecast to have a good week (now that the schools are back today)?

It's grey here today and rainy. It's time to get the harvest in and while our barley hasn't flattened, another few days like this and it will start to sprout (no sign yet, thank God), and the price of your pint will rise. So down on your knees boys and start praying...

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How's she cuttin' Kate? Will I see you at the ploughing competition?

Its been a lovely day here and hopefully for the Electric Picnickers.

The grass is cut, loads of rhubarb in the freezer. I think I'm losing the battle with the bugs on the brussel sprouts. Any non-toxic suggestions ?

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For all those interested in the current situation in Nola, I found this site very interesting. http://www.flashearth.com/ You can focus in on the gulf of Mexico and even see gustav's eye. It is not, however, updated more often than every 24 hours. For details about Gustav's progression, I find this site very useful http://www.weather.com/newscenter/hurricanecentral/2008/gustav.html. It gives the windspeeds (i.e. category) and direction of the hurricane every 12 hours and plots its path so far as well as its predicted trajectory. As well as that, one can also look at Hannah, which is visible on the flash earth map. Currently only a tropical storm, this could well be the next terror of the gulf of Mexico coast. That site also lists the naming order of the tropical storms this season.
Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly, Edouard ,Fay, Gustav, Hanna, Ike, Josephine, Kyle, Laura, Marco, Nana, Omar, Paloma, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicky and Wilfred.

Personally, I can't imagine anyone would be terrified of a Hurricane Kyle, however, Omar may prompt conspiracists to suspect an Al Qaeda plot. Smile

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cactus flower wrote:: How's she cuttin' Kate? Will I see you at the ploughing competition?

Its been a lovely day here and hopefully for the Electric Picnickers.

The grass is cut, loads of rhubarb in the freezer. I think I'm losing the battle with the bugs on the brussel sprouts. Any non-toxic suggestions ?

Red rhubarb? I hear it can fetch a nice price. I was actually surprised when eating store bought rhubarb for the first time at how bitter it was. Apparently, that's the quality people go for in rhubarb. As a child, the rhubarb tarts and jam my mother made were always deliciously, perhaps unhealthily sweet, and I relished in picking the little strings from my teeth afterwards.

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riadach wrote:

cactus flower wrote:: How's she cuttin' Kate? Will I see you at the ploughing competition?

Its been a lovely day here and hopefully for the Electric Picnickers.

The grass is cut, loads of rhubarb in the freezer. I think I'm losing the battle with the bugs on the brussel sprouts. Any non-toxic suggestions ?

Red rhubarb? I hear it can fetch a nice price. I was actually surprised when eating store bought rhubarb for the first time at how bitter it was. Apparently, that's the quality people go for in rhubarb. As a child, the rhubarb tarts and jam my mother made were always deliciously, perhaps unhealthily sweet, and I relished in picking the little strings from my teeth afterwards.

I can confirm that my rhubarb tarts taste like sticky rhubarby toffee.

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riadach wrote:: For all those interested in the current situation in Nola, I found this site very interesting. http://www.flashearth.com/ You can focus in on the gulf of Mexico and even see gustav's eye. It is not, however, updated more often than every 24 hours. For details about Gustav's progression, I find this site very useful http://www.weather.com/newscenter/hurricanecentral/2008/gustav.html. It gives the windspeeds (i.e. category) and direction of the hurricane every 12 hours and plots its path so far as well as its predicted trajectory. As well as that, one can also look at Hannah, which is visible on the flash earth map. Currently only a tropical storm, this could well be the next terror of the gulf of Mexico coast. That site also lists the naming order of the tropical storms this season.
Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly, Edouard ,Fay, Gustav, Hanna, Ike, Josephine, Kyle, Laura, Marco, Nana, Omar, Paloma, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicky and Wilfred.

Personally, I can't imagine anyone would be terrified of a Hurricane Kyle, however, Omar may prompt conspiracists to suspect an Al Qaeda plot.

My husband has just left New Orleans. I think I can see his hire car on the Portal. Shocked