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    [Politics] Edwin Poots

    It appears that a major part of his decline was agreeing that Westminster would step in and do something the DUP had agreed to do should they fail to do it. And his opponents within his party are proposing that they should collapse Stormont and let Westminster take over. Absolutely none of...
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    GBNews: anyone watching?

    The sound levels, titling typos and so on aren't the fault of the clearly poor virtual set and other software though. Some of the cameras are clearly not HD too, or have damaged optics if they actually are.
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    GBNews: anyone watching?

    Technical competence that would have you told "thanks, but we must maintain standards" by a hospital radio station - where the hell did they get broadcast engineers that bad? I've got a colleague I could do with disposing of if they pay well for that level of experience!
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    [Misc] What is the oldest thing you have used "As new"?

    Bought and installed a new in box 1998 made component (3Com network card) for an old system that needs to be kept alive for occasional reference recently.
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    [Football] Duffy

    In addition to the previous discussion of qualification rules, players born in Northern Ireland can play for either team without any parental qualification requirements, as they are innately allowed citizenship of both since the 1998 Belfast Agreement. This has been agreed by FIFA, although the...
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    [Football] Duffy

    MOM last night for Ireland. https://www.the42.ie/shane-duffy-on-hungary-ireland-5461277-Jun2021/ Problem with inconsistent form is that could be a once-off.
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    [News] Fred Dinenage

    I spent ~£25 getting a copy of that a year or so ago as I'd got rid of the one I had as a kid. Excellent work.
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    [Football] Sutton United

    The weather justifications for an artificial pitch don't really wash in Sutton; but there should at the least be a re-evaluation of the ban for Northern teams that likely need more artificial support for growth of a conventional pitch; due to shorter days in Winter.
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    Has Bill Gates gone mad?

    Fairly sure the bulk of the wealth is already in the charity funds. His personal wealth won't be huge.
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    [News] Post Office convictions quashed.

    Justice won't be served here without significant compensation, particularly to the families of those that are now dead; and to have senior execs from the Post Office and *particularly* from Fujitsu behind bars for the coverup.
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    [Travel] When do you top up the fuel in your car?

    Fuel filter should prevent that being an issue. There is of course the constant problem with "should"s.
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    [Travel] When do you top up the fuel in your car?

    Because the ethanol/organic content in petrol these days 'goes off' over a while, and I'm rarely using the car, I'll go a bit after the light comes up and put in about half a tank. Full tank could take a month or more to get used. I'm still occasionally driving to work; if I was just using it...
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    [TV] Finding Jackie Charlton

    Was on a day earlier here. Difficult watch in a few different ways, but very worthwhile.
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    [News] Alan Turing

    I've never understood why 50s are so rare in the UK. I've never, ever had one and I've taken hundreds of pounds out of ATMs and even sold a car for cash in the UK Back in the before-days, when you'd actually go those things called pubs, I'd be using €50s every week. Still have two in my wallet...
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    [Music] Irish Music - No Bono required

    Due to losing the Eurovision-centric nightclub PAs last year, that would be a substantial % of her income, Niamh is now working in Tesco until she can tour again. Which is a lot better of a thing to do than go whine about being broke, going bankrupt, or whatever most pop stars in a similar...
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    [Music] Irish Music - No Bono required

    His mother died when he was 14, but he was from a wealthy family and went to a private school.
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    [Technology] USB Type C charging ports

    Specific manufacturers seem to use really crap ones - HMD/Nokia come to mind. I'm not sure the standard is designed well enough either though.
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    [Music] Irish Music - No Bono required

    Most successful local band to me, although their former lead singer from a different incarnation is a lot more famous (Damien Rice) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYIKlcgf1I Proper vocal trance classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDWTxaM0mqA Clannad / Brennan Family have been mentioned...
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    Bell Cheeses at work

    I took a look at the company-wide installed app monitoring thing (which I don't have to use as engineering staff are on our own network) and the single most installed and used app (after Chrome) is a mouse jiggler - by some margin. We don't have Office licences as we use GSuite so there'd be no...
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    [Politics] It was 50 years ago today................

    Been there, done that here. Distance signs done when they needed replacing (new ones marked KM) and speed signs done overnight (20/01/2005) - installed in the months in advance and then the black binbags moved from the km/h signs to the mph signs by council staff overnight It just gives some...

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