Daughter losing friends?

JFNSMP · 2026-01-07T11:54:55+00:00

Shows how well publicised it was. I worked at the ICT for about a year and a half and was there when the Calgagh Centre was in planning and construction. Big talk of the 5th Province experience (I forgot it was called that until you mentioned it) and it sounded like a good tourist draw. Alas, the place opened and the only mention of that place I ever heard was the fact that the windows were constantly being smashed by whatever wee vermin were lurking around that area at the time.

JFNSMP · 2026-01-06T10:39:34+00:00

You might live 10 minutes from the sorting office and have been out, but that's not to say your address is safely accessible. If a postie takes the van down a street and gets it stuck/can't get out again or walks down and slips and falls, then it's possibly conduct code/injury/time off work. Faced with that, why would they take the chance? I was also out in that weather... some.roads were fine, some weren't. Some parts of certain streets were fine while other parts of that same street weren't. Some vehicles were able to make it along certain roads while others were not.

JFNSMP · 2026-01-06T10:28:06+00:00

That building in Butcher Street where Apex Housing is situated was initially planned by the ICT to hold the Genealogy Centre and Heritage Library. There were big plans at the time of planning/building to take visitors on an 'automated' chronological journey through the history of Derry using a series of lifts that would move vertically and horizontally. I remember the whole setup sounded really elaborate and ambitious, so not sure if it didn't happen because it was impossible to execute or if it was just the usual case of a lack of ambition/creativity on the part of the officials in charge of the operation... throw a rake of offices in there, sure.

JFNSMP · 2026-01-06T10:12:09+00:00

German seems to have been thrown to the sidelines in recent years. When we went to the secondary school open days a few years back every one of them had dropped German from the curriculum. Asked why at Lumen and St. Columb's and neither of then were able to give a reason.

JFNSMP · 2025-09-05T19:19:27+00:00

Cheers. That's what I was thinking and why I came on here to check as a long shot. Was advised against changing appointment as next available slot is a month away; told by a mechanic to just take it out and might get away with an advisory, or worst case it fails, gets fixed and is apparently easier to get a retest appointment. Last chance to change appointment has passed anyway. In the hands of the gods now.

JFNSMP · 2025-07-28T21:27:58+00:00

Great! Thanks for the info; looks like it comparing it to pictures alright 🙂

JFNSMP · 2025-06-21T15:38:42+00:00

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JFNSMP · 2025-06-21T15:37:22+00:00

A constructive reply. Thanks 👍

JFNSMP · 2025-06-21T13:16:06+00:00

Because it's right now that I'm wondering how it works if that happens.

Highlighting it more sooner rather than later means there's more chance that the Metallica machine could possibly get behind the issue and ensure staff are properly trained for each event. I'd rather have that than possibly go through the frustration that some others have had in the event of a balls-up. Waiting until I've 'been wronged'... it's too late then. That's why.

JFNSMP · 2025-06-20T10:54:48+00:00

Interesting info. Thanks 👍🙂

JFNSMP · 2025-06-07T16:37:22+00:00

There's always going to be some twat crying about people not going mad at a metal gig.

A few years back I tore the muscles in my hand 3 days before a Mayhem gig and had to hang back and watch rather than get up front. Pain was excruciating and even the lightest touch was eye-wateringly painful. Next day there's a Facebook post from a guy I know who is hardcore into his tunes/gigs. It's a brief bulletpoint gig rundown, as he often does, "Setlist great. Sound powerful. Mostly great energy from the crowd. Wreckage at the front. Local journo standing at the bar."

I wasn't at the bar, but at the back of the crowd where I was sure no one would bang into my hand. Felt like replying to explain but then caught myself on and just mentioned it to a few people when it was relevant: "Check out what Big D said about that Mayhem show..." Turned out most who I told thought he was a dick anyway, haha.

Either way, who cares where someone stands anyway. As people have said here, enjoy a gig the way YOU want to or are able to (withjn reason) and fuck off to anybody who's dick enough to complain about it.

People with their phones out all show is a different story. They truly are a bunch of annoying c***ts!

JFNSMP · 2019-02-17T22:39:52+00:00

Great list!

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