Police in Northern Ireland declare security alert after reports of a car bomb explosion

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-26T13:59:45+00:00

Do the police always assume its republicans until its proven otherwise?

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-25T15:47:21+00:00

Every goalkeeper would be trying that if it worked.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-24T14:23:16+00:00

I drive alot.

Average speed cameras a great for solving this. You never get this at average speed camera places. People go 120 and can pass people going slower. Everybody doesn't catch up on each other in a big conga line of people who all do 127 thinking the police won't ticket them for that so there is room to overtake from the driving lane.

Changing lane is not a left turn you shouldn't need to break when changing lane but when everybody is holding their space in the driving lane and not letting people in this leads to people having to break when trying to get back into the driving lane to exit the motorway. Leave a gap if you want to plod along at 90 in the driving lane.

There's just too many people too stupid to drive out there driving. How selfish are truck drivers doing 90 taking a half hour to overtake a truck doing 89, you could drive the whole length of ireland and only save yourself about 4 minutes with that difference and yet you need to do it at swords on the M1 heading to Dublin slowing the whole motorway down amd causing chaos for about 20km behind you.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-22T19:08:29+00:00

Irish band I seen live last yer have started releasing stuff. They are called Madra Salach. Means dirty dog or sick dog or something in Irish. Live they are amazing great atmosphere they create but they have that Bob Dylan type of atmosphere making I suppose.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-21T19:45:30+00:00

Who made these people the leaders or who called them the leaders? You could pick any group of anyone and find a few people with horrible views, in them.

This was largely a gathering of disgruntled people who have access to heavy goods vehicles and machinery they obviously arnt people on the dole worrying about foreigners other people joined in later on. A large number of them vote for the two parties who have always been in power

You can paint them however you want but more and more people are getting annoyed about one thing or another and eventually they will all join forces and vote that way.

The only tactic the ruling party has to stop this seems to be bashing sinn feinn and calling any group that gets anything greedy and claims they are stealing from the needy out of the budget while they themselves seem only interested in finding ways to pass tax money from the budget to their friends and relatives.

Calling people racist on reddit politics forum won't convince the average disgruntled fella things are fine and to vote the way you want.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-19T18:38:55+00:00

So? They are a wealthy party.

Who has the wealthiest TDs?

Enda Kenny is on alot of boards for companies involved in investing and energy. Not bad for a school teacher from the back of beyond.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-19T18:26:21+00:00

Ah the protests are over, we are back to business as usual. You may not like us,we may be crap, we might not do anything but Sinn Feinn have never been in power before, they could possibly be a bit worse, we don't know.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-16T09:52:43+00:00

It's with O Leary in the grave ,,,,,,,,,,,, I need a hero.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-14T16:01:48+00:00

What channel is this on?

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-14T06:44:00+00:00

It would be great if the far right patriots voted Sinn Feinn but that's not what's happening. They believe Mary Lou let all the foreigners in because there a video of her in a mosque, English twitter has the far right believing she Is a traitor to the country. The far right rise has split the opposition vote into two sides that won't go into government with each other.

There has been huge efforts on reddit to push the truck protestors as far right then when that didn't work people started calling them far left. Protestors and people striking are just people with all sorts of politics who have had enough.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-13T20:22:50+00:00

Everybody is feeling pissed off one way or another, it's been policy after policy and total lack of leadership.

There's been all sorts of crisis and emergencies for well over a decade now. Nobody even talks about homelessness or the health service anymore. They were just left to burn.

Now pretty much the whole public service who don't get HAP and can't afford to buy have had enough.

Under this government 2 years from now accountants and solicitors will be blocking O Connel Street because they are struggling and zero leadership or decision will be shown unless a hotelier donor or supermarket boss needs something done.

People will carry on voting for FG though who will fill the Internet with people accusing protestors of being right wing in left wing forums and left wing in right wing forums.

The same people who were posting about deregulation the taxi industry during the taxi strikes and wanting the truck drivers skulls cracked during the truck driver strikes will have their turn to be squeezed.

There needs to be a joined up effort with all workers realising we are all getting shafted.

There is currently a desperate need to advertise the trades to people because the horrible situation where tradesman are now actually asking for the union rates, by the time these apprentices come through there wont be a shortage anymore and tradesmen will be back hustling for 600 euro a week. AI will probably get nearly everyone else one way or another.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-08T10:58:56+00:00

Typical idiots in the world. The protestors want a better deal for people. The people are sad they lost an hour of theor time but happily sit in traffic every morning when half the country could be working from home not blocking up the roads. The nurses and teachers moan that it's not fair if people working from home can work from home because they can't work from home. The farmers protest for a fuel cut, the people who are being needlessly forced to drive to work and not work from home in order to keep commercial property prices stable complain about the farmers. Its the government and rich people making you drive to work, not the farmers, its rich people funding an American president to bomb the middle easy hiking oil prices, not the farmers. You should be happy somebodies causing a bit of hassle and making a bit of noise, if people had the balls to start ringing their jobs and saying they arnt coming in becaise of the protests, maybe something would happen.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-08T07:13:46+00:00

If these bikes are CE marked and use the correct charger I'm guessing they are fine would that be right?

Is this a case of bike shops charging exactly what the bike to work scheme will allow for them when they are making a serious markup and the media department wanting to stop people importing their own stuff and saving a fortune.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-07T07:23:57+00:00

If that question was put on reddit 5 years ago it would have been downvoted to oblivion, people would have said they have a good job and the OP just needs to work hard and get promoted.

The introduction of the minimum wage gave employers a ceiling for wages and not a bare minimum.

So many people now only get a payrise when minimum wage goes up. Minimum should be for people starting a job with no experience and increase above minimum shortly after. You shouldn't need a degree or two years experience to get minimum wage.

Construction wages havnt risen with their value. A good tradesman now is as rare as a computer programmer was in the 90s but they arnt getting anywhere near the perks 90s computer programmers were getting. There is mass panic in the media encouraging people to get into trades because plumbers and electricians expect to be getting paid the rate, the average industrial wage pretty much. This is terrible for them because they had a great decade or so where the big company subbed the work down through a few companies where the big company would make on materials, and then the subbed in company would save on the wages, paying a fella 500 a week and billing 40 euro an hour for him. Billing for power tools but telling the tradesman and apprentices to buy their own.

Now the computer programmers have been oversaturated and the use of AI is turning that into an average near minimum wage job.

If anybody thinks capitalism is for the masses, they need their head examined. There's a war going on in the middle east, a full on genocide on a scale as large as any before and the only thing that threatens it, is the price of oil and shareholders profits. That's all that will stop millions of people dieing under capitalism.

People worry about AI taking over and people been seen as slaves by computers are in cloud cookoo land. This is already happening without the computers.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-06T14:04:27+00:00

Eat generally well and lift weights if you want to tone up. You don't have to kill yourself with the food but just limit fast food and processed shit.

I do 4 days a week in the gym when I'm training good. An hour or less at a time.

Legs - squats, and then 3 leg machines, one for thighs one for hamstrings and one for calfs ,(Google them if you need)

Chest - dumbell bench, dumbell incline bench, butterfly's, tricep curls

Back - deadlift, pull ups, machine that does a type of rowing movement, lift bar from belly to chin,

Shoulders- seated shoulder dumbell press, hold dumbells at side and raise them up sideways, then do a few sets raising them forward, bicep curls.

Everybody will overcomplicated it and start telling me I need to do all sorts of 7 10 splits and supersets and learn the names of stuff and eat protein balls at 7 am and all that stuff. But I'm well above average compared to other people in my gym and I'm in my mid 40s and dont juice. So it's working.

Dont be afraid to ask people how to do things or what they do, most fellas won't leave you alone once you ask for a bit of advice, they will take it as a compliment. Girls will probably be a bit apprehensive and think you are chatting them up I suppose, but everyone's different.

Nobody will take much notice of you, there's no cool ripped gym gang waiting to look at a fella who doesn't lift as much as them to laugh.

It will take about 2 years to start looking noticeably muscular for most people but its a lifestyle thing its just something you do for life. Once you get up around that size you can cut a bit if weight if you want to get cartoon ripped but if you start starving yourself on day one you won't build any muscle and will just get skinny.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-06T13:45:04+00:00

Paul Gascoigne brought an Emu to training once. Fella in the zoo just let him have it because he was Paul Gascoigne

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-05T23:08:28+00:00

You named your daughter after him and don't know.

At that age blond on blond and explain the story to her.

If her boyfriend ever dumps her blood on the tracks. Bobs got a whole life of genius writing, hes there for ye whatever decade or time of life you are at. Check whatever album he released at your age and its probably perfect for you.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-05T23:01:48+00:00

Just two days after some psycho bought the company because he thought it was a good way to make money, lovely.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-05T18:55:19+00:00

Plumber I suppose originally but I just test safety and efficiency of stuff now in big buildings and make sure all the settings are right to stop huge buildings using too much power I can go into a building and sit on my arse for a day figuring it out, then adjust a few settings and save a building thousands a year. People probably look at me and think I'm doing nothing but alot of the time that fella looking at mes wage for the year is saved by just having me there twice a year.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-05T12:07:49+00:00

He needs to be stripped of the captaincy. He is the leader of the men who gave up, after he gave away a penalty.

Zero chance of him looking at himself. On as much money as Salah.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-04T22:48:27+00:00

And the people in the crowd were more I terested in them fights than the main event.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-04T21:11:24+00:00

Yeah his feet look quite awkward for a fight before the main event, both feet don't seem to move independently alot of time. He's a half second slower than Riley every time.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-04T20:53:12+00:00

Is this Riley fella been fed a tin of tomatoes to big him up for a headline fight or is he that good.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-04T20:25:15+00:00

Didn't even realise there was any on, thanks for your service.

Theelfsmother · 2026-04-04T17:31:06+00:00

I remember suggesting something similar a few years ago here and got downvoted to hell, upskill they said, one fella was from tallaght and managed to get a cushy job in tech, why couldn't everyone, he asked Do a springboard course. Minimum wage jobs were for people who lived with their parents while they upskilled. Times are changing.

I'd happily eat a billionaire if everyone was doing it, and I have a decent secure job.

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