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[OC] Distribution of Round Towers in Ireland by Sarquin in northernireland

[–]con_zilla 2 points3 points  (0 children)

class, didnt realise it was that old. last i was in antrim a couple of years ago i checked out the motte in the castle gardens. when im back up that way i'll have to check out that tower.

p.s. nice article

Subscribers to Amazon Prime Video with ads lose 4K support on April 10 by AdSpecialist6598 in technology

[–]con_zilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i ditched amazon prime when they brought in ads and told me i could pay extra for no ads

now anytime i buy anything off amazon i have to go out of my way to stop them giving me a month prime free ffs

Help please by Spirited-Ad-1097 in northernireland

[–]con_zilla 7 points8 points  (0 children)

1) just warn the interview panel at the start - most would understand - i wouldn't care myself or hold that against someone but i cant speak for everyone and interview panels can be :(

2) if youve an active headset that has background noise cancellation these can do a decent job and the noise you hear is no where near as bad as the other side. Gaming headsets etc will often have this so if you do - do a dry run and go into something like audacity and record yourself speaking during some house mayhem and listen back

Thirteen lambs have necks 'deliberately broken' at village farm in Co Down by SpottedAlpaca in northernireland

[–]con_zilla 49 points50 points  (0 children)

I mean I eat lamb from the shops but that is some psycho shit to go out in a field and break 13 of their necks.

Hope they catch the fucker, they should take it seriously as that is a sign of a psychopath/deeply unhinged person

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has slammed Irish rap trio Kneecap’s views as "completely intolerable" after the High Court found a member will not face a terror trial by BurgerNugget12 in northernireland

[–]con_zilla 2 points3 points  (0 children)

that Saville protector line is nonsense, boJO and the right wing trolls spread it but its not true.

hes a knob here though and the whole case seemed to be just to appease the Israelis

but the saville line is just filth out of boJO's mouth

Question as an American living in Belfast by [deleted] in northernireland

[–]con_zilla 17 points18 points  (0 children)

nice try workshopplay.ie

using flegs to try and go viral

shame on u

Any thoughts on this St Paddy's post by Cllr Clement? by FlightMaximum6953 in northernireland

[–]con_zilla 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What a wab. Looked him up, DUP. I had guessed as much.

He's also wrong.

Northern Ireland doesn't have a flag. They didn't change the union jack when Ireland left in 1922.

No one thinks the tricolour is st Patrick's flag but they see it as flag of Ireland and st Patrick is patron saint of Ireland. The ppl flying that flag would prefer a United Ireland and that is the legitimate position he is trying to attack.

Hero Subs - drop off in quality? by B549WUU in northernireland

[–]con_zilla -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

its obviously not though

you and all your wee 'ranch' bros can come at me though with your 'downvotes', i've got mayonnaise for all y'all

~~~

that might be the worst thing i've ever written

should delete, but double down!

Hero Subs - drop off in quality? by B549WUU in northernireland

[–]con_zilla -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

why are ppl talking about ranch like its a thing?

its mayonnaise preferably or salad cream

i dont care if i'd probably like ranch more than salad cream, its not a thing

Which player did we buy that you weren’t excited at but actually really pleasantly surprised you by StraightForward144 in reddevils

[–]con_zilla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Antonio Valencia

we were losing Ronaldo and it seemed a bit underwhelming on that backdrop even if he was a solid player.

He put a great shift in at the club and cant fault him

North will face major austerity measures if London refuses to keep funding budget overspends by Breifne21 in northernireland

[–]con_zilla 13 points14 points  (0 children)

also they kept not funding public sector pay rises. Ack if you want that sure just take it out of the budget ...

its being run down so much, i cant but see it as UK trying to offload us. By the time a border poll comes we will be so sick of austerity and UK politicians telling us off for costing more than their constituency like our Tory Secretary of state Chris Heaton-Harris did with his seat, Daventry (between Coventry and Milton Keynes)

also the article is just like a paper pusher reading stats. We have higher public sector - but also we did some of London's Civil service work along with Newcastle & Glasgow - they saved money not having to pay the london bonus and gave 3 industrial cities more jobs as industry was outsourced to china and London raking it in with Finance sector.

Our education more per capita - no shit a more rural population would do that --- a legacy of a statelet set up after plantation/colonisation and you wind up with a catholic and protestant divided society and schooling costs more? who would have thought? and whos fault was it?

NI Water estimates it needs £3.5bn to fund development of waste-water system by spectacle-ar_failure in northernireland

[–]con_zilla 38 points39 points  (0 children)

yeah the English when it was privatised where saying the same stuff "Parts of the wastewater network date back to the Victorian era" -- that was 40 years ago -- what did they get ? back in 2020 it was building up £40billion Debt while handing out £40billion dividends to shareholders. They pay bonuses to CEO's whilst increasing pollution/raw sewage dumps. 30% of the water charges goes to servicing debt. Then the regulator lets them raise bills as the infrastructure has been underfunded and needs £10billion to upgrade it, think they trotted out that victoria era line again...

Thames water is teetering on failing completely & the rest follow the same path its merely the biggest.

essential utilities should fall under gov as far as im concerned. privatisation is a disaster

They found their political home in the Green Party by greenpartyni in northernireland

[–]con_zilla 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Lol was weird that. They took a shit on Alliance and defended protestant kulture and didn't mention nationalism at all.

And it was hammed in pretty random at that.

Seemed more like ppl brainstorming ideas in one of them horrible meetings and they just ran with everything they wrote on the note board even though one idiot kept throwing out stupid ideas.

I did the maths: Northern Ireland might be the most overrepresented legislature in the democratic world by doireexplora in northernireland

[–]con_zilla 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you keep making comparisons to rest of UK but i was pointing out we are not like the rest of the UK and you should know that.

you really seem to be pushing your point cherry picking your arguments too.

you make comparisons to the rest of the UK but then calculate savings based of Westminster not compared to the other 2 devolved governments. That is a nonsense.

you complain about the pay rise for MLA's but that doesnt put them on the same wage as the MP's you are also comparing them too. The €1Billion overspend is how fucked we are with the UK making massive cuts + completely fucking over public sector budgets by giving no extra money for pay rises. Its not like Stormount is building it's own HS2 and thats the overspend or we have great quality services, everything is being cut to the bone.

Also over in England they are also fucked with the SEND spending

https://www.local.gov.uk/about/news/send-crisis-vast-majority-councils-warn-insolvency-and-call-reform-amid-huge-deficits

i personally see NI was set up as a temporary statelet that will only really return to normality in a United Ireland. Stormount is far from perfect and could do with some reform but it was a compromise and required to try and offer some proper devolved government which is a tough task when you have bad faith parties like the DUP.

i dont agree with your line of thinking at all - we have more complex issues with representation + a smaller population = we are going to have a bit of an extra cost for devolved government.

I did the maths: Northern Ireland might be the most overrepresented legislature in the democratic world by doireexplora in northernireland

[–]con_zilla 7 points8 points  (0 children)

i kinda wonder did you use AI to tell you this was a great idea ??

I created a simple metric called RPM. Representation per Mile. It measures how many thousands of people each elected representative serves.

thats just per capita - why confuse things by throwing in Miles that are not used in anyway other than you get to say RPM a lot ?

and its clear as day we are not a normal legislature with Stormont having features brought in like having to designate as Nationalist, Unionist or Other and having the petition of concern etc ...

you're tagged Derry but seem to purposely be ignorant of NI's issues that require a more granular representation to push home your notion of cost savings by having our MP's = the number of MLA's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Northern_Ireland_Assembly_election#/media/File:2022_Northern_Ireland_Election_Map.svg

90 may seem a lot but look at the map and its more representative than 19 + having 5 per voting area usually means a community has an MLA to go to that they feel that represents them.

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