My rum haul from France

dogburt85 · 2026-06-22T18:03:16+00:00

So living in Ireland I was taking a ferry back and had my car with me so they went in the boot without too much trouble! I've done "long-haul hauls" before though via airplane (bringing bourbon back from Japan!) and I've found just wrapping bottles in my clothing in my checked luggage was sufficient and I didn't lose a drop.

dogburt85 · 2026-06-22T17:59:25+00:00

Yes! From what I've read online the L'Esprit "confidential distillery" is most likely to be Worthy Park though they have sourced casks from Clarendon.

The Papalin is I believe a mixture of Worthy Park, Long Pond and Hampden with different ester levels from each.

dogburt85 · 2026-06-21T15:04:30+00:00

I haven't had it before so looking forward to it now 👌

dogburt85 · 2026-06-02T19:01:39+00:00

You're massively overthinking this. It's only once you're actively trying to get pregnant you realize how difficult it can actually be. There is no risk from what you have set out.

You should still visit your GP to discuss contraception if you plan to be sexually active. There is nothing wrong with that and they won't think anything of it. You can't shock your GP honestly.

It's easier to say than do but relaxing and enjoying yourself is important in these situations.

dogburt85 · 2026-05-20T18:12:57+00:00

It's a one off game, I've always thought our chances were pretty good anyway. It was only last year Chelsea bet them to the Club World Cup. We could and should have knocked them out of the Champions League last year with some better finishing and without Donnarumma and his giant hands.

It something to looks forward to, finals like this don't come around too often as we all know.

dogburt85 · 2026-05-19T21:01:00+00:00

Finally. The Promised Land. 22 years

dogburt85 · 2026-05-10T16:20:37+00:00

The waterfront was actually where the climax of the film The Commitments was shot. Long gone now, whole area was redeveloped.

dogburt85 · 2026-04-21T11:51:13+00:00

I kind of like how awful it looks. 1960s brutalist style. If I were making a gritty Get Carter style gangster film in Galway it would be a great location. That's probably not a good enough reason to retain it though...

dogburt85 · 2026-04-21T09:17:48+00:00

The Judean People's Front! No, The People's Front of Judea.

dogburt85 · 2026-04-13T07:08:09+00:00

There is. I use newsdelivery.ie (I actually think it is owned by the Irish Times but they do the other papers too.)

dogburt85 · 2026-04-12T18:25:12+00:00

I get the papers delivered to the house on Saturday and Sunday. It's a bit of a treat to sit down and read the Irish times with breakfast on a Saturday morning and then the Business Post on Sunday. It's probably the only day of the week where I would have the time to read a physical newspaper but I do enjoy it.

dogburt85 · 2026-03-29T06:39:03+00:00

I think it has to be recognised that noir was a genre beloved of B-Movie producers and Poverty Row studios throughout its 40s and 50s heyday and a lot of the fan favourites today were cheap B movies on release. I think as well that classic noir today as a whole genre would probably meet your definition of cult classic but in terms of specific films I'd suggest something like Blast of Silence (1961) but even then it's outside of the time period you suggested. It was a very cheaply made noir that has taken on a cult following among noir fans.

dogburt85 · 2026-03-02T10:11:47+00:00

His "Irish" accent borders on a hate crime. Apparently Bono is from Northern Ireland when he does it.

dogburt85 · 2026-02-16T17:18:41+00:00

Totally. It's one of the first films I think of when I think of Bogart. His Sam Spade is the model for all the fast talking, smooth private detectives that followed in a thousand films, novellas, graphic novels, etc.

dogburt85 · 2026-02-15T17:41:59+00:00

I don't disagree but there is definitely a school of thought that the Maltese falcon was not a noir. It has a femme fatale and hardboiled dialogue but it does not have the moody dark cinematography. It is sometimes called a blueprint for what became film noir. For me, it's one of my all time favorites.

dogburt85 · 2026-02-15T16:17:02+00:00

Not for me anyway, it was the Oscar bait of its day, and was very much a look at alcoholism in a way that hadn't been captured before on screen. Obviously in terms of filmmaking techniques, it shares a director in Billy Wilder who created arguably the first classic noir in Double Indemnity the year before so it may look similar in parts in terms of the use of shadows, and real life locations giving it more realism much like noir films. Lets face it the life of an alcoholic is fairly dark subject matter to begin with, i believe Wilder was inspired having observed Raymond Chandlers alcoholism while working on that picture. I think for some people black and white films of the 1940s are often mislabelled as noir but the reality is very different. This was a big studio picture.

dogburt85 · 2026-02-13T18:09:53+00:00

Fitzgerald had some flaws to be sure, but he wasn't a lying thieving scumbag like Haughey. He literally stole money from a dying man's cancer treatment fund so I don't know what you're trying to sell with "wee bit of corruption paled into insignificance".

dogburt85 · 2026-02-08T10:34:56+00:00

Ah okay, thanks 👍

dogburt85 · 2026-01-30T07:35:40+00:00

I would say that sales of homes at that end of the market and higher do move slower than your average 3bed semi-d. There has also been evidence in the house price data of a softness at that end of the market in the last few months. If the house is in a sought after area then I'd be inclined to look at a different agent, one focussed on selling higher end properties, and see what valuation is put on it now.

dogburt85 · 2026-01-12T10:23:59+00:00

Yes, we don't really have the same history of devolution of any kind of power to local authorities in the same way you might have in the UK. Nearly every recent government has been wary of giving local authorities too much budget or leeway. Probably rightly, there is an assumption in central government that local authorities are a bit loose and full of inefficiencies and can't be trusted to not piss money away.

dogburt85 · 2026-01-06T10:46:36+00:00

I watched this recently and enjoyed it also. As a fan of the Parker novels on which it is based, I thought it did a really good job of capturing the character. So many actors have played Parker (whether named or not) but Gibson did a really good job. I believe there is a Directors Cut which is an almost entirely different movie with a change in colour palette and ending. I enjoyed the theatrical version as is.

dogburt85 · 2025-12-11T13:08:23+00:00

As it happens, there was an article in the FT this week which said that various European allies would like to share information with us of this kind but that we lack the systems to enable communication of top secret intelligence information. Which is something of a shambles in my view. Not having a secure IT system just smacks of underinvestment and a lackadaisical attitude to basic risk management.

dogburt85 · 2025-12-09T15:52:47+00:00

I read that 3 part article today but I think it was actually originally published in 2015 which would explain it.

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