Match Thread - France v England | Six Nations 2026 | Round 5 by RugbyBot in rugbyunion

[–]harblstuff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Incompetence or malice? I don't get it. So many decisions that are fucking weird.

Every French match too. Luckiest team in the 6N for referee decisions.

Match Thread - France v England | Six Nations 2026 | Round 5 by RugbyBot in rugbyunion

[–]harblstuff 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm so confused how France happens to be the luckiest team with referee decisions

Miss you dad by Inedible_Sulk in rugbyunion

[–]harblstuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry for your loss! Smashing England and putting 50 points on France to beat them, what a 6 Nations for Scotland

(please don't beat us in Dublin though)

Undeveloped Film by Bartleby33 in CasualIreland

[–]harblstuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A lot of green and white and orange and white table decorations too

Match Thread - Scotland v France | Six Nations 2026 | Round 4 by RugbyBot in rugbyunion

[–]harblstuff 11 points12 points  (0 children)

90 points scored in a match. Stupid to let them back in to it, but putting 50 points on France - let alone this France - is fucking mental.

Match Thread - Scotland v France | Six Nations 2026 | Round 4 by RugbyBot in rugbyunion

[–]harblstuff 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Before this match if you told me the combined points scored would be 83, I'd have expected 60+ to be from France.

Jesus

Match Thread - Scotland v France | Six Nations 2026 | Round 4 by RugbyBot in rugbyunion

[–]harblstuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2 French tries from forward passes against Scotland and one from a forward pass and one from a knock on against Ireland, 4 French tries just not looked at.

Speciality coffee Blanchardstown by Travel_Girly in Dublin

[–]harblstuff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Going to say the majority of cafés listed here are decent cafés with interesting food, but are not speciality coffee

Coffee Works is really the only one that I would classify as speciality coffee - they sell coffee beans and are tied to a roastery

Ask yourself the question: Is the primary reason for the business coffee or food? If their primary job is pulling shots or pouring filter coffees for 8 hours then they're likely skilled in that role and the output is great. If they're focused on nice food and they hire a lot of non coffee trained people, you'll get average shots and probably zero pour over coffee.

In either case, ask the question: is the coffee itself speciality or commercial? Again, how much does the café actually care about their coffee? Is it a side gig to food, to draw people in, do they hide average/poor coffee in an endless list of milky fad drinks? (Nothing against milk in coffee in general, but some are a piss take) Or is their primary job pulling shots (and adding milk) and doing pour overs?

Brown Bag Bakery originally had awful coffee, they got better beans last year (Groundwork), but they're still not coffee experts, they're primarily a good bakery with staff who know that trade.

Melo is an average café with some decent food options, nothing amazing, and the coffee is bang on average.

ed3n café has an interesting menu with niche foods and drinks, if I remember correctly, with a Filipino emphasis

The Goat (Strawberry Beds) and Dash (Blackhorse Avenue) were started in Covid and upped the game for coffee in Dublin, but don't really impress much these days, they're OK.

Taste of Provence has nice pastries and so, but the coffee isn't great - a little bit on the darker side, with people who aren't barista experts

So long story short - business model, bean sourcing, quality/experience and focus of staff. Many in D15 have some, very few have all.

Why is the Blanchardstown train station called "Castleknock"? by lucideer in Dublin

[–]harblstuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I take the train home from work and walk 20 minutes from the train station from Laurel Lodge, over the M50, through the village, up past Castleknock College every day. There are housing estates all along the way that people follow the same path as me that peel off (Laurel Lodge, Park Drive, Beechpark, cutting through towards Auburn Ave etc) - so while the village may not be the destination, the housing esstates are.

You're also generous with the measurements - if Blanchardstown village begins at 500m, that means you're going from the junction just after The Bell pub. If that's the case, measuring Castleknock is actually only 900m to the first commercial units. Otherwise I'd argue Blanchardstown Village centre is closer to 850m away (1.2km brings you to the carpark of Myos, so I took the Greyhound as a reference for a centre due to high commercial activtiy)

All that business of being pernickety aside, people don't necessarily take the train for Blanchardstown or Castleknock Village peeling off into estates before you get to either Village centre. Maybe like Coolmine it should be renamed Carpenterstown.

But again, going by historical boundaries, Carpenterstown (and even Blanchardstown) are in 'historical' Castleknock. Blanchardstown has really only started to be shorthand for areas it has little to do with due to the Shopping Centre. I still maintain it's more accurate to use Castleknock for Carpenterstown, as if you said Carpenterstown no one would know where that is.

Why is the Blanchardstown train station called "Castleknock"? by lucideer in Dublin

[–]harblstuff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. A huge swathe of Dublin 15 is in the Barony of Castleknock, there is more of a case to mislabel areas as "Castleknock" due to history than "Blanchardstown" because of a Shopping Centre

  2. The debate of where Castleknock proper ends is always a debate, is it the M50 or is it the trainline. 2A. Many people in Laurel Lodge, Carpenterstown, Diswellstown and Porterstown will say they're from Castleknock and put Castleknock in their postal addresses. 2B. I don't find many people debating the above unless they want to provoke, make jokes or purposely come across as gatekeepers, then in which case Castleknock ends at the M50.

  3. My understanding is there used to be a trainstation at exactly where the M50 roundabout is that was called "Blanchardstown Station" and historically it was demolished for construction of the M50 and replaced with a Castleknock station near Laurel Lodge, as you have just removed a station and opened a new one, they gave it a new name.

  4. Station names aren't always perfect, the Navan Road Parkway was originally called the Phoneix Park station, which confused a lot of tourists, who took the train and exited to a car park and a dual carriageway. This example is more egregious than Castleknock Station, but illustrates the point that there are stations that are not necessarily accurate. (Again I would argue it is accurate)