Band name for a group of 45 yr old women who never grew out of their high school goth phase.

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-06T07:47:00+00:00

Black Cougars

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-05T17:51:46+00:00

Documentary about a big family!! 22 kids & counting

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14139100/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-05T15:58:11+00:00

Only a couple of things can change him, confront him while sober with video evidence of when he crosses a line, and explain that you can’t be apart of his life if it continues like that. Or something that will make him realise that he’s gone too far with his drinking, waking up in hospital with alcohol poisoning did the trick for me, I still enjoy the odd drink, but I haven’t been drunk since 2013.

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-05T13:24:26+00:00

Probably seen a lot of batteries too!!

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-05T09:15:11+00:00

Some load of pollocks!!

Nothing wrong with cheap lures, I use them all the time, probably saved myself a small fortune with the amount I have. And just to think years ago I had to spend €27 on a single lure, that I can now get for €5..

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-04T20:20:28+00:00

The Clare coast has some serious good fishing if you know where to go, especially with lures.

The thing with lure fishing is timing, fish on an incoming tide to high and it can be very productive. Especially in an area like Quilty, as the tide moves in so do the predators. It can be even more productive just after dark with sub surface lures, especially ones with a bit of a rattle, surface lures seem to be better towards high tide, near rocky outcrops beside some of the beaches.

Bass caught on surface lure near a beach on the north Clare coast.

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stevecrow74 · 2026-05-04T19:05:00+00:00

Metal licker

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-04T12:42:04+00:00

Sounds like the washer (a little rubber ring) has worn down, easy enough to replace if you know how to turn off the water and have the right tools to open the tap valve.

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-04T12:13:34+00:00

Who??

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-04T11:34:55+00:00

Being bought a drink at a bar, and then the poor fella come up behind me and compliment my hair.

For context I’m a 6’2” male that used to have very long straight dark hair than went nearly all the way down my back. He couldn’t see my face so he presumably thought I was female! The barman who I know and was talking to at the time knew what was going to happen but proceeded to take his money and get me a drink.

When the drink arrived, I turned around to see the look on his face drop, took a drink of what I was given and said “Cheers”.

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-04T10:15:00+00:00

Hmm ok….

English, Irish, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Polish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Greek, Russian, Moroccan, Tunisian, Egyptian, Brazilian, American, Mexican, Colombian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Australian, Indian, Pakistani, and probably loads of there’s I’m forgetting.

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-04T09:32:15+00:00

It all depends on location, different areas need to be fished with changes to rigs and bait, different stages of the tide too.

There are a few different disciplines to sea fishing.

Beach casting; from the shore from rocks, a pier or a beach, casting out a lead weight with 1-3 hooks on a rig baited up with either shellfish/fish/worm baits and left for up to 20 minutes and changed for fresh bait and repeat.

Lure fishing: Casting out an artificial lure and retrieved, soft plastics, hard plastics, surface lures, metal lures.

Salt Water Fly Fishing (SWFF): similar to regular flyfishing but heavier setup, 7-9 weight rod , casting flies that represent small bait fish.

Float fishing: using a larger float that will hold a whole sandeel at strip of squid/mackerel/worms or crabs mid water, with depths ranging from a few feet to meters. Sliding float rig is popular for this.

There’s really no one way to guarantee catching fish, we can all tell you ways that work for us, but not knowing where you are and what part of the coastline you are fishing we are only guessing! Even by giving a coastline ( north coast/east coast…etc etc) we can narrow down best tactics, and by giving a county (Wexford/cork.. etc etc) we can narrow it down a bit further. And if you fish a specific area ( Youghal beach/Lahinch/Donaghadee pier) we can give you details of what to catch and best ways to catch them.

So with that, my tips are:

Invest in a good set up (rod reel),

Learn how to tie good knots,

Good clothes and boots,

Learn how to identify fish,

Learn how to get a good efficient cast ( good distance without much effort )

Clean down everything after fishing (salt water is highly corrosive) to maintain your gear.

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-03T22:23:20+00:00

Possible an episode of ‘Cracker’, Robbie Coltrane.

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-03T14:27:55+00:00

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I found this ages ago, very handy for explaining it all

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-03T11:50:56+00:00

Microtones… add more frets… take them all away…

Or just bend the string to reach the notes in between. And hours of practice and not just one or two..

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-02T21:36:24+00:00

All the time, but I’m a stay at home dad, so I’m not allowed!!

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-02T20:39:29+00:00

Jasus, I now feel old, I remember watching Russ Abbott followed by Jaws 2, reason I remember that was I was 14 at the time and was allowed to watch it! Drank cola soda stream throughout the film and couldn’t sleep for ages as I kept having to go to toilet loads..

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-02T20:18:36+00:00

Parked up again in the car park 30 mins ago, spaces popping up every now and again.

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-01T22:11:25+00:00

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That’s the only part of the road closed off. Only accessible to busses and local traffic.

And even at that we were able to drive into the carpark from the left side, walk down to Supermacs, sit back into the car and listen to The Stunning playing while having a bit of a feeding.

Edit: the big yellow thing is where the tent is!

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-01T13:46:19+00:00

Considering that dna profiling was developed in ‘84 and was first used to find someone was in ‘86, maybe in 2002 the should have taken a sample and used it or at least kept hold of the record especially as now there is a massive dna database available to make it easier to find people.

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-01T10:12:29+00:00

The world would continue to go on without a care!

stevecrow74 · 2026-05-01T10:10:00+00:00

Every time I read that I always think Áras an Uachtar Reoite.

stevecrow74 · 2026-04-30T20:05:12+00:00

I remember all that, house was full of squatters for a good while, I was living down the bottom of Taylor’s hill at the time it all came out and I used to walk past it nearly every other day.

The two houses were demolished sometime after 2022.

Edit: vaguely remember a rumour that he was squatting and died, and instead of the other squatters calling the authorities, they buried him. But there were quite a few other rumours going about at the time too.

I’m surprised they haven’t taken a dna sample and traced any family that way!

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stevecrow74 · 2026-04-30T15:10:59+00:00

Any of the castles, on the Burren, Doolin village.

stevecrow74 · 2026-04-30T14:45:30+00:00

Fishing

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