It’s the Irish at Wales this afternoon. If little Wales wines, they are the 6 Nations and Grand-Slam Champions. If Ireland win, then all sorts of machinations occur and then we have to wait for the outcome of the England v Scotland match later in the day. France is at Italy.
I would love to see Wales pull this off.
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Cheers to the Irish for the 17th March but the Welsh love their Rugby and deserve to win this one.
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@ Aussie Infidel:
i cant believe it, NBC is showing it over the air. they arent showing fagball…errr i mean soccer.
its on a little delay of 2 hours so i cant look at anything, started 10 minutes ago
and IT’s WALES!!!
massive destruction of Ireland. The Welsh kept the pressure on and was damn near perfect in this routing.
gonna be a great night in Cardiff!
i bought a pellet smoker…don’t judge me.
i cant get the temp low enough on the wood smoker to make proper smoked fish in the russian style. mrs coldwarrior is missing this flavor from home, so i must abide…being a great husband and all.
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@ coldwarrior:
so the girl is taking me to see alice and halestorm at the grand ole opry
upper tier center section, front row
this gonna be fun
halestorm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpJAmlnBxoA
https://www.weaselzippers.us/413999-orourke-packing-the-supreme-court-is-an-idea-we-should-discuss/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6816705/Beto-ORourke-apologizes-jokes-wife-troubling-teenage-fiction-writing.html
This kind of serial stupidity would be the end for most politicians. For dems it’s a resume enhancer.
The japanese have a term for the kind of person he was growing up chuunibyou (also known as 8th grade/middle school syndrome)- typically used to describe early teens who have delusions of grandeur, that desperately want to stand out that they have convinced themselves they have hidden knowledge or secret powers.
His recent statements that he was “born to run for President” shows he has not grown out of it. This man-child is potentially more destructive than even obama.
@ rain of lead:
Head banging causes neck pain… keep that in mind.
@ right_wing2:
Nope. Thanks…
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
Perfect
Ok, the various fishes are in the new pellet smoker…baramundi, salmon, and a bunch of blue that we caught in NJ.
This temp control is great. Nice smoke too. Will have to go to Wholey’s in the strip and get bulk fish for this.
Dammit. I was merrily blathering away on the dead thread. Old people can’t keep up.
rain of lead wrote:
Give the girl a hug and have a whale of a good time. Blow off steam and pretend you’re a kid again. *thinking* I think I meant that {rain} with all the responsibilities is actually you pretending to be a grown up. lol
yenta-fada wrote:
I didn’t say new thread.
So, blame me !
@ coldwarrior:
It only takes a nanosecond to blame myself first. Conditioned to do so for the first 17 years on earth. Harder to change than quitting smoking.
I don’t understand quantum stuff except for a glimmer, but this may be interesting to you and others.
https://phys.org/news/2019-03-long-distance-quantum-exchangesuccess-nanoscale.html
This year is very strange.
I like corned beef and cabbage, but this year in my local Walmart I have not seen any.
As I am not Irish St Patrick’s day is not something I celebrate but I do like buying the corned beef on the 18th March for sale price.
WTF is happening this year?
@ Possum:
LOL I get it now! I live in a very predominant Hispanic and African American neighborhood.
Walmart learns….. No point stocking corned beef here.
Last year they did, was on sale 30 cents a pound
@ Possum:
Gotta sell what the peeps buy.
The baramundi is really good.
it is st paddy’s and the pogues were mentioned:
they were magic
@ coldwarrior:
for 5 years…just pure magic
then…well…not so much
The Session: The Pogues & The Dubliners (Special Guest Joe Strummer)
coldwarrior wrote:
that much booze eats a hole in your mind
i saw those guys live three times in 18 months, it was pure magic when they got rolling.
so back from the county archery tourney
the HS team has had a lock on the trophy for the last 3 years
took 2nd this year š
last year the girl shot 265
this year 274 š
in two weeks we go to the state tourney
and two months it’s nationals
If you ever wondered what the engine room of a WWII PT boat looked like, this is pretty cool:
The rest of the boat:
coldwarrior wrote:
Fan-bloody-tastic.
@ coldwarrior:
… and on St Pat’sday in all in all!
The Irish will be crying in their Guinness but the Welsh deserve a win and Rugby in the Northern Hemisphere is in good form when the Red Dragons hold the shield.
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I can almost hear the male voice choirs from down here!
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coldwarrior wrote:
Baramundi???
Where in hell did you get a barramundi from Cold? Prised it from the jaws of a 16 foot slate (saltwater croc)
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salty = slate
Grrrrrrr
@ coldwarrior:
Of Barramundi and CROCs, up in the Kimberlies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXayxPowiTw
On average there is a big slate every 100 metres within half a mile of the coast. The density falls off a bit after that but they are still BIG and there enough of then to ruin one’s whole day’s fishing
š
Enjoy mate
salty=slate. Bloody machine
Grrrr
Aussie Infidel wrote:
i have my ways. and damn, that was great!
@ coldwarrior:
Well a day and a bit after the Christchurch massacre the Narrative is now set in quick drying concrete. The shooter is an AltRight fanatic. That is a lie pure and simple but the narrative is established so that the Left can use it as a blunt weapon to beat conservatives about the head. The truth from the nutter himself is that he has ‘transitioned from being a Socialist… to a neo-Marxist …. to an Anarchist….to a Libertarian … to an Eco-Fascist (what the hell that is.) Basically he’s a nutter who thinks that the Chinese President Xi is a great man and his ideal form of government would be authoritarian communist China. That’s out of his own mouth.
YET…. we have the global NARRATIVE already being pushed by just about every Progressive group and MSM outlet that somehow this nutter is an AltRight warrior.
The targets selected for destruction by the global; progressive left are also in place. Freedom of speech and the US First Amendment and draconian laws confiscating many classes of weapons and a general roll back of Second Amendment freedoms.
Those of us living without the First and Second Amendment protections already, will be crushed under ‘hate crime statutes’ that proscribe genuine opposing political opinion as chargeable hate speech and they will be subject to legal penalties. This at a time when even the definition of what is hate speech actually is allows ‘creative’ lawmaking on the trot from Progressive activist judges seeking to silence opposing political dissent . The first stage in creating a tyranny of State power with little or no redress by the individual. The second burden is the unilateral confiscation of whole classes of firearms even in jurisdictions where gaining a firearms licence is already onerous and difficult. With 2.5 million firearms in a country of just 5 million that’s relatively a LOT of weapons.
Finally the security services in NZ are coming under massive government pressure (we have a socialist Labour government in power here just now)to gather very comprehensive data on ‘persons interest. That is ALREADY the case, however and this push by( the former Socialist Youth International President) and current NZ Prime Minister Jascinda Audernwill go way beyond that. Because the nutter has no ‘background’ and no security services file ( he was a security clean skin Lone Wolf attacker) now almost everyone will have a security file opened on them. Just like Communist China with its ‘Social Credit scores to keep the hot pool under control. There is a name for that . It’s called tyranny!
To quote Rob Emmanuel the current mayor of Chicago and well known Progressive…..” We (The Progressive left) should never allow a tragedy to go to waste”. They will ‘mine it’ for everything and anything that will move their ‘Narrative’ in the direction of State control of all facets of life of its citizens.
Welcome to 1984 Winston Smith….
and all because a crazed Eco-fascist Progressive nutter murder 50 people and wounded 50 more.
hot pool = hoi poloi
BeannachtaĆ na FĆ©ile PĆ”draig oraibh! Happy St. Patrickās Day!
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh… I am sooo going to judge you… I am green with envy… I want a smoker sooo bad, I may have to make one myself…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CycW7KUNi0M
Whiskey In The Jar
Happy St Pat’s. Slainte!
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/03/15/ocasiocortezs-approval-numbers-have-souredcould-this-be-why-n2543191
AOC approval numbers tank under water.
Apparently idiocy is not as popular as it used to be.
yenta-fada wrote:
I happen to love this stuff. The article is very cool, but they predictably left out the coolest part of this research.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88-qgHh31bw
A nation once Again
An interesting analysis of the New Zealand shooter’s motives:
https://www.weaselzippers.us/414100-cnn-democrats-already-fed-up-with-orourke/
@ WZ
This is good, Dema already fed up with Beto.
@ RIX:
He’s in the way. The White Privilege stench on this guy is not fixable. He’s too much like the wrong Kennedy.
Especially with crap like this
Reuters Admits They Sat On Bombshell Beto O’Rourke Story For 2 Years
https://www.dailywire.com/news/44759/reuters-admits-they-sat-bombshell-beto-orourke-ryan-saavedra
And – my Iditarod race is over. Blair finished a few minutes ago. I’m wiped. 2 insane weeks.
Here are some pics at Nome. Now I need a nap to transition back to reality. Oh yeah, almost $80k for school projects all across Alaska.
https://www.ktva.com/story/40140288/rookie-iditarod-musher-blair-braverman-makes-it-to-nome
@ RIX:
@ eaglesoars:
I agree on this. They have positioned themselves as the opposition to white privilege (still waiting for mine)so to have the poster boy for it as their face would not sit well with their more disgruntled violent factions.
@ doriangrey:
Thank you, Dorian. Does this also mean we have actual wormholes as part of the warp drive mechanism?
And HI!, it’s great to see you back for a check in. Things have improved for you workwise obviously.
@ doriangrey:
@ yenta-fada:
and here’s another
Physicists have discovered that rotating black holes might serve as portals for hyperspace travel
https://www.businessinsider.com/black-hole-travel-space-galaxy-2019-3
@ lobo91:
Blonde has a superficial understanding of Jordan Peterson. He has read and interpreted the literary, spiritual, and psychological Western canon of thought. His crucial and intellectual pivot point was to understand and search for meaning in the worst totalitarian genocides of the 20th century. He is most certainly NOT divisive and uses identity politics as an obvious example of how arbitrary these particular comparisons between groups are. He mocks ‘intersectionality’ as a directed mind controlled means of setting up only certain characteristics of comparing humans. e.g. exaggerating sexual preferences as a major way to approach the human condition. If she had looked more deeply she would have seen how Peterson rails against political correctness as means of social engineering and control. His popularity as a worldwide speaker and author bring people back to themselves as individuals. He offers taking responsibility leading to action as a way to make life meaningful and bring people to a place of peace within themselves by having them sort out goals and making them more successful as human beings. And yes, MEN especially must confront their darker sides since globalists & other social engineers MUST remove the alpha males
as the very force that will push back against dictators.
She must have just read Peterson’s 12 rules for life without understanding the vast act of reason and passion behind their roots. She didn’t do the hard work even though she gets a few things right.
Listening to Jordan Peterson got my sister to work through her writer’s block instead of just saying ” My muse has left me.”
@ eaglesoars:
I wish I’d taken physics with a good teacher in high school. I did well in the Natural Sciences because they were more concrete. I had no framework to approach physics until I studied the physics of sound in grad school. I could never have become a Scientist, but I would have had a greater understanding of the world around me.
And I would have still made the same dumb mistakes.
@ eaglesoars:
What a fabulous picture of Blair finishing her first Iditarod!
The fat controllers squashing dissent from their agenda.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-16/nz-threatens-10-years-prison-possessing-mosque-shooting-video-web-hosts-warned
yenta-fada wrote:
there are some – many – things I don’t have the brain for, no matter who teaches me. Physics is right up there. If my learning disability – ‘difference’ – had been recognized earlier, I would have loved chemistry and been better at math. meh. I ended up doing what I loved anyway. Can’t complain.
The best commentary on Christchurch that I’ve seen so far.Read it!
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/radicalization-degeneration-brenton-tarrant-white-supremacist/
This guy is our version of Justine Turd. Perfect robot
Beta groveling appropriately to the outrage mob
“Not only will I not say that again, but I’ll be more thoughtful going forward in the way that I talk about our marriage, and also the way in which I acknowledge the truth of the criticism that I have enjoyed white privilege,” he said.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/beto-orourkes-gafftastic-day/
@ coldwarrior:
I knew you would post that rebel song!
“Young Ned Of The Hill” is still my favorite, but I found this.
Gotta jump through hoops to get the vid posted these days, but I got it.
@ Bunk X:
The Rumjacksā āAn Irish Pub Songā is āa piss take at the explosion of Irish Pubs in Australia and the bastardisation of a culture.ā
From the lyrics posted on the Utoobage:
Thereās a county map to go on the wall,
A hurling stick & a shinty ball,
The bric, the brac, the craic & all,
Lets call it an Irish pub.
Caffreys, Harp, Kilkenny on tap,
The Guinness pie & that cabbage crap,
The ideal wannabee Paddy trap,
Weāll call it an Irish pub.
holy crap! I think it’s John Malkovvich in the new season of Billions. Playing an arab.
@ Bunk X:
Been watching “Peaky Blinders” lately, even though the gangs of Birmingham waren’t all Irish. Their peakies were cool, though.
@ eaglesoars:
Hey, eaglesoars. Missed y’all.
@ Bunk X:
Bunk X wrote:
hey ya! Was in (mentally) Alaska. Still am, a bit, not all the mushers are in. Slowly transitioning back to reality.
@ lobo91:
LOL. Those phrases are awesome. She’s talking about the “Pompetous of Love.”
yenta-fada wrote:
Yeah, and I answered you this afternoon.
… and I looked on the main page, comment count should have clued me in. Duh
@ eaglesoars:
C’mon in. Don’t bother wiping your mukluks.
*snort*
Top Beto O’Rourke adviser is socialist who slammed Saul Alinsky as a moderate
An avowed socialist who blasted the leftist father of community organizing Saul Alinsky as a “paternalistic” moderate who “disparaged the idea of revolutionary change” is one of the top advisers to Beto O’Rourke in his 2020 White House bid.
Becky Bond, who was a senior aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders during his 2016 presidential campaign, has been floated as O’Rourke’s campaign manager. She was an organizer for his 2018 Senate run against Republican incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/top-beto-orourke-adviser-is-socialist-who-slammed-saul-alinsky-as-a-moderate
yenta-fada wrote:
No, wormholes are something completely different. Warp drives compress and stretch the fabric of space itself. Wormholes create holes in the fabric of space between 2 points. 2 points as in either distance, or time. Warp drives are strictly distance.
Best Irish Broadside ever, IMO. Some typos in there, but it was proofread by Eoin Shalloo.
https://tackyraccoons.com/2008/03/17/st-patricks-day-nell-flahertys-drake/
Bunk X wrote:
I missed all of you too! Wonderful Irish songs. You’re a Music Detective.
@ yenta-fada:
This one is kinda fun.
@ doriangrey:
Now explain how the 405 elongates space and time, turns 40 miles into 2 hours.
Bunk X wrote:
Progress!
Bunk X wrote:
The presence of 2 or more cars creates objects, specifically, the space between the cars. That is a discrete object that occupies its own co-ordinates, determined by the position of the nearest cars. The creation of that object therefore alters time because space has been altered.
I’ll be here all week. No, actually, I’m going to bed. nite.
I don’t know what they’re thinking, but it’s not about the optics
Fox just silenced Judge Jeannine and…hired Donna Brazille
https://www.apnews.com/bfc04ffbeb3c4a1482ff5ab810925542
@ doriangrey:
One of the things that bother me about the Alcubierre warp drive was the reliance on something called “Exotic Matter”. Sounds like a heap of unobtanium to me along with a little handwavium. Until they can define what the exotic matter is and how to manufacture it, it’s all just mental gymanstics.
@ PaladinPhil:
Plus the minor issue of it probably requiring more energy to function than the Earth’s entire current power grid.