briancon.bsky.social
I am a chartered civil engineer and a PhD student at UCD. I live in Dublin.
I enjoy brewing beer, reading books, playing old video games, and watching old sitcoms. I wish I was on a train.
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Just stick a beer mat on top, be grand.
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And my headphones run out of batteries mid song. Grrr. I have a perfectly cromulent but utterly useless set of wired headphones in my bag.
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Don't worry, the quiz is still pencilled in. Somewhere between the eat and sleep things I'm still legally required to partake in.
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The sweetener aspartame in particular I find nasty. I can’t recognise the taste immediately, maybe 200ml in before I notice it. Then the flavour becomes so intense I can’t taste anything else and it lasts for hours.
It reminds me of the stuff you drink before a colonoscopy
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“Full sugar” Fanta in Ireland, 15g in a 330ml can, and extra sweetened with aspartame. Compared with 32g in a 500ml bottle in France, so 21g per 330ml. And no aspartame listed in the ingredients.
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It used to. Now it has aspartame instead and one sip means I’ll taste it weeks later.
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Just get Chat GPT to pump it out. Then an AI voiceover so it can be stuck on ticktock. It can be watched by web crawlers for years!
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I'm not as articulate as you, but yes. Yes to all of the above.
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Oh we were well posh. To go to my school today costs about €1500 a night!
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Class of '99!
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You never know, this new Pope might want to put his own stamp on the calendar. Who is this Gregory guy anyway?
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I'd say that was fun! The song came up at random on a playlist of mine and it's been stuck in my head all morning. It has real "song at the end of Dempsey's Den" vibes for me.
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I really enjoyed it! Good to recognise some of the places of my youth.
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Gratulerer med dagen as they say in Norway!
Still always shocked at how you are not that much older than me, yet I remember hearing you on Atlantic 252 when I was 13.
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hope you brought your A game today, very much needed!