doireann.bsky.social
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Maybe some people do! But then you've the same problem if someone robs your car 🤷
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Irish driving licences have addresses on them!
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Shardlake would've done great on the BBC, it was an odd choice for Disney
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Are you saying the respect of the NYT games commentariat is meaningless?
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You can change it back in the settings but yeah, absolutely stupid
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The fact that I didn't even know when his day was until I read the article says a lot
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The other two I've gone back and forth on at various stages but Dean is always terrible
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Tbf even if he did make it up it still doesn't count as doing it if he couldn't also make it down
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Same - I got into it because for a while Comedy Central would air it after Friends and other standard teen sitcoms, and after that I watched it religiously every day
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I saw he's since retracted and apologised
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Breed: baby
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The oldest to die in office was Patrick Hogan (age 83) who was first elected in 1923 and served as Ceann Comhairle for 16 years so we'll make an exception there
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Going down a rabbit hole, it seems Donegal was cursed in the 80s - after Ceann Comhairle Joseph Brennan died in office, so did both of his nephews (brothers) who were elected to fill his seat
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Even then, the vast majority of those on this list died suddenly and/or young
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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Interesting... *dusts off grey wig*
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... okay but how much is the discount
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Possibly once a fortnight but I remember it being pretty frequent! It was always on a Wednesday right after break so you got to miss like 10-15 minutes of your next class
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Our water also has no fluoride (not for any ideological reasons, just not possible with where we are) so when we were kids the nurse used to come to the school once a week and make us all gargle concentrated fluoride. It tasted awful but I still have no cavities!
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They bother me so much because, aside from the fact that the dogs clearly don't understand, dogs can already communicate with us fine! If you can't read your dog's body language that's on you!
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They didn't do it for the first 500ish years, then a guy called Mercurius got elected and he didn't think the pope should have the name of a Roman god so he started the whole thing!
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Damn they look cool
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Cool!
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Now that you mention it... do Vatican passports even exist? Does the Pope get one?
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Hopefully! I wonder what kind of bird it is
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Just FYI, you're not really supposed to take photos of bird nests! birdwatchireland.ie/too-close-fo...
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It's just such a simple concept too? Like it's amazingly effective and also you can easily explain it to a child
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So it goes
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But yeah it's great
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Yes and no? It's just called "The Popes: A History" but I just looked it up and apparently it was published under different titles in the US/UK
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I'm reading a book about Popes at the moment and just finished this chapter!