Chaos in Oireland.

[barkingmad]

If I’m still alive next Spring 2021, I must remember to check the birth rates for the turn of the year. That is for both UK and the Emerald Isle.
Either they will show an increase, as couples find on some occasions that they are really nice people with whom they can live and mate, or the rate will decrease as they find the experience of being cooped up is damaging an already fragile relationship?
Or there will be no significant change as the two previous phenomena cancel each other out.

[ian16th]

If I’m still alive next Spring 2021,

This forum has member at the bottom of Earth.

Please use calendar months not hemisphere seasons.

[barkingmad]

Ian16 and all Antipodeans, SORRY! I forgot the sun goes round in the wrong bit of the sky down under.

The correct date clue will be January 2021, though doubtless a few sproglets will be spat out in December this year...

[TheGreenGoblin]

[barkingmad]

Good to see that Leo Varadkar has stepped up to the plate and re-registered as a doctor to help in the Covid-19 battle?

https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/07/iri ... oor-so-far

That should stand him in good stead with the electors (too late!) but might provide a living for him if/once they get their politics back in order?

[barkingmad]

At least one EU country seems to be able to provide numbers in the Covid-19 stakes which are easy to understand;
https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/466 ... nday-13-a/

As opposed to the UK figures presented thus;

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/w ... -2020.xlsx

Wonder how much these UK NHS “managers” are being paid to mash out excreta like this?

[TheGreenGoblin]

[TheGreenGoblin]

And to think that I thought the title of this thread was Choirs in Oireland...

[barkingmad]

Thanks for that GG ! It’s a better background noise to the sinking of a pint of Guinness than the infuriating electronic acoustic pollution of fruit machines in an English pub or the racket emitting from the gigantic screen in the corner showing sport, sport and maybe news, in none of which I am at present remotely interested.

Edited to include;

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland ... -1.4229579

Let’s hope the “Choirs” can continue to sing about this news, though it’s sad to note the petty squabbling between the parties over the Army being used to help. As long as these folk get elected the euphemistically named “Troubles” ( a k a known as civil war in any other country) will never be totally over.

[barkingmad]

Here’s a clue as to how our brethren across the Irish Sea are intending to lift the lockdown;

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland ... -1.4242747

I have been called some things in my time but a “cocooner” is not one of them! Does that mean I am a chrysalis and will emerge colourfully beautiful to commence a new life at the end of my incubation period?

[G-CPTN]

I have been called some things in my time but a “cocooner” is not one of them! Does that mean I am a chrysalis and will emerge colourfully beautiful to commence a new life at the end of my incubation period?

If you haven't already 'come out' it will be your opportunity to do so.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Unfurl your emerald wings and fly my little Irish, French speaking, butterfly... I blame the EU for this heinous multiculturalism, not to say lingualism...



More chorus in Oireland I guess...

[barkingmad]

Gosh! From 1971, the year I took the Queen’s shilling and dedicated the next 16 years of my (then) short life to keeping the Soviets outa Trafalgar Square. Sooooh long ago and sooooh innocent....

[TheGreenGoblin]

Gosh! From 1971, the year I took the Queen’s shilling and dedicated the next 16 years of my (then) short life to keeping the Soviets outa Trafalgar Square. Sooooh long ago and sooooh innocent....

I sang that song in English at an Eisteddfod in Johannesburg (as you do) in 1971. I was a soprano at the time.... being edumacated by the Irish brothers begorrah...

[barkingmad]

This is definitely NOT what I was thinking when the ‘cocoon chrysalis’ idea first occurred;

https://images.app.goo.gl/Tim7Ke6TEmnu4QLz6

It looks like it has definitely ‘come out’, not something in which I have any interest nor intention!

Though since Leo Varadkar’s liberation of that blighted island there are more like this to be seen on Dublin streets...

[ian16th]

.... being edumacated by the Irish brothers begorrah...

Which one?

I sent my son to one of them places. I think I got my money's worth.

[TheGreenGoblin]

.... being edumacated by the Irish brothers begorrah...

Which one?

I sent my son to one of them places. I think I got my money's worth.

De La Salle College Victory Park, where I was well edumacated but soundly thrashed for being the heathen "blackguard" I clearly was to them... Later attended Marist Brothers College in Cape Town where the beatings were somewhat less brutal...

[ian16th]

.... being edumacated by the Irish brothers begorrah...

Which one?

I sent my son to one of them places. I think I got my money's worth.

De La Salle College Victory Park, where I was well edumacated but soundly thrashed for being the heathen "blackguard" I clearly was to them... Later attended Marist Brothers College in Cape Town where the beatings were somewhat less brutal...

Sent my lad to Benedict's, Bedfordview.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Which one?

I sent my son to one of them places. I think I got my money's worth.

De La Salle College Victory Park, where I was well edumacated but soundly thrashed for being the heathen "blackguard" I clearly was to them... Later attended Marist Brothers College in Cape Town where the beatings were somewhat less brutal...

Sent my lad to Benedict's, Bedfordview.

Good school. I am sure he has made you proud.

[barkingmad]

Ooh dear, erewego, Brussels planting the flag in NornIron?
Having failed to get their spanking new embassy in Belfawst, they’ve had to accept that a new border will come into force down the Oirish sea.

Once the co-ordinates have been formally delineated, an Oirish firm is first to tender for the boundary fence;



Apparently it’s only for trade and bits & bobs but what’s the betting there’ll be mission creep and the gorgeous Arlene Foster will have to dream up a new and very expensive passport?