Pam Bergin
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@BerginPam If you ever think of me owning a bookshop, my model of customer service is the Bernard Black
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@Casserly_Rock whatcha think? Good use of a few extra bob.
The Last Homely House@AHomelyHouse
When I make it big, I want to build a bookshop in town like this, featuring illuminated books, classic texts, and obscure old out of print PDFs that I've rebound. Image is from the Albertine Bookstore in Manhattan.
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@BerginPam Sort of. I would build this, but not as a bookshop, because people would then come in and expect to buy these books. No! This would be a room in my house, for me, and only me. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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There must be some mistake. I was screamed at, called a Nazi and a bigot, and told I was "on the wrong side of history".
J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling
Today's ruling by the IOC means a welcome return to fair sport for women and girls, but I'll never forget the scandal of Paris 2024, when people who consider themselves supremely virtuous and progressive publicly cheered on men punching women.
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I'd have to agree that one has to be incredibly insensitive and utterly lacking in empathy and self-awareness to go public with this vile and disjointed diatribe.
The person in the video has achieved nothing but humiliate herself by:
1) drawing the world's attention to her troubling, and I dare say psychotic, inner voices and
2) advertising to the world her own incapacity for distinguishing between which inner voices should be allowed make the trip from her brain to her mouth and which should be held in reserve for confidential discussion with her psychiatrist.
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@adrianweckler I guess the could rebrand to either news-toke or Spliff 1038..
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As true today as it was then.
Barry Wall@HeadWarriorTWM
Bloody hell I miss him, imagine what he would make of today!
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@Casserly_Rock It’s pure cracked James. If it wasn’t 2026 you’d find it hard to believe.
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This is a thundering disgrace telegraph.co.uk/gift/9eb3e3eb9…
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Now comes the social media double whammy.
Four ambulances of a volunteer service for north west London, staffed and financed by the Jewish community for everyone's use, are destroyed.
That's followed by social media posts attacking Jews for having their own ambulance service...which we don't have. Because they are an act of charity. For everyone.
It's like saying St John's Ambulance is 'for Christians'. Which it isn't. It's also for everyone.
But it's Jews, so what does the truth matter?
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There’s an abandoned theatre buried in the basement of Busáras station. The Eblana Theatre once seated 240 people. It takes its name from one of the ancient settlements that gave birth to Dublin, first cited by Ptolemy in 140 AD.
Eblana`s brutalist design, without wings or traditional forms of stage architecture, was in keeping with the architect Michael Scotts Busáras station aesthetic. Although the acoustics were apparently excellent, as was the intimate ambience.
The main Busáras structure took six years to build, construction starting in 1947 and finishing in 1953, at a then stratospheric cost over £1 million. And it was controversial from the start. This modern piece of architecture was paradoxically dated looking from the get-go.
The Eblana Theatre itself opened on the 17th of September 1959. For the first two years, the vaguely depressing theatre entertained passengers until their buses came, showing newsreel clips on a cinema screen.
Thespian and director Phyllis Ryan`s (1920 –2011) Gemini Productions drama company took over the lease and showcased the idiosyncratic little space during the Dublin Theatre Festival. This prestigious, independent alternative to the Abbey Theatre championed playwrights like John B. Keane Hugh Leonard and Brian Friel. But even this veneer of artistic glamour did little to elevate the Eblana.
One constant source of scorn against the little space was its placement close to the large seedy bus station public toilets. Anecdotes abound of intoxicated travellers strolling into the middle of a play, seeking a place to take a leak before their bus arrived. This led to the witty insult that Busáras had "The only public toilet in Dublin with its own theatre."
After Gemini productions parted ways the Andrew's Lane Theatre briefly took over, then the Northside Theatre Company. Eblana`s days were numbered , and it closed in 1995. There was much talk of refurbishment and relaunch as the new home of the Fry Model Railway in 2012. However, the estimated millions in funding never manifested.
The most recent plan was converting the unique space in to a training centre for Bus Éireann staff, with Dublin City Council granting planning permission.This is earmarked to happen when Bus Éireann relocates its headquarters from Broadstone to the Busáras site.
Until then, though, the errie theatre has become a bizarre time capsule. Its tattered seats, creaking floorboards, and peeling posters gently dilapidating in the subterranean Dublin air. The abandoned auditorium feels like a spectral audience and cast has just stepped out a moment ago, as if it could very easily screen horror movies to an assembly of ghosts at night after the rest of Busáras has shut up shop and gone home.
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Inheritance tax is one of the most unjust taxes of all - taxing the dead on what they’ve already paid tax on while they lived, and taking a chunk of what they worked to provide for their family. share.google/cKjI2VktODsLgJ…
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