@dieworkwear Maybe better to think of it like- if you wouldn’t pay for it, it shouldn’t be made.
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Derry
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@dieworkwear Certain merch for certain places. Lighters for gas stations/bars. Captures a moment in time too. Branding material and merch are different tho and often conflated.
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starting to feel like only musicians, non-profit organizations, and your local independent bookstore should make merch. the world is flooded with cheap merch that companies feel like they should make and no one actually wears for any duration. goes to back of closet then landfill
Ben Tossell@bentossell
merch gifts have gone up a level ty @OpenAI
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@LonghairPart2 @Sarahjdublin Like I think she’s saying it’s obvious the names were never meant to be written in Roman characters.
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@LonghairPart2 @Sarahjdublin She does go on to say it was in jest, an not knowing the word for Ogham in the moment she put down potato rune. Which is pretty inflammatory to read but if you sub it out the post has a differing context.
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The lunacy of 2 different football teams and associations on our small island laid bare once again tonight.
All-Ireland football team now.
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@Lamey27 @FaringForwards Well they wouldn’t have happened if there hadn’t been partition.
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It's amazing how you see some Irish people obessessing about events over a century ago in which pratically no civilains were killed, when the Brits, Germans & Japanese managed to forgive each other for the obliteration of entire cities within a few decades of WW2.
Ben Williams@FaringForwards
But in the morning, Winston was sober.
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Does Derek think Leprechauns are real?
Derek Blighe@BligheDerek
Riddle me this! Why is the picture on the left Racist, But the picture on the right something to celebrate?
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@Lamey27 @FaringForwards Or who was standing on the sideline waiting to sweep in and say we couldn’t run the state.
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@FaringForwards It's surprising that the Irish government executed 81 anti-treaty IRA members in the Civil War and the British only executed 24 in the war of Independence. Not the perspective that is portrayed
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@quasiSnarkX @johnsemley3000 It can be both. Mac Giolla Phadráig is the Irish for Fitzpatrick. More common in Scot’s Gaelic anglicisations but can be either.
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@johnsemley3000 This is really specific!
Also, aren't McNames Scottish?
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@JackPosobiec Largest mandate of any Irish president. She speaks for us not you.
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@garrethmcdaid I think all the hot takes on this about why it should be easy to make a coffee shop work are indicative of why so many go out of business.
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Reminder that it costs €35k per annum to employ someone in a coffee shop on minimum wage, but people can't understand why a croissant costs €5.
Sophie Grenham@sophiegrenham
I just paid €4.80, like a proper fool, for an almond croissant from The Art of Coffee, a perfectly pleasant but fairly run of the mill café chain where their pain au chocolat is, more often than not, stale. Now, this croissant is large and stuffed with filling, but nearly a fiver for a pastry is simply too much. Yet this is how we're going. I could have said no thanks and walked out when the server told me the price, but you know when someone insults you and you freeze, and it takes you a minute to react? That, except with pastry.
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@andrewfrugby @will_owen9 Point of the law is to stop people in a ruck or post contact interfering with play. He’s doing it to tackle low. Completely different things
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Lots of “he’s on his knees” comments - if rugby was policed to that extent it would be unwatchable 👍🏻
Guinness Men's Six Nations@SixNationsRugby
The perfect tackle 😮💨 #GuinnessM6N #Since1883
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@JoyceCarolOates This film is amazing. It’s the best portrayal of the war. There is a scene too where they have a local trial happening and it’s the most cutting scene that highlights where our county went wrong into the future. Amazing.
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a very typically Irish (i.e., heartrending) film entirely set in Ireland, Cillian Murphy's first leading-role film "The Wind that Shakes the Barley." rise of the IRA. we see why, & we see how.
so beautiful. tragic.
jackie walsh@wackiejalsh
@JoyceCarolOates @CommanderBliss The story of emigration from Ireland over the centuries is a heartbreaking one. At the end of the movie 'Brooklyn' I got absolutely hysterical, uncontrollably crying thinking of all my forefathers who were forced to leave family behind, often never to see them again 😢
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@sophiegrenham @markryan77 From that 2.80 leftover goes taxes, rent, wages, electricity, rates, insurance etc. At best the coffee shop makes 40-50c on that sale. How many of those have to be sold to exist? Its at that price cause it has to be.
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@sophiegrenham @markryan77 A premium almond croissant is around €2 cost price from a supplier. You can get cheaper ones but that is usually because they are not made with as much butter (eg cuisine de france et al). At 4.80 its 58% gross margin which is low for food.
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I just paid €4.80, like a proper fool, for an almond croissant from The Art of Coffee, a perfectly pleasant but fairly run of the mill café chain where their pain au chocolat is, more often than not, stale.
Now, this croissant is large and stuffed with filling, but nearly a fiver for a pastry is simply too much. Yet this is how we're going.
I could have said no thanks and walked out when the server told me the price, but you know when someone insults you and you freeze, and it takes you a minute to react? That, except with pastry.
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@Murray_Kinsella I dunno. Recreational drugs doesn’t seem like such a big deal to me. Worst part is that the anti doping agency informing them of upcoming testing
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Big breaking news on the anti-doping front in rugby.
6 players from the Georgia team and one member of support personnel have been "charged and sanctioned in relation to an orchestrated scheme involving recreational drugs and sample substitution," says World Rugby.
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@Glinner Christ Graham, why do you keep putting such bizarre words in my mouth??? For an apparent "defender of women", you don't half go after some of us! All I did was make a joke about the Burkes!! (Who you cannot in all good faith support!!).
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I met former prisoners who had done time with male offenders in Edinburgh. One said "you can hear them having sex in the next cell. It's disgusting". But our moral betters like @MaiaDunphy think working class women deserve a little extra punishment for getting in trouble.
Lucy Hunter Blackburn@LucyHunterB
A woman tells her that she has spoken to women locked up with violent male prisoners. Sturgeon replies "that bit's not true". The Scottish government placed male murderers in women's prisoners while she ran it. It's been in court defending that, while she's still a sitting MSP.
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@DunleavyBernard @barbedquill @CorrigansFood @Bentleys_london Also In Ireland your voucher is good for 5 years (The Consumer Protection (Gift Vouchers) Act 2019). I work in Irish hospitality - your voucher could be 10 years old and we will still honor it.
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@barbedquill @CorrigansFood @Bentleys_london On the contrary Dr Bananas, there’s nothing Irish about the lack of hospitality at @Bentleys_london! 😉
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@TheAquali @Lavecchiav3 @Paulfri16391318 @JeremyBearemy2 @TheWapplehouse Another baldist here. It’s a different guy
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@Lavecchiav3 @Paulfri16391318 @JeremyBearemy2 @TheWapplehouse if i remember correctly, the groping drunk limo driver is another bald guy, but i could be wrong 😭
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@KarlBrophy 15-29 year olds…students and young people travelling…shocker.
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The UK is still in Europe, buddy. They’re just not in the EU anymore.
Ryan James Girdusky@RyanGirdusky
Ireland's immigration system is so radical that they went from being one of the most homogenous societies in Western Europe to the second more non-European among young people in less than a decade.
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