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Unlocking Ireland - an unprecedented thread no. 6

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CherryValanc · 07/03/2021 06:23

A sixth thread in Craicnet!!

Who thought that would ever happen!!? Has there even been a sixth page before?

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LizzieAnt · 03/04/2021 12:53

Exactly Fuzzy, we do have a common travel area agreement with the UK, but it's not 800 years old.

IsFuzzyBeagMise · 03/04/2021 12:55

I know, jeesh! Why rake that up? There's enough going on at the moment Grin

SecondRow · 03/04/2021 12:57

Thanks Ninth – I'm not really all domm and gloom or at least if I am it's not your post's fault! There was s something about the chats you can have with people even among the bureaucracy and stuff that is great in Ireland.

Really good to hear that vaccination is filtering down and helping people. My parents are actually very young, not 70 yet, so not quite there yet but it t will be such a relief when the time comes.

Apileofballyhoo · 03/04/2021 13:29

We had a mainlander at work once. We kept asking where on the continental land mass he was referring to.

LadyEloise · 03/04/2021 13:56

I think there are posters on Mumsnet that think Ireland is part of the UK. Shock

Barmbraic · 03/04/2021 14:18

I don't give Regina Doherty much credit for anything, but I agree with Lizzie's interpretation of the mainland reference. I once worked with a Daily Mail reading middle Englander wagon who really seemed to believe she was working in an outpost Hmm

Glorious day here today. Weather like this makes me glad I love here.

Unlocking Ireland - an unprecedented thread no. 6
JaneJeffer · 03/04/2021 14:25

I saw someone on here refer to the U.K. as an island nation the other day!

FinallyFluid · 03/04/2021 14:49

www.independent.ie/irish-news/doctor-arrested-as-part-of-probe-into-200-bogus-insurance-claims-40268625.html

WTAF is there no end to the greed and avarice. Angry

FinallyFluid · 03/04/2021 14:52

Tomorrow I am wearing a dress I bought for last Easter Sunday, it is a lovely smart dress I bought it to go to a fab pub by the river in Surrey, that went well.Confused

I am wearing it again tomorrow, the poor dress has never been outside the house. Grin Grin

thelegohooverer · 03/04/2021 15:01

Good for you @FinallyFluid
I’ve really embraced the minimal wardrobe worn the same auld shite relentlessly I think I’d feel like I was in drag if I put on a nice dress now 😂

IsFuzzyBeagMise · 03/04/2021 15:02

@FinallyFluid

Tomorrow I am wearing a dress I bought for last Easter Sunday, it is a lovely smart dress I bought it to go to a fab pub by the river in Surrey, that went well.Confused

I am wearing it again tomorrow, the poor dress has never been outside the house. Grin Grin

Enjoy wearing it, Finally. You will look gorrrgeous, girl!

Fabulous day again here too.

IsFuzzyBeagMise · 03/04/2021 15:03

@thelegohooverer

Good for you *@FinallyFluid* I’ve really embraced the minimal wardrobe worn the same auld shite relentlessly I think I’d feel like I was in drag if I put on a nice dress now 😂
Grin that's cracking me up lego Grin
FinallyFluid · 03/04/2021 15:08

@thelegohooverer

That made me snort.

Iblinkedandiamold · 03/04/2021 16:00

I snorted at that too, actually snorted. So glad I live alone.
I spent all morning outside painting my shed. I have a new neighbour who came to flirt with me and now i scared to go back outside.
Remember pubs, remember when some drunk older guy would come over and chat with up. You'd feel a bit flattered, have a chat and laugh but ultimately you cant wait to get away...that's my neighbour, luckily he's two doors down not right next door.
He invited me over for a drink tonight. When I mentioned lockdown he said, "sure just in the garden".
The rate he was necking cans he'll be pissed later and I pretend I went over. Grin

HaHaVeryBunny · 03/04/2021 16:19

@Iblinkedandiamold

I snorted at that too, actually snorted. So glad I live alone. I spent all morning outside painting my shed. I have a new neighbour who came to flirt with me and now i scared to go back outside. Remember pubs, remember when some drunk older guy would come over and chat with up. You'd feel a bit flattered, have a chat and laugh but ultimately you cant wait to get away...that's my neighbour, luckily he's two doors down not right next door. He invited me over for a drink tonight. When I mentioned lockdown he said, "sure just in the garden". The rate he was necking cans he'll be pissed later and I pretend I went over. Grin

For your sake l hope he his absolutely wasted by the end of day and doesn't have a second coming tomorrow, like our jayus did Grin

FinallyFluid · 03/04/2021 16:21

I think she is making sure there isn't even a first coming. Grin

Iblinkedandiamold · 03/04/2021 16:34

Grin yeah hoping there isnt a first coming let alone a second. Also I'd make a terrible feminist, it is nice to think someone finds you attractive..unless he's desperate. Grin

LadyEloise · 03/04/2021 18:50

Oh dear Iblinkedandiamold Grin

I just watched the news - the two women, both mothers, who refused to go to the quarantine hotel and were arrested and brought to court after returning from Dubai, where they went to have breast augmentation surgery apparently during a pandemic ffs, were remanded in custody with consent to bail. I think they will have to go back to the quarantine hotel when released.
HmmShock

JaneJeffer · 03/04/2021 18:54

A right pair of tits!

IwishIwasontheN17 · 03/04/2021 18:56

I sort of feel sorry for them - if you’d been through a surgical procedure (albeit an elective one) would you feel safe holed up in a travelodge for two weeks?

JaneJeffer · 03/04/2021 18:58

Well if it was safe on the plane, a hotel would be fine. I don't feel one bit sorry for them.

FinallyFluid · 03/04/2021 19:26

@IwishIwasontheN17

I sort of feel sorry for them - if you’d been through a surgical procedure (albeit an elective one) would you feel safe holed up in a travelodge for two weeks?
Unless it was the longest trip to Dubai ever, they made a conscious decision to travel during a pandemic.

I lost a 55 year old cousin and an 84 year old uncle to Covid within a month of each other, I have zero sympathy for them. I hope to God I never have to watch another family funeral on my TV,

Who minded their children whilst they were away, the children were collateral damage whilst they were in Dubai and now they are citing their children as considerations. Angry

SionnachRua · 03/04/2021 19:29

@IwishIwasontheN17

I sort of feel sorry for them - if you’d been through a surgical procedure (albeit an elective one) would you feel safe holed up in a travelodge for two weeks?
Honestly I don't feel sorry for them at all because they're looking for legal aid and claiming they can't pay the quarantine fee. I'm all for legal aid, don't get me wrong...but not to protect someone's right to get bolt ons in a pandemic. Especially when they seem to have paid for the trip abroad and the surgery just fine.
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CherryValanc · 03/04/2021 19:44

I don't know what to think. Quarantine to prevent the spread fine yet I've just past multiple pubs and there was crowds of people outside them all. Along the canal was the worst probably a few hundred.

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IsFuzzyBeagMise · 03/04/2021 19:46

I never knew that was a thing; breast augmentation surgery in Dubai.
I must be living under a rock!