Brian Lucey

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• Commented on Do my Laundry
  Back to the request. This post prompted me to go back and start rereading the entire thing from the start. I'd like to see some sort of resolution or nod to the other races that share this planet..Deep Ones and...
• Commented on Do my Laundry
  I would love to get some clarity as to exactly how powerful Bob and Mo have become. It's clear that at some stage they transcended humanity but even after having read the entire series a couple of times I'm still...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Even if convicted to prison time Trump won't go to any sort of regular jail. They'd probably detain him in a apartment complex newly designated as one. Or in officers quarters on a base....
• Commented on Obligatory Hugo eligibility post
  20+ articles....was a mad year, a lots of stuff coming from the lockdown finally coming to fruition https://www.linkedin.com/posts/blucey_research-students-academicresearch-activity-6881975017404469248-fjme...
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  The Para's had already blooded themselves in Ballymuprhy a few months previous to Bloody Sunday and got clean away. They killed 9 innocents, and in some cases bragged about it after. They, among others, shot a priest going to give...
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  Ireland now has 78% 16+ pop fully vexed, and horsing it into the 12-15y olds before school opens next month. Thankfully, for a variety of reasons, there is little anti-tax sentiment here. It a combination of a reasonable level of...
• Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
  OF COURSE its on Facebook OF COURSE its mostly populated by USAians...
• Commented on Because I am bored ...
  1000% I have been driving for 37 years and and have never got a speeding ticket or a in fraction not because I've always driven perfectly but because of iv driven with the assumption that this is a deadly dangerous...
• Commented on A death in the Firm
  Meanwhile https://news.sky.com/story/new-royal-yacht-named-after-prince-philip-to-be-commissioned-within-weeks-costing-as-much-as-200m-12292880 A quarter of a billion cash money for a royal yacht seems rather a waste no?...
• Commented on A death in the Firm
  Re teabags In every shop large and small across Ireland, where tea is even more ubiquitous than UK,loose tea is sold. Proper tea not vile Tetley's and other drek...😁 Try this https://barrysteashop.ie/collections/loose-leaf-tea/products/barrys-classic-blend-loose-leaf-tea Don't know if they sell to UK anymore,...
• Commented on Central Banking on Mars!
  Having been a burning clown car for the last several years the UK government has somehow stumbled in to the aura of competence in re Vaccination....
• Commented on A Quick Infomercial
  Of the three authors only one is faculty at LSE. The others are a doctoral candidate at same and an assistant professor in HK, all three are research associates at an LSE research center....
• Commented on A Quick Infomercial
  Charlie I'm a editor in chief for two mid-level academic journals, with about 15y editing experience at various levels. As it is in your world, in mine. Academic publishing houses are fast more baroque, fief ridden, siloed, then your might...
• Commented on What happens now?
  Said person seems to have branched into writing a Qanon comic.......
• Commented on So you say you want a revolution
  On bullshit and bullshitters, see Frankfort, "On Bullshit" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit and links therefrom...
• Commented on So you say you want a revolution
  Ramekins That's what they are....
• Commented on So you say you want a revolution
  56, Irish imperial is used solely and mainly for height, for some reason, in colloquial. "he's a good six foot" Everything else is metric. I was never taught imperial measures in school. From 1969 !!! school was metric. A slug...
• Commented on So you say you want a revolution
  So long as Scotland leaves in a constitutional fashion, whatever that is in UK terms (in effect WM saying fine, go so) there is no Catalonia precedent ....
• Commented on So you say you want a revolution
  I'm not sure anybody in the European Union will believe that Johnson will adhere to anything is signed up....
• Commented on Countdown to Crazy
  In response to the statement this morning on Irish radio (https://twitter.com/morningireland/status/1325725852966019072?s=20) that a US=UK trade deal was not a priority (from a leading congressman) and in the teeth of repeated cross-party commentary that the IMB would scupper any such anyhow...the...
• Commented on Countdown to Crazy
  OGH ... You seem to be getting more and more depressed about the possibility of the UK, or more likely England, coming through the next 5-years without massive socio political unrest. I'm interested know what was the tipping point that...
• Commented on Upcoming Attractions!
  Mein Host Yes of course we must keep this channel care but we do need to probably create a channel starting next Sunday for the US election...
• Commented on Upcoming Attractions!
  So just finished RACING through DlD Was a bit worried for about first 1/3 but then it took off with various characters motives/methods/powers/aims slowing coming into view Liked the tiebacks to earlier books (Hi Dr Schiller!) and a banging cliffhanger??...
• Commented on Dead plots
  Meanwhile, in brexit.... https://www.ft.com/content/9906e0d4-0c29-4f5f-9cb0-130c75a2f7a7?shareType=nongift#comments-anchor The UK going for a hard no deal tear up the NI Protocol brexit. Which only makes sense if you want to be seen as untrustworthy gommalogues with whom nobody sentient would want to do business.......
• Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas"
  An interesting point of comparison is Ireland v the UK https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/14/coronavirus-uk-ireland-delay?CMP=share_btn_tw This basically notes that (even allowing for somewhat lower pop density) and even before we go into the UK death toll being suppressed due to not properly counting nursing...
• Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (2)
  "The Cooper-Letwin Bill reciving Royal Assent is VERY USEFUL to May, actually - it "ties her hands", so that No-Deal is impossible, thus frustrating the ultra-brexit loonies" Errr no It doesn't. It has zero binding power on the EU. It...
• Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (2)
  A point that is often forgotten is that 30k British Soldiers 10k RUC 10k UDR (a overwhelmingly protestant militia regiment to try to localise the issues which worked great when one's neighbour would pull one over with armed intent and...
• Commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
  no. EU Citizenship comes from national citizenship where the nation is a member of hte EU. So, you will become, oh, Moldova, for nationality purposes....
• Commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
  Most in Ireland have a complex feeling this AM. Sad, that our neighbour is having a psychotic break. Schaudenfreud at the English empire breaking up. Fear, at the forces unloosed next door. Concern/ill disguised glee at seeing unionist politicians in...