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Handy little contraption for opening up the line at the start of the season!

Drift Masters Championship was held in Mondello Park last weekend, an international event: https://youtu.be/ZRMWTzxv5Gs?si=DzwdeebiyyNoniHd I'm not a car guy - I can't even drive a car - and I can see the skill in the drifting. I feel for the lads after losing the business they built up & the car builds they lost in the fire: https://youtu.be/e069XIFk9K4?si=fJqjTzPIJGS8iRrL

When will the rest of the class be taking the PIS?

I haven't received mine yet either. No tracking info listed in My Orders section

Horse Inside https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-21375594

The face of them reminds me of a Fiat van

Mona mona Coolnamona!

I saw the ones the Brazilian church are using on a youtube video, and wondered if this is something that could be tried at Heuston to stop the flying rats getting in to the station building? https://www.odditycentral.com/news/brazilian-church-hypnotizes-pesky-pigeons-with-colored-bullseyes.html https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/cover-story/namma-metro-is-humming-a-new-tune-these-days-kabootar-ja-ja-ja-kabootar-ja-ja-ja/articleshow/70489657.cms

Ham & tomato sandwich for me - the other ones sound proper rank to me!

Lump hammer to the temple, then feed them to pigs

Nope, just cancelled the sub

I work for Ericsson, and do hear a few people calling it 'Ericssons'

Short piece from RTE news on the new trains here: https://www.rte.ie/video/id/10970/

Irish locos in 1:32 scale / 45mm track: https://shop.bowatersmodels.co.uk/collections/coras-iompair-eireann No idea whether this is G scale compatable!

You could try Marks Models - they have an LGB section listed on their website

Thinking of a box I think!

Funny, magazine with postage was £8.50. It was the first month of a yearly subscription - I have cancelled the sub now, as I do not want to be paying €5 extra every month!

Sounds like a Brexit bonus to me! I got charged €5 extra on a magazine coming from the UK yesterday

I'd say commuters who use the line would take a 1 in 100 year flood risk to the current 1 in 1 year flood risk!

You would think raising the embankment, with a few large culverts to allow water to pass from one side to another would sort it out?

My brother picked up a couple of packs of modelling clay in Mr. Price for the kids to make stuff with - it could be pressed into service on a model railway I reckon

^^Exactly this^^ China don't see IP as a thing from what I have heard before.

Yep, I get the IP thing. Legally going after anyone but the factory selling these unofficial models is a waste of time

Except it is a copy - Paddy still has the full order he placed with the manufacturer. Press charges against the factory owner, not the people buying locos from Ebay - sure how are they to know anyway? Same as going after the drug dealers instead of the users/addicts I get the whole Intellectual Property (IP) thing - the factory are the ones running off extra copies to sell themselves, taking all the profit. This is who should be charged. Example - One of your relations knows you are into modelling Irish railways. As a present, they want to get you a model loco. Seeing them sold out on the Irish shops, they go to Ebay, and lo and behold, there's Irish locos for sale. They purchase one from the Chinese seller - should they be charged with handling stolen property? Should you if you received it from your aunt/uncle whatever? Daft...

Prosecuting someone for 'handling stolen property' is a bit of a dick move on his part IMO