âŚand a car like that is more than good enough for your average dub
This is why I canât figure the likes of Sixt havenât gone into this space (wuh wuh). Theyâve already got the depreciating asset of the car just sat there when not rented. Could make far more productive use of it offering it hourly and get a headstart on self-driving car sharing market.
Probably the time of year it was but the cheapest quote I got to rent a car for 3 days over Christmas was âŹ760. Fuck them gouging bastards.
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Youâd be better off robbing a car and paying the fine handed down in court!
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Most rental car companies donât own their cars. They take them on a lease from dealers with an agreement for it to be returned after 6-12 months. There may be an agreed purchase and sale price for bookkeeping purposes, the difference between the 2 being the cost of the lease
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Fairly sure gocar are partnered with eurocar or are the same company.
Lads you know the way Russia has a shithot team of hackers that can attack anyone Putin wants⌠why donât the rest of the world train up shit hot hackers that can attack Russia? Why has the US a load of the backroom staff of the Bourne documentaries on secondment and just take Russia down that way?
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Live well, surround yourself with people you love. Commit to people and work, not necessarily employment work but projects/challenges that give you fulfillment. Share all your joys and sadness. And have the fucking craic. At all times, with everyone. Oh and donât bother your arse with badminton, fantasy football or any of that shite. Qxqre1v11q
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Because theyâre one step aheadâŚ
The Russian army is relying on transistor rifles and bolt action radiosâŚthey canât be hacked or reprogrammed
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@anon67715551 @Fagan_ODowd and the other auld stocks what exactly happened with the Malcom MacArthur - attorney general GUBU incident?
I know very little of it aside from what I have seen on reeling in the years. I assume it was a huge political scandal at the time with a huge amount of gossip at the time
Huge political controversy at the time. McArthur was a patron of Bartley Dunnes pub. Bartley Dunnes had a certain reputation at the time. The AG was a confirmed bachelor.
People put 2 and 2 together but in the style of the times nothing was actually said.
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McArthur was old Dublin money who had squandered a large inheritance and trust fund living the high life.
He decided that a stint as a bank robber was the way to go and, for this line of work, needed a car and a gun. The car was obtained by bludgeoning young nurse, Bridie Gargan, to death in the Phoenix Park. He was forced to abandon it, with her inside, after being bizarrely given a blue light escort to Jamesâ Hospital by an ambulance crew who thought he was a doctor transporting a patient.
He travelled to Edenderry to meet Donal Dunne, who had advertised a shotgun for sale. He took it from him and killed him with it. Running out of options, he returned to Dublin, firstly to the home of an elderly acquaintance, who was spooked by his demeanour, and then to the home of Attorney General, Patrick Connolly in Dalkey.
He stayed there for several days and even attended the All-Ireland hurling semi-final with Connolly, who was a big hurling fan. The elderly man he called to reported him to the Guards and they closed in on Connollyâs apartment, where McArthur was arrested without struggle.
It was seen as highly scandalous and there were some strange pronouncements that had hid convicted before he ever saw the inside of a court. Connolly buggered off to America on holidays, which was seen as a very silly move. He was summoned home and subsequently resigned.
GUBU was coined by that cunt Conor Cruise OâBrien as an acronym of CJH describing the events as grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented, although Haughey did not use the words in that order and they were simply part of a longer answer to a question. It could have been GUUB or BUUG as easily.
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Wasnt the lad who murdered the nurse in the Phoenix Park arrested while he was staying at the AGâs flat?
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Bartley Bums, as it was known.
I should also have pointed out that McArthur was only ever convicted of the murder of Bridie Gargan.
A nolle prosequi was entered in respect of Donal Dunne as the State decided to save legal expense on the basis that a second life sentence would make no difference to the amount of time he would serve in prison. That would not happen nowadays.
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Yes. Malcolm McArthur.
Thanks, gents.
Even at the time, the reporting was, or at least seemed to be, underplayed.
@Fagan_ODowd , was a subsequently prominent vampire squid millionaire also entangled in this?