Things I learned today (Part 2)

Your car battery can become flat quite quickly if a member of your household turns off the engine & exits the car while the front indicator has inadvertently been left on.

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thats a good strategy, vent here, save your dinner there.

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Left or right?

Your battery is probably on the way out unfortunately.
It’ll most likely let you down again…soon…

What sort of a car wouldn’t cut off the indicator when the ignition is switched off? Are we talking some kind of vintage motor here?

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A Dacia I’d wager - I’d say @Bandage would live in your ear

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Persian, Sanskrit, Germanic, Celtic, Romance languages all share a common ancestor so there’s plenty of links.

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You need a new battery mate. Same thing happened me last year. Indicators left on for about 10 minutes and the battery died as it was old as fuck.

Des Curran is an rte soccer commentator.

Would you believe the car was already booked in for a service later this week prior to this mishap? The offending light/indicator was left on for hours so I’m not sure if the battery is definitely kaput. My helpful neighbour Gerry is going to attempt to give me a jump start shortly so we’ll soon find out. And some people say those of us in Dublin barely know or interact with our neighbours.

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All I can post is…

Gerry! Gerry! Gerry!

We’re sorted.

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There is evidence the Natufians were making beer in the Levant about 15,000 years ago, that area is also where agriculture and more advanced languages first developed. Lads sitting around having a beer after threshing cereal all day.

They invented hurling too

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On raglan road is a creepy pervy poem about kavanagh stalking a woman half his age

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Did you previously think it was about street lamps and road markings?

I never pondered what it meant

A pal of mine recounted a childhood memory. She was been driven down Baggot Street by her dad, when he exclaimed there’s Patrick Kavanagh, the famous poet. At that point Kavanagh bent over and puked his ring up on the street.

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Dark haired Miriam ran away was the original title

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So is Rose of Mooncoin. Your man who wrote it was 56, she was 20. Her da sent her off to England, so your man wrote the song lamenting not having gone off with her.

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When she did news reports on the radio, she used to go way over the top when it came to pronouncing anything French. Juliet is fluent in French and lets everyone know.