[09:46] <tdr112> morning
[09:47] <ebel> morning
[09:59] <czajkowski> aloha
[10:12] <ebel> sorry I wasn't at the loco meeting yesterday
[10:13] <ebel> I was at riverdance with some relatives who were over
[10:36] <zmoylan> riverdance? you've suffered enough :-)
[10:37] <slashbel> his relatives loved it
[10:38] <slashbel> but to me it sounds like paying €40 for a couple of hours of suffering
[10:38] <zmoylan> it does seem to keep going
[10:38] <zmoylan> i liked the original eurovision intermission thingy but i doubt i could bear a whole show of the same.
[10:39] <slashbel> aye, the interval act now has its own interval act
[10:42] <slashbel> at the weekend we were taken around the tourist hotspots of templebar… where the only irish people in the bars were either the staff and musicians
[10:43] <zmoylan> irish staff? are things so bad economically?
[10:44] <slashbel> sometimes the bar manager
[10:45] <slashbel> i have to wonder if the visitors realise they're in an artificle tourist zone
[10:45] <slashbel> or is that what they come to see, ireland's version of disneyland
[10:46] <zmoylan> still, not as bad as disneyland.  not a bunch of complete control freaks
[10:48] <slashbel> i've never been to disneyland, only heard about it
[10:50] <zmoylan> it's all their silliness of breaking copyright to protect mickey mouse that put me off them for life
[10:58] <slashbel> aye, tis crazy stuff