Mo @mo@nitech.online

@Tapi @twostraws the Guinness brewery is just okay. You get to walk around and look at stuff, whereas Bushmills is a proper tour with really nice and knowledgeable guides 🙂

@twostraws @Tapi excellent! The place smells amazing. I actually don’t like whiskey, but the smell of the whiskey distillery is beautiful! I’ll be near there in a couple of days for my holidays; I’ll be sticking to Guinness though!

@Tapi @twostraws come to Northern Ireland and I’ll take you to the distillery tour. It’s a really good experience!

@chrisphin for sure!

@chrisphin I remember being heartbroken the day my daughter told me she loved being in the sea with me, but that she hated not being able to see the waves coming. The day she started wearing prescription goggles and was able to completely lose herself in the fun was an amazing one.

@natural20 showing your age with “Landsdown Road stadium” 😜

@jsnell this is going to be great on my 5 hour drive to see them play next weekend!

@siracusa @BenRiceM official spelling is “nai”, so it is.

@lexfri it’s tough to be a female mime, needing to break through that glass ceiling

@colmdoyle I thought that was a WEEE thing?

@bazscott Sorry, we do use AirBnB. What I want though is an AirBnB-like system that can charge equitable rates. The wealthy should have to pay a lot to stay in our house, the less well-off should have to pay a token amount.

@bazscott If we want to get into banning things that could never realistically be banned, for me it would be the accumulation of wealth on the backs of others by doing nothing personally. Too many people are looking for the easy win. I don't think life should be hard, but I also don't think anyone should be able to have an easy life because other peoples' lives are hard.

@bazscott you know I can't say that for sure. It’s an extremely complex system, and we can't solve housing problems on an individual basis. What I do know is that the house we bought was designed and approved by the local government to be a high spec second/holiday home. It was never intended to be affordable housing so by my wife and I buying it the only people who were deprived were landlords and people expanding their AirBnB empires.

And trust me: We agonised over this.

@bazscott I can look out the window and see a newly completed social housing development that hasn’t been fully occupied yet.

@bazscott I’m not exactly hoarding anything 🙂 After spending years paying to let other people’s houses, we bought a holiday home. It’s not a commercial property; we can and do put it on AirBnB but the primary purpose is to have our own space in our favourite place, with a view to retiring there.

@bazscott I own two houses. Not exactly sure what I’m doing wrong.

@antonyjohnston I don’t really think of myself as a metal person, but I love Slave to the Grind. I’ll definitely be listening to this episode to hear what you have to say about one of my favourite albums from my teenage years!

@bazscott I feel like early U2 was kids learning to be musicians. Unforgettable Fire and Joshua Tree was musicians trying to be serious and killing each other in the process. (Rattle and Hum was a cash-in and breaking point). Achtung Baby was peak seriousness and discovering how to have musical fun. ZooTV/Zooropa was the exploration of the musical fun while on the road, and Pop was where they perfected it. It’s been downhill ever since as they become a parody of themselves.

@intheseheels that is a lovely little piece of vinyl!