..and I thought they would think me Far Right and mad Conservative. Wonderful. Pearl makes me look like AOC. We have come full circle. Far to the left in the past, the young ones now, turning Far, Far, Far to the Right. Very entertaining , love Pearl. I am far too old to get married now, but if I did and were to ask Pearl to do something in our house, she might even think about doing it. Astonishing.
I just won an online game of Poker there now, $50 dollars when I was down to my last red cent. I mostly allow myself $20 a month to play with. So it would have been a grim July with no poker for me. I hope they play Poker in Heaven or I might wind up bored up there. I will last to the end of the month now. I hope. I wonder who the Patron Saint of Poker is? Must check. This is why I am not an Evangelical Protestant. Love Whiskey, love Poker. Love Guininess. No good. Goner. Not Saved. Lost.
She certainly challenges the narrative and it certainly needs to be challenged. I don't necessarily agree with all she proposes but modern life is not good for women. I see many marriages fall apart on differences that in the past would be not seen as good reasons.
Got a great pint of Guinness in Maddens, Belfast on Wednesday three sups later it was gone. Half the pint was gone in the first sup it was so creamy. I'm thinking of becoming a Guinness guru in my retirement because I am very fussy and hard to please lol
I love people who kind of shift the ground beneath my feet. That force me to think. They may be right, they be wrong but they force my mind to dance about a little, which is no bad thing. I notice they did not mention if Pearl is Catholic or not. But a lot of what she says seems to be coming from Traditional Catholic values or not. I must check and see. It would be so interesting if she reached a Catholic way of looking at thing through sheer logic and experience. https://www.indy100.com/viral/pearl-davis-female-andrew-tate-2662238110 Who is she? Davis, who’s full name is Hannah Pearl Davis, was born in the suburbs of Chicago as one of ten children, including three adopted siblings – one of whom was a “homeless kid” on her brother’s football team. In a lengthy interview for the ‘Anything Goes With James English’ podcast Davis, who is now based in London, said she’d had a happy upbringing and was very “family-oriented”. She began making content for TikTok and YouTube around two years ago, starting off with reaction videos in which she repeatedly refers to herself as the “Whitest girl in the world”. Speaking to Insider back in March, she explained that she was inspired to pursue a media career thanks to the likes of famous right-wingers Ben Shapiro and Thomas Sowell. Now, she hosts her own live YouTube show called ‘The Pregame’, covering topics such as what makes women “wifeable” and, inevitably, the so-called “Matrix”. Davis has touted herself as a proponent of what’s been dubbed the “red pill” movement, which is essentially a Reddit-based group that believes that society and nature favour women over men. How did she make a name for herself? She had already amassed something of a cult following thanks to her promotion of ultra-conservative, anti-”woke” beliefs. However, her popularity saw a sharp increase following Tate’s arrest on sex trafficking charges back in December. Tate had been a guest on her ‘Pregame’ show shortly before he was taken into custody in Romania. Since then her YouTube following has jumped from around 800,000 subscribers to 1.54 million, according to the analytics tool SocialBlade. For anyone wondering how she feels about being branded “the female Andrew Tate”, she answered the question directly when it was put to her by none other than Piers Morgan. In an interview for his TalkTV show on Monday, Morgan asked Davis how she felt about the moniker, to which she replied: “I take it as a compliment. I’m a fan of Andrew Tate.” Admitting that she wasn’t a fan of “everything” Tate had ever said, however, she then added: “Overall, his message is good. Overall. I think he's been absolutely phenomenal for young men.”
Madden's is a lovely Bar; the only problem is it is full of Sinn Fein pro abortionists and pro Sodomites. I used to love the music there, the old World feel.
One think about WOKE is that it is so boring. My dog could write the script. I believe that would be the worst thing about hell, that it is boring. The same thing over and over and over again for all Eternity. Like a Parish Council Meeting..
Wow she really is thinking way back! I for many years have thought that only persons who own property should vote here in the USA. Simply because we get the school referendums (or persons like Bernie Sanders who are socialists) recruiting all the 18-21 year olds saying they need money for things like free Ipads for all, cell phones and service for all, or student loans to be forgiven, or Trans locker rooms, or every body to get paid vacation to participate in pride parades, and then our property taxes/taxes go way up to pay for all this nonsense. The government should be collecting money to pay for infrastructure, police and emergency service, jails for the dangerous, and park services and public schools with the resources to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. The rest should be FREE Americans participating in a Republic economy and having the freedom to think for themselves.... So until a person has supported themselves and contributed to society they really should not be allowed to vote. If you don't pay the taxes, you should not have a say where the money goes!
I still think Sodomites should just be flung in jail and Abortionists executed.. I saw a funny video from a young man the other day who said he did not want the Church to go back to the way it was before Vatican 2, he wanted it the way it was in the Middle Ages. This made me smile. Actually Pope St John Paul2 once said that the Middle Ages was the Churches High Point. Its nice to see some young people turning back to old values. I can now die with a grin on my face. When the WOKE Mob hear young people say things like this their heads must explode. Lovely.
There was a time when I also enjoyed playing poker. The most fun I had was sitting around a table with friends and drinking beer. But mostly I played online. I was quite good, but not as good as a friend of mine. He won quite a lot of money online. He studied his poker strategies with books. Because i enjoyed it and saw the possibility of making money, i thought about trying to play poker professionally for a while. I wasn't very religious at the time, but there was also a moral consideration why i didn't do it. I thought that playing poker semi-professionally also meant looking for "victims", i.e. players who play worse than me. Of course everyone bets their money voluntarily, but i don't know what kind of psychological and social condition the opponent is in. For example, whether he's addicted to gambling and gambles everything away, etc.. of course, the higher the amounts you play for, the more relevant all this becomes, but you always want to screw your opponent over in order to get his money... Padraig I consider you to be a very devout Catholic, do you have any thoughts on this? With your blessing for the poker game, maybe i will reconsider
I called in during the day there was me and a few tourists. I get where you are coming from I was up the Falls Road earlier today and some pubs were proudly displaying pride flags. Ireland has swapped the tricolour for the pride flag.
I play every, single Friday night in life. Some Thursdays and the odd Monday evening too. Poker is the greatest game of skill, strategy, braveness and good old fashioned luck all rolled into one! Texas is the only game in town these days. But I remember 5 card stud. 7 card poker. Southern cross. 4-in-a-row. Brilliant stuff... Love it!
I used to run them parts in my student days. The black stick was a fine bar but I can't really remember the other places. I'm getting old!
My husband has a poker group of friends. They have a great time playing and drinking their home brew. (The same guys belong to a beer making group)
I think it's a great hobby. And like most things, to over-indulge is to destroy it. It is a good servant, and bad master. Interestingly, I listened to Father Ripperger speak about gambling generally. He said that to use it as a hobby is fine. But it is obviously important to stay within those parameters, for obvious reasons. As for others, well, I suppose there is an onus on them to similarly be vigilant. I only ever play in games that I can afford. Like everybody these days, I play mostly online. Tho in a private, friends group. We play for £10 a man on a Thursday night. And £20 a man on a Friday night. We play live, once a month. Just last Saturday night 9 of us played for £50 a man. £450 in the pot split £250, £150 and £50. I won!!!! I was absolutely delighted. In those scenarios MEN DO NOT GIVE MONEY AWAY FREELY. So it is a real battle of attrition to actually win one of those games. I'm still buzzing from it!!!!
Congratulations! My father loved to go to the horse races but he always told me that he set aside a certain amount of money for the evening's entertainment and that was it. To look on it as entertainment and not get hooked on it. He was very disciplined. He liked a good drink too but always set the limit at two and never before 5 o'clock. And never after dinner.. Very hard for a businessman in those 3 martini lunch meetings but he stuck to it. He had seen friends in college and later on become alcoholics. He was determined to steer clear of it. As you say "a good servant and a bad master".
There was a fella I worked with who used to play poker on Friday nights because there are so many drunk people playing it was easy to make money. It's quite true on Friday nights drunks stream on in. Especially I notice from Canada for some reason. I miss the Russians. The Russians love poker. But they play it as though they are in a boxing match. For them everything is personal. But there are still loads of Ukrainians playing. Billions of Brazilians. Poker is their religion. Mostly they are not too good at it though. I think online poker must be illegal in the USA. Strange.
