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My guests would not gorge on grapes.

But they got a memorable experience and should be happy but likely were not.
 
I seem to be stretched for time lately, thete is always something. The last two days for example I was preparing my corporate taxes for my accountant.
 
Declan said:
I seem to be stretched for time lately, thete is always something. The last two days for example I was preparing my corporate taxes for my accountant.
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Now i know what the suburban is for -- expect to see a gold plated suberban in galway shortly.
there are no corporate taxes on your personal transport.
 
Declan said:
I seem to be stretched for time lately, thete is always something. The last two days for example I was preparing my corporate taxes for my accountant.
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April 15th fast approaching. Ulcer day, you have my sympathy
 
April 15th is personal tax day.

March 15 is Corporate Tax Day.


I function as a Corporation
 
Declan said:
April 15th is personal tax day.

March 15 is Corporate Tax Day.


I function as a Corporation
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in my fathers time a fat man was said to have a big corporation-- i know a good surgon declan .
by the way talking about corporations and surgeons i passed the 150 kgs mark last week .
that is a loss of 5 stone/32 kgs since nov 10 2025 as i was 182 kgs .
i am frozen many nights as the layer of fat dissapered first and then the mucle .
my legs have reduced in girth by almost a third and my wife states mockingly i could now wear a skirt --they are passable as a womans according to her , women can be really cruel .
the rest of me still looks like shit but not ga ga as before .
i will be 70 next november and i have the body to match 70 years of chippers radioactive kebabs and truckloads of msg with a good coating of glycophospate -- is it any wonder i am who i am --i think i am doing well despite the efforts of aisian and turkish and our own trying to kill me and rob me for years .
i now describe myself as a SURVIVOR everyone else is one of something or other .
i just got my statement for corporation tax it was zero as i am semi retired and i did not make any money in the last year as my health was so bad .
this year i sell everything i can and turn my shed into a warehouse and stay alive and sane -- a very simple plan which will require 7 days per week work for a year.
 
BIG FAT HOOR said:
in my fathers time a fat man was said to have a big corporation-- i know a good surgon declan .
by the way talking about corporations and surgeons i passed the 150 kgs mark last week .
that is a loss of 5 stone/32 kgs since nov 10 2025 as i was 182 kgs .
i am frozen many nights as the layer of fat dissapered first and then the mucle .
my legs have reduced in girth by almost a third and my wife states mockingly i could now wear a skirt --they are passable as a womans according to her , women can be really cruel .
the rest of me still looks like shit but not ga ga as before .
i will be 70 next november and i have the body to match 70 years of chippers radioactive kebabs and truckloads of msg with a good coating of glycophospate -- is it any wonder i am who i am --i think i am doing well despite the efforts of aisian and turkish and our own trying to kill me and rob me for years .
i now describe myself as a SURVIVOR everyone else is one of something or other .
i just got my statement for corporation tax it was zero as i am semi retired and i did not make any money in the last year as my health was so bad .
this year i sell everything i can and turn my shed into a warehouse and stay alive and sane -- a very simple plan which will require 7 days per week work for a year.
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Wonderful news! This summer will be amazing for you and herself!
 
willows68 said:
Wonderful news! This summer will be amazing for you and herself!
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thank you -today my great wife handed her letter of retirment from her primary school as she needs to give 3 months notice -- we have planned to take a cheaper holiday during school time in september for the first time in our lives .
we hope to have some sunshine and cheaper airfares and less crowds .
the problem is where to go and the epstine war in iran will decide some of our plans as will other events i am sure .
we have an unusal feeling of being free for the first time in our lives -- we have so much to do and i have never been as busy as chief servant to my family and trying to run a small business part time and work on what i hope to do for the next few years .
i have spent a few hours a week doing research on the book for the past 6 years and last week i got an overhead scanner which has ocr and will scan into a pc an image of a page of text which allows me to edit it in word without re typing .
i also got an innossays dictaphone which does the same job while i am driving and i paid 96 euros for office 365 with dictate and i can now read pages into the screen and saved notes from a dictaphone and radio or online verbal podcasts and it will transcribe any sound any accent from any source using AI into word .
i am finishing my bookcase using heavy timber and plywood as it has to support almost a ton of books as nobody will publish unless i physically own the source material,
this unit takes up the entire gable end of a studio/garage i built for making small films /documentaries /ads for local businesses .
again i spent 5 years getting the lighting and sound gear and i now have mixing desks for video and for sound and 6 used cine cameras semi pro .
i turned older cine cameras into modermn by adding an atamos samuri unit to each and instead of the old DV tape the firewire on each camera is now connected to a 6tb SSD giving me 10 hours of video instead of 20 minutes .
now i have to do a course on using modern software to edit as it is such a complex area today and you PRODUCE the film on screen using software .
despite being semi retired i am very short of time -i have everything else and not for the first time in my life i feel i am on a big adventure and the energy of it is a feel good .
my wife was /is an adventure /bringing each kid home from hospital was a great adventure .
closing my main business nearly killed me but felt so rewarding a month later .
i think i am in charge but there is someone looking after me --i have felt its presence in my lifetime --i sometimes watch my life as a companion to this entity who i cannot describe and it has no religion but it has a great purpose for us all who have this companion or companions --i do not know which.
its not superstition or mumbo jumbo -- i would say i was a little spiritual but not religious and many have felt this presence and my only way of coping is to study any reference worldwide which supports the christian and hindu belief that god is within us all equally .
thanks willow for your kind touch - always femine always earth based and wholesome.
 
BIG FAT HOOR said:
thank you -today my great wife handed her letter of retirment from her primary school as she needs to give 3 months notice -- we have planned to take a cheaper holiday during school time in september for the first time in our lives .
we hope to have some sunshine and cheaper airfares and less crowds .
the problem is where to go and the epstine war in iran will decide some of our plans as will other events i am sure .
we have an unusal feeling of being free for the first time in our lives -- we have so much to do and i have never been as busy as chief servant to my family and trying to run a small business part time and work on what i hope to do for the next few years .
i have spent a few hours a week doing research on the book for the past 6 years and last week i got an overhead scanner which has ocr and will scan into a pc an image of a page of text which allows me to edit it in word without re typing .
i also got an innossays dictaphone which does the same job while i am driving and i paid 96 euros for office 365 with dictate and i can now read pages into the screen and saved notes from a dictaphone and radio or online verbal podcasts and it will transcribe any sound any accent from any source using AI into word .
i am finishing my bookcase using heavy timber and plywood as it has to support almost a ton of books as nobody will publish unless i physically own the source material,
this unit takes up the entire gable end of a studio/garage i built for making small films /documentaries /ads for local businesses .
again i spent 5 years getting the lighting and sound gear and i now have mixing desks for video and for sound and 6 used cine cameras semi pro .
i turned older cine cameras into modermn by adding an atamos samuri unit to each and instead of the old DV tape the firewire on each camera is now connected to a 6tb SSD giving me 10 hours of video instead of 20 minutes .
now i have to do a course on using modern software to edit as it is such a complex area today and you PRODUCE the film on screen using software .
despite being semi retired i am very short of time -i have everything else and not for the first time in my life i feel i am on a big adventure and the energy of it is a feel good .
my wife was /is an adventure /bringing each kid home from hospital was a great adventure .
closing my main business nearly killed me but felt so rewarding a month later .
i think i am in charge but there is someone looking after me --i have felt its presence in my lifetime --i sometimes watch my life as a companion to this entity who i cannot describe and it has no religion but it has a great purpose for us all who have this companion or companions --i do not know which.
its not superstition or mumbo jumbo -- i would say i was a little spiritual but not religious and many have felt this presence and my only way of coping is to study any reference worldwide which supports the christian and hindu belief that god is within us all equally .
thanks willow for your kind touch - always femine always earth based and wholesome.
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Madeira is lovely in September. Hair raising landing though...Actually anywhere is at its best at that time of year....in our neck of the woods. Biarritz? Basque region? The waters are warm and the main rush of tourists gone. Have fun planning my Lovelies.
 
BIG FAT HOOR said:
thank you -today my great wife handed her letter of retirment from her primary school as she needs to give 3 months notice -- we have planned to take a cheaper holiday during school time in september for the first time in our lives .
we hope to have some sunshine and cheaper airfares and less crowds .
the problem is where to go and the epstine war in iran will decide some of our plans as will other events i am sure .
we have an unusal feeling of being free for the first time in our lives -- we have so much to do and i have never been as busy as chief servant to my family and trying to run a small business part time and work on what i hope to do for the next few years .
i have spent a few hours a week doing research on the book for the past 6 years and last week i got an overhead scanner which has ocr and will scan into a pc an image of a page of text which allows me to edit it in word without re typing .
i also got an innossays dictaphone which does the same job while i am driving and i paid 96 euros for office 365 with dictate and i can now read pages into the screen and saved notes from a dictaphone and radio or online verbal podcasts and it will transcribe any sound any accent from any source using AI into word .
i am finishing my bookcase using heavy timber and plywood as it has to support almost a ton of books as nobody will publish unless i physically own the source material,
this unit takes up the entire gable end of a studio/garage i built for making small films /documentaries /ads for local businesses .
again i spent 5 years getting the lighting and sound gear and i now have mixing desks for video and for sound and 6 used cine cameras semi pro .
i turned older cine cameras into modermn by adding an atamos samuri unit to each and instead of the old DV tape the firewire on each camera is now connected to a 6tb SSD giving me 10 hours of video instead of 20 minutes .
now i have to do a course on using modern software to edit as it is such a complex area today and you PRODUCE the film on screen using software .
despite being semi retired i am very short of time -i have everything else and not for the first time in my life i feel i am on a big adventure and the energy of it is a feel good .
my wife was /is an adventure /bringing each kid home from hospital was a great adventure .
closing my main business nearly killed me but felt so rewarding a month later .
i think i am in charge but there is someone looking after me --i have felt its presence in my lifetime --i sometimes watch my life as a companion to this entity who i cannot describe and it has no religion but it has a great purpose for us all who have this companion or companions --i do not know which.
its not superstition or mumbo jumbo -- i would say i was a little spiritual but not religious and many have felt this presence and my only way of coping is to study any reference worldwide which supports the christian and hindu belief that god is within us all equally .
thanks willow for your kind touch - always femine always earth based and wholesome.
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Having written a couple of books myself I know full well that finding a publisher is the biggest hurdle of all irrespective of whether you have the source material to hand or not. The first was self published which enabled me to pursuade a publisher to back a second. But even so I still didn't make money out of it, quite the opposite in fact, but it opened the door to other opportunities.
 
willows68 said:
Madeira is lovely in September. Hair raising landing though...Actually anywhere is at its best at that time of year....in our neck of the woods. Biarritz? Basque region? The waters are warm and the main rush of tourists gone. Have fun planning my Lovelies.
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i have stayed in st jean de luz a few times and it is a great location for exploring -i went one day to the san sebastian city fireworks and the entire town and 15 fire engines were in the harbour and all the boats up and down the coast came and moored in the harbour my young daughter hid under my coat on the ground the light show was so intense .
do you live locally --i have driven to biarritz 4 times from Ireland .
the tgv has a direct train from Paris as many french holiday there and the emperors of france holidayed there for centuries and drank blanquette made in limoux just south of carcassonne where i have stayed also
before a certain monk called DOM PERIGNON saw how it was made and took the secret with him to the champagne area with its different climate and chalky soil which produced what i think is a much inferior wine .
blanquette is creamy not dry and has more earthy flavors -- maybe its an acquired taste but it was what the french emperors drank and nothing else for centuries .
its all small producers --i tried one time to be the main importer of blanquette into Ireland but i could not find any cave making it in any quantity.
i could not get a reliable supply in any quantity as it would only pay me to get a truckload at a time and you could not advertise if you could not get what you needed at any time .
the basque people are lovely and they think we are all in the IRA -- both the french and the Spanish treat them like shit -- and they are screwed by both governments/people on both sides at the same time .
i was once in a basque bar and a french taxi driver ordered a glass of wine and spat it in the face of the woman behind the bar .
he got a kick in the hole from 3 Irish people at the counter
all the highly dangerous industries are put in the basque regions .
you can drive around a mountain in the Pyrenees and suddenly come across a nightmare of a factory with mercury and every shit coming from it .
nobody promotes the basques and their cooking is lovely -and their language is not related to any other on the planet .
tell me do you live there today .
 
Mad as Fish said:
Having written a couple of books myself I know full well that finding a publisher is the biggest hurdle of all irrespective of whether you have the source material to hand or not. The first was self published which enabled me to pursuade a publisher to back a second. But even so I still didn't make money out of it, quite the opposite in fact, but it opened the door to other opportunities.
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i have various books on writing nonfiction all useful to a point .
even though it is a huge amount of work i call it a lazy man's book as i am merely quoting passages from other books and joining the dots for people .
i have over 7 thousand sources/passages and i have started on the introduction which is not easy as the introduction lays out the plan and the discipline of the book.
it is a history of the ashkenazi people and the irish people since records began to the present day .
it is not a history of the semitic jews and the irish people .
being contentious i have to have the hard copy or i may never get it published .
it's possible i may have to do as you have done and self publish --i am not doing it for money however i do not intend to fund it hugely .
what other opportunities did it open for you .
i would be grateful for your advice some time and in a way that suits you all the best .
 
BIG FAT HOOR said:
i have stayed in st jean de luz a few times and it is a great location for exploring -i went one day to the san sebastian city fireworks and the entire town and 15 fire engines were in the harbour and all the boats up and down the coast came and moored in the harbour my young daughter hid under my coat on the ground the light show was so intense .
do you live locally --i have driven to biarritz 4 times from Ireland .
the tgv has a direct train from Paris as many french holiday there and the emperors of france holidayed there for centuries and drank blanquette made in limoux just south of carcassonne where i have stayed also
before a certain monk called DOM PERIGNON saw how it was made and took the secret with him to the champagne area with its different climate and chalky soil which produced what i think is a much inferior wine .
blanquette is creamy not dry and has more earthy flavors -- maybe its an acquired taste but it was what the french emperors drank and nothing else for centuries .
its all small producers --i tried one time to be the main importer of blanquette into Ireland but i could not find any cave making it in any quantity.
i could not get a reliable supply in any quantity as it would only pay me to get a truckload at a time and you could not advertise if you could not get what you needed at any time .
the basque people are lovely and they think we are all in the IRA -- both the french and the Spanish treat them like shit -- and they are screwed by both governments/people on both sides at the same time .
i was once in a basque bar and a french taxi driver ordered a glass of wine and spat it in the face of the woman behind the bar .
he got a kick in the hole from 3 Irish people at the counter
all the highly dangerous industries are put in the basque regions .
you can drive around a mountain in the Pyrenees and suddenly come across a nightmare of a factory with mercury and every shit coming from it .
nobody promotes the basques and their cooking is lovely -and their language is not related to any other on the planet .
tell me do you live there today .
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Sadly no. Am on home turf being rained on since November🤣 But it is my go to hollier
 
BIG FAT HOOR said:
i have various books on writing nonfiction all useful to a point .
even though it is a huge amount of work i call it a lazy man's book as i am merely quoting passages from other books and joining the dots for people .
i have over 7 thousand sources/passages and i have started on the introduction which is not easy as the introduction lays out the plan and the discipline of the book.
it is a history of the ashkenazi people and the irish people since records began to the present day .
it is not a history of the semitic jews and the irish people .
being contentious i have to have the hard copy or i may never get it published .
it's possible i may have to do as you have done and self publish --i am not doing it for money however i do not intend to fund it hugely .
what other opportunities did it open for you .
i would be grateful for your advice some time and in a way that suits you all the best .
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I'll pm in the next day or two.
 
BIG FAT HOOR said:
i have stayed in st jean de luz a few times and it is a great location for exploring -i went one day to the san sebastian city fireworks and the entire town and 15 fire engines were in the harbour and all the boats up and down the coast came and moored in the harbour my young daughter hid under my coat on the ground the light show was so intense .
do you live locally --i have driven to biarritz 4 times from Ireland .
the tgv has a direct train from Paris as many french holiday there and the emperors of france holidayed there for centuries and drank blanquette made in limoux just south of carcassonne where i have stayed also
before a certain monk called DOM PERIGNON saw how it was made and took the secret with him to the champagne area with its different climate and chalky soil which produced what i think is a much inferior wine .
blanquette is creamy not dry and has more earthy flavors -- maybe its an acquired taste but it was what the french emperors drank and nothing else for centuries .
its all small producers --i tried one time to be the main importer of blanquette into Ireland but i could not find any cave making it in any quantity.
i could not get a reliable supply in any quantity as it would only pay me to get a truckload at a time and you could not advertise if you could not get what you needed at any time .
the basque people are lovely and they think we are all in the IRA -- both the french and the Spanish treat them like shit -- and they are screwed by both governments/people on both sides at the same time .
i was once in a basque bar and a french taxi driver ordered a glass of wine and spat it in the face of the woman behind the bar .
he got a kick in the hole from 3 Irish people at the counter
all the highly dangerous industries are put in the basque regions .
you can drive around a mountain in the Pyrenees and suddenly come across a nightmare of a factory with mercury and every shit coming from it .
nobody promotes the basques and their cooking is lovely -and their language is not related to any other on the planet .
tell me do you live there today .
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Took a bus from Bilbao to San Sebastian few years back, stunning views passing across spectacular mountains, turn one corner and there's this massive Smurfit Kappa factory 🏭 amongst the hills
 
Israel is known worldwide as a haven for sexual predators so this comes as no surprise.

IDF drops charges against soldiers accused of sexually assaulting Palestinian detainee​

An Israeli human rights group has warned the decision gives soldiers “license to rape” Palestinian detainees
Published 12 Mar, 2026 21:04 | Updated 13 Mar, 2026 06:51


Israel’s military has dropped charges against soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian prisoner at a wartime detention facility at the Sde Teiman base. The high-profile case has deeply divided Israeli society.

The incident relates to events in July 2024 at the military base in southern Israel, where five reservists were initially investigated for rape and later indicted for “aggravated abuse” after leaked video appeared to show a blindfolded Palestinian detainee being assaulted.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Thursday that prosecutors had withdrawn the indictment, citing insufficient evidence to secure a conviction and procedural concerns after the video footage was leaked to the media. The military also said the alleged victim had since been returned to Gaza, creating uncertainty over whether he would be able to testify at trial.

In the video, the soldiers are seen taking aside a detainee lying face down and surrounding him with riot shields in what appears to be an attempt to conceal their actions.
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The indictment said one of the soldiers stabbed the detainee near the rectum with a sharp object. The detainee was later taken to the hospital in life-threatening condition with fractured ribs and blunt trauma to the chest and abdomen. He underwent surgery before being returned to the facility days later.

The scandal contributed to the resignation of the IDF’s former military advocate general, Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who acknowledged authorizing the release of the footage “to counter the false propaganda.”
READ MORE: Top IDF lawyer quits over video leak of detainee sexual abuse
The case triggered a fierce national debate. The accused reservists have publicly defended their actions, claiming they were being unfairly prosecuted and vowing to “fight for justice.”
On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the decision, stating that “Israel must pursue its enemies, not its heroic fighters.” Defense Minister Israel Katz likewise said “justice has been done.”
Human rights groups, however, strongly criticized the decision. The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel accused the IDF of whitewashing the scandal, stating that “Israel’s military advocate general just gave his soldiers license to rape … so long as the victim is Palestinian.”
READ MORE: Israeli troops fired 900+ rounds at Gaza medics – report
The Sde Teiman base, partially converted into a detention camp for Palestinians suspected of militant activity during the Gaza war, has faced allegations of widespread torture and abuse.
 
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