Paul Messitt

photographer / maker / springsteen Lover / loving the craic / meeting mates / talking movies

[Paul Messitt @messerlad]

last sunday was best day I've ever had up @ glendalough the weather was awesome but not as awesome as #glendalough

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@TheAnfieldWrap Trying to copy ITV lads. I thought you were above all that lark. 😉

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@FamersDog Nice message Charlie. We lost our aunti Alice to MND 28 years ago. Thankfully she didn’t suffer to long and was not a disease we knew a lot about at that time. Happy Dad Day Charlie.

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@downeytrev Hope you pour it right Trev.

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@AkaPaulHoward 🤮

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@DaveOCKOP Dom’s next. Doesn’t sign a new contract. Off with him.

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@TeleFootball @_ChrisBascombe Where’s the playmaker

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@RTEsoccer Ronaldo’s like that boy who owned the only ball on the street so you had to let him play.

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@ballsdotie NO balls to take of CR7

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#FIFAWorldCup Messi Messi Messi

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@downeytrev You’re not wrong. Live version is unreal

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@FabrizioRomano No 17

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@downeytrev Classy Lady

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[Dominic King @DKingTelegraph]

Scotland should win the World Cup just for this alone.

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@kevinhatchard Fabulous player. One to watch

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@MiguelDelaney Kildare’s flat alright

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@Independent_ie Ahhhh bless.

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@The_BoleynBoys Why I wonder hmmmmm

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Finally he’s gone

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🇵🇹 Bernardo Silva deal has been sealed in 36 hours by Real Madrid.

Name indicated by José Mourinho on Tuesday night meeting as a priority and signed immediately to anticipate other clubs.

🎥➕ https://t.co/baFrE4uz4T

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

A neighbour heard a girl scream and called the police.

Officers found a 13-year-old at 3 a.m., clothing disrupted, in a house with a group of men who had given her vodka.

The men were not questioned.
The girl was arrested — for being drunk and disorderly.

This is not a rumour. It is in the Jay Report, and it was put to South Yorkshire's chief constable in Parliament.

Another case: a 12-year-old found in a car with a 22-year-old man who had indecent images of her on his phone. No action taken.

The British state had handcuffs that night.
It used them on the child.

What does a justice system call itself when the victim gets a criminal record and the abuser keeps his taxi licence?

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100% 👏

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.

I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it.

Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought.

We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!!

Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??

Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity."

Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in.

When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.

My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress.

Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.

People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.

Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.

We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."