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To The Hills's avatar

As an ex design engineer who has designed coffee machines - I loved this article. Thank you.

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Shay McInerney's avatar

Jez, I'm afraid to drink coffee now.

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John Brophy's avatar

Just a trial run for the real thing then, Buckle up, we are really in it now.

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Áine Fortune's avatar

Only you could write this. Thank God for you.

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The Watchman's avatar

Good read, Gerry. Linking today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

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John walsh's avatar

When do they add the croissant to the expresso... that's what really terrified me. 😁 Interestingly I see Chernobyl,sellafield and fuchashima all seem to be carrying on. Deer running wild in Chernobyl and a town functioning where the people refused to obey the exclusion zone. They must have been on that herbal tea. 🤔

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jer Savage's avatar

The joe fest

for a joy pest.

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Seanie's avatar

Whatever about the strength of the Iranian's coffee I reckon back home we are sleep walking inta a Joe Duffy presidency. As if Robinson, McAllese and Higgins wern bad enough we are now faced with Duffy. Another Oligarch of the Irish regime. The man who apparently allowed us talk provided the subject matter stayed within the regimes lane. Mickey Martin no doubt is working in the background to ensure it happens.

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Eoin Clancy's avatar

Apparently, the end of the world comes tomorrow. That's right, the 29th June 2025. According to 'The Simpsons'.

It seems that this date has been referenced in numerous episodes dating back to 1999. The last episode which refrenced this date was one were Mr Burns mentioned the date and the end of electricity.

I turned off from outside noises for the last few weeks, I was yawning so much, been driving an artic all over our beautiful country, delivering the essentials for our survival and witnessing so much bizarre behaviour at truck stops.

2 things I noticed Gerry, the obesity levels in Ireland are through the roof, saw nothing but families spending a week's worth of shopping on one obesity rich meal which the diners should be avoiding due to their obvious morbid obesity, children especially. Heartbreaking stuff.

The 2nd thing is EV owners. Parked as I usually am by 5pm over by the ESB chargers, I get to observe the habits of this new breed of consumers. Nearly all seem to wear shorts or summer dresses and stand happily in the lashings of rain affixing the charger to their car and then spending an eternity pressing buttons on the charging machine and their phone before hopping off into the building which offers nothing but fast food, toilets and an overpriced shop. Here they spend 1 to 3 hours, intermittently hopping out in the lashings of rain to stare at the charger and their phone. This breed of consumer all have a civil servant vibe about them and many were seen with a copy of the Irish chimes.

Apart from these two things, everything else I saw was normal.

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The West's Awake's avatar

Enjoy the last 12 hours on earth :-)

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Throgmorton's avatar

Are we dead yet? I can't tell.

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The West's Awake's avatar

hahahahahah. Me either.

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Throgmorton's avatar

We will have to wait for the expert consensus on TV.

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Richard Kelly's avatar

Believe this or not but I seen a guy with an EV car towing a trailer and collecting wood for his stove in my friends yard . It was a weird seen , my friend the wood man said he stopped buying wood two years before and went the new ground heating system but he is back now and is using his stove again lol and a fucking hitch on EV lol next thing he will have a generator in the trailer plugged into the car so he can go up the road to the petrol station to fill up the genny .

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Áine Fortune's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Áine Fortune's avatar

PS the Simpsons was eerily correct in predicting things to come, so who knows? Time to grab the popcorn...

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Áine Fortune's avatar

Effin' brilliant!! 🤣

I hear a book in this...

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Lorian Carrig's avatar

Your eyesight is 20/20 Gerry.

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MADRARUA's avatar

Dia dhuit Geròid agus Brìd.excellent gerry.i will be having my coffee early today,I am getting a sense that we in ireland are not that concerned about nuclear disaster because our world has been urinated on by vulgar shallow mentally unstable compromised politicians.

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Kristi O'Sullivan's avatar

I think considering the past half decade or so, things are playing out pretty much as advertised in the Book of Revelation - the world may not end, but things are not going to get better until they get worse and people wake up to Who is fed up with being ignored.

For anyone interested in viewing things through this lens, this series offers compelling food for thought (below are links to the successive articles). https://biblescienceforum.com/2016/01/25/revelation-1-3/

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Tom Fitzgerald's avatar

Those "fourteen big beautiful bombs "as you quaintly describe them were deployed by the bombastic showman Trump to destroy the only effective bargaining chip that really matters when negotiating with the zio-American empire and in doing this he has engaged in an act of nuclear terrorism and transgressed international law ,officially declared war on Iran and opened Pandora's box of nuclear technology tricks and thus broken the taboo on the manufacture of nuclear weapons.

The Iranians and many other nations now know what they should and must do to avoid being bullied or obliterated by the American empire sitting on a hill of ground and washed out coffee beans covering the shattered skulls of millions killed in their expansionist wars . That is the unavoidable reality that's being buried by the manufactured and augmented unreality of the depleted western mind.

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Throgmorton's avatar

Your mind is like a furious little hamster running in a wheel of recycled opinions and conspiracy theories, trapped in a cage of your own diffuse verbiage.

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Tom Fitzgerald's avatar

Do not reply!

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Tom Fitzgerald's avatar

There is nothing conspiratorial and nothing recycled in my comment as it's always original and factual, none of which you have ability to comprehend obviously.

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James Quigley's avatar

Good analogy -perhaps the sleeper cells will bring some over. I'm still in the shock & awe stage but I don't know it might be nicotine withdrawals.

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Richard Kelly's avatar

I'm making bread this morning and I am a little worried the yeast will explode in my face , it's a dangerous world lol. Thanks Gerry

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Throgmorton's avatar

Was it weapons grade? Careful with that assault yeast, now!

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J. P. Bruce's avatar

Dangerous indeed Richard.

I took a sealed container from the fridge the other day with some vegan stuff I wanted to eat. However I couldn't unscrew the lid and, when I tried really hard, it blew off as if in an explosion. I got a fright but otherwise no harm was done.

Who cares about nuclear bombs when our own food is attacking us?

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Richard Kelly's avatar

Yep JP the food is killing us , growing our own is the only way in my opinion

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alwayscurious's avatar

Consensus reality - perfect.

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