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Burning torches

Stuff happening in places not blessed with four seasons
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Burning torches

Postby yanpa » Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:50 pm

Flames engulf 86-storey residential tower in Dubai
Blaze at the Torch Tower, one of the world’s tallest residential buildings, is under control and residents have been evacuated.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... r-in-dubai

Nomen ist omen.
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Re: Burning torches

Postby wagyl » Fri Aug 04, 2017 5:32 pm

yanpa wrote:Nomen ist omen.

Throughout history.
It had been damaged in a fire in 2015.

By the way, your link is broken, but trying to locate the article did make me aware that the Graunaid feels it necessary to refer to the Irish taoiseach, I suppose to distinguish that office from all the other taoisigh.
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Re: Burning torches

Postby yanpa » Fri Aug 04, 2017 7:03 pm

here, have some Internet points for knowing the plural of taoiseach. Or at least giving the impression you do and there is such a thing.

Link fixed.
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Re: Burning torches

Postby Screwed-down Hairdo » Sat Aug 05, 2017 9:27 am

I thought taoiseach referred to the practice of dragging your knackers across somebody else's face. Mind you, if past history is taken into account, it is quite an accurate summation if judging by deed rather than word.

Wagyl knows too much Gaeilge....
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Re: Burning torches

Postby wagyl » Sat Aug 05, 2017 4:05 pm

Screwed-down Hairdo wrote:Wagyl knows too much Gaeilge....

To be sure to be sure.

One tea shack. Two tea she. Three tea she and you start to develop factional issues.
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