Karl Brophy
@KarlBrophy · Ireland/EU/UK/USA/RSA · joined 15 May 2009
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This is 1.65% annual inflation. Germans are in trouble if they think this is an issue.
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To be fair, all the other countries that are allowed to manufacture Irish whiskey under the EU’s geographical indication regime will also be exempt from the tariffs. Not just Ireland.
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As an Irishman, I don’t really understand what is going on at the Toulouse v Bordeaux match in France tonight but everyone seems to be having a great time. #STUBB #Top14 #StadeToulousain #UBB https://t.co/dGVNWs4Ha1
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Q: The whiskey tariffs are an EU tariff. Are you taking it off all EU countries?
TRUMP: A lot of people asked me about. It was pretty unfair, so I decided to do that
Q: On just Ireland, or all of the EU?
TRUMP: Just Ireland https://t.co/AWoRjHuWk8
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Lord, make me based but not before noon on a Saturday.
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He went from the airport to Phoenix Park at 9am. https://t.co/E7owSf4Ax9
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Twitter won't allow me (successfully) add to this thread anymore. Possibly because the guy who built my car is now in charge.
This is not a conspiracy. It's just that my car breaks down a lot so I'm not surprised that "X" does too.
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One of the things about the Supercharging network is that they put the chargers in some very quirky locations.
This one is in a golf club which has super looking bar and a steak restaurant. Just two hours to run now. https://t.co/oI9EHIrG7H
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It took about an hour to finally get to the pay station and the tunnel. And then it was just the small matter of €54.50 for the privilege of using the tunnel. One way.
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The dog probably would have been happier playing roulette than being stuck in this stationary traffic jam on the side of Mont Blanc as we try to crawl up to the 12km tunnel that will take us from France in to Italy. https://t.co/5KuzP32kV1
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I’ve also just discovered that there is a casino attached to the restaurant (which has feted Honeycomb like some sort of god rather than a dog).
They have helpfully told me that the Labrador is welcome in the Casino if I would like to gamble.
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I am eating terrine de campagne. Because there are few things nicer in the world than terrine de campagne with crusty baguette and cornichons.
A glass of wine would be nice. But there’s more than five hours of driving still ahead. https://t.co/u8mPBqoQ0q
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Daughter: “You know, this is the first time on this entire trip that you’ve fed me lunch at lunchtime and actually given me proper food.”
You other dads may as well give up. I’ve got this year’s award in the bag. https://t.co/dgpc9rnT7T
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We are at a Supercharger on the border with Switzerland after climbing up in to the mountains and gone through many tunnels
There is a surprisingly excellent restaurant here. https://t.co/B48ENdLMAv
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Daughter has promised not to tell her mother how much money I’ve just spent on wine in Beaune.
I think the shop knew they were on to a good thing when she walked in with the dog and loudly said: “Oh, look Dada, they have those Dujac ones that you like.” https://t.co/r8QU6ZFfPC
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Good morning and welcome to what is, hopefully, the last day of Sadhbh and Honeycomb’s road trip. Long day ahead as we head towards Switzerland and then drop down in to Italy and head for the coast, passing Mont Blanc on the way. https://t.co/wimGvhhMaU
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Not that we should have worried. The food was just generally rubbish. The calamari starter we shared was good. But her burger and my steak were both awful. The entertainment from Grumpy Omelette Guy made up for it though. He was fabulous.
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He eventually changed his order. But I’m not going to lie: We became worried that we were going to be punished by the kitchen just as a result of sitting beside him.
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This was done with a dismissive confidence that Irish people simply do not possess. It was clear that we were dealing with an upper class British person who knows what he wants.
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It was too brown apparently. They brought back a replacement and he did not even let it touch the table. He just barked and sent it away. Too brown again.
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But the man, Alan, will forever be known in our house as “Grumpy Omelette Guy”. He ordered
one and it had barely touched the table before he sent it back with a gruff bark and dismissive flick of his wrist.
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They were not unfriendly. Quite the contrary. They spoke to us and the dog from the off and were hugely helpful because they are fluent in French.
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But the beautiful thing was that we got placed beside two, ostensibly, British people. They were in their late 60s. But he was, without doubt, the funniest and grumpiest man from the border regions I’ve ever met
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They eventually found us a bistro not far away and me, the daughter and the dog headed off for dinner. It was a fairly pedestrian place.
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It’s Sunday night in France. So it means that 95% of the restaurants are closed. So the poor people in the restaurant had to scramble to get us somewhere to eat. They made 15 phone calls.
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Anyway, we ended up having an absolutely hilarious evening. It started up with meeting some South Africans in the hotel bar. They were on their way to their house from London to Villefranche.
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We had a lovely evening in Beaune anyway. It’s a cracking little town. Full of wine shops that I will spend so much money in that the 12yo won’t be able to go to college. https://t.co/nNZl0lQsNy
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One of the fascinating things about France is that it is a world leader in nuclear power. Their grid is one of the most nuclear in the world.
But if you go to the toilet anywhere in the country and stop moving for 20 seconds you’re plunged in to complete darkness.
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Approaching Beaune earlier today and the 12yo daughter says:
“Why do I recognise all these names of places? Oh, God, these are the places on the front of your bottles of wine. I’m never leaving here am I? This is your happy place.” https://t.co/a76Lu7va4K
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Nous sommes arrivés à Beaune.
Updates on the, fairly amusing, trip to come later.
But, for now, Honeycomb and Sadhbh would like you to know that we have been upgraded. And they’re both thrilled about it. https://t.co/XjG4p1RAyN
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Against accounts of the same size
6 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views22 617this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %74.02%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.44%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
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| Median views per post | 22 617 | 924 | 24.5× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 74.02% | 3.62% | 20.4× |
| Engagement rate | 0.44% | 1.52% | 0.29× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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725.2K4 Jun
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.15%3 Jun
2.04%
1.14%
1.41%
1.02%
1.11%
0.89%
0.28%4 Jun
0.56%12 Sep
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes91.2%8 689 in total
Reposts2.8%269 in total
Replies2.7%254 in total
Bookmarks3.3%313 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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