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We really are nothing more than chess pieces.

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  • 17-11-2011 12:01am
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    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,068 ✭✭✭✭


    Listening to current affairs programs used to be a welcome enjoyment for me. I'd always have an opinion on what 'the man' was doing to make things harder for us. Before now; and perhaps naively, I had always felt that no matter how insignificant I was, that my decision in where I was headed was mine to make.

    Lately all I hear is how 'we need' to be made use of, to claw ourselves out of the hole that we have apparently created for ourselves. 'We need' to get people back to work.. 'we need' to train people so when the jobs return we can help everyone else out, 'we need' to make sacrifices now so that we never make the same mistakes again.

    What the fcuk is it that 'we' are trying to save here? Why do people continue to support something which is so obviously broken?


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    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,120 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    1 e4


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    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Lack of good alternatives?


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    Dotrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    I think I'll go bash the bishop then.


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    #5
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Belief that things will get beter in the future ? ( even though there is a part of us as you describe that thinks otherwise )


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    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,646 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    True dat.


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    #7
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    not enough pawn in this thread.


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    #8
    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Check mate


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    #9
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Bagsie being the castle guy, you get the freedom of movement without the responsibility.


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    wingsof daun
    Registered Users Posts: 270 ✭✭wingsof daun


    Our destiny is not in our own hands anymore. The government acts on the whim of the markets etc. So many people seem to think we they have the magic wand to get things back to normal...but most of them are deluded or lying to get votes. That's what politics is all about, right? Getting votes to be elected to get MAJOR paid? Gangster system if you ask me, a well-disguised one. This is part of what they call "freedom"...freedom for the banks and multinational corporations to rape and pillage us. :mad:


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    #11
    smk89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭smk89


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    1 e4
    You sunk my battleship!


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    #12
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    and clock the whole"Italy thing". New govt is made up of unelected BANKERS, ECONOMISTS and BUSINESSMEN. WTF??? Is it just me who finds this seriously suussss???


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    #13
    Johro
    Registered Users Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    phasers wrote: »
    Bagsie being the castle guy, you get the freedom of movement without the responsibility.
    Knight FTW.


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    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    I bags the stallion,

    Horse yoke thing.


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    Deus Ex Machina
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Deus Ex Machina


    I didn't really read the op, but I often wonder why we all have to work so hard if life is meaningless.





    Edit: Incidently when I say "we" I mean the human race. I, of course, don't do a tap.


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    #16
    Johro
    Registered Users Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Ghandee wrote: »
    I bags the stallion,

    Horse yoke thing.
    Too late.


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    #17
    ChunkyLover_53
    Closed Accounts Posts: 901 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover_53


    If we finish playing Chess and start playing Monopoly I want to be the Car


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    Dotrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    ChunkyLover_53 wrote: »
    If we finish playing Chess and start playing Monopoly I want to be the Car

    ^^ Pure Baltic Avenue.


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    #19
    K-9
    Registered Users Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Mongo is just a pawn in the game of life.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    Horsey takes King Prawn


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    #21
    Johro
    Registered Users Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Pawns at least get to play. We don't. ;)


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    #22
    Johro
    Registered Users Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Queen takes Queen.
    *cough*


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    #23
    Johro
    Registered Users Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    > Cuckoo's nest. Won't be long now.


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    Dotrel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Dotrel


    Johro wrote: »
    Queen takes Queen.
    *cough*

    I think you want this thread
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056453467


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    #25
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users Posts: 23,995 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    My name is URL wrote: »
    Listening to current affairs programs used to be a welcome enjoyment for me. I'd always have an opinion on what 'the man' was doing to make things harder for us. Before now; and perhaps naively, I had always felt that no matter how insignificant I was, that my decision in where I was headed was mine to make.

    Lately all I hear is how 'we need' to be made use of, to claw ourselves out of the hole that we have apparently created for ourselves. 'We need' to get people back to work.. 'we need' to train people so when the jobs return we can help everyone else out, 'we need' to make sacrifices now so that we never make the same mistakes again.

    What the fcuk is it that 'we' are trying to save here? Why do people continue to support something which is so obviously broken?

    Not everything's black or white.


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    #26
    Ste_D
    Registered Users Posts: 180 ✭✭Ste_D


    Shame to see a valid point getting diluted with chess jokes.

    Can anyone remember when we stopped being citizens and started being tax-payers? Now the govt just spend their time trying to separate us from our cash and convincing us its our 'duty'.


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    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    Ste_D wrote: »
    Shame to see a valid point getting diluted with chess jokes.

    Can anyone remember when we stopped being citizens and started being tax-payers? Now the govt just spend their time trying to separate us from our cash and convincing us its our 'duty'.
    that was all en passant.


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    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Not everything's black or white.

    I Am Tired Of This Devil
    I Am Tired Of This Stuff
    I Am Tired Of This Business
    So When The
    Going Gets Rough
    I Ain't Scared Of
    Your Brother
    I Ain't Scared Of No Sheets
    I Ain't Scare Of Nobody
    Girl When The
    Goin' Gets Mean

    [L. T. B. Rap Performance]
    Protection
    For Gangs, Clubs
    And Nations
    Causing Grief In
    Human Relations
    It's A Turf War
    On A Global Scale
    I'd Rather Hear Both Sides
    Of The Tale
    See, It's Not About Races
    Just Places
    Faces
    Where Your Blood
    Comes From
    Is Where Your Space Is
    I've Seen The Bright
    Get Duller
    I'm Not Going To Spend
    My Life Being A Color


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    Crann na Beatha
    Registered Users Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭Crann na Beatha


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    #30
    Chuck Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    It's 'we' for socialized losses and 'me' for repatriated or transferred profits.


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    #31
    Callipo
    Registered Users Posts: 173 ✭✭Callipo


    Ste_D wrote: »
    Shame to see a valid point getting diluted with chess jokes.

    Can anyone remember when we stopped being citizens and started being tax-payers? Now the govt just spend their time trying to separate us from our cash and convincing us its our 'duty'.

    When we became slaves. Tax is pretty much equal to slavery.

    Or prostitution.

    I prefer slavery though. You are giving your hard earned money into a melting pot and you don't really know where it goes.

    You don't do it of your own free will either. :/


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