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  • #2552
    cloptrop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭cloptrop


    curlymo wrote: »
    I think that all soap operas should not be shown before watershed times as most of the content is not suitable for kids that are tuned as a family. Also too much drinking in each of them and you will notice that not one of them ever have a drink problem.

    I also think to combat the underage drinking culture it should be like the US 21 years of age before you are allowed to drink.

    Whats your problem with drink dude, I think it bothers you that much you are the one with a problem ,
    What Im saying is drinking affects you more than me and I drink heavily , you seem to be near tea total . Isnt it ironic dont ye think.


  • #2553
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    curlymo wrote: »
    Also too much drinking in each of them and you will notice that not one of them ever have a drink problem.

    I also think to combat the underage drinking culture it should be like the US 21 years of age before you are allowed to drink.

    Hiding away alcohol and having strict laws and making it forbidden will only make youngsters want it more ;)

    Sure in France the young uns get wine with their evening meal and they don't have the issues we do


  • #2554
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    curlymo wrote: »
    I also think to combat the underage drinking culture it should be like the US 21 years of age before you are allowed to drink.

    Raising the drinking age will increase the amount of underage drinkers.


  • #2555
    Father Damo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,643 ✭✭✭Father Damo


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Steve Jobs is held up as some incredible person

    I've read the Walter Isaacson book and my impression was he was a hysterical asshole and tyrant and would switch from bullying to bursting into tears to get his way. And abandoned his own daughter

    Everything I hate in a person and manager

    Managers need to be strong but you can be a leader and passionate without this


    Here here. Seems to have been an awful wanker, most of the tributes from those who knew him were more to do with his aptitude for success and zero in the way of actually being a good guy. Sure even Hitler was an undeniably good economist to an extent.


  • #2556
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Steve Jobs wasn't really comparable to Hitler.


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  • #2557
    humberklog
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,580 Mod ✭✭✭✭humberklog


    Saige Wooden Mocha wrote: »
    Steve Jobs wasn't really comparable to Hitler.

    In fairness I think that's a fairly popular opinion.

    Although I am led to believe they both attended Cupertina Junior High, Cupertina, California.


  • #2558
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Both big fans of aesthetics too.


  • #2559
    loishasdied
    Registered Users Posts: 66 ✭✭loishasdied


    texidub wrote: »
    Georgia Salpa is photogenic, but her mouth is too small, her chin tapers away to nothing, and her D4 accent makes me want to vomit.

    georgia salpa is better looking in real life and has a great personality


  • #2560
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    I like the south dublin accent. They speak the most clearly out of anyone in the country.


  • #2561
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    Looking at the post of the day is making me think the average user on this site isn't the sharpest


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  • #2562
    blue-army
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭blue-army


    The Rubberbandits are sh*te.


  • #2563
    derfderf
    Registered Users Posts: 1,588 ✭✭✭derfderf


    AeoNGriM wrote: »
    And most of the worst too.

    would you look down on the rolling stones because bon jovi exist?


  • #2564
    Rabidlamb
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭Rabidlamb


    Israel have defiled the memories of those lost in the holocaust by using it as an excuse for their "over protective" policies in the Middle East.


  • #2565
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    Israel have defiled the memories of those lost in the holocaust by using it as an excuse for their "over protective" policies in the Middle East.
    Hardly an unpopular opinion to be fair. Quite the opposite.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #2566
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Hardly an unpopular opinion to be fair. Quite the opposite.

    In that part of the world there is no such thing as "over protective" as we may see shortly .The distances are very short indeed .Israel is very vulnerable to missiles within striking distances .


  • #2567
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    Israel have defiled the memories of those lost in the holocaust by using it as an excuse for their "over protective" policies in the Middle East.
    For Rubbish on boards this takes some beating indeed .Learn some history and geography .This a wind-up it's absurd .


  • #2568
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,498 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    Israel have defiled the memories of those lost in the holocaust by using it as an excuse for their "over protective" policies in the Middle East.
    Wibbs wrote: »
    Hardly an unpopular opinion to be fair. Quite the opposite.
    paddyandy wrote: »
    For Rubbish on boards this takes some beating indeed .Learn some history and geography .This a wind-up it's absurd .

    :pac:


  • #2569
    onlyrocknroll
    Registered Users Posts: 750 ✭✭✭onlyrocknroll


    derfderf wrote: »
    would you look down on the rolling stones because bon jovi exist?

    Bon Jovi are so bad that even I look down on the Rolling Stones, and I'm bloody named after one of their songs!


  • #2570
    Lanaier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 604 ✭✭✭Lanaier


    The Pogues are absolutely shhhhhiiiiiiiiiiteeeeeeeee.


  • #2571
    Phenomenally Phrank
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 94 ✭✭Phenomenally Phrank


    U2's 'Achtung Baby' album was actually pretty good-it defined both their career and the era it was released in. If they'd gone their separate ways after the Zoo TV/Zooropa tour then they would've left a great legacy in music.


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  • #2572
    BunShopVoyeur
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭BunShopVoyeur


    People who go missing are most likely dead. A lot of families delude themselves hoping otherwise.


  • #2573
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    While their disastrous, suicidal and idiotic decision to go into government with FF meant the greens certainty deserved to be punished harshly by the electorate their complete wipeout in the last general election was rather unfortunate.


  • #2574
    paddyandy
    Site Banned Posts: 2,037 ✭✭✭paddyandy


    bUNshop ; Deluded can be a pleasant state of mind and we've all known it .


  • #2575
    BunShopVoyeur
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭BunShopVoyeur


    paddyandy wrote: »
    bUNshop ; Deluded can be a pleasant state of mind and we've all known it .

    Yeah I know, I Just don't understand it. Most people know these people are likely gone yet you can't say it out loud.


  • #2576
    ch750536
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭ch750536


    Most of the time kids with ADHD are just little ****s with ****e parents.


  • #2577
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    I agree

    And a lot of that is diet. Why do you send your child to school with a lunchbox of biscuits, sweets and sugary fizzy drinks and then wonder when they start acting up?

    And instead of addressing that you take them to the doctor, they get labelled and then possibly even get drugs

    Yet the biggest drug around is food


  • #2578
    undergroundvibe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭undergroundvibe


    i believe there is a need for vigilantes to sort out local small criminals such as burglars that the gardai do not seem interested in sorting out.


  • #2579
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    I agree

    And a lot of that is diet. Why do you send your child to school with a lunchbox of biscuits, sweets and sugary fizzy drinks and then wonder when they start acting up?

    And instead of addressing that you take them to the doctor, they get labelled and then possibly even get drugs

    Yet the biggest drug around is food

    Sugary foods don't make kids hyper.


  • #2580
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,906 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Megan Fox isn't that hot


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  • #2581
    Babybuff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Babybuff


    BunShopVoyeur wrote: »
    Yeah I know, I Just don't understand it. Most people know these people are likely gone yet you can't say it out loud.
    not really,a lot of people plan on disappearing for one reason or another. I had a great aunt went missing in the 70's, just disappeared one day leaving no trace behind, took nothing just gone. Some suspected she had left for England with a married man and to this day that appears to be the only conclusion. I often thought about doing it myself, just disappearing and starting a new life somewhere else where no one knows you or anything about you.


  • #2582
    BunShopVoyeur
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭BunShopVoyeur


    Babybuff wrote: »
    BunShopVoyeur wrote: »
    Yeah I know, I Just don't understand it. Most people know these people are likely gone yet you can't say it out loud.
    not really,a lot of people plan on disappearing for one reason or another. I had a great aunt went missing in the 70's, just disappeared one day leaving no trace behind, took nothing just gone. Some suspected she had left for England with a married man and to this day that appears to be the only conclusion. I often thought about doing it myself, just disappearing and starting a new life somewhere else where no one knows you or anything about you.

    I'm sorry but the woman disappeared without a trace and everyone just assumed she had run off to England?
    Nobodies heard for her since the 70's?

    This proves my point.


  • #2583
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    I find it very difficult to watch a 30 min long online video


  • #2584
    dutopia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 583 ✭✭✭dutopia


    undergroundvibe wrote: »
    i believe there is a need for vigilantes to sort out local small criminals such as burglars that the gardai do not seem interested in sorting out.

    Seriously, the one thing I hate about this country is the petty criminals, burglars and other lowlifes making life difficult for everyone. I wish the Gardai would actively go after these people and make communities safer for everyone.


  • #2585
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    dutopia wrote: »
    Seriously, the one thing I hate about this country is the petty criminals, burglars and other lowlifes making life difficult for everyone. I wish the Gardai would actively go after these people and make communities safer for everyone.

    Thats hardly an unpopular opinion. However the fault lies in the stupidity and lack of civic mindedness of the electorate.

    How else is it tolerated that hundreds of millions are spent on prime city centre land for prisons which never get built in the end but could be built out in the middle of the sticks for nothing ? Corruption and stupidity is everywhere.


  • #2586
    benway
    Registered Users Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭benway


    undergroundvibe wrote: »
    i believe there is a need for vigilantes to sort out local small criminals such as burglars that the gardai do not seem interested in sorting out.
    That's not an unpopular opinion. THESE are unpopular opinions

    I believe:

    a) That we don't have a serious crime problem in this country;
    b) That just because someone's committed a crime doesn't make them a subhuman "scumbag";
    c) That the criminal justice system isn't failing because it's too soft or lenient;
    d) That the criminal justice system isn't even that lenient in the first place;
    e) That harsher punishment, like longer jail sentences, will make the problem worse, not better;
    f) That people shouldn't put themselves at risk unnecessarily trying to take on burglars or thieves;
    g) That the amount of bile directed towards "scumbags" and petty criminals in this country has more to do with snobbery than with the reality of the problem;
    h) That the vast majority of people putting forward strong opinions on criminal justice have basically no clue what they're talking about.

    I could go on....


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  • #2587
    bb1234567
    Registered Users Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    I actually really like that show 'take me out':o


  • #2588
    wellboy76
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 691 ✭✭✭wellboy76


    Síle is hotter than Grainne


  • #2589
    mariano rivera
    Registered Users Posts: 264 ✭✭mariano rivera


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    I actually really like that show 'take me out':o

    Only 5 million viewers every week


    :p


  • #2590
    steddyeddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,564 ✭✭✭✭steddyeddy


    psychward wrote: »
    Thats hardly an unpopular opinion. However the fault lies in the stupidity and lack of civic mindedness of the electorate.

    How else is it tolerated that hundreds of millions are spent on prime city centre land for prisons which never get built in the end but could be built out in the middle of the sticks for nothing ? Corruption and stupidity is everywhere.

    BS the electorate have been let down by the police force in irelands ability to spot crime.


  • #2591
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    mariano rivera wrote: »
    Only 5 million viewers every week


    :p

    tv ratings doesnt equal quality though, people will watch any old sh1t.


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  • #2592
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    undergroundvibe wrote: »
    i believe there is a need for vigilantes to sort out local small criminals such as burglars that the gardai do not seem interested in sorting out.

    This would lead to the collapse of society as we know it.


  • #2593
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    undergroundvibe wrote: »
    i believe there is a need for vigilantes to sort out local small criminals such as burglars that the gardai do not seem interested in sorting out.

    I remember reading the story of that vigilante guy in America who ended up getting shot and ending in a hospital.

    Vigilantism only seems to work in comic books and films. Reality is much more crude and brutal.


  • #2594
    karaokeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭karaokeman


    Suas11 wrote: »
    Megan Fox isn't that hot

    You can't be serious now, surely?????

    :eek:

    http://www.google.ie/imgres?q=megan+fox+hot&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1440&bih=766&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnso&tbnid=g0zuM_ZXvnYkXM:&imgrefurl=http://beautyinworld.com/american-top-hot-model-megan-fox

    ^^^:o


  • #2595
    Rothko
    Registered Users Posts: 12,906 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    karaokeman wrote: »
    You can't be serious now, surely?????

    :eek:

    http://www.google.ie/imgres?q=megan+fox+hot&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1440&bih=766&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnso&tbnid=g0zuM_ZXvnYkXM:&imgrefurl=http://beautyinworld.com/american-top-hot-model-megan-fox

    ^^^:o

    Lol, she is hot but I think there are a lot of celebs that are hotter.


  • #2596
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    karaokeman wrote: »
    You can't be serious now, surely?????

    :eek:

    http://www.google.ie/imgres?q=megan+fox+hot&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1440&bih=766&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnso&tbnid=g0zuM_ZXvnYkXM:&imgrefurl=http://beautyinworld.com/american-top-hot-model-megan-fox

    ^^^:o

    she's not all that tbh, looks rough as fcuk


  • #2597
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    karaokeman wrote: »
    You can't be serious now, surely?????

    :eek:

    http://www.google.ie/imgres?q=megan+fox+hot&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1440&bih=766&tbm=isch&prmd=imvnso&tbnid=g0zuM_ZXvnYkXM:&imgrefurl=http://beautyinworld.com/american-top-hot-model-megan-fox

    ^^^:o
    Shes vey hot but her thumbs are freakish.


  • #2598
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    steddyeddy wrote: »
    BS the electorate have been let down by the police force in irelands ability to spot crime.

    sure but we pay their wages and we as a people seem to tolerate and continue to bankroll low standards in high places all over the kip


  • #2599
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,523 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0326/1224313893956.html
    ALMOST TWO-THIRDS of a group of intravenous drug-users have died in the 25 years since they enlisted in a unique medical study, research just published has found.

    That's saved us a few quid.

    Scrap the cap!



  • #2600
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    New one.. The bush administration meant well, most governments do.. But we live in a complex world and must compromise. (playing up to the thread title a little)


  • #2601
    wonderfullife
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭wonderfullife


    Male tennis players deserve their higher prize money on the basis they play 5 set matches, equal pay for unequal work isn't fairness


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