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Vocal minority for silent majority?

  • 20-12-2007 2:06am
    #1
    Mick Shrimpton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭


    Does the vocal minority make the rules for the silent majority...

    ...generally?


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  • #2
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    What?


  • #3
    Lands Leaving
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭Lands Leaving


    Not in the majority of cases, but there is a minority.


  • #4
    Mick Shrimpton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭Mick Shrimpton


    Terry wrote: »
    What?

    It's not for you Terry, Go to bed.....


  • #5
    leninbenjamin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭leninbenjamin


    on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays yes. on all other days it's the majority, except for Fridays when the Martians are in control


  • #6
    Karoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    Not always. Silent people tend to carry bigger weapons.


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  • #7
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Colinthedrummer wrote: »
    It's not for you Terry, Go to bed.....
    Karoma wrote: »
    Not always. Silent people tend to carry bigger weapons.

    I have a ban hammer.

    Well, for the next few hours anyway.


  • #8
    Kernel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    The squeeky wheel gets the oil.


  • #9
    Lands Leaving
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,145 ✭✭✭Lands Leaving


    Colinthedrummer wrote: »
    Does the vocal minority make the rules for the silent majority...

    ...generally?

    Not one serious answer. Poor fella. He just wanted a nice debate.

    Not really, not in Ireland. We managed to avoid the sikh (correct me because I'm probably wrong on the religion) turbans in the gardai, and we generally use democracy to our advantage, divorce for example, went through, despite a very vocal minority of devout Catholics, because we're not too bad on the old voting.

    Smaller issues however, like censorship of music and such, is totally run by the vocal minority, i.e. the idiots who complain about beautiful girls having suicidal in it, and the word gun being banned from radio. What rubbish.

    So on big issues the silent majority wins, but on less important ones its the vocal minority.

    There, did that make things better? Or even make sense?


  • #10
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Lands Leaving wrote: »
    Not one serious answer. Poor fella. He just wanted a nice debate.

    Not really, not in Ireland. We managed to avoid the sikh (correct me because I'm probably wrong on the religion) turbans in the gardai, and we generally use democracy to our advantage, divorce for example, went through, despite a very vocal minority of devout Catholics, because we're not too bad on the old voting.
    AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
    Fianna Fail got back in because you voted for them.

    RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE


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