If we look back on today's society in 50 years time...

Dicky Pride

You know when we look back in history at things like blacks not being able to drink at certain water fountains or eat in certain cafés, or women not being able to vote etc..

What current rules or laws etc will we be looking back on in 50 years time and wondering how the hell they were ever in place?

There are a few that jump immediately to mind for me.

1. Stopping a couple that are in love from marrying.
2. Telling us when we can and can't buy alcohol.
3. Priests and bishops, who were elected by nobody, having a say in anything.
4. People getting called slutty for hooking up at a petrol station.

What other stupid things exist in this country that are somewhat hard to believe?

IM0

Dicky Pride wrote: »

You know when we look back in history at things like blacks not being able to drink at certain water fountains or eat in certain cafés, or women not being able to vote etc..

What current rules or laws etc will we be looking back on in 50 years time and wondering how the hell they were ever in place?

There are a few that jump immediately to mind for me.

1. Stopping a couple that are in love from marrying.
2. Telling us when we can and can't buy alcohol.
3. Priests and bishops, who were elected by nobody, having a say in anything.
4. People getting called slutty for hooking up at a petrol station.

What other stupid things exist in this country that are somewhat hard to believe?

donvito99

I will be old and saying how great thing were compared to 2060s Ireland.

"Back in my day, we had so called smart phones. You with your fancy-shmancy implanted mobile device. Times were simpler back then, I tells ya."

Corvo

Dicky Pride wrote: »

You know when we look back in history at things like blacks not being able to drink at certain water fountains or eat in certain cafés, or women not being able to vote etc..

What current rules or laws etc will we be looking back on in 50 years time and wondering how the hell they were ever in place?

There are a few that jump immediately to mind for me.

1. Stopping a couple that are in love from marrying.
2. Telling us when we can and can't buy alcohol.
3. Priests and bishops, who were elected by nobody, having a say in anything.
4. People getting called slutty for hooking up at a petrol station.

What other stupid things exist in this country that are somewhat hard to believe?

As in pubs / clubs? Or off licences? Probably not the worst law around. I imagine at the time of the smoking ban people found it outrageous too, but it has worked out just fine!

Agree with the priests and bishops part however. I have a feeling that in 50 years time, we will look back and think how their power existed at all (I fancy it all to dwindle rapidly)

When Im in my 70's, I want to give out about hovercrafts "Look at ye with your goddamn hovercrafts, back in my day, we walked or had skateboards, goddamn hippies"

Dicky Pride

I mean off licences more so. Ridiculous that we are told when we are allowed to buy drink. Just think about that notion for a second. We can go into and buy a pallet of vodka but just not on a Sunday morning or after 10pm, or on Good Friday...jaysus. It's madness when you really think about it.

Ruudi_Mentari

They will be saying omg, we rocked! Despite there having been none.

They will us.....

Mr Benevolent

IM0 wrote: »

He means gay marriage. Which I personally believe is equal rights gone too far. Marraige is completely irrelevant if you're gay as the main point of marriage is to provide father's rights. Since (male) gay couples usually only adopt, the rights are enshrined in law anyway. What a pointless piece of legislation that will be.

4. People getting called slutty for hooking up at a petrol station.

It should be illegal to express an opinion?

2. Telling us when we can and can't buy alcohol.

If you're that desperate for it then yes.

krudler

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

He means gay marriage. Which I personally believe is equal rights gone too far. Marraige is completely irrelevant if you're gay as the main point of marriage is to provide father's rights. Since (male) gay couples usually only adopt, the rights are enshrined in law anyway. What a pointless piece of legislation that will be.

Wha?

Dicky Pride

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

He means gay marriage. Which I personally believe is equal rights gone too far. Marraige is completely irrelevant if you're gay as the main point of marriage is to provide father's rights. Since (male) gay couples usually only adopt, the rights are enshrined in law anyway. What a pointless piece of legislation that will be.



It should be illegal to express an opinion?



If you're that desperate for it then yes.

Where did I say it should be illegal to express an opinion? You sound like one of these people that go around starting arguments for no real reason, regardless of whether you care about the topic or not.

And please tell me what desperation has to do with the government telling us when we can and cannot buy something. Are you an idiot?

Bannasidhe

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

He means gay marriage. Which I personally believe is equal rights gone too far. Marraige is completely irrelevant if you're gay as the main point of marriage is to provide father's rights. Since (male) gay couples usually only adopt, the rights are enshrined in law anyway. What a pointless piece of legislation that will be.

No. It isn't.
Have a read of the marriage legislation and please then tell me where it states this?

By this logic a marriage is only a marriage where there are biological children which will come as a surprise to married couples who do not have biological children.

How can equality go 'too far'? Equal is equal...




Hopefully in 50 years times we will look back and wonder why the hell we left the RCC have so much control over our education system.

SEPT 23 1989

You are presuming that anything remotely bad for your health will be legal in 50 years time

Leftist

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

He means gay marriage. Which I personally believe is equal rights gone too far. Marraige is completely irrelevant if you're gay as the main point of marriage is to provide father's rights. Since (male) gay couples usually only adopt, the rights are enshrined in law anyway. What a pointless piece of legislation that will be.

What are you talking bollox for?

Sunnyisland

We will be wondering why this country was not a united Ireland years ago :):P

IM0

how we managed without robots wiping our arses

MurdyWurdy

This thread made me think of this....

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/gay_marriage

Allyall

We'll probably be wondering how are the Politicians still getting away with it?

Dicky Pride

Any more?

frozenfrozen

anarchy is all we can really hope for. and tea. Anarchy and tea, please

The_Gatsby

Dicky Pride wrote: »

I mean off licences more so. Ridiculous that we are told when we are allowed to buy drink. Just think about that notion for a second. We can go into and buy a pallet of vodka but just not on a Sunday morning or after 10pm, or on Good Friday...jaysus. It's madness when you really think about it.

Good Friday is 1 day out of 365 that you can't buy alcohol. It's sad that people in this country have a problem with it.

frozenfrozen

The_Gatsby wrote: »

Good Friday is 1 day out of 365 that you can't buy alcohol. It's sad that people in this country have a problem with it.

It's the idea behind it though. Not drinking that day should be a choice for the religious...

Freddy Smelly

IM0 wrote: »

he is referring to gay marriages

AEDIC

frozenfrozen wrote: »

It's the idea behind it though. Not drinking that day should be a choice for the religious...

You can drink on that day... you just cant purchase alcohol on that day, so you have as much choice as your own planning will allow.

BlimpGaz

Paedophilia will be legalized, right in time for me 84th birthday

I Heart Internet

Dicky Pride wrote: »

You know when we look back in history at things like blacks not being able to drink at certain water fountains or eat in certain cafés, or women not being able to vote etc..

I think you mean black people.

Dicky Pride wrote: »

1. Stopping a couple that are in love from marrying

Any couple in love? So a brother and sister become husband and wife?

Dicky Pride wrote: »

2. Telling us when we can and can't buy alcohol.

Meh.....If I want alcohol at odd times of the day or night I'll just remember to have some in the fridge. I don't expect people and businesses to cater to my every whim.

Dicky Pride wrote: »

3. Priests and bishops, who were elected by nobody, having a say in anything.

So presumably no GAA club chairman could have a say in their club or sport in their community or...well...."anything" as you say, either?

Dicky Pride wrote: »

4. People getting called slutty for hooking up at a petrol station.

Not slutty - heros is what I call those people. Up against the pine tree air fresheners! Oh yeah!

BlimpGaz

Dicky Pride wrote: »

You know when we look back in history at things like blacks not being able to drink at certain water fountains or eat in certain cafés, or women not being able to vote etc..

What current rules or laws etc will we be looking back on in 50 years time and wondering how the hell they were ever in place?

There are a few that jump immediately to mind for me.

1. Stopping a couple that are in love from marrying.
2. Telling us when we can and can't buy alcohol.
3. Priests and bishops, who were elected by nobody, having a say in anything.
4. People getting called slutty for hooking up at a petrol station.

What other stupid things exist in this country that are somewhat hard to believe?

Female much?

Dravokivich

Mr Benevolent wrote: »

If you're that desperate for it then yes.

Well, It's not so much about desperation. It's not wanting to appear desperate. There's many other goods avail to us 24x7 if the shops are willing to stay open for it. Its nuts that an Off License has to be open for certain times only.

I've a mate who works odd hours during the week and as a result is only able to buy alcohol on Saturday/Sundays. He ends up buying crates at a time, because if he only feels like 1 or 2 on a Tuesday after work, he can't buy them.

It's nuts having to buy a lot of drink at the time.

smash

Having to wait 4 years for a divorce in Ireland... shocking.

Celly Smunt

Am I the only one who doesn't give a crap about gay marriage?.As in totally indifferent to the situation altogether.Everytime the topic comes up wherever I am,it seems both sides either call you anti or pro gay marriage if you honestly don't give a crap.

Don't care = homophobic
Or
Don't care = liberal hippy
Apparently.

Antar Bolaeisk

We'll probably still be making threads wondering what people fifty years from then will think of the world when looking back to fifty years from now.

1ZRed

frozenfrozen wrote: »

It's the idea behind it though. Not drinking that day should be a choice for the religious...

Exactly. I'm not religious therefore why should I have to go along with whatever they believe and have it forced on me when I don't want anything to do with them?

Everyone should have a choice to drink and those who are religious can simply not do it. That's a win/win situation.

It's not being petty and just wanting to drink, it's the principal behind it and how stupid it is to have one religion's beliefs forced on everyone.

Countering that with "it's so sad that people can't stay off the drink for 1 day a year" is nonsense and is not an argument for it. There's actually no argument for keeping good Friday's rediculous drink ban so it should be abolished. Let the religious mind their own business and let them choose to drink or not instead of deciding for all of us that we shouldn't.

jaffacakesyum

There's going to be a hell of a lot of boardsies on the wrong side of history, that's for sure.