What will the worlds next major scandal be?

lukasgrenwald

Saw this on Reddit about scandals that the world collectively forgot about. The church and abuse is pretty big and the recession. I can't help but think that most people have the "We're aware of our mistakes so how could there ever be another scandal!"

What do you think is brewing up right now in business, politics etc...waiting to come crashing down in 10-20yrs time?

Fart

Crystal Swing-gate.

acai berry

Building appartment blocks that obscure views of Dublin Mountains - and even the sun. :eek: Example Dundrum, Dublin.

Good question, OP!

tom1ie

acai berry wrote: »

Building appartment blocks that obscure views of Dublin Mountains - and ev en the sun. Example Dundrum, Dublin.

I think the lack of housing crisis might trump that one.

acai berry

tom1ie wrote: »

I think the lack of housing crisis might trump that one.

There has to be a better solution.

Ten of Swords

On an international scale, likely to be tax havens and offshore accounts or the increasing use of PMCs in conflict zones AKA privatization of wars

average_runner

I think the vapor cigarettes will become a major health scandal. All those chemicals and the excess abuse of them will have some comeback.

Privatisation by stealth and the massive pay of the directors of the said companies and other shenanigans like that.

razorblunt

Marty Morrisey being found out to actually be an egg dressed up like a man.

JohnnyFlash

Data privacy - Google, Facebook and how they now influence how the world runs.

jiltloop

razorblunt wrote: »

Marty Morrisey being found out to actually be an egg dressed up like a man.

He's actually Orville the Duck in disguise!

_Brian

average_runner wrote: »

I think the vapor cigarettes will become a major health scandal. All those chemicals and the excess abuse of them will have some comeback.

That’s a good one ok.
Dressing chemicals up with a fancy smell doesn’t negate the effects of sucking them onto your lungs.

acai berry

Animal cruelty - horses, puppies, exporting live animals for slaughter. Major enquiry exposes the worst.

Kuva

Animal extinction

PARlance

_Brian wrote: »

That’s a good one ok.
Dressing chemicals up with a fancy smell doesn’t negate the effects of sucking them onto your lungs.

If it helps get people off cigarettes (with much more dangerous chemicals) then I would take it tbh.

Perhaps there should be some kind of prescription for them though and more regulation. But I think they would be doing well to be more harmful than smokes.

PARlance

For me, it'll be food. More to the point, what decades of eating sh1te processed food has done to us and not just to our waistlines. I'm guessing it'll eventually come out that such poor food has increased many types of diseases.

jamesbere

PARlance wrote: »

For me, it'll be food. More to the point, what decades of eating sh1te processed food has done to us and not just to our waistlines. I'm guessing it'll eventually come out that such poor food has increased many types of diseases.

This I totally agree with, especially when you look at meats. What they do to chickens to get them up to standard is scary. We really don't know what goes into our mouths at times, there are chemicals that we really don't know the lasting impact on our health is.

_Dara_

PARlance wrote: »

If it helps get people off cigarettes (with much more dangerous chemicals) then I would take it tbh.

Perhaps there should be some kind of prescription for them though and more regulation. But I think they would be doing well to be more harmful than smokes.

+1

There are still far less chemicals in them than cigarettes. It’s not a given that they’ll end up being as harmful as cigarettes or anywhere near it but people are talking like they will be. And ‘chemical’ as a term tends to be misused. “That’s full of chemicals!”. Eh, your dinner this evening will be full of chemicals. The water you’re drinking is a chemical. Everything is a chemical. The only pertinent thing you need to figure out is if that chemical is harmful or not.

LionelNashe

lukasgrenwald wrote: »

Saw this on Reddit about scandals that the world collectively forgot about. The church and abuse is pretty big and the recession. I can't help but think that most people have the "We're aware of our mistakes so how could there ever be another scandal!"

What do you think is brewing up right now in business, politics etc...waiting to come crashing down in 10-20yrs time?

I'm not quite up to date on politics, but I have a feeling that Germany isn't happy paying reparations for the last war and we're bound to see another big war in Europe before 1940 or so. The 'League of Nations' is a joke; they won't be able to stop it. Also, this 'Stalin' bloke in Russia is looking a bit threatening.

_Brian

PARlance wrote: »

If it helps get people off cigarettes (with much more dangerous chemicals) then I would take it tbh.

Perhaps there should be some kind of prescription for them though and more regulation. But I think they would be doing well to be more harmful than smokes.

But they are complete unknowns.
People hope they are better but the truth is we only have the manufactures word on this, much like the was cigarette manufacturers claimed cigarettes were safe or even good for you.

badabing106

Trump will get Merkel pregnant

_Brian

_Dara_ wrote: »

+1

There are still far less chemicals in them than cigarettes. It’s not a given that they’ll end up being as harmful as cigarettes or anywhere near it but people are talking like they will be. And ‘chemical’ as a term tends to be misused. “That’s full of chemicals!”. Eh, your dinner this evening will be full of chemicals. The water you’re drinking is a chemical. Everything is a chemical. The only pertinent thing you need to figure out is if that chemical is harmful or not.

Less chemicals, maybe, but it only takes one to cause trouble.

_Dara_

_Brian wrote: »

Less chemicals, maybe, but it only takes one to cause trouble.

Much less chemicals. More testing needs to be done but there also nothing yet to back up the claims that they’ll be as bad as cigarettes. Not to mention many people vape far less than they used to smoke so there’s a reduction of intake too. My husband smoked ten a day, now he only vapes on nights out and the odd time during the week.

James Brown

Fine Gael/Fianna Fail will privatise health and as the service costs spiral, with the tax payer subsidising the lower income, unemployed anyway, we'll realise it's not saving us anything and then we'll discover the millions, then retired FF/FG politicians made off the back of it by hiring and passing state contracts to friends. And the FF/FG of the day will give us all the 'that was then this is now' speech and we'll vote them in anyway....because 'shinners' and Paul Murphy will ruin us.

brevity

I think the amount of power and influence private companies have over governments is worrying.

LirW

The effect a good BMI has on your personal success.

SEPT 23 1989

brevity wrote: »

I think the amount of power and influence private companies have over governments is worrying.

that ship has long since sailed

brevity

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

that ship has long since sailed

Yea probably.

acai berry

So many traditional skills, both manual and artistic, lost to the latest generations. Examples basketry, boatbuilding, knitting, crochet etc.

tom1ie

The next major scandal will be how mobile phones have turned everyone into zombies and people are depressed because they don’t know how to make real friends in the real world as opposed to having zillions of “friends” on social media.
Oh and multiple premier league footballers being found out to be on performance enhancers.

seamusk84

If it’s going to be a scandal it’s got to be big and hit hard. Not like the slow gradual erosion of society due to mobile phones or some such.

More like how car manufactures have covered up how harmful diesel emissions are to human health for decades by bribing Government officials.

Closer to home maybe something to do with squander of public money in the HSE and misappropriation of funds.

seamusk84

acai berry wrote: »

Animal cruelty - horses, puppies, exporting live animals for slaughter. Major enquiry exposes the worst.

+1 on this one too

Outlaw Pete

"10G Broadband Cooking People Alive! But Is It Worth The Extra Speed??"

acai berry

Discharge of untreated sewage into all the wrong places - disregarding laws concerning this - giving out false info regarding this - insufficient monitoring of the situation..

Donald Trump

I'm gonna grab Queen Lizzie

By One's Royal pussy

MyStubbleItches

Maybe not the world but in Ireland - wine. How it has made domestic alcoholics out of so many.

amdublin

Vaping.

I think we will all be going around with lumps growing out of our neck, mouth and tongues.

It will emerge it's as bad as or worse than smoking.

Hector Bellend

tom1ie wrote: »

The next major scandal will be how mobile phones have turned everyone into zombies and people are depressed because they don’t know how to make real friends in the real world as opposed to having zillions of “friends” on social media.
Oh and multiple premier league footballers being found out to be on performance enhancers.

Someone should introduce my team to performance enhancing drugs.

They could do with all the help they can get.

Hector Bellend

MyStubbleItches wrote: »

Maybe not the world but in Ireland - wine. How it has made domestic alcoholics out of so many.

Don't blame the drink.

Blame the drinker.

Donald Trump

Hector Bellend wrote: »

Someone should introduce my team to performance enhancing drugs.

They could do with all the help they can get.

Viagra?

Hector Bellend

Donald Trump wrote: »

Viagra?

There's enough pricks in that dressing room

Hector Bellend

Donald Trump wrote: »

I'm gonna grab Queen Lizzie

By One's Royal pussy

Any chance you could work pippa's lovely arse in the equation?

YFlyer

That group practice of the TM Sidhi programme have a positive effect on society.

Donald Trump

Hector Bellend wrote: »

Any chance you could work pippa's lovely arse in the equation?

That arse is second only to my Ivanka's




Albeit not a close second



And I'd rather work my "equation" into Pippa's arse than her arse into my equation

thebull85

amdublin wrote: »

Vaping.

I think we will all be going around with lumps growing out of our neck, mouth and tongues.

It will emerge it's as bad as or worse than smoking.

Remains to be seen, but speaking from my experience, i can now run 10k without stopping which was impossible when i smoked. Also i sleep better and my sense of smell and taste has come back.

amdublin

amdublin wrote: »

Vaping.

I think we will all be going around with lumps growing out of our neck, mouth and tongues.

It will emerge it's as bad as or worse than smoking.

Based on what exactly?

thebull85

thebull85 wrote: »

Remains to be seen, but speaking from my experience, i can now run 10k without stopping which was impossible when i smoked. Also i sleep better and my sense of smell and taste has come back.

I know a few people in a similar situation.

Ygritte

tom1ie wrote: »

The next major scandal will be how mobile phones have turned everyone into zombies and people are depressed because they don’t know how to make real friends in the real world as opposed to having zillions of “friends” on social media.
Oh and multiple premier league footballers being found out to be on performance enhancers.

I would like to add how the Kardashians vanity triggered the global rise of the duck face selfie, social media induced narcissism and so many numpties wanting to sell to their soul to reality tv to become instantly rich and famous with no requirement for education or talent.

BuboBubo

acai berry wrote: »

So many traditional skills, both manual and artistic, lost to the latest generations. Examples basketry, boatbuilding, knitting, crochet etc.

My grandparents made furniture, built houses, were stone masons, made clothes - knitting and sewing, grew their own veg, reared their own animals for meat, to name some of their amazing skills that have all but died out.

There are classes running in the Heritage Park (Wexford) at the moment in basket weaving, knife forging, stone masonry etc. The uptake is good, the interest is there. Have to admire those who are passing the skills on to the next generation.

tom1ie

BuboBubo wrote: »

My grandparents made furniture, built houses, were stone masons, made clothes - knitting and sewing, grew their own veg, reared their own animals for meat, to name some of their amazing skills that have all but died out.

There are classes running in the Heritage Park (Wexford) at the moment in basket weaving, knife forging, stone masonry etc. The uptake is good, the interest is there. Have to admire those who are passing the skills on to the next generation.

I wonder is there any courses like that in Dublin?

acai berry

At one time, I dress-made a lot of clothes - for myself and friends. Nowadays you can hardly get a pattern or the materials. It's all Penneys and Dunnes Stores type "throwaway society". I miss those former days when we were so creative.