Father Ted got it wrong

Hammer89

If someone told you that by March, every sporting event in Europe would be suspended and every pub and club across Ireland would be shut down as a result of some new killer virus that's decimating Europe, you'd naturally sh*t yourself. There's no shame in admitting it. You, me and everybody here would be bricking it. But now that it's here, things aren't so scary, are they? Yes I know people are dying and it's a serious strain, and it is quite scary, but you just get on with it, don't you? You just get on with things and rapidly adapt to what is the new normal.

I find this interesting because I think the same is true of everything that frightens us. You don't know you're dealing with something until you're actually doing it. I used to be terrified of losing my mum, and although there was a hell of a lot of sadness once it actually happened, it wasn't as bad as I'd built it up to be. I was distraught until I wasn't and that was that.

I'll go one further and say that the world could be faced with a far more sinister type of threat, like zombies or something, and we'd adapt to that very quickly too. I think the more gradual something is, the easier it is to contend with it from a societal point of view.

Over here it's one domino after the next with regards to COVID-19, and it's easier to wrap your mind around when it's like that. If we went from hearing about coronavirus to being effectively on lockdown within a day or two then things would've been far different, for the worse. What's the extent of this panic, some people buying more toilet roll than they need? It's mean, I know, but it's nothing really, if we're honest. It's better than rioting, and looting, and murdering your fellow man or woman out of fear. There's panic, but there's not carnage, not really, and that's because we've been dripfed. We're constantly adapting to a new, temporary reality.

This is starting to sound like a Leo speech, so I'll wrap it up. Bottom line, we're all doing well here. We're sound. Father Ted got it wrong. We're a great bunch of lads, not the Chinese.

Leg End Reject

Wait til they take the roads in.

Hego Damask

It's not a temporary reality though, this will go on for years.

Hego Damask

Hego Damask wrote: »

It's not a temporary reality though, this will go on for years.

People seem to take great joy in saying that one.

biko

We don't know how long it will take, but feel free to be all doom and gloom I suppose.

lurker2000

I'm goin mad Ted.

lurker2000

lurker2000 wrote: »

I'm goin mad Ted.

So it's decided.

We'll have another Mass.

They don't all have lovely bottoms?

One eyed Jack

Hammer89 wrote: »

If someone told you that by March, every sporting event in Europe would be suspended and every pub and club across Ireland would be shut down as a result of some new killer virus that's decimating Europe, you'd naturally sh*t yourself. There's no shame in admitting it. You, me and everybody here would be bricking it. But now that it's here, things aren't so scary, are they?

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Bottom line, we're all doing well here. We're sound. Father Ted got it wrong. We're a great bunch of lads, not the Chinese.

Took me a while to actually get the reference if I’m being honest :pac:

But referring to the first paragraph anyway, I still shìt myself 30 years later at the thoughts of ever contracting HIV and a whole myriad of STIs which are on the increase in Western society, so your point does have some merit in that you’ve become complacent about any number of killer diseases which are already present in Western society.

I wouldn’t blame the Chinese for Corona viruses any more than I’d blame West Africans for AIDS, the Europeans who brought it to Europe though? Great bunch of lads indeed. Still though, had it not been for Europeans taking advantage of cheap labour and lax health and safety and employment laws in Africa to plunder their resources and manufacturing cheap tat in China and India by taking advantage of the cheaper labour and lax health and safety and employment laws, I guess we wouldn’t have the comforts we take for granted in Europe.

Dunno mate tbh, looking at it objectively, Fr. Ted may have had a point, it depends upon the context in which he said it. Like anything really - context is important in evaluating any set of circumstances.


EDIT - Sent from my iPhone

Church on Tuesday

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

People seem to take great joy in saying that one.

It's like some kind of fetish at this stage; speculate outrageous possible circumstances and scenarios as long as it doesn't impact you directly.

bubblypop

bubblypop wrote: »

They don't all have lovely bottoms?

I was in China last summer. I saw many lovely bottoms.

Church on Tuesday

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

It's like some kind of fetish at this stage; speculate outrageous possible circumstances and scenarios as long as it doesn't impact you directly.

Just after 9/11 I was in a pub with a few friends. The death toll had been announced as being about 3000. One guy said "Anyone else wish the number was higher, like 15,000?". Everyone just looked at him. I don't talk to him anymore. I don't know anyone who does.

There are people who take some kind of morbid pleasure in something like this.

Hego Damask

Hego Damask wrote: »

It's not a temporary reality though, this will go on for years.

Stop.

Church on Tuesday

Deleted User wrote: »

Just after 9/11 I was in a pub with a few friends. The death toll had been announced as being about 3000. One guy said "Anyone else wish the number was higher, like 15,000?". Everyone just looked at him. I don't talk to him anymore. I don't know anyone who does.

There are people who take some kind of morbid pleasure in something like this.

It's sad really.

SeaFields

Got it wrong?!

If you ever say that to me again, I'll put your head through the wall.

gammygils

I don't care as long as I get to have a go at them Greeks

They invented Gayness!!

FVP3

Hammer89 wrote: »

If someone told you that by March, every sporting event in Europe would be suspended and every pub and club across Ireland would be shut down as a result of some new killer virus that's decimating Europe, you'd naturally sh*t yourself. There's no shame in admitting it. You, me and everybody here would be bricking it. But now that it's here, things aren't so scary, are they? Yes I know people are dying and it's a serious strain, and it is quite scary, but you just get on with it, don't you? You just get on with things and rapidly adapt to what is the new normal.

I find this interesting because I think the same is true of everything that frightens us. You don't know you're dealing with something until you're actually doing it. I used to be terrified of losing my mum, and although there was a hell of a lot of sadness once it actually happened, it wasn't as bad as I'd built it up to be. I was distraught until I wasn't and that was that.

I'll go one further and say that the world could be faced with a far more sinister type of threat, like zombies or something, and we'd adapt to that very quickly too. I think the more gradual something is, the easier it is to contend with it from a societal point of view.

Over here it's one domino after the next with regards to COVID-19, and it's easier to wrap your mind around when it's like that. If we went from hearing about coronavirus to being effectively on lockdown within a day or two then things would've been far different, for the worse. What's the extent of this panic, some people buying more toilet roll than they need? It's mean, I know, but it's nothing really, if we're honest. It's better than rioting, and looting, and murdering your fellow man or woman out of fear. There's panic, but there's not carnage, not really, and that's because we've been dripfed. We're constantly adapting to a new, temporary reality.

This is starting to sound like a Leo speech, so I'll wrap it up. Bottom line, we're all doing well here. We're sound. Father Ted got it wrong. We're a great bunch of lads, not the Chinese.

I was with you until the Zombie statement. We wont really adopt to the zombies. Society will change utterly.

Best thing in a zombie apocalypse, I have always thought, is to become a zombie. They get to run around and eat people.

Bobblehats

Ted got it right they are still a great; vast bunch. One thing I would never say to a chinese is you and who’s army because they can call call on the spirit of the dragon and summon all of their yi in an instant. And in the heat of a moment are embedded in a brick wall, from which a firey aura still resonates

Mrcaramelchoc

Just stay away from the mirror the sun and the daily mail.holy **** if they dont depress you nothing will.

uck51js9zml2yt

It will be all grand after a nice cup of tea.

Loafing Oaf

Yeah he said Mr Miyagi is Chinese when he's actually from Okinawa

Leg End Reject

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

Yeah he said Mr Miyagi is Chinese when he's actually from Okinawa

Wax on, wax off, wax on, wax off, wax on, wax off ...

Those women were in the nip!

Sober Crappy Chemis

gammygils wrote: »

I don't care as long as I get to have a go at them Greeks

They invented Gayness!!

It's not the greeks, it's the Wuhans he's after.

endacl

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

People seem to take great joy in saying that one.

kippy

There's always someone on the planet worse off than you. Roughly 98 percent or so financially anyway.
While this is a challenge and the impact will be long felt, we are lucky enough to be where we are when we are.

PTH2009

Were living through an event which will be talked about for hundreds if not thousands of years from now

Hego Damask

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

People seem to take great joy in saying that one.

its true

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51963486

at least a year

It's at times like these that we all need a nice sit-down, a cup of tea, and take our bras off.

There's no more uplifting simple pleasure. Ironically, with the bra being off.

Hego Damask

Hego Damask wrote: »

its true

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51963486

at least a year

People will adapt to a new normal, it's not going to be 24/7/365 bleak for years to come. I heard a US state epidemiologist say it was like aviation after 9/11. Aviation didn't return to the previous normal, it adapted to a new normal.

We will too. No need to plunge into the depths just yet.

RobbingBandit

My lovely horse running through the fields.

Your Local TD

Your Local TD wrote: »

What is it with Generation X and Fr Ted? My God, was there nothing else on tv back then?

Nothing else as good anyway.

MOR316

We're all going to Heaven lads, wahaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

CFlat

Is there anything to be said for another mask?

Dyr

Your Local TD wrote: »

What is it with Generation X and Fr Ted? My God, was there nothing else on tv back then?

I think its cos we were the last generation to have decent music and stuff like that, the poor bastards who came after are wired differently

the purple tin

Deleted User wrote: »

I was in China last summer. I saw many lovely bottoms.

Doesn't the typical Asian lady have a petite bottom? I prefer a more curvy bum myself.

moonage

Hammer89

Your Local TD wrote: »

What is it with Generation X and Fr Ted? My God, was there nothing else on tv back then?

I'm a Millennial.

TheW1zard

Can i still be a priest?

Loafing Oaf

Candie wrote: »

It's at times like these that we all need a nice sit-down, a cup of tea, and take our bras off.