Proof that plenty of Irish people are thick as shít

Double O Seven

Anytime there is a story on the journal about Michael Martin, the most liked comment is "Bring back Leo". So it seems that plenty of people don't realise that Leo is second in command of this government, then you have FG at 35% in the polls & FF @ 10%<,so it seems that Paddy thinks that FG are in opposition. The only difference between LV and MM is that Leo is a better actor with a better script writer.

Ficheall

Further proof: people read the Journal's comment section.

LessOutragePlz

Don't believe anything you read in the journal it's all fake news.

JohnnyFlash

The bottom part of an internet page is always a waste of time. You’d read some of the comments and think, ‘what happened to these people?’

Smee_Again

I don't know which is more stupid, reading The Journal comment section or commenting on it.

kenmm

Ficheall wrote: »

Further proof: people read the Journal's comment section.

Commenting on the comments section- brilliant..

But wait.. further proof..

Me commenting on the commenting on the comments section.. we are all doomed!!

Ficheall

kenmm wrote: »

Commenting on the comments section- brilliant..

But wait.. further proof..

Me commenting on the commenting on the comments section.. we are all doomed!!

It's worse than that. I was commenting on the commenting on the comments section. You are commenting on the commenting on the commenting on the comments section.

kenmm

Ficheall wrote: »

It's worse than that. I was commenting on the commenting on the comments section. You are commenting on the commenting on the commenting on the comments section.

No comment

Hande hoche!

Ficheall wrote: »

It's worse than that. I was commenting on the commenting on the comments section. You are commenting on the commenting on the commenting on the comments section.

The noise from inception just played in my head.

Errashareesh

We know that plenty of people of any nationality are thick as sh1t.

And no need to call Irish people paddies like an English cop would have in 1975.

CrankyHaus

Unpopular Opinion : The Journal comment section isn't that bad, at least based on glancing at the top comments on any story.
In fact I doubt it's any worse than Boards or R/Ireland, both of which constantly slate it and each other.

None have either consistently high-quality discussion or consistently low-quality discussion.

kenmm

CrankyHaus wrote: »

Unpopular Opinion : The Journal comment section isn't that bad, at least based on glancing at the top comments on any story.
In fact I doubt it's any worse than Boards or R/Ireland, both of which constantly slate it and each other.

None have either consistently high-quality discussion or consistently low-quality discussion.

ye - I like the way boards.ie posters are looking down on posters of other posters on other forums

Anyway - I suspect the post isn't actually about the decline in perceived intelligence or quality of debate, but more an attempt to get people talking about the example given...

Errashareesh

Gotta disagree. The quality here is far higher.

The Journal commenters mostly just blurt out the first non thought out, non supported, populist drivel that comes into their heads.

astrofool

To be fair most of these descend into "Your politicians are useless, my politicians should be in power, but ignore those similar things they did to the useless ones, please" or "revolution! burn everything!".

To provide a response, MM seems to have gone in to avoid being in the ignominious position of FF leader but never Taoiseach, and had a bit of a mess starting off due to GolfGate, and numerous TD's being naughty, as well as being slow to respond to pandemic issues (and caught in an un-winnable position re: leaving cert results, where higher grades led to higher points requirements, and less unhappy, due to more places, students this year, but won't everyone think of the grown up children).

He's also in the first 6 months of power, nothing he does matters as he has 2-4 years to recover, if another good republican pops their clogs, they'll be back on top after the funeral parade.

kenmm

Errashareesh wrote: »

Gotta disagree. The quality here is far higher.

The Journal commenters mostly just blurt out the first non thought out, non supported, populist drivel that comes into their heads.

I don't visit the other site, so don't know for sure, but I suspect much higher still doesn't mean its any good.

But its hard to measure as boards.ie covers a lot of topics, different mods, different posters etc. Some forums better than others, some threads withing forums better than others.

A lot of the current ones in Current Affairs are just snide slagging matches (that's not a dig at mods - they hav a horrendous job at times!, because its down to the posters ultimately).

Idbatterim

LOL! LOL! what the hell is MM doing different to that other waster Varadkar? 10/10! no doubt many of the younger generation that are hammered or havent realised the extent this housing crisis is going to screw them, because they are still living at home, think varadkar is champion of the people!

Or like several people I know, daddy gave them a property... They'd think a bit different about liberal leo etc, if they lived with the consequences of his near decade of farcical government!

JohnnyFlash

Idbatterim wrote: »

LOL! LOL! what the hell is MM doing different to that other waster Varadkar? 10/10! no doubt many of the younger generation that are hammered or havent realised the extent this housing crisis is going to screw them, because they are still living at home, think varadkar is champion of the people!

Or like several people I know, daddy gave them a property... They'd think a bit different about liberal leo etc, if they lived with the consequences of his near decade of farcical government!

Excellent example of a Journal comment. What article was it from?

ExMachina1000

LessOutragePlz wrote: »

Don't believe anything you read in the journal it's all fake news.

Who owns the journal?

breezy1985

Bertie won 3 elections

Overheal

LessOutragePlz wrote: »

Don't believe anything you read in the journal it's all fake news.

Are you sure you don’t read it in case 1% of the time it gets 2 to 3 stories a year right?

ELM327

I was expecting to see a mention of the no mask protest

EmmetSpiceland

THE MEDIA ARE PETRIFIED THAT THE PBP TROTSKYITES ARE SLIPPING INTO OBLIVION AND WILL PEDDLE LIES ABOUT COVID-19 JUST TO KEEP THE POISONOUS SNAKES ABOVE WATER.

breezy1985

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

THE MEDIA ARE PETRIFIED THAT THE PBP TROTSKYITES ARE SLIPPING INTO OBLIVION AND WILL PEDDLE LIES ABOUT COVID-19 JUST TO KEEP THE POISONOUS SNAKES ABOVE WATER.

Have the Trotskyites seized your means of turning off caps?

EmmetSpiceland

THE FIANNA FAILERS ON BIKES CERTAINLY DON'T WANT ANOTHER ELECTION. THEY ARE TOAST IF THAT HAPPENS BECAUSE OF THEIR PRO-MURDER PROPAGANDA AND HOW THEY DESTROYED THE SPICY CHICKEN FILLET ROLL.

Mr. Karate

Double O Seven wrote: »

Anytime there is a story on the journal about Michael Martin, the most liked comment is "Bring back Leo". So it seems that plenty of people don't realise that Leo is second in command of this government, then you have FG at 35% in the polls & FF @ 10%<,so it seems that Paddy thinks that FG are in opposition. The only difference between LV and MM is that Leo is a better actor with a better script writer.

They just voted back in the same people that were there for the recession in 08, the second dip in 11 and brought us back into recession this year. This lot from FF and FG should have be hanging from their necks instead of being voted back in time and again.

Mr. Karate

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

THE FIANNA FAILERS ON BIKES CERTAINLY DON'T WANT ANOTHER ELECTION. THEY ARE TOAST IF THAT HAPPENS BECAUSE OF THEIR PRO-MURDER PROPAGANDA AND HOW THEY DESTROYED THE SPICY CHICKEN FILLET ROLL.

FG don't want one either. It took 5 counts for Leo to get back in. And Harris 15 iirc. FG will return the favor and prop up FF for the next 2 1/2 year until its Leo turn to be Taoseich again.

Idbatterim

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Excellent example of a Journal comment. What article was it from?

ah a FGbot! what exactly would / were FG doing differently to now? they are also in government are they not?

cant wait to see the budget!

Overheal

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

THE FIANNA FAILERS ON BIKES CERTAINLY DON'T WANT ANOTHER ELECTION. THEY ARE TOAST IF THAT HAPPENS BECAUSE OF THEIR PRO-MURDER PROPAGANDA AND HOW THEY DESTROYED THE SPICY CHICKEN FILLET ROLL.

I DONT LIKE THIS GAG

Infini

*Ahem*

"DEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

That is all.

*We now return to our regularly scheduled
shìtposting*

Open the pubs!

Sleeper12

It's pretty simple really. Shutting the country down is a lot easier than trying to reopen it again. Most people wanted the shut down now most people aren't happy with the reopening. It's either to fast or too slow.

The end result is that most people see Leo =good & Martin =bad. This is despite the fact that we have the 2nd highest nursing home Covid-19 death rate in the world.
It does say a lot about the intelligence of the average voter in Ireland.

ExMachina1000

Sleeper12 wrote: »

It's pretty simple really. Shutting the country down is a lot easier than trying to reopen it again. Most people wanted the shut down now most people aren't happy with the reopening. It's either to fast or too slow.

The end result is that most people see Leo =good & Martin =bad. This is despite the fact that we have the 2nd highest nursing home Covid-19 death rate in the world.
It does say a lot about the intelligence of the average voter in Ireland.

Leo told people to stay home from work in the summer and handed out money in the form of pandemic payments.

MM is telling people to go back to work , cutting payments and we are heading for winter

Was written in the paper yesterday

Errashareesh

Can't understand how people think high numbers of deaths in nursing homes is avoidable.

kenmm wrote: »

I don't visit the other site, so don't know for sure, but I suspect much higher still doesn't mean its any good.

But its hard to measure as boards.ie covers a lot of topics, different mods, different posters etc. Some forums better than others, some threads withing forums better than others.

A lot of the current ones in Current Affairs are just snide slagging matches (that's not a dig at mods - they hav a horrendous job at times!, because its down to the posters ultimately).

Despite those who act the maggot here, there are plenty of intelligent posters who write well supported posts.

I've never been affiliated with any political party here but there is often moaning for the sake of moaning from people who don't really know what they're moaning about just because politicians.

Sleeper12

Errashareesh wrote:

Can't understand how people think high numbers of deaths in nursing homes is avoidable.

All countries have high nursing home Covid-19 deaths. This I don't have a problem with. Its the fact that Ireland has the 2nd highest nursing home death rates in the world I do have a problem with. Other countries didn't try to make room in hospitals by sending elderly patients back to nursing homes without being tested for covid. In order words hse, government, minister for health etc actually introduced covid 19 into some nursing homes. The nursing homes wrote the the HSE & minister for health looking for advice, help, guidance and training over & over again. A month later they still had no reply. No advice. No training. No guidance. Nothing. By the time they got around to test staff and patients in nursing homes we already had the 2 highest Covid-19 death rate in nursing homes.

When the dust settles there will be an inquiry & the last government will be found wanting.

HotDudeLife

The FNG wrote: »

Why are Boards users so obsessed with the comment section on The Journal?

It's where dreams go to die

trashcan

Errashareesh wrote: »

And no need to call Irish people paddies like an English cop would have in 1975.

Ah, in fairness I'd have thought it was relatively common for us to refer to ourselves as Paddies, no ? (While reserving the right to get hugely offended if the English do it - kind of like black people in America and the "N" word)

StupidLikeAFox

Mr. Karate wrote: »

FG don't want one either. It took 5 counts for Leo to get back in. And Harris 15 iirc. FG will return the favor and prop up FF for the next 2 1/2 year until its Leo turn to be Taoseich again.

It shows a real lack of understanding of how the political system works when this is thrown out. Leo would have sailed in on the first count had FG run just one candidate like SF did. Simon Harris the same as FG ran 3 candidates in that constituency. There were 20 people running alongside SH in the Wicklow constituency - some of those counts were distributing 200 or 300 votes which is why they racked up a lot of counts

This "Leo got in on the 5th count" craic is designed to sound like he barely held on to his seat when in fact neither he nor Simon were ever really in trouble. It's actually a reflection of very poor vote management by SF that they got so many votes but didn't get the TD number to reflect that

El Gato De Negocios

There is an anti maskers facebook group with over 20k members.

There is proof for you that at least 20k mainly Irish people are thick as shyt.

Absolute cnuts too but thats for another thread.

Justin Credible Darts

Errashareesh wrote: »

Gotta disagree. The quality here is far higher.

The Journal commenters mostly just blurt out the first non thought out, non supported, populist drivel that comes into their heads.

there are members like this on here.


Isn't this forum owned by the journal.ie ?

Poor_old_gill

Double O Seven wrote: »

Anytime there is a story on the journal about Michael Martin, the most liked comment is "Bring back Leo". So it seems that plenty of people don't realise that Leo is second in command of this government, then you have FG at 35% in the polls & FF @ 10%<,so it seems that Paddy thinks that FG are in opposition. The only difference between LV and MM is that Leo is a better actor with a better script writer.

I’m gona presume you are advocating voting for SF, fairly ironic that someone who is doing so is named after a British Secret agent- what with all the rumours about Gerry Adams that just won’t go away

ExMachina1000

Justin Credible Darts wrote: »

Isn't this forum owned by the journal.ie ?

Yes it is. Both owned by Journal media.

Archeron

kenmm wrote: »

Commenting on the comments section- brilliant..

But wait.. further proof..

Me commenting on the commenting on the comments section.. we are all doomed!!

I'm commenting on this to see if it creates a black hole. ( I've a couch I need rid of)

bobbyy gee

trashcan wrote: »

Ah, in fairness I'd have thought it was relatively common for us to refer to ourselves as Paddies, no ? (While reserving the right to get hugely offended if the English do it - kind of like black people in America and the "N" word)

no one that respects themselves call themselves paddies

bobbyy gee

bobbyy gee wrote: »

no one that respects themselves call themselves paddies

https://splinternews.com/a-complete-history-of-the-phrase-paddy-wagon-the-survi-1793855618

bfa1509

Smee_Again wrote: »

I don't know which is more stupid, reading The Journal comment section or commenting on it.

The top right hand corner is the most useful

Justin Credible Darts

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

Yes it is. Both owned by Journal media.

That explains a few things

runawaybishop

Mr. Karate wrote: »

FG don't want one either. It took 5 counts for Leo to get back in. And Harris 15 iirc. FG will return the favor and prop up FF for the next 2 1/2 year until its Leo turn to be Taoseich again.

Journal comment generator. That's what you are replying to.