Things that are quite unremarked upon but are crazy.

Sunny Disposition

There's the world of eejits saying Coronavirus isn't real and that the vaccine is the real problem. Saw Aisling O'Loughlin is putting up heaps of stuff about this nonsense.
Then you have Prince Harry lecturing people about climate change while he was flying around the world, plus he complains about having to pay for his own security despite living a life of utter luxury.
Unionists complain bitterly and with much justification about the rehabilitation of IRA terrorists, but oppose attempts to bring the Bloody Sunday killers before the courts. IRA murder bad, UK murder not so bad, utterly ridiculous, but genuinely peddled by some unionists.
Gerry Adams and SF supporters saying Gerry was not in the IRA, when we all know he was. Crazy, but it happens all the time.
The Government bringing in a scheme to lower house prices, that all experts agree will not only not lower them but actually see them rise.
The Church claiming homosexuality and priests having sex is a sin, but actually having a huge issue with paedophelia in its ranks.

All these things kinda go unremarked, even though they are crazy and everyone knows it. Like why isn't the Pope under serious pressure to change rules on homosexuality and celibacy for priests? Why aren't the unionists told to cop the fck on, murderers have to be prosecuted whoever they are? How did Gerry Adams get away with so much blatant lying? Why wasn't Harry told by all sorts of people to shut the fck up about climate change given he'd contributed richly to it?

Yerra, I don't know any more. Tis all gone wrong.

the beer revolu

I would think that all those issues are remarked upon quite a lot.

completedit

The homophobia and paedophilia dichotomy only makes sense if you actually think that the people in the church are somehow acting the way they do because of their religion and not in spite of it. I notice that a lot, people criticise the catholic church for paedophilia when the deeper issue is how status quo structures and organisations can allow such heinous acts to be committed. Focusing on the church is, imo, extremely short-sighted. It lacks rationality; people are actually holding these people up on a mantle( ''How could this divine man who was a pillar of the community and spreading the word of god commit such atrocities'' We fail to accept the much harsher truth that catholicism, god were just ways of controlling for these sociopaths.

Bob Harris

Surely the fact that all of the examples you give are known to pretty much anyone who reads your post would suggest they are 'remarked upon'.
How else would you have heard about them otherwise?

Tony Holohan still running the show at NPHET despite presiding over the cervical health scandal.

completedit

I think the biggest one is that our existence is insignificant and that we are on this rock just spinning in the vastness of space. It can be conveyed more eloquently to make the fact more awe inspiring but when you actually think about it it boggles the mind. Every so often the Pale Blue Dot image comes into my brain and gives me pause for thought. It doesn't really come under unremarkable but its unremarkable in that we all live out our general day to day lives without a thought that we are truly insignicant on a cosmic scale.

Another one is that money literally does appear out of thin air. It's mental to think that our money supply is determined by adding a few 0's on a spreadsheet. You can dress it up with economic jargon and flowery language but when it comes down to it, as the pandemic has shown, it has no intrinsic value other than our collective imagination.

That we live during a time of such peace and stability. When you think of the history of Europe and the world it's mad that we live in such a time when everything is so stable and mundane(in ways).

That English is the world's dominant language. It's easy to take for granted but it's bizarre that the language from an island next to us on Eurasia's outer periphery became the world's lingua franca.

whisky_galore

Irish language lobbies stating Irish is now spoken more than ever and also saying it is in decline.

EddieN75

95 % of new build apartments bought by investment funds in a single year.
This kind of action is banned in some European countries yet is encouraged here through favourable tax agreements.

People then talk about a housing crisis or rent costs.

completedit

EddieN75 wrote: »

95 % of new build apartments bought by investment funds in a single year.
This kind of action is banned in some European countries yet is encouraged here through favourable tax agreements.

People then talk about a housing crisis or rent costs.

Jesus.

Tow

EddieN75 wrote: »

95 % of new build apartments bought by investment funds in a single year.

And County Councils are also offering long term contracts with investment funds to buy full blocks of apartments, which they then rent out at greatly reduced rates.

This squeezes out the hard working tax payer, who falls between getting a 'free gaff' and being able to afford to buy a home.

* Yes, we all know they are not 'free'. At below market rates, with a low chance of eviction for non payment.

SF don’t actually recognise the legitimacy of the Irish State or its constitution, yet want to be in power here.

BrianD3

The HSE doesn't get remarked on enough. Could be due to many of the people who have been wronged by the HSE being 6 feet under as a result.

Tow

BrianD3 wrote: »

The HSE doesn't get remarked on enough.

Compared to many other countries the HSE (and Irish Health System) is amazing.
We can all listing a great many issues and wastes of money within it. But, if you are sick you go to hospital. No worries have not having the money/insurance to get in the hospital door etc.

Sheeps

In the film "40 days and 40 nights" Josh Hartnett's character had to apologise to his girlfriend for being raped by a woman

EmmetSpiceland

That a certain cohort, a vocal minority, seem to actually believe that the government have locked down the country simply to exert control over the people and that Dr. Tony Holohan is keeping the pubs closed simply because he doesn’t like anyone “enjoying” a drink.

Like, they actually believe this and when they spout this utter nonsense their “cronies” back them up.

optogirl

That we all pretend we don't fart

ocallagh

A piece of green MDF worth between 4k and 6k https://www.adams.ie/4005-lot-12-SEAN-SHANAHAN-b-1960-Breath-Oil-on-MDF-149-x-109-5cm-Signed-with-initials-inscribed-and-dated-2004-verso

Fighting Tao

Male motorists who are obsessed with other males in Lycra. It’s a real issue here on boards but the mainstream media seem to be ignoring it.