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3 things you would remove from the world

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 513 ✭✭✭Two Tone


    Kneejerk types- e.g. people who can't differentiate between someone having involuntary paedophilic thoughts but never acting on them... versus people who actually do act on such thoughts and abuse children (well they can differentiate, they just prefer being outraged). Another example is the mob screaming "Imprison the bitch!" about the abuse survivor who came forward to the Garda recently re the Philip Cairns disappearance.

    Laziness

    Self entitlement


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,567 ✭✭✭✭martyos121


    Serial killers, the D4 accent and Nathan Carter.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 312 ✭✭Boater123


    poa wrote: »
    Post#59
    Banned

    And there was much rejoicing....


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,575 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    People. That is all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,196 ✭✭✭Shint0


    Boater123 wrote: »
    And there was much rejoicing....

    For the nth time. We await the next incarnation.
    People. That is all.
    Spare me, spare me, Dr. Fuzz. I will be your humble servant.

    3 things:
    Hypocrisy
    Dishonesty
    Jealousy


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭BuilderPlumber


    The criminal entity known as ISIL/ISIS/Al Qaeda/AL Qaida/DAESH/Al Shabaab/Boko Haram along with the two idiots who allowed it to expand called Blair and Bush.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭jacksie66


    This post has been deleted.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭Lady is a tramp


    Sweetcorn

    Golf

    Portaloos


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Mice
    Cruelty to animals
    Clean eating douchebags


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,545 ✭✭✭murphyebass


    Wasps wasps and wasps.

    God I hate wasps.

    I know they pollinate etc but still wasps you are an scourge on humanity.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭armabelle


    poa wrote: »
    Which 3 things would you remove from the world and why?
    For me it would be; alcohol, television, religion.
    Reason being, I think the world would be a better place to live in without them.
    I stop believing in God and religion when I was 16, despite the best efforts to indoctrinate me by my school, parents, mass. 23 years later I have no regrets living a life with no religion.
    I gave up watching TV in 2000, and get my films from Putlocker.is. The internet is all I need, I don't miss being dumbed down by the states propaganda channel that is RTE.
    Alcohol is one I just can't give up totally, although I would prefer to. I went on a heavy session on my birthday last year then had a year off it until my birthday this year. But as culturally most social events in Ireland involve drink; its hard to avoid. I found drinking lemonade until 2.00am on night out boring to be honest. I still would like to live in a world without it though.

    Selfie Sticks, Irish weather and Debt repayments


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭armabelle


    The criminal entity known as ISIL/ISIS/Al Qaeda/AL Qaida/DAESH/Al Shabaab/Boko Haram along with the two idiots who allowed it to expand called Blair and Bush.

    I think only the last one out of those three actually exists


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,169 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Because it is and it's funded by the state/Government.

    Not all propaganda is done North Korea style. Sometimes it can be very subtle.

    Not all propaganda is state-funded. And just because something is state-funded, doesn't mean that there's an evil agenda (although doesn't mean there's not either, to some level).
    poa wrote: »
    I bet 100 on Belgium to win at odds of 1.85 pre-match. A nice clean 85 Euro net profit. That's my free night out sorted.
    Every cloud has a silver lining.

    Gambling should definitely be removed. I can't believe you'd indulge in such a practice!



    (At the start of the tournament, I bet on Portugal at 16/1. :D )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭1hnr79jr65


    1. Religion - Cause of most problems in the world.
    2. Donald Trump - Or other appropriate idiots.
    3. Burger King + McDonalds - Cos KFC is the best.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,470 ✭✭✭Anesthetize


    Fire - too many people getting burned
    Water - too many people drowning
    Air - too many people breathing it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Selfishness.

    Strict ideologies.

    Drug laws.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 84 ✭✭CaePae


    Flags

    Gombeens

    The stupid leprechaun language that is Gaelic


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 567 ✭✭✭mikeymouse


    CaePae wrote: »
    Flags

    Gombeens

    The stupid leprechaun language that is Gaelic

    flegs shirley


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭worded


    Because it is and it's funded by the state/Government.

    Not all propaganda is done North Korea style. Sometimes it can be very subtle.


    A classic example of this was on RTE news .... The police have been paid 1.2 million in over time for the shell to sea.

    It was to turn public opinion against the protesters

    On a tangent now .... But see any she'll signs anymore ? All rebranded


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭worded


    Hipster culture has already come and gone. I don't know why people are still moaning about it.

    How did the hipster die?
    He fell into the main stream


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    Minimum experience levels for entry level jobs - I'm fresh out of college so obviously I don't have three years experience!

    Wasps because they're evil and they bring nothing to the world whatsoever. Their primary function is to ruin my day.

    Remove car insurance and pay it as a levy on petrol/diesel purchases.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,236 ✭✭✭jigglypuffstuff


    1. Blaming religion for things

    This really bugs me. Religion isn't the problem, idiots are the problem...put an idiot behind the wheel of a car he'll kill a person...its probably more likely he'll blame the car too

    No different...if religion was an issue...every single person who follows it would be doing said idiotic things...which returns me to my original point

    Blame Idiots, not religion

    Oh and FWIW (I remain neutral in that religion vs non religion debate, I have no side)

    2.Alcohol and all mood altering drugs

    Just to see what people do when they cant take a substance to make socialising easier, make problems pretend to disappear or gain newfound , temporary personality traits

    3. Divisions of Race, class and ethnicity , and religion

    Before any of these things, we are all people....Too many seem to forget that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,818 ✭✭✭Inspector Coptoor


    Wasps wasps and wasps.

    God I hate wasps.

    I know they pollinate etc but still wasps you are an scourge on humanity.

    The vast majority of wasps are not pollinators.

    The ones in ireland definitely aren't.

    Their bodies are too slick and hairless to transfer pollen.

    They are predatory insects and aren't looking for nectar.

    They are nasty Feckers all the same.

    I'd remove the following from the world.

    All indoctrinated religious belief systems

    Tobacco

    High fructose corn syrup


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    Organised religion
    Media monopolies
    Baked beans


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,155 ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    pone2012 wrote: »
    1. Blaming religion for things

    3. Divisions of Race, class and ethnicity , and religion


    so if religion didn't exist, it would not be used as something to divide people.
    religion, and religious belief causes division, therefore it is the fault of religion that has created the divide.

    I blame religion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,017 ✭✭✭armabelle


    so if religion didn't exist, it would not be used as something to divide people.
    religion, and religious belief causes division, therefore it is the fault of religion that has created the divide.

    I blame religion.

    religion is a symptom not the cause

    people are the reason, the way people are allows the institutions to rule and divide them


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,368 ✭✭✭Smart Bug


    1. Money
    2. Power
    3. Wimmin


    Oh crap, did I do this wrong...?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,236 ✭✭✭jigglypuffstuff


    so if religion didn't exist, it would not be used as something to divide people.
    religion, and religious belief causes division, therefore it is the fault of religion that has created the divide.

    I blame religion.

    Again religious belief causes no such division

    In my opinion its peoples individual preoccupation with the whole ' I am right' thing that causes division

    There are plenty of people i know who are religious..come from all walks of life and welcome all people regardless of age, race, sexuality, gender, social class...and likewise i know plenty of non-religious people who are the same...thats unity despite difference.... not division

    Its BOTH types of extremes that are the problem...youve got religious extremists who proselytize... and attempt to blame religion for their actions (they fail at that, MISERABLY) and then you've got extremely opinionated atheists who p*ss all over anyone who has a belief system that opposes theirs...they also are proselytizing...and guess what...they reinforce each other

    meanwhile, you've got a bunch of people stuck in the middle (the majority I might add) who'd just rather all get along regardless of the minor differences


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    Bae
    Bruh
    "The feels"


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Melissa McCarthy
    Motor Tax
    My next door neighbour


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