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irishbucsfan · 25-01-2017 04:36PM

https://twitter.com/AFP/status/824273645430337536

This is very very bad news

errlloyd · 25-01-2017 04:38PM

Merde!

Buer · 25-01-2017 04:44PM

irishbucsfan · 25-01-2017 04:45PM

Oh well. If you can't beat them, join them. Hopefully her daughter is still single.

Bazzo · 25-01-2017 04:56PM

I'm starting to get incredibly frustrated with politcal parties worldwide. Stop making detestable dishonest **** your party leaders you ****nuggets.

Podge_irl · 25-01-2017 05:06PM

Ugh

Zzippy · 25-01-2017 05:11PM

Bazzo wrote: »

I'm starting to get incredibly frustrated with politcal parties worldwide. Stop making detestable dishonest **** your party leaders you ****nuggets.

Unfortunately, the few who aren't detestable dishonest **** (the likes of Bernie Sanders) are unelectable because they're not acceptable to the money men who fund campaigns and politics...

25-01-2017 05:15PM

Buer wrote: »

She gets in and the EU could very well be done.

Podge_irl · 25-01-2017 05:19PM

Zzippy wrote: »

Unfortunately, the few who aren't detestable dishonest **** (the likes of Bernie Sanders) are unelectable because they're not acceptable to the money men who fund campaigns and politics...

There are more reasons Sanders is unelectable to be fair. He's equally as protectionist and insular as Trump - they are two sides of the same coin in many ways and both represent the general voter sentiment. I would have seriously questioned his economics policies as well. He certainly seems like an honest, decent fellow but that doesn't count for everything.

But yeah, the nature of politics doesn't generally favour honest, hard-working people. Those willing to scheme their way to the top will generally be the ones who make it there!

Neil3030 · 25-01-2017 05:22PM

Odds of LaPen winning the election haven't budget (yet) in light of this news.

molloyjh · 25-01-2017 05:43PM

Bazzo wrote: »

I'm starting to get incredibly frustrated with politcal parties worldwide. Stop making detestable dishonest **** your party leaders you ****nuggets.

If voters stopped relating and responding to those **** we might have a chance. I've come to the conclusion though that this will never happen and we're simply doomed. People are stupid. And in a time of unprecedented access to information I'm fairly convinced they're getting even dumber. At least 100 years ago people had an excuse for not understanding complex topics and other perspectives. We've no such excuses now. Plus there's far too many of us.

Podge_irl · 25-01-2017 05:48PM

molloyjh wrote: »

If voters stopped relating and responding to those **** we might have a chance. I've come to the conclusion though that this will never happen and we're simply doomed. People are stupid. And in a time of unprecedented access to information I'm fairly convinced they're getting even dumber. At least 100 years ago people had an excuse for not understanding complex topics and other perspectives. We've no such excuses now. Plus there's far too many of us.

This is in some perverse way part of the problem though. Information is so easily accessible without any effort that it is so easy to isolate things out of context to just reinforce your own point of view. There is no buffer between you and everything available to help decide what is nonsense, what is reputable etc. This has obvious benefits as well but ultimately as people we massively overrate our ability to properly understand things and having snippets of information that seem to confirm our suspicions just makes it worse.

But, you know, we're sick of experts so what's the alternative...

Zzippy · 25-01-2017 05:55PM

molloyjh wrote: »

If voters stopped relating and responding to those **** we might have a chance. I've come to the conclusion though that this will never happen and we're simply doomed. People are stupid. And in a time of unprecedented access to information I'm fairly convinced they're getting even dumber. At least 100 years ago people had an excuse for not understanding complex topics and other perspectives. We've no such excuses now. Plus there's far too many of us.

We have so much information but we are living in the algorithm society, where the news we receive through social media is tailored to what the social network has decided we like to read. Hence conservative racists will be fed Trump stories where he panders to their taste, while liberals will be fed soundbites of Bernie Sanders (replace with your favourite/local liberal politician). In the same way that US conservatives only (generally) watch Fox News, algorithms reinforce our beliefs and do not challenge our views. People get more and more polarised. If one was of a cynical mind, one could speculate that it would be easy to program algorithms to influence voters, if one were so inclined and had the means...

swiwi_ · 25-01-2017 08:56PM

My compatriot's attempted northern accent. Yay or nay?

(Sam Neill, PB)

awec · 25-01-2017 09:02PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

My compatriot's attempted northern accent. Yay or nay?

(Sam Neill, PB)

Very nay. It was terrible.

irishbucsfan · 25-01-2017 09:08PM

Sam Neill has an Irish passport and he says he wants to play for Ireland. He's one of us.

swiwi_ · 25-01-2017 09:14PM

awec wrote: »

Very nay. It was terrible.

To my less trained ear it's a mixture of good and bad. Some words sound dead on to me others it's like hmmm that's a kiwi trying to sound northern Irish

.ak · 25-01-2017 09:23PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

My compatriot's attempted northern accent. Yay or nay?

(Sam Neill, PB)

Utterly bizarre, it's terrible. Which is just so weird because he's from there originally and is a brilliant actor. Not sure why he stuffs it so much.

Stheno · 25-01-2017 09:57PM

Left Belfast at five past four.

The Westlink was closed.

Got home at five to eight

mfceiling · 25-01-2017 10:10PM

Stheno wrote: »

Left Belfast at five past four.

The Westlink was closed.

Got home at five to eight

Back roads for the win!! Quick dally over blacks mountain, back roads to international airport...Lurgan, Tandragee, Newry and down the road like the divil!!

mfceiling · 25-01-2017 10:11PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

My compatriot's attempted northern accent. Yay or nay?

(Sam Neill, PB)

Atrocious....It's actually become a joke with us nordies in work calling each other Mr Shelby.

awec · 25-01-2017 10:13PM

Stheno wrote: »

Left Belfast at five past four.

The Westlink was closed.

Got home at five to eight

When the Westlink has an accident the whole place grinds to a halt.

bilston · 25-01-2017 10:15PM

awec wrote: »

Saw this and laughed:

I'm roundabouts. I reckon mfceiling is moy park. bilston is even posher gits?

Borderline posher gits and flegger awec!

bilston · 25-01-2017 10:17PM

swiwi_ wrote: »

My compatriot's attempted northern accent. Yay or nay?

(Sam Neill, PB)

Accent wasn't he best, but he played the role brilliantly.

Stheno · 25-01-2017 10:20PM

mfceiling wrote: »

Back roads for the win!! Quick dally over blacks mountain, back roads to international airport...Lurgan, Tandragee, Newry and down the road like the divil!!

I was leaving from Donegal Square! The entire city centre didnt move for an age

bilston · 25-01-2017 10:29PM

The Westlink was a car park earlier. I was waiting on my bus for half an hour and I live on the other side of the city. I just gave up and walked home (5km).

Bonus calories burnt...

Stheno · 25-01-2017 10:31PM

bilston wrote: »

The Westlink was a car park earlier. I was waiting on my bus for half an hour and I live on the other side of the city. I just gave up and walked home (5km).

Bonus calories burnt...

Biggest problem was the grosvenor road junction was shut along with Divis i think

pickarooney · 25-01-2017 11:17PM

Lurgan and Tandragee sound like evil fantasy kingdoms.

Stheno · 25-01-2017 11:55PM

pickarooney wrote: »

Lurgan and Tandragee sound like evil fantasy kingdoms.

I drove through Tandragee last summer during the marching season (July ish) when I was working in Craigavon.

It was festooned in Unionist flags and I was reminded of years ago when I was a kid and used holiday in NI and my Dad would avoid such areas.

It's actually a lovely drive that way from Craigavon to Newry, lovely scenery apart from the odd town, you could make a scenic route from it, if it's not already part of the Mourne Coastal Route.

awec · 25-01-2017 11:58PM

pickarooney wrote: »

Lurgan and Tandragee sound like evil fantasy kingdoms.

Walking a tightrope here pickarooney. :mad:

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