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Is it illegal to tear down posters

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  • #122
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,739 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    wexie wrote: »
    okay okay okay!!!

    I don't think either side are doing themselves any favours, in my most humble opinion. But maybe I could have been clearer

    love-robert-yourobert-A1etPWqtba6je

    But _how_ aren’t the Yes side doing themselves any favours? As I said other than a couple of outliers who have been roundly contracdicted within the Repeal campaign I haven’t heard anything. Please tell me.


  • #123
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,032 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Mrhuth wrote: »
    I would like to take all the posters down from both sides.

    This I would agree with.
    Enough noise and chatter as it is on Twatter, Bookface and wall-to-wall media coverage. This just adds to the physical rubbish on the streets.


  • #124
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Mrhuth wrote: »
    I would like to take all the posters down from both sides.

    I'm going to take a guess that you're quite young and that this is a generational thing.

    Yes we live in a digital age, but not all of us, at least not equally.

    I'm old enough to remember a time with no internet, no mobile phones, no connectivity whatsoever once you left your house (and I'm only in my early 40's)
    There are still a huge number of people in this country for whom the internet simply doesn't exist, posters are a necessary evil - and in all honesty are probably much more carefully controlled than the demented ramblings of @burnallsinners on twitter or whatnot!


  • #125
    Anastasia_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭Anastasia_


    Here's a better idea -

    https://twitter.com/maraclarke/status/986733957906681856


  • #126
    deandean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭deandean


    I think there should be a referendum. Let the People decide whether or not posters should be allowed on poles.


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  • #127
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    It's a strange situation so far.

    I've seen plenty of one side's posters in a five mile radius of my home.

    Nothing from the other side, although maybe that will change over time. It's still five weeks to go.

    Very different from a General Election or a Lisbon/Nice Treaty where the town is festooned with poster.

    Neither side should deface the opposite side's posters.


  • #128
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    If we take down the posters, we should take out the Citizens Assembly next.

    MOD: Off Topic discussion removed. There is a big shiny thread here to discuss what you posted, just not here.

    Apologies on my behalf


  • #129
    granturismo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭granturismo


    Mrhuth wrote: »
    I'll cut them all down at night. Can't take this bs. **** off.

    And how will you dispose of these posters and all those cable ties?

    Will you be using the posters as toboggans next winter?


  • #130
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    Remember that beauty from Clifford T Reid "STOP THE PAEDOPHILES" as he grinned out at you from the poster in his tank top. Probably one of the best campaign posters I've seen. I shamelessly robbed one of them from a street light in Athlone in 2004.

    Ah, the halcyon days.


  • #131
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »
    Probably one of the best campaign posters I've seen.

    My own personal favourite was Mary Harney in all her radiant beauty with the slogan "Don't throw it all away" to which some astute political commentator had added "I'll eat it":D


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  • #132
    groovyg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭groovyg


    Do people actually learn anything or are influenced by those posters? I saw a thread on twitter yesterday where one person said they should be banned.
    The response was that would be anti-democratic and people learn who the candidates are in elections. In the last GE in addition to seeing those ugly posters everywhere all the candidates in my area did a postal drop as well so I had leaflets from everyone was running.
    Its the same this time I've already had three No Save the 8th leaflets dropped in my post box.


  • #133
    mach1982
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 760 ✭✭✭mach1982


    Same thing happen in Marge Ref, Yes side took No side posters down , as they said they homophobic and offensive . I sure a lot of the people complaining about the No side taking Yes side posters in this referendum were cheering when the posters for No side in Marriage Ref were taken down.

    Problem with referendum is that there is no respect , if you don't have the same view as "society" you labeled as a stupid , evil, out of touched . We live a democracy not a dictatorship ship, people will have different views and they should be respected .


  • #134
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,032 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    It's a strange situation so far.

    I've seen plenty of one side's posters in a five mile radius of my home.

    Nothing from the other side, although maybe that will change over time. It's still five weeks to go.

    The Yes side haven't even gotten out of bed yet, just bathing in the glow of all their Facebook buddies' shares, likes and profile pic stickers.


  • #135
    Hector Savage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,809 ✭✭✭Hector Savage


    I really hope the 8th is repealed, if I could vote YES I would but I don't live in Ireland anymore.

    But I can't stand this fascism from the far left taking down posters they don't like !!!
    There is enough allready for it to be repealed !! Don't worry , this is needless ...


  • #136
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • #137
    Mrhuth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭Mrhuth


    Patww79 wrote: »
    Both groups of ***** are doing it. No matter what your belief is, you can't say one is doing it and not the other.

    Thank Christ I can't vote so I can tell you all to get the fúck off my doorstep.

    Not really, most of it is from the no side. I would say 90%


  • #138
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • #139
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Vote No posters are micro aggressions


  • #140
    Stoner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,952 ✭✭✭✭Stoner


    Mrhuth wrote:
    Don't litter the streets with useless sings. Who's paying for that? The ratio of yes to no vote signs is like 20 to 1. I've actually only seen vote yes sign once but vote no is on every street and there is one on every lamp post just so it doesn't get missed. You don't get to brainwash people.


    I've seen more vote Yes signs tbh regardless 20: 1 is inaccurate imo but your ratio and text don't align. I don't think anyone should take down posters apart from the people who put them up. I think there is something undemocratic about it regardless of who does it.


  • #141
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • #142
    utyh2ikcq9z76b
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    Vote No posters are micro aggressions

    Triggering people and hurting feelings, what kind of society allows that, the Yes vote should just be given the vote in case anyone else gets offended.


  • #143
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,739 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Stoner wrote: »
    I've seen more vote Yes signs tbh regardless 20: 1 is inaccurate imo but your ratio and text don't align. I don't think anyone should take down posters apart from the people who put them up. I think there is something undemocratic about it regardless of who does it.

    I think it depends on what part of the country you're in, some are better covered than others.

    Some local authorities requested that posters not be put up, which has led to total coverage in some areas by one side who have ignored the request.


  • #144
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    The Yes side are in danger of alienating large parts of the undecided vote base by letting fat angry women with nose rings and short spiky hair appear on the tv and radio so they can lecture us.

    Ruth Coppinger and Brid Smith should also cost them about 100k votes.

    They need to be careful. Not going smoothly for them so far.


  • #145
    Reati
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,926 ✭✭✭Reati


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    I was going to vote yes but after seeing and hearing some of their more extreme supporters I want nothing to do with them.
    Franz Von Peppercorn wrote: »
    For me I’m going to either vote YES or not vote. The YES campaign is convincing me to not vote.

    A fair bit of nose spiteing face in this thread.

    I was going to vote one way but someone else acts the goat so i'm going to vote a different way or not vote at all to spite it?

    No wonder the country is ruled by parish pump politics if that's how you figure out how you'll vote. Don't look at the issues and actually come up with your own view on what you believe what ever you do.


  • #146
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    I can't stand the posters and I don't care about who puts them up.

    But if you want to campaign with posters, you should not be able to have them close together. It creates an unmeasured representation of popular perception, which as it so happens is measured by the outcome of the vote.

    I don't think they need to be censored, but as it's essentially an advertising campaign, they should adhere to the same controls we have in place regarding the accuracy and intent behind what's being advertised to us daily*.



    * 95 out of 132 people polled provided a response of some sort.


  • #147
    Noveight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    realdanbreen wrote: »
    I love the way the YES camp view themselves as liberal and yet want to behave like fascists.

    Couldn’t possibly be thanked enough.


  • #148
    gmisk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,402 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    The Yes side are in danger of alienating large parts of the undecided vote base by letting fat angry women with nose rings and short spiky hair appear on the tv and radio so they can lecture us.

    Ruth Coppinger and Brid Smith should also cost them about 100k votes.

    They need to be careful. Not going smoothly for them so far.
    To counteract that....John Mc Guirk...what a clown....

    All the polls and betting indicate a yes vote, 580k raised from small donations in a very short period of time....where are the real indicators it is not going smoothly?


  • #149
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,192 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    Yes its illegal. Its someones property.
    If you have a problem with whatever is on a poster why not do like the majority do , just ignore it. There are posters everywhere.
    Tbh, what value they have is questionable.


  • #150
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    deandean wrote: »
    I think there should be a referendum. Let the People decide whether or not posters should be allowed on poles.

    I want posters saying NO TO POSTERS


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  • #151
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Skylinehead wrote: »
    I want posters saying NO TO POSTERS

    NO TO POSERS

    I like that better. F*ck posers.


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