Off Topic Thread 4.0

molloyjh wrote: »

Haha, I agree on the lots of garlic front. If you’re ever making anything from a recipe you always need to at least double the amount of garlic. I don’t get stinginess with garlic.

If you want a second kid Molloy you’ll need to review that fondness for garlic.

molloyjh wrote: »

Haha, I agree on the lots of garlic front. If you’re ever making anything from a recipe you always need to at least double the amount of garlic. I don’t get stinginess with garlic.

This. This man right here. This man gets it right 100% of the time. You cannot beat garlic....Ever.
The local hotel at home used to do homemade chicken kiev which was gorgeous.... Absolutely dripping in garlic. I used to have it with garlic cubed potatoes and garlic bread.
On a totally unrelated note I never had a girlfriend.

swiwi_ wrote: »

If you want a second kid Molloy you’ll need to review that fondness for garlic.

By cooking for both of us I should be fine. Although it may limit our socialising options. But it’s worth it. My personal favourite is roast spuds with garlic, rosemary, parmesan & apple balsamic.

Can't believe Trump thinks he can just bypass the government process by declaring a national emergency. No doubt he thinks all's wall that ends wall.

swiwi_ wrote: »

Can't believe Trump thinks he can just bypass the government process by declaring a national emergency. No doubt he thinks all's wall that ends wall.

I think he watched house of cards and thought it was a documentary.

The funniest thing about Trump is just the fact all they have to do is go to his Twitter account to find evidence of him saying the exact opposite of the point he's trying to make.

He's declared a national emergency to build a wall to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country. Yet last year he tweeted saying illegal immigration was at an all-time low.

RIP Bruno Ganz.

Your memory will live on in Hitler Speech memes and parodies.

Had brunch there a while ago. The two girls at the table beside me got their food while I was still waiting. They proceeded to take out digital cameras and photographing/videoing the food. Shooting it from multiple angles and various filters. Then took out their phones and did the same. 5 minutes later when my food arrived, they were still photographing the food. If a brunch happens in Dublin and there’s no one there to photograph it, would it still taste as nice?

Limerick's current dismantling of Kilkenny is glorious viewing.

Just read an article in the Economist talking about circumcision.

80% of American men are circumcised. That's a mental figure. Apparently they think it's healthier, cleaner and more aesthetically pleasing.

Weird that parents are considering the latter.

Deleted User wrote: »

Trying to decide how I feel about the citizenship of the ISIS bride being revoked in the UK.

It's a political decision at this stage and one the Tories will benefit from, but there are far, far worse people in prison in the UK that will never be considered for deportation.

I'm not overly familiar with all the details - but I gather the person in question has been unrepentant but have they actually broken any laws in the UK? I presume their association with terror organisations is a crime but were they involved in any actual attacks?

I dunno, I can see the Dailymail getting giddy with themselves but I think it's a questionable precedent.

I'm a bit torn over it as well. I'm sure she's prosecutable under any number of anti terrorist statutes. My issue is that while I found her obvious lack of remorse chilling, I also don't like how a minister can remove her citizenship for completely political reasons. The system should be process based or else it's just cruel and arbitrary.

It's why I didn't like it when the Chinese kid from Bray was appealing to Simon Harris for a stay on his deportation. Or how every TD up and down the country manages to grease the wheel for every constituent who jumps up and down because of how long the driving test queue is.

A failure to adhere to the rule of law is cruel and leads to chaos.

The legal loophole Javid (the home secretary) is exploiting here is his power to remove citizenship from a dual national. She's not a dual national but her mother is Bangladeshi and so she's entitled to Bangladeshi citizenship. It'll be challenged and the home office might lose but his point would have been won by then all over the Daily Mail.

I'd take her back and remind her how democracy and the rule of law works. Which includes prison.

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troyzer wrote: »

I'm a bit torn over it as well. I'm sure she's prosecutable under any number of anti terrorist statutes. My issue is that while I found her obvious lack of remorse chilling, I also don't like how a minister can remove her citizenship for completely political reasons. The system should be process based or else it's just cruel and arbitrary.

It's why I didn't like it when the Chinese kid from Bray was appealing to Simon Harris for a stay on his deportation. Or how every TD up and down the country manages to grease the wheel for every constituent who jumps up and down because of how long the driving test queue is.

A failure to adhere to the rule of law is cruel and leads to chaos.

The legal loophole Javid (the home secretary) is exploiting here is his power to remove citizenship from a dual national. She's not a dual national but her mother is Bangladeshi and so she's entitled to Bangladeshi citizenship. It'll be challenged and the home office might lose but his point would have been won by then all over the Daily Mail.

I'd take her back and remind her how democracy and the rule of law works. Which includes prison.

Just to tidy something up - that kid from Bray is Irish, has an Irish accent, Irish education and entirely Irish friends. He's no more Chinese than I am and every bit as Irish as my own kids, even if the law says otherwise.

The ISIS bride is still surrounded by extremists so I doubt there is anything she would be willing to say against the party line and I can imagine those who were bombed by US and UK planes see any attack on the UK as justified, not that I agree with them but it wouldn't be an unreasonable conclusion.

I hear what you are saying about the dual citizenship but I think if she was an Irish citizen I'd rather we brought her here to be dealt with.

The more I reflect the more I think it's the wrong outcome.

I totally agree and he should be able to stay. This situation should never have happened and the law should be changed to make sure he can stay.

But as it stands, his salvation came at the foot of a public pressure campaign which basically forces the government to subvert the law. This will keep happening. I want our laws to work, not have to work around them.

Same goes for tests, you shouldn't have to wait six months for one.

I agree it's the wrong outcome. I wish she was going back to Britain and straight in a cell.

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Trying to decide how I feel about the citizenship of the ISIS bride being revoked in the UK.

It's a political decision at this stage and one the Tories will benefit from, but there are far, far worse people in prison in the UK that will never be considered for deportation.

I'm not overly familiar with all the details - but I gather the person in question has been unrepentant but have they actually broken any laws in the UK? I presume their association with terror organisations is a crime but were they involved in any actual attacks?

I dunno, I can see the Dailymail getting giddy with themselves but I think it's a questionable precedent.

It's a tricky one. She left for Syria as a young child, at the age of 15, and as far as it's been suggested, she didn't hold a passport for any other nation than the UK.

The issue arises in her comments about saying the Manchester attack was justified and that she has no regrets joining ISIS. If she hadn't said anything of the likes to the media, and said she just wanted to come home I would say she would've just been placed on a watchlist and nothing else made of it.

But now the connotations is that the reason she's coming back is to recruit other young woman to join ISIS. And this will be something repeated constantly by the likes of the daily mail. And due to her comments, I would have to agree with this. She shows no sign of wanting to re-integrate with western culture, and is still supporting terrorist actions.

It's one that will probably end up in front of the UN, as she now stands as stateless, because she doesn't hold a passport for Belgium, or the Netherlands where her husband is from.