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    #242
    Sunny Disposition
    Registered Users Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭Sunny Disposition


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npueY7QpxF0

    Now for ye. No one wants to be single.


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    #243
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    I think one of the benefits of having grown up in the 80s was that we didn’t spend almost all our time indoors staring at a computer screen. I can’t help but feel that there is now a generation of overweight young men who lack both the social and hygiene skills to attract a partner and somehow this is the girl’s fault.

    ROFL!!!


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    #244
    Charles Ingles
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    jimgoose wrote: »
    Another one nobbled by the sweaty neckbeards with the social acumen of an autistic chimpanzee, wondering why girls cross the road when they see them. :pac::pac::pac:

    Nice mocking autism, do you really have to do that to make your point


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    #245
    pq0n1ct4ve8zf5
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I wonder did anyone - especially the OP who is not just a smart guy but a MOD of the forum of some experience - expect anything else? The moment I read the OP I knew pretty much instantly the thread would be a Men V. Women Crapfest.

    Only thing that surprised me is it did not happen _faster_ than it actually did :)

    It could have been a thread about PT Barnum's three favourite colours, sunglasses indoors, how do you pronounce Swarovski, what do you reckon cows think of horses, adult braces, flat earthers, are skinny jeans a scam, Mayo's curse, boats are mad aren't they lads, and it still wouldn't have made it past 48 hours before turning out the same, to be fair.


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    #246
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    Stacksofwacks wrote: »
    I think porn has changed the landscape aswell. I remember not longer than 20 years ago if you a bit of leg or an arm you'd be ready to come in your pants, nowadays you have kids watching hardcore bondage for hours on end and barely a flicker in their knickers..something unhealthy about that

    Ah the good old days when bra adverts in Womans Way magazines were the closest we could get to porn.


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    #247
    jimgoose
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    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    Nice mocking autism, do you really have to do that to make your point

    I'm not mocking autism, I'm mocking you! :pac:


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    #248
    Charles Ingles
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,181 ✭✭✭Charles Ingles


    jimgoose wrote: »
    I'm not mocking autism, I'm mocking you! :pac:

    Well you have no right to insult me.
    I've been perfectly respectfull throughout this conversation I haven't called anybody names or personally insulted them.
    I have an autistic family member and don't find it amusing to mock their disability


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    #249
    [Deleted User]
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    ^ Unless your relatives are chimpanzees - I am not entirely sure he was mocking theirs :)

    Autistic Chimpanzees on the other hand - they are going to be up in arms about his mockery of their condition. For shame sir, for shame!

    I would be more worried about this constant use of the word "neck beard" though given I am not sure what it is or what the problem with one is - and I somewhat suspect I have one :) But someone on another thread recently wrote "I bet you sit down to pee" and given I do that too almost exclusively - and I also do not know why that is meant to be a bad thing - I generally wonder if I should keep my mouth shut on these matters :)


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    #250
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,176 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    ...I have an autistic family member and don't find it amusing to mock their disability

    And neither should you. So don't. Live long, and prosper.


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    #251
    [Deleted User]
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    Ramona Shrilling Matchmaking wrote: »
    it still wouldn't have made it past 48 hours before turning out the same, to be fair.

    There does seem to be a lot more butt hurt between the genders than I can explain and a lot of latent to explosive hatred and anger because of it. I warrant it is _way_ above my pay grade to understand why this is - though I have theories - but it does tend to ruin a few otherwise good threads.


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    #252
    Feisar
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    Berserker wrote: »
    What do you mean by a tad restrictive?

    Well I can't bugger off on hols as I please, changing jobs is something for instance that'd have to be discussed, sure even the dinner if you think about it has to be something we both like. Aligning your life path with someone else will have restrictions or holds on one or compromises, well unless people lead almost separate lives.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #253
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    It's what gormless bores ( posing as wise intellectuals) do

    boo hoo - having to resort to personal insults because you have no valid points to make.

    oh de wimmins, de wimmins are suppressing me!!


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    #254
    Mad_maxx
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    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    Well you have no right to insult me.
    I've been perfectly respectfull throughout this conversation I haven't called anybody names or personally insulted them.
    I have an autistic family member and don't find it amusing to mock their disability

    Also have an autistic sibling


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    #255
    Mad_maxx
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    boo hoo - having to resort to personal insults because you have no valid points to make.

    oh de wimmins, de wimmins are suppressing me!!

    Thanks for proving my earlier point


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    #256
    Charles Ingles
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Also have an autistic sibling

    We should be able to have a discussion and even disagree without calling names or being insulted


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    #257
    jimgoose
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    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    We should be able to have a discussion and even disagree without calling names or being insulted

    Delicate little flower, aren't we. :pac:


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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Thanks for proving my earlier point

    You havent made any point dear, youve just wallpapered the thread with unsubstantiated silliness about women oppressing you.

    We get it - you dont like women.

    We also get why they probably dont like you.


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    #259
    kunst nugget
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    I believe he originally said 'the social acumen of autistic chimpanzees'

    How is that offensive to you or your (possibly fictional) autistic family members? Are they also chimpanzees or are you just looking for any possible way to be offended?


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    kunst nugget wrote: »
    I believe he originally said 'the social acumen of autistic chimpanzees'

    How is that offensive to you or your (possibly fictional) autistic family members? Are they also chimpanzees or are you just looking for any possible way to be offended?

    Stop being so speciesist!!!! Ugh - Im offended!


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    #261
    Gimme A Pound
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Are feminists looking to radically reform this aspect of family law so as to take a more even attitude towards asset division and care of children?

    Whatever about what may have motivated those who wrote the laws which today's courts draw from, the reality based on them is surprisingly favourable for feminists

    Happy accident I guess
    No they're not fighting it but I guess that's because it's a men's rights issue (and yes I know feminists now claim to fight for any gender equality but we all know that's not true).

    But you're in a relationship or marriage as far as I know? Which makes your posts kinda strange. I mean yes there are certainly awful inequalities against men in family law (And elsewhere) but it seems to be very personal for you
    Sunny Disposition wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npueY7QpxF0

    Now for ye. No one wants to be single.
    Depends. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. A person's own perspective isn't always the one everyone has.
    Charles Ingles wrote: »
    I've been perfectly respectfull throughout this conversation
    You most certainly have not.


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    #262
    FishOnABike
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    Allinall wrote: »
    Any evidence to support that?

    If you care to read Dr. Roisín O'Shea's doctoral thesis on Divorce and Jucicial Separation in the Circuit Court you might be persuaded. Particularly chapter 14 which concerns judicial consistency.


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    Paulie Tortell wrote: »
    Wow you seem to love insulting people.

    And for a brand new poster you seem to have a pretty big chip on your shoulder?


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    #264
    Plopsu
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    Ramona Shrilling Matchmaking wrote: »
    It could have been a thread about PT Barnum's three favourite colours, sunglasses indoors, how do you pronounce Swarovski, what do you reckon cows think of horses, adult braces, flat earthers, are skinny jeans a scam, Mayo's curse, boats are mad aren't they lads, and it still wouldn't have made it past 48 hours before turning out the same, to be fair.

    Pffffttt.... right then.

    Barnum's favourite colours were green, green and green.
    Nobody should wear sunglasses indoors unless they have a sun indoors. I have two sons but I don't think that counts.
    I pronounce it Swarovski and I assume that's right (because it's the internet and everybody assumes they're right about everything).
    Cows and horses don't get along. It comes from cows looking back and forth between boy horse's nards and bulls nards and snickering.
    Adult braces are an absolute necessity for holding up adult trousers (children's braces are not strong enough).
    Anybody from Earth that has been squashed flat is in dire need of assistance (probably not the best topic for a discussion as it's likely everybody would agree.... on the other hand it is Boards).
    Skinny jeans are indeed a scam. Think of how much material they're saving. Are they passing that saving on? Are they sh*te!
    Boats are indeed mad. Many are made of metal but still float. That's basically witchcraft.

    I am unfamiliar with Mayo's curse. Does it involve werewolves or is it more of a time of the month thing (actually, that could still be werewolves).

    :pac:


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    #265
    dd973
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    Couply people have always given me the impression that they'd be married or hooked up with someone else if they weren't with their current partner, there's loads of these types especially among the baby boomer generation, married at 22, divorced at 45, hook up again, stepkids, split up again, meet someone else then end up back with the person they married at 22.

    It's as if being in marriages/relationships is inbuilt into their personality and DNA whilst with other people, myself included, I could quite conceivably be single for 300 years and this soulmate never turns up no matter how many pubs or public places you walk into, statistically there probably is 'someone for everybody' but that's no use if they're living in Chile or New Zealand and you're never going to meet them!


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    #266
    Dial Hard
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    There does seem to be a lot more butt hurt between the genders than I can explain and a lot of latent to explosive hatred and anger because of it.

    It's mostly a one-way street to be fair, T.


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    #267
    Mad_maxx
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    Paulie Tortell wrote: »
    Wow you seem to love insulting people.

    Reductiveness is all they have

    Accusations of mysogony etc, boring people using cheap shots instead of reasoned debate


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    #268
    Gimme A Pound
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,482 ✭✭✭Gimme A Pound


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    It's mostly a one-way street to be fair, T.
    Here definitely

    More broadly speaking though, it's less of a one-way street. The barminess on both sides - crikey thank god I didn't have to deal with that level of crazy when I was in my teens/early to mid 20s.


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    #269
    TomasMacR
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 262 ✭✭TomasMacR


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    Jesus, we can't win.

    It was stupid because he decided to end your marriage and then you leave him with all your shared assets. I don’t know how much you invested in everything financially but even if that amounted to zero, your time, effort, energy was definitely contributed one way or another so you were most definitely entitled to something and most definitely very foolish not to seek some share.


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    #270
    jimgoose
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    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Reductiveness is all they have

    Accusations of mysogony etc, boring people

    Are you referring to the reductio ad absurdum debating technique? I don't really see any of that going on, for one thing, and there's nothing actually wrong with it as a logical technique anyway - didn't Erwin Schrödinger use it to murder his cat. You, by the way, sound more like a man with a bagful of hammers staring intently at a Philips screw. :pac:


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    #271
    Dial Hard
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    Tucker Hot Bell wrote: »
    Here definitely

    More broadly speaking though, it's less of a one-way street. The barminess on both sides - crikey thank god I didn't have to deal with that level of crazy when I was in my teens/early to mid 20s.

    Oh yeah, I meant here alright. Thankfully none of it has seeped into real life for me, I think I missed the bitter generation by a few years.


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