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Current Affairs chat thread.

ancapailldorcha · 2019-06-20 09:49:46

Thought it might be nice to have an off topic chat thread. How is everyone? Hope ye enjoy the forum.

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#62 26-06-2019 01:58PM

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I'd just like to sneer at all those peasants left in After Hours. After Hours is so last week that every time I post there even my posts leave for here.

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#63 29-06-2019 10:26AM

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[Deleted User] wrote: »

I'd just like to sneer at all those peasants left in After Hours. After Hours is so last week that every time I post there even my posts leave for here.

In about three months it will be retro cool.
Y'all be clamouring to get back in.
Heard it here first.

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#64 14-07-2019 07:15PM

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Is this where all the cool people are?

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#65 15-07-2019 08:33PM

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ToddyDoody wrote: »

Is this where all the cool people are?

I think this is where all the banished people have coagulated.

You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!

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#66 14-08-2019 07:53PM

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#67 24-08-2019 05:11PM

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But at least we can all agree the Romans never did anything for us, correct?

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#68 29-08-2019 05:45PM

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Overheal wrote: »

But at least we can all agree the Romans never did anything for us, correct?

Well, they destroyed Carthage so they have that going for them

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#69 30-08-2019 09:01AM

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john why wrote: »

R

....TE?

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#70 26-09-2019 10:25PM

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I read recently that we pay something like €5 billion on debt servicing per annum - can someone tell me where that €5bn ends up? As in, whose pockets it ends up in.

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#71 27-09-2019 02:04AM

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Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I read recently that we pay something like €5 billion on debt servicing per annum - can someone tell me where that €5bn ends up? As in, whose pockets it ends up in.

Frau Merkel's....

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#72 27-09-2019 09:10AM

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Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I read recently that we pay something like €5 billion on debt servicing per annum - can someone tell me where that €5bn ends up? As in, whose pockets it ends up in.

We (via the NTMA) borrow money every year to pay for running the country. These are bought as either long term bonds (for long term financing) or short term bonds (for general cash flow).
The majority of government bonds are held by overseas traders but much of it is held within the country.
There is a cost to issuing these bonds!

https://assets.gov.ie/4274/111218115438-102376301fd948c2b20e3449111eff54.pdf - see pg 19 fig 14

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#73 27-09-2019 08:57PM

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So the €14 million per day interest on government debt goes to bond holders?

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#74 27-09-2019 09:11PM

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Junkyard Tom wrote: »

So the €14 million per day interest on government debt goes to bond holders?

Approximately €130 billion of Irish government debt is owed to bondholders. In addition, the government owes about €40 billion in EU loans, €4 billion in a UK bilateral loan, €17 billion to investors in state savings schemes, and €11 billion in other short-, medium-, and long-term debt.

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#75 19-11-2019 11:19AM

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What happened to the traveller machete attack thread?

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#76 19-11-2019 12:49PM

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Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

What happened to the traveller machete attack thread?

Too many inconvenient truths.

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#77 19-11-2019 01:10PM

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Too many inconvenient truths.

Furthering the sacred cow argument perhaps. Amazing considering some of the things that are said on CA and not deleted.

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#78 19-11-2019 01:31PM

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Apologies - now re-instated with an explanation of what I did wrong.....:o

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#79 19-11-2019 03:32PM

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Beasty wrote: »

Apologies - now re-instated with an explanation of what I did wrong.....:o

You done messed up a a ron

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#80 19-11-2019 06:17PM

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Overheal wrote: »

You done messed up a a ron

U callin' me messed up??

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#81 20-11-2019 10:04AM

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Beasty wrote: »

U callin' me messed up??

No it was a reference to this brilliant sketch.

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#82 22-11-2019 12:02AM

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*cough*

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1197621725879422977?s=20

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#83 22-11-2019 12:35AM

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Overheal wrote: »

*cough*

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1197621725879422977?s=20

PhD in history - So not a real doctor.

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#84 07-01-2020 06:48PM

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Mod: I moved the last few posts in this thread to the Helpdesk forum.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058043633

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#85 08-01-2020 04:16PM

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Right.

Have perused and studied the forum since inception.

For what it's worth, the Current Affairs / IMHO amounts to.........

A Pyrhic Victory.
Essentially, the Current affairs forum is a copy of the After Hours forum. But certain unsavory things are stated in a more guarded and genteel fashion.

Definitely, a good deal more posts get reported by other upset posters in CA threads that they don't like. This might be fine for threads in Leaving Cert and Secondary Education but it just adds to the reason that I just don't see the need for CA forum.

End of Spiel.

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#86 13-01-2020 08:21AM

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Whereas I see the value in the CA threads. More leeway given to posters than the politics forum, and usually less childish/immature posts than in AH.

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#87 18-01-2020 06:15PM

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Donegal's next TD. I felt so embarrassed for Ireland watching this. Apprantly a mixture of Liberals, atheists, Zionists & Jihadis are coming to destroy right-wing Irish Nationalism (good) and this is the only man who can stop it - some conspiracy nutter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osai7lpXWqs

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#88 22-01-2020 02:33AM

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I watched more videos of this Donegal TD hopeful, and he seems like a nutter.

He's a anti-Vaciner, believes Dev was a British spy most of his life, and he's a extreme right wing nationalist.

Some of his recent videos harassing people.

Hardly shocking his best mate is Dan Healy Rae

And here he shows his racist guff, calling immigrants invaders.

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#89 22-01-2020 05:45PM

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Tulsi Gabbard has filed a defamation suit against Hillary Clinton.

As part of the filing she wants us to know that if she winds up "Clintoned", it wasn't suicide.

This is pretty ballsy & not-so-subtly calls Clinton a killer.

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#90 22-01-2020 05:50PM

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Attention seeking 101.

Yawn.

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#91 22-01-2020 07:10PM

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BoJack Horseman wrote: »

Tulsi Gabbard has filed a defamation suit against Hillary Clinton.

As part of the filing she wants us to know that if she winds up "Clintoned", it wasn't suicide.

This is pretty ballsy & not-so-subtly calls Clinton a killer.

Fake news.

Here's the document.

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000016f-cdbf-df03-a1ff-fdbffaf00000

Item 5 is there on the bottom of page 2, but the second sentence about suicide is not there, or anywhere else in the document.

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