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    #2012
    thejuggler
    Registered Users Posts: 852 ✭✭✭thejuggler


    I wish that all cancers had become treatable in the last 30 years instead of the advances made in treating HIV/AIDS.
    At the end of the day HIV is avoidable by lifestyle choices. Cancer is not.


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    #2013
    Justin Credible Darts
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭Justin Credible Darts


    BattleCorp wrote: »
    I feel even more strongly against Jazz.




    I love all kinds, from swedish techno, red neck country, death metal, folk, Irish, etc....but draw the line at opera and jazz.


    What is worse is the wife loves opera


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    #2014
    sosndt
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭sosndt


    Javion Fat Barbell wrote: »
    Maybe there was a time at one stage where nurses actually did those things but these days nurses go around dispensing medication and talking to the families.
    We have several clients who are doctors that work in general hospitals, most of them from outside of Ireland and they regularly comment on how little nurses in Ireland do compared to other European countries. A niece who is working as a nurse in Scotland also comments on how much more they're expected to do in the UK compared to what they do in Ireland. Next time you go to a hospital ward just watch and observe them, spend their time filling in charts, giving out medication and sitting at a desk.

    Like I said, carers are the new nurses, nurses want to be doctors and all the doctors want to be consultants with a private practice located inside a public hospital.

    Have to agree.
    This nonsense of working 12 hours as if it wasn't their own choice to do so as they only want to work 3 days a week and still get their 39 hours.
    Some do work hard but most are just hanging in there for the maternity benefits.


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    #2015
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    thejuggler wrote: »
    I wish that all cancers had become treatable in the last 30 years instead of the advances made in treating HIV/AIDS.
    At the end of the day HIV is avoidable by lifestyle choices. Cancer is not.

    What about smokers?


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    #2016
    I Am The Law
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭I Am The Law


    thejuggler wrote: »
    I wish that all cancers had become treatable in the last 30 years instead of the advances made in treating HIV/AIDS.
    At the end of the day HIV is avoidable by lifestyle choices. Cancer is not.

    Because it suits big pharma.


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    #2017
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    sosndt wrote: »
    Have to agree.
    This nonsense of working 12 hours as if it wasn't their own choice to do so as they only want to work 3 days a week and still get their 39 hours.
    Some do work hard but most are just hanging in there for the maternity benefits.
    Don't know how you could know this. I think the complaining about nurses as a collective is just complaining for the sake of it.
    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    What about smokers?
    Still though, cancer can strike anyone whatsoever.


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    #2018
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,960 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    BattleCorp wrote: »
    I feel even more strongly against Jazz.

    A lot of people hate jazz assuming it's all Jazz Club up it's own arse esoteric stuff.


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    #2019
    the-island-man
    Registered Users Posts: 495 ✭✭the-island-man


    Lay out a plan to eradicate the national debt by whatever means possible.

    Many people will say they didn't cause it, why should they pay which is a very valid argument but as many people will know if you have a mortgage hanging over your head you will always be bound to a job and a traditional way of life.

    Of course this would need to coincide with a complete alteration of public service structures to ensure such mismanagement doesn't reoccur.


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    #2020
    AKF
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭AKF


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Rap has got violent and misogynistic lyrics, never hear any of those songs being called into question, but sure go ahead and ban Baby It's Cold Outside.

    That is because if you question the violence and misogyny in Rap (regardless of how valid it may be) you will be accused of racism.


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    #2021
    smilerf
    Registered Users Posts: 2,585 ✭✭✭smilerf


    I like my smartphone to have a bezel


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    #2022
    barney shamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 870 ✭✭✭barney shamrock


    Has transgender been mentioned yet?
    Which page?
    "And its Ma'am!!"
    "Ma'am!!!"


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    #2023
    jaxxx
    Registered Users Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    Cancer is a necessary evil. Can you imagine how much more overpopulated we'd be if cancer was eradicated? There aren't many more things keeping the population in check!

    ^^ I say that as a former cancer patient myself.


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    #2024
    retalivity
    Registered Users Posts: 14,121 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    jaxxx wrote: »
    Cancer is a necessary evil. Can you imagine how much more overpopulated we'd be if cancer was eradicated? There aren't many more things keeping the population in check!

    ^^ I say that as a former cancer patient myself.

    Yeah, i'd agree with that. See also, resolving world hunger and access to clean drinking water.we're being told on one hand to eat less meat to save the planet, and on the other to send goats/cows to africa to feed a family for a month.


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    #2025
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Climate change activists will be seen in the future as the hippies and peace activists in the 60s are now.

    Also ...hippies and peace activists were seen in the 60s as climate change activists are now. That's what my grandparents said that people in the 60s thought hippies were sanctimonious and annoying. Kind of like how we see Bono now.

    Time along with his pr company will change how bono will be seen by your kids.


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    #2026
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    jaxxx wrote: »
    Cancer is a necessary evil. Can you imagine how much more overpopulated we'd be if cancer was eradicated? There aren't many more things keeping the population in check!

    ^^ I say that as a former cancer patient myself.
    Cancer isn't a necessary evil. The birth rate is declining in Europe because of contraception and education. Fertility rates are also falling.
    retalivity wrote: »
    Yeah, i'd agree with that. See also, resolving world hunger and access to clean drinking water.we're being told on one hand to eat less meat to save the planet, and on the other to send goats/cows to africa to feed a family for a month.
    Parts of the world like Africa are over populated and people are starving because they are still having multiple children during famines. It's condoms we should be sending them, not cows.


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    #2027
    Justin Credible Darts
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭Justin Credible Darts


    I absolutely despise people who make statements because you have no kids that you dont know how things are or how it feels., as if they have some monopoly of understanding everything.

    They never seem to grasp we were all kids and know how things would have affected our parents.
    You do not need to be a parent to understand loss, worry, etc or the empathy, compassion , feelings that are what constitutes what makes you a decent human being.

    This notion of you dont have kids so you dont understand, is not only ridiculous to me, but insulting and whiffs of some air of self righteousness that are experts.


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    #2028
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Justin Credible Darts wrote: »
    I absolutely despise people who make statements because you have no kids that you dont know how things are or how it feels., as if they have some monopoly of understanding everything.

    They never seem to grasp we were all kids and know how things would have affected our parents.
    You do not need to be a parent to understand loss, worry, etc or the empathy, compassion , feelings that are what constitutes what makes you a decent human being.

    This notion of you dont have kids so you dont understand, is not only ridiculous to me, but insulting and whiffs of some air of self righteousness that are experts.
    You'll understand when you have your own :)


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    #2029
    sosndt
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭sosndt


    Raconteuse wrote: »
    Don't know how you could know this. I think the complaining about nurses as a collective is just complaining for the sake of it.

    Still though, cancer can strike anyone whatsoever.

    It's simples
    I know loads of nurses.
    And how often have you heard of the quadruple time they get for overtime on a Sunday? Yes that's tax free double time effectively.
    Don't mention that much on the news do they?


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    #2030
    sosndt
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭sosndt


    AKF wrote: »
    That is because if you question the violence and misogyny in Rap (regardless of how valid it may be) you will be accused of racism.

    No it's because rap isn't on the radio being listened to by the types of pansies that get offended or are trying to get offended.


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    #2031
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    This phenomena is prevalent the Irish online population.

    Tommy launches his brand new YouTube Channel / Facebook Hobby Page / Free Website with great promises in sharing it that it will be updated weekly / monthly.

    For the first month or so, the thing gets a few "one - liner" updates. Then it's just no more than another piece of abandoned web.


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    #2032
    Whereisgalway
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    sosndt wrote: »
    It's simples
    I know loads of nurses.
    And how often have you heard of the quadruple time they get for overtime on a Sunday? Yes that's tax free double time effectively.
    Don't mention that much on the news do they?

    I only know a few nurse and have never heard of quadruple time.....


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    #2033
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    The nuns genocided monto, and working class areas with the maggie laundries ...amongst other things. And it was forgotten by all except the victims and their families woefully underfunded purveyors of Dublin folklore.

    I mean I know sex work is sometimes a grey area and the whole of monto was a grey area (1600 sex workers)but there was no need to let the nuns at it!


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    #2034
    pinkyeye
    Registered Users Posts: 1,293 ✭✭✭pinkyeye


    smilerf wrote: »
    I like my smartphone to have a bezel

    What's a bezel??


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    #2035
    smilerf
    Registered Users Posts: 2,585 ✭✭✭smilerf


    pinkyeye wrote: »
    What's a bezel??
    not all screen. Some body at the top and bottom


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    #2036
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    smilerf wrote: »
    not all screen. Some body at the top and bottom

    I definitely don't want any less than I have on my Honor 10. It's just at the limit of one-handed use and I imagine smaller would mean mistouches.


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    #2037
    sosndt
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭sosndt


    Whereisgalway wrote: »
    I only know a few nurse and have never heard of quadruple time.....

    Yes they tend to leave it out when complaining.
    They also forget to mention the long shifts and double shifts are by choice so they can work 2 or 3 days a week and then come in with out notice on a Sunday and get quadruple time.
    I'm not anti nurse just anti partial facts...
    I know most do a great job but it's not all hard.


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    #2038
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users Posts: 16,127 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    sosndt wrote: »
    Yes they tend to leave it out when complaining.
    They also forget to mention the long shifts and double shifts are by choice so they can work 2 or 3 days a week and then come in with out notice on a Sunday and get quadruple time.
    I'm not anti nurse just anti partial facts...
    I know most do a great job but it's not all hard.

    For what shifts do nurses get quadruple pay ? It is double pay on Sunday day and extra for Sunday night . Its never quadruple , have you a link to that ?


    And here is a link to agency pay rates depending on where you are on the pay scale .No shift is quadruple pay


    https://www.nurseoncall.ie/_fileupload/NURSES%20RATES%202019%20SEPT%20.pdf


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    #2039
    castletownman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Women are very often just as obnoxious and leery on a night out as men are, but its the men who are pigs. Hen parties can be very uncomfortable environments.

    And women's culture is definitely way more sexualised (it wasn't males that made Fifty Shades of Grey, Magic Mike etc. so popular) too. Look at grown women losing their collective ****s whenever Westlife, One Direction, Michael Buble take to stage. Men are a lot more civilised in comparison :D


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    #2040
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,960 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Women's worst enemies are other women.


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    #2041
    Sorry about that
    Closed Accounts Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Sorry about that


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Women's worst enemies are other women.

    Nope, it's men who claim that women's worst enemies are other women.


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