Things you just "don't get"?

dubstarr · 28-02-2020 03:36PM

Aglomerado wrote: »

One of my neighbours has such a sign in their window "EMOH"

Maybe they are Goths:D

vriesmays · 28-02-2020 03:36PM

Those UCD students protesting about accommodation should transfer to Tralee IT.

Doff · 28-02-2020 03:38PM

When MMA fighters are just laying on the ground getting their head punched in or being choked out. Just stand up.

vriesmays · 28-02-2020 04:19PM

Shops that have to hand write a receipt.

razorblunt · 28-02-2020 04:23PM

Doff wrote: »

When MMA fighters are just laying on the ground getting their head punched in or being choked out. Just stand up.

Yeah. Like when teams score in football, could the other team just like, stop them?

Tell me how · 28-02-2020 04:24PM

Doff wrote: »

When MMA fighters are just laying on the ground getting their head punched in or being choked out. Just stand up.

Them not doing so might be something to do with the fact that they are lying on the ground getting their head punched in or are being choked out...

Millicently · 28-02-2020 07:20PM

Penfailed wrote: »

To stop unnecessary panic?

Yes, nothing is guaranteed to stop panic in the public more than keeping people in the dark and making it seem like there's something to hide by refusing to say what day, flight or airport the woman traveled. It's common knowledge that she traveled by train from Connoly station yet they refuse to confirm or deny. It's absurd to say that people who might have been infected have been contacted when there's no way of knowing who was on public transport with her. If people knew the flight, the day and the time of the train they could be prepared. This government is a farce and that chap at the conference this morning was ignorance personified with his attitude. Isolation rooms are already at 110% capacity and there were just short of 500 people on trolleys today.

castletownman · 28-02-2020 07:26PM

Millicently wrote: »

Yes, nothing is guaranteed to stop panic in the public more than keeping people in the dark and making it seem like there's something to hide by refusing to say what day, flight or airport the woman traveled. It's common knowledge that she traveled by train from Connoly station yet they refuse to confirm or deny. It's absurd to say that people who might have been infected have been contacted when there's no way of knowing who was on public transport with her. If people knew the flight, the day and the time of the train they could be prepared. This government is a farce and that chap at the conference this morning was ignorance personified with his attitude. Isolation rooms are already at 110% capacity and there were just short of 500 people on trolleys today.

Exactly. If it's GDPR holding back releasing info on the train she was travelling on from Dublin to Belfast, then surely a breach of that law is a small drop in the ocean then the concertina effect of the virus spreading

Redneck Reject71 · 28-02-2020 07:28PM

Pineapple on a perfectly good pizza, why ruin it?Heh

EmmetSpiceland · 28-02-2020 07:32PM

Millicently wrote: »

Isolation rooms are already at 110% capacity and there were just short of 500 people on trolleys today.

If people stopped being idiots and clogging up the hospitals when they have the flu we wouldn’t have a big of a problem.

People should “self isolate” as they have been instructed to do. The only people who should be in hospitals and “isolation rooms” are the elderly.

Hundreds of people, mostly the elderly, die every year from the flu. When this one hits that number will go up by 10, maybe 15.

I’m not sure what you want here.

BuboBubo · 28-02-2020 07:46PM

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

I always laugh at the guff people have in their houses. Like when things are labelled. For example an elaborate sign above the bath that says “Bath”.

Ahh! There's a whole generation of these interior sheep. Grey everything, crushed velvet, zoflora, a pug/frenchie/other yappy breed, gin drinking signage - you know who you are...

I don't get low sofas. The type you sit on and whack your knees into your forehead (unless you're 3 feet tall)

Leg End Reject · 28-02-2020 07:47PM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

If people stopped being idiots and clogging up the hospitals when they have the flu we wouldn’t have a big of a problem.

People should “self isolate” as they have been instructed to do. The only people who should be in hospitals and “isolation rooms” are the elderly.

Hundreds of people, mostly the elderly, die every year from the flu. When this one hits that number will go up by 10, maybe 15.

I’m not sure what you want here.

I suspect that poster thinks it's all the fault of migrants, while claiming the WHO are only interested in capitalism. For most of us this would be indescernible from a head cold.

I don't get hysteria and conspiracy theories.

Pawwed Rig · 28-02-2020 08:03PM

castletownman wrote: »

Exactly. If it's GDPR holding back releasing info on the train she was travelling on from Dublin to Belfast, then surely a breach of that law is a small drop in the ocean then the concertina effect of the virus spreading

There is no GDPR issue there

Redneck Reject71 · 28-02-2020 08:30PM

Why some horse breeders set a time limit for a horse to be trained. If they don't realize a horse as with other animals, have a mind of their own. So training them depends on the animal's learning curve. And when that time limit isn't met, they write them off for slaughter.

Widdershins · 28-02-2020 10:15PM

BuboBubo wrote: »

Ahh! There's a whole generation of these interior sheep. Grey everything, crushed velvet, zoflora, a pug/frenchie/other yappy breed, gin drinking signage - you know who you are...

I don't get low sofas. The type you sit on and whack your knees into your forehead (unless you're 3 feet tall)

Yankee candles?

Moomoomacshoe · 29-02-2020 02:36AM

I don't get where texts go..like do they just fly around us, loads of texts flying by us all day..breathing in texts. Where do they goooo..arggh!!

Widdershins · 29-02-2020 02:40AM

Moomoomacshoe wrote: »

I don't get where texts go..like do they just fly around us, loads of texts flying by us all day..breathing in texts. Where do they goooo..arggh!!

Ha...I think of wifi signals as modern ley lines

Higgins5473 · 29-02-2020 08:16AM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

The only people who should be in hospitals and “isolation rooms” are the elderly.

Or the very young, or those with respiratory problems which pretty much potentially means every single age group which means you are talking through your hoop.

EmmetSpiceland · 29-02-2020 09:23AM

Higgins5473 wrote: »

Or the very young, or those with respiratory problems which pretty much potentially means every single age group which means you are talking through your hoop.

Listen, chief, this virus has a very low fatality rate, outside of China. Now, I’m not saying that it’s acceptable that people die but if everyone listened to the advice given, wash your hands, use sanitiser and “self isolate” if you have “symptoms” then that number would remain low.

Obviously, anyone with an “underlying” illness or if they are a feeble elderly person they should go to hospital but not before calling ahead to let them not they are coming.

I mean, you can sit there with your stockpile of tinned baked beans, giving out about how the “gubbermint” aren’t doing enough or telling you the “whole story”, that’s fine.

If you want to go around “shrieking” like a madman, while everyone around you complains about the smell of your breath, that is your “business” but the best way to stop this thing spreading remains the same.

Unfortunately, that won’t stop the more simple-minded among us from acting hysterically.

Seamai · 29-02-2020 09:40AM

Bichon Frises, why are so many women obsessed with them and treat them like accessories? As dogs go they're not even cute and I hate that pink staining they get around their eyes, mouths and holes.

Seamai · 29-02-2020 09:42AM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Listen, chief, this virus has a very low fatality rate, outside of China. Now, I’m not saying that it’s acceptable that people die but if everyone listened to the advice given, wash your hands, use sanitiser and “self isolate” if you have “symptoms” then that number would remain low.

Obviously, anyone with an “underlying” illness or if they are a feeble elderly person they should go to hospital but not before calling ahead to let them not they are coming.

I mean, you can sit there with your stockpile of tinned baked beans, giving out about how the “gubbermint” aren’t doing enough or telling you the “whole story”, that’s fine.

If you want to go around “shrieking” like a madman, while everyone around you complains about the smell of your breath, that is your “business” but the best way to stop this thing spreading remains the same.

Unfortunately, that won’t stop the more simple-minded among us from acting hysterically.

Can we not have at least one thread without the Corona virus?

Millicently · 29-02-2020 10:41AM

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

If people stopped being idiots and clogging up the hospitals when they have the flu we wouldn’t have a big of a problem.

People should “self isolate” as they have been instructed to do. The only people who should be in hospitals and “isolation rooms” are the elderly.

Hundreds of people, mostly the elderly, die every year from the flu. When this one hits that number will go up by 10, maybe 15.

I’m not sure what you want here.

Actually, many of the isolation rooms in hospitals are occupied by people who acquired MRSA and other superbugs in hospitals who are having surgical procedures now that require them to be treated separately to other patients. You haven't a notion what you are ranting about but you are hell bent on ranting anyway, if it makes you feel better keep at it but it's getting a little bit cringeworthy now.

anewme · 29-02-2020 10:54AM

Seamai wrote: »

Bichon Frises, why are so many women obsessed with them and treat them like accessories? As dogs go they're not even cute and I hate that pink staining they get around their eyes, mouths and holes.

6ft plus bloke built like a rugby player walks a little bischon frise with a coat around our area. Every so often, he bends down and gives the dog a little pet. Everyone knows them and they'd put you in a good mood just to see them.

whisky_galore · 29-02-2020 11:00AM

Seamai wrote: »

Bichon Frises, why are so many women obsessed with them and treat them like accessories? As dogs go they're not even cute and I hate that pink staining they get around their eyes, mouths and holes.

Small dogs in general, esp Jack Russells.

They have inflated sense of their own importance. Yapping and barking at shadows or anything at all that moves.

anewme · 29-02-2020 11:18AM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Small dogs in general, esp Jack Russells.

They have inflated sense of their own importance. Yapping and barking at shadows or anything at all that moves.

Small dogs have small man syndrome.

Great little characters.

29-02-2020 11:24AM

Seamai wrote: »

Can we not have at least one thread without the Corona virus?

Or one ''post'' without those obnoxious and ''needless'' quotation marks?

Millicently · 29-02-2020 11:53AM

Seamai wrote: »

Bichon Frises, why are so many women obsessed with them and treat them like accessories? As dogs go they're not even cute and I hate that pink staining they get around their eyes, mouths and holes.

I've never understood the appeal of them and they are a back yard breeder/puppy farmers delight. They're coining it in and the public don't give a crap so long as they have their yappy little white psycho dog. They do tend to be very aggressive due to the over breeding. Loads of lovely dogs and puppies in rescues and pounds needing homes but people still keep handing over hundreds of euro for these dogs. Don't get the appeal at all.

whisky_galore · 29-02-2020 01:20PM

Millicently wrote: »

I've never understood the appeal of them and they are a back yard breeder/puppy farmers delight. They're coining it in and the public don't give a crap so long as they have their yappy little white psycho dog. They do tend to be very aggressive due to the over breeding. Loads of lovely dogs and puppies in rescues and pounds needing homes but people still keep handing over hundreds of euro for these dogs. Don't get the appeal at all.

People buying dogs as fashion accessories, ugh.

Every back yard breeder and puppy farm should be shut down by law.

29-02-2020 01:51PM

I don’t get the issue with farming dogs. They are animals same as cows or sheep yet people lose their s+it over a farm that produces dogs but sees no issue whatsoever with livestock farms.

Obviously the welfare situation is an issue on a lot of puppy farms but if ran correctly I see it as no different to any other farm. The point of farming to to make money from producing animals and there is a lot of money in dogs.

whisky_galore · 29-02-2020 01:59PM

Rex Scary Tendinitis wrote: »

I don’t get the issue with farming dogs. They are animals same as cows or sheep yet people lose their s+it over a farm that produces dogs but sees no issue whatsoever with livestock farms.

Obviously the welfare situation is an issue on a lot of puppy farms but if ran correctly I see it as no different to any other farm. The point of farming to to make money from producing animals and there is a lot of money in dogs.

Cattle farms don't tend to produce weird looking cattle for "fashion" reasons with genetic conditions and short lives. And they're strictly controlled. Run foul of the Dept of Ag and they will sh1t you up and close you down.

Here we have a tiny number of dog wardens with limited powers. The public do whatever they like, they're unlikely to get caught. And if they do they can leave the dust settle and carry on as if nothing happened.
We should do what I think Denmark did, close down dog breeders until the dogs homes are empty.

Things you just "don't get"?

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