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  • #902
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,546 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Dogg Munde wrote: »
    He did, he said he had coronavirus

    He said his mother had it.


  • #903
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭AllForIt


    Yesterday when crossing the road I saw in the front passenger seat of a car a stack of white paper towels so high I could see them. It was just such an odd sight. I shan't forget it as long as I live.

    This panic buying makes me despair of the IQ of the general public.


  • #904
    Princess Calla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,397 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    mfceiling wrote: »
    So the guy on Primetime there who is in isolation in Italy but says the shops are still trading and you can buy your groceries must be lying?

    My brother in law lives in Rome and says there's still plenty of fresh fruit and veg etc in the shops and markets.

    There will be food...we are a nation of food exporters. Small bit of perspective is needed.

    I thought they were given allocated times to go to the shops, so while shops were open, there was a limit as to how many could shop at a time.

    Could be wrong though.


  • #905
    cian68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 894 ✭✭✭cian68


    Pkiernan wrote: »
    Cheltenham is just a drink, drugs and gambling orgy.

    I've never been interested in going but you've sold me


  • #906
    johnayo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,718 ✭✭✭johnayo


    He needs a good kick up the hole. Gob****e.


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  • #907
    taylor3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 266 ✭✭taylor3


    Jeff2 wrote: »
    Have people started filling their cars with fuel yet.?

    Only a matter of time I'd say.

    Did tonight. Needed petrol so just filled her up €70 worth.


  • #908
    Das Reich
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭Das Reich


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Hope he spends the full 2 months in jail and gets rode sideways each and every single day.

    And what would be your punishment for a person that steal a bike in daylight while Garda is watching and doing nothing?


  • #909
    RandomViewer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,191 ✭✭✭RandomViewer


    stinger31 wrote: »
    I've already heard of people being burnt on money that was owed to them. My friend has a business that gets subcontracted a lot, he has a team of 6 lads that help him. He's already done the work but was told tonight he's not getting paid and tough sh1t.

    This has all the hallmarks of the last recession i'm afraid. I can see massive lines down the dole office like the last time.

    Last recession was just a recession, there was still money in circulation this one will see most pubs/restaurants , cloth shops , car dealerships just close up till this blows over.


  • #910
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,739 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    I wouldn't be using Italy as a way things should go.

    Major flaw with that.

    I don't think the Irish are understanding the concept of social distancing.


  • #911
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,021 ✭✭✭✭pgj2015


    i dont know what is worse the panic buying or the dry jokes about toilet paper i see floating around on whatsapp.


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  • #912
    Raconteuse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Lundstram wrote: »
    Just because you've no interest in horse racing (like me) doesn't give you the right to critcise these people.

    Criticise the respective governments for allowing it to go ahead.
    Lundstram wrote: »
    What business is it of yours what others do? Stay at home until it's all over if you're that concerned.
    Lundstram wrote: »
    Self isolate if you're so worried.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Some people on this forum have a very unhealthy fixation on the Cheltenham festival.
    If you don’t like it, just don’t watch it. It’s that simple.
    Ah here, are ye even thinking about what you're writing at all?

    People are objecting because they don't like horse racing and not because of the pandemic of a highly contagious virus for which there is no vaccination or drug, and which kills?

    "What business is it of yours what others do?" when what others do is very very much our business in certain respects at the moment.

    "Just self isolate" - yeah just quit work.

    "If you don't like it, don't watch it" - wtf? What does that have to do with fears around the spread of COVID-19?


  • #913
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,640 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    corner of hells wrote: »
    I'm going out shortly to my local Aldi and setting a few cars on fire in the carpark, just to add to the general panic.

    It closed 43 minutes before your post so the car park will be empty.


  • #914
    EmptyTree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 749 ✭✭✭EmptyTree


    GreeBo wrote: »
    It doesn't matter how full the shelves are next week if no one is leaving their houses due to high rates of infection such as we see in northern Italy at the moment.

    It's a far better idea to be in crowded shops today with 50 odd cases compared to potentially thousands of cases in a week's time.
    That's good and well if people stayed at home next week, but the people who were in loading up their trolleys with weeks and weeks worth of shopping are the very ones that'll be off out next week wandering around the shops, "cause sur' what else are they supposed to do? Stay home all day??"


  • #915
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,956 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Depeche Mode - Shake The Disease

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_0sL_SQYvw


  • #916
    _Brian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,944 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    It won’t be serious until the lads get the digger out and bust open an Aldi or Lidl, it will be full scale Irish panic then.


  • #917
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Hope he spends the full 2 months in jail and gets rode sideways each and every single day.
    Das Reich wrote: »
    And what would be your punishment for a person that steal a bike in daylight while Garda is watching and doing nothing?

    He'd have to strip and go for a swim in a lake but unknown to him, the lake is beside a camp of randy lumberjacks. And they know just how to party.


  • #918
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,956 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    And for when we're all self-isolating...Nick Cave - Cabin Fever!

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


  • #919
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,567 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    So we know what the shops were like today, but what are the pubs like this evening?

    The good bit about the snow and the hurricanes is that we could go to the pub and just wait it out. Now, we have to do the opposite


  • #920
    branie2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    I agree 100%


  • #921
    Jimbob1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Jimbob1977


    Corona - Rhythm of the Night

    John Murphy - In the House, in a Heartbeat (28 Days Later)

    The Prodigy - Voodoo People


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  • #922
    Charles Babbage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,397 ✭✭✭Charles Babbage


    andekwarhola wrote: »
    It closed 43 minutes before your post so the car park will be empty.


    No, there are still some people there trying to fit 12 bales of bog roll into the boot.


  • #923
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,712 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    _Brian wrote: »
    It won’t be serious until the lads get the digger out and bust open an Aldi or Lidl, it will be full scale Irish panic then.

    Defiantly going to be one broken into before the weekend is out.


  • #924
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,310 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IfHDi-2EA


  • #925
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,805 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach



    Dies Irea : The days of wrath.


  • #926
    FixdePitchmark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,739 ✭✭✭✭FixdePitchmark


    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    So we know what the shops were like today, but what are the pubs like this evening?

    The good bit about the snow and the hurricanes is that we could go to the pub and just wait it out. Now, we have to do the opposite

    Would be interested how Pubs pan out.

    Can't see them staying open - as filthy places anyway.


  • #927
    Ronaldinho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭Ronaldinho


    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    So we know what the shops were like today, but what are the pubs like this evening?

    https://worldcams.tv/ireland/dublin/temple-bar


  • #928
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,549 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Kate Bush - Breathing (1980)

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


  • #929
    AllForIt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭AllForIt




    Incidentally this score is utterly brilliant.


  • #930
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,779 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I hate to be defending FF and FG,but there is freedom of movement laws in eu,which might make banning italians very difficult to do??


    We've spent last 2 years argueing over brexit,on this very issue


    That being said,i do think the EU should step.in and suspend free movements as much as is viable to do so

    The EU need to act fast and amend laws to suit the health crisis that is engulfing the continent. Otherwise Ireland needs to act in defiance of the EU to hell with the consequences, to hell with pleasing the European Union..


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  • #931
    Widdershins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Widdershins


    ecoli3136 wrote: »
    He'd have to strip and go for a swim in a lake but unknown to him, the lake is beside a camp of randy lumberjacks. And they know just how to party.

    Where is this lake, just so we can avoid it?


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