Relaxation of Restrictions, Part IX Read OP For Mod Warnings

Captain_Crash · 21-02-2021 06:51PM

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

The traditional Irish pub is finished. Wetherspoons is the template for the pub scene in the future.

Ahh I don’t know about that. The market was clearly there before all this and if anything, the desire for a traditional pub has only increased these past 11 months!

kittensmittens · 21-02-2021 06:51PM

FintanMcluskey wrote: »

The traditional Irish pub is finished. Wetherspoons is the template for the pub scene in the future.

He's a crafty fox(although his business ethics sicken me somewhat). He's been buying up the pubs left right and centre that have gone bust since covid. So you can be assured our wonderful traditional Irish pubs will make a tasty carcass for him to pick over.

hynesie08 · 21-02-2021 07:01PM

kittensmittens wrote: »

He's a crafty fox(although his business ethics sicken me somewhat). He's been buying up the pubs left right and centre that have gone bust since covid. So you can be assured our wonderful traditional Irish pubs will make a tasty carcass for him to pick over.

No he hasn't.

CruelSummer · 21-02-2021 07:03PM

https://www.rte.ie/eile/2021/0209/1196058-have-your-say-about-rte/

Opportunity to have your say about RTÉ

RobitTV · 21-02-2021 07:05PM

I think tweets like this are very sad. The guy was going on a cycle. (He may have been trying to provoke a response) but her response to his tweet was not necessary. Tagging @GardaInfo in her tweet.

https://twitter.com/CatherineRotteM/status/1363533889822728196

growleaves · 21-02-2021 07:18PM

"A ship in the harbour is safe but that's not what ships are built for."

kittensmittens · 21-02-2021 07:18PM

Its a bit soul destroying to see Israel opening shops, gyms, swimming pools and hospitality and here we have NEPHET saying that we can LOOK FORWARD to the possibility of them looking at the possible mixing of some households "down the line"....possibly by early summer.
June is early summer. JUNE.

Scraps from the table aren't quite good enough

aziz · 21-02-2021 07:19PM

Captain_Crash wrote: »

Ahh I don’t know about that. The market was clearly there before all this and if anything, the desire for a traditional pub has only increased these past 11 months!

Traditional pubs were dying a death before COVID reared its ugly head and by the time they will get to reopen they will probably get a brief renaissance but the inevitable tax hikes on alcohol in future budgets will kill them in their tracks.

People will have spent probably a year and a half out of them and have become used to drinking at home especially in their improved gardens or home bar.

A night in the pub will be a rare and expensive excursion

retro:electro · 21-02-2021 07:22PM

kittensmittens wrote: »

Its a bit soul destroying to see Israel opening shops, gyms, swimming pools and hospitality and here we have NEPHET saying that we can LOOK FORWARD to the possibility of them looking at the possible mixing of some households "down the line"....possibly by early summer.
June is early summer. JUNE.

Scraps from the table aren't quite good enough

And Philip Nolan was so good to tell us we might even be allowed some fresh air this summer

gmisk · 21-02-2021 07:24PM

RobitTV wrote: »

I think tweets like this are very sad. The guy was going on a cycle. (He may have been trying to provoke a response) but her response to his tweet was not necessary. Tagging @GardaInfo in her tweet.

https://twitter.com/CatherineRotteM/status/1363533889822728196

FoLlOw the science..... Total tosser

kittensmittens · 21-02-2021 07:25PM

retro:electro wrote: »

And Philip Nolan was so good to tell us we might even be allowed some fresh air this summer

Possibly allowed some fresh air....possibly.

gozunda · 21-02-2021 07:25PM

kittensmittens wrote: »

It was on FM104 actually so no avoiding it by blacklisting RTE et al.
I reckon he isnt reaching enough of the younger demographic with his message of death and despair by sticking with RTE.

Unfortunately the antivaxers are amongst us. There was a absolutely atrocious post a while back copied from some bs Facebook page

The doom and gloom merchants seem to just love a good old pandemic / natural disaster to start off on a spiel. RTE should be taken to order for that though.

fullstop · 21-02-2021 07:26PM

nj27 wrote: »

The coast along Clontarf today is probably the busiest I have ever seen it, including the height of summer. No sign of the rozzers anywhere. Didn’t feel much like January’s level 5.

They were all down in blackrock checking peoples addresses on google maps to make sure they were within 5k and making sure nobody used the public seating for some reason.

thebronze14 · 21-02-2021 07:31PM

RobitTV wrote: »

I think tweets like this are very sad. The guy was going on a cycle. (He may have been trying to provoke a response) but her response to his tweet was not necessary. Tagging @GardaInfo in her tweet.

https://twitter.com/CatherineRotteM/status/1363533889822728196

What a twitter handle!Embarassing. Thankfully any comments underneath are tearing her apart

TheDoctor · 21-02-2021 07:31PM

fullstop wrote: »

They were all down in blackrock checking peoples addresses on google maps to make sure they were within 5k and making sure nobody used the public seating for some reason.

What a waste of time.

kittensmittens · 21-02-2021 07:33PM

gozunda wrote: »

Unfortunately the antivaxers are amongst us. There was a absolutely atrocious post a while back copied from some bs Facebook page

The doom and gloom merchants seem to just love a good old pandemic / natural disaster to start off on a spiel. RTE should be taken to order for that though.

I'm not anti-vax. I reckon its one of those things that adults need to decide for themselves whether or not they want to take the vaccine.
But to say the vaccines wont work is dangerous without data to back it up.
Fair enough if he is privy to this info, share by all means and lets get on with life with or without the vaccine but this state of limbo is no intolerable.

ypres5 · 21-02-2021 07:33PM

kittensmittens wrote: »

I actually came here to see if anyone else heard it as I thought I had imagined it!! Chaps an absolute fruit loop coming out with that and moreover no-one is calling him out on it. Aren't RTE running a TV ad a long while now about "only believe in trusted sources for your info" ie them and their cohorts and then McConkey gets on the airwaves spouting unadulterated, and quite frankly, incredibly dangerous garbage.
He said there were 3 cases of the Brazillian variant and the vaccine wont work and this is why we should be all "terrified"!!
Terrified the man says!!!
Sweet divine baby Jesus...what the hell is going on? I'm sorry but this is going way to far with the joke. Giving someone like him freedom to spout this(and not for his first time)type of thing to the masses is madness and its now time people really woke up and started to think for themselves in relation to this total sham of a situation. These guys in well paid jobs and are peddling rubbish.

Believe me there is only one thing I have been terrified of the last 4 or 5 months and thats the 28th of each month.
The day my mortgage is due.

and some people here in favour of restrictions point to opinion polls that the majority of the public are in favour of the lockdowns. it's no wonder that's the case considering how one sided and biased the press is. theres never been any discussion or debate on the matter it's always been 'we need lockdown the question is just how long itll be this time' i guarantee you that when we reopen in the summer that the first thing theyll discuss is when or if we need to shut down again

ypres5 · 21-02-2021 07:37PM

kittensmittens wrote: »

He's a crafty fox(although his business ethics sicken me somewhat). He's been buying up the pubs left right and centre that have gone bust since covid. So you can be assured our wonderful traditional Irish pubs will make a tasty carcass for him to pick over.

i wouldn't be surprised if there has been some amount of communication between him and the government as to the fate of these buildings if and when the publicans sell up. I know if i was a publican i would've thrown in the towel months ago with the way they've been treated. since christmas youd swear pubs and restaurants were selling heroin to teenagers the way the press and government have lambasted them

Donald Trump · 21-02-2021 07:39PM

ypres5 wrote: »

and some people here in favour of restrictions point to opinion polls that the majority of the public are in favour of the lockdowns. it's no wonder that's the case considering how one sided and biased the press is. theres never been any discussion or debate on the matter it's always been 'we need lockdown the question is just how long itll be this time' i guarantee you that when we reopen in the summer that the first thing theyll discuss is when or if we need to shut down again

Well you see, some people have to get out and work. Those bitching and moaning about lockdown appear to be predominantly those with handy remote jobs (or none) sitting behind the safety of their keyboards

I challenge you to find me any sort of critical mass of actual frontline workers who want no restrictions.

It's handy for you to sit there and whine because if the **** hits the fan and things deteriorate rapidly, it won't affect you. If a close family member catches it and dies, sure you probably will be too obsessed with trying to find a cheap airbnb in Spain to care.

fullstop · 21-02-2021 07:40PM

TheDoctor wrote: »

What a waste of time.

Exactly. Sure way to piss people off. First weekend in a while it hasn’t been pissing rain. If people want to get a coffee, so what? One of them walking up the queue saying “get your coffee and go home, coffee isn’t essential”. **** off.

ypres5 · 21-02-2021 07:41PM

RobitTV wrote: »

I think tweets like this are very sad. The guy was going on a cycle. (He may have been trying to provoke a response) but her response to his tweet was not necessary. Tagging @GardaInfo in her tweet.

https://twitter.com/CatherineRotteM/status/1363533889822728196

catherine should just shut up and be grateful she's gotten her vaccine. the entire planet came to a standstill to keep the likes of her safe while the rest of us are waiting for months to get our shot. but whatever if playing the school snitch on someone cycling down some boreen makes her feel good about herself who am i to judge

TheDoctor · 21-02-2021 07:42PM

fullstop wrote: »

Exactly. Sure way to piss people off. First weekend in a while it hasn’t been pissing rain. If people want to get a coffee, so what? One of them walking up the queue saying “get your coffee and go home, coffee isn’t essential”. **** off.

Is that quote real?

Donald Trump · 21-02-2021 07:43PM

RobitTV wrote: »

I think tweets like this are very sad. The guy was going on a cycle. (He may have been trying to provoke a response) but her response to his tweet was not necessary. Tagging @GardaInfo in her tweet.

https://twitter.com/CatherineRotteM/status/1363533889822728196

There was a poster on here earlier bragging that he was going to to the same thing. Possibly the same person.

Imagine feeling the need to brag that you are going to cycle your bike and what's more, you are such a full-time-lycra-clad-mad-bastard-oul-fella that need to advertise to everyone that you are breaking some rules.

What a rebel :pac:

Edit: Here is a quote from earlier in the thread

silverharp wrote: »

Im going for a cycle down to wicklow in a little bit , fck the 5K! Im following the science

ypres5 · 21-02-2021 07:43PM

fullstop wrote: »

They were all down in blackrock checking peoples addresses on google maps to make sure they were within 5k and making sure nobody used the public seating for some reason.

is that the guards? meanwhile north dublin is turning into the set of mad max. the very definition of fiddling while rome burns

gozunda · 21-02-2021 07:44PM

RobitTV wrote: »

No. And to be fair, you know better then that. I think you are reasonable when it comes to debating this subject. You know I never suggested that.

I just want to clear up what I meant. People are now out and about on a much more significant scale since the weather has improved. I don't think the current NPHET messaging of 'stay at home' is going to as effective moving forward into the spring and summer period. This messaging from NPHET and the government will continue to bounce off younger people in particular.

I was only observing what I witnessed today. Today is the first day I saw crowds on a much more significant scale since the weather and the dark nights are improving.

Jaysus so you're now politely explaining "what you meant" after flipping out and diving over the fuming cliff when I made a tongue in cheek comment in reply to the same comment.

It still sounds like you're suggesting there's going to be some rising up of the people hence "uprising" as I detailed. I reckon that's more likley engaging in whats called confirmation bias. Of course more people will get out to exercise when the weather improves. But no that doesn't mean that people are not going to observe basic social distancing in the majority of cases.

Donald Trump · 21-02-2021 07:45PM

ypres5 wrote: »

catherine should just shut up and be grateful she's gotten her vaccine. the entire planet came to a standstill to keep the likes of her safe while the rest of us are waiting for months to get our shot. but whatever if playing the school snitch on someone cycling down some boreen makes her feel good about herself who am i to judge

Maybe you should be grateful for frontline workers like her who are having to work even harder because of petty arseholes throw tantrums and don't have enough respect for others to follow simple guidelines

gmisk · 21-02-2021 07:47PM

ypres5 wrote: »

is that the guards? meanwhile north dublin is turning into the set of mad max. the very definition of fiddling while rome burns

Yeah....north Dublin... is exactly like Mad Max......I just saw a truck drive past with a guy playing a guitar with flames shooting out....

Hyperbolic nonsense....Christ...

Stheno · 21-02-2021 07:47PM

ypres5 wrote: »

is that the guards? meanwhile north dublin is turning into the set of mad max. the very definition of fiddling while rome burns

What do you mean about North Dublin?

TheDoctor · 21-02-2021 07:48PM

Donald Trump wrote: »

Maybe you should be grateful for frontline workers like her who are having to work even harder because of petty arseholes throw tantrums and don't have enough respect for others to follow simple guidelines

Thank you for doing the job you voluntarily signed up for.

Juwwi · 21-02-2021 07:49PM

ypres5 wrote: »

catherine should just shut up and be grateful she's gotten her vaccine. the entire planet came to a standstill to keep the likes of her safe while the rest of us are waiting for months to get our shot. but whatever if playing the school snitch on someone cycling down some boreen makes her feel good about herself who am i to judge

She's a front line worker .

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