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Wokeism of the day *Revised Mod Note in OP and threadbanned users*

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    #6152
    Potential-Monke
    Registered Users Posts: 13,815 ✭✭✭✭Potential-Monke


    Do people actually use Wikipedia as a genuine source? I know it's right a lot of the time, but it's a point of reference at best. IIRC when doing my dissertation, I was strictly told not to have anything linking to Wikipedia or I'd lose marks.


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    #6153
    jam_mac_jam
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭jam_mac_jam


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    Do people actually use Wikipedia as a genuine source? I know it's right a lot of the time, but it's a point of reference at best. IIRC when doing my dissertation, I was strictly told not to have anything linking to Wikipedia or I'd lose marks.

    it's not an academic level source but if you need an entry level or broad explanation of something it's fine. Usually better for general knowledge stuff like the Nile River or the French revolution then anything political.


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    #6154
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Mod

    I've just had to action a couple of posts. It should go without saying but if you're getting so worked up about a subject that you resort to name-calling then your posting can hardly be considered lighthearted. Keep it up and I'll have to issue threadbans.


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    #6155
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I hope this is light-hearted fun.

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    Delta, also opposing voter ID.

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    #6156
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Absolutely nothing to do with the sh1t viewing figures or crap 'comedy'...
    #1 rule of comedy - don't rely on Trump or Brexit, just be original and funny.
    As one wag says: "It wasn't all bad, the bits without Nish were often quite funny."
    The NYT wiping Nish Kumar's tears! LOL

    https://twitter.com/KonstantinKisin/status/1379131287525539845


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    #6157
    jaxxx
    Registered Users Posts: 3,230 ✭✭✭jaxxx


    biko wrote: »
    I hope this is light-hearted fun.

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    Delta, also opposing voter ID.

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    Eh don't you need a little thing called a passport to fly anyway :D Pretty sure that's ID!! :pac:


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    #6158
    olestoepoke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    jaxxx wrote: »
    Eh don't you need a little thing called a passport to fly anyway :D Pretty sure that's ID!! :pac:

    Most Americans don't have passports, a very low percentage the last time I read on it, an Americans can fly domestic with a drivers licence which includes Puerto Rico and Hawaii


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    #6159
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    Do people actually use Wikipedia as a genuine source? I know it's right a lot of the time, but it's a point of reference at best. IIRC when doing my dissertation, I was strictly told not to have anything linking to Wikipedia or I'd lose marks.

    you need to ask and you've done a dissertation?


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    #6160
    rightmove
    Registered Users Posts: 992 ✭✭✭rightmove


    MisterAnarchy wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/RTEOne/status/1378107052279627776

    Too many men at the podium she says.

    says the one that got the gig on prime time along with "some other bloke".

    Already her petty sexism is seen before a camera rolls in the print time studio


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    #6161
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,801 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Cordell wrote: »
    Same for fossil fuel and even nuclear fuel, our usage is not sustainable, there's no new oil and uranium forming under there to replenish what we use. So, should we stop using them, meaning we condemn the underdeveloped countries to stay that way, or we roll this can down the road and let the next generations deal with it?

    Well we should phase out fossil fuels. Neither oil nor uranium will run out though.
    A lot of rich developed countries can now claim they are going green, but they aren't really, they still use a lot of stuff manufactured overseas, so they just outsourced the problem.

    Adding the cost of Chinese manufacturing to the West is a bit unfair unless we are removing the cost of Western manufactured goods exported from the West. Do we do that?


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    #6162
    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Adding the cost of Chinese manufacturing to the West is a bit unfair unless we are removing the cost of Western manufactured goods exported from the West. Do we do that?

    do we not do this in economics e.g. Ireland exports x amount of products produced to China while china export n amount of products to Ireland

    can this not be done with CO2?


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    #6163
    Cordell
    Registered Users Posts: 5,787 ✭✭✭Cordell


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Well we should phase out fossil fuels. Neither oil nor uranium will run out though.
    They will eventually, maybe not in our lifetime but as some point they will.
    Deleted User wrote: »
    Adding the cost of Chinese manufacturing to the West is a bit unfair unless we are removing the cost of Western manufactured goods exported from the West. Do we do that?

    It's not about being unfair to the chinese, it's about being hypocritical. We pat ourselves on the back because we are so green, but we are so green because we outsourced a lot of the heavy industry.


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    #6164
    [Deleted User]
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    Elmo wrote: »
    do we not do this in economics e.g. Ireland exports x amount of products produced to China while china export n amount of products to Ireland

    can this not be done with CO2?

    It would make countries with a trade surplus look good.


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    #6165
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Major League Baseball left Georgia because of the new voter ID laws, and went to Colorado.









    Colorado already has voter ID laws...


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    #6166
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,840 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    biko wrote: »
    Major League Baseball left Georgia because of the new voter ID laws, and went to Colorado.









    Colorado already has voter ID laws...

    ironically moving from a black area to a white one, costing the former base $100m :pac:

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    #6167
    rightmove
    Registered Users Posts: 992 ✭✭✭rightmove


    https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/if-were-all-in-this-together-why-is-covid-shaming-often-targeted-at-female-stars-40278785.html

    What planet are these ppl on??


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    #6168
    NIMAN
    Registered Users Posts: 33,001 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    rightmove wrote: »
    https://www.independent.ie/opinion/comment/if-were-all-in-this-together-why-is-covid-shaming-often-targeted-at-female-stars-40278785.html

    What planet are these ppl on??

    Thankfully its behind a paywall.


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    #6169
    Pussyhands
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    I see Imelda May is having to go on the defensive after she took a picture sitting on a traveller cart thing.

    https://twitter.com/ImeldaOfficial/status/1379166055432605701

    Delighted for her to be getting it as she's one of the woke ones on Twitter.


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    #6170
    Pussyhands
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    rightmove wrote: »
    says the one that got the gig on prime time along with "some other bloke".

    Already her petty sexism is seen before a camera rolls in the print time studio

    Says women should be in charge more....has she forgotten who's been minister for education for the past number of months??? Possibly the worst minister ever up there with Shane Ross.


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    #6171
    Sir Oxman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,492 ✭✭✭Sir Oxman


    Pussyhands wrote: »
    I see Imelda May is having to go on the defensive after she took a picture sitting on a traveller cart thing.

    https://twitter.com/ImeldaOfficial/status/1379166055432605701

    Delighted for her to be getting it as she's one of the woke ones on Twitter.
    The righteous mob usually eat their own.
    This is inevitable.


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    #6172
    rightmove
    Registered Users Posts: 992 ✭✭✭rightmove


    Pussyhands wrote: »
    Says women should be in charge more....has she forgotten who's been minister for education for the past number of months??? Possibly the worst minister ever up there with Shane Ross.

    This is the department with pretty much no male teachers or plans to fix this!!! Bunch a deceitful sexist clowns


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    #6173
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,387 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    So Thandiwe Newton is 'taking her name back'. Seems it was incorrectly spelt wrong on the credits of her first film and instead of correcting it, she just let it go. Until now. Seems we were at fault all along for not knowing the difference between Thandie and Thandiwe, so according to Thandiwe we 'stole' her name.

    Our bad.

    Her name is of Shona extraction, as she said in this interview with The Guardian on Monday:
    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/apr/05/actor-thandiwe-newton-reclaims-original-spelling-of-her-name
    The Emmy award-winning actor was born in London to a white British father, Nick, and a Zimbabwean mother, Nyasha, a princess of the Shona tribe, and the family settled in Penzance, Cornwall, when she was three.

    But wait!

    As it turns out she got the origin of her name wrong. It isn't Shona, it's Zulu. Seems that's our fault too, as she's been 'separated from her identity' by growing up in the UK.

    https://twitter.com/ThandiweNewton/status/1379198357671907331

    Our bad again.


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    #6174
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,169 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    I see IMDb has updated her page, and amended every credit with (as Thandie Newton),

    I must check Elliot Pages pages....


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    #6175
    NickNickleby
    Registered Users Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭NickNickleby


    Potential-Monke wrote: »
    Do people actually use Wikipedia as a genuine source? I know it's right a lot of the time, but it's a point of reference at best. IIRC when doing my dissertation, I was strictly told not to have anything linking to Wikipedia or I'd lose marks.

    Yep, its not accepted as a source (in my limited experience). Did a L7 in DCU a few years ago, and in the same lecture we were told Wikipedia is not an acceptable source; and that Wikipedia was considered about 80% correct, while established Encyclopaedic sources were 90% correct. Now those figures aren't accurate,(could have been 80 v 95 or something*) but fact that Wikipedia was only slightly behind amazed me.

    (*my powers of recollection are slipping - as attested in another thread this evening :o:D . its probably old age, but sure in my head I'm only 26)


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    #6176
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,022 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    I see IMDb has updated her page, and amended every credit with (as Thandie Newton),

    I must check Elliot Pages pages....

    Phone home....?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #6177
    NoviGlitzko
    Registered Users Posts: 2,580 ✭✭✭NoviGlitzko


    That one has always been an attention-seeking fairy. I'd say spending even 2 minutes in her company would make you miserable.


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    #6178
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,169 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Phone home....?

    Just checked the old wayback machine, Ellen Page's first credit, for Pit Pony, is listed as (as Ellen Philpotts Page), but that doesn't appear on their current IMDb page....


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    #6179
    Wallet Inspector
    Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭Wallet Inspector


    Sir Oxman wrote: »
    The righteous mob usually eat their own.
    This is inevitable.
    Reading the tweet thread - the absolute straining to find offence by some, is a mixture of hilarious and baffling.


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    #6180
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,022 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Celchick wrote: »
    Reading the tweet thread - the absolute straining to find offence by some, is a mixture of hilarious and baffling.

    That's not just limited to Twitter! - been numerous mod posts here to tell people to chill out!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #6181
    olestoepoke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    NickNickleby wrote: »
    Yep, its not accepted as a source (in my limited experience). Did a L7 in DCU a few years ago, and in the same lecture we were told Wikipedia is not an acceptable source; and that Wikipedia was considered about 80% correct, while established Encyclopaedic sources were 90% correct. Now those figures aren't accurate,(could have been 80 v 95 or something*) but fact that Wikipedia was only slightly behind amazed me.

    (*my powers of recollection are slipping - as attested in another thread this evening :o:D . its probably old age, but sure in my head I'm only 26)

    Wikipedia ig a good starting point sometimes, whilst it is not accepted as a reputable source the citations within the page can save you time.


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