Relaxation of Restrictions, Part XII Read OP For Mod Warnings

titan18 · 17-12-2021 10:30AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335546#Comment_118335546

They're different than us so they must be stopped is pretty much human behaviour for as long as we've existed.

You could retool a few words in Savages from Pocahontas and you've the rallying song for Claire Byrne and her like.

Chorus probably works as is

They're savages! Savages!

Barely even human

Savages! Savages!

Drive them from our shore

They're not like you and me

Which means they must be evil

We must sound the drums of war!

They're savages! Savages!

Barely even human

Savages! Savages!

Killers at the core

They're different from us

Which means they can't be trusted

opinionated3 · 17-12-2021 10:33AM

And as was easily predicted, the vintners and restaurants associations just basically come out looking for more money this morning. No actual fight in them at all. If I was a publican or restaurant owner I'd be seriously questioning the value of paying Union dues.....

_Kaiser_ · 17-12-2021 10:33AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335566#Comment_118335566

As I've said a few times...

Penfailed · 17-12-2021 10:40AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335281#Comment_118335281

There's caution...and then there's NPHET. Other countries are reintroducing some restrictions. Ireland seems to have to try to go one better. Every. Fúcking. Time.

Floppybits · 17-12-2021 10:41AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335539#Comment_118335539

Luckily Dr Tony doesn't have agenda against alcohol.

Dempo1 · 17-12-2021 10:42AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335504#Comment_118335504

His Brain has been isolating from the rest of his head for quite some time 😂

CruelSummer · 17-12-2021 10:44AM

Cabinet secretly briefed on massive job losses

https://www.independent.ie/news/cabinet-secretly-briefed-on-massive-job-losses-41142255.html

Hope voters don’t forget this when listening to the nonsense that will be to come today…any business needing constant support are secretly thought of as ‘zombie businesses’ within government. NPHET & Government have single handedly destroyed many of their livelihoods and are not finished yet. Opposition would probably have them closed already.

MilkyToast · 17-12-2021 10:45AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118334977#Comment_118334977

Carlsberg have said they have the best beer in the world (probably).

Vicxas · 17-12-2021 10:46AM

Can’t make this shite up. Spineless servile ****

Salvation Tambourine · 17-12-2021 10:46AM

Tony hates the drink and thinks there's no choice made by people to drink so he'll make that choice for them.

"So I really do not believe that we can say that it is a personal choice for someone to drink to excess and to accept the consequences of their actions. We must protect our babies, our children and the men and women of this country from the external effects imposed on them by the alcohol consumption of others."

https://alcoholireland.ie/dr-tony-holohan-chief-medical-officer-delivers-the-opening-address-at-alcohol-action-irelands-have-we-bottled-it-alcohol-marketing-and-young-people-conference/

Captain_Crash · 17-12-2021 10:47AM

This all reminds me of the opening lyrics to Megadeth’s 1995 hit Symphony of Destruction

”you take a mortal man

and put him in control

watch him become a god

watch peoples heads roll”

ahead of its time clearly haha

Penfailed · 17-12-2021 10:47AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335335#Comment_118335335

Yeah, so not a curfew then. This is going to be like a lockdown/not lockdown discussion, is it?

Dempo1 · 17-12-2021 10:48AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335574#Comment_118335574

Your Right, Chief Buffoon, Adrian Cummins out at 7.15am, an absolute clown, Handout, after handout, couldn't give a toss about staff, wait till January, he'll be crying about PUP again. Step up to the plate was his favourite Cliché throughout this, the Irony is breath taking.

lawred2 · 17-12-2021 10:49AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335470#Comment_118335470

those ads are so beyond twisted... honestly, what have we become!? It's vile.

Penfailed · 17-12-2021 10:50AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335362#Comment_118335362

Because they've got everything right so far?!

17-12-2021 10:52AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335531#Comment_118335531

Most of their businesses will collapse when supports are pulled. Serves them right for not banding together and standing up to this earlier.

When the wider economy eventually collapses, external vulture funds will come in and acquire these properties on the cheap. I believe Ireland and other countries will actually default on rising debt in exchange for IMF acquisition of state assets. They've already sold off half the country, might as well give away the rest 😄

As for Claire Byrne; she's either lobotomized, or just a really, really good actor 😄

Penfailed · 17-12-2021 10:52AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335385#Comment_118335385

In that case, be cautious. Yourself. Think for yourself (and your vulnerable friends and family). Stop needing to be held by the hand.

MOR316 · 17-12-2021 10:52AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335071#Comment_118335071

Just went fishing is all. Thought you'd have seen it and replied before you did. Fun had passed by then

titan18 · 17-12-2021 10:53AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335661#Comment_118335661

I'd consider it a curfew anyway.

Loafing Oaf · 17-12-2021 10:54AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335574#Comment_118335574

Is there any reason to think the associations are not reflecting the views of their members, or the great bulk of them, on this? SME owners are the ultimate pragmatists; they have zero interest in being martyrs for any cause.

namloc1980 · 17-12-2021 10:57AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335687#Comment_118335687

We'll do the same again that we did for the last 2 summers. We'll he hopelessly slow in lifting restrictions before eventually making a half hearted effort at it next autumn just in time for the Theta variation or something to pop up.

namloc1980 · 17-12-2021 10:58AM

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I know a few business owners affected by this and to be honest they are absolutely beaten down by what's going - there's no fight left in them. They aren't playing some sort of 4D chess game here - they are just exhausted from it all.

lawred2 · 17-12-2021 10:58AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335700#Comment_118335700

It's 100% a curfew on social activity.

Just because the army isn't on the street ushering people home doesn't stop it being a curfew.

17-12-2021 10:59AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335142#Comment_118335142

Could also the ones who voted to maintain the restrictions with the Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021

lawred2 · 17-12-2021 11:01AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335356#Comment_118335356

We should be getting personal. Because these restrictions are personal. Always remember that the loudest pontificators and advocates for restrictions are the least likely affected by restrictions.

So yes - get personal because it is.

Marty Bird · 17-12-2021 11:01AM

It’s all out of the covid playbook, next up we need to vaccinate the healthy children to keep the schools open.

namloc1980 · 17-12-2021 11:02AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118335740#Comment_118335740

You're going to get certain posters performing serious mental gymnastics to claim otherwise. It's like that fella who said earlier in the year social dancing wasn't banned because you could prance around your own living room.

17-12-2021 11:08AM

Will the workers impacted by this be given any additional payments or compensation? Long term job insecurity has well-established negative effects on people's mental stability. I've been there. It casts a cloud over everything. I agree with introducing more restrictions, TBH, but I can completely understand why people are venting here. If there is compensation for the workers, then it's tolerable. If not, then how the fook can the gov jsutify giving money to pantos, drug-addled 'celebrity' musicians, and the like? Triage required on absurdities like these.

More positively, I learnt how to day drink when I was living in a timezone that meant Ireland games were shown at 10 in the morning. It was tough at first. But I got the hang of it the few times a year it was required. Definite novelty factor to it. TIPS: Drink lots of water, eat something in the afternoon, don't wander into daytime traffic and if spoken to by a Garda at any point during the day remember that you have rights and that the proper legal term to use is "affluence of incohol."