Off Topic Thread 5.0

Your second paragraph doesn't really make sense. The original 1973 Roe decision took the power to decide out of the hands of the people. You can't be in favour of the Court being the ones making the decision back then but not now. Well, maybe if you're a hypocrite or biased you can.

The US isn't a pure democracy. It's a Republic. The founding fathers instituted the Supreme Court as a check on the excesses of majoritarian rule. They had concerns the majority would enact laws that would infringe the rights of a minority.

The whole point of rights is that the power to decide is out of the hands of the people.

You can't decide to ban a religion in the United States - it is protected under article 1 of the BoR

You can't decide to ban guns in the United States - it is protected under article 2 of the BoR

You can't decide to put your soldiers in someone's house during peace time without the consent of the owner - it is protected under article 3 of the BoR

Now to be fair, maybe Supreme Courts shouldn't be able to create unenumerated rights. The Irish SC can and has, and that's what SCOTUS did in 1973. But if an SC is restricted to what is called "literal interpretation" over "broad" or "historical" interpretation, you make constitutions awfully unwieldy. And because changing the US constitution is virtually impossible you'd paralyze the country.

Hard to disagree with that.

Part of me kind of thinks "fair play to him if he can get away with it".

And the other part of me thinks he's bland, uninsightful, and even depressing at times and I will actively change channel to avoid listening to him.

Quinlan is poor. But I think most of the pundits are poor.

Listening to Warburton during the six nations was like a breath of fresh air. Insightful clever and didn't hold back.

I'm struggling to remember a decent Irish pundit who was an ex player. Bod can be good, but not as a commentator.

Trimble and Cave are both good. Jackman is awful! Lenihan not much better and B.O.D is meh.

Trimble, ROG, Horgan off the top of my head. BOD is fine, nothing spectacular, but I think he rubs some people the wrong way due to who he is.

Warburton has the occasional good take, but overall I find him very poor, and dull besides. Especially around the topic of high tackles and red cards, he's got some moronic takes there, can't imaginge why. He's better than Guscott, Wilkinson, Davies, etc. but that's not a high bar to clear.

Face facts, we get the pundits that work for TV and radio. The casual fans, with a passing interest in the game. Why do we always have one pundit from each province for URC games. Not for insight, that’s for fans to connect with. Most casual fans don’t know the pundits are talking out of their ass. Sure even on here you will get people saying Franno is insightful and knowledgeable of the game. Lowest common denominator basically.

I haven't seen Paul Reiser in anything in f*ckin' years. To see him pop up in The Boys S3, genuinely bizarre but loved it.

I am not, this is correct.

A guy training in my gym smells like a 2 week old dead body in a hot country.

he’s training with 2 other guys. If one of your mates stank like an open sewer, would you not tell them?