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Most Comical/Hysterical COVID News Stories of the past few years

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,699 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    haha I had forgotten about Luke o'Neill telling us to stick granny beside an open window on Christmas day, what madness.

    There was the other one about the two 20 something year old Dublin girls who flew to Dubai to get their tits done during a Level 4 lockdown. When they were out there it changed to Level 5 and on their return they were whisked away by the army and placed into the 2,500 euro a stay Covid quarantine hotel near the airport. They had no money to pay the bill so they both escaped the hotel but Gardai promptly arrested them. Then it came out in court that they didnt get boob jobs at all and that was just a cover story for them to travel for 'medical reasons'. Twitter was speculating that they were really money mules for the Kinahans and then it came out one of them was a mother of a young child so further online meltdowns ensued. That one was great entertainment for a few days, I bet they never thought their boob jobs would become national news but thats what transpired.

    I also remember a Spanish dentist from Lanzorote who rang up RTE radio one day complaining about her Irish customers. The government had just announced new travel rules that opened up travel abroad but only for medical reasons which you would have to prove at the airport. When the rule change got announced immediately she had loads of Irish ring her up for an appointment and asking her to confirm it by email. Then they printed the dentist email to show the Gardai at the airport as their proof of a 'medical reason' for travelling abroad. The poor Spanish dentist was left with an empty dentist chair for 2 weeks as all the Paddies with appointments were actually down the pub in Lanzorote with zero intention of attending her dentist lol. I laughed at that one becasue it was amazing the lengths people went to just to get the hell out of here and away from the constant lockdowns. I cant blame them either as it really was a stifling time, we were all losing our heads locked up for so long.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,699 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    To be fair the Irish govt, NHPET and lots of other European health services basically used the Brits and Boris' gung-ho attitude as a proverbial canary in a mine, our rule changes usually followed theirs but only after they had proved that the risk was tolerable and it didnt overwhelm the hospitals. We were always 4-6 weeks behind what they did but that was no bad thing given we had a lot less deaths than them when all was said and done. But there was always those 4-6 week periods where they had opened up and we hadnt and everyone here was going mad about it, myself included.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Don't Chute!


    Deleted



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Don't Chute!


    Didn’t you sanctimoniously tell us that there was nothing funny about a pandemic that killed millions? Or is it just things that you don’t agree with that aren’t allowed to be funny?



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,812 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I was referring to his comments about bleach. Obviously. I even added a comment to the post to that effect.

    God, I'd forgotten about the sheep dewormer thing as well.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,527 ✭✭✭Sweetemotion


    Nancy Pelosi saying everyone should visit China Town 24/02/20

    Then Tweets this just over a week later.




  • Registered Users Posts: 935 ✭✭✭darconio


    Never forget... how the population went completely crazy, fueled by the scaremongers in the media and the government.

    This is brilliant, I am glad for google photos automatic backup

    "When things were at their worst, we were at our best"

    Some random queuing up outside shops/stores because you know 30 people inside is the limit. That resulted in more people going to the shops more often, also to beat boredom, queuing outside in the cold/rain: now that is absolutely beneficial for your general health. Please note that mask were not mandatory, and amazingly nobody dropped dead on the street.

    Nearly forgot about Woody's and the sudden diy surge




  • Registered Users Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭xxxxxxl


    Was there not some lad that tried selling loads of bog roll or was it hand sanitizer lost his shirt. Maybe misremembering but did amazon not keep it and not refund. ? Also the army trucks protecting PPE like it was nuclear waste or gold.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    I remember the tension in the air back in March 2020 vividly...when the shops were packed with people panic buying, there was a tension everywhere for those few days before the lock downs were announced, I'll never forget it.

    Thankfully, I never felt/experienced that tension again..no matter what stage we were at.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Along with most of the posters on the thread it seems ...

    The first few posts were funny but after that the thread descending into yet another bash party .

    How about the pics without the partisan commentary ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,697 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    ffs, this was meant to be funny not another point scoring thread



  • Registered Users Posts: 463 ✭✭Coolcormack1979




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    What I find odd about it all as well...did one Irish politician grow in stature during the crisis.

    I remember the Financial Crisis in 08-10, even if you didn't like the policies and most of us didn't, Lenihan grew in stature, (whereas Cowen most definitely didn't) you felt he was in a difficult position doing his best and had some degree of intellect and integrity...I can't think of one politician that would be comparable. Everyone one of them were buffoonish...from Varadkar quoting hollywood movies in speeches, to the Harris/Donnelly debacle (as in which one was worse)...or Martin scolding a TD for asking about cancer/heart disease screenings, and that is with the most compliant media the political system could ever of asked for!!!

    Is there any point to even ask them to explain our current excess deaths? WE'd just get a line from Top Gun Maverick or something!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,233 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    I forgot the hysteria over the €9 meal.

    I never knew people were so terrified of the idea of eating food.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Former Former Former


    Not possible, because it's inherently a thread saying that the pandemic wasn't a big deal and anyone trying to avoid mass deaths was a stupid c*nt. That's the sole purpose of this thread.

    But sure look, only somewhere between 6 and 20 million people are dead so on with the lols.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,708 ✭✭✭jackboy


    For me it was after the public were banned from going to beaches some guards thought it would be a good idea, while on duty, to make a video dancing on the beach and put it on the internet. Epic trolling of the public.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Don't Chute!


    And this post for me is proof that you people will defend absolutely everything that was done during Covid no matter how fcuking ridiculous it was. De man on de telly told me to do it so it must be right.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,812 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I don't see how that's any worse than the anti-vaxx cult around John Campbell.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,496 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    There are people who went all in on defending the covid hysteria, if you highlight the absurdity of it all you will just shine a light on their own idiocy so its no surprise they don't want that to happen. Its just the same 4/5 posters in all these threads still beating the same drum, fighting the good fight.

    Personally I can only find dark humor in the whole thing, but one that stands out are those particular morons doing that tiktok dance video.

    Stay away from the windy and wide open beaches, unless you are a guard doing a stupid dance of course. If you didn't laugh at that you would cry.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    That was insane alright...same with the nurses tik toks...

    But when the politicians and medical professionals egged on the protesters in the Summer of 2020 was when they really took the mick!!! What was it...racism is a bigger virus than covid or some such!

    Or were on about the "new normal"...never explained that one tho!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Don't Chute!


    I don’t know who John Campbell is or what this has to do with my post.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Funniest pic I saw was the one with "Phil Hogan" in that bar in town where the barman was standing on the bar pouring drink into customer's mouths!

    It was when he took that little trip around the country when he came back from the EU for a week and there were reports of him popping up everywhere.

    I can't find it now unfortunately. Anyone got a copy?

    He had a lovely silly smile on his face and looked so good in his suit in among everyone.

    Really funny pic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭SortingYouOut


    The division of people was mad as well, and would be funny to look back on if it wasn't still so evident in this thread.

    Beverly Hills, California



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,594 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    It was hilarious. The hand wringing and apoplexy about it as if it was some unique plot against pubs. When it was the publicans who asked for it because under the original plan pubs serving food would be shut and only restaurant licencees open. Gombeens.

    Short memories.

    I'll exempt anyone who had bad memories of the nightclub dodgy chicken curries though... in either direction :)


    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users Posts: 369 ✭✭sekiro


    The utter absurdity of Varadkar trying to get movie quotes into his speeches when things were at their height. People dying, people confused, nobody really knowing what's going to happen and this absolute clown is having a laugh seeing if he can get movie quotes in to his announcements.

    The media lapping it up too. If he wants to wedge LOTR or Terminator lines into a speech then maybe there's a time and a place for that?

    Genuinely wonder at times how seriously our politicians were taking the issue.

    That's a couple of new deaths today Mr Taoiseach, bring our total so far to 1699. "Grand, do you think I can get a Mean Girls quote into my speech later? It'll be some laugh."

    So fetch! Leo Varadkar quotes Mean Girls in speech (rte.ie)



  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,932 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Sweetemotion and RNFoxtrot threadbanned



  • Posts: 4,727 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It's nice to have a thread where we can just look back at how ridiculous it all was.

    I think my favourite though was Leo going to a festival in the UK while we were still heavily restricted.

    Even he knew it was a load of rubbish.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭fm


    No one is making a joke of anyone who was sick or died whatsoever,only of some of the daft decisions made by our government or some or the media outlets bizarre shows.you are just looking to be offended about anything.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 671 ✭✭✭fm


    So the publicans came up with the 9 euro meal so,I thought it was based on science and us plebs just didn't understand it, according to a few on here.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,594 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Yeah it was hilarious watching the gombeens wail and moan about a measure they asked for ie for pubs serving food to be allowed to remain open. Other jurisdictions similarly had rules different for pubs v restaurants.

    People interact differently drinking v put for a meal.

    Then some other gombeen came out with a great joke saying a pint and packet of crisps is a meal.

    So the government had to put some measure in regulations to denote a pub serving food and used the existing substantial meal concept which mapped to 9 euros.

    Simple.

    You may aswell wonder why speed limits are 50 kmh not 47 or you can drink at 18 not 18 and 213 days.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,699 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


    Id forgotten out the Gardai and their silly dance. It was so tone deaf of them when they had set up roadblocks in every town checking people werent going more than 5k away from home. I dont think they realised how tone deaf it was till the backlash started on social media. I think they had done it for some kind of charity challenge but no one cared when we were all locked up in our homes day in day out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,233 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Not sure where I gave any opinion on it.

    Just saying the trauma that the idea of eating food caused some was hilarious.

    Lighten up lad.

    I don't know who "de man on de telly" is or what he has to do with my post anyway.



  • Posts: 4,727 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Don't think anyone was traumatised by eating food.

    For me personally, it was very frustrating to have to spend 9 euro on food and let it go to waste because I didn't want to eat.

    Especially considering hunger kills more than COVID.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Former Former Former


    Because I didn't want to eat

    You were only supposed to be going there to eat. That was the whole point.

    And there you have it. The whole thread boils down to having pints.

    You could have just spared us all a lot of time and led with that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Former Former Former


    And in a thread that's supposed to be making fun of hysterical reactions, playing the "babies starving in Africa" card is absolutely top notch.

    That simply won't be beaten. @[Deleted User] is today's Internet champion.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,536 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    I forgot the amount of posters who actually defended the €9 meals...my god...even that nuttery was defended....probably defended the sound off the telly and ban on music as well!!! All the lads had to do was say "we are following the science" and bingo!!!

    Cancelling kids sports was completely bonkers as well.



  • Posts: 4,727 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    This thread is to look back and laugh at the COVID nonsense. Forcing people to purchase 9 euro worth of food is exactly the kind of anti science nanny state nonsense we are laughing about.

    COVID knows to leave you alone if you've had some garlic bread.



  • Posts: 4,727 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Think you win the hysterical award to be fair.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,233 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson


    Oops the "€9 meal" hysteria is still going strong. Didn't mean to rile up those with PTSD again.

    Thank christ I didn't mention the people who couldn't tell the difference between a facemask and a nappy!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,326 ✭✭✭Former Former Former


    Ah listen, when I resort to "WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN" as justification for wanting to swill a load of pints, then maybe I'll be a contender, as of now I'm only a pretender to your throne.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭Don't Chute!


    A couple of lads talking about it on Boards is hysteria now! The revisionism about Covid in here is astonishing.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,233 ✭✭✭✭pjohnson




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,187 ✭✭✭Elmer Blooker


    Reminds me of that New York Congresswoman Ocasio Cortez partying away in a packed Florida bar when NY was still under lockdown.

    Big deal, restrictions were only for the little people anyway.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,422 ✭✭✭facehugger99



    Our brave Boys in Blue - saving lives during Covid



  • Posts: 4,727 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Read again. Your the only one that mentioned children and pints... You're getting hysterical again.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,594 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Apparently you're deeply concerned about deaths from hunger in the world. Are none of them children?

    And this isn't just an insincere argument you've latched onto because some obstacles were put in the way of you having a few pints.

    So go ahead, show us a post on this site unrelated to covid where you express concern over food waste and how it relates to worldwide hunger.

    Otherwise yes, your faux concern is hysterical.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,812 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I remember the lads who were paranoid that Bill Gates had put chips in the vaccine. Same lads who were paying a fortune every month for the latest iCrap which tracks their every movement.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,708 ✭✭✭jackboy


    In fairness the icrap stuff does not come from bill gates so maybe they were on to something😂



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,594 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    I guess you couldn't find that post then? So proof positive that your concern was not sincere.

    What drinks were you talking about here then? A glass of wine? Why were you "having" to spend €9 if you weren't out for a few drinks?

    Look at the attempts to backtrack now the insincerity of your argument is laid bare for all to see.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120110511/#Comment_120110511

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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