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

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  • Posts: 4,727 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I do a lot of work for my local food bank. Lots of people in my local area struggle to get by.

    It's easy to understand how privileged people immediately think of hunger as an African baby issue though.

    It was disappointing knowing that so much food was being wasted when so many are in need. Not to mention that COVID is worse for heavier people.


    As for the drinks, I frequently drive to the pub and drink soft drinks. Not everyone who goes to the pub wants to skull pints.



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


    Jasus,lame attempt to catch someone out,you nailed the poster there.everybody doesn't like wasting food especially when others don't have it,big deal they went to the pub and didn't want to waste food,it was a stupid rule as most people would agree then and now looking back,.but keep defending the government no matter what.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,181 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Sure, show us the posts where you talk about this pre covid.

    Absolutely zero connection between food waste in restaurants before or during covid, and the issues you talk about.

    Struggling to get by is not the same as qualifying in "hunger kills more than COVID."

    And if you're talking in general about hunger killing people, the absolute vast majority is in third world countries, and to pretend otherwise is absolutely desperate stuff. You are showing your 'privilege' there. When you talked about hunger killing more than COVID you weren't referencing any African victims there no? It was obvious what you were referencing and now you are desperately backtracking.

    All the times you were put out by the €9 meal you were out for soft drinks? That's the only time it bothered you? And you think that's a fair representation of the people who were put out by the rule, or indeed all the times you were out? Not a chance.

    You couldn't have skipped the meal at home knowing you were going out somewhere you had to purchase food?

    Pull the other one.

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,429 ✭✭✭Former Former Former


    Maybe you wouldn't be so angry at the world if you allowed yourself to have a laugh at your own expense every now and again?

    Like, fair enough you didn't agree with the substantial meal thing but throwing in the world hunger thing was a stretch, no?



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭Spudman_20000


    Back to our regular programming folks.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,504 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    You don't get any more hysterical than what society did to this poor man. Shame on everybody.

    On the lighter side, you could only laugh at the morons when they proudly announced that they were allowing 200 spectators into venues that could hold 5000 people.




  • Posts: 4,727 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I just remembered, in my area they put big gates up at the entrance to a big forest...

    Absolutely no way you could stay safe in a large, quiet forest...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,946 ✭✭✭Deeper Blue


    It's been mentioned in an earlier post but Luke O Neill rolling around in a bubble on Prime Time and claiming it was a legitimate way to get people back to gigs, all while keeping a straight face, was easily the most hilarious/absurd thing that appeared in any form of Irish media during Covid.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,161 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Walking into Easons when shops opened and a big yellow tape around the childrens books area .You could browse all you liked for adult books but had to ask for a staff member to get you a childrens or young adults book . I still smile at the ridiculousness of it .

    Go to Dunnes and the mens trousers were behind a tape , I asked a staff member to get me a pair of trousers for my husband such a size and colour . He asked me was is an essential item and we both laughed when I said yes his arse is coming out of the the pair he has .



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,479 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    There was a lot of nonsense on all sides JD.

    There was also a lot of sense and people know more now although it was a hard bitter lesson.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,756 ✭✭✭jackboy


    I wish I had your confidence that a lot was learned. As far as I could see we learned nothing after the first summer and just implemented the exact same stuff the second summer. I suspect if we ever have another pandemic we will go with the exact same stuff again, including the beach dancing guards.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,479 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    I disagree.

    The reason we shelved restrictions in this country with Omicron coursing through the community was due to lessons learned.

    Also the commentary on guards and nurses is remarkably similar in its content to those protests by so called freedom groups in other countries who harassed and intimidated public servants, and also picketed their homes with their families inside .

    Same posters public servant bashing ...hilarious alright.

    Post edited by Goldengirl on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,756 ✭✭✭jackboy


    I don’t think so. A lot of our restrictions could not work with Omicron as it’s too infectious. Only a level five would have worked on that and it was not dangerous enough after so many were vaccinated.

    If Omicron was more severe we would have gone straight back to all the old restrictions.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,479 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl


    Yes ? But point is they were dropped because unnecessary .

    Why? because lessons learnt , that now we were less at risk due to vaccination that the previous abundance of caution was no longer necessary.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Some people obviously still can't acknowledge that a good bit of it was outright crazy. Since that would be admitting that they were caught up in the craziness themselves. So it must still be defended and sense found where none was no matter what. Let it go lads & lassies, its ok now, we can laugh about these crazy things together.

    Post edited by CalamariFritti on


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


    Did the speaker of the house not get caught having a haircut IIRC ?



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


    After my injection Google was still able to track me when I left my phone at home. Grabs coat 🤣 There were some crackers alright in the weird crowd.



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


    The lack of oxygen probably made it a better idea when he was in it than it was actually.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    There certainly were.

    I remember a friend of mine who was absolutely against the vaccine and who was sailing very close to the wind on the whole 5G Bill Gates stuff. We spoke on the phone one day and he was like 'I'm never getting that suff no matter what' and I told him I got my second shot only yesterday. So he asked me to get a fridge magnet and hold it against my arm where I got vaccinated 'cos he 'heard somewhere' that the nanoparticles would make the magnet stick.

    Sadly those people didnt even realise they didnt do 'the cause' any favour. All the media had to do was focus on that loony stuff and any covid critic was discredited immediately.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,682 ✭✭✭prunudo


    Unfortunately that trend continues with the media, no matter the current topic of the day, if you dare raise a point, an opposing view or even question what the mainstream narrative you're painted as a loony, a tin foil hat wearer, a gembot or even more recently describing protesters as sinister.


    But back to funny reactions to covid rules, a friend giving out to me because i went 4.5km away from home, the day before it officially went to from 2 to 5km anyway



  • Registered Users Posts: 742 ✭✭✭foxsake


    while the chip thing was weird Bill Gates has an odd (scary to me) level of influence in the whole vaccine world with his foundation and ties to Fauci.

    It's correct his motivations should be questioned and also of the people he funds.



  • Registered Users Posts: 742 ✭✭✭foxsake


    i agree , I would have been on the "side" (loosely) of your friend but the far out stuff was a pain in the hole cos you knew the media would interview them and paint their 1% as the 100% world view of anybody who question the WHO, NPHET , Bill Gates etc...

    Post edited by foxsake on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,004 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    This

    And this, don't go together, the first post is absolutely loopy, the second then complains about being seen as absolutely loopy, you have to be able to see this, that's how everyone else does.



  • Registered Users Posts: 742 ✭✭✭foxsake


    I'm saying if you questioned "it" - it being anything to do with the handling of covid from offical sources - you were put in the category of "5G death chips"

    I questioned many things about how covid , restrictions and the faith in a vaccine above all else was handled.

    Do I think there is/was incompetence and corruption - yes. Do I think 5G chips are now in 95% of the irish people. no.

    But Claire Byrne (and her cohort) would associate me with both and make no distinction. Just as you have.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,121 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,004 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Yep, because you don't, or refuse to see how you come across and then wonder why people don't make the distinction.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Well then you could've just read right over it.

    Anyway. I don't know enough about Bill Gates to have an opinion one way or the other. I don't believe he wants to control and chip us all etc but I don't know is he all benevolent and altruistic either. Thats not me questioning his altruism. I actually don't know..

    But thats neither here nor there. I would agree with @foxsake that I'm also generally quite uncomfortable with very very rich people using their fiscal power and influence to further certain policies and worldviews on the wider population. In Bills case I may well do him injustice and he may well try to do good with the money he earned. I'll give hime the benefit of the doubt tbh, he seems a good guy.

    Just not entirely comfortable on principal. It's just too much power and influence in one mans hand. For every good guy there are typically three that aren't so good.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,121 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    I've no interest in researching other people's arguments because they're too lazy to make them themselves.

    The problem in their eyes isn't rich people wielding influence, it's rich people with the wrong opinions wielding influence. Fine when Donald Trump tries to launch a coup and talk people into injecting themselves with bleach to cure covid but Bill Gates donates to a few charities and they go mad.

    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: 5,791 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    Ye Donald Trump would be the prime example why I have a natural scepticism towards the ultra rich people. On top of Donald being who he is of course. Now Bill is not Donald not even remotely or actually not at all. But I still harbour a natural scepticism towards the ultra rich cos I find it hard to believe you can get that rich AND be a good guy. It usually doesn't work that way. Typically somewhere along the way lines have to be crossed. But like I said I didnt look into Bill Gates and I do believe he deserves the benefit of the doubt.

    Our views are probably not too far off tbh.

    P.S. Having said that under Donald Trump we weren't on the brink of WW3 so there's that too.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,121 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Not living under threat of WW3 while Trump was in charge was purely a happy coincidence and nothing more.

    I would share your skepticism of the uber-rich as well but they're not all the same. Gates has a history of speaking out about various causes and funding worthy projects. I'm sure he has plenty of skeletons in his closet of course but he's much more deserving of respect than many others in that part of society.

    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



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,344 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Not sure if already mentioned, but I remember someone showing me videos on their phone of people walking down the street in China, and just collapsing dead.

    Even then I laughed and said it was balls, but many believed it.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭dalyboy


    Yep. I remember this well. In fact it was imo the catalyst for switching people from uncaring about covid to switching hysterical. The perfect fear pump caldron if you will.

    I too tried to inform family and friends that these were definitely fake videos but was laughed at for my scepticism. Why ? Because why would RTE and BBC etc be running these videos on their news reels ?

    Little did I know It was only the beginning of a two year cycle of full-on circus media click baiting campaign.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,344 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Did mainstream media like rte and bbc actually show them?

    I assumed they were only ever on social media



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,181 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Go ahead then, find us this video on RTE or BBC.

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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,614 ✭✭✭HBC08


    Hadn't clicked into this thread in a couple of days.Wherever you stood on Covid restrictions it was a good chance to look back at some of the more ridiculous stuff that went on.

    All too predictably it's been hijacked and the fun sucked out of it.

    While it's been fun in a way and a bit nostalgic to see some of the covid thanks wh0res usernames again, the thread is dead.

    Shame really



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,479 ✭✭✭✭Goldengirl




    And for the person above, when was this thread fun?

    Posters on both sides have comnented on its distinct lack of comic humour bar the odd funny one.( Clare Byrne show basically)

    It appears we are not yet ready to laugh at it all. Or only at those considered on the "other side"?

    It has been very divisive.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,791 ✭✭✭CalamariFritti


    I raise your Clare Byrne with someone-just-killed-my-puppy-face George Lee.

    Maybe the funny side thing won't happen for a long time. Or ever. The likes of Clare and George will never admit to any over-the-top-ness. It's their professional reputation they have to think about. And like I said earlier a lot of people here were too involved to take a step back.

    Same goes for me tbh. If anything I feel now even more strongly about us having lost our collective marbles then I did one or two years ago.

    And as for the 'other side', the 5G-they-want-to-chip-us-possibly-off-us crowd. Well I thought they were idiots back then too.

    Post edited by CalamariFritti on


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 78,351 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    TomSweeney threadbanned



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭Spudman_20000




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,945 ✭✭✭growleaves


    Guardian ran this photo from Wuhan, taken by wire services photographer.

    Edit: Do I even have to point out, which in fact should go without saying, that in a Communist dictatorship a foreign photographer would not be allowed to take a picture like this unless the authorities wished it. The AFP photographer admits to not knowing how the man died. The photo is therefore staged in essence even if the man is really dead - though he might be acting or taking a nap.

    Post edited by growleaves on


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  • Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭live4tkd



    Remember this at the time really rattled people as well. BAM didn`t get the contract here!



  • Registered Users Posts: 742 ✭✭✭foxsake




  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,121 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    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: 6,536 ✭✭✭Silentcorner


    People putting their vaccination status on their social media.

    Probably changed by now tho....Ukraine Flag I'm guessing!



  • Registered Users Posts: 742 ✭✭✭foxsake


    i wanted to discuss the point . I'm not here to convert you.

    find god for that



  • Registered Users Posts: 742 ✭✭✭foxsake


    it seems kinda a social faux pas now to discuss vax status of anybody that dies or has a serious health issue.

    seemed to be all the rage a while back with the politicans , media and science gurus - including our dear leader Leo Varadkar who was very keen to discuss the vaxx status of those in ICU or recreantly deceased

    odd that.



  • Registered Users Posts: 51 ✭✭Eldudeson


    Back to the comical, remember all the WhatsApp voice messages from "my Sister's Boyfriend's Brother's Friend's Uncle" who was in the "Guards, Army, government" warning that there was going to be a mobilisation of soldiers to lock down the country "tomorrow". Every **** week they were in every WhatsApp group.

    Fine, get taken in by the first one but after that have a bit of common sense!



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


    Sure the Gardai went off and bought a load of cars!!! Did I imagine that or did it actually happen?



  • Posts: 4,727 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Does anyone remember the thread called something like "Now you're talking to an expert" with the HSE insider.

    It was comedy gold.

    He was telling everyone how he was most likely going to die and explained in great detail how to decontaminate your Tesco delivery.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,259 ✭✭✭Xander10


    I was only thinking about that the other day. It was a nurse explaining along the lines, that when the weekly shop was delivered she would leave it sitting in the hall for around five hours and then wipe down each item with a disinfecting cloth and gloves.



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