What’s your most controversial opinion? Read OP Mod Note in Post #3372

30-01-2023 4:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120169220#Comment_120169220

There’s something not right about them , sausages shouldn’t have that texture, compared to olhausen for example superquin taste very cheap

Greyfox · 30-01-2023 5:26pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120178310#Comment_120178310

They should, I wish all sausages tasted as good as superquinns

Greyfox · 30-01-2023 5:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120178255#Comment_120178255

In that case then he's just a coward for not standing up to his parents.

30-01-2023 5:53pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120178310#Comment_120178310

Olhausen sausages are made by Mallon’s and would be less than 60% pork. And while it might be unpalatable to some, that pork content is mostly made up of offcuts, connective tissue, rendered fat and various bits and pieces from the carcass. The rest is made up of salt, flavourings (yes, msg) and bulking agents.

Until you move into the Jane Russell/Gubeen category and price point of sausages then you are dealing with what’s left when the carcass has been processed. It fairness, they taste amazing and no part of the animal is going to waste.

hoodie6029 · 30-01-2023 8:50pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120169899#Comment_120169899

Haven’t heard anyone say it 30 years. ‘Go abroad for a bit but make sure you come back cos Ireland is great!’ has been the only message out there in the mainstream.

mikemac2 · 04-02-2023 1:13am

edited out

Greyfox · 04-02-2023 4:12am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120199855#Comment_120199855

I think it depends on the person, the 3 best managers I've had in my life have been female

04-02-2023 11:24pm

Ireland should consider getting nuclear weapons for our national defence.

With the UK seemingly going down a more right-wing route. They could be the potential in the future in some remote scenario for them to look at re-invading the island of Ireland. Whether this is for resources or some other reason, we should be prepared for that eventuality, even if we were to solve our current military recruitment issues and get our Navy back to full strength. We still wouldn't have a hope of matching the UK in a military engagement so our only other alternative to remain a free nation would be to have access to nuclear weapons. Now I'm not suggesting we need the big heavy and expensive strategic Nukes. Instead, I suggest the smaller and cheaper tactical nuclear weapons, which are designed for use against military targets and have a much smaller yield combine these small nuclear weapons with reliable delivery systems and it all but guarantees we will remain a free nation as the cost of invading us would be too big to bear for any nation that dared to try.

corner of hells · 05-02-2023 10:38am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120203637#Comment_120203637

The UK might invade Ireland ? There's a conspiracy forum somewhere round here for ya.

dougm1970 · 05-02-2023 3:43pm

charles manson....he didnt kill anyone...and he wasnt allowed to defend himself in court.

people say if hitlers guilty for giving orders to kill then so is he on his own scale....but i struggle with that.

before i get shouted at for being so wrong...i have heard it a hundred times.

i do think manson was a bad bast*rd though.

Wanderer2010 · 05-02-2023 4:57pm

Enoch Burke is an awful clown and any point he may have been making about addressing a student as They/Them has been lost in this bizzare path of self-destruction he is currently on, in full view of a mocking and bemused media who just use him to fill their secondary articles "In other news, the teacher Enoch Burke maintains his vigil outside his former workplace for the 100th day".

I actually dont have an issue with him refusing to accept the pronouns. Its his religion, his beliefs so fair enough. But the way he went about his objection was totally counter productive and has made his life 10 times harder as a result. All he had to do was have a 10 minute private chat with the principal and explain that he wont be using the pronouns as it goes against his beliefs. He was a civil servant who cant be sacked so all that would have happened was the student in question would not be rostered for the subjects Burke took and presumably a more tolerant or contract teacher would take up the mantle. End of story life goes on.

But by barging into a public event to loudly confront the principal about it and then stubbornly refuse to abide by a condition to stay away from the school until his case was heard...and in addition bringing his whole family with him to court and disciplinary meetings just gave the law even more rope to hang himself with. And now there is no employer in the country who will touch him, and not for his beliefs but for the unfavourable publicity that follows him and his family everywhere he goes. Would Aldi even hire him??

kneemos · 05-02-2023 5:07pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120205494#Comment_120205494

Don't think you have any right to impose your religious beliefs on the workplace.

What the school says goes if it's within the law.

05-02-2023 5:11pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120178625#Comment_120178625

they don’t even taste or feel like sausages anymore

cj maxx · 05-02-2023 5:13pm

I’m sorry , but who exactly is this clown. What does he do or why is it news ? I’ve never heard of him.Enoch Burke not Kneeemos 😬

05-02-2023 5:13pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120205249#Comment_120205249

He was a scrote , he knew well what he was doing , now it’s possible he learned his technique from the CIA but that’s another story , Sharon tates family on the other hand are awesome

AndrewJRenko · 05-02-2023 6:02pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120205494#Comment_120205494

1) He wasn’t a civil servant. Teachers are employees of their individual school, not of the State.

2) He wasn’t scheduled to teach the student in question, so he could have just avoided the issue, but he chose to take it head on.

3) Teachers don’t get to opt out of school policies. A school like that isn’t going to have loads of German teachers waiting to pick up his slack.

PsychoPete · 05-02-2023 6:19pm

The use of pronouns is complete bollox

AndrewJRenko · 05-02-2023 7:17pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120205775#Comment_120205775

I’ve been using them as long as I could speak without too much difficulty.

06-02-2023 12:24pm

The lifecycle of most social media platforms like Tiktok, and bebo, MySpace after they have reached their peak can be approximated in the following manner

The Type of account holders is analogus to the sequence of zombie states in the tv series "The Last Of Us":

runners -> stalkers -> shamblers -> bloaters -> death

Or For social media platforms:

Keyboard Warriors -> Spammers -> Trolls -> social death

EDIT: The end result for a Social Media Platform in this light -

Genuine Users become like Joe and Ellie just like in 'The Last Of Us'.

06-02-2023 8:00pm

Some doctors don't know what the fvck they're doing.

A while ago, I was referred to the local mental health team after spending two years on antidepressants prescribed by my GPs. 8 in total I think. Have seen the mental health team a handful of times now. The second most recent time I was asked what they could do to help there and then. I asked to be put on a class of antidepressant I hadn't been given before. Nothing specific within that class, just something in that area. They said no. Why ask?

What they did instead is put me on an AD I was on before as well as a new one. Both the same class. First night I took them, fine, if a little queezy. Next night, took them both at 10pm, and by 11 it all went to sh!t. Falling forward in my chair at the desk, seeing static, eyes trying to force themselves closed, jelly for legs, couldn't feel or move my face. I collapsed on my bed and was out for a short while. Saw the GP the next day, it was Serotonin Syndrome, which can kill you.

I explained what happened to the local mental health team. The advice I was given? Take one in the morning, take the other at night. I saw red and essentially lost the rag. Consequently, I've effectively scared them out of prescribing anything to me.

Having been without any kind of medication for weeks now, I feel utterly sh!te. Will be seeing the GP again on Thursday to see if they can do anything.

/rant

spacetweek · 06-02-2023 10:50pm

Your opinion isn't controversial.

I think doctors know what they're doing but mental health professionals are shooting in the dark. The human brain is indescribably complex and every one is different. All they have for medications is statistically significant positive results for some and nasty side effects for the rest. Many of these medications are so poor that nowadays they're often substituted with cognitive behaviour therapy/getting into nature/physical exercise/more time with family and friends etc.

I actually feel sorry for them, their job is random and useless for so many sufferers. Genuine breakthroughs on mental health is the holy grail of 21st century medicine.

Leg End Reject · 06-02-2023 11:48pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120209736#Comment_120209736

The issue isn't always lack of knowledge, unless you have very deep pockets the issue can very quickly become lack of access.

Early and regular intervention is needed, not a long waiting list, a few piecemeal appointments and a "hope it works" prescription.

The rest of the health service is sliding into the same chaos despite the extraordinary budget given to it, and health professionals spend too much time penpushing for ever-increasing administration.

pgj2015 · 07-02-2023 1:17am

For a small Country there are some amount of scumbags in Ireland.

Greyfox · 07-02-2023 8:25am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120210030#Comment_120210030

True but its to be expected when a slap on the wrist is the only deterrent

Mad_maxx · 07-02-2023 9:38am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120209193#Comment_120209193

Where I grew up, the local GP was from doctor stock and as often happens with doctors from doctor stock, he had that awful smugness and lazy arrogance, I began having frequent chest infections as a teenager so he prescribed me inhalers for asthma but I ended up needing antibiotics twice per year as well

when I moved to another part of the country about fifteen years ago, I started seeing a new GP, she had a bit natural curiosity about her so took a blood test, turned out I’m allergic to numerous things including gluten, I immediately cut out gluten and my life changed over night, I didn’t have asthma at all yet used inhalers for twenty years

07-02-2023 10:47am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120210402#Comment_120210402

Ridiculous.

Fair play for getting sorted out in the end.

cafflingwunts · 07-02-2023 11:20am

Something the mother said to me many moons ago: Doctors and lawyers aren't necessarily smart people, they're just good at reading and remembering what's in a book. Every GP or health professional I've ever visited bar a very expensive visit to a private hospital, has left me feeling very surprised that these people are held so highly in society.

My own controversial opinion of the month is that I feel we deserve the punishment the planet's giving us; I've no interest in global warming etc. it's all waffle imo., but I do think humans, as a people, deserve earthquakes, tsunamis and all form of natural disasters that comes to us.

Potential-Monke · 07-02-2023 8:51pm

Similar to that, this was going to happen, just like California is going to have a horrible event in the future. Were that happened is surrounded by fault lines. It's only a matter of time in these places. But we continue to overpopulate and build more and more in these areas, knowing full well it will eventually happen. Populations are too great now, but I wonder what the clean up/recovery cost vs moving everyone away from the fault lines would be. As much as people complain about Irelands weather, we've one of the safest countries in the world.

Jeremy Sproket · 07-02-2023 10:51pm

Since migrating from V-Bulletin to Vanilla this website has gone downhill big time.

I genuinely appreciate the efforts of all and sundry to have devoted time and put their mind and soul into improving it, especially the unpaid volunteers on here who keep the cogs turning, but it's irreparably damaged and there's no going back. It's a shame it had to happen. I don't use it as much as I used to since.

Jeremy Sproket · 07-02-2023 10:55pm

We should press ahead with the abolition of DST regardless of what the UK do or do not do.

If the argument is that we can't have two timezones on the same landmass just look at the Iberian Peninsula.

If NI are asked to follow ROI and deviate from GB, if the unionists get their knickers in a twist about being in a different timezone to London, the Canaries are in a different timezone to Spain, and the sky didn't fall. Besides, prior to 1916, the entire island of Ireland had a separate timezone to London.

kneemos · 07-02-2023 11:10pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120213149#Comment_120213149

They have building codes that make them earthquake resistant. Those in Turkey and Syria just seemed to fall over.

Greyfox · 08-02-2023 12:00am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120213623#Comment_120213623

Boards gone downhill since the change is accepted by almost everyone, nobody seems to have any ideas on how to try to get the glory days back

Eclectic Econometrics · 08-02-2023 12:09am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120213149#Comment_120213149

A good article I read on this a couple of years ago. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

You can listen to it as opposed to read, if you want, as it is fairly long.

cj maxx · 08-02-2023 3:02am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120213706#Comment_120213706

Houses in SF are usually built from timber , not brick for that reason.

Bobblehats · 08-02-2023 6:42pm

Ladrock or bust

whisky_galore · 08-02-2023 7:34pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120213706#Comment_120213706

Like a lot of impoverished countries or ones riddled with corruption, built shoddy and/or on the cheap.

No such thing as safety, just trust in Allah, Buddha or whoever.

YFlyer · 08-02-2023 7:36pm

People quoting Voltaire quote of defending what they say. But in reality they don't.

whisky_galore · 08-02-2023 7:37pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120210208#Comment_120210208

Why bother reforming people? Think of all the return business our legal eagles get.

kneemos · 08-02-2023 7:41pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120217061#Comment_120217061

Our system and most others seems to be about punishment,with the approval of the public,more the better.

Probably doesn't serve anybody any good in the long run.

Greyfox · 08-02-2023 7:54pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120217075#Comment_120217075

But at least potential victims will be safe for the very short time that a scumbag is behind bars.

hoodie6029 · 09-02-2023 11:07am

Dev and the CC did us all a favour in the long run by preventing the new State from awarding honours. It was just to preserve their power but can you imagine the doses who’d have letters after their names or be Sir whatever and be so much worse?

Twink, Dermot Bannon, most of the Indo brigade. Then the speculation over why some people are constantly snubbed. O’Leary braying on about why it’s all ‘shite’.

whisky_galore · 09-02-2023 11:11am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120217131#Comment_120217131

*slow clap*

Graces7 · 09-02-2023 12:05pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120210777#Comment_120210777

re doctors in the UK where they have - had as much status as priests in society did here.... A nurse friend said," What is the difference between God and a doctor? God doesn;t think he's a doctor" . The power medics held was extraordinary.

whisky_galore · 09-02-2023 9:03pm

People bemoaning that Irish Rail have no catering service and having fond memories of what was in actual fact horrendously expensive tea, coffee, crisps, choc bars and sub par greasy spoon cuisine.

AndrewJRenko · 09-02-2023 9:44pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120221731#Comment_120221731

I may be going back a bit in time, but their egg breakfast and chicken dinner was always decent on the Dublin/Cork run when I used to travel frequently.

cj maxx · 09-02-2023 10:53pm

That Edmund Hillary and his companion were 2nd not 1st to scale Everest. Mallory and Irvine probably did it 30 years before but died on the way down. What happened to their camera ???