Orange is the new Burke

That mum and dad one is actually pretty important. Any child who has lost a parent can get pretty with it being treated as the standard language. So it's entirely to do with compassion to consider the kind of language that you use with young people.

Or it's the end of days for those who want teachers to be pricks and to never consider what's appropriate language depending on the scenario.

160,000 plus legal costs

Yes many times - outside the Dail - I’ll route out the photos for you some day 🤪

Well I do...I think its a crock of shite tbh

Avoid saying mum or dad, folks instead of lads and ladies .... ffs

No one is excluding anyone, it's not humans you need teaching it's robots or AI...are people's skins so thin they would feel excluded by people casually using phrases like mum or dad? And would feel less threatened or less excluded if someone uses the phrase parents or guardians.....that's going to be a problem for them later in life I would think

It's a degree of resilience people should be developing not subjected to an ultra cosseted environment where they are protected from everyday language ...what happens when they get into the real world?

School has the benefit (and sometimes the drawback) for most individuals of meeting all types of people (private fee paying excepted perhaps) and that's not a bad thing because guess what they all exist out there in the real world ... an environment where relatively common place language is discouraged/prohibited/sanctioned is a bad idea(and what should be non-offensive ...as long as you are not deliberately calling a boy a girl or a they/them a specific gender etc) ..that's not accepting or inclusive as I would understand it at all.....

It's a bad idea long term for all imo

It's as nutty as Enoch Burke imo

Agreed, and they have been using mum and dad boys and girls, lads and lassies, guys etc too

The answer to both questions is the same I think

Zero

Unless

A) He agrees to pay a token amount on a mostly irrelevant technicality while appearing to win on the points he wants to win on (unlikely imo)

B) The law actually starts applying/enforcing consequences that would be uncomfortable to those that break it in this case (I wouldn't hold my breath on this either).....it will be interesting to see what will happen with the fines though....not having to pay or not being forced to pay them or lose assets or not being made work off the debt makes a mockery of them imo...once again its only law abiding citizens that need actually fear the law and consequences in this country.

C) He has a change of heart (the least likely)

Yeah he’s never paying these fines and it opens a whole can of worms for people who couldn’t be bothered paying for the tv licence, speeding fines etc.

The legal system and country is a soft touch and now people are starting to realise it.

The cat stories are all fake.

when your talking to a group, you say mums and dads meaning all of their mums and all of their dads. Same for guardians/parents. But the difference is that a child could have one parent and that's still included.

It's been parents and guardians since I was a kid, and believe me that's no time recent. Mainly because, on any given day, the kids could be with their aunts, uncles, granparents, friend's parents and so on, so there were plenty of examples to make it practical.

Unrelated - what's all this business about cats?