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Have you ever seen Logan's Run? (We can discuss the cut-off age later...)

The most likely choice is to reduce care for older people. The ones who can afford private care will pay for it and those who can't afford it will go without.

We often think about the state pension as being a big cost but that's the least of it. Consider it a small cost along with bus passes and heating grants. The big costs will be in health care for an aging population.

I don't think of my house as an asset I can pass to my child, I see it as an asset I can sell to pay for my old age. And I'm delighted that I have an asset I can sell. Those who can't afford to buy a house are in big trouble.

Look at the attitude and of old people since the 80s towards tax and the state building houses to replace the council house stock they sold off to those people. If the younger people take the same attitude towards paying for old people's health care, the old people are screwed.

Yes, because at least the entire marriage was not based on a lie from the get go it's just a normal breakup.

That superbowl half time was a load of bollocks

People would 100% know they were gay while getting married they'd just repress that part of them and try to lie to themselves that the weren't.If you want to lie to yourself then fine, deceiving someone you are getting married to is not right.

Parents who murder their kids shouldn't have prayers offered for them.

that does'nt count, that was like during covid, or people returning home due to wanting to be with their families (who happen to be in ireland) not coming back to ireland for ireland.

Many people leave the country for jobs or a better life, they don't move back here for a better life. only people that move here for a better life are [deleted] and thats usually for the benefits and the warm welcome and policies rather than for the country itself.

Also that could be 30,000 leaving, but not the same 30,000 coming back into the country, but rather 30,000 people migrating into the country from outside. its very easy to falsify or make statistics misleading.

I'm not sure if this might be a bit of a shock to you, but there are these people known as 'bisexuals'...

there are also people who claim to be gay just as an excuse to get out of a marriage, then after parting/separating from their partner go straight back to having straight sex with other people. a convenient lie in other words

in all fairness, you gotta admit that kids would do a better job running the country than the current clowns to be fair

you said returning, that wording implies its the exact same people coming back. Return means to come back. How can a person "return" if they never left ireland, or never been in ireland to begin with?

i understand you were responding to grayfox https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/The_Gray_Fox_(Oblivion)

But its dishonest and misleading how you're using those stats to try counter what he said (and the perfectly good valid point he made, despite myself disagreeing with it) saying just as many irish returned as had left, they clearly did'nt return for educational reasons or for work, otherwise they never would have left to begin with. They may have returned for any number of reasons, primarily i somewhat believe due to family living back home in ireland. does'nt matter the reason why, fact is they were coming home back to ireland anyway regardless, therefore if 30,000 did not leave the country after school, we still would have gotten this 30,000 back. meaning it made no difference and does'nt actually counter what gray fox said.

Also for the last part of what you said, statistics can be misleading or false anytime. if statistics say the sky is pink, that does'nt actually make the sky pink at all

yeah but you used it in a way that was dishonest when responding to grayfox, you used the stat to rebut what he said, i'm simply trying to say it can't apply. i don't agree with his statement (partially i do i'm in 2 minds about it, i believe more money should be put into education, but rather more about teaching the right things to kids instead of just throwing away the money blindly to schools, he's right in his reason about kids fecking off out of the country when possible and why they do).

Regardless of my understanding or misunderstanding of stats, they're not returning to ireland at all. Same or different people coming back to ireland, regardless of 12 months the point still stands. They're obviously not coming back for the country itself. Their "comings" back cannot be used in any sort of argument whatsoever to support the country. The stats don't really matter. grayfox's point still stands about this country and the kids leaving it. saying about 30k people immigrating and emergrating back to ireland or whatever word you want to use, doesnt change this

Not it isn't as the FA Cup final is the third most important trophy a team will compete for whereas the Super Bowl is the be all and end all in American football.

Also the FA Cup is still a sports occasion solely whereas the SuperBowl is a big entertainment jamboree and there is as much talk about the adverts and half time show in the general public as the game itself.

I hate the half time show of the super bowl it's tedious and I hate how long the game drags on for it definitely drags on for much longer than a normal game.At least the FA Cup/Champions League etc who no extra bull crap attached to them they are just sports games and we should be thankful for that.

true, in that regard the super bowl half time shows and jamboree (have'nt heard that word in donekys years lol, i like it. and thank you for using it <3) are kind of like a mini-olympics opening ceremony or the musical acts and non-sports performances. Really though its just over hyped american stuff and marketting things. the only reason i even know "super bowel bowl" even exists, is because of hearing "half-time show" or "commercials at half time" mentioned alongside it. Or "x person peformed or made an apparence at the super bowl half time show".

What do they even do (the players) that the audience need to be entertained and wait ages for the second half of the game? just resting is it? is it like 30 minutes or 15 mins or 5 mins or what? how long? and how come soccer doesnt get the same treatment? and why are these trophies all cups and bowls based? sounds very centered around food lol.