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

Hugely in agreement. A good environmentalist is one that wants achievable and measureable changes so that we can live side by side with the environment. We still need to drive, farm, travel, have kids, build etc doing so in the cleanest and best way for the environment is whats needed.

Taxation is the lazy way out of it, creating change isnt. As you said carrots not sticks

It would be hypocritical if he told others not to have 4 children when he has 4. What he's doing isn't hypocritical.

If you don't like him or his policies, just say so. Probably best not to use spurious arguments though.

You're also cresting special standards for environmentalists about how many children they should have , and complaining that environmentalists restrict people's freedom...

Sure, sure, sure. Now you're setting rules for how many children they should have, and accusing them of taking your freedom. Think about that for a second.

I don't like the sound of screeching women when watching sport.

Would you be okay with a non screeching woman?

It's sad how some people will try to twist your words around to make you sound like a sexist. You're better off just ignoring them tbh.

Ireland's defense capabilities are a serious embarrassment to the country. We are supposed to be a first world country yet we go with the begging bowl to the Spanish or British when we need to get Irish citizens out of a warzone. We should at least double if not triple our defense spending.

Even if regulating the internet was a good idea it would be far too difficult in reality

@Greyfox @El_Duderino 09

Hope linking to things is okay in this thread?

The EU just showed us another way of reining in TikTok

Everyone’s attention is on the U.S.’s moves to ban the app, but the European Union just showed it’s not messing around.

https://zpravy.kurzy.cz/765472-commission-stress-tests-platforms-election-readiness-under-the-digital-services-act/

• the Commission has conducted a simulation exercise with designated platforms, Digital Services Coordinators, and civil society organisations to test their readiness against election manipulation and interference in relation to the European election.

EU is doing its best to introduce regulation with DSA!

Was going to post earlier but didn't, don't want people saying I going on about it too much?

People like what they like no matter what those creepy male feminists say.

It's basically part of our genes as a civilization for both sexes to want time exclusively in the company of the same sex.

Some people are honest, some people pretend for self preservation, and some people like to persecute honest people to earn social credit. But everyone knows the truth.

Every family of at least 3 kids will have one black sheep, who will fall into one of these categories:

1. Will marry a person of a different ethnicity (and have the cheapest wedding of the siblings!).
2. In terms of career, can go a number of ways. Either they'll flit between a number of run-of-the-mill jobs without settling down (compared to more 'successful' siblings), will be over the age of 30 and still won't have found themselves (mightn't have even bothered learning to drive, still rely on mammy and daddy), or will constantly be on the go travelling/studying and thus won't get a 'real' job till their late-20s.
3. Will often hold 'alternative' views on everything from vaccines to activism to politics. Can get quite self-righteous in doing so to.

It's actually uncanny. I ran the numbers across my entire extended family, and my wife's family circles too, and there is always one that fits into at least one of the above. Not saying their is anything wrong with it per se (apart from 3.) but it's definitely a common human condition.

But that's mates in a private group. The people on MOTD, are not your mates. They're public. So wanting to have some all-male time with your mates is fine. MOTD isn't your private friend group, so it's deluded to think you can speak for the public as if it was your private friend group.

Some people were mentioned women commentating on and being panellists for men's football. I don't see why it's unreasonable to have men do the commentary for the men's game and women for the women's game.

More men play and watch football, and whether you like it or not, there is more money in the men's game because of this. Yet television people seem to insist on more and more women getting involved in men's football.

I've (partly) watched Football Focus on BBC1 for the past three Saturdays, and today is the first time there were more men than women in the studio discussing the football. The previous two weeks it was two women and one man. Last week, the outside broadcast section was to a female player who had just taken up tattooing…so let's see how she's getting on! 🙄 What has that got to do with football?

I wonder if Alan Hansen would be available to do a fashion piece on This Morning or The One Show…

The wolf tones shouldn't be allowed play electric picnic, they are clearly big IRA supporters, why give them the publicity? main stage wtf? Has Ireland not moved passed all that "come out you black and tans" sectarian nonsense?

They draw people and make money.

They will argue that it's Irish culture.

They're retiring afaik so you won't have to put up with them for long more unless there's a Continuity Wolfe Tones.

Disclosure: not a fan and lyrics of many of their tunes are blatantly sectarian, but somehow acceptable to young people who "cancel" anything else.

People today who have been diagnosed with Autism and who say (with a degree of pride I might add) "I'm on the spectrum" or "Since my diagnosis" are gobshites.

Having a mild form of autism where you can live perfectly normal perfectly functioning life without too many major difficulties like James McClean and Chris Packham for example is not that big a deal and people really need to stop banging on about it.You see it all the time in recent years where it's become very common to talk about and feel like it's some sort of an achievement to be diagnosed with autism and something to be proud of.It neither is something to be ashamed of or proud of it is just the way you were and I suspect a very large proportion of people over the years would qualify as being on the autism spectrum if they had got it tested.

There are people with very debilitating forms of autism who will never live normal lives, my cousins son has autism and he's probably never going to be able to live independently and needs a carer to take him to school, Paul Scholes son can't live a normal life because of his autism.For people like that it's a very serious condition and I can't imagine how tough it must be for them and their families but lumping all mild forms of autism in with serious cases as if they are even close to the same thing and we should be concerned with them on all the same level is nonsense.There seems to have been a fetishinsation of the milder forms of autism in recent years.

Just like people who have suffered with mild depression and anxiety are not remotely to be put in the same category as people with severe mental illnesses like Schizophrenia.