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  • #32
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    But their trip to the polls came with certain conditions - they had to be over thirty years of age and land owners, a restriction that wasn't lifted until ten years later in 1928.

    So about six women got to vote then?


  • #33
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    On behalf of our team, I'd like to apologise for Mary Kenny.


  • #34
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp




  • #35
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    jill_valentine wrote: »
    On behalf of our team, I'd like to apologise for Mary Kenny.
    Tbh, it's Patricia McKenna you should really be sorry for.


  • #36
    Zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,967 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    That women were first allowed to vote in this country ?
    ...and there's been a few recessions, 2 world wars, the current housing crisis, famines and genocides across africa, thousands wiped out in a nuclear assault on Japan.

    Disgraceful I tells you.


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  • #37
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Yeah, teething problems alright. We reckon we've the hang of it now though.


  • #38
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Zulu wrote: »
    ...and there's been a few recessions, 2 world wars, the current housing crisis, famines and genocides across africa, thousands wiped out in a nuclear assault on Japan.

    Disgraceful I tells you.

    Ah yes, i seem to recall women coming out in droves to vote in favour of the 'Bomb Japan Bill 1945'.


  • #39
    Zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,967 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Ah yes, i seem to recall women coming out in droves to vote in favour of the 'Bomb Japan Bill 1945'.
    ...:eek:

    Fuckin bitches.
    (I wasn't alive myself, but seeing as I've no reason to believe your lying...)


  • #40
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    It was promoted as a "Right to Life" bill. We were duped.


  • #41
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    jill_valentine wrote: »
    It was promoted as a "Right to Life" bill. We were duped.
    I can't blame you.

    No-one read the "except for Japanese people, cause they don't have souls" amendment before voting it through. Of course, they told everyone that that was the marshmallow kittens amendment.


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  • #42
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Well, we rang the advice helpline first, but they told us we'd all get breast cancer and schizophrenia if we voted No.


  • #43
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    jill_valentine wrote: »
    Well, we rang the advice helpline first, but they told us we'd all get breast cancer and schizophrenia if we voted No.
    Ah, thats where you went wrong.

    That's the Lisbon Treaty helpline.


  • #44
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    I'm pretty sure it's all the same helpline, and Run_To_Da_Hills is answering the phones.


  • #45
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    jill_valentine wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure it's all the same helpline, and Run_To_Da_Hills is answering the phones.
    He's doing online videos too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwofL_gF0Wk


  • #46
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    The_Minister wrote: »
    OK, not give, but you know what I mean. It was disgraceful, and I can't really figure out how it happened, or how iwent on for so long.

    Well, if you just look at the history of women in the world it isn't that hard to figure out.
    The_Minister wrote: »
    \o/ for giving women the vote, one of the better things that voting has done.

    Did we vote on giving them the vote? I wonder who voted to give us the vote then?


  • #47
    Zulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,967 ✭✭✭✭Zulu


    Your comments intrigue me. Where can I sign up to your newsletter?


  • #48
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Jeremiah 16:1 wrote: »
    A thread started in both the Ladies Lounge and in Afterhours...one of the reasons behind it (other than the subject matter) perhaps being to show the difference in posting style, and thus a new thread will be started in the Ladies Lounge tomorrow so as to show the level of misogeny in AH and hostility shown towards the subject at hand?

    Nonsense, given the level of respect shown here for women who know their place.


  • #49
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Mary Kenny wrote:
    Nonsense, given the level of respect shown here for women who know their place.

    I'm sorry, I wouldn't have said those things about you if I'd known you were here.


  • #50
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    jill_valentine wrote: »
    I'm sorry, I wouldn't have said those things about you if I'd known you were here.

    You're one of those bra waving pill poppers, I'd wager. Well young missy, don't come to me when you don't get the support you need.


  • #51
    Lockstep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,024 ✭✭✭Lockstep


    The_Minister wrote: »
    Minister of Labour.

    She wasn't in Labour, she was in Sinn Fein and Fianna Fail.

    Don't you be taking credit for dead people:p

    Ha, actually that was a typo.
    I know she was with Sinn Fein when she was minister.


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  • #52
    The_Minister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    Hmmmm the first female minister and you call her Minister with Labour.....

    ....freudian?


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