Lets say a prayer

Donny5 wrote: »

Agriculture is practiced on too small a scale in Ireland, hence too low wages. Rural Ireland must move forward and away from a predominately agricultural based economy in order to improve quality of life.

Just imagine where agriculture would be without the CAP.

Also, if people commit suicide because their profession is no longer tenable, that's their problem. Normal people move on.

Ireland has a lot of good farmland, world population is growing, the problem is like with milk and who gets what, the farmer who puts most work in getting just 20c, the processor gets 43c and the supermarket takes 50c, this is where the problem lies, supermarkets have gotten too powerful.

Without CAP, consumers would pay a higher price for food, farmers are told they get paid badly for their produce as the direct payments are there to pay for cheap food for the consumer and to pay for EU standards which are the highest in the world.

There is a lot of depression around among farmers, they have received the perfect storm - product price at 1970's levels, wettest summer on record and then those guys from bord snip target farming and rural Ireland. The government had grants for farm buildings to help farmers with the EU Nitrates directive and they then change the rules after farmers spends tens of thousands of euro to meet EU requirements meaning that grants they should get are given out over a number of years.
The weather and the actions of the government are causing serious depression. It is not about it being tenable, it is just very depressing seeing all it rain all the time as it is having serious consequences for farming.

mukki wrote: »

sure the pedo bishop probably watched the weather forcast before saying mass, and got the eegits to pray for something that he knew was going to happen


perverts

thats akin to the mafia placing bets on a fixed fight

Oh, balls, I forgot this is After Hours. I meant tl;dr.

irish_bob wrote: »

surely people who work in weather dependant jobs are as entitled to complain about the weather as anyone else

Not to me, for I'm a prick.

Four-Too wrote: »

Millions of people are praying everyday across the World, but it is no help whatsoever, are we praying to the wrong God(s)? Wars still occur, sick people still die, etc

Well, I think we're just not praying enough to make up for the Gays.

Don't you know God hates us because of them?

Biggins wrote: »

Thats like saying Fianna Failers can complain about the way their government is running - sorry - ruining things.
Hell, it can in theory happen but in reality, like mother-nature, a shower of crap will fall on their heads so "No"!

Lesson one in life.
Ya don't crap on your own door step (it might come back to haunt you like a disgruntled deepthroat).

a nonsensical and entirely spurious comparrison if ever i heard one , look for another