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  • #4232
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    I really, really enjoyed reading Peig in school. Still have my copy of it on the shelf, well over 20 years later. I never understood why everybody hated it so much:confused:


  • #4233
    Paparazzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,395 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    Craft beer or locally brewed beer does not taste better than the leading mass market brands, not ever, apart from the below.
    All Dutch beers taste terrible

    To me that's like saying a mcdonalds beef patty is the same as a rare fillet steak. Entirely subjective of course, but were your tastebuds burned off as a child?


  • #4234
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,701 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    krudler wrote: »
    even budweiser? pffff

    that's not beer, it's got rice in it so fails the test :D


  • #4235
    gracehopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭gracehopper


    Generalisations are a lazy take on things but are for the most part true.

    Women like bastards, shopping and are worse drivers than men.
    Men are narrow minded, cannot multi-task and lack apathy.
    black people are good dancers and athletes.
    Irish people drink too much and have low self esteem.
    Jewish people are tight arses. good with their money.
    red headed people are fiery

    and so on....


  • #4236
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    there's an element of truth in every stereotype


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  • #4237
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,349 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    73Cat wrote: »
    I really, really enjoyed reading Peig in school. Still have my copy of it on the shelf, well over 20 years later. I never understood why everybody hated it so much:confused:
    Burn the witch. Burn them!!
    gracehopper wrote: »
    Men are narrow minded, cannot multi-task and lack apathy.
    I would have thought the last part would be a good thing...

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #4238
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    Honest opinion wrote: »
    90% of atheists who post on boards.ie are self centered arrogant and ignorant. I don't beleive in God but i don't go round enforcing my views on people or pretending to be a self tought evolutionary genius.
    Oh, I see we have what I like to refer to as a hipster atheist....

    ...don't believe in God but too cool and different to all those other atheists....


  • #4239
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,934 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    I believe that abortion as a form of contraception is nothing less than murder. On After Hours this makes me a backward, woman-hating prehistoric luddite.


  • #4240
    Alena Little Wool
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Alena Little Wool


    Sgt Hartman wrote: »
    I believe that abortion as a form of contraception is nothing less than murder. On After Hours this makes me a backward, woman-hating prehistoric luddite.

    you can't prevent conception with an abortion... kinda happens afterward...


  • #4241
    gracehopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭gracehopper


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Burn the witch. Burn them!!

    I would have thought the last part would be a good thing...

    It is, thats why we rule the world!


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  • #4242
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    gracehopper wrote: »
    Men are narrow minded, cannot multi-task and lack apathy.
    Did you mean empathy?

    Not really bothered either way.


  • #4243
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    bluewolf wrote: »
    you can't prevent conception with an abortion... kinda happens afterward...


    ...you could put up signs on the way to the ovaries ....."any of this (picture of egg being fertilised) and it'll be this (picture of bottle of gin and a coathanger)".


  • #4244
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,934 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    bluewolf wrote: »
    you can't prevent conception with an abortion... kinda happens afterward...

    Thank you Mister Pedantic;)


  • #4245
    Yeboah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭Yeboah


    I admire Adolf Hitler, Stalin etc.. ... dont agree with all their policies obviously but have Admirations for them


  • #4246
    JoeyDoh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭JoeyDoh


    The traditional roles of sexism are being reversed, in the strive to empower women and the feminism movement we have done so to the detriment to men.

    In some cases it is quite literally, in a social context and otherwise, one rule for women and another for men.


  • #4247
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    Women are hard work, high mentanence and your problems and feelings are too annoying to stick!

    Bar the odd drunken night, I'm good to be done with you!! :P


  • #4248
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Been a long while since I did my Leaving cert, a long time indeed

    And back then people would be complaining over William Shakespeare and how it was ancient and nobody spoke like that and they should bring in someone modern

    Roddy Doyle was one of the most famous writers in Ireland back then so his name was often mentioned.
    Well not many speak like the characters in Roddy Doyles books either or the films they did up in Kilbarrack!


    My unpopular opinion is that Shakespeare rocks :cool:
    Maybe I didn't appreciate it until I became older, I still remember a lot of the quotes from Macbeth

    It should be on the Leaving Cert and it's a mighty shame if they took it off


    Just last night I watched Kenneth Branagh in Henry V and it was a great production

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5dI65LvbrE


    I think this is unpopular so I'll add it to the thread


  • #4249
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    Yeboah wrote: »
    I admire Adolf Hitler, Stalin etc.. ... dont agree with all their policies obviously but have Admirations for them

    Absolutely!

    Aside from the unsavory 6 million Jews thing, Hitler was an economic mastermind, a man capable of pushing through huge reforms.

    Stalin and his forced migration policies has created one of the most beautiful populations on earth. The woman in Russia and eastern Europe are stunning, owing largely to great genetic diversity thanks to Stalin.

    Huge contrast to the hags we have over here, where the gene-pool stagnates....


  • #4250
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Hitler was a great man for building roads but he was no Mussolini

    As Mussolini achieved what 70 years of CIE failed to do, get the trains to run on time

    Some man :cool:


  • #4251
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Hitler was a great man for building roads but he was no Mussolini

    As Mussolini achieved what 70 years of CIE failed to do, get the trains to run on time

    Some man :cool:

    Myth.


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  • #4252
    Neeson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,909 ✭✭✭Neeson


    mikemac1 wrote: »


    My unpopular opinion is that Shakespeare rocks :cool:
    Maybe I didn't appreciate it until I became older, I still remember a lot of the quotes from Macbeth

    It should be on the Leaving Cert and it's a mighty shame if they took it off

    Sure it still is but they rotate the plays every few years.


  • #4253
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    Aside from the unsavory 6 million Jews thing, Hitler was an economic mastermind, a man capable of pushing through huge reforms.

    It's thought that there was more that 17 million Holocaust victims. The fact that only the Jews get mentioned all the time really infuriates me.


  • #4254
    Mance Rayder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Mance Rayder


    smash wrote: »
    It's thought that there was more that 17 million Holocaust victims. The fact that only the Jews get mentioned all the time really infuriates me.

    Agreed, the majority of the holocaust victims where Slavic people, a portion of which where Jews.

    My unpopular opinion is that the USSR won world war 2.


  • #4255
    ruthloss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭ruthloss


    Neeson wrote: »
    Sure it still is but they rotate the plays every few years.

    I did Hamlet, albeit 'donkeys' years' ago.

    Why then 'tis none for you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.


  • #4256
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Jimoslimos wrote: »
    Oh, I see we have what I like to refer to as a hipster atheist....

    ...don't believe in God but too cool and different to all those other atheists....
    Yep. The worst kind. From the same species as the reformed smoker.


  • #4257
    Duggys Housemate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,298 ✭✭✭Duggys Housemate


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    Yep. The worst kind. From the same species as the reformed smoker.

    nonsense the worst kind of atheist is the modern no-nothing.


  • #4258
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,334 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ulster Bank is still the best bank in Ireland.


  • #4259
    coonecb1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭coonecb1


    Mance Rayder wrote: »
    Agreed, the majority of the holocaust victims where Slavic people, a portion of which where Jews.

    My unpopular opinion is that the USSR won world war 2.

    Yep, agreed. We'd be speaking German if it wasn't for the Russians.

    Having said that, we'd all be speaking Russian if it weren't for the Americans (Cold War!)


  • #4260
    coonecb1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 523 ✭✭✭coonecb1


    I really like Tom Cruise as an actor, pretty much every film he's been in I've enjoyed

    (Including Top Gun) :eek:


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  • #4261
    Mance Rayder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,007 ✭✭✭Mance Rayder


    coonecb1 wrote: »
    I really like Tom Cruise as an actor, pretty much every film he's been in I've enjoyed

    (Including Top Gun) :eek:

    +1 He is a fantastic actor, Whatever about him being a nutjob.


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