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acidskiffle

Probably been done before but without getting too extreme,do you have any opinions most people you know seem to disagree with?
I happen to think Bono is a sound lad.

Mod note: last time a thread like this was made a lot of people were banned.
If your opinion is too extreme you probably shouldn't post it.

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Cienciano

You like dogs? Hitler liked dogs too. You monster!

thebuzz

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

No, it makes you a proper (local team) fan.

No, it makes me more of a proper football fan. Nothing beats being at a live game, watching on TV and shouting at it like most football 'fans' in this country is nowhere near being a proper football fan.

Wade in the Sea

The Irish language is utterly pointless. Only a handful of people actually speak it as a first language and the majority of them are slightly weird, usually having been brought up in some arty farty household where one of the parents is a teacher and the other one is a full time poet or some such arse.

Porkpie

We're all a little sad for being on Boards.ie at this hour

Lithium93_

I prefer Redheads & Brunettes over Blonde haired women

DEFTLEFTHAND

Lithium93_ wrote: »

I prefer Redheads & Brunettes over Blonde haired women

Redheads get a bad rep, who cares that they can't properly produce melanin, defective gene my arse, some red headed broads are hot.

[Deleted User]

Fat birds are sexy. Not necessarily to look at - I mean maybe they are, that's a matter of your own opinion - but when it comes down to closing your eyes and doing the business, you will NEVER get a better ride than what you'll get from a fat bird.

I've done my share of them and I'll tell you - never done a fat bird where the experience wasn't 95+% minimum.

Skinny girls are cold, as in their skin is cold to touch, they complain all day long, and they wait around for you to spend lots of money on them.

BattyInNZ

My house doesn't have to be 'child friendly' - other people's children have to be 'house friendly'

Chattastrophe!

Clandestine wrote: »

-Women should have to get a licence to get pregnant.

Why women, and not couples?

simply simple

Wilberto wrote: »

That depends on your interpretation of "rich".

RICH means rich, riches of money, praise, popularity, freedom, .....
list may go on. everyone may find something for them in this list.

godwin

Ban the whale.

simply simple

Spanish Harlem wrote: »

Ireland needs to boycott India until they cop-on - don't buy Indian products, don't accept Indian immigrants into this country, and discourage people from travelling there.[/QUOTE

THINK! If indians boycott Ireland and stop coming here, where shall we get the IT smarties and nurses from. They will find their way somewhere else but Ireland will definitely be scratching its head then. (opinion )

kunst nugget

humbert wrote: »

In keeping with this thread, I'm not against eugenics in general but it's certainly a thorny issue and open to abuse.

When is eugenics ever acceptable? People aren't racehorses...

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

thebuzz wrote: »

No, it makes me more of a proper football fan. Nothing beats being at a live game, watching on TV and shouting at it like most football 'fans' in this country is nowhere near being a proper football fan.

Just because you are at a game doesn;t mke it or you any better.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Wade in the Sea wrote: »

The Irish language is utterly pointless. Only a handful of people actually speak it as a first language and the majority of them are slightly weird, usually having been brought up in some arty farty household where one of the parents is a teacher and the other one is a full time poet or some such arse.

Saying that a lanaguge is "utterly pointless" because of a lack of speakers is being a philistine. Would you say the same about Latin?

Or would you say that all art is pointless because it has no practical value?

humbert

kunst nugget wrote: »

When is eugenics ever acceptable? People aren't racehorses...

I'm OK with this.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/may/30/barbara-harris-sterilise-addicts-uk

Madam_X

Clandestine wrote: »

Hah. I have no idea how it would play out but I think the idea as a whole would be ideal for society.

How on earth would a licence stop women getting pregnant?

Do you mean: a licence to raise children maybe?

wretcheddomain

Madam_X wrote: »

How on earth would a licence stop women getting pregnant?

Do you mean: a licence to raise children maybe?

When a woman wishes to conceive a baby, she has to get a permit from the appropriate authority. This permit is delivered if it is shown the baby can be cared for fully and not in poverty or in the hands of ill equipped parents. Any mother who produces a baby and does not have a permit has the child taken away from her and fined. In addition, the permit would raise cash for the State given that it'll cost €50 to get one in the first place. This is a great basic skeleton to work from and it's only a matter of time before the PPP is introduced (Permit Permitting Pregnancy).

eviltwin

wretcheddomain wrote: »

When a woman wishes to conceive a baby, she has to get a permit from the appropriate authority. This permit is delivered if it is shown the baby can be cared for fully and not in poverty or in the hands of ill equipped parents. Any mother who produces a baby and does not have a permit has the child taken away from her and fined. In addition, the permit would raise cash for the State given that it'll cost €50 to get one in the first place. This is a great basic skeleton to work from and it's only a matter of time before the PPP is introduced (Permit Permitting Pregnancy).

What if things are going well for you when you have a baby but 5/10 years down the line things hit the skids. Do we have forced adoption?

Napper Hawkins

Madam_X wrote: »

How on earth would a licence stop women getting pregnant?

Do you mean: a licence to raise children maybe?

Pregnancy as we all (should) know cannot be prevented all of the time, so this eugenics bull doesn't even come into it.

But I very much agree that anyone who wants to raise a child should need a license. If you're capable of being a good parent then you've nothing to worry about. If you're not then your children should rightly be taken away from you. Far too many children have had to grow up with degenerates for parents because any prat can have one whenever they want.

You need a license for a dog, why not a human?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

Pregnancy as we all (should) know cannot be prevented all of the time, so this eugenics bull doesn't even come into it.

But I very much agree that anyone who wants to raise a child should need a license. If you're capable of being a good parent then you've nothing to worry about. If you're not then your children should rightly be taken away from you. Far too many children have had to grow up with degenerates for parents because any prat can have one whenever they want.

You need a license for a dog, why not a human?

This is a case of perspective: what makes a good parent: in Russia and Finalnd, they take their kids down to the ice lakes and send them swmming in freezing temperatures and little or no swimwear. Is this being a good parent or not?

And that's juse one example.

Addle

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

You need a license for a dog, why not a human?

What % of dogs in this country are licensed?

Napper Hawkins

Addle wrote: »

What % of dogs in this country are licensed?

Not a clue. What % of drivers are licensed/insured?

Napper Hawkins

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

This is a case of perspective: what makes a good parent: in Russia and Finalnd, they take their kids down to the ice lakes and send them swmming in freezing temperatures and little or no swimwear. Is this being a good parent or not?

And that's juse one example.

Do the Russian and Finnish kids grow up to be scum as a result?

crimewave

Galtee wrote: »

:eek: You take that back!

Georga salpa has a head like a dog's arse

Madam_X

Oh it's the "Comparing heads to objects they in no way resemble" game - I love this game!

Justin Timberlake has a head like a... tin of beans.

Steve O

Madam_X wrote: »

Justin Timberlake has a head like a... tin of beans.

I always thought he had an instant noodle type head.

Paddy Cow

wretcheddomain wrote: »

When a woman wishes to conceive a baby, she has to get a permit from the appropriate authority. This permit is delivered if it is shown the baby can be cared for fully and not in poverty or in the hands of ill equipped parents. Any mother who produces a baby and does not have a permit has the child taken away from her and fined. In addition, the permit would raise cash for the State given that it'll cost €50 to get one in the first place. This is a great basic skeleton to work from and it's only a matter of time before the PPP is introduced (Permit Permitting Pregnancy).

They used to have a system similar to this in place in Ireland - it was called the "Magdalene Laundries" (except it didn't have the fines, you just worked to pay off your moral penance to society and maybe someday if you were lucky, someone would sign you out of the place, if they could live with the shame). It was abolished because even though it was run by "well meaning moral role models of society" :rolleyes: it was found to be inhumane and caused more long term damgae than good, mainly because it was a short sighted system thought out by people who could only think in black and white.

They have a similar system in China today whereby couples have to obtain a permit to have a child. if you fall short of this permit (usually because they already have a child) then there is (NSFW) dire consequences.

If people were abitrary numbers without emotion, then it would be easy to have such basic solutions as you have but we are not, so I hope you click on the "dire consequences" link and google "Magdalene Laundries" just to see what the consequences of the system you envision produce.

I agree with you that there are many parents not fit to be parents but most do a good job, even if they are parents by "accident".

Tl:dr people are not dogs. You cannot license who can and can't have a child simply because a few are f*ckups.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

Do the Russian and Finnish kids grow up to be scum as a result?

Have a guess. Anyway, the argument is moot because correlation does not imply cauasality.

(They do quiet well in Finland, but there are many other factors, to be fair.)

Anywya, I'm referring to the custom as good or bad parenting.

KenSwee

I'm sick and tired of the media coverage and reaction to the bombs in Boston. It's overdone to beyond belief.
Minutes silence everywhere, hours of repeat coverage on local TV and radio shows being broadcast from Boston. As far as I'm concerned, it was a minor event on a world scale and considering that they bombed the s**t out of Iraq and Afghanistan for the last ten years, how in the hell should they expect that it wouldn't happen to them?
And all in a week where hundreds of people were killed or injured in earthquakes, fires, NATO f**kups and car bombs elsewhere.
How many of the dead would be alive if they hadn't invaded Iraq?