Are we in danger of becoming the biggest dry sh*tes in the world

jimgoose · 08-10-2013 03:26PM

Agricola wrote: »

No problem with people having fun. As long as they do so in a safe and orderly manner consistent with best practice.

You're not clenching, I can tell!!

Amirani · 08-10-2013 03:26PM

Canadian LCBOs (the only places that are allowed operate as off-licences) have to close at 6pm on Sundays, 9pm other days.

ruthloss · 08-10-2013 03:29PM

:rolleyes:

Agricola wrote: »

Yeah, what were they thinking banning smoking. Sure whats wrong with making non smokers and kids inhale fumes for a few hours in a public place! Never did anyone any harm!

Ah Id leave flat racing alone but yeah ban the grand national and others like it. We really should be able to enjoy ourselves without having to watch horses be put down on front of us.
I like boxing but Id consider mandatory headgear for professionals. Pro rugby should bring in some form of height, weight restrictions and change scrummaging rules to make the game safer, hurling is probably ok. Probably.

Nothing like a run around a leafy suburb. Good clean harmless fun. The nanny state (done right) is a force for good. People need to be protected from their own astonishing stupidity, even if they don't like it.
I object to anyone interfering with my astonishing stupidity. :rolleyes:

jester77 · 08-10-2013 03:36PM

humanji wrote: »

I thought those were festivals that were sponsored by drinks companies?

They would be sponsored in the same way that Diageo sponsors Arthurs day.

Agricola · 08-10-2013 03:38PM

ruthloss wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Agricola wrote: »

Yeah, what were they thinking banning smoking. Sure whats wrong with making non smokers and kids inhale fumes for a few hours in a public place! Never did anyone any harm!

Ah Id leave flat racing alone but yeah ban the grand national and others like it. We really should be able to enjoy ourselves without having to watch horses be put down on front of us.
I like boxing but Id consider mandatory headgear for professionals. Pro rugby should bring in some form of height, weight restrictions and change scrummaging rules to make the game safer, hurling is probably ok. Probably.

Nothing like a run around a leafy suburb. Good clean harmless fun. The nanny state (done right) is a force for good. People need to be protected from their own astonishing stupidity, even if they don't like it.
I object to anyone interfering with my astonishing stupidity. :rolleyes:

Objection noted but over ruled, due to your astonishing stupidity.

ruthloss · 08-10-2013 03:46PM

Agricola wrote: »

ruthloss wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Objection noted but over ruled, due to your astonishing stupidity.

Baa Dum Tish!!!!!!:D

Irish Guitarist · 08-10-2013 03:52PM

A lot of those things you mention are hardly exciting. When I see someone throwing a cigarette butt out of their car window I don't think "he must be the life and soul of the party".

Ireland has gotten more disgusting looking since the smoking ban. Hordes of people standing around outside pubs flicking cigarette butts onto the ground. There's a pub here where someone just sweeps the cigarette butts into the road. There are hundreds of them against the path. I think the smoking ban should have been done the opposite way around; ban smoking outside but let people smoke in pubs to their hearts content. Either that or just ban it completely.

Also I would be in favour of banning any 'sport' that relies on using animals.

SCOOP 64 · 08-10-2013 03:52PM

wilson10 wrote: »

And what about the carbon tax.
Is the money raised spent on reducing our carbon footprint and if so how?

Yeah, but we are the biggest polluting country in the world, well thats what i read on some government survey, so we have to do something.

lahalane · 08-10-2013 03:55PM

No we are not. Biggest dry ****es in the world...severe overreaction.

wexie · 08-10-2013 03:56PM

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

Yeah, but we are the biggest polluting country in the world, well thats what i read on some government survey, so we have to do something.

I would LOVE to see that backed up with some figures

jimgoose · 08-10-2013 03:57PM

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

Yeah, but we are the biggest polluting country in the world, well thats what i read on some government survey, so we have to do something.

Alright. Which illiterate braying ass in the Gummint came up with that one?? :pac::pac::pac:

SCOOP 64 · 08-10-2013 04:00PM

wexie wrote: »

I would LOVE to see that backed up with some figures

no, no, no, just believe me:

1.Ireland
2.American
3.China

and so on and so forth.

mikom · 08-10-2013 04:00PM

SCOOP 64 wrote: »

Yeah, but we are the biggest polluting country in the world, well thats what i read on some government survey, so we have to do something.

Chinese government survey was it?

Friend Computer · 08-10-2013 04:23PM

jester77 wrote: »

Ireland has it backways.

Here in Germany the bars can stay open all night, you can get a 6 pack of beer for in the shop at any time for under €3, you can smoke in the bars, they have vending machines on nearly every street corner selling cigarettes and a pack costs less than €5.

And you know what.... the country is not falling apart or full of raging red eyed alcoholics. Last time I looked, Germany was actually doing ok for itself.

It's time Ireland followed the approach of the Mutterland.

Do people drink responsibly in Germany because the bars are open all night or are the bars open all night because people can drink responsibly?

I'd say it's the latter.

Agricola · 08-10-2013 04:42PM

Theres no German translation for "few cans, be grand"

schmanga · 08-10-2013 05:24PM

why do you think there are such restrictions in ireland surrounding alcohol? do you think stereotypes come from thin air? if we cannot be left to manage ourselves then we must be constricted in case we harm ourselves or others......

jester77 · 08-10-2013 05:32PM

Friend Computer wrote: »

Do people drink responsibly in Germany because the bars are open all night or are the bars open all night because people can drink responsibly?

I'd say it's the latter.

It's totally different here, you can go out and do stuff you need to do during the day, come home in the evening, head out for dinner around 10 and hit the bars after. All in the knowledge that you are not under time constraints or pressure. This is not possible in Ireland and people end up throwing down too much drink in too short of a time due to the early closing time.

If there were no time constraints in Ireland then peoples drinking habits would change.

wexie · 08-10-2013 05:46PM

jester77 wrote: »

If there were no time constraints in Ireland then peoples drinking habits would change.

Not necessarily always for the better though.**

**Even so, agree with your point.

TwoShedsJackson · 08-10-2013 05:49PM

Finton90 wrote: »

With talks about Ireland introducing a sugar tax, do you think that we are going a bit far with this whole nanny state crap. The following sums us up really.

Ridiculously early closing times for pubs.
Trying to ban drinks advertising in sports.
Plain packaged fags
Talks about trying to ban people from smoking in their own private cars (absolute rubbish)
can't buy drink in a shop after 10 o'clock (why I'm an adult for feck sake)
Not to forget we invented the the original smoking ban.

Whats next ban bookies and horse and greyhound racing because there cruel to animals. oh and ban boxing and rugby and hurling because there a bit rough and barbaric and actually lets just ban the craic altogether and all go to work by day and for a run around the leafy suburbs or the gym in evenings like good little citizens.

Everything in moderation I say.:)

Don't move to Saudi Arabia so, all that stuff is illegal there. The Department for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue would be after you right quick.

Or try Myanmar, 15 years in jail for having a modem without a licence.

clairefontaine · 08-10-2013 05:54PM

Ireland used to be fun.

Now with my in your face Irish surname, I won't get asked if I like to party and do I have 8 brothers and sisters, but am I a puritanical repressed goodie two shoes descended from infantilising prudes.

The_Valeyard · 08-10-2013 05:55PM

Careful...the PC brigade are watching.......

wexie · 08-10-2013 05:57PM

clairefontaine wrote: »

Now with my in your face Irish surname

Fontaine ?

clairefontaine · 08-10-2013 05:58PM

wexie wrote: »

Fontaine ?

Oh yes I use my real name on the Internet. :cool:

Maximus Alexander · 08-10-2013 06:00PM

That's a french as fuck surname!

GrumPy · 08-10-2013 06:06PM

Finton90 wrote: »

With talks about Ireland introducing a sugar tax, do you think that we are going a bit far with this whole nanny state crap. The following sums us up really.

Ridiculously early closing times for pubs.
Trying to ban drinks advertising in sports.
Plain packaged fags
Talks about trying to ban people from smoking in their own private cars (absolute rubbish)
can't buy drink in a shop after 10 o'clock (why I'm an adult for feck sake)
Not to forget we invented the the original smoking ban.

Whats next ban bookies and horse and greyhound racing because there cruel to animals.

OP, are you a heavy drinker, smoker and gambler?

The_Valeyard · 08-10-2013 06:08PM

GrumPy wrote: »

OP, are you a heavy drinker, smoker and gambler?

I hope he is, sounds fun

UCDVet · 08-10-2013 06:12PM

Sadly, this seems to reflect the will of the average Irishman.

Finton90 · 08-10-2013 06:12PM

GrumPy wrote: »

OP, are you a heavy drinker, smoker and gambler?

AS I explained in a previous post im not. well not yet anyway:D

Grandeeod · 08-10-2013 06:21PM

ColeTrain wrote: »

I agree OP, I'd like to see less intervention from the state but it ain't happening. The older conservatives are well organised in this country. If they're not ringing Joe Duffy then they are circling wagons at the local tidy town meeting.
Give it twenty years and we might see some change.

Im sure someone said that 20 years ago.

AnonoBoy · 08-10-2013 06:23PM

Smokers. The biggest bunch of whingers ever.

Boo-hoo, I have to smoke outside.

They used to be outlaws, cool kids, heroes. Now they're just babies.

Bah!

Are we in danger of becoming the biggest dry sh*tes in the world

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