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Same Sex Marriage Referendum Mega Thread - MOD WARNING IN FIRST POST

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  • #8402
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,694 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Would someone explain this me I have been YouTube today and a prominent vote no video( the one with I am a gay man and am going to vote no ) keeps coming up first when I search and it plays before each song. How much does it cost to be the first Ad on a You Tube search and how come it appears as the first video in any search. I am voting yes, but it is annoying me slightly.


  • #8403
    aloyisious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,134 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    Pretty-please, do not do anything like what's in the image below. Before anyone ask's either it's a selfie by some-one after they wrote on the paper today, before it was put into the ballot box, or it's a an example of what not to do, or what returning officers may declare to be a spoiled vote. Either was, there's no clear view of what the vote was in favour of, so it's probably NOT today's 34 amendment vote as the boxes won't be open til tomorrow for ballot papers to be seen and examined.


  • #8404
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,355 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    mariaalice wrote: »
    Would someone explain this me I have been YouTube today and a prominent vote no video( the one with I am a gay man and am going to vote no ) keeps coming up first when I search and it plays before each song. How much does it cost to be the first Ad on a You Tube search and how come it appears as the first video in any search. I am voting yes, but it is annoying me slightly.

    Bout three fiddy

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • #8405
    aloyisious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,134 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    mariaalice wrote: »
    Would someone explain this me I have been YouTube today and a prominent vote no video( the one with I am a gay man and am going to vote no ) keeps coming up first when I search and it plays before each song. How much does it cost to be the first Ad on a You Tube search and how come it appears as the first video in any search. I am voting yes, but it is annoying me slightly.

    Ah. you've been singled out by the bearded one walking alongside park railings as well. Don't get rattled, while it's annoying, just think how much this is reducing the accounts of some groups.


  • #8406
    the incredible pudding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,369 ✭✭✭the incredible pudding


    mariaalice wrote: »
    Would someone explain this me I have been YouTube today and a prominent vote no video( the one with I am a gay man and am going to vote no ) keeps coming up first when I search and it plays before each song. How much does it cost to be the first Ad on a You Tube search and how come it appears as the first video in any search. I am voting yes, but it is annoying me slightly.

    Aaaaaadblock


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  • #8407
    JohnnyChimpo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭JohnnyChimpo


    aloyisious wrote: »
    Pretty-please, do not do anything like what's in the image below. Before anyone ask's either it's a selfie by some-one after they wrote on the paper today, before it was put into the ballot box, or it's a an example of what not to do, or what returning officers may declare to be a spoiled vote. Either was, there's no clear view of what the vote was in favour of, so it's probably NOT today's 34 amendment vote as the boxes won't be open til tomorrow for ballot papers to be seen and examined.

    Some people should be cleansed from the gene pool, not to mention the electoral register


  • #8408
    CaveCanem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭CaveCanem


    Tasden wrote: »
    And yet there are plenty who don't do it.

    People aren't claiming to be out changing the world, they are just proud to have had a part to play, no matter how small, in something so important. I don't see why that's a bad thing.

    It's not a bad thing, it's good for people to participate, but do we really want to lower the standard for making a real change in society to the actual act of voting, which you should be doing anyway? If the participation in following referendums and elections increased as a result then that is a very good thing, but I don't see it happening somehow!


  • #8409
    CFlat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭CFlat


    I just voted. I couldn't believe the amount of cars outside my polling station. Ive been voting there for about 15 years in GEs, by-elections referenda etc and I've never seen it as busy.

    I heard some people say this AM on the radio that there was confusion over which ballot paper was which. I don't know why. Just read the slips. What each one is about is clearly written on them.


  • #8410
    JohnnyChimpo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭JohnnyChimpo


    Stinicker wrote: »
    Just got back in from voting and feel I did the right thing, the abolsute disgraceful bullyboy tactics I witnessed over the last week drove me from being a Yes to being a No voter.

    Rural Ireland will vote strongly No and the entire Western Seaboard will poll No strongly.

    Case in point here, thanks for the illustration


  • #8411
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    aloyisious wrote: »
    Pretty-please, do not do anything like what's in the image below. Before anyone ask's either it's a selfie by some-one after they wrote on the paper today, before it was put into the ballot box, or it's a an example of what not to do, or what returning officers may declare to be a spoiled vote. Either was, there's no clear view of what the vote was in favour of, so it's probably NOT today's 34 amendment vote as the boxes won't be open til tomorrow for ballot papers to be seen and examined.

    Guys if you write anything other than an "X" entirely within the confines of the box your vote may not be counted.

    Don't draw smiley faces, don't write on the ballot paper, don't circle any words, don't draw "checks" or "V"s and don't take pictures or you vote may be disqualified.


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  • #8412
    CaveCanem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭CaveCanem


    Stinicker wrote: »
    Just got back in from voting and feel I did the right thing, the abolsute disgraceful bullyboy tactics I witnessed over the last week drove me from being a Yes to being a No voter.

    Rural Ireland will vote strongly No and the entire Western Seaboard will poll No strongly.

    I was there, and made it back just in time for voting to the basic question of whether it is right for some couples to have less rights than others , I can't stand over that and am actually very relieved it is over and I voted yes.


  • #8413
    Not a NSA agent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Not a NSA agent


    Stinicker wrote: »
    Just got back in from voting and feel I did the right thing, the abolsute disgraceful bullyboy tactics I witnessed over the last week drove me from being a Yes to being a No voter.

    Rural Ireland will vote strongly No and the entire Western Seaboard will poll No strongly.

    Thats the spirit, deny a group rights because you dont like some people who might not even be part of that group.

    Im going to go hit a black person because of the no voters.

    Also please dont put all of us in the west in the same category as you.


  • #8414
    F1ngers
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 11,148 Mod ✭✭✭✭F1ngers


    Was called a paedo by a no voter this morning on way to vote.
    Idiots on both sides.


  • #8415
    KeithWoodshead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭KeithWoodshead


    Stinicker wrote: »
    Just got back in from voting and feel I did the right thing, the abolsute disgraceful bullyboy tactics I witnessed over the last week drove me from being a Yes to being a No voter.

    Rural Ireland will vote strongly No and the entire Western Seaboard will poll No strongly.


    Huge turnout country wide is indicating a pretty safe win for the Yes side thankfully.

    Bookies have it at 1/33 on for a Yes vote now.

    Also, your post is a load of rubbish. The irony that you voted no because of supposed bullying tactics from people looking to give voice to a long oppressed minority


  • #8416
    xxyyzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,253 ✭✭✭xxyyzz


    Stinicker wrote: »
    Just got back in from voting and feel I did the right thing, the abolsute disgraceful bullyboy tactics I witnessed over the last week drove me from being a Yes to being a No voter.

    Rural Ireland will vote strongly No and the entire Western Seaboard will poll No strongly.

    So you took perceived bullying personally and took it out on the entire Irish gay community who had nothing to do with it?


  • #8417
    ben.schlomo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,717 ✭✭✭✭ben.schlomo


    Stinicker wrote: »
    Just got back in from voting and feel I did the right thing, the abolsute disgraceful bullyboy tactics I witnessed over the last week drove me from being a Yes to being a No voter.

    Rural Ireland will vote strongly No and the entire Western Seaboard will poll No strongly.

    It will Poll No? Whats that mean? You mean vote no, and no that wont happen either, but sure go with it anyway.


  • #8418
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Stinicker wrote: »
    Just got back in from voting and feel I did the right thing, the abolsute disgraceful bullyboy tactics I witnessed over the last week drove me from being a Yes to being a No voter.

    Rural Ireland will vote strongly No and the entire Western Seaboard will poll No strongly.

    Exactly, i voted no as well because of this and know a lot of other people did so as well.


  • #8419
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    https://twitter.com/thebtownbar/status/601646996110315520

    You've got to be ****ting me... What kind of carryon is this?!


  • #8420
    JohnnyChimpo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭JohnnyChimpo


    CaveCanem wrote: »
    It's not a bad thing, it's good for people to participate, but do we really want to lower the standard for making a real change in society to the actual act of voting, which you should be doing anyway? If the participation in following referendums and elections increased as a result then that is a very good thing, but I don't see it happening somehow!
    I'm sure on another day your be bitching about the apathy of today's youth. Unless you can explain precisely what "lowering the standard" actually means in this context (I'm guessing nothing at all), maybe just be happy that young people are apparently bucking a long standing trend of increasing political apathy. No matter how transient it may or may not be, or how déclassé the means of expressing this newfound interest might seem


  • #8421
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Stinicker wrote: »
    Just got back in from voting and feel I did the right thing, the abolsute disgraceful bullyboy tactics I witnessed over the last week drove me from being a Yes to being a No voter.

    Rural Ireland will vote strongly No and the entire Western Seaboard will poll No strongly.

    It's a pretty stupid thing to do though isn't it, change your vote not only to spite others, but more oddly to spite yourself ?


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  • #8422
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,384 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    These people were always going to vote 'No' they're just looking for excuses for bigotry.


  • #8423
    KeithWoodshead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭KeithWoodshead


    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    Exactly, i voted no as well because of this and know a lot of other people did so as well.

    I literally find it flabbergasting that you would vote no because of the conduct of one side or the other. It's a social issue, have the balls to say what you really think.

    Plus, the notion that the Yes side acted badly is nonsense. They dealt with facts, unlike the No side who tried time and again to derail the debate with red-herrings.

    Your peers (the so called bullied) include John Waters, David Quinn, Cathy Sinnott and Breda O'Brien. Real horrible people, who can justifiably be called bullies


  • #8424
    jobbridge4life
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭jobbridge4life


    Stinicker wrote: »
    Just got back in from voting and feel I did the right thing, the abolsute disgraceful bullyboy tactics I witnessed over the last week drove me from being a Yes to being a No voter.

    Rural Ireland will vote strongly No and the entire Western Seaboard will poll No strongly.

    Congratulations you just punished innocent people including thousands of children for the actions of a few.


  • #8425
    ThisRegard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,833 ✭✭✭✭ThisRegard


    Pov06 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/thebtownbar/status/601646996110315520

    You've got to be ****ting me... What kind of carryon is this?!

    Relax would ya. They're also offering lesbians extra eggs so it's all good.


  • #8426
    Not a NSA agent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Not a NSA agent


    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    These people were always going to vote 'No' they're just looking for excuses for bigotry.

    Maybe they are just used to voting on the likes of x factor.


  • #8427
    mailforkev
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭mailforkev


    Stinicker wrote: »
    Just got back in from voting and feel I did the right thing, the abolsute disgraceful bullyboy tactics I witnessed over the last week drove me from being a Yes to being a No voter.

    Rural Ireland will vote strongly No and the entire Western Seaboard will poll No strongly.

    I find it hard to believe that you were ever voting Yes.

    Nobody could possibly choose to vote to deny equality to so many people based on the perceived actions of so few. Especially considering a vast majority of Yes advocates are heterosexual


  • #8428
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    ThisRegard wrote: »
    Relax would ya. They're also offering lesbians extra eggs so it's all good.

    Relax? Why should No-voters be discriminated for their opinion? It's a democracy after all!

    The Yes-voters want equal rights yet they are not giving No-equal rights like in the scenario above. Hypocrites the lot of you...


  • #8429
    Pyr0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,967 ✭✭✭Pyr0


    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    Exactly, i voted no as well because of this and know a lot of other people did so as well.

    So basically a big "F*ck you, you're not the same as us" to the gay community because of a few bad apples?

    Well done. That's the way people should vote for everything, nothing will change then.


  • #8430
    jobbridge4life
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭jobbridge4life


    Pov06 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/thebtownbar/status/601646996110315520

    You've got to be ****ting me... What kind of carryon is this?!

    What? Everyone had the right to two sausages its just that you know the ideal place for two sausages is gay marriage! Right No voters?


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  • #8431
    Pov06
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Pov06


    Doctor Jimbob wrote: »
    Nah, not biting.

    Because you know it's true. Disgraceful really.


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