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Boards.ie drive for the current refugee crisis?

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  • 08-09-2015 6:42pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    Should boards.ie start a drive for the current refugee crisis, collecting things like clothes, food, and anything else, for people very much in need over there?

    Admittedly this might be better suited to Feedback, I'm not sure which would be best?


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    #2
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    No.


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    #3
    eternal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    Great idea. Different forum though, let the mods suggest.


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    #4
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    No. There are loads of groups in every location doing it. Nice idea but not needed.


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    #5
    Old Jakey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 436 ✭✭Old Jakey


    I'm broke, can you lot send me some money? (I'm Syrian btw).


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    hairyslug
    Registered Users Posts: 2,591 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    Old Jakey wrote: »
    I'm broke, can you lot send me some money? (I'm Syrian btw).

    No I'm Syrian and no is my wife.


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    Brian from Bray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 394 ✭✭Brian from Bray


    Old Jakey wrote: »
    I'm broke, can you lot send me some money? (I'm Syrian btw).

    Yeah rioght.


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    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,284 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    I think there are many organisations out there better equipped to do something like this than Boards is. While I appreciate that there's nothing but good intentions meant, the logistics would make it pretty much impractical imo. The SSF at Christmas takes a lot of time and effort and that's something on a more local, manageable scale. I think if people want to get involved, there are far worse things you could do than volunteer your time, money or resources to one of the existing agencies.


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    Old Jakey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 436 ✭✭Old Jakey


    Brian from Bray wrote: »
    Yeah rioght.

    Please, need new teeth...send money now. Thanks.

    Abdul.


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    Brian from Bray
    Closed Accounts Posts: 394 ✭✭Brian from Bray


    Old Jakey wrote: »
    Please, need new teeth...send money now. Thanks.

    Abdul.

    Me have no money. You go to Enda Kenny he give you big house and new tooth for free.


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    #11
    silverharp
    Registered Users Posts: 17,855 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Ive got some copies of Richard Dawkins The God Delusion , hook me up?

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



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    joe swanson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭joe swanson


    Nope.


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    #13
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    I could do up a flask of hot water and a few kitkats as a care package?


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    boneyarsebogman wrote: »
    Should boards.ie start a drive for the current refugee crisis, collecting things like clothes, food, and anything else, for people very much in need over there?

    Admittedly this might be better suited to Feedback, I'm not sure which would be best?

    How about you start something yourself for people living on the streets?

    You could go out and offer a free hot drink, a blanket, soup, even offer a room in your house.


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    Bongalongherb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    boneyarsebogman wrote: »
    Should boards.ie start a drive for the current refugee crisis, collecting things like clothes, food, and anything else, for people very much in need over there?

    Admittedly this might be better suited to Feedback, I'm not sure which would be best?

    Sure what's the point, won't most of this food and clothes be just dumped onto the dart tracks.


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    0ph0rce0
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    Drive them back home?? I'm In


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    The Randy Riverbeast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭The Randy Riverbeast


    Deleted User wrote: »
    How about you start something yourself for people living on the streets?

    You could go out and offer a free hot drink, a blanket, soup, even offer a room in your house.

    We'll have homelessness eradicated from Ireland within a few months with the surge of people caring about them.

    Thats assuming they actually care and arent having a dig at people who are trying to help others.


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    PARlance
    Registered Users Posts: 21,107 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    How about you start something yourself for people living on the streets?

    You could go out and offer a free hot drink, a blanket, soup, even offer a room in your house.

    You don't get the same warm fuzzy feeling when it's something less popular like that.


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    Bongalongherb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    There's only one main thing they want, so unless you have a free house to give them they won't be interested.


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    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,687 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    boneyarsebogman wrote: »
    Should boards.ie start a drive for the current refugee crisis, collecting things like clothes, food, and anything else, for people very much in need over there?

    Admittedly this might be better suited to Feedback, I'm not sure which would be best?
    Great idea OP, it might be too much to organise though, but maybe something could be done cooperatively with a group that's already set up? I know of a group organised by some Irish people out here in Vienna, that might be trying to organise a few runs from Ireland


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    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,732 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    Deleted User wrote: »
    How about you start something yourself for people living on the streets?

    You could go out and offer a free hot drink, a blanket, soup, even offer a room in your house.

    How many homeless people stay with you? None you say? Thought as much.


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    Streetwalker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭Streetwalker


    Can I just say, I'm out.


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    #23
    Streetwalker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,906 ✭✭✭Streetwalker


    lertsnim wrote: »
    How many homeless people stay with you? None you say? Thought as much.

    So you asked him a question and then answered it yourself. Patient sort aren't ya :D


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    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    lertsnim wrote: »
    How many homeless people stay with you? None you say? Thought as much.

    Technically no one can have a homeless person living with them. If you give them a home they're no longer homeless. ipso facto


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    #25
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    How many Irish people helped the 'refugees'/migrants camped out on a Ballymun roundabout eight years ago? http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/last-of-roma-abandon-m50-camp-38218.html

    They had to leave the country because no one would give them accommodation. Tut tut.


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    #26
    10000maniacs
    Registered Users Posts: 4,828 ✭✭✭10000maniacs


    Angela Merkiel robbed all my money.
    And anyway this guy is going to chop my head off if we feed him, so I am out.



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    #27
    0ph0rce0
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    10000maniacs wrote: »
    Angela Merkiel robbed all my money.
    And anyway this guy is going to chop my head off if we feed him, so I am out.


    This guy didn't seem bothered last year :D

    https://scontent-ams2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11224569_903974246344086_2089142390192741514_n.jpg?oh=1d3ebb1016c2d6b25712576e2bbe808e&oe=56698F58


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    #28
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    Not a bit of discussion, only swipes - but it's "censorship" if it gets closed.

    The fact there are scammers doesn't change that there are genuine people needing help:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=96930796&postcount=91

    Weird the way the same people condemn ISIS (rightly so) yet sneer at people trying to escape them. Strange logic that.


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    #29
    Bongalongherb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    There'll be a lot of heads rolling in this country soon.


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    0ph0rce0
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    Cold War Kid wrote: »
    Not a bit of discussion, only swipes - but it's "censorship" if it gets closed.

    The fact there are scammers doesn't change that there are genuine people needing help:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=96930796&postcount=91

    Weird the way the same people condemn ISIS (rightly so) yet sneer at people trying to escape them. Strange logic that.

    Well they should stay where they are then when they become safe.


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    #31
    Bongalongherb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,766 ✭✭✭Bongalongherb


    We will be singing about having no heads soon :)

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


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