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Lolek Ltd, Trading as 'The Iona Institute'

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  • #1452
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,506 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    In case you're free next month. Still complaining about last May.

    https://twitter.com/RudyHellzapop/status/730905204921647108

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



  • #1453
    B0jangles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,951 ✭✭✭B0jangles


    The Black Oil wrote: »
    In case you're free next month. Still complaining about last May.

    https://twitter.com/RudyHellzapop/status/730905204921647108

    Thief! Thief! I made that joke ages ago when poor aul John was incarcerated for 45 minutes for not paying a parking fine and then compared himself to Vaclav Havel.

    uY6aoPR.jpg

    The moment he was captured.


  • #1454
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    He was hit by a monster ping pong ball from outer space? :confused:


  • #1455
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    He was hit by a monster ping pong ball from outer space? :confused:

    He is not a number.
    He is a free man.


  • #1456
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    I'm holding out for free biscuits. "Free entry" just doesn't cut it, not when you'd have to sit through 2 hours of JW trying to talk the hind legs off a donkey.


  • #1457
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    recedite wrote: »
    I'm holding out for free biscuits. "Free entry" just doesn't cut it, not when you'd have to sit through 2 hours of JW trying to talk the hind legs off a donkey.

    I suppose there's no chance of a Hawaiian pizza?


  • #1458
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    No chance, no.
    It is the Davenport Hotel after all, and even though they are renting the room out to JW, they still have their standards.


  • #1459
    Lurkio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭Lurkio


    lazygal wrote: »
    I suppose there's no chance of a Hawaiian pizza?

    None of your liberal agenda on that menu, I'll tell ye.


  • #1460
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Lurkio wrote: »
    None of your liberal agenda on that menu, I'll tell ye.

    Is the lobby even just a little gay?


  • #1461
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,471 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Is the lobby even just a little gay?

    This place probably doesn't even have a lobby at all - just to be on the safe side. But all day free parking if you're a beardy weirdy with initials J. W.

    Scrap the cap!



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  • #1462
    The Randy Riverbeast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭The Randy Riverbeast


    We've had the gay agenda, now its the commuting and transport agenda. Gay buses everywhere.


  • #1463
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    The Randy Riverbeast wrote: »
    We've had the gay agenda, now its the commuting and transport agenda. Gay buses everywhere.

    There goes the fecking time table so :mad:


  • #1464
    100cent
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 256 ✭✭100cent


    Maria Steen rendered Colm O'Gorman speechless on the Pat Kenny radio show a couple of days ago.

    When asked by Maria what is wrong with cherishing the lives of mother and baby equally as the 8th enshrines, poor Colm has no answer, dead air for seconds that is only broken by Pat saving Colm's bacon. :D

    https:// www .youtube.com/watch?v=X66cIgdcfGs


  • #1465
    100cent
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 256 ✭✭100cent


    As a regular contributor of a humble financial donation, I am delighted with Iona's service to our nation.


  • #1466
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    100cent wrote: »
    As a regular contributor of a humble financial donation, I am delighted with Iona's service to our nation.

    They actually serve a foreign power, the Vatican.


  • #1467
    The Randy Riverbeast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭The Randy Riverbeast


    100cent wrote: »
    As a regular contributor of a humble financial donation, I am delighted with Iona's service to our nation.

    You need to donate more, they'll never enforce their religion on the population if they keep failing.


  • #1468
    100cent
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 256 ✭✭100cent


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    They actually serve a foreign power, the Vatican.

    I'd be down with that.


  • #1469
    mansize
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,521 ✭✭✭✭mansize


    The Randy Riverbeast wrote: »
    You need to donate more, they'll never enforce their religion on the population if they keep failing.

    100cent ain't much tbf


  • #1470
    100cent
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 256 ✭✭100cent


    The Randy Riverbeast wrote: »
    You need to donate more, they'll never enforce their religion on the population if they keep failing.

    I play my part. :D


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  • #1471
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


  • #1472
    100cent
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 256 ✭✭100cent


    Why wouldn't I be serious?


  • #1473
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,964 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    100cent wrote: »
    Why wouldn't I be serious?

    Because some of us here can remember the posting style of another ultramontane troll.


  • #1474
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    [...] troll.
    Comments and decisions regarding trollery are best left to the forum's friendly moderators :)


  • #1475
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,510 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    See's he's been site banned, so I guess the friendly admin's may have believed he was trolling :P


  • #1476
    Absolam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,913 ✭✭✭Absolam


    Cabaal wrote: »
    See's he's been site banned, so I guess the friendly admin's may have believed he was trolling :P
    Or a rereg? Facts can be so terribly inconvenient :P


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  • #1477
    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,510 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Absolam wrote: »
    Or a rereg? Facts can be so terribly inconvenient :P

    Do you have anything constructive to actually add or are you just posting to make pathetic digs at anything I post these days? Nothing better to do eh?

    Trolling was basically the reason why he got himself site banned,
    If he wasn't trolling he wouldn't have popped up on people's radar and they wouldn't have performed a check against his posts to see he was a re-reg.

    If he had been civil and acted normally he'd likely still be posting on boards a month from now.

    Admin's/Cmods don't just randomly check users for the laugh,


  • #1478
    Absolam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,913 ✭✭✭Absolam


    Cabaal wrote: »
    Trolling was basically the reason why he got himself site banned,
    If he wasn't trolling he wouldn't have popped up on people's radar and they wouldn't have performed a check against his posts to see he was a re-reg.
    I thought rereging was basically the reason he got sitebanned? Still... I imagine you comment was intended to be constructive (especially the :p) so I'll leave you to it.....


  • #1479
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,190 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Absolam wrote: »
    I thought rereging was basically the reason he got sitebanned?

    I don't think re-regging would be a reason for a siteban in and of itself. There must be an original reason.


  • #1480
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,964 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    I don't think re-regging would be a reason for a siteban in and of itself. There must be an original reason.

    I can think of a certain someone who's named after a Roman author. ;)


  • #1481
    MrPudding
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,788 ✭✭✭MrPudding


    Absolam wrote: »
    I thought rereging was basically the reason he got sitebanned? Still... I imagine you comment was intended to be constructive (especially the :p) so I'll leave you to it.....
    Pherekydes wrote: »
    I don't think re-regging would be a reason for a siteban in and of itself. There must be an original reason.

    I think the re-reging is the reason for the site-ban, but they found out he was a re-reg because of the trolling. Kind of like being stopped for speeding but getting jailed for the two dead bodies in the boot. Yes, that is a fairly specific example, but not one I have personal experience of. I swear.

    MrP


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  • #1482
    Lurkio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭Lurkio


    MrPudding wrote: »
    I think the re-reging is the reason for the site-ban, but they found out he was a re-reg because of the trolling. Kind of like being stopped for speeding but getting jailed for the two dead bodies in the boot. Yes, that is a fairly specific example, but not one I have personal experience of. I swear.

    MrP

    The site ban is because of a previous site ban, which is the result of a previous site ban (not a joke).


  • #1483
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,210 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Absolam wrote: »
    I thought rereging was basically the reason he got sitebanned? Still... I imagine you comment was intended to be constructive (especially the :p) so I'll leave you to it.....
    Pherekydes wrote: »
    I don't think re-regging would be a reason for a siteban in and of itself. There must be an original reason.
    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    I can think of a certain someone who's named after a Roman author. ;)
    MrPudding wrote: »
    I think the re-reging is the reason for the site-ban, but they found out he was a re-reg because of the trolling. Kind of like being stopped for speeding but getting jailed for the two dead bodies in the boot. Yes, that is a fairly specific example, but not one I have personal experience of. I swear.

    MrP
    Lurkio wrote: »
    The site ban is because of a previous site ban, which is the result of a previous site ban (not a joke).

    Soooo.... Iona.... what a bunch of c*nts, eh?


  • #1484
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,420 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    I don't think re-regging would be a reason for a siteban in and of itself.
    To the best of my knowledge, re-registering is fine so long as any previous accounts are either left alone or closed. Simultaneous posting from two or more accounts within the same forum amounts to sock-puppetry, aka astro-turfing and it's likely to result in a site ban for at least one of the accounts. Not so sure about simultaneous posting from two or more open accounts to completely different forums - probably frowned upon, at the very least. If a poster is banned and re-registers and continues to post in the same forum without apparently having learned anything, it's likely that the moderators' fuses will be short indeed - as 100Cent found out.

    Finally, and as a matter of courtesy, posters who close one account and open another to post in the same forum should really announce it; same for posters who change their login - just to let people know that it's the same friendly poster from a previous alter-ego.


  • #1485
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,471 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Including someone who was getting hassle in real life, outed at work, or whatever because someone joined the dots with what they saw posted on their boards account? Hardly.

    Although if someone is anything like a regular poster in a forum it's usually obvious who their new identity is. Plenty of mods have changed their names a few times, too :p

    Scrap the cap!



  • #1486
    Lurkio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭Lurkio


    robindch wrote: »
    To the best of my knowledge, re-registering is fine so long as any previous accounts are either left alone or closed. Simultaneous posting from two or more accounts within the same forum amounts to sock-puppetry, aka astro-turfing and it's likely to result in a site ban for at least one of the accounts. Not so sure about simultaneous posting from two or more open accounts to completely different forums - probably frowned upon, at the very least. If a poster is banned and re-registers and continues to post in the same forum without apparently having learned anything, it's likely that the moderators' fuses will be short indeed - as 100Cent found out.

    Finally, and as a matter of courtesy, posters who close one account and open another to post in the same forum should really announce it; same for posters who change their login - just to let people know that it's the same friendly poster from a previous alter-ego.

    I thought you might have been referring to moi there for a second.


  • #1487
    The Randy Riverbeast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭The Randy Riverbeast


    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Including someone who was getting hassle in real life, outed at work, or whatever because someone joined the dots with what they saw posted on their boards account? Hardly.

    Although if someone is anything like a regular poster in a forum it's usually obvious who their new identity is. Plenty of mods have changed their names a few times, too :p

    Surprisingly common from the guardians of free speech who were struck down by the mods of the forth reich. I've tried to view what the free speech version of boards is, it turns out it is trying to find peoples identities so they can tell their bosses they are a pedophile in one case I saw.


  • #1488
    Lurkio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭Lurkio


    The Randy Riverbeast wrote: »
    Surprisingly common from the guardians of free speech who were struck down by the mods of the forth reich. I've tried to view what the free speech version of boards is, it turns out it is trying to find peoples identities so they can tell their bosses they are a pedophile in one case I saw.

    Indeed. Of course they are looking to put a name and a face on an person of whom they have their own preconceived notions, when perhaps remembering that such things are at best mildly educated guesses would be the wiser course.


  • #1489
    volchitsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,339 ✭✭✭volchitsa


    The Randy Riverbeast wrote: »
    Surprisingly common from the guardians of free speech who were struck down by the mods of the forth reich. I've tried to view what the free speech version of boards is, it turns out it is trying to find peoples identities so they can tell their bosses they are a pedophile in one case I saw.

    I'm a bit lost here, maybe I don't have the necessary time served to get all this, but I'd be grateful for an explanation (by PM if warranted, and I suspect it's off topic anyway, so that's another reason)

    But what's the free speech version of boards and how would you know if someone was trying to out you to your boss unless it actually happens?

    And what's the forth reich?? :confused:

    Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls: "Very concerned about statements by the IOC at Paris2024 (M)ultiple international treaties and national constitutions specifically refer to women & their fundamental rights, so the world (understands) what women -and men- are. (H)ow can one assess fairness and justice if we do not know who we are being fair and just to?"



  • #1490
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,471 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    volchitsa wrote: »
    And what's the forth reich?? :confused:

    It's where all the computer code is written in reverse Polish notation

    Scrap the cap!



  • #1491
    2RockMountain
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,012 ✭✭✭2RockMountain


    One might be forgiven for thinking that Quinn is just trolling now:

    http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/david-quinn/mcgrath-is-right-its-time-we-gave-our-beleaguered-smokers-a-break-34731802.html


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  • #1492
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,820 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    2RockMountain wrote: »
    One might be forgiven for thinking that Quinn is just trolling now:

    http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/david-quinn/mcgrath-is-right-its-time-we-gave-our-beleaguered-smokers-a-break-34731802.html

    "Virtue signalling" in the first line? Yup, he's trolling.


  • #1493
    The Randy Riverbeast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭The Randy Riverbeast


    He managed to not blame gay people or abortions. Now he has been reduced to complaining about tyrannical political correctness and liberals, a bit strange to use the word tyrannical as a member of organisation wishing to further Catholic goals in politics.

    With some luck he might make a positive article in the next 10 years.


  • #1494
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,847 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    2RockMountain wrote: »
    One might be forgiven for thinking that Quinn is just trolling now:

    http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/david-quinn/mcgrath-is-right-its-time-we-gave-our-beleaguered-smokers-a-break-34731802.html

    Strange that someone who identifies as pro-life suggests that smoking is a way of cutting health costs as smokers tend to die younger.
    On the other hand, it might be argued that even the secret smoker might one day be a drain on the health system. However, heavy smokers are more likely to die early, thereby saving the system money.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • #1495
    Paulownia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Paulownia


    Just came upon this, but the Iona Institute rings alarm bells in my head.
    An extreme right wing catholic organisation .
    There are good things about it, many good things, but there are many sinister things too.
    Has everyone seen the film Spotlight?
    Essential viewing but hard to take as a Catholic who has Christian ideals


  • #1496
    lazygal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,644 ✭✭✭✭lazygal


    What are the many good things Iona does?


  • #1497
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,847 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    lazygal wrote: »
    What are the many good things Iona does?
    well they were a great help to the Yes campaign in the marriage referendum :pac:

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • #1498
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


  • #1499
    Staph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 472 ✭✭Staph


    Well, they're are being oppressed and have limited access to spread their claims of persecution through national media.


  • #1500
    The Black Oil
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 18,506 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Black Oil


    lazygal wrote: »
    What are the many good things Iona does?

    Are you tired of the gays having everything?

    Un-gay your marriage with our course: Marriage Plus.

    Support our fortnightly national radio slots through Marriage Plus+

    The Oppressed Institute

    Moderator: Television, Psychology and Dublin County North.

    CMod: Entertainment



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  • #1501
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,644 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    The Black Oil wrote: »
    Are you tired of the gays having everything?

    Un-gay your marriage with our course: Marriage Plus.

    Support our fortnightly national radio slots through Marriage Plus+

    The Oppressed Institute

    Don't you know you can pray the gay away? #ionaknowsbest


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