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  • #52
    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,136 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Is it wrong that i may be slightly turned on right now?


    Durty fecker ye.


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Y'all need Jesus. :D


  • #54
    RandomName2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,570 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    mike_ie wrote: »
    I'm curious. Do you think that describing travellers as "a plausible call for ethnic cleansing" is a legit opinion?

    People use the term a bit too loosely, but this is actually a perfect example of a straw man argument.


  • #55
    alchemist33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Some more AH threads need to be moved here en masse or it'll never work.


  • #56
    Tokyo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,655 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    alchemist33 wrote: »
    Some more AH threads need to be moved here en masse or it'll never work.

    We're looking at threads on a case by case basis. Moving threads from AH > CA isn't an urgent mod action, compared to, for example, nuking a spammer. There is latitude for discussion between the mods on whether a thread should remain in AH, or whether it would be better placed in CA.


  • #57
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,716 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    alchemist33 wrote: »
    Some more AH threads need to be moved here en masse or it'll never work.

    Yeah, does seem very.......inconsistent. Then again, if they move much more there would probably be very little left in AH

    All eyes on Kursk. Slava Ukraini.



  • #58
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,928 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    TheValeyard wrote: »
    Yeah, does seem very.......inconsistent. Then again, if they move much more there would probably be very little left in AH

    But sure wasn't that the complaint? AH being taken over by the "serious" or non-fun threads.

    Either move them all and see whether AH stands on its own feet these days, or risk confusing things even more.


  • #59
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    We are already getting people complaining about the 2 per day were moving at the moment.


  • #60
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    Well then, and I know it's a bit early, but this forum is working out well; like many of us suspected it would under the right conditions.


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  • #61
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,202 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    HELLO! :P


  • #62
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd just like to sneer at all those peasants left in After Hours. After Hours is so last week that every time I post there even my posts leave for here. :p


  • #63
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I'd just like to sneer at all those peasants left in After Hours. After Hours is so last week that every time I post there even my posts leave for here. :p

    In about three months it will be retro cool.
    Y'all be clamouring to get back in.
    Heard it here first.


  • #64
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Is this where all the cool people are?


  • #65
    notobtuse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    Is this where all the cool people are?
    I think this is where all the banished people have coagulated.

    You can ignorantly accuse me of "whataboutism," but what it really is involves identifying similar scenarios in order to see if it holds up when the shoe is on the other foot!



  • #66
    john why
    Registered Users Posts: 454 ✭✭john why


    R


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  • #67
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,026 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    But at least we can all agree the Romans never did anything for us, correct?


  • #68
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Overheal wrote: »
    But at least we can all agree the Romans never did anything for us, correct?
    Well, they destroyed Carthage so they have that going for them


  • #69
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    john why wrote: »
    R

    ....TE?


  • #70
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    I read recently that we pay something like €5 billion on debt servicing per annum - can someone tell me where that €5bn ends up? As in, whose pockets it ends up in.


  • #71
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    I read recently that we pay something like €5 billion on debt servicing per annum - can someone tell me where that €5bn ends up? As in, whose pockets it ends up in.

    Frau Merkel's....


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  • #72
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 40,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    I read recently that we pay something like €5 billion on debt servicing per annum - can someone tell me where that €5bn ends up? As in, whose pockets it ends up in.
    We (via the NTMA) borrow money every year to pay for running the country. These are bought as either long term bonds (for long term financing) or short term bonds (for general cash flow).
    The majority of government bonds are held by overseas traders but much of it is held within the country.
    There is a cost to issuing these bonds!

    https://assets.gov.ie/4274/111218115438-102376301fd948c2b20e3449111eff54.pdf - see pg 19 fig 14


  • #73
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    So the €14 million per day interest on government debt goes to bond holders?


  • #74
    nkl12xtw5goz70
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭nkl12xtw5goz70


    Junkyard Tom wrote: »
    So the €14 million per day interest on government debt goes to bond holders?

    Approximately €130 billion of Irish government debt is owed to bondholders. In addition, the government owes about €40 billion in EU loans, €4 billion in a UK bilateral loan, €17 billion to investors in state savings schemes, and €11 billion in other short-, medium-, and long-term debt.


  • #75
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    What happened to the traveller machete attack thread?


  • #76
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,311 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Deebles McBeebles wrote: »
    What happened to the traveller machete attack thread?

    Too many inconvenient truths.


  • #77
    Deebles McBeebles
    Registered Users Posts: 5,865 ✭✭✭Deebles McBeebles


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Too many inconvenient truths.


    Furthering the sacred cow argument perhaps. Amazing considering some of the things that are said on CA and not deleted.


  • #78
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,496 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Apologies - now re-instated with an explanation of what I did wrong.....:o


  • #79
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,026 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Beasty wrote: »
    Apologies - now re-instated with an explanation of what I did wrong.....:o

    You done messed up a a ron


  • #80
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,496 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Overheal wrote: »
    You done messed up a a ron

    U callin' me messed up??


  • #81
    Wayne Jarvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭Wayne Jarvis


    Beasty wrote: »
    U callin' me messed up??
    No it was a reference to this brilliant sketch.


    giphy.gif




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  • #82
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,026 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    *cough*

    https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1197621725879422977?s=20


  • #83
    riemann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,063 ✭✭✭riemann


    Overheal wrote: »
    *cough*

    https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1197621725879422977?s=20

    PhD in history - So not a real doctor.


  • #84
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,533 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Mod: I moved the last few posts in this thread to the Helpdesk forum.

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058043633


  • #85
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,689 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Right.

    Have perused and studied the forum since inception.

    For what it's worth, the Current Affairs / IMHO amounts to.........

    A Pyrhic Victory.
    Essentially, the Current affairs forum is a copy of the After Hours forum. But certain unsavory things are stated in a more guarded and genteel fashion.

    Definitely, a good deal more posts get reported by other upset posters in CA threads that they don't like. This might be fine for threads in Leaving Cert and Secondary Education but it just adds to the reason that I just don't see the need for CA forum.

    End of Spiel.


  • #86
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Whereas I see the value in the CA threads. More leeway given to posters than the politics forum, and usually less childish/immature posts than in AH.


  • #87
    BalcombeSt4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭BalcombeSt4


    Donegal's next TD. I felt so embarrassed for Ireland watching this. Apprantly a mixture of Liberals, atheists, Zionists & Jihadis are coming to destroy right-wing Irish Nationalism (good) and this is the only man who can stop it - some conspiracy nutter.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osai7lpXWqs


  • #88
    BalcombeSt4
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭BalcombeSt4


    I watched more videos of this Donegal TD hopeful, and he seems like a nutter.

    He's a anti-Vaciner, believes Dev was a British spy most of his life, and he's a extreme right wing nationalist.

    Some of his recent videos harassing people.











    Hardly shocking his best mate is Dan Healy Rae


    And here he shows his racist guff, calling immigrants invaders.


  • #89
    BoJack Horseman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,248 ✭✭✭✭BoJack Horseman


    Tulsi Gabbard has filed a defamation suit against Hillary Clinton.

    As part of the filing she wants us to know that if she winds up "Clintoned", it wasn't suicide.

    This is pretty ballsy & not-so-subtly calls Clinton a killer.

    9039b70ebb47f9e81341364e5c9f713ecdf65320adc34fe777b5722a193bb1a5.jpg


  • #90
    Boggles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Attention seeking 101.

    Yawn.


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  • #91
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,692 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    BoJack Horseman wrote: »
    Tulsi Gabbard has filed a defamation suit against Hillary Clinton.

    As part of the filing she wants us to know that if she winds up "Clintoned", it wasn't suicide.

    This is pretty ballsy & not-so-subtly calls Clinton a killer.

    9039b70ebb47f9e81341364e5c9f713ecdf65320adc34fe777b5722a193bb1a5.jpg


    Fake news.


    Here's the document.

    https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000016f-cdbf-df03-a1ff-fdbffaf00000


    Item 5 is there on the bottom of page 2, but the second sentence about suicide is not there, or anywhere else in the document.


  • #92
    foggyflies
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭foggyflies


    https://medium.com/@HeberRowan/an-extraordinary-virus-for-extraordinary-times-in-irish-politics-fcacee752bd8 A two cents on Irish politics at the moment with Covid19.


  • #93
    The_Brood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 838 ✭✭✭The_Brood


    twitter is alight with women sharing their stories of sexual abuse in Ireland, naming names and revealing how the justice system protects abusers and silences the victims. any thread on this? The problem is way deeper than most people realize.


  • #94
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    There was, possibly it is still there.
    Best summary I could give of the prevailing mood when I dipped my toe in there was #don'tbelieveher


  • #95
    Lucy8080
    Registered Users Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Lucy8080


    Best summary I could give of the prevailing mood when I dipped my toe in there was #don'tbelieveher[/QUOTE]

    C'mon! Really?

    #"Ibeliveher" was what was trending in that period of time.

    I'm still at a loss as to why the actual female witness of the events of that night was ignored /not supported by other women.

    TBF to you,which "Her" are you referring to? I don't want to jump the gun here. Maybe you are aghast at the Female witness (who said she saw no rape taking place ) being dismissed by those hash-tag warriors..


  • #96
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    =Lucy8080;114067986]

    C'mon! Really?

    #"Ibeliveher" was what was trending in that period of time.

    I'm still at a loss as to why the actual female witness of the events of that night was ignored /not supported by other women.

    TBF to you,which "Her" are you referring to? I don't want to jump the gun here. Maybe you are aghast at the Female witness (who said she saw no rape taking place ) being dismissed by those hash-tag warriors..

    I was referring to a thread on Boards.ie discussing a series of tweets where women wrote about being sexually harassed/abused on the Irish comedy circuit - this then broadened out as more and more women tweeted their experiences, and someone made a reference to an unnamed political figure.

    The general theme in the Boards.ie thread when I looked in there was posters did not believe the tweets - hence #dontbelieveher.
    That theme may have changed - I don't know. I didn't go back in.


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  • #97
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,292 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    I was referring to a thread on Boards.ie discussing a series of tweets where women wrote about being sexually harassed/abused on the Irish comedy circuit - this then broadened out as more and more women tweeted their experiences, and someone made a reference to an unnamed political figure.

    The general theme in the Boards.ie thread when I looked in there was posters did not believe the tweets - hence #dontbelieveher.
    That theme may have changed - I don't know. I didn't go back in.

    That is definitely a theme on here. Just look at some of the comments on Mairia Cahill this week.


  • #98
    Lucy8080
    Registered Users Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Lucy8080


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    I was referring to a thread on Boards.ie discussing a series of tweets where women wrote about being sexually harassed/abused on the Irish comedy circuit - this then broadened out as more and more women tweeted their experiences, and someone made a reference to an unnamed political figure.

    The general theme in the Boards.ie thread when I looked in there was posters did not believe the tweets - hence #dontbelieveher.
    That theme may have changed - I don't know. I didn't go back in.

    Ahhh, okay! I thought your post was referring to twitter, so crossed wires there on my part,sorry.


  • #99
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    12 posts in and no one has blamed the muslims, travellers, leftists, rightists (is that even a word?) Centrists, soros, the brits, the RA or whatsherface o'doherty.

    I could get used to this

    this sounds like exactly the type of left wing muslim apologist post that a centrist right wing British Soros shill shinner ra head Gemma supporter would say.


  • #100
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,026 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    When 2 US astronauts undocked from the ISS in the SpaceX Dragon capsule this weekend and splashed down to Earth, they carried a US flag that had been brought up to the ISS in 2011, during the last mission of the Shuttle program, STS-135. The flag originally flew on STS-1, the first flight of the shuttle program on April 12, 1981. It's been up there for 9 years waiting for the day a US based mission would retrieve it. NASA at the moment hopes the flag's next relay stop will be the moon.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/spacex-cusp-winning-high-stakes-120400642.html


  • #101
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,974 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    Overheal wrote: »
    When 2 US astronauts undocked from the ISS in the SpaceX Dragon capsule this weekend and splashed down to Earth, they carried a US flag that had been brought up to the ISS in 2011, during the last mission of the Shuttle program, STS-135. The flag originally flew on STS-1, the first flight of the shuttle program on April 12, 1981. It's been up there for 9 years waiting for the day a US based mission would retrieve it. NASA at the moment hopes the flag's next relay stop will be the moon.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/spacex-cusp-winning-high-stakes-120400642.html

    Some positive news for once in these crazy threads, thanks Overheal.


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