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Current Affairs chat thread.

  • 20-06-2019 10:49am
    #1
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,065 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    Thought it might be nice to have an off topic chat thread.

    How is everyone? Hope ye enjoy the forum.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    IMHO, the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation provide a creditable service.


  • #3
    septictank
    Registered Users Posts: 863 ✭✭✭septictank


    The excitement!!!!!

    I'm waiting.


  • #4
    jester77
    Registered Users Posts: 11,262 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    ohhh current affairs... have to be careful my wife doesn't find out about my girlfriend


  • #5
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    jester77 wrote: »
    ohhh current affairs... have to be careful my wife doesn't find out about my girlfriend

    No fun allowed in here. Banned for 3 days


  • #6
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 38,785 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    ok then.
    So who is having an affair currently?


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  • #7
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,646 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    I hear that Mr Sultan is sleeping with Mrs Raisin.


  • #8
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    How can it be current affairs if it's an off topic chat? Is that not what After Hours is for now?


  • #9
    s3rtvdbwfj81ch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭s3rtvdbwfj81ch


    Leland Vast Supernova wrote: »
    How can it be current affairs if it's an off topic chat? Is that not what After Hours is for now?

    this thread is off topic, a lot of forums have that, to be fair


  • #10
    Standman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭Standman


    I am thoroughly enjoying this forum so far.


  • #11
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Leland Vast Supernova wrote: »
    How can it be current affairs if it's an off topic chat? Is that not what After Hours is for now?


    The difference is afaik that the usual mythical animals found hiding under bridges found in AH aren't allowed in here ... ;)


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  • #12
    dudara
    Registered Users Posts: 33,519 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    I hear that Mr Sultan is sleeping with Mrs Raisin.

    Merged into Off-Topic Chat thread

    dudara


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    gozunda wrote: »
    The difference is afaik that the usual mythical animals found hiding under bridges found in AH aren't allowed in here ... ;)

    who will decide that, then

    ive seen that badge pinned on many long-term, non-rereg posters that simply disagreed with others to trust the term tbh


  • #14
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    I hear that Mr Sultan is sleeping with Mrs Raisin.

    This Mrs Raisin?

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15795185-christmas-crumble


  • #15
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,396 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    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


  • #16
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Deleted User wrote: »
    who will decide that, then

    ive seen that badge pinned on many long-term, non-rereg posters that simply disagreed with others to trust the term tbh

    Dont know to be sure but is it that the pinners themselves which will get their come uppance?


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    pinnerbots ;)


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


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    pinnerbots ;)

    I like that :D


  • #19
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    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

    Trouble is you get an echo chamber if you try cut out legit opinions that are too controversial for some.


  • #20
    Timberrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 25,396 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    Trouble is you get an echo chamber if you try cut out legit opinions that are too controversial for some.

    I can see "lighthearted" is just going to WHOOOOOOOOOOSHHHH over the heads of some :rolleyes:


  • #21
    Tokyo
    Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,655 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    Trouble is you get an echo chamber if you try cut out legit opinions that are too controversial for some.

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


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  • #22
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    I can see "lighthearted" is just going to WHOOOOOOOOOOSHHHH over the heads of some :rolleyes:

    Sarcasm? Good chat :rolleyes:


  • #23
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


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

    Do you think that's a balanced response to a legit comment?
    If you can't differentiate between opinions that range from your favourite burger to ethnic cleansing I think you're in the wrong job.


  • #24
    Tokyo
    Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,655 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    Sarcasm? Good chat :rolleyes:
    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    If you can't differentiate between opinions that range from your favourite burger to ethnic cleansing I think you're in the wrong job.

    The irony is not lost on me.

    Matt Barrett, if you want a discussion of the nuances of hate speech vs. opinion, start one. Don't sit back and force others to state their opinions so you can later pick them apart. Lay out exactly what you think hate speech encompasses vs. what opinions encompass, how the mods should deal with it, and all the other issues that such rules would entail. Then we can respond knowledgeably rather than in the current fog.


  • #25
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    mike_ie wrote: »
    The irony is not lost on me.

    Matt Barrett, if you want a discussion of the nuances of hate speech vs. opinion, start one. Don't sit back and force others to state their opinions so you can later pick them apart. Lay out exactly what you think hate speech encompasses vs. what opinions encompass, how the mods should deal with it, and all the other issues that such rules would entail. Then we can respond knowledgeably rather than in the current fog.

    I'm passing comment in a discussion forum and it got your nose out of joint for some reason.
    Trouble is you get an echo chamber if you try cut out legit opinions that are too controversial for some.

    I think the above is a fair and innocuous comment. You come back with 'ethnic cleansing of travelers' as a sampler.


  • #26
    notobtuse
    Registered Users Posts: 5,424 ✭✭✭notobtuse


    Interesting that after two oil tankers were attacked and a US drone was shot down by Iran, making the Persian Gulf one scary place, that oil prices only spiked 6%. I’d have thought prices would have gone up over 25%.

    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!



  • #27
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    gozunda wrote: »
    The difference is afaik that the usual mythical animals found hiding under bridges found in AH aren't allowed in here ... ;)

    Great. No more EOTR, TROL, that militante lad etc.

    I see Leo’s partner is in though so assume we will be discussing FG endlessly.


  • #28
    James Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,015 ✭✭✭✭James Brown


    Sonny noggs wrote: »
    Great. No more EOTR, TROL, that militante lad etc.

    I see Leo’s partner is in though so assume we will be discussing FG endlessly.

    I trust the irony of your comment isn't lost on you ;)


  • #29
    Sonny noggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭Sonny noggs


    Matt Barrett wrote: »
    I trust the irony of your comment isn't lost on you ;)

    It was until you pointed it out. Only kidding.


  • #30
    Kivaro
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭Kivaro


    Some of us asked for this forum. And it was delivered.
    Thanks to all of you who worked on it.

    I genuinely hope that it will be a success.
    It should allow AH return back to the happy/silly place it once was.


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  • #31
    Scuid Mhór
    Registered Users Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭Scuid Mhór


    Kivaro wrote: »
    Some of us asked for this forum. And it was delivered.
    Thanks to all of you who worked on it.

    I genuinely hope that it will be a success.
    It should allow AH return back to the happy/silly place it once was.

    I often wondered if anyone even remembered what AH used to be before it became so politicised. Its current carnation is a hollow shell of its former self; I would be optimistic that the creation of this forum will help to alleviate that somewhat.


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