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Prohibition by Stealth

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  • #2
    Fiery mutant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Fiery mutant


    No.

    We should defend our way of life to an extent that any attempt on it is crushed, so that any adversary will never make such an attempt in the future.



  • #3
    California Dreamer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,609 ✭✭✭California Dreamer


    No more dricks!!!


  • #4
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    Fiery mutant wrote: »
    No.


    Have you been paying attention for the last few months? There is no rational reason for the pub rules...none.


  • #5
    Fighting Tao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    Another one for the conspiracy theory forum.


  • #6
    francois
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,493 ✭✭✭francois


    cryptocurrency wrote: »
    https://extra.ie/2020/09/06/news/irish-news/politicians-covid-prohibition-stealth

    Is covid being used by some to craft the nation into a drick free zone? I think so. Powers coming in now will never be fully released.

    Leave dricko out of this manufactured outrage


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  • #7
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    Pubs just the start...covid opression is ramping up


  • #8
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    nobody likes knicker drinking at home alone


  • #9
    Dr Devious
    Registered Users Posts: 347 ✭✭Dr Devious


    cryptocurrency wrote: »
    https://extra.ie/2020/09/06/news/irish-news/politicians-covid-prohibition-stealth

    Is covid being used by some to craft the nation into a drick free zone? I think so. Powers coming in now will never be fully released.

    I think you have probably had enough dricks at this stage, prohibition won't do you any harm whatsoever.


  • #10
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,741 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    California Dreamer wrote: »
    No more dricks!!!

    I'm sorry, the bar is closed


  • #11
    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,687 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    I find pub owners, the Vintners and idiot TD's far more alarmist over "attacking d'rural pubs" etc etc than some people are over covid.

    Here's a message to T.D McManamara..."go fcuk yourself". Sincerely, SFP.


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  • #12
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,130 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    The dail voted unanimously in favour of minimum alcohol unit pricing.
    Including Michael mcNamara. How was that not prohibition by stealth Michael?
    This is just attention grabbing bnadwagon jumping.
    Clever but shameless policticking.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #13
    Fiery mutant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭Fiery mutant


    cryptocurrency wrote: »
    Have you been paying attention for the last few months? There is no rational reason for the pub rules...none.

    The reason for pub rules is because there are people like you.

    We should defend our way of life to an extent that any attempt on it is crushed, so that any adversary will never make such an attempt in the future.



  • #14
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,932 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    California Dreamer wrote: »
    No more dricks!!!

    Actually it's.

    No! More dricks.


  • #15
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »
    I find pub owners, the Vintners and idiot TD's far more alarmist over "attacking d'rural pubs" etc etc than some people are over covid.

    Here's a message to T.D McManamara..."go fcuk yourself". Sincerely, SFP.

    Nah, nothing tops the covid hysteria. We've shown the nation will swallow anything.


  • #16
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    Fiery mutant wrote: »
    The reason for pub rules is because there are people like you.

    Nah, it is to please the gullible about covid


  • #17
    moonage
    Registered Users Posts: 855 ✭✭✭moonage


    A man walked into a bar and asked for a drick...


  • #18
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,357 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    cryptocurrency wrote: »
    nobody likes knicker drinking at home alone

    Love a bit of knicker drinking. Nice and frothy.


  • #19
    Ten of Swords
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,063 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    Moved to Conspiracy Theories, local charter now applies

    Moderator: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender, Vegan & Vegetarian

    Category Moderator: Social & Fun



  • #20
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,537 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    The dail voted unanimously in favour of minimum alcohol unit pricing.
    Including Michael mcNamara. How was that not prohibition by stealth Michael?
    This is just attention grabbing bnadwagon jumping.
    Clever but shameless policticking.

    McNamara was not a TD at the time. He lost his seat (for Labour) in 2016 and got re-elected (as an Independent) in 2020.


  • #21
    Dohnjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    cryptocurrency wrote: »
    Nah, nothing tops the covid hysteria. We've shown the nation will swallow anything.

    Covid has shown society there is a layer of morons who can't understand that a virus spreads


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  • #22
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    Dohnjoe wrote: »
    Covid has shown society there is a layer of morons who can't understand that a virus spreads

    Nobody is saying not to take precautions ...Sweden is the model


  • #23
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,352 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    cryptocurrency wrote: »
    Nobody is saying not to take precautions ...Sweden is the model

    Sweden has a population that are, by and large, socially responsible. We get pissed and dance on telephone boxes singing "yay it's all over" as soon as the government caves to the vintners.

    We suffer from acute 'ashuryehavta'. Swedes don't.


  • #24
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    endacl wrote: »
    Sweden has a population that are, by and large, socially responsible. We get pissed and dance on telephone boxes singing "yay it's all over" as soon as the government caves to the vintners.

    We suffer from acute 'ashuryehavta'. Swedes don't.

    speak for yourself.


  • #25
    Dohnjoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    "Coronavirus cases rising, looks like we might have to keep pubs closed"

    "Why?"

    "Part of our secret prohibition plan, we must smite those evil pubs and all the jobs they create once and for all"


  • #26
    enno99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,988 ✭✭✭enno99


    Irish politians are conspiracy theorists lol


  • #27
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,567 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    Just some detail about Michael McNamara TD and Minimum Unit Pricing.

    He supported MUP as long ago as 2012

    https://clarechampion.ie/shortalls-recommendations-provoke-mixed-reactions/

    He was a member of the Health Committee which proposed MUP in 2015.

    https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/press-centre/press-releases/20150622-new-alcohol-legislation-must-include-provision-for-robust-labelling-and-code-of-conduct-health-committee/


  • #28
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    cryptocurrency wrote: »
    https://extra.ie/2020/09/06/news/irish-news/politicians-covid-prohibition-stealth

    Is covid being used by some to craft the nation into a drink free zone? I think so. Powers coming in now will never be fully released.


    Indeed! Cause it worked out so well for the Yanks in the early part of the last century!


  • #29
    elperello
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,567 ✭✭✭✭elperello


    SlowMotion321 wrote: »
    Indeed! Cause it worked out so well for the Yanks in the early part of the last century!

    They are back and this time they are smarter.

    Neo-prohibitionism is the name of the game.

    https://www.alcoholproblemsandsolutions.org/neo-prohibitionists-in-the-u-s-discover-their-goals-methods/


  • #30
    SlowMotion321
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭SlowMotion321


    elperello wrote: »
    They are back and this time they are smarter.

    Neo-prohibitionism is the name of the game.

    https://www.alcoholproblemsandsolutions.org/neo-prohibitionists-in-the-u-s-discover-their-goals-methods/

    THEY MAY TAKE OUR LIVES! BUT THEY WILL NEVER. TAKE. OUR POITIIINNN!!!!


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  • #31
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Soooooo. is the opening of the pubs on the 21st the next phase of the prohibition?


  • #32
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,130 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Guy:Incognito wrote: »
    Soooooo. is the opening of the pubs on the 21st the next phase of the prohibition?

    Yes, in a cunning plan they are going to open them but wreck them with restrictions... people who had been looking at shut pubs like a kid at a toy shop window on December 8th will flock back to the pubs only to find them ruined.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #33
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    hows this working out


  • #34
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,412 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    cryptocurrency wrote: »
    hows this working out


    Looking at the contents of trolleys coming out of the supermarkets not very well, if anything it has increased sales.


  • #35
    V8 Interceptor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭V8 Interceptor


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    The dail voted unanimously in favour of minimum alcohol unit pricing.
    Including Michael mcNamara. How was that not prohibition by stealth Michael?

    That was never enforced though? I can still get a can in Aldi for 89c.

    And what's the deal with the Cowboy Saloon type swing doors installed in the Offy parts of the Supermarkets? Must've been a Govt order cos they've all done it.


  • #36
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    V8 Interceptor wrote: »
    That was never enforced though? I can still get a can in Aldi for 89c.

    And what's the deal with the Cowboy Saloon type swing doors installed in the Offy parts of the Supermarkets? Must've been a Govt order cos they've all done it.

    Meat section next....sinners corner. You can scan your QR code for entry


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  • #37
    Rex Quick Shortbread
    Posts: 0 ✭ Rex Quick Shortbread


    V8 Interceptor wrote: »
    And what's the deal with the Cowboy Saloon type swing doors installed in the Offy parts of the Supermarkets? Must've been a Govt order cos they've all done it.

    To (i believe) hide the drink or something. The idea as I understand is it now keeps alcohol in an enclosed part of the shop, think aldi, at one time you could go through the pet food & cleaner sections and wander into the off licence part of the store, now, you can’t. Also they’re locked outside trading hours (I think)
    cryptocurrency wrote: »
    Meat section next....sinners corner. You can scan your QR code for entry

    Grow up.


  • #38
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    New rules will be introduced today on the sale of alcohol in supermarkets, which will see products cordoned off.

    The new law, introduced under Section 22 of the Public Health Alcohol Act, 2018, will see mixed sale shops being forced to create a barrier or enclosure so alcohol is kept away from the rest of the store.

    The legislation is aimed at reducing the attractiveness of alcohol to children and young people.

    Alcohol Action Ireland said "these in-store separation measures provide a new opportunity to end the normalisation of alcohol throughout society; alcohol is not an ordinary product and should never be seen as such. "


  • #39
    V8 Interceptor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭V8 Interceptor


    I see ladies. I think that's fair enough.


  • #40
    Rex Quick Shortbread
    Posts: 0 ✭ Rex Quick Shortbread


    V8 Interceptor wrote: »
    I see ladies. I think that's fair enough.

    Who’s a lady? Certainly not I.


  • #41
    V8 Interceptor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭V8 Interceptor


    Ah I thought you were with the wee picture and Rachael! Apologies my good man!


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  • #42
    cryptocurrency
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭cryptocurrency


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Who’s a lady? Certainly not I.

    The wannabe lady here is V8. He is trying to pretend otherwise. V8 is the name he uses on sex chatroom sites and is the name of some big mechanical implement he bought online. All sounds ruff as, to be honest, but if it is what makes her happy, who are we to judge


  • #43
    Rex Quick Shortbread
    Posts: 0 ✭ Rex Quick Shortbread


    cryptocurrency wrote: »
    The wannabe lady here is V8. He is trying to pretend otherwise. V8 is the name he uses on sex chatroom sites and is the name of some big mechanical implement he bought online. All sounds ruff as, to be honest, but if it is what makes her happy, who are we to judge

    bit rude bro


  • #44
    V8 Interceptor
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭V8 Interceptor


    I'm beginning to have my doubts about Crypto's femininity now also...


  • #45
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    cryptocurrency wrote: »
    The wannabe lady here is V8. He is trying to pretend otherwise. V8 is the name he uses on sex chatroom sites and is the name of some big mechanical implement he bought online. All sounds ruff as, to be honest, but if it is what makes her happy, who are we to judge
    V8 Interceptor wrote: »
    I'm beginning to have my doubts about Crypto's femininity now also...

    Mod - Drop it the pair of ye.


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