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Introducing your new candidate for Europe

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  • #122
    Monotype
    Registered Users Posts: 6,710 ✭✭✭Monotype


    Ah you got me. Good one. :)
    Dav wrote: »
    PS: did people honestly think we would actually want to integrate your details into a system that seems to be horribly abused by it's users like PULSE? All this Garda Commissioner/GSOC/whistleblowing stuff makes for disturbing reading and we think keeping your data safe is rather important :D

    My eyes skipped over that one. Should probably be scrutinising candidates more!


  • #123
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,547 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    All Glory to Hypnotoad!


  • #124
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users Posts: 14,715 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Mr. Murphy, your campaign seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?


  • #125
    Eeden
    Registered Users Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    I wasn't fooled at first, but as the day went on, I started to wonder.....! :p


  • #126
    Pawwed Rig
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 22,289 CMod ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    What am I supposed to do with the 10,000 flyers I printed :(


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  • #127
    Sparks
    Registered Users Posts: 40,055 ✭✭✭✭Sparks


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    What am I supposed to do with the 10,000 flyers I printed :(
    Distribute them anyway. If he won't take the office under his own power, lets see if ten thousand boardsies can shove someone into office kicking and screaming :D


  • #128
    bealtine
    Registered Users Posts: 4,050 ✭✭✭bealtine


    Dav wrote: »
    This is of course an April fool's joke and Tom is not nor has he currently any intention of ever running for any political office here in Ireland.

    Actually it's an idea, prank or not, that has some actual merit...the very idea that someone who knows that the internet is not powered by kittens running for office would be a good idea...

    Although it would be once voice smothered by nonsense:)


  • #129
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Tom would make an awful politician anyway.

    He's too driven, to honest and too willing to follow through on plans and promises. He'd go fncking spare sitting in a parliament listening to windbags talking a lot and doing absolutely nothing.


  • #130
    Yareli Gray Tether
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ Yareli Gray Tether


    I only saw this thread today, and I was delighted until I read the date of the first post.


  • #131
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #132
    Plazaman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Me neither.

    *goes out to peel Tom For Europe stickers off car.


  • #133
    The One Who Knocks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭The One Who Knocks


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Riiiightt.... :D


  • #134
    ion564
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭ion564


    Aprils fools


  • #135
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    So these last 48 hours have been a bit mad-busy for me, so I haven't had a chance to have as much fun with this as possible!!

    Firstly, yeah ... this was an April Fool (even though most of the agenda is really stuff we are serious about!).

    Secondly... wow, I cant believe the response I got for this from Boards, twitter, facebook and even texts from mates of mine offering money and support and work. Honestly, as the day wore on I was kinda touched so many people said so many nice things (generally followed about 30 minutes later by "you are a D*CK!" :)

    But thirdly, no... while I would really like to be part of the solution, our political system is constructed to resist change, deliberately so in my opinion. I don't feel right now that I could stay sane and tackle that problem from the inside. I will continue to be an activist from the outside as best I can.
    I've watched a friend of mine, Stephen Donnelly, waste away in the Dail, while he has the experience and intelligence to lead this country. The inertia he has encountered is truly disheartening.

    So, what a crazy Aprils Fool that turned out to be hahah... Many thanks to Dav for an awesome job on all the work to do this. It was an april fools for everyone else but kinda ended up being one on me :)


  • #136
    sopretty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭sopretty


    You can exercise political change without being directly involved in politics. You're doing well just where you are.


  • #137
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,841 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Considering the lack of choice for Midlands-North-West (who in their right mind would vote for Ronan Mullen?!), I'm tempted to spoil my vote by scrawling #DeVoreForEurope on it. :D


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