Things that you don't give a $hit about.

Woke Hogan · 20-08-2019 9:20am

banie01 wrote: »

Does it?
Would you care to explain how? In something other than a soundbite?

[...]

Us!?
The small private landlords, the ones struggling to ensure our bills are paid, our property maintained and our tenants happy...

We clearly are the problem

Wow, the sneering. The rudeness. Where is Raconteuse to defend the tone of the discussion, you're not being civil.

P Flynn was complaining about the costs of living a lavish lifestyle, a bit like yourself there when you're moaning in that novel about how much effort it takes to own multiple properties (or "appreciating assets") or how much of an inconvenience it is to pay tax on your earnings.

As for your sob story about growing up on a council estate: save it. As far as I'm concerned, that makes you a class traitor.

nthclare · 20-08-2019 9:23am

I'm ok Jack

banie01 · 20-08-2019 9:29am

Woke Hogan wrote: »

Wow, the sneering. The rudeness. Where is Raconteuse to defend the tone of the discussion, you're not being civil.

P Flynn was complaining about the costs of living a lavish lifestyle, a bit like yourself there when you're moaning in that novel about how much effort it takes to own multiple properties (or "appreciating assets") or how much of an inconvenience it is to pay tax on your earnings.

As for your sob story about growing up on a council estate: save it. As far as I'm concerned, that makes you a class traitor.

Your comprehension skills aren't great are they?
If you feel there's anything at all uncivil towards you in my comment, report it?
Please, or point out my rudeness and I will endeavour to apologize.
None was implied, if you however inferred it?
That's an error on your part.
And there's no sob story, just a recounting of my experience.

As for your "class traitor" comment...
I wasn't all that far off in my prediction a couple of posts previously was I?

banie01 wrote: »

I would be far from surprised to hear that poster screaming for class warfare and the subsuming of all private property soon enough

But I suppose class is what you make it, and of it...
I've never let someone's origin define them for me.
Unlike you, comrade.

20-08-2019 9:34am

Grace Cold Matchmaker wrote: »

LGBTQxyz.. I couldn't give a crap if you're gay or if someone wants to identify as a man, woman or a unicorn, but I'd draw the line at a man identifying as a woman to use a female change room.. If that man follows my daughter into a changing room I'm identifying as the tooth fairy and kicking out all his teeth

Soccer & Golf, I simply don't care.

Love the contrast of those two messages.

Raconteuse · 20-08-2019 9:51am

What does "Woke" do to help poor people or dismantle capitalism (which he enjoys himself, living in the West)?

Post spiteful comments to the internet and make himself out to be better than everyone else (because THAT kind of snobbery is fine).

kyler_87 · 20-08-2019 9:52am

Brexit & Instagrammers

Tell me how · 20-08-2019 9:55am

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Climate change, or climate crisis as it's now called.

The Earth has been heating and cooling for millions of not billions of years with and without human intervention.

Let it

Let species adapt as they have done for millions if not billions of years.

We are humans are really arrogant if we think we can stop it or if we believe it's up to us to dictate what the world should look like inn the future.

The world will look like what it looks like.

The rate of change currently being observed is outside any norm except for what were catastrophic events.

Feisar · 20-08-2019 9:59am

Please no one take this the wrong way as i enjoy posting/reading here however;

Could not be bothered getting so bogged down in an argument with someone that I'd start multi quoting. Like in fairness when do you ever see someone saying "hmm, I see your point. I've changed my POV."

Stevieluvsye · 20-08-2019 10:01am

Feisar wrote: »

Please no one take this the wrong way as i enjoy posting/reading here however;

Could not be bothered getting so bogged down in an argument with someone that I'd start multi quoting. Like in fairness when do you ever see someone saying "hmm, I see your point. I've changed my POV."

There is a poster very close to you in this thread who is like that..................

banie01 · 20-08-2019 10:13am

Feisar wrote: »

Please no one take this the wrong way as i enjoy posting/reading here however;

I feel personally attacked, I mean how could you?
I'm so hurt right now!!
:P

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

There is a poster very close to you in this thread who is like that..................

You're on my list!!!

Only messing, I know you don't mean me

Really...
You don't!

Do you? :eek: :P

Stevieluvsye · 20-08-2019 10:21am

banie01 wrote: »

I feel personally attacked, I mean how could you?
I'm so hurt right now!!
:P

You're on my list!!!

Only messing, I know you don't mean me
Really...
You don't!

Do you? :eek: :P

A list........

Not you, tell me how.

Just don't mention the girls name beginning with G..............

banie01 · 20-08-2019 10:22am

Stevieluvsye wrote: »

A list........

Not you, tell me how.

Just don't mention the girls name beginning with G..............

I know

I was joking...
I'm nowhere near the multi-quoting prowess of TMH

Woke Hogan · 20-08-2019 10:24am

Raconteuse wrote: »

What does "Woke" do to help poor people or dismantle capitalism (which he enjoys himself, living in the West)?

Post spiteful comments to the internet and make himself out to be better than everyone else (because THAT kind of snobbery is fine).

First of all you're assuming I don't have a private life away from here. I don't have to show you any of my credentials but I can assure you I am very much involved in volunteering and helping out in my local community. You should turn the computer off and give it a go as well instead of sneering at myself.

And as for the living in the West comment: I'm Irish. I was born here, I was raised here. I live here and I've raised two children to adulthood here. There are flaws "in the West" that I feel need to be commented on while living here. Whether it be property hoarding, cryptocurrencies, the infantilisation of grown men or whatever it is. That's not a hypocritical stance.

20-08-2019 10:45am

For people who don't bother voting in general elections or other elections or any referendum for that matter.
They spout this fact from the seat of their barstool.

Greyfox · 20-08-2019 11:04am

Social media - Just a massive waste of time

Driving - If you live in the city its riddiculously expensive, definitely not worth it

PC's or Mac's - no need for them anymore

Playing online - Single player games are way better

Reality TV and anything on RTE

Getting a free mobile upgrade - So many eejits fall for this and pay triple the price

The so called great works or literature and Poetry

Brexit, Trump & Golf

Expensive Food, clothes & alcohol - It never feels worth the extra €'s

Going to gigs - the music doesnt actually sound better than at home

Tell me how · 20-08-2019 11:08am

^^^^^

......do you like anything?

20-08-2019 11:10am

For bored students at a loose end after their end of all their academic year exams who register on boards to

Spam, spam, troll, and then re reg after their first boards account is banned.

Also students who register on boards to defend the class in their school which has been criticised in the local media.

Bunch of toerags and nothing more.

Greyfox · 20-08-2019 11:27am

Deleted User wrote: »

For people who don't bother voting in general elections or other elections or any referendum for that matter.
They spout this fact from the seat of their barstool.

True but when voting there's not option for want to vote for nobody as politics in Ireland is broken

Tell me how wrote: »

^^^^^

......do you like anything?

Haha, I like a few things. Mainly tea and chocolate

Thelonious Monk · 20-08-2019 11:33am

Signore Fancy Pants wrote: »

As someone who knows Makikomi in real life, I can confirm that Woke Hogan is wrong.

Makikomi is a gent, unless you are an asshat....then he will tell you are an asshat.

He said he thinks vegans are utter cretins and scum of the earth or something along those lines in one post. Sounds like a tolerant stand up guy. Or a typical pig headed bouncer scumbag.

Woke Hogan · 20-08-2019 11:39am

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

He said he thinks vegans are utter cretins and scum of the earth or something along those lines in one post. Sounds like a tolerant stand up guy. Or a typical pig headed bouncer scumbag.

What a "gent."

Plumbthedepths · 20-08-2019 11:46am

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

He said he thinks vegans are utter cretins and scum of the earth or something along those lines in one post. Sounds like a tolerant stand up guy. Or a typical pig headed bouncer scumbag.

If you are going to accuse someone of saying the above, in fairness you should provide the evidence. Otherwise it's a baseless derogatory claim tbh.

Tell me how · 20-08-2019 11:51am

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

If you are going to accuse someone of saying the above, in fairness you should provide the evidence. Otherwise it's a baseless derogatory claim tbh.

Exactly, when I read the 'or something along those lines' I was shaking my head.

lawred2 · 20-08-2019 11:52am

Greyfox wrote: »

Social media - Just a massive waste of time

Driving - If you live in the city its riddiculously expensive, definitely not worth it

PC's or Mac's - no need for them anymore

Playing online - Single player games are way better

Reality TV and anything on RTE

Getting a free mobile upgrade - So many eejits fall for this and pay triple the price

The so called great works or literature and Poetry

Brexit, Trump & Golf

Expensive Food, clothes & alcohol - It never feels worth the extra €'s

Going to gigs - the music doesnt actually sound better than at home

lol

mistersifter · 20-08-2019 12:41pm

Gyms and the obsession people have with them these days.

bucketybuck · 20-08-2019 12:46pm

Woke Hogan wrote: »

As for my "shtick," it's called holding positions and convictions, a belief system. I'm under no obligation to pretend "both sides are bad" nor do I have to conform to whatever your idea of civility is. Neoliberalism, capitalism, globalisation are killing the planet and landlords hoarding property is a symptom of that.

Thats adorable!

RhubarbCrumble · 20-08-2019 12:51pm

I was enjoying this thread, but now I don't give a sh!t about it anymore. It's become a bit too 'woke' for me .....

JaCrispy · 20-08-2019 1:06pm

Alcohol

wiggle16 · 20-08-2019 1:27pm

Huntergonzo wrote: »

My point is more the nonsense spoken in the media and by opposition politicians about the housing 'crisis'. So much of it is complete rubbish and they love labelling anything and everything as a bloody crisis, here a crisis, there a crisis, everywhere a crisis crisis.

Ps, I do have a nice secure job and a very reasonable tenancy also :-)

How about you?

My brother, his wife and their kid were made homeless three months ago when the shíthole they were living in was condemned.
I had to move home a couple of years ago and have not been able to get out since.

All of us work full time.

So I'm sure you can sleep soundly at night, knowing there is no housing crisis in Ireland and all is right with the world.

You can go and swing.

pgj2015 · 20-08-2019 1:43pm

bad news stories on the news, I have enough going on without worrying about bad news like that. "wasn't it awful about that house burning down and the family all killed?" yes but why do I need to know about it? people will say it is awful and it is but if they don't know them, it doesn't effect them in the slightest really.

20-08-2019 1:44pm

pgj2015 wrote: »

bad news stories on the news, I have enough going on without worrying about bad news like that. "wasn't it awful about that house burning down and the family all killed?" yes but why do I need to know about it? people will say it is awful and it is but if they don't know them, it doesn't effect them in the slightest really.

especially the multi-day ones, jesus spare me. its not helping

Raconteuse · 20-08-2019 1:50pm

Of course there's a housing crisis - some folk seem to think that the absolute only people who are homeless are those looking for everything to be handed to them.
There are also people who are renting privately who have to move out for renovations or the house being put up for sale, and they can't find somewhere else due to rents being unaffordable.

wiggle16 wrote: »

My brother, his wife and their kid were made homeless three months ago when the shíthole they were living in was condemned.
I had to move home a couple of years ago and have not been able to get out since.

All of us work full time.

So I'm sure you can sleep soundly at night, knowing there is no housing crisis in Ireland and all is right with the world.

You can go and swing.

According to "Woke" though, there shouldn't be private landlords letting homes for folk like your brother and his family. There are certainly scummy landlords but obviously there are decent ones - and isn't it better that they let rather than leave their property abandoned.

Woke Hogan · 20-08-2019 1:57pm

Raconteuse wrote: »

According to "Woke" though, there shouldn't be private landlords letting homes for folk like your brother and his family.

That person's brother and his family shouldn't be in that position in the first place. Yet they are because landlords around the country are hoarding property for Air BnBs or hiking up the rents to take advantage of the housing crisis. Landlords caused this, not me.

Raconteuse · 20-08-2019 2:08pm

Then there are the landlords who aren't Air B&B-ing or increasing rent by a stupid amount.

You are right, Woke Hogan, that there are a lot of scummy landlords - and there is a system here that fosters such scumminess. But saying every single one of them is... is just the T word.

If there were a regulatory system to root out the scum, it would just be a service - found globally, even in the most developed European countries with excellent social systems.

20-08-2019 2:13pm

Woke Hogan wrote: »

That person's brother and his family shouldn't be in that position in the first place. Yet they are because landlords around the country are hoarding property for Air BnBs or hiking up the rents to take advantage of the housing crisis. Landlords caused this, not me.

"should" and "shouldn't"

the most useless words in any language, but always sound good in a pub or on a message board

Woke Hogan · 20-08-2019 2:15pm

A regulatory system to root out the scum would be ideal. It's interesting how you don't hear the "good" landlords calling for such a regulatory system. I wonder why? Hmmm.

Deleted User wrote: »

"should" and "shouldn't"

the most useless words in any language, but always sound good in a pub or on a message board

Not as useless as every single word in your post. You're wasting my time.

JupiterKid · 20-08-2019 2:16pm

People who whinge and bellyache and moan about the state of the world or their lives but don't feel the need to actually do anything about it.

95% of the dross that is on the television.

Gossip...the sign of a small and limited mindset.

What other people think about me. For too many years, I constantly worried about what others thought of me, especially those who I believed held influence over my life and career. I did a lot of people pleasing and looking back, it was a complete waste of energy. As I get older, I find I am less and concerned about others' opinions.

Now I try to just worry about myself and my nearest and dearest.

Antares35 · 20-08-2019 2:16pm

The Brown Thomas Christmas shop.

The Leaving Cert. results.

Celebrities.

Soaps.

Love Island.

Irish Guitarist · 20-08-2019 2:40pm

I don't give a shite about the opinions of Katie Hopkins. I don't find anything shocking about someone verbally abusing overweight people or any of the other nonsense she utters. The media might as well pick someone who has been banned from Boards numerous times for personal abuse and hire them to write a newspaper column and appear on bullshit chat shows.

20-08-2019 2:45pm

Anything coming from Ian Dempsey or Joe / Keith (2 sides of the one coin)

ewc78 · 20-08-2019 2:45pm

Rugby

Woke Hogan · 20-08-2019 2:48pm

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

I don't give a shite about the opinions of Katie Hopkins. I don't find anything shocking about someone verbally abusing overweight people or any of the other nonsense she utters. The media might as well pick someone who has been banned from Boards numerous times for personal abuse and hire them to write a newspaper column and appear on bullshit chat shows.

I find it insane that anyone is giving her any kind of platform when she's clearly just on a wind-up 24/7. Her "fans" are morons.

Insect Overlord · 20-08-2019 3:00pm

Woke Hogan wrote: »

I find it insane that anyone is giving her any kind of platform when she's clearly just on a wind-up 24/7. Her "fans" are morons.

Finally something we can all agree on!

CrankyHaus · 20-08-2019 3:07pm

The 9/11 conspiracy nonsense thread that's always on the Boards front page (even though it only seems to have a couple of people posting in it).
Seriously as soon as I read "Lloyd England False Flag" or whatever drivel is in the title I just start yawning.

banie01 · 20-08-2019 3:10pm

Woke Hogan wrote: »

A regulatory system to root out the scum would be ideal. It's interesting how you don't hear the "good" landlords calling for such a regulatory system. I wonder why? Hmmm.

Not as useless as every single word in your post. You're wasting my time.

Air B and B isn't renting our house out, and TBH.
Even if we were in an Air B and B high demand area, it's not a letting method I'd choose.

Yes in theory it would greatly increase the property income, but as I said in a reply to a different poster we manage the property passively.
The only real input I wish to have is in ensuring that any maintenance and repairs are carried out promptly and in knowing that my tenants are happy with our pile of bricks and mortar.

Secondly, as trite as this may sound.
It's a family home, in a nice neighbourhood and ideally a family would live in it.

We have had the same tenants for over 4 years, they are shortly starting a new part 4 period.
They are happy tenants, we are happy landlords.

We do have a property in an RPZ, however we are far below the RPZ limit for what we charge.
That doesn't just limit us to 4% increases with our current tenant, but should they leave it restricts the rate we could charge any future tenant.

We comply fully with all regulation and when it comes to minimum standards, I would like to think that we do our best to better them.
Your call for "good" landlords to push for regulation is akin to asking Turkeys to vote for Christmas?
Left to landlords, surely the push would be to make the system entirely advantageous to them?

Landlords in particular of individual properties are not a hivemind.
Regulation needs to be designed for 2 purposes.
1. To ensure that tenants have security of tenure and certainty of regulation regarding what rights they have and what obligations both parties to a rental agreement have.

2. To ensure that landlords have a means to ensure an affordable and quick means to regain their property in the event of a tenant witholding rent.

The fact that overholding on both rent and mortgages can take in the order of years to resolve, traps quite a bit of supply
That single unit landlords are carrying blame for a broken system is IMO quite a stretch.

The council's, housing associations, institutional landlords and property companies all do far more to drive the formulation of policy than Mary and Joe who rent out a house one of them had bought before they met up.
To decide people are scum because they choose to rent out their property is quite an extreme reaction IMO.

Should they choose to leave it idle?
Place it on the market at a loss?
Donate it?

freshpopcorn · 20-08-2019 3:18pm

People who complain about the cost of raising a child when they have lots of money for luxuries.

rgmmg · 20-08-2019 3:21pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

People who complain about the cost of raising a child when they have lots of money for luxuries.

Like what? Imperial leather?

banie01 · 20-08-2019 3:21pm

CrankyHaus wrote: »

The 9/11 conspiracy nonsense thread that's always on the Boards front page (even though it only seems to have a couple of people posting in it).
Seriously as soon as I read "Lloyd England False Flag" or whatever drivel is in the title I just start yawning.

5 :P
There are 5 people posting on it, that's a 150% more than the couple you claimed....

In a serious note though, it's one of those threads where much like the G O'D and Antivax and other contrarian threads.

It's important IMO to challenge the naysayers and evaluate their proof..
If evidence was presented to change the consensus itd be quite quickly accepted.
I'd be surprised if course, but anyone who clings to a definite position when evidence says otherwise is more a fanatic than a religious extremist.

Dublin Spur · 20-08-2019 3:24pm

GAA & Rugby

SAMTALK · 20-08-2019 4:12pm

The row going on between posters about landlords !

Irish Guitarist · 20-08-2019 4:13pm

Woke Hogan wrote: »

I find it insane that anyone is giving her any kind of platform when she's clearly just on a wind-up 24/7. Her "fans" are morons.

I don't think her fans are the problem, it's the people that claim to be offended by her but give her the attention she craves. If they hated her that much they would change the channel when she appears on some talk show or they wouldn't read articles written by her. That would send a clear message to the media that no one cares about her and they'd stop employing her. What could have really ended her 'career', at least in Ireland, would be if the Late Late Show audience had just walked out when she appeared.

The reality is these people want a 'celebrity' hate figure in their lives that they can whine about. They're the ones responsible for her fame.

Things that you don't give a $hit about.

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