“Johnson in a Brexit Baby Boom” – really? I was manufactured in 1966, I sincerely doubt my parents (both RIP) were thinking about The (Soccer) World Cup at the time.
Health officials ‘appeal for calm” over the Coronavirus reaching out shores. might I suggest that the shifty-eyed HSE representatives (you can see the hiding of lies just by looking at their facial movements) are doing more to stoke up fear by not being forthright and honest with us?
ReproBertie
Ah come on, seriously, what evidence do you have that they are not being honest with us?
GiggidyGoo
:-)
GiggidyGoo
From the HSE website
“There is a confirmed case of coronavirus in the Republic of Ireland. They are receiving treatment in hospital. Infection prevention measures are in place.”
There ‘is’ ‘a’ …… ‘they’ are receiving treatment. “A” is singular. “They” is plural.
The HSE website gives advice such as if you’ve been in contact with a person that has the virus, in the last 14 days, then get tested. So how do people know if they’ve been in contact?
also
“Because it’s a new illness, we do not know how easily the virus spreads from person to person. We do not know if someone can spread the virus before they show symptoms.”
Yet they go on to say that it’s spread by
“face-to-face contact
spending more than 15 minutes within 2 metres of an infected person (see above – “we do not know how easily the virus spreads from person to person. We do not know if someone can spread the virus before they show symptoms.”)
Living in the same house as an infected person”
Dee
“They”- used to refer to a person of unspecified gender.
GiggidyGoo
I stand corrected.
ReproBertie
“They” is a neutral pronoun used to protect the identity of the patient. The NI case was referred to as “they” until their gender got out.
We do not know if it can be spread without symptoms but there is zero evidence that it has spread without the carrier being symptomatic. The only suspected case, a 20 year old woman in China, is being treated as an anomaly due to the lack of concrete evidence.
They are, by saying that they don’t know, being honest with us. All the evidence points to the need for a patient to be symptomatic to be contagious which is why they talk about the 2m, 15 minute face to face contact thing.
You have semantics, not evidence.
Charger Salmons
Why are you even taking seriously anything that fruit loop writes ?
All governments, including the Irish, are trying to balance their message between advice such as handwashing etc and not creating panic while dealing with a new virus whose likely spread, treatment and prevention is still unknown.
Inevitably at times like this the tinfoil hat brigade come out in force.
Nigel will be along soon.
GiggidyGoo
The HSE say definitively it’s spread by face-to-face contact, spending more than 15 minutes with an infected person within 2m.
The HSE then say ‘ we do not know how easily the virus spreads person to person’
Despite your attempt to suggest to the contrary, those two statements are conflicting.
ReproBertie
The two statements are not mutually exclusive. We know it spreads like this but we do not know how easily.
ReproBertie
Charger there are elements in the media and on social media who seem to exist purely to sow panic and fear based on disinformation, suggestion and simple lies. I believe this disinformation should be tackled and addressed.
GiggidyGoo
Once they go into specifics, such as times periods, measurements, then your argument doesn’t stand up Repro.
ReproBertie
That’s simply not true. It’s a guide to help people identify if the symptoms they are showing may be Covid-19 or not.
It’s not a definitive list of rules on how Covid-19 is spread.
Is this your only evidence that the HSE is not being truthful?
GiggidyGoo
Whether it’s a guide or not, once they mention any specifics, your argument doesn’t stand up.
ReproBertie
In your opinion.
some old queen
70 per cent of population could be infected with coronavirus over next year – as virologist urges people “not to panic”
Badly or not,
My point was obvious
About inherent behaviour and a lad’s true nature, their natural instinct
That only comes truly to light with reactions that that
One the Frilly Keane column made here several times
Bet ye’re all even more glad t’was dumped now
I’m sure ye’ll have a Broadsheet feast of Derek, Eamonn, Dan, Terry, maybe even a return of the Independent Journalist Bryan Wall along to tell ye it’s all nonsense of course. In which case Happy Days Bruddar et al
So the Mail on Sunday have a picture of Boris Johnson on their front page. Makes a change from Megan, Harry or Kate! Any chance of them putting something Irish rather than English! I guess the “unmissable advice” they talk about at the top is also just a copy of their English paper. Can they not use Irish people and support our own? Their paper is getting more and more like the Sunday Express! You would think we are in the middle of England going by the paper they produce.
GiggidyGoo
They do that as their sales are to knops like Charger one to live here rather than their homeland.
Charger Salmons
It’s the boneheads who say they never read the hated Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday then spend their time on here complaining because they don’t use enough Irish news which makes Broadsheet so enjoyable.
I’m guessing they only look at the pictures anyway so their lips don’t have to move to read the words.
GiggidyGoo
Face it Charger, their sales are so low, it points to their Irish market being Brits who have settled in Ireland because they can’t stand the notion of living in England, but still need their fix of little englander drivel. Hence the reliance on Boris, Liz, Harry, to sell to yiz.
Charger Salmons
What newspapers do the hundreds of thousands of Irish people who have moved to the UK read ?
Lush
I look at the Mail Online every day.
It’s like a car-crash.
Intriguing and mind-numbing in equal measure.
And, despite your posturing, I reckon most of you regulars, feel the same.
Charger, don’t ever change.
Charger Salmons
No fear of that Lush my old chum.
It’s the snivelling ” this is a local shop for local people ” knuckleheads on here who I most enjoy schooling.
Fiona
Actually Charger Salmonds, I read the IMOS for quite a few years, not just the pictures!
You clearly don’t get my point. They have so little Irish stories these days. That is my point.
And how they can charge €3.20?
A few years ago a lot of people were buying it.
Why are so few buying it now compared to then Charger Salmonds?
Matt Pilates
#dontfeedthetroll
millie vanilly strikes again
Oh no, I do. It’s such fun.
He reminds me of my old uncle Gerry who loves to dish it out but can’t quite bring himself to take it.
Lush
Ah Mills, I think he takes it rather well.
I remain convinced as to his real motivations, but there’s never a dull moment.
Lush
Oops, no edit function on the app, UNCONVINCED.
millie vanilly strikes again
I am never bored reading his comments. Never. And there is no higher compliment I can give. He is terribly entertaining.
Lush
There’s no ‘d’.
Fiona
They use to be a good Sunday paper up to about 2 years ago.
Then something happened and I switched to the Sunday Independent.
I noticed also how they put so many Royal stories into their paper. Clearly some Irish people like that but I’m not one of them.
They seem to have completely lost their Irish customers. When I stopped getting it so much just appeared the same as you would get if you were buying the Mail on Sunday in the UK.
They also are very expensive €3.20 is a lot.
Matt Pilates
Indeed.
The “some Irish people” would be the over-65s FF/FG boomer brigade who have always looked to the Brits for validation in return for their monied forelock-tugging obsequience.
GiggidyGoo
Will Preti Polly last a week?
Will Boris keep his promise to marry?
Will the Mail keep us up to date?
Matt Pilates
Good ole Boris Johnson ass over elbow again. You’re supposed to get married BEFORE the police are called to a domestic.
Charger Salmons
Interesting data coming out of South Carolina and Biden’s win in the Democratic primary.
The Liberal-Left media have been saying to black Americans you need Bernie Sanders whereas they have responded with a thumbs down and gone for Uncle Joe.
It’ll be interesting in November to see how many blacks vote for Trump given their record numbers in employment – that’s if they still have a job after coronavirus.
Super Tuesday next week will also be fascinating – Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Democrats Abroad, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia all hold their presidential primaries.
GiggidyGoo
Thanks for listing them alphabetically
Charger Salmons
You understand the alphabet ?
I’m shocked.
Shocked I tell you
GiggidyGoo
Whats there to “understand” about the alphabet? Maybe it’s a subject in the GCSE’s? Maybe you passed and portray such gained knowelegde as enlightening?
some old queen
Uk’s first Muslim pride in London- Saturday April 11.
Well this is an interesting one, cheered on by the Daily Mail no less. It’s coming with the hashtag Islamophobia won’t stop us but in this context it is not Islamophobia which the problem – it is homophobia. In the last poll commissioned by Channel 4, 52% of Muslims believe that homosexuality should be illegal and 47% said gays should not be teachers- 23% want Sharia law in Britain too.
Still, it is a historic event and has been warmly welcomed by other LGBT groups. It kind of brings me back to our own first Prides and hopefully there will be a big turnout- good for them.
Here is the deal lads- gay Muslims marching in London will require extra security. I pray that it is not needed but if it is- are you really going to come onto broadsheet.ie and compare it to poo that happened in Ireland 50 years ago?
This really is brave and stunning.
Lobster
Every day I see you coming on here, complaining about Muslim homophobia. I totally support gay rights, however I also have Muslim friends and colleagues. I see the treatment they get in airports compared to me, I hear the comments against them criticising their presumed conservatism, or the comments about how they are not really irish, or the “jokes”. Discriminating against an already discriminated against group does nothing to support gay rights.
I’m sorry for jumping on you though, truth be told the only reason I want to challenge you is because 99.5% of your comments on here are insightful and or witty, so then when I see you engaging in speech which I know to be hurtful to people I care about, with no potential gain to the community you are trying to support, my reaction is a bit “no not soq”. Which isn’t fair of me really
some old queen
Discriminating against an already discriminated against group does nothing to support gay rights.
Sorry but you have that one very much the wrong way around- from a gay perspective, Muslims are not the victims- they have a reputation for homophobia, this is hardly news. By your logic, if a black person objects to racists, they are the oppressor. And no, I do not tar all Muslims with the one brush- I am a big fan of moderate reformists like Maajid Nawaz for example.
But the fact remains, in the context or the up and coming Muslim pride, these people are putting their neck on the line because not only will there be an increased security risk on the day, they will potentially face a backlash from within their own communities- they are real Social Justice Warriors.
Pat Mustard
Majiid Nawaz is a zionist shill.
Seriously, just stop.
some old queen
I am sure you bum is bigger that it looks in the mirror- a bit like your ego.
Pat Mustard
Whatever.
Please stop citing zionist shills as some sort of insight into Islam.
some old queen
What is your opinion on Tariq Ramadan’s views then?
What do you think you accomplish coming online every day to rant about muslims? Particularly the half plus that aren’t homophobic?
some old queen
A message of support for gay Muslims having the first gay pride IN THE WORLD is a rant?
Then again, if your bar is so low as to assume that everyone is gay friendly if they do not support the re-criminalisation of homosexuality- I very much doubt if you have much interest in the subject in the first place.
Canon Law has always amazed and amused me in equal measure:
A makey-up “law” specifically dreamt up to support the wishes of the R.C. church. And no; its long history doesn’t give it any more validity than if it came about yesterday.
In my schoodays, one priest-teacher had the letters D.D. after his name.
When my teenage curiosity asked what they stood for, I was surprised to learn- Doctor of Divinity!
Even then I thought;
“Oh…right so”.
Cian
All laws are makey-up.
some old queen
As the more ‘experienced’ alter boy said to the priest- sure with balls like that I thought you were a canon?
“Johnson in a Brexit Baby Boom” – really? I was manufactured in 1966, I sincerely doubt my parents (both RIP) were thinking about The (Soccer) World Cup at the time.
Whaaaaaat? SF and FG swap polling positions? Suffering Sokatache.
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/sinn-fein-soar-as-opinion-poll-has-mary-lous-party-15-points-ahead-of-ff-984969.html
One of these particular days, our’s will come.
The not too distant future hopefully
Health officials ‘appeal for calm” over the Coronavirus reaching out shores. might I suggest that the shifty-eyed HSE representatives (you can see the hiding of lies just by looking at their facial movements) are doing more to stoke up fear by not being forthright and honest with us?
Ah come on, seriously, what evidence do you have that they are not being honest with us?
:-)
From the HSE website
“There is a confirmed case of coronavirus in the Republic of Ireland. They are receiving treatment in hospital. Infection prevention measures are in place.”
There ‘is’ ‘a’ …… ‘they’ are receiving treatment. “A” is singular. “They” is plural.
The HSE website gives advice such as if you’ve been in contact with a person that has the virus, in the last 14 days, then get tested. So how do people know if they’ve been in contact?
also
“Because it’s a new illness, we do not know how easily the virus spreads from person to person. We do not know if someone can spread the virus before they show symptoms.”
Yet they go on to say that it’s spread by
“face-to-face contact
spending more than 15 minutes within 2 metres of an infected person (see above – “we do not know how easily the virus spreads from person to person. We do not know if someone can spread the virus before they show symptoms.”)
Living in the same house as an infected person”
“They”- used to refer to a person of unspecified gender.
I stand corrected.
“They” is a neutral pronoun used to protect the identity of the patient. The NI case was referred to as “they” until their gender got out.
We do not know if it can be spread without symptoms but there is zero evidence that it has spread without the carrier being symptomatic. The only suspected case, a 20 year old woman in China, is being treated as an anomaly due to the lack of concrete evidence.
They are, by saying that they don’t know, being honest with us. All the evidence points to the need for a patient to be symptomatic to be contagious which is why they talk about the 2m, 15 minute face to face contact thing.
You have semantics, not evidence.
Why are you even taking seriously anything that fruit loop writes ?
All governments, including the Irish, are trying to balance their message between advice such as handwashing etc and not creating panic while dealing with a new virus whose likely spread, treatment and prevention is still unknown.
Inevitably at times like this the tinfoil hat brigade come out in force.
Nigel will be along soon.
The HSE say definitively it’s spread by face-to-face contact, spending more than 15 minutes with an infected person within 2m.
The HSE then say ‘ we do not know how easily the virus spreads person to person’
Despite your attempt to suggest to the contrary, those two statements are conflicting.
The two statements are not mutually exclusive. We know it spreads like this but we do not know how easily.
Charger there are elements in the media and on social media who seem to exist purely to sow panic and fear based on disinformation, suggestion and simple lies. I believe this disinformation should be tackled and addressed.
Once they go into specifics, such as times periods, measurements, then your argument doesn’t stand up Repro.
That’s simply not true. It’s a guide to help people identify if the symptoms they are showing may be Covid-19 or not.
It’s not a definitive list of rules on how Covid-19 is spread.
Is this your only evidence that the HSE is not being truthful?
Whether it’s a guide or not, once they mention any specifics, your argument doesn’t stand up.
In your opinion.
70 per cent of population could be infected with coronavirus over next year – as virologist urges people “not to panic”
http://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2020/02/29/news/70-per-cent-of-population-could-be-infected-with-coronavirus-over-next-year—as-virologist-urges-people-not-to-panic–1855123/
and they probably won’t notice
On the plus side. Paddy’s day alcohol fest parade looks like a non runner.
Imagine if this was me
Running for election – Seanad now say
Pregnant with my 6th babog – that you know about
And with baby daddy no. three. – that you know about
Think about that lads
all night session, frillz?
And that’s your response Bruddar
Thank you for proving to publicly, and efficiently, what I’ve known all my professional life
Own it now lads
ah frillz, come off it – nothing more to it than making a joke out of fact that your comment came without context
You needed context?
Let’s see
– Politician/ Candidate with
– 6th child on the way
– Second marriage (to third baby mammy) on the way
From what we know – so far anyway
Seriously?
You needed context?
Just how deep does it go B?
Is it Boris?
Brother is not a tit.
I think you expressed yourself rather badly V.
I didn’t call him that Lush
Badly or not,
My point was obvious
About inherent behaviour and a lad’s true nature, their natural instinct
That only comes truly to light with reactions that that
One the Frilly Keane column made here several times
Bet ye’re all even more glad t’was dumped now
I’m sure ye’ll have a Broadsheet feast of Derek, Eamonn, Dan, Terry, maybe even a return of the Independent Journalist Bryan Wall along to tell ye it’s all nonsense of course. In which case Happy Days Bruddar et al
Here
Something that might come in handy for the spare t1ts in yere lives
https://twitter.com/Wendywoo_g/status/1233777105487507457?s=20
So the Mail on Sunday have a picture of Boris Johnson on their front page. Makes a change from Megan, Harry or Kate! Any chance of them putting something Irish rather than English! I guess the “unmissable advice” they talk about at the top is also just a copy of their English paper. Can they not use Irish people and support our own? Their paper is getting more and more like the Sunday Express! You would think we are in the middle of England going by the paper they produce.
They do that as their sales are to knops like Charger one to live here rather than their homeland.
It’s the boneheads who say they never read the hated Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday then spend their time on here complaining because they don’t use enough Irish news which makes Broadsheet so enjoyable.
I’m guessing they only look at the pictures anyway so their lips don’t have to move to read the words.
Face it Charger, their sales are so low, it points to their Irish market being Brits who have settled in Ireland because they can’t stand the notion of living in England, but still need their fix of little englander drivel. Hence the reliance on Boris, Liz, Harry, to sell to yiz.
What newspapers do the hundreds of thousands of Irish people who have moved to the UK read ?
I look at the Mail Online every day.
It’s like a car-crash.
Intriguing and mind-numbing in equal measure.
And, despite your posturing, I reckon most of you regulars, feel the same.
Charger, don’t ever change.
No fear of that Lush my old chum.
It’s the snivelling ” this is a local shop for local people ” knuckleheads on here who I most enjoy schooling.
Actually Charger Salmonds, I read the IMOS for quite a few years, not just the pictures!
You clearly don’t get my point. They have so little Irish stories these days. That is my point.
And how they can charge €3.20?
A few years ago a lot of people were buying it.
Why are so few buying it now compared to then Charger Salmonds?
#dontfeedthetroll
Oh no, I do. It’s such fun.
He reminds me of my old uncle Gerry who loves to dish it out but can’t quite bring himself to take it.
Ah Mills, I think he takes it rather well.
I remain convinced as to his real motivations, but there’s never a dull moment.
Oops, no edit function on the app, UNCONVINCED.
I am never bored reading his comments. Never. And there is no higher compliment I can give. He is terribly entertaining.
There’s no ‘d’.
They use to be a good Sunday paper up to about 2 years ago.
Then something happened and I switched to the Sunday Independent.
I noticed also how they put so many Royal stories into their paper. Clearly some Irish people like that but I’m not one of them.
They seem to have completely lost their Irish customers. When I stopped getting it so much just appeared the same as you would get if you were buying the Mail on Sunday in the UK.
They also are very expensive €3.20 is a lot.
Indeed.
The “some Irish people” would be the over-65s FF/FG boomer brigade who have always looked to the Brits for validation in return for their monied forelock-tugging obsequience.
Will Preti Polly last a week?
Will Boris keep his promise to marry?
Will the Mail keep us up to date?
Good ole Boris Johnson ass over elbow again. You’re supposed to get married BEFORE the police are called to a domestic.
Interesting data coming out of South Carolina and Biden’s win in the Democratic primary.
The Liberal-Left media have been saying to black Americans you need Bernie Sanders whereas they have responded with a thumbs down and gone for Uncle Joe.
It’ll be interesting in November to see how many blacks vote for Trump given their record numbers in employment – that’s if they still have a job after coronavirus.
Super Tuesday next week will also be fascinating – Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Democrats Abroad, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia all hold their presidential primaries.
Thanks for listing them alphabetically
You understand the alphabet ?
I’m shocked.
Shocked I tell you
Whats there to “understand” about the alphabet? Maybe it’s a subject in the GCSE’s? Maybe you passed and portray such gained knowelegde as enlightening?
Uk’s first Muslim pride in London- Saturday April 11.
Well this is an interesting one, cheered on by the Daily Mail no less. It’s coming with the hashtag Islamophobia won’t stop us but in this context it is not Islamophobia which the problem – it is homophobia. In the last poll commissioned by Channel 4, 52% of Muslims believe that homosexuality should be illegal and 47% said gays should not be teachers- 23% want Sharia law in Britain too.
Still, it is a historic event and has been warmly welcomed by other LGBT groups. It kind of brings me back to our own first Prides and hopefully there will be a big turnout- good for them.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8000667/UKs-Muslim-Pride-festival-held-London-year.html
Here is the deal lads- gay Muslims marching in London will require extra security. I pray that it is not needed but if it is- are you really going to come onto broadsheet.ie and compare it to poo that happened in Ireland 50 years ago?
This really is brave and stunning.
Every day I see you coming on here, complaining about Muslim homophobia. I totally support gay rights, however I also have Muslim friends and colleagues. I see the treatment they get in airports compared to me, I hear the comments against them criticising their presumed conservatism, or the comments about how they are not really irish, or the “jokes”. Discriminating against an already discriminated against group does nothing to support gay rights.
I’m sorry for jumping on you though, truth be told the only reason I want to challenge you is because 99.5% of your comments on here are insightful and or witty, so then when I see you engaging in speech which I know to be hurtful to people I care about, with no potential gain to the community you are trying to support, my reaction is a bit “no not soq”. Which isn’t fair of me really
Discriminating against an already discriminated against group does nothing to support gay rights.
Sorry but you have that one very much the wrong way around- from a gay perspective, Muslims are not the victims- they have a reputation for homophobia, this is hardly news. By your logic, if a black person objects to racists, they are the oppressor. And no, I do not tar all Muslims with the one brush- I am a big fan of moderate reformists like Maajid Nawaz for example.
But the fact remains, in the context or the up and coming Muslim pride, these people are putting their neck on the line because not only will there be an increased security risk on the day, they will potentially face a backlash from within their own communities- they are real Social Justice Warriors.
Majiid Nawaz is a zionist shill.
Seriously, just stop.
I am sure you bum is bigger that it looks in the mirror- a bit like your ego.
Whatever.
Please stop citing zionist shills as some sort of insight into Islam.
What is your opinion on Tariq Ramadan’s views then?
Please stop..
https://www.france24.com/en/20190929-france-rape-islamic-scholar-tariq-ramadan
What do you think you accomplish coming online every day to rant about muslims? Particularly the half plus that aren’t homophobic?
A message of support for gay Muslims having the first gay pride IN THE WORLD is a rant?
Then again, if your bar is so low as to assume that everyone is gay friendly if they do not support the re-criminalisation of homosexuality- I very much doubt if you have much interest in the subject in the first place.
Reply bounced up there for some reason
…what percentage want canon law in Ireland?
Canon Law has always amazed and amused me in equal measure:
A makey-up “law” specifically dreamt up to support the wishes of the R.C. church. And no; its long history doesn’t give it any more validity than if it came about yesterday.
In my schoodays, one priest-teacher had the letters D.D. after his name.
When my teenage curiosity asked what they stood for, I was surprised to learn- Doctor of Divinity!
Even then I thought;
“Oh…right so”.
All laws are makey-up.
As the more ‘experienced’ alter boy said to the priest- sure with balls like that I thought you were a canon?
…Mary ‘La’ McAleese is a doctor of divinity…
Indeed; I remember her taking herself away to study it…in Rome?…sure what better place eh.
oops. looks like the authorities plan to treat us all like mushrooms is going spectacularly well…
¡Ay, Corona!
The virus seems to affect people with underlying conditions. The Broadsheet commentariat should take extra precaution
You’ll be grand, Ron.