38 thoughts on “Thursday’s Papers

  1. Casual Observer

    I think we should all settle down and agree, today was a ‘slow’ news day.

    The ”Irish” Daily Mail would have you believe that you have a Cleaner who cares about you more than her wages.
    (She’s only PRETENDING that she doesn’t speak English. She just doesn’t want to talk to you.)

    Next week she’ll be stealing your cutlery

    1. :-Joe

      Ye, no surprises eh?..

      Even though I foolishly rushed my attention here holding on to the hope that a new dawn had risen and it may have got through when I heard the half-baked headlines on the wireless..

      I’m embaressed for having such high expections, what was I expecting, when Ireland is run by corrupted middle managers for the IMF and Deutsche Bank on one side of the neoliberal economic equation and only functions primarily as a refuelling hub and satellite office for ‘murican geo-political and economic imperialism on the other…

      Zionist Israel in bed with ‘murican foreign policy and Ireland just another lacky and a bleedin joke of a republic, etc. etc.

      Fair play by Boyd Barrett and the PBP’s mostly independently elected TD’s for putting it on the table…

      BTW.. The Bitcoin clearance sale is over in less than a week folks…
      – Bye, bye, to a half-century of murican’ FIAT hedgemony with the petro-dolla’ bills y’all..

      :-J

        1. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

          well mine even though dropped is still worth way more than initial investment,

        2. Rosette of Sirius

          Down. But seeing I acquired the bulk of mine between 2009 to 2012, i’m still a-ok.

          1. Rob_G

            (actually i posted this to make fun of Joe’s assertion that bitcoin could replace the established currencies – but fairplay, good time to have bought)

          2. :-Joe

            Cryptocurrency is already obviously here and replacing the legacy anologue system of FIAT money as international currency as we speak..

            All countries, nation states will introduce their own version of fake centralised and controlled digital (non-crypto)currency but it won’t be worth anything compared to Bitcoin.

            Think of Bitcoin as digital gold/precious metals to other digital currencies as a store of value.

            Ask yourself why every nation and banking institution is investing in it or trying to mine ot themselves at the moment while still trying to figure out how to stop it or create their own one for the past decade…??

            Gob_R still has no idea what he’s talking about.

            :-J

          3. Cian

            every nation and banking institution is investing in it or trying to mine ot themselves at the moment
            any evidence for this preposterous statement.

            Do you think the NTMA should buy bitcoin? What would your reaction be if they announced they had bought a billion’s worth last month?

          4. Nigel

            ‘Ask yourself why every nation and banking institution is investing in it’

            Because it will make the regulation and oversight of white collar crime, market manipulation, dark money funding of politicians and special interest groups and money laundering completely impossible and therefore even more lucrative and risk-free for supposedly legitimate institutions?

          5. :-Joe

            Nigel, Bitcoin is not Anonymous..

            Also white collar crime is rampant right now…
            Why do you think Bitcoin has become so popular recently and is growing exponentially..?

            You might be thinking of Monero or coin-tumbling anonymisation processes that can be used for laundering bitcoin bought originally from corrupt centralised exchanges that share data with governments automatically.

            Another one of many factually incorrect ideas spread into the public consciousness by banks as propaganda…

            Keeping people dumb so they don’t figure it out faster while they take off with your underpants… twice over in the meantime.

            :-J

          6. :-Joe

            Cian, your question is preposterous..

            Take your head out of the F’d by f/g dept of defense filing cabinets of propaganda and go look it up for yourself..

            Yes, with low interest rates the useless corrupt IMF/Deutsche Bank middle managers some people refer to as the oirish government, should have invested heavily in Bitcoin and maybe even mining it if rewnewable energy made it feasable.

            And no, Gob_R, you’re wrong, Bitcoin only uses one tenth of one percent of the world’s energy consumption and will in fact reduce worldwide consumption dramatically year on year.

            It’s a no-brainer unless you have no braincells tuned into the obvious facts..

            :-J

        3. :-Joe

          Haha, Gob_R..

          Broadsheet’s first, loneliest and most vociferous Crytocurrency denier..
          – I expected you to make another daft comment and there you are.

          :-J

          1. Rob_G

            (I have held, and indeed still have a bit, of crypto)

            If you think that the dollar or the euro or whatever can be replaced by something as volatile as bitcoin, you are deluded.

      1. scottser

        swapping one system that i have no control over for another system that i have no control over?
        sounds like a plan.

        1. :-Joe

          Decentralised cryptocurrency essesntially means no one person or group can have control over the whole system….

          You need to get better informed, either way crytocurrency is already here.

          You will be using the state owned and controlled centralised China-style digital version of the worthless analogue euro/dolla’ fairly soon..

          Smart people will have invested and stored value in Bitcoin.

          :-J

          1. :-Joe

            The system is self regulating and finite, people have been trying to break the cryptography for over a decade without success..

            Only by gaining complete control of 51%+ minimum of all miners or the internet itself by a future quantum computer can threaten it and people have been working on those potential future problems for years too..

            It’s more than just a currency or token or digital asset and a store of value like gold.

            Intentionally it was designed to kill corrupt central banking.

            :-J

          2. :-Joe

            Either way, technically you’re helping to solve the same problem…

            Prison, death or potential financial loss.. hmm ?

            :-J

  2. ce

    Daily Mail “Femail” banner… wow…

    I’m assuming it says something like “Your cleaner thinks you have notions”

  3. Donald McCarthy

    The iceman cometh but the ice goeth. BOE by 2020 and watch this souped-up planet hurtle towards the cliff with no brakes and the radiator bust. Sunny today with the possibility of clouds.

    1. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

      I prefer the Waterford whisperer version
      Hotter than your cousin Sinead

  4. Gabby

    On a day of so much lousy political news Dan Martin’s cycle win of a stage in the big Italian tour is a summer cheer. I’ll raise a glass of vino bianco to him.

  5. baz

    Portmarnock only allowing men and women I see.
    What about the other self defined genders seeking 18 holes?

    1. Formerly known as @ireland.com

      Let me know how your voluntary shifts in ICU/the morgue/informing families of the death of their relatives go.
      You keep harping on about your rights. I thought the virus was becoming less dangerous, at least that was the line 12 months ago.

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