40 thoughts on “Saturday’s Papers

    1. scottser

      Yeh, let it die.
      ‘Where they offer you pictures of stockings and suspenders
      Then call for stiffer penalties for sex offenders’..

  1. GiggidyGoo

    Mother and Baby homes testimony to be examined by independent expert. Is that admitting that the commissioners weren’t independent and couldn’t be trusted to come to proper decisions or run it properly?

    “I think the commission did a good job. It did what it was asked to do, in many ways.” That’s Varadkars summation. Read through the lines in that.

    1. Formerly known as @ireland.com

      Why are you looking at Putin propaganda? Vaccines aren’t perfect and some people may not be able to take vaccines. Variants may change things, too. Life is complex, don’t expect binary answers to everything.

          1. SOQ

            As a gay man- it was never on my to-do list anyways. It is however a sign of how desperate some governments are to get this stuff into people and, how far they are willing to go.

            Meanwhile in India- a country I really do want to see- as endorsed by “some retired nurse on YouTube” https://duckduckgo.com/?q=delhi+ivermectin pick you own source so no accusations of ‘propaganda’.

          2. Cian

            Wait. Didn’t you post last summer saying ivermertin and hydroxychloroquine were the reasons that India hadn’t been hit by covid?

            Now ivermertin is the reason that their cases are coming back down. What happened to them?

          3. SOQ

            Cian- you do realise that nit-picking is a form of bullying?

            Hydroxychloroquine also works- perhaps not to the same extent but it does help- otherwise why would the US front line doctors man up and do what they did- at risk of career suicide?

            Don’t you find it odd that there is nothing people can take at home when the symptoms are mild?

          4. Nigel

            ‘you do realise that nit-picking is a form of bullying?’

            You do realise that this is perilously close to ‘stop oppressing me with facts?’

            ‘otherwise why would the US front line doctors man up and do what they did- at risk of career suicide?’

            This does not actually count as evidence that it works.

          5. Ghost of Yep

            “You do realise that this is perilously close to ‘stop oppressing me with facts”

            Sweet Jesus you do not have a modicum of self awareness do you.

          6. Cian

            you do realise that nit-picking is a form of bullying?
            how so? Just because you are constantly posting rubbish and I point some of that out?

      1. italia'90

        When quoting actual facts is considered “Putin Propaganda”,
        whilst having the most powerful search engines at the touch
        of your fingertip, you know ASPI dollars have been well spent
        in controlling the narrative and conscripting willing stooges as “gatekeepers”.

        Can you die from second-hand embarrassment?

        https://www.google.com/search?q=dr.+yasmin+rashid+sim+card&sxsrf=ALeKk03pi37pxQ15pkd1yp3FZe3OGYi61g%3A1623514959664&ei=T9_EYJj-J6-IhbIPnJShsAo&oq=Dr.+Yasmin+Rashid+sim+&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAEYADIFCCEQoAEyBQghEKABOgkIABCwAxAHEB46BQgAELADOgcIABCwAxAeOgIIADoGCAAQFhAeOgQIIRAVUNz0AljxwANg2s8DaAFwAHgAgAHWBogBqAmSAQU1LjYtMZgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXrIAQrAAQE&sclient=gws-wiz

        1. Cian

          Is this actually true? Or are all those reports copied and pasted from a lie?

          Pakistan have less than 5% vaccination (doses) – it seems a bit premature to start that kind of pressure.

  2. Donald McCarthy

    W start.ith the planet on the verge of becoming a great uninhabitable, inescapable and corporate sweat house it is time to remember the decentralized, anarchic sweathouses of Leitrim. Before the shock and awe of the famine ethnically and culturally cleansed the marginal people and left a predatory church, excited by the opportunities offered, to exert coercive control over survivors we lived for the hundreds of saunas. Naked and sweating we erupted into the sun and went skinny dipping. Now the ruins remain and in their place we worshipped the septic tanks of Tuam. So g’wan the folk, worship the heat in ignorance and nagging fear. 31c. is jus

    1. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

      saunas or possibly cooking pits or for fabric work, maybe all three

      1. Donald McCarthy

        W start.ith the planet on the verge of becoming a great uninhabitable, inescapable and corporate sweat house it is time to remember the decentralized, anarchic sweathouses of Leitrim. Before the shock and awe of the famine ethnically and culturally cleansed the marginal people and left a predatory church, excited by the opportunities offered, to exert coercive control over survivors we lived for the hundreds of saunas. Naked and sweating we erupted into the sun and went skinny dipping. Now the ruins remain and in their place we worshipped the septic tanks of Tuam. So g’wan the folk, worship the heat in ignorance and nagging fear. 31c. is jus

        De Latocnaye gives one of intriguingly few contemporaneous accounts. He wrote a book about his travels in Ireland in 1796/7 and offers some details about the sweating houses. One suggestion is that, in combination with Fly Agaric and Liberty Cap mushrooms the sweat houses were Ireland’s embryonic abortion clinics. Demographic pressure in marginal areas meant an extra mouth could tip a family into absolute destitution. Combined with the unusual remoteness of some, the proximity of clean running water and most importantly a culture of omerta which allowed an otherwise loquacious and unpuritanical population to shelter the truth. The poets of the Black Pigs Dyke who wrote about every wee bird on every wee tree, every tumble of stones and every fairy thorn were silent about an activity that should have been right up their boreen. A history obliterated.

          1. Gabby

            Old sweathouses could nowadays be recycled as beehive prayer huts. Let overburdened urban consumers pray away their shopaholic habits.

    1. f_lawless

      It was footage of the England vs New Zealand cricket match. The ball is on the grass close to the boundary and a player is standing over it but won’t pick it up. The commentator explains that someone close to the pitch must have touched the ball. The player waits for the umpire to walk over from the centre of the pitch. When the umpire arrives, he takes out a wet wipe and picks the ball up with his thumb and index finger. He then pretends to wipe the ball with the wet wipe – the hand doing the wiping motion is clearly seen to hover a few inches above the ball. After the charade, he hands the ball back to the player standing beside him and the game continues on as normal

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