82 thoughts on “Sunday’s Papers

  1. ce

    We can all agree that if Michael O’Leary was never to utter another word in public again the world would be a better place…

    1. ce

      mad stuff – but we’ll probably reelect FF and FG and a few messiah-healy-rae types to make up for the wiped-out greens for the craic…

  2. Cú Chulainn

    I see hardman Mr. Frost, fresh from his complete capitulation to the EU, is resigning because of lockdown… so not.. what next for the UK’s negotiation strategy. Will we have the geographically challenged Rabb, or perhaps the infamous swagger of Gove? Either way, what was already bad just got worse.

        1. 1-2-1-2

          He did his job.
          Made Boris look like the big fella to get Brexit done. Now out with that slogan and get the painters in, come up with some fresh whitewash

    1. Bitnboxy

      Well, at least you’re fully wired mad auld lad GiggidyGums. Ironic, given less of a broadband connection would you the world of good. Chortle!

      Scan your code Giggz!

      :-p

      1. GiggidyGoo

        Bang on time. Scan the code Boxy. Has mummy and pops dropped off your christmas allowance yet? Double this week no doubt. Guffaw! There there there. The kelly’s baby has nowhere to go until February.

  3. Gearoid

    Remember my prediction?
    Hospitality shuts Jan 3rd
    Full lockdown Jan 7th.
    You read it here first last Monday.

    1. Bitnboxy

      Wow – you are quite the Oracle.

      Next you’ll be giving us the winning Lotto numbers for the rollover jackpot.

      How do you do it?!

      1. Gearoid

        Observation and deduction mainly.
        Like I’ve been observing you for weeks trading bantz with GiggidyGoo and I’ve deduced you think she’s a feller.
        And like everyone else I’ve said nothing because I’ve thoroughly enjoyed watching you making a knob of yourself.
        Crack on dummy.

    1. E'Matty

      Ever notice how any time new restrictions are announced, we are always told one member of cabinet has tested positive? It’s been a pattern throughout. Eamon pulled the short straw for Christmas.

      1. Chris

        No, most people don’t notice – or think its mere coincidence. Pattern recognition appears to be extremely rare.

    1. bisted

      …oh no…if the Yanks can’t save the planet then there’s no hope it can be left to Putin or Xi…

      1. Nigel

        When your only prospect for any large-scale action on an impending global catastrophe is just one power, the EU, such as it is, then oh no indeed.

        1. bisted

          …great bunch of lads that G7…I’m sure they’ll get round to climate change when they’ve sorted out Ukraine…have they considered regime change in Greenland?

          1. Nigel

            Well, there was this pretty good bill that might have done a lot of good in the US, and created momentum for more, but Joe Manchin blocked it, like I said.

          2. Nigel

            Sadly no, a Democrat, revoltingly enough. Plus the entire Republican Party, of course, which is a suicide cult at this stage.

          3. Nigel

            ‘Isn’t that news several weeks old?’

            Hard to believe it, but they tried with him again, and he fecked them.

    2. Mise

      Stop poisoning the water
      Stop poisoning the land
      Stop putting crap in our food
      Stop with the plastic everywhere
      There are plenty of things we should sort out
      BUT let’s not pretend there’s not a big pile of steaming các out there regarding climate change /global warming/coming ice age.
      Do big companies and the 1% still buy sea front property and get to build on it and get insured.
      The answer is yes
      Will local people with land be granted the same …?
      Can we say land grab

      https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/

      1. Nigel

        ‘BUT let’s not pretend there’s not a big pile of steaming các out there regarding climate change /global warming/coming ice age.’

        No-one pretends climate change denialism doesn’t exist.

          1. Nigel

            Seen it before. Bad science reporting is not the same thing as science, and stuff that turns out to be wrong is, by its nature, wrong. The ozone hole and acid rain are literally warnings that were acted on, and that’s why they warnings didn’t come true, which is actually the same outcome that woould be preferable with climate change. In case you haven’t noticed, the worse predictions of climate change are coming true, not because the scientists want to win a bet or an online argument, but because they’re being ignored.

          2. Nigel

            Wildfires, floods, heatwaves, droughts, famines, biodiversity loss, sea-level rise, all increasing in occurence and intensity, same with hurricanes and tornadoes, increasing desertification, ocean acidification, all bulding and building and building. Why is it that people who deny climate change also seem to think proclaiming ignorance about it makes them credible?

          3. Mise

            I’m genuinely looking for discourse surrounding climate change, I had swallowed the whole we are killing the planet thing for many years. But scratch the surface and it starts to fall apart
            We are not losing icebergs in fact its growing just elsewhere
            https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater-than-losses
            The planet is greener
            https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2436/co2-is-making-earth-greenerfor-now/
            Less forestfires
            https://www.climatedepot.com/2018/08/07/less-fire-today-than-centuries-ago-scientists-studies-counter-claim-that-wildfires-due-to-climate-change-book-excerpt/
            Most renewable energy causes great harm
            https://www.americanexperiment.org/the-environmental-disaster-of-solar-energy/

            But they tell is they can tax and fine us out of climate change , I’ll say it again steaming pile of các buì

          4. Nigel

            Oh dear. These are VERY familiar.
            The loss of Antarctic ice is not uniform, but it is losing ice, massively, overall.
            There’s a limit to the amount of increased growth from increased carbon in the atmosphere, and it actualy has a bad effect on himan intelligence. Also, that isn’t even an argument that climate change isn’t occurring, and doesn’t account for the effect of shifting climate on plant-life like, y’know, crops.
            ‘Less fires today than centuries ago’ you are aware that ‘centuries ago’ there used to be massive forests AND massive praires covering most of the planet, that what is there today is miniscule by comparison, and when they burned, they burned uninterrupted, right? So the sheer volume and scale of fires over the period of their existence was quite substantial.
            John Hindraker – there’s a name I haven’t heard since he was boosting the second Iraq War. What an environmental disaster that was. I’d cast your net wider when it comes to assessing the advantages and disadvantages of solar power, which is, of course, only one form of renewable, if you really want an honest discourse.

            You honestly found THESE persuasive?

    1. Fergalito

      I get where he’s coming from.

      Devices (while of course also enabling and facilitating creativity) are responsible for potentially creating a generation of open mouthed, dead eyed gurning morons watching other excitable, vacuous gurning morons.

      Far better to get lost in and become captivated by one’s own meandering reveries…

    2. Buzz Eireann (formerly Hughie Luas)

      In fairness, there isn’t any electricity in Co. Louth, so it makes sense.

  4. just millie

    The Lord of the Rings trilogy was released 20 years ago. Now is a perfect time to dust off the special extended addition and watch the entire set all in one 13-hour sitting.

  5. Mise

    @nigel
    I see now discourse is not your thing ; no worries dude.
    Continue to freak out , the world will continue to spin and we shall continue to politely disagree.
    Oiche mháith

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