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#1
General discussion / Re: Petrolhead culture
March 26, 2024, 03:59:50 PM
I see Donegal mentioned quite a bit in the "single vehicle collision" and "thoughts and prayers" reporting that goes around.
#2
General discussion / Re: Petrolhead culture
March 25, 2024, 08:46:46 PM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on March 25, 2024, 06:42:51 PMPort Sunday this weekend so you'll see local car culture in all its "glory". Port Sunday, Court Monday.

Christ. Seems like you're absolutely right.

#3
General discussion / Re: Petrolhead culture
March 25, 2024, 04:02:58 PM
Quote from: marty34 on March 25, 2024, 03:48:04 PM
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on March 25, 2024, 03:23:56 PM
Quote from: marty34 on March 25, 2024, 08:43:46 AMOn  similiar vein to this road safety issue, I think it should be complusory that anyone out walking, day or evening, should have a hi-viz vest on.

The amount of people I see out at dusk walking, wear black/dark clothes is scary.

Plus all school uniforms and bags should have a few hi-viz strips or reflections on them.  I'd say it'd be simple enough to design and install.

If roads are so dangerous that people have to dress like construction workers just to go about their daily business then we've got a serious problem that no amount of high-viz is going to fix.

Bit arrogant that answer and not addressing the issue I raised about people out walking at dusk with dark clothes on nor re: school uniforms.

But hey anything for a quick quip.

So you want to live in a society where we all walk about our streets looking like we just stepped off a building site? Are you serious?
#4
General discussion / Re: Petrolhead culture
March 25, 2024, 04:01:14 PM
I'm not gonna lie. I distinctly remember myself and my mates getting into completely unnecessary situations on the road where we quite literally nearly killed people. Our reaction at the time was to laugh at it. I look back in horror at the way we behaved.

There is something about the teenage brain that leads to increased risk-taking.

A Teen's Brain Isn't Fully Developed Until Age 25

Regulation of teenage driving needs to be seriously tightened up. In California they're quite strict.

For the first 12 months after obtaining a provisional license, a teenager is not allowed to have passengers under the age of 20 in the car unless they are accompanied by a licensed driver 25 years or older.

There's also a curfew. Teen drivers with a provisional license are not allowed to drive between 11 pm and 5 am for the first 12 months after obtaining their license.

Teenagers can't use a mobile phone when driving, even with a hands-free device, except in an emergency.

Drink-driving laws for teenagers take a zero-tolerance approach. Teenagers caught driving with any amount of alcohol in their system will face severe consequences, including license suspension and possible criminal charges.
#5
General discussion / Re: Petrolhead culture
March 25, 2024, 03:23:56 PM
Quote from: marty34 on March 25, 2024, 08:43:46 AMOn  similiar vein to this road safety issue, I think it should be complusory that anyone out walking, day or evening, should have a hi-viz vest on.

The amount of people I see out at dusk walking, wear black/dark clothes is scary.

Plus all school uniforms and bags should have a few hi-viz strips or reflections on them.  I'd say it'd be simple enough to design and install.

If roads are so dangerous that people have to dress like construction workers just to go about their daily business then we've got a serious problem that no amount of high-viz is going to fix.
#6
General discussion / Petrolhead culture
March 24, 2024, 10:20:37 PM
Is it just me or do a lot of young fellas in Ireland get involved in an unhealthy petrolhead culture? I remember ripping and tearing around the roads with my mates as soon as we could drive, and we had a whole language built around the act of unsafe driving. It's like the part of our brain that dealt with consequences hadn't developed yet. I look back in horror at some of the stuff we used to get up to in motors.

Every time I hear about roads deaths in the wee hours of the morning and "single vehicle collision" I feel like it could have been any of us back in the day.

"Thoughts and prayers" are all well and good, but I think we need to talk about the culture that surrounds driving, as well as the lack of enforcement of traffic laws at night time when the roads turn into racetracks.
#7
General discussion / Re: King Charles III
March 24, 2024, 05:27:50 AM
Anybody hear any rumours that Charlie's cancer is the pancreatic variety? It would certainly explain why they're so tight-lipped about the type of cancer, especially with the low survival rates with that one. Awful stuff.
#8
General discussion / Re: The Fine Gael thread
March 20, 2024, 08:30:37 PM
Quote from: seafoid on March 20, 2024, 02:47:16 PMWhoever takes over may inherit a poisoned chalice. Inflation is not over.

Inflation is down to 2.3%. It peaked at 9.6% in 2022.
#9
General discussion / Re: The Fine Gael thread
March 20, 2024, 03:34:14 PM
Maybe Mossad has some dirt on him.
#10
General discussion / Re: Cryptocurrency
March 12, 2024, 10:08:06 PM
Why would you gamble with the profit? Why not just take it out and keep it? Or invest it?
#11
General discussion / Re: Cryptocurrency
March 12, 2024, 05:31:30 AM
I've looked at the charts for the price of Etherium and Bitcoin and they're both the same shape. Reminds me of another chart I've been looking at lately, stock in the company I work for. The Dow and the S&P 500 are all following similar trends. Assets are on a bit of a surge, even bubbly stuff like Crypto that has no intrinsic value.

If I were youse boys I'd get out while you're ahead, or at least get all your investment back. It's not a "mistake" to cut out early if you've got your money made. If you've already got your money back then you may play away with what's still invested.
#12
Actual wording of the changes:

Add bolded text to Article 41.1.1° "The State recognises the Family, whether founded on marriage or on other durable relationships, as the natural primary and fundamental unit group of Society, and as a moral institution possessing inalienable and imprescriptible rights, antecedent and superior to all positive law.

Delete text from 41.3.1°:  "The State pledges itself to guard with special care the institution of Marriage, on which the Family is founded, and to protect it against attack.

Delete the following: Article 41.2.1° "In particular, the State recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved." 

Delete the following: Article 41.2.2° "The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home."

Add the following: Article 42B: "The State recognises that the provision of care, by members of a family to one another by reason of the bonds that exist among them, gives to Society a support without which the common good cannot be achieved, and shall strive to support such provision."
#13
General discussion / Re: Death Notices
February 13, 2024, 05:59:05 PM
I remember when Steve Wright in the Afternoon was required listening. Great craic.
#14
General discussion / Re: Hamas launch attack on Israel
February 08, 2024, 07:06:34 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on January 29, 2024, 10:33:17 PM
Quote from: seafoid on January 29, 2024, 10:31:35 PM
Quote from: burdizzo on January 29, 2024, 10:29:01 PM
Quote from: seafoid on January 29, 2024, 09:28:00 PM
Quote from: LeoMc on January 29, 2024, 08:52:55 PMSo Israeli allegations of involvement by 10-12 UNRWA operators out of 30,000 (a list previously provided to and cleared by Israel) is sufficient smoke to cut out aid.

However genocidal statements and attendance at Settler conferences by Government Ministers is not sufficient indication of Israeli direction of travel.
The UNRWA budget is around $600m per annum. Countries (not Ireland) are suspending rather than cancelling. The Arabs can easily replace them but, if the US pulls out, it will be another case of it shooting itself in the foot in terms of Middle East credibility. Denying starving people food is not a good look.

Why don't the Arabs step up to the plate and replace them?
They will if the US etc cancel instead of suspend
Nobody in the media ever points out why 80% of the people in gaza are dependent on food aid. Israel destroyed the economy. Israel is the purest evil.

Isreal government? Or just all of Israel is the purest evil?



The government, the people who voted them in, the people chanting "death to the Arabs," the IDF, etc..
#15
General discussion / Re: King Charles III
February 05, 2024, 11:44:26 PM
Quote from: Capt Pat on February 05, 2024, 11:39:51 PMI said at the time we wouldn't be waiting 70 years for another coronation. I didn't think it would be this quick.

Bit early to say. Although it's interesting that they haven't yet revealed what type of cancer it is. I wonder why.