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You hand people condoms and tell them that although 1/4 of the population has aids they can have safe sex? What about contracting aids through oral sex? You would be luring an uneducated population in to a false sense of security.  

Again, the answer is clearly to combine the promotion and distribution of condoms alongside education.

Clearly?  There is nothing clear about it.  In fact, the evidence would suggest that condoms alongside education does precisely nothing since the numbers of people infected with HIV/AIDS is increasing yearly in Europe.

An old post by GAAboard standards but I would be interested to know where you got your  Aid infection and HIV+ figures from.

i haven't looked at figures in a while but most of all research, I have seen, indicate a big drop in incidences since the highs of the 1990's.
http://www.avert.org/eurosum.htm and primarily the drop is related to increased use of condom hygine into the sexual act..
Again I haven't looked into in a while but I guess other  std's gonorrhea and even syphilis are increasing primarily amongst sexually active teenagers and where use of condoms is not practiced.

In a debate like this when the doctrine of  'Pope says no to safe sex' meaning no use of contraceptive, if you believe it then practice it.
What gets on my wick (sorry) is people preaching it but not practicing it themselves.

Was just thinking the same myself.

I take it all the people who are avowing abstinence until marriage to solve the aids problem in Africa where pure until the day they got married and now have 10 children as they do not support the use of contraceptives, or are still waiting on that special one they are going to spend there life with? 

It's easy for someone in Ireland to talk about abstinence being the solution to this problem, I'd be surprised if a high percentage of the people posting on this board have kept to these principles and therefore it is unrealistic to expect people living in Africa to be any more principled.

Their father's called Neville Neville.

His real name is Andy or something. 

He was filling in a job application once and wrote his surname where is Christian name should have been and thought 'f**k! I can't score something out on my job application, I'll look a right idiot'.  So then had to right Neville in both name columns.  Neville Neville.

You sure about that?  I thought his real name was Neville Neville.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Neville

Dalglish won the Prem with Blackburn, hardly what you'd call dragging the club down.

Yeah he purchased his way to the title past a fading Man U side at a time when Blackburn were the Chelsea of their day funded by Jack Walkers cash. Even then he was largely reliant on the goals of one exceptional player.

My point is that at any club Dalgliesh was at he failed to invest in anything outside the first team and left no legacy for the next person to carry on. Look at Liverpool. It used to be said in Shankly & Paisley's time that the two best sides in England were Liverpool first team and Liverpool reserves. The same could not be said in the Dalgleish days.

Dalgleish fails to leave anything to build on and then Souness just fails......


Shearers appointment smacks more of the wider celebrity culture pervading society which NooooKastel seem afflicted to. Think of a Geordie icon and appoint him manager. Keegan, Robson, Keegan - now Shearer.

Who next? Gazza - at least he has some managerial experience!

Ant & Dec?

Give me a David Moyes type anytime

Keegan and Robson both did well at Newcastle!

Don't know what anyone else thinks but I never warmed to Shearer.  Him and Lineker together are very smarmy on MOTD and think the sun shines out of there own a**es and are always coming out with cliches like 'form is temporary, class is permanent' when drooling over Michael Owen in particular, instead of actually analysing the match.  Both where supposedly great footballers but neither actually won that much when they where playing.

I have heard a couple of ex footballers say that the public think he is very dry but he is hilarious when on away trips, always playing practical jokes like cutting one leg of his room mates trousers.  Some people think that is funny, I just think kn*bhead.

Went once when I was about a month old with my mum and dad and a couple of there friends.  The f**ker tried to drown me so I haven't been back since. (I have actually)  

Have to be the worst run club in history.  They where doomed to certain relegated from championship when Keegan took over.  Wins the last 4 games to keep them up then gets them promoted to the premiership on first attempt.  Club blow a 14 point lead but still finish second to Manu (not bad).  Doing well the next season which included defeating Manchester United 5-0 when Keegan resigns (is pushed??).  Appoint Kenny Dalglish who sells flair players like Ginola and start to play more defensive football.  Dalglish sacked and Gullet appointed.  Still not going well and having fall outs with Shearer so they appoint Bobby Robson.  Robson turns things round completely and they finish in the champions league places then get to the knock out stages of the champions league.  After a slow start to the season (5 games) they sack Robson and appoint Graeme Souness, on what basis did they think Souness was going to be better than Robson?  Eventually sack Souness and appoint Glen Roeder who had recently got a West Ham team relegated that includes 1/2 the current england squad.  Appoint Alladice then sack him after only a few games when they are in mid table, having to pay him and all his staff off, employ Keegan again for a few games but undermine him by putting Dennis Wise in charge who doesn't even have to move down from London.  He resigns and demands 8Million in compensation for breach of contract.  Not to mention all the 'Newcastle women are all dogs' and 'we are ripping the fans off with the cheap sh*te shirts'.  If any club deserves to get relegated for all the balls up they make it is Newcastle.

This is slightly off topic but would help me settle an old discussion 

Say a couple have seven children, all girls. Base this on the premise that the chances of boy/girl are 50/50 each time. Am I right in saying that the overall chances of having 7 girls is 0.004%?

But each event, excluding any biological/physiological factors that may skew the probability, is still 50/50?

I know this isn't what you're asking, but afaik the probablility of having a girl is actually less than 50, it's something like 49% - don't ask me why though.

Men (historically) more likely to die before reproduction?

Yeah, would imagine it's evolution working its wonders again.

Look at these figures from Russia:

0-14 years: 14.8% (male 10,644,833/female 10,095,011)
15-64 years: 71.5% (male 48,004,040/female 52,142,313)
65 years and over: 13.7% (male 5,880,877/female 13,274,173) (2009 est.)

Not sure about Russia but in countries like India and China the male to female live birth ratio (6:5) is much more skewed towards male children.  More to do with aborting female children than anything evolutionary.

Dear Deirdrie, 'my sister in law is home from abroad and living with us for a few weeks and she keeps running about in her skimpy underwear, what should I do?'. 

Well ...?

Take her up the ***!  (maybe that was my initial thought).

Think Deirdre might have been against the idea.

[Should it be that the readers - those who buy OK /The Sun etc - should be absolutely ashamed of themselves?]

Anybody else fed up with the reactions you get when you try to put this point across? Some women lead such empty lives that this garbage actually means something in their lives. These social creatures feel the desire to be up to date on what is reported in these rags without questioning what they are perpetuating

some of the media should be absolutely ashamed of themselves, which they won't of course.  The OK special with 19?? - 2009 was in very poor taste, before the poor girl had even died.

But the media is only supplying the demand. Should it be that the readers - those who buy OK /The Sun etc - should be absolutely ashamed of themselves?

Yes - until the market for this tat disappears we are going to have to live with seeing a lot more of people like Kerry Katona, Jordan and Peter Andre. They seem to make a career out of shitehawking their lives in these rags.

Came home from work the other day and the Sun was lying on the kitchen table.  My first thought was what the f&*k is my wife doing buying the sun.  Then I noticed the front page had a full page with Jade gone blind/got Christened .. (can't remember).  Checked no one was looking then had a quick flick at page 3.  The best bit about page 3 is that the girl always has a quote on some topical issue 'I support David Cameron's reforms to tackle knife crime ..', I find it hard to take seriously anyone giving there opinion on any topic when there t*ts are hanging out.  A few more pages of stories like Kerry Katona going on a bender/chucking the husband out and on to Dear Deirdrie, 'my sister in law is home from abroad and living with us for a few weeks and she keeps running about in her skimpy underwear, what should I do?'.  Made me laugh.  After a stressful day at work maybe spending 1/2 an hour reading mind numbing bullsh*t is the way forward.

Feel very sorry for Jade dying so young.  What I hate is all the Daily Star/Express/Ok .. running a different story on the front page every day 'Jade uses a colostomy bag ..'  type stuff.  You know that the editors on these newspapers couldn't give a sh*t about her (no pun intended) and are just dragging out anything they can to sell newspapers.  To me it is voyeurism at it's worst printing every detail of a person dying.  I'm half expecting them to put a webcam in the coffin so that they can drag it out a bit longer.

ONeill,

He never looked like saving any last night and both goalies were truly terrible during the spot kicks I was really only referring to last nights game although two Carling cup games against lower league team isn't really a vindication, he's just not an imposing goalkeeper and does not inspire me. Actually some of the penalties last night were terrible imho, just look at the only one he saved and he should have saved at least two others.

Have to agree with Dinny, Almunia did not look imposing at all in the shootout.  He scrunched himself up really small and looked like a little boy in the middle of the net.  He should take a leaf out of Dudek's book and stand tall and wave his arms or something.

I once on my last day in an old job when working in Dublin years ago typed in swedishpussy.com for a laugh, the guy who took my pc after I left said he had to show 1 of the managers a report on the web (a girl) a few months later and he typed in the s and his browser dropped down with swedishpussy.com stuck in the middle.  He wasn't happy.  I'd have loved to have been a fly on the wall to see there faces.

There can be, in theory a landlord could take you to court for the outstanding rent if the contract does not have a notice period.  More likely you will lose your deposit.

If there is going to be a book of condolence it should be a proper one, not a poll which means nothing.  I personally was sickened by the murders this week.  People have short memories if they want to go down the road of tit for tat killings again.

What difference would a book of condolences make? Am i right in thinking that this "craze" started when Diana died?

Makes the bleeding hearts feel good about themselves. 

Agreed. Those BH's will be on parade at lunchtime today

Good for them.

If there is going to be a book of condolence it should be a proper one, not a poll which means nothing.  I personally was sickened by the murders this week.  People have short memories if they want to go down the road of tit for tat killings again.

What difference would a book of condolences make? Am i right in thinking that this "craze" started when Diana died?

It would show that a significant number of catholics who are interested in gaelic games are disgusted by these killings.

Makes the bleeding hearts feel good about themselves. 

If there is going to be a book of condolence it should be a proper one, not a poll which means nothing.  I personally was sickened by the murders this week.  People have short memories if they want to go down the road of tit for tat killings again.