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#61
General discussion / Re: Cost Of Living
September 29, 2022, 01:26:27 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on September 29, 2022, 01:13:49 PM
To be fair the labour government have made a balls of the NHS during their watch also, unfortunately its not sustainable in its current state, if you want a good NHS then it has to be funded somewhere? Yes you guessed it more tax to pay for it, if you are willing, on a normal wage, to pay over 40% plus all the other taxes we pay then it might make a small dent in what's required.
You can throw as much money as you like at it, may as well throw it in a hole. Until we get to a point where we start treating the patient and not the disease it will be as fcuked as ever. Even doctors are sick of it. In 10 years time there won't be enough clinicians to dole out the current protocols and pills.
#62
General discussion / Re: Cost Of Living
September 28, 2022, 07:54:40 PM
Quote from: seafoid on September 28, 2022, 05:40:08 PM
Many people don't have the margins to cope with inflation.


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@Barnabybear70

Dairy manor butter spread was 1.89 a tub a cple of months ago. It slowly crept up to 2.99 which it was until today when it jumped to 3.49. That's 50p. No way

@lidl_ni

that's too big a jump specially when the gold spread isn't really going up at all.
If you understood what that muck does to your insides you wouldn't begrudge the cost of real butter. Either that or eat dry bread. Not that I would normally advocate eating bread. It will keep starvation at bay until the springtime
#63
Working in Limerick City on Tuesday, tried to book a hotel room at 7pm. Every hotel I rang was fully booked! Driving through I wasn't aware of it being over run with tourists. Ended up in an air b&b in Nenagh!
#64
These kind of stories quite likely get buried because they prompt too many awkward conversations about the failings that led to this tragedy. Objective journalists and more importantly editors are a thing of the past.
#65
General discussion / Re: Teachers get it handy!
September 07, 2022, 10:48:01 AM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on September 06, 2022, 11:27:15 AM
Quote from: Itchy on September 06, 2022, 11:23:53 AM
Quote from: johnnycool on September 06, 2022, 10:29:08 AM
Quote from: imtommygunn on September 06, 2022, 09:38:05 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_family_(Castlebar)

Explains a lot....

Thanks.

And yet someone hired this crackpot as a teacher in their school

I'd ban all religious crackpots from teaching
I'd include banning of any particular ideology from schools/education. Let young ones make up their minds when they have actually learned something.
#66
General discussion / Re: The Health System
September 06, 2022, 09:13:43 AM
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/th-r-se-coffey-expected-to-take-charge-of-stricken-nhs-fn5j5fqhk
New Health minister in the UK! A real proponent of a healthy lifestyle by the looks of it!
#67
General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus
August 26, 2022, 10:31:54 PM
 ;D
#68
General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus
August 26, 2022, 08:35:25 PM
Quote from: PadraicHenryPearse on August 26, 2022, 05:34:26 PM
knowledgeable, you have having a laugh.. I watched two of his videos and he constantly contradicts himself, full of conjecture and bias opinions not backed up by anything, he was big on invermectin in Japan too...

any idea why merck the makers of Invermectin spend money on an actual covid treatment and not push their own product invermecin!! big pharma out to get us unless if lts invermectin!!!

I'm not being dragged into this shite again... I'm out
You'd need to ask an accountant that question, one would be considerably more lucrative than the other. That's conjecture on my part though.
#69
General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus
August 26, 2022, 04:55:47 PM
Excess deaths warrant some discussion surely! He has his opinion and in fairness he comes across as pretty knowledgable and well able to interpret the available data. I would prefer to see someone put their hand up to debate the points with him rather than censor him out of hand. Leave it up to us to decide who makes the most compelling argument. Istead I am left feeling that something stinks with this.
#70
General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus
August 24, 2022, 10:25:02 PM
Quote from: From the Bunker on August 24, 2022, 09:59:10 PM
Nobody could blame Doctors, Pharmacists and Nurses for the vaccine. They were only administrators of the vaccine. They knew little above the basics of what they are giving out. How could they know otherwise? Any Doctor who says otherwise is sort of bluffing. They had to be as the Pharmaceutical companies provided them with little detail as they had a confidentiality clause.
Any word of the rates of pay for the administrators. Will those accounts ever be published?
#71
General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus
August 24, 2022, 09:12:30 PM
Quote from: J70 on August 24, 2022, 08:35:04 PM
Quote from: Last Man on August 24, 2022, 07:59:02 PM
Yet the general population has never been so obese and metabolically unhealthy. Levels of chronic disease are at unprecedented levels. Go figure, but you boys keep listening to the good doctors and experts. If you still can't fit in the same size jeans when you were 18 then you are not putting your best foot forward. No doubt you've been following all the guidelines, doesn't make any sense does it. Getting old plus fat is not a just a fact of life.

Has anyone said that doctors and experts know "everything"?

Science, medical or otherwise, is about the knowledge that's accumulated to that point in time. Everything is up for correction and fine tuning as more data is accumulated.

Yet, they still know a lot more than the layperson on their chosen field. Which is the point. Whether what they're advocating turns out to be ultimately incomplete or actually wrong, it is still based on data and analysis. What is the "common sense" approach based on?

And things like public policy on food and so on are not just a function of public health science, unfortunately.
Turns out that the data and analysis bit is not really on point, unfortunately it's like turning a supertanker to get many of these people to change tack. But hey if you are happy with the current standard full your boots.
#72
General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus
August 24, 2022, 09:05:06 PM
Quote from: PadraicHenryPearse on August 24, 2022, 08:26:54 PM
Quote from: Last Man on August 24, 2022, 07:59:02 PM
Yet the general population has never been so obese and metabolically unhealthy. Levels of chronic disease are at unprecedented levels. Go figure, but you boys keep listening to the good doctors and experts. If you still can't fit in the same size jeans when you were 18 then you are not putting your best foot forward. No doubt you've been following all the guidelines, doesn't make any sense does it. Getting old plus fat is not a just a fact of life.

the doctors i listen too are smarter than doctors you listen too...
;D
#73
General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus
August 24, 2022, 07:59:02 PM
Yet the general population has never been so obese and metabolically unhealthy. Levels of chronic disease are at unprecedented levels. Go figure, but you boys keep listening to the good doctors and experts. If you still can't fit in the same size jeans when you were 18 then you are not putting your best foot forward. No doubt you've been following all the guidelines, doesn't make any sense does it. Getting old plus fat is not a just a fact of life.
#74
General discussion / Re: Holidays
August 24, 2022, 10:21:21 AM
Quote from: armaghniac on August 24, 2022, 09:45:52 AM
Quote from: Last Man on August 24, 2022, 08:37:47 AM
Think there still is a Brexit prejudice against travellers from UK. They are subject to more scrutiny than EU passport holders. Have seen Uk passport holders taken aside because they were missing a stamp from departing Dublin. Not always but it happens.

"prejudice" is a very odd word to use here, this is not the Daily Mail. The rules have changed because the British withdrew from the previous ones.

Your awful easy triggered! I think my choice of word stems from my empathy with fellow travellers who when chatting with them seemed like really nice people. Don't know anything about the Daily Mail, don't even read the IN anymore. They are cajoling us into various tribes and I don't have any time for it.
#75
General discussion / Re: Holidays
August 24, 2022, 08:37:47 AM
Think there still is a Brexit prejudice against travellers from UK. They are subject to more scrutiny than EU passport holders. Have seen Uk passport holders taken aside because they were missing a stamp from departing Dublin. Not always but it happens.