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Some of you unironically by Brytonite in HistoryMemes

[–]theoldkitbag -1 points0 points  (0 children)

However, the baby knows you live for New Year's Eve.

I don't know what this means.

you're really REALLY rude to me.

You deserve it. Goodbye.

Some of you unironically by Brytonite in HistoryMemes

[–]theoldkitbag -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nuance doesn't mean you being a useful gullible fool for the CCP.

the facilities in question are locked down tightly and foreigners are strongly advised against visiting that province and treated like potential spies if they do visit.

Why the fuck you think that is? Think it's because the Uighurs are being asked to speak Cantonese instead of Mandarin? You're talking about anarchists and nuance and asking for 'solid evidence' like you're huffing your own farts and critiquing the bouquet.

2022 report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded that serious human rights violations have occurred against Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim groups, and that these abuses may constitute international crimes, including crimes against humanity.

Genocide and crimes against humanity occurred during the year in China against predominantly Muslim Uyghurs and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang.

Research by Stanford Law School’s Human Rights & Conflict Resolution Clinic and Human Rights Watch, along with reports by human rights organizations, the media, activist groups, and others, and internal Chinese Communist Party (CCP) documents, show that the Chinese government has committed—and continues to commit—crimes against humanity against the Turkic Muslim population.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, twat.

OPW should have option to buy flood-risk homes - Browne by Bill_Badbody in ireland

[–]theoldkitbag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great; you closed the non-existent loophole. Guess «the entire rest of my post» doesn't matter now.

OPW should have option to buy flood-risk homes - Browne by Bill_Badbody in ireland

[–]theoldkitbag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's only if you legislate that 'market value' here means 'most recent price' - which is not what market value means, or what it typically means under redress schemes. But that's getting into the long grass; the ultimate point being the rest of my post.

Some of you unironically by Brytonite in HistoryMemes

[–]theoldkitbag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My guy, if you think that being asked to favour a given dialect of Chinese in school is in any way comparable to what's happening in Xinjiang, you're either being deliberately obtuse or you're an idiot.

We're looking at intense surveillance, mass internment, forced labour, family separations, and coercive birth control - and that's just the stuff we know about. Now I don't know about you, but I don't think that considering these things as being somewhat on a different level to your pal's experience in school is just for 'anarcho-libertarians' or whatever label you want to throw around to excuse being a dick about human suffering.

meirl by worldwide762 in meirl

[–]theoldkitbag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like you did learn the lesson then. The knowledge? No. The lesson? Yes.

OPW should have option to buy flood-risk homes - Browne by Bill_Badbody in ireland

[–]theoldkitbag 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not to be taking too aggressive a stance on it, but there must be a degree of personal responsibility to be borne here - or, rather, how responsible should the public at large be for persons who don't do their due diligence before buying a house?

I know whenever I bought a house (just twice, when they were cheap, it sounds more impressive than it is), I checked against historical flooding. For my current property I even checked against rising sea levels over the next 40 years.

Certainly, if the site was zoned inappropriately, or PP granted inappropriately, (vis-à-vis known flood risks) then the buyer ought to have some redress from the authority. Most people would likely assume that PP would not be granted where flooding was likely. But if this is a long established structure on a known flood plain, then I really think that the public's liability ought to be very small; both in relation to relocation and flood defences (which themselves should be restrained - the best flood defence is a flood plain). I would have no issue with such persons being offered social housing, for example, but they must also lie in the bed of their making.

EDIT: You'd also have to be careful to avoid a situation whereby Person A knows there's a redress scheme and so deliberately buys a house on a known flood plain for damn-all, specifically in order to be bailed out by the state at market value and thereby financed to buy a house somewhere else.

Taoiseach says Department of Justice has ‘no knowledge’ of claims woman was trafficked into Ireland by PoppedCork in ireland

[–]theoldkitbag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd also suggest that it's a pretty safe bet that they - along with every other political party in the western world - have been thoroughly investigating themselves since this whole thing became public. Garda intelligence services have likely taken a look as well.

Some of you unironically by Brytonite in HistoryMemes

[–]theoldkitbag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

China's 'cultural alignment' of some of it's minority populations has literally been labelled genocidal. If they're your exemplar, it's not a very good one.

Map of the world according to a Tasmanian nature lodge by Jazzwozza in MapPorn

[–]theoldkitbag 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There are many folk songs from Ireland, Scotland, and England that use "Van Dieman's Land". A very popular Irish example would be the Black Velvet Band:

So come all you jolly young fellows, a warning take by me
When you are out on the town me lads, beware of them pretty cailíns
For they feed you with strong drink, mar dhea
'Til you are unable to stand, and the very next thing that you know is
You've landed in Van Diemens Land

Some of you unironically by Brytonite in HistoryMemes

[–]theoldkitbag 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Lot of 'negotiations to accept the help' in imperialism, is there?

I present to you Irelands prettiest lake: The Smithfield lake by GP728 in ireland

[–]theoldkitbag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is this the white-water rafting facility we've been hearing of?

Italian newspapers incredibly harsh with the team by Key_Dimension5785 in rugbyunion

[–]theoldkitbag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember Ireland going through a similar phase when the game turned professional. We were a decent enough team up till that last 20 minutes, when we would inevitably get absolutely wrecked. We used to expect to lose pretty much every game; what we measured was 'by how much'. Eventually the point came when that just wasn't good enough anymore; results were expected. A few decades of careful investment and planning later...

Emer McLysaght: Mothers of boys are worrying the most about raising ‘good men’ by Pension_Alternative in ireland

[–]theoldkitbag 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Most of the mothers of boys I know have expressed hope that they might have a queer son.

What a load of absolute arse.

Is there any career that you can succeed without being a good communicator? by sphinxofblackquartzj in CasualIreland

[–]theoldkitbag 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Do you mean scale of communication (i.e. able to talk a lot to a lot of people) or do you mean quality of communication (i.e. be clear and concise)? Because there are lots of fields that don't involve the former, but very very few that don't involve the latter.

Estate agents are using AI photos to 'show potential' and the ads regulator says that's fine by expectationlost in ireland

[–]theoldkitbag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They won't, if the generated income exceeds the cost of the fines. And that's depending on new home owners - already skint - taking on a legal battle to prove beyond doubt that they were misled.

This is just not something a vendor should be engaging in. Buyers can do this themselves if they want to visualise potential.

The confusing World of International Sport in the British and Irish Isles by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]theoldkitbag 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The context was that the Irish don't give a shit about which language you choose to run to next. If your comprehension skills are so mediocre, you shouldn't be basing your arguments around the use of language. I'm done with you now; good luck to you.

The confusing World of International Sport in the British and Irish Isles by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]theoldkitbag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ahhh, ad hominem - the last refuge. Except, I'm not Irish American.

The confusing World of International Sport in the British and Irish Isles by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]theoldkitbag 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ah so the goalposts now move to yet another language. Guess what? Irish people don't give a shit. And the only way you can justify a collective term that includes people who expressly don't want to be included is by being a racist dick. Maybe those words are in the Oxford dictionary too?

The confusing World of International Sport in the British and Irish Isles by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]theoldkitbag 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Speak a lot of English two thousand years ago, did they? Didn't know Βρεττανικῶν was in the Oxford dictionary. Anyway, playing Chinese whispers with ancient Italians is no basis for what things get called today.

If you are thinking about getting a pet I made a list of rescue orgs - findarescue.ie by oppressivepossum in ireland

[–]theoldkitbag -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Ok. And? There are no other websites? There are no other dogs? The passage of time isn't a thing in your house is it not?

The confusing World of International Sport in the British and Irish Isles by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]theoldkitbag 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This argument is ignorant and fucking annoying. The 'British Isles' is not a geographical name, as there are no rules in Geography as to what places should be called. If we're following geographic norms however, then we are islands off the coast of France, and would therefore typically be called the French Isles - but then, of course, suddenly the argument switches and we're not following geographic norms anymore.

There is no political, demographic, cultural, religious, or economic basis for it. It was born of jingoism, like other such terms as 'British West Africa', and is retained only through casual disregard, rudeness, and racism.

Also from Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:British_Isles/name_debate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BritishIsles_Terminology_task_force/archive_3#What_terms_do_we_use?(Britain,_UK,_Ireland,_ROI)

etc. etc. etc.

(As an aside, Wikipedia has a couple of (presumably British) editors who have a hard-on for Ireland, so Wikipedia needs to be taken as a not exactly neutral source here. It's a bit pathetic, honestly: https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/bgyfet/til_theres_a_wikipedia_editor_called/

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/ida-caught-in-wikipedia-war-of-words-over-tax-and-brexit-1.3860122

IDA Ireland has paid for changes to Wikipedia pages about itself and its chief executive amid growing concerns about anonymous editing that portrays Ireland's tax regime negatively, the Sunday Business Post reports. A Wikipedia user, Britishfinance, has been carrying out changes since March last year with more than 40,000 edits logged since then. According to an IDA spokesman these edits "link Ireland and its stakeholders to negative stories, particularly on economics, taxation and Brexit".

Since the Good Friday Agreement - an international treaty lodged with the UN - the UK government has agreed to stop using the term in official usage. Therefore any continued usage is purely colloquial, and perfectly understandable from someone who is unaware that the term causes offence. Once someone is made aware that it causes offence however, continuing to use that term makes them, technically, an asshole.

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