The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[ochoill]

Imagine what would happen at 3 quid a pint

[Anvil]

Just something to consider with alcohol prices for a business, for a 3 euro pint, you have to give the taxman about 40% of that 3 euro (53 cent plus 23% VAT = 1.22 (approximately 40%).  For a 5 euro pint it works out at 33% (1.68).  The fixed duty per pint really does fuck the margins for a publican.   

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

if you look across Europe, it's much more on the retail side of things that we're shafted in Ireland:

[astfgyl]

Water cannons on the way into Dublin should offend a few lads

[astfgyl]

Imagine what would happen at 3 quid a pint

It's not even that long since we could drink pints of Tuborg for 3 quid each 

[astfgyl]

This new Class permits the change of use of the following structures for the purpose of
providing the necessary facilities for international protection applicants:
"school, college, university, training centre, social centre, community centre, non
residential club, art gallery, museum, library, reading room, sports club or stadium,
gymnasium, hotel, convention centre, conference centre, shop, office, Defence Forces
barracks, light industrial building, airport operational building, wholesale warehouse or
repository, local authority administrative office, play centre, medical and other health
and social care accommodation, event and exhibition space or any structure or part of
structure normally used for public worship or religious instruction."
This provision is a temporary measure and will expire on 31 December 2024; the use of
such structures shall cease on the expiry of the regulation.

Source: https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/241645/9ad3265e-4f2d-45b4-a83e-61395d118fc4.pdf#page=null

What happens after 31/12/24? Are they all expected to be housed by then? Seriously, what's the plan to house all of these lads in the next 5 months?

Here are the official statistics as of 21/7/24:



Someone tell me how any of this is in any way realistic

[astfgyl]

This is fairly grim too. Women and children first, lads!!



Slava Ukraini!!!! 14th in the list

[astfgyl]

Because I'd never heard of Eswatini, I said I'd see how safe it is...



It turned out to be old Swaziland. Once the AIDS capital of the world as it happens. How is Ireland doing on the HIV/AIDS front the last few years actually? I wonder if it has increased at all....

https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2023/01/06/hiv-rates-double-post-pandemic/

Ah yeah, nothing doing on that front.........

[astfgyl]

Ah y'know what, lets get back to ridiculous and pointless offence

https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/other/constable-s-the-hay-wain-to-be-presented-as-contested-landscape/ar-BB1qzdXo?ocid=BingNewsSerp

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Can tell you that the Front National brigade are absolument losing their perpetually offended shit tonight over the Olympics opening ceremony.

[Anvil]

Can tell you that the Front National brigade are absolument losing their perpetually offended shit tonight over the Olympics opening ceremony.

My nephew has reliably informed me that Goirja where part of the ceremony, maybe that upset them! 

[Eoin McLove]

No, there was the predictable man in a dress singing and prancing around. I was looking at a bit of it earlier, and I was fairly bored watching the teams float past and then the bearded lady started miming which urged me to find something more worthwhile to watch. River Cottage it was 

[Carnage]

It was shite and it went on for four bloody hours. I saw the last hour or so in the pub and was bored out of my skull.

[astfgyl]

Can tell you that the Front National brigade are absolument losing their perpetually offended shit tonight over the Olympics opening ceremony.

Dunno about the French lads but the Irish equivalent certainly are! Saw the clip of the lad with the beard but it's hardly shocking at this stage. All anyone has to do is not watch it anyway instead of getting their knickers in a twist about it. And if the viewing figures were down for the advertisers it would make a lot more of an impression than lads generating hype by giving out about it on the internet.

Personally I think the sexual degeneracy thing has been done to death so it's just boring, but then again I can't think of any opening ceremony to any Olympics or World Cup or anything else that was anything other than a complete snoozefest, whether it was old school stuff or the new gender bending lark.

Had I know Gojira were involved I might have looked up that bit but even at that probably not

[Carnage]