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cj maxx · 09-08-2023 12:53am

I think i've mentioned this before , but watching a programme about 9/11 , the USA knew an attack was imminent and allowed it to happen so they had an excuse to go to war . Its so well accepted its not even controversial

spacetweek · 10-08-2023 12:48pm

They had high threat levels pretty much constantly.

If 9/11 was intentional in order to justify going to war, it backfired spectacularly as the UN Security Council voted against going to war, but the US did anyway. So what was it all for?

foxsake · 10-08-2023 1:41pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120960195#Comment_120960195

dont believe it was "allowed" but the aftermath was piggy backed to implement "Project for the New American Century"

It may have backfired or only partially succeeded but that was their plan .

spacetweek · 10-08-2023 5:05pm

Worst plan ever then. Osama found in Pakistan (supposedly an ally), Iraq and Afghanistan as bad as ever.

orourkeda1 · 10-08-2023 5:45pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120889151#Comment_120889151

German women are gorgeous and are totally underrated.

They're easily on a par with French, Italian and Spanish women and in my humble opinion give swedish women a damn good run for their money in the looks stakes.

I love German women is the long and the short of it.

10-08-2023 5:51pm

Bill Hicks wasn’t funny and wasn’t insightful. A rambling drunken mess of a man whose enduring popularity is a mystery.

pgj2015 · 11-08-2023 12:12am

If your friends never have money and you do, you are going to end up with no friends. They will resent you for having it and you will end up cutting contact because they can never go anywhere because of the lack of money. sad but very true.

y0ssar1an22 · 11-08-2023 12:27am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120955065#Comment_120955065

i reckon the same could be true of jan 6th.

pelosi knew (suspected at the very least) what was coming but didnt call in the national guard cos it would pay political dividends for the dems.

Sgt Hartman · 11-08-2023 11:30am

I think George Michael and Whitney Houston were both completely overrated. I can't think of a single song of theirs that I like.

GavPJ · 11-08-2023 12:26pm

I think I should get the parachute because I'm great.

In fact, I think I should get both the parachutes, in case one of them doesn't work!

rathfarnhamlad · 12-08-2023 12:27am

Thank You by Duran Duran was a good album

scrotist · 12-08-2023 12:57am

Irish people think they're the "best craic ever" but they're actually not. Tonnes of us go abroad each year and come back and say "they're no craic over there bai".

It reminds me of that saying: "If you think everybody is an arsehole, maybe you're the arsehole".

We're a small inbred island at the edge of the Atlantic. Of course French people wouldn't get the "craic" and father ted jokes.

Every country has their own sense of humour. We have our own and it's great. But we're not the best most craic people ever in the world.

teediddlyeye · 12-08-2023 9:03am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120968037#Comment_120968037

Irish people can be boring as fcuk outside the prescribed hobbies of pub/GAA/football.

Also we're not as friendly as we think we are. In fact I reckon we come across as arseholes at times.

realitykeeper · 12-08-2023 2:38pm

To our public health system, the "public" is a burden, it represents work to people who get paid anyway. And fixing sick people is not good because it just means they live to burden them another day. They would rather treat pain than offer a cure. I will never understand people who think public health is a good idea.

kneemos · 12-08-2023 4:20pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120969420#Comment_120969420

There was talk of a payment by performance type thing once upon a time.

The private hospitals certainly seem to perform a lot better in truth. Everyone thinks of the US when you say private medicine though. There must be a half way house of privately run,publically funded service.Not a hope in hell of ever changing the current union riddled system however.

NewbridgeIR · 12-08-2023 8:04pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120968003#Comment_120968003

Not as bad as reviews suggested. Was slated at the time.

White Lines is great.

tesla_newbie · 12-08-2023 8:38pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120968037#Comment_120968037

many Irish people’s idea of hilarity is mercilessly slagging other people ( if they show up looking different or make any change of any kind to their lives)and it’s apparently just as fresh the hundredth time, only a dry turd would disagree

PTH2009 · 12-08-2023 9:59pm

How did Patrick Kielty marry Cat Deely

g g murpho · 13-08-2023 12:32pm

Ireland was granted an exemption from taking in refugees so we should’ve used our exemption.

g g murpho · 13-08-2023 12:34pm

Dublin is an unmitigated shᎥthole.

I got the train to Connolly and when I walked along towards O’Connell Street the place was in rag order.

A massive clean up of the place and “dealing with” certain people is massively needed.

g g murpho · 13-08-2023 4:14pm

Irish citizens and CTA citizens should come ahead of foreigners when seeking social housing.

People who are currently working should be next.

and way down the line should be people who never worked.

orourkeda1 · 13-08-2023 11:26pm

There are certain life skills that shoud be taught in school.

Cooking.

Money Management.

Coding should be available to those with the aptitude.

In my view, these are way more useful that learning Irish and certain apects of other subjects..

cms88 · 14-08-2023 7:40am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120969420#Comment_120969420

To be fair ''work'' is a burden on most public sector employees in Ireland. Few complain more about what their actual job is. Gurads, nurses, teachers etc

g g murpho · 14-08-2023 9:34am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120974986#Comment_120974986

Gardaí and nurses are under paid and over worked.

Most teachers need a swift kick up the hole.

14-08-2023 9:44am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120859581#Comment_120859581

That rules out many developments

pgj2015 · 14-08-2023 9:53am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120975271#Comment_120975271

Gurads arent on bad money and they get a lot of time off, I have a relative in the Gurads and he is always off on holidays, I wish I had the holidays he gets. he always gets 4 days off in row after working a few days, and sometimes I have seen him be off for a month.

he is overworked but so am I, im self employed but I only had 2 days off up until the 18th may this year from January the 1st.

g g murpho · 14-08-2023 9:59am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120975347#Comment_120975347

I still wouldn’t do their job.

Traffic Corps have it handy.

On the beat gardaí deserve danger money

danfrancisco83 · 14-08-2023 10:18am

I think the Tathony house crowd should find other accommodation if they've been served notice to quit. It was bought fair and square. And I think yer man that's been on a perpetual FAS course should get a real job.