What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

It’s a “quirk” of the site, P. You can’t call a racist “a racist”, same way you can’t call a bigot “a bigot” etc.

The racists, and bigots etc, tend to get very “worked up” and upset if they are called such things. That’s why I posted saying it was refreshing to see racists own their beliefs.

IMO people still working from home are taking the p*ss

What’s racist about not agreeing that the country should be flooded with Ukrainian refugees?

Oh, I never called anyone racist. I just applauded 2 users owning their own racism.

You can’t call racists “racist” on this site, it’s against the rules.

Gone? I was working, im not on this 24 hours of the day. 😁

"The lady doth protest too much" springs to mind when I see your responses to my posts regarding the Ukrainians. very angry it seems, that is interesting.

Saying the Ukrainians are from a morally corrupt race of people is Racist, simple as. Also there isn't many men of fighting age here either, its mostly women and children or elderly people.

We should leave the E.U. We joined the EEC which was a trading block now the E.U is a political union which subverts our sovereignty, we voted against Maastricht and Lisbon. The likes of Romania should never have been allowed to join.

I also think Ireland should join NATO and massively increase military spending. Both of these opinions are broadly unpopular in Ireland today.

I am quoting this as I think it it totally wrong.

For example, how many people here have been to Romania?

It is a country that often gets maligned due to the Roma gypsy population who only make up a tiny percentage of the population of Romania - about 3%.

I find the people in Romania (the actual ethnic Romanian people) to be generally some of the nicest people I have ever come across. They are so welcoming and are very much pro-EU. One can see the improvements that the country is making with the motorways being built and restoration works on beautiful old buildings.

Beautiful countryside with the mountains and one can still see old traditions, the old towns in the cities especially in Transylvania are just beautiful too. Then it has the seaside and the Delta area which is a nature paradise.

Maybe my controversial opinion is how ignorant a lot of people are about this beautiful country and most kind people.

You're equating 5 specific countries (well 4 countries and one region) with "all countries" - that's an entirely different proposition. Also, these reports say these specific areas are heating more quickly than the global average, not twice as fast as other countries. Oceans are warming more slowly than continents, so it's not surprising for many countries to warm faster than the global average.

I mean taking the Irish report for example, it's not hard to see that it is simple fact - they took the global average temperature change as measured (this is looking at actual measurements from the past, not modelling the future), compared it with recorded Irish temperature change, and looked at the difference. It's not rocket science, but it does serve to keep people informed that when we say the global average has gone up by 1 degree, that doesn't just mean it's going to be 21 degrees outside rather than 20 degrees in your local area on a given day, it's much more complex than that.

You….have….too….much….time….on….your….hands…..

I agree, some of the nicest people I have met were Romanian.