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Yes, what Hamas did was pure evil, but it is mostly innocent civilians who are paying the price.

I don't really care what your name is, just read out the weather/traffic news.

and Bilbao, they’ve one top four finish in the last twenty years so it’s not exactly serving their purpose.

Like Bohs, they are not doing it on the pitch, but colossal efforts off it to get involved in politics and social carry on to levels that shouldn’t concern them.

To be fair to Bilbao, their ethos is ingrained in the club, throughout their history. Not like Bohs, where it's a modern invention.

Can't really compare the 2 clubs.

Completely untrue.

I know from my OH that football clubs, especially local football clubs are a community. Their community means the world to them and they are made up of all types of people with various outlooks on life but with one definite thing in common; their club. They could disagree on everything, but they all turn up and get along because they love their team.

When a club puts out a statement like "Refugees Welcome" or even if they said "Refugees Not Welcome" it reflects on its supporters. Some people won't share those values but feel like they are being tarnished by being involved with the club. A club they have invested time, energy, money and emotion into; in most cases, since they were children.

It's different with a club that was founded on those values, but for a club to suddenly take such a definitive stance on a particular issue which has polarising opinions does a disservice to the people who are dedicated to the club.

Few things are more annoying than the bleeding hearts of hostility owners we hear every second week in recent times.

It's all just take take take by them and they're still never happy.

I seen a post recently claiming pubs are only making something like .17c profit per pint. Trying to claim over a euro of the cost goes on wages! You'd have to admire their confidence to post something like that.

Yes I agree. Going back to the October 6th apartheid by isreal and Hammas would almost certainly lead to violent resistance in the future.

Whether it's Hammas in power or not is irrelevant. There will either be a new group to replace them or the Palestinian people will live in an ever shrinking part of the land until they're successfully ethnically cleansed.

The only way they might get peace for both groups is if there's a settlement with equality for both groups.

I don't know. It's never been tried before. I suspect it would take years or decades of negotiation to settle. I wouldn't have a clue how to settle it in a single post.

Do You have a plan for a lasting peace that you could sum up in a post?

I don't think "Irish humour" works well in a scripted format. The most humourous conversations and experiences I have had were all off the cuff and I think that a lot (way over-representational) Irish people have a quite unique way of being spontaneously funny, and so offensive that it's inoffensive.

I don't think the Catholic Church has held back Irish sense of humour. In fact, I think our previous reliance and trust in the Catholic Church and the acceptance of how bizzare that was was the catalyst of our humour and definitely the reason we have Father Ted.

The majority of comedies that we love and revere wouldn't be made in the modern day due to the insistance to bow down to so-called progressive people. Even one half of the duo that wrote father ted is no longer available due to his opposition of trans-ideology (also the IT crowd was fantastic, and the one involving a trans character is comedy gold).

The seemingly agreed (and hugely flawed) idea that "punching down" is a thing is the most elitist, racist idea I have seen, but it championed by people who are pretending to be the opposite.

so sorry tldr; Irish comedy, as presented on TV is pedestrian, but I do think that Irish people, as a whole, are one of the wittiest people in the world.

Father Ted is technically Brittish

Oh FFS. You don't wany to know what settlement they should reach, you just want to know what settlement they should reach...

I said night don't know any of the specifics. I could make somenup if that's what you want.

The basic elements they will have to have are similar to everything else that gets settled. They'll need a country, independance and equality and the ability to defend itself. It'll also need backing from the West and I presume they'll have to do a civil war between the hardliners and the western backed government who accept the agreement. The usual. But I don't have any specifics.

You didn't say whether you have a neat solution to the whole issue

The Palestinian territory keeps getting smaller and smaller. And when they fight back it's evidence that they're trying to get rid of the Jews. They're getting ethnically cleansed in real time, and being accused of ethnic cleaning.

The lack of thinking is astonishing sometimes.

Perhaps. I would guess that is because over the last while the Irish have been afraid to offend. More than often our humour came from offending.

Another bleed-in from american culture where it's frowned upon to make fun of people. The punching down/privilege bullshit that automatically shows that you feel that if you aren't a minority you are somehow superior and can't speak ill of the lower people.

It was better a while back. Now it's full of attention seeking tiktok/insta clout-seeking brigade trying to latch onto the next outrage of the day

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I won't go there.

Fair enough.

The status quo is Israel doing exactly what you're accusing the Palestinians of doing, with the West's backing.

Not even worth trying a middle of the road solution with equality for both parties, according to yourself. I think that's the only solution, or else Iran or The west backs one to ethnically cleansed the other. I can't speak for you but I dislike ethnic cleaning so I think the we should at least try then only and obvious solution before declaring the situation unworkable.

we've tried backing the Isrealies to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians for decades and it's going well in one sense as the Palestinian territories have shrunk over the decades. Maybe you can take comfort in that? I'm not a huge fan.

That last statement is a load of nonsense to be fair. You couldn't possibly have enough information to make that assumption. Nobody could.

I find Irish comedy very one dimensional/one paced compared to the Brits.

I think we have a good sense of humour without being funny ourselves, generally. It doesn't translate at all to other cultures.

A lot of people wouldn't reward/recognise them for it and it could well cost them their job.

It should be a, long overdue, watershed moment (amongst others) to remove the religious element from our education system.

My dad was ciotóg. B. 1927, they use to try and beat his left handedness out of him with 'the strap' or they would tie his left arm behind his back to encourage him to use his right . . no . . of course it didn't work.

God love the poor little souls who may have suffered with dyslexia back then, what they must've suffered at the hands of those narrow-minded, violent lunatics.

Ah, shur everyone was happy back then. They didn't know any better.