We aren't a neutral country, we're non-aligned. Either way we couldn't protect ourselves. I am baffled as to how the last remaining US forces are actually going to get on the last plane and leave - with technically no ground support left!! Are they going to spin a yarn to the Taliban saying we are ...

The foreign affairs officials and rangers was purely optics by the plonkers. What the fook were they going to do? People say they were there to get people onto planes, into the airport. Do they have established contacts on the ground in Kabul, contacts they have built up over years like the Yanks or...

I dunno if your asking me a real question or not ? I mean like the advances in medicine in the last 20 years alone should answer your question. Then youd have advanced in automation, flight safety and technology, sports is on a new level altogether. The list is endless. Honestly I never though abou...

Cadburys really went down hill, but so did a lot of chocolate due to fact they use less cocoa powder/beans and more palm oil and the like. At this stage you wouldn't know if the machines gearbox oil leaked into the chocolate or not. I think the rot was already in before Mondo-sleeze took over, but t...

My cousin went and bought a new diesel car. He was always as thick as two short planks, but he also is under the impression he knows stuff about stuff. I know reps/service engineers that still drive diesel because they work out cheaper per km and these guys drive right around the country clocking u...

This was why I really like John Prescott lamping the guy that egged him back in 2001. Good old fashioned swift justice from someone from a old fashioned working class leftist outlook. And Prescott refused to follow Alastair Campbell's modernistic approach of apologising to the guy that threw the egg...

I can understand how someone walking can end up on a cycle trail. I have, but then again that is because I would usually have walked alone and taken short cuts or off route paths through forests, etc. Thus you can end up on a cycle trail. I detest the huge walking groups that you can hear long befor...

Quinn is playing on the women's team. As a biological female. Funny that she hasn't chosen to play for the Canadian men's team, now that she has come out as trans gender. It's almost as if one would think that mens sport is physically tougher than womens. One would have thought old Lauren would hav...

Beach Volley ball is one of the most views sport in Ireland, i cant see why as we have no history of playing it and i dont know of any beach volley ball teams in Ireland https://i.postimg.cc/nVq85jLc/1627639350905.png You should clarify that statement. Women's beach volley ball is one of the most v...

Beach Volley ball is one of the most views sport in Ireland, i cant see why as we have no history of playing it and i dont know of any beach volley ball teams in Ireland https://i.postimg.cc/nVq85jLc/1627639350905.png You should clarify that statement. Women's beach volley ball is one of the most v...

From the outside looking in, there seems to be a massive split in the whole LGBTQI project - between those who are gay/ bi etc, but have a life outside of their sexuality (Varadkar, Katie McCabe,Norton) and those whose sexuality/gender philosophy seems to define them, with no real other talking poi...

Two friends and my son, all in the IT sector, have been encouraged by their employers to state their pronouns on their internal and LinkedIn bios. All have refused. My own son responded to his employer saying "I won't actually hear my pronouns because they're used to refer to me in my absence ...

So it seems the real reason you dislike it is that you feel you own these terms and how dare anybody look that change anything. That you are comfortable the way it is and don't see the need to change. No almost 99% of the population own those definitions. Why should we change anything for less than...

Don't want to be an arse but my GUBU moment just yesterday was Jessica Alves saying they have frozen their sperm so that when they get their uterus transplant they can fertilise the egg(s) that will be implanted in themselves. I honestly did not ever think I would have to contemplate such twists in...

FYI... https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/15/politics/woman-navy-special-warfare/index.html https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-story-of-kim-campbell-the-heroic-female-a-10-pilot-who-landed-her-damaged-warthog-using-only-cranks-and-cables/ That said this is about conscription. Which is whole different...

Not wanting to date a person because of a preconceived bias is the very nature of being a bigot. You are placing a value on someone based on your preconceived bias. It is completely different that sexual attraction, that is chemical and people like what they like. But you may well like the look of ...

She definitely has dirt on Fine Gael.

No other explanation for it, although maybe it is the old LGBQ network in action.

I don't know, but maybe my cynical attitude is finally dulling the Olympics or maybe it is the time difference isn't worth the hassel. Watching "Russian OC team" win gold in mens gymnastics and depriving Japan of a gold really brings home the farce that is modern Olympics. Russians shouldn...

Some technology related ones. Using Lynx or Links text browser on a Linux command line cause your internet connection is only 7kbps per second at home and any whiff of a graphic download killed your browsing experience. Listening to the modem modulate and hoping that today could be the day where Ei...

'Had been on askaboutmoney, but kinds stopped when owner banned talk of a bubble.' So thats what happened is it ? At one stage it was a grand place with some very helpful posters. Then it seemed to die. Its a shame really, Brendan seemed to pour his soul into it in the early days. There were actual...

I wonder could the draft ever be challenged in the supreme Court. Surely it is a form of indentured servitude and thus illegal? It just seems such an antiquated idea, even though it was used less than 50 years ago. I think some people don't realise how embedded in the US psyche the military is and ...

Quite a number of Boards Mods have now signed up and while any that I recognise would be acceptable here (as Mods) - there are some from the Commuting/Infrastructure Forums, and Boards Admins, that shouldn't be allowed into that role here. I recognise the name. Never really posted in that forum, al...

Malcontent here and proud. Been on boards since early 2007. Had been on askaboutmoney, but kinds stopped when owner banned talk of a bubble. Yeah the same owner that told investors to fill your boots with bank shares as the banks were about to be declared insolvent. Used to post in politics forums, ...

Just for the country folk and not the townies who mightn't understand the sheer brillance and adventure of some of these things. Sitting on trailer loads of hay or hay bales on the way back to the yard. Sitting in trailers, even the old car trailers, on trips. Any of that seen nowadays and HSE/Child...

Ah lads the thread title is very misleading. You got me all excited just to be let down. :( And this is my first post and contribution on this nice new site. Just for the record most lads watch the beach volleyball for the lovely ladies. Some don't even know what the score is at the end. And it is a...