Bad beat/Moaning/Venting thread - Mammy told me not to come.

[Denny Crane]

I'm assuming that's the point, that what passes for a reasonable conservative these days is the likes of her!

I'm really struggling to believe that 42% of the british electorate are so monumentally stupid that they would elect to a majority government a party with such an utterly despicable leadership.

Blame labour. If they were a viable opposition they'd walk it.

[Raoul Duke III]

Blame labour. If they were a viable opposition they'd walk it.

That is sooooooo true.

Although now that Putin has weaponised social media, he has backed people into echo chambers where they would vote for terrible options out of spite.

The UK has no good options really.

[Guest]

Blame labour. If they were a viable opposition they'd walk it.

Blame the voting system, political parties have not developed properly for fear of losing safe seats

[Hectorjelly]

That is sooooooo true.

I think it's a pretty easy narrative to believe without much concrete evidence.

[Solksjaer!]

I noticed Leo follows a few posters in here and now he's retweeting Hitch. Hmmm. Hi Leo

When asked about the state of the world , Leo said. Everything's shite since Ronnie Drew died.

[Raoul Duke III]

I think it's a pretty easy narrative to believe without much concrete evidence.

The Labour Party got hijacked by extremists.

[Denny Crane]

I think it's a pretty easy narrative to believe without much concrete evidence.

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Jeremy_Corbyn

[DeadParrot]

Ya the misses wanted it when she was on mat leave and haven’t canceled it. Selection is terrible alright

think im on my 3rd or 4th prime trial.
handy for black friday stuff

Although you’ll likely have taken notice of Amazon’s marketing of the games, it’s important to note that the games are not available to Amazon Prime customers in Ireland

Back to the high seas Ritchie

[RichieM]

I dealt with enough of them, they are made stupid, react not think, fed by bad school system and press.
As soon as you question it, anger or ... actual thought and sheepish joke, next day back to spouting slogans!

Look at this fucktard

He would have been in a poorhouse or press-ganged onto a ship during empire and struggled to see 30

Is he drinking Guinness

[Guest]

Is he drinking Guinness

Ya, why?

[Guest]

Back to the high seas Ritchie

NBC SN whatever that is

[Strewelpeter]

Rick Stein's new series on France is pure quality France porn and as for Letitia the winemaker in this episode , swoon

[Solksjaer!]

The carbon monoxide canary is a poor replacement for Ronnie Drew but he is still a legend. I bought two

[cardshark202]

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics.../Jeremy_Corbyn

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think what Daragh was getting at there was that it's not necessarily Labour's lack of viability as much as their perceived lack of viability due to their and Corbyn's portryal across most mainstream media.

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[DeadParrot]

How would I go about downloading an RTE show that is on RTE Player but not on regular torrents. There was a show about my dad's charity on Monday and want to keep it for posterity.

https://mrs0m30n3.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/

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[Raoul Duke III]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think what Daragh was getting at there was that it's not necessarily Labour's lack of viability as much as their perceived lack of viability due to their and Corbyn's portryal across most mainstream media.

Corbyn is probably the least inspiring leader of the opposition since Michael Foot.

FFS, 3 years+ and he still can't bring himself to take a position on the single most existential issue facing the UK. He's beyond shit.

Any half-way decent leader would have routed the Tories in May's GE.

[Guest]

Corbyn is probably the least inspiring leader of the opposition since Michael Foot.

FFS, 3 years+ and he still can't bring himself to take a position on the single most existential issue facing the UK. He's beyond shit.

Any half-way decent leader would have routed the Tories in May's GE.

Assuming there are some decent Labour MP's who are very aware of how precarious the Tory position is under Johnson, what's the rationale for allowing Corbyn to continue to flounder?

Do the candidates exist but don't want to lead a party in the current climate or is there simply no adequate replacement?

[Strewelpeter]

FFS, 3 years+ and he still can't bring himself to take a position on the single most existential issue facing the UK.

Ah Come on if ever there was need for an issue to be treated with subtlety and nuance...

His position is coherent and honest, just because it is too complex for a tabloid headline or a Dom Cummings slogan doesn't mean it is unclear.
He is at the helm of a party that is deeply split by the issue and is campaigning on a clear plan to renegotiate a brexit deal that would get as close as possible to his party's aims and would put that deal up against remain in a referendum. As party leader he would not take a position on the referendum which would allow his individual party members to form their own position.
But you already knew that and still went the lazy tabloid route

[DeadParrot]

Assuming there are some decent Labour MP's who are very aware of how precarious the Tory position is under Johnson, what's the rationale for allowing Corbyn to continue to flounder?

Do the candidates exist but don't want to lead a party in the current climate or is there simply no adequate replacement?

Labour membership elect the leader.
Corbyn has already survived two(?) leadership challenges. By hook or by crook, the membership decided he is there guy.
The fact policy seems to be going slightly against mandate might mean his days are numbered.

There is also a very real possibility a coalition is possible under the provision that Corbyn is replaced. That'll be the real box office moment.

[DeadParrot]

Ah Come on if ever there was need for an issue to be treated with subtlety and nuance...

His position is coherent and honest, just because it is too complex for a tabloid headline or a Dom Cummings slogan doesn't mean it is unclear.
He is at the helm of a party that is deeply split by the issue and is campaigning on a clear plan to renegotiate a brexit deal that would get as close as possible to his party's aims and would put that deal up against remain in a referendum. As party leader he would not take a position on the referendum which would allow his individual party members to form their own position.
But you already knew that and still went the lazy tabloid route

This was pretty interesting

numbers have plummeted amongst Remainers, gone down with young people, gone down with Londoners and the Lib Dem overall are now close to falling into single figures in the national polls.
Despite all that, she is targeting labour instead of the Tories.

[Hectorjelly]

Ah Come on if ever there was need for an issue to be treated with subtlety and nuance...

His position is coherent and honest, just because it is too complex for a tabloid headline or a Dom Cummings slogan doesn't mean it is unclear.
He is at the helm of a party that is deeply split by the issue and is campaigning on a clear plan to renegotiate a brexit deal that would get as close as possible to his party's aims and would put that deal up against remain in a referendum. As party leader he would not take a position on the referendum which would allow his individual party members to form their own position.
But you already knew that and still went the lazy tabloid route

Yeah exactly. I would have much preferred if he came out immediately in favour of a second referendum, but the choice he has made now is a legitimate tactic, and it's not like either of the two options are particularly appealing. Either supporting or going against brexit would have huge electoral downsides.

[Guest]

This was pretty interesting

numbers have plummeted amongst Remainers, gone down with young people, gone down with Londoners and the Lib Dem overall are now close to falling into single figures in the national polls.
Despite all that, she is targeting labour instead of the Tories.

She is only a Tory dressed in yellow, voting record says as much

Degree in management, worked for a radio station, moved into politics at around 21... British parliament is full of them

She has apparently taken donations from frackers, voted against the ban on fracking and could lose her seat in the election


*Also, pretty sure Labour have said they will stay neutral during any referendum, so of course they will not be campaigning for/backing remain

[DeadParrot]

Labour, and labour fans REALLY dont help themselves though

[Raoul Duke III]

Yeah exactly. I would have much preferred if he came out immediately in favour of a second referendum, but the choice he has made now is a legitimate tactic, and it's not like either of the two options are particularly appealing. Either supporting or going against brexit would have huge electoral downsides.

Don't you think his immediate priority should be WINNING THE FUCKING ELECTION.

He's a typical Trotskyite bullshitter, whining emotively from the sidelines. Not willing or able to actually secure power. This election should be a penalty kick with no goalie. Instead, he's handing it to the UK Trump.

At least I get salami.

[Raoul Duke III]

Assuming there are some decent Labour MP's who are very aware of how precarious the Tory position is under Johnson, what's the rationale for allowing Corbyn to continue to flounder?

Do the candidates exist but don't want to lead a party in the current climate or is there simply no adequate replacement?

Momentum hijacked the Labour Party.

Who exactly was Corbyn before that happened? No-one.

[Hectorjelly]

Don't you think his immediate priority should be WINNING THE FUCKING ELECTION.

He's a typical Trotskyite bullshitter, whining emotively from the sidelines. Not willing or able to actually secure power. This election should be a penalty kick with no goalie. Instead, he's handing it to the UK Trump.

At least I get salami.

I don't think it is as self evident as you do that backing remain would win the election for him.

[Raoul Duke III]

I don't think it is as self evident as you do that backing remain would win the election for him.

I didn't say he should back remain. I said he should take a clear position.

Surely you agree that against the biggest laughing stock of a government ever seen in the UK, that this election should be a cakewalk for any half-way competent Opposition?

This is Politics 101.

[Solksjaer!]

I'm pretty convinced that a decent remain candidate would walk the election. Big shocks in store .

[tylerdurden94]

I suppose you'd be a much bigger movie fan than me. Although Joker was outstanding,, the movie wasn't the reason I was there. Was there for that 1920s art deco vibe. Felt like being in Boardwalk Empire for an evening.

Have been listening to old timey music ever since

Cannot wait to go back. Meaning to find out if they ever run old classic movies for that full experience.

'It's a Wonderful Life' would be a lovely Xmas night out.

The Lighthouse have a nice Christmas movie schedule HERE click into seasons.

[ComradeCollie]

The Lighthouse have a nice Christmas movie schedule HERE click into seasons.

Stella has a few screenings of 'It's a Wonderful Life' https://stellacinemas.ie/rathmines/e...onderful-life/

[Denny Crane]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think what Daragh was getting at there was that it's not necessarily Labour's lack of viability as much as their perceived lack of viability due to their and Corbyn's portryal across most mainstream media.

Surely you agree that against the biggest laughing stock of a government ever seen in the UK, that this election should be a cakewalk for any half-way competent Opposition?

This is Politics 101.
Today 13:52

Their ineffectual opposition for the last few years doesn't suggest it's solely a perception issue

[Hectorjelly]

I didn't say he should back remain. I said he should take a clear position.

Which is?

Surely you agree that against the biggest laughing stock of a government ever seen in the UK, that this election should be a cakewalk for any half-way competent Opposition?

This is Politics 101.

It should be, but then the initial brexit vote should have been a walk in the park for the remain side. Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the Tans.

[Raoul Duke III]

Which is?



It should be, but then the initial brexit vote should have been a walk in the park for the remain side. Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the Tans.

LOL. 'It's the voters fault, the bastards'.

Take a long, hard look at Labour right now. They're a joke.

The post mortem after this election will be fun.

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[RichieM]

I don't think it is as self evident as you do that backing remain would win the election for him.

I think the for him part of this is the key. Long standing euro sceptic and wanted Brexit before anyone had heard of Farage - easy enough to discredit him.

Another candidate and I think it does let them win but he is right to fence sit as I think every candidate would.

Boris can get only the definitely want to leave votes where as he is positioned to get the fence sitters and the definite remains.

[Guest]

They've managed to block everything the Tories wanted to do on brexit for the last three years despite being in the minority. That's pretty much as effective as an opposition can be.

That seems like one side of the coin though.

They prevented the Tories from pushing forward with Brexit while simultaneously failing to rally support in a situation where they should have been well positioned to make significant inroads.

[dobby]

The Lighthouse have a nice Christmas movie schedule HERE click into seasons.

Die Hard on the 21st with Luckforsome, Andy and Rigger. Pints before and after.

[Guest]

The St James Hospital discharge competition poster

[Solksjaer!]

So angry 😡
Nearly got knocked of my bike last night by one of those council lorrys that sand the roads. fuck off I shouted through gritted teeth .

[Raoul Duke III]

They've managed to block everything the Tories wanted to do on brexit for the last three years despite being in the minority. That's pretty much as effective as an opposition can be.

The Tories blocked themselves.

[Raoul Duke III]

And Corbyn is a decent principled guy.

And a complete electoral liability. End of.

[The Situation]

Gotta question why Dele basically stopped trying for Poch the last year or so. He's been back to his best since Jose arrived , prob the most naturally talented English player since Scholesy.

[Guest]

Sweet Jesus... What a pass by Mane for Origi's goal

http://youtu.be/RgfTfgrg2JM

[Solksjaer!]

Finally Jose gets United 3 points

[Strewelpeter]

RIP Bob Willis

Best English bowler I've seen and the real hero of 'Botham's' ashes, always came across as a really sound lad too.

[Guest]

RIP Bob Willis

Best English bowler I've seen and the real hero of 'Botham's' ashes, always came across as a really sound lad too.

Watching it now

Botham has always bigged up Willis and Diley as much as himself for headingley but thats a big headline for the papers i suppose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccRSt38XMG0

[Raoul Duke III]

Continuing the cricket vibe; an article of how different schools of philosophy would approach the question of whether to walk when you know you've nicked it.

I learnt a lot.

[Strewelpeter]

Continuing the cricket vibe; an article of how different schools of philosophy would approach the question of whether to walk when you know you've nicked it.

I learnt a lot.

That's a very good piece.

I might have a quibble on whether personally Nietzsche would not have walked.

[Raoul Duke III]

That's a very good piece.

I might have a quibble on whether personally Nietzsche would not have walked.

They should do a similar piece on soccer players cheating by pretending to be mortally wounded.

Speaking of soccer, I see the den of thieves that is the FAI is imploding nicely.

[DeadParrot]

some troubling nuggets there

[Raoul Duke III]

some troubling nuggets there

it's an election manifesto, it'll be toilet paper next weekend!

[Guest]

Don't worry DP

The BBC is all over it, sure Kuennsberg has a bunch of tweets this morning about... Anti semitism in the labour party

[DeadParrot]

it's an election manifesto, it'll be toilet paper next weekend!

If this mustache twirling level of villainy is the vote getter, whats the shit they aren't advertising ?

[Guest]

Jesus
Fucking
Christ

https://youtu.be/MimpZD1vt6Q

[Guest]

it's an election manifesto, it'll be toilet paper next weekend!

Na, "we promise you" end up in bin
"We promise ourselves" gets done first day possible!

[Guest]

Jesus
Fucking
Christ

Fucking disgrace; creepy as fuck!

I thought the this means more shite was cringe but fuck me

Worse still... the inhouse people make stuff like this and the club allow sponsors to make that shit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0IrBTg6zcI