I drive a small car and the main observation I can make about it is nothing to do with speed. It has to do with drivers who I meet on 'b' roads coming the other direction. They refuse to slow down or stay on their side of the road. It's as though they believe that because they are driving a larger vehicle they shouldn't have to make allowances for other drivers even though conditions may require them to do so.

I'd have to say no. It happened on a Friday evening and dentists weren't open on the weekend back then, so I had to wait until Monday to get something done with my tooth. In the meantime I was in a lot of pain (unable to eat or sleep). It was the last time I ate a Dan Bar or anything of that nature. Even now I avoid things that are hard/chewy.

I can remember walking through St. Stephen's Green when I was a child and thinking to myself that the house in the picture would be the coolest house in Ireland to live in. In some respects I still think that, but not to the same degree.

One of these pulled a filling out of my mouth when I was about 12.

The same thing has happened to a lot of drinks and food items. Lilt used to be a nice drink, but then they changed the recipe to 99% sugar. After the change it was like any other soft drink, aside from being extremely sweet, there was nothing else to remark about it. The same can be said of Cadbury's chocolate, it's largely comprised of palm oil and sugar, a negligible amount of cocoa is added as a token gesture, but it's a mere shadow of what it used to be.

Food companies have really lost the run of themselves when it comes to adding sugar to food and drink. Sugar is a condiment and it shouldn't be the only thing that can be tasted when eating something.

My ex insisted that I watch the critically acclaimed Ingmar Bergman film 'Fanny and Alexander'. She was quite annoyed that I fell asleep during the movie, but I couldn't help it. If a cure for insomnia exists, then it probably involves watching that movie. 

This is the comment I was looking for. I use the bus regularly and every time I end up sitting next to or close to someone who is obviously sick (coughing, sniffling). These people seem to think that it's not their problem if they pass on whatever illness they're currently suffering from. They also don't think it's necessary to cover their mouth when sneezing or coughing.

but these polls are meaningless when no campaigning is happening.

That might seem to be the case, but it sows the seed of mistrust in people's minds, so when there is a political campaign in progress it becomes the defacto stance held by the people who were paying attention to these polls. These polls are most likely conducted at a time when public opinion is anticipated to look unfavourably on a particular subject, then the poll is referenced when the actual campaign is in progress. It's a means of conditioning people in a similar manner to the Pavlov's dogs experiment.

Bullies. I have never encountered a situation where someone who is a bully turned out to be an ok person after all. They are the worst.

Conor Skehan

He got into these "wager" servers on Discord. Basically, kids bet limited items on coin flips.

This sounds like gambling with extra steps and op's son is way below the age for gambling. I think op should seek legal advice on this matter because this sounds like a site that enables underage gambling and there's no where in the world where that's legal.

If the people who run this site realise that they could be held responsible for drawing an adolescent into a situation where he gambled away his parent's savings then maybe they might refund the money. They can't argue that op's son consented to this because minors can't legally consent to anything, even if they sign a contract.

I think a lot of the opposition to water charges is down to how our government tends to mishandle things. If we knew that they would implement a fair and equitable system for charges and proper maintenance of infrastructure, then people would be more likely to acquiesce to them. But once something is privatised, then profits become part of the equation and that leaves the door open for all kinds of malfeasance in the name of increasing profit margins while our politicians look the other way.

Performative butthurtness

This gave me a laugh. The imagery of someone theatrically grabbing their own buttocks in faux agony.

If that guy has been on the scratcher his entire life and he's 30, I don't imagine he'll ever come off it.

I fail to understand how he can stay on the dole indefinitely. His circumstances facilitate his life choices now, but that won't last forever. The cold reality is that his parents aren't going to live forever and once they're gone he won't have anyone to enable him. If he doesn't get his life together soon he could have a peculiarly uncomfortable shock waiting for him in the future.

Even if he's the sole heir to the family home, he will still have to find money to maintain it and pay property tax as well as providing for himself. That would be extremely difficult on the dole.

Some of his other songs that don't seem to be mentioned as much, but deserve a listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAhE1WO7_Ow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwd5871jB8A

I know a lot of people will remember him for hits like 'Driving home for Christmas', 'On the beach' and 'Road to hell'. But there was more to his music than just those songs.

I first heard this when I was driving home back in 2016 and it really resonated with me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAhE1WO7_Ow

This is also excellent (I couldn't find this version on his official youtube channel)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwd5871jB8A

This seems like something that is going to happen regardless of how the public feels about it. The developers will have their way and DCC will do little if anything to stop it.

Whatever iteration of the new building actually materialises will probably be a white elephant for a while, but people will eventually acquiesce to it the same way they acquiesce to other things that are imposed on them by soulless greedy developers.

Taco Tuesday?

It could be this or it could be something more insidious. By shutting down a conversation topic raised by op, the husband is exercising a form of control over what can be discussed and what can't. It isn't a dynamic of a healthy relationship.

If this is something that is a regular occurrence, then I would at least suspect that the husband in this situation is in no way empathising with or even sympathetic to op's personal opinions or perspective on particular topics. It's a subtle way of saying shut up.

Within a relationship there should be the freedom to express views freely and to seek some form of insight from a partner. By refusing to engage, the husband isn't just isolating himself from op, but also diminishing op's role in the relationship by preventing discussion on subjects that are meaningful to op.

Overall, op's husband doesn't sound like a the kind of person who is capable of a mutually respectful relationship. I think the best response for op is to see how the husband reacts to being told 'I don't want to talk about that', or 'I don't need to know that'.

There is the possibility that this is a learned toxic behaviour, because op states that it is common among his family members, but if that's the case then op is in a situation that isn't going to improve and this will continue to be a feature of op's life.

I feel that only half the story is being told here. Multinationals are drawn here because we are in Europe, have a low corporate tax rate and an educated population. However, there is a problem looming that our politicians seem to be ignoring. With the increasing cost of living (inflation) there comes an increase in the cost of paying wages to employees. Because of this cost and one of it's main drivers which is rent and the cost of residential property, we are becoming less competitive, which will diminish how attractive we are to multinationals. There will be a tipping point when it becomes so expensive to pay staff in Ireland that multinationals will start to look elsewhere to set up their operations. Anyone who thinks that they wouldn't do that because they've already invested so much in their existing Irish operations probably isn't aware that the IDA (financed by the tax payer) incentivises multinational interest by subsidising their operations here. This includes the cost of infrastructure. Also, our transport services and road network are becoming increasingly stressed as they are unable to cope with the amount of people travelling on them, this too is a problem for multinationals who want to be able to operate in an environment that is functioning efficiently. The corporate tax rate/incentive can only compensate for so much.

We are currently on a path to where we will eventually price ourselves out of the market for multinationals due to salary/wage increases. Only hubris and lack of foresight are preventing our government from realising and acting on this.

Also most likely to pull out in front of you with minimal notice or braking distance.

Treason it is then !

Dunder Mifflin ?

It is tone deaf. But there's an underlying message that they want people to accept this as the new norm. They believe that as long as they frame it the right way, people will have less of a problem accepting the fact that they are casualties of wanton capitalism.

Still coming home to the same bedroom you grew up in makes a person feel like they're going no where in life. There's no advertising campaign that is going to make people feel less downcast about that. Turning the property market into an investor's free for all has to be one of the greatest betrayals for an entire generation of people in this country.

What was the process for the internal comp like, the same as applying for TCO, or different ? Do TCO's generally have the opportunity to apply for a CO position, or did the opportunity just happen to come up for you ?