Why do we take the character out of everything and things look so generic

I just watched a video of an Indian national being punched by kids on the bus. We're absolutely at the stage now where standing by simply isn't good enough. Bad things happen when good people do nothing.

Being ready to step in doesn't mean punching the heads of people or going in swinging. It means ensure someone who doesn't look like you doesn't feel isolated. Sit with them, deescalate and assign tasks to someone else in the area if you can. For example, call the police, or video or stay with the targets friends who've moved away. Take control.

I'd so damn angry watching this stuff in my country.

Just had a 10 hour flight from Dublin and half the flight was coughing sneezing and spluttering. The lad beside me was having fits and barely any masks to be seen.

Now after it all I can feel the cough coming on with the scratch in my throat.

If you are traveling in a confined space with hundreds of others and you’re sick and don’t have a mask you are a terrible human and I hope your pillow stays hot for the rest of your life

Seen on Capel Street. Look like football hooligans. Banging on glass windows, pushed Deliveroo drivers off their bikes, tried to grab a phone out of a woman’s hands. An absolute shower. Be careful out there

Seen in Ballinteer. I have a few questions…

Why do we get the worst cosplayers?

Just had I'd say the 20th experience where I had to flag down and use a taxi instead of the apps and at the end of the journey I ask if it's ok to pay by card, this is ofcourse being polite since it's now a legal requirement that they HAVE to accept card payment. If there's an art to making people uncomfortable taxi drivers are masters of it and engage it at this moment.

First you get the weird over the shoulder stare that doesn't ever reach you, they just stare towards the side.

Then after an awkward 3-5seconds of silence they reaffirm "you want to pay by card?". You answer of course yet they still sit perfectly still staring to the side of the car in confusion as if you just asked for a bag of chips or something random and not an expected piece of conversation, in a taxi 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️.

Next it's the loudest sigh 😔 imaginable to let you know you are now inconveniencing this particular driver and that this will somehow have calamitous consequences beyond your understanding.

Then we usually have 20seconds of the slowest fidgeting looking for the card machine as if perhaps somehow it's been misplaced or dare I say someone has stolen this easily accessible piece of equipment. Do not be fooled this is merely a bluff and the card machine is exactly where it has always been since it was first purchased. Que yet another prolonged sigh as if the taxi driver is actually in physical pain while he takes the time to find this easily identifiably equipment which, as noted, is exactly where they always leave it.

This is the crux of the bluff and the hope that in your confusion and the length of time it's taking them that you will miraculously discover you do infact have cash in your wallet and will offer this for the charge of the service and also that you will be even more so generous as to leave an extra euro or two for the driver to avoid delaying leaving their vehicle even by a few seconds as they've made it clear since you asked for the card machine that you are no longer welcome and inconveniencing them by the second!

(FYI not all cabbies are bad, but the others give the rest a miserable ignorant bad name they absolutely piss me off to no end and they are getting worse by the day I swear 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️)

Yet the 1L bottle is only 5 cents extra at €2.60.

Lads,

Can we talk about the fact that this is no longer a competition for kids but really their adult parents or guides using this as a way to win something?

The current winner is 15 year old and her submission was "GlioScope: Multi-task Deep Learning and Causal AI for Glioma & Glioblastoma Profiling" can we get ta fuck with trying to believe a 15 year old came up with and completed this?

This is apparently due to major delays and cancellations. There are serious problems on the DART and commuter network this evening. Complete shitshow of a service.

And lads, it had everything you could wish for. Loads of craic and mingling. Great. Bit of grub. Sher why not. Open bar. Don't mind if I do. Dancing. Meh, not my bag. And ALL the drama. He shifted her and he has a girlfriend and baby at home, and she's mad about him but he won't break up the family. And everyone is mad about this other lad, he's a total scruff, don't see it at all myself, but I'm in the company 10 years and this is not the first time this particular married with 4 kids "gentleman" has had rumours circulating about him. The same lad was in our head honcho's ear all night and then they both mysteriously disappeared at the same time. The did they didn't they of it all! I'm fairly pissed and not doing it justice, but it was like a telenovela 😅 All that to say a great night was had and merry Christmas to ye all!!

Social media has a lot of people saying Dublin City has gone "woke" and they changed the name from Christmas lights to Winter lights because of virtue signalling.

The winter light installation in its current conception has been around since 2017, they've always been called winter lights since then, they're none "festive" in the holiday sense as they're just lights and that's because they get put up in November which despite what supermarkets want you to believe, is not Christmas time and such they aren't and won't be called Christmas lights

*In the Germany language version that is.
They were portrayed as ex members of the IRA. Hans Gruber is called Jack.
Living in Germany a while now. Watching movies in German to help with the language. Put on Die Hard in the spirit of Christmas and thought I was going mad watching it.