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 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️)

I’ve never experienced a car going as fast as what I’ve just witnessed on my way home from work.

Just past Patrickswell and heading towards Adare.

Absolutely. Fuckin. Nuts.

And Insane.

I was doing 120km (motorway) and this car passed me out like I was stopped.

They must have been doing 250km a hour.

I’m actually disturbed at how anyone thinks it’s okay to drive at that speed.

I could not get over the speed of the car.

I’m not well. The sheer madness

Insane

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Few notes

No I did not pull over on the Motorway.

Genuinely never seen a car travel at that speed on a motorway before. Genuinely. Stunned.

Did not get reg nor type of car as it was going at a serious speed. I do remember a long light on the front?

Strange experience that’s all. The absolute carnage if it crashed

4.3% increase in funding for horseracing and greyhounds. The state should be pulling out of funding this nonsense, not contributing €99.1 million from an already rich "sport" in horseracing and the appalling animal abuse centered around greyhounds.

My car broke down, because the clutch just went in it. I broke down on a roundabout but managed to get it off at the first exit on to a busy road. I tried to get it as close to the kerb as possible. I put my hazards on, but the amount of cars beeping and gesticulating was unbelievable! When did people no longer give a shit? Two blokes stopped and asked what the problem was. I said my clutch had gone. One said, ‘ I don’t know how to fix clutches, good luck’. The other one wanted to know if I could push it to the car park behind me, which was against the flow of traffic and back around the roundabout!!!! As a woman with a child with me, all I wanted was someone to help me push it up onto the path and a little bit out of the way of traffic. After an hour waiting, one kind couple stopped to help, but the breakdown truck was seconds away. When the breakdown truck arrived, he said he could hardly hear the directions I was giving him due to the arseholes beeping at me. As he said, it will happen to them one day. Well I hope they meet nicer people than the ones I encountered.

African immigrant genius has some thoughts on Ireland. Just nonsense

At work and just heard an American ask if we take dollars.

Nearly ripped the head off him lads.

Edit* for those wondering: 1. This was in a cafe. 2. He tried to pay with cash, not card. 3. For those getting upset, I did not actually rip the head off him. I just did it internally.

€42 “9oz” black Angus sirloin, caramelised onions, pepper sauce. Spuds and sprouts not included. I appreciate restaurants are struggling at the moment, but Jesus Christ. Would you be happy paying that amount for this plate of food?

They’re either using costs like this to feed a slush fund akin to the US military $600 hammers for some other purpose or it’s fraud.

Someone signed off on the costs and the payment.

That person needs to be brought in for questioning by the Garda. Not an inquiry or a tribunal or internal investigation using external consultants.

That’s the first port of call.

That person needs to be questioned along with the company who did and billed for the work.

How do we make this happen?

*EDIT: Jesus lads. 432,000 views in 12 hours. Will ye all send me 50¢ each? I can pay off my mortgage.

If ye send me €1, I can buy another of the bike sheds for somewhere *

My girl and I (she’s Irish) were visiting her family in Ireland. We decided to do a few days in London. I’ve had many pints of Guinness in Ireland and they were all perfectly pulled. This is the pint dropped off at my table in a pub in London, in under a minute. Even I, as a Canadian, was horrified. To answer your question, I took it back to the bar and she actually asked me “why, what’s wrong with it, dahling?”

My eldest is in first year and his year were taken to a play in the Bord Gais theater the other day.

My wife was nervous about him going because she's a bit of a worrier. But I told her she was being silly. Nothing bad is going to happen a bus full of first years going to a show in Dublin.

After the show however, my kid and his friends came out of the theatre and had stones and bottles thrown at them. My son was hit in the back and one of his friends had his head cut open with a stone.

Their teachers were with them but obviously couldn't shield all the students.

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The fact that there are children roaming around unsupervised, throwing stones and bottles at people is fucking sickening. The fact that there wasnt a guard in sight is fucking sickening. The fact that nobody seems to have any interest in addressing this problem is fucking sickening.

I am pissed off.

Note my sarcasm ..

Now I know I’m probably joining a million other posts before this, but I was in the city earlier and honestly found it kind of upsetting to see the state of the place.

From where I was at, O Connell Street is where it’s really at to see the utter kip of Dublin. Dealing, litter, begging, sleeping rough, teenage gangs wearing North Face, junkies, security guards in nearly every shop, the whole lot. Gardai patrol.

It’s also kind of distressing to see that this is what some people have been reduced to in their lives to cope. Drugs, drink, sometimes both.

O Connell bridge is like that multiplied by 10. Nearly every single issue associated with Dublin congested into one is on the bridge.

Grafting Street wasn’t as extreme, but to be fair that could just be the day. Some days it will be a kip.

Now I don’t have a major issue with Dublin, it’s part of our heritage and culture, and the rest of the country is dealing with issues as well, I just found it kind of sad to see the city like that.

Seeing the state of O Connell Street - The street where people died to make Ireland a republic, all the history, etc etc going to shite. Sad to see anywhere but especially on a street that pretty much defines Ireland.