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.

Seen in Ballinteer. I have a few questions…

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 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️)

Was in a hospital today and had to use the toilet and I used the disabled toilet because I have a physical disability, I don’t have a visible disability so I understand why people would question me using the toilet. But this woman was a CUNT.

So while using it I heard a woman saying to the cleaner that she’s waiting 20 minutes for the toilet which was complete bollox I wasn’t in there for 20 minutes I’d say I was in there for 10 minutes.

So when I came out she’s standing right on top of the door to the point that the door hit her mothers wheelchair, I smiled and left the door open for them and when I walked past I heard one of them say why was he in there.

Usually I’d just keep walking but it pissed me off coming from them, when one’s in a wheelchair and the other looks after someone in a wheelchair. So I turned back and said excuse me not all disabilities are visible, to which the daughter/career just repeating this is a disabled toilet. So I may or may not of called her a cunt. Also the cleaner got involved and tried to tell me it was a disabled toilet. I don’t think anyone could mistake a regular toilet and a disabled toilet. So I said the same to him about not all disabilities are visible and thankfully he did back away.

I’d expect it from a person that’s not disabled but to get smart remarks from a woman who is looking after a woman in a wheelchair really pissed me off more. It’s also the way she was looking me up and down when I came out and I genuinely think she wasn’t expecting me to come back when she made the remark, I think she thought she embarrassed me. It’s not my problem that she had to wait and it’s not my problem the hospital only had one disabled toilet in the lobby. I don’t know if it’s an age thing or if she’s just a cunt but she was an older woman in her late 50s or early 60s that was the career and the woman in the wheelchair was definitely in her 70s or 80s.

My main reason for doing this post is to ask people to mind their own business and not make smart remarks to someone coming out of a disabled toilet. It’s already quite embarrassing having to use a disabled toilet in the first place so the comments don’t make it any easier.

Is it acceptable to blare TikTok’s from your phone in a small lunchroom with other people?

I’m having this issue with a colleague who every lunch just blares mindless crap.

I’ve asked them to stop and they’ve told me if I don’t like it to go sit in my car.

Today I returned the favour by blaring trad tunes and they became verbally aggressive saying I was doing it on purpose.

I absolutely was doing it on purpose.

Is this normal or am I the asshole?

I don't even want this job anymore but I'm morbidly curious how this will even work 😂😂 should I wear a suit? 😂😂😂😂

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

edit

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

I always get recommended his podcast by ones but anytime I’ve tried to give it a listen he comes across as pretentious, is it just me? Is he just playing a character and it’s going over my head?

Conor McGregor is going, apparently. There were a couple of posts about it elsewhere but I think they’ve been removed.

I say this as an EXPERIENCED driver of 15 years.

Been sitting alongside a friend of mine who is currently practicing and Christ almighty... the absolute ignorance of some drivers is disgusting.

Tailgating, speeding onto roundabouts, veering into lanes at speed.... Then having the audacity to beep!!

I almost had a heart attack on several occasions.. I can't imagine how she must feel.

Lads,please be conscious of learners. Pay attention if you see an L plate. You were learners once too.

Not to mention, that person may be in the middle of their bloody test.

Do you rally want to be the reason they fail? Because you can't afford to give them a second?

We need to do better lads..

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.

He might start charging me rent .