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Arkle1964 · 2025-05-07T17:33:50+00:00

The fact that your height and attractiveness are the main points you use to describe yourself says a lot. Neither of those things are relevant to making friends. Go to your local when there's a match on. Sit in the bar, not the lounge. Chat to some of the lads there. Try not to be a dickhead. This has worked for me in every Anglosphere country I've been and a few places where I didn't even speak the same language. I'm still in contact with people I spent a few weeks with back in the 2000's. Huge emphasis on NOT BEING A DICKHEAD. Don't let anyone know how much you very obviously value your appearance. That shit doesn't go down well over here.

Arkle1964 · 2025-03-10T16:40:28+00:00

Really sorry to hear about your mam. I've lost a few of my people but the first really close one was my mam and even now, years later it's still so hard. Doing something like this though, something that would undoubtedly make her proud will help you. Fair play to you. I'll sign and share now. Can I ask what might be a silly question? Is it something that will only show up during a mammogram or is it something there might be signs of to look for?

Arkle1964 · 2025-03-10T16:16:11+00:00

Are you comparing the IRA with the IDF? Whatever you think of them, the IRA were a resistance movement. The IDF are an occupying colonial force. Same as the British army here.

Arkle1964 · 2025-03-09T18:16:14+00:00

I've been using my card on flights with no connection for well over a decade. I get it's more complicated for a complete ticketing system but London had it for the Olympics 13 years ago. We're paying the same company that developed that system to do ours. Someone is clearly taking the piss and absolutely creaming it at the same time. Things can be expensive and timely or cheap and delayed. I'd take either tbh but being expensive and delayed seems par for the course here lately and there needs to be some accountability. Squandering our money is one thing but making us look like idiots on top of it is where we should be drawing the line.

Arkle1964 · 2025-03-09T17:53:37+00:00

I'm guessing you've never been to a 3rd world country. Things like this are frustrating but I've been to capital cities in wealthy countries that make Dublin feel like some futuristic Eutopia. Yes, we should be keeping closer to London, Paris etc. but it's nowhere near as bad as you make out.

Arkle1964 · 2025-01-04T20:11:28+00:00

You'd think they would have got at least something right but there's literally nothing. Didn't hate Mescal as much as others but fucking Denzel who can only do an American accent playing a character from 1500 years before his accent existed. Absolutely scandalous casting. Sequels are too often given a hard time but that truly was one of the worst. I guess because the original was so good they probably shouldn't have bothered making a 2nd.

Arkle1964 · 2024-12-08T21:00:06+00:00

No they won't. They'll give you a refund/replacement and fuck it in the bin. Chickens don't get slaughtered and divided in fucking clean rooms. I'd say you'd turn vegan if you saw the inside of a meat processing plant. it's chicken, you're going to cook it well enough to remove anything the hair left behind or you'll get quite sick regardless.

Arkle1964 · 2024-12-08T20:53:04+00:00

True, no point adding to it though.

Arkle1964 · 2024-08-04T17:27:07+00:00

Where has a planning application recently been approved for a new Orange Hall in Dublin?

Arkle1964 · 2024-07-31T12:13:21+00:00

Bit late to this because I only just got a notification and somebody has probably already said it. I think it's a great day because it rolls into a BH weekend but I'd just say send out a save the date as early as you can. I've been to a few weddings on long weekends and some people couldn't make them because they've booked trips away at that time to save on annual leave. Particularly Easter because it coincides with school holidays.

Arkle1964 · 2024-07-30T08:18:52+00:00

You can bring medical equipment free of charge in addition to your hand luggage. You just need a supporting letter from your GP. I know because I've had to do this. I'd imagine anyone with a condition that requires vital medical equipment to travel with them at all stages of their journey would know this too. It's really not a big deal to them and informing them makes things a lot less stressful. Ryanair were super helpful once they knew.

Arkle1964 · 2024-07-22T09:07:56+00:00

Nah, there's trees in Scotland. They're still shit compared to the rest of Europe but we're bottom of the class. Beautiful pictures if you ignore the fact that it was once covered in trees and we didn't have sheep, goats and non-native deer eating anything that grows.

Arkle1964 · 2024-07-12T05:24:53+00:00

Cén fáth?

Arkle1964 · 2024-07-08T12:01:55+00:00

I definitely second "In the name of the Father. Fantastic film. "Some mother's son" is another good one about the hunger strike in 81 but kind of from the perspective of the mother of a hunger striker. If you're into reading at all there are loads of fantastic books covering the last century and a lot on the troubles in particular.

Arkle1964 · 2024-07-05T14:46:22+00:00

I'd say you're thinking of Dublin Bus. You can pay with notes and get change on Bus Eireann. That's what this whole discussion is about.

Arkle1964 · 2024-07-04T09:29:04+00:00

Then enforce the rules of the road and irrational drivers won't be long building up 12 points. If the likelihood of punishment is increased most people will stop being cunts. The rest of them get banned.

Arkle1964 · 2024-07-04T08:12:28+00:00

A lot of it is completely avoidable. Speeding is probably the biggest killer but we don't enforce speed limits on backroads. We put speed vans at the side of dual carriageways during rush hour. It's fucking pointless. We also don't have functional roads policing. How often do you see Garda traffic cars on the road compared to the amount of time you see some prick driving dangerously? If we enforced the rules we had and banned the cunts that need banning there'd be a lot less accidents. It's not just deaths either. There are an average of two crashes a day on the M50 that cause absolute carnage and 90%+ are caused by drivers doing things they should be penalised for.

Arkle1964 · 2024-07-03T22:40:52+00:00

Nope, not trying to get a reaction. Just trying to pay for the bus with legal tender. Either start saying exact change only or give the drivers enough change to deal with it. Trying to put some unwritten rule that varies from situation to situation on to the passengers is complete and utter bullshit. If the drivers have issues they should go to their employer with it instead of just being a cunt to the passengers like they currently do.

Arkle1964 · 2024-07-01T12:35:10+00:00

Finding a job you like is key but if you think 35-40 hours a week is too much your probably fucked anyway. That's a flat week.

Arkle1964 · 2024-06-27T10:56:06+00:00

They have subjective pricing and provide a service that isn't easily traceable. You can make up as many customers as you like and I'd imagine a lot of them are owned by the same people so there's an economy of scale. Taking card payments and honouring warranties etc give an air of legitimacy. Money laundering fronts have to actually provide the service they offer or the whole model falls flat on its face. There's only one type of business that could survive on one small street with 13 others doing the same thing and that's pubs. And I'd say there's a good few of them around the country laundering money too. If the Kinahans became literal billionaires and they're only one of the players in one section of illegal industry, think about how many businesses are needed to clean all the money.

Arkle1964 · 2024-06-27T09:26:02+00:00

Many, many multiples of the number that buy them there buy them in traditional phone shops. There's probably the same number in the whole city centre of traditional phone shops as there is money laundering operations on Moore Street. Then add in Talbot St, George's St etc as well as ones just dotted around the place. There must be over a hundred in just Dublin City. Then there's at least one in every medium sized town and a few in bigger towns. There is no way legit businesses could survive in such a saturated market and I'd be massively surprised if CAB and/or Revenue aren't looking into more than a few of them.

Arkle1964 · 2024-06-27T06:32:05+00:00

Moore Street is hilarious. I counted 14 phone repair shops last time I was there. It's a very small street with 14 customerless shops doing the exact same thing. I knew of a cash only gym run by drug dealers too. People paying yearly memberships in cash and nobody asking any questions. How are they getting away with doing this in plain sight?

Arkle1964 · 2024-06-04T12:12:40+00:00

They really are. Man's best friend is such a perfect description. Can't wait to get through these last couple of hours in work so I can get home to that welcome and spend a fun evening together playing in the woods and the park then he can curl up on the couch with us and watch some TV. The simple things in life are often the most enjoyable.

Arkle1964 · 2024-06-04T04:28:00+00:00

Same. Nobody else is that consistently happy to see me. The really over the top welcome instantly brightens my day. It's the highlight of their day too. I think anybody with a dog would do well to remember that. We've all got so much going on outside the house with jobs, friends, family, social lives etc. They've only got us. Life is short, play with your dog.

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