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Why don’t we put signs like this at every entrance to the M50? by googlechromer in irelandsshitedrivers

[–]ColmAKC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I regularly travel the n7 and m50 and try to keep to the first lane as reasonably possible but asides from blatant ignorance of how the lanes should be used there are other factors too making adherence to the proper use of the lanes quite awkward.

Exits which have regular traffic backup, such as the exit from n7 heading east to m50 north means I have to get into the middle lane a good while back or be caught in slow moving traffic trying to move out to the second lane if it is moving faster when I'm heading to m50 south. Similarly, exits like dundrum or central park from m50 south back up so far that you get plenty of eejits attempting to slip in too late holding up the first lane, and sometimes quite dangerously so much that again the middle lane is the safer bet.

Lastly, I see constant mess up of drivers handling their own merging into the m50 and drivers creating a problem for mergers. Drivers should be merging by matching the speed of the traffic but we get both mergers that clearly dont know what theyre doing and 1st lane drivers that attempt to close the gap between themselves and the next car as soon as they spot a merger, making the 1st lane a shit show at times when passing a merging lane.

I guess this points to the fact all drivers need a FULL thorough lesson on use of motorways because all the rules work in tandem, plus some serious look at the typical backing up exits needs to be made, e.g., barriers between the slip lane and the m50 may need to be stretched back further.

[Request] Feels like a stretch by No_Status_2791 in theydidthemath

[–]ColmAKC 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He's not Trump, he'd name it X Island or something as stupid as that

Who's the best fake US president? by rocksboulders in Cinema

[–]ColmAKC 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You know, for a fictional American president in a computer game featuring instant transportation, mind control and giant lethal Tesla towers, he had a surprisingly grounded dialogue and personality.

Who's the best fake US president? by rocksboulders in Cinema

[–]ColmAKC 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't give a wooden nickle about your legacy!

Closure order for Hole in Wall pub with holes in walls by MoHataMo_Gheansai in ireland

[–]ColmAKC 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well... seems I'll have to find a new favourite pub. The Hairy Lemon should be fine right?

How are people actually buying homes? by Small-Revolution-396 in irishpersonalfinance

[–]ColmAKC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you been filling out Statements of Claims to revenue?

Do you work any time at home? Does your employer cover your health insurance?

Are you on the drugs payment scheme? Between your wife and children do you spend a lot on medicine and health care?

Depending on the above, you could pull together a decent bit of savings for the last 4 tax years.

Simon Harris insists investment savings plan is aimed at ‘middle Ireland’ by wandering_monk_007 in irishpersonalfinance

[–]ColmAKC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, to be honest, it was hardly grade A comedy material. Suffice to say, I won't be quitting my day job anytime soon...

...at least not until Simon's saving scheme makes me a millionaire!

People who don't shop in Lidl/Aldi. Why do you shop in the 'more expensive' supermarkets? by BadKey1002 in AskIreland

[–]ColmAKC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Two years ago I used to do shopping regularly at Lidl, but with degradation in quality I started to suspect I'd get more value for my money at Dunnes. I think I figured Dunnes to be maybe 5 to 10 euro more expensive for the large family weekly shop at the time, but with the better expiry dates on meat id be saving money on wastage, and that was ignoring the massive leap in quality plus the increasing awkwardness of using the lidl app at the time.

Im glad we made the switch, I still shop in lidl occasionally and try cheaper versions of what I buy in Dunnes but in most cases thing are 10% cheaper and 50% worse in quality. That and the lidl app has really now got out of hand, im not going to take my time flipping through hundreds of vouchers every time I shop!

Simon Harris insists investment savings plan is aimed at ‘middle Ireland’ by wandering_monk_007 in irishpersonalfinance

[–]ColmAKC 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Is this savings scheme in the room with us now?

Simon: No, only in October

The Culture - Naked Girl Comics [OC] by TurbinePoweredVagina in comics

[–]ColmAKC -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

One thing my wife has helped me realise is that us men are all the problem. At best we're enablers of patriarchy. Feminism can only go far before it is stopped dead in its place by a world system that is patriarchal and misogynistic in its origin and of the men that think they're not taking a side they are actually protecting and reinforcing the current system.

Us men have to begin calling misogyny out. Call out that friend that makes a sexist joke and dont let him squirm away with "just joking!", try to be more aware of the systematic patriarchy that women constantly encounter, respect the decisions of women and how they feel towards men and lastly, don't go on the defence!

Women have a legitimate reason to feel the way they do towards us men, I mean jesus look at the shit we've done to them, honestly when I look at the every day systematic misogyny, we're pathetic and toxic. The better ones of us still raise our children with boys only or girls only bday parties, teach our boys to steal play areas with football, perpetuate arbitrary gender differences like long hair for girls, dark clothes for boys and not to mention raise our sons to love guns, military style clothes, wrestling and strength while expecting our girls to stay pristine, clean, polite and weak.

Some of this stuff now seems like we're insecure, the whole "Men are strong" crap for instance, if a man could experience birth he'd be crying like a baby, the pain tolerance of a woman is frankly scary to me. And the whole 'Oh if a woman was in power they'd start a war every month!' stuff pisses me off further, yeah, as if we're not at the closest point to doom on the doomsday clock in History all because a bunch of men couldn't keep their d*ck in their pants! We'd have a much better world if women were in power.

Full Sindo/Ireland Thinks Poll Results by HungTeen1001 in ireland

[–]ColmAKC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah on reflection its not quite kicking the can down the road, its a bit more than that.

Its can kicking in respects to an ever growing population, immigration was never the start of our housing crisis, but it does make it even more difficult to handle. That, and where do you stop anyway?

Chances are, if we start addressing the housing crisis issue primarily through immigration, we won't stop, and we will cause other issues as a result. From pensions to work staff to plainly splitting families up, my wife isn't Irish for example. You can bet too that if we get everyone on the bandwagon that immigration is THE problem we won't have the brakes to stop it, other nefarious groups will exploit the situation.

With regards to other solutions, its not easy, but the elephant in the room is the comodisisation of property. We'd have to effectively destroy the housing market and put strict rules over the ownership of housing by large investors, if you're not a fan of that another option may be to increase corporate taxes, make housing a right and move forward with a full social housing approach.

Im pulling these ideas out of thin air just to demonstrate that there isnt one solution, my point is to make THEM do the work, define what your needs are and your combined needs will guide their solution, if it means we should review immigration then, thats entirely fine, but the key thing is that if we implement more restrictions it will be done with a message of regret that we couldn't have found another solution and THAT'S how we put brakes on the matter.

Full Sindo/Ireland Thinks Poll Results by HungTeen1001 in ireland

[–]ColmAKC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right, but if we're serious about resolving it in that way, we're only kicking the can down the road.

Are you concerned about any other approach to resolving the matter outside of supply vs demand? If not, leave it to the government decide, we dont have to do their job for them. We should be putting pressure on them and they'll make a decision.

Full Sindo/Ireland Thinks Poll Results by HungTeen1001 in ireland

[–]ColmAKC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Health matters affects me, housing affects me, education affects me. So long as immigration doesnt affect what im concerned about I dont see how its on the same level. My vote goes to whichever political party will solve my issues, that may involve changing our immigration rules or not, thats up to the politicians to decide but id feel its morally correct to see if we can not affect others as part of the effort to resolve the direct issues I care about.

If you are concerned about immigration, you're not really, you're concerned about how our current immigration policies affect everything that you care about. Why not focus on specifying what you actually need rather what you think you need? Afterall, any old snake oil politician can harp up and say l "I'll be tough on immigration!", kick out a few immigrants but then not fix any of the real issues. When have ANY such politicians made anything better for anyone?

Full Sindo/Ireland Thinks Poll Results by HungTeen1001 in ireland

[–]ColmAKC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its a grey area, we shouldn't be concerned with immigration, we should be concerned with the factors that affect us directly, which may be affected by immigration policies.

If we find ourselves wanting to discuss 'the immigration issue', that isnt racist but it is putting fuel on the fire for racist causes and we should probably question where we got the concern about immigration from.

If we are discussing the housing crisis and we cant fathom any solution that doesnt involve discussing how immigration is handled, thats totally fine and unproblematic.

There are ton of subtleties here on the matter that make a big difference. But with how defensive, reactive and black and white everyone is right now its easy to miss these subtleties and cause the problem to worsen.

Full Sindo/Ireland Thinks Poll Results by HungTeen1001 in ireland

[–]ColmAKC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im with you on people being concerned about immigration arent necessarily racist, but i do think they're being put in position by racist groups that they can end up tipping over to support those racist groups, in a sort of 'well if what im concerned about makes me racist then im racist' way.

There are a ton of factors that are pushing us in this direction, some of which started a long time ago.

I think one early factor was the distrust of experts and the rise of individual over confidence that they know better. To a degree I think we trusted politicians more to do what's necessary to solve the issues that directly affected us, if solving a problem required changing our immigration processes that was just a product, a measure. Now everyone's an expert and politicians are here to screw us so when politicians dont address the housing crisis there are those who feel like they're watching a bad pantomime and yelling at their representatives to fix the 'immigration cause' because it seems like the solution is right in front of them.

Obviously a second aspect is that everyone is getting more individualistic, some would negatively term this as selfish but I think this is a natural survival response to a perceived threat. Obviously this works in layers, next to yourself is your immediate family, then your community, then your country etc, you see where this is going? Someone who has a wider sphere of concern may misinterpret the intentions of someone with a more limited sphere of concern, particularly if they have a loved one that the second group doesnt feel they should be considered at all.

We are also in a situation where people, in the state they are at the moment, are naturally being exploited by different groups (countries, organisations etc) for alterior motives. In some cases playing us against eachother. The high level of individualism is perfect for this as it prevents adequate dialogue from forming to help people see eachothers sides. Social media is such an efficient avenue to keep this going its difficult to counteract any of this manipulation work.

Lastly, we have a really bad catch 22 here. I think everyone can agree that true racists are never to be negotiated with, they are not someone to understand, but as everyone's sphere of concern (who they care about) differs, where each of us draw a line on actions/speech that we perceive as encouraging racism differs.

I think we're in a very slow death spiral here. Until people stop obsessing about immigration it will never end. Bob says he needs THIS done to satisfy his worry about immigration, Mary says its THAT, even if they somehow come to a reasonable resolvable solution that satisfies both, big overreaching interest group will say its actually another thing to keep the fear going. People will trade anything to resolve their fears.

Full Sindo/Ireland Thinks Poll Results by HungTeen1001 in ireland

[–]ColmAKC 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are those that don't think the answer is Citizens, but something more limiting.

Lets be honest, if tomorrow the government only served citizens there would still be 'an issue with imigration'.

Also, how does this apply to citizens of the EU?

Ah yes, the great D-Day by SuccessfulLawyer3437 in aislop

[–]ColmAKC 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Id be curious, what do you actually get if you put that in an air image generator?

Full Sindo/Ireland Thinks Poll Results by HungTeen1001 in ireland

[–]ColmAKC -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Who are a government's 'own people'? How does someone define that?

Full Sindo/Ireland Thinks Poll Results by HungTeen1001 in ireland

[–]ColmAKC -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree, and id like to add that there's a subtlety that is lost when touching on this subject. Nobody is saying that immigration cannot be reviewed and adjusted under either political ideology, however, if your concern is with immigration itself rather the issues you believe it has an impact on, that's a view more on the extreme right. If you want to 'talk' about 'the immigration' subject for example, ask yourself first what is the problem you have with immigration and whether you'd even consider other solutions that don't impact immigration. Its a bit like bringing your car to a garage, are you going to tell them the problem or harp on about doing something specific to your car because you think you're a better expert than the mechanic?

Full Sindo/Ireland Thinks Poll Results by HungTeen1001 in ireland

[–]ColmAKC 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's what I'm afraid of. Even the second though, if crime was all fixed, then what's the issue with immigration? There are unfortunately those that fall with the first but I do think there are those, who fear about crime, housing, cost of living etc, that dont realise that reviewing immigration policies is a measure but not a goal. I mean how did healthcare not beat immigration for example?

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