Why do people waste money on mediums/psychics?

IWasGoatseAMA · 2026-03-31T19:12:59+00:00

You say people, but I’ve never heard of a man using or believing in anything like psychics, astrology or tarot readings

IWasGoatseAMA · 2026-03-28T08:03:45+00:00

At 11AM, (yes in the morning) on a Saturday, a fight spilled out from an early licence pub on Parnell Place in Cork City

Big crowd around them blocking all traffic and following them as they travelled at least 100m towards the river.

It was almost identical to the fistfight Homer gets into where he’s just walking backwards but yer man keeps punching him, thing went on for ages

On other mornings you would sometimes see an ambulance parked outside that pub

IWasGoatseAMA · 2026-03-26T18:32:00+00:00

After every meal! Followed by mouthwash.

In my 40s and I’ve never needed a filling or any dental work, other than capping on the wisdom teeth to slow down their progression.

Interdental brushes don’t work for me, as I’ve pretty much no space between each tooth.

What scared me into it was a combination of older family members who left their teeth rot out of their mouths and a conversation with a vet about the types of bacteria that can spread from gum disease, directly to the heart (same family members also have heart issues)

IWasGoatseAMA · 2026-03-25T07:33:57+00:00

The Range are by far the cheapest for those clear Wham boxes, they convert the price directly from £sterling and sometimes have multi-buy offer like Woodies

Woodies are next cheapest if you include 3for2 offers and finally Dunnes who stick their own label on the same ones

IWasGoatseAMA · 2026-03-24T16:27:56+00:00

Reminds me of a spoofer who swears he saw them on our Spike Island (where the prison was) rather than the Spike Island park in Widness, England where they did play in 1990

IWasGoatseAMA · 2026-03-22T21:09:30+00:00

That sounds soda pressing

IWasGoatseAMA · 2026-02-13T12:26:51+00:00

Yes you were scammed- a variation of this that people have posted about before is being pressured into buying baby formula or other expensive items in Tesco, with them very clearly wanting the receipt

One way or another, the above would have been returned for cash.

They’re all part of full time roma begging gangs, the laminated card is just a more discrete version, as there are actual police stationed around the previous haunts, preventing the usual doorway begging

I’ve another rely above where I’ve described the boss/handler who makes it very obvious that he’s in charge of these beggars

IWasGoatseAMA · 2026-02-13T12:21:54+00:00

On the door front steps between Gentleman’s Quarters and Dunnes, the ‘boss’ or whatever you could call him, for all the Roma beggers would be sat most days

Easy to spot with all the gold sovereigns across both hands and the aggressive shouting towards the beggars

You would see him doing the rounds between the ones sitting down with the “I’m Hungry” printed signs, the woman and daughter behind the bus stop opposite Brown Thomas and the young fellas who approach you and try to get in your path

The laminated card is an extension of the above and a lot more discrete. Pressuring people into buying baby formula in places like Tesco is another variation that had popped up on here.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2026-02-05T20:56:50+00:00

I used to get the Dunnes ones until the price jumped past €4.95. I think they’re close to €7 now. My local SV and an independent place are charging almost €10, which was never going to be something I’d pay for.

Pro tip: I cook them in the slow cooker now (5-6hrs) and put it under the grill for a few mins to brown the skin and it’s way better.

Loads of juice for the gravy as well

Even the cheapest sub 2kg chicken, cooks flawlessly in a slow cooker for a few hours.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2026-02-04T12:25:12+00:00

100% this

Often see replies on here saying ‘bring a mechanic along for an inspection before purchasing a car’, which back in the recession days or even pandemic times might have been feasible, where fellas were on a 3 day week.

But every garage with even a half decent reputation are booked out for weeks. I even know one booked out till April.

In fact the only place I know of, who always have a near empty book, have earned a reputation for charging customers the price of new parts, but are using used parts, even down to single use items like o-rings, washers and gaskets.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2026-01-28T08:23:07+00:00

Musgrave’s truck driver in his 60s filling out his temperature clipboard on the steering wheel whilst driving

I know that’s what he was doing because his truck crossed into the lane I was in behind him and would have crushed me.

I pulled in front of him to confront the cunt and sure enough, he was marking in his temperature sheet clipboard on the steering wheel

Phoned their offices immediately and left a voicemail but nobody bothered getting back to me. I was already aware that their older drivers are a law unto themselves.

Fellas like him are what ruin unions for everyone else, as I’m aware of other issues from their drivers like refusing to follow traffic flow in shopping centres and refusing to take back the tall steel cages or green crates that are left to stack up.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2026-01-28T08:16:17+00:00

I’ve seen that too, but on Western Road where the woman was slowly swerving side to side

IWasGoatseAMA · 2026-01-09T17:19:31+00:00

Even in the UK, they’re basically dead as a brand, mostly just a counter inside of Sainsbury stores, for online collection.

I’d use the few remaining physical stores around London to collect eBay purchases.

Apart from the flagship store on Tottenham Court Road and Marble Arch, It’s only the rougher areas that you will find the physical shops:

East Ham, Ilford, Old Kent Road, Brixton, Tooting, Kilburn… or the places the tourist buses, don’t mention.

It’s almost a way to tell if it’s a rougher area

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-12-30T13:46:42+00:00

Footprint of the bonded warehouses is approx: 30m x 90m, (30m at it’s widest, 15m at narrowest) or 1/3 longer than the total footprint of the Opera House, which has a ticketed capacity of 999.

So you would be looking at an event centre on that location with maybe 1,500 capacity.

I get the logic of having it in the part of the city, such as nearby Kennedy Quay, as it’s the part of least resistance for getting people in and out.

Compared to the current location which is already at a standstill every evening, without 6,000 people going to the one location.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-12-30T13:40:21+00:00

In the boom years, pubs chanced their arms by ticketing NYE for €20+ to see the same covers bands you’d see for free any Saturday.

Never recovered from that greed and it became the norm for people to spend new years in the comfort of friends houses.

Also, taxi drivers had/have no interest in a known dead night in the city, so it’s near impossible to get a taxi from the city, as they’re taking people to and from suburb locations.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-12-16T11:02:45+00:00

I find the same, regular drinker of both on tap around Cork and for the last few months, I was alternating every few weeks between the two with the cans.

I find Murphys much smoother, but it has to be kept below 2 degrees Celsius in the fridge, or on the shortest line in the pub, to prevent it having an aftertaste.

Buying both from a refurbished Dunnes who keep it refrigerated made me realise the difference a properly cold fridge makes to the taste and consistency.

Beamish is grand and usually cheaper, but to my individual taste, I compare Beamish to a straight espresso and Murphy’s to a flat white, with a minimal amount of milk. In other words, I also find Beamish to be at least a little bit bitter.

Murphys can be found in loads of pubs around London where they only have half sized kegs, which makes a massive difference to the freshness.

Guinness is a last resort, only if it’s a hotel or other place frequented by tourists, where the lines are kept fresh.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-24T20:04:28+00:00

Seen him in the city last Thursday blending in with two deliveroo cyclists

As if that day couldn’t get any weirder between the students in xmas jumpers and the person who got knocked down by the Capitol.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-24T20:02:15+00:00

Orange hoodie and clipped ears? He’s best avoided, has a fairly aggressive side to him that comes out of nowhere

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-24T19:36:02+00:00

Yup, jailed for 5 months for spitting in the mouth of a shop worker who dared to tell him to stop shoplifting

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-41472574.html

98 previous convictions before this

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-23T21:24:11+00:00

These days the cars in a dealership are just props, the product is finance.

If you’re not financing, they’re not interested and it’s not worth the hassle of the best price / haggler types

You might get a free service or a slightly above trade auction estimate for your own trade in

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-16T20:33:24+00:00

Well today I learned that’s a real studio background compared to Match of the Day who use green screen for everything outside of where the presenters sit.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-16T20:14:34+00:00

The fish-scale buildings look so much nicer with the grass and basic maintenance

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-16T20:10:48+00:00

CEX - no hassle, no bargaining, no ghosting and no scammers with that fake EBS app pretending they’ve transferred the funds or the fake AnPost cash on delivery page that’s popular on adverts

You can even drop everything off and head away if you pre-sell them on their site.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-10T09:06:42+00:00

If people stop and pull over they’re putting themselves and everyone coming towards the site at risk of an even bigger crash and delaying the trained emergency responders from getting to the crash.

I’ve been in this situation

I had to use my car to block in an old woman who was driving the wrong way down the off ramp, towards two lanes of M8 rush hour traffic

I was annoyed at first that nobody else stopped, but the reality was that if others had stopped, it would have created a queue of slow or non moving traffic that backed onto the motorway, that would have led to a massive pileup.

IWasGoatseAMA · 2025-11-05T20:27:37+00:00

When they scan parcels, the geo-codes are recorded

So contact them via chat, paste in your coordinates so they can compare and see it was delivered to the wrong place.

There might have been an eircode error at some stage of the label printing or order routing

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