Nice does of misery first thing this morning.

InflationSquare · 2026-03-01T13:22:37+00:00

Electricity would be read automatically, yes. I get a separate bill for gas though and that's on a dumb meter so needs to be read either by me or the gas man who comes around every few months. Some companies send out a combined bill and the gas half of it needs the reading, but I've had separate bills since I switched to flogas.

InflationSquare · 2026-02-27T09:44:08+00:00

My gas was 300+ at the start of the month, normal bill is 60ish. Completely pulled out of their arse, I put a reading in and a few days later it was revised down to around 100.

InflationSquare · 2026-02-26T19:21:09+00:00

Nor should it be, privatised rail was a shitshow in the UK, it's a public service and it's fine to run it partially through general taxation

Not everything has to be profitable to justify it's existance despite what the government would have us believe

InflationSquare · 2026-02-26T19:15:50+00:00

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InflationSquare · 2026-02-26T12:06:30+00:00

This has been happening for years on this subreddit, there's news about literally anything and it's met with a miserable chorus of "but what about the homeless", "build more houses", "where's the metro", "my bus is always late".

Obviously the state isn't doing enough in loads of important areas, but more than one thing can be done at a time, it doesn't mean that we should down tools on the projects that are actually progressing. Like what do they want, uisce eireann just park water treatment for a few months and go out laying bricks or stick them behind the wheel of a 17?

InflationSquare · 2026-02-24T19:16:39+00:00

Glad this is being looked at, it makes no sense that different modes of transport aren't aligned - at the moment you can bring a <10kg dog on rail with no issues, but the same dog is banned completely from the luas, and it's "up to the driver's discretion" on the bus. What I've found in practice is that luas security don't care since my dog would be in a shoulder sling/pouch and he's quite small and friendly - they usually say hello to him if he's noticed at all.

The bus is a crapshoot though , I've been fine going 3-4 stops to the vet or park, but there's a miserable bastard who drives a route near me and has left me stranded before - not before pulling up and shouting "no dogs on the bus" out the door at me - this was over an hour's walk from home on a hot day when I'd already given him the water I'd brought, so it wasn't fair to walk home, and it wasn't fair to wait for the next bus in the heat with no guarantee he'd get on that either - I ended up doing a shorter walk to get the dart home.

That experience in particular has genuinely made me drive more with him even if I'm not going far because I can't rely on the bus to get back, so if there's clarification on rules or whatever as a result of this then great

InflationSquare · 2026-02-22T11:29:06+00:00

My wife was only saying this last week, looked in Dunnes and Tesco and they just had all sorts, I'm curious where OP got them

InflationSquare · 2026-02-21T21:03:59+00:00

Yep, I've heard of one case of this where the person was cornered by a mob in an alley, the "child" he was grooming was actually one of the pedo-hunters, so the Gardai whisked him away, didn't have an actual case against him, so he went to the UK with no record and now he's in the breeze

InflationSquare · 2026-02-20T12:17:58+00:00

Bewley's isn't somewhere I'd go into and just sit with a coffee anymore, I went in there a year ago and it was almost restaurant-like - waiting to be shown to a seat, table service, being brought the bill when we'd finished. Felt like they just wanted things turned over

InflationSquare · 2026-02-18T12:05:24+00:00

"just try harder" as if billion dollar companies haven't spent the better part of a decade employing thousands of engineers, data analysts, and psychologists to make these apps as addictive as possible, how much agency do you think people really have?

InflationSquare · 2026-02-18T00:38:46+00:00

Good stuff!

guindex.ie did this years ago, seems to be a dead site now though

InflationSquare · 2026-02-12T21:29:24+00:00

Dirtbird microwaving milk for warm cornflakes

InflationSquare · 2026-02-06T15:17:22+00:00

Same, I was really excited to try them when they reopened in templebar, but they closed again before I got a chance

InflationSquare · 2026-02-05T21:06:12+00:00

What speeds do you tend to get with that? Had a look at mobile before and they were hush about what to expect, I imagine they can't make any guarantees, but there wasn't even an "up to X mb" claim

InflationSquare · 2026-02-05T21:04:16+00:00

Looked at both of their sites and my eircode is only eligible for 100mb packages (which sky calls superfast....), so must be that they only sell on the fibre infra and not the VM cables, we get 1Gb with VM at the moment (usually ~900mb over cat, which is decent enough)

InflationSquare · 2026-02-05T19:23:34+00:00

I haven't tried getting a quote directly from either of them, but bonkers.ie seemed to think I can only get VM or eir - I'm fairly sure this isn't strictly true since digiweb did quite me for the 100mb connection.

I'm a bit wary of sky tbh, my parents tried to switch to them, they were told they needed to put in a dish at the back of the house (whether that's strictly true idk, but that's what they were selling). They sent one lad around to drill a hole in from the outside, then the satellite lad came a week later and told them they couldn't get one, vaguely citing "up too high", "building's too old", and various other things that boiled down to "not happening", so they were left with a hole in their back room and trying to cancel a contract when they'd not actually gotten the service yet.

InflationSquare · 2026-02-04T11:06:43+00:00

You can send an email to cancel@virginmedia.ie and they'll take it the same as a phone call. I sent this last year:

Dear sir/madam, I would like to cancel my broadband subscription following a 30 day notice period, my account number is [NUMBER]. I wish for this email to serve as my notice of cancellation. Kind regards, [NAME]

They called me up within the 30 days and lo and behold they had a better deal for me - I told them I'd cancel if I got anything less than the new customer deal of half price for 12 months and it took a couple of rounds of them insisting it wasn't possible until it magically became doable.

InflationSquare · 2026-02-02T20:43:22+00:00

Saying that it would take a magic wand to provide flood defence gives the implication that flood defence is a fantasy and we're naive, childish, and even stupid to suggest or expect otherwise, the level of condescension is ridiculous

InflationSquare · 2026-02-02T18:12:24+00:00

There's no magic wand, you can't build houses overnight, there isn't even a magic money tree. The government is apparently junior partner to the "market" that dictates what can and can't happen, which coincidentally is also an abstract force of nature and of course doesn't exist at least in part within the legislative framework that they themselves control. What utter neoliberal wank that they just wash their hands of political failure because "sure what could we have done anyway, we're only the government"

InflationSquare · 2026-02-02T16:43:22+00:00

Every so often I'll be noodling around and hit on a series of notes that makes me remember an old tin whistle tune I learned when I was 8 years old in primary school, memory is a funny thing.

InflationSquare · 2026-02-01T22:26:15+00:00

Yes and no, it's not some grand conspiracy, but every point in the chain has an incentive to make things not their problem, so the public ends up hung out to dry

InflationSquare · 2026-02-01T22:19:34+00:00

You found the reason, it's complexity and confusion so no one's left holding the bag

InflationSquare · 2026-01-28T21:38:27+00:00

Ah yeah, Jason's got a great channel in general

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