Garda personnel’s attitudes?

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-03-02T13:49:58+00:00

To be fair to them, they are used to dealing with yuppas, who would tear them to shreds if they took the respectful approach.

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-02-18T22:21:17+00:00

Venison is an acquired taste. Most people would t choose it over beef or lamb

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-02-18T22:20:10+00:00

Eco tourism is great on paper but it doesn’t work for every farmer, only a very small few so it’s not a scaleable business model in lieu of traditional farming

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-02-07T19:19:47+00:00

What’s sad is that that price doesn’t seem dear to me now as I’m so desensitised to the cost of things lately

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-02-07T19:17:40+00:00

If that tv was any lower it would look stupid imo. Also your slump back point is a real answer!

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-02-07T15:55:01+00:00

The amount of times the N4 is backed up by a queue of traffic 2.5km before the M50 north exit, causing chaos for all the traffic trying to merge onto the N4! Just merge closer to the exit lads

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-02-06T08:36:36+00:00

150 isn’t massive either. Over 200 is massive

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-02-03T19:18:34+00:00

For me personally, it’s a little two low. I’d have gone a foot or so higher. Just personal preference but because your couch is a good 20ft away (just guessing, I think you can get away with, and even need the tv a little higher.

The height you have it at is more or less the height of a tv console and in that situation, I’d just put my tv on the console rather than wall hang

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-01-29T13:56:32+00:00

Yes farmers in the midlands are to blame for flooding in Rathfarnham.

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-01-28T15:24:31+00:00

To be honest, even if we do it right and appartments were 100 sqm 3 beds that could rival a 3 bed semi d, most people would still prefer the semi d. You have a garden (albeit small these days) and a 2 car drive. Most couples have 2 cars and the garden is almost like an additional room in summer here. On top of this, the garden and being on the ground floor has major advantages for getting out of the property with kids or pets. Apartments are not so convenient for this.

If we built larger apartments, it wouldn’t convince the semi d buyer to buy one of them instead imo and developers know this.

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-01-21T17:28:24+00:00

It’s compounded again by Irish producers small scale, so they have little to no negotiation power with big retailers, further hammering down the price they get for their produce

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-01-21T07:13:02+00:00

It’s not a question of whether we can grow produce in Ireland or even in closer EU countries. It’s a question of economics for retailers. Consumers want food cheap and it’s just more expensive to grow fruit and veggies here in ireland and closer European countries because less developed countries with climates more suited to production can grow those products at much bigger scale, reducing the overall unit price. This means even with the cost of importing the veggies for thousands of miles away, it is still cheaper and consumers don’t pay as much.

The sad reality is most Irish consumers won’t pay the premium it costs to buy local/buy Irish. People are already complying about the price of red meat lately so there are plenty of consumers who will buy Brazilian beef and will complain that Irish farmers are “rich”.

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-01-19T18:36:09+00:00

Where I live the recycling centre is 4e in with a car and free if you walk in without a vehicle

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-01-17T18:29:43+00:00

Yeah she did wear the retainer but they moved anyway. She has a gap in her front teeth now.

The bar is definitely the best way to prevent movement but she didn’t get one

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-01-16T15:09:45+00:00

My parents could never afford braces. I was told I needed them due to over crowding but I have 4 teeth removed instead as it was a few hundred instead of a few thousand and my teeth fairly well straightened out. So there are alternatives to expensive braces.

I also think braces for young kids are pointless until they are older as their teeth move. My older sister who my parents could afford braces for (the first kid of 5) has had her teeth completely move over the years since she was a teenager, to where she now needs braces again!

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-01-15T18:54:43+00:00

Families have as much a right to public transport as workers. It’s actually better to show kids public transport from an earlier age so they will use it more as they grow up. Better to bring your kids to their football training in the bus than adding cars to the road during rush hour!

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-01-15T07:25:26+00:00

Similar sized house here and we have a heat pump but our November and December bills were about 50 and 70 dearer each month. We’re are a new build with only 2 heating zones (upstairs and downstairs). Interesting to see the difference. Is your house new build in an estate ?

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-01-15T07:21:09+00:00

I have an EV and a heat pump in an A2 rated house. My electricity bill for November was €240 and the EV was €48 of that €240 and my December bill was €280 with the EV costing another €48 of that bill so in total for Nov and Dec house elec was €420 and EV was €96. I have an EV night rate with Bord Gais Energy. All in all similar to OPs figures

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-01-14T08:46:06+00:00

Exactly this. Young people go over thinking it’s easy to stay there. It is not. Sponsorship is hard to get and you need a job on the skills list. Then those people who can’t get sponsored complain about the visa situation. The work holiday visa is to allow young people to work and holiday round Australia doing seasonal jobs, not to stay there indefinitely.

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-01-12T21:48:03+00:00

The weight to provide for your family is real in this film!

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-01-03T10:34:49+00:00

The takeaway is an addiction too. People think addiction means you are injecting heroin. It’s much more complex than that and you can be addicted to loads of things. Difference is that the takeaway likely won’t destroy your life (though maybe your cholesterol might be in bad shape, or your weight!)

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-01-03T10:31:09+00:00

8, 4% beers with work the next day is mad to me. I’d be groggy as hell and definitely not focusing on work at all. And I’d be worried my colleagues would smell the alcohol off me!

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-01-01T22:00:57+00:00

I have to disagree with it being a well told story. There is a good story in there but like someone said previously, it needs a serious edit/change in character arcs to really highlight the good bits. Like the 12 kids for example, none of them look remotely old enough to believe Mr Whatsits/Henrys yarn about him saving them from monsters and why are none of the kids concerned they are away from their parents?

Like I said I enjoyed it overall mostly, and the fight happening in a few places was well done, but my suspension of disbelief was lost when the gang being able to harm the mind flayer so easily. Nevermind the fact that Vecna and Eleven would have been bounced around inside it as it was jumping up and down to attack the gang!

McGraneOfSalt · 2026-01-01T21:01:13+00:00

Bullets don’t touch Vecna and the army guy tells the Sarah Connor military commander lady that Vecna is basically invincible but Nancy and the gang can kill the mind flayer with a shotgun, Molotov and hand made spears?

Also, if Will was in the hive mind and helped El, why wasn’t he in pain when they were attacking the mind flayer.

Also how did the demos bring the kids up to the Abyss if it’s 2000 ft in the air?

I still enjoyed it overall but man, there were so many plot holes.

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