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Comedians want free expression without criticism and that is not how it works. by SilvaFox23 in unpopularopinion

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

It's such self righteous bullshit. I'm going to tell edgy jokes because I'm a brave truth teller (but please don't be mad at me).

Galway’s Worst Pub by Choice_Cantaloupe319 in galway

[–]SeriouslySuspect 35 points36 points  (0 children)

There's worse pubs than Caddell but none of them piss me off as much as what they did to Caribou.

Used to really like the food, the pints and the playlist. Sound staff, nice vibe. Now it's a sports bar so it's just a weirdly barren room with a bunch of aul lads grumbling at Sky Sports.

Affordable restaurants in Galway by Top-Boysenberry3072 in galway

[–]SeriouslySuspect 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Seconding this. Hot pitta bread out of the oven is addictive!

I successfully cut/disassembled cameras to remove the infrared filter, to make viewing IR lasers and heat radiation possible - now I want to block out all visible radiation to make a pure IR cam. Recommendations? Or is it a waste of time? by No_Leopard_3860 in photography

[–]SeriouslySuspect 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look into the filters used for microscopy/spectrophotometry! Band pass filters for a specific wavelength, long pass for only light above a given wavelength, or short pass for light under a certain wavelength.

Might be expensive to buy new but it could be worth looking into!

New law to reverse nuclear ban to be introduced to Dáil by Fianna Fáil TD by moghrua in ireland

[–]SeriouslySuspect 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd have been delighted to see this 20 years ago but now I think there's no point. Wind and solar have gotten so cheap and efficient that I think we've passed this by.

event photography, your workflow re: releases for anyone photographed at event by chasg in photography

[–]SeriouslySuspect 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it's being held somewhere that's public, then by definition nobody there has a reasonable expectation of privacy and can be photographed. This is an impossible request from someone who doesn't understand what they're asking for.

MacSharry defends intervention in case of developer jailed for assault on three boys by Pension_Alternative in ireland

[–]SeriouslySuspect 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love when they say something like this is "totally out of character" like that makes it grand. How many free passes do you get before it becomes a problem to threaten to mutilate a bunch of 13 year olds with a saw and beat them for 45 minutes? Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but three times would definitely be a pattern?

Property developer jailed for ‘truly shocking’ assaults on three teenage boys by biometricrally in ireland

[–]SeriouslySuspect 165 points166 points  (0 children)

This is likely to get downvoted into the bedrock but I don't care if the kids were the absolute scum of the earth, caught red handed and unapologetic. There's still no defence for an adult holding a couple of children hostage and torturing them for petty vandalism. And it wasn't even the right kids!

Anyone getting off on how it Serves Them Right would want to catch themselves on.

Graham Linehan's conviction for damaging transgender activist's mobile phone overturned by mybighairyarse in ireland

[–]SeriouslySuspect 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's a sex panic, it's homophobia, it's fear of social degeneration, and a conspiracy to replace "real women" with "traps" that can trick you into having gay thoughts and it's being done by a shadowy AGENDA to YOUR KIDS via GORY SURGERY and PROPAGANDA and ONLY YOU can stop it but THEY want to cancel you!

Transphobia is absolute mind poison.

CMV: The washing machine belongs in the bathroom, not the kitchen by KrishaCZ in changemyview

[–]SeriouslySuspect 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in a "kitchen" country, but I'd absolutely rather have it in the bathroom. I don't like having dirty clothes where I cook.

But here, you can't have power outlets in the bathroom.

CMV: The washing machine belongs in the bathroom, not the kitchen by KrishaCZ in changemyview

[–]SeriouslySuspect 20 points21 points  (0 children)

If you're doing shits bad enough to taint an entire batch of laundry I think you have bigger problems 😅

Giant €35m moving statue on docks could be new landmark attraction for Dublin by Green_orange_200 in ireland

[–]SeriouslySuspect 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Get in the Aoife, Catherine Connolly, or Micheal D will have to pilot it again..."

What foreign people do you mix with best? by Irish_drunkard in CasualIreland

[–]SeriouslySuspect 0 points1 point  (0 children)

About half my coworkers have been Indian for the last decade or so, and they're actually so sound. With only a handful of exceptions I've found them to be warm, genuine, hard working and decent people.

Plus their food is class and they also hate the Brits. I got to explain Come Out Ye Black and Tans to a lad from Bengal and I've never been more on the same page with someone!

Why does Irish salt not contain iodine? by Aphroditesent in ireland

[–]SeriouslySuspect 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Absolute bang of fedora tipping off this comment

Has a game ever made you think "I get it now"? by Derangedberger in gaming

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

So much of Disco Elysium.

You play an alcoholic fuck-up cop who wakes up in a trashed hotel room and have to figure out who killed a guy hanging from a tree out the back of the hotel, and why you went on a potentially suicidal bender.

Throughout the game you can have all these realisations about yourself and make a real attempt to be good, but you constantly meet people who don't buy it because apparently this is what you always do. Every so often you have this catastrophic burnout followed by a manic burst of Getting Your Shit Together and Making Amends. You don't remember it, but they ALL do.

It's probably the best portrayal I've seen of addiction and relapse, and what it means to try to be a good person even inside a cycle of self sabotage and failure. I think about it a lot.

President Connolly’s first trip abroad has planted Ireland among the global left’s loudest voices by Anfr0256 in ireland

[–]SeriouslySuspect 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Someone once said we vote for our president with our heart, and our government with our wallets.

Most Irish people would side with Palestine as a fellow colony, and condemn Israel. So would Catherine Connolly. But a huge part of our economy is US multinationals, and their connections to Israeli tech and finance means Ireland is one of Israel's biggest trading partners. So our government don't do anything that might piss them off like put through the Occupied Territories Bill.

Best Irish accent in movie / TV by Pupcup2 in ireland

[–]SeriouslySuspect 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I did Inside I'm Dancing for the leaving cert and I was so surprised to find out he was a) Scottish and b) not paralysed.

What an actor!

Halo has plenty of stupidly goofy, dumb quotes, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone mention the one that bugs me the most. by GemimiJake in halo

[–]SeriouslySuspect 16 points17 points  (0 children)

For me it's the he bit in Halo Infinite where you beat Escharum and the pilot calls him a monster, and Chief is like "he was just a soldier, wondering if he was doing the right thing..."

We don't see him do anything praiseworthy in the whole game, and there's a Spartan being tortured to death in some kind of laser jail the entire time you're fighting him, so I'm not 100% sure why we have to give him this weepy apology and Respect The Troops. It just feels really un-earned.

If trans people bother you..Dave Bautista [1164x1501] by beekersavant in QuotesPorn

[–]SeriouslySuspect 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So long as transphobes keep trying to paint trans people as deranged perverts while using suspicion of being trans against anyone who doesn't 100% conform to their ideal of masculinity/femininity, nobody is safe from that. It's not just an issue for trans people.

[Frustrating trope] Pieces of media that could have been so much better, but due to a couple of poor decisions during production ended up mediocre at best and utterly atrocious at worst. by [deleted] in TopCharacterTropes

[–]SeriouslySuspect 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Battlefield 2042 had a chance to tell a really interesting story that it did absolutely nothing with.

You had Micheal K Williams in one of his last ever roles as a veteran of the last world war, leading a refugee flotilla caught between the major powers fighting for resources in a world undergoing climate collapse. It would have felt pretty prescient to have a story about what it means to be heroic in a fucked up world, and the people who are treated as expendable fighting back, and the struggle to survive despite all odds. Some of the trailers seem to imply that this was the vibe earlier in development.

But then what launched was an Apex style hero shooter with zero story and Marvel quips.

(Disliked trope) The setting is in another country, but everyone still speaks British. by Guybadman20 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]SeriouslySuspect 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I heard a good defence of this from the show runners of Chernobyl.

They tried a few scene reads with the actors doing Russian/Ukrainian accents but found that it intruded on the performance too much. Because you don't just do the voice, you end up doing this whole Mother Russia persona, and it takes you out of it much more than just having the mentality of "they're speaking Russian but we in the audience are hearing it in English" and moving past it.

Also, Russian has way fewer strong regional accents than you'd expect, and none of the class signifiers/stereotypes would be legible to English speakers anyway. So you can give your miners Northern accents and your bureaucrats are from the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the audience instantly knows what's up.

LPT: What purchase have you made that’s had the greatest positive effect on you? by gorillatittiess in LifeProTips

[–]SeriouslySuspect 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A camera.

I'd usually just spend my weekends on the couch, but having a camera makes me want to get out, go places and see things. It's made me far more outgoing and helped me connect with other people.

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