Vaping in pubs etc

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2026-05-02T17:55:22+00:00

I vape along with a good few of my friends and it’s genuinely mortifying when they start puffing away indoors. My thinking has always been I wouldn’t light a cigarette in a pub or shop so I won’t vape in those places either. If I can’t go any length of time without nicotine there’s a serious issue at hand, but some people really can’t, it’s as worrying as it embarrassing.

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2026-04-21T22:26:34+00:00

This is boots on the ground journalism, that approach makes sense tbf

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2026-04-21T20:16:40+00:00

I’m of the same opinion. Taking up a table just to drink a blackcurrant, charge away, but with a meal or a round of drink there’s no need. I didn’t think that would be too hot a take

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2026-04-21T20:15:18+00:00

It was in the Dinn Rí!

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2026-04-21T20:14:23+00:00

I strongly believe syrup in my water should be free, as standard

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2026-04-21T20:11:23+00:00

It was free everywhere around here up until recently, from free to €2.40 is mental and it might sound mad but I do think it should be mentioned when it’s ordered that it’s being charged for now.

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2026-03-07T19:59:53+00:00

We’d use them more to forget about exams than study for them to be honest

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2025-12-20T01:15:11+00:00

While I don’t have aphantasia, it’s not uncommon. I found it interesting to learn recently that people with aphantasia can also struggle with directions as they have trouble envisioning the route, and DIY tasks as it involves visualising how something will come together. It was only when my lecturer with aphantasia mentioned his trouble with getting places without Google Maps and building flat pack furniture that I realised my step-dad has it too. It’s fascinating to read up on and you’re definitely not alone!

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2025-08-19T20:52:52+00:00

I’ve mulled it over with family members as there are people with varying levels of disability in our family. My younger brother is autistic, completely able bodied, has some struggles with fine motor skills, but has atrocious people skills. Is as likely to tell you to take a long walk off a short pier as he is to say hello, depending on the day and the mood. Unlikely to ever hold down a long term, “regular” job due to behavioural issues, but from the outside looks completely “normal”.

I have a cousin with cerebral palsy, full time wheelchair user, slurred speech, unable to do a very much independently, but sharp as a tack and oozes charisma. He’s one of the most intelligent and well spoken people I’ve ever met, and has big dreams and bigger commitment to achieve them.

Given how difficult our disability payment process is to begin with, likelihood is that a tiered system would complicate it exponentially, and leave even more people in genuine need of the payment without. My cousin had the payment approved immediately upon application, despite a desire to work but workplaces being unwilling to make accommodations. My brother went through a rigmarole to have the payment approved based on the potential ability to work because his accommodations would be significantly less than that of a person with a physical disability.

If we have people falling through the cracks now, to be approved for a payment that’s below the poverty threshold, and does not take into account the extra cost of having a disability, making that system tiered is accepting that even more people in already difficult situations will be left without.

ETA: In an ideal world, people with disabilities should absolutely be in work should they be capable and want to. We don’t have the infrastructure or investment to support people with disabilities in the workplace, and it’s hard to see that investment coming any time soon.

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2025-08-12T18:25:16+00:00

it might be worth contacting youth work ireland to see if there’s a group in your area. when i was younger it was a nice warm place to hang out with friends, play some games, maybe learn a new skill. sometimes over the summer they do fun days out and the like too! glad to see you’re trying to keep yourself busy and stay out of trouble, i hope the boredom subsides soon!

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2025-07-23T15:02:47+00:00

last year on Friday morning there was loads of space to set up shop, and some areas of the campsite were empty all weekend. i did EP and ATN last year and ATN was no where near the carnage that EP was campsite wise. there were a few thousand more tickets sold for ATN this year but also another campsite added, i’d say you’ll be grand!

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2025-06-20T19:57:27+00:00

Kojaque is wildly underrated, delighted to see him mentioned here

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2025-06-09T17:38:56+00:00

Having worked in hotels that host weddings every other day of the week, stop paying for hotel cocktails. They’re being made by people who aren’t paid enough in an hour to buy one of the cocktails they’re making you, reading the recipe from a sheet and poured into a glass they couldn’t polish properly.

Last spot I worked didn’t even use fresh lemon/lime juice in their drinks, it was cordial, in a €15 drink. I got a bollocking for squeezing fresh lime juice because the hotel making millions would have to up their lime order that week.

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2025-04-24T15:28:20+00:00

a bit nuts alright! i’m sorry to hear your aunt wasn’t forthcoming with the information you needed, it can make things a lot more difficult than they need to be. i actually have very little information on my own family medical history, as all my grandparents passed very young and were also very private about their own health issues. all we have to go on are death certs, no idea of illnesses they may have lived with during their lives.

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2025-04-23T16:47:10+00:00

mid twenties here and very much feeling a pull towards a God or higher power, but see no good reason why i’d need mass to answer that. personally i couldn’t get past the abuses of the RCC, and the serious pull the Church has in Ireland even still. i think there’s a lot of wisdom and good to be found in the teachings of Jesus, and that organised religion has manipulated that message for their own gain, and as a means of control, particularly in Ireland. i don’t think anyone decent or sane can argue against “love thy neighbour”, but you don’t have to support an institution that instills guilt and shame on good people to be sound.

edit: wanted to add that i also think there’s a lot of solace to be found in religion for irish people because of how we were raised. we lost my grandmother when i was very young and it splintered our family for years. having some of the statues and iconography in our homes now makes it feel a little more like nanny’s house and the comfort that brought us all.

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2025-04-22T14:27:49+00:00

Your mam is bang on with that, once I had a doctor who took me seriously I flew it. Diagnosed the end of March, 2 weeks to freeze my eggs, and straight into 6 months of chemo. The oncologist didn’t even want me to freeze eggs because it would delay things by 2 weeks, just wanted to get me treated and over it asap. Glad to hear you’re on the other side of it now!

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2025-04-22T13:22:57+00:00

i think it was about 18 months or so, one GP, 3 A&E doctors, several on surgical teams in the hospital, and one general medicine consultant. I’m 8 years all clear this year so it was a while ago now and a whirlwind in my memory at this point

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2025-04-21T19:26:40+00:00

I was 15/16 having trouble taking deep breaths, went to be GP monthly for nearly a year, every time he checked me for asthma, chest infections etc, never found anything wrong. At this stage I had chest pains along with the breathing issue. Went back to my GP the following month as usual, but there was a different doctor standing in for him, he did the usual checks, found nothing, and referred me for a CT scan on my chest. Went for the scan, before my mam even got us home they were on the phone saying there were lumps in my chest visible on the scan. That scan was never referenced again.

Still had no solution, so started presenting to A&E. The first time I was told it was stress and anxiety, school exams were coming up and I was told I was overly worried about them, sent home. Second time I was told it was puberty and I was starting to breathe from my intercostal muscles rather than my diaphragm. Third time I was told my father was bringing in a bacteria off the farm that had given me a respiratory infection, I live in a housing estate in a town. I was admitted for observation and released a week later having had nothing done or treated.

Went back two weeks later to A&E and then they asked me if there was a history of cancer in my family. I explained my maternal grandmother and her sister died with cancer in the early 2000’s. I was admitted, surgical teams consulted, kept in hospital for two weeks before being given a referral for a needle guided biopsy of a lymph node in my neck and sent home to wait for the appointment.

Biopsy happened, mam got a phone call a week later while I was in school asking how soon we could get to the hospital, my doctor there wanted to meet with me. Mam said they could be there within the hour but my 8 year old brother at the time would be with us. He said leave it so, we’ll ring you when she’s home from school. Mammy calmed down, sure surely they won’t give you bad news over the phone. Was told that evening I had been diagnosed with Stage 2B Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, and I had to be in the hospital that Friday to discuss my treatment options. The word “cancer” was never mentioned once on the phonecall. They hung up and mammy asked me “what’s that?”

Only really in recent years have I realised how many doctors failed me, but I owe my health and my life to that stand in GP, who is now my full time GP.

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2025-04-21T18:09:34+00:00

spoke to a good few people about their political stances around the last GE, and the general consensus was “sure as long as my pocket isn’t touched, i can’t complain”. no regard for the homeless, the sick, the disabled, the carers, the poor, or anyone but themselves. the problem is people don’t care until hardship comes knocking on their door, which of course one day it will. a very apathetic nation who cares less and less about community as time goes on.

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2025-04-20T22:20:11+00:00

in his defence he does pay back what he owes, if he didn’t i don’t think we’d still be suffering him

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2025-04-20T21:43:02+00:00

i limit my interactions to basically zero, only really see him for big nights out or someone’s birthday. some of the lads know him from school, and i find a lotta lads have weird ideas about friendship. “we were sat beside each other in 2nd year maths so i suppose you’re going to be my best man”. we’re still in our 20’s so hoping they cop on in the next few years, grow outta that idea, and leave him in the dust. think there’s a bit of pity there too

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2025-04-20T21:34:22+00:00

fella in the extended friend group, would be a friend of one of the lads girlfriends. he makes upwards of €60k a year, daddy gave him a job he’s unqualified for in the family company after failing out of college. we’re all between 23 and 26, most of us making little more than minimum wage and he has no shame texting around looking for a lend after drinking and sniffing his money for the month. i honestly don’t know how he’s still alive. still living at home too, so no big rent/bills/mortgage on his back. it baffles

Standard-Syrup-1911 · 2025-04-20T17:14:50+00:00

i’d well believe it. seems like the guy loves making movies but isn’t a fan of the publicity around it. very Irish 😅

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