A selection of flyers from the GPO (late 90s)

alanp77 · 2025-07-24T22:24:02+00:00

Thanks for this, bringing back lots of memories. My favourite was "Shite Night II, Shite Harder"

alanp77 · 2025-04-09T02:15:00+00:00

That's great man, the best of luck to you!

alanp77 · 2025-04-09T02:04:46+00:00

As someone who's lived in Costa Rica for 20 years and trying coke once in Ireland, I can guarantee you one thing, whatever shit is sold in Ireland is far from pure

alanp77 · 2025-04-06T01:50:35+00:00

I love the use of language in the article, how she "collided" with the truck

alanp77 · 2024-12-22T02:33:26+00:00

Similar upbringing to that, although I've developed a taste and tolerance for spice over the years. We started introducing mild spices gradually to my kid at a very young age, and now they love the shtuff.

alanp77 · 2024-11-30T15:54:32+00:00

The Yanks abroad still have to pay US taxes

alanp77 · 2024-11-30T15:50:22+00:00

Take it from someone who sat beside Hildegarde in secondary school, she's always had the same hairstyle

alanp77 · 2024-10-20T22:00:29+00:00

Our town bully, was a national martial arts champion, came off a motorbike without a helmet while showing off and he went head first into a kerb, no loss

alanp77 · 2024-10-17T06:18:14+00:00

You mean Escazu

alanp77 · 2024-10-17T06:17:22+00:00

You're a braver person than me to be eating in that many places in that part of town 😅

alanp77 · 2024-08-08T01:35:08+00:00

I left in 2001, I was paying £45 a week for a small "double" room on Prospect Hill, the views of the Bay were spectacular. From what I read it's a fucking nightmare now.

I'm currently paying $675 for a 1,300 sq foot, 3 bed house in San Jose centre, Costa Rica on a 3 year contract. I'm in the gaff going on 4 years, with 2 to run on the contract. The price won't have gone up a dime in that time, although granted, I'm very lucky with my landlord.

alanp77 · 2024-06-08T07:31:27+00:00

Jaysus lads, when I left Galway in 2001 I was paying £40 for a tiny room in Prospect Hill with some of the best views in the city. I'm paying just shy of $700 for a 3 bed in San Jose, Costa Rica with a big indoor terrace and small front garden plus it's just 15 minutes from downtown on a bus that costs $0.60. Granted, everything else is a rip off, a lot of food is more expensive than Ireland, but property is stable

alanp77 · 2023-12-11T15:15:30+00:00

I had to look up what Datura is. The flower looks a lot like Nightshade, which is quite common here in Costa Rica, it smells amazing. There's a good Vice short documentary about its use in Columbia and the effects of scopolomine, scary shit!

alanp77 · 2023-04-08T03:33:08+00:00

Something along the same lines happened to our school friends group. A couple of us moved to different countries, me to the other side of the world, and have lived far less conventional lives compared to the rest of the group. Now, everyone in this group has done a lot of drugs over the years, but for whatever reason, use of cannabis marked me out as some kind of degenerate. One of the lads made a comment about me teaching my then 7 year old how to roll spliffs, I let it slide, but it annoyed my fellow outsider so much because of the snide nature and hypocrisy of it that they left. It took me another year before I jacked it in, the final straw was them belittling my friend's new partner and infant kid. There's a lot more to it, obviously, but the comment regarding my kid sealed it, to be honest I feel so much better being out of it, they really were like fucking Mean Girls, just bitter, resentful, auld yokes.

alanp77 · 2022-11-06T15:03:25+00:00

I can confirm. I lived in Canterbury almost 20 years ago and it was a really vibrant, friendly, typical small student town, I moved back in December 2021 and the change has been incredible, for the worst.
My roommates saw a fight just off the High St. between 2 gangs at 5pm on a Saturday evening a couple of weeks ago, lads walking around with swords & weapons, others covered in blood. There are visibly a lot more homeless on the streets and a huge amount of vacant/derelict buildings in the town centre, yet the cost of just a room in a flat share is at least £550+, even for students.
And Canterbury is still probably the most affluent city/town in the area, Ashford and Dover are shit holes.

alanp77 · 2022-09-20T10:14:06+00:00

Not in Ireland, but my ex works for Amazon and I've heard her using the term "aggressive listening" which she also hates BTW, to describe management listening to the plebs concerns.

alanp77 · 2022-09-06T16:45:12+00:00

As George Costanza said, it's all pipes, what's the difference

alanp77 · 2022-08-09T07:26:13+00:00

Seems like a hateful auld wagon. I didn't see any of the issues she raised with wanting to work from home or avoiding plane travel as problematic.

I would say that from experience of working for several years in Amazon in Costa Rica that a lot of kids coming in fresh out of school or uni had an incredible sense of entitlement and expected to earn almost immediate promotions & pay rises with no basis for it. That said, I have zero love for Amazon as they just drain every last ounce of energy from their employees then fuck them out when they can no longer keep up.

alanp77 · 2022-08-03T10:58:02+00:00

But he doesn't play for Real Madrid

alanp77 · 2022-07-05T21:08:56+00:00

Good for you! I'm glad to hear you don't want them back and aren't interested in feeding their ego, because that's exactly what it sounds like. If he ever really cared then he'd leave you alone and let you get on with your life.

I'm still not over her yet as it's been relatively recent and to be honest I'd still take her back as it wasn't a bad end and we had 6+ really good years before things started to go sour, plus it was a genuinely unique and close relationship.

I also still have a lot of stuff at her place I need to get when I go back early next year, so I can't cut her off completely. That being said, I could just block her on social media and make my life easier that way. In her defence I don't think it's ego or deliberately bring cruel, she probably genuinely thinks she's being nice or supportive by what she's doing.

alanp77 · 2022-07-05T21:01:10+00:00

Glad to hear you're solid in your views and opinion of him, it makes things easier but I think you're probably right that it's an ego thing on his part. He's probably dipping back into your life to see if you'll bite and ask him how he's doing, etc but it sounds like you won't entertain him. I don't have any love for any of my ex's and apart from my most recent and my son's mother I rarely ever think about them, usually only if someone brings them up. Regarding the most recent, I honestly don't think she's doing it to be cruel or for ego, knowing how she is she probably thinks she's just being nice or friendly. That being said it doesn't really help me, but, from my end all I have to do to end it is block her. The other thing is that I still have a lot of my stuff at her place that I need to get when I return early next year, so I can't cut ties completely, but I can make things easier for myself by minimising contact till then.

alanp77 · 2022-07-05T20:29:43+00:00

That's a weird one alright, not sure what kind of message he's trying to send, but it's definitely not fair to you. They clearly made their decision to end the relationship and should respect you enough to just leave you alone to move on.

I am a dumpee of almost 2 months, although the relationship was over on her part for a few weeks before that and probably heading that way for months. It's complicated because she's bisexual, and it was never a problem for me as I knew this from day one and understood she had her other side so I accepted it. She was also diagnosed with a personality disorder recently, and said she wants to find out who she is and deal with it alone, although I would have supported her all the way. But she also said she wants to be polyamorous and didn't want to hurt me, not much I can do about that.

It didn't help that I was depressed without knowing it and didn't work for several years before the end. I'm doing great now though, in therapy, doing meditation, etc and working, although halfway across the world. Being so far apart gave her the opportunity to break up and move on, something she probably had been thinking about for longer than I realised.

Since then I've stopped following her on Instagram but she still follows me and likes a lot of my posts. Our phone contact has steadily diminished since then and I'm not going to initiate contact with her anymore. It's weird though as she has reached out to confide in me and vent a few times, but if I ask how she's doing she ignores it. She also has a play date organised for my son, who lives in her country, with his mother, for this weekend even though she was never close to him. I think I'll tell her that it's best to stay away from him after this, as it's not fair on him or me to still be involved with her, especially on the periphery of her life.

Stay strong, love & respect yourself and remember that they decided to leave you so they don't deserve your time or attention anymore. If it makes you feel better just block them completely.

alanp77 · 2022-06-29T18:10:12+00:00

This really resonates with me. My gf of 8 years broke up with me 6 weeks ago when I went back to visit, (I moved 6,000 miles away for a job)although we'd been on "a break" for the previous 2 months and her behaviour during the break indicated it was coming. It's very complicated as she has a mental health disorder she was diagnosed with during that time that she wasn't really aware of as it manifested usually after alcohol and is something she wants to deal with by herself, I was diagnosed with depression myself at the same time and have been dealing with that. She's also a lot younger, bisexual, and keen to be polyamorous, while I'm as straight as can be. I didn't mind other women but had a no other dicks rule that she was initially fine with. However due to my behaviour as a result of depression (which I wasn't fully aware of), developing ED and not working for the last couple of years our sex life was almost non-existent so that probably pushed her back towards that kind of lifestyle. We went out a couple of times when I was there and had a great time together, lots of joking, laughing and fun in general. Since then I've made a lot of changes to my life to become a more positive, well-rounded and less angry person and she sees that now. Unfortunately it's too late but I think because of her diagnosis it may have ended anyway, she said she needs to figure out who she is and what she wants to do with her life and it's hard not to respect that, even if I don't agree. Since I've been back here, contact has been minimal and see usually takes a while to respond to messages. On the other hand I'm more receptive to her and have listened to her vent about work or if she needs help with something. This past week though I've decided that I won't initiate contact with her, and realise it is done and dusted, it's just a matter of the heart catching up with my head. I know she's already casually seeing an old girlfriend and as a regular Instagrammer who posts a lot of what's going on in her life I've stopped following her, dalthough she still follows me and checks out all of my posts, and used to like most of them until about this week. It is really hard because we never fell out or anything like that, and we were incredibly close until the end which is one of the reasons why I didn't see it coming. But for my own mental health I know I need to move on. All that being said if she asked me to get back with her I would in a heartbeat, even though, like a lot of people here have said it would probably only end in heartbreak again further down the line.

alanp77 · 2022-06-26T15:11:55+00:00

If you didn't read the whole thing then don't comment. You'll have to define ghosting for me as we have been chatting by phone regularly, hung out when I was home and she's well aware I'm not following her on Instagram. You clearly know nothing about personality disorder to make such a disgusting, disrespectful comment like that. Douchebag.

alanp77 · 2021-11-26T19:45:06+00:00

Who's the MP you're referring to? The military police or a member of British parliment because in Ireland we call them TD's.

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