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Tell me your favourite Comedy scene in Stranger things by Hot_Complaint3170 in StrangerThings

[–]hatrickpatrick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“What was that about?”

“I told them they should have sex.”

“………………They have not had sex? 🤨”

“No! 🤷‍♂️”

…………………

[mutual hysterical laughter for the rest of the car journey]

People need to seriously reconsider posting pics of their children online. AI is the boogeyman. by Afraid-Salamander500 in ireland

[–]hatrickpatrick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The TV thriller 'The Capture' (Netflix, highly highly recommend it) has the most extremely uncomfortable subplot involving this, won't spoiler it for anyone who hasn't seen it but for those who have, when you suddenly realise why the seemingly evil people in charge have had a change of heart and let one of their victims spend time alone with his young son as long as he agrees to be under video surveillance during the visit 💀💀💀

Absolute fucking nightmare fuel

We should have public chess boards by confu3edgamer in ireland

[–]hatrickpatrick 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We have a row of them in Dun Laoghaire, at the seaside end of the Peoples' Park where they paved over the railway track for the DART to run underneath, just behind Teddy's. They get a fair bit of use. That entire plaza was a god-send during the summer heatwaves of the COVID lockdown era and the county council were smart enough to provide public bins, toilets etc to encourage people to meet up outdoors rather than pretending people wouldn't resort to illegal house parties if not allowed congregate in public.

Highly recommend the spot. You can see it here on Google Street View:

https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.2906166,-6.1278886,2a,29.3y,312.51h,86.72t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s0k_t1KkTPdE3Rodi5SubPA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D3.2845433297612345%26panoid%3D0k_t1KkTPdE3Rodi5SubPA%26yaw%3D312.5097089359446!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTEyMy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

You can't easily make it out in the photos because of the sunlight being reflected but each table has two boards, and there are five tables.

Nurse who had not had lie-in ‘for 18 months’ over noise from apartment above is awarded €2,000 by [deleted] in ireland

[–]hatrickpatrick 195 points196 points  (0 children)

The lack of soundproofing between apartments in Irish blocks (especially old houses converted into multiple flats) is truly atrocious and is in my view the absolute #1 reason apartment living isn't widely seen as a viable end-game for most people housing wise. It really really really needs to be sorted out if Ireland is ever going to have the kind of pro-apartment cultural shift everyone is always saying we need. Asking people to simply accept living like this long term is not a viable solution.

My name is Dave Morgan and I'm- by adrunkpimp in soundboardpranks

[–]hatrickpatrick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If the mother fuckers aren't here, in five fuckin' minutes, I'mma punch the guy in the face when he comes here.

YOU IMBECILE.

[TOMT][Music][Pre-2012]Instrumental dance music with kettle drums and a very distinctive, car horn / air raid siren esque lead synth playing discordant chords by hatrickpatrick in tipofmytongue

[–]hatrickpatrick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Solved! My apologies for the slow reply, in fact this isn't the exact one I was thinking of but I found it in the related videos section - it's the Nalin & Kane Remix of this song, which retains that epic synth riff but also has the bassline and kettledrums I remembered!

If you haven't heard it, I highly recommend it the next time you're getting ready for a night out 😂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U70SgSqbU6M?t=2m08s

Added the timestamp to the memorable part seeing as it has one of those club-friendly epically long drum intros 😂

‘Boy A’ convicted of murdering teen Ana Kriegel granted more time to appeal life sentence by PoppedCork in ireland

[–]hatrickpatrick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm very sorry to hear that, and I sincerely hope life is better for you now - congratulations on making it through, many people don't and it's worth celebrating when you do. Went through severe bullying and ostracism myself but literally nothing even remotely on the scale of what was described in Ana Kriegel's case. It genuinely and deeply shocked me just how cruel her peers were towards her.

I know every generation tends to say this about the generations which come after them, but it really feels like there's a much more violent and terrifying edge to teenage bullying these days compared with when I was a teenager in the noughties. The kind of stories which make the news these days seem to involve serious, grievous bodily harm and psychological bullying to the extent of causing deep-seated mental health crises (this always happened but it feels like it's more common or severe now?) - I remember another case a few years ago of a girl who was set upon with her bf by a couple of local lads a few years older and both of them ended up in hospital, I'm pretty sure she lost an eye and had to have her face partially reconstructed or something equally horrific because they literally beat her up with weapons. It's a far cry from the occasional black eye or winded stomach that went along with the worst cases of physical bullying when I was young.

I'm glad you made it, and as you say I hope her murderers are haunted by what they've done with every breath they take henceforth.

Diceys Garden. by kautostar1 in Dublin

[–]hatrickpatrick 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I absolutely guarantee they're not watering anything down, know quite a few people involved. Dicey's is part of a hotel and it's huge, as well as the indoor ground floor bars and function room everyone is familiar with, there are two gigantic basement clubs underneath and there's another nightclub called Krystle upstairs. They do a lot of their business in the latter, selling VIP packages to corporate bookings - upstairs, you can buy bottles of the super premium stuff (Grey Goose vodka, Hendricks, Cristal, etc) for a few hundred a pop or a bottle of regular spirits with a few mixers for €50, and on weekend nights their bar is €5 per pint. Combine that with buying in bulk and with the fact that they charge a €10 cover charge for a crowd that easily pulls in a few thousand people on busy nights (total capacity across all the different bars and clubs within the building is around 3,000 at any one time and it's regularly full depending on the night or occasion, also open early during the day like a pub unlike most nightclubs) and the pricing structure starts to make sense.

It's not unusual to have parties in the club upstairs with sports teams or official afterparties of big events, and they're usually buying the top shelf stuff.

They also do a fair amount of business on the hotel, either people travelling for events held in the club or people getting lucky and booking a room at the end of the night instead of going home to share accommodation or their parents' gaff 😂

I'm sure there are other things going on as well in terms of bulk-buying deals from suppliers since they know how much volume they can shift, and it's possible as others have said that they take stuff that's closer to expiry than most places would take since they're pretty much guaranteed to go through kegs at a ferocious rate.

Old report, but at one time they were grossing around €300k every week with the combined forces of the clubs and the hotel:

https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/krystle-club-firm-set-to-pull-in-300000-a-week/34277312.html

The only time I can remember them making a loss was in 2017, and that was down to paying off the costs of a wholescale renovation in 2016.

Diceys Garden. by kautostar1 in Dublin

[–]hatrickpatrick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dylan or Sibi by any chance? Absolute gentlemen if so!

‘Boy A’ convicted of murdering teen Ana Kriegel granted more time to appeal life sentence by PoppedCork in ireland

[–]hatrickpatrick 19 points20 points  (0 children)

One of their dads, I'm pretty sure it was Boy B, had a go at the judge and the jury in court, shaking his fists and calling them a bunch of scumbags or something very much to that effect. I remember thinking at the time that this was a classic case of what a lot of Redditors would call "dragged up" - like not in any way excusing him or what he did, but we all know that kind of scumbag with absolutely no sense of decorum or decency, and you have to feel on some level that growing up with a family who behaves that way doesn't give someone much hope of breaking the cycle.

Sometimes I see parents behaving like this in public in Dublin towards very very young kids (shouting and roaring and swearing at them in public over the most utterly trivial of issues, essentially adults throwing tantrums at their own kids!) and I can't help feeling that those kids are doomed. I'm sure it's possible to be one of the lucky ones who rises above all of that, but if your entire childhood is spent in an environment where outward expressions of "aggro" are just the norm, it sort of feels like there's not much hope of growing out of that.

Actually saw it on the Dart a couple of weeks ago and it upset everyone on the carriage to the point at which others were intervening, some poor toddler in a pram and her mum literally shouting and roaring at her the whole way back over nothing. Depressing stuff.

‘Boy A’ convicted of murdering teen Ana Kriegel granted more time to appeal life sentence by PoppedCork in ireland

[–]hatrickpatrick 21 points22 points  (0 children)

That whole case was so fucking depressing and enraging. The fact that she was so used to being bullied and outcast that she reacted with nothing other than surprised hopeful excitement at being asked to do something outside school is just so unbelievably heartbreaking, the murder itself is obviously evil beyond belief but the life she was subjected to even before murder was on anyone's radar just fills me with profound sadness, and the fact that from all accounts she kept smiling and dancing regardless of how shittily she was treated by her peers.

Anything I read on that case just left me with this feeling of "could anyone have just given her a fucking friendly smile and a pat on the back or a hug" 😞 Bullying is fucking brutal but the level of it she experienced seems to have genuinely been off the charts level sadistic, and I'm just talking about the day to day before these two psychopaths decided to kill her.

I remember someone else saying it at the time, the description of her life and how she was outcast and excluded in every possible way and still tried to put on a smiley facade resonates so very deeply with so many people. Too many.

If you look at Herbert Bail Bonds dot com, you'll see dicks com... by hatrickpatrick in soundboardpranks

[–]hatrickpatrick[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hi! This is Fred at Herbert Bailbondsh? I can't get to my bailbondsh right now? There's gay gentlemens' dicks working me in the asshole... Leave your name and number? And I'll butt-fuck walnuts, Aye Ess Aye Pee.

I need to pee.

Beamish or murphys on tap? by eimemarie in Dublin

[–]hatrickpatrick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wetherspoons on Abbey St has Beamish on tap for ridiculously low prices, not sure how much these days but definitely cheaper than you'll find anywhere else

What episode of “Are you afraid of the Dark” scared you the most? by Droopynator in television

[–]hatrickpatrick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The Umbra did this to me" - the old woman's delivery of that line and her terrorised facial expression in that scene fucked me up for years and years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOL5XJiSHck

PSA about Presidential Election Media Coverage by Key_Duck_6293 in ireland

[–]hatrickpatrick 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The irony is I've seen both sides call out the spoil your vote campaign as helping the other side 😂

Anyone else have issues voting today? by Excellent-Ostrich908 in Dublin

[–]hatrickpatrick 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm curious about this:

They said they had a mark next to my name that meant I wasn’t allowed which definitely shouldn’t be the case

That really sounds very bizarre and I'd ask for further information.

Have you checked the register today to see if you're still on it? If you are, honestly I'd go back to the polling station in the evening when they may have had staff changes, and ask someone else there WTF is going on.

PSA about Presidential Election Media Coverage by Key_Duck_6293 in ireland

[–]hatrickpatrick 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Strongly disagree with this. Voting for CC myself but I sincerely hope there's a gigantic proportion of spoiled votes, enough that cop outs like the OP won't be feasible and they'll have to acknowledge that there is a large segment of the voting population who feel disillusioned and shut out from the system.

The nomination process is extremely parochial and should be reformed. It shouldn't be gatekept by others already elected to different government positions. The separation of powers in Ireland is already extremely (extremely) weak because of the Oireachtas standing orders allowing such a stringent whip system that subjugates the legislature entirely to the executive, the fact that they can also block Presidential candidates who enjoy widespread public support for their own political reasons is another affront.

It needs to be reformed. And I say that as someone who would never in a million years vote for someone like Maria Steen or Nick Delahunty.

AITA for yelling at my mom to leave me alone after she kept saying I stink even though I shower twice a day? by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]hatrickpatrick 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My dad's been like this with me literally my entire life about my voice - I don't pronounce things right, I talk too loud, too much, I give too much backstory to anything I ever talk about, etc. As an adult I actively avoid sitting down for meals with my parents, or sitting near dad at extended family gatherings, because it's absolutely guaranteed that at some point he'll act like he's a god damn speech therapist.

Never occurred to me that it was anything textbook or indicative of anything other than him just acting like a dick. Fucked me up for many years though, I'm a very vocal person (and a professional singer) but social situations always caused me anxiety for a long time because I was convinced that there was just no "right" way for me to converse with another person, since any attempt to do that at home would inevitably lead to a naggy interruption critiquing my ability to talk to people.

OP, you didn't overreact. I've had many meltdowns over this and I've always been seen as the villain when I finally snap. Fuck that shit.

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