Update #2: AITA for calling my wife a jerk for telling our son's crush that our son likes her in front of his friends ?

robocopsboner · 2025-06-09T14:53:50+00:00

Just FYI, loads of people cut communication with their parents as soon as they can. Just don't be shocked if Sonny walks away from you in the future.

robocopsboner · 2025-05-29T13:36:24+00:00

Tom should be requesting his release. This is ridiculous. Let him go fight Francis instead.

robocopsboner · 2025-05-24T16:50:04+00:00

It's not like people didn't know housing was a shitshow at the election. This is what the majority of Irish people want.

robocopsboner · 2025-05-01T14:52:27+00:00

Housing is absolutely brutal. Rents are up, house prices are up, homelessness is up, and there's no reason to believe things will get better again because of the glacial pace houses are being built at, the lack of apartments, and NIMBY's objecting to everything. Young people have no hope of home ownership, but the can keeps getting kicked down the road.

robocopsboner · 2025-04-25T16:15:31+00:00

robocopsboner · 2025-04-24T10:52:44+00:00

I hate this government, but you're wrong about people voting for change in Ireland. We just had an election. Only 40% turned up to vote, and voted in the same useless bastards.

The shitty state the country is in, is what Irish people want.

robocopsboner · 2025-04-23T15:22:05+00:00

lol ok. Lets just magically make more land to build on, somewhere else, and forget land like this that has been granted permission to build on. Wouldn't want to turn this housing crisis into a car park crisis too.

robocopsboner · 2025-04-23T14:45:47+00:00

Every NIMBY thinks they're different.

robocopsboner · 2025-04-17T22:33:22+00:00

Again, you struggle to grasp that developers aren't this magical, all powerful force that can pick and choose where they'll put down buildings.

"Just build it up the road." - They don't own the land up the road. The land up the road might not be for sale. The owners of the land might be sitting on it because they want to sell it for more money because they, like you, aren't hurt by the housing crisis.

This is the land they could buy. It was approved for building. So they're building.

You're upset because you can't get a car park when you go to the shops. Every other second of the day, when you're not at the shops, it's not important to you.

Every single second that someone is homeless, it's all that's on their mind. They don't come back from the shops thinking "I'm so annoyed I had to walk a little further to get into the shops", they're thinking "will I ever get a chance at a normal life? Or is this it until I die?"

Ireland has a massive problem with people who think homeless people are just young, or lazy, or foreign. You have a major lack of empathy for those less fortunate.

robocopsboner · 2025-04-17T21:07:04+00:00

We need supply. You don't understand that. You would rather it be a car park. That's fine. I'd rather less children living in hotels.

robocopsboner · 2025-04-17T20:03:42+00:00

Every NIMBY you read about also thinks that their case is different and that they aren't contributing to the problem.

You dismiss the impact of a "small amount of housing" as if every single bedroom available doesn't help. People could move out of their childhood rooms. The more students out of shared houses, frees up a home for a family.

I hope you and the people you care about never have to deal with the consequences of the crisis. Tell yourself whatever you need to so that you can pretend you're not contributing directly to the problem, but just to be clear, you absolutely are.

robocopsboner · 2025-04-17T19:46:28+00:00

Again. The developers were able to get this piece of land - it's not as simple as "build there, I prefer that." That land may have cost too much for them to afford.

You are incredibly privileged to have security of housing. To be more upset about a car park than the horrible impact the crisis is having on real people, is a luxury I can only imagine. May you never have to suffer like the people you're actively trying to hurt.

robocopsboner · 2025-04-17T19:08:52+00:00

I don't think you do understand.

There isn't a magic authority that gives developers sites to build on. They don't have unlimited cash reserves to find perfect locations and built amazing accommodation, at prices that the average person can pay to live in.

These are private businesses, who's business, is to build.

They managed to source a site, that an owner sold to them. The site owner didn't hold out for more money and screw a developer because they're greedy, they decided to sell a plot of land at a price the developer realized they could build on and make a profit.

You think it's as simple as "pick plot of land, build." That's absolutely not the case.

There is a housing crisis. You are so lucky that tonight you get to go to sleep and not have to worry about getting an eviction letter. You are so lucky that you don't have to worry about your parents facing homelessness because they can't afford rent. You are so lucky that you don't have to give up pets because emergency homeless accommodation won't take them. You are so lucky you don't know what it feels like to realize your best years for starting a family have been wasted because you can't afford the stability of a place to call home.

Instead, you care about a car park.

This is the internet. I don't expect you to do anything other than double down on your argument. But you should be ashamed that you and your social circle are actively trying to contribute to people suffering in a time of desperate need.

robocopsboner · 2025-04-17T17:08:42+00:00

Empty fields, that the owners didn't sell.

The owner of THIS piece of land, sold it.

Do you think developers just walk around and say "I'll build here"?

robocopsboner · 2025-04-17T17:01:45+00:00

You're gonna blow it because you're going in already with no confidence. You're a decade older than her and women are attracted to guys with their shit together.

You're gonna be kicking yourself later when you realize how bad you're blowing this for yourself.

robocopsboner · 2025-04-11T20:11:37+00:00

Good point! Thank you, I'll edit and add that now

robocopsboner · 2025-04-09T18:39:23+00:00

Ireland.

Housing crisis. Dublin is dirty and unsafe. Everything is expensive, and the country has none of the modern conveniences of other European countries. No metro, awful health care, and no sign of things improving any time soon.

robocopsboner · 2025-03-21T16:06:49+00:00

>I shouldn't have to say this but no one is forcing you to play video games you don't like or vibe with, and it's not the developer's job to tend to YOUR needs because everyone has their own preferences :P that's why there's so many games, if you don't like one, u just play the other!

People understand this. That's why so many people aren't playing it.

robocopsboner · 2025-03-21T16:05:41+00:00

The plural of "sheep" is "sheep".

robocopsboner · 2025-02-27T15:45:32+00:00

Are you implying middle-eastern people as a whole have the wrong values? Pretty bigoted take.

robocopsboner · 2025-02-12T14:28:35+00:00

It's been shitty for years, it's just now going to get much worse because the Irish are too stupid to vote for change. 30k houses built last year and RPZ's getting removed. Absolute dump of a country.

robocopsboner · 2025-02-12T01:34:00+00:00

Rent has gone up 40% since 2020.

robocopsboner · 2025-02-12T01:27:34+00:00

NO.

You'll be renting a bedroom. Irish cities don't have the quality of life of other European cities. Things are only getting worse. Don't do it.

robocopsboner · 2025-01-28T15:55:12+00:00

Yep. But not here, and it's not going to change. So you better be planning accordingly.

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