Comhrá - the general chat thread

[JaneJeffer]

Hi Craicnetters!

I was looking for the other thread and see it's fallen way down the list so I decided to make a new one for all our daily musings ☘️

It's horrific. Yes I also remember hearing a lot about it when I was much younger but haven't heard much about it in recent years. It's always worth reminding people about this, can so easily happen. The poor woman

Oh that's terrible Back when people used to read magazines toxic shock was regularly mentioned.

I love magazines. They are a stupid price though. I used to get bundles in charity shops. And I loved them in the hairdresser and waiting rooms...all germy as they were.
So much advice on so many topics.

This is awful :( I agree that we need another awareness campaign for young women.

I grew up during the era of Toxic Shock Syndrome high awareness in the 80s and have always been careful because of all the messaging that stuck in my mind. I set timers on my watch and phone to remind me to remove tampons in good time.

It’s very sad that this happened.

The very predictable demise of the Dublin / NY Portal has reminded me of The Time in the Slime - the digital clock in the Liffey beside O'Connell bridge that they spent a quarter of a million quid on, back when the country had a lot less money, to count down the time to the Millennium aka the year 2000. Surprise, because river water isn't distilled or sterile, it immediately began to grow algae, hence the nickname and its retirement.

Have these people (artists, bureaucrats, bureaucrats approving art project budgets) ever met a human being or a living ecosystem?

What's the emoticon for mooning at a thread?

I wonder if the exposing people realise that there is a time difference. If I was heading home in NYC for my mac and cheese I wouldn't want to see late night body parts in Dublin.
But I don't suppose they care. Another reason why we can't have nice things.
I have been grumbling about gaa go. I don't have any interest in gaa. But I am upset about the elderly fans.

It was so predictable. We all knew it would happen. We can't have nice things because of some arseholes (literally!).

I have been grumbling about gaa go. I don't have any interest in gaa. But I am upset about the elderly fans.
I'm grumbling too, eggandonion! I am a big fan, and I really hate it when there's a huge media build-up to some epoch-making season-deciding grudge-match between fierce historical rivals Co. X and Co. Y, and then ....it's not on telly😡
I suppose everything can't be on TV, but we have a number of TV channels with feck-all else to show of a weekend afternoon, so why not put on these guaranteed audience-pullers?

It's not so much that elderly fans won't know how/can't afford to access GAAGO - they're going to die out anyway, like gender-critical feminist dinosaurs😏 [that's 100% ironical, just to be clear!] - it's the principle of the thing: forcing people young and old to pay for things that should be free-to-air.
Wasn't GAAGO originally intended as an add-on, not a replacement for live coverage? So Irish people abroad could watch matches?

There's a thing about people not being able to get into (smaller) GAA matches using cash that is also causing problems, and making me think that I must use cash more before we all end up with a constantly monitored Chinese type social credits set up.

I do find the portal thing hilarious, no idea whether that's my inner northsider. The artist's latest po-faced CHILDREN may be watching renews my 'have they ever met a (drunk, obnoxious) human being?" musings.

Yup, I agree! DH and I have had to pay last year and this year to watch our respective counties play some of their championship matches and there’s been absolutely no reason those games couldn’t have been on RTÉ or BBC Ulster as usual. And we both thought GAA Go was a great idea for expats when it first came into being, we had no ideas we’d end up having to use it to watch matches ourselves.

I am trying to use cash more because of stupid bank charges on tapping my card.
I have warned my dh and kids if they are on the train and someone wants a cuppa but has no card then they buy it for them. I am ok with the card only on trains now the trolley is back.
But they should be a cash gate at matches. And free access to big matches even if I don't watch.
And two portals. One for nice people and one for people who have bottoms to show off.

I’d vote for this platform if you fancy being a TD or Taoiseach 👍😊

".....I have warned my dh and kids if they are on the train and someone wants a cuppa but has no card then they buy it for them......" writes @eggandonion

You sound so lovely rearing your children well 💐

Agreed 🌟 for Egg.

It is 9 years since my baby did her leaving cert. So well reared now!
But I still remind them to put on sun cream and eat their vegetables. And so on.

Reading a thing about the amount being spent on prefabricated classrooms.
My ds started school in 1996. There was a fire in a prefab and the bom decided to build a classroom. All parents were asked to pay 50 euro per month for 6 months. Bossy pta lady was willing to make home visits to explain.
So funds were raised and the department made a contribution. A lot of parents opined that 50 k would buy you a good 3 bedroom house .
Times have changed.

Anyone watching Super Garden, the competition where the winner gets the chance to showcase their winning garden at Bloom?
I had high hopes for last week's entrant, a trained horticulturalist.
Sweet Divine Jesus !
It was horrendous imo.
I think the judges thought so too.
Their reactions were priceless.
Scraggy grass with bare patches, unfinished concrete walls, wooden wall slats in need of tlc.
But he had a bonsai tree, his passion.
I think that was supposed to make everything grand. 🙄

I checked - it wasn't April Fools Day.

That sounds good @LadyEloise1 I might have a watch of it tonight. I see on the info that one of the children whose garden it is is called Fury 🤨

Id love a cottage garden. Lots of old fashioned flowers in an organised jumble. Twenty five years I have been attempting it.
It isn't happening.

Cork v Tipp made me feel very tired today watching all those hurlers running around in 22C weather 🌤️🥵

It's been so nice to have a bit of sunshine. Please God we'll get more of it for the next few months!

Has anyone used the bottle return machines yet? I wasn't going to but I've realised how many bottles of coke & lucozade DS & DH bring in so I've decided to chuck them in a box in the shed rather than my recycle bin. I'm still not sure though. Can any bottle be returned to any machine? I'll wait til the box is full and give it a go. Might be a one & done situation we'll see 😅

Im flying off on an overnight trip tomorrow with my tiny bag. I also have a tiny tiny handbag which i can shove in if necessary. Or buy a load of Toblerones and get a duty free bag.
Ryanair is really unpopular on here...I m going aer lingus and they are equally awkward.

Hope you have a good trip @eggandonion

@LifeInAHamsterWheel we still bring our plastic bottles to the recycling centre so are getting charged extra for nothing in return

Two Toblerones for 11 quid in Heathrow ;) Enjoy your trip Egg!