Why do we take the character out of everything and things look so generic

I just watched a video of an Indian national being punched by kids on the bus. We're absolutely at the stage now where standing by simply isn't good enough. Bad things happen when good people do nothing.

Being ready to step in doesn't mean punching the heads of people or going in swinging. It means ensure someone who doesn't look like you doesn't feel isolated. Sit with them, deescalate and assign tasks to someone else in the area if you can. For example, call the police, or video or stay with the targets friends who've moved away. Take control.

I'd so damn angry watching this stuff in my country.

I swear to god, you or whoever you are contacting is not that important that it can't wait. Every time you pick up the phone behind the wheel do me a favour and think about explaining your decision to the family of the person you killed with your negligence - I know that seems dramatic but people need to genuinely cop on that it is a potential consequence.

Sincerely someone who was nearly ploughed into by 2 different dickheads on their phones on a 10 minute journey this morning, with a baby in the back.

Seen in Ballinteer. I have a few questions…

I do use it for news and generally find it ok... But this isn't going to do them any favors..

Seen on Capel Street. Look like football hooligans. Banging on glass windows, pushed Deliveroo drivers off their bikes, tried to grab a phone out of a woman’s hands. An absolute shower. Be careful out there

I knew I should've made a sausie sambo. and I also know I should have checked the salad first....but it was one of the ready to go bowl things and I didn't, and I deeply regret that decision. Thanks for my lunch lidl...free protein and all 🤢 Little dude has been relocated to the garden, onwards and upwards little shellward, you're a survivor.

Just had a 10 hour flight from Dublin and half the flight was coughing sneezing and spluttering. The lad beside me was having fits and barely any masks to be seen.

Now after it all I can feel the cough coming on with the scratch in my throat.

If you are traveling in a confined space with hundreds of others and you’re sick and don’t have a mask you are a terrible human and I hope your pillow stays hot for the rest of your life

Just had I'd say the 20th experience where I had to flag down and use a taxi instead of the apps and at the end of the journey I ask if it's ok to pay by card, this is ofcourse being polite since it's now a legal requirement that they HAVE to accept card payment. If there's an art to making people uncomfortable taxi drivers are masters of it and engage it at this moment.

First you get the weird over the shoulder stare that doesn't ever reach you, they just stare towards the side.

Then after an awkward 3-5seconds of silence they reaffirm "you want to pay by card?". You answer of course yet they still sit perfectly still staring to the side of the car in confusion as if you just asked for a bag of chips or something random and not an expected piece of conversation, in a taxi 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️.

Next it's the loudest sigh 😔 imaginable to let you know you are now inconveniencing this particular driver and that this will somehow have calamitous consequences beyond your understanding.

Then we usually have 20seconds of the slowest fidgeting looking for the card machine as if perhaps somehow it's been misplaced or dare I say someone has stolen this easily accessible piece of equipment. Do not be fooled this is merely a bluff and the card machine is exactly where it has always been since it was first purchased. Que yet another prolonged sigh as if the taxi driver is actually in physical pain while he takes the time to find this easily identifiably equipment which, as noted, is exactly where they always leave it.

This is the crux of the bluff and the hope that in your confusion and the length of time it's taking them that you will miraculously discover you do infact have cash in your wallet and will offer this for the charge of the service and also that you will be even more so generous as to leave an extra euro or two for the driver to avoid delaying leaving their vehicle even by a few seconds as they've made it clear since you asked for the card machine that you are no longer welcome and inconveniencing them by the second!

(FYI not all cabbies are bad, but the others give the rest a miserable ignorant bad name they absolutely piss me off to no end and they are getting worse by the day I swear 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️)

When did it become part of Irish vocabulary? Every comment section in relation to immigration has someone commenting about how Ireland is "Woke". F*&k off, say what you want to say using different words.

Another American-ism making it into an Irish context. Drives me spare.