Weāre surely better parents in a some ways though? All this time and attention were giving them that we never got has to be worth fucking something! 
Thatās awful - the only finger banging going on is on the screen.
Take care if ye have one of these calenders. Unbelievable stuff in this day and age.
Just noticed on two of mine this morning.
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Great pieceš
Theyāve never had the art of conversation , never been tested,all problems are solved by Google these days, independent living is going to freak them out, responsibility certainly does
āAnd just like that our youngest [INSERT NAME] is 10ā.
Fuck the fucking fuck off. Just like what? It took Kynnzleigh the exact same fucking length of time to get to 10 as anyone else.
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Apparently violent crime is steadily decreasing on the mainland. It doesnāt feel like it sometimes because of the headlines. I suspect it is in Ireland too. If not, it is probably creeping up from a very low level. There are some shocking crimes, but I think we just hear of them more. Teachers get it from all angles. I think some parents have such low esteem that they get some sort of sense of power from putting teachers down. Itās bizarre, but social media has turned peopleās heads. I reckon itās more the current 20-40 somethings than the kids, who have better warning of it, but I donāt know.
The increase in some bad incidents was always going to come with immigration from more violent societies.
We need to remember that we pioneered the likes of the Magdalene laundries, which were brutally violent. Less violence on the streets was maybe paid for by institutional brutality and the brutality of forced emigration.
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This crack of having to pay for air and water at a filling station is getting infectious around the country.
Get your services first before you drop a fifty at the counter is my advice.
Would ye sales guys doing big mileage pay for a blast of air?
Itās pure hungry is what it is ---- The service station here in Rocherstown , must make millions a year - itās always fucking jointed. You have to pay for your petrol in advance, always causing a back up, and so they get to save their .01c that someone might accidentally go over. 1 euro for a blast of air. 1 euro for a drop of waterā¦Iām not sure if pre pay is in other parts of the country but I had never experienced it until Cark.
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I was nodding along in agreement til I got to here. Where is the link between bad incidents and immigration? In Ireland all the worst violence is domestic, whether paramilitary or gang related. I canāt imagine the profile in Britain is much different, maybe apart from the Albanian mafia. But Britain linking violence to immigration is absurd considering what they visited on the world.
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AS far as I can make out you have to pay in all Circle K stations now.
So Iāll be avoiding them.
Paddy copying the British again
Every generation thinks the next generation is the worst
Applegreen donāt charge in any of them from what I can see in the ones close to me anyway. The rest all do now. Not far off a point where Applegreen and Circle K are the only 2 left.
Every generation blames the one beforeā¦
And all of their frustrations, come beating on your door
My apologies.
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I was thinking England mainly, and the increased level of migration from England to Ireland, as well as the increasing immigration from all over the globe, in many cases not only from more violent societies, but for that reason. You cannot comprehend some of the violent crime in England. Itās not really reported in Ireland, and often doesnāt even make the news here. It may not be the number, but the level of depravity was up a notch from anything in Ireland, setting aside paramilitary activity which is a different argument. People get coarsened to their surroundings. Iād reference Frederick Douglass observations on this.
The level of violence becomes normalised, and moves with the people. Look at so called āhonour killingsā (brutal horrid murders, and should be called such). Migrants bring their cultural norms with them.