I believe Fintan was also adopted, what a coincidence. 
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Jesus thatās rough.
Mate, one of these days, some lucky woman will become your partner for life and youāll either do IVF or adopt some kid and they will be very lucky to have you as a father. You mightnāt be able to have kids biologically, but youāll be a great Dad to someone.
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I think itās a bit shitty not paying for parking. You seem to think youāre different from everyone else and donāt have to pay. Just fucking pay for it like everyone else has to.
Iād absolutely agree though that you should claim for fucking everything with your tax.
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If i can avoid getting out of paying for parking discs to Limerick county council with my hard earned cash your damned right i will avoid it. Iāve saved hundreds of hundreds of euros in the last 15yrs and not had one fine (ā¬40). They donāt deserve for me to pay for parking, since theyāre not able to catch serial parking disc dodgers (me). I plan to save tens of thousands of Euros using my wits against parking wardens before i die, hopefully well into my 90s still driving.
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And youāll be the same one giving out about people evading paying their tax.
I pay my taxes in full. Itās a different thing. Iām not a mug with my money paying for something i can easily avoid. Iām just using common sense. You know itās not a crime, right?
If there was a Things I like about Ireland thread Iād put into it the way random strangers give you their parking disk when theyāre leaving their spot with plenty of time to spare, Iād be surprised if that was common anywhere else in the world and itās the only time Iād ever have a disk up
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That warden in NCW doesnāt check for parkikg discs. Youāve 2 free hours on parking in NCW anyway.
He only gives tickets to those illegally parked. (Double Yellow lines or in a disabled space)
If youāre looking for parking in NCW, go up to the car park at the back of Dooleys SuperValu. 
Somebody did the equivalent of that for me in Italy last year and in Cornwall this year. There is goodness in people wherever you go , I find. But I do like the way the Irish think they are some kind of a special race.
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I passed the traffic warden up town. He was ticketing some poor person who actually put up a disk but was parked in a loading bay.
Youād always get that in England. An inherent decency always exists in people. But Mick the Muldoon always has to think he is special and the best in the world
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Massive irony here with yourself accusing somebody (or an entire nation) of thinking theyāre better than everybody else. 
Of course everything is bette wherever you are, Iād expect nothing less, Iād say your superiority rubs off on everybody around you.
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I have feet of clay.
I canāt be bothered to look that up mate so Iāll take your word for it.
Itās an expression that people use when they are admitting that they are imperfect.
Dropping the Mrs off at the bus stop yesterday and drove on a bit as didnāt want to stop in the middle of the road. She said in a threatening manner that sheād better not miss the bus and that other people would stop in the middle of the road. When picking her up I parked behind the bus which I thought she was on. Unknown to me she was on a bus behind trying to get in to where I parked. I was trapped and couldnāt get out. The driver rightly gave me the bird and called me all the names under the sun. My mrs witnessed all this, hopped in and said I shouldnāt have parked there.
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You just cant win.