Pet Peeves

[Bürggermeister]

Botox. Young ones, oul ones, all kinds of ones going around like they've been stung by bees. They can do what they want, look how they want, of course, but when the fuck did a lumpy and swollen face become attractive? Who finds allergic reactions something to aspire to? I saw how Kylie looks, recently. What a fucken tragedy.

[Anvil]

People who put their bins out after midnight on a week day. Cunts. 

This is me yeah it's often 1am when I do it lol

I'm not sure we can be friends now.   

[ochoill]

People who put their bins out after midnight on a week day. Cunts. 

This is me yeah it's often 1am when I do it lol

I'm not sure we can be friends now.   

  it is completely my own doing too, I get a message at 7.00 the evening beforehand without fail and I just think "yeah I'll do that now in a minute" then constantly forget.

[The Heretic]

I mean what the fucking fuck??

Glendalough's ancient Deer Stone monument damaged by fire in act of vandalism

[leatherface]

People who STILL criticise vaping despite the overwhelming evidence that it helps people to quit tobacco and is better for you if you are already hopelessly addicted to nicotine (because you are a heavy smoker and want to quit ciggies). Vaping is designed for people who ALREADY smoke cigs and want a *safer alternative, it works. It isn't for kids who never smoke, and what about kids who smoke cigs? why isn't that in the news?. This mass hysteria about children seemingly under threat from vaping never seems to go away and noone seems to publicly challenge this rubbish.


This from the previously impartial BBC news website:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66448563

[astfgyl]

People who STILL criticise vaping despite the overwhelming evidence that it helps people to quit tobacco and is better for you if you are already hopelessly addicted to nicotine (because you are a heavy smoker and want to quit ciggies). Vaping is designed for people who ALREADY smoke cigs and want a *safer alternative, it works. It isn't for kids who never smoke, and what about kids who smoke cigs? why isn't that in the news?. This mass hysteria about children seemingly under threat from vaping never seems to go away and noone seems to publicly challenge this rubbish.


This from the previously impartial BBC news website:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66448563

The thing being missed here is that vaping is far more prevalent among young kids than smoking ever was. It might be a bit healthier (time will tell, it looks good so far but how long did it take for the fags to be defined as bad, for example?) but it's even more addictive. It smells nice in unlimited flavours, it tastes nice in unlimited flavours, it has flashing lights in unlimited colours, people are confused whether you can puff in the house or not and the notion that it's healthy all in its' favour over say a John Player Special or 20 Major. Now what other ingredients are in that sweet sweet vape juice and how long will it take for anyone to make the connection between any particular combination of those (eg watermelon gives you dick cancer if it's mixed with vanilla but not with kiwi but also not if you only burn it at 80 instead of 90, unless it's at the exact 3/1 mix or whatever etc) and whatever condition it may cause in any organ other than the lungs?

Hey this new tablet has really straightened your big toe but now you have leprosy and also a crippling sense of Deja Vu flavoured impending doom as part of your constant panic attack but your toe is definitely at least 4% straighter so that's a real positive result for the shareholders.

I think that vaping appears to be better when taken in the context of someone who is already on the fags making the jump, but even so, the data is limited (and the scientific papers are sure to be subject to all the same funding as everything else that's addictive and worth a few bob) and I can see it playing out as being far more attractive to kids who might not otherwise have started at all, so I'm not exactly effusive in my praise for it.

[jobrok1]

Vape if you have to. Better than the cigs, for sure.
But the fucking smell of the fruity flavoured shite is absolutely rank! Fuck right off with that shit.

[leatherface]

Say what you will about 'untested' data re: vape juice but no-one mentions the amount of chemicals in a single cigarette. Many of which are unknown, let that sink in. However, let's criticise vaping instead. Hollow logic. Vape juice has glycerin, flavour, water and nicotine as far as I can tell..

Sorry for the rant, I'm just an ex smoker who moved to vaping, now I hardly ever vape. Where's my news story?.

[open face surgery]

I fuckin love tobacco!!!!

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Practically every study about smoking mentions the dozens of chemicals in cigarettes, it's even on several of the warning stickers. I only smoke rollies, only buy tobacco with no additives, and I mainly use it for joints anyway, one a day. Though vaping def seems to be less harmful than tobacco, anyone who doesn't think vaping is, at this stage, primarily being pushed on first time "smokers" is kidding themselves imo.

[astfgyl]

Say what you will about 'untested' data re: vape juice but no-one mentions the amount of chemicals in a single cigarette. Many of which are unknown, let that sink in. However, let's criticise vaping instead. Hollow logic. Vape juice has glycerin, flavour, water and nicotine as far as I can tell..

Sorry for the rant, I'm just an ex smoker who moved to vaping, now I hardly ever vape. Where's my news story?.

If it gets lads off the fags well fair enough and if it works for you, great and fair play but it's codology to think it's not marketed for the younger crowd. There are more kids vaping than I ever remember smoking. In fact, I caught the young lad at it after I wrote my last post here, taking a few puffs of his sister's vape. Stupid bastard thought I wouldn't recognise the smell, but I did because every person under 30 at work is hopping off it all day every day as soon as no-one is looking. It's another way for the tobacco companies to catch the kids with jazzy displays and fancy flavours over all else and if you think the producers wouldn't like you to be addicted to it well then I disagree; getting you addicted to it is the whole point. At the same time I know people differ and there is that odd lad who only smokes fags at the weekend etc.

Me being the knob I am, I have been smoking fags since I was nine years old but that was the wild west by comparison to now, and I used to be able to say they were for my aunt and purchase them with butter vouchers that I stole off a friend's father. Now I smoke rollies for the last 20 years or so but under no circumstances would I recommend it or the vape to anyone (well except for every january when I worked in a pharmacy and they'd all want the nicorette for the new year new you thing, then I used to extol the virtues of a grand oul fag to every one of them while selling them the shit version).

This actually sounds like I'm against vaping. I'm not. For adults.

[Bürggermeister]

A few weeks ago, I got a letter from the ESB saying they were going to be in touch about installing a smart meter. Got a phone call yesterday from some ESB sub-contractor...

"Yeah, I got the brochure. When are you scheduling to do it?" I asked.

"Now" he says.

"Now? I'm working now. Can you do it tomorrow?"

"Yes"

"Grand. I'll make alternate plans for work and be out of the house."

"Can't you take a break now?"

"Nope, I really can't, just had a break and I need to get a lot of stuff done this afternoon. Can you not do this tomorrow? I'll make alternate arrangements and work away from the house."

"What time tomorrow?"

"All day, whenever you like, you can do it whatever time suits ye."

"Ok, we will do it tomorrow."

Just got home. They must have installed a retro model, looks just like the old one. They even set it with the same numbers as the old one 

[Thorn]

   nice finish

[Eoin McLove]

I've had this peeve before and I'll have it again. I made the mistake of reading the comments in YouTube below the video I had clicked on and it amazed (disgusted) me as it often does at just how self obsessed people are on the internet.

OH MY GOD, I JUST LISTENED TO THIS ALBUM AND I FELL INTO A DEEP SLEEP, A SLEEP LIKE I'VE NOT HAD IN YEARS. WHEN I WOKE UP I FELT SO REJUVENATED AND READY TO GO OUTSIDE AND SMELL THE RAIN DROPS ON THE PLANTS OUTSIDE.

So, ehhh, what did you make of the music?

OMG! IT WAS MIND ALTERING. I ACCIDENTALLY LOOKED AT A DOOR HANDLE WHILE THE SOOTHING OPENING STRAINS ENTERED MY CONSCIOUSNESS AND IT WAS AS IF I WAS SEEING THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE FOR A SPLIT SECOND IN EVERY TINY CHIP OF PAINT ETC ETC RANDOM FUCKING GOBBLEDIGOOK...

These vacuous fucks' comments all get a hundred likes 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

With you on that one.

"I have just been conceived/am 173 years old but I love this music."

"Anyone else listening in 2023?"

etc., etc., etc.

Appreciation of the arts is a seriously over-looked dimension of education, and YT comments, even/especially under good art!, are indeed a great place to take measure of that fact