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I remember them stopping our bus to Dublin and getting us to walk over a disinfectant mat during the mad cow disease thing. There is only one way onto the bus, the driver has definitely the power to tell you to gently caress off if he/she doesn't want you on it.
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If you don't see the difference between one bus driver and maybe an "inspector" vs however many shitlords want to get on with no mask vs the state accosting a person as they are within the secure area of Dublin Airport which has its own police force and holding facilities on hand then I don't know what to tell you.
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happyhippy posted:There is only one way onto the bus  You can get a mate to open the fire exit or you can use the emergency stop button and smash a fire winda to get in. You have been in the south too long and have gone all soft imo 
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Jul 26, 2020 18:55
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Or just literally never seen a Dublin Bus. Let's not count that possibility out.
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Jul 26, 2020 19:00
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Well yes being serious, no bus driver is paid enough to put up with the amount of grief that will come from trying to tell the general public what to do
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Jul 26, 2020 20:32
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I heard stories about kids in the 80's/90's who would jump out of the top floor of the Double Decker bus onto the bus shelters rather than go down the stairs. It's why they called the Tallaght route the Bay Route back in the day.
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Jul 26, 2020 20:44
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The window would've had to have been broken. They never opened wide enough for even small kids to do that.
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Fair enough, was thinking more of the Goldliner/Bus Eireann single decker long distance ones. Not the city ones with multiple doors.
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Jul 26, 2020 21:01
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lemonadesweetheart posted:The window would've had to have been broken. They never opened wide enough for even small kids to do that.
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happyhippy posted:Fair enough, was thinking more of the Goldliner/Bus Eireann single decker long distance ones. Not the city ones with multiple doors. I like those buses. If it's dark out when you're on the motorway you can put on your overhead reading light  and use the free wifi and pretend like you're an important businessmin on a plane going somewhere nice instead of to Belfast or Derry
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Jul 27, 2020 00:06
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Arquinsiel posted:The old ones used to slide forwards and backwards. I saw kids doing it on the Malahide road in the late 90's and also using that same functionality to construct Yop cannons to coat people in yoghurt. I remember when the buses where orange and I honestly can't remember a time when the bus window wasn't a narrow part at the top whether it slid or not. You'd want to be tiny to fit through one.
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Jul 27, 2020 09:26
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Well Leo went and did a Tory Party. https://twitter.com/FancyVegasPro/status/1287733383175577602?s=19
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Jul 27, 2020 16:08
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Don't know if Leo really cares anymore. He's Tanaiste and for him that's already a death sentence. My keyboard wanted to autocorrect Tanaiste to Satanist... 
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lemonadesweetheart posted:I remember when the buses where orange and I honestly can't remember a time when the bus window wasn't a narrow part at the top whether it slid or not. You'd want to be tiny to fit through one. ETA: also by "kids" we're talking pre-teens, anything older would just try fight the bus driver/conductor.
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Jul 27, 2020 23:42
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So the Government has announced a U-turn on removing people's PUP payments if they go on holidays to a Green List country. Which makes sense. They had originally announced that the payments would be suspended 2 weeks ago when the official advice was "don't loving go abroad. There is a pandemic on lads." It only became stupid when they said "you can go on holiday but only to these specific countries." With a side of "but if you go to those countries we will find a way to punish you for it."
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Jul 29, 2020 13:23
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It also doesn't make any sense to penalise people for going on holidays when their job is shut down temporarily
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The only possible way an FF/FG goverment will give you money for "sittin' on yer hole" is if you're one of their TDs
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Failed Imagineer posted:It also doesn't make any sense to penalise people for going on holidays when their job is shut down temporarily Also, you are allowed two weeks holiday on JSA. Sure, maybe you shouldn't travel at the current moment, but there is no reasonable argument for people getting their payments cut.
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Nessa Hourigan just rebelled against the government and voted in favour of multiple amendments to the Tenancy Bill and voted against the unammended bill - feel like that's the whip gone from her anyway, might make the Greens a bit uncomfortable to enforce that discipline. Also one Green Junior Minister abstained on the final vote - FF and FG backbenchers will be baying for blood there as they have been whipped to death to back this
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Jul 30, 2020 19:08
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Between this and having to sack a minister and the pay cuts fiasco it's really quite impressive the speed at which this government is managing to gently caress things up
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FF & FG both had TDs vote against the government earlier in the week during the PUP holiday fiasco too. They're already really going to struggle to enforce discipline which must be some sort of record.
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Jul 30, 2020 20:09
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I still reckon it'll not last beyond six months from when they formed.
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lemonadesweetheart posted:I still reckon it'll not last beyond six months from when they formed. Not sure if the Greens are gonna last it the way things are going but the new Regional Group (Grealish, Naughton, Canney, Lowry, Toibin and some others) might give them a few more votes to remain in the majority as they seem to be backing them on a couple of the spicier bills They where previously not to keen as they thought they'd be targets for opposition reprisals come another election but who knows if it comes down to make or break
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The rural INDs will keep it (somewhat unstably) over 80 even without the Greens. If the carrot of pork barrel spending doesn't get them the stick of the threat of an SF government/another election will. It'll last until the FF backbenchers get enough nerve to shaft Micheál Martin I'd say. They'll use a new leader as an excuse to drop out of government - "we never agreed to this, it was all MM's deal". Then it'll just come to polling numbers at the time: if FF are still in the low teens they'll be too terrified to go back to the electorate, so might negotiate with SF. But if they're back to polling a "reasonable" number it'll be election time. It just remains to be seen when MM gets shafted - is it sooner, due to repeated government fuckups like the last few weeks? Or in 2 years just before Leo is meant to take over again?
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With all the gently caress ups in the short life span of this government so far, it’s no wonder they’re desperate to go on holidays. Ridiculous that they can take a 6 week break when there’s still so many open issues.
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People are pointing out that Leo's TV appearence would normally be enough to get any other Minister sacked by the Taoiseach, so the rumours are that the department being willing to cover up for him undermines Martin and is already putting a strain on the FF/FG partnership. Amazing 
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Jul 31, 2020 00:18
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Jack Russell thrown at Garda Russell during 'Free State bastards' argument.
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Aug 1, 2020 11:08
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Dutch Gold. When you can't afford Buckfast.
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Lol the vintners association is going to pull down the government.
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I want it to be known that I hate the Vitners association and view them as a group that makes their living by exploiting Irish society's toxic relationship with alcohol. And that their overwhelming concern in this health crisis has been them earning money over peoples lives. That being said, given that the date has been pushed back twice know, they should probably be allowed avail of the same financial supports being offered to other businesses shut due to Covid. Just on a fair procedures basis.
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I honestly can't believe we're actually opening the schools :/ this is gonna be one of those things people look back on and wonder "what the gently caress were we thinking?!" gently caress. like theres only one way this goes
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Schools are just day care to keep workers working. It's a foundation of Liberal capitalism so it has to be seen to happen. Even if they are closed again in a month and a bunch of kids die/grow up with ruined lungs.
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Mackers posted:I honestly can't believe we're actually opening the schools :/ I'm fairly certain that'll get tossed out about a month in, when a few start getting cases from kids back from their holidays. I'm far more worried about the cases only coming out from the factories, like they are probably slow enough to test in the first place.
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The Question IRL posted:I want it to be known that I hate the Vitners association and view them as a group that makes their living by exploiting Irish society's toxic relationship with alcohol.
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Aug 5, 2020 20:56
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Schools have been open across Europe in responsible, well run countries like Norway, Denmark etc for months with no problems. Its pretty insane expecting them to be closed indefinitely, destroying children's education for potentially years.
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Aug 5, 2020 23:32
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Good thing we're talking about Norway, Denmark etc.
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Blut posted:Schools have been open across Europe in responsible, well run countries like Norway, Denmark etc for months with no problems. Its pretty insane expecting them to be closed indefinitely, destroying children's education for potentially years. No such thing as a responsible well run country under neo-liberal capitalism.
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Those countries also generally have smaller child to teacher ratios. Ireland is one of the worst countries in the EU for class sizes. When I was in primary we had an average class size of 32 students to a teacher, and the numbers attending the school have only gone up.
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Blut posted:responsible, well run countries There's your problem e: poo poo I'm just remembering how loving overcrowded my secondary school was. Like student to teacher was in the 30s but we also had an issue were the corridors in the building were genuinly not big enough to walk 4 abreast down. Which was a huge issue because every classroom was locked when not in use so between classes you would have a whole class lined up beside a door on either side and two directions of traffic in between and whatever messing was going on thrown in there too while about 500 kids tried to get wherever. Throwing a possibly fatal respiratory virus into that situation is going to be hosed up Shoehead fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Aug 6, 2020 |
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Shoehead posted:There's your problem all you need is some arrows and some signs lads, it'll be grand
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