No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

God be with the days when everyone would sip pints and chat. Now they're off there tits on all sorts and there is no talking to them. Met a lad I used to haul silage with 20 years ago and he was saying he was doing a bit of silage recently but there was no craic like we used to have. Everyone on their phones. I remember being told the crew slightly before my time all parking up at the pub during a long draw on a steaming hot day. The boss man drove the harvester back the road only to be greeted by a couple of glasses in the air!

My Local has a no technology night each Tuesday in Feb. No phones, tv, radio…. One lad wanted a record player going and Twas refused,lights out, candles and fire only.

Either try English version of Amazon.de or open an An Post AddressPal. An Post will be €6.50 per transaction fee. When package arrives at Irish customs - An Post will text you with amount VAT owed plus €3.50 handling charge. Amazon.de would be your best bet.

The latvian guy that was found dead in one of our parish's apartments in january is being buried this week, The guards contacted his relations through his phone and they wanted nothing to do with him, so between the parish and the undertaker we're putting a funeral together, it's a shame when it goes to that but I suppose it's happening every where. Social welfare is subsidising it too. Undertaker asked me to try to have two men there to help them lower the coffin, so sad. RIP

Everyone should have the 3 word app too

Was talking to a woman yesterday, she has to have been on something. She's about my age but it's the first time the thought crossed my mind that someone was on something.

I couldn’t agree more on that. It’s idle minds and idle hands that’s going to be one of the biggest problems to overcome in the future. There’s far too many lads, and women!, in their teens and 20’s that have never had to do an ounce of work in their lives but think that they’re wore out from work and “pressure” and need to take drugs to relax.

Im not saying this as some sort of auld lad that thinks he was hard done by and no one else works as hard as our generation or anything like that but from talking to people, employers etc. It’s impossible to get young lads into building trades, farm jobs, agri contracting or any of that type of work now, everyone wants the clean technology job. I know the wages in farming or contracting might not entice lads but that’s not the case in the trades and they still can’t be got.

It’s also the reason there’s so much talk, and without trying to offend anyone, but a lot of it is s***e talk, about depression and so on. Don’t get me wrong, I know there are an awful lot of genuine and serious depression issues out there and people need support and help but there’s a large percentage of depression that could be solved by people reducing their technology use (says he using technology to make his point, yes I get the irony.) and going out and getting a job and not be waiting for everything to be handed to you. The feeling of accomplishment when you have a job, earn your money and take pride in your work will keep the hands and mind busy and solve a lot of depression issues. I don’t think all the high profile “celebrities” talking about their mindfulness degrees and so on are doing anything to help either. In my opinion the majority of them are making the problem worse by almost trying to convince everyone that if everything in your life isn’t running 100% perfectly then you must be depressed.

Same thinking myself.

I just thought she was babbling on from one subject to another, just odd

If you teach your children to love cattle they will neither have the money or the time for drugs.

I know it's rampant but I never came across it in this country myself. It is causing alot of law and order issues also with people desperate for money. Very sad.

If its the same place as im thinking of i got out at the breakup before Christmas, is it any wonder drug use is rampant there really? Money for jam and the head wrecked from doing nothing plus the hardship of trying to get into the site. Sure all the talk in the canteen was about money where i was a sure sign lads were still living week to week even on those wages. Everyone said i was mad to jump ship at the time the main reasoning being youd never see money like it on any other site in Ireland i didnt leave for better money i left for my own wellbeing and havent had any regrets so far and i actually have more in the pocket on a smaller wage at the end of the week too.

Price of Diesel now wouldnt have a cent left from my lodge at the end of the week i reckon, was filling at least three times in a fortnight i filled last sunday evening and still not under half the tank used yet. If you do a small bit of overtime and the odd Saturday here and there with the new crowd you get the same wages as there with no commuting it was definitly a no brainer. I have 15-20 more hours/week to myself now too where im not commuting aswell an absolute gamechanger.

Eldest works on the building in Melbourne and he says that it's sorta expected to get a random alcohol and drug test especially on Monday's, Thursday's & Friday's.