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We Irish seem to have a big thing about "better the devil you know"

The government should not have backed down over water charges. In fact they already exist.

If you have your own well you are responsible for it. If anything goes wrong you must hire a JCB and a driver. Remember to pay to have the pump serviced annually.

If you run a business you pay for water. Farmers also pay for water.

If I am conservative with my heat and electricity I expect to pay less than my wasteful neighbour. But now a neighbour can leave taps running all day and pay nothing extra.

Water charges are not robbery. The "temporary" USC tax on workers is the real robbery

It's absolutely mad that someone can fill a swimming pool in killiney every day and pay the same as someone in a council flat in the inner city - I'm surprised this kind of argument wasn't used more at the time

I do think when it comes to spousal coercion, women are as guilty as men.

Imagine there was a particular event of the year where a husband forced his wife to wear an outfit just for the insta likes. That damn bully! But yet it's the time of the year now when 'hubbies' must wear matching pyjamas. Women can be absolute wagons

The internet was the worst thing ever invented and the world would be much better place without it.

I'm only 38 so its not one of those "back in my days rants" but I would gladly lose any benefits of the internet if it meant no social media, huge spread of disinformation, fraud related activity, dark web, child porn etc. Obviously I know criminals would find a different way but to me the internet does more harm than good.

Billy Barry was a controversial genetic scientist, famous for experiments breeding lifeforms in a lab in montrose. He was able to develop these lifeforms to dance and sing before the whole program was shut down by the authorities

Marty Morrissey is a genuine guy who is a living example of someone targeted by bullies

The Internet itself is not the problem.

It's really socal media and the accessibility of it to everyone.

Social media (twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, I'm looking at you lot) have made people incredibly anti social. Young people don't know how to act in real social situations.

There are also some folks who just shouldn't be allowed near the Internet.

In the good old days when all you had was discussion forums and live chat sites, that was the golden age of t'internet.

Totally. Marital rape, wife beating/murder and financial abuse pale in comparison with being asked to wear pjs in a photo. The absolute horror. Wagons the lot of them.

People who say "I don't care what people think about me", actually care so much about what you think of them that the are trying to convince you (and themselves) otherwise

When you genuinely don't care what others think of you, you don't feel the need to tell people

"I don't care what people think about me" is probably the most common lie told in the history of mankind.

Everyone, to some extent care about what someone else thinks of them.