Ways of living you never want to go back to

I still have nightmares of trying to eat liver 😔

That you?

I remember a pub in Cork back then. So full of it that you couldn't see the end of the bar!

For me it's heart that brings back nightmares .

On a very modern note of something I don't want to go back to. Slow charging phones. I saw google released it's new pixel yesterday. Has 22w charging. My one plus has something like 60w so it can get to 100% in less than an hour. If I'm heading out for the evening I can pop it on for 15 minutes charge and that will do me the whole night.

My sis has a similar phone and she loves it because the kids are always using hers so it takes no time to charge up.

I quite like it too. I tried so many diets over the years trying to get to a good place from the very bad place I started in. In the end the diet that works for me is to vary everything as much as sanely possible. If I eat something today I go as long as possible before eating that thing again.

So I try to have a little bit of everything. Including heart and liver and other things like that in my diet was very important for the variety. Basically if something is available in Ireland to eat - I eat it. :)

My Guiness Steak and Kidney pie is quite good after all these years too. My Chicken Hearts with garlic not far behind.

I remember cold, sliced tongue being sold at the deli counter, along with the ham and corned beef. Was quite tasty in a sandwich iirc. Obviously I didn’t overthink the source in those days.

DA is paid at the same rate as JSA, €220. The difference is in the penalties if you find a job, be it part time or full time.

Basically if you are on DA and you find a job then you can earn €165 a week and still keep all of your DA payment. You won’t lose your DA if you earn more the €165 either, it just reduces very slowly the more you earn.

That’s not the case if you’re in receipt of JSA.

Also if you’re on DA you are entitled to Free Travel and may be entitled to Living Alone Allowance and Household Benefits Package.

That’s not the case if you’re on JSA.

In my experience, most people holding down a job with DA don’t have a visible illness/disability.

Having a physical disability and trying to find a job is very difficult.

Manual choke on a motorbike, on a humid 3-4 degree C morning it was perfect conditions for carb icing. The rapid drawing of cold air through the carburettor(s) combined with the cooling effect of the latent heat of vaporisation of petrol cooled the carburettors enough that ice formed and froze the throttle open and/or choked off the air supply. The only cure was to turn the engine off and wait 3-4 minutes so engine heat would conduct and melt the ice. Of course this usually happened when the consequent wait would make you late for work.

Ironically if the air was actually freezing or close to it, it couldn't hold enough moisture to cause a problem.

Kawasaki went to the trouble of routing engine coolant around the carburettor float bowls on some bikes, which is a great way of solving a problem which existed half an hour ago before the engine had the chance to warm up so the coolant could help.

This is now a thing of the past with fuel injection.

That's actually a loss for me - some of the greatest characters you ever came across in your life was the village screwball who was directing you to go past Paddy Murphy's house and take the left after the 4th white house on the left...

That's an absolutely mad way to start your day. Are you talking two (relatively) healthy cereals or are you waking up every day putting Frosties in on top of your Coco Pops?

Oh yes, across from the GAA pitch.

Local butcher had spring lambs slaughtered and the fresh liver was snapped up. Had liver and onions that night!

Footing turf in the bog while the midges ate ya. Fecking hardship.

Living in the sticks with no car.

Doesn't everybody know where Paddy Murphy's is! I remember to never ask a Dub for directions, if it wasn't down their street they didn't seem to know.

It was tolerable when a screenshot of a QR code was accepted. Now Ticketmaster want their app open with a live data connection. I can see that working out great.

I prefer to be able to print but you can save to Google wallet I think.

Watching live TV is something I don't want to go back to (except sport - but sometimes not even then)

PVR it and skip the ads / halftime bullshit. Life is too short.

Being in an office full stop.