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Those of YOU who put on grave hard facial expressions with every rain shower:

You should display on the breast of your raincoat a line medals paper or whatever for each shower of rain / drizzle you've been through.

Well Adobe well done etc.

I don't see the need to have them on products you'd only have in the fridge particularly milk. They should only be on drinks where you might drop the cap outdoors.

Controversial opinion: I find grown adults who drink bottles of pop and packets of crisps, how will I put it, a bit juvenile. And I don't get how people can eat meals with a drink that is basically liquid sugar. Yuck, I feel ill at the the thought of it. I grew out of all that naturally without even trying.

With no cap theirs a small chance milk could get contaminated. I agree with your second paragraph

We should bring back duels.

"Sir, you have misgendered me. I demand satisfaction. Choose your weapon."

Those Godfather films - Jayus they are so long drawn out and boring. Well shot with some good bits in them admittedly (De Niro in particular). But overall they really drag, it is a real slog.

For example, Godfather II was on RTE recently. Honestly, I fell asleep watching it!

Thinking about it, I have a schoolfriend who's ears stuck out. He was a good looking guy and a sound man and nobody even slagged him about it. It was too on the nose to slag him. A few years after school he got it sorted and it was a great job. Nobody would notice unless they knew him before. Also know a woman who had a double mastectomy after breast cancer and she got herself a pair of implants that suit her. She's slight and the breasts are small to suit her. Great job.

So there are probably plenty of people like that with ears and noses like yous said. But if I see someone with obvious duck lips and cheek fillers, it's always bad. There must be a point in the consultation where they ask if the customer wants it to be a subtle enhancement or if they really want everyone to know they had work done.

I se what you're saying but I think how you treat other people is probably more innate than that. I think you took that from your customer service experience but you were probably inclined to do it anyway. I worked customer facing jobs as young lad too and I think some people would enjoy punching down, as they might see it, all the same if they had actually done it. "It was sh1t for me when I did it so it will be sh1t for you too", that kind of attitude.

Some people are just really awkward around being served and it comes across as rudeness. I worked in a very rural golf club and some of the rudeness was just people who weren't used to service. They would have been happier getting it for themselves than ordering through a waiter. Didn't make any small talk or eye contact or anything to make it go smoother and just sort of grunted. It was frustrating at the time but in hindsight, it was mostly awkwardness on their part.

Not to take from the occasional d1ck who you'd also meet.

Yes, my intention was to say it's worse because it's harmful, which is worse than trashy. Orange fake tan won't kill you, but melanoma will.

Yes it is, as in any skin color is beautiful as it is and there is no need to change it. If you read something else between the lines then that's your problem, there was nothing there.

We humans have very little in the way of natural defenses against the elements like sun, rain, heat, cold. That's why we wear clothes and don't expose ourselves naked to the elements. I mean, there are also other reasons, but you know what I mean.

Wouldn't agree at all tbh. They're still athletes who hit peak physical conditions in spite of their disabilities. It's genuinely incredible. You obviously aren't required to be interested but from a sporting perspective, it's very much a great thing.

Yes we were told that at school as well as about plump women being the most sexually desirable back in the Victorian era.

That generation would have loved to live in our times where plump is more plentiful 😆

I think having a tan is still very much a trait of the working classes.

We should have an exit / departure tax for every person leaving the country.

Not sure how we'd control that for anyone leaving through airports or ferryports in the north though. Maybe anyone leaving the island might work?

The ar5e is going to fall out of soccer within 15 years.

It's at the point of saturation, and unless there's rules brought in, the Super League will become a reality and with it the decline of the sport, and possibly the permanent decline of international soccer.

iIt only works if you level the playing field a bit. Even City v Real has gotten boring.

FIFA and UEFA are gangsters, that's what they are. They are selling a very popular product, and that's not uncommon among gangsters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_FIFA_corruption_case

Broadly speaking, men get better at new relationships whereas women get worse.

A 35-year-old man going into a new relationship will usually be a better version of himself at 25. More cooking / cleaning, less going out, more home-focused etc. Practically every man I know around this age is a better version of themselves. A 35-year-old woman going into a new relationship is usually going to be a more independently-minded and more cautious thanks to previous bad experiences.

Basically, men drift towards being more capable of being a good partner over time whereas women drift towards being more independent. Anecdotally, basically all the 35+ year old single women I know seem to be really proud of being independent and single. No single men I know gain any self-worth from being single. "I don't need a man" is a common idea in popular culture. It's seen as powerful and independent. There is nothing powerful about a man saying they don't need a woman.

There's also a really common notion amongst women that a man has to be equal to them or better, whereas it's pretty well-established that men don't care about a woman's education / wealth / job etc. I think this becomes more pronounced for women as they get older with "What does he bring to the table?" being asked while men don't require that their new partner meet some standard.

I think society has a really simplistic "younger women have more value because they're hotter and more fertile" take on dating and age gaps etc., but I think it's more nuanced and has more to do with attitudes and attachments to independence. I think for men, a 25-year-old woman is easier to date than a 35-year-old, and for women, a 35-year-old man is better to date than a 25-year-old.