👻A Spectre Haunting Europe👻

Happy birthday king!

Cork city is so much more walkable and functional, I don’t really feel it lacks anything Dublin has, and you don’t have to walk multiple kilometres to get everything you need.

I’m with you, it’s about yearning for the boom, therefore recession indicator

Being in Cork City puts how shit Dublin City is into sharp focus for me. It is so extremely fucking terrible. Just unimaginably bad.

We’ve got a new whiteboy of the month looking next door neighbour and there’s this girl he’s riding that sounds like an owl during the act, happy for him but wtf

Fr, I also find you get way better results if you just do the vaguest terms ever because people doing clear outs do not know what they’re selling and will label like, a vintage F1 jacket as “coat”

Online shopping has really caused most people to lose art of rummaging. EBay is really the only place online where you can rummage for things these days.

Love getting RTE news alerts about my hometown and it’s just the sword murder guy again

Pakistani taxi guy I got home the last night lived in Dublin for 3 months, hated it, so moved to Cork for 9 year then to Galway: "I don't like Dublin people, they remind me too much of the English"

My favourite thing about the traffic changes around Pearse is how angry it’s made people who have the kind of mental illness that makes you voluntarily drive in Dublin City centre

There's this last minute rush that you grow accustomed to with ADHD, where you enter a sort of 'Clown Time' zone and do a months worth of work in a week then sleep for 2 weeks after

I'm circling the rim of the clown right now.

God I’ve never heard it described so accurately, it is clown time fr

Tidy Towns are a fascist organisation

Americans shouldn’t be allowed to be pope due to their insufficient capacity to feel the core Catholic emotion of shame

I don’t care if your small tank is fully electric, get that shit off the road and get a reasonably sized saloon or hatchback if you must drive at all.

I know all cars are bad for the planet but I truly think if you own one of those fuckass SUVs and your job is anything other than agricultural labourer or builder you need to be taxed into oblivion.

Your child does not need to be brought to their Dublin school in a Range Rover.

Love hurling, love being from Cork

I think as a society we really seem to have done a 180 on cancer prevention over the last 5 years

Vapes and those weird pouches are massive and fucking sunbeds are back in a big way.

Do we have some sort of collective amnesia about nicotine and sunbeds being bad? What’s going on?

Flipping my septum ring back out at the end of a day in my serious job, call that my out of of-face

Bike shed and security hut talk is the chicken fillet roll humour of Irish political discourse

One of us! One of us!

How did I use earphones without noise cancelling for years? I’m using them on the train because my noise cancelling ones died and I feel like I’m being tortured.

Sometimes when I’m in a bad mood I just pick a fight with some knob on Reddit.

This morning it’s with a landlord about how landlords are bad for the housing market and despite it taking place on a subreddit that can be quite sympathetic to landlords based on upvotes I am winning.

I know maps aren’t perfect and it’s hard to do maps correctly at small scale but ever since I’ve noticed one map that just didn’t have Great Island/Cobh on it I can’t stop seeing them.

The map in Irish passports doesn’t have Cobh on it.

We talk a lot about the grand stretch in the evening but there really isn’t enough love for the grand stretch in the morning, it has singlehandedly cured all my mental illnesses

That rumour I made up in a joke astrology column in college has made it to the 2 Johnnies, cursed

Insta needs to do a thing where if someone denies your follow request they stop suggesting them to you!

I had to create a new account (old one got nuked) and people I used to follow understandably sometimes deny my request because they think it’s a fake and it’s awkward they keep being suggested!

Lucy and Yak are really in their flop era I fear

Like it’s bad enough Americans acting like they’re the centre of the known universe but it’s so cringe when Irish people are doing it, decolonise your mind mo chara