Recent content by David

What's even worse is the ugly, tacky, alien-looking one-off housing down every country lane and (now) in nearly every field across Ireland. The traditional Irish countryside has been absolutely destroyed over the past 3-4 decades thanks to corrupt local councillors and greedy farmers seeking to...

The modern US Democratic Party concerns itself far too much with bourgeois, mickey mouse issues such as who can be called xyz gender than with the bread and butter issues of the day - and they've paid for it yet again with yet another lost election. The average worker in the deindustrialised...

Do any of the Nordic countries have a scumbag problem on par with Ireland? Even the smallest village in this country has scumbags galore unfortunately - some varieties more dangerous than others.

Russia is all bluster at this stage, they're now little more than a client state of China. Moscow has two options, whether it likes it or not - be Beijing's poodle, or throw their lot in with the rest of Europe. The Russians will never again be a superpower in a world containing the USA, EU and...

Gullible Yanks with deep pockets make for a perfect target for the cute hoor. Sure, the cute hoor will laugh to himself about how these people with NYC, Boston and Chicago accents think of themselves as Irish because their great-great-great-great granny left on a transatlantic steamer from Cobh...

€1,400 a month to rent this room, with shared bathroom. https://www.daft.ie/share/tara-st-dublin-2/5798148

Is anyone else fucking sick of these Yank culture wars, whether they originate from the American left or so-called American right? That's basically all Arsefield's amounts to, aka. usless pissheads with nothing better to do than fight Yankee Dan's imaginary culture war on his behalf against...

Is Finland as sports-obsessed as countries such as Ireland, England and America? In Ireland if you're not into GAA, soccer and rugby you're seen as some kind of social pariah. Same thing if you quit drinking and don't go to the pub. One thing I like about the Japanese is that they don't treat...

If America withdraws into its pre-WW2 isolationism then there's nothing which could get in the way of Moscow re-establishing the old Soviet Union / Russian Empire. There's no combination of Western European armies which could stand their ground against Russian forces so close to home, nor would...

Gombeen landlords must laugh to themselves when they see hundreds of people begging to be allowed rent their shithole properties at exorbitant prices.

Excellent post. Would the physical condition of most Irish rentals even be legal up in the Nordic countries? I remember you saying that you had a rural landlord once...a big ignorant gombeen culchie stinking of Smithwick's and cow shite. Thirty years later and nothing has changed - only that...

€1,500 a month for this bedroom, with shared bathroom. Oh yeah and don't forget to book your place for the 1st of May (I kid you not). https://www.daft.ie/share/cathal-brugha-street-dublin-1/5640263 The kitchen you'll be sharing with 7-8 other people.

Very sad news, school shootings are not usually something you'd associate with safe and civilised Nordic societies.

Is mixing tobacco with weed popular up in Finland? I always felt like it fucks up the flavour, though it's cheaper and a way to spread out whatever quantity you've got on you.

Fair play to Germany. It's ironic that you can drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes, two much more dangerous and addictive substances, yet can go to prison for smoking weed. Cannabis isn't even physically addictive, yet trying to quit a nicotine addiction by contrast is pure physical and mental...