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'Bending the Rules' a tad?

  • 27-10-2009 9:36pm
    #1
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭


    Do you ever do it?

    I had a woman whinging at me at the train station today because she didn't believe I was 15 (OK, so I'm not - she doesn't have to make a fucking song and dance about it). I couldn't be arsed paying the adult fare, I thought I'd try and get a childs ticket.
    "A child's single please"
    "*Smirk* Who's that for then?"
    "Me"
    "How old are you?"
    "15"
    'Hrmmmm... whing whing etc. the police will catch you. Be scared etc.'

    My nan was the best for it. I remember once coming back to her car, finding a traffic warden standing by it. "This your car, madam". "It is". "You're parked in a disabled bay, do you have a badge."
    "Ah sure I do, I just don't like putting it out in front of the kiddies. Scares them". :pac:

    Or the time she drove the wrong way down a slip-road, and got caught by the coppers.
    "You see.. it's my auntie. She's in hospital and I'm just so worried about her" They gave her a police escort to the hospital. She went in, waited until they left, then drove off again.

    Legend.


    My mom takes after my nan.
    My dad on the other hand, does everything by the book. If he was given too much change, he'd take it back.

    What kind of person are you? Bend the rules or completely adhere to them?


    TL;DR: Do you follow rules or not?


Comments

  • #2
    Le King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,092 ✭✭✭Le King


    Bend the rules?

    Murder would be a fairly big bend, wouldn't it?


  • #3
    genericguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    brummynan sounds hot.


  • #4
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    genericguy wrote: »
    brummynan sounds hot.

    Necrophile


  • #5
    Borneo Fnctn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,378 ✭✭✭Borneo Fnctn


    I don't care if she's my cousin. I'm knockin' them boots again tonight.


  • #6
    K-Ren
    Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭K-Ren


    genericguy wrote: »
    brummynan sounds hot.

    She's like Burt Reynolds, except with a vagina.


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  • #7
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    It's wrong I tell 's ya ...all wrong


  • #8
    genericguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    brummytom wrote: »
    Necrophile

    oops... sorry :o


  • #9
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    I got away with child train tickets (15 yrs and under) until this year. I'm 20 now. Don't know how, I'm 5'9" and don't look young at all.


  • #10
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    jackpalance wrote: »
    I don't care if she's my cousin. I'm knockin' them boots again tonight.
    Yay!. An obscure reference that I get.


  • #11
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    2 wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=62723245&postcount=16

    I'm not Bono :confused:


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  • #12
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    genericguy wrote: »
    oops... sorry :o

    Sorry.. I probably should have put "My late nan"/"My nan (God rest her soul)" to avoid embarrassment :P


  • #13
    genericguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭genericguy


    brummytom wrote: »
    Sorry.. I probably should have put "My late nan"/"My nan (God rest her soul)" to avoid embarrassment :P

    or maybe i should just shut the hell up... :)


  • #14
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    I'm out of college 3 years and I still buy student cinema tickets. I book online and collect in the machines so they never check.

    They did 3 weeks ago though. Some weirdo on the collection made us go back and buy Adult tickets :(


  • #15
    segaBOY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭segaBOY


    Bending the rules is pretty much the norm in Ireland. I have found a friend of mine from London who has been living here for the last 4 years is only getting used to it now.


  • #16
    Diego Smartly
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭Diego Smartly


    Ahh of course bending the rules is alright; to be honest i'd do anything i thought id get away with, especially if it needs or has to be done. but mostly like ye said, just couldnt be arsed.

    I think rihanna said it best when she said

    "Lifes a game and its not fair
    i break the rules so i dont care"

    :D


  • #17
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Didn't the bankers bend the rules just a bit ?

    Oh wait ..they have their own rules right ?


  • #18
    Swizz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 643 ✭✭✭Swizz


    Lia_lia wrote: »
    I got away with child train tickets (15 yrs and under) until this year. I'm 20 now. Don't know how, I'm 5'9" and don't look young at all.

    Pics or youve a baby face!


  • #19
    rannerap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,900 ✭✭✭rannerap


    im 21 and got away with a kids ticket three times last week:( id be more sad if i wasnt so damn broke and had to resort to it in the first place


  • #20
    Lia_lia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    Swizz wrote: »
    Pics or youve a baby face!

    Haha, but I really don't! There are plenty of pics of me here. Don't know how I got away with it. €20 return from Kerry to Dublin was pretty class. I would have been flat out broke if I payed the student price a couple of times a month.


  • #21
    sky88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    used to get away with child fares untill i was about 18 ive gone downhill since then


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  • #22
    silverharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,676 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    Sarannewrap wrote: »
    im 21 and got away with a kids ticket three times last week:( id be more sad if i wasnt so damn broke and had to resort to it in the first place

    ah man, buy your own tickets and leave the kids alone

    A belief in gender identity involves a level of faith as there is nothing tangible to prove its existence which, as something divorced from the physical body, is similar to the idea of a soul. - Colette Colfer



  • #23
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Rules. I break lots of rules. I speed a lot. Never got a penalty point either. At least I don't think I ever got penalty points. I don't actually know because my car is registered to a house I moved out of a year ago. I also don't have a TV licence.
    Yeah. I suck. The point is though, would you always just follow a rule that you don't agree with? Like are some laws not just completely fucked up and wrong? I think more than a few are. Not to get into specifics but jesus. Some of the sh1t that people are enforcing is Victorian. For years and years I worked in jobs where I had to show up to a shitty basement office with no air con in a shirt and tie. I hated that so I just stopped doing it. Nobody said a thing to me.
    Some rules just don't fucking work any more. Hell even take after hours. We have rules that just don't work a lot of the time so there's an inconsistency because you have to decide whether the rule is the rule or common sense is the rule or your own warped opinion is the rule.
    There are lots and lots and lots of times I want to key some fucker's car for whatever reason. Parking in a disable space when you aren't disabled for example. That makes my blood boil. But I can't take that step because there is one rule of the road I always adhere to. You do not fuck with another person's vehicle. And yet people are paid to clamp other peoples cars.

    Rules are not made to be blindly followed. Rules are there to solve a problem that exists around the time that the rule was made. As such rules and laws are all too often reflective of a random social constuct that only exists for a short time. Therefore the questioning of these rules should be a continuous and valid discussion. If you don't agree with it, say why. Or break the rules. Because if they're that fucking stupid that I can see that they're stupid then they're too goddamn stupid for me to adhere to blindly.


  • #24
    itsallaboutheL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭itsallaboutheL


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    Rules. I break lots of rules. I speed a lot. Never got a penalty point either. At least I don't think I ever got penalty points. I don't actually know because my car is registered to a house I moved out of a year ago. I also don't have a TV licence.
    Yeah. I suck. The point is though, would you always just follow a rule that you don't agree with? Like are some laws not just completely fucked up and wrong? I think more than a few are. Not to get into specifics but jesus. Some of the sh1t that people are enforcing is Victorian. For years and years I worked in jobs where I had to show up to a shitty basement office with no air con in a shirt and tie. I hated that so I just stopped doing it. Nobody said a thing to me.
    Some rules just don't fucking work any more. Hell even take after hours. We have rules that just don't work a lot of the time so there's an inconsistency because you have to decide whether the rule is the rule or common sense is the rule or your own warped opinion is the rule.
    There are lots and lots and lots of times I want to key some fucker's car for whatever reason. Parking in a disable space when you aren't disabled for example. That makes my blood boil. But I can't take that step because there is one rule of the road I always adhere to. You do not fuck with another person's vehicle. And yet people are paid to clamp other peoples cars.

    Rules are not made to be blindly followed. Rules are there to solve a problem that exists around the time that the rule was made. As such rules and laws are all too often reflective of a random social constuct that only exists for a short time. Therefore the questioning of these rules should be a continuous and valid discussion. If you don't agree with it, say why. Or break the rules. Because if they're that fucking stupid that I can see that they're stupid then they're too goddamn stupid for me to adhere to blindly.

    For you lazy bastards the TL;DR is .. DR.B agrees with Jack and he too wants to fuck his cousin


  • #25
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    itsallaboutheL wrote: »
    For you lazy bastards the TL;DR is .. DR.B agrees with Jack and he too wants to fuck his cousin

    I don't want to fuck my cousin, but a good few people on AH do if I remember correctly :P


  • #26
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    I also don't have a TV licence.

    Neither do I. But then, I don't have a TV.
    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    For years and years I worked in jobs where I had to show up to a shitty basement office with no air con in a shirt and tie. I hated that so I just stopped doing it. Nobody said a thing to me.

    Apart from during my probation period I never wore a tie in work. Used to keep one in my drawer in case a client called in and some days, where I had official business, I would wear it from start to end but otherwise it was essentially an arbitrary and uncomfortable imposition which I never felt important to obey.

    Having said that, for the most part, I would say, trivial or not, rules are there to be followed.


  • #27
    itsallaboutheL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭itsallaboutheL


    brummytom wrote: »
    I don't want to fuck my cousin, but a good few people on AH do if I remember correctly :P

    Hey Hey if the table's smooth i'm gonna play air hockey....


    and no i don't know what i'm implying either... or do i?


  • #28
    Corkfeen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    brummytom wrote: »
    I don't want to fuck my cousin, but a good few people on AH do if I remember correctly :P

    You can't blame us for that :D They are fantastic looking.
    http://www.toy-train-table-plans-store.com/images/thomas-and-friends-annie-and-clarabel-2-pack.jpg

    I've been guilty of using a childs ticket on the luas and generally try to get away with what I can. ;)


  • #29
    davyjose
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    Thing is ... there comes a point in every man's life where pretending to be a child is a rule that should never, ever, ever be broken


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