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Random acts of kindness

  • 11-07-2008 3:02pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 35


    Any givers or receivers?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    /raises eyebrow


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 570 ✭✭✭stevecrow74


    once and a while i commit them.. rarely given back though:confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 Gina Brel


    I lived abroad before ,was really skint,in a shop realising I hadnt enough for cigs,the guy in the shop let me get them on credit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,183 ✭✭✭✭Will


    Usually kick small kids off bikes and shout "YOU WILL REMEMBEBR ME FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE YA LIL B!TCH" then scamper off.

    Pushed an old woman into a bin once and also hit a blind man a wallop for giving me cheek.

    Broke Cmol's leg too when i was pished


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    I get the odd email from exiled Nigerian princes offering me one million (1,000,000) euros if that counts.

    Is this the interesting thread you promised in the other thread?


    EDIT: Random acts of cruelty are way more interesting and commonplace. Years ago I was walking along with a friend when we heard a kid about 13 tell a little boy about 6 that a certain fat guy doesn't exist.

    We pulled the 13 yr old off his bike and dumped it over a high wall. I felt good.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,064 ✭✭✭minxie


    does it still happen in this day and age??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 Gina Brel


    Down with that sort of thing,careful now


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    Gina Brel wrote: »
    Any givers or receivers?


    Why, are you a fagg0t?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 Gina Brel


    Java boy sorry to disappoint,was going to start a thread about atypical people that one fancies...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 Gina Brel


    Am a heterosexual female


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,064 ✭✭✭minxie


    Spankeh wrote: »
    Why, are you a fagg0t?


    not nice at all:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭_feedback_


    Gina Brel wrote: »
    Any givers or receivers?

    Is this the "fun thread" you were talking about in the other... well.. not so fun thread ??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,374 ✭✭✭Gone West


    I balance out your random acts of kindness with my focused and premeditated acts of violence and meanness.

    Its karmasutral, ya know yim and yam. Chinese black and white swirl balance in nature and ****...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,761 ✭✭✭✭Winters


    I helped the big JF add some extra padding to the walls.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    Gina Brel wrote: »
    Am a heterosexual female
    But are you a giver or receiver?
    minxie1 wrote: »
    not nice at all:(
    not my fault my mind is in the gutter


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭nocal


    I loved that ad that was up in Dublin recently at the point

    "Commit random acts of kindness and senseless beauty"

    I have to admit to committing a few in my time and even receiving a few. It always brings a warm fuzzy glow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    I nominated Mord for troll of the year.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,183 ✭✭✭✭Will


    Ok on a serious note, yes I have helped a few old ladies across the road, a nun, a few blind people who lost their bearings. Odd homeless dude's on the way to work and even helped an old woman with her shopping one day.

    Nice-burt


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,761 ✭✭✭✭Winters


    Spankeh wrote: »
    not my fault my mind is in the gutter
    I'm going to make sure it stays there all weekend :3


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 Gina Brel


    Elvis 'dont rain on my parade'


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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Random acts of kindness are the best thing you can do. You can make someone's day just by doing the nice thing without reward.

    I try and do these wherever possible. I actually met a very close friend of mine through a random act of kindness.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    I'm going to make sure it stays there all weekend :3

    Especially when I see wincest before my eyes.


    >_<


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,274 ✭✭✭_feedback_


    Gina Brel wrote: »
    Elvis 'dont rain on my parade'

    was actually Bobby Darin that recordered that love, not Elvis


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭Thrill


    Theres nothing wrong with committing acts of kindness, just don't get caught.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,371 ✭✭✭Homer


    Shagged a couple of fat birds in my day? That cound as a random act of kindness? Does in my book. And they were thankfull I can tel ya :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Jet Black


    Wilburt wrote: »
    Ok on a serious note, yes I have helped a few old ladies across the road, a nun, a few blind people who lost their bearings. Odd homeless dude's on the way to work and even helped an old woman with her shopping one day.

    Nice-burt

    Dont waste your time they wont put out trust me Ive been there.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,183 ✭✭✭✭Will


    *noted*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Jet Black


    I was standing at a bus stop in town it was pissing rain out no shelter anywhere. I was soaked, then some asia girl who lived just beside the bus stop came up to me and gave her brolly. Made my week so it did.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    heymcflyx wrote: »
    Dont waste your time they wont put out trust me Ive been there.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 dogsbody2


    I was in a shopping centre recently and a woman ahead of me in the queue enquired of the price of an untagged item, a man's causal shirt. Disappointed that she was 10 euro short of the asking price, she edged away from the counter. I had just reached into my pocket in rediness to pay for my own purchase and in my hand was a sum of money including a 10 euro note. Spontaneously the money was handed to the unknown woman and she was able to pay for her chosen article, a birthday present for her boyfriend. Everybody happy. Acts of kindness, yes they happen! Are they random?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    dogsbody2 wrote: »
    I was in a shopping centre recently and a woman ahead of me in the queue enquired of the price of an untagged item, a man's causal shirt. Disappointed that she was 10 euro short of the asking price, she edged away from the counter. I had just reached into my pocket in rediness to pay for my own purchase and in my hand was a sum of money including a 10 euro note. Spontaneously the money was handed to the unknown woman and she was able to pay for her chosen article, a birthday present for her boyfriend. Everybody happy. Acts of kindness, yes they happen! Are they random?

    Hate to burst your bubble, but she probably brought it back 10 minutes later for a refund and now her and her boyfriend are laughing it up spending your tenner on the slots in Bray.


  • Posts: 5,869 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Paid an English woman's fare into town on the bus about 2 months ago cos all she had was a fiver. She tried to give me the fiver, but i refused. She went out of her way to come upstairs on the bus to thank me again before getting off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 392 ✭✭Twinkle-star15


    When I was younger I gave a woman back a fiver she'd dropped. My brother then started yelling at me "why did you give it back? You could've kept it!" (he was only like 5, he's not a selfish b*stard anymore :P). She heard him, and turned around and gave me two euro :P! It's like, super-speed karma :P.

    xxx


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭eamoss


    Few weeks ago I was getting a bus after a night out and I didnt really know where I was so pulled over the bus over asked if it was going to O'Connell it was so I take out my wallet to pay but all I had was a €20. I had used up all my change getting the nightlink and a 3in1 :o a few hours before. The bus driver took pity on a hungover me and let me on for free.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭taidghbaby


    i sometimes let people go in front of me in tesco if they have only 1 or 2 items and ive a basket load...........

    modern day mother teresa so i am!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 381 ✭✭beautiation


    I'm 6"5, so when it's raining I lean over random small people to keep them dry.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,845 ✭✭✭Jet Black


    I'm 6"5, so when it's raining I lean over random small people to keep them dry.


    fuking class:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 334 ✭✭zeusnero


    was attending a trade show in Las Vegas earlier this year - about an hour after i arrived at the show i realised I didn't have my wallet (with upwards of $500, credit cards etc inside...) Cue panic. Went outside and talked to one of the stewards who was in charge of the shuttle buses to the fair and out of nowhere he gave me a $100 bill to get back to the hotel.

    Anyhoo found the wallet in my hotel room, got a taxi back to the trade show and gave the steward back his $100 + a $20 dollar tip, which he appreciated.

    I've also been extremely lucky when I've lost things for real - have had multiple items returned and I always try to get in touch the owner if I find something. Also, always donate cash I find to charity if I can't get it back to the owner (helps to build up Karma points ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Despite being really busy this morning, I stopped and gave a nun's car a jump start.

    But, fvck how can I put this... She (the nun) had MASSIVE tits & I couldn't but help hit on her. I think she was flattered really.

    Anyway, I felt good about the jump start and bad about the learing!.
    I didn't hit on her, but I did checkout her MASSIVE boobs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Volvoboy


    Let a single mother go ahead of me in a doctors waiting office. Cant stand seeing the childer sick.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭Ann22


    I'm very kind.:) I always help old people in the street and stuff. So's my hubbie, he gives strangers lifts. Beggars annoy me though. An old Romanian gypsy woman begs outside our main post office.I sometimes give her money 'cos I'm afraid she'l put a curse on me. She stares at me and mumbles strange words when i pass.:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭Ann22


    Volvoboy wrote: »
    Let a single mother go ahead of me in a doctors waiting office. Cant stand seeing the childer sick.

    I did that recently. The child's nose was spewing blood all over the place and he was screaming. Didn't have much choice really.:o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭peanuthead


    This is a shocker!!

    So was out in the town of the county my boyf is from. And we park up the van and go do a bit of shopping. When we come back to the van we realise that we totally forgot to pay for parking. It was a genuine error. Well, since we had been given a ticket, we said there was no point moving the van while we went to get something to eat.

    While we are in the restaurant, I see the parking warden walking along the road tap tapping on her machine, printing out loads of tickets, looking very proud of herself. I decided to go out and ask her how I was going to pay the fine, as the next day was a Sunday, so council office closed, and after that we would be back in Dublin. Now I was fully aware that I was in the wrong, and it was never my intention to try get out of paying the fine.

    I approached her, said "excuse me". She looked up at me, as if I had just disturbed her form something extremely important, at this point i was thinking to myself "oh feck!!" So I asked her how do I go about paying the fine. Nothing could have prepared me for what happened next...
    ...Out breaks this smile on her face, and she takes the ticket off me, and says, forget about it! I couldn't believe it, thanked her, and legged it before she changed her mind!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,271 ✭✭✭irish_bob


    a few yrs ago an eastern european kid who was no more than 15 called to my house selling paintings , for whatever reason i hadnt 2 shillings to rub together on me , he told me he was hungry so i brought him into the house and made him a sandwich and sent him off with about half a dozen bags of crisps , cheap dunnes stores ones but he seemed happy enough


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


    Random acts of kindness ? loads of em .They usually cancel out any pangs of guilt i might be having about something or other , therefore balancing out my state of mind at the time much better :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    peanuthead wrote: »
    This is a shocker!!

    So was out in the town of the county my boyf is from. And we park up the van and go do a bit of shopping. When we come back to the van we realise that we totally forgot to pay for parking. It was a genuine error. Well, since we had been given a ticket, we said there was no point moving the van while we went to get something to eat.

    While we are in the restaurant, I see the parking warden walking along the road tap tapping on her machine, printing out loads of tickets, looking very proud of herself. I decided to go out and ask her how I was going to pay the fine, as the next day was a Sunday, so council office closed, and after that we would be back in Dublin. Now I was fully aware that I was in the wrong, and it was never my intention to try get out of paying the fine.

    I approached her, said "excuse me". She looked up at me, as if I had just disturbed her form something extremely important, at this point i was thinking to myself "oh feck!!" So I asked her how do I go about paying the fine. Nothing could have prepared me for what happened next...
    ...Out breaks this smile on her face, and she takes the ticket off me, and says, forget about it! I couldn't believe it, thanked her, and legged it before she changed her mind!!!!

    Sounds like the nicest meter maid since Rita.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,268 ✭✭✭mountainyman


    I live near a convent. This fellow came up to the house begging. He said the nuns would help him out but the secretaru said they were too busy.

    I believed him and I gave him a tenner 'for a hostel'.
    Why wouldn't I help him out the poor Christian.

    He keeps calling back though, he hasn't asked for money. He wants my time and a sympathetic ear. But I haven't much time to give.

    I resent him a bit the poor old madman. I feel guilty about that. I suppose I will give hima tenner if he asks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,738 ✭✭✭Naos


    Blind woman at a bus stop asked me to let her know when her bus was coming.

    I let my bus go by a few times as we waited on hers (irregular). She told me to get on my bus when it came and I had to keep lying to her everytime she asked if this was my bus...

    RAOK > White Lie


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,311 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    I live near a convent. This fellow came up to the house begging. He said the nuns would help him out but the secretaru said they were too busy.

    I believed him and I gave him a tenner 'for a hostel'.
    Why wouldn't I help him out the poor Christian.

    He keeps calling back though, he hasn't asked for money. He wants my time and a sympathetic ear. But I haven't much time to give.

    I resent him a bit the poor old madman. I feel guilty about that. I suppose I will give hima tenner if he asks.
    Kill him and leave him on your porch. They're like crows. It'll help keep others away.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Naos wrote: »
    Blind woman at a bus stop asked me to let her know when her bus was coming.

    I let my bus go by a few times as we waited on hers (irregular). She told me to get on my bus when it came and I had to keep lying to her everytime she asked if this was my bus...

    RAOK > White Lie

    Lied to a blind woman. Tut tut tut.


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