Do You Have a Moron-Deal Breaker Point of Reference with people?

nullzero

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118872149#Comment_118872149

Baby on board signs are there for emergency services personnel in case of an accident as small children can't unbuckle themselves and they would be a priority in such a situation.

A number of other posters addressed this without identifying the reason for something that I would have thought was elf evident.

mcmoustache

There are all sorts of insufferable types out there but there's very few of them that I encounter in my real life. For example, I wouldn't like to be in the company of over-religious types or outspoken vegans or crypto-bros but I don't actually meet these in my real, day-to-day life. I do meet the odd hardcore shinner in Irish language circles but I've been giving them a wide berth for as long as I've been an adult so I don't really think about it.

These days the thing that makes me avoid certain people is mostly their love of disinformation, hoaxes, conspiracy theories, whatever you want to call them. I'm actually coming across more and more of these in the real world now than I used to. I previously mentioned a friend who went down that rabbit hole and you could predict his opinions on practically any subject just by knowing what was being pushed by disinformation accounts on social media. The guy is otherwise intelligent but I found it impossible to have a discussion on anything when the "facts" that he was pulling from his head were anything but. Life's too short and I'm too old to be patient with people who should know better, could know better but willfully choose not to know better. It's not like information and disinformation are confusingly similar.

second toughest in the infants

I must say all these terms and labels nowadays like virtue signalling, gaslighting etc etc bore the arse off me.

Elf evident gave me a good laugh though. 😄

Atheists, judgmental morons of the highest order, who non stop want to talk atheism. How do you spot an Atheist ? You dont have to, they will tell you the first chance they get, then they will invite you to meet their non religious friends who meet up every week to talk about religion, they reccomend a book, and go to talks in which the head Atheists preachs to his congrigation.....

anewme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118874998#Comment_118874998

That’s an urban myth.

BaywatchHQ

Anyone who uses the word moron is on my cancel list.

anyone who thinks public sector workers are their employees or who maintains that public sector workers taxes don't count somehow

Muppet Man

Homeopathy... or anyone even suggesting alternative treatments. Foxtrot Oscar

pgj2015

People who blame the Irish Government for everything, and never stop bitching about them. Usually dole heads since they were 18, oh I hate the Government, they wont make me get a vaccine bla bla bla

These guys are the types that know it all, even though they haven't a pot to piss in, $hit car, $hit house, $hit clothes, no education, drink problem, weed problem etc but they somehow know the truth about the vaccines, 911 etc and the rest of us are just morons who know nothing. They hate the Guards as well obviously.

I don't hate the Irish Government and I pay a lot of tax to keep wasters like you alive, why exactly do you hate the Government? do you not like money for doing nothing all day?

El_Duderino 09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118875526#Comment_118875526

Id agree.

Plus peopel who hate government and think government is just a big waste of money, but don't actually have a clue how it work or why it works the way it does. Why things take time to get done and all the unseen work that goes into making things work at a local and national level.

Could things be done better? Yes, plenty of room for improvement. Is it a big waste of money? No. Its the basis on which our lives , as we know them, are built. We live in one of the least corrupt, onenpf the most pleasant, one of the most free countries the world, with plenty of room for improvement, but it's certainly not bad. But you wouldn't think any of that if you listen to the heads downnrhe pub who don't have a clue how it all works as well as it does.

Liberty_Bear

F**kers who dont know how to go through security at Dublin Airport properly - have you 100ml in a see through bag, make sure no other liquids in the bag, take off your belt/watch/boots and go through. Drives me nuts

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118875566#Comment_118875566

They thought they had such a hard life being asked to wear a mask in a supermarket. I wonder do they look at how hard life is in Ukraine now and feel ashamed at the way they carried on? All the pointless protests in Dublin about the restrictions, giving Guards (just doing their job) a hard time at checkpoints, fighting with shop or train staff about wearing a mask.

KieferFan69

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118875576#Comment_118875576

Idont think you need to use these bags anymore

Liberty_Bear

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118875807#Comment_118875807

Not in Shannon but two weeks ago in Dublin it was still the case

anewme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118875670#Comment_118875670

Would you believe I was just thinking back on this crowd today, thinking did half that stuff actually happen over the past two years?

The latest one of them is the woman harassing the the census man just doing his job she is filming him for her own protection (!) and saying she wants him to give her a copy of the contract where she agreed to complete the census. The Census man handled it very well, but should not have to put up with that in his job.

It brought it back to some of the other ones we've seen during COVID. The fella on the Bus Eireann bus refusing to wear his mask, abusing the other passengers and the driver who eventually called the Gardai. Then your man starts to abuse the Garda.

And dont forget the disgusting abuse Gemma O'Doherty gave young Garda Alan Liblique (RIP) and the tragic consequences. She wont ever have a days luck over that.

Once they start going on about the constitution, you just know its one of those individuals.

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118875912#Comment_118875912

They really are the saddest human beings alive. like those losers who do the "Audits" of police stations, warehouses, government buildings etc then fight with the police when they turn up. actually the biggest losers are the people who leave comments under the youtube videos of the auditors telling them how much of a legend they are lol

Greyfox

Idiots who make a complaint by abusing the front line staff or the underpaid person taking the call

hamburgham

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118872149#Comment_118872149

Yes, those stickers irritate the hell out of me. I always think “ thanks for telling me, I was thinking of ramming you but now I won’t”.

Jequ0n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118874424#Comment_118874424

It wouldn’t occur to me to park differently just because someone else has a child in their car, but it’s because I expect people to settle any damage they cause.

It does sound like you were burdened with a parking neighbour who breached their parameters though, which isn’t nice.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118876204#Comment_118876204

i wonder what motivates people to buy those…they cost 4 - 5 euro im seeing. Get yourself a happy meal instead.

attention seekers of the world unite and take over

dxhound2005

They can prevent people who are thinking of ramming other drivers from actually doing it.

Strumms

Ahhhh ok, I knew I was missing the obvious pertinence of their usage.. damn, it’s clear now…

Princess Calla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118876241#Comment_118876241

It was close to closing time and 3 spots were free together. I parked in the middle spot dead centre.

When I came back a car had reversed in on the child seat side their wheels were on the line and their wing mirror prevented the door from opening wider than an inch.

On the other side the car parked on the line too but I could squeeze in. So child went into backseat then into passenger seat while I reversed out then I obviously had to swap them into their proper seat which delayed a few people..ah well.

I'm extremely careful with my car doors all of them, so I've never marked another car......but if someone dents your car how will you prove it was them...unless you take pictures each time you leave your car.

hamburgham

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118876263#Comment_118876263

I knew someone who had two of those stickers on her car!!

hamburgham

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118876344#Comment_118876344

Yeah, ok, someone who is thinking of ramming a car gives a damn whether there’s a child in tha car? They can probably barely read.

dxhound2005

They probably have a short memory as well. Read what you wrote in post #259

Princess Calla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118876204#Comment_118876204

Why do you think it's directed personally at you?

You could also view it like an L plate , as in ..."I'm giving you warning that something might happen within my car out of my control but is going to cause me to react in a way you are not expecting so be a little more prepared to expect the unexpected"

So the driver is giving you a little heads up.

hamburgham

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118876514#Comment_118876514

That was sarcasm.

Andrea B.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118876564#Comment_118876564

That is the way I treated any car with kids hopping around in it when I rode a motorbike.

Higher potential for unexpected to happen, which it did one day, in form of lane change without indicator and then clipped me.

All the attention on kids, takes from driving attention.

kaltz

People who check-in to A&E in hospitals on Facebook. Especially when they have brought their kids in. And the people who respond with “Ah chick the poor thing” .