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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Beyondgone


    buried wrote: »
    You might have had enough of education so soon out of college OP, but educating yourself as a hobby is very beneficial and enjoyable. I like to read about history, gives a good perspective on life considering most of recorded history is nothing but a total violent plague ridden bloodbath, so I'm glad I'm reading about those times and not actually living in most of them.
    Learning a language would be a good educational hobby also, especially if you want to get into the tourism industry on the west coast. Good to have dreams like that, realistic and attainable. Life is tough but you do have your health, time and the options to get through the rest of it the best you can. The vast majority of people on the planet don't or didn't have those options at all.

    Or anal. People pay well for anal.

    I think there may be a whiff of insincerity off this thread. Not the OP, but in general.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    4ensic15 wrote: »
    Buy a bicycle. It is possible to cycle between any 2 points in county Dublin within 45 minutes. I had crap jobs and gave them all up. Now self employed but my time seems even shorter.

    Thirty miles in 45 minutes....

    Have you thought about entering the tour de france?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,893 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Glenster wrote: »
    Thirty miles in 45 minutes....

    Have you thought about entering the tour de france?

    If you get a good tow from a lorry



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,572 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Set up a business.
    I worked 8 to 6 with 1 hour morning and evening commute on top for 3 years after leaving college. Couldn't figure out how people do this for a lifetime as it's really not living at all.
    I got a little business going and packed up the job.
    I probably work just as many hours but it's my choice and the more I do, the more I get paid. I can schedule jobs to give mysslf a day off etc.
    Self employment had many downsides too but at least you get some kind of a life.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Arcade_Tryer


    Working on that. Although apparently it's not good to hop from one job to another. You have to stay in jobs you hate for years just so it doesn't look bad on your CV. **** that though, I couldn't do it.
    Nonsense. Only two things you have to do in life; pay taxes and die. Everything else can be negotiated.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 652 ✭✭✭DanielODonnell


    I do a lot of weight lifting so i will probably be on Disability allowance by the time i'm 50, i can't take 2 steps now aged 25 without my joints cracking.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    Lads this thread is not about anyone's mother or prostitution.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,656 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    God. The woman is nuts. She was mouthing on at me about respect. Jesus Christ. I'm doing my bit. Going out the door to work, to bring in a wage that is **** and paying my way at home. I'm sorry there was a recession, my pay is ****e, the rental accommodation is nil...

    ...Can't wait for the day she is old and frail, if I'm still around.

    Hard to imagine why she'd need to talk to you about respect alright... You're an adult, if living at home is that bad, then find a houseshare somewhere.

    What more does she want from me.

    Respect, apparently....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    How would I go about getting work as a prostitute?

    Where do I send my CV?

    I like sucking cock, anal, getting bound, spanked and belted.

    The recession is over. Instead of constantly moaning about your job, your living situation, your life, etc. on boards.ie, get off your arse and do something about it. The reason you're in a shit job where you're getting taken advantage of is because you allow yourself to be.

    I'm pretty sure this is a troll account anyway so dunno why I'm bothering to reply :pac:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭Arcade_Tryer


    The recession is over.
    The effects can still linger for a lot of people. There is a reason economists call it the Great Recession. It's not nearly as simple as you suggest. However, if you really hate your job, there are more now opportunities available now to move into fortunately.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 664 ✭✭✭9or10




    What do you do to take your mind off these things? How do you forget about the capitalist slog to old age?

    I know I'll be called a whiny millennial and that's ok because I am a whiny millennial and there's not much I can do about that.

    Have you thought of a career in our much admired political system?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    The recession is over. Instead of constantly moaning about your job, your living situation, your life, etc. on boards.ie, get off your arse and do something about it. The reason your in a shit job where you're getting taken advantage of is because you allow yourself to be.

    I'm pretty sure this is a troll account anyway so dunno why I'm bothering to reply :pac:

    This.

    The recession is over and while there are a ton of industries that are gone and likely will never return, there are plenty that are thriving.

    Now is one of the best times to be a start-up and to be an entrepreneur. In Galway alone there are 4 major startup hubs that cater to businesses that probably would have struggled massively five years ago.

    The recession isn't an issue. You're just in the wrong jobs.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭pumpkin4life


    If you're in a specialized industry with a good skillset around Dublin city centre or so, then things have certainly gotten better.

    Outside of that though, things have remained pretty stagnant since 2010 or so.

    There's a reason that Fine Gael and Labour got a wipeout in the last election.

    Turns out people who can't find jobs don't like being told "Let's keep the recovery going" posters with Enda's smug grin all over it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    If you're in a specialized industry with a good skillset around Dublin city centre or so, then things have certainly gotten better.

    Outside of that though, things have remained pretty stagnant since 2010 or so.

    There's a reason that Fine Gael and Labour got a wipeout in the last election.

    Turns out people who can't find jobs don't like being told "Let's keep the recovery going" posters with Enda's smug grin all over it.

    Ah come now, the unemployment rate is down at its lowest in years and that's not just from people in a specialized industry in Dublin getting jobs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,498 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    You need to sort out your commute. That's what killing you.
    Find a new job closer to home even if it pays less.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    How do you forget about the capitalist slog to old age?

    It's quite easy really - I just recall the COMMUNIST slog, where you'd be damn lucky if there actually was any old age.

    Is anti-capitalism really just anti-accepting reality that goods and services are limited in supply and you have to exchange wages to get them, coupled with the belief in a socialist utopia where everyone can have everything if only the man would let us?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,275 ✭✭✭✭josip


    ... Maybe give her a bit of slack.

    And a few sticks, so she can keep the fire going.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Sad that so many people end up in careers that they hate.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 694 ✭✭✭Broken Hearted Road


    mike_ie wrote: »

    Respect, apparently....



    I come from a broken family. My father left a long time ago and never provided for us. Growing up things were always though. We made the best of things though. You don't climb out from that poverty over night.

    When I started work, I knew what I wanted to do. Save some money and put it towards to house because so much was neglected. I was able to chip in for a new sitting room. I was able to pay for a new kitchen and bathroom.

    Eventually I moved and rented for a few years, then bang the recession came and my wage was hit. I tried so hard to hold onto my apartment but I couldn't afford the rent on my place any more. The three months there was very, very, very hard. I had to move back home. My mam was happy with this too.

    I find now, there's nothing working out for me anymore. I do enjoy the work I do but it's just not working any more for me. My income is less than 300 a week. Out from that comes so much for bills and groceries etc.

    Yesterday was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I'm breaking my back every day to bring in a wage and help at home. Then she back tracked on what we talked about allowing me to have my boyfriend over and went on a nutty rant about respect, respect, respect, respect and bla, bla, bla and 'you're moving too fast with this last'. It's a movie night. To spend the night together and to save a bit doing so.

    Respect goes two ways and I'm doing all I can. A little courtesy wouldn't go astray.

    Another deal breaker, I have a brother at home and he pays nothing. He has a girlfriend and a new thing from him, he takes her home and into his room. She doesn't like it and rants away to me about it but she won't say a thing to him in fear of her baby boy running.

    I'll be packing things up here by May. May is the deadline for me to get a houseshare in the city and hopefully change jobs in the summer too.

    Mam is going to crumble when all the bills will be on her back with no one to chip in. She came to me before when I was renting 'for loans' of me to pay bills.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,986 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Public transportation in Dublin is so appallingly bad that unless you have a car or a fortunate to live beside a rail/Luas line, a 4.5 hour commute just WITHIN the city is very possible. It's a scandal and I don't know how people put up with it.

    As for working crappy jobs, most of us had to do it at some stage or other. I agree it's very soul destroying. Try to focus on the positives and not on the negatives. I know I wouldn't want to be in my mid 20s again. Lots of insecurity.

    As for unreasonable parents, well that's why most people move out of the family home - to gain independence. And if you can't afford any independent accommodation, blame the politicians.

    Honestly why there aren't hundreds of thousands marching in the street over the housing and transport crises in Dublin is beyond me. Mass protest is the ONLY way things will get changed. Giving out on an Internet forum won't change anything.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    I come from a broken family. My father left a long time ago and never provided for us. Growing up things were always though. We made the best of things though. You don't climb out from that poverty over night.

    When I started work, I knew what I wanted to do. Save some money and put it towards to house because so much was neglected. I was able to chip in for a new sitting room. I was able to pay for a new kitchen and bathroom.

    Eventually I moved and rented for a few years, then bang the recession came and my wage was hit. I tried so hard to hold onto my apartment but I couldn't afford the rent on my place any more. The three months there was very, very, very hard. I had to move back home. My mam was happy with this too.

    I find now, there's nothing working out for me anymore. I do enjoy the work I do but it's just not working any more for me. My income is less than 300 a week. Out from that comes so much for bills and groceries etc.

    Yesterday was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I'm breaking my back every day to bring in a wage and help at home. Then she back tracked on what we talked about allowing me to have my boyfriend over and went on a nutty rant about respect, respect, respect, respect and bla, bla, bla and 'you're moving too fast with this last'. It's a movie night. To spend the night together and to save a bit doing so.

    Respect goes two ways and I'm doing all I can. A little courtesy wouldn't go astray.

    Another deal breaker, I have a brother at home and he pays nothing. He has a girlfriend and a new thing from him, he takes her home and into his room. She doesn't like it and rants away to me about it but she won't say a thing to him in fear of her baby boy running.

    I'll be packing things up here by May. May is the deadline for me to get a houseshare in the city and hopefully change jobs in the summer too.

    Mam is going to crumble when all the bills will be on her back with no one to chip in. She came to me before when I was renting 'for loans' of me to pay bills.

    Well that's a lot more measured than your horrible horrible post yesterday.

    On mother's day of all days you called your mother (who raised you on her own) a cnut and wished for the day when she's old and frail (presumably so you can treat her like ****).

    You don't realise how lucky you are to have a home to go back to. Lots of young people out there who don't have the option to go back home.

    And as for jumping in a coffin because your Mam won't let you have movie night, get over yourself, seriously.

    Did it occur to you that maybe she was in bad mood because you weren't treating her nicely on Mothers Day?

    Really you will only appreciate your mother when you become a mother yourself and realise how hard it is.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭donkeykong5


    mike_ie wrote: »

    Respect, apparently....



    I come from a broken family. My father left a long time ago and never provided for us. Growing up things were always though. We made the best of things though. You don't climb out from that poverty over night.

    When I started work, I knew what I wanted to do. Save some money and put it towards to house because so much was neglected. I was able to chip in for a new sitting room. I was able to pay for a new kitchen and bathroom.

    Eventually I moved and rented for a few years, then bang the recession came and my wage was hit. I tried so hard to hold onto my apartment but I couldn't afford the rent on my place any more. The three months there was very, very, very hard. I had to move back home. My mam was happy with this too.

    I find now, there's nothing working out for me anymore. I do enjoy the work I do but it's just not working any more for me. My income is less than 300 a week. Out from that comes so much for bills and groceries etc.

    Yesterday was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I'm breaking my back every day to bring in a wage and help at home. Then she back tracked on what we talked about allowing me to have my boyfriend over and went on a nutty rant about respect, respect, respect, respect and bla, bla, bla and 'you're moving too fast with this last'. It's a movie night. To spend the night together and to save a bit doing so.

    Respect goes two ways and I'm doing all I can. A little courtesy wouldn't go astray.

    Another deal breaker, I have a brother at home and he pays nothing. He has a girlfriend and a new thing from him, he takes her home and into his room. She doesn't like it and rants away to me about it but she won't say a thing to him in fear of her baby boy running.

    I'll be packing things up here by May. May is the deadline for me to get a houseshare in the city and hopefully change jobs in the summer too.

    Mam is going to crumble when all the bills will be on her back with no one to chip in. She came to me before when I was renting 'for loans' of me to pay bills.
    And did she pay you back ?.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,498 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    I come from a broken family. My father left a long time ago and never provided for us. Growing up things were always though. We made the best of things though. You don't climb out from that poverty over night.

    When I started work, I knew what I wanted to do. Save some money and put it towards to house because so much was neglected. I was able to chip in for a new sitting room. I was able to pay for a new kitchen and bathroom.

    Eventually I moved and rented for a few years, then bang the recession came and my wage was hit. I tried so hard to hold onto my apartment but I couldn't afford the rent on my place any more. The three months there was very, very, very hard. I had to move back home. My mam was happy with this too.

    I find now, there's nothing working out for me anymore. I do enjoy the work I do but it's just not working any more for me. My income is less than 300 a week. Out from that comes so much for bills and groceries etc.

    Yesterday was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I'm breaking my back every day to bring in a wage and help at home. Then she back tracked on what we talked about allowing me to have my boyfriend over and went on a nutty rant about respect, respect, respect, respect and bla, bla, bla and 'you're moving too fast with this last'. It's a movie night. To spend the night together and to save a bit doing so.

    Respect goes two ways and I'm doing all I can. A little courtesy wouldn't go astray.

    Another deal breaker, I have a brother at home and he pays nothing. He has a girlfriend and a new thing from him, he takes her home and into his room. She doesn't like it and rants away to me about it but she won't say a thing to him in fear of her baby boy running.

    I'll be packing things up here by May. May is the deadline for me to get a houseshare in the city and hopefully change jobs in the summer too.

    Mam is going to crumble when all the bills will be on her back with no one to chip in. She came to me before when I was renting 'for loans' of me to pay bills.

    Nothing you can really do about it. Shes stuck in her ways and regardless of you paying your way she will never see it as a shared house. It will always be her house her rules.

    Just forget it and save your pennies and move out and try and get a better job and try and resist helping her will bills. There will be a spare room in the house when you leave and she can rent it out if she wants some extra money coming in.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭donkeykong5


    pilly wrote: »
    I come from a broken family. My father left a long time ago and never provided for us. Growing up things were always though. We made the best of things though. You don't climb out from that poverty over night.

    When I started work, I knew what I wanted to do. Save some money and put it towards to house because so much was neglected. I was able to chip in for a new sitting room. I was able to pay for a new kitchen and bathroom.

    Eventually I moved and rented for a few years, then bang the recession came and my wage was hit. I tried so hard to hold onto my apartment but I couldn't afford the rent on my place any more. The three months there was very, very, very hard. I had to move back home. My mam was happy with this too.

    I find now, there's nothing working out for me anymore. I do enjoy the work I do but it's just not working any more for me. My income is less than 300 a week. Out from that comes so much for bills and groceries etc.

    Yesterday was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I'm breaking my back every day to bring in a wage and help at home. Then she back tracked on what we talked about allowing me to have my boyfriend over and went on a nutty rant about respect, respect, respect, respect and bla, bla, bla and 'you're moving too fast with this last'. It's a movie night. To spend the night together and to save a bit doing so.

    Respect goes two ways and I'm doing all I can. A little courtesy wouldn't go astray.

    Another deal breaker, I have a brother at home and he pays nothing. He has a girlfriend and a new thing from him, he takes her home and into his room. She doesn't like it and rants away to me about it but she won't say a thing to him in fear of her baby boy running.

    I'll be packing things up here by May. May is the deadline for me to get a houseshare in the city and hopefully change jobs in the summer too.

    Mam is going to crumble when all the bills will be on her back with no one to chip in. She came to me before when I was renting 'for loans' of me to pay bills.

    Well that's a lot more measured than your horrible horrible post yesterday.

    On mother's day of all days you called your mother (who raised you on her own) a cnut and wished for the day when she's old and frail (presumably so you can treat her like ****).

    You don't realise how lucky you are to have a home to go back to. Lots of young people out there who don't have the option to go back home.

    And as for jumping in a coffin because your Mam won't let you have movie night, get over yourself, seriously.

    Did it occur to you that maybe she was in bad mood because you weren't treating her nicely on Mothers Day?

    Really you will only appreciate your mother when you become a mother yourself and realise how hard it is.
    The words you used to describe your mother on mothers day were truly awful.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    Nothing you can really do about it. Shes stuck in her ways and regardless of you paying your way she will never see it as a shared house. It will always be her house her rules.

    Just forget it and save your pennies and move out and try and get a better job and try and resist helping her will bills. There will be a spare room in the house when you leave and she can rent it out if she wants some extra money coming in.

    That's because it is her house? I bought my house, if my grown up children decide to move back home it doesn't make it a house share whether or not they pay rent?

    Where on earth are you getting your logic from?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,498 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    pilly wrote: »
    That's because it is her house? I bought my house, if my grown up children decide to move back home it doesn't make it a house share whether or not they pay rent?

    Where on earth are you getting your logic from?

    The person i quoted pays rent, bills, put in a new kitchen and bathroom. In my opinion they are no longer just living there with their parents.

    At the very least they should be allowed have a boyfriend over.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,371 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    Public transportation in Dublin is so appallingly bad that unless you have a car or a fortunate to live beside a rail/Luas line, a 4.5 hour commute just WITHIN the city is very possible. It's a scandal and I don't know how people put up with it.

    To walk at a google map pace (ie slower than a young, fit person by a long way) from Sandyford to the North Road on the far side of Finglas takes 3hours35minutes.

    Sweet Chistmas, if your commute takes 4.5 hours in Dublin and you cannot afford a car, you cannot afford a bike, but you have no physical impairments that may stop or inhibit you. Then walk FFS.

    To cycle that distance is an hour.

    I wonder how some people on here have jobs at all, I certainly wouldn't employ them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 694 ✭✭✭Broken Hearted Road


    The person i quoted pays rent, bills, put in a new kitchen and bathroom. In my opinion they are no longer just living there with their parents.

    At the very least they should be allowed have a boyfriend over.

    I can see how she may not be too pleased to have a new person come in visiting. I can see that.

    The lad is local to us, he works locally and he knows some family already and my brothers know him too but they don't I'm dating yet. He is very sound and kind. Really, there's little to worry about here.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 694 ✭✭✭Broken Hearted Road


    pilly wrote: »
    Well that's a lot more measured than your horrible horrible post yesterday.

    On mother's day of all days you called your mother (who raised you on her own) a cnut and wished for the day when she's old and frail (presumably so you can treat her like ****).

    You don't realise how lucky you are to have a home to go back to. Lots of young people out there who don't have the option to go back home.

    And as for jumping in a coffin because your Mam won't let you have movie night, get over yourself, seriously.

    Did it occur to you that maybe she was in bad mood because you weren't treating her nicely on Mothers Day?

    Really you will only appreciate your mother when you become a mother yourself and realise how hard it is.

    I'm finding things so mundane lately and my back is breaking, that is all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 694 ✭✭✭Broken Hearted Road


    mickdw wrote: »
    Set up a business.
    I worked 8 to 6 with 1 hour morning and evening commute on top for 3 years after leaving college. Couldn't figure out how people do this for a lifetime as it's really not living at all.
    I got a little business going and packed up the job.
    I probably work just as many hours but it's my choice and the more I do, the more I get paid. I can schedule jobs to give mysslf a day off etc.
    Self employment had many downsides too but at least you get some kind of a life.

    I have a fantastic idea for a business (and it's not a brothel) but I would never know how to get it off the ground.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭PMBC


    pilly wrote: »
    Ah come now, the unemployment rate is down at its lowest in years and that's not just from people in a specialized industry in Dublin getting jobs.

    As it is also in UK. Problem is that people are working for poor wages and conditions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,476 ✭✭✭neonsofa


    I can see how she may not be too pleased to have a new person come in visiting. I can see that.

    The lad is local to us, he works locally and he knows some family already and my brothers know him too but they don't I'm dating yet. He is very sound and kind. Really, there's little to worry about here.

    But you even said yourself that the issue isn't with who he is, it's that she feels you're moving too fast with him. You say your brothers dont even know ye are dating so it's obviously not a long term thing where he has been introduced to all the family as your boyfriend and has been accepted as part of the family, he is a new partner and if she doesn't feel comfortable with him staying in her house then it's her prerogative, doesn't make her a cnut like you said.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 694 ✭✭✭Broken Hearted Road


    neonsofa wrote: »
    But you even said yourself that the issue isn't with who he is, it's that she feels you're moving too fast with him. You say your brothers dont even know ye are dating so it's obviously not a long term thing where he has been introduced to all the family as your boyfriend and has been accepted as part of the family, he is a new partner and if she doesn't feel comfortable with him staying in her house then it's her prerogative, doesn't make her a cnut like you said.

    Yet, my brother who doesn't pay a penny towards anything, brings home his girlfriend without introducing her and into his bed.

    Moving too fast for a movie night?

    What is a suitable timeframe to have someone over for a movie? Will I wait for 10 dates, or maybe 10 months. We have 8 under our belt. The reason half my brothers don't know I'm dating is because they are on the other end of he world.

    Or perhaps I'll go out every weekend to see him and spend money I don't have and money my mam is so eager to get her hands on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,456 ✭✭✭✭ibarelycare


    Yet, my brother who doesn't pay a penny towards anything, brings home his girlfriend without introducing her and into his bed.

    Moving too fast for a movie night?

    What is a suitable timeframe to have someone over for a movie? Will I wait for 10 dates, or maybe 10 months. We have 8 under our belt. The reason half my brothers don't know I'm dating is because they are on the other end of he world.

    Or perhaps I'll go out every weekend to see him and spend money I don't have and money my mam is so eager to get her hands on.

    Why can't you go to his house?


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭donkeykong5


    neonsofa wrote: »
    But you even said yourself that the issue isn't with who he is, it's that she feels you're moving too fast with him. You say your brothers dont even know ye are dating so it's obviously not a long term thing where he has been introduced to all the family as your boyfriend and has been accepted as part of the family, he is a new partner and if she doesn't feel comfortable with him staying in her house then it's her prerogative, doesn't make her a cnut like you said.

    Yet, my brother who doesn't pay a penny towards anything, brings home his girlfriend without introducing her and into his bed.

    Moving too fast for a movie night?

    What is a suitable timeframe to have someone over for a movie? Will I wait for 10 dates, or maybe 10 months. We have 8 under our belt. The reason half my brothers don't know I'm dating is because they are on the other end of he world.

    Or perhaps I'll go out every weekend to see him and spend money I don't have and money my mam is so eager doto get her hands on.
    Does your boyfriend have a job ? Maybe stay over for " movie night " in his place.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 694 ✭✭✭Broken Hearted Road


    Why can't you go to his house?

    Unfortunately, he also lives at home.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Unfortunately, he also lives at home.

    So, why can't you go to his house?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,579 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    What an absolute trainwreck of a thread


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭boobycharlton


    The words you used to describe your mother on mothers day were truly awful.

    Yeah! Hallmark would be disgusted that you disgraced their day with such foul words.

    Bloody hell, get a grip.


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  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 17,424 ✭✭✭✭Conor Bourke


    I have a fantastic idea for a business (and it's not a brothel) but I would never know how to get it off the ground.

    Why not approach your nearest LEADER rural development office? Or at the very least why not start a sensible thread on the relevant forum here to get practical advice about improving your circumstances RIGHT NOW instead of posting pure scutter. Better to light a candle than curse the darkness and all that jazz...

    But then again as someone else already said, I'm having a hard time believing you're not trolling us all anyway so keep us updated on the next saga in the soap opera that appears to be your life.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    Or perhaps I'll go out every weekend to see him and spend money I don't have and money my mam is so eager to get her hands on.


    You have such a horrible attitude.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,476 ✭✭✭neonsofa


    Yet, my brother who doesn't pay a penny towards anything, brings home his girlfriend without introducing her and into his bed.

    Moving too fast for a movie night?

    What is a suitable timeframe to have someone over for a movie? Will I wait for 10 dates, or maybe 10 months. We have 8 under our belt. The reason half my brothers don't know I'm dating is because they are on the other end of he world.

    Or perhaps I'll go out every weekend to see him and spend money I don't have and money my mam is so eager to get her hands on.

    What I, or you for that matter, think doesn't come into it because it's your mams house and what she thinks/wants/feels is all that matters when it comes to who she let's into her house. 8 months is nothing in the grand scheme of things if you're planning on spending your life together so if you expect it to last then there really is no rush. If its just a bit of fun then there is no point in falling out with your mam over some random guy. There are plenty of ways to see each other that don't involve money and tbh it's not really your mother's concern how you spend your money, she isn't there to subsidise your social/love life.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭donkeykong5


    The words you used to describe your mother on mothers day were truly awful.

    Yeah! Hallmark would be disgusted that you disgraced their day with such foul words.

    Bloody hell, get a grip.
    GO back and see what she called her mother. No need for it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    neonsofa wrote: »
    What I, or you for that matter, think doesn't come into it because it's your mams house and what she thinks/wants/feels is all that matters when it comes to who she let's into her house. 8 months is nothing in the grand scheme of things if you're planning on spending your life together so if you expect it to last then there really is no rush. If its just a bit of fun then there is no point in falling out with your mam over some random guy. There are plenty of ways to see each other that don't involve money and tbh it's not really your mother's concern how you spend your money, she isn't there to subsidise your social/love life.

    She means 8 dates not 8 months which is even worse.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,476 ✭✭✭neonsofa


    She means 8 dates not 8 months which is even worse.

    Jeez, 8 dates... :pac:


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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,986 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Why do I get the distinct sense that this thread is prime fodder for poor mouth misery merchant posters who are not even being that all that candid about their state of affairs to moan on?:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭Lady is a tramp


    OP I'm in a similar mood these days. It's like, you do all the right things, and all the right stuff happens for you, and all is good, but you're left with a feeling like ... "Is this it???"

    I was recently lucky enough to get a really good job after being out of work for nearly two years. It's a better job and better money than my old job, it's a lovely office environment with great people, all is good on paper. And yet only a week in, and I'm hating how ... indifferent I am to the work I'm doing. I definitely need a career change, I've a few things in mind and it will happen down the line. But unfortunately, to pay the bills, I've no choice but to stick with boring Finance work for now. I so look forward to a time when I wake up in the morning with a real passion for the work I'll be doing.

    For the moment though, I'm trying to focus on being grateful for all the good things in my life today, and I'm trying to keep my standards and expectations reasonable. That's always been a problem of mine - my counsellor was only saying to me the other day, it's like I expect real life to be full of fireworks and bells and whistles, it's hard for me to accept the mundanity of it all!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,351 ✭✭✭NegativeCreep


    my counsellor was only saying to me the other day, it's like I expect real life to be full of fireworks and bells and whistles, it's hard for me to accept the mundanity of it all!

    That's pretty much the same for me. Surely there must be something more exciting that this? But alas, no.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    That's pretty much the same for me. Surely there must be something more exciting that this? But alas, no.

    Exciting as an adult, is when theres a bit o'dryin' weather out.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    Can everyone just accept that life is sh*t interspersed with brief good bits and move on?

    TBH its a bit late for ye all to be realising it now. I've been up to speed since 4th class.


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