Things you wonder about.

My mother tongue is French, from Canada. My father was more Anglo, but bilingual. So, I was raised speaking both. I think in both languages, and when I lived in Ireland in the eighties, English took more space in my little brain than usual.

In my city, Montreal; people often switch between languages mid sentence. There are also people who are almost clueless in either one of the other languages. It’s a strange and sometimes unsettling place.

This is serious: if you were a baby born in January 2026, would you grow up feeling more comfortable with rain and thinking of it as a natural state of being? From the moment you left the maternity hospital, all you saw or experienced was a month of rain?

No they don’t, they get the hips, knees etc that the HSE takes too long to do - in and out in relative comfort. And they fix any problems that occur. The HSE has no accountability, consultants that do public work 9 to 5 Monday to Friday and loads of private work in a public hospital with private beds left empty for them. Staff that do stand around chatting. Dumping food to patients who can’t feed themselves and taking away the tray half hour later when the poor patient has barely touched it. There are lots wrong in HSE, they should run it like a business, give the habitual drugs/druggies/travellers the heave-ho and tell them they’ve taken up their quota of time this month, feck off and look after yourselves - I see the same faces in and out of A&E and the louder they shout, the quicker they are seen.

A few years ago a then well known nutritionist/dietitians type was on one of those how to eat healthier/lose weight shows.

They went mental at a participant as they didn't follow the programme and didn't believe them when they said they didn't have the money for the items they were supposed to be using. Understandably there was outcry about this behaviour.

What I wonder about is, how the dietitian didn't know that such items could be unaffordable for some participants and how it was ok in their mind to berate people on public media about it.

I get this person comes from a country where healthy food and activities are subsidised and as such I'm told this is a normal reaction, but everywhere in the world basic research stills should be applied to any situation ppl going to be in and especially if they going to be on the media in a country you maybe not as familiar as you should be.

My naggy brain wonders how anyone in this situation and getting paid wasn't all over the economy of the country and participant before they even took the job!

How does the Aviva stadium hold all the Irish soccer supporters. If all those fans who already announced that they were boycotting the Israel match normally attend place must jammers

A lot of hot countries get a lot of rain. Sure if they didn't they would live in a desert as the lack of rain would cause a desert.

It's hot when it rains in those places too so nobody minds the rain then. Unlike here.

Ooooooohh

I think about the accident of birth.

How did I end up here and in this time? I would hate to be born into medievil times, or in a worse country, like past mongolia or modern day North Korea …. or America. Is there a chance that I could come back in a future life to any place in any time?

Also ….. with more tech and knowledge available to humanity than ever before, at instant fingertip access, why are there so many thick and ignorant people around? Were they always here, but largely unnoticed without an accessible worldwide platform to display their ignorance, or has the tech made them that way?