Things you wonder about.

But it was just the women she was thanking for standing up.

I would say lads, which can be male or female and could mean my friends, work colleagues or people in a queue.

Think lesbians use that term.

I wonder if the culture wars topics arise by themselves or if they're actually cooked up in smokey rooms by people who want to divide the masses. I know I'm describing a conspiracy. But the culture wars topics are so unimportant and consume so much energy. How in the name of Jaysus did the entire English speaking world decide trans people are a massive threat a few years ago? It strikes me that left to our own divices, most people would think absolutely nothing about trans people. Most people don't even know a trans person in real life but so many have strong opinions about them.

Looking at other culture wars, they seems to be so broad they divide people who would otherwise have lots in common. Men vs Women is a big example. Young vs old etc, and almost nothing ever changes as a result of the wars. Gay people were a culture wars topic for decades (at least) and that's one example where something actually changed and they gained social acceptance and legal marriage, but we moved seamlessly to trans people.

TLDR: I wonder if the culture wars are a conspiracy

It can be a conspiracy in that strategists for political parties can use it as an election topic, terminally online people can make a career of it and social media has allowed narcissists to make their voices heard.

why some people who have money can be aggressively hostile to spending it.

Lost an uncle recently, he died from cancer and from diagnosis to death was about six weeks. Him and his wife own their own house and have 6 figure savings, about I think €140,000 which came out in the wash when a cousin was helping the aunt consolidate finances after the death and will etc.

yet this auld wan admitted that in the aftermath she was disappointed that her brothers didn’t offer to help financially with the funeral and afters. They didn’t because they know she is well off, swimming in cash, better then comfortable, the only expenses she has are household ones, she doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, doesn’t run a car etc but gets a full state pension and half of his presumably…

What’s in that shamrock bowl? it sure doesn’t look like shamrock as I know it.

Did someone grow a huge shamrock lookalike to please the yankee need for bigness?

Fake greens for the fake news expert?

I kinda meant how women are still judged on what they are wearing. I never see a headline like "Pedro Pascal shines in Armani suit", yet every single woman is scrutinised as to who and what they are wearing.

This will be the 73rd bowl.

Maybe he’ll build a bowl room.

The contents are incinerated - foreign vegetation .

Presumably it's marketed to women to police each other.

I don't have any influence over society but I would use that as an example of the kind of bullshyte that my sons or daughters don't need to take part in.

Yeah, so do you give credit for the change to decades of culture wars or the people who got together to cause change?

Are there still people in Ireland who go to a place like Tralee? For example, it would be like going to a big city; they spend all their lives in a small village where they were born. I know that before mass transport and the advent of public transport, it was common, but in today's society?.

It is a 1.5-hour drive from Ballyferriter to Tralee, which has got me thinking about this.