Things you wonder about.

cj maxx · 21-03-2026 01:25AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124328833#Comment_124328833

Did you miss the bit about dipping for oncoming traffic ? You dip your headlights you dip your fogs . No other way about it. And it's not about seeing 5m ahead of you it's about seeing the road at rod levell .Not everyone drives about dublin or built up areas .

pgj2015 · 21-03-2026 01:31AM

How women who are passionately pro choice because they have a chip on their shoulder about men "telling them what to do" cant see the bigger picture. Or do they see it and just not care.

Esel · 21-03-2026 05:58AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124328885#Comment_124328885

Fog lights don't dip… they are on or off.

cj maxx · 21-03-2026 06:46AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124328979#Comment_124328979

Yeah I know , but they're that low down they don't interfer with on coming traffics eyeline .

Esel · 21-03-2026 07:31AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124328985#Comment_124328985

Are you seriously saying that you always have your fog lights on when your headlights are on?

New Home · 21-03-2026 07:37AM

Now, do you know what's really annoying? Those cars with super-bright lights (can't think what they're called, now, but they have a blueish tinge to them - no, not Garda cars 😅 - and I'm not talking high beams, either) that would light up an airport landing strip. They sear into your retina and leave you blind for a long while afterwards.

Cyclingtourist · 21-03-2026 11:30AM

Is the U.S. a democracy?

Hotblack Desiato · 21-03-2026 12:30PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124328857#Comment_124328857

It's illegal, and with good reason as they blind oncoming drivers, only a fool would think that safer

Badly Drunk Boy · 21-03-2026 01:31PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124327697#Comment_124327697

Okay, I was thinking of my own cycling/listening experience with earbuds, rather than the headphones the other poster mentioned. Noise cancelling headphones definitely wouldn't be a good idea.

There's a row or trees to the left of the entrance/exit of my estate, but I can always hear if there are any cars coming while I have my music on (except for maybe those pesky electric cars, but I've eyes to deal with them). 👀 😉

kneemos · 21-03-2026 01:51PM

I mean there's not a lot you can do on a bike only keep your position on the road. Can't look behind you constantly,so you're dependent on the Christian charity of the driver coming behind you to not run you down.

New Home · 21-03-2026 03:12PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124329353#Comment_124329353

Again, bog roads, nobody in sight. You see the lights of other cars coming from miles away, so you switch the fog lights off way before they become a probem, same as high beams. I'm definitely not recommending this in urban areas or places with lots of traffic, but in certain places they are badly needed.

I also find people (e.g. on tractors) using indicators to tell you when it's ok to overtake them on narrow road very helpful, too (left = go, the road is free, right = traffic incoming, stay back).

Capt'n Midnight · 21-03-2026 04:10PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124329247#Comment_124329247

Yes.

You can vote for either one of the billionaire owned right wing parties.

“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in."

Douglas Adams.

New Home · 21-03-2026 04:44PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124330009#Comment_124330009

I mean, Marvin had every right to be depressed and paranoid.

Capt'n Midnight · 21-03-2026 05:13PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124330081#Comment_124330081

"Life," said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it.'

Kaybaykwah · 22-03-2026 09:37AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124329791#Comment_124329791

I have my fog lights on at all times in the evening, it definitely improves visibility at close and medium range.

I also have them on in our Canadian Winter to signal my presence on grey or white sky days, where the landscape tends to be monochromatic.

I also am nor a fan of some of the blinding led headlights, but the foglights don’t usually bother orher drivers, while top lighting does.

Pauliedragon · 22-03-2026 04:18PM

I came across a stat the other day day that said over 40% of mobile phones in Ireland are iphones. I don't know one person who has one. I work in hospitality and none of the people I work with has an iphone. Pretty much all the customers I see every day have android phones. It seems weird that I seem to never see one yet the stats say nearly half the population has one.

appledrop · 22-03-2026 05:32PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124332398#Comment_124332398

The teenagers wouldn't be caught dead with an android! About 95% of them have iphone😁.

thesandeman · 22-03-2026 06:50PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124332610#Comment_124332610

And if they have Android they call it a Samsung no matter what brand it is.

JupiterKid · 24-03-2026 05:19PM

Do people really have an idea just how f*cked the prospects for humanity are given current trends or are they largely happy with being distracted via the vapid rubbish so-called "social" media spews out on a daily basis?

kneemos · 24-03-2026 05:24PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124337628#Comment_124337628

Would have thought we lived in a remarkably stable world given the events of history.

Apiarist · 24-03-2026 05:31PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124337628#Comment_124337628

Well, yes. But one generally can only improve their own local environment and help people close to oneself. A cumulative effort of good people helping others may prove to be the butterfly effect that saves humanoty on the brink of collapse. There is little point in worrying about solving Middle East issues, or about what Trump said in the last hour.

silliussoddius · 24-03-2026 11:35PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124337628#Comment_124337628

I'm amazed that some people blame this on an algorithm, are people that lazy that they will just accept the latest clanker gruel instead of using the search function for something they may be interested in.

Hotblack Desiato · 25-03-2026 01:58AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124330081#Comment_124330081

He quite literally knew too much.

Hotblack Desiato · 25-03-2026 02:01AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124338517#Comment_124338517

Yeah I was going to look something up but then I saw the headline for LATEST [CELEBRITY NAME] NUDE PICS!!! or YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS EVERYDAY SOMETHING OR OTHER THAT DOES THING!

Brendan Bendar · 25-03-2026 09:43AM

RTE are skint and yet they are sending a huge bunch of liggers to Prague

What are they all doing I wonder? Is the taxpayer getting stiffed I wonder!

Top of the head list…Des Cahill, Cuddihy ODonohue, Libreri, Moloney, Eames, Jon Kenny, the swimmer fella Paul something,…Jaqui Hurley, M arie Crowe

I wonder how many more of these liggers are over there at the taxpayers expense. ???

Anyone. ??

kneemos · 25-03-2026 10:01AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124338946#Comment_124338946

Jeez. A couple would have done.

fortwilliam · 25-03-2026 07:53PM

I am amazed at the amount of teen girls I see on a daily basis at the weekend walking around town with a €600 iPhone sticking out of their back pocket.

Literally asking to be robbed or worse, mugged…

Also, teen boys flying about the place on clearly illegal scooters capable of 50+kph on pavements, through red lights, no road sense whatsoever…

Parents wake T F Up!! (If you give a sh1t, but possibly are the kind who don't)

kneemos · 25-03-2026 08:14PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124340574#Comment_124340574

Baffled how there isn't several deaths each day with the carry on of scooter riders.

Here's a lad with a 119kph scooter. Didn't know you needed insurance if it's capable of more than 20 kph.

https://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/crime---court/2046206/e-scooter-capable-of-119kph-seized-on-kilkenny-road-by-gardai.html

shinnerbot09 · 25-03-2026 08:26PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124340610#Comment_124340610

Give it time , we are up to about one death or life altering injury accident a week already

pgj2015 · 26-03-2026 09:16AM

Why these so called big players in the Irish drug selling scene wear such sh1t clothes, like you you are making big money and known to the police so no point wearing pennys clothes to avoid attention, why wear Nike shell suits and under armour t shirts?

Things you wonder about.

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