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If you could teach the world one thing...

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Woohoo, 5000th post! And so with it I shall start this thread and begin with one thing that pisses me off.

It really bugs me that people think that the Groceries Order was a good thing, or that repealing it caused the recent rise in food prices. Fact: in the twelve months after abolition, items on the Groceries Order fell in price while other food items rose significantly. Fact: since the abolition, yes food prices here have risen but at significantly lower levels than elsewhere, e.g. in the UK. UK food prices rose way faster than ours, their prices are up about €500 per household per year more than us.

The recent rise in food prices is global and has nothing to do with removing the Groceries Order. Conclusion: the removal of the Groceries Order has kept food prices lower than they would be had it stayed. About time we scrapped that law.

So, what commonly-held opinion drives you mad? Here's your one chance to teach the world a fact that we really should know. Get yourself IBTL :pac:

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Acacia

Smart Bug wrote: »

Oooohhhh yeah, love that school mistress look.

Hurt me mistress, I've been a very bad boy

*Acacia takes off glasses seductively and takes down her hair*

See, we can be hot!

[Deleted User]

Burial wrote: »

Yea, people need to learn their roundabouts!.

was just going to say the same thing!

Skellington

How to properly drive on a motorway.
Taken from here

Lane 1

The normal 'keep left' rule applies. Stay in this lane unless you are overtaking.

Lane 2

On a two-lane motorway, use this for overtaking only and move back into lane 1 when you have finished. You may also use this lane to accommodate traffic merging from the left.

On a three-lane motorway, you may stay in this centre lane while there is slower moving traffic in lane 1.

Lane 3

If you are travelling on a three-lane motorway, you must use this lane only if traffic in lanes 1 and 2 is moving in queues and you need to overtake or accommodate merging traffic. Once you've finished overtaking, move back to your left and allow faster traffic coming from behind to pass by.

CursedSkeptic

That life is meaningless and people aren't important

[Deleted User]

Skellington wrote: »

How to properly drive on a motorway.
Taken from here

have you noticed on the new 3 lane m50 people seem to have completely abandoned the left lane and are using the centre lane and right hand lane as if they were the only ones available :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Deleted User]

CursedSkeptic wrote: »

That life is meaningless and people aren't important

raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens...........

Burial

Deleted User wrote: »

have you noticed on the new 3 lane m50 people seem to have completely abandoned the left lane and are using the centre lane and right hand lane as if they were the only ones available :mad: :mad: :mad:

Just use the left lane then....

Another thing I'd teach, is NOT to sing along to songs. It drives me nuts!

Zangetsu

:eek: ^ what you talkin bout mo... If it wasn't for a sing along, a couple of pints and a lady sitting on a stain on the sheets you wouldn't be here!

Shame on you...

Burial

No, drunkin sing-alongs are fine, but singing to a song because you know the words, and so I can't listen to the song, only to your voice. THATS ANNOYING!

not yet

I'd like to teach everyone to say when people annoy them to say.........

Yeah......ask you're sister.

Zangetsu

@Burial: Your not getting away from that comment... Where would the world be without song... Back in your hole!

Burial

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OT: Manners.

Thanks for reading.

Burial

Teaching NTL/Eircom to stop ringing me when I'm already a customer/don't want to be a customer. Half our calls are just from them!

Frada you are welcome.

astrofool

Fog lights (those lights integrated into the front bottom bumper) are for fog, and dazzle other motorists, increasing the chances of an accident occurring.

And that you look really stupid when you decide to turn them on only and not your headlights.

Burial

Lol! I did that once, and a taxi driver kept flashing me to turn them on, and I flashed him many times, until I realised that I had no lights on.

Also, a guy behind me had no lights on, so I turned on my hazards. He kept flashing me back until I turned off and on my lights. His and his wifes expressions were priceless!

Ross_Mahon

Teach the world to be Atheist which will free up more time to teach them more stuff.

Silenceisbliss

Ross_Mahon wrote: »

Teach the world to be Atheist which will free up more time to teach them more important stuff.

there ya go

Biggins

...to stop idiots thinking that America is always right and that their goverment is corrupt to the core by lobbists and their huge money buying ways.

Dardania

The Economist wrote: »

A law enacted in 1987 that banned shops from selling food below the invoice price. So we had the wonderful situation where our government were bringing Tesco and Dunnes to court for selling nappies too cheaply. Yep, you read that right. Thankfully the law was repealed in 2006, but some people still want it brought back!!

Sorry - but it's ultimately bad for the market - these shops entice you in with cheap prices on certain goods (but everything else is expensive but people are lazy so sure, they'll buy all while they're in one shop anyway) that smaller shops can't compete with which causes them to lose custom, close down - and then who are we left with? The big shops that can ratchet all the prices up again.

Varkov

How to make a proper cup of tea.

Earl Grey teabag from Lidl in first.
Add boiling water.
Smush teabag around for about half a minute.
Remove teabag.
Add 3 heaped teaspoons sugar.
Add splash of full fat milk.
Leave the spoon in while drinking.

Biggins

...how to teach the English how to pour a proper pint of guinness and not just slap it up on the counter in one go.

Burial

Americans do that too, according to my sister.

astrofool

Varkov wrote: »

How to make a proper cup of tea.

Earl Grey teabag from Lidl in first.
Add boiling water.
Smush teabag around for about half a minute.
Remove teabag.
Add 3 heaped teaspoons sugar.
Add splash of full fat milk.
Leave the spoon in while drinking.
Jam spoon up nose while taking first sip, and add Varkov to the list

Re: Dardania - The Groceries order was an awful piece of legislation, used by small shops to justify their own high prices. If the long term result is high prices anyway, at worst, we're back to where we started, at best, the competition between the big grocer's (Lidl, Aldi, Tesco, Dunnes, Asda(when they start up here), will stay intense, resulting in lower prices for all.