Not the perfect victim. By that she means going on a coke and drinks binge for 3 days with fellow scumbags whilst her boyfriend looks after her child from a previous relationship.
"If 166 brothels can operate openly in Ireland, the ban on paying for sex is not working"
If 12 gurriers are doing wheelies and doughnuts with scramblers on Sean McDermott Street, the ban is not working
If there is a persistent stench of skunk/cannabis on O'Connell Street, the ban is not working
If dozens of Somalians are illegally travelling each week on the Enterprise train from Belfast to Dublin to claim asylum, the ban is not working
If people start kicking red-faced senators up the arse as they walk around Dublin city centre, the ban is not working
Any chance that we might demand that Gardai uphold the laws that elected politicians on our behalf debate and approve?
Shooting in Dún Laoghaire. Lads in the yacht club nearly spilled their Pinot Grigio. Turns out it was in a housing estate half a mile away but saying that doesn't get the same clicks. RTÉ out here making it sound like someone opened fire in Teddy's ice cream queue
We're often told that its the "Top 1%" who are to blame for everything.
In fact, its the bottom 10%, who have completely checked out of the social contract, requiring the other 90% of us to organise ourselves around them.
The benefit is that people enjoy it. The even greater benefit is that groups of people enjoy it together. They shouldn’t overdo it, obviously, but enjoying something is actually a worthwhile benefit for human beings. We aren’t robots. Not every single thing we do needs to be “optimized.” At a certain point you have to enjoy your life or else what’s even the point of trying to extend it?
Seattle's insane minimum wage (currently $21) experiment delivered exactly what the free market predicted - entry-level jobs vanished. Restaurants automated ordering systems, retailers cut hours, and small businesses discovered they could function with fewer workers. The city council celebrated "progress" while teenagers found themselves competing with college graduates for the remaining positions.
You can mandate higher wages, but you cannot mandate higher productivity. When government forces employers to pay $21 for $10 worth of output, those jobs disappear into thin air. The workers who need experience most - young people, immigrants, those with gaps in their résumé - get locked out entirely.
Politicians sell minimum wage hikes as compassion. What they deliver is economic segregation (the connected get jobs, the rest get welfare applications).
Ugliest women
Weakest men
Dirtiest cities
Horrible culture
Worst weather
Disgusting rivers
Filthy sea
Polluted air
Stinkiest food
Which country is this?