Paul Condron

Photographer. Musician. Storyteller. Brand Publishing and Strategy. Design Thinker. Film Maker. Lego Lover. Guinness Drinker. #ArtOverContent

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@jacobkleinman The best take on this grifter drama. Love it!!

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@ThreeCare unable to login into App on iPhone. App hangs at login page.

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Transport for London launches campaign targeting ‘headphone dodgers’
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https://t.co/Gdwc1Eglo0 via @YouTube

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@MsAnjaliB @PopBase If the smoke turns orange…

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@SammyBarrow32 @RpsAgainstTrump Ok, you love puzzles and challenges. This isn’t one.

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And a couple of weeks later, at the other end of the day and coincidentally the same driver… absolutely absurd. @dublinbusnews @TFIupdates @ceo_dublinbus

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This is the standard cruising speed of the new E1 service. According to onboard announcements, this is to stay on schedule. Even in light traffic, I’m having to allow for an extra 20 minutes travel time each morning to accommodate @dublinbusnews journey time calculations.

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@TFIupdates @DarraghOBrienTD @dublinbusnews @johnbradysf @SimonHarrisTD @WhitmoreJen The estimated time of my journey this morning was 1h 13mins. It took 90mims. For me to be on time for work, I now have to add 30mins to ensure I’m in time. Why is this?

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Some data from my E1 bus journey this morning. Zero traffic during that recorded period - except for the backlog of vehicles behind ours. That’s 1 hour from Bray to Booterstown Ave. @DarraghOBrienTD @dublinbusnews @TFIupdates
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@Clearpreso There was. The bus stopped on a number of occasions just to let traffic pass.

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@TFIupdates @dublinbusnews Twice this morning the bus has stopped with the notice “There will be a short delay to get the bus back on time”

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I’m sure I’m late to the pile-on, but why are buses now slower than before and less frequent , when we were sold the idea that the new bus connects network would be better, with buses every 8 minutes @dublinbusnews @TFIupdates

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@TFIupdates @dublinbusnews Is there any explanation as to why every morning, buses on the E1 route are consistently slower than before? Is it an incentive for commuters to adopt other services like the DART?

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Trump. In a nutshell.

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Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?"

Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England, wrote this magnificent response:

"A few things spring to mind.

Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.

For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.

So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.

I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.

But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.

And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.

Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.

Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.

And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.

Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.

He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.

He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.

That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.

There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.

After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.

He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.

In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:

'My God… what… have… I… created?

If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."

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We all have realtime tracking on our phones - so what is the schedule that drivers are deliberately delaying their customers to adhere to?!

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@ThatEricAlper Ulysses 31
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@HYMIYDW This is precisely what he was saying. Dont try to wiggle out of it now. You are a hashtag driven hypocrite. Enough!

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@RoySalame @ThatEricAlper This is why I came here.