David Slattery

So many ads on RTE’s Olympic coverage. Is this a World Record?

@sophiegrenham @philipnolan1 @tomdoorley Children are a huge undertaking. No return policy: incredibly expensive: no guarantee they won’t be A-holes: sulk: spend lives on phone: can’t drive themselves to school: take up space: can be fat, lazy, stupid, or all at same time: boring and attention-seeking so why bother.

@ByDavidSlattery @philipnolan1 @tomdoorley Ha!

I'm delighted that people who don't want to have children don't have children. Good for them. But I don't know why the feel they have to keep on justifying their decision. Why not just get on with their child-free lives?

@sophiegrenham @philipnolan1 @tomdoorley I imagine it is because the Japanese are a very sophisticated people and children are gauche accessories.

@ByDavidSlattery @philipnolan1 @tomdoorley Why do you think the birth rate is falling?

@sophiegrenham @philipnolan1 @tomdoorley I see in Japan the birth-rate is falling! Why am I singing I think I’m turning Japanese I think I’m ….

@ByDavidSlattery @philipnolan1 @tomdoorley In the same way that I respect people's decisions to have children, I hope they respect mine to not. You wouldn't believe how affronted people look, or maybe I'm just imagining it. I also have friends who think I hate kids just because I take issue when they're badly behaved.

@sophiegrenham @philipnolan1 @tomdoorley We don’t have children and have never been interrogated about it, which I have sometimes found odd because people are so nosy. Indeed, boring advertising ones life choices.

@philipnolan1 @tomdoorley Me too! I hate the assumption that just because I'm a woman at a certain age that I have children or plan to have them ("Good schools in your neighbourhood"). I don't have them by choice and I thought that was more socially acceptable now...

@drsjcostello Only this week I was wondering if people talk more than they used to. Everyone seems to have an opinion they must share.

"Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then you can detect, beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made." -Samuel Beckett

@drsjcostello Excellent. This reminds me of reading somewhere ages ago about how St Augustine had to teach all the pagans what a sin was.

@sophiegrenham Definitely

Would you eat a chutney that's a couple of months past the best before? It's unopened and been stored in a cool, dry place.

@joancooke5 I have never met an angry happy person. While not all unhappy people are angry, social media have provided convenient platforms for the free expression of misery manifesting itself usually as bigotry. It is a pity this has happened but seems somehow inevitable.

There is such a surfeit of anger visible and audible here much of the time. It makes you wonder if, post Covid, we somehow unrealistically, felt entitled to some Utopian life that we thought we had but never existed. #RandomThoughts

So, the noun is X but the verb remains to tweet.

@dineen20dineen Where have you been living? I get a scam call from Amazon at least once a day. You are supposed to hand over your bank details so that they can extract all your money from your account.

Did anyone ever get a call when you answer its a recorded message saying its a call from Amazon? What type of scam is this

Though Simon Harris is our youngest Taoiseach ever his inaugural speech could have been delivered by an auld lad. 30 something going on 80.

@dineen20dineen I met Nicholas Parsons. A very sound man.

Who remember the Game Show Sale of The Century presented by Nicholas Parson there was other presenters later years

@sophiegrenham I always say “supper” but am regularly told it is “dinner” in Ireland but everyone says “the last supper” by Leonardo and never the “the last dinner.” Mystifying.

In the rare times I've heard the word "pantry," it's been uttered by a very well-heeled person. I don't think I've heard an Irish person say it because I don't think it's in our general vocab, but certainly English and American people. Only women, never men.

@dineen20dineen Good evening, Sean

Good evening everyone how many of you will come and say good evening

I wish my socks coming out of the machine were in enduring relationships with each other but no, somehow they all remain committed singles.

Just lifted my Ad Blocker on YouTube to see what's up. AI is pitching tampons and cars that open underwater at me. I think I will apply for a job as an ad bot. Seems like there are no entry requirements.

@dineen20dineen Nope.

Did you have this big selling album in your collection from 1985 Brothers in Arms Dire Straits

@dineen20dineen I was extraordinary on the part of the State to induce in teenage me a raging hatred for Peig. I literally danced on her grave when I finally got down to Kerry.

Peig Sayers you will either love it or hate it but do it bring back memories from your school days #peigsayers

@MargaretOGorm12 Well, I feel they need someone to talk to. I am like a Samaratins for scammers.

@ByDavidSlattery Staying one step ahead of the scammers is always good

Hands up if you still have a landline Toes up if you've used it in the last six months