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Likewise, I hired a car in Italy this year via Indigo Car Hire - UK site. V reasonable and no issue with debit card. They told me €700 would be blocked on debit card but only blocked €300 at the desk. No issue. Also + 1 to getting PTSB to fix ICB. Should have been part of the tracker redress...

Yes, I know. Chairperson often used when it's a woman but Chairman often when it's a man. Chairwoman is a mouthful. Probably a better descriptor needed. I remember when Carmencita Hederman was Lord Mayor and was asked if the title was sexist and she replied something like: If I was to change...

I agree completely. Official positions should be gender neutral - officer being the case in point. No need for a Ban garda / chairman. CEO or equivalent is better.

You're right of course. I don't disagree with any of that.I would certainly not refer to an older woman as a girl. I'm not in my 50's or 60's and I probably look younger than I am but I don't doubt that I would object to the term if I was older. Equally, I wouldn't use the term if I was speaking...

Technically they would be police officers not police women which is exactly what it should be. I do understand the sentiment of the article and really feel having grown up hearing about "firemen" "businessmen" "policemen" and how limiting that is; I get the notion of language shaping our views...

http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/columnists/louise-oneill/i-find-it-insufferable-when-i-hear-adult-women-described-as-girls-455912.html Article on the subject here. I don't agree really. I do get the theory but really think it's a cultural thing. I don't think it's meant in a derogatory...

I'm just warming up. People who bring their dogs to a DOG PARK (whose sole purpose is to let your dog off the lead to explore, sniff and interact with other dogs) who proceed to have a heart attack when your dog approaches theirs. - Fifty lashes. People who place bags of smelly household...

Next: People (usually groups of women walking 3 / 4 abreast) walking around Marlay Park with their dogs on long setting of extendable leads so they take over the entire footpath so you've to move onto the grass to walk or run past them or jump the lead or trip and break your teeth. If I stop in...

I have a looooong list. I'll start with 2. Death penalty for anyone breaking trees. Council plant saplings along a new road for example and some psycho teenager goes along snapping the trunks for the craic Shopping trolley licences for old people (nearly always newly retired men) who can't...

Not aware of any designated with Atheist status. But Educate Together is the best practical option. The children learn about world religions in an informational rather than indoctrinational (is that a word?) I am an atheist and my kids go to E.T.

I was actually more thinking of our more relaxed attitude to "bad language" during normal day to day conversations between people who sometimes aren't friends or even known to each other. I worked for some time with the public in the UK and they would be much more formal in their address...

Recently, I got a visit from a Garda who was following up on complaints from local businesses regarding anti social behaviour from local teenagers and some damage to property. When I said I hadn't had any trouble and that I wondered whether the trouble was racially motivated (two of the...

My brother is Operations Manager for an importer with several large warehouses on John Rogersons Quay in Dublin. He would regularly (fortnightly or monthly) require unloading of containers in this fashion and calls a very reliable guy who assembles a team to do the job. This is not their full...

I drove one of these as part of the ESB commercial ambassadors and it was very comfortable, surprisingly fast and the only issue was I kept turning it on twice as you can't hear it once it starts - no noise idling but a slight whine when going fast. Used to constantly be looking around for...

http://www.amazon.com/Hutzler-571-Banana-Slicer/product-reviews/B0047E0EII/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 You're welcome

Lol, Thanks for the corrections Betsy. Abhainn was a mistake but "am" was due to drinking and typing. I learned my small bit of Irish from 4 summers in the Gaeltacht and I loved it. I really hope it's coming back and the usage increases.

Reminded by a thread in LOS I wanted to ask AAM users their impression of our Teanga. I was reared in a generation where everyone hated Irish and it was profoundly unfashionable (but so were beards :eek:) Recently I've come across loads of incidences where young people were conversing as...

Have a valid VAT no. When I check out of amazon.co.uk some items (amazon supplied) show VAT exclusive price prior to placing order, while others ( other suppliers) show VAT inclusive price prior to "place your order". Is VAT validated number exemption reserved for direct Amazon sales? Thanks...

Hi Marion, Happy New Year. I don't do leftovers anymore. I don't over buy and I don't over cook. I did all that in the past. 4 or 5 courses. Now, if I want good cheese and crackers and a glass of wine or a slice of christmas cake and tea, I have them instead of, not along with a big meal. I'm...

Don't know if a thread like this has been done previously but here's one: My husband bought a hair trimmer in Argos for €22 about 8 years ago. Almost never paid for a haircut since. 3 sons like their hair short also and with a bit of practice, have managed to master a bit of style / variation...