40 Of The Best Posts From This Online Group That Perfectly Sum Up Ireland And The Irish Sense Of Humor

This is the truth. "Americans" treat the native people like second class citizens. It's still a caste system even if not formally recognized

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Same goes for everywhere else at the moment.

For a sec I thought you meant people were buying up Australia.

Happy Friday, Friday! :D

I enjoy the relationship I have with my landlord; they're a nice early 70's something couple. An two years ago I moved into they're one br house about ten minutes from town. My rent was $700.00 a month + electric my water is included. Last Christmas they told me since I help the husband with simple chores (he has cerebral palsy) they lowered my rent down to $650.00 a month. Their's good people out there.

Good landlords are awesome, and have to deal with a lot of *sh*t* and costs (my husband used to paint rentals, and saw the absolute trashing of places renters have done). Sadly, there are landlords out there who are horrible, terrible, and frankly abusive of human rights - I sure hope they are the minority.

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Like for everything else, the people who act decently don't get talked about. So people assume the majority of landlords are out to get their tenants. It's unfortunate people don't take balanced views. Some landlords are bad, but my impression talking to anyone who's a landlord with just 1 or 2 properties is it's a big hassle for them. Bad tenants don't get talked about as much. The fact so many small landlords have sold up is likely a contributor to the current crisis though I would't blame them.

There are some weird responses on here. Why are you renting and not selling? Because she wants residual income from her properties, perhaps?

Or… you could sell it to a person who wishes to live in it?

Can I ask why you chose to rent out instead of sell? I understand some one-property landlords become so because they are temporarily relocated elsewhere and would quite like to have a property to return to (in these cases they are actually both landlord and tenant), but I would assume yours is a case of having two properties - yours and your spouse's - and only needing to utilise one. So, I'm curious as to why you chose to rent and not sell?

DON'T DO IT! There are so many people out there that prefer dealing one on one with the owner of their dwelling. It becomes a personal relationship and the land owner usually responds when there is a problem (assuming you're not a slumlord). Also, they tend to be way more understanding if you need a couple extra days to pay the rent.

I just love it how those poor "one-property" landbastards try to depict themselves as fighting for poor men's well-being against corporations. Surely, you do all of that for free, too. Go on and sell then.

Maybe you can stop referring to yourself as a "lord" then?

We don't mean you. You're one of the small and not horrid. It's the greedy dozens upon dozens who own millions of dollars worth of property and collect rent from thousands caring nothing for them. In my neighborhood 15 houses were purchased by the same person for more than anyone else could pay and are now being rented for 4 times as much as the mortgage. This is who we mean.

It's almost as though getting you to sell is the whole point. We want you one-property landbastards to sell.I sympathize with you, when my father got his inheritance he had always been a useless person who never invested for our future. As he had no skills that could benefit this world, only funds from my deceased grandparents, I advised him to invest in rental property. I watched a greedy and stupid man, transform in to one who thought he was doing a favor for society by hoarding property. For your property, is the monthly payments for rent less or more than the mortagae? Kidding, I know the rent you collected was more than the mortage. Your line of business is a cruel one, and it is pathetic that you ask the rental class to consider your actions as a favor. I'm sure you've met tenants over the years that would've done anything for a rent to own deal, but I know without asking that you've never offered that. Corporate landhoards and folks like you are evil

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Please do sell. Preferably to someone who would like to have somewhere to live. selling to a corporation is NOT your only option

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Or you could sell it to someone who you know, JUST WANTS SOMEWHERE TO LIVE.

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one of my prized possesions is a dilithium crystal from TOS. :)

Lol just about the same here. No longer do the black cherry or black lipstick, fishnets under ripped pants, current clothes are mostly black still however. My mom teases me when I go to look for a shirt and she pipes up with "oh looking for something black?" durr-hurr-hurr mom, that never gets old 🙄 😅

After this... never again

But it should be mentioned what happened and people should not be silent about it as if nothing had happened.

If people are still benefitting from the spoils of their ancestors, either through higher cultural status, stronger economic gains, or more opportunity, then absolutely the story is not over, past wrongs have not been righted, and there is more work to be done to understand equity.

Umm... They still haven't returned Northern Ireland...

This is a lovely sentiment however the core issue is that that consequence of past historical trauma are still felt today

Im Irish and work in an English school. They still teach that yhe Republic of Ireland is still part of the common wealth and belong to the united kingdom. I got reprimanded by my supervisor for bringing it up.

right....and we'll let go just as soon as they let go of Northern Ireland.

As long as they don't defend the histroical oppression, true.

I mean I think it's more of a joke at this point, if they don't like it that's fine and they have every right not to but I haven't heard people complain about it sincerely

How about if their ancestors killed your ancestors, and not hundreds years ago but say 70, taking us back to WWII, how about their ancestors are glorified for what they did to your ancestors in their Parliment or even this year in January 2022 https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-of-ukrainian-nationalists-march-in-in-honor-of-nazi-collaborator/ how about their president saying "There are indisputable heroes. Stepan Bandera is a hero for a certain part of Ukrainians, and this is a normal and COOL thing" Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with RBC-Ukraine 2019. Hope you're interested enough to read this https://justiceforpolishvictims.org/polish-experience/the-wolyn-massacre-77-years-ago-around-100000-poles-were-slaughtered-with-utmost-cruelty-by-ukrainian-nationalists/ It's not historical hate, these are historical facts. And they need to be remembered. Now Ukrainian citizens seek refuge in Poland, 3,2 million of them up to date. No hatred here, but we still remember.

America has a constitution, the UK has traditional prejudices.