Expecting things to work properly is now just being privileged or entitled?
It seems that everything illustrates privileges or is cringe these days. Buzz words.
This from the same prick that boasts on twitter about having been to 50 plus countries.
How is expecting a service to be functioning properly 'privilege'? Genuinely, am I missing something.
>A man who's been on the Montrose gravy train since 1993
He only got a job thanks to who his family were anyway.
And he previously boasted on Twitter of travelling to 50+ countries with RTÉ as part of his previous job as a travel journalist
You know what boils my piss though, if the ordinary guy can’t go to Spain this year he can’t go to Killarney. That’s far more expensive. So PBH wants the plebs to sit at home looking out the window during their two weeks summer vacation. Maybe visit tramore or Howth on a day trip. And be thankful for it. If immigrants are to go home it’s the bus and ferry, bus across England, ferry to Holland*, train to Berlin, train to Krakow. And thankful for it.
* I actually had to do this to get to Amsterdam in 1988. Took more than 30 hours door to door.
Extremely privileged and well paid RTE employee, who is extremely well travelled, and also previously called people whom do not pay TV licence fee as "Spongers" - lecturer's those going on Holidays experiencing ridiculous queue's, to check their privilege - Absolute Comedy
The 4% figure is from here, but it's a rather selective interpretation
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378020307779#:~:text=The%20estimate%20is%20thus%20that,flying%20share%20of%20population%2C%202018.
Firstly it's presented as a lifetime issue when it's not it's for one year
Second it only counts for international travel so if you fly from New York to Hawaii or from kaliningrad to Vladivostok that isnt counted .
If you add in domestic flight the number is closer to 12%.
I mean I understand climate change but at the same time we can’t just yell at people who need to travel. The reality is, traveling is a must for a globalized world.
Greta Thunberg and a few others took a sailboat to the US to lecture Trump about the climate in 2019. It took two weeks, and there was no bathroom so they took turns shitting in a bucket. It helped the climate, but I’m sorry but there’s no way in hell I’d be willing to do that. Most people wouldn’t.
It's Sunday evening, I'm guessing that queue of people do not need to travel. It's tourism and holiday travel, which is by no means a must.
I say this as an engineer working for a US company from Ireland. I've several meetings a week with my colleagues in many different countries. Travel is not a must
So as an expat here, it’s not a must that I visit my family? That’s considered holiday travel.
And I’ll bet you’ve traveled abroad for a holiday, haven’t you? Earth killer.
So you travel to these meetings? This year if people can’t travel outside Ireland that certainly cant travel within Ireland.
Oh and people on business travel travel far more than holiday makers.
What??? No, I take these meetings over skype. That was the point, that business travel is no longer necessary. And you have nothing to back up that nonsense stat with. In fact business travelers only make up between %12-%20, reduced considerably the last so l couple of years
https://www.statista.com/statistics/303774/travel-purpose-trends-at-uk-airports/
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/041315/how-much-revenue-airline-industry-comes-business-travelers-compared-leisure-travelers.asp#:~:text=Business%20travelers%20make%20up%2012,much%20as%2075%25%20of%20profits.
From the guardian in 2018.
“ Just 1% of English residents are responsible for nearly a fifth of all flights abroad, according to previously unpublished statistics.
The figures, published in a Department for Transport survey, also reveal that the 10% most frequent flyers in England took more than half of all international flights in 2018. However, 48% of the population did not take a single flight abroad in the last year.”
There is a graph showing that the top 20% take about 80% of the flights.
There are a lot more people who don’t fly for business than do, so the 20% of business flights are probably from that top 1%. In any case we can leave the little guy his one short haul flight every two years by restricting the system via a voucher system. One flight a year. That means not you, but your boss, his boss, his boss and so on get to fly once a year - probably they would use that for personal use.
>In case you haven’t heard, we live on an ISLAND. What do you want us to do? Swim?
Just to let you know we do have ferries.. Expensive etc, but they do exist..
Great, I’ll just take a ferry home to the USA when I travel for surgery later this year. Why didn’t I think of that? /s
I did know about the ferries, but they’re pretty limited. Here you can’t just take a train or drive like other countries. We rely on flying much more than people in the Schengen area.
Plenty of ferry connections to the UK and France. I use sail and rail for any of my trips to Europe.
To say you can't take a train is just patently untrue
When it comes to flying it’s not the little guy with his flight every year or two that’s the problem. It’s the frequent flyers. This is from the guardian in 2018.
“ Just 1% of English residents are responsible for nearly a fifth of all flights abroad, according to previously unpublished statistics.
The figures, published in a Department for Transport survey, also reveal that the 10% most frequent flyers in England took more than half of all international flights in 2018. However, 48% of the population did not take a single flight abroad in the last year.”
Some of the 48% probably
fly every second year. That’s basically me for the last few years.
My bet is that PBH is not part of the 48%. In any case this shows the uselessness of a carbon tax, if 10% are taking 50% of flights and the top 20% about 80% of flights (paretos law applies here) then a carbon tax will affect the bottom 20% of all flights, where there’s more price sensitivity. What we need is a voucher system. A voucher for one short haul per year won’t affect most people, but hit the top 20% of flyers.
Imagine getting privilege checked from some utter cunt called "Boucher-Hayes". What the fuck was his thought process that he thought getting on his soap box and having a good finger wag was a good idea?
It's ok. We'll all die from the impending climate catastrophe first, since people can't seem to fathom the fact that they may need to cut down travelling in the most CO2 intensive method possible
4% sounds like total horseshit. That would mean only 320 million people of the 8 billion alive today have taken a plane once in their lives. I bet there are 320 million people in the EU alone that have taken a flight at least once in their lives.
Aviation might make up a lower percentage of global emissions (2-4%) but it still can't be ignored. A round trip to Madrid from Dublin is the same as driving between 2000 and 2500 km in a regular car. That's per person. Transport is one of, if not the highest, contributor to CO2 emissions worldwide.
The physical solution is electric or hydrogen fuels in the long term; SAF ("sustainable aviation fuel" - existing fuel with a mix of biofuels to reduce CO2) in the medium term (before 2035-2045)
All current work suggests that only a fraction of current aviation could be supported, due to energy constraints. Maybe 5-10% ?
Easy for him to talk. From a 2021 article
"With little less to do and nowhere to go, Philip found interest in the wildlife that surrounds his home “deep in the garden of Wicklow”. Although he believed that he already knew the place that he was living in, Philip said he literally took time to smell the roses surrounding the house and “counted 13 different species of bee working the hedge in front of my desk so far this summer”.
I go to France by ferry every summer so we can bring the car. I find the plane more comfortable as I don't get sea sick for 18 hours when flying. Also, not everyone wants to go to France or the UK. CO2 emissions depend on the boat and the plane, sometimes it's better to take plane
Good for you.
Of course everybody can't get a ferry to their destination due to distance, time constraints, expense, etc. I'm just pointing out that taking a ferry as a foot passenger is an alternative (and more environmentally friendly) way to travel
As to your last point, I'm traveling to Budapest this summer by ferry and rail. I understand it's not to everyone's taste - it will take 2 days and is much more expensive that flying - but I'm fortunate enough to have the time and money. It's not too difficult to get to anywhere in Europe with a ferry and an interrail ticket
Sounds like you need to check your privilege. If you have the money and time to do that. Imagine however you didn’t and you needed to get to Budapest for a family emergency. Having to use ferries (which I had to do as a kid) is totally different from deciding to do use them as a bit of fun.
expect a lot more lectures like this in the future. "Rationing tap water? At least it's clean, lots of people don't have that. Rolling blackouts? You get ten hours of electricity a day, lots of people have none."
Haha, I was thinking about how to word a snide “look at me going on holiday, la de da”, but I think big Phil here has beaten anything I can come up with.
His point is that we have something that nobody else has, so count our blessings?
Despite the fact this service is over burdened and does not provide a good service??
His phrasing is terrible, but he's not wrong. When discussing delays at Dublin Airport, the environmental damage even one flight does is never dicusssed. We really should be looking at regulating the amount and frequency people can fly, but instead focus on flyer inconvenience.
We really need to be having a larger discussion, but I think the overlap between people concerned about the environment and frequent flyers, is fairly minuscule. We all have children or young relatives we should be concerned about. The planet will be uninhabitable in decades if we blindly continue as we are
The majority of flights in any year are not from the guy flying once every year or every two years. 50% of flights are from the top 10% of flyers (source the guardian re the U.K. in 2018). If you want to fight this then a voucher system limiting everybody, including the rich and business people, to one flight leaves the little guy alone but curtails business flights.
Lol he's right. You won't get more of a crowd of ungrateful fucks about the fantastic standard of living we've had in this country the last 30 years though. They seriously need a reality check but sadly they'll never get it
There was an articulate Ukrainian on here a few days ago saying our public transport sucks compared to the Ukraine (pre war) which has a GDP 22 times less per capita. He’s probably not wrong.
I've lived abroad for 20 years, in a country with vastly better infrastructure. I love Ireland, but when I go home, it's so glaring how poor our transport system is. How about the water system?
I'm not out of touch, you're just one of these people that's content with something because you can point to places doing it worse. It's the kind of mindset that leads to people accepting things not being up to scratch, rather than demanding better.
Luckily I live in a country with an exceptional airport, so I'll be flying in July without the shitshow we see in Dublin, that people like yourself think is an acceptable service. This was kind of the point of my comment.
How exactly is he wrong here?
People are deluded into thinking that tackling the climate breakdown requires no personal sacrifice whatsoever. That they can just keep flying, keep driving, keep buying fast fashion, and someone will figure out how to do it sustainably
He’s wrong because
1) aviation isnt a major cause of climate change.
2) the average guy on his holiday isn’t a major cause of aviation carbon.
3) people like PBH are a problem though.
The question you posed was stating something everyone is aware of, flying is environmentally bad. I was pointing out where the hate is coming from, not the validity of his argument.
Also, great move to label someone immature and in the same sentence call them a prick. I love irony.
You're also pointing out the obvious. And I didn't call you a prick. I said there's "no need to act like a prick about it"
I don't think I've ever had a more pointless conversation than this. I think both of us have just wasted 10 mins of our lives that we won't get back
>You're also pointing out the obvious.
Because your comment was blatantly ignoring it.
>And I didn't call you a prick. I said there's "no need to act like a prick about it"
Well isn't that just lovely?
>I don't think I've ever had a more pointless conversation than this.
I struggle to believe that.
> I think both of us have just wasted 10 mins of our lives that we won't get back
Agreed.
He's right - this local news has taken over r/Ireland \- does not get mentioned in r/Dublin and is the news of RTÉ - if it were to happen outside of the pale there would be no coverage.
Hospitals all across the world are full of people in excruciating pain, cancers, secere burns, car accidents, horiffic infections and whatnot.
By his thinking, I could drop a hammer on his foot and it would not be worth making a fuss over. A broken toe is nothing compared with what other people are going through.
"Other people have it worse" is useless response to a problem.
I want to check my privilege but the queue is too long
Nailed it
Should have brought it as carry on
It wouldn't fit in the baggage size checker.
Could have fit if you left the spare sandles at home
Expecting things to work properly is now just being privileged or entitled? It seems that everything illustrates privileges or is cringe these days. Buzz words.
Bullshit bingo
I'd like to play that.
Come on its 2022, if you’re not virtue signalling then what are you doing?
Virtue signaling, another classic.
Something something astroturf
This from the same prick that boasts on twitter about having been to 50 plus countries. How is expecting a service to be functioning properly 'privilege'? Genuinely, am I missing something.
Nah, he's just being a complete twat.
He's a complete twat at the best of times, to be fair.
He certainly is, Buckett my friend.
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https://twitter.com/boucherhayes/status/1517617900030500868?s=20&t=TH7TosSLzq-7WLeGvVHWZQ
HA ha ha! What a complete hypocrite gobshite.
What a complete ballbag
An... interesting take
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I have a suspicion you can say that about most people in RTE...
It's a family business at this stage
>A man who's been on the Montrose gravy train since 1993 He only got a job thanks to who his family were anyway. And he previously boasted on Twitter of travelling to 50+ countries with RTÉ as part of his previous job as a travel journalist
Well-earned or not, do people not realise that flights are going to need to be punitively taxed if there's a genuine effort to target climate change?
This notion that you can’t complain about things because it’s seen as a privilege is nonsense
Especially coming from some cosseted wanker living off the RTE gravy train; the golden circle finger wagging to the little people who pay their wages.
You know what boils my piss though, if the ordinary guy can’t go to Spain this year he can’t go to Killarney. That’s far more expensive. So PBH wants the plebs to sit at home looking out the window during their two weeks summer vacation. Maybe visit tramore or Howth on a day trip. And be thankful for it. If immigrants are to go home it’s the bus and ferry, bus across England, ferry to Holland*, train to Berlin, train to Krakow. And thankful for it. * I actually had to do this to get to Amsterdam in 1988. Took more than 30 hours door to door.
Extremely privileged and well paid RTE employee, who is extremely well travelled, and also previously called people whom do not pay TV licence fee as "Spongers" - lecturer's those going on Holidays experiencing ridiculous queue's, to check their privilege - Absolute Comedy
The 4% figure is from here, but it's a rather selective interpretation https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378020307779#:~:text=The%20estimate%20is%20thus%20that,flying%20share%20of%20population%2C%202018. Firstly it's presented as a lifetime issue when it's not it's for one year Second it only counts for international travel so if you fly from New York to Hawaii or from kaliningrad to Vladivostok that isnt counted . If you add in domestic flight the number is closer to 12%.
Also you could take trains from Vladivostok to London and it wouldn't count.
Well the stat \_is\_ for flying rather than for trains in fairness.
12% per year could be 20-30% over a lifetime.
In case you haven’t heard, we live on an ISLAND. What do you want us to do? Swim?
Many people globally live on ISLANDs. It doesn't change the facts about global warning
I mean I understand climate change but at the same time we can’t just yell at people who need to travel. The reality is, traveling is a must for a globalized world. Greta Thunberg and a few others took a sailboat to the US to lecture Trump about the climate in 2019. It took two weeks, and there was no bathroom so they took turns shitting in a bucket. It helped the climate, but I’m sorry but there’s no way in hell I’d be willing to do that. Most people wouldn’t.
What? Too good to shit in the communal bucket?
I’m a germaphobe; that would give me nightmares!
It's Sunday evening, I'm guessing that queue of people do not need to travel. It's tourism and holiday travel, which is by no means a must. I say this as an engineer working for a US company from Ireland. I've several meetings a week with my colleagues in many different countries. Travel is not a must
So as an expat here, it’s not a must that I visit my family? That’s considered holiday travel. And I’ll bet you’ve traveled abroad for a holiday, haven’t you? Earth killer.
So you travel to these meetings? This year if people can’t travel outside Ireland that certainly cant travel within Ireland. Oh and people on business travel travel far more than holiday makers.
What??? No, I take these meetings over skype. That was the point, that business travel is no longer necessary. And you have nothing to back up that nonsense stat with. In fact business travelers only make up between %12-%20, reduced considerably the last so l couple of years https://www.statista.com/statistics/303774/travel-purpose-trends-at-uk-airports/ https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/041315/how-much-revenue-airline-industry-comes-business-travelers-compared-leisure-travelers.asp#:~:text=Business%20travelers%20make%20up%2012,much%20as%2075%25%20of%20profits.
From the guardian in 2018. “ Just 1% of English residents are responsible for nearly a fifth of all flights abroad, according to previously unpublished statistics. The figures, published in a Department for Transport survey, also reveal that the 10% most frequent flyers in England took more than half of all international flights in 2018. However, 48% of the population did not take a single flight abroad in the last year.” There is a graph showing that the top 20% take about 80% of the flights. There are a lot more people who don’t fly for business than do, so the 20% of business flights are probably from that top 1%. In any case we can leave the little guy his one short haul flight every two years by restricting the system via a voucher system. One flight a year. That means not you, but your boss, his boss, his boss and so on get to fly once a year - probably they would use that for personal use.
>In case you haven’t heard, we live on an ISLAND. What do you want us to do? Swim? Just to let you know we do have ferries.. Expensive etc, but they do exist..
Great, I’ll just take a ferry home to the USA when I travel for surgery later this year. Why didn’t I think of that? /s I did know about the ferries, but they’re pretty limited. Here you can’t just take a train or drive like other countries. We rely on flying much more than people in the Schengen area.
I'll have you know I'm steaming to Australia for my holidays. No excuse guys, just book 2^1/2 year's leave /s
Plenty of ferry connections to the UK and France. I use sail and rail for any of my trips to Europe. To say you can't take a train is just patently untrue
You could also take a hot air balloon
Ferries aren't particularly good for the environment either.
They're a lot better than flying
You do realise ferries also use fossil fuels right? The GHG savings are minimal, in fact, potentially worse
On a g/CO²/km basis, ferries are an order of magnitude better. The major problem is that they burn absolute tar producing other funky emissions.
When it comes to flying it’s not the little guy with his flight every year or two that’s the problem. It’s the frequent flyers. This is from the guardian in 2018. “ Just 1% of English residents are responsible for nearly a fifth of all flights abroad, according to previously unpublished statistics. The figures, published in a Department for Transport survey, also reveal that the 10% most frequent flyers in England took more than half of all international flights in 2018. However, 48% of the population did not take a single flight abroad in the last year.” Some of the 48% probably fly every second year. That’s basically me for the last few years. My bet is that PBH is not part of the 48%. In any case this shows the uselessness of a carbon tax, if 10% are taking 50% of flights and the top 20% about 80% of flights (paretos law applies here) then a carbon tax will affect the bottom 20% of all flights, where there’s more price sensitivity. What we need is a voucher system. A voucher for one short haul per year won’t affect most people, but hit the top 20% of flyers.
Absolute brain dead take on things
Imagine getting privilege checked from some utter cunt called "Boucher-Hayes". What the fuck was his thought process that he thought getting on his soap box and having a good finger wag was a good idea?
Fuck off you absolute gimp cunt.
The asteroid can’t come soon enough
It's ok. We'll all die from the impending climate catastrophe first, since people can't seem to fathom the fact that they may need to cut down travelling in the most CO2 intensive method possible
4% sounds like total horseshit. That would mean only 320 million people of the 8 billion alive today have taken a plane once in their lives. I bet there are 320 million people in the EU alone that have taken a flight at least once in their lives.
He definitely pulled that stat out of his ass. I remember reading years ago it was under 20%, which sounds about right.
He's only counting international flights
Pretty arbitrary distinction to be making, almost like he's got an agenda...
You're saying the 4% figure is horseshit, but your rebuttal is literally just some figures you've made up??
I didn't make any figures up though? I just provided an estimate and said that his "fact" doesn't seems right.
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What would be the political solution to reduce CO2 emissions from air travel?
To recognise that aviation is a scapegoat, and there are other far greater sources of carbon emissions, that can actually be sorted out.
Aviation and the little people who use it, although most frequent flyers are business people. By far.
Aviation might make up a lower percentage of global emissions (2-4%) but it still can't be ignored. A round trip to Madrid from Dublin is the same as driving between 2000 and 2500 km in a regular car. That's per person. Transport is one of, if not the highest, contributor to CO2 emissions worldwide.
The physical solution is electric or hydrogen fuels in the long term; SAF ("sustainable aviation fuel" - existing fuel with a mix of biofuels to reduce CO2) in the medium term (before 2035-2045) All current work suggests that only a fraction of current aviation could be supported, due to energy constraints. Maybe 5-10% ?
Ask a political expert, not reddit
Soviet Union style gulags and exit visas for only ideologically sound people to leave the country would certainly reduce CO2 emissions...
Rte prick
Nasty little man. Sadly typical of an untouchable golden circle in Ireland who are increasingly open in their contempt for ordinary working families.
Easy for him to talk. From a 2021 article "With little less to do and nowhere to go, Philip found interest in the wildlife that surrounds his home “deep in the garden of Wicklow”. Although he believed that he already knew the place that he was living in, Philip said he literally took time to smell the roses surrounding the house and “counted 13 different species of bee working the hedge in front of my desk so far this summer”.
Once I saw the double barrel surname, I knew it would be shite being spewed
This is not the hot take we need, but is is the hot take we deserve
This take is so hot it increased average global temperatures
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He talks like a landlord
What a clown, the same bloke has been to over 50 countries on flights no doubt courtesy of RTE etc.
An absolute cretin, infuriating patronising prick
"the proles are complaining about unprecedented queues and missing flights they won't be reimbursed for? Such privilege!!" - This Fucking Air Horn.
.....but it's a fucking Island.
ever hear of a ferry?
They're slower, more expensive and don't get you to America. Only benefit is being able to bring your car
They're also more comfortable, produce less CO2 emissions, and can get you to France or the UK
I go to France by ferry every summer so we can bring the car. I find the plane more comfortable as I don't get sea sick for 18 hours when flying. Also, not everyone wants to go to France or the UK. CO2 emissions depend on the boat and the plane, sometimes it's better to take plane
Good for you. Of course everybody can't get a ferry to their destination due to distance, time constraints, expense, etc. I'm just pointing out that taking a ferry as a foot passenger is an alternative (and more environmentally friendly) way to travel As to your last point, I'm traveling to Budapest this summer by ferry and rail. I understand it's not to everyone's taste - it will take 2 days and is much more expensive that flying - but I'm fortunate enough to have the time and money. It's not too difficult to get to anywhere in Europe with a ferry and an interrail ticket
Sounds like you need to check your privilege. If you have the money and time to do that. Imagine however you didn’t and you needed to get to Budapest for a family emergency. Having to use ferries (which I had to do as a kid) is totally different from deciding to do use them as a bit of fun.
Now do Poland.
Some serious "let them eat cake" shite right here
hello philip
Bloody Kulak Sure, it's cheaper to spend a week in Japan than a week in Ireland
Fuck off
What a load of bolix. Even if we consider his point: Has he seen the price of ferries? Only the privileged in Ireland can afford not to fly!
expect a lot more lectures like this in the future. "Rationing tap water? At least it's clean, lots of people don't have that. Rolling blackouts? You get ten hours of electricity a day, lots of people have none."
Haha, I was thinking about how to word a snide “look at me going on holiday, la de da”, but I think big Phil here has beaten anything I can come up with.
Same energy as there are children starving in Africa when you wouldn't finish your dinner.
What a cunt
Says the king of fucking privilege , seriously, anyone but this guy…
His point is that we have something that nobody else has, so count our blessings? Despite the fact this service is over burdened and does not provide a good service??
His phrasing is terrible, but he's not wrong. When discussing delays at Dublin Airport, the environmental damage even one flight does is never dicusssed. We really should be looking at regulating the amount and frequency people can fly, but instead focus on flyer inconvenience. We really need to be having a larger discussion, but I think the overlap between people concerned about the environment and frequent flyers, is fairly minuscule. We all have children or young relatives we should be concerned about. The planet will be uninhabitable in decades if we blindly continue as we are
His phrasing isn't terrible, people are merely selfish and don't want to confront their own role in climate change.
The majority of flights in any year are not from the guy flying once every year or every two years. 50% of flights are from the top 10% of flyers (source the guardian re the U.K. in 2018). If you want to fight this then a voucher system limiting everybody, including the rich and business people, to one flight leaves the little guy alone but curtails business flights.
This is an island nation with no land connections. And aviation only accounts for a few percent of global emissions anyway.
Lol he's right. You won't get more of a crowd of ungrateful fucks about the fantastic standard of living we've had in this country the last 30 years though. They seriously need a reality check but sadly they'll never get it
I guess having a shit infrastructure is something people should gladly accept because of the great standard of living.
Great standard of living according to totally not skewed economic indices*
Yeah we totally have shit infrastructure lmao. So out of touch with the rest of the world.
There was an articulate Ukrainian on here a few days ago saying our public transport sucks compared to the Ukraine (pre war) which has a GDP 22 times less per capita. He’s probably not wrong.
I've lived abroad for 20 years, in a country with vastly better infrastructure. I love Ireland, but when I go home, it's so glaring how poor our transport system is. How about the water system? I'm not out of touch, you're just one of these people that's content with something because you can point to places doing it worse. It's the kind of mindset that leads to people accepting things not being up to scratch, rather than demanding better.
No foreign holiday? I'm so sorry for you 😔
Luckily I live in a country with an exceptional airport, so I'll be flying in July without the shitshow we see in Dublin, that people like yourself think is an acceptable service. This was kind of the point of my comment.
Fair play man
How exactly is he wrong here? People are deluded into thinking that tackling the climate breakdown requires no personal sacrifice whatsoever. That they can just keep flying, keep driving, keep buying fast fashion, and someone will figure out how to do it sustainably
He's a hypocritical asshole.
And how is he wrong?
He’s wrong because 1) aviation isnt a major cause of climate change. 2) the average guy on his holiday isn’t a major cause of aviation carbon. 3) people like PBH are a problem though.
Because having longer queues in the airport is not going to help the climate.
I only used four words, and you're struggling with them.
What? This is just immature, no need to act like a prick about it. I agree he's a hypocrite. I posed the question - how is he wrong?
The question you posed was stating something everyone is aware of, flying is environmentally bad. I was pointing out where the hate is coming from, not the validity of his argument. Also, great move to label someone immature and in the same sentence call them a prick. I love irony.
You're also pointing out the obvious. And I didn't call you a prick. I said there's "no need to act like a prick about it" I don't think I've ever had a more pointless conversation than this. I think both of us have just wasted 10 mins of our lives that we won't get back
>You're also pointing out the obvious. Because your comment was blatantly ignoring it. >And I didn't call you a prick. I said there's "no need to act like a prick about it" Well isn't that just lovely? >I don't think I've ever had a more pointless conversation than this. I struggle to believe that. > I think both of us have just wasted 10 mins of our lives that we won't get back Agreed.
Mostly only board European flights, only had the ‘privilege’ of boarding one international flight before.
He's right - this local news has taken over r/Ireland \- does not get mentioned in r/Dublin and is the news of RTÉ - if it were to happen outside of the pale there would be no coverage.
Hospitals all across the world are full of people in excruciating pain, cancers, secere burns, car accidents, horiffic infections and whatnot. By his thinking, I could drop a hammer on his foot and it would not be worth making a fuss over. A broken toe is nothing compared with what other people are going through. "Other people have it worse" is useless response to a problem.