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In Ireland we were very late to the postcode game and when we introduced them a few years back they actually uniquely identifies a single address. We also continued our "interesting" habit of renaming everything to make them sound more Irish so they are called Eircodes. In theory you could just put the single 7 character Eircode on a letter and it would be enough although our postal service has said we can't do that.

That is for renting a whole property. You will have to share with someone for €600 per month. Try the "Sharing" option in Daft for that.

I work in a smallish company (around 150 employees I believe) and we recently went through this career framework development and standardisation and as part of that we came up with standard levels and titles across the company but we had to make an exception for our USA office. They would all still have the standard titles internally for pay bands, career progression etc but because of customer expectations, everyone had to be a VP of this or Senior VP of that where VP elsewhere in the company was a very senior position. Kinda funny really.

One other use of political symbols such as bumper stickers or flags etc is to "mark your territory" to make sure that people know whether they are welcome or not.

As an Irishman driving through some parts of Northern Ireland the best/worst case of that was some small towns and villages that more or less literally, had every available space covered in the British flag. I mean every building and many windows had a flag on or it it, every lamppost was covered in both flags and bunting of even more flags. It looked like there was some sort of British flag bomb that had coated the town.

Do you think me with my Irish reg car, and Irish accent stopped in that town while I was driving through?

Another related American tradition that I think is really wrong is the "Perp Walk". For the police to purposely work with the media to cause as much public humiliation for a presumed innocent suspect as a form of pre-conviction punishment is really twisted in my opinion.

Isn't Germany on of the countries that at least had plans on making social media companies responsible for what their users post on their sites. If I remember correctly they were even proposing massive fines if content that they deemed illegal was not removed within an hour and even holding the executives criminally responsible for the content that any of their users post? I'm not sure did they actually go that far but they were at least proposing it.

So on the one hand they are saying that companies need to strictly control what users say on their platform and if they get it wrong they are criminals, but on the other hand they shouldn't control what is said on their platform?

I think Ireland is champion of euphemistically naming things to greatly play them down. We referred to WW2 (you know that little conflict that killed like 70 million people) as "The Emergency" while we still call the conflict in Northern Ireland as "The Troubles".

I realise that it's a completely different country (Ireland) but I remember back when I was in university and found out that most tenants in student accommodation aren't in fact tenants but rather are licencees. Basically means that most of them pesky tenant protections don't apply. It means that they could get away with so many things that landlords of actual tenants wouldn't.

I remember hearing some super cliched but kinda funny saying one time:

"Knowledge is knowing that tomatoes are a fruit. Wisdom is knowing that you shouldn't put it in a fruit salad."

This option is brought up alot and while cost is probably one consideration I think that the main problem is for when (not if) one of the launches has a rapid unscheduled disassembly as they call it, and basically become becomes a large dirty bomb.

I am always so surprised and appalled that these things are still legal. Can you imagine the reaction if they were designed to only hurt pretty much any other demographic other than young people?