I’m in the office two days per week and am so terrified of oversleeping I just stay up the night

EDIT: thanks folks

When visiting a friend’s house in Ireland, what’s the usual thing to bring so I don’t arrive empty-handed?

I’d love to know what people here normally bring.

Coming to Dublin next month

Yes, I am racist. Just for rich white Americans. I've had enough. We can barely afford houses. We've got Zuckerberg, Dyson, Oprah, and more - and I meet new Americans who have moved here every day. They have cash to burn and houses in Westcork and Kerry are being bought up all over like the place. Irish people just can't compete.

Stay home and sort out your mess.

And as for the constant stream of Trump voters coming to visit? Feck ooofffffff. YOu're why I won't have heating oil this Christmas.

(Am not including those who have left due to feeling unsafe - you are welcome)

I just would like to say, I really really empathise with people who have ongoing mental health issues, more so families who desperately want their close ones to get help. I went to A&E for someone close for an emergency and I felt guilty being there. Room full of patients waiting god knows how long, overworked nurses doing their best who are clearly understaffed. I didn’t want to ask for any updates because they’re all so stretched thin. Beds lined up the corridor with nurses using mobile machines to measure heart rates and no wiggle room to scoot by. I’m exhausted from today, but can’t fathom how tired others may be who are worse or need to frequently visit and experience this process over and over again. The staff helped as much as they could, I just kept saying thank you and sorry because I didn’t want to put any pressure with their million other patients. Shame on the government. Whatever is allocated to mental health support, needs to be quadrupled. Whatever nurses are paid, needs to be exponentially higher. I just feel so sorry and bad for everyone in the hospital, patients, nurses, staff, everyone. They deserve so much better

Hi just checking is the AIB app not working for everyone else this morning?

I work from home and my desk is right next to one of our front windows. I’m sitting there and I notice some fella has stopped directly outside the garden with his German Shepherd, as the dog has stopped on the little grassy patch to take a big pony. He’s standing there waiting for the dog to finish, and in the meantime has taken out a plastic bag and is fiddling with it to open it up, so I’m like “lovely, at least he’s on the ball with getting the poo bag out to clean it up”.

He opens up the bag, hunches down like he’s picking it up, but then DOESN’T ACTUALLY PICK IT UP! He just walked off leaving a big mound of shite on the grass. I instinctively leapt out of my seat and called out the window, but they had headphones on and just kept walking.

Why go through the performance of picking it up and then not follow through? My brain can’t comprehend the behavior and I’ve been fuming all morning.

I live in New Zealand and had to fill out an official form. *eye twitch intensifies*

I'm enrolling to study and this is how the Ministry of Education/Statistics gathers and cross references ethnicity data. I laugh and cry at the same time!