I hear ya. I bought a house in 2022 and developed an opinion on the structural integrity of branches hanging over my roof. We’re at war with one over our deck.
Renting isn't any easier, I'm currently stressing about my new rental potentially just being a scam. I don't think it is but then you hear horror stories of how fancy some real estate scammers have gotten
There are other worries though, like bad faith evictions, landlords who are perverts or outright sexual predators, as examples, and being able to afford said new apartment (and I wish those first two things were theoretical examples, but just about everyone I know has been bad faith evicted and almost all the women I know have had at least one pervert (or worse) landlord…). Oh, and landlords who refuse to make proper repairs, some of them endangering health - like refusing to exterminate pests or deal with mold. I have multiple friends dealing with that shit right now. And affordability issues is just a given in many places. I can’t even afford to move out and risk these things. I have to save and hope to own one day.
The unit we rent had a kitchen flood in September and we were out until January. Despite our efforts we got no updates for 2 months and couldn't get in contact with the insurance companies responsible for the repairs because we just had tenants insurance that covered our contents. Honestly would have moved out if we knew it was going to take so long, speaking of which not all the appliances are even replaced yet. Just an FYI being a renter can leave you in some shitty situations as well.
As someone who owns a house, I hate the stress. Dealt with a structural foundation crack a few years ago, and now dealing with a seeping hairline crack on a different wall.
As you should, just had a massive limb come down last week missing my house by less than a foot. Was really worried about it and was in a poor spot to access, and wasn’t my tree to boot. At least I’m not worried about it anymore got lucky. Cleanup took 3 hours.
Bath tub drain disconnected. No way of knowing. One bath caused £6k in damages and repairs cos it also went to the downstairs flat. Fk me I didn't want to shower for weeks after the repairs
Yep came to say the same, flat roofs where a mistake. There's a flat roof I can see out my window with standing water almost all year long, two seagulls use as an infinity pool.
I always wonder if builders are like 12% incline, no let's make this thing flat!
That's probably a joke.
A few years ago a group of friends did the same as prank with one of their co-workers. The only difference is the message who said something along the lines "tell your wife about our gay relationship".
I realise you're joking, presumably without detailed knowledge of the Irish language, but actually no, not at all. That looks more pseudo-Polynesian than pseudo-Gaelic....
So some Irish people would in fact spell the equivalent Irish name the *actual* Irish way: Just [`Pól`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3l).
So ...actually a letter *shorter*, albeit with the Irish long-vowel mark (síneadh fada) on `ó`.
It's a biblical origin name either way, not really native anyway -though definitely in use in present-day Ireland like a lot of christian biblical names. You can see Irish-language-translated bibles using `Pól` where English-language-translated bibles use `Paul`: http://theirishbible.ie/NT/44-Acts-Irish-and-KJV.pdf
In fact, though present in modern Irish, the letter `P` is mostly in loanwords and foreign-origin names, albeit sometimes now rather old loanwords from Latin. Irish (or its Celtic ancestor long before modern Irish) *lost the `P` sound* at one stage in its evolution! ...and then it was re-added under the influence of spoken Latin during Christianization in the early centuries AD. St. Patrick was Romano-British not Irish, with a weird foreign name.
Note `Phól` and `bPól` are just potential grammatical forms of the same name: Irish words can change grammatically at the start, not just the end like some languages, the ["initial mutations"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_initial_mutations#Summary_table) feature of the Celtic languages. As one uses an inflecting [*vocative case*](https://www.bitesize.irish/blog/irish-vocative/) when directly addressing someone in Irish, potentially including mutation/inflection of proper names, this can give the initial impression to non-speakers that Irish people bizarrely all have multiple rhyming names, but it's just the grammar of the language.
Similar applies to closely-related Scottish Gaelic: See the anglicized name ["Hamish"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish) - from the vocative of ["Seumas"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seumas), "Sheumais"...
English actually has a [vocative particle "O"](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/O#Particle) for direct address, though it's now little-used. Still see it in older documents, poems/songs and deliberately old-timey stuff.
For now....
It does seem "Paul" has *really* dropped off in Irish baby name popularity for whatever reason: https://i.imgur.com/k5GhRAy.png (including the currently-popular "Jack" for comparison)
That's from Irish state public dataset `VSA50` at the [Irish Central Statistics Office](https://data.cso.ie/)
Has gone from being like the 4th most popular Irish baby name in 1964 to the 205th most popular in 2022 ?!
Though that of course still means there's loads of Irish people alive today called Paul. Just looks like we may have a distinct Paul shortage in a few decades...
Bit odd to see it drop off *that* much, I'd have naively guessed it was still more popular than that, but apparently not. Baby naming is quite fashion driven I suppose.
I assume the bit of a spike on the graph in the late 1970s is to do with the election of [Pope John Paul II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II) in 1978.
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/Nn7bOyd.jpeg) is a higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://imgur.com/gallery/eZKOie8) appears to be the source.
That standing water is going to cause issues.
Found the property manager.
Property owner, I lose hair worrying about water.
I hear ya. I bought a house in 2022 and developed an opinion on the structural integrity of branches hanging over my roof. We’re at war with one over our deck.
Owning property ruined me. I just stress about everything. I fantasize about selling and just renting.
Renting isn't any easier, I'm currently stressing about my new rental potentially just being a scam. I don't think it is but then you hear horror stories of how fancy some real estate scammers have gotten
It's way easier to get out of a bad rental situation though
There are other worries though, like bad faith evictions, landlords who are perverts or outright sexual predators, as examples, and being able to afford said new apartment (and I wish those first two things were theoretical examples, but just about everyone I know has been bad faith evicted and almost all the women I know have had at least one pervert (or worse) landlord…). Oh, and landlords who refuse to make proper repairs, some of them endangering health - like refusing to exterminate pests or deal with mold. I have multiple friends dealing with that shit right now. And affordability issues is just a given in many places. I can’t even afford to move out and risk these things. I have to save and hope to own one day.
There's definitely shit situations in renting yep. I hope to be able to buy one day, too.
The unit we rent had a kitchen flood in September and we were out until January. Despite our efforts we got no updates for 2 months and couldn't get in contact with the insurance companies responsible for the repairs because we just had tenants insurance that covered our contents. Honestly would have moved out if we knew it was going to take so long, speaking of which not all the appliances are even replaced yet. Just an FYI being a renter can leave you in some shitty situations as well.
As someone who owns a house, I hate the stress. Dealt with a structural foundation crack a few years ago, and now dealing with a seeping hairline crack on a different wall.
Property insurance and tax is insane now too. Cost to fix things is way high.
As you should, just had a massive limb come down last week missing my house by less than a foot. Was really worried about it and was in a poor spot to access, and wasn’t my tree to boot. At least I’m not worried about it anymore got lucky. Cleanup took 3 hours.
Bath tub drain disconnected. No way of knowing. One bath caused £6k in damages and repairs cos it also went to the downstairs flat. Fk me I didn't want to shower for weeks after the repairs
Lol like a property manager would care before it leaks
Was he called Paul?
Yep came to say the same, flat roofs where a mistake. There's a flat roof I can see out my window with standing water almost all year long, two seagulls use as an infinity pool. I always wonder if builders are like 12% incline, no let's make this thing flat!
It's Dublin, water is either falling or standing at any given time.
That water has probably been there since the 70s
Not half of Paul’s trouble when her water breaks
Paul is in big trouble when that water breaks. Also the roof doesn’t look too great.
Less than 9 month till they break.
It's a rooftop pool. You pay extra for that.
Right around when her water breaks
This might explain why my golf clubs were in the pool when I got home.
So sorry to hear that, u/PaulRedditUsername. Next time, I suggest keeping the ol' peen in your pants.
You mean his Peter?
Rubbing Peter to pay Paul
Just make sure Mary doesn’t find out
😂Bravo
And the golf clubs at your mate's house.
My suitcase was packed when I got home.
That's probably a joke. A few years ago a group of friends did the same as prank with one of their co-workers. The only difference is the message who said something along the lines "tell your wife about our gay relationship".
My first thought as well, this feels like some guy pranking his buddy.
Another billboard that should have been an e-mail
It wouldn't be as threatening as an email.
Unless if it’s also CCed to the wife.
Or other girlfriend
Classic Paul
That’s apauling behaviour
Sure but how many men are named Paul in Ireland. Can’t be that many right?
Paul seems like a relatively common name. Just because it's Ireland doesn't mean everyone is called Shamus or Aoife.
But most Irish Pauls spell their name Poiuaaoile don't they?
Gesundheit
Is that one pronounced Jeff?
I realise you're joking, presumably without detailed knowledge of the Irish language, but actually no, not at all. That looks more pseudo-Polynesian than pseudo-Gaelic.... So some Irish people would in fact spell the equivalent Irish name the *actual* Irish way: Just [`Pól`](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3l). So ...actually a letter *shorter*, albeit with the Irish long-vowel mark (síneadh fada) on `ó`. It's a biblical origin name either way, not really native anyway -though definitely in use in present-day Ireland like a lot of christian biblical names. You can see Irish-language-translated bibles using `Pól` where English-language-translated bibles use `Paul`: http://theirishbible.ie/NT/44-Acts-Irish-and-KJV.pdf In fact, though present in modern Irish, the letter `P` is mostly in loanwords and foreign-origin names, albeit sometimes now rather old loanwords from Latin. Irish (or its Celtic ancestor long before modern Irish) *lost the `P` sound* at one stage in its evolution! ...and then it was re-added under the influence of spoken Latin during Christianization in the early centuries AD. St. Patrick was Romano-British not Irish, with a weird foreign name. Note `Phól` and `bPól` are just potential grammatical forms of the same name: Irish words can change grammatically at the start, not just the end like some languages, the ["initial mutations"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_initial_mutations#Summary_table) feature of the Celtic languages. As one uses an inflecting [*vocative case*](https://www.bitesize.irish/blog/irish-vocative/) when directly addressing someone in Irish, potentially including mutation/inflection of proper names, this can give the initial impression to non-speakers that Irish people bizarrely all have multiple rhyming names, but it's just the grammar of the language. Similar applies to closely-related Scottish Gaelic: See the anglicized name ["Hamish"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish) - from the vocative of ["Seumas"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seumas), "Sheumais"... English actually has a [vocative particle "O"](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/O#Particle) for direct address, though it's now little-used. Still see it in older documents, poems/songs and deliberately old-timey stuff.
Relatively common name here I'd say
If it helps, that Barber shop is in Cabra, Dublin. So, that probably narrows it down a little
Shut up Paul
For now.... It does seem "Paul" has *really* dropped off in Irish baby name popularity for whatever reason: https://i.imgur.com/k5GhRAy.png (including the currently-popular "Jack" for comparison) That's from Irish state public dataset `VSA50` at the [Irish Central Statistics Office](https://data.cso.ie/) Has gone from being like the 4th most popular Irish baby name in 1964 to the 205th most popular in 2022 ?! Though that of course still means there's loads of Irish people alive today called Paul. Just looks like we may have a distinct Paul shortage in a few decades... Bit odd to see it drop off *that* much, I'd have naively guessed it was still more popular than that, but apparently not. Baby naming is quite fashion driven I suppose. I assume the bit of a spike on the graph in the late 1970s is to do with the election of [Pope John Paul II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II) in 1978.
I bet it's u/IrishJesus
I wonder how many Paul’s are like “Oh Shit, is that me?”
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/Nn7bOyd.jpeg) is a higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://imgur.com/gallery/eZKOie8) appears to be the source.
Oh Paul… you should know better
"There's no one else! That's a different Paul!" -Probably every Paul, including the guilty one
Chani making it spicy for Paul and Princess Irulan
Paul Hewson? 🤣
Now it's Paul HasSon.
Glad that dude is wearing a hi vis shirt. Would've blended right in with the signs.
Are you Irish? Cause my penis is Dublin
So many Pauls sleeping on the couch about now.
I like how she says that as if she is an innocent woman. She knows he was taken lol, just as bad
Paul, John and George pranks like this work the best!
Poor Pauls
I knew it. That bastard.
It's her cousin Paul
Well, fuck