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11 startling signs that we are losing the run of ourselves again

Some of us need to calm it down on the notions.

Mar 15th 2016, 1:12 PM 13,474 Views 4 Comments

1. When good old fashioned cigarette machines in pubs only serve cigars

2. The very fact that Electric Picnic is already sold out – just a few days after the poxy tickets went on sale

How? Why? Where did all these super organised affluent people come from?

3. When the recent elections saw The Green Party pick up a couple of seats

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4. When this popcorn in Dublin was being sold for €30

popcorn Source: William Barry via OMGWACA

Riiight.

5. The fact that you can now get salads that would have been unpronounceable a couple of years ago

6. When a simple little bottle of Fanta Orange will now cost you an arm and a leg

Imagine the national scandal if it was Club?

7. Onions. Yes, a net of onions now requires a small business loan

8. A place where coffee machines are now more entertaining than Netflix

9. Remember when a full Irish was the people’s breakfast?

Tweet by @Suzanne Sheridan Source: Suzanne Sheridan/Twitter

No more.

10. When Prosecco everything is now acceptable

proseccoo Source: Mark Dalton Twitter

11. And finally… what classy flavour of crisps did you really need in your life in 2016?

Yes. Caviar.

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