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WE’VE ALL HAD a wonderful moment popping Bubble Wrap, snapping those little plastic bubbles to our heart’s content.
But now comes the devastating news that a new type of Bubble Wrap has been invented – and you can’t pop it.
Seriously.
The makers of bubble wrap, Sealed Air, have revamped the product, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week.
The American company is said to have created iBubble Wrap, which contains bubbles that don’t burst, no matter how hard you squeeze.
The original product was created in 1950, and WSJ said it had worldwide sales of $20 billion in 2013. However, the company is trying to boost product sales, and this new wrap would be able to be shipped farther away, as it is inflated by the user.
Since the news broke, people have been proclaiming their outrage at the news:
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Of that 63% how many are Irish citizens?
@Ciarán Ó Dubhda: if we could deport you ,that would be one less ?
@Ciarán Ó Dubhda: if it suits your agenda none but in reality probably the bulk of the 63%
@Ciarán Ó Dubhda: most of it!
@Ciarán Ó Dubhda: I agree
@Bala mc blaha: he’s entitled to free speech with no interruption from do gooders
@Ciarán Ó Dubhda: Most. Dont ask me how I know but I know.
Books could be written
@Bala mc blaha: never on the dole in my life, oh wait sorry, I was out sick for a few months, got my illness benefit, do I deserve to be deported for that?
@Larry Roe: I’ve no agenda. I’m just asking a question. They shout out the headline, but Where’s the breakdown? Are these benefits for new people entering the country or are they for Irish people.
@Ciarán Ó Dubhda: Out of that 63% how many are ginger? Or tall? Or middle aged? Or racist? Or downright ignorant? I don’t know but it’s hardly relevant, just as their country of origin is irrelevant. What’s important is many people are struggling and we must endeavour to help as best we can despite our petty prejudices.
@Benny McHale: of course their country of origin is important. Its one thing for our tax money to be spent on people fleeing an invasion, diffrent matter altogether on it being spent on people who arrive in this country just for the hand outs.
@Ciarán Ó Dubhda: How any foreign nationals do you know personally? Because all of them that I know personally, work for hard everything they get.
They work in jobs that many Irish people refuse to do, getting up at 4am to work in a factory, on a site or elsewhere, both the men and women, also many foreign women with school going children are working part-time while their children are in school, rather than watching the telly in their pajamas.
@David Van-Standen: 98% of the company I work for are made up of foreign nationals. A lot of my neighbours are also not Irish. So what? Nothing to do with my original question. I asked for a breakdown of the extra people that have to go on emergency payment. Are we looking after our own?
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