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I thought it was photoshopped at first but either way it is funny.

In other news: I have not had much to write about the last week or two as I was away from the pc for a while and I am busy concentrating on other things (like watching the sopranos, spartacus blood and sand, alan partridge, peep show and psychoville).

I am going to Brazil for a month from next weekend so outbursts will be minimal until mid Feb.

The 2012 phenomenon comprises a range of eschatological beliefs according to which cataclysmic or transformative events will occur on December 21, 2012. This date is regarded as the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. Various astronomical alignments and numerological formulae related to this date have been proposed.
A New Age interpretation of this transition is that this date marks the start of time in which Earth and its inhabitants may undergo a positive physical or spiritual transformation, and that 2012 may mark the beginning of a new era. Others suggest that the 2012 date marks the end of the world or a similar catastrophe. Scenarios suggested for the end of the world include the arrival of the next solar maximum, or Earth’s collision with a black hole, passing asteroid or a planet called “Nibiru”.
Scholars from various disciplines have dismissed the idea of such cataclysmic events occurring in 2012. Professional Mayanist scholars state that predictions of impending doom are not found in any of the extant classic Maya accounts, and that the idea that the Long Count calendar “ends” in 2012 misrepresents Maya history and culture. Astronomers and other scientists have rejected the proposed events as pseudoscience, stating that they are contradicted by simple astronomical observations

wikipedia.

I think the Mayans just ran out of room on their calendar and should make a new one.

Another key piece of the puzzle has something to do with the Dogon tribe in Africa and a mysterious star Nibiru which has the potential to turn the world upside down:

“Let me tell you two last things please. One, it is this, that I am told by the great storytellers of our tribes, that fresh water is not native to our earth. That at one time, many thousands of years ago a terrible star, or the kind called Mu-sho-sho-no-no, the star with a very long tail, descended very close upon our skies. It came so close that the earth turned upside down and what had become the sky became down, and what was the heavens became up.

“The whole world was turned upside down. The sun rose in the south and set in the north. Then came drops of burning black stuff, like molten tar, which burned every living thing on earth that could not escape. After that came a terrible deluge of water accompanied by winds so great that they blew whole mountaintops away. And after that came huge chunks of ice bigger than any mountain and the whole world was covered with ice for many generations.

“After that the surviving people saw an amazing sight. They saw rivers and streams of water that they could drink, and they saw that some of the fishes that escaped from the sea were now living in these rivers. That is the great story of our forefathers. And we are told that this thing is going to happen again very soon. Because the great star, which is the lava of our sun, is going to return on the day of the year of the red bull, which is the year 2012.”

darkstar1.co.uk

Here are the Dogons in action:

“Tallafornia. The spread and influence of Western Dublin culture, esp. that of Tallaght, across the rest of the country”

- excuse me ?

Check it out to see some gay roid abusers who think they are in Jersey shore but they are in the Hotel at the square in Tallaght. The program is disgusting but the commentary is accurate. I like the line “they should just suck each others cocks seeing as it appears they want to”

“Cormac’s Tallafornia Facebook page”

Occupation: Taxi driver

CORMAC BRANAGAN is a 29 year old taxi driving native of Rathcoole. Cormac studied business in IT Tallaght and having worked in both property and cars, intends to launch his own business ventures sometime in the near future.

I like the comment by “tallaght against tallaghfornia”:

Unfortunately the details are not really all that exciting:

In Bild, Germany’s three-million-selling tabloid, Nicklaus Blome said: “The euro is more important than the Brits.” It was true, he said, that the euro rescue plans had deepened the split in the EU. “But if the euro is not saved, we won’t be talking about temporary or deepening divisions in Europe – we’ll be talking about its demise. A temporary split can be healed in the future. An end to the euro, on the other hand, would be irreversible.”

guardian, bild

New laser graffiti on Cornmarket Street, Cork with laser graffiti technology from Vodafone creating a display in the run up to Christmas. Photo:Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision

One of the bonuses of ‘working from home’ however is that I get to avoid the hellish dark morning commute at this time of year and I can stay indoors as much as I like.

Something that does make me very happy however is that I don’t have to go to any work Christmas parties. I dread this more than anything. I despise having to pretend to be happy to be around lots of people I either don’t care about or have grown to dislike throughout the year.

The ones I hate the most can sense my unease – they cannot help but talk to me and say “happy Christmas”. I usually utter some bullshit phrases like “seasons greetings”. I allow myself to say that as it is factually correct and I do not risk spontaneous combustion from lying.

They wonder why I am not happy. I want to assure them it is only because I am forced by social norms to not tell them the truth.

I want to shout “ITS YOU!!! – YOU IDIOTS ARE THE PROBLEM. I AM NOT BRAINWASHED BY THIS FESTIVE BULLSHIT. I WILL NOT PRETEND THAT EVERYTHING IS GREAT NOW THAT CHRISTMAS IS HERE. I MAY CHEER UP FOR A SECOND ONCE I GET AWAY FROM ALL OF YOU PEOPLE FOR A WEEK OR TWO. THERE IS SOME CHANCE I MIGHT ENJOY THE TIME OFF BUT HONESTLY THE THOUGHT OF COMING BACK IS GOING TO RUIN EVEN THAT”.

Politicians in Ireland want to drug population to stop austerity related suicide rate bit.ly/tDN0Um—
  (@maxkeiser) December 06, 2011

A consultant psychiatrist last night called on Government to add lithium salts to the public water supply in a bid to lower the suicide rate and depression among the general population.

At a mental health forum on “Depression in Rural Ireland” in Ennistymon, Co Clare, Dr Moosajee Bhamjee said that “there is growing scientific evidence that adding trace amounts of the drug lithium to a water supply can lower rates of suicide and depression”.

Lithium is used by doctors as a mood stabiliser in the treatment for depression.

Dr Bhamjee said: “A recent article in the British Journal of Psychiatry found the beneficial uses of lithium when it was added to the water supply in parts of Texas.”

He said the Government should consider a pilot project for a town in Ireland where lithium salts could be added to the water in very small doses and examine the results.” He said there was already strong precedent for governments intervening in the operation of public water supply for health benefits by adding fluoride.

Dr Bhamjee said that a community would not get “hooked” on lithium “because the doses would be so small”.

He said: “There are 200,000 people suffering from depression in Ireland and the Government must think of new ways of tackling the problem.”

For those that don’t know who these people are:

1. Bertie ‘I regret nothing’ Ahern, former leader who told cribbers and moaners to kill themselves.
2. Brian ‘Lennie’ Lenihan. He sold the country down the swanee and died of cancer. Liked to eat garlic late at night.
3. Charlie McCreevy – gave the tax breaks to property developers which caused the pyramid scheme which resulted in Ireland being on death row. He was promoted to ‘europe’ to get him out of here.
4. Brian ‘the cow man’ Cowen – Berties successor and leader of “the drinks cabinet”. Was rumoured to be on the piss in a caravan while the country was dying.
5. David ‘it wasnt me‘ Drumm, CEO of Anglo Irish Bank who the Irish taxpayer has had to bail out for 30 billion because they acted like pigmen who loved to get in builders helicopters for a quick spin to the UK which they were obsessed with buying.
6. Seanie Fitzpatrick – the leader of Anglo who ran up huge debts but walked away and no charges of anything criminal are forthcoming. He claims to live on 200 euros a week now.

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