impatient, obnoxious, petty, argumentative, and obsessed over meaningless details
For all the Cork people out there and especially Roy Keane:
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
no, not really. I am actually indifferent to the time of year except for the cold weather.
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.
To the police surveillance van outside our flat, renaming your wifi would make you stealthier
It is just like what I said about the London riots where people rioted for UGG boots:
from zerohedge:
“Video showing the utter chaos and calamity that ensued when shoppers were fighting over towels put on sale at $1.28 each. Towels.”
“If this is how people act when towels are on sale, it certainly makes one wonder how well society will function when there’s actual chaos– like supply disruptions for food, fuel, or electricity”.
also
Diplomats have also been told to prepare to help tens of thousands of British citizens in eurozone countries with the consequences of a financial collapse that would leave them unable to access bank accounts or even withdraw cash.
Fuelling the fears of financial markets for the euro, reports in Madrid yesterday suggested that the new Popular Party government could seek a bail-out from either the European Union rescue fund or the International Monetary Fund.
Reminds me that I need to get a gun and some medicine for the coming zombiepocalypse. I lost my my copy of
Thankfully I picked up the SAS survival handbook. It tells me that a key requirement is the will to live, some days I am not so sure.
I am feeling a bit sick the last few days so I only have time to write a little rant about some things dear to me.
There was an incredible amount written in the Irish newspapers over the weekend about our budget being read out in the Bundestag before we knew what it contained. That is the reality, having sold sovereignty to pay for the retards who were ran the country into the ground.
David McWilliams: on the Nazi past:
For those who have spent any time in the Bundesrepublik with German people, this unwillingness to accept European leadership because of what their grandparents or great grandparents did 70 years ago verges on a sort of neurotic self-loathing. It also bears no relation to the evident aspirations of modern Germany. But it is as it is. And yet this German self-loathing is a disaster because only Germany can save the eurozone from a messy break-up – or prolonged stagnation which will lead to a messy break-up.
Unless Germany leans on the ECB to buy up more and more European government bonds, the present crisis will continue and end in chaos. The reason the Germans won’t mandate the ECB to do so is because they are worried about hyperinflation if the ECB prints too much money to buy all these bonds. It has seeped into German folk memory that the economic cause for the rise of Nazism was hyperinflation. This has been parroted again and again by those who don’t know their history. The opposite is in fact the case.
The hyperinflation was over by 1924. Hitler came to power almost a decade later and what propelled him into power was the response to the 1929 crash: fiscal tightening. In 1930, the German chancellor, responding to the fall in German output in the 1930-1932 period, inflicted too much austerity. Unemployment soared and Hitler rode to power.
So Hitler came to power not because of inflation but because of deflation. If there is any lesson from German history, it is to loosen policy – both budgetary and monetary policy – in a downturn, not the opposite.
I think it is hilarious that Germany have bought Ireland. We might get someone with a brain in charge. Maybe the words of the German envoy will finally be listened to – (I never get tired of reading this article)
In his 15-minute speech the ambassador said:
Ireland was a “coarse place”.
Junior ministers here earned more than the German Chancellor.
Some 20pc of the population were public servants.
Our “chaotic” hospital waiting lists would not be tolerated anywhere else.
Wage demands were too high.
Our immigration policy was wrong and we had learned nothing from Germany or the Nordic countries.
He also cited the doctors’ rejection of €200,000 a year posts on the basis that this sum was “Mickey Mouse” money and referred to the former dominant position of the Catholic Church within the country.
Nigel Farage is not happy as this was “something the European project was supposed to stop”:
The title of this post comes from a video by Max Keiser who also talks about how the Euro was supposed to guard against a German dominated Europe.
I read that peoples Facebook accounts got hacked with porn. I wanted to find some examples but all I got was this:
