impatient, obnoxious, petty, argumentative, and obsessed over meaningless details
GLASTONBURY, England (AFP) – Veteran rockers U2 will face a protest during their long-awaited Glastonbury gig on Friday from campaigners angry at alleged tax dodging by the group. Direct action group Art Uncut is planning to unfurl a giant inflatable before the cameras as anti-poverty lobbyist Bono and his band take to the Pyramid Stage. [...]
I had a strange night in the suburbs at stepaside. I made the mistake of believing my old colleagues who said it was near the luas. I got directions over the phone from somebody from a romania who punctuated every sentence with the word “right”. I naturally got lost a few times. The place was [...]
Some fucking asshole from the food safety authority was on the news yesterday saying: “The public is being urged to buy Irish in the wake of a deadly outbreak of E coli bacteria poisoning in Europe, which has claimed 10 lives and left hundreds seriously ill”. Such vile callousness for the people who have died [...]
After reading Morgan Kellys article in the Irish Times yesterday I cried from embarassment: the sole purpose of the Irish bailout was to frighten the Spanish into line with a vivid demonstration that EU rescues are not for the faint-hearted. And the ECB plan, so far anyway, has worked. Given a choice between being strung [...]
The title of this post, it is a line from the Seinfeld episode The Chaperone. Elaine is discussing the idea of having grace in reference to Jackie Onassis: Elaine at her job interview at Doubleday with Mrs. Landis. LANDIS: Of course, Jackie O. was a great lady. Those are going to be some tough shoes [...]
‘Give me your name and address or I’ll rape you’: the reality of Corrib policing http://vimeo.com/21952231 Excerpt from recording by confiscated video camera in a Garda vehicle on March 31st, 2011, after the arrest of two women at Aughoose for public order-related offences relating to the Corrib gas project. “Crusty camp” is a reference to [...]
I tried to watch the webcast of Paddy Honohan from the central bank today. When the broadcast started they were still setting up the room and it seemed that they were unaware that people were watching on the internet. The camera was at the back of the room, in the middle behind a few rows [...]
I came across an unflattering photo of Bono last week. He is straightening his bits on the beach and I thought he looked a lot like Robin Williams: I found out there are thousands of others who also think the same on totallylookslike.com. I cannot decide who I hate more between those two. It is [...]
