impatient, obnoxious, petty, argumentative, and obsessed over meaningless details
In Vietnam, black sunglasses are now banned for its police officers, along with smoking and chatting on the job. And traffic cops have been order to stop hiding behind trees to catch errant drivers. Vietnamese officials hope the changes will improve the police force’s notoriously bad reputation. If we could only get our guys to [...]
I am going to brave the elements to go to poxegen music festival today. It is famous for the worst campsite and the most crime of any gathering in Ireland. I am going late so it is at least a bit dark and nobody will recognise me. My friends band are playing late on a [...]
Kraken ( kra’ ken, IPA: /ˈkrɑːkən or ˈkreɪkən /)[1] are legendary sea monsters of gargantuan size, said to have dwelt off the coasts of Norway and Iceland. The sheer size and fearsome appearance attributed to the beasts have made them common ocean-dwelling monsters in various fictional works The giant squid (genus: Architeuthis) is a deep-ocean [...]
one of our leading economists Morgan Kelly said “in the past we were portrayed as a “bunch of feckless Micks ruled by priests and gombeen men” – I am not so sure if it is the past he is talking about. The Garda Siochana are the defenders of the peace. I think it is their [...]
Some of the roads I have driven on in Dublin lately resemble the turn of the century, the 18th Century. I really wish the Gardai could have stopped the construction people from parking their lovely yellow ford transit in the hard shoulder on Morehampton Road in Donnybrook tonight. It was probably strategically placed to stop [...]
This valentines day I don’t have a special lady to bring to KFC but I was in the mood for fish and chips. After I did the recycling (not very romantic but still important) so I went to Beshoffs. I was sitting waiting for my food, reading an article about borat in the irish times [...]
