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In society a lady, a prostitute in bed

11 Comments Posted by on June 19, 2011

Fernanda told me this expression. She said it is common to hear in Brazil. As I tried to contain myself after the coolest thing I had ever heard and she added: “in Ireland it looks to be the opposite: the girls can look like whores but if guys talk to them they go crazy and [...]

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Ireland: before you were hot

Comments Off Posted by on June 11, 2011

I have been looking at what is happening in other parts of the world and then I see what is on TV3 (I know) in Ireland tonight, Friday night. I had not seen the Irish ‘come dine with me’ this but had read about it and was dreading it. They showed the finale of the [...]

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chill as a cucumber

2 Comments Posted by on May 30, 2011

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 [...]

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My Boozy Celtic Heroine

2 Comments Posted by on May 6, 2011

Found on http://twitter.com/#!/AllanCavanagh: “See the print edition of today’s Irish Examiner for a special 20-page supplement on Ireland’s relationship with alcohol” Photo shows guy glassing his friend, wasted girl in dress with cans, girl puking after an alco pop – its like a night out in anytown ireland – the woman in the middle is [...]

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rock bottom

2 Comments Posted by on March 31, 2011

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 [...]

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meltdown

Comments Off Posted by on March 29, 2011

One of the reactors in Japan has a huge crack down the side of it and radiation was reported in Glasgow. There is 10 times more nuclear fuel at the flood damaged site than there was at Chernobyl. Six reactors, seven fuel pools and a storage tank total almost 2,000 tons of nuclear material. The [...]

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everyone’s to blame

Comments Off Posted by on December 4, 2010

follow up to lenihan party hard: FORMER Financial Regulator Brian Patterson has hit out at the media for being overly gloomy in a speech which saw him blame “everybody” for the country’s economic woes. Mr Patterson — who led the regulator at a time when banks such as Anglo Irish and Allied Irish Banks were [...]

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rearranging deck chairs on the titanic

Comments Off Posted by on November 20, 2010

I am not really going to write about the titanic or the movie of the same name. I just like the metaphor, the image and how it relates to our current economic woes. During the week a German friend said “Irishman pay your way” – I said “thanks for all the cash you gave us [...]

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mr burns verkaufen der kraftwerk 2

Comments Off Posted by on November 17, 2010

March 2009, http://atoast2toast.com/2009/03/05/mr-burns-verkaufen-der-kraftwerk/: It crossed my mind that a simpson episode has parallels with the German story I put up earlier today. Mr Burns is the Irish people, the factory is Ireland and the German company is … well Germany. Mr. Burns sells the Power Plant to a German company for $100 million. In the [...]

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Irish Pride to blame

Comments Off Posted by on November 17, 2010

The brits want to help us out: NY Times The British government signaled Wednesday that it could offer direct financial assistance to Ireland, even though Britain is outside the euro zone, as prospects grew for an international rescue package to avert another European debt crisis. … Irish pride is an important factor, given how long [...]

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