impatient, obnoxious, petty, argumentative, and obsessed over meaningless details
Paul ‘honey monster’ O’Connell LOVES Milk. He is behind the dairy farmers and wants to know if you are: He used to be afraid: Paul nattered away for awhile on the game, the championship, Munster and Ireland before the topic eventually turned to the economy. He professed to not having had any interest in the [...]
I read with great interest in the Tribune last weekend that: Some people date the decline of our economy to the moment we sent Dustin the Turkey, a national in-joke, to mock our European neighbours with a terrible novelty song. In the past we took the Eurovision song contest very seriously. When Dana won in [...]
The Irish Times own both Ireland.com and myhome.ie – They paid 50 million for the latter. I read with interest There are hopes that renewed activity may be taking place in the property market after website MyHome.ie said the number of second-hand properties that were “sale agreed” in January rose significantly. The property site, which [...]
Seven deadly sins Seven ways to win Seven holy paths to hell And your trip begins Seven downward slopes Seven bloodied hopes Seven are your burning fires, Seven your desires * I was told lately that pride I took in something was one of the deadly sins. I wondered how many of other ones would [...]
A newish show on RTE lampoons property this week. The Savage Eye. At 19:55: an Irish house is like an Irish woman. They think they are a lot better than they actually are. They only want rich people to go inside them. Irish women are enjoying better enjoy the fact that men want to ride [...]
via email From my buddy who works at a firm in Silicon Valley, classic: de·mys·ti·fy (dē-mĭs’tə-fī’) To make less mysterious; clarify mys⋅te⋅ri⋅ous 1. full of, characterized by, or involving mystery: a mysterious occurrence. 2. implying or suggesting a mystery: a mysterious smile. 3. of obscure nature, meaning, origin, etc.; puzzling; inexplicable: Maybe someone should run [...]
Toast is feeling ill and so is Fintan O’Toole. I found this on guardian.co.uk, he is kicking the downed tiger with a new book: The luck of the Irish has finally run out. Having roared away lustily for a decade or so, the Celtic Tiger has now rolled over on its back, all four paws [...]
September 1913 , WB Yeats. What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer, until You have dried the marrow from the bone; For men were born to pray and save; Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, It’s with O’Leary [...]
here are the clowns who are running the worst operations you can think of. Images are clickable.
I learned about this in college. There was a lot going on in Ireland lately: The term conspicuous consumption was introduced by economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen in his 1899 book The Theory of the Leisure Class. Veblen used the term to depict the behavioral characteristic of the nouveau riche, a class emerging in the [...]
