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tv ad spoofs

Comments Off Posted by on July 7, 2009

The IT crowd, “you would’nt steal a baby”

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when Nobody shouted stop

Comments Off Posted by on July 6, 2009

Some sad stuff from the Sunday Tribune about eerie ghost estates. It is strange because a lot of people shouted stop but nobody wanted to listen. ‘Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town?’ ‘Do you remember the good old days, before the ghost town? We danced and sang, and the music [...]

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where the streets have no name

2 Comments Posted by on July 5, 2009

I was in the the fashionable “no name” bar in Dublin last night. It was full of attitude after we spent a few minutes in the short queue at the door. My friend said it was like a hangout for desperate women, desperate men too it seems. One country girl got shitty to the extreme [...]

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the lost art of being a letting agent

Comments Off Posted by on May 13, 2009

I had to misfortune to overhear 2 letting agents discussing their murky business today. One of them is a commercial agent and the other residential. The sniveling residential guy has a small premises that he wanted to let out in an area that is a yellow square in the Irish monopoly board. He was more [...]

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may day hall of shame

Comments Off Posted by on May 3, 2009

Herman Munster whose side lost in the Heineken cup: There were some pretty spectacular people and cars around Dublin this weekend, mostly due to the girls aloud concert but also the Heineken cup. The worst things that I saw were: The 07 Limerick Bentley who tried to kill a poor pedestrian who had the cheek [...]

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extraordinary rendition yarr

1 Comment Posted by on April 21, 2009

‘Teenage pirate’ arrives in New York Wali-i-Musi is the first person to be tried in the United States on piracy charges in more than a century. He was flown from Africa to a New York airport and taken into custody ahead of a court hearing today. “This man seemed to come onto the Bainbridge under [...]

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wisdom from the regulator

Comments Off Posted by on April 21, 2009

DUBLIN (Reuters Life!) – Bring a packed lunch to work, skip the latte and don’t miss any debt repayments because the bankers will always catch up with you — are just a few of the tips from Ireland’s official “Recession Survival Guide.” Ireland’s financial regulator advised citizens reeling from a burst property bubble and record [...]

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the blacks of europe

1 Comment Posted by on March 7, 2009

There was in a scene in the commitments where the Irish were described as the blacks of Europe. Maybe that explains the similarities between the biggest rappers and the SUV drivers who like to park in handicap spaces with the flashers on. Bless them.

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georges st happenings

Comments Off Posted by on March 6, 2009

I am now fully convinced that taxi drivers are involved in another dodgy practice, besides going on strike and butting into passengers private conversations. Even when you tell them not to go down Georges st they still do because they know their driving brethren will be there in gridlock. It is an easy way for [...]

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boys acting shams when they’re lashing back cans

4 Comments Posted by on February 20, 2009

cork rap …

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