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enda needs a haircut

6 Comments Posted by on February 26, 2012

Enda should do the guilt trip: The US, Canada, Britain, France, Greece, and other signatories at the London Debt Agreement of 1953 granted Chancellor Konrad Adenauer a 50pc haircut on all German debt, worth 70pc in relief with stretched maturities. There was a five-year moratorium on interest payments. The express purpose was to give Germany [...]

paying germany back, five euros a sausage

6 Comments Posted by on October 5, 2011

I have been forced to flee to Cork due to an Internet famine in my apartment in Dublin. The line has been physically cut somewhere underground near the exchange. I wrote this a few days ago: I went to the Oktoberfest on the Sunday of the opening weekend. It was much nicer to go at [...]

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the poor Germans

Comments Off Posted by on September 13, 2011

The poor Germans cant catch a break. I wont go back too far for this list but a few things that come to mind: The Human Centipede. Michael Lewis examining their obsession about poo in vanityfailr: He then proceeded to pile up a shockingly high stack of evidence to support his theory. There’s a popular [...]

time to embrace the inner Jerry

Comments Off Posted by on June 24, 2011

It all started with an innocent science story published in SPIEGEL, and then in English on SPIEGEL ONLINE . A genetic analysis revealed, of all things, that millions of Britons carry a Germanic gene. Britain, it would seem, is more German than many are comfortable with. The British press, perhaps predictably, went nuts. Hundreds of [...]

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Spanish farmers dump fruit at German consulate

Comments Off Posted by on June 6, 2011

From front page of Fridays FT

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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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Honohan denies bailout is a Final Solution

Comments Off Posted by on May 9, 2011

2011-05-09 09:28 Maybe Paddy H could have chosen his words a bit better, especially since we owe a lot of the money to the Germans. Maybe it is a good thing that this is not a “Final Solution” (see highlighted text in image below).

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the irish banks are rallying … not

42 Comments Posted by on April 7, 2011

RTE radio are peddling some serious bullshit at the moment. They are saying shares in Irish banks are rallying. I have heard it every morning this week. This is what this rally actually looks like: It went from 22 last Friday to 32 on Monday which is a decent jump but its sliding back down [...]

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ein reich, ein volk, ein martin

Comments Off Posted by on January 26, 2011
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wild horses

Comments Off Posted by on January 9, 2011

I had some German friends who were interested in the horse outside video. One of them wanted to know what all the fuss was about. I told her some people thought it was rude and sexist – I presume that was the issue but I dont really know why. This week in the Irish Times [...]

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