Reeling in the years
Posted in Old blogger by Twenty Major on August 17th, 2005
This is a program they show every evening on RTE and it’s one of those shows where they show old TV snippets, play some songs of the year in question, show some newsreels with subtitles while the music is on (e.g Bridge over troubled water is playing while the subtitles say ‘In Belfast 15 people were shot in the nose in revenge for IRA actions’ - it’s very moving) and they go through the years.
It’s all very nostalgic really. The conversion to metric, Offaly winning two all-Ireland football championships running and the slithery rise of Charlie Haughey is all very interesting to look back on now.
They had Ian Paisley on the other night from the arse end of the 60s or early 70s. It’s still amazing that he’s survived until now. He can count himself lucky that the general apathy of the Irish people for acts of assisination is far removed from their get up and go when it comes to emigrating and drinking pints.
Tonight they had Kevin Myers reporting from Belfast on the day that the IRA let off 22 bombs in a little over an hour. Imagine. 22 bombs and that fucker managed to escape without even a scratch. Jammy cunt.
Those were days when you could still smoke in bars, of course. Now you can’t smoke anywhere and reading this cranky old southern fucker it seems he’s taken exception to a new law in America which says you can be fined $500 for smoking within 25 feet of a public building. Who the fuck is measuring though?
Is there a line on the ground marking out the distance where it’s ok to smoke? Do they have smoke monitors going around on mini-golf carts looking for smokers? If they catch you do they make you stand still while they take out a measuring tape and make a chalk mark on the ground where you’re standing? Cunts.
If I worked in there and I had my break it’d be like this:
Go outside 25 feet - light cigarette - inhale deeply - drop cigarette - run inside building - exhale. Go back to 25 feet - pick up cigarette - inhale deeply - drop cigarette - run inside building - exhale. Repeat until cigarette is finished. I might take to smoking two or three at a time so the exhalation would be super-powered.
Nobody could say a fucking word to you because you’re not actually smoking within the 25 feet limit nor are you smoking inside the building. It would also be good exercise for me as well and being a heavy drinking, heavy smoking old cunt God knows I need it.
Actually, fuck the exercise. It’s the mischief that makes it.
maca says:
Fuck Ian Paisley, the man is a terrorist and has done more than anyone else to stir up hatred in Northern Ireland. And fuck Paisley Junior too. Cunt.
August 17th, 2005 at 7:11 am
fatmammycat says:
And screw smokers too, I’m glad they have to move away from door, it is mankey to come out of a building and step into a plume of grey ashy fumes. I realy hate smoking. And Ian Paisley makes me feel sick to my stomach, I’m chuffed that the big arsed fucker is finally losing his voice.
August 17th, 2005 at 8:44 am
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Johnny5 says:
did anyone see the ignorant cunt on the 12th?
He was there with a 2 year old child on his lap teaching the poor little fucker to say “No surrender”. Christ he is one stupid cunt and is son is just as bad if not worse.
August 17th, 2005 at 9:24 am
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Dr Maroon says:
I met Ian Paisley once, in the directors’ box at Parkhead. He had broken his return journey from Downing Street to see Tom Boyd‘s testimonial. An urbane man in private, his amusing commentary kept us entertained during what was a very dull match.
Boyd on the other hand was a disappointment. Unimposing in the flesh, a smoker of Consulate cigarettes, he could only offer a wet fish handshake and mumble when introduced.
It just shows the difference between public and private personas.
August 17th, 2005 at 10:01 am
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Dr Maroon says:
Shite, I meant Gerry Adams, I always get those two mixed up. Sorry.
August 17th, 2005 at 10:03 am
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Dr Maroon says:
And it might have been Ibrox.
Is it time for tea yet?
I fucking hate work.
Help me I’m melting…FUnashGLUGghfgniffffd…………
August 17th, 2005 at 10:06 am
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Anonymous says:
DART drivers are cunts . . . they want more money ‘cos the trains are now a little bit longer !
Granted if they were male prostitutes they’d have a case for getting more money for operating longer equipment but who are they kidding ???
Feckers, they don’t even have the problem of gobsheens crashing into them like the LUAS drivers do.
Wonder if those LUAS crashers are frustrated Real IRA fundamentalist suicide bombers !?!
August 17th, 2005 at 1:54 pm
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Nosmo King says:
I worked in a building once where there was a no smoking ban in place.
So smokers you would think would go outside to drag the fag - NO…
Company Policy was NO SMOKING on the premises - that meant not even in your Ford Cortina in the expansive car park (They dont have Cortinas in the US but you get my drift). So all the smokers used to go off site to smoke where they ran the risk of getting run over by the local Dukes of Hazzard or freezin their nuts off in the depths of winter.
PS I will also admit to having once worked for PJ Carrolls on Grand Parade and getting a desk allowance of 200 a week (gratis). In fact I did a roaring trade in flogging other peoples allowances for hard cash, cheaper than wholesale was my sales pitch.
August 17th, 2005 at 3:51 pm
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sol says:
Ian Paisley was a terrorist and an inspiration to terrorists, but by no mens the biggest cunt ever to have lived a hatred fuelled existence.
Think of all those cunts who worship him and vote for the shite.
Whos the bigger cunt? The cunt or the cunty cunt who follows the cunt?
August 17th, 2005 at 4:55 pm
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Jaffa says:
Thank Christ for Gerry & The Peacemakers for showing us what sectarian cunts those Northern Prods were.
Kingsmills,Enniskillen,Frizzels.
August 20th, 2005 at 12:37 am
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