But isn’t astronomy in Ireland essentially a redundant hobby due to the cloud cover? We might get two days a year without cloud, the rest of the time we’re covered in the stuff.
“Look there’s the Big Dipper. No, wait. That’s a cloud. There’s Orion’s Belt. Oh, sorry, cloud.”
Yes it is redundant, as is the expensive telescope sitting in my attic which a salesman convinced me that I’d see someone scratch their ass on the moon with. I couldn’t even see the moon.
Astronomers? I hate the anoraky cunts.
Yeah, provocative cunts.
“Look there’s the Big Dipper. No, wait. That’s a cloud. There’s Orion’s Belt. Oh, sorry, cloud.”
So emmigrate if you don’t like Irish clouds.
I’m not an astronomer.
It’s a risk-reward sort of thing. A single clear evening out in the country makes up for ten of the normal sort.
some fecking reward! Looking at dots in the sky ?
The other day I was gazing up at the night sky, a purple vault fretted with a myriad points of light twinkling in wondrous formation, while shooting stars streaked across the heavens, and I thought: I really must repair the roof on this toilet.
Yes and whilst you’re outside looking up at the sky some get is in your house robbing your cd’s and peeing on your bed….
Cheer up, lad. You can always download your own planetarium quite easily here
I would like to be the first to mention Uranus. That’s it. Move along.
We canna cee da Southern Cross evertwy nite we canna do din hare in Neew Zland. Mah bird cees plenty of um stars evertney tyme I lay her down in da grren gras of ome.
you can buy your own star when the buke becomes a seller