Comments on: I’ve just invented Plogging

By: mj » Blog Archive » Mobile/Portable Computing Caveats

mj » Blog Archive » Mobile/Portable Computing Caveats — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:47:09 +0000

[...] toilet (which is why some people have dropped theirs in the bowl). Now, I’m not advocating ‘plogging’ (though Twenty is about a decade too late to have claimed to have invented it), but there’s [...]

By: Twenty Major

Twenty Major — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:06:46 +0000

No, it should be in all of them. Let me check with publishers etc.

By: flirty

flirty — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:05:21 +0000

2 X Easons and 1 X Hughes - not happy

They were south side - does that matter?

By: SAm Crea

SAm Crea — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:27:26 +0000

Bought the book today in Easons in Liffey Valley.
It was sitting, cosy as you like, right beside Paul Williams latest Tome. Would this be the only possibility of you sitting quietly beside Mr Williams..

By: Monkey Balls

Monkey Balls — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:11:37 +0000

Yes, I’m awake, and just finished tidying up my website.

I took the cure; A few more cans, a bottle of cheap wine and 2 swigs of Domestos.

Quiet ’round here today, isn’t it?

By: Twenty Major

Twenty Major — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:03:44 +0000

Which bookshops did you try?

By: tony s

tony s — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:33:30 +0000

MB are you awake?
Did you take the cure?

By: flirty

flirty — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:22:33 +0000

I’ve have now tried 3 different book shops and still can’t find your book - whats the story?

By: Monkey Balls

Monkey Balls — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:29:58 +0000

I’m expecting a banger of a fuckin’ hangover later this morning, so, in anticipation of any questions I might be asked;

Yes, I have had issues with the staff of my local Eason’s, and the management, and their stupid bastard security staff who follow me everywhere but think I can’t see them.

Yes, the management in Eason’s are of the same mentality as the staff. Total waste of fuckin’ time.

No, I am not Twenty Major.

By: Monkey Balls

Monkey Balls — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:53:15 +0000

Whiskeyintheditch, you, and all other readers of this fine blog should know that there’s no such thing as being off-topic, so long as you mention The Book. I have used this ploy myself on several occasions, and have yet to be reprimanded. Look, I’m using it now! It’s almost like a license to post comments.

But I digress. Your predicament of being unable to procure for your good self a copy of the forementioned Book, within the confines of a sub-branch of that purveyour of books (with a small b) that appeal to the Lowest Common Denominator class of reader, called Eason’s, which in itself I believe is a sub-branch of that massive oligarchical empire that goes by the name of WH Smith’s, but I could be wrong, saddens my heart.
But the problem is partly of your own making. Your failure to apply a fuckin’ heavy baseball bat to the head of the fuckwit you spoke to in Eason’s will most likely cause untold delay in that branch actually ordering the book, and then God only knows what sort of retards they choose to keep hidden away in the warehouse!!
My own local branch had it on a trolley that moved around the shop floor for a few days. While I wasn’t looking last week they put it on the shelf they call ‘On Promotion’ -Nowhere else. Not ‘Humour’, not ‘Irish Fiction’, not ‘First Ever Book By A Writer Of An Irish Blog’.
Get them to check on their computer. It’s very likely In Stock, but lost in the wrong section, beside the Harry Potter. Or still in a box over by the cigarette counter.
Be firm with them. You have nothing to lose but your €8.99