We need a handsome politician

Posted on | June 25, 2008 | 177 Comments

See this recession business, I know I said I didn’t care, but frankly I think we should all be petrified. Everything is going to shit and nothing anyone can say can make the slightest bit of difference.

I read on Breakingnews.ie that Eamon Gilmore, leader of Labour, asked “if the Government planned a mid-term Budget to introduce emergency adjustments such as cutting public services, freezing pubic pay rises or increasing taxes”.

You know times are hard when politicians are considering freezing pubic pay rises, the lecherous cunts. Still, my main concern is that no matter what Brian Cowen says I just can’t help thinking ‘Damn, you are an ugly, ugly man and you make my face scrunch up in mild disgust when I see you’.

I know I should be above things like that but I just can’t help it. He is ugly. He does look like his tongue is too big for his mouth. He’s like a St Bernard crossed with the offpsring of Mary Harney and Andre the Giant. He looks like he should be wearing a bib at all times. I keep expect him to just start saying ‘flobbalobobabble’ because that’s what his mouth looks its doing when he talks. He’s so ugly he makes blind children cry. He was in the band that played in the bar in Star Wars when they first met Han Solo and Chewbacca and they didn’t even need to give him a mask.

It’s petty, I know. Childish, certainly. But we all make judgemens about people based on how they look. You might say you don’t, but you do. And my judgement of Brian Cowen is that he is too ugly for me to have any faith in him at all.

What Ireland needs is a charismatic, handsome leader. Someone with a twinkle in their eye and the kind of smile that makes the ladies hearts melt. Let’s be honest about this. He doesn’t even need to be that handsome at all. As a group of people politicians have to be about the ugliest of the lot. You get handsome binmen, pretty shop-assistants, hunky taxi drivers and sexy cleaning ladies but politicians, it’s like their very ugliness predisposes them to choose a life in politics.

Look at the politicans people talk about as being handsome. JFK, for example. He was certainly charismatic but it was only when compared to the likes of Richard Nixon that you could call him really handsome. That was because Nixon looked like a down sydrome beagle with a wad of piss-stained cotton wool in each cheek. Put him alongside Cary Grant and he was nothing. Nothing. He was the most handsome politican which is sort of like being the best Damien Rice tribute band. You’re just less shit than all the rest but still shit.

We want to have confidence in the people that run our country. Not look at them and want to gouge our own eyes out because they’re so fucking hideous they’d turn you to stone.

But maybe it’s simply that attractive people don’t get involved in politics. They become actors, TV presenters, singers, sportsmen or women and such. But if a square-jawed hunk were to tell me tomorrow that Ireland would be ok, that the recession won’t bite that badly, that we’d all be ok and if he told me that with a winning smile, fake or not, I’d be much happier than having to listen to Brian Cowen.

I just don’t trust ugly people. Especially ugly politicians. They know that the world has done them a bad turn, having power over a large group of the electorate is their revenge. You might call me petty but look at them, desperately grasping for power so they can feel good about themselves at last.

Fucking minging bastards. We’re definitely fucked.

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177 Responses to “We need a handsome politician”

  1. Medbh
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:07 am

    Loving the sleek new style, Twenty.
    Fab.

    Cowen is an ugly bastard alright.

  2. TDo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:11 am

    He`s a thick Biffo, what u expect!

  3. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:11 am

    Cheers, Medbh. I mean, look at him – http://newsfeed.tcm.ie/media/images/b/briancowenangry.jpg

  4. Jo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:14 am

    I don’t want to look at him. He scares me. This is a great post, I agree totally. They’e all Dorian Gray’s paintings. Mary Harney is the same.

    Given what he looks like, would you not think he’d stop sticking out his tongue and making funny faces for all the evil journalists to prey on?

  5. Jo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:16 am

    He looks like he’s coughing Cowen ooties on us in this one
    http://www.eu2005.lu/pictures/actualites_photos/05/13ecofin05.jpg

  6. Jo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:17 am
  7. Jo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:18 am
  8. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:19 am

    Bleurgh. Sleep. Laters.

  9. Monkey Balls
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:24 am

    Is that you on the right Jo?

  10. porridge
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:25 am

    found an older picture of him. it’s amazing what a makeover can’t do
    http://alexplorer.net/guitar/text/guitar/gamorrean.jpg

    like the new banner, and the wordpress theme name probably struck a chord with you, but it’s not as legible as the old one.outsourcing to romania now? probably only paid a quarter of the going price in true celtic tiger fashion

    Theme Name: Mental Disorder
    Theme URI: http://teo.esuper.ro
    Description: The most vital thing in a man’s life is his mental attitude.

  11. Bearhunter
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:35 am

    I always wondered what happened to the Spitting Image puppet of Roy hattersly after that show died. Now I know. Dribbly cunt.

  12. problemchildbride
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:10 am

    This is nice! The comments seem much more roomy with a South-facing aspect.

  13. problemchildbride
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:13 am

    Obama’s all the handsome I need.

  14. laughykate
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:18 am

    Question. How many politicians do you know of who are bleeding riots to be around? A bit irreverent, charismatic with IQs off the Richter scale so they are armed with skills to save the country/planet and killer looks?

  15. maggot
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:39 am

    The Doc got shredded for saying much the same about Cowen.

    No justice in the world.

    p.s. Twenty for Il Ducé – brains, charisma and looks

    (that cheque had better not bounce! )

  16. Medbh
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:23 am

    Twenty in that pic you linked I kept trying to figure out if his glasses were that long or if he just really has a big dent in the middle of his face.
    Ick.

  17. Rob
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:30 am

    Brian Cowen is an aesthetic affront in every sense. However, I find it amusing that among the more enthusiastic critics here is someone who, were you to castigate a female politician in similar terms over the course of an entire blog, would suspend her apparent sense of humour and write a voluminous blog whinging about patriarchy and other such bollocks.

  18. SAm Crea
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:41 am

    Good post Twenty, but i dont think even the suave Zarkosi and his sexy missus could get us out of the hole we are in at the mo..

    And sorry but I hate the new format. it looks like a newbie blog (like mine for example)

    If it aint broke, dont fix it.

    Seriously.

    PS is that how you spell Zarkosi (I mean the French fella)

  19. Monkey Balls
    June 25th, 2008 @ 3:54 am

    Well spotted Rob!

    SAm, give it a day or two. You’ll get used to it.
    Or else Twenty will change it again, and we’ll get used to that one instead, etc. etc.

  20. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 6:57 am

    However, I find it amusing that among the more enthusiastic critics here is someone who, were you to castigate a female politician in similar terms over the course of an entire blog, would suspend her apparent sense of humour and write a voluminous blog whinging about patriarchy and other such bollocks.

    Did you take lessons in how to be so snide?

  21. Tinman18
    June 25th, 2008 @ 7:36 am

    “Bleurgh. Sleep. Laters.”

    Jesus, Twenty, Please tell me the last S there was a typo.

  22. Tinman18
    June 25th, 2008 @ 7:38 am

    And Jo, thanks for making me open 3 cnsecutive pics of Brian Cowan on a crowded DART.

    Not only do I now look like a perv, I look like a perv with as much taste as Ryvita

  23. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 7:56 am

    No copy of the Metro to keep you busy, Tinman?

  24. Tinman18
    June 25th, 2008 @ 8:36 am

    The Metro only keeps you busy for about 2 stops, Twenty

  25. Rob
    June 25th, 2008 @ 8:37 am

    Not snide twenty, observant.

  26. Tinman18
    June 25th, 2008 @ 8:37 am

    How come you were up at 6.57? Are you celebrating the retention of the early houses?

  27. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 8:39 am

    Hence the reasonn Medbh has gone to town when I’ve called Mary Harney a fat cunt, for example.

    Try and memorise the TV pages, Tinman. That should help.

    Also – if anyone wants you can have a little pic beside your comments. Go to http://www.gravatar.com and you can sign up there.

  28. Lung the Younger.
    June 25th, 2008 @ 8:46 am

    As an alternative we could always ask the Brits to vote in a real trog as Prime Minister. That way we wouldn’t look so bad. I’m thinking Ricky Tomlinson.

  29. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 8:48 am

    Tinman – Bastardface was grumbling out the back at something. He woke up me, the huge cunt.

    Lung – good call. Or Gary Neville.

  30. Pants Man
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:03 am

    Surely Ciaran Cannon is the ugliest of them all. I voted No on the recent referendum thingy because of his massive ugly head peering down upon me from lamp-posts telling me to vote yes.

    I would not do anything someone that ugly told me to do. uurrrggghhhh.

  31. Hank Scorpio
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:04 am

    test

  32. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:05 am

    Fail.

  33. Hank Scorpio
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:06 am

    :) Gravatar no worky

  34. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:06 am

    Ciaran Cannon, good one. When will they learn that we just don’t want gingers in charge of anything?

  35. Hank Scorpio
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:09 am

    A friends daughter apparently has a digital sound as her alarm on her mobile phone that says “ginger alert”, “ginger alert”

  36. Rob
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:12 am

    actually twenty, the fact that she doesn’t go to town over it (and if you read my comment I referred to an entire blog, not a throwaway line) is in some ways, worse. It’s either cowardice on this blog or fake moral outrage on hers. That’s my contention.

    I’ll get my coat……

  37. gimmeaminute
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:13 am

    ‘You might call me petty’.

    First time round, I read this as you might call me ‘pretty’.

    Pretty boy.

  38. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:18 am

    You would call me pretty too. Pretty boy lover.

    Rob – cowardice, fake, any other insults you want to get in before the morning really starts?

  39. Yacuncha
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:19 am

    Maybe Bono will run for public office…look how much he’s done for Africa.

  40. gimmeaminute
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:21 am

    Rob, being bitchy about someone’s looks has got fuck all to do with feminism. Medbh does not write posts expressing moral outrage at people, whether male or female, being described as ugly.

    You’re full of ignorant shit.

  41. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:22 am

    Quite right.

  42. gimmeaminute
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:26 am

    Right and pretty.

    It’s an irresistible combination.

  43. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:28 am

    Like bovril on toast.

  44. Lorcan the Lion
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:31 am

    Bertie must be loving this. He gets out, everything goes up the swanny. Jammy cunt.

  45. Lorcan the Lion
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:32 am

    Plus he was very ugly too although not as ugly as cowen.

  46. maggot
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:33 am

    Pictures of contributors ? The horror, the horror.

    Ugliest person ever – Peter Beardlsey

  47. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:34 am

    Beardsley for prime minister…

  48. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:43 am

    “ginger alert”, “ginger alert”

    heh

  49. Puerile Pish
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:49 am

    Check out Davie Dodds ex Rangers footballer on Wikipedia, now he’s a candidate. We used to sing at football matches “Davie Dodds the Elephant man” how cruel we were as youths.

  50. Dessiegee
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:56 am

    Picture this – Brian Cowen and Gordon Brown with Ginger Barnets and pubes at a spencer tunnick ort installation, blue with the cold…..Can you see it…There, now even Mary the Minge looks appealing.

    Good Morning…..

  51. fatmammycat
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:58 am

    Oi! Leave the gingers out of it, jealous fops.

  52. porridge
    June 25th, 2008 @ 9:59 am

    bovril – a guinness shite in a jar. vile.

  53. Dessiegee
    June 25th, 2008 @ 10:00 am

    FMC – Do you have a soul?

  54. maggot
    June 25th, 2008 @ 10:05 am

    Dessiegee – that has to be in the top 5% of contributins to this site, ever.

    Any advance on Neil Kinnock ?

  55. fatmammycat
    June 25th, 2008 @ 10:09 am

    Don’t be silly Dessiegee, of course not.

  56. Dessiegee
    June 25th, 2008 @ 10:17 am

    How’s about Robin Cook’s beard or a bleary eyed Charles Kennedy

  57. Conan Drumm
    June 25th, 2008 @ 10:49 am

    Bertie’s son in law, whasisname… it’ll be just like the Lemass Haughey thing all over again.

    Nice layout. A small font’s always a good choice in a recession.

  58. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 10:59 am

    To me the font is bigger than the old design.

  59. B'dum B'dum
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:04 am

    alt+scrolly thing changes font size anyway.

    there’s gotta be one handsome politician… Luke Ming Flanagan?

  60. maggot
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:06 am

    scrolly thing ?

  61. Conan Drumm
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:09 am

    Commenting font is courier 7 or 8, at a guess. But like B’dum B’dum says you can probably change it. I’m liking his Ming suggestion, he looks like you Twenty, only younger. Got the beard thing going on.

  62. maggot
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:10 am

    For me, looks like courier six

  63. Dessiegee
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:16 am

    Talking about sexing up politics, I somehow stumbled on this link on the web.

    WARNING – Contains a disturbing Image – Not work compatible

  64. maggot
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:17 am

    She looks great!

  65. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:20 am

    Do you mean the font when you’re typing your comment or the actually comments themselves?

  66. Dessiegee
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:22 am

    B’dum B’dum – ALT+SCrolly thing – Can you be more specific please, my failing eyesight is now failing faster since I started reading this blog this morning – The font is Way too small for my poor eyes…

  67. Holemaster
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:24 am

    I’ve nothing to say today.

  68. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:26 am

    Nobody’s listening anyway, HM

  69. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:26 am

    Apart from me.

  70. Dessiegee
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:28 am

    Twenty – Both the reading and the comments – I reckon i’m seeing about a 6 or 7 size font. It looks like you’ve taken youre original page and condensed it to half the size. I have a quarter page blank on both left and right hand side of the page.

    It’s actually giving me a furrowd brow and a headache – codeine anyone??

  71. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:29 am

    Dessie – what browser/OS are you using?

  72. B'dum B'dum
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:31 am
  73. maggot
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:31 am

    I’m on Vista/IE Twenty – if you care.

  74. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:32 am

    And it’s small for you, Maggot?

  75. maggot
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:34 am

    Thaks mate – that worked wonderfully.

    Sadly though it doesn’t enlarge the sexy Harney picture

  76. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:34 am

    I’ve just looked at it with IE6 on Windows and it seems fine to me.

  77. maggot
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:36 am

    No longer smal thanks to the wonderful B’dum Bdum!
    I think you should take him out for dinner.

  78. maggot
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:37 am

    Any more saucie Harney pics Dessiegee ?

  79. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:38 am

    Don’t encourage him, please.

  80. maggot
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:41 am

    I think I may have a fever as I found her attractive.

  81. Dessiegee
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:42 am

    I’m using WIndows XP professional Service Pack 2 with Internet Explorer 7.0.

    scrolly thing on the mouse! is that the wheelie thingy in the middle of the mouse.

    1st sentence make me sound like a technical wizard. 2nd one more accurately portrays me as the true techno tard that i am. Help!!!

  82. Jo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:43 am

    I think it’s all small too.
    Alt + scrolly thing does nothing for me!

    Does it work in bed?

  83. maggot
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:43 am

    The wheely thing worked for me

  84. Dan
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:43 am

    Width of the page and font size is a bit small. Having taken a quick look at the Mental Disorder theme, you should be able to change it all in the style.css and adjust the “width” values so it uses up more of the screen, and change whatever fonts sizes there too.

    That’s if you could be arsed listening to us moany cunts…

  85. porridge
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:44 am

    for anyone vaguely interested, following is link to current stylesheet for the site. font sizes in pixels, not points, hence funny font sizing. must get a life.

    http://twentymajor.net/wp-content/themes/mental_disorder/style.css

  86. maggot
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:45 am

    Whoops it was Control and wheely thing worked for me Jo

  87. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:47 am

    Surely 12px is big enough for everyone though, no?

  88. Jo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:48 am

    An achingly cute joke for you all this morning – someone’s four year old, on seeing his new cousin being fed for the first time:
    ‘What bees give milk?’…… He lifts his top to reveal his bare chest and cries ‘Boo-bees!!!!’

  89. Dessiegee
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:49 am

    Sorry Maggot, no more – my stomach is still churning after the last one.

    If you like that sort of thing there is always Sachs hotel Nightclub here in Dublin on a Friday or Saturday Night. I would’nt say they specilise in nights out for the older fuller figured woman but the place is always chocca with fat chicks….You’ll need all your wriggling skills to get past them to the bar. .

  90. Jo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:52 am

    Ah, control and scroll does the trick.

  91. Jo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:53 am

    What’s the longest longest has anyone ever had a headache for, and what did they do about it?

  92. porridge
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:59 am

    usually only get headaches when i stop drinking, so just have to keep supping away

    uncle had a headache for 3 years. what he did to get rid of it was die, because the headache was a tumour.

  93. Dan
    June 25th, 2008 @ 11:59 am

    Twenty, try .9em instead of 12px. That’s what I use on my site and it’s nice and legible. Dont ask me what the difference between px and em is tho…

  94. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:00 pm

    Don’t you have to change all the font sizes to that .em thing then though?

  95. Plop
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:01 pm

    Back to the Gary Neville, Peter Beardsly thing.

    Sorry but it’s Luke Chadwick hands down.

  96. Plop
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:03 pm
  97. Dessiegee
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:04 pm

    Control & Scroll Rocks….

    Jo, a couple of years ago I kept getting really bad headaches that painkillers or nothing would help. Doctors said they could’nt find anything wrong with me. Finally one day I snapped at work and told my horrible cunt of a boss to go and fuck himself and I walked out the door. Headaches disappeared and have’nt had a problem since.

    Is there somebody or something in your life stressing you out?

  98. Dan
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:04 pm

    Ha, that’s a good point. Maybe, maybe not. My CSS seems to have em and px sporadically dotted through it, so it’s probably okay. From what I gather, em is better to use because it scales to the display, rather than just being a pixel value.

  99. Conan Drumm
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:04 pm

    It’s better, have you been fiddling with it? It was as small as the time/date info on comments.

    No mouse here, so no scrolly/wheelie thingy.

  100. Holemaster
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:04 pm

    “What’s the longest longest has anyone ever had a headache for, and what did they do about it?”

    In my case I just broke it off with her and that seemed to work.

  101. maggot
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:06 pm

    My ex-wife had a headache for the 9 mmonths we were married .

  102. Jo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:06 pm

    Hmm, ask a man a question…

    Dessieg, I think you may be right there. Good story.

  103. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:08 pm

    Just changed it to 0.9em

    Does it look any different?

  104. Conan Drumm
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:08 pm

    “the difference between px and em is tho”

    px is pixel measurement, as in digital imaging. Screen/resolution is measured in pixels, isn’t it? Em is an old print measure, allows the same space to be given letters that would otherwise be a different size… I think.

  105. Jo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:10 pm

    I don’t know Twenty. But I already can’t quite remember what the old one looked like, so I wouldn’t worry about it

    As long as you’re here, we’ll be ok :)

  106. Conan Drumm
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:11 pm

    “Does it look any different?”

    Yes, better… although I perfer a serif font myself. What I’m typing in the comment box is serif (Times/Roman?) but what appears is sans-serif.

  107. Jo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:12 pm

    I like a roundy font, me.

  108. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:12 pm

    hah, too kind Jo.

    I think I can change the comment form – or that may be a browser issue, Conan.

  109. Conan Drumm
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:14 pm

    Worry not, it’s legible and it’s working!

  110. Holemaster
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:24 pm

    “Just changed it to 0.9em
    Does it look any different?”

    Does my font look big in this?

  111. SuperGrover
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:27 pm

    weird – ctrl and wheel works everywhere but this site for me – yahoo, peurile’s page, etc but not here.

  112. Holemaster
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:30 pm

    Jo… in a proper answer to your question. Drink more water, headache could be dehydration? Or get some fresh air.

  113. Jo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:30 pm

    It’s Gluaistean, SG, he’s concentrating really hard, and preventing it from working.

  114. Holemaster
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:30 pm

    Is the font smaller Twenty or just far away?

  115. Jo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:34 pm

    HM, not after, two weeks? It’s a sinus thing (hopefully, as opposed to a brain tumour). I had exactly the same thing when I was pregnant, so I thought it was hormonal.

    I took the same remedy that fixed it then, on monday, the homoeopath said give it three days. We’ll see. Doctor if not, I’ve only one more dose in my packet of paracetamol… don’t want anti biotics though :(

  116. SAm Crea
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:39 pm

    solpasinus Jo, from the makers of solpadeine…only in chemists though..

  117. Jo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:41 pm

    The paracetamol works fine Sam, but I want it cured, not just pain killed.

  118. SAm Crea
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:41 pm

    And Jo if your into Homeopathy, you really should watch this video..

    Homeopathy

  119. Dessiegee
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:45 pm

    Seing as we’re on a techi roll with the ALT+SCroll thingy. How do we get an image to appear beside our names like Twenty & Dan. The word “AVATAR” is jumping out of my head as I type but dont know what it means

  120. SAm Crea
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:45 pm

    That control and scroll thing is dead handy. Sorry If I seemed critical of the new layout, but its very white, when I logged on last night I thought I had died and had gone to some kind of heaven.. But the enlarged font helped, maybe i’m gettin old..

  121. Grandad
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:46 pm

    At least you have the decency not to class me as a Non-Smoking blog any more.

    Fair play to ya Twenty.

    And the font is smaller. Or I’m bigger?

  122. Jo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:49 pm

    My mother was a homoeopath, Sam, it generally works for me and my children. I’ve taken antibiotics once in my life, when I was four, my daughter never, in five years. Accepting the theory does take a leap of faith, I’ll grant you that.

  123. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:53 pm

    Dessie – go to http://www.gravatar.com, sign up, then when you leave the email address you signed up with gravatar in the email bit here it’ll show your picture.

  124. Dan
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:53 pm

    Dessiegee: Sign up at gravatar.com, upload your picture and it’ll appear on any website that supports them.

  125. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:54 pm

    I might make a non-smoking category for you, Grandad. Or pipe smoking. But you might get lonely in there on your own what with Peig not being a blogger an’ all.

  126. maggot
    June 25th, 2008 @ 12:57 pm

    Soon be kit kat time!

  127. Grandad
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:16 pm

    Peig did have a blog back in the 30′s. But no one had the Internet so she quit.

  128. Dessiegee
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:16 pm

    testing the gravatar thingy – here goes

  129. Dessiegee
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:17 pm

    Nah – I’ll try again after lunch sometime, maybe

  130. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:20 pm

    She was truly a trailblazer, Grandad.

  131. SAm Crea
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:23 pm

    Jo, Definitely agree that too many antibiotics are bad, any GP will tell you that, but without them a simple infection could kill…

  132. Grandad
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:25 pm

    Is that what you call someone who sets fire to thatched roofs?

    And my fecking gravatar doesn’t work either!

  133. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:30 pm

    You’re using the same email address in the email field as you used to sign up with Gravatar?

  134. Holemaster
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:30 pm

    Jo, i get sinus pain now and then but not so much since i QUIT smoking woo hoo. Flexonase spray helps prevent it if you remember to take it. Also eating raw chilli clears out your nasals. So you Mam was scared of gays?

  135. Holemaster
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:31 pm

    “Soon be kit kat time!”

    Bring it on! I’m eating a Twirl, bit girlie but hey who cares.

  136. B'dum B'dum
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:39 pm

    I dont know what my gravatar is at the moment.

  137. Conan Drumm
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:43 pm

    Gravawhatsit test…

  138. Conan Drumm
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:51 pm

    …and again…

  139. Conan Drumm
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:51 pm

    I think you’ve crashed them, Twenty

  140. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:53 pm

    I see it, Conan.

  141. Jo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:54 pm

    What’s with the classical names and pics for online tags?

    Is there a manual I’ve failed to read, I wonder?

  142. Jo
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:55 pm

    Sam, no-ones suggesting we NEVER use antibiotics.

  143. Holemaster
    June 25th, 2008 @ 1:59 pm

    Getting back to the Handsome thing. I was going to run for Taoiseach but I got arrested….. because I was Tooooo Sexy!

  144. Lung the Younger.
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:04 pm

    Smaller font and lots of white space.
    Egad Twenty! You’ve become the nouvelle cuisine of the blogsphere.

  145. Grandad
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:04 pm

    Great way of getting comments, Twenty – getting people to test their gravatars!

    NOW. Do you think I’m handsome enough to be Taoiseach?

  146. SuperGrover
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:09 pm

    gravatar test…

  147. Holemaster
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:09 pm

    Grandad we love you!

    You’d make a fine Taoiseach in the true sense of the word.

  148. SuperGrover
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:09 pm

    bugger

  149. SuperGrover
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:11 pm

    this time…

  150. SuperGrover
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:15 pm

    i used a homeopathic thingy one time. had trouble sleeping for a while a few years back. was it called sepia? did the business after a few days.
    i don’t believe or not believe. just tried it and it worked.

  151. B'dum B'dum
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:20 pm

    We need to give Noel Dempsey a sexy haircut.

  152. Tinman18
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:28 pm

    Jesus guys, I spend one morning at a meeting and I come back to sixty commments about font sizes!

    Monkey, maggot, J5, someone please say something dirty…

  153. Puerile Pish
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:29 pm

    testing gravatar bollocks

  154. Puerile Pish
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:29 pm

    And gravatars

  155. Puerile Pish
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:29 pm

    which don’t work the cunting things

  156. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:30 pm

    They seem to work for everyone else.

  157. Holemaster
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:34 pm

    “Jesus guys, I spend one morning at a meeting and I come back to sixty commments about font sizes!”

    I usually spend all morning at meetings talking about font sizes.
    And here’s something dirty for you…. Down the back of my cooker.

  158. Twenty Major
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:35 pm

    Fucking hell, I was only looking down the back of mine the other. How does stuff that size get down there without you knowing?

  159. SuperGrover
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:36 pm

    last attempt…

  160. Holemaster
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:39 pm

    “How does stuff that size get down there without you knowing?”

    Wasn’t that size when it down there, norra mean?

  161. Dessiegee
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:44 pm

    I’ve just downgraded my image from a PG rating to a G rating. Also I think the site takes 10 to 15 minutes to kick in and then all previous posts will have the image

    I’ll Nail it yet…..

  162. RandomNoise
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:49 pm

    Got to admit the technical nature of all this is leaving me a bit cold – font sizes for fuck’s sake? Mixed feelings about having an avatar too.

    That said I’ll be gutted if it didn’t work.

  163. RandomNoise
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:49 pm

    WooHoo!!!!

  164. Dessiegee
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:50 pm

    Tinman – Just for you….

    A man is lying in bed with his wife when she rolls over and says, “Say something dirty to me.”

    He replies, “The Dishes.”

    Or

    A Priest & a rabbi are driving past a schoolyard & the priest says,”fancy screwing an 9yr old boy?”
    The rabbi replies,”outta what?”

  165. Dessiegee
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:51 pm

    Yeah…… Gravatar Works – G Rating and a 20 minute wait

  166. Holemaster
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:54 pm

    I think it’s funny when people say things like “This is my wife of nine years”.

  167. Puerile Pish
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:54 pm

    Another fucking attempt

  168. Dessiegee
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:55 pm

    nine is ninty in married years

  169. Puerile Pish
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:55 pm

    OK, once more all this testing must make Twenty feel like a Beagle in the L’oreal factory

  170. Holemaster
    June 25th, 2008 @ 2:56 pm

    Or my car going back AGAIN to the nct

  171. Tinman18
    June 25th, 2008 @ 3:03 pm

    Thanks, DG.

    Cool Avatar, too (there’s a sentence I never thought I’d ever, ever say).

  172. Dessiegee
    June 25th, 2008 @ 3:07 pm

    I have a really good one – not too sure about using it though – may cause offense….

  173. noddy
    June 25th, 2008 @ 4:27 pm

    Liz O Donnell is well fit.
    Give her one vote any time.

  174. Medbh
    June 26th, 2008 @ 4:09 pm

    Missed the dust up yesterday.
    Mary Harney is a lap cat of the patriarchy so she’s fair game. I’m not blind. She’s a big tub of goo.
    With all the scrutiny that women in politics receive for their appearance, it’s nice to see someone point out that the dudes are often unattractive.

  175. Monkey Balls
    June 27th, 2008 @ 12:53 pm

    Hello

    TEST!

  176. fatcocksacker
    July 1st, 2008 @ 12:44 pm

    fat cock sacker still smokes cigars in his bar.
    dessiegay are you still waiting for me with an open asshole at eddie rocketts?

  177. fatcocksacker
    July 1st, 2008 @ 12:47 pm

    I just looked at myself in the mirror. Got to say, I am so damn handsome. You know it’s probably illegal to look this good!

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