It’s relentless
I’m fed up of all the bad news now. I’ve had it. Bring back the good times because then bad news was interesting. You could pick and choose from a couple of stories, have a good old fashioned rant and then go off and spend some of your SSIA on shit you didn’t really need but just wanted.
Now it’s all bad. I don’t know where to start. Take this morning’s newspapers and last night’s radio programmes:
- €230,000 being spent to relay a lawn at Leinster House when we don’t have a pot to piss in
- The Greens about to propose a ‘carbon tax’ as they discuss the plan for government. As if we don’t have enough fucking taxes already. And Gormley and De Burka trying desperately to do PR for the party but making things worse because everybody sees the Greens as the irrelevance they’ve become.
- The Irish Cancer Society, a charity, offering the government money to help roll out a bowel cancer screening programme. A charity giving money to the government, fuck me.
- The Dublin Diocese clerical abuse study will be presented to Justice Minister Dermot Ahern today. Yet more evidence of the abuse perpetrated on children by the Church and most likely covered up to a great extent by the state.
- An AIB boss says the public are responsible for the economic collapse although he does rather graciously admit some mistakes were made by the banking sector. Mind boggling.
- A man who committed murder on an innocent 17 year old Swiss girl while out on bail for the vicious rape of another young foreign student.
It goes on and on and on. Day after day after day. If this carries on we’re going be more depressed than people from Iceland. And when you’re as depressed as people from Iceland for a prolonged period you produce things like Bjork.
The world does not need more Bjorks, I think we can all agree on that.
July 21st, 2009 at 9:51 am
On the Bright side,the Madrid/Shamrock Rovers match was hilarious..
July 21st, 2009 at 9:55 am
Didn’t see it. However, I read no reports of Ronaldo’s ruptured cruciate ligaments/spine so I am disappointed.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:02 am
dave let you down big time. let us all down.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:03 am
There was one fairly robust tackle,the whole pub cheered as Ronaldo’s feet were kicked from under him..
July 21st, 2009 at 10:20 am
And it’s pissing rain.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:22 am
yeah but it’s nice soft rain
July 21st, 2009 at 10:32 am
When’a a hard rain gonna fall Peadar?
July 21st, 2009 at 10:38 am
Wait, good news! Eamon Ryan says thousands of high-end, sustainable, technology jobs will be created over the next decade.
So, 200 a year, maybe?
Unfortunately coming from Eamon Ryan it’s about as believable as Hitler saying the ovens were for a rotisserie chicken franchise.
July 21st, 2009 at 10:49 am
Eamon Ryan always looks like he’s about to cry.
July 21st, 2009 at 11:18 am
I hope that’s because someone is always punching him in the testicles.
July 21st, 2009 at 11:23 am
Things are really bad over here…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/5871702/Children-investigated-for-laughing-too-loudly.html
July 21st, 2009 at 11:23 am
I once saw ER (pre-ministerial) on the LUAS with several of his young offspring. The offspring proceeded to wander about, exploring the carriage and its occupants as if it were a Maria Montessori educational exercise. Some of the travelling public didn’t appreciate their guinea pig status, since it involved close involuntary inspection by the junior Ryans.
July 21st, 2009 at 11:25 am
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/5871702/Children-investigated-for-laughing-too-loudly.html
Haha, that is insane.
Conan, they were probably just looking for some real food, instead of the grain they get at home.
July 21st, 2009 at 11:30 am
What amazed me was the sense of entitlement they displayed at such a young age. No boundaries whatsoever.
July 21st, 2009 at 11:32 am
Guinness, 12 tins for a tenner, and they have sold out.
Now that is what I call bad news :(
July 21st, 2009 at 11:42 am
Conan – they’re our future, those who will guide us through the environmental storm that lies ahead.
That is bad, SoS. Have you thought about trying another shop?
July 21st, 2009 at 11:48 am
Gone are the good oul days when you could march on the powerstructure and string half of them up when they are clearly trying to fuck the civilians of the country up the arse with absolutely no repercussions to worry about.
July 21st, 2009 at 11:54 am
Indeed Twenty, but the thieving bastards could rob me blind for a whole pound a can.
July 21st, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Em. I like Bjork lots. I’d like more Bjorks produced please.
July 21st, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Apparently our economic success is all about environmental sustainability. Nobody ever gets into the specifics of what that means. And is it not the same for every other country in the world too?
July 21st, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Why do you need Bjork? You already have Sinead…
July 21st, 2009 at 1:11 pm
where does Bjork drink?
Bjorky Bars
July 21st, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Ibanez Says:
July 21st, 2009 at 1:11 pm
where does Bjork drink?
Bjorky Bars
Nope. Earth Intruders; as is her wont. It’s a Human Behaviour thing*
*right; that’s enough of that or there’ll be An Army of Me coming around the corner when it should be Oh So Quiet.
pluh
July 21st, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Good news.
There’s going to be jobs a plenty in the green tech sector, oh yes.
http://tinyurl.com/d8pzah
July 21st, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Ryan will have plenty of time to cry when he loses his seat, the vile cunt.
July 21st, 2009 at 3:59 pm
That RyanAir cunt was on TV earlier.
That C Case rapist was jailed for 21 years for raping an elderly woman but what the Fuck was he doing out in the first place and why not a life sentence ?
No Obituary for McCourt Twenty ? Jury still out ?
July 21st, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Not interested in McCourt
July 21st, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I like Bjork.
It would be like having sex with a mentally disturbed person, but without the prior wrist restraints and guilt that comes after.
July 21st, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Hmmmm… Bjork and wrist restraints…. Uh-hu …. ball gag … def
July 21st, 2009 at 6:49 pm
@ Ass-per-usual Says:
Gone are the good oul days when you could march on the powerstructure and string half of them up when they are clearly trying to fuck the civilians of the country…
Well, what are we waiting for?
Re. the bad new. I wonder if it’s partly PR strategy to wear the voters down and make them all meekly vote for the Lisbon sell-out?