Monthly Archives: November 2009
Mental students
Surely this can’t be right: One in three college students in Ireland is experiencing mental health problems, according to a university report. One if three college students need to fucking get a grip, if you ask me. What is college … Continue reading
Soaraway
The Sun gives you the news you just can’t get anywhere else: ONE in 20 British schoolkids thinks war-mongering dictator Adolf Hitler was a German football coach, a shock survey has revealed. It’s not that shocking. Most football coaches are … Continue reading
Now that’s what I call something something
I backed away slowly. This was not right. The voice was not right. Hair stood up on the back of my neck. “What do you mean ‘Why am I talking like that?’”, he said. “That’s not your voice”. “We all … Continue reading
Serial killers
Just reading about this serial killer in the US. Is there some link between size of population and the propensity for killers of this type? Maybe it’s because the more people you have in your country the more likely you … Continue reading
Swine Flu vaccine
I’m not taking it. No fucking way. When Mary Harney wants me to do something I’ll do the opposite. And I’m still to be convinced that Swine Flu® isn’t just a huge scam of a conspiracy of a machination to … Continue reading
The suitcase man
Did you ever know anyone whose luggage came out on the conveyor belt first after a flight? I did. His name was Malcolm. A tall man with impossibly dry skin. Every time he got on a flight his luggage was … Continue reading
Joe Coleman – online predictions
Not content with the ‘blessed Virgin’ at Knock, it seems our pal Joe Coleman has gone Visionary 2.0 and started his own website. Joe Coleman’s online predictions.
It’s on
Needing to print things, such as tax returns, is a tedious and painful business. I have found that topping up my ink cartridge with soot maintains a reasonable quality print-out. I haven’t bought a cartridge for some time, but having, … Continue reading
Progress
Humans are funny. Capable of great invention, incredible thought and moments of inspired brilliance that make all our lives better. Then, just to counter-act the good stuff we do, you get stuff like this. Click for big. [photopress:allday.jpg,thumb,pp_image]
Joe Coleman – the fraud
For the last couple of weeks Fatmammycat has been bemoaning the fact that Joe Coleman, the spoofing cunt who claims to be able to see the Virgin Mary, has been given free reign to spout his bollocks in the Irish … Continue reading
For the last couple of weeks Fatmammycat has been bemoaning the fact that Joe Coleman, the spoofing cunt who claims to be able to see the Virgin Mary, has been given free reign to spout his bollocks in the Irish media without anybody challenging him.
Nobody has just said ‘Look you, you’re a fucking liar and the claims you make are so obviously false. You’re using this to drum up business for your healing clinic. Fuck off’.
I realise they can’t quite use that language, but still. It’s maddening that such superstitious mumbo-jumbo has been given so much coverage without anyone disputing it.
What’s to stop anyone claiming to be able to predict the appearance of a made up deity? I could predict that I will see a vision of Zebedee in the snug in Ned’s of Townsend Street and I’m assuming I will get the same column inches and radio interviews as Joe Coleman. I’m sure when a bunch of knackers turn up and claim to see a miracle when the sun comes out from behind the clouds I can hand out business cards to ‘Twenty’s Instant Healing Clinic’ where I can cure anyone of anything they’d like once the small matter of my consultancy fee is paid. I can probably make contact with your dead dog too, if you’d like.
But Fatmammycat is right. The fact that the Irish media has given so much time to an obvious fraud is nothing short of appalling. It’s moving statues again. And we all know there’s no such thing as moving statues. We can look back on the craze, as it was, and laugh. So why didn’t we just laugh at this? Why didn’t we point the finger straight away and denounce him? Of course people can believe what they want to believe but that doesn’t mean we should just accept it or that we should provide a platform for frauds like Joe Coleman to cheat people out of their money.
Anyway, step forward Miriam Lord, whose Dail reports are always fantastic to read. In today’s Irish Times she reports from Knock where the ‘Blessed Virgin’ was due to make an appearance at 3pm on Saturday. Funnily enough she didn’t show up – apart from a secret flash of her holy knickers to Coleman.
It’s not as funny as Lord’s report though, which is bang on the money.