I love this story in the Irish Times today about how scientists have reconstructed the phyiscal appearance of a 4000 year old Greenlander based on a few hairs which were frozen and from which they gleaned DNA. Here’s the pic:
4000 year old Greenlander
I remember watching Anthony Bourdain’s show where he goes around the world eating whatever’s local and he ended up with the Inuit eating whale eyes and seal urethras and they all looked exactly like this fucking guy. I bet these scientists got a huge chunk of research money, spent it on large parties, and then just drew a picture of a guy from that TV show. Looking at it again, he’s got a touch of the John Waters about him too.
Don’t we already know what people looked like back then? Evolution is a kinda slow process and 4000 years is hardly much time in the grand scheme of things. We could easily do something similar, pretend to find a few preserved DNA nuggets in a bog somewhere and then recreate the face of the man. It’d probably look something like this:
4000 year old Irish man
It’s hard to tell the difference between the BogMan and the modern Irish guy, isn’t it? What a swizz.
I have to mention TD’s expenses as well. I’m glad they have to clock in, I’m glad some of the self-entitled TDs are up in arms because it makes them feel like ‘factory workers’, heaven forbid they should be accountable and have to do things like the common man. Still don’t get why any of the expenses are unvouched but at least something has been done. I wonder what the face of a 4000 year old TD would look like…
Matty Ug McGrath
PROOF AT LAST THAT THE MODERN DOLE-LOVING IRISH ARE LESS EVOLVED THAN 4000 YEAR OLD GREENLAND BLUBBER-MUNCHERS.
and it’s a BIG WELCOME BACK to Gluey
that last pic is obviously a direct linear antdecedant of willie o’ dea -willie ug dea?
Bertie Ughern?
John Waters has a new song that he wants as Irelands Eurovision entry…just thought id throw that one in..
Its called “Can Heaven Take Much More” which coincidentally is what i was thinking as I heard the news.
I decided that yes,heaven can take at least one more John..one more at least..
Yeah, they do that clocking in thing in the European Parliament as well!
Problem is if you’re going to force people to clock in then they should have to clock out as well.
John Waters deserves to be entered in the Eurovision.
Eurovision is the strangest spelling of arse I have ever seen
cheers, twenty, got a great laugh out of that one! as for the new regime for the TD’s i laughed my hole off when i heard it. electronic swipe cards to track attendance, my son is starting secondary school in september and he’s getting one of them too..wonder if they’ll have to get a note from their mammies for a pass to go down town during lunch-break? Good enough for them anyway, pot-hole filling, funeral loving, gombeen arseholes
Electronic swipe cards are standard in offices with a lot of people so hooded scumbags can’t get in and rob laptops. It’s fuck all to do with tracking attendance. But I’m sure the press is making it look like that.
holey, it is about attendance though, they have to be in there 80% of the days the dail is sitting in order to claim their unvouched expenses. pity though, the image of an ‘awroiah bud’ Anto prowling the corridors of Leinster house looking for unattended laptops is a good one, we might find out what kind of porn sites Willie O’Dea is into these days…suggestions?
They had that system in Westminster (unvouched expenses up to a certain amount).
In other news three MP’s are now facing charges which could result in jail sentences of up to 7 years, 52% of MPs are having to repay overclaimed expenses.
Have John O’Donoghue and his expensive wife repaid any of the money they stole from the Irish taxpayer?
They should move the Oireachtas out to an office block along the Red Line Luas and Red Cow interchange to make it easier for the TDs to get to and from their constituencies. They could use the Red Cow Hotel for informal meetings and after work pints. Then Dáil Éireann could be sold off for several million for use as luxury apartments.
They could do the same with RTE too.
Why only 120 of the requisite 150 days? – cunts.
The factory worker has to turn up every fucking day.
I want our elected factory workers to turn up every fucking day too.
It’s not realistic for them to be there every day. If people get obsessed with trivial things, the TDs get away with bigger things. And they fucking know it too. They release pointless information into the pubic for us to squabble and flap our wings over while they engage in large scale fraud and poor legislation.
And how come the Dublin-based TDs are getting 12,000 euros travel & attendance allowance? Has the Dail moved or something?
Last pic definitely related to our first president, Duglas Hyde
I thought the IT Picture looked a bit like Bill Bailey.
Re expenses – way back in the 70s SDLP MPs were claiming expenses of the Dublin government – they kept that one mighty quite, wonder if the NI Tax man knew – and questions were asked in your system as to whether or not they were on the fiddle!
How did the SDLP justify that?
They were having secret meetings with the Dublin Government.
Here you go HM
http://tinyurl.com/yzlj6j5
I suppose it’s fair enough really though. A small price if it meant working towards peace.
Hmmm -setting aside any tax or fiddling implications, political dynamite – can you imagine the uproar if it was found that FG politicians had been getting money from Margaret Thatcher or if Democrat Senators or Congressmen had been getting money from the Soviets or the Chinese ?
Good point.
I reckon de-commissioning came with a major cash bonus. I wouldn’t mind if it meant lasting peace.
Isnt that Last Photo,yer man The Viper?
The headline in the paper yesterday said they identified a 4,000 year old man. I got all exciting thinking they knew the man’s actual identity which is what the headline suggests. Are secondary school children working as sub-editors these days?
It’s far worse than that, HM. They’re usually 3rd level graduates and post-graduate degree types.
I wonder if they got any hits when they ran his DNA though the criminal database?
Conan, I deal with so-called educated people every day and I am amazed by the mistakes they make. They can barely write an e-mail.
I know the kind of mistake’s you mean.
It’s true though. Some of the stuff you get is thorougly depressing. Why does ever PR company that spams me think multiple exlamation marks are a good idea?
Respect for quality and the patience needed to proof-read is scarce.
Back in the day, there was pride in a job well done and recognition of someone’s else hard work. Now everything is wanted immediately which means nobody has respect for other people’s skills or the time needed to do something right.
Mediocracy reigns.
Maybe you had to be more precise back in the day because it wasn’t so easy to correct. Lazy thinking at the root of it all though
As one wise man once said, Trinity College or any other for that matter doesn’t teach common sense, as it isn’t all that common.
Post graduates without any real life experience are the worst type of eejits!
There’s a lot shell shocked Tiger Cubs out there. They can’t believe they’re not even being called for an interview for a job. Ah bless them. Reality bites after years of being spoon fed and getting away with it.
OK.. nobody has anything to say about the word ‘swizz’? I’ve been away too long.
“Are secondary school children working as sub-editors these days?”
I don’t know about that, probably, as I’ve always wondered were secondary school children employed as MTV executives when they started releasing Britney Spears videos on it…
I’ve waited over 10 years to say that sigh…