Monthly Archives: October 2010
Free drugs
I know I’ve touched on this before but we were always told that when you left primary school and went into senior school you’d be the target for drug dealers. As if somehow they knew the difference between a 12 … Continue reading
Friday guff
I’m tired of the gloom and doom and forecasts and the lies and the corruption and the cheating and the paying of tax and all that. As it’s Friday, end of the working week (if you’re lucky enough to have … Continue reading
Stating the obvious
FORMER TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has advised Poland to keep tight control over financial institutions, saying he wished he had known the importance of doing so when he was taoiseach. Link. FORMER F1 DRIVER Ayrton Senna has advised Mark Webber to … Continue reading
The four year plan
I’m sure I’m not alone in worrying about the upcoming budget. The incongruity of a group of people, many of whom will have no part to play in the next Dail let alone the next government, is obvious. When Lenihan … Continue reading
Dublin pubs
Overpriced and full of cunts they might be but a good night out in the pub can’t be beat. Obviously Ron’s is my local but I do like a pint elsewhere from time to time. Problem is there are too … Continue reading
Random Friday thoughts
Ivan Yates sounds like a lecherous lech with the face of a lech. Kilimanjaro must be a shit mountain. Every half-arsed celebrity in existence seems to have climbed it. Lives claimed by the mountain = 0. Rubbish. They should lay … Continue reading
Music and places
Fuck. I remember the record shop I bought it in. Eventually it became Beachball by Nalin and Kane but when I bought it, it wasn’t by them. The guy in the record on shop on Bailen and Bruc assured me … Continue reading
Am I alone …
… in hoping for an enormous catastrophe/terrorist event somewhere else in the world so I don’t have to read the news about this fucking country for a while? I suppose I could just not read the news without wishing death/misery … Continue reading
A tremendous new precedent
I love this story. Bloke grows his own grass because he says “he doesn’t want to deal with scumbags”. The scumbags being drug dealers, of course. He got 180 hours of community service for growing 25 plants, which even if … Continue reading
The things I haven’t done
You know I’ve never been on the Luas. Not once. I’ve seen it but have never been on it. “You should”, said Dirty Dave to me, “it’s great”. Which I’m sure it is if you need to get from one … Continue reading
You know I’ve never been on the Luas. Not once. I’ve seen it but have never been on it.
“You should”, said Dirty Dave to me, “it’s great”.
Which I’m sure it is if you need to get from one point on its route to another but not much use otherwise. I wouldn’t just get on it for the sake of getting on it. I’m no trammy.
Yet we all have things we’ve never done in our lives that other people do every day. Look at all the bazillions of people who go to Liffey Valley shopping centre, yet I have never been.
And some folk will have done very unsual things yet not more commonplace ones. When Jimmy the Bollix was seeing international chart sensation Charlene (at a time when her career was on the wane, I’ll grant you), she spent a lot of time in Ireland and they went travelling all over the country.
One time, having returned from a tour abroad supporting the troops of whatever particular war was going on at that time, she expressed a desire to go to the Hill of Tara to help her get over the trauma of seeing a tragic incident in which a couple of soldiers were killed.
As she said to Jimmy, “I’ve seen two Paras die but I’ve never been to Meath”.