Sorry about the lack of posting today. People to shank, places to rob, you know yourself. Got this in email though:
Dear Twenty Major?,
We
are contacting you because we had a look at your personal blog and
thought you might be interested in joining our writing competition
called TH!NK ABOUT IT.Currently, the European Journalism Centre is organising an international blogging competition called TH!NK5:Water. This is the fifth edition of our blogging competition and focuses on topics related to “water”.
Piss off.
Best I can do.
“focuses on topics related to “water”.” I think you shoulda wrote in Twenty.. you coulda wrote all about your water being turned off over the Christmas because of the thaw. How you were smellier than normal and how you had to look at your shits for days at a time.
Actually, piss off says it best.
“A project by the European Journalism Centre (EJC), Maastricht. Additional support from the European Commission”
Well, there you go. Our water system is bollixed and the European Union/Commission/Common Market/Whatever-We’re-Calling-It-This-Year is spending money on this shit.
You could blog about bottled water. The spending of millions of Euro moving water from people who have water to other people who have water while half of Africa spend hours daily in the drudgery of walking miles to fetch it.
You could blog about businesses and residents in parts of Carlow being told by the OPW that they will have to put up with having their lives and businesses ruined by floods because a cost/benefit analysis says they can all fuck off.
You could write about all those parts of the country which find themselves flooded on an annual basis while Bertie bleats about not building a fucking stadium.
Oh, you could certainly blog about water alright. At taxpayers’ expense no less. Cheers.
Jumping babby jesus I knew the EU was desperate to get any kind of input from the average joe to make themselves seem acceptabe but this is a new one.
First time I’ve ever heard of a writing competition contacting people in the hope they’d enter.
Was it a spam email? That would be a classic considering bloggers hate spam.
So they`ve looked at youR blog and conclude you`d be interested in entering a writing competion!!? Water a load of fucked up mimmitwits………….
And the winner is Twenty Major, for his gritty docudrama on when good water goes bad and the social catastrphe that follows. hang on thogh theres this wedding, yeah royche, yeah and they all run out of wine, yeah royche, and then some bloke in a frock with a beard makes a load of top tipple ouda water, YEAH ROYCHE.
I should submit some previous posts about water.
You should, Twenty, though I think your humour may not travel too well to other countries!
These dead pan foreigners don’t see the funny side of being called a cunt!
Even though we here know that you always do it in a loving, caring way.
Waaaaaaay off topic, but sure its Friday.
If we’re going to see a sort-of-repeat of the 1994 election which brought Fine Cunts and LabouringUs into power, maybe its time bring back the the local sports day donkey derby (though might have to kill off te animal rights people first): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XtVm8z28e4&feature=player_embedded.
you could say’i never drink water; that is the stuff that rust pipes
Fanny, that is a brilliant video.
The compere should be given the LLS.
at least he has a sense of humour!
I see water everywhere: beer, stout, whiskey, vodka, wine, port, rum, brandy…how I love thee water in all thy splendour
INVITE to the Dail
Yis are all invited to the Dail Bar Saturday for my last pissup. If da Gards wont let you in at least you will get on the tele…..
PS I am now truly King of the Cunts
Write a short story about fuckin bertie ahern into the liffey with his pockets full of coins. The mullet need more shit to feast on…
i want to marry dd
Don’t mean to digress from your post’s point..cough.
But…i have been watching Vincent Browne from i believe the 26th, the one with the FF Boys on. Holy fuckin shit, these guys just babble like little kids, the young one in the middle looks like he would prefer to be fucked by a giant panda on a steroid and viagra high.
These guys actually do believe they are entitled, holy shit!
Banana Republic to the extreme, i have no words..
Scratcher, you’re not digressing..don’t worry. That’s all anyone is talking about these days.
Hello people we’ve been ridden since the dawn of time.. can we move our arses and talk about something else once in a while. They’ll still be there to ride us tomorrow.
Shush woman. Isn’t there a football match somewhere in need of linespersonthingy?
Men here speaking of momentous world affairs with deep manly voices.
Wuff
Go on Twenty. You should call it Final Tap.
Yeh- win the thing and tell ‘em you aren’t interested when they try to press a prize on you.
Tell ‘em Baba O’Riley sent you…
They’re right twenty. Think of the acceptance speech you could make.
I’d love to see Twenty on a mainstream platform, what fun that would be!
Anne, what are you doing up at that ungodly hour on a Saturday??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su0e5ATR0qY
Thoughts?
I saw the show that night Jo. I think I see it most nights. Must get a life.
He came across as smart joe, works for mckinsey which is a plus and a minus (may have a “kill the poor” philosphy lurking), dunno who the other candidates are in wicklow and my laptop takes 20 minutes to load a page so I’m not going looking…but instinct tells me that he’s no worse than anybody else. Mubarak would love it over here with the dynasty politics.
There’s loads of cunts, he doesn’t appear to be one of them. So many useless fucks I dunno what I’m going to do with my vote
Plus he looks like russell brand (the baldy red-headed one).
P!SS OFF…?
I lived in Wicklow for a while, and most of the politicos there are from so-called dynasties, with fathers passing the seat to sons and, in yer woman Mildred Fox’s case, to daughters, and most Wicklowites that I met were staunch FF or FG going back yonks.
The only thing that interested them then was anything to do with more money for farmers, more grants for farmers kids, and more social welfare.
Which most of them were claiming, working or not.
The antiquated suspicion of Dubliners and all thing Dublin was alive and well, and I think still is, and the hatred of all things new was ingrained.
Not a progressive environment, and the old adage, ” Better the devil you know” prevailed.
So unless the guy is connected, he hasn’t much chance. Especially if he spouts new fangled ideas like women’s lib and equality for just about anyone.
Yeah. I was sad to see the ‘DICK ROCHE, MINISTER FOR MISERY’ and ‘FIANNA FALURE’ grafitti painted over recently.
Hey Fanny, are you Larkin that posts on AFR? Video put up on that site at almost the same time yesterday. If so, glad to know you enjoy the same sites.
Ah for feck sake. Some people, the moment they see the word European, they start foaming at the mouth.
Crank it seems went as far as reading a bit more about the EJC, and saw the word European Commission. Oh No!
If you take a look at the centre’s website you wil see “The European Journalism Centre (EJC) is an independent, international, non-profit institute dedicated to the highest standards in journalism, primarily through the further training of journalists and media professionals. Building on its extensive international network, the Centre operates as a facilitator and partner in a wide variety of training projects.”
So you see. It has fuck all to do with the EU.
Supported by the EC, or whatever the fuck it says does not mean that it is paid for, organised by, or whatever, by the European Commission.
All it means it that the EC might have contributed a small amount of money to the project.
Anyone notice the little EU flag during the Young Scientist exhibition in Dublin recently. Same thing… supported by the EU.
Cunts.
@muscles maguire – It is a funny video, but not familiar with AFR (and not larkin either). What’s the url for that site? tried looking for it but only coming up with the Australian Financial Review (doesn’t seem to be the sort of home for donkey derbys). Cheers
Fanny, its anfearrua.com. Mainly a GAA website but a lot of other interesting discussions. The Donkey Derby video put up there on the Friday Joke thread.
To:AM in Brussels
Well, you’re right. I know as much about The European Journalism Centre as they obviously know about Twenty’s blog and, furthermore, I would guess that I spent more time on their site than they did on here.
How else to explain their email invitation. You really think they want Twenty to blog for them? Really?
AM some of us have experience of the inside of the EU institutions.
Your assumption of the level of ignorance of the EU and what ‘EU support’ means is well wide of mark here.
I’ve seen the arrogance of the EU watercarriers at first hand.
Thanks
The alternative to the EU with all of it’s warts and imperfections is the old-model European nation state, which is slowly dying, thank god.
The EU is everbody’s whipping boy when things get rough, there again, where would we be without it.
Completely off-topic – masturbation eases tension and relaxes.
In which case a large section of the bureaucracy of the European institutions must spend most of their day horizontal.
How are the expenses reforms and auditory reforms in Brussels coming along these days?
MEPs still clocking in on Friday mornings with their suitcases packed for the airports?
Anyway, isn’t there a statistic that says that the money we’ve paid to bail out the banks is now equivalent to ALL the grant aid we’ve received from the European Union.
SINCE WE JOINED???
Add that to the money lost in EU fishing quotas to Ireland over the years.
And of course we have also to look forward to the inevitable announcement out of the next GATT round of talks that EU agriculture subsidies are to be phased out.
Maybe that’ll get the Grey Woolluffs of Macra Na Feirme off my back and on to Barroso’s.
Phew.
“…must spend most of their day horizontal.” – Why horizontal?
Surely there are no Telegraph-reading Eurosceptics on this forum?