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So they want us to bit the bullet eh?
The dreaded April fools day arrives tomorrow, a week late. Of course I’m talking about tomorrow’s impending budget that is. We have been told to expect a drop in the standard of our living and that we will have to bite the bullet and lots of other cliches by the assholes who are partly responsible [...]
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Dirty rotten thieving f*ckers at Cork Airport
I was collecting my mother last night from Cork Airport as I usually do a few times a year. They airport authorities have now made it as near as impossible as can be to pick up near the arrivals area. There were about four flights just after arriving by the time I got there so [...]
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Living in a Banana Republic
Some of the insanity going on in this country at the moment: The Financial Regulator is getting plush new offices to the tune in €8m paid for out of government funds. By the same government who said that there was not enough money to spend €10m on a cervical cancer vaccine! (Thanks to Grandad for [...]
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A letter to our leaders who seem hell bent on destroying us
Be warned – This post contains some strong language. Anglo Irish Bank’s annual report released today states that it loaned €451m to 10 clients that are now more commonly referred to as “The Golden 10″. As anyone can tell you, 450 million is a significantally more than the previous estimate of €300m. And here is [...]
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Adobe Flash is crap except for this hamster
In the normal run of things I rank Adobe Flash as one of the most hateful creations in the history of the planet, universe or whatever. Strangely my next most hateful creation is Adobe Acrobat Reader. Coincidence? Mind you, every now and then something comes along to remind you that maybe Adobe Flash is not [...]
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It’s bloody started already!
It’s the middle of October.The 16th of October to be precise and I’ve just seen a flaming christmas ad on the T.V. Sadly it was for a funiture supplier so it seems they haven’t bothered taking any notice of Grandads Open Letter to them. It seems that the marketing droids are determined to Americanise all [...]
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umusic.ie sucks and The Blizzards too
I got my student pack the other day. Along with the usual bits and pieces was a credit card sized piece of plastic with umusic.ie emblazoned on the front and on the back a list of tour dates for a rather crap (IMHO) band called The Blizzards. I’m notoriously choosey when it comes to music [...]