| Friday, November 6th, 2009 |
| 3:49 pm |
3 nollys are better than 1!
 heres some pano fun we had when we went to fourknocks passage tomb last thursday. one the way there we passed a load of gardaí digging in a field. still havent found out who theyre looking for |
| Thursday, November 5th, 2009 |
| 9:43 am |
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| Monday, October 19th, 2009 |
| 11:05 am |
Magazine wall
 i found this brilliant website called abandonedireland.com which showcases loads of abandored buildings around the country. and theres no shortage. one of them was the magazine fort in the phoenix park. ( who likes deer? ) |
| Friday, October 9th, 2009 |
| 12:46 pm |
Top ten Total badass monsters from irish mythology!!!
Since its Halloween coming up soon. heres a list , in order of badassness to keep you interested,of the most fucked up gods, spirits and fairys from irish folklore. PREPARE FOR THE BADASSENING!!!!
1. the Banshee. Ssitting on a rock, combing her hair and letting out a god awefull scream, yep the queen of evil bitches is the banshee or fairy woman. this bitch is the only one that we were genuinely scared of as kids. imagine the boogyman coupled with screaming death bringing witch. i remember once my sister telling me how a girl in her class saw a banshee and then her da died. that of course freaked me out big time. also if you saw a comb on the street, that was a banshee comb so youd have to run away screaming and check to see if your family was still alive. feckin wagon!
( 9 more to go ) |
| Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 |
| 6:53 pm |
Booooooooooooooooorrrred
im sick and really board. im trying to do some irish study but my damn cold and daytime tv were preventing me listen and repeat: nilim abalta ag foilaim na teanga mar tá iomarca snot i mo ceann - i am not able to learn languages because ive too much snot in my head. is fuadh loim mr bean. Cen faith go bhfuil siad abair se aris agus aris agus a-fucking-ris? - i hate mr bean. why to they have to repeat it again and again and a-fucking- gain an bhuful an iasc a trisha - is trisha a fish? |
| Monday, October 5th, 2009 |
| 11:23 am |
This is fun...
Im having alot of fun reading the have your say section of the bbc news website in the wake of the Yes to lisbon on friday. I was looking forward to this all along. After the last one when we voted no it was all 'the irish are the only ones that believe in democracy', 'ill be having a pint of guiness to celebrate' now its all democracy is dead, giving out about the stupid irish, one guy even said he the new dictators are going to have to kill him in order to silence him for someone who actually knows about the treaty....its bleedin hilarious http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?sortBy=1&forumID=7071&start=0&tstart=0&edition=1&ttl=20091005110907#paginator |
| Friday, October 2nd, 2009 |
| 12:45 pm |
Irish Zombies. Na Neamh Mairbh
Yeah! Hows about some ancient zombie stories? who doesnt love zombies? Once upon a time in a land a few miles away, well Derry to be specific, there lived a king who has become known as abhartach (pronounced ah-war-tok) which means dwarf. this guy was a cruel little bollox. nasty to his subjects, wouldnt put his hand in his pocket for a round, no free health care, was saying stuff about your ma! i wouldnt even repeat it. so eventually the people of Derry had enough of this carry on and got a local chieftan to sort him out. some say it was Fionn Mac Cumhaill, in others hes named Cathrain. im gonna go with Fionn because hes cooler. So fionn kills abhartach and they bury him in a standing position outside the kings gaf. the next day who should turn up again abhartach. risen from the grace like that fella ET. and hes not in the best form. so he goes off on one. being more cruel than before, killing people, distributing wedgies and encouraging the busses to be late. so whats Fionn to do only kill him again, and bury him again. but the next day again its himself under his hat wrecking the place with his mad cruelty, looking for brains and spare change. 'ah for fuck sake!' says fionn ' i must be doing something wrong here'. so fionn goes and consults a druid who tells him what to do. fionn pays him his consultancy fee which he later claims back on expenses, which gets him a load of grief. so off he goes, kills the zombie dwarf king, drags him out to the grave, burys him head down and puts a dolmen on top of it. That dolmen is called Slaghtaverty Dolmen. In 1997 when workmen were trying to clear the hathorn tha gew around it. their chainsaws malfunctioned, a chain broke when tring to lift the capstone and someone fellover. some say it was the curse of abhartach, most say they were a bunch of fucking cowboys! ( And another for the road ) |
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| Monday, September 28th, 2009 |
| 11:11 am |
'Christ that high' cross
hwya ll. had a loverly weekend with the amazing nolly despite our respective broken-ness. photos of that to come but in the mean time heres some of a visit to monasterboise monastery up the road. i stopped off on my way back from cú chulainn's stone. now as far as monastaries go it does not have the all round awesomeness of glendalough or the political clout of clonmacnoise but it does have the coolest high crosses ive ever seen!
some bloke getting knifed, clearly after a trip to limerick ( high (cross) times ) |
| Friday, September 25th, 2009 |
| 2:46 pm |
Jaysus they wont give us paddys credit for anything
haha thats brilliant. I bet you didnt know the irish are a lost tribe of israel? or to give them their full title the fucking lost tribe of israel. i can just imagine the scene. 'Ok lads!' says moses 'weve been walkin around this bleedin desert for 35 years. I think its best we split up' 'but wait a minute moses' says some bloke 'we only have one ark whos going to take it' 'good point' says moses 'we need to give it to a tribe who has impecable homing instincts. a tribe who no matter how shitfaced they get, no mater how many neon signs may tempt them with the promises of curry chips. they still manage somehow to make their way home. wait......who was that tribe who when we were dieing of thirst did find the only off-liscence inthe sinai desert? give it to those lads, theyre surely the only ones who can deliver it safely to the promissed land. que thirty years later... 'your going the wrong way Ger O'Miah' 'shut up i know where im going' 'call me stupid but the land of milk and honey is suposed to be in the desert. im bleedin freezin!' 'look. how about we keep going this way until we hit a giant impassable ocean. then well know we are going the wrong way and turn back' i remember once i was at cairn T at loghcrew talking to a fella from the OPW who was telling me this american lad in a pointy hat turnd up with his followers saying cairn T was his burial mound as he was Jerimiah's reincarnation. then there was the people who though the mounds were built by UFOs. honestly they wont give us paddys credit for anything |
| Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 |
| 11:17 pm |
Old man duffy shakes his fist at......Facebook
See us. our generation invented the internet! well maybe one or two older but the point remains that when we were kids we did not have it. when we wanted to know something we had to wallow in ignorance until someone made a TV program on it. we didnt have wikepedia, we had to rely on liars. we didnt have pirate bay, we had to wait until the song came on the radio then quickly press play and record on your shitty tape recorder and only catch half the song. But the worst thing is facebook. kids these days use it to gather friends to prove how popular they are by flauting their friends number. you know what we had to do? we had to break a limb! we had to fall off a wall onto our wrist, shatter it into 20 pieces then be rushed to hospital to have a cast put on so we could go up to people who we know the names off and go 'sign my cast!'. once the whole thing is covered in pen we were popular again they just dont know how lucky they are! |
| 4:24 pm |
Ah back in the day
God. i was just reading this. when notorious Irish criminal Pyker Ryan was arrested by the NYPD in 1884 he had the following bill of fare on him Punching $2 Both eyes blacked $4 Nose and jaw broke $10 Jacked out (knocked out with a Blackjack) $15 Ear chewed off $15 Leg or arm broke $19 Shot in the leg $25 Stab $25 "Doing the big job" (murder) $100 and up $15 to chew someones ear off??? wait. how many pints is that? |
| Monday, September 21st, 2009 |
| 11:12 am |
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| Monday, September 14th, 2009 |
| 11:39 pm |
Piccies
My shoulder hurts alot! so in frustration i decided to see what a few of my photos would look like in mono/duotone  ( B&W ) |
| 12:01 pm |
stupid immanent death!
So i was nearly in a plane crash last night. Not content with screwing me on airport charges. being half an hour late, ryanair decided to try and kill me. there we are descending when about 20 feet off the ground the pilot pulls agressevly skyward again. and i mean very agressively. this meaned we had to circle for another 20 minutes before landing again. god i hate those people. and no i didnt get an explaination other that 'we missed' apart from that weekend = awesome. was over in leeds with my beautiful girlfriend ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nollipop we went to York which is officially my new favourite place in england. theglaive you would have loved it. stay tuned for piccies. also loads of climbing and surprising lack of injuries today despite some very very very physical climbs. anyhoo gotta dash back to work! |
| Saturday, September 5th, 2009 |
| 5:24 pm |
AAAGGH!!! rant on the lisbon treaty
i just had a screaming row with 6 support cóir campaighers who are advocating a no vote in the referendum on the lisbon treaty. i do get very angry with people who deliberatly misslead and outright lie about the facts in order to convince people to vote either way. but these guys take the biscuit. their two main slogans are 1.84 minimum wage? (note the question mark) 90% of europens would vote no. the first one is absolute untainted bullshit. it begars belief that anyone would actually believe that. their arguement is that after a european cort of justice (ECJ) ruling known as the Laval case eastern european companies could bring in workers from their own countries to work at a rate lower than the minimum wage. the Lavel case was refered to the european court by the swedish government when the labour court heard a case where a latvian company, laval, brought in workers from latvia at a lower rate than what swedish workers were paid. the european court found in favour of the latvian company. this coir argue would allow foreignh countries to unddermine our minimum wage. except they deliberatly leave out 2 very important facts. 1. at the time sweden had no legal minimum wage. 2. their collective bargainaing processes were not legally binding. therefore of course the company could pay whatever wages they wanted, there were no laws preventing them from doing so in sweden. this was a failing of swedish law, not european. ireland on the other hand does have a minimum wage. it is legally binding and cannot be set by the eu or anyone else. this is a national competency end of story. the arguemant is therefore bollox. the second slogan of 90% of europeans would vote against this is not a survey it is a quote from eu commisioner charlie mccreavy. one man. not a poll or a study but a quote from one man. the text explaining this is miniscule on the posters, you would need a ladder and a microscope to see this. this i said to them was deliberatly missleading. oh and they also said that qualified majority voting is dictatorship. so therefore democracy is dictatorship, this really is amazing honestly if their arguement to vote no had any merit they would not have to lie about it http://www.etui.org/en/Headline-issues/Viking-Laval-Rueffert-Luxembourg |
| Monday, August 31st, 2009 |
| 11:35 pm |
the lady and the bag of chips
on saturday i think i saw the funniest theing id ever seen. mysle anf spear_of_lugh after a small visit to the to the festival of world cultures ended up in charlies chinese restaurant with ciaran enjoying some food about the same temperature as belarus in 1986 when in walked this woman. to be honest i heard her before id seen her. in a shril seudo posh and very pissed voice she demanded chips. of course she sat down beside us, i looked over and she looked like the jokers decrepid sister. about 40, pink glued on eyelids, smeared lipstick and eyeliner, dressed in 50s gear. a real looker. and she proceeded to tell us. 'im gorgeous. amnt i gorgeous' she said. we stared at our food trying not to laugh. undaunted she continued 'im also very rich. id.....id....id ruin you!. wheres my chips?'. after a minute the chips arrived to which she told the girl there she loved her. there was much more mumbling and so forth then she picked up the plate of chips....and emptied into her handback. soy sauce and all. she then knicked brendans chilli sauce, added it to them and proceeded to eat the chips from the handbag. of course by this stage we could no longer contain ourselves and were splitting our laughing while she gobbled down chips uttering 'im gorgeous. im gorgeous'. we honestly werent in any postion to argue. now being the lady she was she obviously realised she couldnt be seen eating chips from her handbag in the taxi. so the took the plate and shoved it in their too. at this point the woman who worked there aproached took the plate from her bag. the lady looked up, 'i love you' she said. 'i love you too' the woman replied. and off she went into the night and presumably, accident and emergency. also classic line from the night from an italian girl who ciaran got on very well with. girl: i didnt think you two were irish. i thought he was italian (to ciaran). you look irish (to me) me. i take it thats a bad thing. girl. yes! nice |
| Monday, August 24th, 2009 |
| 9:18 am |
Top ten jokes from edinburgh festival
Personally i prefer 5, 8 and 10. but them i am an idiot • 1) Dan Antopolski - "Hedgehogs - why can't they just share the hedge?" • 2) Paddy Lennox - "I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: 'This could be interesting'." • 3) Sarah Millican - "I had my boobs measured and bought a new bra. Now I call them Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes because they're up where they belong." • 4) Zoe Lyons - "I went on a girls' night out recently. The invitation said 'dress to kill'. I went as Rose West." • 5) Jack Whitehall - "I'm sure wherever my dad is; he's looking down on us. He's not dead, just very condescending." • 6) Adam Hills - "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough." • 7) Marcus Brigstocke - "To the people who've got iPhones: you just bought one, you didn't invent it!" • 8) Rhod Gilbert - "A spa hotel? It's like a normal hotel, only in reception there's a picture of a pebble." • 9) Dan Antopolski - "I've been reading the news about there being a civil war in Madagascar. Well, I've seen it six times and there isn't." • 10) Simon Brodkin (as Lee Nelson) - "I started so many fights at my school - I had that attention-deficit disorder. So I didn't finish a lot of them." |
| Friday, August 21st, 2009 |
| 1:22 pm |
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| Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 |
| 10:36 am |
I um duh luh
There must be some sort of law, like murphys law which says anything that can go wrong was probably thought up by fianna fail or boyles law which says expanding gasses is proportional to your success on britains got talent, which says that anything on the internet where you allow discussion on any subject whatsoever will inevitably fall into an american vs some other country or creationist vs human arguement after about 20 comments or so. they usually start with FUCKTARD! or NICE GOIN ERROR BALLS! they are followed by someone called ihatemarmite268 winning the arguement by pointing out that its 'your opinion' not 'you're opinion'. we all know youtube is the worst for this, theres no way i can get my eyes to look away from the comments on these videos, especially the ones that have 7 thumbs down because they say something like 'everyone known the mayans were taught how to build pyramids by brian blessed. maybe you should get out more wrongo!' the latest one i came accross was on a site anouncing theyre going to remake Judge Dredd. this got me all a flutter, you see when i was a teenager i looooved the judge dredd comics, it was a little obsesive. but when that bloody film came out i nearly died. i mean for fuck sake, a man is convicted of a murder he didnt commit by his evil twin? and rob schneider? seriously? wayda go error balls! they better get it right this time or i will sneak into their house at night, move all the furniture around, paint the black things white and the white things black and when they wake up theyll think theyre a negetive back from the chemist. thatll show them |
