| Thursday, April 12th, 2012 |
| 12:25 pm |
Road trip 2
We had a week over in the west to doss about. Thankfully and by some miracle the weather was uncharacteristically amazing. The plan was to spend two days in galway and then pretty much play it by ear. But there were ideas of climbing in the Burren, session in westport and horse riding in Conemara. But first task for the week was this little chap
This floppy eared fella's name is Sandy. He's a lurcher who was stray for a few months with a broken leg around Sandyford insutrial estate and who some rescue people spent weeks, day and night, trying to capture. Being a bit of a wild sort he wasnt getting on very well in the local rescue with all the noise and the other dogs so a foster home was arranged in Galway to take him in. Now thisguy is a bit of an escape artist so the operation was pretty surgical to transfer hime from car to car to car. But he ended up getting to his new home without any bother and is now being fussed over by two lady greyhounds.
So..onto the trip..
( photodump extravaganza ) |
| Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 |
| 3:46 pm |
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| Thursday, March 15th, 2012 |
| 10:32 am |
What by the hairy balls of jehovah is this?
This is the actual, the ACTUAL guidlines for the St.Patricks day parade in New York GUIDELINES FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS IN THE
2012 ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE NYC- All units must have two (2) flags. Irish & American flags or no flags at all. NO EXCEPTIONS!! An American flag on the right and an Irish flag on the left.
- A minimum of eight (8) abreast. Ten (10) if room is available. A unit with 250 members MUST march 10 abreast.
- Two (2) marshals of each marching unit should bring up the rear.
- The only banners allowed are ones identifying the unit or "England Get Out of Ireland". Only one banner for each unit. NO EXCEPTIONS!!
- Green hats, sneaker, or other "odd ball" dress is not permitted.
- No animals or mascots
- No eating, drinking or smoking in the Line of March.
- No displays of any kind will be permitted. DO NOT ASK!!
- Units should make sure they are in proper formation before approaching Fifth Avenue.
- After units get on Fifth Avenue, no stragglers should be allowed to join the unit. Unit marshals should be on the alert for this at each intersection. Please be viligant.
- Leaders of organizations shall not delay the Parade by leaving their places for any purpose.
- Shirts with advertising are NOT an appropriate form of dress. No children's pull or push wagons permitted.
- Please remember, you are on Fifth Ave. for one hour once a year and you should march with pride in your heritage and dress accordingly, (business dress code is required).
What the name of St Brigids magic abortion hands is this shit? Seriously? The only banner is allowed is 'england get out of ireland'? Dear NYC parade committee, Delighted, absolutley charmed that you are taking such pride in your heritage but i feel i must correct you on one or two tiny tiny details before you make yourseld look like the village idiot in front of the rest of your country, thus exacerbating (no, its nothing to do with wanking) an already tired stereotype of thick paddys. England is not in Ireland, It never has been unless were harking back to the last ice age. Part of the Island of Ireland is part of the United kingdom, England is also part of the United Kingdom. These exist in a geographical location knonw as 'Not America', you know, the place with the wars. Also as a suggestion you might want to drop the medieval crap and let the gays march. It might actually make the thing fun. For example there was a parade in Queens that welcomed everyone including LGBT groups and Our Prez wrote them a letter, not you guys.  So NYC St Patricks day parade committee, drop the hate and gay it up a bit. You know, for the craic like. Is mise le meas Cíonnadh Ó'Dhuffaigh |
| Wednesday, March 14th, 2012 |
| 1:10 pm |
Pi day
Aparantly its Pi day, presumably because March the 14th or 14/3 looks a bit like 22/7 which is an approximation of pi....or something. One interesting thing a friend once told me about Pie is that if you take any river in the world an measure the length of it from source to estuary, around all the bends and meanders, then divide it by the length of the river as the crow flies you get Pi. Isnt that weird? |
| Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 |
| 12:19 pm |
Glendalough arís
 This weekend we had the lovely ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) namesofthedead over from london for a vist.Well mainly for her to visit her new husband but we managed to kidnap the two of them for a few drinks friday night, shameless fill out the numbers at a session in devitts on saturday then bundle them off accross the baren wastelands of the dublin mountains to the oasis of glendalough without raising their suspicions about gingerbread houses. ( Man its been a while since a picture post ) |
| Friday, March 2nd, 2012 |
| 10:59 am |
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| Tuesday, February 28th, 2012 |
| 4:10 pm |
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| Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 |
| 12:33 pm |
How fast are prayers?
 Ok so this on reddit got me thinking. This means that prayer must be affected by gravity, which in turn means prayer has mass. If prayers are to hit the Kaaba then they must be travelling at a maximum altitude of 13m. so using this we can probably work out how fast prayers are Newtons law of universal gravitation states that the force of a attraction between two bodies( the earth and the prayer) is the gravitational constant by the sum of the mass of the two objects divided by the square of the distance or; F = G(m 1m 2)/(r 2), Now we know the gravitational constant G is 6.67 x 10^-11 Nm^2/kg^2 we know the mass of Earth (m1) is 5.98x10^24kg we know the radius is 13m + the radius of the earth We dont know the force of attraction or the mass of the prayer Since the prayer is pulled into a low orbit causing centripetal accelaration, Newtons second law comes into play where F =m2a (force = mass by accelaration) so m2a = G(m1m2)/r^2 we also know a = v^2/r so m2 (v^2/r) = G(m1m2)/r^2 m2 (mass of prayer) and radius cancells each other so v = √(G (m1))/r r = the heigth of the prayer + the radius of the earth 6,378,113 m v = √ (6.67 x 10^-11)(5.98x10^24kg)/ 6378113 = 7908.01m/s so the velocity of a prayer = 7908.01 metres per secondAlso, because we know christian prayers go up to heaven and therefore have a greater radius and satanic prayers go down to hell and therefore have a smaller radius. We can tell that, relative to muslim prayers, christian prayers have less mass than muslim ones and satanic prayers have the most mass and carry the most weight. QED ok back to work |
| Monday, February 6th, 2012 |
| 12:49 pm |
Oh Dear
I just saw that an email from my fantastic, wonderful singing buddy Dick sending on access to his website was sent straight to spam. Probably because it contained a hyperlink to a remote site labled 'Connect with Dick' |
| Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 |
| 9:04 am |
I just came accross a post on another site asking if anyone knew of a Homeopathic vet for their dog. I died a little inside. yes they do exist. |
| Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 |
| 2:23 pm |
Happy Imbolc or Magic abortion day
Today and tomorrow depending on your persuasion is Imbolc or St Bridgits day. This was the day spent every year in primary school making brigits crosses out of coloured paper or reeds  what we learned instead of Maths. They never told us some of the more interesting stuff. For example did you know St Brigid was an abortionist? "A certain woman who had taken the vow of chastity fell, through youthful desire and pleasure, and her womb swelled with child. Brigid, exercising with the most strength of her ineffable faith, blessed her, caused the foetus to disappear, without coming to birth, and without pain. She faithfully returned the woman to health and to penance."
take that catholicism!
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| Thursday, January 19th, 2012 |
| 4:15 pm |
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| Thursday, January 12th, 2012 |
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| Thursday, January 5th, 2012 |
| 4:21 pm |
Two posts in one day!
I know! but i just had to share this First 5 days of a Hamsters life  aaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww |
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| Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 |
| 10:44 am |
My friend just emailed me to tell me she was INSIDE newgrange this morning for the solstice. Its ok to want to kill your friend in a fit of jealousy right? |
| Friday, November 25th, 2011 |
| 2:42 pm |
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| Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 |
| 2:51 pm |
The only people who believe in infinite growth in a finite world are madmen and economists -Boulding
Nobdy invaded, nobody assasinated anyone, nobody had to, but this is looking more and more like the build up to world war two daily. This week we have had the usurpation of democracy in the two first democracies. Greece and Italy have had their elected leaders replaced by technocrats with no mandate. We continue to be dictated to by anonymous, unaccountable 'Markets' and judged by proven incompetents such as ratings agencies (who, despite it being their job to monitor finance continued to rate highly obviously flawed banks) We've seen armed police attack unarmed peacefull people at dale farm who are demanding the right to live in a community over simply living in a house. Similarly the occupy movements in America who are demanding accountability and fairness which should be automatically implied in 'Democracy'. Free market capitalism is an absolute joke. You cant expect people to regulate themselves in an enviroment that encourages greed. The people running the economy need to be more regulated than regular citizens as regular citizens do not have the power to destroy countries. Globalisation has only been around for 15 years, trickle down economics for 30. It is not and never has been the only way. Those who argue that any other system is imposible have not studied history, even recent history. The conditions for Irelands economic colapse was created by one party, 2 governments over barely ten years. Remove all accountability, all legislation allow for mass speculation which creates a bubble and wait for it to burst. The result is I do not live in an independant country, the land from beneath my feat is being sold off literally. At least if someone had invaded we would know who to shoot. Anyone remember when we used to live in a society instead of just an economy? Those were the days. |
| Monday, November 14th, 2011 |
| 1:08 pm |
Films I will make some day
Last of the mohicans 2: Hey look another mohican! Freddie got fingered vs Jason: Tom Green repeatedly hit with a machete for 2 hours.
Lord of the rings 4: Frodo and Sam are put on trial for genocide against the people of mordor. Based on the novel by John Grisham.
301 Dalmations: An army of puppies must defeat the invading Persian hordes in this special effects extravaganza
My left footloose: Archbishop John Charles McQuaid bans dancing and cerebal palsy in 1950s Dublin. Only one man can save us....let christy take it!
American history X-Men: Wolverine must battle an army of Neo-Nazis through the medium of poignant flash backs.
I spit on your grave: The Brian Lenihan story
The day after the day after tomorrow: 2 hours of people filling in insurance claim forms.
Big trouble in little Italy: Kurt Russel returns as the gruff trucker to rescue the dried up hag from sex and the city from an underground base of catholic priests where she is being held to turn curates gay.
Watership up: Bunnies turn their warrens into hot air balloons and invade Australia with mixed results.
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| Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 |
| 10:32 am |
Lá samhna shona daoibh
Well since its November the first i thought I'd wish you all a happy halloween/Samhain and just throw down some of the Irish traditions associated with it. Firstly Samhain is the name of the Month of november in Irish. We tended to name most of them after the festival that went on in it such as Beltaine (May), Lunasa/Lughnasa (August), Nollaig (December) etc... In rural areas you would often see wrenboys, this was mostly associated with St Stephens day but because it was a bit of craic theyd go around to peoples houses to play music dressed like a cross between something out of the wicker man and that lighning dude from Mortal Kombat    not meant to be but stil more terrifying than your poxy joker costume Jack O'lantern. yes we invented them. only we had to do it with turnips.  theres a few origin stories of this, usually around the eponymous Jack tricking the devil somehow then dying and being refused entry to heaven for being deceitfull and hell as a kind of 'not you agin' from the devil. He then has to resort to wandering the land with only a lantern to guide him and a dodgy sat nav. Barmbrack. I fucking hated barmbrack. usually an over yeasty bread with soggy sultanas that some gobshite decided to hide a METAL ring inside it as a prize.  You cant get it with the ring inside anymore on account of health and safety. good! Of course us being west brit jackeens from the big schmoke our traditions bared more resemblance to the american way of things. th esame games, dressing up we even got a pumpkin one year. |
