Isn’t language a strange thing?
You know the way people say things like That car cost the guts of fifty grand.  And then someone else will tell you, No.  It cost the bones of seventy.
Guts or bones.  What’s the difference?  They’ll never tell you it cost the lungs of fifty grand.  See that fuckin house?  Worked [...]

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Gerry Harvey, executive chairman of Harvey Norman, is a prick.
Complaining about their shops’ trading difficulties in Ireland, Harvey had this to say: just imagine you opened in Ireland; you’d want to go and cut your throat. The potato famine, someone said, the return of the potato famine in Ireland
What a prick.  How dare he [...]

Silly names came up recently in one of our discussions, and regular contributor Savannah brought us the ludicrous “La-a”.
What’s that spell?
How do you say it?
Laaaah?  La aaah?  Laa?
Nope.
It’s Ladasha.  LaDASHa.  Geddit?
Clever or what?
I thought of another one myself: L’a.  What do you think?  Good, isn’t it?
Lapostrophea.
I like it.  There’s a certain Greek-tragedy ring to [...]

I don’t believe anyone thought $410 would improve Mary Harney’s appearance.
I just don’t believe it.
$410?
Mary Harney?
Come on, gimme a break.
 
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(By the way, would somebody please tell Enda Kenny, the leader of the alternative muppet party, that “prolifigate” is not a word). 
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I’m bored.  Here are some anagrams of “Mary Harney”
Hyena Marry
A Yarn Rhyme
Hymen Array
Harry Meany
Aryan [...]

01:45 am.
What the hell is going on in Bombay?  There are homicidal lunatics roaming the streets killing people and it looks like another bunch of Islamic maniacs have lost the plot.
At least eighty people have been murdered and this figure will probably rise by morning.  The place is going mad. 
I have very little information [...]

Here we go again.  Another pair of delusional religious lunatics are trying to deprive their child of the right to life by preventing a hospital from giving a blood transfusion.
The parents of a 4-year-old girl are being allowed to address the High Court to explain why they think their daughter should not receive a life-saving [...]

When the news presenter says … and now, Emma McNamara with the business news … I jump up from whatever I’m doing and run to switch off the radio.  I can’t listen to that woman’s awful, strangulated fake accent and robotic, monotone, staccato delivery.  It ts my brain.
Am I alone in this?
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UPDATE
Right.  We’ve had quite [...]

One of our regular contributors  has produced a spectacular panoramic poster of Thomond Park during the Munster- All Blacks match.
It comes in different sizes, up to about a metre wide (that’s three metric feet) and in different prices, but I hope to get a free one for doing this.
If you’re interested in getting one for [...]

The government is going to modernise the begging laws, and this is a good thing.  The 1847 Vagrancy Act was enacted by the British to stop the starving Irish from begging in the streets during the Great Famine, which was an absolutely outrageous way to treat us.
Fuck off and starve somewhere else, you miserable [...]