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 [...]

If Winter Comes … Continued below the fold

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 [...]

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?  [...]

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.   _______________________   (By the way, [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]