Archive for March, 2008
Bertie Ahern – the game is up
Posted by: | CommentsYou know your days as Taoiseach are numbered when the Irish Independent website publishes a horizontally flipped photo of you on their front page…
As Bertie appears on the Indo website…
As he should look
It’s a conspiracy to bring down Ahern by the webmaster at Independent.ie I tells ya.
Someone has a sore banana
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Anything that helps alleviate or prevent carpal tunnel syndrome is a good product in my book. I suffered from it for a period of time a few years ago, but sensible posture and a good wrist rest really helped.
I’m not so sure about this Banana Wrist Rest though. I didn’t think I would ever see a banana that needed medical attention, but this banana sure does!
When an l isn’t an L
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Oh my oh my. Someone else in the world has noticed the same thing I have and they have a blog about it.
I love the simple mission statement of the blog:
“Ever notice hand-written signs with letters in all-caps, except for the letter L? It looks like an uppercase i … WHY DO PEOPlE WRITE lIKE THIS?“
This blog will appeal to the the Eats, Shoots and Leaves brigade.
Have a gander at the lowercasel blog.
Photo by Swamibu adapted under a Creative Commons License
The next JK Rowling is Irish
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Perhaps… F.E. Higgins is definitely a name to watch. Her latest book The Bone Magician, was released on 7th March and is selling pretty well at the moment.
“The Silver Apple Killer preys on the people of Urbs Umida, a rotten and wretched city. Two things connect the victims they all had a small silver apple in their pocket, and they had all recently visited a notorious inn to see one of two acts: the hideous Gluttonous Beast and the astonishing Bone Magician”
The reason I write about her is that she is originally from my own neck of the woods, Wicklow Town, and many people will have heard of her father, one WGA Scott, himself an author and prolific letter writer to newspapers in Ireland. The Scott family household in Wicklow is full of books so I’m not surprised Fiona is following in her father’s literary footsteps.
That’s another book added to my must read list.
Available at Booksunlimited.ie and all good book sellers nationwide…
Everyone is raging so they are
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Britain is in the grip of an anger epidemic. A lot of people are raging over there (and here too I wouldn’t wonder). The Mental Health Foundation in the UK published a report called Boiling Point that has some interesting points to make.
- 1 in 3 people have a friend or relative who can’t control their temper
- 1 in 4 people is battling with an anger problem
- Anger is seen as the root cause of a lot of criminal behaviour
- The more angry you are, the more angry you are… (not a mistype)
- Repression is not good, you have to strike a happy mean
The most primitive of human emotions such as anger or fear are triggered with the same intensity in a 2 year as they are in a 32 year old. The hope is that by the time you reach 32, you won’t throw the rattle out of the pram with the same intensity that you did when you were 2.
The full lowdown is at The Independent website along with some fun celebrity anger appraisals. I never realised Cameron Diaz was a narky oul bitch. That’s made a little part of me die inside to know that. I always made her out to be a happy go lucky type – a la her Mary in There’s Something About Mary. Oh well, shattered illusions.
They also have this great poll – The Angry List (love it). Just look who the angriest is. Quelle surprise!
Anyone got nominations for an “Angry Irish Blogger List”?
| Alex Ferguson |  8% |
| Russell Crowe |  5% |
| Naomi Campbell | 14% |
| Robert Mugabe | 18% |
| Tom Aikens | 0% |
| Colin Montgomerie | 1% |
| Ian Paisley | 21% |
| Harold Pinter | 1% |
| Heather Mills | 27% |
| Grace Jones | 3% |
