human zoo

so london zoo have had a homo sapien exhibit for the past few days

they got 8 people and dressed them in loin cloths and put them in an enclosure so people could see people in their natural habitat.

a more honest example to my mind would be to let people see what goes on at a teenage disco in the leafy dublin suburbs.

homosapiens drinking, corousing, socialising and fornicating as naturally as one could imagine.

a bit peeved

guy beats his wife to death in front of their 3 children while on holidays

chances are if he's convicted he'll be allowed to serve his sentence back home

reason?

to make it easier for his family to visit him!!!

he just destroyed his family
killed the mother of his children in front of them
thus ruining their lives
and we're supposed to believe
we should make it easy fro his family to visit

i think we should make it as hard as possible
so maybe he won't contaminate them any further

maybe i'm being a bit right wing here
but fuck it
some people deserve to have their life made hard
very hard
i'm not talking human right violations
but the bare minimum please

raise a glass

a friend of mine got some very good news
she won a prestigous scholarship to africa.

just wanted to say congrats to you girl

on anonymous comments

why oh why do people post anonymously?

i mean it's just annoying

you can put in any name you like or you can use your blogger id and nobody would still know who you are so why be so bloody strange and click anonymous?

oh and

people who keep their profile private
again you have as much privacy as you want and can still have a visible profile so why hide?

i know i'm not being very coherent or to the point with this post
but if you understand what i'm saying please clarify.

rose of tralee part deux

well it turns out the mayo rose won

http://www.rte.ie/rose05/mayo.html

her name is Aoibhionn Ní Shuilleabhain (kinda pronounced aveeen knee sewlivawn)

the most interesting thing i've notived is that two of the contestants have degrees in theoretical physics, including the winner.
now i have some knowledge of this field having studied physics and i know that the numbers of people studying physics in ireland are probably about 2000. of those i'd say about 500 are women. so the odds of 2 of those ladies being the final of the rose of tralee is pretty low.

weird isn't it.


*statistics are rough guesses for illustrative purposes only

rose of tralee

so once a year we have this half baked nut job of a competition in ireland

we get a group of lovely girls with tenous irish relations to come from all over the world and compete in who is the nicest

it's kinda like miss world but where you don't have to be good looking
and a bit like pop idol except you don't have to have any talent
although there is a talent round where people read poems and shit

anyway
this goes on for a week or so and then they crown the rose of tralee

worst thing ever

http://roseoftralee.ie/catalog/


aside; i have a friend who was an escort a couple of times at the rose of tralee and he told me all sorts of filthy things that the lovely roses get up to at night during the festival. so rock on

on something about nothing

i just had the urge to type

i don't particularly have anything to say but then that never stopped me before.

so
quick update
it's raining
i'm cold
i'm in work
i'm bored
i'm going to have a nice dinner later on
i have to work on something this evening (but i can't say what cause it's a secret)
hmmmm
very tired was out till late last night and up early for work

oh quick question
i just want to do a quick poll to see if anybody is reading this
if you are readign this just post a comment to say so

i don't trust those counter things

will post something more interesting soon
but just havinga quiet week so far

tell me why

i dont like mondays?

just an interesting note on this song;

did you know that the chorus is an answer and question

it's

q: "tell me why?"
a: "i don't like mondays"

and the song is about a shooting in a school were one of the students was shooting people in her school playground from her bedroom window.
a journalist rang her house and asked her why she was doing it and she said "i don't like mondays"


anyhow
it's a great song

and i have no particular feelings for or against mondays

but either way i don't think i'll shoot anybody today

stick a fork in me

i'm done!



well for this week anyway
i've got that friday feeling (just like a chrunchy)

and i'm going home

follow up to yesterday

just thinking about blogs

how come all the single in (insert city here) bloggers
with their witty remarks
cutting put downs

hilarious tales of what they did to hurt said loser ex

suddenly become all mushy when they hook up with somebody

and all of a sudden the new boyfriend is a contributer to the blog
and it's called not so single in (insert city here)

hmmm

so a report was published that found that 1 in 3 of all cases serious domestic violence are perputrated (spelling?) against men.

now i'm in no way informed on this debate but i justed wanted to ask a question

how come 1 in 3 of all helplines / refuges / organisations related to domestic violence etc are not for men.

rough guess maybe 1 in 10

violence is wrong no matter what wouldn't it make more sense for all the help out there to be just asexual

it's not a competition as in "i have more chance of getting a good kicking than you do. na na nana na"

anyway it's early
and this is too serious

3 hours

spent in work reading blogs

literally going from one blog to the next by following comments etc

i meant it fills in the time

but surely i have better things to do

my favourite blogs all seem to be by 20 something girls living in new york

the worst ones are the here's more pictures of my baby and my wife blogs

yeah i mean not that i'm more or less worthy than anybody else

but baby pictures??!!!!!

man it's dull if you know the baby in question but baby sarah in capetown?

anyway

i like the ones about getting drunk and hating your job

i guess i'm just shallow like that

the world

i'm pretty small (stop sniggering)
and the world is very big

i think i owe it to the world to introduce myself

work

you know the way it sucks beign really busy in work

you dont get enough times to email friends

can't take proper lunch

etc
etc

well i've had nothign to do for a couple of weeks now

ever since my boss left

having nothing to do sucks

this week im thinking of

the people of isreal and palestine

and in particular the people living in gaza

now i suppose we all have our own opinions on whats going on and who's right and who's wrong

but basically

i think we all hope that the withdrawl of isreal from gaza proves to be the begining of the end

monday morning

sitting at my desk
drinking coffee
and reflecting on a nice weekend

most exciting part was a hike along some cliffs with two mates including a terrifying descent to a beach at the bottom of said cliffs
followed about 10 minutes later by a climb back up from beach

tired legs
sweat and
thirst
were the main points of note from the trip

also the two mates are aiming to tackle the inca trail in peru in the not to distant future

in the words of a certain cartoon character

ha ha

http://shes.aflightrisk.org

found this yesterday but seemingly it's pretty famous i'm always way behind the rest of the hip kids.

anyway it's the blog of an aristocratic heiress who's on the run from her family and her life

or is it?

a lot of discussion boards and articles say it's a hoax

and to be honest it probably is

but it's brilliantly written and looks authentic so i'm going to take it at face value.

have a read

i wish i was.....

part of a minority group

reason?

id be more interesting

im a twenty something / employed / white / male / christion (ish) / from a middle class family ( i think , i'm not sure how the class thing works but i wasn't deprived)
i can read
i don't take drugs
i'm heterosexual
i don't do things to excess ( too often)
i'm respectful of women
don't start fights
am quite friendly

etc etc

so the problem is
i don't have a story to tell
or a gripe to complain about

why do i have a blog at all?

last night

went for a couple of drinks with friends

midway through the evening i got a bout of hiccups

an hour later still had them and gettign worse

everytime i put the glass to my mouth i hiccuped and spilt it

very embarresing

i tried all the techniques of holdign breather etc

until finally it was suggested i down a pint of water

hey presto it worked

except i spent a long time in the loo afterwards

anyway

hiccups suck

question

if you get caught between the moon and new york city what's the best that you can do?

observed in dublin 07/08/05

boy racer

flash car

low profile tires

suspension really low

cool blue paint job

chrome exhausts

4 foot high fin on the back


and his granny in the passenger seat

friday feeling?

have i got that friday feeling?

*pinches self*

yes i have



roll on the weekend

free money

he he
sony have to give people money for nothing


"Sony Pictures Entertainment has been ordered in court "to pay $1.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing the studio of citing a fake movie critic in ads for several films."
The lawsuit was originally filed by two California moviegoers, who claimed ads for A KNIGHT'S TALE fooled them into seeing the movie.
Moviegoers who saw the films A KNIGHT'S TALE, VERTICAL LIMIT, THE ANIMAL, HOLLOW MAN or THE PATRIOT during their original theater runs can file a claim to be eligible for a $5 per ticket reimbursement. Ads for the films included praise by a fictious critic, David Manning, who supposedly worked for The Ridgefield Press. "

plane crash

last night in canada

watched the live feeds for about ten minutes then flicked back over to watch ewan mcgreggor (spelling) in russia

i guess it's disaster fatigue

for the last few months there has barely been a week without a 24 hour live feed from some place or another

so much so that it's not even exciting anymore unless there are visible bodies.

weird


on the other hand nasa are goign to fix the shuttle in space today

cool

sleepy

really tired this morning for no particular reason.

watched tv up to about mid night then went to bed not exactly exciting

but still really tired

hmmmm

€112 million

how cool would that be?

a business empire overnight?

a huge cocaine ediction

a massive camper van and a trip around the world

oh well it's fun to dream