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Ah here.
The first offering from the return of Big Mental Disease to the Irish Internets.
No one is safe.
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Restrain Yourself
The Sterling silver ‘Just a thimble full’ shot cup, one of many ‘exclusively sourced’ trinkets for sale on Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle website, goop.
The blurb reads:
This sterling shot cup has the phrase “Just a thimble full” engraved on it – a gentle reminder to practice a little bit of restraint.
The thimble costs $950.00.
The Sausage Of Tantalus
A cat would have retrieved that sucker in a heartbeat, but where’s the Japanese Chinese Sausage Torture Porn in that?
The Folk Ye Bump Intae
The Folk Ye Bump Intae is a blog project by Scottish artist Stuart Murray who sketches the people he meets in Glasgow (and what they say, just as they said it).
It’s wonderful. Explore.
Clubbed
Another witness said: “From the stand it looked really bad. The Eunan’s player was down for a long time. “He was being kicked in the head at one stage.”
Put that in your soft-focus family-fri
Inquiry launched after GAA match ends with players in hospital (Greg Harkin, Independent.ie)
Jaw Dropping
A gallon-smashing stunt gone horribly wrong.
…but no-one seems to have pointed out that he sounds Irish.
We’re saying nothing.
Psychic Sylvia’s Crystal Balls
Sylvia Browne (left) and Amanda Berry
One of the world’s most recognizable self-proclaimed psychics was wrong yet again about the fate of a missing child, and her followers on social media are taking her to task.
Browne’s prediction about Amanda Berry’s fate was not the first child whose fate she attempted to explain, but her fans on social media are waiting for acknowledgment from the self-proclaimed spiritual leader.
As Jon Ronson wrote in his 2007 profile on predatory psychics, Browne has spoken face-to-face with many distraught parents and wrongly forecasted life or death. Shawn Hornbeck was a missing child whose parents were told by Browne that their son was buried between two boulders.
Cleveland abductions: fans lash out at Sylvia Browne over false prediction (Guardian)
That Would Be A Commercial Matter
It’s non-variable.
Asked whether Minister for Finance Michael Noonan (above) had any comment on whether banks should pass on the rate cut to standard variable rate customers, his spokesman indicated he would not be intervening.
“This is purely a commercial matter for the banks,” the spokesman said.
Right so.
Banks not to pass on ECB rate cut to variable mortgages (Conor Pope, Irish Times)
The Little Crickett Rifle
“The little Crickett rifle is a single-shot rifle and it has a child safety,” White said of the weapon. “It’s just a tragic situation.”
