Monthly Archives: August 2010

 

So how does he survive? He makes his own toothpaste, using as the main ingredient cuttlefish bone, which washes up on most sea shores, and wild fennel seeds. He uses a compost toilet – or a hole in the ground, the humanure, as he calls it, is used to fertilise his vegetable plot – and washes his clothes with a detergent made from boiled nuts.

Donegal Man Puts Cash Into Trash (Conor Pope, Irish Times)

“The words uttered during the Famine spring to my mind today: “The best go and the worst stay”. Today, I am getting ready to emigrate. Like all those graduates of my generation, I am stuck…So, I am choosing a route that so many have before me — emigrating to foreign shiny shores.”

Letters to the Editor (Irish Independent)l

Rubbish. We’re staying so that must mean.

Hang on.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGOMMw9pqT4

“Hey,” Nat said from his cubicle about a minute ago. “One of those Hardy Bucks guys was responsible for the prank call to end prank calls. I have the You Tube.”

But Nat, we observed, if we run that clip, the bare-knuckle man will find out and go after the young Hardy Bucks lad. This recording is just one long suicide note with superlative images of Snatch and whatnot. And if we don’t identify exactly who it was they all might be in trouble.”

“The handstands,” countered Nat, ending the conversation.