Spotted in Tesco, Bray on Sunday morning.
Have you rearranged Tesco’s own-brand herbs and spices to spell out rude words? Why not? The shelf-stackers love it when you do that.
Monthly Archives: April 2011
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But rather than speak of her own grief, the recently widowed nurse used the moment to issue a powerful message of defiance against terrorism.
Her day was meant to be very different. Her eldest son, Cathair, an IT security specialist for a bank in Australia, was flying back to be with her.
Ronan, 25, who passed out as a police constable three months ago, would be coming from just down the road from his new home in Omagh.
However, on the first Mothering Sunday since he moved out, this would be no less important.
To Mrs Kerr, her youngest son had been simply, her “rock”, according to friends. During her husband’s long battle with a brain tumour, which finally claimed his life in October 2008, she had given up her work as a nurse in the local hospital to care for him. Ronan, who worked in a series of hard manual jobs, remained at home supporting her.
With his mother back at work, he was himself struggling to find long-term employment and began to be attracted by the drive to recruit more Catholic officers into the Police Service of Northern Ireland — the replacement for the once Protestant-dominated RUC.
Ronan Kerr’s Death: A Mother’s Day Tragedy (Telegraph)
“Today in our land a small collection of people will be congratulating themselves, getting pats on the back, smirking that their demented “cause” is back at the top of news agendas.
“Ancient half-truths and myths will be voiced as justification for barbarous actions. They will be happy.”
The French site Nowhere Else has created a giant infographic mashup of all the current and more plausible stab-in-the-dark predictions regarding the upcoming iPhone5.
If you’re into this kind of thing, there are entire sites dedicated to it.
Toward the bottom of Twitter’s about page, they claim that as of September 2010, the service has 175 million users. That sounds like a bunch, right? Well, what Twitter doesn’t tell you is that 175 million number actually represents the number of registered accounts, which technically do not have to be active in order to exist. According to Business Insider, they know someone with “full access to Twitter’s API,” who was then able to get an engineer to write code to produce figures for the “real” (active) number of users on Twitter.
Apparently, there are 56 million Twitter accounts that aren’t following any other accounts. FFS, who are these people?
The Truth About The Active Number Of Twitter Users (Geekosystem)
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Friday Late with Vincent Browne on TV3. Guests: Keith Duffy, magician Jack Wise, Mary Louise O’Donnell (above left) and Paul Durcan.
Paul Durcan read his poem, ‘Man With A Bit of Jizz In Him’, which ends: “An attractive middle-aged housewife I may be, but there is nothing to beat a man with a bit of jizz in him”.
[laughter]
Vincent Browne: “Do you know many men with a bit of jizz in them?”
Marie Louise O’Donnell: “It’s a very interesting word. Why did you use the word, Paul? Is it from your childhood?
Paul Durcan: “I’m aware of it all my life but about seven years ago I heard somebody say it.”
O’Donnell: “Yeah. It’s a great west of Ireland saying – ‘he’s great jizz in him’ – like a jump, like a dance in him you know?”
Browne: “Is there anyone in the new government with a bit of jizz in him?”
Durcan: “Enda Kenny.”
O’Donnell: “Enda has great jizz in him.”
Browne: “Oh no, oh Marie Louise…”
O’Donnell: “I’ll get into trouble about this now.”
Durcan: “Seriously, no, he really does. Which is why, with all the doom and gloom going on – and not going into the whole wretched thing – that, you know, cheers me up in the depths of anxiety, panic, melancholia and all the rest of it. That he has suddenly arrived and is what he is, our Taoiseach, prime minister, a man with a bit of jizz in him.”
O’Donnell: “I think Noonan has a bit of jizz in him as well. Noonan, Michael Noonan. He has a way of describing things and he’s a way of looking at the camera, you know, that you wonder, is he really taking this seriously?”
Durcan: “And a playing with words. Enda Kenny said when he went to Castlebar a few days after he was elected Taoiseach… He said, ‘You know, I’ve often said that I never take myself seriously but what I’m serious about is the job’… I like that. I really like that.”
Browne: “Who else would have a bit of jizz in him in the government? Pat Rabbitte has a bit of jizz in him.”
O’Donnell: “Oh. Aww yeah. And… a great sense of humour. Jizz is really humour isn’t it? A kind of dance in people.”
Watch Full show here
Shamon!
He actually looked more real in real life.
