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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Of today’s Irish Independent Letter Of The Day, Diarmuid Caspar writes:
This same man has previously called for atheism to be labelled a thought crime. asserted that ‘Gulags, death camps and killing fields were integral to atheism’ and decried evolution.
Obviously I understand the value of newspapers printing opposing views in letters and Op-Ed pieces, but surely awarding ‘letter of the day’ to this kind of letter that offers no facts or reasoning behind it’s hate-filled prose implies that the publication is giving merit and validation to his viewpoint?
@broadsheet_ie Donal O’Grady getting his Bane on ahead of Friday? #sundaygame #TDKR twitter.com/alpwriting/sta…
— Alan Pollock (@alpwriting) July 16, 2012
Bob Coggins writes:
A mate’s missus works in an Australian planning office, and got this planning application in – this is the drawing, the written application is in handwriting on the underside. Phil Hogan would love this.
Baby Wipeski
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Sarah Bolger writes:
From a pharmacy in Rathfarnham Shopping Centre [Co Dublin] today – no more luxuries such as the English language for our south side babies…
Hmm.
Depends.
Thanks Katriona Furey
A handbill ‘ad’ for coffee from the 1650s, currently housed in the British Museum, produced by London’s first coffee shop at St. Michael’s Alley, Cornhill.
It is a simple innocent thing, composed into a drink, by being dryed in an Oven, and ground to Powder, and boiled up with Spring water, and about half a pint of it to be drunk, fasting an hour before and not Eating an hour after, and to be taken as hot as possibly can be endured; the which will never fetch the skin off the mouth, or raise any Blisters, by reason of that Heat.
The which bloody will, you know.
Lego builder Ryan McNaught’s 200,000 brick cross-section of the Roman Colosseum, depicted in its present day ruined form and as it was when constructed around 80 AD.
It’s on view at the Nicholson Museum in Melbourne Sydney until January 2013.
That’s Spanish for double standards.
Which Paddy hates.
The European Central Bank declined to comment on a report that it had recommended that senior bondholders should take losses in the event of a restructuring of Spanish bank debt.
A report in the Wall Street Journal today said ECB President Mario Draghi advocated imposing losses on senior bondholders issued by “the most severely damaged” Spanish savings banks at a meeting of European Union finance ministers on July 9.
ECB Declines to Comment on Spanish Bank Bond Loss Report in WSJ (Bloomberg)
