Yearly Archives: 2013

receipt
Richard McMahon writes:

Thought you might like this receipt from a recent trip to Ibiza. €24 for a 250ml bottle of water and a 330ml bottle of Corona in Pacha. After paying €60 to get in. Do I win at the being-overcharged-for-alcohol game?

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Anna Maguire reports in today’s Belfast Telegraph that an Ulster Scots voicemail facility designed to handle language queries in Stormont has not received a single call in the eight years since it was set up.

Language funding lost in translation (Editorial, Belfast Telegraph)

Previously: Whit Is The Deegital Cheenge-Ower?

vodafone

Vodafone made a previously unreported multimillion-pound settlement with HM Revenue & Customs in the wake of a dispute over the tax paid by an Irish subsidiary created to collect royalty payments for using its brand.

The UK-based mobile phone group used an Irish subsidiary, which employed no staff between 2002 and 2007, to collect hundreds of millions of pounds a year in royalty payments from operating companies and joint ventures around the world. By 2007, Vodafone Ireland Marketing Ltd, a company registered to an industrial estate in the Dublin suburb of Leopardstown, was reporting a turnover of €380m (£320m) a year.

 

Vodafone in multimillion tax deal over Irish office (Juliette Garside, Guardian)

dolly

Dolly Parton aficionados have long since discovered the bonus awesomeness of slowing down the singer’s records to highlight the complexity and nuance of her voice.

In case you’ve never heard it, her 1973 classic Jolene slowed down from 45rpm to a brooding 33rpm – as someone on BBC R4 recently put it – is especially ‘full of win’.

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vines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHyi2IiT-Ls

A compilation of what Youtuber EricS feels to be the greatest Vines of 2013 so far.

Granted, such claims are subjective but such is the variety on offer that your eyes may not actually permit you to stop watching all 11 minutes and 37 seconds.

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(Hat tips: Oisín, GraemeS)