Monthly Archives: January 2013

Some men see things as they are and say why.

Eoin (above) dreams things that never were and says: why not, dude?.

He writes:

I’m in a competition to get into space, as you do. Could be the 1st Irish person in space! =) How it works is I need online votes.
It’s very simple;

1.Click this link:
2. Hit vote beside my name.
3. Enter your email and you’re done!

It takes no more than 30 seconds. I’m second and just have a small bit to catch up! I just need to get a boost. If you could I would be very grateful. Thank you.

 

One small click from you.

One giant leap for anti-perspirant marketing Eóin.

It was literally our poison.

Ether drinking was common in Scotland, Norway, Russia and France. But it was particularly popular in Ireland, where the Catholic Church promoted abstinence from alcohol. People pledged not to drink alcohol but from the mid-1840s the Irish consumed ether as a way to get around their pledge – it was drunk neat and the mouth was washed out with cold water before and after.

The British government had worked hard to prevent the illegal distillation of alcohol, but ether was a legal substitute. Like alcohol, it was sold in pubs. It was also available from shops, and groups of women would hold ether parties in their houses. From 1890 the sale of ether was strictly limited in Ireland by the British government after it was classified as a poison.

 

Hic.

Ether (UK Science Museum)

Thanks Sibling of Daedalus

 

You may recall Lisa Carey’s NOMacceptable image (above) of her friend’s ‘tea’ at The Coombe Maternity Hospital in Dublin last week.

Well…

Image of “Unacceptable” Meal Prompts Review Of Menu At The Coombe (Journal.ie)

Previously: Meanwhile, At The Coombe

Rotunda Makes Coombe Look Like The Ritz

Your Irish Hospital Breakfast Has Arrived

 


From Russia Today:

A cleaner stole an empty commuter train from a train depot and drove it to a suburb of Stockholm where it derailed and slammed into an apartment building. The woman was seriously injured in the crash in the early hours of Tuesday and was flown to a Stockholm hospital. No one else was injured. A spokesman for train operator Arriva said the woman, born in 1990, stole the four-car train at a depot outside Stockholm. She then drove it about a mile (1.6 km) to the end station on the railway line, where it jumped off the tracks, careened for about 30 yards (25m) and crashed into a three-story building. Photographs from the scene showed the crumpled front car of the train buried deep into the structure. The woman’s motive was not immediately clear.

(Hat tip: Aaron McAllorum)