What you may need to know:
1. Fratboy Jake (Blake Jenner) navigates his first weekend of big school.
2. Richard Linklater follows the monumentally overrated Boyhood (2014) with this “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused (1993).
3. More like a spiritual sequel to Porky’s (1982).
4. It’s safe to say that this one won’t be bothering the Oscars.
5. Linklater almost makes Kevin Smith look sophisticated. Almost.
6. Broadsheet prognosis: None for me thanks.
Release Date: May 13.
Utah Governor Gary Herbert (above) signed a resolution which declares pornography “a public health hazard
In Utah they’re pouring their scorn,
On the evil temptations of porn,
So bodily bits,
Like arses and tits,
Are banned now, along with the horn.
John Moynes
(Bloomberg)
GAA Fan writes:
And you complain about the price of tickets to matches? Yesterday afternoon at Adam’s auction house someone paid €4,200 plus fees for a ticket to a match that was played almost one hundred years ago. Of course it was to that infamous Bloody Sunday game.
MORE to folly
Cal Copeland writes:
A view of Martello Tower in Skerries this morning.
Dublin city this evening.
Thanks Darragh Noob
Richard Power writes:
Lovely sunset in Co. Limerick this evening.
Ciara McNelis tweetz:
I couldn’t remove so tried to improve. I hope Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council are going to get the label-remover out.
Splutter!
Ed Smith tweetz:
€12.95 for a box of Kelloggs cereal in Fallon & Byrne [Dublin]. The fuppin’ sea wouldn’t take them.
Defiant tricolour though, in fairness.
Homeowners have been advised to watch their backsides during floods after a man in the Midleton area was bitten by a rat while sitting on the toilet.
…Yesterday, Councillor Noel Collins reported the incident to Cork County Council during a Southern Area Meeting, after asking them to investigate the possibility of flushing rat poison through the sewer system.
Cllr Collins added: “I would advise homeowners to keep their toilet seats down when not in use, and to watch their posteriors.”
Jay.
Sus.
*Clench*
Mind your bum… after rat bite on loo (Evening Echo, David Linnane)
In an animation by Andrew Khosravani, Hannah Fry of The Royal Institution tells the rather fascinating tale of nothing, or rather, zero. To wit:
Once upon a time, zero wasn’t really a number. Its journey to the fully fledged number we know and love today was a meandering one. Today, zero is both a placeholder, and tool, within our number system signifying an absence of a value, and as a number in its own right.
