Further to last week’s Cursed Words post, Maeve Convery of Roads Publishing writes:
We’ve just released a new version of Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary as part of our classics series this month.
Roads has five shiny copies of the excellent 1906 satirical wordbook to give away to the Broadsheet reader who can come up with the wittiest and most devilish dictionary entry for a word of their own choosing. To wit:
You get the idea.
Lines MUST close at midnight.
Splutter
Bewildered Student asks:
Just wondering if this late adoption of hip hop women-hater slang [by website Evoke.ie] might irk their more feminist readers…
Fight!
Wardrobe staples: How to be a basic bitch in the best possible way (Evoke.ie)
Andy Tyrrell writes:
On the Job in Chapelizod [Dublin] this morning. UK reg but tricolour in fairness
Richard O’Rourke writes:
Spotted at a street festival in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma last week
Photo by Megan Kellett who explains:
This was sppotted by my daughter in the car ppark in Crumlin hospital. There were several, and they were all similarly sppelled.
(H/T: Redundant Proofreaders Society)
Any school.
Of any denomination.
Milltown, Dublin 6.
Alan Power writes:
We are trying to get a national school for the kids in Milltown, there’s none at the moment, of ANY denomination.
It’s a population of over 4000 and no school. There is a birth rate of 64 babies per year, the last school was closed in 1995 when the population was less than half the size, it was actually replaced by 625 residential units.
We are desperately trying to get the department to do something about it and have met with the Minister who has agreed there is a need. We are currently involved in a door to door petition campaign.
The demise of the once ubiquitous Microsoft browser and inexorable dominance of Chrome compliled from Stat Counter data by Jody Sieradzki.
You’ll notice that Greenland switched to Safari last year.
It didn’t work out.
Do they know the Christmas Toy Show?
Just give him the focking money.
Etc.
Ryan Tubridy mobbed by Late Late fans in African airport (Herald)
Thousands of Irish people who have rented out rooms in their homes or entire properties using the Airbnb service look set to be hit with …
— Irish Times Business (@IrishTimesBiz) August 10, 2015
..retrospective tax bills.
Seemed like a good idea at the time..
Run!
Airbnb hosts facing retrospective tax bills for 2014 (Irish Times)
Alternatively
Airbnb Arbitrage – How To Pay Off Your Mortgage In Half The Time (Lovin Dublin)
By Mick Flavin
Brendan Ogle, from the Right 2 Water campaign, spoke with John Keogh on Newstalk’s Lunchtime earlier.
He’s calling for a referendum.
From the interview…
Brendan Ogle: “There are two things that are important about any proposed referendum. The first thing that’s important is where the proposed wording would sit in the constitution. Different parts of the constitution are open to different types of interpretation. So we’re proposing a specific article section, Article 28, Section 421, which is the part of the constitution which deals with the functions of government, the functions of the executive and what we’re proposing is a very simply worded referendum which would read as follows:
‘The Government shall be collectively responsible for the protection, management and maintenance of the public water system. The Government shall ensure, in the public interest, that this resource remains in public ownership and management.’
John Keogh: ‘Ok, why is there a need for a referendum when we already have this guarantee enshrined in legislation. Alan Kelly brought legislation before the Dáil only a couple of months back.”
Ogle: “Well, fair question John, but what we need to realise here is that there’s no such thing as a guarantee enshrined in legislation. Legislation, such as the legislation for example, to enact Irish Water itself, is simply legislation, it can be changed in the Dáil and is often changed and I’m sure the Irish Water legislation will be changed. And sometimes the legislation can be changed very, very quickly by the use of whips and guillotines and all sorts of…”
Later
Ogle: “Just to be clear, we don’t want to do anything with Irish Water, except abolish it. We certainly don’t want to put that in the constitution.”
FIGHT!
Related: Huge majority support Irish Water referendum, survey shows (Irish Independent, December 16, 2014)