cookerA pressure cooker last night.

Sido writes:

The main news in today’s Guardian is that the American NSA pay UK GCHQ lots of money for intelligence, The UK’s lax snooping laws, and the fact that they are not constrained about spying on Murican citizens, means that they can do just that.
The really funny story though, is about some unfortunate family in New York, who had been looking to purchase a pressure cooker for cooking lentils, and had also been browsing back packs. The teenage son had also looked at details of the Boston bombings.
They were visited by FBI agents in three black SUVs. I don’t know if one of them was Special Agent Leeroy Jethro Gibbs, that’s probably confidential, but there you have it.

Funny but frightening, Don’t consider buying a pressure cooker in the near future.

 

New York woman visited by police after researching pressure cookers online (Guardian)

 

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At Blur at IMMA, Kilmainham, Dublin, last night.

DH writes:

[Transport] Minister Leo [Varadkar] and my friend Eoghan  at the Blur gig last night. The Minister is congratulating Eoghan on recently passing his exams and Eoghan is congratulating the Minister on his deft handling of the coming [Bus] strike action. A real meeting of minds.

 

Last Night: Meanwhile, At Blur

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‘They’ve spread their love throughout the world with the Irish diaspora, which is like a sort of positive disease.”

Alan Partridge’s message to Irish cinemagoers to mark the release next week of Alpha Piper, co-starring Colm Meaney and directed by Wexford-born Declan Lowney.

Any excuse.

Alan Partridge Addresses Irish Audiences Ahead of Film’s Release Next Wed 7th Aug (IFTN)

Previously: Broadsheet Trailer park: Alpha Piper

 

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