She’s 66, you know.
(Hat tip: Charlie Doran)
Cloughjordan Co.Tipperary
Claire Ann asks:
Can anyone answer me what would be the reason for painting your house completely black?
Incredibly Minister of State for Small Business, John Perry (above at today’s Fine Gael Ard Fheis) has claimed €31,867 mileage allowance in the past 12 months. With the total cost of owning and running an average car in Ireland put at just over €11,000 by the AA, it is difficult to see how Minister Perry is not making a handsome profit on his mileage.
Ministerial Expenses For The Past Year Published – Prepare To Be Outraged! (Nama Wine Lake)
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
For $180, New York designer Russell Greenberg will incorporate the facial profiles of you and your significant other into a lathe-cut maplewood rattle for your baby.
Which will then be coated with drool and dinged off the cat’s head.
You decide, etc.
Thanks Andrew Smyth
In a speech at the Ard Fheis Minister [Phil] Hogan said the controversial charge was “a legacy left behind by the last Government that this Government had to deliver as part of our agreement with the Troika”.
“If there was a credible alternative we would have pursued it,” he added.
“The charge is a forerunner to an equitable valuation based property tax that will be introduced shortly, again as part of our international commitments under the EU/IMF Programme of Financial Support,” Minister Hogan said.
“I have sought to protect the most vulnerable in society and have exempted large numbers of groups that are in greatest need.”
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
From the media room at the Fine Gael Ard Fheis in the National Convention Centre, Dublin.
Before this happened:
Lesson for Fine Gael: don’t put media room on side where protest is to be put if you don’t want photos taken from the media rm *rolls eyes*
— David Cochrane (@davidcochrane) March 31, 2012
It’s Gardai who have ordered the blinds closed and not FG I am told.#fgaf12
— Suzy Byrne (@suzybie) March 31, 2012
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland) (Mary Minihan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4hKrHGU_vY
The opening scroll of Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith from a bootleg copy bought in 2005 in Shanghai by blogger Winterson.
For reasons best known to themselves, the bootleggers translate the words from English to, well, hideously mangled English.
The original 2005 Winterson Post is the origin of the Do Want/Do Not Want meme.
MORE SUBTITLES: Episode III: The Backstroke of The West redux (2009 post) (Winterson)
Inspired by the famous Penrose Triangle, Hungarian designer Martzi Hegedűs created Frustro, a typeface whose characters face two different directions at once.