The heritage Week celebrations in Merrion Square, Dublin 2, this afternoon.
The men’s magazine whose logo was two women crouched in a box, weeping.
Yes! Brand New Retro has scanned in a few pages from the third issue of Man Alive, Ireland’s first men’s magazine dated August 1974.
Sadly the ‘Porn on the Cob’ feature may have proved literally unscannable. Also the restaurant reviews appear to have been written by your dad in a really bad mood.
“The wenches serving [in Captain America’s] are usually braless. Avoid weekends. Too many glass-eyed hippies sipping milkshakes.”
“Put it together piece by piece and wait for the action!”
Kathy Fogarty: hipster soft-porn. Clothes: Literally photographer’s own.
The River Dargle. Nippy.
Thanks Zippy67
The elegant, real-time interactive Hurricane Irene tracking map from the New York Times.
Click here
Brian Mujati is the Northampton Saints player who says he was a called a baboon by two Leinster players at a match in Donnybrook last night.
But why ‘baboon’?
The accused players, Heinke van der Merwe and Steven Sykes are white South Africans. Mujati, although born in Zimbabwe, is a black South African.
Being called a baboon or ‘bobbie’, a derivative of Bobbejaan, the Afrikaans for baboon, in South Africa is like being called a kaffir or a nigger.
And it is forbidden under South Africa’s post-apartheid hate speech laws.
Still, while van der Merwe has one national cap to his name and Sykes has none, Mujati has earned 12 caps for the Springboks.
Some baboon.
Former Bok Claims Racism Alive (Mail And Guardian, South Africa)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkBmhM0R2A0
Miss USA 2011 candidates answering the question ‘Should evolution be taught in schools?’ – not as dumb as they appear, sez Society Pages writer Gwen Sharp:
I suspect that some watching the video will see this as little more than an example of air-headed, dumb women not understanding science. But it’s important to remember that these women are carefully prepped for this competition; they have been through years of lower-level beauty pageant competitions and, to get to the Miss USA contest, they’ve clearly learned the rules of the beauty pageant circuit. They may or may not personally completely agree with what they’re saying; the point is to provide an answer that they believe is most likely to appeal to a group of judges who are looking for a candidate who will be palatable to a broad audience and unlikely to stir controversy. Whatever their personal opinions might be, the women are providing an answer based on a perception of what the most acceptable response is — and the discourse of choice is sufficiently normalized to be a viable, and perhaps the only viable, option they can give and hope to win.
Bonus lols:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QBv2CFTSWU
Normalising Choice in discourses about Evolution (Society Pages)
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The Avalon Pier as Hurricane Irene struck the Outer Banks in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina literally an hour ago.
Core Of Hurricane Irene Coming Ashore (New York Times)
(Pic: PressPhoto)
The as-yet unpublished ‘Space Oddity’ by Andrew Kolb, a children’s book illustrating Bowie’s 1969 choon.
You can download the whole thing for free here.
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPKNpYz-PxA
Eoghan Rice writes:
Tourists arriving into Dublin Airport last night received an unusual welcome. They are unlikely to forget the moment the screen doors opened to be greeted by 600 locals in green and white chanting “who are ya?” at them.
Go to 0.25 for horror-filled ‘tread softly for you tread on our flag even though it’s on the ground’ moment.
Superquinn, Kilmainham, Dublin 8, today.