More toast up for auction on e-Bay, this time with Michael Jacksons whiteish mug on it. Apparantly the slices are not fake … they popped out of their toasters before or during the verdicts :rolleyes: Whoever buys these are about as dumb as the gobshite who bought the Virgin Mary toast for a staggering $28,000 [...]

The sad story of a Congolese child, how she has tried to make a life for herself despite losing her parents, living rough & working for food, and watching her sister die on the streets of Kinshasa. Just one of a million tragic stories in Africa. Makes ya think doesn’t it?

Some masked gunmen stormed a school today holding the young kids as hostage. Initially there were about 70 kids, aged 2-6 but the gunmen later released 30. They were demanding money, weapons and transport and when they didn’t get all that they wanted they shot one of the kids and threatened to shoot the other [...]

Twenty has an interesting one about the quality of Guinness abroad so I thought i’d add my Finnmarks’s worth. It’s a subject close to me heart … it’s not just teabags we expats (I don’t remember being a pats in the first place but whatever..) miss, nor taytos (the real ones) it’s also da black [...]

Big hullabaloo on BBC World now, everybody watching & waiting in anticipation for the verdict in the Jackson trial. Should be any minute now… NOT GUILTY of all charges!

What some people have campaigned hard for has finally come true, the EU have today made Irish an official working language of the EU with effect from 2007. Below is a press release from Dháithí Mac Cárthaigh, Chonradh na Gaeilgereceived via Gaeilge-B… Edit: Slugger readers have their say … some of the usual suspects with [...]

Shocking news (sorry, pathetic I know but I couldn’t resist), an all-island electricity market is on the way.

The reason why some women have problems reaching orgasm might be down to their genes??? Lads, lads, lads, if you’re not up to the task just admit it!

I just signed up for a free online course with the HP Learning Center. I’ve no idea if the classes are good or not, they could be absolute shite, but they are free and definitly better than nuthin. I signed up for the ‘Building web applications with PHP and MySQL‘ course. I’ve done *some* PHP/MySQL [...]

Have you heard about the shite at the game with Israel on Saturday? You’ll find some shocking information on the soccer boards. Disgraceful scenes of Palestine flag waving, Nazi salutes etc. It’s not 100% clear to me who was the real cause, the IPSC (pro-Palestinian group) or ROI fans but these scenes were downright disgusting. [...]