Season’s greetings to one and all. I hope you have a nice Christmas and a very happy new year. Thanks for visiting in 2006, hope to see you all in 2007 assuming I haven’t bored the tits off you this year. Nollaig shona agus athbhliain faoi mhaise daoibh a chairde go léir!!
Hyvää Joulua (ja God Jul) kaikille Suomeen, ja onnellista uutta vuotta 2007, terveiset Irlannista!
I just joined a web forum for baldies today (just for the hell of it) … yes, I am one of the chosen, someone with ‘male pattern baldness’ … or ‘super dead-fucking-coolness’ as it should be called … and I have discovered via this new forum that all my fellow baldy brethren have the very same gifts I do; superior sex appeal, magnificent strength and stamina, the ability to leap tall buildings with a single bound (though I do need a bit of a run up to it, the aul tummy’s sagging a bit you see), can stop bullets (soft foam or rubber preferably), more powerful than the Luas etc etc.
After reading through some of the threads I began to think how interesting it was the way we like to group together based even on something as simple as having no hair. It’s not like we play the same sport or like the same music … we just have no hair (on our heads I mean, filthy minded fecker). I suppose it’s just a normal part of the human psyche, the need to belong, to be part of a group. It’s why we form tribes, nations, clubs, teams, clubs, cliques, gangs I suppose. Weird how it takes so little though, the slightest thing in common and we’re suddenly chums.
Back to baldness. Some people take it so seriously. I suppose I did for a while too, after all the aul gruaig was receding when I was in my late teens, a time when such a thing would rattle the self esteem of your average self-conscious teenager. At some stage though I began to cut the hair short (what there was at the time), then even shorter and shorter again and following a wee mistake with the razor one evening the whole lot had to come off. And you know, i’ve never looked back. I cut it down to zero every week now and sometimes get the blade out to take off the stubble. I look just like Vin Diesel now … only shorter, rounder, whiter, less muscular and a whole lot uglier but still the resemblance is uncanny!
There’s nothing worse than seeing someone trying to hide their receding hairline, letting it grow that bit longer, spreading it out and patting it down; or the comb over, that’s just the fucking worst! Lads, you have to realise when you try to hide it you just make it look worse. Do yourself a favour, embrace your baldness, just whip the whole lot off. Worse case scenario you’ll look like Right Said Fred, but it’ll grow back you know! Then again, if you look like Stone Steve Cold Austin you can just beat the shit out of anyone who might laugh at you.
Be one of the few, the proud, the brave … the baldies.
The Moriarty Tribunal. Nine years. €25 million. To tell us what we already knew … Haughey was a thieving cunt. God, I love this country! *sob*
… and roads. Irish drivers and roads. In the words of Johnny Cash, “damn your eyes”!
I’ve been spending a lot of time on the road over the past 6 weeks or so. I’ve been doing close to 500 miles a week (2 × 250m trips) … which is a lot for someone who supposedly has an office job (I should be driving a desk not a car). And over the course of the past number of weeks I’ve become more and more pissed off with our shite roads and our shite-ier drivers, so much so that when one particular driver cut me off last week I lost all sense of self and could be heard to utter in a slightly raised tone “flip you, you … … flipper and your flipping cutty-off car!!!”
Following three days of medication meditation and solemn reflection my frustration still hasn’t subsided, I am still miffed so once again “flip you … you … you motherflippers!!”
You’ll probably see little more here in future but a lot of whinging about shite roads and our clueless drivers but shure isn’t it the season to be griping! What? Season to be jolly? How can you be jolly this time of year … traipsing all over the country spending your hard earned cash on mp3 players and pajamas for cunts who don’t appreciate it only to find yourself in debt for the next three months! Bah humbug! Flip off!
It’s nearly that time of year again … no, not Christmas … well yeah it is, but I mean it’s nearly Irish blog awards time again and the bauld Damien Mulley is already starting to get things organised. What a man I tell ya, what a man!
They’ll be looking for sponsors so if you have what it takes (money) then give Damien a shout … or cash, whatever.
I just discovered a new Firefox extension, Firebug.
“Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.”
If you’re any way interested in web design this extension is very simply a must-have extension. I have been playing with it for the last hour while trying to debug some CSS and i’m amazed at the amount of work which went into it. It’s outstanding, go get it.
I was researching design ideas for a portfolio and came across this excellent image, author unknown [via Maryland Media]. Funny and accurate! [click to open full size]
Holy feck. Just spotted on my favourite Finnish blogger‘s site that a Finnish war veteran died during a Finnish Independence Day Parade in the town of Jyväskylä when he walked in front of an Army tank! Someone managed to catch it on video and they even have it up on YouTube [close up picture from Iltalehti]. It’s not clear what exactly happened but it appears to have been a suicide, according to Finland for Thought (great Finnish blog but some serious knobs hang out there). Sad.
Oh yeah, and a belated hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää to my Finnish readers! All one of you.
I just haven’t had the energy for blogging recently … writing or even reading blogs. Work is draining me and I have been driving from Sligo to Cork once per week for the past 4 weeks, heading down again tomorrow as a matter of fact.
I was planning to blog the BBC story on illegal web coverage of premiership matches and enquire if anyone had any such links. I’ve no qualms about watching illegal coverage of games!
I was also going to blog the interesting (to me) article on Bloomberg; It’s Time for Scots, English to File for Divorce. Damn, wouldn’t that be something, if the Scots went for independence?? What would happen with Wales then? And poor aul diseased Northern Ireland??
Earlier stories I was going to blog include the Swearing Lady’s post on illegal music downloads. Did I ever mention that I downloaded close to 4 Gb … yes 4 Gb … of music from Allofmp3.com in the past year alone? Illegal or not I couldn’t give a fuck. I simply refuse to pay cunts like Apple €0.99 per song and CD’s prices are still a rip off. No shame, I don’t care.
Oh yeah … and I had my first blogger meet up. Myself and the bauld Gerry O’Sullivan had a brief meeting recently. Gerry has gone mad altogether and gotten himself a new URL and has the new blog UnLaoised up and running! Laois Gerry? Jaysus! 
I started listening to Today FM recently … and although I always thought Ray Darcy was a bit of a dick I think he is quite funny on air (at least you’re not forced to look at the cunt) and i’ve become a regular listener now. Though he did cross the line when he attacked Blogorrah … anthrax’s in the mail Ray, you can’t insult one of my favourite blogs and not expect repercussions.
So Christmas is coming … hmmm.
More blogging at the weekend hopefully …
We just won a holiday today on a scratch card. Problem is it’s for one person so it’s no good to me.
So if you fancy the prize; return flights from Dublin to Prague, 6 nights hotel accommodation on a twin share basis for 1 person I’m willing to sell the ticket very cheap. Make me an offer!
Closing date to claim the prize is 31 December and the last travel date is March 2007.
