NTL Ireland sucks – the sequel

On the 5th of September 2006, I wrote about the awful experience I had trying to get NTL Ireland to visit my home to fix their equipment that I was renting from them. Eventually, they turned up and fixed it. Well, guess who turned up today, 22nd March 2007. Yes, NTL. I wasn’t at home [...]

I read it in the newspaper so it must be true Feb2807

Sometimes my mind boggles at the people who are supposed to be running things on this tiny planet of ours. Two stories from The Register: US Superfighter software glitch fixed Jets can now cross Pacific, Far East safe for democracy again Significant new capabilities have been added to the US Air Force’s latest superfighter, the [...]

I’m dead sure I wasn’t speeding

This is funny… Some woman’s gone and written a letter to the CPS telling them she was dead, in order to escape a fine. ‘I swear, on my life.’….

Watch yer back. By order

Years ago, when the carnage on our roads was really, really bad as opposed to the just really bad situation we have now, everybody felt something had to be done. County Louth, I think, had the worst statistics, partly because (a) the locals were really bad drivers and (b) our Northern cousins drove like demons [...]

I read it in the newspaper so it must be true Feb0507

Hat tip to Nothing to Do with Arbroath’s blog: Irish police transported suspect ‘in trailer’ Gardaí had to take a suspected shoplifter into custody in a farm trailer because he was too big for a patrol car, it has been claimed. Solicitor and former Fine Gael TD Charlie Flanagan claimed the man arrested for allegedly [...]

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