Brainwashing Children at Christmas
It turns out my 9 year old niece has a nintendo ds, a PSP and a computer (and possibly another console but I got a bit confused!) and she’s just left here after a short visit. I subjected her to a not-so-subtle interrogation so that I could figure out what to buy her for Christmas. [...]
School Daze
The Irish Times (sub required) published it’s Feeder Schools report today. My old Secondary (High) School performed very badly and I can’t say I’m too surprised. The report said that 30-odd people did the Leaving Cert (final school exam) in my alma mater last year and only an incredibly low 15% went to [...]
Losing it
Ireland lost the rugby and I’ve lost my memory.
Against my better judgement, I watched the Ireland v Argentina rugby game this afternoon. In the final quarter of the game, the Setanta commentator made a pithy comment that ultimately was a damning judgement on Ireland’s performance. ‘Oh’, I thought to myself, ‘I should write [...]
Definition of Politics
Someone texted the Sean Moncrieff show (NewsTalk106) a joke on the etymology of the word Politics.
POLI from the Greek Poly meaning ‘many‘
TICS from the Greek ‘Blood sucking insects‘.
I sock
Speaking of socks (ed – wtf?!), are you the sort of man who buys mainly plain black socks or mostly patterned socks? In my alpha male days*, I used to buy mostly plain coloured socks so I could save time in orgainsing my sock drawer. Hey, there was only one colour to organise! [...]
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