Watching “Kill it, Cook it, Eat it.” on BBC 3. They have just killed and cooked a pig. I now fully understand the phrase “bleeding like a stuck pig”.
Nobody in any movie I ever saw bled like that pig.
However after watching the loin being cooked I quite fancy a pork chop!
Today’s gouge, the Netgear DG834UK, wireless Modem and router. On Expansys.ie €78.95 on dabs.ie €67.05.
Belkin Wireless High Speed Mode USB Adaptor €63.83 at expansys.ie (including VAT, postage and packing). The same adaptor at www.dabs.co.uk is only €42.
I know registering .ie domains is expensive but come on!
Tonight on TV, a new entrant, Pro-Tensium.
So I flew back into Dublin with my family last night at around 8.30pm. When I arrived at the rank the first taxi driver refused to take us because he didn’t have booster seats for my children (aged 3 and 5, no that he asked or cared).
The rest of the rank then proceeded to refuse in the same way with mutterings of “2000 euro fines”. In the end we abandoned the rank and got my sister to drive in and pick us up.
So a quick search of  The Taxi Regulator website yielded no information of any such restrictions. I await an email response from the regulator as to whether such a regulation exists.
What did other visitors with children, without recourse to getting a lift, do on Sunday night?
I use taxis a lot, and I meet more good than bad taxi drivers, but this blanket refusal, especially as it deteriorated into “they won’t take you, I can’t take” has left a sour taste in my mouth.
Ogden Nash : “People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.”
Ogden has obviously not had to call out a emergency plumber or glazer in Dublin recently….
One of my peers on Hot House 10, Mark Durkin, launched his new company Paydaq over the weekend. Paydaq offers low cost money transfers (about one quarter the price of an equivalent Western Union transfer) for people wishing transfer cash overseas from Ireland.
The current service requires some leg work on the part of the applicant but they are moving to a fully automated web based system as the service matures over the coming months.
Paydaq is targetting the emerging Polish and Lithuanian markets initially, and at launch offered services in both these languages.
See Paydaq.com for more information.
..Pentapeptides, the latest addition to the bollocks ingredients in womens beauty products list.
Apparently according to the current TV ad, the fountain of youth can be yours for only £20.
Fedex me a dozen bottles, today.
Innocent enough looking. Until you try to unwrap them, it often requires heavy work with a knife.
Some day I’m going to line up all the CEOs who use infernal packaging, and the last one to successfully open their product will be subjected a public flogging.
In case you wondering I’m talking to you blister pack sons of bitches!
I came across these sweet cigarettes,
in our local Spar shop on Sunday.
Maybe I’m out of touch with children’s sweets but I haven’t seen anything like this,
since my dad ran a sweet shop in Artane (Dublin) in the 1970s (when everybody smoked).
Given the common knowledge that cigarette companies sales are in terminal decline and as a result they are targetting younger and younger demographics, isn’t it somewhat irresponsible to be selling such lifelike cigarette sweets?
(Conspiracy theorists can ponder the fact the Ferton France SA who manufacture these sweets have no website to speak off, they couldn’t possibly have links to big tobacco, could they? Who knows?)
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