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Ahh, this amused me for a few minutes. Its true though!

Wikipedia explains Skangers

Pictures from my trip to London have been uploaded. They’re mostly of exhibits in the Imperial War Museum and Madame Tussaud’s, and are available here.

By the way, if you’re ever in London, I highly recommend that you book tickets for the Comedy Store Players. They perform every Wednesday and Sunday night at the Comedy Store, just off Picadilly Circus, and they are bloody excellent. If you’ve ever enjoyed “Whose Line is it Anyway?” on TV, you’ll love this. Many of the Comedy Store Players are Whose Line is it Anyway? veterans. Tickets cost £13.

I’ve finally retired my good old reliable, 1.3 megapixel Sony DSC-P30, as I picked up one of these on my travels. Expect some poor attempts at photography here as I get used to it.

The airports and airlines were very efficient, with super quick automatic checkin machines and so forth, on-time flights etc. Great.
Pity the bus home from Dublin Aiport took 4 FUCKING HOURS.
i.e. it took me longer to get from Dublin Aiport to home (Kilkenny) than it took for me to get from John’s flat in London to Dublin Aiport, via Heathrow.

There’s no better way to pass the time waiting for your flight

Pity its not cheaper.

I’m heading off to London for a few days holiday, seeya next week some time.
(Not that I have been particularly productive here recently…)

I saw this shining example of boy racer taste in the car park of Mount Juliet the other night. Picture quality isn’t great as it was taken with my phone, but you can clearly see the ridiculous spoiler.

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A statue of Thin Lizzy front man, Phil Lynott (the coolest Irishman ever) is being unveiled today in Dublin, on the corner of Grafton Street and Harry Street.
I think this is long overdue, and look forward to seeing it next time I’m in Dublin.
The Wild One lives on!

From The Register:

An Austrian village called Fucking will not change its name despite sniggering Brits making off with its roadsigns.

Mayor Siegfried Hauppl has asked visitors to lay off the signs which began to attract outside attention after British and US soldiers passing through in 1945 illuminated the locals as to the English meaning of Fucking, Ananova reports.

Hauppl explained: “We had a vote last year on whether to rename the town, but decided to keep it as it is. After all, Fucking has existed for 800 years, probably when a Mr Fuck or the Fuck family moved into the area. The ‘ing’ was added as a word for settlement.”

We reckon that Fucking has been around a lot longer than 800 years, otherwise there wouldn’t have been any Fucks to lend their name to the village in the first place, would there?

Be that as it may, the disappointing news is that the residents of Fucking are - according to Franz Duernsteiner, an expert on preposterous Austrian village names - very “conservative” people. He said: “Most of them can speak English, and when someone asks them where they come from they are a little ashamed to say it.”

hahahahahahaha

You can learn all about Fucking here. At the bottom of that page you will also find a list of immensely amusing placenames :).

This is old news, but its new to me! I just read a story from a couple of days ago on CNN.com about a truck carrying a load of explosives that overturned and exploded, taking most of the road with it.
The truck was pretty much vapourised. The driver must have gotten rescued before it blew, as he is actually still alive.

That’s one hell of a hole.