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First off, I would like to say that I have no affiliation with any political party or other interest group in the subject below.

Fair play to the Fina Gaelers on having the balls to come forward and propose making Irish a non-compulsory subject at leaving cert level, and boo to the FFeckers for attacking the idea like rabid dogs. This is a touchy subject, and usually the side supporting removing the compulsory status of Irish get their “Irishness” called into question, and fall victim to other stupid, low down tactics like that.
As a victim of the compulsory Irish regime in my schooldays, I fully support removing the compulsory status of the subject. Having a subject rammed down your throat without any effort to endear students to it, or to explain what the hell is actually going on is no way to engender support and love of the language. After my 14-odd years spent learning Irish in school, I can hardly string a sentence together in the language.
Make it optional. At least then those who want to study it can do so, and those who don’t can spend their time studying something more useful. And, to those who trot out the tired old “but its part of your heritage!” line: Cram it up your arse. Potato famine and oppression under the rule of our neighbours are also part of my heritage, should I starve myself and give up my civil rights too? It is 2005. More people in Ireland speak Chinese on a daily basis than Irish. We are an English-speaking country, like it or not. I don’t know about you, but the only place I’ve heard people speaking Irish to each other on the street is in the Connemara Gaeltacht.

I wish the subject was optional when I was in school.

You suck.

Kilkenny Cineplex seems to have some kind of policy against showing new films as they are released. I’m still waiting for Lord of War to show up, and its been out 2 weeks now. There’s a few other films I’d liked to have seen as well, such as Red Eye, which as far as I can tell, never made an appearance there. This seems to be quite a regular occurrence. Good film? Sorry, we won’t be showing it.

Muppets.

This is hilarious. Its a psychological analysis of why people smoke, from 1947, listed on smokingsides.com as a pro-smoking argument. Here’s an example of how completely stupid it is:

“No, Thanks, I’ll Smoke My Own”

This is the reply of most smokers when they are offered a brand different from their own. Brand loyalty among smokers is strong and persistent. Individuals smoke one brand consistently, so that they become identified with it. A guest who discovers that his host smokes the same brand considers this a personal flattery. If a young lady changes to the brand of an admirer, he understands that he has surely made an impression. Here is the experience of one young man, and his interpretation of it: “I was very fond of a girl. She was giving a farewell party before leaving the country. I didn’t have any idea how I stood in her affection. The only clue was that at her party she had my brand of cigarettes. I always felt that that was in deference to me.” “My brand” has a special significance, as if it were a part of the smoker’s credo and personality.

hahahaha

Some little 17 year old scumbag killed himself and hospitalised his 20 year old partner in crime in a stolen Opel Corsa in Cork last night. The shithead crashed it into a stone pillar at the entrance to somebody’s house. WHAT A TRAGEDY.
The gene pool is better off without him polluting it, its just a pity that someone’s car had to be destroyed to achieve this.

After reading this (quite entertaining) thread on boards.ie and this article on “Chuggers” - charity muggers - you know, those gimps that follow you down the street even though you’ve already declined their offer to support [insert cause here] - I think we should start a Make Chuggers History campaign.
We could have a live8 type event too, with the stars of the music world coming together in solidarity against these hi-vis vest wearing, commission-earning wankers.

‘Bespoke’

‘Turnkey’

Users of such bullshit expressions will be shot on sight.
They remind me of this.

Further to the post I made a week or two ago about the internet’s low-life, bottom of the barrel, shitty part of the gene pool pond scum - spammers - and HTTP referrer spam, I came across Donncha Ó Caoimh’s solution to the problem. Nice one.

From the Irish Independent (free registration required, though you should try bugmenot.com and see if they’ve got usernames and passwords for it):

HE WAS blatantly riding a motorcycle without any insurance and while on a provisional licence.

So when Martin Woods from Co Louth crashed and was paralysed for life almost four years ago it was just fortunate that he did not maim or kill anyone else.

But the 23-year-old is now taking a test case to the European Commission to try and force a change in Irish law that would oblige the Motor Insurers Bureau of Ireland to give him a multimillion euro payout in compensation for his injuries.

If he succeeds, he will open the floodgates for other uninsured motorists to claim from a fund which was originally set up to recompense the innocent victims of uninsured road users.

The move would inevitably lead to a hike in insurance premiums for law-abiding motorists, a possibility that did not seem to overly concern Mr Woods last week.

He said: “Compensation has to come from somewhere and that is what insurance is for. I had every intention of getting insurance, but I wasn’t able because I was working all the time.

“It was the day that was in it, having a day off work, that made me go out on the bike without insurance. I didn’t re ally think I was doing any thing too wrong. Now I just have to try and make the best of my life.”

Mr Woods was 19 years old and his brother Stephen was 18 when the two crashed at Clogher Head, Co Louth on September 14, 2001. The nation had been given the day off work to mourn the victims of the 9/11 attacks on New York. Neither brother had passed a test at the time.

Mr Woods claims that he was “just trying out” a new Honda 400cc motorbike, but it was not the first time the teenager had taken the powerful bike out on the public road uninsured.

He was just a few miles from home when his brother sped up behind him, overtook and did a U-turn causing the crash. Mr Woods was catapulted from his bike into a parked car. His brother escaped with a broken leg, but Mr Woods suffered serious injuries that mean he will never walk again.

During a three-month stay in the Mater Hospital, Dublin Mr Woods made the shocking discovery that his younger brother was also uninsured. He said: “I said to him, ‘I’ll have to get compo for this off your insurance’. He said, ‘Sure, I’ve no insurance’. At the time it was the least ofmy worries.”

Mr Woods suffered numerous broken bones and damage to his spinal cord that left him paralysed from the shoulders down. He has the use of his arms, but is now entirely dependent on his mother Mary. He said: “I can’t describe the anguish and mental torture that these events have caused to me and my family. Imagine the pain I felt as it gradually dawned on me what my life now was and would become. I have suffered rage, denial and despair. The physical pain, though shocking, was not the worst.”

Stephen Woods was fined for a number of serious offences, including dangerous driving and driving with neither licence nor insurance. Martin Woods has not faced charges for driving without insurance, an offence that carries the ultimate penalty of a six-month jail sentence.

Mr Woods applied for compensation from MIBI, but was turned down as the rules state that motorists who drive while uninsured are ineligible regardless of who is to blame for the collision.

Mr Woods said: “My brother didn’t set out to do it, but he is to blame. I am not at fault here at all. My brother knows it was his fault.”

Mr Woods has chosen not to sue his brother as “he has nothing”. Instead he hopes a formal complaint to the European Commission will lead to a change in Irish law forcing the fund to pay him €2m.

Mr Woods said: “An award of financial compensation would not give me back my health and youth, but would go a long way to givingme back some level ofindependence and restoring my dignity.”

Ironically, Mr Woods would have been entitled to compensation if the crash had happened anywhere northof the Border - just 25miles away.

Solicitor Alison McGrath said: “The purpose of the EU directive is to compensate blameless victims of uninsured drivers.

“The Irish government introduced a clause excluding blameless drivers who were also uninsured.

“The position is different in Britain, where someone in Martin’s position would be entitled to compensation.”

The MIBI fund is entirely paid for by law-abiding Irish drivers who pay a levy of six per cent on their motor insurance to sustain it. The most recent figures show the fund paid out an incredible €70m to victims of uninsured drivers in 2003.

Last week the European Commission issued a “reasoned opinion” formally asking the Irish State to “amend its legislation on insurance cover for blameless drivers of uninsured vehicles”.

MIBI are seeking legal advice on how to respond to this. Chief executive John Casey said: “The cost of the mayhem caused by uninsured drivers comes directly from the premiums paid by the law abiding 95 per cent of the motoring population who pay their insurance regularly.

“Should this case succeed there will certainly be an implication for insurance premiums, though I imagine this may not be too severe as the chances of two uninsured drivers crashing into each other are relatively low.”

But Mr Casey stressed there are moral as well as financial implications to Mr Woods’ case as it is “wholly inequitable” that a person who “has not bothered to insure” should be entitled to compensation paid for by those who abide by the law.

What a complete and utter cunt. So, he got paralised. What a shame. I hope he lost the use of his testicles too, because it would be a real tragedy if he was to further pollute the gene pool by reproducing.
Its bad enough that he was driving without a (full) licence and without any insurance, but the fact that this greedy little scumbag cunt is trying to milk the decent motorists who pay their insurance, tax, etc for €2 million in “compensation” just makes my blood boil.
Hey shithead, guess what insurance is for, you fucking wanker. I would have taken some kind of pity on someone in your position who has lost the use of their limbs, but YOU are beyond contempt, you prick.
I hope your wheelchair gets smashed by a bus.

Dear Golden Palace Casino,

Fuck you, you shower of pricks. Your repeated spamming of my webserver logs in a pathetic effort to improve your Google page rank will work no more, as I have taken measures to block the domains you and your shitty affiliates have been using.
Fuck you, shitheads.

Eurogamer reports that a bunch of white supremacist neo-nazi fuckholes in the USA have secured a publishing deal for their shitty PC game, which goes by the title of “Ethnic Cleansing”. Apparently this “game” has been around for three years before getting published; A testament to its utter shitness.
The publisher they got in the end is a known publisher of white power, racist music, and is wholly owned by America’s largest neo-nazi group, the “National Alliance”.

Click the Eurogamer link for the full story. Like it says in the title, what a bunch of cunts.