Julius Geezer

Posted by JG at 11:55 PM | 5 comments  

Just saw the following status on a friend's Facebook page:

**** **** Thinks mcdonald staff should wear t-shirts with mcstupid wrote on them

Posted by JG at 5:22 PM | 2 comments  

This evening I switched on Tonight with Vincent Browne on TV3, and watched Michael Soden - former CEO of Bank of Ireland - express the belief that we should transfer billions from the public purse into the hands of a privileged clique of economic criminals (ie through NAMA), and in the next breath that lone parents should not get a penny from the state. Just to clarify, he doesn't think the Lone Parent Allowance should be reduced, he thinks it should not exist.

People often refer to working class people who are misbehaving in some way as 'scumbags'. But isn't this guy the ultimate scumbag? The fact that he is probably well respected and liked about the place is a sign of just how perverse this society is.

Back in July, Mick Hall commented that:

Sadly the media prefers to concentrate on the type of anti social behavior that happens in working class communities, preferring to ignore the anti social behavior of sections of the middle class, such as parking in disabled bays etc. or bombing Afghanistan

Let's add Soden's brazen immorality to that.

Michael Soden: a fucking scumbag!

And finally, although it's got more to do with the previous post than this one, I cannot resist attaching this poster...



Edit: These posters are not my handiwork. They are from Creative Ireland (H/T Cian). Have a gander, there are lots more over there.

Posted by JG at 11:57 PM | 6 comments  

Posted by JG at 7:59 PM | 8 comments  

As if the recession wasn't bad enough, this from Met Éireann:


Weather conducive to the spread of potato blight will occur today and tonight but the current blight spell will end on Thursday(20-08-2009) morning.
Issued at 13:00 on 19-Aug-2009

Ah well, maybe we can handle blight for a day. I'm sitting here at 3.20AM with the windows wide open and the rain is pounding on my windows and flat roof. I love the sound. The urge to pick up my guitar and play Waterloo Sunset is almost overwhelming, but I don't want to wake everyone.

I might just have to settle for singing it in my head.

Posted by JG at 2:20 AM | 6 comments  

Posted by JG at 3:28 PM | 6 comments  

For those who don't know there is a much-loved comedy show called Father Ted in Ireland. It's about three priests who live together on a remote island off the west coast. Although the show was a huge success in Britain, Irish people find it particularly funny because even the craziest things that happen on the show aren't exactly a million miles away from the reality of Irish society.

For example, in one episode it was suggested that a likeness of the local bishop was appearing in the skirting boards of the priests' house! Crazy? Oh yes. But so is this and it's real. From yesterday's Herald AM:

Pilgrims have been flocking to a tree stump which they believe depicts an image of the Blessed Virgin... But the supernatural developments were greeted coolly by the local clergy, who last night advised people not to worship the tree

From RTÉ:

Rathkeale Community Council Graveyard Committee chairman Noel White said workmen sprucing up the church land saw the image when they cut the tree.

'One of the lads said look, our Blessed Lady in the tree,' Mr White said. 'One of the other lads looked over and actually knelt down and blessed himself, he got such a shock.'

And finally, from The Times:

Mr White also said, 'People are taking bits off the tree or stroking the tree and taking the skin off. If they keep doing that there’ll be nothing there soon'

I'm not often stuck for words but...

Posted by JG at 7:08 PM | 10 comments