Snippets #4

Emptying the office is not going well. It has been raining household pets since 3am and the temporary storage container is 40m away. I hear you - it always rains in Ireland. Well, no, it doesn’t. That’s a myth. It only rains when you have washing on the clothes line, you decide to have a barbecue or you have to traipse back and forth from your office to a container carrying heavy boxes.
UPDATE: The builders did great work yesterday. All service pipes and cables were dug up and rerouted. They plumbed their canteen and wired it up. Unfortunately, they didn’t have time to replumb the house or office. No water or trout-tubes for either. I suppose I shouldn’t complain - I’m only the customer after all. The wankers!
Right, I’m off to bug a neighbour. I need a shite, shower and shave. And coffee.

Ireland is strange though. One of my favourite radio shows is very strange indeed. For example, it runs a competition on Friday mornings where callers play rock-paper-scissors with the DJ. The show’s highlight from last week was with bodhrán players Rónán Ó’Snodaigh and Cormac Lyons. You can listen to Duelling Bodhráns on iTunes. (A lot of blather at the start but it’s worth it in the end).

A Polish friend told me Friday, June 1, was Children’s Day in Poland. Is it Children’s Day here too, she asked. No, I said, it’s bin day. She’s trying to decide if it’s just me that’s weird or the whole nation.

I’m not sure myself. But if Ireland is weird, then Poland is catching up quickly. You probably heard they are assessing the children’s TV show, the Teletubbys, for possible homosexual overtones and it may be banned. But that’s not the only crazy thing going on there. Pop over to MacKozer for some truly frightening developments. And I mean frightening.

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It only rains in Ireland when you meet your dad and decide to go to Casement Park for a fun filled day of football and Hurling. It doesnt just rain it pishes down for four relentless hours forcing the last game to be called off. much to my relief…

1. manuel on June 3rd, 2007 at 5:52 pm
It always rains when you move, no matter where you are, just to enhance the awful experience.
If Sartre’s right, that we all create our own hell, mine would be an eternity of packing, moving, and unpacking.

2. Medbh on June 3rd, 2007 at 6:22 pm
I haven’t finished creating my hell.

3. Eolaí on June 4th, 2007 at 3:03 am
I listen to Ray D’Arcy over here in cloggyland in my office every morning - everyone’s always asking why I’m laughing all morning (I decided long ago not to mention the hip flask).

4. Conortje on June 4th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Check this out. At the bottom is a YouTube of the winners competition in Vegas. $50000 for rock, paper scissors!!

5. problemchildbride on June 4th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
The sun always shines on TV. *sigh*

6. Sweary on June 5th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Poland? bloody nutters its that whole catholic thing, they take it way too serious, also being 40 years behind the rest of Europe in technology doesn’t help, I reckon its cause and effect.

7. Old Knudsen on June 5th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Manuel/Medbh - I’m with you on both counts.
Eolaí - Don’t ever stop creating it - We’re all loving it.
Conorín - Do you stay tuned in for Ray Foley at mid-day? His crew are totally whacko.
Sam - That’s unreal. I thought long distance spitting and wife carrying were the weirdest but RPS beats all.
Sweary - Welcome back from your sojourn in the real world. Yeehaw!
Young Knudsen - 40 years behind the rest of Europe? You could be talking about broadband in Ireland.

8. Primal Sneeze on June 6th, 2007 at 6:30 am
Poland is going nuts and it’s no wonder so many of them are fleeing to Ireland and Britain. Imagine going to Ireland to escape Catholic fundamentalism! Jesus, did you ever think you’d see it?

9. Bock the Robber on June 6th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
“A Polish friend told me Friday, June 1, was Children’s Day in Poland. Is it Children’s Day here too, she asked. No, I said, it’s bin day”

Hee.

10. Annie Rhiannon on June 7th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
I usually stick my own music on as soon as the first Ray finishes - I can’t stand most of the music on radio although RD usually plays good stuff - even if it seems to be the same few songs over and over again. (extra marks for the -ín by the way

11. Conortje on June 7th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Primal, I think Annie has made me realise that you probably stuck the phrase “Bin Day” into my current subconscious and it popped out in one of my posts in the last few days. Sorry about that - not a conscious thing you understand.

“Bin Day” is a phrase I have fought to hang onto here in the US, because it’s funny, and because it respects the receptacle unlike the ugly and bookish “Trash Collection”.

12. Eolaí on June 8th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Conrín - Try the Ray Foley (JP & Adel) show a couple of times. Guaranteed you’ll like them. They’re as mad as soup forks.

Eolaí - Trash collection sounds far too Sesame Street for my liking. Bin day is bin day is bin day. Bin day shall forever live in the hearts and minds and on the calendars of Irish people no matter where they travel.

Perhaps it is an unacceptable term bin in the US - when filled, the recepticle becomes a bin laden.

13. Primal Sneeze on June 9th, 2007 at 9:54 am