Old Sneezes

Archive for December, 2007

Irish readers – Check this out now!

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

Readers from outside the State, probably don’t realise the state our health service is in. Read about a real life – real time – example here. Irish readers, accustomed to the state our State is in, please copy. It might help. Probably not, but it’s worth a shot. Maybe you could let your local representatives [...]

Reformed addict

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

We didn’t have TV until I was about 12 or 13. I hope no kids are reading this as that’d scare the living daylights out of them. An aunt got one of those new fangled coloured TVs and gave us her old black and white. Such excitement. It was like Christmas. Probably because it was [...]

I didn’t know her, for fek sake! Did you?

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Contrast these three snippets from recent Irish newspaper articles. (Headlines underlined) Katy on life support after heart attacks … Katy’s failure to respond to treatment is viewed as so serious that doctors have ruled out moving her to a more acute hospital in Dublin … Close friends revealed Katy was … Read the full piece [...]

Baby bomb

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Warning: Not for the weak of stomach I was up to my eyeballs yesterday what with making a shopping list, reading blogs and generally avoiding work when the mobile rang. I grunted my displeasure and frowned at it, but being a cheap Huawei import it has difficulty understanding western social norms and kept ringing. I [...]

Snippets #15

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

I see the folks over at blogger.com, and they are not evil as we all know, have dickied up comments: If you don’t have, or don’t wish to use, a don’t be evil account, or comment anonymously, now all you have to do is enter a nickname. None of the messing from before where you [...]

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