07:36
The angle grinder rents the masonry at 7am. You say to the builders - 'Hey, you can't start in a residential area until 8am on weekdays'. They tell you - 'Hey, fuck off!'
07:56
Nobody tells me anything. You get left on hold and conned for ages by your own rump national telephone agency trying to hook up a simple phone line. Then you come upstairs to the roof garden for the first time all year and suddenly you find some mobile operator is installing a base station on top of your apartment building. WTF? The whole roof rebounds with rail, cable and antennae directed towards the western suburbs.
08:10
Thinking of all the drugs transactions being switched over my head. Oh wait, seeing the placards on the plant I deduce it's a 3G mast for video phones. Of this business I have some industry knowledge. How I try NOT to think of all the happy slapping videos bumper-bumper with porn snippets, streaming like a flash flood through the cell above my head. Who's behind this?
The angle grinder rents the masonry at 7am. You say to the builders - 'Hey, you can't start in a residential area until 8am on weekdays'. They tell you - 'Hey, fuck off!'
07:56
Nobody tells me anything. You get left on hold and conned for ages by your own rump national telephone agency trying to hook up a simple phone line. Then you come upstairs to the roof garden for the first time all year and suddenly you find some mobile operator is installing a base station on top of your apartment building. WTF? The whole roof rebounds with rail, cable and antennae directed towards the western suburbs.
08:10
Thinking of all the drugs transactions being switched over my head. Oh wait, seeing the placards on the plant I deduce it's a 3G mast for video phones. Of this business I have some industry knowledge. How I try NOT to think of all the happy slapping videos bumper-bumper with porn snippets, streaming like a flash flood through the cell above my head. Who's behind this?
09:00
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| US troops invade France, 1944 |
1944 WWII: D-Day in Europe as Operation Overlord begins with Normandy beach landings of 155,000 Allied troops
09:15
Ah. The apartment block management company is still controlled by the property developers. They decided to lease out space on the roof garden to a cell phone provider because nobody paid their management fees. Touche. Explains the blonde construction resource last month I guess. I would have settled for her number, not her base station.
09:20
Tinfoil hat time. How will we ever get by? I thinks me go get a bun right now and be ready for me cup of tay.
10:03
Hail how Pat the Conversation Cat is on Radio 1, offering a sophisticated blend of shop stewards and sushi.
10:14
PAT KIERKEGAARD: We may be getting at THE truth rather than A truth if we hang around.
10:24
PANELLIST: The 'trolley people'.
10:25
OTHER PANELLIST: I would like to say exactly the same thing the other panellist just said. Even though I say I don't like saying it, I'll say it: 'Trolley people.'
10:49
PAT PILOT: The gougers have umphed the baggage charges.
AIRPORT GUY: It's the airlines. Competition keeps prices down. Prices are now going up. Yes? Our runway is full. There is nothing we can do.
11:23
(My, PAT PRICKLY is in a crabby and philosophical mood today.)
11:34
PAT POLICEMAN is on to it! His phone-in quiz contestant is taking help from her whispery coffee morning friends to win the holiday worth two grand. Shocker. The correct answer emerges after a tense delay: "Someone must have written it down for you because you sound as surprised you got it right as we are." says Pat. We are. We are? We are!
11:37
PAT PRANDIAL has a man sitting down making sushi who is from a big posh property-peeps hotel which gets loads of mentions.
11:52
The posh-wanting Shelbourne hotel in Stephen's Green wouldn't let the women in after the 10k chatathon yesterday. Spurned women contacted the radio station to say that it's probably because they were glowing. The real reason is, they don't allow sweaty sexists.
13:49
Plane in emergency landing in Shannon airport last weekend. Silence about it. Was loaded with hostages for interrogation, perhaps? Torture flights on fire? Out of the frying pan...
CALLER: My theory - we kind of know what's going on in Shannon. It's being used for military craft. What are we really talking about? We're citizens of a neutral country. What's going on? Shannon is not designated for military use at all. We have families.
13:58
MACHO MAN: I'm a firefighter. We were mobilised around half ten.
14:06
JOERADIO: What was the plane’s destination?
YANK OFFICIAL: Doha.
JOERADIO: So it wasn't carrying sandwiches. Guns? Ammo? Explosives?
YANK OFFICIAL: I cannot confirm or deny.
JOERADIO: Were dere any wheapons?
YANK OFFICIAL: We have a confidentiality arrangement with our clients.
JOERADIO: Do you have a licence to carry hazardous materials?
YANK OFFICIAL: We have a HAZMAT licence. Most flights carry commodities for the US automobile industry.
JOERADIO: Have you carried explosives through Shannon?
YANK OFFICIAL: Yes sir.
JOERADIO: Does it include tha' ol' depleer'ed joo-ranium ammunition?
YANK OFFICIAL: Can't confirm. We are licensed for depleted uranium.
JOERADIO: That shtuff causes illness years after it's been released in the Gulf!
YANK OFFICIAL: It is not even close to nearly confirmed. You're being alarmist. Idiotic.
CALLER: I'm a former military officer. I know what can happen when a plane goes on fire.
JOERADIO: Where are you going with this?
CALLER: (To Iraq. Killing people.)
YANK OFFICIAL: I think this interview is at an end. Thank you so much, gentlemen. (Click/slam).
17:02
The Murder Machine recursive strike:
A school in Navan, where four of the five schoolgirls killed in last month's school bus crash were pupils, has said there was shock in the school over a question on a Junior Certificate paper today.
An essay topic in the Junior Cert Ordinary Level English paper was entitled 'Travelling On The School Bus'.
17:11
The cup that overfloweth:
A spokesman for the Oblate Order has said some form of sexual abuse of boys is likely to have taken place at Daingean Reformatory in Co Offaly.
[Witness was reminded of] private evidence given to Justice Sean Ryan's investigation team by former residents referring to the so-called Gobbler's Cup, designed by the boys to mark out an inmate who they believed was being sexually abused because nobody wanted to drink from his cup.
Fr Hughes accepted counsel's view that it was unlikely that someone had made up this searing and resonant testimony and that therefore it was likely that some form of sexual abuse was happening in Daingean.
17:20
The weather is idyllic even if it is in a Dublin sky. Looking up is the only way to be free of saturnine grey sidewalk stare. It's not so much a heat wave as a bit of nice weather, the first in two years. Some like it hot. Some don't. Always remember, do de roight ting.
17:25
Jerknowarrimeayin?
20:20
Aoife wants me to come over to get my present from Manchester. I told her to bring it here if she wants to see me, I'm busy working on an important contract (which is (quite) true.) Fuck-all chance of that happening, I'd say.
Ah. The apartment block management company is still controlled by the property developers. They decided to lease out space on the roof garden to a cell phone provider because nobody paid their management fees. Touche. Explains the blonde construction resource last month I guess. I would have settled for her number, not her base station.
09:20
Tinfoil hat time. How will we ever get by? I thinks me go get a bun right now and be ready for me cup of tay.
10:03
Hail how Pat the Conversation Cat is on Radio 1, offering a sophisticated blend of shop stewards and sushi.
10:14
PAT KIERKEGAARD: We may be getting at THE truth rather than A truth if we hang around.
10:24
PANELLIST: The 'trolley people'.
10:25
OTHER PANELLIST: I would like to say exactly the same thing the other panellist just said. Even though I say I don't like saying it, I'll say it: 'Trolley people.'
10:49
PAT PILOT: The gougers have umphed the baggage charges.
AIRPORT GUY: It's the airlines. Competition keeps prices down. Prices are now going up. Yes? Our runway is full. There is nothing we can do.
11:23
(My, PAT PRICKLY is in a crabby and philosophical mood today.)
11:34
PAT POLICEMAN is on to it! His phone-in quiz contestant is taking help from her whispery coffee morning friends to win the holiday worth two grand. Shocker. The correct answer emerges after a tense delay: "Someone must have written it down for you because you sound as surprised you got it right as we are." says Pat. We are. We are? We are!
11:37
PAT PRANDIAL has a man sitting down making sushi who is from a big posh property-peeps hotel which gets loads of mentions.
11:52
The posh-wanting Shelbourne hotel in Stephen's Green wouldn't let the women in after the 10k chatathon yesterday. Spurned women contacted the radio station to say that it's probably because they were glowing. The real reason is, they don't allow sweaty sexists.
13:49
Plane in emergency landing in Shannon airport last weekend. Silence about it. Was loaded with hostages for interrogation, perhaps? Torture flights on fire? Out of the frying pan...
CALLER: My theory - we kind of know what's going on in Shannon. It's being used for military craft. What are we really talking about? We're citizens of a neutral country. What's going on? Shannon is not designated for military use at all. We have families.
13:58
MACHO MAN: I'm a firefighter. We were mobilised around half ten.
14:06
JOERADIO: What was the plane’s destination?
YANK OFFICIAL: Doha.
JOERADIO: So it wasn't carrying sandwiches. Guns? Ammo? Explosives?
YANK OFFICIAL: I cannot confirm or deny.
JOERADIO: Were dere any wheapons?
YANK OFFICIAL: We have a confidentiality arrangement with our clients.
JOERADIO: Do you have a licence to carry hazardous materials?
YANK OFFICIAL: We have a HAZMAT licence. Most flights carry commodities for the US automobile industry.
JOERADIO: Have you carried explosives through Shannon?
YANK OFFICIAL: Yes sir.
JOERADIO: Does it include tha' ol' depleer'ed joo-ranium ammunition?
YANK OFFICIAL: Can't confirm. We are licensed for depleted uranium.
JOERADIO: That shtuff causes illness years after it's been released in the Gulf!
YANK OFFICIAL: It is not even close to nearly confirmed. You're being alarmist. Idiotic.
CALLER: I'm a former military officer. I know what can happen when a plane goes on fire.
JOERADIO: Where are you going with this?
CALLER: (To Iraq. Killing people.)
YANK OFFICIAL: I think this interview is at an end. Thank you so much, gentlemen. (Click/slam).
17:02
The Murder Machine recursive strike:
A school in Navan, where four of the five schoolgirls killed in last month's school bus crash were pupils, has said there was shock in the school over a question on a Junior Certificate paper today.
An essay topic in the Junior Cert Ordinary Level English paper was entitled 'Travelling On The School Bus'.
17:11
The cup that overfloweth:
A spokesman for the Oblate Order has said some form of sexual abuse of boys is likely to have taken place at Daingean Reformatory in Co Offaly.
[Witness was reminded of] private evidence given to Justice Sean Ryan's investigation team by former residents referring to the so-called Gobbler's Cup, designed by the boys to mark out an inmate who they believed was being sexually abused because nobody wanted to drink from his cup.
Fr Hughes accepted counsel's view that it was unlikely that someone had made up this searing and resonant testimony and that therefore it was likely that some form of sexual abuse was happening in Daingean.
17:20
The weather is idyllic even if it is in a Dublin sky. Looking up is the only way to be free of saturnine grey sidewalk stare. It's not so much a heat wave as a bit of nice weather, the first in two years. Some like it hot. Some don't. Always remember, do de roight ting.
17:25
Jerknowarrimeayin?
20:20
Aoife wants me to come over to get my present from Manchester. I told her to bring it here if she wants to see me, I'm busy working on an important contract (which is (quite) true.) Fuck-all chance of that happening, I'd say.
