1940 BORN: Smokey Robinson, singer, songwriter, The Tracks of My Tears
Irish people eat more baked beans per capita (5.6kg/12lb 5oz per year) than any other nationality.
10:12
Queer the pitch? Grasp the nettle.
10:25
Woman on talking about how to get divorced in a civilized manner by acting as adults. She sounds traumatised.
10:51
This may seem a superfluous question coming from me, but would you like a smoothie?
11:07
Do you have enough counselors for the 22000 students in UCD?
- Yah. Wurdy gurly lurly lurly illo billo dublin four.
11:46
Pat's got yet another angle on the low fares consumer-affairs scandal. Actually he doesn't. He's just going over the same old ground. He is more mortal even than the merest one of us, though, as he describes his trip on a Ryanair what went smoothly in The Airport, even though he was touting nothing bulkier than a D&G bracelet for his wife back from Paris.
13:09
1. Playstation 3 got
2. Dead body on corner
3. Keys to a Mitsubishi found
4. Fidel Castro resigns.
Not a typical list.
13:14
Loads of prosecutions taken against cab drivers and a surge of complaints against them by the public. Cab drivers say traffic is terrible and it's easy to take the wrong turn.
- "Every motorist in Dublin is aggressive."
- "Not enough people complain? They're afraid. what the taxi man might do to them."
- "It's all nationalities now."
- "People complain more. Expect courtesy, clean cars, punctuality. Tsch."
13:22
The Minister for Murder Machine has an annoying lisp which is manifest every times she says "absolutely not". Which is often.
13:32
RTE Hack (to his boss): Director Gineril, sir, are the license payers getting value for money?
RTE DG: We have no evidence that would contradict the fact that that people believe they are getting value for money.
15:49
It's floody out there. There's a whole load of taxi driver trouble on text.
15:27
What a coincidence?
- It's no coincidence. I'm controlling your mind.
22:47
Irish political limpdicks who dispute the political cahones of Fidel. He'd eat them alive before getting up out of bed, even in his ridden state as it is. He saw off Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Clinton, Bushes one and two. He stuck it out. They killed more people than he. He saved more lives than they.
22:48
This morning, 30 picketers on a government-contract construction site, protesting the lack of union representation. Sixty Gardai sent to 'handle' them. This oppression is the sort of stuff Ordinary Right Wing Fascist superheroes fantasize about. I'm a firm believer in the death penalty. Life should mean life. Call in the army.
