Have you seen this man?
Saw these pictures on thatsireland.com. Very funny and a pretty good website as well.
Add comment September 28th, 2007
Archive for September, 2007
My Favourite Ad of all Time
This is an ad for an learning English in Germany. Berlitz Junior. And people tell me Germans have no sense of humour! I lived there long enough to tell you some of them are the funniest people I have ever met.
2 comments September 26th, 2007
Why GAA is better than soccer
1) The GAA player who played in front of 80,000 at the weekend will be teaching your children, selling you meat or fixing your drains on Monday morning. The soccer player who plays in front of 80,000 will be moaning about playing too many games and will be trying to sell you his personalised brand of leisure wear
2) GAA nicknames are better (The Bull, The Bomber, etc.) Soccer players just add a Y to their surnames
3) Dublin vs Meath is a real derby. What does Utd. Vs City mean to Ronaldo or Sibierski
4) How many soccer players does it take to screw in a light bulb? Answer eleven. One to stick it in and ten to surround and kiss him after he does it
5) Soccer players go to the papers after a game. GAA players go to the pub
6) John Terry would run a mile if he came up against Francie Bellew
7) GAA teams are numbered 1-15. A soccer team reads like the lottery results
8) All soccer players wear shin pads. Some hurlers wear helmets
9) Television runs soccer. Schoolteachers run the GAA
10) The GAA is about where you’re from. Soccer is about who you like
11) No segregation at GAA games
12) No soccer team has a nickname quite as lovely as the Fighting Cocks of Carlow
13) Bubble perms never made it to Croke Park
14) A scoreless draw in the GAA would be quite a novelty
15) The GAA may not appreciate its women as much as it should but at least we all know who Cora Staunton is. The most famous woman in English soccer is Posh Spice
16) Under age players get to be part of the biggest days in hurling and football at half-time in the All-Ireland.
17) Micheal O’Murchearaigh.
18)If a GAA player ever jumped at a spectator like Eric Cantona did the rest of his team would join in. So would the rest of the crowd.
19) Vinnie Jones grabbed Gascoignes testicles. Paudie O’Se decked Joe McNally during the National Anthem. McNally learnt his lesson. Gascoigne just got worse.
20) The GAA season always leaves you wanting more. The soccer season leaves soccer people demanding less. “Fewer games please”
21) Old soccer players get testimonials, Old GAA players just slip down to junior.
22) Rural villages = A Church, A Post-office, a Pub and a GAA pitch.
23) Pints after the match with the lad you knocked seven lumps of shite out of in the game.
24) Croke park on a Summer’s Day.
Taken from Den Haag GAA. 2007 European Hurling Champions. Congratulations!
3 comments September 26th, 2007
Iarnród Éireann Passenger Charter
I hate travelling on the train in Ireland. The rail system is expensive, has a very limited number of destinations, is slow and often late and the carriages are a disgrace. Although to be fare the carriage running the Cork Dublin line is quite nice. Rail travel to Hurling and Football matches is a real pain and the website has caused me to miss more than one train as the timetable was wrong.
So you should know your rights when you travel especially if the train is late, which is by far the most annoying part of rail travel.
Below you’ll find what you are entitled to in the event of a delay.
Discounts in the Event of Delays
If your service is seriously delayed for any reason within our control, you may be entitled to a discount voucher.
If, because of circumstances within the control of Iarnród Éireann, you are more than one hour late in arriving at your destination, we will normally offer you discount vouchers for use against future ticket purchases. The value of discount vouchers is based on the length of delay and the fare you have paid for your single journey.
For delays of one to two hours, we will give you vouchers to the value of 50 % of the fare you have paid for the portion of your journey affected.
For delays over two hours, we will give you vouchers to the value of 100% of the fare you have paid for your single journey.
Discounts in the Event of Service Failures
If we fail to honour your seat reservation, and no other seat of similar standard on the same service is available for you, we will refund the fare of your single journey in travel vouchers.
If we fail to provide in-seat catering in First Class or City Gold carriages, where this is advertised as part of the service, we will give you a refund to the value of the First Class/CityGold supplement in travel vouchers.
Claiming Discount Vouchers
To apply for discounts you will need to fill in an application form. These forms will be available at the ticket offices in all main stations, Travel Centres and at the DART Office, Pearse Station.
You MUST attach your ticket to the completed form as proof of travel and provide any other supporting evidence as required.
We cannot accept claims for delays that are outside our control, for example, those caused by advertised engineering works, security alerts, industrial action taken without notice, extreme weather conditions, vandalism or other actions by third parties.
From the Iarnród Éireann Charter.
2 comments September 26th, 2007
You have choosen to open install.php
Was installing a new wordpress blog today as a Beta for the new Millstreet website. Each time I tried to run the install.php Firefox prompted me to download it.
“You have chosen to open install.php”.
It was really weird. I tried different browsers but they all had the same issue. Each time I looked on the net I was told the issue was with my server not being configured properly for PHP but I have other blogs running PHP that work fine. Weird!
Anyway I figured it out. You need to increase the amount of memory PHP scripts can use on your server. Otherwise when you reach the limit they will not be executed.
To increase the amount of memory PHP scripts can use you will need to increase the memory_limit value in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini.
Also I found a nice line you can add to a page to get all of your PHP info. Create a page called test.php and add the following line to it.
<?php echo phpinfo(); ?>
Now when you open that page you will be given some useful information about your PHP install.
Add comment September 26th, 2007
Save Tara Campaigners Form Human Harp
Tara Campaigners formed a human harp on the Hill of Tara to protest against the shameful destruction of our history for a fecking road. Think of all the stories you read as a child of the High Kings, Cú Chulainn, The Red Branch Knights etc. Well I loved those stories as a kid and loved reading about the Celts and the Kings of Ireland raiding cattle and fighting Vikings. In fact I still do. And the Government idiots are going to build a road through the middle of it. After it standing for thousands of years, surviving Vikings, Normans and the English we go a drive a road through the middle of it.
Also Brú na Boinne (Newgrange) and other monuments in the vicinity will be in danger as new housing estates will surely spring up along the road as people will want to live near it if they are travelling to Dublin to work.
Insanity!
P.S. I wonder is there such thing as planning permission for a road. I know it is nearly impossible to get planning for a house if even one person disagrees with its location. Is there such a thing for Public Roads?
9 comments September 25th, 2007
Opening Last.fm links in Amarok
I love amaroK and the last.fm component has helped me find a load of music. However when you go to the website and try and open one of the station in Firefox you get the error
“Firefox doesn’t know how to open this address because the protocol (lastfm) isn’t associated with any program “.
Well to work around this do the following and the next time you click on the link in Firefox it will open in amaroK
- Open the advanced configuration by typing “about:config” n the address bar.
- Right click and choose “New -> String”
- Create a string called “network.protocol-handler.app.lastfm”
- Give it the value “/usr/bin/amarok” or wherever you have installed the amaroK binary.
And that’s it. You can now open lastfm links in amaroK.
Add comment September 20th, 2007
Good News, Better News
Well good news for Cork, not Kieran Donaghy .
Good News: KIERAN DONAGHY was at the centre of an all-Ireland final injury scare last night after limping out of Kerry’s training session.
Better News: ANTHONY LYNCH, who broke a bone in a hand during a practice match last Saturday and was immediately ruled out, is now being given an outside chance of playing.
Cork doctor Con Murphy originally indicated that because of the nature of the break Lynch had no chance of playing, but now they are thought to be exploring every possibility that would allow the experienced defender to play.
1 comment September 12th, 2007
