"No Mr Bond, I expect you to deliver 40-50 packages before your first piss break"

We have a bad government that fails the people at in terms of what should be basic expectations of standards of living and quality of life. But the crowd next door enable genocide and proudly cover up war crimes, including those committed against their own people. So at least we’re not them.

Note that none of the BBC chatter has demonstrated precisely how editing verbal diarrhoea boy into a coherent set of words misrepresented what he said and did. That memo is a joke and your man should be humiliated for writing it.

I should not be getting worked up about yank nonsense (this time the behaviour of the New York Times) but my God is journalism an absolutely dead, irredeemable profession.

Imagine what the Brit press would be like if they didn't have the supposedly strict defamation laws that they love to whinge about. The earnest rubes claim it prevents them doing investigative reporting, the truth is they just want to print lies about people they hate and call it free speech.

Journalists are so petrified of being accused of bias that it paralyses their work. Why they think that work remains of any value when it's qualified and compromised to mush is another matter.

Your man resigning from the Beeb is so weird, it almost looks like it’s a real life episode of the Traitors and he’s decided to cut the legs out from under his own organisation before he was due to leave anyway.

In Strictly, every contestant gets to play one dead parent and one tearful personal struggle card, like a heartstring tugging Ask The Audience, to make sure they survive another week. Playing it at the right time is key.

Unveiling this *after* you have won a final against a side who have never been a rival is new levels of small time, even for them.

The two VAR descisions in the City-Liverpool game have been atrocious. On a side note, the guy doing the BBC website comments - Shamoon Hafez - is some clown.

Ah well, nevertheless… (writing was on the wall for cork as soon as they went down to 10… when Caulfield was their manager they seemed to get away with a lot more)

Cork channelling the spirit of 2020 and Davy Mac with the all black kit.

Whether he meant it or not, it’s a great quote because it explains perfectly that the system we all live in boils down to ‘how much inequality are you willing (or do you want) to see?’

If the money bros can manage all this shit, maybe we shouldn’t listen to the wise men when they say taxing wealth a bit more and providing adequate services to the plebs is radical leftism that would cause a meltdown.

Incredible how anything that would have been seen as batshit insanity or a bad movie script tossed straight in the bin 30 years ago can get normalised in a matter of weeks.

🎵 “Our country has never committed world historic crimes, you’ll never sing that” 🎵

My order of preference with a gun to my head is: Sligo Rovers Waterford Derry Bohs Galway Cork Shels Pats Drogs Sham rov*rs so that’s Kaiser Corks for the cup, then!

The main reason that assorted shitehawks are demanding we join military alliances and grossly inflate our weapons spending is because they want to be at these things. Why our media indulges them is another matter that possibly only forensic analysis of the accounts would reveal.

“A united Ireland would be a cold house for unionists…” etc and so on.

It would be embarrassing to qualify for the World Cup after this nonsense. I presume we’ll throw our matches against Portugal and Hungary to protest.

Not a new thing to say, but watching FG and FF lean into the anti-foreigner bile of cranks, weirdos and morons at the exact moment the Americans are starting to see the light of day and Starmer hits all time lows of unpopularity in Britain, you realise that (apart from anything else) they are thick.

Housing refugees in closed-down paint factories or rundown midlands hotels is not the reason your daughter can't buy a house, dear, it's because you're delighted your 3-bed 1930s semi worth ~€200K when she was a kid is now worth €775,000 and you wouldn't want it any other way.

I think Sudan might shoot up the news agenda somewhat if two US Presidents and two British PMs e.g. announced we were sending the RSF more machine guns and missiles to kill more civilians, then told the press everyone protesting against it was a traitor extremist and sent the cops to arrest them.

I told you these dopes look at Starmer and the shitshow in the U.K. and think “we should do that too.”

A great noticing is underway.

I think we're pretty far past 'dog bites man' with newspapers. Sure, papers sniffily expect the reader to distinguish between news and opinion (and object to adding disqualifiers like who a writer is paid by). But it's in the 'news analysis' that papers do the hard work to condition their readers.

Dublin City Council saying that building an 8,000 seater stadium at Dalymount Park is now going to cost €64 million - 8 grand per seat. If they sold every seat as a season ticket, then it would be 25 years before they recouped that much. Nuts.

I'm sure some people mean well and they're not just farming for likes and retweets, but the screengrabbing of racist/bigoted/unhinged twitter posts to post here really needs to stop. A) there's a reason we all left, we don't need constant reminding and B) the racists/bigots/unhinged *want you to*.

My day now begins with this nonsense because lots of idiots think this is a better way of doing thinks than having a competent person take minutes:

I like the regular bluesky bit where Americans fantasise that their regular scumbag idiot cops are going to defend them against trump's goon squads.

The Australian furniture store is advertising its Black Friday sale as being “now on”, today, Sunday 2nd November.

I think the poster I miss most from Twitter here is the Man in the Black Pyjamas. However, I don’t miss his weird tic of retweeting pro Russian accounts joyfully predicting imminent Ukrainian collapse for the last two and a half years

lol at Pats.

lol at Drogheda.

Hozier dueting with Mumford & Sons is the kind of thing that gives me the gawks.

The ICC should make the executives at arms companies criminally liable for the crimes against humanity committed using their weapons. A lot of this would stop *very fast*.

Simon Harris and Mícheál Martin should be made feel shame for this. Two disgusting individuals masquerading as ‘decent fellas’.

Surely the concerted efforts of Irish newspapers to undermine our neutrality, when they know it has at least 80:20 approval, warrants some kind of analysis? I can’t believe they’re doing this for free or out of some deeply held belief system.

I was genuinely upset last year but I think I spent all my emotions that time because now I’m just sick of it.

We now have empirical evidence of the proportion of whinging brain-cooked conservatives to centrists to left leaning people in this country. Is it reflected in the Dáil? Pretty much. And In our media?! Fuck no!

What’s the point of repeating this with no follow up? No “what do you mean by that?” This guy is just regurgitating phrases he’s heard on the radio. Why should I, the reader give a shit?

Sean nós is where I draw the line. Oul lads taking the piss.

We need to change the entire presidential electoral legislation because the people who smear their ballot paper with shit and scrawl racist and antisemitic messages on them need a candidate they can get behind

The obvious follow up question would be “do you regard all people of colour in the U.K. to be immigrants?” It appears that question wasn’t asked. 10/10, no notes.

“If a paper keeps printing insulting vexatious bullshit, stop buying it.”

Just don't buy it. Don't read it. Don't even use it to light your fire (the ink is weird). Hopefully, it will go under someday soon.