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Dissent - 07/01/2009 - 11:13 GMT - [Link]

The Daily Show has firmly established its role as Uncle Sam's court jester, saying some very serious things under the protective smokscreen of "comedy", so who better to skewer the American media's pro-Israel bias?



P.S: A counter .

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Fame and fortune await - 20/12/2008 - 16:11 GMT - [Link]

Hey, you know the way Keanu Reeves' acting performances tend to be somewhat wooden? They should call him iKeanu Reeves. That's funny shit, and Mark Kermode agrees.


Yes, this (apart from the birth of my son) has made my year.

• QQ said:

  ...I'm really glad you put the note in brackets too! ^^

  [2008-12-20 21:12:38 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Schpengle said:

  well,
  scary thoughts but
  happy new year to year
  your wife
  and your new born child..........
  
  ? *streuth shiela!*
  Never thought Id see the day,
  ah well, blessed be.
  :)
  night night, and see you next year maybe :)
  bye
  Me

  [2009-01-01 00:05:25 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Schpengle said:

  Thats a little surreal.
  
  Ive had a fairly flat last few days of meditation and then, some things led to me going for a walk today, and I returned, determined to move my practice on
  by the end of teh day, I became aware of, if not, the ultimate truth appertaining to the physical state of my by being, one which is far more subtle than Ive experiencd for some time........
  then i clicked here and read your "projectile garments" link or whatever on the right, and then looked under neath, to see some reference to being a buddha and
  "Satori" Ididnt knwo what that was,
  so I googled it.
  and
  thats what Ive just experienced.
  
  so ina surreal way,
  thanks for that, mmmmm what a peculiar start to the new year.

  [2009-01-01 21:40:43 GMT] [Reply to this comment]

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I know the way to San Jose - 12/12/2008 - 12:20 GMT - [Link]

I got a toy. Yay! I can't open it until Christmas. Boo! I opened it and set it up and it rocks! Double yay!!



It's the "Navigation Kit" that goes with my Nokia 770.

I have wanted a GPS forever because, as far as I'm concerned, a little device that that can pinpoint your exact location on a little screen and give you directions is sufficiently advanced technology. It doesn't matter that I don't and probably won't ever really need one, they're just fucking magic, more than mobile phones, photorealistic video games, the internet, anything. Look, it fucking fits in my pocket but it can hear a satellite 12,000 miles away! The day that stops being amazing is the day I fly to work in my hovercar.

• Dom said:

  My phone's got GPS.

  [2008-12-12 14:04:57 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dave said:

  Your phone's got aGPS.

  [2008-12-12 14:06:34 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dom said:

  Yeah. It doesn't actually work. And it costs dozens of pounds to use.

  [2008-12-12 16:51:50 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Michael said:

  I was in San Jose once with Vlad.
  There's not much to do there and the bouncers don't trust Russian passports.
  If it was me I wouldn't bother heading back again...

  [2008-12-14 07:23:22 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dom said:

  Doesn't it mean St Joseph? Doesn't sound as exciting a place now.

  [2008-12-14 14:45:22 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dave said:

  I went to St Joseph's National School in Fermoy. That wasn't exciting either, although I still know the way.

  [2008-12-14 21:36:29 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Aidan Kehoe said:

  I'm having trouble coming up with a rhyme for that. Umm, can we work in “explosive” somewhere?

  [2008-12-15 23:16:18 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dave said:

  (edited)
  The town of Fermoy named a school for St. Joseph,
  Where local feens learned how to handle explosives.
  If you ever need to blow someone away,
  Pray call an alumnus of old San Jose.
  
  I thank you.

  [2008-12-16 10:36:12 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Aidan Kehoe said:

  *starts a round of applause*

  [2008-12-16 12:30:25 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dave said:

  Shucks.

  [2008-12-16 13:04:29 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Quiz Queen said:

  reminds me of all those Scruffy's limericks...
  
  ...such as:
  
  
  There was once a guy called Scruffy
  Who's beard was bright red and fluffy.
  From Ireland he came
  And then gave his name
  To the place we frequent before Buffy.
  
  
  *instant classic*
  
  ...as I can still recite it off by heart ^^
  
  *hugs*

  [2008-12-17 13:03:35 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Aidan Kehoe said:

  I like HTML_Safe for avoiding the sort of italicising-everything-on-the-page breakage that you have here, btw.

  [2008-12-17 19:31:15 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Quiz Queen said:

  I don't mind italics, but that really wasn't intentional -.-

  [2008-12-18 16:17:08 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dave said:

  Manually fixed. Life's too busy to be learning new stuff at the moment.

  [2008-12-18 16:22:29 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• mackers said:

  If you used wordpress you'd avoid this sort of problem ;)

  [2008-12-18 19:27:47 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Aidan Kehoe said:

  Yes, and automated comment spam would be more common.

  [2008-12-18 20:05:29 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dave said:

  Yeah! We're a dying breed, Mr K.

  [2008-12-18 22:10:49 GMT] [Reply to this comment]

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Byebyemoto - 08/12/2008 - 21:47 GMT - [Link]

I was browsing around our local Vodafone shop at lunchtime today and, after a few minutes staring blankly at all the Nokias, Samsungs, Sony-Ericssons and a handful of LGs and Blackberries, it dawned on me: where had all the Motorolas gone? I asked the shop assistant and she confidently informed me that they had "stopped making them". "I dunno, they just told us one day they weren't making them anymore".

Huh? And it's not just Vodafone Ireland; O2.ie are only offering one model, the E8 and Meteor none at all. Vodafone UK have one model, the V9. Vodafone Deutschland hat nur noch zwei.

Are they really as screwed as this article suggested back in July? To put it bluntly, it would seem so. That's a shame. Hands up who remembers the first Eircell Ready To Go 088 bricks made by Motorola back in 1997? You remember, the year that phones came to the masses in Ireland?

• Quiz Queen said:

  I don't like Motorola...the one phone I had from them was crappy. But I don't think me boycotting them has stopped them making them ;)
  
  *hugs*

  [2008-12-10 21:36:21 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dave said:

  When I arrived in Germany I went and bought the cheapest T-Mobile prepaid handset I could find. It was of course a Motorola, a heinous lump of black plastic with a whopping two-line display. It was god-awful to look at and took me forever to get the hang of - god, how I missed my Trium - but you know something? After a while, I discovered it had a whole load of really useful shortcuts and eventually, lack of T9 notwithstanding, I found it really quick to use.
  
  If the fancy Nokia de jour (silver 8810) was a Windows desktop, my Moto was a Unix command line; steep learning curve, but very effective once you got the hang of it. The nerds will appreciate what I mean.

  [2008-12-11 13:01:54 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dom said:

  Oo Dave you should see my phone.
  
  (comment edited by Dave)

  [2008-12-11 12:13:17 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dave said:

  8.1MP? Holy fuck.

  [2008-12-11 12:15:33 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dom said:

  It's ok, not that big a leap in terms of quality to be honest.
  I'm a technology whore.
  
  

  [2008-12-11 13:00:04 GMT] [Reply to this comment]

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Pseudotwitchadine - 02/12/2008 - 07:27 GMT - [Link]

Good morning! I didn't sleep much. Had a bunch of weird nightmares and woke in a cold sweat. On the plus side, my cold is much better; I can breathe through my nose and everything. That Nurofen Cold & Flu really is the bomb.

Common adverse drug reactions (ADRs) associated with pseudoephedrine therapy include: CNS stimulation, sleeplessness, nervousness, excitability, dizziness and anxiety.

Hey, what the fuck is that supposed to mean? I shouldn't have taken two just before I went to bed? Fuck off. You're not the boss of me.

• Dom said:

  Hmm. Lay off em Dave, I'd say. I'm bringing the mrs home for Christmas - you around?

  [2008-12-04 13:35:34 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Aidan Kehoe said:

  Übrigens, are you on any sort of chat system these days, or is it just that I’m not logged in to the right ones?

  [2008-12-07 22:10:28 GMT] [Reply to this comment]



• Dave said:

  It's pretty much only ever Gmail these days.

  [2008-12-08 16:28:37 GMT] [Reply to this comment]

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