As you can see I’ve changed the header because the 2007 RWC kicks off today. I’ve also finally gotten around to adding a link to The Fear of God that’ll stay over there on the right for the duration of the competition.
I was talking to one of the students about Ireland’s chances, and over the course of our conversation we got on to the subject of Croke Park and the IRFU and FAI using the GAA ground. And do you know what he said? That he would never go near Croke Park, that the GAA “shower” would never get any money off him, weren’t they all bigots. That he had no time at all for the GAA. Can you tell where he was from?
What an attitude to have. Of course his may be slightly mitigated in that he is a “mature” student and so can remember the days when GAA players weren’t allowed to play other sports. But that is in the past, and holding a grudge against the past is merely what the GAA were doing in the first place. After all it was set up, not primarily as a sporting organisation, but as a cultural one. To restore Irish culture through sport, and other activities. That is why you couldn’t play “foreign games”, because the foreigners had stopped the playing of Irish games.
So, the GAA has gotten rid of its outdated idiot rules lets hold it against them. Can you say “whataboutery”.
Linknotes:
- yes yes, there are normal southsiders too, but this is such a cliche ↩
EDIT Forgot to mention that as part of my patent-pending taking-over-wwwland technique I have started blogging over at The Fear of God. Not a religious blog sillies, but a rugby one. You know, on account of Paul O’Connell and the documentary Reaching for Glory, set up by Gerry of UnLaoised
I know you didn’t think I’d leave you much longer without your dose of Unconscious Mutterings
Uneven ::
Wonder ::
Spider ::
Emma ::
Swing ::
Orbit ::
Flirt ::
Donation ::
Veil ::
Atmosphere ::
Tis Monday, so I’m back at work. What fun, neh? But I suppose it could be worse. I could have been working last week, so it is all good. Anyways, I hereby retract my statement accusing the highly sensitive individual of taking a break. She isn’t, it is simply a case of the voices in her head not talking to her, all clear? Good.
In other news, Carl’s RIP challenge kicks off soon. Officially on Sept 1st. I’m hoping to get involved. 4 books isn’t a huge amount, is it?
And for those of you wondering where the wedding was on, well, I bring you photos:
The view from the Church
The beach
Inside the Church
Flowers
And as I said in the comment section of my previous post there are a lot more on flickr, but you’ll have to be logged in and friended to see them.
Do you believe that over half of the searches[1] that come to this blog[2] are Irish rugby related.
Did you know that most of those were quite specific in what they were looking for, and that was Paul O’Connell and his “fear of god” speech. Oh and the Gift Grub version[3]
I didn’t watch the rugby documentary[1] last night. I was watching Medium and the Heroes. And can I just say one little thing to scifi uk? Your ads are the worst, and I will never ever buy the new Tomb Raider game, nor the previous one you advertised, Sparta, or whatever. And why? Because you try and deafen me. Just be glad I’m not in the army or there’d be suing[2] going on[3] .
Medium is a strange mix of telly. In one way it seems kinda relaxed about stuff[4] but on the other hand it seems a bit on the right, politically. You know, with being pro-death penalty and whatnot. But then again, who am I to say you can’t agree with drinking and cussing and be fairly liberal while wanting to kill peoples. It’s all good[5] .
Heroes, as I said before[6] I do like and enjoy. But I don’t really like any of the characters, so I’m a little meh. But it is entertaining and stuff happens[7] and it has Christopher Eccleston[8] in it, even if his character does have a silly name[9] But he is good and grumpy so I likes him. But not a huge amount. And I don’t like cop guy. He’s annoying. I do like Nathan, even if he can be a selfish bastard at times, but he isn’t quite selfish enough to have the “love to hate him” thing going on, and he isn’t “heart of gold” enough to love him. Peter is improving. I didn’t like his do-gooder-ness,[10] but know that he is developing a bit of a backbone its all good. Nikki/Jessica, meh, could do more. The kid is alright, the father a bit of a nothing character so far. Hiro I’m not sure of yet. Claire I do like, and her ebil father.
Almost forgot, the girl, Sara, on last night’s episode[11] of Medium also showed up in an episode of The Inside[12] where she played an evil murdering child. So even though she played a victim here I so didn’t trust her. Evil child.
Anyways, back to the rugby, I have it recorded, but I’m probably going to buy the dvd as it looks more than entertaining, and in a way, better because it recorded the failure to achieve the Grand Slam. I did catch a few seconds and watching the faces of the players as they watched the final few minutes of the France game… excellent telly. And speaking of excellence, did anyone else catch this morning’s Gift Grub[13] ? A day in the life of Paul O’Connell. Genius.
