Desperate Housewives made it back onto our screens last night. RTE even showed a special “catch-up” episode beforehand. Just in case any of us had forgotten the crazy wackiness that goes on on Wisteria Lane.
And so I would just like to say that I hate and despise Susan Mayer. She is just so pathetic and crap at everything. Even her “kookiness” is pathetic.
Not that I really like any of the characters. But her, her I hate and despise. Do I need to say that again, cause I can repeat myself endlessly. Caught in a loop like whathisface from the Shining.
I’ve been going through my old posts, adding tags[1] and I’ve noticed that I’m a lot less rambly than I used to be. Most of my posts now have a reason. Some even make half sense. I’m not quite sure when this began, but really, it must be stopped. The whole situation is abominable and must be stopped.
Which of course, leads to question, can I go back to those “good old days”?
And the answer: well, I just don’t know, we’ll have to wait find out.
I used to watch this many many many years ago when it was on RTE. It is crap. But still. And look, dvd release!!
Six are up to episode 7 but I’ve only watched 2 and a half. And I loves it. Mainly for Josh Brolin. Cause I loves him[2] Plus cowboys are cool. Nuff said
So y’all know that there was this European athletics competition on over the past few days right? And that we actually had medal hopes on this occasion. Normally if Sonia aint there then we don’t pay much attention. Our two big hopes were Derval O’Rourke, who nabbed silver in the hurdles, and Alistair Cragg, the SA-born long distance runner who represents Ireland. He was in with a great chance in the men’s 5,000 race. But there was talk before hand of an achilles “niggle”
And then during the race, as he made his move, he started to limp. Very obviously, because I wasn’t really paying attention[1] and I spotted it.
But did Mr. Hamilton, RTE’s most favoured commentator? Well he didn’t mention it. And when, a short time later Cragg moved off the track and eventually had to be stretchered away George went into an overdrive of surprised horror. Words such as totally unexpected burst forth from his mouth.
Honestly.
So please RTE, make sure your commentators watch the sport they are supposed to be talking about.
Linknotes:
if I’m honest the only reason it was on was cause I was waiting for the showjumping to return ↩
So that’s it. World Cup 2006 over and done with. And its a bit strange, cause despite the fact that there weren’t many great games[1] I thought it was a great competition. Then again I’ve always liked good defending, almost as much as good goal scoring, and this was the World Cup of Defenders. Player of the tournament has to be Cannavaro. He was just fantastic. Still, it did lack those moments of great play didn’t it? And the diving and spoofing.
Which reminds me, it was a great move by RTE to use the Apres Match team to do all of the punditry for the 3rd place play off between Germany & Portugal. After all, no one really cares who wins that. Bill’s analysis in particular offered some wonderful insights, but they all did a great job:
How can I analyise something that I haven’t seen?
there with a loopy shot
a smackaronny of a shot. He’s given that some pelt hasn’t he?”
Look at the floppy fingers Bill
But its easy enough for the Germans because the Portugal have been so rubbish Bill. If you look at your man, the spoofer… he says “I’ll do my trademark nonsense… where am I going, my brain exploded, have it back Germany… you win nothing with eejits
I’ll stop now, cause otherwise I could just quote everything they said.
And you can watch them all on youtube; The half time show is where all those quotes are taken from, around two and a half minutes in is the start of the “spoofer” section. But there is also the introduction which had to be split into three sections, and of course the full-time analysis
And Incident of the Tournament must be awarded to Zidane and the headbutt. There’s been a lot of instant condemnation, and while yes it was a stupid fucked up thing to do, we don’t know what Materazzi said to, I want to say deserve but that isn’t right, provoke Zidane’s response. Now obviously a football field is not the place for a headbutt[2] but I want to know what Materazzi said.
It is really fascinating to see the b’verse covering the world cup and Zidane and the variety of opinions on the headbutt, or as Clicker Conspiracy would have it the “Zizou”:
Zizou - a diabolic bull charge to the chest of an adversary [...] My first reaction when I saw the slow motion replay of our new bovine ritual was to leap out of my seat shouting Thats Impossible! I couldn’t control my glee. And it has only gotten better with repeated viewing. I don’t know what it is about completely random and senseless petty violence that sets me off but this has to be the most poetic execution of such behaviour I have ever seen.
Test the nation was on last night[1] See RTE have been running a series of shows over the past week marking how Ireland has changed since 1986. Obviously the reason they chose ‘86 was that is when B#4 was born, I mean what else could the reason be? Pretty random date if you ask me.
Anyways, I didn’t watch many of them, although the economics one was fun[2] If you like predictions of doom and gloom. After all, according to all those economists the housing market is about to go bust any second now, and pretty soon we’ll all be unemployed and on the dole. A return to the dark old 80’s. Every other country that had a boom like ours has collapsed, and with personal debt averaging 130% of income[3] it is going to be fun if, as promised, the Irish economy goes belly up.
Course, very few, if any of those economic types predicted the boom, so I don’t know if I’d trust them at all.
Anyways, I did it online and got 44 out of 70. Not too great, but sure I didn’t really pay too much attention the news and current affairs when I was 7.
But one of the “judging the mood” of the people questions they asked was “Were you on Mick McCarthy’s side or on Roy Keane’s”. In studio, 41% of people were on Mick’s side, so a majority on Roy’s. But this rose to over 80% when just the football’s fans were asked. And 60% of the Revenue people were on Mick’s. I wonder what that says? And at home, 65% were up for Roy.
Anyways, isn’t nostalgia fucking great. But at the same time, scary. Homosexuality was illegal till 1993.
And did you know that although in the 80s there were only 1,500 mobiles in Ireland, but today there are more mobiles than people, andover 9 million texts are sent every day. Every day! There are what 4 million people in Ireland? And that the ha’penny piece was legal tender till 86! Can I possibly have more sentences with exclamation marks? Maybe, just maybe.
Afterall, Roscommon did come out top! And that deserves an exclamation mark, because what else have Roscommon ever won?
But I do think that they should just do a random test the nation on trivia rather than Ireland over the past 20 years.
And while I’m talking about RTE I’ll mention the radio[4] because last night I heard the new road safety ad. And they are really going for the shivers and emotion factor. They’ve gotten a person who has been affected personally by a road death to tell what happened. The one I heard was a fella talking about when he was home one day and there came a knock at the door and a friend and two gardaà were there. His younger brother had just been killed, but his parents were away so he had to go id the body. It took three days for his parents to make it back, by which time he had had to pick out coffins and start the whole funeral thing.
But while it is a very good ad, in that it really makes you aware of the consequences, I don’t think it’ll stop anything, because part of the problem is that no one ever thinks it’ll happen to them. Otherwise you’d never get in a car, would you?
Crap. I forgot that the server peeps were upgrading yesterday. That’s why yesterday’s post has been eradicated, and Peter is missing from the header. There is no hope of me remembering exactly what I said, so I’ll just ramble on again about how great Saturday was. And there is always the possibility that it’ll show up again, then again it may not. But first, Luna Nina says:
Yours ::
Charcoal ::
Platitude ::
Graduation ::
Hungry ::
Somewhere ::
Nurse ::
Freak ::
Unbelievable ::
Walk ::
and mine will be after the rugby rambles and the cut.
If you read the post yesterday there will be similarities here, but you’ll just have to deal with that
Now where to begin? Oh yes, with the site of ultra-focused Ronan O’Gara being prodded with an umbrella as he and some of the other rugby lads fought over a red cowboy hat.
See, yesterday saw the Munster team arrive in Limerick for a homecoming celebration. They’d landed in Shannon around 1.00 that morning and after a stay in a hotel began the bus journey to O’Connell St, Limerick. That’d be the street that was flashed up on the big screen in the middle of the match on Sat. And that youtube video is the scenes from Limerick in the final minutes of the match.
Can you picture this, a bus load of semi-drunk fella on an open top bus, in the rain, drinking cans of Bulmers and bottles of Heineken. What a sight Being cheered on by around 40,000 supporters according to some newspapers
It didn’t have any hint of professionalism about it, but that is what made it so great. It was just so honest. And plenty of it was obviously very unplanned. Like Marty Morrissey being summoned on to the stage. Marty, you see, is a GAA commentator, not a rugby man. but he was on duty for RTE covering this event, but well away from the stage. Obviously though he got spotted, and as we’ve all heard this Munster rugby team are not so serious when off the pitch[1] And it ended up with Marty after trying to make his escape being hoisted onto the rugby team’s shoulders. That’s something you don’t see everyday.
I think Marty Morrissey is the nearest thing to O Muirceartaigh that TV has. Though Marty should carry a health warning as he is not good for those of us with even the slightest of cardiac problems! Sometimes you are left thinking that Marty is either going to swallow the microphone whole or jump out of the telly and land beside you.
Who will ever forget ‘There won’t be a cow milked in Clare for a week’ (Munster SFC Final 1992) or ‘By God these Wexford boys mean business’ (Marty, complete with lump in throat, Leinster SHC Final, 1996).
It was a great day, and I’m sure all those who waited frrom 10 in the morning[2] felt it was worth it when they were there to cheer on the team at around 5 that afternoon. It was a long wait in the rain, but after losing 2 previous finals, not to mention a few semi’s, it was one way of showing their appreciation.
Although to the few fans who are now expecting three in a row! Come on, I know that you have to be hungry in order to win at sport, but wanting something and expecting it are two very different things.
Still, they showed up in that rain yesterday, they spent fortunes following the team around Europe. Maybe the fans deserve to have some expectations.
In other sporting news in Ireland most matches were called off because of the rain, including the Sligo v galway one, which means that Galway’s Padraig Joyce will probably be fit for next weekend. The boring golf was also hit, meaning it’ll go into a fifth day today. Although I did like that Darren Clarke[3] excused his bad play on Sat by saying he was too busy watching the rugby to think about his golf game.
And surprise of surprises New york actually won a GAA match. They beat Derry in the opening round of the hurling, although visa issues mean they might not play in the next round. Well, thems the breaks for illegal immigrants. or at least I assume that is the problem they’ll have trying to re-enter the States afterwards if they leave.
Now, is there anything else I mentioned yesterday? Oh yes, the Eurovision. Which, fantastically, was won by Finland, in the form of Monster Rock band Lordi. And I’m proud to report that Irish viewers, clearly taking the competition very seriously, awarded Lordi 10 points. With our 12 going to the weird Lithuanian “We Are the Winners” song[4]
Went to see Neil Gaiman last night. He was being interviewed for RTE radio, a show called Rattlebag. The interview will go out on Thurs and will be available at some stage online. Have to say, RTE could do with better signage, and allowances for people who don’t drive. Got off the bus and wandered around the RTE grounds, eventually stumbling over the radio centre.
The talk itself was very entertaining. Neil read from a few of his books, and chatted with Myles Dungan about his life and writing etc. After the interview there was a question and answer session, and then Neil signed stuff. I didn’t stay for that. He isn’t Joss Whedon after all BTW, Rattlebag people, you should interview Joss. Go on. You know it’d be fun. Think of all the screaming fanboys you could attract.
Speaking of fanboys… there were a few of nerdy-variety at the Gaiman showing. But I don’t mind nerds[1] Its the D4-type pretentious nerds that I can’t stand. And lucky me (and NM) because we sat down, only to have a big old group of them sit down all around us.
Now, is there anything else I mentioned yesterday? Oh yes, the 
BTW, Rattlebag people, you should interview Joss. Go on. You know it’d be fun. Think of all the screaming fanboys you could attract.