Grandad January 31st, 2012
Has anyone noticed anything strange about our Dame Enda?
He is spending a lot of time over at the Führerbunker with his EU pals and the papers are therefore treating us to loads of pictures of him.
How is it that virtually every photograph shows him with Sarkozy?
There are two possibilities.
Either Kenny is like the small kid in the playground who wants to be “in with the gang” and therefore sells his soul to them, offering to carry their schoolbooks and telling them all the time what great people they are?
Or else he’s in love.
Either way I find it rather disquieting.
And also I’m a bit pissed off that apparently Ireland’s sovereignty is Kenny’s dowry.
Grandad January 30th, 2012
I had cause the other day to look back on some of my earlier scribbles.
Jayzus but you’d swear they were written by a different bloke.
Some of them are long and rambling, and some have a quaint sort of humour about them. Leastwise once or twice I almost found myself smiling, but fortunately I copped on in time.
So what the fuck happened in the last five and a bit years? I know Dubya is gone [he used to provide tons of material] and the current incumbent – Obama – is a colourless substitute, if you’ll forgive the expression [hah!]. At home, Bertie the Bollox has retreated to the kitchen cupboard and Cowen has disappeared into an alcoholic haze. Politics just isn’t fun any more.
So what the fuck happened to turn me from a mildly humorous old fart into a cynical humourless old fart? Can it be the recession? Can it be that I’m getting old? Are they putting something in the tap water?
It’s worrying.
If this trend continues, I’m going to become a right cantankerous old bollix.
Grandad January 29th, 2012
You really couldn’t make this stuff up.
The front page of the Irish Times -
So we may or may not have a vote on handing over financial control of this country to a gang of unelected foreigners.
And if we do have a vote, they will ignore it anyway and go ahead.
Welcome to Democracy, European style.
Oh, and by the way, if there is anyone out there who is thinking of paying the fucking house tax, this is what they are spending your money on.
We couldn’t have our Health Minister taking some exercise now, could we?
Grandad January 28th, 2012
There are several ways of giving up smoking.
You can go “cold turkey”. You decide one morning that this is it – you are no longer a smoker and you just stop. You resist all temptations and that is that – you are no longer a smoker.
Another method that is becoming increasingly popular is to switch to the electronic equivalent – the e-cigarette, the e-pipe or the e-cigar. While these have been marketed as smoking alternatives, increasing numbers of ex-smokers are reporting that they very successfully used the e-route to quit altogether.
The method we hear most about is the so-called “nicotine replacement therapy” – the patch, the gum and the nicotine inhalers. Of the three methods these have been proved to be the least successful by far, over a long period. They tout themselves as being successful but that is only measuring cessation rates after a month or less. After a year, most smokers who have tried this route are back on the fags again.
The likes of ASH and the other Anti-smoker organisations would have you believe that the aim of their campaigns is to get people to stop smoking. You would imagine therefore that they would chose the most successful route and would advertise that. You would imagine that they would be delighted at the e-equivalent for a start. Here is a method that has a proven high success rate and achieves their aims. So why are they so desperate to have the e-cigarette banned or at the very least, subject to the same restrictions as cigarettes? Does that make sense?
If you check any of the government quit smoking campaigns or look at the ASH cessation methods, they all suggest that the best way to quit is to “contact your doctor or pharmacist”. Why would that be? A doctor or pharmacist doesn’t sell e-cigarettes? You don’t need a doctor or pharmacist to tell you to go “cold turkey”? But what have doctors and pharmacists have in common? Yup – the pharmaceutical trade. They are both going to suggest the least successful method – the pharmaceutically produced patch, gum or inhaler. They will even promote Champix, which has incredibly dangerous side effects.
Why is this? Why do ASH et al insist on promoting the least successful method while attacking the more successful?
Surely you can come to the obvious conclusion?
Would it help if I mentioned pharmaceutical sponsorship and grants?
Grandad January 27th, 2012
It’s funny how things change.
Last December, our Glorious Leader, Dane Enda gave a State of the Nation speech. One thing he was definite about – it was not the People who caused the financial crisis.
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Later on, he expanded on that. It was not the People; it was the banks, crap government and developers. The only one he missed there was the Financial Regulator who was fast asleep at the wheel. At least it wasn’t our fault. He wasn’t blaming me.
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Yesterday he was asked yet again what caused the crash in Ireland.
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What the fuck?
No mention of builders? No mention of the Worst Government in History? No mention of the Financial Regulator? Suddenly it’s my fault?
Fuck that.
I can only assume that he spent his little winter holiday in Davos arse licking.
It would explain why he is so full of shite.
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