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Curious as to why half of rural Ireland was going to see Garth Brooks (or “Gareth Brooks”, as he tends to be called in Ireland), I listened to 20 of his songs last weekend, for research purposes. He does seem like a very nice, down to earth bloke.  Bizarrely, in today’s judgemental world, this seemsContinue reading “Garth Brooks – why he packs ’em in”

Flicks? I love out-of-date slang. I also know that “film” is pronounced “filmmm”. Not the way I say it, i.e., “filim”. However, leaving out the second spoken ‘i’ turns you into a ponty-mouthed prck. My top 10 pieces of music runs into hundreds. It’s a never-ending minor personal clusterfuck of rampant musical infidelities. By contrast,Continue reading “Flicks”

Lydon was right about them: https://gigwise.com/news/54956/

“In the late 1970s and 80s rock concerts were almost still exclusively youth events – anyone over 30 would have been regarded as a “weirdo” – and violence was commonplace. “There were riots all the time at gigs,” recalls Peter Hook, former bass player with New Order and before that Joy Division.” (From <article>.)  IContinue reading “A jolly day out”

So much for cutting red tape lol – Brexiters now proposing <number plates for bicycles>. Presumably, all cyclists will now need to be fitted with compulsory speedometers, or people will be required to carry expensive GPS trackers on their handlebars.  Otherwise, how would you now what speed you were doing?  If you’re using an app,Continue reading “More Brexit freedoms on the way”

This was <written in 2015>: “When I worked at the NME in the early 1990s, writers from leafy suburbs would affect proletarian tropes, trousers and vowels to ingratiate themselves with Oasis, New Order or Happy Mondays. Nowadays, adroit navigation of the wine list or the ski slope is probably a more useful way into aContinue reading “Pop will eat itself, using the correct cutlery”

In Britain, young employees lack basic literacy and numeracy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57499286 In Britain, there is also a shorage of employees, and they want the (numerate, literate) over-50s back into employment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62471260 Good luck with that, when the reality is that, all over the world, over-50s are well-nigh unemployable (sorry, “over-qualified” lol). It’s the discrimination that nobodyContinue reading “Are you over-qualified, sorry 40 / 50?”

That headline is a thing of the past. From 1978, here’s Debbie Harry – to an average voice-call phobic millenial, the gist of this normal-in-its-era song will appear deranged: Interesting <article> on the RTÉ website about how millenials are afraid of voice-calls. However, in typical 21st century woke mode, instead of suggesting some basic self-helpContinue reading “Gimme me a shout sometime”

Ireland is clarifying its rape laws, in particular, re the definition of consent. As you’d expect, this is being generally lauded. As if consent was all people need to have an ethical / satisfying sexual encounter. The classic left-wing / liberal view of sex that pretty much any kind of sexual behaviour is acceptable, soContinue reading “Why consent is not enough”