Now before I head into this post I will just out place a caveat firmly into place. I do care about the people under 6 feet of water in the “People’s Republic”, and if it was me I too would be in curled up on top of my wardrobe wailing and blaming Brian Cowen.
But you know what gets me most about the floods, it’s not the suffering on a grand scale, it’s not paltry 14 quid stolen from the dole funds to fight the problem, it’s not even the hilarious adverts on Newstalk telling people to head to to Caaaaark on the train for a rare old time.
No. What gets me most about this whole scenario are the flood victims on RTE news that come on and tell the world that their Christmas presents are now drifting somewhere off the Dingle peninsula, I mean who the hell does their Christmas shopping in November?
on Dec 2nd, 2009 at 3:29 pm
23rd, for me, at the earliest.
on Dec 2nd, 2009 at 3:50 pm
We’ve strictly adhered to a non-floating present policy.
on Dec 2nd, 2009 at 4:37 pm
I’m with both you and Radge on this one. Ya don’t wanna peak too soon.
on Dec 2nd, 2009 at 4:39 pm
So a non November, non floating, non peaking December type thing is the way to go then?
on Dec 2nd, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Yup, except for the Missus. Never leave it to the last minute, unless you have a wet suit and diving/snorkelling gear.
on Dec 3rd, 2009 at 12:52 am
the same people who reserve their tables for xmas in march….
on Dec 3rd, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I’ve been out of the country… i was left somewhat oblivious to the whole approaching Christmas thing… In Mexico it was difficult not to laugh at the Christmas decorations such as big inflatable snowmen melting in the daytime sun as i walked down the street in flip flops and summer clothes (acknowledging the fact that the locals were in fact in winter coats and scarves).
So imagine the fear, the panic, the scary situation i found myself in last night when i went to watch Paranormal Activity in Dundrum Cinema…. said fear/panic etc was not a result of the film … but from the feeling of walking through the ground floor of the ‘mall’ with crimbo tunes a-playin, christmas trees a-sparklin, and hundreds, nay thousands, of families christmas shopping…. i shudder at the memory
on Dec 4th, 2009 at 11:21 am
I don’t care about the people in the water. Idon’t care about billions of €’s of wasted Christmas prezzies. (Only “sponsored citizens” seem to be able to afford good ones anyway).
I do care that people call Christmas Xmas. I do care that I have to work on Xmas eve. I do care that Ubuntuc went to the pictures without me, again. And I do care about you Red… so for Christxmas I am sending you portrait of the Queen of England, signed by the Royal Male.
on Dec 4th, 2009 at 11:46 am
@ Alex Fisher-Wotinger…. i waited and waited and finally gave in and ate the whole large popcorn myself and wiped my tears away with the spare unused ticket.
You owe me.
Seriously.
on Dec 4th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Love Love Love………Love Love Love………..Love Love Love
on Dec 4th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Oh Ubuntuc, how may heart breaks
I rue the day that I made those mistakes
I didn’t know! I could have came!
Oh the woe! The pain! The Shame!
Some new underpants and a shortish flight
was all that was needed, but I missed it. Shite.
Now depressed I sit here and write and just try to be normal
but I dream of that night.
The tickets and popcorn one hundred notes spent
I really do owe you so I’m sorry. I repent.
on Dec 5th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
“Sponsored citizens”? I’m intrigued
on Dec 7th, 2009 at 11:26 am
New underpants all round… what beautiful poetry
Alex you are forgiven.
on Dec 8th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
So is the “the Royal Male” a person or a euphemism for a part?
on Dec 9th, 2009 at 3:08 am
@ Ubuntuc. Dress as you want to be remembered
@ Waxy Dan. He’s not big and he’s not clever but he is an institution, franc’ly.