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The petulant boy child posing as a professional footballer Mascherano has come out and said that he still does not know why he was sent off for Liverpool yesterday.
Tell me please. Just how thick, dense, dumb, stupid and/or unintelligent can you be and still make it to the top of the football tree?
Irish
All allotmenteers need a shed,
A place to hide,
To keep your tools,
A place to rest your head,
Yes all allotmenteers need a shed.
Doesn't have to be a stately pile,
Just somewhere you can sit for a while,
To contemplate,
Your allotments fate
Yes all allotmenteers need a shed.
Ive seen them kitted out
Just like a home,
With curtains, carpets, cookers and a phone,
Still just a place where you can sit and chew the bone,
Yes all allotmenteers need a shed.
And when you reach the end of a long day,
It becomes the place where all gets put away,
Its about everything to everyman I'd say,
So get yourselves one and you'll be glad I said,
That every allotmenteer needs a shed.
I thank you.
Irish
So what do we think then folks? Should this be allowed? Heard lots of the normal Frankenstein bollocks being spouted by those who can't be bothered to look beyond the headlines and see what this is all about.
If it saves lives then I say go for it.!!!
Just food for thought.
Do you take insulin? If so the injection you give yourself has probably been derived from pigs.
Did you have a flu jab? If so the vaccine was grown in chicken eggs.
Food for thought?
irish
Heather Mcartney I am talking about.
Now I don't normally take any notice when it comes to the doings of the rich and famous but this woman makes me want to vomit.
She comes out with statements like her daughter (about 4 or 5 years old I think) is going to be expected to survive on £35,000 a year!!!
What???????????
She obviously doesn't realise that there are millions of people in this country who spend a full week at work and don't earn that much in a year!!! They have to run their lives and look after their families on far less.
Have heard that this banshees lawyer has described her situation as being "hanged over a long period of time". Well unfortunately they haven't quite got it right because she still has the breath to bleat on and on about how unfair everything is. Haridan?? No I think she gives the word bad publicity.
Irish
What a blooming strange couple or 3 days this has been.
A public holiday that nobody wants. Global warming that has turned white and icy.
A thumping by Barnet in the league and Englands cricketers either performing like three toed slothes or super-heroes depending on what mood they are in.
A team that actually plays with an English heart take a firm grip on the Premier League while one of the referees makes a stand for personal respect.
And there is still one day to go yet!!!!
Breathless.
Irish
Yes. At last. After the recent totally unacceptable behaviour of Ahsley Cole, typical of much that goes on in the Premiership, it was highly gratifying to see Mr Bennett send off Maschareno at Old Trafford today. This silly little boy got himself quite rightly booked for a rash challenge early on in the half. From that time forward he marauded about the pitch like a schoolboy who couldnt get this own way, dissenting the referees decisions at every opportunity.
Finally he ran 30 yards to berate the referee about an incident that Maschareno had nothing to do with in the first place. Despite the obvious warnings from him team-mates he continued his petulance and received a second yellow card. Thoroughly deserved.
I hope and pray that other referees follow the exampe of Mr Bennett in the future. I also hope and pray that Liverpool fine this silly little twerp heavily and that his team-mates and (no chance here) the supporters of Liverpool let their feelings be known to him.
What a pathetic, stupid and childish thing for Maschareno to do when the respect for referees issue has been the top discussion point for those that follow football.
Nice to see justice done.
Irish
Served with the Ghurkas on many occassion. What a fantastic bunch of soldies they are. So disciplined and conscientious it sometimes put others to shame.
I think that it is diabolical that a person who has given 24 years to the service of this country is then denied the right to live here. All Ghurkas who serve at least 15 years should be given British nationality by right.
We have as situation here where those who served prior to 1997 cannot have the right to live here and be British citizens but anybody who happens to be born in the European Union can waltz in as of right.
This is blatantly wrong!! The Ghurkas have much more right to be here than the Europeans. Come to think of it they have more right to be here than the tossers who refuse to work because it is their right to draw benefits just because they were born here. Send them up the Himalalys to live and see whether or not they could hack it!!!!
Irish
I know that I am going to get slated by the more religious members of our blogging community, and probably quire rightly so.
But, what a waste of a public holiday this Easter in the middle of winter really is. Weather is horrible and always was likely to be. You can't do anything.
It is costing places such as Skegness 100,000's of pounds because it should be a good earner for the town but not if it is in the middle of winter. I am sure there are good religious reasons for having the now but for a purely secular viewpoint they should be put into a secondary category of priority.
We could still have had Easter day tomorrow but could have carried the bank holiday over to the end of April which is when the huge majority of schools in this area are having their breaks.
Tin hat and flak jacket on but that is how I feel.
Irish
The road to political apathy leads only to dictatorship.
What think you?
Irish
Come on then explain! What? What do you want and how do you want to do it?
Where am I coming from? Let me explain.
Environmentalists want sustainable energy. So we build wind-turbines. An excellent idea that will produce lots of sustainable and cheap, in the long run, energy. Can we get them built? NO. Why not? Because environmentalists oppose the building of them on environmental grounds. What? It was you people that wanted them in the first place.
If you build them close to houses then the complaint is that they spoil the environment. If you build them 100s of miles away from anywhere, let's say in the very north of Scotland for instance, then the environmentalists say there is too big an environmental problem in wilderness areas!!!
So that is wind generation scuppered.
Now let's take bio-fuels. Again a great idea. Let's power the world on non-polluting plant derived fuel. Environmentalists want that.
Now what they don't want is for people to go and grow them instead of food planting, because there isn't enough food to go round. There is only so much agricultural land. It can only be used for one thing at a time. So what do we need to do? Create more agricultural land. We can't do that because it damages the environment!!!!
GIVE ME STRENGTH.
The problem is that it is very easy to take the moral high ground and shout about environmental issues, but things need to be done. Life needs to be lived, people need jobs and food and the ability to move about. The environmental lobby is excellent at telling people that they should not be doing things, but what they cannot do is provide any alternative solutions, that are workable or affordable.
Perhaps they should really shut up until they have anything positive to say that will allow the world to move forward rather than attempting to block their own wishes because of their beliefs.
Irish
I have been an allotmenteer for 2 years now and I have learnt that there are the undeniable truths:
1. I lack patience. I always want to be doing things a month before I should.
2. I can't do anything in straight lines. I have no natural talent for creating straight things, such as borders, edges or rows of vegetable.
3. The most important. I have no shortage whatsoever of volunteers to eat the wonderful fresh produce that I grow, but there is a complete absence of volunteers when it comes down to the digging, rotavtating, weeding etc.
Just thought you might like to know.
Irish
As most of you are aware who have been brave or daft enough to read my blog, I am a Conservative. This has been somewhat difficult for the past 10 years or so.
Having sat and watched Blair and latterly bully boy Brown hock this country into amazingly large debt, while at the same time soaking the populace for tax monies, it has been even harder still.
One of the saddest things about the last 10 years has been the way that nearly every "policy" (I use the term exceptionally loosely) has been based on and devised for the center of London and the chattering classes that Blair most certainly surrounded himself with.
My warning to the Tories? Take heed that you are not going down the same route. We have a lot to do. Firstly, getting the country onto a stable financial footing, as it was when the present spendthrifts took office, while at the same time giving the people of this country the ability to take back control of their lives, and their own personal finances, based on the needs of the country as a whole.
Not all is rosey in the blue corner, but it is much rosier than the dark red gloom in the other one.
Irish
I have had problems with my email account. For some reason I could not access it from my computer at home. I could access this site.
At work I could access my email account but couldn't access this site.
How frustrating do you think that has been?
Never mind. New email account now up and running so you will have to put up with me again properly now.
Irish
Just a thought on this Darlings first budget day.
The Chancellor already takes 55 billion pounds in fuel duty. That is fifty five, thousand, million pounds. Is that going to be enought for him? NO.
The econcomy is now in such a parlous state that there will be a rise in fuel tax in the budget.
This will be a most ridiculuos decision, if only that it will fuel inflation as the haulage companies pass on the increase to the retailers who pass it on to us. A double whammy you might say.
Diesel already costs more the £5 a gallon, thanks to the vicious tax levels imposed by the dullard bully Brown who will be forever a mokey on the shoulder of the sitting chancellor.
There will be a tax increase. Why? Because the motorist is an easy target and the government can collect the tax with no effort at all.
Must go. Just off to fill up so that I can go and find a mortgage to pay for the next tankfull.
Irish
The land of the butch Australian male. Tough guys apparently. Plenty of sledging on the cricket pitch because that is the hard way to play. That is the face that Australia likes to portray.
Unfortunately their decision not to go to Pakistan to play against them because of a couple of bombs going off shows what the Australians are really like.
They have decided that they will not go to Pakistan in light of bombs going off in Lahore. Do they not understand that they are handing victory to the terrorists? Has the fact that they are so far away from the rest of the world coloured their perception of real risk?
Terrorists want to be able to disrupt the normal way of life of the populace. That is where the name terrorist actually comes from. Terrorising people into submisson. Well the Australian Cricket Board have submitted.
It begs the question, what would have happened if they were confronted with the IRA etc. on a daily basis as we were just a very few years back? Probably none of them would have come out of their houses!!!!
I bet the diggers are turning in their graves.
Irish
I cannot believe how some parents behave whilst on holiday. Firstly we had the Mcann's leaving their kids in their apartments, one of them went missing, still to be found.
Now we have the mother in Goa who takes children on holiday, reportedly decides to leave a 15 year old daughter with a local man whilst she goes to a different part of the country with the rest of her children. Surprise, surprise the poor girl falls foul of a murderous rapist.
Will we ever learn? Is it just British parents that behave like this when they get a bit of sun on their backs?
I ask if we will ever learn. I hope so for the sake of the children.
Irish
As some of my more avid (sic) readers will know I spent a lot of years abroad whilst pretending to be a soldier for 24 years. One of the things that travel opened my mind to was coffee. I love the stuff. From the Greek and Turkish coffees in Cyprus to lovely French, Italian and American styles. I loved them all.
Funnily I never brewed my own. If I wanted a coffee it was always instant. That is until the local department store had a knock-down sale on a coffee filter machine. Well, I bought one on a whim. What a fantastic decision.
Now I brew up every morning before I go to work. I have both Italian and French style coffee and I couldn't face the day without the wonderful smell emanating from the coffee machine.
Why I never purchased one before I just do not know, it will remain forever a mystery.
I don't know how I have done without one until now.
Irish
Usky recently blogged about his daughter and her Ju Jitsu grading allowing him to play the doting dad.
Well what is good for a Welshman is good enough for me!!!!
I am reporting on my 8 year old daughters success in achieving an honours grade in her recent junior ballet exam. Second honours grade that she has achieved in a row.
Well done Hannah!!!!
Okay so you may not be interested but it is now there for the whole world to see. 
Irish
Clever buggers at the Met Office have given this piece of advice.
Stay away from the coast until Tuesday because of storms and high tides.
Bugger. I live about 200 yards from the beach!!!!!! 
As the nice Jewish couple said about 2000 years ago, anybody got a room for the night???????
Irish
A Labour MP has called for an extra bank holiday sometime in the autumn and apparently this is being looked at fairly seriously. This is probably no more that a cheap ploy to keep our minds off the serious cock-ups that are being made by Bully Brown and his cohorts, but I will give them the benefit of the doubt and say that this idea has been made for purely altruistic reasons.
So, an extra bank holiday. What should it celebrate?
I plump for an Armed Forces Day.
Let's celebrate the history and commitment of our Armed Forces and the great job they do on our behalf now. They get a rough deal as it is.
That would be my idea.
Irish
