Sensible Shoccer

Euro 2008 qualifying approaches, and we can look forward to a ruddy difficult campaign under the madness of King Stan. It was all going ok until the Czech Republic came out of the hat to finish off a tough group for qualifying:

Group D
Czech Republic
Germany
Slovakia
REP OF IRELAND
Wales
Cyprus
San Marino

We have the beating of San Marino and Cyprus. If we don't then we can wave goodbye. Wales could prove tricky, especially with Robbie Savage living up to his name and causing us great physical harm. They're the Israel of this campaign. Now for the news on Slovakia. Slovakia are a team that are so good it will suprise most. This is not as simple a fixture as it may seem. The Slovakians are on the way up. You read it here once. However, like the Welsh, I still think we can beat them. These are must-win games and we can't afford to sit back like we did against those Israeli fuckers the last time. Onto the obvious must-win games...

The "German side in decline" have been in decline for too long now. We must remember that this team is very similar to the side that made it (while in decline, apparantly) to the World Cup final in 2002. Never rule out the Germans, they're not the kind of team that don't make it to FIFA's major tournaments. However, as hosts of World Cup 2006 they haven't played competitively in a long time. Let's hope don't get much practise in during the World Cup. Maybe we can shock them, like they did to Poland all those years ago.

And the Czechs... We need a miracle to hold these guys back, I predict them to go far in the World Cup this summer. Currently ranked at number 2 in the World, they are this campaign's "French fuckers". Can't wait to see Klunk up front for the Czechs at least though.

Right Stan, show us what you're made of...


Steve Staunton: Minister for Funny Walks

Google Fight...

... is a moderatley amusing website with poor longevity. The user is asked to enter two terms to "fight". It then uses a Google search to determine the winner of the "match". After about five minutes of entering things like poo vs ass, the site loses its charm.

However, using clever search tools such as quotation marks can lead to more interesting and enlightening results. (I haven't tried many other search tools like specifying file types or urls, but quotation marks do work.)

Which leads me to the question: Baked beans or fried eggs?

Apparantly we're marginally more fond of fried eggs

Infozoia

Work begins again this week on our long over-due ep thingy. We're gonna finalize what we're doing for every song, write it down and then hopefully practise with you guys before recording it to inject some energy into the thing. Liam's gonna try and get a room in Mary I somewhere to do a couple of days solid recording. Failing that I'll try and get some time in the boat club and failing that talkchoo.

The Boat Club want us for a headline gig.

Our IT division should probably get cracking on that website!

Democracy

America is a sick country. They have financial control over everyone. If they wanna land in Shannon they just fly right in. We have no choice. We rely heavily on them financially. If we stop them and a they hurt us who do we go to for help? World Bank. Who funds the world bank? America.
It's disgusting. They have us by the balls. They've got everyone by the balls. They've their web knitted through the entire workings of the western world. They've their hands up everyone's asses. It'd be fine if they were out to help us but they're not. It's ridiculous. It's too much power for one point of view.
Poor (not sarcasm this time) Bertie has a really shitty catch 22 on his plate. It makes me sick thinking about it.

From Wikipedia.
'Democracy' (from Greek) literally "the people rule") is a system where the population of a society controls the government. It may be narrowly defined as that of nation-state government specifically, or more broadly to describe a society as a whole, which can also exert political power and social power.
Democratic government aspires to serve under "the people" rather than ruling over them. This ideal is pursued by implementing some form of a voting system, usually involving indirect representation.'

'Democracy is often implemented as a form of government in which policy is decided by the preference of the real majority (as opposed to a partial or relative majority of the demos/citizens) in a decision-making process, usually elections or referenda, open to all or most citizens.'

It seems America sees fit to apply other forms of government to other nations.

The Wesley Willis Fiasco

Drawings done by Wesley Willis from the mid 80s are going for over $500 (€410) on eBay. Check it out. Apparently if you're dead, then the value of your creative output spirals out of control. And to think Willis died with no more than $300 (apparently) to his name.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Wesley-Willis-Buckingham-Fountain-pen-and-ink-drawing_W0QQitemZ7379670239QQcategoryZ357QQss
PageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Feel the power

More infozoia! Friedrich Nietzsche killed me. The Superman is dead. (Separate incidents)

Western Civilization. So now the weird are successful. The more weird you try to be the more acceptable you become. Because if you have the ambition now you can achieve anything, nothing is achieved by doing anything. Everyone is equal, everyone is tolerated (that's their way), everyone is the same, religion fades, culture dies, everyone is happy, everyone goes insane, society collapses and we start killing each other again. For a while everyone will probably want to have sex with everyone else (except the uglies) and we'll develop a super race heading into the anarchy.

I'm scared, I want my Mommy! I wanna go home!



Oh Christ!
The middle east will be left intact with their crazy fundamentalism. They'll enslave the infidels (including poor neutral unassuming Ireland with our poor little farms and our highest income per capita rates in the world) and we'll be back in the dark ages. Arranged marriages public executions and no art. At least Christianity will be gone. But there'll still be all the middle eastern religious scourges to deal with! Not that they'll be dealt with. Our will will be gone!Maybe Buddhism and Hinduism will still be there. Wait, they might make nice people but their religious beliefs are still ridiculous in parts so that doesn't make things better.

Surly Sensationalized Sexromp Shocker

Lack of broadband and festive over-indulgance has kept me away from the blog. I haven't a lot to say really.

That's the rest.