Kevin McGee

I do miss films like Blue Collar, (which admittedly kind of is about the struggle), but also Saturday Night Fever or Rocky, where the working-class experience is just the texture of their lives. The Dardenne Brothers’ Two Days One Night mines the same rift.

Tubridy paid the stolen money back when he realised nobody in the UK thought he was actually good at the job. Now we’re being groomed to take him back. So he can spend two hours a morning reading the fucking newspapers aloud.

If RTE bring this thieving prick back I will do a violence, and I will expect some of you to join me.

John Boyne taking notes.

In retrospect it wasn’t my best move to respond to my mother’s “what are you seeing in the cinema this weekend” text with just the words “Send Help” without explaining that’s the name of the film. As she informed me in the immediate subsequent panicked phone call

YouTube video by Rockin' BluesTakis Rory Gallagher - Last Of The Independents - Live At Montreux 1979

It also inspired Rory Gallagher. youtu.be/WElqddAaEdQ?...

He’s certainly insufferable, but I suspect he’s teasing Watson here.

This amused me greatly 😂 especially the fox painting 😂

Thank yoooo @cheekybudgie.bsky.social

I think they may view abuse allegations as a badge of authenticity.

This is one of the greatest pieces of public speaking I’ve ever seen.

Clement Attlee smiling like a man who’s just had a bracing threesome.

She’s dead right about this country’s abandonment of Donegal. I don’t know how they can stand the rest of us.

Majella O’Donnell is a lovely woman. I think fame is very hard on her, but - next president?

*scuttling across the floors of silent seas* man I should've been a guy who can't decide how to wear his pants

That time I recreated the Simpsons intro using only stock footage.

Cheering myself up with the probability that Murdoch will die soon.

Michael Martin has knowingly posted images of children to a site which lets anyone in the world edit them to show semen on their faces. He has questions to answer, and this bluster doesn’t do it.

Graham Linehan testifying in Congress, looking a bit like Father Ted’s accidental Hitler impression.

Father Ted’s accidental Hitler impression.

Spotted by @craigary.bsky.social

It’s a great story, but it does imply the kid’s Girlfriend is Thomas the Tank Engine.

Mandelson was called a "master of the dark arts" by English journalists who thought it took a genius to tell them what they wanted to hear.

If you’re going to do this, I’d suggest not using photos that the assholes like.

It’s like water in a desert to see someone (who has the wealth to shut journalism down) come out of this with integrity.

Lead Heads It would be libellous to print anything else.

"The senior sub was a smoothly silver-haired gent of the old school. One could have said of Leo what Virginia Woolf said of T. S. Eliot; that if he could, he would have worn a four-piece suit."

For Fence #26, John Banville recalls his start in the newspaper biz.

www.the-fence.com/banville-pub...

I do wonder how much they spend on cleaning, and how much on those anti-litter ads which are sometimes visible between the mounds of shite.

Jayne Mansfield in Tralee Jayne Mansfield's show is cancelled after Kerry clergy protest at her proposed appearance at the Mount Brandon Hotel in Tralee.

@dirtyfeed.org A supplement to your Jayne Mansfield viewing. Some soundtrack silences and an abrupt ending, but plenty of charm from the woman herself. www.rte.ie/archives/exh...

If anyone says Lupita Nyong’o is miscast as the most beautiful woman in the world, you know you can safely discard any further opinions from that person

Sorry to be a Bluesky amateur, but does anyone know how I could download this, or link to it for a non-Bluesky-user?

The OED gives the verbal form “ to blow someone” as even earlier than the job form. I suspect “below job” is an attempt to tidy up the messiness of it.

The OED agrees. First citations for handjob and blowjob in their sexual senses are 1939 and 1947 respectively. Green’s Dictionary of Slang has a blowjob from 1942.

Cos leis insan uaigh is an chos eile ar a bruach.