Obstrepero

How long did it take Porto to build a complete new metro system from scratch?

When I was a child (not yesterday) "trick or treat" was common in the UK, but associated with Guy Fawkes.

Because British comics were so popular here, we imported quite a few expressions and in this instance I think we simply transferred it from Guy Fawkes to Hallowe'en.

Are they hatched under laser beams? Did their ship crash here?

A fool using vaguely scientific words hoping to sound like less of a fool.

There's a subtle difference between being "in hospital" and being "in a hospital".

If you drop in to visit a friend, you are in a hospital but you're definitely not in hospital.

Millions of Americans guilty of falsely calling Sam their "Uncle".

#Mamdani

Thoughts and prayers going out to poor DJ Carey as he waits anxiously for a hospital bed.

What the fuck is aunt blood?

Did you know that Iona would have no hope of describing itself as an Institute in the UK, because that's a word protected by law?

Isn't it time we had similar laws in this country?

Will the Iona "Institute" ever stop moaning about the election?

Continuing a long tradition of failure, they failed to get their candidate on the ballot paper, but yet, as always, they just don't know when to shut up.

Are they trying to take the keepy-uppy crown from Catherine Connolly?

Nice bit of headline-manufacture by RTÉ: Armed man arrested at crèche.

Real headline: Armed man arrested in empty building. No children involved.

Don't take medical advice from an idiot.

Every year at this time, my grandmother used to say "Spring sideways. Fall over."

Poor old Granny was a martyr for the drink.

After revelations of bigotry and racism from Aontú members, a shocked Peadar Tóibín say that his party believes everyone should have the maximum possibility to be themselves.

Is this the same Peadar Tóibín who, during the marriage equality referendum, opposed the idea of people being themselves?

Another interesting fact. He once played a character called Trump and also had a role in "Gaslight".

Could somebody please explain why RTÉ gave Maria Steen a platform on prime-time national radio today?

(For clarification, Maria Steen, like 5 million other people, was not a candidate in the recent presidential election).

They just don't get the word "NO".

I suppose gritted teeth are better than the vote-spoiling Iona tantrums.

No. It was shit.

We're not all three years old, are we?

With a name like Sutcliffe, I'd be keeping quiet.

What makes you think the next president will be democratically elected?

Election turnout percentage is hovering in the lower teens.

What do we expect when every single candidate toured the country stirring up apathy?

I heard Professor John Crown on the radio this morning and thought, "Yeah, I'd vote for him."

Luckily for humanity, however, John Crown has many more years of helping people to become well, and doesn't feel the need to become a fossilised, powerless figurehead.

You heard wrong.

Barak is the name mentioned.

Mubarak is a completely different individual.

No.

However wrong racists might be, they actually believe something.

The dimwits who turn up at these riots are just cretinous rats looking for a fight. Equal-opportunity thugs who'd be just as happy to stab you outside a chip-shop.

Rentafool.

We need a word for these arseholes at #CityWest.

What about Mobshites?

Let's not call them protests.

I miss the good old days when the Irish Far Right were just a bunch of bug-eyed, carpet-chewing religious maniacs.

Trump's White House.