Things you wonder about.

Centurions or Centenarians?

How do the litter wardens actually fine people. I imagine the kind of people who litter or let their dog foul and not pick it up would be very difficult to fine, get their correct identity from. its a job I wouldn't like to do to say the least.

Or Flo Rida representing San Marino a few years ago.

They obviously take a different approach to most countries.

Yeah fair fooks to them.

It makes the whole thing more interesting.

I had a Dennis the Menace style thick and warm designer sweater years ago, bout 15 years ago last time I saw it, only difference instead of red and black it was orange with blue horizontal stripes. By a favoured label of mine, comfy as fûck, warm and fit and looked great…still to this day I reckon it was priced incorrectly, was way cheaper than usual for that label….ive absolutely no idea where it is but I can’t contemplate I’d have been that silly to just stick it in the charity bag…. Might pull my wardrobe apart again later and see can I uncover its whereabouts somewhere,…

so yeah…I’m wondering about the whereabouts of my orange and blue stripey comfy jumper. 👽

What goes on in Irish family business and is worse, the same, or different in other countries.

It always seems to be one adult child takes umbridge about a share of the business they believe they are entitled to the goes to the high court suing the parents.

There are loads of examples in Ireland and it always goes the same way.

I wonder why later today the Irish international soccer team is playing a friendly against Grenada in murcia

Ireland are ranked 59 in the world, Grenada 163.

There is precisely zero benefit to the Irish players, to the Irish fans or the FAI who I’m guessing will make a loss on the fixture, genuinely can’t see why you’d want to extend Grenada an invitation. They only play international football sporadically and only vs teams like Kenya, Rwanda, US Virgin Islands and teams of those levels. Can’t be that difficult to pick up the phone to a football association whose international team is ranked within about 30 places of us and set up a game that will benefit players and appeal to fans.

the whole country of Grenada is roughly the same population as the greater Blanchardstown area..

Just curious as to the reason why GAA fans don't wear these sort of county flatcaps anymore? I know this particular championship game is from 1996 but I don't see anyone wearing them either at matches, or on TV.

This is a psychological question. Anytime I see a statistic, my mind immediately reverses it.

It doesn’t matter on the context. It could be serious, like ones I read or heard of on suicide in a study 1 in 9 people have attempted suicide. Or 1 in 5 women have suffered domestic violence. Or the trivial such as xyz number of dogs or cats prefer. Or those shampoo adverts where it lists the percentage and it says the number of people surveyed.

So I end up working it out oh that’s not so bad. 8 out of 9 people haven’t attempted suicide. Sure that’s nearly 90% that’s a good thing! And 4 out of 5 women haven’t suffered domestic violence sure that’s 80% that are grand. That’s a good thing!

Then I work out the percentage of dogs and cats that did not like the pet food in the adverts. Or the number of people in an advert who were not impressed by the shampoo.

Is this normal type of behaviour? Or is it just the likes of me who does this? What is going on psychologically?

With sky high rents, a cost of living crisis and a generation of young people seemingly priced out of the housing market, who the hell is actually buying all these new houses that are getting slapped up?

I wonder why in last nights Evening Herald there were only 39 pages in it.

That includes Tv listings, horse racing listings, advertisements… surly there is enough going on in the country, and globally in terms of news, sports and entertainment that there can be a little more substantial effort put into it ?…

Wrong sort of victim. The guy in Blanchardstown was middle class.