Yawning Rabbits

This is quite possibly the weirdest website I have EVER come across.

It's a site that shows photographs of Yawning Bunny Rabbits

I'm feeling sorry myself...

...and my wallet...

I don't usually get sick apart from some back trouble.

However, in the last few years I seem to be getting sinus infections at the same time that other people get colds or chest infections.

My sinus infection is accompanied by the usual severe headache that an inflamed sinus likes to inflict on a human. The nasty bugger.

So as per usual, I try and fight the infection with some over the counter Sudafed or Sinutab. It doesn't work. Chemist says you need an anti-biotic.

Off I toddle to my local GP...I tell her I have a sinus infection...She pokes me in the forehead saying 'is it sore there?' which of course it is. Then gets that magic light thing and looks in my ear. Writes a prescription and in less than 120 seconds I am handing over €46 and am out the door, down the road to the chemist, where I hand over another €20 for the pills.

Am I missing something here? Why can't I just go into the chemist and say, I have a sinus infection. Take a gawk back there at your computer and you will see I had it again about 6 months ago. Can you give me the same pills again please?


€46 for a 2 minute consultation? That works out at €1,380 an hour. Are premiership footballers even earning that?

Now never let it be said this blog is not educational...Here is a graphic showing where the sinus' are located in the human body. For the record the pain in my head is mostly at the sphenoid and frontal ones.

Irish TV Memories - Part Three

Time to look back at the cartoons that made life in poor Ireland of the 80s just about bearable!


Bananaman



Battle Of The Planets



Count Duckula



Dangermouse



Dogtanian and the Muskahounds



Ghostbusters



GoBots



He-Man



Inspector Gadget



M.A.S.K.



Penelope Pitstop



Popeye



Road Runner



Scooby Doo



Smurfs



Superted



Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles



Thundercats



Tom & Jerry



Transformers



Tweety



Ulysses 31



Woody Wood Pecker



Yogi Bear



Technically not cartoons, but...


BOSCO



BOSCO's The Magic Door



Wanderly Wagon



Forty Coats



Remember looking at the telly and turning up the sound on 2FM to watch the BeatBox?



Banana Splits



The Magic Roundabout



Thomas The Tank Engine



And if ever you were up late enough, you got to see RTE 'closedown' for the night:



Which was then followed by this:

Should have gone to Specsavers!

Can you spot what is...

...wrong in this photograph?

As you can see it's a car parking space reserved for a disabled person.

It's from my local shopping centre car park. Looks a bit narrow? Your average family or medium sized car would take up the width of that space as well as the depth of it.

See the shopping trolley bay on the left? That's usually over-flowing with trolleys.

On the right, there is usually a car parked as the spaces are quite near the enterance to the supermarket.

So, if you were to park your car in there, with the trolleys on one side and a car on the other, how are you supposed to get out with the two pillars.

Pretty much impossible, but imagine the assault course it would turn out to be if you were wheel-chair bound, on crutches, etc.

Greetings

It has indeed been a week since my last post. Things have been uber-busy what with work and I actually had a social life this weekend just past.

No real time for a proper post, so here is some tat I found of late:

Condi-Licious



Appropriate for the day that's in it... The Ten Least Romantic Song Lyrics


Phone in her throat, boyfriend faces likely cell time

Grumpy Workers Make The Best Workers

The Google Masterplan!
Yikers.com Video: Googles Master Plan Explained


And finally, I'm quite liking this song at the moment. Calvin Harris - Acceptable in the 80s

Word Of The Week

For some reason (I'm not fully sure why) I decided to have a word of the week for each week in 2007. For the most part, these have been the kind of words that your granny used to use.

The words so far:

w/c Jan 1st - RATHER
As in...that skirt is RATHER ugly

W/c Jan 8th - SNAZZY
As in...that shirt is very SNAZZY

w/c Jan 15th - Uber
As in...that woman is UBER ugly

w/c Jan 22nd - VEXED
As in...He was so VEXED when he noticed the stain on his shirt

w/c Jan 29th - LEG-END
As in...That Seteve Staunton is a total LEG-END. (The opposite to legend and pronounced as two seperate words)...

w/c Feb 5th - GURRIER
As in...that little gurrier tried to rob my mobile phone

All suggestions for future words of the week shall be carefully considered by a select panel of judges.

Speed Isn't Everything

Send in the clowns

Friday Funnies

How Malteasers are made





Why does EVERYONE pick on Gingers? The International Ginger Kids Organisation



Think you hate your job?

Next time you have a bad day at work think of this guy.

Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs.

Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 FM in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest.

Needless to say, she won.

Hi Sue,

Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother.

Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all.

Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job.

As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature.

It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.

What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a jacuzzi.

Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse.
Within a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened.

The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate.

When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt.

I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically.

Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression.
When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet.

As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber.

The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut.

So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.

Now repeat to yourself, "I love my job, I love my job, I love my job."

Now whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day?

May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!!

Happy Groundhog Day

It's Friday February 2nd...so Happy Groundhog Day!

Happy Groundhog Day

It's Friday February 2nd...so Happy Groundhog Day!

Happy Groundhog Day

It's Friday February 2nd...so Happy Groundhog Day!

Now why were my birthday cakes never as cool as this?
My Life In Frosting

Yet another cure for cancer ?

This is just WEIRD

This is very SAD

This is very COOL