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I'll Bite:

Me, at a mates house, a few weeks back, with shockingly low-grade lager

No, in short.

In general, places tended to be named or someone's surname, for a start. So if it was named for him it would have been Vespuccia, or suchlike.

It's reckoned to have been named for a Richard or Robert Americk, a wealthy English gent who financed exploration by John Cabot in 1497. Apparently his name ended up on the maps or suchlike.

That's what it said on QI anyway.

Ah, it will, Dogpoet. All things shall end well. I've never left a job for a worse one, and I hope to continue that. In the meantime, I'm gonna get all kinds of fucked up.

Cheers lad!!

Would that i could. there's a Band hall right accross the road. Finaghy Loyal Pope Kickers or somesuch.

Not so bad. There's lots of jobs, so I won't go hungry, but nothing exactly scintillating either. Problem being, it's Belfast, and mid-July, so everything is close so some buck-eejits can walk about in funny hats for a fortnight.

I've a wee temp thing starting next week, hopefully, and a few things on the horizon. Suppose it could have been worse.

Yep. That's true. sadly, though, my other half has just buggered off for three weeks to the states, so i get to sit around drinking heavily on my own.

Fuck sake. The irony is, they laid five folk off today, of whom three had been there since 8am, and two since 7am. The lazy bedraggled bastards who limped in at half nine? All have their jobs. wankers.

Just lost my fucking job.

Laid off with immediate effect, with six weeks pay instead of notice. I wish to drink heavily.

Picked up the Pogues boxset today, as well as "Station" by Russian Circles.

Time to make a little more room on the ipod, I think.

I've always found whiskey sits quite nicely as a chaser

 

a measure of a short in Scotland is known as a "half" - don't ask me why

Same in this end of Ireland, too. A whiskey's a "half 'un", and a full bottle of spirits a "ten-glass".

But our measures are bigger...

Presently delighted that our expanding Polish expat community have caused their beer to appear in offies. Lech is just damned fine lager.

And when that's done, there's a bottle of 25 year ould Bush in the cupboard. I love fridays.

To the best of my knowledge, you've got a case there, if the payment is by direct debit. If I recall correctly, such services are required, by law, to send a notice of debit within three days of the instruction being set up, or within ten days of the first payment being made. The notice should be clear, and concise, detailing the amounts charged.

Any payments not conforming to this are subject to direct debit guarantee.

Also, you can wheech the entire sum back on DDD indemnity, but it'sa pain in the hole, and the firm will hound ye till the ends of the earth for it.

Although how you kept from telling them to park their domain up their fucking hole, I'll never know.

I reckon the next arc is make or break for The Boys. The origins might well make the characters proper or kill them altogether. it's a good concept, and I do have faith that Garf won't piss it away in dick jokes.

It takes a real scruffy git to make a bar that's about to be torn down look untidy. Luckily, I know the very man for the job...

Somewhat hairier than usual there, too. I'm usually rocking the "egg with eyebrows" look.

It's snowing like blue fuck in old Belfast town. Odds I'll be able to make it to work tomorrow just got real, real long.

I saw some beautiful, beautiful Hitman Trades, really nice hard-covers, high grade paper-stock etc. a while back. The only problem being, I saw them in the Czech Republic, and, naturally enough, they weren't in English. According to the local comic shop monkey, there's apparently some kind of "rights issue" tying up the English language trades, but it's unlikely to ever be resolved.

Now, that sounds like a bit of a bag o'shite to me, but if anyone knows better, I'd love to know.

Ennis was shockin' for Stage-Irish. To the point it makes it painful to read for me anyway (it wrecks my head).

The Scousers (no disrespect intended) have a bit of commonality with some Irish accents, but the influence is toned down by now. To me, it just sounds like a Belfast spide copping a Yorkshire accent.

I'd say John's accent isn't too far off Lennon's accent, maybe a bit rougher round the edges. In my head, he goes pure-bred Ron Dixon-Calm-Down-Calm-Down-Steven-Gerrard when he's annoyed at someone, though.

for those sufficiently bored, I'm on BBC2, half seven, 9th July.

Or possibly 8pm.

Superb.

I might actually buy a comic with Superman in it for the first time since the last time Superman and Tommy were in the same thing.

Apart from most of the Johnny Cash stiff and a few other things that have been mentioned...

Odd one, really, but Duke Special Covering the Yeah Yeah Yeah's Maps is the bollocks. For a dreadlocked weirdo from Belfast, he makes a good torch singer...Here

I have distinct fondness for Rodrigo y Gabriela's version of Stairway to Heaven, but even moreso their take on Orion (it's better live)

Mastodon do a great live version of Thin Lizzy's "Emerald".

Flaming Lips covering Seven Nation Army's pretty good.

This is entirely biased by the last few gigs I've been to...

Just found out my preferred drinking den, a place of long and noble history, is to be bought up, torn down and apartments thrown up in it's stead. I'm so angry I could kill. Bang goes another slice of actual, real working class culture to build apartments for shitheawks who make more money than they have good sense.

Well, the tele' appearance has been filmed, and I'm still on it.

Not to whine about it, but I got fucked by the draw. I ended up in the highest scoring of all the rounds (the last one filmed), and, while I came third there, I would have won all but one of the other shows.

So, I did well, but not as well as I could have. Me flight was delayed for two hours in Belfast as well, so my feet didn't touch the ground from I landed in Manchester till I sat in the chair.

Still, 16 in me specialist round ain't to be sniffed at. I will go back and try again some day.

History and Development of the Electric guitar. I'm going to crash and burn, but at least I get to get drunk somewhere different on a Saturday night.

I go to Manchester on saturday to be filmed for the BBC's "Mastermind"

Intestinal Urgency Abounds!

Queen of the Millbags. I wouldn't "hit it" in the face with a bag full of dicks.