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Bad news reaches a Prague tourist information centre:
“Since your President Vaclav Klaus has declared people are not responsible for global warming, we have decided to go to Malta rather than to the Czech Republic,” an Irish couple has written.
Since this pair believe people are responsible for global warming, why are they travelling anywhere? Let alone to Malta, which is – ahem – about 1,000 kilometres further from Ireland than Prague.
- Were there problems getting visas for Geothermia?Posted by fidens on 2007 06 05 at 04:40 AM • permalink
- Tell me about it.
We were in Belgium last weekend, meeting up with a friend of my wife who was over from Australia on holiday. She’s a classic leftoid ideological joiner and a know-nothing loudmouth. I had to endure endless preaching about how much of a pair of bastards Howard, Blair and Bush were (as well as how much of a good bloke David Koch was).
It got particularly bad when we visited Tyne Cot cemetery at Paschandaele.
She started the preaching about the Iraq war and how, and I quote,
“Howard learned nothing from World War 2 and is as bad as Hitler who we were fighting there…”
FFS!
Then started the preaching about GW and that “we should do something”…from a person who’d just flown 20,000km for a holiday in Europe.
At this point I simply cracked…
At this point I simply cracked…
…her skull open with your bare fist before filling the empty cavity with poodle faeces???
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 05 at 05:00 AM • permalink
- I hope they take plenty of soylent green snacks to sustain themselves on this arduous trek.Posted by surfmaster on 2007 06 05 at 05:03 AM • permalink
- I’ve emailed Lubos Motl at Harvard and informed him that his homeland is doomed, due a drying up of Irish tourists.
If you go to his blog, the comments of Helmut Schmidt on AGW are interesting, especially as he was a socialist ex-chancellor.
As are the videos of Freeman Dyson’s thoughts on AGW. Mind you, he doesn’t have the credentials to match scientific giants like T. Flannery and R. Williams
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 06 05 at 06:01 AM • permalink
- My father went to Ireland back in the mid-80s. He left early, disappointed—he said it was cold and dank, and everyone dressed like they got their clothes from the Salvation Army. And my father wasn’t exactly a disciple of Mr. Blackwell’s.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 06 05 at 06:19 AM • permalink
- And they’d be the first to complain about being stereotyped by Irish jokes.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 06 05 at 06:29 AM • permalink
- The Czech people seem AWEFULLY nice…am glad this couple is not going to inflict themselves on the good people of Prague.
I myself want to go to Cesky Krumlov one day – especially now that I know self-righteous watermelons won’t be in my way.
Posted by S Ferguson on 2007 06 05 at 06:35 AM • permalink
- #12 Heidelberg
Ich hab’ mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren, In einer lauen Sommernacht. Ich war verliebt bis ueber beide Ohren & wie ein Roeslein hat ihr Mund gelacht. Und als wir Abschied nahmen vor den Toren, beim letzten Kuss da hab ich’s klar erkannt: Dass ich mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren. Mein Herz, es schlaegt am Neckarstrand.
- I’m call Bulls*** on this one. The Czech Republic and Malta are not similar vacations.Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 06 05 at 07:02 AM • permalink
- …To which President Klaus replied, “Pogue Mahone!”Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 06 05 at 07:03 AM • permalink
- Traveling is only really bad you fly. I’m sure these two earth-friendly Micks are planning to take the train to Malta.Posted by Buzz Crutcher on 2007 06 05 at 07:09 AM • permalink
- #37 – No.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 06 05 at 07:15 AM • permalink
- Malta. Did you hear the one about the Irish couple who couldn’t find a Catholic Church in Prague…..went to Malta. Bloody ex communists.
Malta….did you hear the one about the Irish couple who walked around Malta in one day and then lay on the beach and got burnt. Blamed global warming. Bloody capitalists.
Malta….did you hear the one about the Irish couple who returned from Malta to Dublin on Ryan Air, went to their travel agency to complain about their holiday to the japanese receptionist who asked her Aussie boss….bloody globalisation.
Posted by Macosghair on 2007 06 05 at 07:18 AM • permalink
- Global warmin’, is it? Givin’ the Czech Republic a miss, are you? Faith, and oy’ll wager that’s got Squire Klaus cryin’ in his Budvar, for sure. Ya know what yez are? Just a coupla bogtrotters disgracin’ the auld sod, that’s what. An’ if yez ever take a dekko inside a boozer where there be any of the O’Paco’s, ‘tis a swift kick in the cacks ye’ll be gettin’. Bad cess to yez!
- O/T: Australian Institute Of Islamic Sciences
Why do they need such a thing?, they already claim to have invented everything and a lot of Hindu’s and Buddhist’s died so muslims could claim to have invented the number ‘0’.
- #4 Murph
“how much of a good bloke David Koch was”
I bet your wife’s friend wouldn’t have liked Mick Molloy’s new show “The Nation” on Channel Nine which just premiered. I laughed at most of it. Mick was a bit soft on Peter Garrett but still got a few laughs out of the segment.
It was a good hour and then what do they follow it with? Shithouse er, Skithouse, er Comedy Inc. Sigh, life is not all beer and skittles for us insomniacs.
- #49, Texas Bob:
Australian Institute Of Islamic Sciences
The traditional and time honored method of islamic scientific discovery is that they conquer a people and then translate selected books and concepts into the proper language of arabic. Whoever does the first full translation gets the credit for the discovery.
- I wonder if the irish are all motivated to trade their petrol for ethanol? Just think of the convenience. If you happen to get stranded somewhere and run out of fuel, they can drink straight out of the car’s tank.
I betcha that siphoning from parked cars becomes a real problem. The truly desperate ones will try to siphon from moving cars.
- Islamic Sciences, based upon the info behind that link, include “Jurisprudence, Principles of Belief, Arabic grammar and morphology and interpretation of the Quran.” Not sure what kind of lab work is required. Also, Sheikh Naeem, the esteemed professor who will be teaching these disciplines, is said to have “ijaazas” from Turkey. Should have drunk the bottled water, old fellow.
- paco paco paco! I googled up that wierd word you yammered…”Ijaazas” and looky what I stumbled into.
Manic Muslim – Im depressed (and also the Permissibility of Marterdom Operations)
It’s a forum. This thread seems to be a discussion on jihad and koranic backing for suicide operations.
Other than that, I got the general impression that the term means some sort of formal certification to teach in specific koranic or hadith issues.
- Hey, if it keeps the pasty, sunburnt whiny micks off the sunny beaches of Prague,* I’m all for it…
*I know, I know…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 05 at 10:17 AM • permalink
- Mrs. Murph obviously needs to make new friends. Whatever happened to “agree to disagree’’ and leaving it at that?
Andrea, I’ve never been to Ireland but my husband (who has relatives there) has been several times – once in 1976 (when it was pretty much as your father described) and then a couple of times in the last five years. Much richer, much spiffier, espresso bars and designer clothes and all the rest of it. And they’ve pretty much become generic Leftoid Euros.
As for the Irish couple withholding their tourist euros from Prague – I wonder if they didn’t just decide to go somewhere that already speaks English, but felt they had to dress it up in PC-speak.
Posted by Sonetka’s Mom on 2007 06 05 at 10:21 AM • permalink
- I got the ijaazas from Turkey back in the 70’s. Should’ve worn a condom.Posted by Whale Spinor on 2007 06 05 at 10:22 AM • permalink
- But won’t they use a lot more evil air conditioning in Melta?Posted by Son of a Pig and a Monkey on 2007 06 05 at 10:24 AM • permalink
- 31 missred
Ich hab’ mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren, In einer lauen Sommernacht. Ich war verliebt bis ueber beide Ohren & wie ein Roeslein hat ihr Mund gelacht. Und als wir Abschied nahmen vor den Toren, beim letzten Kuss da hab ich’s klar erkannt: Dass ich mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren. Mein Herz, es schlaegt am Neckarstrand.
Oh sure, show off, why don’t you. Well it just so happens I know German. So there!
Hummel-Bräu Märzen, Hummel-Bräu Räucherla, Früh Kölsch, Neder Schwarze Anna, Mahr’s Bräu Helles, Mahr’s Bräu Pilsner, Augustiner Edelstoff, Staffelberg-Bräu Hefe-Weißbier, Andechs Weißbier, Andechs Dunkles Weißbier, Schneider Aventinus, Schneider Weisse, Recken Edel-Pils, Reissdorf Kölsch, Huber Weisses, Schlenkerla Rauchbier-Märzen, Schlenkerla Rauchweizen, Rittmayer Hallendorfer Hefeweissbier.
- By the way, it looks like James Lileks has cut some kind of deal .
Courtesy of the always interesting Ed Driscoll (who I just now tried to link directly, but, unfortunately, my computer kicked me out of his web site. Unless that was Ed who did it. Say it ain’t so, Ed!).
- #69. Hi Paco,
in recent years it’s become a bit of both – was always a major holiday destination, but since we joined the EU (peace be upon it)its become a lot easier for foreigners to purchase property. Plus, property prices have gone up so much that most locals can’t afford to buy anything but the most basic places, so the swankier stuff is aimed squarely at retirees with a bunch of saved-up dosh.Ah well, I suppose we’d rather have a load of well-behaved Brit retirees than a load of loudmouths from our southern neighbours….(though to be honest the ones who cause most problems are Russians, even though their wimmin ain’t half bad lookin – they tend to have an awful drink problem – even by our notoriously lax standards…)
- OT: And along with Irish environmentalism, we get the equally successful Spanish anti-terror policies:
Eta, the armed Basque separatist group, today announced an end to its 15-month ceasefire, dashing hopes of resolving a four-decade violent conflict centred on the north of Spain.
Until now, Eta had insisted that its “permanent” ceasefire remained in place, despite exploding a bomb at Madrid airport in December that killed two people. At the time, Eta said it had not meant to cause any deaths and blamed the authorities for failing to fully evacuate the car park after telephone warnings.
From midnight tonight, Eta said that it would suspend the ceasefire and “act on all fronts in defense of the Basque Country”.
Score another one for appeasement.
- “appeasement” I’m shocked.
That would be “binding non-violent conflict resolution”. You lack perspective and nuance on this issue. Can’t you see that failure is really success? Are actions really more important than good intentions.
The Spanish gov’t gained an important distinction here in the process. Now they know the entire Basque population didn’t pull up their tents and return to Bakersfield,CA.
- Score another one for appeasement.
Yo, Dhimmicrats! Pelosi! Reid! Murtha! Jabba The Hutt! You seeing this?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 05 at 02:30 PM • permalink
- #74: Interesting. Sounds like rather a nice place; although some years ago – probably 20 or more – I think the President or PM or whatever it is you folks have was trying to strengthen ties with North Africa (specifically Libya). Hope you’re done with that nonsense.
Speaking of Russians and such like, I’ve noticed that many of the shops and restaurants in the Outer Banks in North Carolina have Russian (or other Slavic) employees. Maybe they’re “scouts” – you know, checking things out for Putin. And yes: many of the Russian ladies there are quite high on the pulchritude scale.
“Since your President Vaclav Klaus has declared people are not responsible for global warming, we have decided to go to Malta rather than to the Czech Republic,” an Irish couple has written.
Damn, that’s a shame, SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER in Prague. What have you learned in Malta?
Link and links via Instapundit
- The cheaper deal for Malta turned up by their travel agent had nothing to do with it, of course. Nope. No, sirree. It’s all about principles and sticking it to the Man, baby.Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 06 05 at 06:14 PM • permalink
- #83 – Compare and contrast.
Scooter Libby: 30 Months in prison.
Martha Stewart: 5 Months house arrest.
Sandy Burglar: Loss of law license.
Posted by Bruce Lagasse on 2007 06 05 at 06:33 PM • permalink
- #86 Bruce, as you might have seen, Sandy didn’t just ‘lose’ his law licence. He voluntarily gave it up – surrendered his profession, in effect- in order not to have to answer questions about his document-thieving at a hearing of the DC Bar Association. Good article here.
- Murph,
Something I tried recently may be of help when your wife’s idiot friends come around. My wife, luckily is not an idiot, she is a proud Scottish right winger, but her friend recently raised the topic of Michael Moore.
Since I thought all the arguments were over about him long ago I interjected before she could get started, looked her in the eyes and said ‘Michael Moore is a lying, fat, f–k!’. She came back at me with ‘but the world needs him.’ I looked at her again and repeated my earlier statement: ‘Michael Moore is…’
It worked. Faced with nowhere to go she actually dropped the topic and we had a nice time. Maybe it would work with your wife’s friend as well.
- #50- Were we watching the same thing? I caught about three minutes while I was scrolling through the hard-disc recorder for something viewable and caught his bit with Garrett- if Molloy’s tongue was any further inserted in the Member for Botanys bot it would’ve been poking out his gob, flicking around like a goannas sniffing for carrion. Fortunately I came across an episode of Cracker and thus avoided any more exposure.
Local content rules are a televisual version of import restrictions on motor vehicles- we’re lumbered with Commodores and Falcons which have the performance of a Wartburg fueled with kerosene combined with the handling characteristics of a pissed Michael Moore on a skateboard, and entertainment which in other contexts would be viewed as cruel and unusual punishment by the UN and Amnesty.
Molloy is such a git he couldn’t even hold a gig on commercial radio, where former Big Brother bogans are in demand for their witty banter, cutting quips and intellegent discourse on matters of import.
Fat twat.
- #4- I had a similar experience on Friday night at Broncos leagues club, where the old bat dragged me for dinner with her sister and her commie idiot boyfriend. He turned up bladdered and proceded to lecture and hector throughout dinner then after at the bar, and when I tired of his blather and told him he was a bumptious, belligerent, bellicose, bombastic blowhard blatherskite, to which he took exception as I believe he didn’t know what it meant (he’s a lawyer in government employ), and thumped me on the back. I reminded him of the statute of assault, and that only thugs and the none-too-bright resort to physicality when losing an argument, and left.
hopefully I won’t be invited to any future gatherings, as I prefer to choose my company and if I want to go somewhere with loud, obnoxious, profane, beery oafs it’ll be with ones I agree somewhat with. And I wouldn’t drag the missus along as well, as such behaviour embarrasses her. (Such civility seems unknown to lefties, as they seem to think swearing like a pissed wharfie in front of females shows their commitment to diversity and equality).
- #31 and #70
Here’s a little joke for you:Und als wir Abschied nahmen vor den Toren
and if the Irish were there
Und als wir Abschied nahmen von den TorenPosted by pog-ma-thon on 2007 06 05 at 11:23 PM • permalink
- I managed a 70. I hate multiple-guess exams.Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 06 06 at 12:01 AM • permalink
- #83, aaron
Martha Stewart spent 5 months in a minimum security prison before her 5 months of house “detention”.
As far as I’m concerned, both she and Libby were railroaded for reasons other than justice: Martha because she is Martha (and how dare some white broad become a billionaire tall poppy!), Libby for political reasons. Neither were convicted of any real crime other than supposedly lying about crimes that were never proven to be committed by either one.
Now Sandy Berger is a whole ‘nother kettle of fish and absolutely nobody in authority is going after him, even though he committed a very serious crime, and lied about every aspect of it in order to get a plea agreement.
If the Irish couple traded in their tickets for cheaper tickets and lied about why they did so, I say throw the book at them!
- “Bill O’Reilly says if you take this quiz, he’ll send a phone card to the troops in Iraq.”
Hook up with these folks and the troops get a lot more than a lousy phone card AND you don’t have to listen to Bill O’Reilly…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 06 07 at 10:24 AM • permalink
- But he’s our obnoxious, pompous clown and that makes him lovable.Posted by dean martin on 2007 06 09 at 07:54 AM • permalink
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