Who makes up these polls? Just reading on the breakingnews.ie website “Irish people spend 9.5 hours moaning each week.” No reference to who conducted the poll, how, or even when. It actually looks like something some lazy journo made up in his/her spare time to fill some space. I decided to search Newsnow for ‘moaning’ to see where else this poll is published or where breakingnews might have sourced it from. Interestingly, the only results come from the Examiner and the Enniscorthy Echo – both publications, like breakingnews, of TCH. A Google search for ‘Ireland moaning poll’ also throws up the same article, word for word, in the Irish Independent and Belfast Telegraph.
Well it’s 7 days before I leave for Ireland. The New Zealand Immigrations service has got it’s $140 from me for another blue sticker in my passport so they’ll let me back into the country when I come back. Airfares sorted. Travel insurance sorted. Spending money sorted (my New Zealand dollars buying me shag all Euro). All that’s left now is to pack my suitcase and get my phone set up for roaming. Not that I’ll be answering any phone calls when I’m away, but it’s handy to still be able to send and receive text messages.
Hopefully the weather when I’m flying out is better than it has been this weekend. Just had 3 days of stormy weather here in NZ and looks like it’s not over yet. Luckily for me I’m off to warm sunny Ireland!
Jon Landau came into my video store during the week. He was in the shop for about half an hour with one of our regular customers. I didn’t know who he was, he was just this friendly chatty American dude who seemed to know an awful lot about all kinds of movies. I guessed he was somebody involved in movies as we get a shitload of movie workers through our shop what with being in the centre of Peter Jackson’s movie empire and all that. It wasn’t until he paid with his credit card and I spotted his name on the receipt that it clicked. Post production is still going on here in Wellington for James Cameron’s 3D sci-fi epic Avatar, which Landau is producing. Anyway, he was a very friendly customer so hopefully he’ll be back.
Here’s the song that’s on rotation in my head at the moment
Who is Cupid Stunt?
Cupid Stunt is the occasional blog of a guy from Limerick City, Ireland, currently living in Wellington, New Zealand.
