Something for the Weekend

Crash!

Drive/cycle/walk carefully folks,  and if you can’t, make sure there’s nobody around to stick the video on youtube!

 

Man spends night asleep in cinema after watching PS I Love You

I shit you not!

From stuff.co.nz:

A Christchurch man paid the price for dozing off while on a date with his wife last night.

Radio reports say a husband and wife were at the film PS I Love You at Hoyts Cinema in Northlands Mall, when the man nodded off.

His annoyed wife decided not bother to wake him up at the end of the movie and went home alone.

She woke at 3am to discover her husband had still not made it home so rang his cellphone and woke him up.

The man then set off the mall’s alarm system when he tried to leave.

Radio said police arrived to find a very embarrassed couple.

A police spokesman said it sounded like a case of “husband neglect” to him.

A Hoyts Cinemas representative could not be reached for comment.

Of course, ‘husband neglect’ is a very serious crime here in NZ. You’ve been warned.

 

Sauced

Second supermarket and beer related post in a week. Anybody noticing a worrying trend here?

Anyways there’s a beer here in NZ called Tui, which is a pale ale very popular among kiwis, not a bad beer and quite cheap.

I was strolling around the supermarket today and found this!

Tui-mato sauce! Your good old tomato ketchup, spiced up with at least 2% real Tui beer!

Perfect for the barbecue.

I was trying to think of other alcohol-food ideas.

Bass-tarts anyone?

 

Westlife still sellouts

Looks like the global Westlife phenomenon shows no signs of waning. 4000 Tickets for their first ever New Zealand show here in Wellington sold out in under 3 hours this morning, at up to $150 a pop. I wasn’t one of them. Some people have no sense!

 

An interesting fact about Guinness

My supermarket down the street from me here in Wellington, New Zealand, sells 4×440ml draught Guinness cans for NZ$13.70. These are brewed and bottled (or canned) in St James’ Gate, Dublin, then exported.

This works out at NZ$3.42 per 440ml can, a little maths means this equals around NZ$3.90 per 500ml.

NZ$3.90, at todays exchange rate, equals around €2.05.

A 500ml can of draught Guinness in Superquinn in Ireland costs… €2.05.

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Interesting, isn’t it?!

I’m thirsty now after that bit of maths!

 

Well done to the blog awards winners

The 3rd Irish Blog Awards took place over the weekend. Obviously I wasn’t there because I’m 12,000 miles away but some of my favourite blogs did take home some hangovers/awards. Well done to Limerick Blogger, Grandad, Arseblog, Rick and of course Twenty Major who now has a bigger trophy cabinet than Peter Jackson, presumably.

Well done to all winners, I’ll be going through the list no doubt discovering some new blogs. Looks like a good night was had by all!

 

I took some photos

I was out and about with my camera the other day and took a few photos.

Here’s my first ever attempt at a stereo photo. (crosseyed stereo - how to view)

And here’s two more I took.

flying low

 

gone fishin’

 

Being a radio presenter can seriously damage your health

Just look what it’s done to poor Nikki Hayes

from rte.ie/2fm

 

RTE cut half the Irish Oscar winners speech!

So apparently RTE only showed Glen Hansard’s bit of the speech for Best Original Song and didn’t bother showing Marketa Irglova’s wonderful emotional return to the stage. Of course, as Rick points out, RTE only buy in these packages pre edited anyway, so it’s outside of their control. But I have a bee in my bonnet with RTE ever since I was a 14 year old Queen fan watching the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert and RTE decided to cut off the last half hour of it to show a Dallas rerun. So there.

Anyway, how long does it take to check that the version they got had got the whole thing, and stick Marketa’s bit in themselves if they needed to? Maybe when they get the tv rights for Once, in 2013, they can just cut her bits out of the movie too.

And before anybody says Marketa Irglova’s not Irish, just listen to her speak. She’s Dublinese alright!

 

So… Glen Hansard just won an Oscar…

It’s true.

Will we ever hear the end of it?

Seriously though, great song, great movie. Well done Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova!

Here’s their performance of the winning song at the Oscars…

and here’s them winning and the acceptance speech(es)

They cut off Marketa during her speech so they allowed her back out to make a speech after the ad break.