Overheard in Dublin: "I'd never drink in that kip Walsh's in Stoneybatter, bunch of scarf-wearing book readers the lot of them. And another thing, why does every fucker in there have a lurcher with three legs?!"
Putin's going for the big winter offensive to try and break Ukraine then bring Donald in on the other side to enforce the "peace deal" with the promise of a Nobel.
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
Oh, so The Onion makes a Stephen Hawking and its fine but a bloke at a footy club end of season piss up does it and he's evil and the club has to be reregistered.
It's one rule for professional comedians and another for pissed up bogans.
I'm a 47 year old straight bloke. I've taken to drinking in my local gay pub because the atmosphere is so much nicer. No screaming kids, no football wankers, just people having fun & enjoying each other's company.
Achilles: (Blearily in his tent after a surfeit of wine) "Agamemnon! Summon a charioteer to bring forth a family box of the Persian Bird with extra chips and a big bottle of Solo!"
Reading ‘The Mighty Dead’ by Adam Nicolson, I just learned there’s no poultry-feasting in Homer because “chickens … reached the Aegean in about 500 BC, known to the Greeks as ‘the Persian Bird’.”