Archive for the ‘Issues’ Category

Posted on July 3, 2009 - by John

Remembering: Are You Being Served?

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Remembering

Posted on May 27, 2009 - by John

Catholic Church in Ireland

It is my belief that every time someone does a google search for Catholic Church in Ireland, the abuse report should be front and centre. The Church itself has worked long and hard to bury the atrocities they committed. (From Damien)

This kind of activity does lead to misinformation. Anyway u’d have to be hiding under a rock not to know whats been going on, which makes the whole idea kinda redundant, if not well indented, however it can’t do any damage I suppose! (My comment)

I thought this was a bad idea, but I guess I got it wrong. I have just watched this video and thought to myself – How  I can I give a shit about google searches.

Catholic Church in Ireland - I am linking with this phrasing to keep this report high up on Google.

Posted on April 2, 2009 - by John

New Hamsters FREE to a good home

Suppose this is as good a place as any to post this…

My hamster has just had five baby hamsters, and I am looking for a good home for them. They were born on the 30/03/09 and will be available to a new home in 21+ days. If you are interested and like hamsters, and can provide a good home they are free to take, one or however many you can take.

Please let me know. They are dwarf hamsters, pictures can be mailed if requested.
johnmryan@gmail.com

Posted on February 4, 2009 - by John

World of Warcarft – Everyone can play as long as you are not GAY

I love to play World of Warcraft* (World of Warcraft, often referred to as WoW, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).

So when a friend of mine asked me to create a discussion forum for his guild – a guild is a  group of people who come together in a group to play the game. This guild is a gay friendly guild.I was more than happy to oblige with setting up this forum for them.

It seems however that everyone can play warcraft, except ‘the GAYS’. Having advertised the gay friendly guild in the game, the guild leader got the following e-mail from Blizzard Entertainment.

Greetings,

We are writing to inform you that we have, unfortunately, had to add a warning to your World of Warcraft account. It is with regret that we take this type of action; however, it is in the best interests of the World of Warcraft community as a whole and for the integrity of the game.

Please note that should any further violations of our Rules and Policies occur, this incident will be taken into consideration when determining the consequences to your account. This could include further warnings, account suspension or account termination.

We strongly suggest you review our current Rules and Policies to avoid further action in the future, these can be found at:
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/policy/

Please do not reply to this email as you will receive an automated response. If you have any further enquiries regarding your account status, please send them to:

And in response to the guild leaders question for more information, he got this reply from Blizzard, who owns the game.

Hello ,

Firstly; allow me to apologise for the length of time it has taken to reply to your initial mail. It has unfortunately not been possible for us to respond as swiftly as we would like to at present. Please accept my apologies for the delay in getting back to you on this matter.
In regards to your issue; I have looked over the investigation of the harassment incident that you were reportedly involved in, in order to verify whether or not the penalty was correct.
Having reviewed the records again, it does in fact appear that the penalty was indeed correctly placed. Due to this we will be unable to overturn the decision.
Please be assured that any investigations are objective and action is taken against all parties involved that violated our policies. Due to our ability to see exactly what transpired, we do not believe that there is a need to open dialogue for these policy violations.
Action against policy violations is taken regardless of who was the instigator of the incident.
With regret; we are unable to supply records of the incident, nor to go into our internal handling of warnings on accounts.
Please make certain that you review our harassment policies to avoid further warnings/suspensions:
http://www.wow-europe.com/en/policy/harassmentp1.html
Please also be aware that the profanity filter does not excuse or justify violation of our harassment policy. The filter is not perfect and blocks normal words for some languages that are offensive in others, we do of course verify the context and language history of your account before making such a decision to make certain this was not a case of any words being used innocently.
If you have any further queries or have any additional issues that have arisen in the time it has taken us to respond, please send us a mail and we will be more than happy to address them for you.

What get’s up my nose is that Blizzard are basically saying we may ban you but we will not say why, it’s is not the first time this has happened though

Posted on January 28, 2009 - by John

‘Slumdog’ Kids Still Living in Squalor

According to the report, Azharuddin’s life is actually worse off than when he was filming the role. His father, who suffers from tuberculosis, said the family’s illegal hut was demolished by local authorities, and that he and his son now sleep under a plastic tarp.

http://www.popeater.com/movies/article/slumdog-millionaire-kids-underpaid-for/320528

Posted on December 20, 2008 - by John

RIP Majel Barrett Roddenberry

Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the widow of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, has died. She was 76. Roddenberry, an actress who appeared in numerous “Star Trek” TV shows and movies, died Thursday of leukemia at her home in Bel-Air, Calif., her representative said.

At Roddenberry’s side were family friends and her only son, Eugene Roddenberry Jr. Gene Roddenberry died in 1991.

Her romance with Roddenberry earned her the title “The First Lady of Star Trek.” A fixture in the “Star Trek” franchise, her roles included Nurse Christine Chapel in the original “Star Trek,” Lwaxana Troi in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and the voice of the USS Enterprise computer in almost every spin-off of the 1966 cult series. She recently reprised the voice role in the upcoming “Star Trek” film directed by J.J. Abrams.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081218/ap_en_ce/obit_ majel_roddenberry_2

Posted on December 14, 2008 - by John

Recession sob!

The more people talk about recession in Ireland the more we all panic, and that is of course a natural reaction. Of course we are all going to panic, is our money safe?, is our job?

In my clique (going to use that word more often) we have already had one friend loose a job, I suspect however that many companies are being proactive in letting allot of staff go. Everyone has been predicting this and that, a few things have been said and now companies are crapping themselves.

They sit in their board rooms and discuss ‘company X has let 150 staff go we better do the same’, ‘good idea’ says board member A, ‘but lets not affect our company bonus!’ ‘Don’t talk bull shite’ Bill says board member B, ‘of course not’,’ i’ve promised my wife new boobs this year!.’

Vodafone have announced that they are letting 150 staff go, due to a down turn in the profits per person (or some business phrase like that). If things are so bad, why did they recently buy a land-line company? Why did they expand into the home and broadband section, surely they need MORE and not less staff?

Ireland has pulled it’s self out of worse situations in the past, so lets try to enjoy the Christmas, and worry later. Lets put all this recession shiite under the bed. Suppose that’s easy to say if you have not yet been affected…

And kind of unrelated to recession banter, but I want to end on a different note for this post.

Denny – You know the pork company, who usually looks forward to Christmas sales, was worried for a while about the recent fiasco in the poke market, but we are safe now (apparently). I loved that they opened a stall (you know the type of ones you see on the street when you’ve been on a piss and fancy a munch) on Grafton street yesterday for hungry shoppers giving out free pork products. Genius! And I have to say there was a big queue, Irish people love their Oink Oinks!

Posted on November 7, 2008 - by John

Luas is now a light rail advert

Did anyone see the Luas redline in Dublin – it is now literally a light rail advert - currently featuring a  vodafone ad- looks awful to see an advert zipping around our city – or am I moaning again for no reason?

Anyone got a picture?