This is just the beginning

He plays on the left, he plays on the right, that boy Ronaldo made England look shite.

Man United finally got the premiership back. It was an amazing season where the old players were in the best form of their careers while the young players really started to deliver. Obviously Ronaldo had a great season but Rooney struggled most of the year before getting his groove back. He finished the season ON FIRE. Premiership winners, FA cup final, Champions League semi-final. It has been a great season.

But this is just the beginning

The secret to United's success has been Ferguson's brilliance in the transfer market. He has not bought a single bad player in the last 3 years. I don't need to list the brilliant players who have arrived. But know this: United have the best batch of players coming out of the youth system since beckham/scholes/nevilles. Most of them have been loaned out for the past 12 months.

Rossi scored 9 goals since January for Parma in their relegation battle in Italy. Defender Pique has been a first team player Real Zaragoza, defender Jonathan Evans from Belfast was first choice at Sunderland last season, and he is an AMAZING defender. Ben Foster on loan at Watford is already Englands no. 2 goalkeeper. Those are the best prospects but there are plenty of others.

But that is not all, Owen Hargreaves will finish his move next week. Tonight, United have announced the double signing of Nani from Sporting Lisbon and Anderson from Porto. These are two of the best young players in Europe!

How all these new players can fit into an already large squad? I don't know. There will definitely be players sold I suppose. What I do know is that United are an unstoppable force about the devour every team in Europe they come across. I'm tired of Milan knocking us out of Champions League

VICTOOOOOOOOORYYYYYYYYYY

SEASON REVIEW:

Bring Your Hatemakers

Im actually surprised that David hasn't posted anything about Kimbo Slice, well here's a small clip in which Kimbo is interviewed about his upcoming fight in the MMA, which is basically like the UFC or Pride Fighting.

This is gonna be epic, I definately have high hopes for Kimbo in this new environment. The fight takes place on June 23rd 2007. You heard it here first folks, and don't bother posting any crap comments like "hm well actually I heard something about this ages ago." No you didn't, so stop lying (it's just a deliberate attempt at deviating from the truth).
Don't forget to bring your Hate-Makers and/or Hay-Makers ......whatever that means.

Musical Minchin

This is a clip i saw last night on t.v, I spent the better part of an hour searching for it on youtube coz i didnt catch his name, and then I found it today on College Humor. His name is Tim Minchin, a talented australian with an odd sense of humour . Please excuse the "Al Murray" bit at the start, and just listen to the "Inflatable You" song, my favourite part is "to watch the fute-e-ball" (2.30mins). Don't really bother with the "Canvas Bags" song.
enjoy it..or not....I don't really mind.

Fake iFeud

Steve Jobs has been a fan on The Beatles since he was young, he still adores them today, even though they have been disputing over the name "Apple". Recently, Paul McCartney made a break-through into reconciling with Jobs over their feud, he made a deal with Apple's iTunes which may signal a turning point. All seems well.......but wait......John Lennon's famous widow Yoko Ono isn't happy, and theres no pleasing her.

A blog has been getting a lot of attention from avid Silicon Valley enthusiasts. fakesteve.blogspot.com/ is a site run by....well...a fake Steve Jobs. Known a FSJ, his posts take a funny look at the Silicon Valley Millionaires. He talks about fictitious conversations that he has had with Yoko.

"So Yoko Calls. And she's acting all Zen and saying she's been praying for my soul and she's glad that my Apple and 'the real Apple', as she calls it, have been able to make peace. 'I know this is what John would have wanted,' she says. 'He was all about peace and making peace. Not war. But peace. Yes. That was John's way and so it is mine as well.' "

FSJ says, "You know, if you're so into peace, then why have you been fighting me for 25 friggin' years over the word 'Apple'? It's a friggin' word!"

Apparently, the website has been getting so much attention that the author has signed deals to write books and possible television or film project. FSJ, however, likes to remain anonymous. This is driving a Silicon Valley witch-hunt, people are desperate to find out who he is. Valleywag pointed out that they believe a british journalist Leander Kahney was the illusive FSJ. The blogger is so well informed about Apple and Steve Jobs that some believe it is Steve Jobs himself!
Jobs denies this, but admits that he enjoys the website and its authors commentary.

The Ginger Ronaldinho

Paul McShane has been playing for West Brom in the championship (2nd division) for the last couple of years after being released from the Man Utd youth academy. He is a center back and has done so well at West Brom that he already has a couple of Ireland caps and was just voted the West Broms fans' player of the season. The guy is one of the least graceful players you'll see, which is why I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED!

SHOWBOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!

Pikeys in Nikes

Tonight I was checking out some of the culture of our most beloved "ethnic minority"... Traveller bare-knuckle boxing! In this video theres 10,000 pounds of (stolen!) prize money for the winner. It's not quite Kimbo Slice territory, but its still pretty entertaining.

"Have ya had enough paddy?!" "FINISH HIIIIM!!"


The real reason I'm posting though is to show you guys this funny prank call. It seems to be some guy from a place called Balla (?) phoning "The King of the Pikeys", probably some bare-knuckle boxer. I don't really understand whats going on but anyway, enjoy it.


*EDIT* I know it would be weird, but is that prank caller Ciaran Murphy from Off The Ball on Newstalk 106. Anyone know that guy?

Flagrant Market Domination

AT&T are a phone company in the U.S. which has history going all the way back to the first phone company started by Alexander Graham Bell. AT&T had an almost complete monopoly of the phone network until the latter half of the 20th century when the U.S. government decided to try to introduce competition to the market by breaking AT&T into a number of smaller companies.

Flagrant Filming

Well, we're sorry that there haven't been many posts recently, me and David are currently doing exams, but we should be finished soon. In the meantime, to keep you occupied, here's some porn.......well, sort of.

Good song or my dong?

After shamelessly watching the Eurovision at the weekend, this was the song I would've voted for. It sounds pretty good to me, especially for a Eurovision song, but I can't help but fear my judgement is being clouded by my attraction to the singer. What do you think?

Why I will be voting Green

In Ireland over the last 10 years, the economy has been well run, but our society has not. Now we have the resources to rebalance our priorities. That is why, for me, the main issues in this election need to revolve around improving our quality of life.

Forget global warming. That is certainly not the only reason you should consider the Greens, it just so happens that the factors which damage our environment are also behind the damage to our society, and in the long run, our economy.

Improvements to our quality of life don't have to involve big projects and spending lots of money, sometimes it just means planning for the future, having having the desire to see changes happen. Over the period of the next government, many of us will graduate from college, join the workforce and look at buying a house. Soon, these same quality of life issues will begin to hit us. What are they?

Currently, first time house buyers can only afford to live in satellite towns in Meath, Wicklow and Kildare. Vast amounts of housing estates are being built onto the edges of towns/villages in these areas. While the populations of these towns grows with young families, there has been no associated increase in community services. As a result there are: over-crowded schools, no child care services, inadequate sewage and water systems. Housing often has no footpaths to local village. There are no shops and services near and this creates a reliance on the car, and anti-social problems. Also, no public transport means parents must drive to work, which is often in Dublin. Famously, this creates traffic gridlock, and means parents can spend 4 or 5 hours a day commuting and this is time lost with their families. At the end of the day, this means there is no real community.

Is this the way we should be living our lives? Do you think its acceptable that in 2007 the government is still allowing these mistakes to happen? Imagine life as a kid in your area without any DART or Buses? Why the hell are houses being built in these places, do you think we've run out of space in Dublin?

Rather than spending all our time trying to fix the symptoms of bad planning, why don't we do more to fix it at source, through proper urban planning! We need to stop letting developers decide where houses will be built! This is where the current government has failed miserably.

The Green Party are the only party who I believe would deliver a better Dublin. They propose introducing an new authority to take control of planning. They also are one of the only parties who care about making small changes, like removing cars from our city centre, making it a nicer environment for pedestrians. Small changes lead to big improvements.

Also I feel not enough attention is paid to the greens economic proposals. The greens have by far the most responsible manifesto when it comes to running our economy. They have not been promising everything to everyone. Other parties will reduce income tax, well the Greens will reduce VAT which is one of the most "regressive" taxes around (because it takes no account of peoples ability to pay). The greens say they will actually increase Capital Gains Tax because it is currently lower than income tax, and is a bit of a loophole. It is through methods like this that they can pay for their proposals, unlike other parties who say they will cut taxes and then pay for their policies through unrealistic economic growth predictions.

At the end of the day, I really can't think why anyone would dismiss the Green Party, other than because of ignorant presumptions. I hope others will think about voting for them.

P.S. I also think our local TD Ciaran Cuffe is very good, you can see his youtube page here and his blog here.

Nothing Really Rhymes with 300

I dont know if any of you have noticed, but I do my best to rhyme the titles of my posts. And well, nothing really rhymes with 300, so....that was kind of a failure. Anyway, got majorly sidetracked, but this is a funny clip which demonstrates that theres a little bit of Leonidas in all of us. Go ahead, try it. Just go up to someone and punch them in the face. this lady did, so why dont you?
NOTICE: This site does not condone violence, however, we do love to watch it.

Jumping Gymnasts Batman!

Batman has nothing to do with this post, I merely used him his name to make the title sound cool, if I mislead you I'm sorry.
This is pure athleticism at its best. The strength, balance and endurance these athletes show is amazing(not to be confused with Mathletes). The men's group make a cool totem pole, which I will admit is better than mine. And in the womens group theres loads of cool displays of balance (around 7:15 is my favourite). What can I say, I tought them everything I know. In the words of someone else, on some other site :
"It's always been my unrealistic fantasy to have sex with a gymnast. Now it's my truly unrealistic fantasy to have sex with three gymnasts. Fuck you guys."
I'd have to agree with him. Enjoy the video, but not too much....don't go blind or anythin'.

(on a completely unrelated note, how dignified does this monkey look? It's a rhetorical question, I don't want any answers.)

Flagrant Advertising

Recently I found a really cool blog called Dark Roasted Blend. As its own motto says, it is a collection of "All Sorts of Weird and Wonderful Things". Basically, it has collections of really cool photographs on (what I think) are some really interesting subjects. For instance, the pictures shown here are taken from one of Dark Roasted Blend's posts about creative advertisements. There are lots more advertisements which can be seen at this page, and theres 5 more pages of them if you look around the site. But cool advertisements are just one of an array of subjects covered on the site. There is a very wide variety of picture sets, but nearly all of them are interesting. Some of the good ones are Moscow: Futuristic Concepts from 1900, Strange Towers of the Third Reich and The Most Dangerous Roads in the World.

I seriously recommend you check out the site, it's just so good!
http://thrillingwonder.blogspot.com

Meddling Magicians

Uri Gellar, Psychic? or kick in the nuts? The latter would explain my feelings towards Uri Gellar. I don't believe him for a second, he's fooled (metaphorically kicked everyone in the nuts, male and female alike) everyone into thinking that he has mystical powers. And so, i was happy to see people debunking his abilities. James Randi was a magician in the 70's who did just that. In the clip, you can see a bit (roughly 6 minutes into it) where Johnny Carson (a former magician himself) tears Gellar apart and humiliates him on national T.V, however, this did not stop Gellars fame (I wish it had though).

Like Johnny Carson, James Randi is a legend, he is a magician who shows everyone that pyschics are just like you and me, they dont have powers, just tricks, but they would like to fool you into thinking they do. Go on youtube and just search for James Randi.
Gellar is simply a successful con artist, magicians don't pretend to have powers, they admit that they have tricks but they dont want you to know the secrets to them. Thats fine with me, I like trying to figure it out (often failing with some of the more amazing magicians), but Gellar plugs himself as a psychic which is just crazily stupid. Gellar is successful in fooling lots of people, and his Flagrant disregard for the opinions of those who debunk his "powers".

You are famous for bending spoons, how will you ever top yourself? Get a real job Gellar.

Eh, ain't that a bit racialist?

Someone with a bit of a hatred for our celtic land left this interesting comment on the "Flagralicious Movies" post!

FUCK YOU FILTHY PADDY MICKS I HATE EVERYONE OF YOU FUCKERS GO BACK TO FUCKING IRELAND STAY AWAY FROM ME TELL YOUR WORTHLESS CUNTS TO ALSO STAY AWAY I WILL BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYONE OF YOU FUCKERS

PUNJABI PRIDE

Are there really that many annoying Irish people in the Punjab?

*edit* I just checked and that dude is from New York. Maybe he's angry because gays and lesbians aren't allowed to march in the St Patricks Day parade?

Flagralicious Movies

Even though I've already posted about online streaming movie sites, tonight I found something extra special. Its called Movie6.net and it has loads of movies. The reason it is special is because the movies that are hosted by the site have really good picture quality. Not all the movies are hosted on the site however, and I've only checked a handful. But tonight I watched Full Metal Jacket and it was 2 hours of flagrance.

I don't know exactly what you're supposed to have to watch the videos, but for me they played through the DivX video player, and I used the Firefox browser. So if you have problems you can try those out.

http://movie6.net/movies/. Enjoy.

Google Your Music More Easily

A few weeks ago I posted about googling music using this code to search:

-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:"index of" +"last modified" +"parent directory" +description +size +(wma|mp3) "Nirvana"

Well, I just found a site which uses the same method but simplifies it for you. The site is at www.findthatmp3.com, you can also search for videos, ebooks and files.

The reason you may consider using it is that if you are the type of person who gets paranoid about being sued for copyright infringement, this is by far the safest way to download music. Check it out.

Crazy Canadians

For most people, Canada is thought of as a "lovely" country. And as if the place wasn't cool enough, they've gone and made a $1 million coin. The coin wieghs a hefty(fat) 220.5 pounds and is 21 inches in diameter. These highly stylish handcrafted coins will be produced in extremely limited quantities. Also, the coin's gold is 99.999% pure which makes the gold itself worth twice as much as the $1 million dollar price tag. So if you bought the coin and melted it down, youve gone and doubled your investment.

This is a great idea, people have always been fumbling around with small change, its time to bring in the big money. With a coin the size of a wagonwheel, you're never goin to missplace it. This is a positively Flagrant investment, get yours before stocks run out!

Sweet Sierra

Sierra have given us some seriously good games in the past like the Empire Earth series, F.E.A.R and Scarface to name a few. This is their most recent creation, and it looks sweet! Its called Timeshift, The clip tells you pretty much everything about it, so i cant wait for it to come out. Yes, F.E.A.R has the same type of in game time control, but it doesnt have Michael Ironside and Dennis Quaid doing the voice acting. Now, not only can I use my special powers in the real world, i can also use them in the gaming world. And just so you know, I've also got X-ray vision to see through clothes.

Calamity James

The only thing missing from the following video is some David "Calamity" James goalkeeping. Its hilarious footballing clips, and one of my favourite ever songs.

Apologies for the sausage!