You should spice up your camping weekend by drowning one of the "D and J" folks, whoever they are, in the lake.

It turns a dull weekend out camping into an exciting murder mystery!

First, you'll need an axe.

By the way, John Kerry may have been wearing fake tan at the first presidential debate. That's the most important thing.

I have an axe. It just needs a little polishing.

If John Kerry wears fake tan, then does that mean that Special K isn't good for you?

Maybe you should ask him? You married him; at least, the regular him, knowing that he often undergoes that transformation into the go-tard.

No comment.

Oh, except that I really like your new site: it's slick and soulless and very 1999 which is cool. To complete the look your title should be thus:

n e u r o s | b l o g : : :

And your headers should be like:

o c t . 2 0 : / /

Cool, wicked, gr8. Your coat is most certainly the business, or bujizzness or whatever the kids are calling it these days.

Non-shabby suits you overall, I think.

If you were involved in the DKIT wireless network and had a less-snazzy-than-you-might-imagine PDA, you too could sit back in class, and continue to surf the web and regail us with stories on how much we should hate BOP-philosopher-girl. Alas, we must wait in a state of perpetual apathy for your next update.

Or something like that anyway.

"Are we, at last, beginning to socialise normally with people from other countries? "

Jesus, get over yourself!

There were all these fordin people over here and only a select group of intellectuals knew how to talk to them, but now , at long last Irish people are becoming social?

"Jesus, get over yourself!"

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I completely don't understand what you're trying to get across to me, Des.

You sound annoyed though.

Am I misreading this?

I was referring basically to the isolation that a lot of foreigners experience here. I could tell you some interesting anecdotes regarding non-national friends of mine.

Well, to be honest, you make it sound like Irish people are ignorant pigs, save for the few clever ones who dare to mingle with others.

As for being "heartened or dismayed"?
From the sounds of it the guys were having a good time, which I would think is a good thing.

To recap - THE CONTROVERSIAL PARAGRAPH:

"While I was in town on Saturday evening, I saw an Irishman and an Asian man running down Westmoreland Street together, a combination of both drunk and stoned, giggling and sort of pushing each other about.

I didn't know whether to be heartened or dismayed by this.

Are we, at last, beginning to socialise normally with people from other countries? It appears that we may be corrupting them to our debaucherous ways. Hurray! I meann, Boo! Well, it's probably a good thing, except for the fact that we are turning them into loutish foreign versions of ourselves."

I definitely don't think Irish people are ignorant pigs. I love Ireland. We do drink a lot, and get debaucherous, though, no? (Debaucherous is an amusing word.)

I also didn't imply anywhere that only clever people mix with foreign people; that's simply your inference. And it's not even something I think.

As for the heartened/dismayed comment, it was a joke. If I had said it in real life, where body language and facial expressions appear, you would have seen me smiling. I thought I had written the whole thing in a jesty tone, but obviously I got the balance wrong.

Yikes, give me a break, man.

Am I sufficiently over myself? ;)

Fair enough. To me, it did read like you thought Irish people do not socialise with people from other countries, I realise now that you don't.

Its nice to have your blog back on my favorites list.

des