What kicks ass the most is the “PC” commentary…
Archive for January, 2008
Garda Chase in Santry, Co Dublin. circa 1998
January 31, 2008Alison Jackson – Photoshop Genius
January 31, 2008
These photo’s just speak for themselves, nah nah im not even gonna say anymore. Just go. Click the link now. Do it.
Sand Drawings
January 31, 2008
Art has many forms to street jugglers to painters to musicians, sand drawers might not be up there but just take a look at some of the master pieces this guy is turning out. They look spectacular from the air.
Jim Denevan makes freehand drawings in sand. At low tide on wide beaches Jim searches the shore for a wave tossed stick. After finding a good stick and composing himself in the near and far environment Jim draws– laboring up to 7 hours and walking as many as 30 miles. The resulting sand drawing is made entirely freehand w/ no measuring aids whatsoever.
Stickmen would be as far as my artistic measure would go but i would be seriously pissed if i’d spent 7 hours dragging a stick around the sand just for the tide to come in and spoil the jaysus thing!
More Geekary with large amounts of people (and time)
January 31, 2008Jeremy Beadle R.I.P.
January 31, 2008
LONDON , Jan. 31 (UPI) — British television personality Jeremy Beadle, who battled kidney cancer and leukemia, has died in London of pneumonia. He was 59.
Watch Out, Beadles About , no more..
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Thursday giggles
January 31, 2008
Quite possibly the funniest thing you will do all day! (unless you travel home the M50)
Open Google.com
Type in “Find chuck norris”
Hit the ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button
tee hee
Gladiator Returns!
January 31, 2008
Saturday was never complete until you had to cut your weekly dose of Baywatch to go to 7 oclock mass and rush back to watch Gladiators! An hour dedicated to seeing your average pen pushing joe compete in some silly styled games like the ‘Sphere of Death’ or at the end when they had to run up the ‘Travelator’.
Now it seems it’s due to make a comeback and Sky One are arranging for the bulging biceps to hit your screen soon enough!
Sky One is to bring back Saturday night favourite Gladiators hot on the heels of a successful relaunch in the US.
The digital satellite channel will take over Gladiators broadcasting duties from ITV, where the series was a hit for most of the 1990s.
Elisabeth Murdoch’s independent production company Shine will produce the show, which will be given a “21st century makeover” and will include “much more exciting and dangerous” contests.
They are in talks to bring back some of the oldies such as the scottish Referee famed for his ‘GLADDDIIAAATORRRSS RREEEADDDDY’ catch phrase. Ex Footballer Ian Wright is being linked to the presenters role and they are auditioning for both gladiators and contestants.
Gladiators was back in 1992! Can you believe that, it’s 16 years ago! There’s not too many times when i genuinely feel old, but i feel old now 
Falling Slowly, or not fast enough in my opinion
January 31, 2008
So Glen Hansard will have his day to bask in the spotlight that is the Oscars after all! There was some speculation whether or not the song “Falling Slowly” was actually penned for the film ‘Once’ or later associated with the film. He’s been now given the thumbs up which is good news for gingers everywhere Irish Music Industry!
I was a huge fan of The Frames about 10 years ago, I remember seeing them in Whelans countless times and one of my first ‘dates’ was at a Frames concert, but I have to say those were their better years, when Whelans was a decent gig to them. I think Hansard has well an truely grown into some sort of monster that just needs to be fed praise and sunlight. He has a hint of the Christy Moore’s about him now (‘nobody is to speak when i am speaking’) and well they just haven’t released any decent music in a fair while now!
The chancer seem to be dedicating a lot of time to the Ginger one, take a look…
All you can eat, just not right now!
January 31, 2008
To any new visitors to the site interested in subscribing to hairyfish.org’s RSS feed please use the feedburner feed in the right hand column as some tweaks have to be made so I can enable the bogstandard WP feed to point to feedburner. I should be able to sort it by tonight but just in case your an eager beaver 
What was that 118? Prison Sentence 118?
January 31, 2008
We’ve all been subjected to ‘hello 11811 Mourrrgrett speaking…’, and safe to say you wouldn’t go out of your way to ring them unless you were actually needed some sort of urgent medical treatment, or if you needed a chinese delivery in a very drunken haze. A middle aged man in Japan has been thrown in the clink for placing 10,000 calls (yes, 4 zeros!) to directory assistance. Why? Becuase he liked when the operators gave out to him!
“I would go into ecstasy when a lady scolded me,” he was quoted as saying by Jiji Press.
Telephone operators – who in Japan are almost always women – nicknamed him the “don’t-hang-up-man”.
His calls usually came late and sometimes exceeded 200 times a night, Jiji Press said.
Now there’s a man with dedication! I mean if this guy had sat down with a careers guidance person earlier he could’ve made it big in telecommunications! They certainly could do with someone like this over in UPC where they seem to be alergic to answering the god damn telephone!
