Mowl
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I used to bring a pile of Finnish newspapers back home with me to Dublin and I'd leave them on the bar in whatever place I was working on, then wait and see what happened when a drunk punter or some aul' fella picked it up. Fucking priceless to see their brains clambering about trying to figure out what the fuck it this.
Similiarly, I'd always bring a pile of Irish newspapers back with me. My Finnish friends would take a look and I could see their faces drop at the sudden realization that Ireland was really nothing like the music and craic said it to be. Poverty, homelessness, criminality, fake news, RTE news, the Sun, the Mirror. Even the Independent and Times. All celebrating the misery that is modern Ireland.
A coupleof years back I was up in the attic in my Mam's house and found a pile of papers from the 70s and 80s, including the Phoenix Park gig with John Paul II. Oh, the that one with the funniest headline I ever saw: 'COCAINE KILLED GERRY RYAN' which I framed and hung on the studio wall of fame for the lads to read.
Yeah - apparently, cocaine took a flying leap up Gerry's schnoz and that was that.
Terrible, so it is.
Only terrible.
Similiarly, I'd always bring a pile of Irish newspapers back with me. My Finnish friends would take a look and I could see their faces drop at the sudden realization that Ireland was really nothing like the music and craic said it to be. Poverty, homelessness, criminality, fake news, RTE news, the Sun, the Mirror. Even the Independent and Times. All celebrating the misery that is modern Ireland.
A coupleof years back I was up in the attic in my Mam's house and found a pile of papers from the 70s and 80s, including the Phoenix Park gig with John Paul II. Oh, the that one with the funniest headline I ever saw: 'COCAINE KILLED GERRY RYAN' which I framed and hung on the studio wall of fame for the lads to read.
Yeah - apparently, cocaine took a flying leap up Gerry's schnoz and that was that.
Terrible, so it is.
Only terrible.