Guinness is good for you (535 hits)
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Submitted by <rubbish54321.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2003-02-22 19:50:50 EST
This is for blanchfor because he asked for it here: http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/message_get.cgi?message=104587467324122637 And because I was doing the tour of the Guinness brewery in Dublin on Monday 17th February (yep, less than a week ago) when my friend texted me with the news I'd passed my accountancy finals. Which was a big deal to me, so big that I couldn't even drink all of my complimentary pint of Guinness; I was too psyched by the news and needed to leave the brewery to go check for myself on an internet cafe in the city centre.
I tell you what, the Guinness in Ireland tastes way better (and more bitter) than the watered down shit back home in jolly old En-ger-land.
I'm not much of a Guinness drinker anyway, being a girly girl in some respects I have a fondness for Smirnoff Ice. Which they served on tap in Dublin! In a groovy bar called Bobs in the Temple Bar district I drank Smirnoff Ice by the pint. Nnnnnice. There were loads of blokes in kilts that night and one in a pink shirt that looked a bit like Viggo Mortensen. Yum.
One of the most memorable parts of my short city break was the 100,000 strong march for peace held on Sat 15th Feb. Just like many other capital cities around the world Dubliners did their part to protest again the US & UK starting a war with Iraq...I've been apathetic for far too long in my life with my head in books (works of great fiction but nonetheless fiction) and blind to current events, so marched I did...after some shopping, yep I had to combine priorities. :p
Another experience was meeting the artist Eddie Tomkins, a Scot making his living selling watercolours and charcoal paintings leaned against the metal railings of Merrion Square. We were only there because I wanted to photograph No 1 Merrion Sq where Oscar Wilde was born but one of his watercolours of the Hal'penny bridge over the River Liffey caught my eye and I purchased it. He spent ages talking to two Americans from Maine who'd just bought 3 of his pictures and then he launched into a chat with us. He confessed he'd thought by our appearance we were two 'typical yanks' and that I looked like a school teacher. So much for first impressions! Tomkins was a talkative eccentric with mad overspilling nostril hair and no coat, braving the February elements which was nutty because it was bloody freezing. But those who are different in the world are the best kind of people in my opinion. Keeps things interesting.
Eddie hadn't taken part in the march. "I would have been like 'fuck Bush' 'fuck Blair', they'd have kicked me out" he'd said. Silly fellow. He would've fitted right in. Marches are emotive events with a carnival atmosphere but more opinions and less jolliness. More Grim Reapers and less Carnival Queens. More placards and less floats.
Well I don't want to bore y'all with tall tales of Dublin, best to keep posts short rather than lose the reader in a skyscraper of words. Cheers.
PAS
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Submitted by ess-arr (user info) at 2006-06-08 23:50:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by blanchfor (user info) at 2003-02-22 20:46:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Excellent yidele. Make sure not to fuck it up (the picture) with photoshop or any similar photo-editing program so I can get the full effect. Could you get a puke and dogshit combo picture so I can send something home to the family?
"Hey everyone back home check out this picture! There's nothing like good old Navy chow, let me tell ya!! Yep Yep."
Submitted by yidele (user info) at 2003-02-22 20:38:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Ya want I should find beauty in dogshit? I can do that. No problem. 1st thing in the morning I am going to puke, then sleep 2 more hours, finaly go out around 2pm & take a picture of dogshit just for you. Then I'll post it.
Submitted by blanchfor (user info) at 2003-02-22 20:27:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I now have a new wallpaper to drool over thanks to you. No thanks to that bastard yidele and his chicken grease and dog shit pictures though. Did I write that? Ooops..
Submitted by PeopleAreStrange (user info) at 2003-02-22 19:55:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Damn I didn't realise the Guinness picture I'd uploaded was so frigging tiny. Sorry blanchfor!! If you want to see a bigger pic click here, lol :o)
http://www.alchodise.co.uk/html%20pages/to%20gunness.htm
Submitted by blanchfor (user info) at 2003-02-22 19:53:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
PAS you are my hero.