Our buds over at GMRFM.com have it on their site too.

Well, after Mr Sherlock’s flat out refusal to listen to any opposition on the matter and to give it no more than TWENTY minutes of attention in the Dáil.

While his intentions, however naive may be honourable and just, he’s just going about it all wrong.  But not only that, he clearly has no idea of what he’s on about.

Asking that the ISP’s and record companies “sit down together” to talk about this like a disagreement over a game of bridge is naive at best, and that’s me being polite about it.

At the time of writing this (late last night) the number of signatures on the online petition against this legislation was just under 80,000.  Yet, with a greater number of names on a list than probably elected this TD into power, it seems to mean nothing to him.

So between ourselves and PopcultureMonster.com, we’ve come up with an open letter to Sean Sherlock TD, JUNIOR minister for Research and Innovation.

Feel free to link to it, either to us, or to PopcultureMonster.com and spread the word to those who haven’t heard anything about it.  Because it won’t be their fault.

Other sites or publications who have conflicted interests of not wanting to burn advertising bridges have ignored this story completely.

Regardless of what the minister says to try and calm the storm, there will be a massive fall out from this.

Spread the word, sign the petition and if you’re as worked up about this as we are, be sure to contact the good minister to let him know.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sean-Sherlock-TD/185032148201312
Phone him: 0877402057 / 022-53523
Email him: sean.sherlock@oireachtas.ie
Tweet him: @seansherlocktd

Snail-mail him: Davis Lane, Mallow, Co. Cork.

In the meantime, here’s our letter to him:

But if you had the chance to change your name legally, then what would you change it to?

It’s not even that difficult.  I’ve actually checked it out and have emails (somewhere) from the clerks desk in the Four Courts.

It’ll set you back €32, a form filled out, your birth cert and your passport.  You obviously get a new passport and as far as I know your new birth cert just has something along the lines of (from this date known as … … ).

I’d prefer to have it read “The person formally known as… …”, but whatever.

There are some rules of course.  For example, the clerk assessing your request may or may not allow you to have your name change.  Some of the reasons are sound.  For example you can’t have anything that incites hatred or outright offence.  So calling yourself The BlackJewGay Nazinator probably won’t fly.  And trying to call yourself Boob.ie and then charging us for the privilege certainly won’t fly, you cheeky fucker.

You may get away with a cheeky name if you catch the clerk on a good day, or charm the pants off of him/her.  Or if you convince him/her that you deserve the name, you might get it.

I wanted to call myself Heratio (for no reason) WhamBar Sprinkly Bits (Not after the chewy candy bar, but the bits that are in the bar) just because they were two things I plucked out of the sky.

I also toyed with the idea of Applechutney Crankshaft by the same logic.

Turns out, they wouldn’t give them to me.  I figured this out by the genius of having my emails ignored from that point on.

So I turned to you, the beautiful readers of this fair site and asked if you could change your name, what would you change it to?

So far as I type this, the suggestions are as follows:

You’d never get those names, you just wouldn’t.

Apparently the same goes if you have a baby and want to name it something that borders on child abuse, the clerk in the office of marriages, births and deaths can refuse you the name.

But obviously in Wisconsin, the rules aren’t as strict.

A Wisconsin man is getting a lot of attention for his arrest — not because of his alleged crimes but because of his unique moniker.

Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop was picked up by police on drug and other charges at Reynolds Park in Madison on Thursday, according to The Capital Times newspaper.

The 30-year-old, who changed his name from Jeffrey Drew Wilschke in October, was found with “a knife, marijuana and drug paraphernalia,” said police spokesman Howard Payne.

He was tentatively charged with carrying a concealed weapon, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and probation violation, police said.

Zopittybop-Bop-Bop was previously zapped by cops in April 2011 for having a loaded gun in his backpack, The Capital Times reported.

Via

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Oh, and if you are thinking of changing your name, check this list out and make sure you’re being original.

HERE

(Thanks Derek)

He was a ronery man but a crazy man, but then again if you could have your own country and have people treat you the way you demanded and have them make up some magnificent shit about you, then you would, would’t you?

On a side note, all of the models here at boob.ie can testify that Maxi is a careful and considerate lover with an endowment that would leave some thinking that he was in fact a human tripod.  Ask them!

So we decided to put together some of the best quotes, facts and jokes about Kim Jong Il.  Yes he’s dead and we should have respect, but he’s probably demanding that his government tell the people that he’ll be cameoing in The Walking Dead in February, the crazy dead cunt.

Here we go…

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.  (Get off the fence Kimmy, you’ve no oil)

“I was shocked when I heard my uncle, Soo Jo, was looking for me. I didn’t expect him to be alive,”  (Worst hide and seeker, ever.)

He was brilliant in The Hangover.

According to North Korea’s newspaper Rodong Sinmun, Kim Jong Il’s iconic style has became a global phenomenon. The inspired look of his zipped up khaki tunics with matching pants has been spreading across the world, an obvious testament to his outstanding image and influence.

According to state-run media, Kimg Jong Il is the most prominent statesman in the present world, and people in countries the whole planet over celebrate his birthday with films and festivals. In reality, most nations were and still are confused by his erratic foreign policy decisions on important issues such as N. Korea’s nuclear program.

He invented the hamburger.  Since any American influences have long since been banned in his tiny communist country, Kim Jong Il had no choice but to create some new non-Western food by himself. North Korean newspaper Minju Joson reported that Kim Jong Il invented a new sandwich called “double bread with meat” in an attempt to provide “quality” food to university students. He then built a plant capable of mass hamburger production to feed his students and teachers, despite the fact that the majority of his citizens battle famine on a daily basis.

In 1994, it was reported by Pyongyang media outlets that Kim Jong Il shot 38 under par on a regulation 18-hole golf course – including 5 holes in one! That score is 25 shots better than the best round in history, and is made even more amazing by the fact that it was his first time playing the sport. It’s said Kim Jong Il would routinely sink 3 or 4 holes in one per round of golf, and – lucky for the PGA – he gave it all up.

If he gets addicted to a drug, everyone else does too.  According to a book written by one of Kim Jong Il’s ex-staff members, he was once injured by falling off his horse when it slipped on loose rocks. He was afraid of becoming addicted to the painkillers that his doctors prescribed him, so he had members of his administrative staff injected daily with the same dosages he had to take. He did this so he wouldn’t be the only one hooked on the drug.

He once kidnapped a prominent director to film a Godzilla ripoff for him.  Shin Sang-ok, a South Korean filmmaker, was kidnapped by Kim Jong Il, sent to prison, and eventually forced to make a film called Pulgasari that was basically a communist propaganda version of Godzilla. After Shin and his wife managed to escape North Korea while location scouting in Austria, Kim Jong Il shelved Pulgasari and all of Shin’s other work. Kim Jong Il has since given specific instruction to his Ministry of Culture and his communist filmmakers: “Make more cartoons.”

He had disabled and short people deported from his capital.  In preparation for the World Festival of Youth and Students in 1989, Kim Jong Il had disabled residents removed from Pyongyang. The government also distributed pamphlets advertising a wonder drug that would increase the height of short people. Those who responded to the pamphlets were sent away to different uninhabited islands along with the disabled in an attempt to rid the next generation of their supposedly substandard genes.  I’m calling this one a rejected plot line for LOST.

There you have it.

I can’t help but think that it could have been reported in a much more humorous manner.

Kim Jong Il

Kim Jong Iller

Kim Jong Illest (Also a decent rapper name)

Kim Jong Dead.

Second, I’m only fibbing a bit because it was a Dublin somewhere in America, but they fucking destroyed a house with a cannonball in the name of a myth!  The myth was to determine if other objects would be as effective if shot from a cannon.  Turns out a cannonball is pretty fucking effective in its own right and probably why they were the go to projectile.

They’ve had to go on national news and apologise about the whole incident, and as a result they won’t be showing the episode in the new season of Mythbusters, but the show will go on.

Check it out, even if there is a distinct lack of Kari.

Perhaps the sales from Little Mix’s cover of Cannonball can go towards survivors of cannonball attacks.

That wasn’t the best joke to finish off on there, but I’m tired.  The ingredients are there, see what you come up with yourself!

UPDATE:

Oh, I’ve got it:

“Mythbusters may have destroyed a house with a cannonball, but Little Mix are about to destroy our ears with another!”

Yeah?  No?

Fuck it.

It’s mad, just because we don’t understand what’s going on inside a woman’s “brain” doesn’t mean that scientists should be allowed to get away with scanning a brain doing brain stuff and expecting us to take their word for it?

An angry woman

It wasn’t too long ago when Paddy tried to show you how to give a woman an orgasm, but really it was all speculation.

But wait, all is not as scientific as it would seem:

Friends, what we have here is the “world’s first movie of the female brain as it approaches, experiences and recovers from an orgasm.” Watch as the body’s most complex organ goes from a quiet red to a scorching hot yellow-white, as synapses fire and oxygen levels change. Fireworks!

The Guardian reports that the clip was pieced together using images from a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner. The lady in question, Nan Wise, 54-year-old PhD student and sex therapist, laid down in the scanner and stimulated herself. “It’s my dissertation,” Wise told the Guardian. “I’m committed to it.”

Right, let’s break that down for you.

She, a PhD student, a 54 year old woman, climbed into a million dollar piece of brain scanning equipment and had a wank.

Right, that’s it.  I no longer credit this woman, or any scientist with credit for this “discovery”.  Last time I tried having a wank under an X-ray machine to find the penis bone I was thrown out and put on a brand new just for me banned from hospitals list.

Actually, I’ve just come up with a quote that should be printed beside my name after I die to show the world how insightful I am.

“Finding the female orgasm on a brain scan is like trying to find the penis bone under x-ray” – Sir Maxi of Cane.

Fucking cheek

Read all about it here on Visual MD, along with the video of images of the brain scan before, during and “recovering” from an orgasm.  I don’t know if I’d want an orgasm I had to recover from.

I’m also betting the same images would occur in the brain of a woman being shown some Christian Lou Boutin shoes dipped in the seed of McSteamy or someone dreamy.  Ooh, McDreamy.  Is that a name already?  Because I could be McDreamy.

(Thanks to Will for the tip)

Well that’s what Michael O’Leary reckons is missing anyway.

I despise Ryanair and all it stands for, but I admire Michael O’Leary because he’s become a world player by being an unapologetic cunt to his customers.  It’s a paradox I know.

But when it’s bad enough that you’re squeezed in beside the kind of cretin who cheers when the plane takes off and is standing by the doors waiting for it to open before it’s even fucking landed, then chances are that he’s the kind of fucker who would whip out his Samsung and start wanking beside you.

He’ll probably keep eye contact with you as he’s about to finish and ask you what the problem is when you give him a dirty look.

The UK Daily Mail reported the following:

“The boss of budget airline Ryanair wants to launch a pay-per-view pornography service for passengers to watch during flights, it has been claimed.

Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary said he hopes to launch an app for the airline where travellers can watch sex scenes on their iPads or smartphones while in the air.

The planned service would also allow Ryanair passengers to gamble and play games, as well as watch erotic movies, according to The Sun.

Mr O’Leary told the paper: ‘I’m not talking about having it on screens on the back of seats for everyone to see. It would be on handheld devices.

‘Hotels around the world have it, so why wouldn’t we?’

Ryanair said the pornography plans would take at least a year to introduce on their flights, as establishing a cost-effective way of having a solid broadband connection on their planes would be a major obstacle.”

Excuse me?  Miss?  The man next to me is pleasuring himself, this is unacceptable behaviour.

I’m sorry sir, he has paid to be a priority wanker.

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Of course that would never happen.  Ryanair staff being courteous?  Don’t be fucking silly.

Although I will feel a little sorry for them, as instead of having to deal with customers, check them in, get them on the plane, clean the plane, stock it with scratch cards and do all the umpteen times a shift, now they’ll have to wipe the seats clean from man custard.

I think it’s all a conspiracy on the part of Michael O’Leary to see if other people really are as big a wanker as he is.

Here’s the story.

Here’s a video, recently uploaded to YouTube, showing a man whip his disabled daughter with a belt, apparently for downloading games and music. The man is a Texas court-at-law judge named William Adams. His daughter’s name is Hillary. And she’s the person who recorded and uploaded the video.

Warning: The video is graphic and prolonged. Don’t watch if you can’t handle, or don’t want to see, serious physical and emotional abuse.

Click here to view the embedded video.

The YouTube video is accompanied by a fairly detailed summary:

Though the video was uploaded on October 27, it wasn’t until today that it began to receive attention—thanks to the popular link-sharing site Reddit, where a poster identifying herself as Hillary Adams shared it (with the title “Family law judge beats own daughter for using the internet, please spread”), writing that she’d decided to post the video (which she’d been “holding onto… until the right time”) after receiving “a barrage of harassment” from her father over the phone.

Posting to Reddit was the right move. The site, which has a strong protective streak, quickly sprung into action. Posters, encouraging others to call and write, provided links and phone numbers to news outlets, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, the State Commission on Judicial Conduct—and to the judge’s place of work. As is not uncommon in situations like this, the official Aransas County website is down as of this post, likely thanks to heavy traffic from Reddit.

We should note that we can’t specifically confirm that the man in the video is Judge Adams. See below. As you can see, this photo of Adams, taken from the Aransas County website, bears a clear resemblance to the man in the video. We’ve emailed his office for comment. We also reached out to Hillary—though, in a weird twist, someone calling himself “JasonAnon” appears to have gained access to her accounts, and even run a fake question-and-answer session on Reddit before revealing himself.

Update: ”I know in the article you say you cannot confirm the man in the video is him, but I can. It’s him,” Hillary’s friend J. Andre Bardin tells us. “That’s his voice, that’s his mannerisms, and that is his house.” Between Bardin’s confirmation and the photograph we see no reason to doubt that the man in the video is Hillary’s father, Judge William Adams, and have updated the post accordingly.

[Reddit]

Full Story Via Gawker

Sure, whether you’re an Apple fan or not, you can’t deny that he changed the world massively, in so many ways.

Let’s take a look at his incredible life.

Jobs had been struggling with his health for the last several years. In 2004 he underwent surgery to treat a rare form of pancreatic cancer. He returned to work soon after, but in early 2009 took six months off to treat what he called a “hormone imbalance” that made him appear gaunt and pale. During that leave he underwent a liver transplant. Early this year he took another, indefinite leave of absence to “focus on my health,” as he put it, and on Aug. 24 he announced his resignation as CEO, with Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook taking over and Jobs elected board chairman, a position he held until his death.

“We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today,” Apple’s Board of Directors said Wednesday in a statement. “Steves brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.”

Jobs will be remembered as a computer visionary but also as a maverick — a sometimes cantankerous one — who pursued a doggedly independent path for Apple that could make it frustrating for partners to work with but allowed it to produce unique products. Jobs also ran the hugely successful Pixar Animation Studios for almost 20 years, before selling it to Disney in 2006 for US$7.4 billion.

After his return to Apple in 1996, working with the designer Jonathan Ive, Jobs launched a string of products that were admired and emulated for their elegant, sometimes daring design. His brightly colored iMac computers were a sharp break from the two decades of beige PCs that had gone before them. The iPod was a breakthrough in portable music players which, coupled with the iTunes store, changed the music business forever. And the touchscreen iPhone and iPad created whole new categories of products.

Andy Grove, the former chairman and CEO of Intel, has called Jobs the most inspirational leader in Silicon Valley.

Yet by many accounts Jobs was also a difficult man. He was a taskmaster and a control freak whose penchant for secrecy could drive employees and partners to distraction. In 2000 he famously punished graphics vendor ATI for leaking details about future iMacs by pulling its products from some of Apple’s computers. His rejection of Flash from the iPhone and seemingly arbitrary policing of the App Store has led to criticism that the company is too closed and insular.