Tommy Collison

@tommycollison • tommy@collison.ie

Category: Fail

Body Scanners Suffer Sickening Blow

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New Yorker problem

I was at home last night, reading my New Yorker, when this fell out from between the pages: You’re meant to fill it out, and just stick it in the postbox. Am I the only one who sees the problem therein? Obviously, since you’re writing your credit card details on it, you should put it [...]

Weather

So, as well as the strikes on Tuesday, the other great topic of conversation is the torrential rain that we’ve been having. It has led to floods, which are awesome – as long as it’s not your house. I mean, it’s lovely to watch all the bad things happening because of it when you’re wrapped [...]

The Irish Twitter Complex

I briefly touched on this subject in Markets, earlier this month. I’ve been on Twitter since February of 2008. I’ve seen people come and go; there are some people I’d like to see more of, and some who I think should learn to shut up every once in a while (and maybe even me sometimes) [...]

From the people who brought you the end of democracy as we know it…

Cóir, the social Catholic, conservative Eurosceptics who campaigned so hard for a No vote, released this message to their supporters yesterday: Dear Just a quick update to thank you all and to give a few important messages. – Firstly, from everyone in Cóir, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the magnificent effort [...]

Hacked

The scare of this morning is over. I woke up this morning and found a post of an unsuitable nature for this blog. Basically, something you wouldn’t want your mother/employer to see. It was stickied at the top of the blog, had no comment field and didn’t show up in my list of posts, and [...]

Ruh Roh!

Spotify is onto me! I’m not actually from the Netherlands! Post title comes from watching too much Scooby-Doo when I was younger

8 days yet?

I’ve been trying to figure out how many days it is between today and the Saturday before last. More to the point, has it been over 8 days? I ordered a book from the local O’Mahony’s, and they said that it’d be here within 8 days. “Said” was never legally binding, I know, but it’s [...]

Earphone FAIL

My Skullcandy earphones seem to be doing something funky, the sound sometimes only works in one headphones, fading out and about. Normally, that’s fine, but some of my songs feel the need to split the male and female vocals between earphones. For example, California Dreamin’ by the Mamas and the Papas, Males: All the leaves [...]

Adventures in Training

Yesterday saw me mosey onto an abominably early train to go meet a friend of mine in Dublin. I love trains. You get all sorts of people on trains. Big folks, little folks, folks that climb- have I made this joke recently? The point still stands, though, that you get a diverse group of people [...]