I hear today that the Irish Banks now require over €70 billion of Irish Tax payers money to pay of their gambling debts. How nice of their buddies the politicians to volunteer my money to pay it. Maybe I’m wrong but I thought Irish banks were private companies. Why are they getting public money? Another private business would simply fold.
The first 2 minutes of this video sums up really well what else we could be doing with that money. Including sending half a million Irish people into Space. I know my girlfriend would love that.
This is why I’m moving to Canada next month. I’d rather pay tax in a country where my money goes to universal healthcare.
Went out for drinks with a few people for the St. Patrick’s Festival in Cork. My last Paddy’s in Ireland for a while. Here’s a video montage of who was there.
There was a snow day in work today so I took the opportunity to head into Toronto. I didn’t feel comfortable driving in the snow so I took public transport. Which might not have been the best idea. The bus ended up getting stuck in the snow the next stop after mine. We had to get off and get onto another bus which crashed into a snow bank. The third bus I got was to the train station so I took the train into Toronto after that.
Looking at the roads as I was passing they didn’t look to bad. Reading the paper on the train I realised why.
600 snow ploughs are clearing snow
5,500km is the size of the roads they have to clear
4 hours is all it takes to clear them main roads
300 clearing machines are dedicated to sidewalks
1600 people are employed to clear the snow
Once in Toronto it was pretty cold. But I discovered that nearly every building is linked underground by an HUGE underground system (28km long). So they have 28km of shops and business underground. Amazing. It’s called path.
When the nuclear winter comes I know where I’d like to be living.
What people are saying