Things that make you go What the F**k?

[Tony Baloney]

New Daniel O'Connell stamp features building with TV aerial

  who takes the "credit" for that one?!

[Baile Brigín 2]

New Daniel O'Connell stamp features building with TV aerial

  who takes the "credit" for that one?!

They had the audacity to claim they meant it

[dec]

The artist said he did it deliberately

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art/2025/08/01/tv-aerial-in-commemorative-daniel-oconnell-stamp-is-visual-signal-to-modern-age-not-product-of-ai/

Not so, says David Rooney, one of the country's best-known graphic artists, who created the image.
"The inclusion of the tiny TV aerial was of course deliberate and not a mistake on my part," he told The Irish Times
"I thought it would be interesting to allude to and imagine the impact the great communicator Daniel O'Connell's mass rallies would have had if they had been televised.
"I was greatly taken by the fantastical and surreal elements in his pageantry."
The picture was created using Rooney's preferred technique of scraperboard before being digitally scanned and coloured.
"I've been almost 40 years working as a professional illustrator and I've often included surreal elements in my work," said Rooney.
"I guess in the AI environment we now inhabit these may be misread. I put a lot work into these stamps, which I'm very proud of."

[weareros]

He must have decided to add another penal law to the poor downtrodden Irish populace: RTE.

[gallsman]

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/bangor-businessman-jailed-for-sexual-assault-on-teenage-girl/a1894195564.html

Norris Gray from Bangor, jailed for sexual assault of a 16 year old, used to run a company called Arrest-A-Pest

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/_GjKelJFX-AM6dS2oHhK_Z88IcQ/appointments

[Gabriel_Hurl]

The Burke's have taken their travelling roadshow to Ballymoney

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce834ynnlqgo

[DaleCooper]

The horrors that occur in some parts of the US beggars belief

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/woman-imprisoned-bodies-niece-nephew-b2698020.html

[LC]

https://news.sky.com/story/it-shouldnt-be-like-this-full-time-workers-turning-to-food-banks-13393691

Yet another indication how f@#ked up this world is.

[RedHand88]

https://news.sky.com/story/it-shouldnt-be-like-this-full-time-workers-turning-to-food-banks-13393691

Yet another indication how f@#ked up this world is.

"Louise adds that the family have a hot tub in the garden that they bought years ago, but because of the cost of electricity, they don't use it."

I'm sorry, but no. Zero sympathy. Also noted they own 3 cars for some reason but are crying that they can't afford a foreign holiday this year?!

Edit: the daughters horse riding lessons are affected!

[Milltown Row2]

https://news.sky.com/story/it-shouldnt-be-like-this-full-time-workers-turning-to-food-banks-13393691

Yet another indication how f@#ked up this world is.

From this report

Louise Schwartz, who has two children, describes herself as middle-class. After 20 years in the classroom she now has three jobs, working 50 hours a week as a teaching coach, at a software firm and giving private music lessons.

Her husband is an estate agent. They have a mortgage and three cars and together earn around £80,000 a year.

She says the family loves travelling together but can't afford to go on holiday this year: "It makes me feel sad for my kids, more than anything, that we can't give them a week away.

"We have food on the table, we've got heating, we've got cars to drive. But there are definitely some luxuries that we've cut back on recently.

"We don't do expensive supermarkets. We don't do expensive brands. We do whatever's on offer for that particular week. My eldest son has started driving, which has then had an impact on my daughter's horse-riding lessons."

Seriously?

[Armagh18]

https://news.sky.com/story/it-shouldnt-be-like-this-full-time-workers-turning-to-food-banks-13393691

Yet another indication how f@#ked up this world is.

"Louise adds that the family have a hot tub in the garden that they bought years ago, but because of the cost of electricity, they don't use it."

I'm sorry, but no. Zero sympathy. Also noted they own 3 cars for some reason but are crying that they can't afford a foreign holiday this year?!

Edit: the daughters horse riding lessons are affected!

God forbid a family earning 80 grand a year should have any luxury... the cost of living vs salaries is madness. 

[JoG2]

https://news.sky.com/story/it-shouldnt-be-like-this-full-time-workers-turning-to-food-banks-13393691

Yet another indication how f@#ked up this world is.

"Louise adds that the family have a hot tub in the garden that they bought years ago, but because of the cost of electricity, they don't use it."

I'm sorry, but no. Zero sympathy. Also noted they own 3 cars for some reason but are crying that they can't afford a foreign holiday this year?!

Edit: the daughters horse riding lessons are affected!

There's always the Daily Mail angle I suppose

[LC]

https://news.sky.com/story/it-shouldnt-be-like-this-full-time-workers-turning-to-food-banks-13393691

Yet another indication how f@#ked up this world is.

"Louise adds that the family have a hot tub in the garden that they bought years ago, but because of the cost of electricity, they don't use it."

I'm sorry, but no. Zero sympathy. Also noted they own 3 cars for some reason but are crying that they can't afford a foreign holiday this year?!

Edit: the daughters horse riding lessons are affected!

God forbid a family earning 80 grand a year should have any luxury... the cost of living vs salaries is madness. 

So true.

Things seem to getting tighter and tighter.

[Milltown Row2]

https://news.sky.com/story/it-shouldnt-be-like-this-full-time-workers-turning-to-food-banks-13393691

Yet another indication how f@#ked up this world is.

"Louise adds that the family have a hot tub in the garden that they bought years ago, but because of the cost of electricity, they don't use it."

I'm sorry, but no. Zero sympathy. Also noted they own 3 cars for some reason but are crying that they can't afford a foreign holiday this year?!

Edit: the daughters horse riding lessons are affected!

God forbid a family earning 80 grand a year should have any luxury... the cost of living vs salaries is madness. 

So true.

Things seem to getting tighter and tighter.

People need to live within their means and not what happens in social media

[marty34]

Somebody please think of the......personalised number plates at this time!!!