The Sleeping Warrior Blog

Humble Pie with custard and raspberries.

Right…it seems a good while ago since I posted the rant (scroll down) about us in rural Ireland..or anyone with a fuzzy RTE picture, not having the option of a Free to air digital service from RTE. The only option that was available was to pay Rupert Murdoch lots of pieces of silver for RTE on SKY on top of the annual licence fee. It seemed outrageous that we couldn’t get the Irish channels free on Freesat as the BBC and ITV are all on it. Read the rest of this entry »

I had a dream..a sort of nightmare. I had an irresistible urge to beg, buy, borrow or steal every Westlife album ever made.  I then put them up on bittorrent  for everyone worldwide to fileshare on P2P to try to deny any more income to Westlife’s Shane Filan’s development company. Then I woke up..drifting back to the reality of what’s going on in our village. It might sound like a Michael Moore film but this one is just as scary as his. Read the rest of this entry »

OK…here we go. After generations of people in Ireland have been reared with a fuzzy picture in a box in the front room, it’s about time we were aware of the rip-off by our National State Broadcaster who takes our licence fees. As an Irish TV licence payer, do you really want to pay a British company to watch your national TV station with a nice clear picture rather than fuzzy analogue (if you can get it at all?)
I just discovered there’s a guy out there who has got really vocal on it and started a petition.
www.petitiononline.com/rte2fta/

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OK..this is my favourite crop circle of all time… A Firefox Logo

The subject now deepens. Read the rest of this entry »

Anyway..poor old Sligo. It waited all that time for a nice retail park and the beloved Brit high street stores to come and once they get here the criminal Yanks go and mess up the world economy and the shops shut as quickly as they opened. Not that I’ll be shedding a tear. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been scrummaging around Dunnes Stores lately with my phone in hand to take a pic of some of the price tags on their goods here in the Republic. It seems that they have made two cock-ups. Firstly that they printed their labels back to front so they can’t tear off the sterling price and secondly that they treat their customers here like imbeciles incapable of doing basic arithmetic on the exchange rate. Read the rest of this entry »

As I was watching Al Jazeera the other night some guy reminded me of something so obvious that I nearly dropped my Lebanese bread drizzled with Palestinian oil on my lap. It seems to be a fact that the Western Media have not only ignored, but downright censored lately. Read the rest of this entry »

OK..here’s a rant about banks, so I suppose that it will get lost in the other millions of posts on the subject.
Now, here’s some scary information that I have had from the horse’s mouth through the back door. I won’t say which banks this comes from for fear of the bastards having a go at me and getting other people in trouble too. Read the rest of this entry »

This is my favourite gripe at the present time. Now..not only are food manufacturers content with screwing up the planet but they are victimising those of us whose fingers and eyes are not what they used to be.  Read the rest of this entry »

Just rants about things and how we believe that there’s an international conspiracy to make life difficult for the ordinary non paranoid, non Illuminati resident of planet earth