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Huh? They listened?


Published on September 4th, 2007
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In a recent thread on boards.ie someone asked how to get to Stadium Business Park. The 40D and 220 routes were quickly suggested. I checked the Dublin Bus A-Z Finder to see if it had other suggestions. It only showed the 220 route serving the Stadium Industrial Estate.
I emailed Dublin Bus to mention the omission [...]

Your Irish


Published on August 29th, 2007
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In an high density estate near me is a car with a corny bumper sticker on the rear bumper. It has a pathetic typo. Equally bad is the probable Irish-American source of the thing. Some might find the leprechaun image offensive, I think it’s pathetic.

Typo on the vine


Published on August 27th, 2007
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You rarely see typos in packaging, probably a result of reviews by multiple sets of eyes. Tesco have missed on on their Tomatoes on the vine product. These are Rippened (sic) on the vine for fuller flavour.
I wonder how many of these stickers Tesco has already printed and how long it will be [...]

Sorry for inconvinience


Published on August 20th, 2007
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I phoned in and an Indian take away order from Let’s Eat In over the weekend. Mmm, their Dal Makhani dish (black beans in a dark creamy sauce) is excellent.
The take away came with a copy of their new menu – without Dal Makhani! I went online to investigate. I was met with a [...]

ntl .. upc … 404


Published on August 13th, 2007
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I was sending out a mass mail for my residents association. One email to ntl.ie bounced. I knew that ntl recently changed the email addresses of their subscribers, probably to upc.ie so I went to ntl.ie to verify.