Ryanair shows its quality

This comment (ugly grammar, spelling and punctuation intact):

you’re an idiot and a liar!! fact is! you’ve opened one session then another and requested a page meant for a different session, you are so stupid you dont even know how you did it! you dont get a free flight, there is no dynamic data to render which is prob why you got 0.00. what self respecting developer uses a crappy CMS such as word press anyway AND puts they’re mobile ph number online, i suppose even a prank call is better than nothing on a lonely sat evening!!

has to say something about the kind of people Ryanair employs. It was posted to the blog of Jason Roe by an anonymous member of Ryanair’s staff (something the company has admitted). A very unrepentant Head of Communications riposted that this is what we must expect if we want to play with the big boys! I think he’s shown just how small they are! God how we’ve changed in Ireland! I’m old enough to remember when even our critics were treated with common courtesy. Bear this behaviour in mind when you have any reason to interact with them.

Gaston

Poor old Gaston, our loyal friend of 14 years passed away quietly in his sleep as we were returning from holiday in France.

iRresistable iMagery

 

It’s the iDol !!

Sense of honour?

Don’t you just love what passes for honour among our betters? I refer to that group of people who believe they contribute so much more than the rest of us and annually vote each other salaries and bonuses the size of telephone numbers.

Last week I was rather taken by a comment arising out of the resignation of BP CEO Lord Browne after he acknowledged that he had lied to a High Court judge. Referring to the resignation, BP Chairman Peter Sutherland came up with a particular gem that I’ll remember. He said it was “a tragedy that [Browne] should be compelled by his sense of honour to resign in these painful circumstances.”

Show me the man you honour, and I will know what kind of man you are

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

Lord Browne had asked the court to belive his version of events on the basis of his reputation and distinction and the various public honours he had received. In his finding, the judge deplored “his willingness casually to trash the reputation of [his former lover] and to discredit him in the eyes of the court”.

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Back in the mid-60s when I was still in short trousers, I won a brand new pencil in class for correctly spelling supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Oh such joy!. This week I learned (from the radio, but here’s the story) that 13-year-old Morgan Pozgar was crowned the LG National Texting Champion and won $25,000 for correctly texting supercalifragilisticexpialidocious in just 15 seconds. A sign of the times! Surely sprclfrglstcxpldcs is close enough in text and could knock about 7 seconds off the record?