This post is inspired by a homeless guy who sat next to me on the public bus the whole journey from Cork to Dublin today.  Ugh.  The list are in order of my preference of how I would travel from Dub to Cork and vice versa.

1. Train – most expensive option, yield management pricing, duration is three hours.  It’s clean, there’s usually a trolley dolly serving crisps and tea and there are bathrooms which speak.  The only time I’ve ever had hassle on the train was when there was a crowd returning from a match and it all got a bit rowdy.  It’s generally no hassle and no drama.

2. Ryanair – can be cheaper than the train, cost of getting to and from each airport will probably make it the same as train though, yield management pricing and the duration is thirty minutes.  Lots of business classy type people going on day tips, usual trolley dolly type service.  (For those that don’t know Ryanair is the equivalent of SouthWest airlines over here in terms of business model and are similar in every way apart from customer service.  Ryanair have little to no customer service.)  In general, the more ahead of time you book the flight the cheaper it will be.

3. Drive – New motorway means no boithrins (small roads) and it takes about three to four hours depending on the traffic.

4. Aircoach – Spacious buses, 22euro for an adult, stops a few times on the way down but I’d consider it direct (in comparison to the next guy,) and apparently some buses have WiFi.  If you can’t afford train, ryanair or drive, this is the option. Also, if you’re taller than 5′8″, this is the one for you.

5. Bus Eireann Route 8 - I have experienced so much drama on this bus.  It comes in about 2 or 3 euro cheaper than the Aircoach, (so 20ish) but the extra money is worth paying on the aircoach.  As it’s the public service, you get all types of people coming on.  One day, a Chinese dude kept shouting at his laptop and the driver nearly removed him, we’ve left a few people behind at break time and today they let on a stinking homeless guy and the driver watched as he harassed the whole bus.  The Irish could handle him but the poor Spanish and Italian student’s didn’t know what to make of it.  There’s no room on the bus and it stops loads of times on the way up and down and if you’re making good time, ahead of schedule you’ll have to wait at each town to cater for all passengers.

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The remainder of the video is here:

(this finale is probably the best part, it’s chopped off in Google Video, seek the whole thing online and you shall find.)

There was another documentary that was being filmed around the time of the infamous Martin Bashir documentary back in 2002 (the one which diminished his career further and landed him in court again.)  Louis Theroux is an amazing documentarist, whose most viewed venture is the time he spent with the Phelps family.  The above documentary never made it big because Bashir/ITV paid more money to that trickster Uri Geller.  If Louis were allowed to interview Jackson, the outcome would have been a lot fairer as he seemed like a genuine fan.  Listen to Geller lie through his teeth, saying that he’s afraid the interviewer will take advantage of Michael Jackson.

In this documentary, Theroux goes in search of an interview with Jackson.  Highlights include:

• Interview with Terry George – An entrepreneur who claims Jackson tried to have phone sex with him when they were teenagers.  The tape of Jackson & George talking is my favourite part.
• Brief appearance of Oliver.
• Uri Geller tell Louis Theroux (from a Jewish background) how Jewish weddings work!
• Clips of E Casanova (terrible Jackson impersonator) & lots of interaction with his daft manager Majestic Magnificent, seriously dodgy character.
• Jackomania in London & Germany.

Perhaps, the most scary thing that happens in the documentary is the interview with Michael’s father, Joe Jackson.  This is definitely the route into understanding Michael in his later years.  It tells more than any interview with Michael ever would.  Can you imagine having to deal with Joe Jackson as a child?   He isn’t one bit remorseful for his actions when The Jacksons were younger and is only interested in his own success. He hints at the fact that Michael enjoyed gaining financially by telling tales of abuse at the hands of his father. Watch his reaction when Louis insinuates that Michael might be a homosexual in the youtube clip.

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http://fireglo.eu/2009/08/08/emoji-on-iphone/ is my earlier post about it.

Looks like Stephen Fry has found out how to be even cooler.