A few posts ago, I wrote about "fair play" and "your man." I know that no one reading shutitdown will find this as thrilling as I do, but the country of Ireland is currently running ads to encourage energy efficiency that use both of these phrases. If you don't live here, you really should watch this thirty second ad. It airs all the time in between the American sitcoms I watch for their comfort value, and every time it comes on I giggle uncontrollably. Watch it, seriously.

Power of One - appliance purchase ad

In the same post I was writing about slang here that I don't understand. I couldn't think of much while I was writing it, though. I was sitting in the Glasgow airport this weekend with some Irish friends (last week I found myself in three countries, oddly) when I heard something that tickled my fancy--much better than the examples I put here previously. One of the guys was telling a story that began "That fooking eejit was going to the jacks for a slash, but it was jammers, so he..." The story ended with a bathroom covered in blood, and the eejit being slapped across the face with a five Euro note.