GAA - Go After Anything?

   Bigmac, you're going to Oxygen, you're a madman! Scenes of depravity! Haha, well, word on the street is it's gonna ****in' lash. But you know yourself. Besides, it's not rain, it's liquid sunshine.
    I don't have a damned clue how I ended up in Ireland. I guess because it's not England. I don't have anything against England per se, but after a couple of years there I just had to reconcile myself to the fact that we're not on the same page, me and those English folks. Nah, I dunno, I always wanted to get off Bermuda so I saved my pennies. There's also a crazy thing in Bermuda, truly crazy, known as the Bermuda Regiment, where you get conscripted into this treehouse type outfit that couldn't beat a bunch of old ladies ... ghastly, hideous, embarrassing. Yeah, conscription got me out of there a lot earlier than I probably should have left, and a lot of people thought I was nuts, but they kept bugging me and bugging me and, in fairness, the Bermuda Regiment is a damn joke. See, that's one thing about Bermudians that my wife, who's Irish, really can't abide. We have kind of an attitude problem, a failure to comprehend our actual status in the world. It ranges from pompous to surly, and one place you'll see a lot of it is in the airport when you arrive. Chances are sadly high that you will encounter at least one sullen faced ignorant twerp who acts like you're coming to the centre of the universe.
     It drives some people totally insane. It drives my wife completely insane. Bermudians can often times have an attitude problem beyond belief. But, see, the secret is that it's actually hilarious, and it's not hard to understand where people are coming from. It's the smallness of the place, its far-away-ness. Go back 60 years and it's a fishing village with palm trees. It's inevitable that a lot of narrow thinking reactionary stuff consumes our minds at times, and it's best treated with open humour. It's part of what makes Bermuda so very unique.
    I ended up in Ireland totally randomly. I liked it. It's the only country where I've felt remotely at home, and maybe that's a good omen for you. Ireland has a pretty eccentric reputation, which is fair. Bermuda is mad.
    Expense is the big trouble. I'm still asking folks about rooms. You don't want to be in some stupid-ass condo if you can avoid it. On the other hand, it might be impossible to avoid. Housing there was kind of unreal when I lived in Bermuda 10 years back, but it's a real sickener now. Jesus, though, I'm sure I'll hear something from somebody, damn it.
    I'm glad to see Smokes gave Hubert's Bar the thumb's up. A lot of Bermuda is yuppified. That place was always nicely chill. You know what I could never work out about that part of town, all my friends would never go with me to Hubert's Bar. Scared of the neighbourhood. What the hell! The only times I've ever been threatened in Bermuda was right down on Front Street. Ya gotta find those out of the way parts of the island ...
   Anyway, we shall see. Enjoy destroying your mind at Oxygen. Lots of liquid sunshine is falling from the sky. Yeah. Rain, rain. But what do we care?
    Oh, you know what, if you want to get a head start, if you know the Celtic Whiskey Shop on Dawson's Street, they sell Gosling's Black Seal rum. It is a solace in times of darkness. OK, more soon ....

bell man
i survived oxegen. just about and there wasn't much liquid sunshine as ye call it. was good weekend. bell just as well you don't work for the bermuda tourist board. you defo aren't going to sugar coat it for me anyway. which is a good thing but then again i dont want to be put off altogether. still awaiting my visa and the rest of the information. just working up the last of my days in england and yes i know what u mean about the english. i have been here for 6 years and have had enough. ireland is a different bag altogether. bit more chilled as a whole. still no word on a houseshare at all? i think im going to be confined to getting this condoe for the first three months anyway. maybe i'll find a houseshare when i get there then.
do i have to pay tax on items over a certain value that i bring into bermuda? i have heard something about this. i think maybe my employers are going to pay this anyway. keep ure ear to the ground for me lad anyway. cheers

cheer bell
thanx for the house hunting. a gentleman. and well i do have an irish accent and have been told i have a little of the charm, so armed with little else i will have to get on with it.lol. another thing. has i have read 100 times by now. bermuda is an expensive place to live. im on good money as a pharmacist but as i keep reading and balancing the books so to speak i think i'll be ok but not exactly living the high life so to speak. not that im used to the high life anyway.lol i dont much go in for luxury. hence my idea of a break was oxegen. three days rolling round in a field in kildare with my glaucoma medicine.lol. i just dont want to pay over the odda for somewhere to live. im sure i wont spend much time in it anyway. if i could get away with a beach hut i would. leaves me more money to do the things i wana do. ie. diving, wana learn to surf, is the suf any good by the way?. and well have a few pennies left over for a couple of dark n stormys at the end o da week.chat to ye soon fella

....although there might be a little bit of a tight supply given the latest events.

You talking to me? I said are you talking to me? Well if you're talking to me.... what you been smoking?

I understood that if you rolled up one of your trouser legs it meant you were in the market. To me it was either people pretending to enact a Monty Python sketch or they were Mason's.

I witnessed this behavior again last night, although I have not seen it for a very long time.