Irish Blog Awards nominations
I see that nominations are open for the Irish Blog Awards 2012.
The awards themselves aren’t until next October so they are allowing quite a run up. They also seem to have added a rake of new categories. Thirty, for fuck’s sake! I doubt there are that many sites left running these days.
Anyhows, as far as I am aware the rules are much the same as always. Anyone worldwide can nominate a site for any category, but the site itself must be Irish [or written by an Irish person].
Don’t ask me about the finer details of the rules and regulations though. They do have a page that sort of explains it all.
That’s about it.
They even include a little image so people can beg and grovel for nominations for their efforts –
Naturally I won’t use that image as I’m too modest.
I dunno if I’ll be going to the awards myself. A lot can happen in four months.
I thought I would include a photograph of myself though, so if I do make it to the ceremony, you might want to know what I look like.
I notice I accidentally included a picture on the wall. It’s the wee portrait which appears on the top of this site.
So it’s a sort of self portrait of a self portrait.
Heh!
Well there you go, You’ve been nominated, thrice!
Brianf – Thrice? Good God! Humbled! Embarrassed. Thanks!!
Two observations if I may:
The picture is crooked and
Your beard looks like it could do with a trim.
Nevertheless, I shall recommend your blog here and there.
Mossy – Crooked? How very dare you. The camera was at an angle to the wall [the wall is curved so that’s no surprise] so the picture is suffering from a little know phenomenon known as perspective. And I just trimmed my beard. You should have seen it before.
Well it looks crooked!
I’m not sure your ore-trimmed beard would have been a pretty site – bit Ronnie Drewish !!
i’m still laughing my ass off that no one noticed you are kinda holding up your middle finger as a gesture to the award….
ta hell i’m votin’ for you anyway
Cat – I am shocked that you should think I would do such a thing.
I was just going to ask why you are giving us the finger. Cat beat me to it. How come the awards are back after last year?
Yiz all have terrible minds.
The Awards used to be run in March/April by a chap by the name of Damien Mulley. He did the whole thing singlehandedly so I wasn’t surprised when he quit last year. I thought that was the end of the Awards, but the baton has been taken up by three girls [dunno them so don’t ask] who are organising the event this year. Hence the different logo/time/website and all the rest.
Hey, I like the striped turban. Probably will vote for ya even if you do look like a downsideup Jedward in that pic!
Three girls eh? Yeah you’ll be there.
Downsideup Jedward. Heh !
Where will the awards ceremony be held?
I’ll ignore the puerile comments about my fine facial growth [at least it’s natural and not defying gravity with the aid of a load of nancy cosmetics]
tt – The Osprey Hotel in Naas. You seem to be well familiar with your Irish bearings so I will assume you’ll know where that is?
Naas? Where the hell is Naas and how do you get there from here?
Brianf – lat:N 53.2135653, lon:W 6.6710893 If you start walking now you should get there in time?
OK lat:N 53.2135653, runs right through downtown Dublin but lon:W 6.6710893 is impossible seeing that there is only 60 minutes in one degree of Longitude. So I’m figuring that this Osprey hotel is in some neighborhood in Baile Atha Cliath.
Hi Grandad 🙂
Many thanks for posting about the new Blog Awards Ireland, I’m Lorna, one of the trio – lovely to be described as a girl again! 😉
We’ve set up an FAQ page on the site now and will be asking more Q&A as the questions come in. http://www.blogawardsireland.com/faq/
I hope you come along to the Osprey in Oct and enjoy the night, look forward to meeting you,
Regards, Lorna
It’s not minutes its a decimel of a degree. Tch!
tt you really are an idiot
Not getting into name calling with someone who is clearly an ignorant cunt in every sense.
Hi Leorna and welcome to the nut-house! I hate to disappoint but at my age, anyone with a full set of teeth I class as a girl. I don’t know about October yet. A lot may happen in a few months. They may even lock me up again. We’ll see….
Brianf & tt – Stop it, you two. Brianf – you owe tt an apology [I never thought I’d find myself writing that] It is indeed degrees and decimal parts of a degree. Would lon:W 06.6710893 make you feel any better? Bang it into Google Earth and see if that works. Or not, as the case may be.
tt – Our comments cross once again. Don’t mind Brianf. He’s trying to quit smoking which may explain things? [Quitting smoking is such a bad idea]
Hmmmmmm….interesting looking pipe!
Anyway I’ve voted for yer.
You’ll piss it (there’s no competition Grandad).
p.s. at least I think I’ve voted for you.
(‘got a bit confused- it’s been a long day).
ikbenebgels – That pipe is hand crafted by a friend of mine in Belgium. He is a genius at the pipe designs! May thianks for thinking of voting for me. Though it isn’t really a vote at this stage. Voting is done by a panel of judges, which means I’ll have to get out the little brown envelopes again. [*sigh*]