Condoms for Little Willies

Spotted these on sale at the Brightside shop in Foxe's Bow Limerick.

This is why you're fat

Here's a brill little site I found whilst browsing boards.ie. Just wanna thank the lad who posted the link to this site. It shows some of the most gross, disgusting fast-food combos ever. Stuff that Homer Simpson would cream himself over. My personal fave is the Giant Pizza burger, deliciously gross:) Check it out!



http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/page/1

Wonderful Roast Lamb curry

This is a delicious recipe, definately my nicest curry bar none. I originally got the idea for this recipe from a work colleague who marinated some butterflied lamb with cury paste and barbecued it. I just decided to develop it a little. First of all you need a nice shoulder of lamb. Make sure that you go to a good reputable butcher cos some lamb shoulders I bought have been as tough as iron. I like to use a jar of Pataks Tikka Masala curry paste or Pataks Extra Hot curry paste. The extra hot paste can't be found in regular supermarkets, I got mine from a little Indian foods shop in Denmark st Limerick. You can also make your own paste if you wish by using plenty of onions, ginger, garlic, spices, a little tamarind, plenty of tomato puree and vegetable oil but I'll provide the exact recipe for that at a later date. For now I'll just use the Pataks stuff. The next thing I done was blended about a third of the jar of curry paste with about a half-tub of Glenisk natural yoghurt. This is my fave yoghurt it's lovely and creamy. You then cover the entire surface of the lamb shoulder with this mix. If you want you can leave this marinate overnight although it still tastes delicious if you're too impatient for this step. Place the lamb in a good quality non-stick baking tray, cover with tin-foil and place in a pre-heated oven at about 170C/Gas mark 4 for 3.5 hours for best results. In the meantime chop up about 12 mushrooms, 2 onions up small, about 3 cloves of garlic, a nice two square inches of ginger and both a red and a green chilli. You can blend the garlic, chilli and ginger with the remaining half tub of yoghurt if you wish. Alternatively you may fry them in with the onions and mushrooms, more on that later. When the meat is done remove from baking tray onto a large chopping board. Get yer wok/non-stick pot nice and hot (not too hot) on the stove with plenty of either olive oil, ghee or butter. Add yer chopped onions and mushrooms (you may add your chillies,garlic and ginger at this stage also if you have decided not to blend them with the yoghurt). Add about two more tablespoonfuls of your curry paste and fry until the veggies are nicely covered and soft. Add the remaining yoghurt and a nice helping of the juices from the roasting tin and simmer for about fifteen minutes. You might anna stick on some rice at this time also. In the meantime carve up the lamb (just smell that lovely aroma emanating from the lamb). When the veggie curry mix is ready serve up a large helping of the lamb onto a plate with a nice helping of rice and pour a big ladleful of the veg curry over the meat. Sprinkle with some chopped coriander leaf and enjoy with some poppadums/naan bread/chapatis. Simply delicious:)

Summer pics part 1

Here's a couple of pics I took in the Summer in Limerick. There's more to come. The first is the River Shannon, on the walkway between Corbally and Plassey. The 2nd is that of some cattle taken on a little country back road connecting the Dock road and Raheen. The 3rd is the bridge just at the point where the canal meets the Shannon. The 4th is a horse in St Mary's park and the 5th is a boarded up house in Carew Park (what a shame, that house was pretty new as well).

Retro game review: Battle of Olympus Part 2

Finally, I'm getting round to posting the second part of this review. Now the game starts to get quite tough.

Phytia
This mountainous area is accessed after defeating the rock giant Gaia who is found in Attica (you need the ocarina to wake him up first). This area is an absolute BASTARD. It's riddled with rock-dropping eagles and hoppy monkey things that are all too willing to knock you into the numerous pits in the area. After entering this area, if you head left you are on the path to the metalwork and crafts god Hephaestos who sells you the best weapon in the game known as the Divine Sword. This also shoots out little lightning bolts known as "The Power of Argos". Use this in conjunction with Ares' bracelet to increase the power of the bolts and to prevent the bolt usage from consuming your energy. If you head right at the entrance you will encounter the Centaur, who hops around firing arrows at you (he's pretty easy to beat). You also come to a cave in which, if you have the Graiae witches eye (obtained in Crete) you will find a door to one of the three nymphs (You need to get the key off the old codger in a house near Athena's palace in Attica first). Continue on to enter the Garden of the Hesperides to fight Ladon the dragon (who's basically the same Hydra sprite except green instead of purple). Once you are done here and once you've done everything in Crete it's time to go th the hardest area in the game, Phyrigia (which was a kingdom in ancient Turkey, Midas being the King of that area in mythology). You can access Phyrigia by the sea route just after the Lamia boss battle in Attica by summoning the dolphin with the ocarina.

Phyrigia
This is an absolute hoor of a place. It will first remind you of Crete but the sky is muck darker and it has an excellent Middle Eastern-style soundtrack to it. You will first encounter the Dark Pegasus who spits fireballs at you but just like Talos in Crete you can simply ignore it and enter the old ruin. The ruin is full of staircases, holes to drop down and die, long hard jumps and giant f**k-off cobras who will absolutely OWN you unless you have the salamander shield to block their fireballs. Your objective in this area is to get yer ass to the palace of the moon goddess Artemis who will give you her moon crystal. This is VITAL in order to defeat the final boss Hades. Once you are done with all areas it's time to visit the last area in the game, the entrance to this area lies on the sea route between Crete and Argolis after rescuing the three nymphs.

Tartarus (The Greek Mythological version of Hell)
Once you enter this area you drop down into a section with two doors. One door leads to another similar section while the others lead to a boss/Amazon battle. Once you enter the final door you get to face the three headed hell-hound Cerberus (who is like a faster, stronger version of the Nemean Lion boss in Argolis). Once you defeat him you enter a dark forest area not-unlike Pelopponessus. Advancing thru Tartarus brings you into short, dark, gloomy versions of all the other areas until you eventually get to Hades' palace itself. This palace is full of nasty creatures, staircases and a weird, warbly soundtrack. When you get to Hades use the moon crystal in order to see his shadow so that you can attempt to defeat his. Once he's beaten you get to rescue your missus (who is encased in stone in the room just before Hades' lair). Yaaay!!

Anyway, that's practically it. An excellent side-scrolling game with simple but nicely done graphics, an excellent soundtrack although it's a shame about the weak sound-effects though (although the sound a boss makes after you hit it is cool). Playability is good but using the shield can be frustrating as you must be perfectly still, and getting knocked back after being hit by an enemy is one of the most annoying things in the world. Collecting the olives can be a tedious pain in the anus as well.

Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this little review/walkthru. Here's a vid of the game that I found on Youtube that comes in a number of parts (Kudos to the vid maker for this).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGzqdTq9t88