Comments for Raptureponies

Comment on Dear Internet by Paul Hunter

Paul Hunter — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:04:34 +0000

That bloody song again! I was reading your blog and came across the video (above) for the Norwegian song. It is so addictive – every time I hear the song, I end up humming it for the whole day. And now you’ve set me off again – thanks!

Comment on Ryanair is passenger 166 by Carolyn

Carolyn — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:32:17 +0000

Ryanair very much has the attitude that if you have a problem with its third-world business practices, you must be stupid. We followed all of their rules for online check-in and accessing boarding passes only to be told that we didn’t have a firm enough grasp of the English language to have done it correctly and therefore they were going to charge us 40 euros. Then they claimed our bags were overweight and charged us 15 euros per kilo. This turned out not to be accurate — at check-in for our Delta flight two hours later in Madrid we learned our bags were only 1 kilo over the limit. Given that even a bankrupt airline such as Delta prefers having customers as opposed to having no customers, pissing them off and treating them like idiots, Delta allowed us to shift out belongings from suitcase to suitcase so as not to be charged extra. We also were charged for two bags we didn’t have and were not allowed priority boarding, for which we had already paid. All in all, it was a disaster, and I will never fly Ryan Air again, nor allow anyone I care about to be their customer. That would include all people who believe in human dignity and decency. On the flight, it was freezing, and even with my daughter’s teeth chattering we were simply told in a cold, dispassionate voice that they had no blankets.

Comment on Raptureponies the third by Ciara

Ciara — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:36:35 +0000

It’s so pretty! I love it

Comment on Raptureponies the third by Sinéad

Sinéad — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:05:53 +0000

Congratulations!!!

Comment on What the Plinth? by Leigh O'Gorman

Leigh O'Gorman — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:13:50 +0000

sweet

(welcome back by the way)

Comment on I stopped in my tracks by tcup

tcup — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:08:39 +0000

cool!

Comment on Dear Internet by Manuel

Manuel — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:34:16 +0000

and I’m back……with chums now too

Comment on What the Plinth? by Chris

Chris — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:57:00 +0000

I spent a fantastic day up on crosby beach sharing a cold bracing january day with a bunch of statues.

Haunting, evocative, poignant – these weather beaten statues standing as testament to human achievement and resilience against the a classical northen industrial backdrop.

I love the way that the tide takes over the figures but the figures then fight back and are left pretty much unscarred. It is as though King Canute was wrong – the sea shall not have us.

Gormley is a genius.

Comment on What the Plinth? by Rick O'Shea

Rick O'Shea — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:04:48 +0000

He’s a genius.

I’m going to scope out what’s going on this weekend.

Comment on What the Plinth? by elly parker

elly parker — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:30:05 +0000

Registration is still open for the plinth, according to the website – why don’t you just “borrow” an address from a Northern Irish blogger??? I can think of someone I can recommend…