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		<title>The Working Class</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2007/04/the-working-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#039;s a strange expression, isn&#039;t it? Working class. What does it mean? I&#039;ve always had a problem with it, even though I&#039;ve always vaguely understood its thrust. It&#039;s very British. Here in Ireland, we don&#039;t really have a well-defined class system, as they do in England or India. We all curse and swear. None of <a href='http://bocktherobber.com/2007/04/the-working-class/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Funerals</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2007/03/funerals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to a funeral tonight. Well, actually, I went to the removal. It always surprises me how many people from outside Ireland visit here, so perhaps I should explain. We have a custom where a person who has died lies in state at the undertaker&#039;s premises, and all his friends, and the friends of <a href='http://bocktherobber.com/2007/03/funerals/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hail Mighty Lidl</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2007/03/hail-mighty-lidl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know something &#8211; I love Lidl. I&#039;m a complete Lidl junkie. I even look up their web site a week in advance to see what the latest specials are going to be, which I suppose makes me a pikey. Sometimes, the posh relatives might call in, and they&#039;d look around the kitchen with <a href='http://bocktherobber.com/2007/03/hail-mighty-lidl/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>And they call me a robber?</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2007/02/and-they-call-me-a-robber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you like to hear the story of the great big bridge and the tiny little mouse? OK then. Settle in and pull up those cosy covers while I tell you the story. You see, what happened was this. Once upon a time, the government built a road from one side of the great big <a href='http://bocktherobber.com/2007/02/and-they-call-me-a-robber/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>What it means to be Irish</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2007/02/what-it-means-to-be-irish/</link>
		<comments>http://bocktherobber.com/2007/02/what-it-means-to-be-irish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#039;t know. I have no idea what it means to be Irish. In spite of the fact that &#8211; as far as I&#039;m aware- my people have lived here forever, I feel very reluctant to call myself Irish, because I don&#039;t know what the term Irish means. I feel even more uncomfortable when I <a href='http://bocktherobber.com/2007/02/what-it-means-to-be-irish/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scunts</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2007/02/scunts-21/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having said all that about Ryanair, the no-care airline, the low-standards airline, the no-brain airline, in fairness, I would have to say this about them: they&#039;re shit. However, here&#039;s the question. Who isn&#039;t shit? That&#039;s right. Scunthorpe United aren&#039;t shit. Scunthorpe United won yet again, beating poor old Rotherham to streak to the top of <a href='http://bocktherobber.com/2007/02/scunts-21/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Suing a hospital</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2007/02/suing-a-hospital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you see those reports during the week about a couple who sued a hospital because a sterilisation operation didn&#039;t work? It seems the woman had a tubal ligation in the Coombe, and on the face of it, that appeared to be that. The end. No more babies. It&#039;s very final. No more puking into <a href='http://bocktherobber.com/2007/02/suing-a-hospital/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Croke Park Trilogy &#8211; Part Three</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2007/02/the-croke-park-trilogy-part-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first worrying thing was when some official walked out onto the pitch and welcomed everyone to Lansdown- sorry &#8211; Croke Park! Oh noooo!!! Then the Artane Band came out, and with my razor-sharp observational skills, I noticed that they aren&#039;t the Artane Boys&#039; Band any more. Now, they have girls and other people with <a href='http://bocktherobber.com/2007/02/the-croke-park-trilogy-part-three/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Croke Park Trilogy &#8211; Part One</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2007/02/the-croke-park-trilogy-part-one/</link>
		<comments>http://bocktherobber.com/2007/02/the-croke-park-trilogy-part-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus, said Wrinkly Paddy. This place is full of Northsiders. True, I replied, but imagine how they feel. Their streets are full of Southsiders, Culchies and filthy garlic-eating surrender-monkeys. God, he shuddered. Give me out that hip-flask quick. Not fifteen minutes earlier, we had abandoned the safe and familiar shabbiness of Mulligan&#039;s in Poolbeg Street <a href='http://bocktherobber.com/2007/02/the-croke-park-trilogy-part-one/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Theatre, music and fools</title>
		<link>http://bocktherobber.com/2007/02/theatre-music-and-fools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went out this evening with a couple of my friends to a play. You might remember from previous posts that we sometimes go to the theatre, and usually it&#039;s good enough. Well, tonight we went to see a play in the Impact theatre called Oleanna, by David Mamet. It featured Norma and Darren, and <a href='http://bocktherobber.com/2007/02/theatre-music-and-fools/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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