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@OwensDamien
Damien Owens
8 years
As long as I live, I will never understand how this alone wasn’t the end of it.
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8 years
I hear you, Sanders supporters who plan to vote Trump. One time I asked for Coke but they only had Pepsi, so I set fire to my head.
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8 years
You have to feel sorry for CPAC. They booked a perfectly normal Nazi in good faith and then found out he was some kind of *weird* Nazi.
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4 years
Sick of all the chirpy articles saying ‘Why not use this time to learn a language or master an instrument?’ BECAUSE I’M PARALYSED WITH ANXIETY, THAT’S WHY, MARY FUCKING POPPINS.
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6 years
I don't want to see a picture of Jeff Bezos's dick, thank you very much. I'm perfectly happy with dick pics from my local independent bookseller.
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Damien Owens
7 years
The situation in Syria is incredibly complex, but if anyone can unravel it it’s a reality TV host who lost money running a casino.
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Damien Owens
5 years
Saoirse Ronan has been nominated for an Oscar four times. She's 25. I got on a Dublin bus last week and asked the driver for 'A bus, please'.
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Damien Owens
7 years
I want to skip to the end of the Trump movie where it fades out and captions tell us how long they each got in prison.
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Damien Owens
6 years
Irish Film Classifications G: Grand PG: Mostly grand but sure you know yourself 12: Might be a bit of shifting 15: Shifting, implied riding, lads getting a box in the mouth, a few bad words 18: Riding, young wans in the nip, heads blew clean off, and the LANGUAGE out of them
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Damien Owens
3 years
I’m 50. All celebrity news looks like this: ‘CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A GRUNT’
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Damien Owens
6 years
Oh, come on. Ariana Grande v Piers Morgan isn’t a fair fight. She’s a sharp young woman with the world at her feet and he’s a pile of gone-off ham with a face drawn on it.
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Damien Owens
7 years
I see the Sunday Times editor has apologised for the Kevin Myers article he accidentally commissioned, approved, edited and published.
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Damien Owens
5 years
All these old farts are upset because Billie Eilish is doing the Bond theme. Thank God I'm still cool. I say give him a chance.
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Damien Owens
10 years
The year is 2246. Disease and hunger have been eradicated. The terraforming of Mars is complete. The symbol for Save is still a floppy disk.
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Damien Owens
6 years
Trump seems to be under the impression that he’s popular here in Ireland. This is in a Dublin pub toilet.
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Damien Owens
5 years
I won’t believe Sarah Sanders has quit until I hear her personally deny it.
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Damien Owens
8 years
I really hate wacky ties. Robert Mugabe has the right idea here - a sober deep blue with some low-key spots.
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8 years
Trump Tower is being evacuated. There’s a ‘suspicious package’. It’s probably a book.
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Damien Owens
9 years
Our brains are hardwired to see humanity where there is none. Check out these adorable examples.
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Damien Owens
5 years
Now I’m depressed. I will never write anything as funny as ‘This is on top of the agreement we’ve signed with Liechtenstein.’
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Sir Liam Fox
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BREAKING: Our negotiators have just initialled a trade agreement with Iceland & Norway for the European Economic Area. This is the 2nd biggest agreement we're rolling over and trade with EEA is worth nearly £30bn. This is on top of the agreement we’ve signed with Liechtenstein.
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3 years
Irish people are cursed because we can't hear 'May the force be with you' without mentally adding 'And also with you'.
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Damien Owens
5 years
I'm not a big fan of Leo Varadkar. But I'm a HUGE fan of Leo Varadkar bringing his boyfriend to meet Mike Pence.
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Damien Owens
8 years
'Your new name is Reek.'
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Damien Owens
6 years
Any idea why they were called ‘The Troubles’ and not ‘The Smooth Sailings’, you ludicrous haunted pencil?
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Damien Owens
9 years
Donald Trump looks like the nasty businessman in a Disney movie who loses out to a six year-old and his dog.
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5 years
Britain: ‘This footage is potentially devastating to the British army’s impeccable global reputation.’ Ireland:
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4 years
Zero COVID-19 deaths in Ireland today. Excellent news.
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Damien Owens
3 years
Let us now join hands, bow our heads, and recall this photo of Larry David dragging his daughter around Civil War battlefields.
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3 years
Thanks, I got arrested.
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Damien Owens
6 years
Can we drop the 'Theresa May's a good person doing her best in difficult circumstances' stuff? If she saw a button marked DESTROY IRELAND AND SAVE YOURSELF she'd break her fucking finger on it.
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Damien Owens
10 years
Please remember that ‘What are you depressed about?’ makes no more sense than ‘What are you diabetic about?’
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Damien Owens
7 years
The Trumps are like the Corleones except every single one of them is Fredo.
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Damien Owens
9 years
My wife says I remind her of James Bond. I'm bad at following orders, I'm emotionally dead, and she'd like to see the role go to Idris Elba.
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Damien Owens
3 years
That guy who stuck a flare up his hole looks pretty silly now.
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4 years
*dedicates rest of life to developing a vaccine*
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8 years
Trump: ‘You can’t ALL be Lex Luthor’.
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5 years
By the sounds of things downstairs, my wife and her book club pals sure have drunk a lot of books.
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8 years
‘Daddy, what was 2016 like?’ ‘All the cool people died. Everyone fell in behind assholes with bad hair and worse ideas. It rained a lot.’
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Damien Owens
6 years
Trump's mad at Google because searching for his own name returns bad news. This reminds me of my lawsuit against Full-length Mirror in Well-lit Clothes Shop Changing Room.
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Damien Owens
7 years
Nice shot of a cheerful Pope Francis giving Trump the tour. 'Chairs, floor, walls ... We're done, get out.'
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Damien Owens
6 years
* Brexit will be a huge success! * It will be probably be a success! * We never said ‘success’. * At least we’re taking back control. * Look, most people will survive. * Don’t forget, there’s protein in the rat’s eyeballs too.
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Damien Owens
7 years
Jeremy Paxman telling a joke: ‘Knock, knock.’ ‘Who’s there?’ ‘I’LL ASK THE QUESTIONS. NOW I PUT IT TO YOU AGAIN: KNOCK, KNOCK.’
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Damien Owens
7 years
‘I grow tired of this foul human air.’ ‘Patience, Maz’khuun. Soon we will return to the under-realms and inform the Elders of our success.’
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7 years
‘What’s that, chocolate? Everyone who laughed at my hat must die? Well, you’re the boss.’
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‘Daddy, what was Twitter like?’ ‘It was like this:’
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Damien Owens
6 years
Welcome to your forties! You're tired all the time now, you don't know who any of the famous people are, and you've got a phone reminder called 'Bins'.
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6 years
William Barr looks like a Steve Bannon who got help.
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7 years
Imagine the scene when Ryan told Trump he didn’t have the votes. I’d give anything to have been one of the flies on Steve Bannon.
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10 years
‘Daddy, can we paint your face?’ ‘OK, what am I going to be?’ ‘A beautiful butterfly.’ http://t.co/TymVFZIkPj
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5 years
Seems Jeremy Corbyn’s strategy of being absolutely fucking useless hasn’t paid the handsome dividends he might have hoped for.
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Damien Owens
6 years
Dance like Mark Zuckerberg isn’t watching.
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Damien Owens
8 years
I made a Standard Trump Reply:
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Damien Owens
6 years
Hey, America, Ireland here. Do you want us to take a swing at this Trump thing?
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6 years
Ireland’s only just put its feet up after the Pope left, and now the doorbell goes again. ‘Shite, who’s that? AH, FOR FUCK’S SAKE.’
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Damien Owens
7 years
Katie Hopkins lost her libel case and owes a lot of money. Let's dig deep and raise funds to buy a huge megaphone we can all laugh through.
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Damien Owens
6 years
'Excuse me, which way is Salisbury Cathedral?'
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Damien Owens
5 years
Nobody can fuck off as far and as fast as these arseholes can fuck off.
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Damien Owens
8 years
In keeping with a tradition as old as the presidency itself, Trump just paid out $25m to people he defrauded by running a fake university.
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4 years
I’ve got a good title for the inevitable movie about a Matt Damon-like star being stranded in Ireland, learning all about our weird obsessions and ultimately going native. Here it comes. Ready? Are you ready? ‘IMMERSION’
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3 years
I’m obsessed with I-Am-Very-Smart Twitter whataboutery. This one should be in an art gallery. Unimprovable.
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Damien Owens
4 years
Everyone’s laughing at Trump because he’s banging on about antibiotics. Give him a break. How is he supposed know that the coronavirus is a virus?
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Damien Owens
9 years
It's very generous of him but is an Australian actress what they really need right now?
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Damien Owens
8 years
Don't forget the clocks go forward tonight, as they do every night, pitiless and unstoppable, silent witnesses to our inevitable decay.
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Damien Owens
7 years
The penny will drop in an hour or so.
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7 years
'Huge asteroid heading for Earth, where I won the election! Extinction-level event! Everyone doomed! Thanks!'
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Damien Owens
6 years
This isn’t what ‘secret’ means. Mind you, it’s probably not what ‘interview’ means either.
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Mirror Breaking News
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BREAKING Donald Trump gives 'secret' interview to Piers Morgan on board Air Force One
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‘I murder drifters and use their hair to make little dolls. Oh, you meant at work! My biggest weakness is that I’m a perfectionist.’
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Damien Owens
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I don’t think Major Tom was much of an astronaut - Ground Control had to tell him to put his helmet on, FFS. That’s pretty basic stuff.
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3 years
Saw Dune last night. Man, that is one sandy movie. Up there with the two sandiest movies of all time, Lawrence of Arabia and Grease.
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An Irish mammy gets hold of her teenage son’s laptop.
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To be Irish these days is to constantly look east and west in horror, like a Wimbledon spectator who's just realised the players are drunk.
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‘Having gnawed through the ropes and run naked down the street in tears, would you consider returning to our basement?’
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Steve Bannon often looks quite sinister, so well done to Time magazine for capturing his playful side.
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Damien Owens
8 years
It didn't start with Auschwitz, you know. It started with lists and bans and press attacks and all the other stuff you stand over, grinning.
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On this #HolocaustMemorialDay , we remember the millions of innocent lives lost, and pledge #NeverAgain .
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Damien Owens
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I don’t ask for much, God, but please, I’m begging you, have Garth Brooks commiserate with the Dublin crowd on the loss of their queen.
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Humanity: not long to go now.
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To Americans confused by today’s events: the French saw the racist lunatic pushing easy hate-based solutions and voted for the other person.
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Remember when you were a child and America seemed impossibly cool and glamorous? Now you think of it and shudder.
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Paul Ryan stares at the floor. A lone tear meanders down his boyish face. ‘I just wanted poor people to die,’ he croaks. ‘Is that so wrong?’
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I'd love it if Bill Gates controlled me using a microchip. He couldn't do a worse job than I'm doing.
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Damien Owens
4 years
Disney World is reopening in Florida. You can go meet the updated Seven Dwarfs, Dopey, Coughy, Wheezy, Sweaty, Frightened, Lonely, and Dead.
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5 years
London journalists, I’m begging you: someone ask the DUP how old the Earth is.
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7 years
We don’t call it Boxing Day in Ireland. Although you may hear references to St Stephen’s Day, the correct term is in fact Stephenseses Day.
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4 years
Sure, pal, the debat. Now let’s get you back into bed.
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‘Ireland! A nation of storytellers! How are we to account for this rich tradit
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Time to check in and see how Brexit’s going ...
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'Prison Reform with Kim Kardashian.'
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You have to respect the honesty here.
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Damien Owens
6 years
Calling people Nazis is what turns them into Nazis, apparently. Please start referring to me as 'that super-rich guy all the girls are crazy about'.
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To be fair to Dublin Airport Authority, who let 248 staff go during the pandemic, how were they to know about the linear nature of time?
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Damien Owens
6 years
Christ, you have to watch the Late Late to get an exit poll. It’s like someone stuck your Leaving Cert results up a cow’s arse.
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Just approached some kids setting a fire in the park. We had a long chat about civic responsibility, then all agreed that I should fuck off.
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7 years
North Korea flew a missile over Japan. This is going to require delicate- *Trump has already tweeted a mushroom cloud he crayoned*
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7 years
I fear Ireland will lose the run of itself when Trudeau arrives. We'll wind up giving him Galway as a present.
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Damien Owens
6 years
Big fan of this sort of tweet: ‘ORDINARY PEOPLE WILL NEVER TASTE FREEDOM SO LONG AS THE WINDSOR PARASITES ARE ALLOWED TO SUCK ON THEIR VERY LIFEBLOOD. ALSO, THAT DRESS IS BEAUTIFUL ON HER.’
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Damien Owens
8 years
I suppose the simplest reply to any Americans gloating that Jo Cox's murder proves gun control doesn't work is 'Learn to fucking count'.
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Damien Owens
6 years
Well done, Elon Musk. It takes a big man to eventually admit he was wrong after his lawyers pointed out he was going to get sued into tiny pieces because he called a hero a pedo for making fun of his mini-submarine.
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Damien Owens
7 years
This time last year I was getting Trump all wrong and being gently corrected by his kind-hearted and highly intelligent supporters.
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Damien Owens
8 years
As long as I live, I will never understand how this alone wasn’t the end of it.
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Absolutely incredible. Even for Twitter.
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