Things I love and hate (in no particular order)

This list is under construction forever...

I am not fond of:

• Cigarettes, Guns, land mines
• Gambling (an actual answer to the apparently rhetorical question, "how stupid can you be?")
• Is brea liom gach sagart, sagart, rabbi agus imam a bhi ina gconai riamh. Cen fath? Ta rudai ar eolas acu nach bhfuil ar eolas agam. Agus muineann siad duinn
• The catholic church (if you need a reason, try this )
• Litterbugs.
• Graffiti.
• Rap music.
• Gerry Adams, Martin McGuinness,
• Pat Robertson, Benny Hinn,
• Sylvia Browne, John Edward,
• Deepak Chopra
• Plagiarism.
• MTV

I am fond of:

• Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Fry,
  
• Spike Milligan., Flann O'Brien,..
• Lego (although the current management are idiots),..
• (the late) Sir Oliver Wolfe.
• Google, Wikipedia, Ebay, Matlab, wolfram alpha,
  
• Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Kate Bush, Michelle Shocked, Rickie Lee Jones, Sia (vocal of the decade)
• The Waterboys, Van Morrison, The Blue Nile, The Beatles, Prefab Sprout,
• Fawlty Towers , Monty Python, Father Ted, The Simpsons, Steptoe and Son,
• Wallace and Gromit, Ray Harryhausen.
• Cops (Apart from the anthropological value, is there anything more fun than watching a belligerent drunk being tasered?)
• Bicycles: esp Cannondale, Bike Friday, Brompton, and other  folding bikes
• Well made tools, a DeVilbiss Spraygun (use nothing else!), a Bridgeport milling machine, Leatherman, DeWalt.
• IN-N-OUT burgers,..
• Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan , David Attenborough, James Randi, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Richard Carrier,
  
• Deborah Butterfield
• Richmal Crompton,
• Graham Obree,
• Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, P. G. Wodehouse, 
• Star Ferry, the Wicklow Mountains, the Ring of Kerry, The Mission Inn, Balboa Island
• Cirque du Soleil,
• Cartalk, Prairie Home Companion, Terry Gross (best interviewer in the world)
• Galton and Simpson, Tony Hancock,