I read the following article this morning and instantly began to splutter coffee in amusement.
“The gym mogul told The Evening Herald that he felt compelled to remove hair dryers on hygiene grounds as he had witnessed several gym users drying their nether regions.
He said “When you see people using a hairdryer on other parts of their bodies and then putting it back, there is no way you can allow that to go on in any business. I will not allow that to go on in my business.”
Aw yes, the creeping horror of watching people use hot air to dry parts of their bodies.
The second part revealed the gym giant could cheerfully dry the sacks of a multitude using his own brand of hot air. Thusly-
“Meanwhile the outspoken businessman also slammed what he views as the removal of Christian religion from Ireland and says he prays everyday during the Angelus. He told Classic Hits FM: “I am disgusted to hear what is being said in parliament in Europe about taking Christianity out of our lives.”
“It’s now got worse and they want us to do away with crucifixes, they want us to deny we are Christians publicly.
He continued “We are a Christian country and there is nobody going to take that out of me or the vast majority of people in this country.”
* guffaws* Oh the humanity, oh the persecution complex. Ireland, of course is a republic, and about as Christian as the next a la carte religious order, but that won’t stop a good old rant based on not a whole lot of fact but a truck load of tripe. I’ve yet to read about these scary-sounding councils of denial, where obviously the pious and devout must enter the arena ( oh please let there be greased-up gladiators) and deny their religious leanings. Will there be lions this time round I wonder. Or will the faithful be simply tortured by damp gooches and semi-dry cracks while being forced to wait many hours to avail of the one Smith Machine currently being used by a six-stone lad wearing AberCrombie and Fitch?
Oh the humanity!
Ben Dunne, you’re a shrewd enough businessman, but you’re as mad as a box of badgers.
April 12, 2012 at 9:34 am |
Not sure what calling him a drug and prostitute user has got to do with it but that article is bizzare. He is normally quite level headed. There is no doubt he is an excellent Business man. He probably just had a bad day.
April 12, 2012 at 10:00 am |
You don’t? There’s a shock.
April 12, 2012 at 10:27 am |
Well, nobody like a hypocrite. But I’d imagine he no more believes in any of that shite than you or I. It is just ruthless marketing. Business will boom for him on the back of that article. As you know well sensationalism grabs the publics attention and gives you a leg up. I don’t agree with it but it seems to me than nothing more than an attempt to promote himself.
April 12, 2012 at 10:34 am |
He’s a dab hand at the self-promotion all right, I just wonder how his male clients feel about no longer being allowed use hairdryers for a ridiculous arbitrary reason.
April 12, 2012 at 10:48 am |
I’d say it has been carefully considered. In reality I doubt many lads use the dryers. In fact I doubt he has ever seen anyone drying their nads with a dryer. It is an anomaly but all advertising is good advertising. Alas, the cold sea awaits me. Slan.
April 12, 2012 at 11:35 am |
Ahhhhh, Ben Dunne… I can’t hear about him without thinking of the joke we used to tell in school. How do you get a Ford Cortina into the shower? Ask Ben Dunne, he managed to get an Escort into the bath… Ba-doom-tsh
April 12, 2012 at 12:35 pm |
He should get beck up on his ledge to say his Angelus, the pious prick.
April 12, 2012 at 1:59 pm |
People dry their nether regions with hair dryers…but…ok…right…but….the hair dryer ITSELF doesn’t actually hit off the nads or the gee does it? Like, ok, I woulnd’t stand there drying my, er, area with a hairdryer in public…but if I did, it’d only be lowered a couple of foot from my head and held a good foot away from the area? Wouldn’t it?
So it’d only be the air that would hit the nads or gee – air that is then gone and not impacting on the next person using it? Right?
Or am I missing something?
Last time I was in the hairdresser, I was COVERED in hair after the chop as I had left it a full year to get a chop. So before she started drying the hair left on my head, the girl ran over me with the dryer, up and down and even inside my shirt to blow off the hair so I’d be comfortable sitting there. Should she have chucked that dryer out then, because it blew air at my boobs? What?
April 12, 2012 at 2:12 pm |
Also, I sometimes say a prayer at the Angelus or just a quick ‘don’t forget about that favour I asked of you on Sunday God’ or even just cross myself – but if they take it off the telly or radio that, um, won’t stop me doing the same thing! I don’t need a bell on the telly to allow me to say a prayer.
And I can have as many crusifixes (can’t even bloody spell it) as I want in my own house. I don’t as it happens but I do have Palm and a Child of Prague. I like religious imagery and I’d be sad if it was removed from public places from a personal point of view cos I like looking at it, but I’d get over it! I don’t think that means I have to deny my Christianity? What is he on about?
Mad as a box of frogs indeed.
April 12, 2012 at 2:21 pm |
To be honest, Ben’s very public Tony Montana moment aside (which makes it difficult for me to take anything he says seriously) patrons of his gym should be more alarmed that he is spending serious time perving at them from odd angles in the changing rooms. TMI Ben!
April 12, 2012 at 5:23 pm |
Given his hygine concerns Bens probably thinking of draining the swimming pool next so he can paint a crucifix on the bottom.
April 12, 2012 at 6:54 pm |
No Karen! You cannot, you will be dragged to the public square and forcibly made denounce!!
He’s definitely lost the plot here, on the radio earlier saying men can bring their OWN hairdryers and fluff up their gooches at their leisure, but just not with a Ben Dunne dryer. Seems overly interested in gooch-drying if you ask me, but there you go.
April 12, 2012 at 10:14 pm |
Maybe Ben actually rubs the hairdryer off his head (or whatever body part) when he’s using it….
April 13, 2012 at 6:08 am |
And first image of the day goes too….