Worf - Not a real life Klingon.

Good Idea: Playing your Xbox 360 on a widescreen HD television
Bad Idea: Playing your Xbox 360 on a 14-inch Powerpoint TV

Good Idea: Locking up the house with the dog out.
Bad Idea: Locking up the house with the dog in

Good Idea: Choosing Gius Hiddink as your club manager.
Bad Idea: Choosing Steve Staunton as your club manager.

Good Idea: Getting a doctor’s degree through college.
Bad Idea: Getting a doctor’s degree through watching “Grey’s Anatomy”

Good Idea: Watching the Irish soccer team on RTE.
Bad Idea: watching the Irish soccer team on TV3
Every time they are on TV3, they either lose or perform very poorly in narrow wins against weak opposition

Good Idea: hanging up billboards before an election
Bad Idea: hanging up billboards after an election
Billboards left up after an election are classified as litter and is punishable by heavy fine

Good Idea: Playing football in the park
Bad Idea: Playing football in front of the Garda station

Good Idea: confessing your sins to a priest
Bad Idea: confessing your sins to an undercover cop

Good Idea: giving money to charity
Bad Idea: giving money to a scammer posing as a charity

Good Idea: Cutting the rose with the hedge clippers
Bad Idea: Cutting your friend named Rose with the hedge clippers

Good Idea: Having the bride at the wedding reception
Bad Idea: Having “The Bride” (from Kill Bill) at the wedding reception

Good Idea: Having your children watch The Den at 1 o’clock
Bad Idea: Having your children watch the news at 1 o’clock

Good Idea: Drinking water as a hangover cure
Bad Idea: Drinking Red Bull as a hangover cure

Good Idea: Building a house in a neighbourhood
Bad Idea: Building a house in a cemetery

Good Idea: Having staff in a shop
Bad Idea: Leaving the shop unattended

Good Idea: Playing pop music at a birthday party
Bad Idea: Playing pop music at a funeral wake

Good Idea: Taking a parachute before jumping off the plane
Bad Idea: Taking Red Bull before jumping off the plane

Good Idea: Putting your entire savings fund in your bank account
Bad Idea: Putting your entire savings fund on your credit card

Good Idea: Getting a Sky satellite dish
Bad Idea: Getting a Lidl satellite dish
For Lidl, you have to install the dish yourself, and they usually deliver poor signals

Good Idea: Getting a diploma/degree in your chosen study
Bad Idea: Letting it go to waste

Good Idea: Using LimeWire on your PC at home
Bad Idea: Using LimeWire in an internet café

Good Idea: Posting a lovely message on Bebo
Bad Idea: Posting a malicious message on Bebo

Good Idea: Playing your black metal* records at home
Bad Idea: Playing your black metal records at church
*Black metal is a form of anti-Christian heavy metal. Examples include Deicide, Cradle of Filth

Good Idea: Cutting down trees with a chainsaw
Bad Idea: Cutting down electricity poles with a chainsaw

Good Idea: Drinking Mi-Wadi juice with water
Bad Idea: Drinking it on its own

Good Idea: Going out fishing on a sunny day
Bad Idea: Going out fishing in an Atlantic storm

Good Idea: Watching “The Omen”
Bad Idea: Watching “The Omen” remake

Good Idea: Acting as Big Brother to your kids
Bad Idea: Putting your kids on Big Brother

Good Idea: Singing off-key in a pub
Bad Idea: Singing off-key on “American Idol”

Good Idea: Supporting the Galway football team
Bad Idea: Supporting the Roscommon football team

Good Idea: Putting on the film (The Wizard of) Oz for your kids
Bad Idea: Putting on the HBO series Oz for your kids

Good Idea: Playing Pink’s “Get The Party Started” at your kids’ party
Bad Idea: Playing Pink’s “Hooker” at your kids’ party
“Hooker” contains the lyrics: “if you’ve wanna be a hooker, selling your f**king soul”

Good Idea: Lighting scented candles at your shop
Bad Idea: Mistaking dynamite for above and lighting them at your shop

Good Idea: Doing your weekly shopping in Aldi or Lidl
Bad Idea: Doing your weekly shopping in a convenience store

Good Idea: Getting prescriptions from the local pharmacy
Bad Idea: Getting prescriptions from a drug dealer

Good Idea: Frying your chips in refined vegetable oil
Bad Idea: Frying your chips in hydrogenated vegetable oil

Good Idea: Watching film credits on DVD
Bad Idea: Watching film credits on RTE
On RTE: “The End” graphic comes up the second end credits show on screen

Good Idea: Having a TopShop in your town
Bad Idea: Having a TopShop but no TopMan in your town

Good Idea: Dating Kate Moss
Bad Idea: Dating Amy Winehouse

Good Idea: Putting a photo of your friend on Flickr
Bad Idea: Putting a photo of your friend naked on Flickr

Good Idea: Blowing a cat whistle in the park
Bad Idea: Blowing a cat whistle in the dog pound

Good Idea: Taking your German shepherd for a walk
Bad Idea: Taking your pit bull terrier for a walk

Good Idea: Selling Ronaldo for at least £50 million
Bad Idea: Letting Ronaldo go on free transfer

Good Idea: Giving your movie rights to James Cameron
Bad Idea: Giving your movie rights to Uwe Boll

Good Idea: Having fish stew served to you on Ash Wednesday
Bad Idea: Having electric eel stew served to you on Ash Wednesday

Good Idea: Having fried egg at breakfast
Bad Idea: Having raw egg at breakfast

Good Idea: Sending a picture of your family to a photo studio for framing
Bad Idea: Sending a picture of your butt to a photo studio for framing

Good Idea: Having a birthday card’s price differ in the till from the price displayed on the shelf at Tesco
Bad Idea: Having a 50-inch LCD TV’s price differ in the till from the price displayed on the shelf at Tesco
No quibble guarantee, customer gets it absolutely free

Good Idea: Listening to the piped music at HMV
Bad Idea: Listening to the piped music at Tesco
Generic supermarket music, or cheesy cover versions by (mostly) the manager

Good Idea: Taking your kids out to see the clown Ronald Mc Donald
Bad Idea: Taking your kids out to see the clown from Stephen King’s “It”

Good Idea: Betting on France to win the Six Nations rugby
Bad Idea: Betting on Italy to win the Six Nations rugby

Good Idea: Voting for Fine Gael in the next General Election
Bad Idea: Voting for Fianna Fail in the next General Election

Good Idea: Selling your Xbox 360 game on Ebay
Bad Idea: Selling your Xbox 360 game at GameStop
Trade in value at GameStop: 5 euro or less

Good Idea: Using your camera phone at the wedding
Bad Idea: Using your camera phone in the cinema

Good Idea: Giving your kids After Eight chocolate mints
Bad Idea: Giving your kids Green & Black organic chocolate mints
Green & Black mint bars contain alcohol

Good Idea: Calling in to Sasha the DJ
Bad Idea: Calling in to Sasha the clothes shop

Good Idea: Sending a document on MS Word by email
Bad Idea: Sending a document on MS Works Word Processor by email
Most people don’t use Works

Good Idea: Having your dog digging holes in the garden to bury his bone
Bad Idea: Having your dog digging holes in the graveyard to bury his bone

Good Idea: Watching Sky
Bad Idea: Watching Chorus/NTL
Chorus is unreliable and has poor customer support

Cultural and other references

Galway Hooker (boats) - painting refers to this
Judy Greene Connemara range (craft) - a window display devoted to recently announced range
"Shop Local Galway"
Frances Crowe lamb watercolour (painting) - displayed on window
Mindy Brownes/Genesis (craft) - poster and shelves on top windows refer to this
Zhivago Galway closure, Jan 2011 (event) - "Galway has no independent record store - who wants one in the town" poster
"ROSCOMMON HAS NO CINEMA - WHO WANTS ONE IN THE TOWN" (Facebook page) - "Galway has no independent record store - who wants one in the town" poster
Munster 2011 Heineken Cup campaign () - "Life in Hell" includes the squad along with Hitler and Nixon. Munster exited the competition in the first round a week earlier.
Galway Arts Festival (event) - "Cat and Fiddles" sculpture in top window refers to said craft arranged for the 10th event
Volvo Ocean Race 2012 (event) - poster refers to this upcoming major run

Released: February 2011