D Monday, November 2, 2009 METRO 17 Ease On Down The Road: Artist Saimir Strati, 43, creates a mosaic of the late pop legend Michael Jackson in Durres, Albania. Strati will use 250,000 paint brushes and has just 28 days to complete the 10m-high and 2.6m-long mosaic on the side of a truck, which will then tour the country The Big Picture Must someone die? Dublin Bus stops: Drivers fear for their passengers safety I drive the No. 77 bus and every morning Garda cars are parked in the lay-by at the Hawkins House stop at the rear of Pearse Street Station. This stops me from pulling in to let my passengers off, forcing me instead to double park on the road to let them out. My inspector has written to the station to inform the powers that be of this situation, but to no avail. I noticed a similar letter in Metro Mail about this before and believe the situation needs to be addressed before someone is killed. Concerned Driver Whats with all the child-centric adverts on post-watershed TV? After a hard days work, is it really too much to ask to be able to sit down to watch some telly without hearing some toddler tell his mother that he needs a poo, or watch some other half-wit weasel attempt to put his scooter into the dishwasher in an oh-so-adorable act of innocent, spontaneous folly? And thats not to mention the various nappy adverts. Television-wise, children are already catered for from dawn to dusk. So, is a few hours of child-free telly each night really asking that much? Paulie Traditionally, we have supported striking workers in Ireland. But with almost everyone in the private sector hit with pay cuts as well as pension and health levies, our Dublins best-read letters page Metro Mail E-mail letters to mail@metroireland.ie with a name. Or text us. Text MAIL followed by comment and name to 53131. *Texts cost 30cent per message + standard network charges. SP. Oxygen8 Communications, Hospitality House, Cumberland Street South, D2. Customer service number 0818286606 talk to us Evidence: Theres no science to the Bible. Walking on water, parting the ocean and burning bushes theyre meant to be inexplicable divine miracles and not science. Theres archaeological evidence of the ancient Hebrews and Egyptians, of post-Ice Age melting and even relatives of Jesus, but no evidence of a world- smiting flood, no Ark of the Covenant and no Holy Grail. But radiocarbon dating, among other proxies, puts the dinosaurs at 250million years old. Eoghan Brave art: I was happy to see commuters read my piece in Metro Mail the other day I could see the passion in their faces. Tomorrow, I will wear my blue face paint and reveal myself to all! Although with it being post-Halloween, they might mistake me for some pooped-out party-going fake, how embarrassing! W Wallace Noodles for poodles: Maria, I was sitting on the bus on the way home covered in chicken noodle soup so I couldnt believe it when I read your letter! I spilled it all over myself and had to use the hand dryers in work. But this just made it smell lovely to the entourage of cats and dogs that followed me home! Ciara In Brief sympathy for office civil servants will be limited this time I think. Anyone in the emergency services nurses and the like should be exempt from cuts, but if youre pushing paper on a flexitime week and with 30-odd holidays a year, then youre fair game and should toe the line like the rest of us! Unions are only worried about losing subscription fees and their own jobs, its time to get real. DB, Dublin Why does the hour fall back and spring forward? Is it because farmers are notoriously afraid of the dark? Or is it because of children having to walk to school, which we dont see anymore anyway they get driven to school in their mammys 4x4 or, dare I say it, sit on a train! In around two weeks time, it will be exactly as dark again as it was before the hour change. Yet we go through a State-imposed jet lag twice a year for two weeks of extra light in the morning? Isnt it time to stop this outdated custom? Mark, Balbriggan Sendusyour txt To A who is lonely and looking for advice on how to meet a man, just take the train and look for a man with a grey pinstripe suit there seem to be a lot of them about now! T A, think of a hobby that defines you and then join a class or group related to it. I joined a vegetarian group years ago and am still in love with the man I met there! Lovebird Does anyone else think the garda that sit in the white vans at the side of the road are just glorified revenue collectors? The Great One I was in awe at the amount of nekkid flesh on display over Halloween. And as I thoroughly enjoyed it, it made me wonder, can we not have Halloween every quarter? :) ODB There used to be a dairy company in Glasgow called Wiseman. Their slogan on the vans was, It takes a wiseman to get milk from a van. 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