In Ireland we have nostalgic ads

i am nostalgic for all these nostalgic adverts

just lolling at "barry's tea", idk why

do irishmen living in england get nostalgic for taytos or is it just crisps in general longing for the further afield

they get nostalgic for it, sure and why wouldn't they?

well as far as i have discerned tayto quality isnt that vast compared to yr average walkers and whatnot - certainly not a void on the level of a pole pining for his packet of cup-a-borscht or whatever

the taytos u get abroad are a pile of shit

they're not the same, yr import tayto are made in NI to a different recipe i think.

but in either case r|t|c god made taytos on day 7 iirc

yeah i mean if you buy taytos outside of ireland they taste like cardboard, but here they really do render all other types of crisps irrelevant

cant imagine lyfe without taytos.

i mean barrys tea i can take or leave, tbh, that diaspora thing is just marketing bullshit. but taytos i dunno.

nah that NI thing is mostly bullshit, they are pretty much the same ime. however walkers cheese and onion are fucking appalling compared to any tayto or king crisps....so shit, can't believe rtc can't taste the diff!

(that esb as above is beautiful)

x-post just also to say, don't think i miss anything from ireland apart from decent sausages and i am slowly being weaned onto the british variety.

esb ad*

im in ireland right now

no ur not, i would see u

I was in "county roscommon" all week eating the pint of harp

nobody drinks harp=u are not in ireland

where did u even find harp on draught

well it was the metaphorical harp, really i was just eating loads of butter and various meat puddings

i had "the pint of guinness" though just like james joyce once did

anyone remember that dennys rashers ad with the irish guy and his american wife getting a phone call rom the old sod

how did you enjoy "the trip to ireland" max?

michael do you mean the denny ad where "it's breakfast time back home"?

I deeply enjoyed myself "local policeman" (via Gaelic). I went, with my grandmother, to the town from where my great great great grandfather emigrated. I also read the first hundred or so pages of Murphy. All in all, I would describe it as a "crack."

i have never read any joyce

kindof ashamed

Really though, I had a great time--everyone I met was friendly and helpful and the food, despite what I expected, was great. Good job on your country.

bought ulysses a few months back but can't get into it, despite liking musil/broch and stuff that gets compared to him a lot. max it's "craic" tho you probably knew that. "crack" is a drug which is frowned upon in Irish culture.

where in Roscommon was it? my friend's parents have a house in Boyle that I've been to a lot.

i have only been to roscommon to go to hyde park

is one of those places i don't think i've ever met anyone from (aside from while being there)

nah they all flee to galway

I was near Boyle in a tiny town called Castlecoote. Very pretty but probably insanely boring to live in.

Joyce is great. But I read Ulysses in college with one of "those" professors and feel like I totally "got" it & by extension "the soul of all Ireland."

Really though the reason I "get" Ireland is cause I've seen that Harp ad.

you are more irish than the irish themselves

x-post otm, did you see sally o'brien at all while "home"

sally o'brien was irl a brit sori to destroy ur illusions

she was on the late late to break it to the nation i saw it on reeling in the years

can't believe i lusted after a brit...an insult to the patriots

sorry were gonna take you out and shoot you now RIP i guess you had a good run

sher

I didn't see Sally O'Brien, I was too busy frying eggs, thousands of them, for in Ireland, unlike the Iberian peninsula, eggs are plentiful.

Disgusted to find out she's a Brit. What would my great great great grandfather, John Kerry Regan of Ballyghadoreen, County Roscommon, say?

ah sher this is it, i'll be dead now in a minute. mad altogether.

mad is right

is crack really frowned upon? what kind of drugs to people do there?

The pint of harp

^^ see xposts

Fierce.

My strongest memories of distinctively Irish ads involve the president of the IFA or someone monotoning about brucellosis and vaccinating your cows or somewhat. YouTube knows nothing.

cailini deas in shawls getting all moony eyed over a fucking cup a soup.

is this what john o'leary wanted for us?

i was thinking about it, and as far as i can tell, pound for pound, ireland has produced better ilx posters than any other nation

i dunno if they have a statistically significant number of ilx posters though

we punch drunk above our weight

i have been deeply enjoying this series of irish viral videos on the awl

http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/a-five-part-guide-to-irish-viral-videos-part-one-irish-rap

http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/a-five-part-guide-to-irish-viral-videos-the-secret-pregnancy-of-ham-sandwich

http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/a-five-part-guide-to-irish-viral-videos-part-three-the-gardai

http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/a-five-part-guide-to-irish-viral-videos-the-peculiar-madness-of-pat-kenny

sorry man but grabbing him bloody out of the womb and plunging him into your shoebox to prove to everyone how important your irish identity is = NAGL

― harbly formed dn pun (zvookster),

this is a good point, tbf

I just love how the mother in the Kerrygold ad clearly hates the German wagon who stole her son away. In her own head she is a wronged woman who gave him everything, everything, only for him to become bewitched by some flaxen-haired temptress from another country and leave his only home. In his head she is a nagging old biddy who is never happy about anything and he couldn't wait to get away from her. It's the oldest story we have.

sally o'brien gutted too