plastic jock
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
He also doesn’t think Scotland should be independent
― gyac, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
Yep.
The ‘Corbyn befriended the IRA’ thing is the haute-couture of British egotism. Never mind that Thatcher spoke to them first, or it led to the GFA - the spectre of the Paddywack Bogeyman has been conjured and that’s enough to frighten some people into the folds of Boris’s belly.— Philly Byrne (@PhilipNByrne) November 13, 2019
― gyac, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
I mean, the third one isn't a problem for a lot of the UK.
(autocorrect adding confusion to the second one?)
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
Paddywack Bogeyman?
― mh, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
I think these cunts need reminding that Martin McGuinness was deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland for 10 years. Hello?
https://cdn-02.independent.ie/incoming/article35355312.ece/6c932/AUTOCROP/w620/Martin%20Mc%2031%202%20INT_ED5_S01%20INT_ED6_S01%20Read-Only.jpg
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 15:06 (four years ago) link
They don't need reminding really, they just choose to ignore it.
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 15:07 (four years ago) link
I picked a random book on my kindle last night to cure my insomnia and it turned out to be Eamon Dunphy's The Rocky Road, not the football memoir mentioned upthread but his autobiography. I was quite struck by how perceptive and interesting, politically aware, cliche free etc.. his writing was - no typical footballer is this guy.
― calzino, Saturday, 16 November 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
If we ever had a c/d thread Dunphy is classic all the way, his Rod Liddle bit is a meme in itselfhttps://youtu.be/EqjQSk1PQ4o
― gyac, Saturday, 16 November 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link
I'm aware this is not technically the "Ex-pats bristling at the British" thread, but still and all.
“Bó.....a word we can own” according to @NatWest_Help. Brits....never not at it. pic.twitter.com/PpLGx2xpjB— Stiabhaí Nics (@stephie08) November 28, 2019
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 29 November 2019 11:02 (four years ago) link
the fuck
― Number None, Friday, 29 November 2019 12:21 (four years ago) link
xp if it’s not it should befucking state of the explanation about the fada as well
― gyac, Friday, 29 November 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
Is it worth catching up on the Toy Show?
― gyac, Monday, 2 December 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
No
― plax (ico), Monday, 2 December 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
Toy show is horrible. Who is it now anyway that Tubridy creep, makes you nostalgic for even pat Kenny. Toy show has always been fascist spectacle. Seal Donnybrook in a big Ziploc.
― plax (ico), Monday, 2 December 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
Nobody did the Toy Show better than Gay, with his open contempt for the children.
― gyac, Monday, 2 December 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
otm.
the fuckin idea that its ever been about the kids, starting at nine pm and running until the drink runs out
it needs a bad santa reset sharpish, some real nasty scummer just going through the billy barry crew for shortcuts
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Monday, 2 December 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
Aren’t like 70% of viewers adults? You’re not getting children doing that application essay for tickets like.
― gyac, Monday, 2 December 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
100% of ppl under 30 doing *anything* are there because they were told to be
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Monday, 2 December 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
xp That reads slightly like you need tickets to watch the show.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 2 December 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
Adults are in it for the swag, and that includes viewers spitting over what the undeserving audience get
― gyac, Monday, 2 December 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
the irish!
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Monday, 2 December 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
It's one of those Irish cultural touchstones that makes me absolutely ill. Sort of downwind of comely maidens. It's state TV that suggests corruption.
― plax (ico), Monday, 2 December 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
is there an irish cultural touchstone youd have positive feelings toward, and i ask with absolute non-zingy interest
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Monday, 2 December 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
― plax (ico), Monday, 2 December 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
THE IRISH
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Monday, 2 December 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
Jokes, plenty. Joyce, Beckett. The closest Ireland has to a national project of vergangenheitsbewältigung. What drives me nuts is the manic effort to sentimentalise everything in Irish popular culture. Fucking butter ads. I feel optimistic about Ireland. *About the young.* But there is a national kitsch that threatens to smother almost everything. I probably hate "reeling in the years" more than anything.
― plax (ico), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
I like more blackboard-fingernail trad music than most people but I'm partly hypnotised by how much I dislike it at the same time.
― plax (ico), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
Edna
― plax (ico), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
and the way he might look at you
― gyac, Monday, 2 December 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
xp i kinda get that about the trad
also the politics of a good ceidhlin or readoiri would blast the skin off ye
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
I am probably not the ideal person to respond to this given how I am guaranteed to cry at the Going Back ESB ad from the 80s
― gyac, Monday, 2 December 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
we have a thread for this iirc
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
Just want to put out there that I was the only person in my class in TY to write an essay opposing trad, like to think I’ve improved since then though tbf that class was traumatic
― gyac, Monday, 2 December 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
xp sorry I didn’t realise the thread police were on the case
the thread policeman
thread was rly good iirc but is now all broken links ;_;
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
i went out and researched every criticism of hard times i could find, learned it all off and absolutely tore dickens to shreds in the LC, finished paper 1 with full marks iirc
essays fuelled by dislike are the good stuff
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
They are, but my teacher was a musician and she made me play Amhrán na bhFiann on the tin whistle every single class because I was our class’s worst player.I did Portrait of a Young Artist instead of Wuthering Heights, which I hated, and also hated that but it was a way I could work.
― gyac, Monday, 2 December 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
mar dhea, a how-do leaving cert i call it where ye had choices but
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
^ ilxors who have met me will attest that this is the kind of thing i say under my breath a lot
I finished both papers with full marks, but you only get the medals for useful subjects! My friend got one for one of the sciences I think?
― gyac, Monday, 2 December 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
― gyac, Monday, 2 December 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
Lol the nostalgic ad totally summarises the augmentation of Dev hegemony with consumerist realism, such is the shallowness of contemporary Irish culture
― plax (ico), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
we'll always have the anglo-irish idiom, if its all we have
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
i learned about the brown cow the morning of the paper and i felt it was just the right kind of chancer bullshit that a fella could really hang some quality answers on, god bless ya austie a mhic
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Monday, 2 December 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiirccLoVkU
― plax (ico), Monday, 2 December 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
xp don’t know what this is so you learned sooner than me
― gyac, Monday, 2 December 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
the lost heifer i think i mean
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Monday, 2 December 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
Oh I see. He wasn’t on my syllabus. I was hoping on one of the four poets I did know (Plath, Yeats, Heaney, Bishop) and I had a choice between two I think. High risk strategy cos fuck knows I wasn’t learning Donne or Hopkins.
― gyac, Monday, 2 December 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
When the black herds of the rain were grazing,In the gap of the pure cold windAnd the watery hazes of the hazelBrought her into my mind,I thought of the last honey by the waterThat no hive can find.
Brightness was drenching through the branchesWhen she wandered again,Turning sliver out of dark grassesWhere the skylark had lain,And her voice coming softly over the meadowWas the mist becoming rain
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Monday, 2 December 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link