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), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Richmond Sausages: we have a packet of these in the freezer. Some people may think that is because I am gullible English person, but no! In town there is a butcher who makes sausages on the premises and they are a thousand times better. Richmond sausages are our cheap go-to sausage when we want to knock together a toad-in-the-hole.
― Fat Dog Franklin (snoball), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda feel liek they hint at this whole human drama surrounding his family's closeness, the suspicion that he's been taken by this german woman away from home, the land that was supposed to be his, that he still misses, and that this is just a way of making some sort of symbolic compromise
xp
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
but i mean, to these ads get shown elsewhere?
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi1_1kAEZgk
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
for those who like the letter-writing format:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW2a0hY6_Xo
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
way xxxxposts but it was like a national scandal when sally o'brien turned out to be irl english
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
idg the appeal here
― Lamp, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
eh its like an actual thing that when you are visiting ppl in other countries you are required to bring taytos, and i know from all the polish supermarkets in ireland now that ppl really do miss stuff from home, ireland has a weird relat. w/ diaspora etc.
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i am nostalgic for all these nostalgic adverts
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
just lolling at "barry's tea", idk why
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
do irishmen living in england get nostalgic for taytos or is it just crisps in general longing for the further afield
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
they get nostalgic for it, sure and why wouldn't they?
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
the taytos u get abroad are a pile of shit
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
esb ad*
im in ireland right now
― max, Saturday, 12 June 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
no ur not, i would see u
― plax (ico), Saturday, 12 June 2010 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I was in "county roscommon" all week eating the pint of harp
― max, Saturday, 12 June 2010 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
nobody drinks harp=u are not in ireland
where did u even find harp on draught
― plax (ico), Saturday, 12 June 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
well it was the metaphorical harp, really i was just eating loads of butter and various meat puddings
― max, Saturday, 12 June 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i had "the pint of guinness" though just like james joyce once did
― max, Saturday, 12 June 2010 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone remember that dennys rashers ad with the irish guy and his american wife getting a phone call rom the old sod
― Michael B, Saturday, 12 June 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
how did you enjoy "the trip to ireland" max?
michael do you mean the denny ad where "it's breakfast time back home"?
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 13 June 2010 09:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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."
― max, Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i have never read any joyce
kindof ashamed
― plax (ico), Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― max, Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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 see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i have only been to roscommon to go to hyde park
― plax (ico), Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
is one of those places i don't think i've ever met anyone from (aside from while being there)
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
nah they all flee to galway
― plax (ico), Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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."
― max, Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Really though the reason I "get" Ireland is cause I've seen that Harp ad.
― max, Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
you are more irish than the irish themselves
x-post otm, did you see sally o'brien at all while "home"
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
sally o'brien was irl a brit sori to destroy ur illusions
― plax (ico), Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
she was on the late late to break it to the nation i saw it on reeling in the years
― plax (ico), Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
can't believe i lusted after a brit...an insult to the patriots
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry were gonna take you out and shoot you now RIP i guess you had a good run
― plax (ico), Sunday, 13 June 2010 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
sher
― plax (ico), Sunday, 13 June 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― max, Sunday, 13 June 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
ah sher this is it, i'll be dead now in a minute. mad altogether.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 13 June 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
mad is right
― plax (ico), Sunday, 13 June 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
is crack really frowned upon? what kind of drugs to people do there?
― harbl, Sunday, 13 June 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
The pint of harp
― max, Sunday, 13 June 2010 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ see xposts
― plax (ico), Sunday, 13 June 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Fierce.
― seandalai, Sunday, 13 June 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Do it do it do it
― plax (ico), Saturday, 6 January 2024 11:24 (four months ago) link