The Irish

i have only one of those things, idk why you'd try to pin this on me.

here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAJcP2dDSvY

note: no actual attack on jedward fans, more's the pity

is 'knacker' kind of omerta in polite liberal society like pikey or whatever

what would be the best dialectal pejorative for niall quinn

nakh what's the deal with pikey

Darragh you should go work for the tourism department

The Emerald Bile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEl2JH6ruOw

girl at 1:00 otm obv

knacker, tbph, ought to be verboten in polite society but we're prob knot quite there yet.

idk where it falls irt pikey or chav, there's a definite edge to it tho. as flung at yr actual travellers it's an evil, as a pejorative for yr standard tracksuit wearer etc the cut is less imo but i mean this is ilx im not gonna draw lines as to an 'acceptable' usage of the term

Skanger less offensive than knacker, maybe?

i would not do well in tourism as we do it, tho i like to think that funded for a year with a handycam and a socialising budget i could sell the place yeah tbph

one-on-one i encouraged at least one touristing ilxor to overpay for at least three lunches so i mean given the backing i could get results

skanger def less so, and mainly because (afaik) it doesn't have the actual roots in yr minority group like knacker does.

How many drinks did you make him/her buy you xp

talking point: should emo kids in provincial towns should feel bad for calling their tracksuited oppressors 'pikeys'

pikey = pejorative for romanis

not an irish question, disqualified

no drinks, lunchtime lunch

nakh are u aware of our vincent browne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70pFmnILJn8

deems in more advanced media markets a talking point is more than just a 'question', it's the closest our age gets to socratic discourse

yes i am aware but not especially so

i've not bought the irish times in quite a while

emo kids in provincial towns should feel bad about being emo kids in provincial towns, there's prob fucking cows need milking

i'm not ever sure what one should feel bad about saying about ppl you dont like in yr teens, to address the q. yr a teen and they're cunts, it's hard to draw up rules that cover the necessary ground.

can they say knackers

'can they'

well as a responsible adult you'd be having a word obv

don't you think a fairer response would be to empower the so called 'knackers' to give the emo kids a second round of punishment beatings in order to correct their racism?

no

i think what you've prob got to do is arm the emos sufficently so that there exists reason enough for a detente and nothing really ever kicks off, yr emos learn to lean in and participate, yr knackers obv start to see the benefit of mutual non-aggression pacts at an early stage in their criminal careers, they prob get round to destroying the gaa lads before xmas term ends as a unified if uneasy force

guys what "tinkers"

what ABOUT

deems u gotta do a taxonomy of rural irish teenage groups/stereotypes

nah

'tinkers' an offensive enough term but it doesnt imo/e have the edge of knacker to it- there'd be old ppl out rural that remember when a tinker was a tinker and would have mended, sharpened, fixed around the place. they'd have called into my grandmothers and been known and known there was welcome and tinker was how they were known.

but prob nowadays it's just a softer way of marking the travellers tbh

the way i hear it my mom wasn't allowed to talk to the tinker boy

irish teen groups idk

there was a load of them mighty boosh kids, they'd have been grunge when i was a lad and emo prob a few years behind me but they were boosh iirc. now they just wear yellow shoes with stripey tights. as a group they'd be known as eejits. there's a lot more of them in dublin, or than i remember from when i was at school.

there's yr skangers, you'll have known them

there's yr group of kinda normalish indie kids, not standing out or anything beyond a partic satchel or w/e. ilxy looking yknow.

there's preppy kids in dublin. we didn't have them.

there's culchie kids. struggling for style and maybe getting there or not as the solid upbringing brought them out of themselves or not. teeth are better these days.

gaa lads. we had gaa lads. not quite jocks ime experience until i moved to a bigger town, then yeah def stereotype jocks.

idk. i stress i grew up in rural communities and we had p much fuck all of anything beyond culchie or normal kids. the only other group of note were eh prob under the heading 'troubled' kids where the parents were alcos or just fucked or w/e i mean we had more of those than we did booshes skangers or preppy combined

didnt u play gaa

yr mom was rural gbx iirc, i would never have asked her age but yeah if she was rural in the 50's or 60's the tinker divide, i guess here now, was probably nothing like as pronounced as it is now ito standards of poverty/living or what have you.

i was 16 when we moved to a town where they were travellers but tbh by that stage, or in that town, or w/e, it was not a distinct culture, they'd all have been housed and settled and not really any different from many townie kids from estates as i'd have seen em

i played hurling during one of my incarnations (donegal 1988-94 iirc) but never really football, tbrr i was an athletics star when that wasnt any fucking good to you in rural ireland but no i never played team sports and never went near the fuckin gaa lads in actual games those guys would kill you

darragh did you know any asians growing up

lol wtf man srsly i was probably notable enough for knowing some english ppl growing up

the other day an erudite elderly relative was explaining the moral superiority of gaelic fitba, sthing like more opportunities to score, not english

i saw a black guy in a hotel in killybegs in 1993 i was 12 i guess it was 'woah'

darragh are you friends with any asians now irl, any mates

the superiority in gaelic and the ease of scoring is that it causes u as a defender to front the fuck up i think. you sit off, he scores, anywhere within 40 yards. hence, prob, the noted leniency on physical contact vs other sports such as soccer, rugby, wrestling or murder

since this is now the ask deems thread, what were your athletics events and how good were u and do u think u could outsprint michael dawson over 100m

yeah my mom was rural as hell (UP HILL BOTH WAYS, NO RUNNING WATER, AYE WE RAISED RABBITS), and in the 50s as well

xp nope, tho i promise i've not been avoiding em or anything

the newest mate i've met irl is a rather spiffing young gay military history grad of norman heritage who is v politically active. he would, imo, make an excellent addition to hibernian ilx but he tends to make jokes of questionable taste regarding the lower orders etc so maybe not just yet

lol this always turns into the ask deems threads and i bet the irish ilxors are rtde

boys u13 champion donegal 1993 in 200m, 100m hurdles, long jump, high jump and 1500m at yr service, ulster champ high jumper and 4th in all ireland that year (tho i was forced to wear spiked shoes which threw me)

couldnt outsprint dawson now, no, but back then i'd back myself against most (i was silver in the 100m fwiw but yerman was all-ireland winner that year so i wasn't gutted)

i do prob need an ask deems thread tbrr on volume alone if not noteworthiness or expertise

what was your best 100m? dawson would be maybe high 12s or something idk? we won't be harsh and force his limited mind to navigate any real or metaphorical hurdles so just flat out peak deems vs peak dawson

yeah my mom was rural as hell (UP HILL BOTH WAYS, NO RUNNING WATER, AYE WE RAISED RABBITS), and in the 50s as well

― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx),

ya fuck all eating in a rabbit we were lucky (ancestrally like) we had the fishing

deems are there any irish tv shows you rate and would recommend watching