3000 DEAD man, DEAD.
― "Asshole Lost in Coughdrop": THAT'S a story (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 10:50 (ten years ago) link
LET IT GO
ps it's mainly farls and/or a fried soda slice, we have done this
― "Asshole Lost in Coughdrop": THAT'S a story (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 10:51 (ten years ago) link
yeah i remember lengthy discussion of regional breakfast variations
― iMacaroon dragoons (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 10:52 (ten years ago) link
lolz
i don't recall this even tho every food topic is done to death on ilx. farls are more common now south of the border. they fry a slice of soda bread? intriguing.
xpost i don't remember the exact ulster fry diff being discussed, tho i remember a discussion along these lines.
― Wantaway striker (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 10:54 (ten years ago) link
it's slightly overblown tbh, mainly cos of religion
― "Asshole Lost in Coughdrop": THAT'S a story (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 10:54 (ten years ago) link
tho tbh, change the demographics of the country all you like, i can't see the muslim fry ever really taking off
― "Asshole Lost in Coughdrop": THAT'S a story (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 10:55 (ten years ago) link
RFI: The Traditional Irish Fry-Up
― "Asshole Lost in Coughdrop": THAT'S a story (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 10:56 (ten years ago) link
christ im hungry
do catholics in the north refrain from farls/fried slices of soda bread?
― Wantaway striker (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 10:56 (ten years ago) link
8 years ago. ffs.
They surely don't fry soda bread? Disgusting savages.
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 11:01 (ten years ago) link
i've definitely had is as part of an ulster fry, tho maybe it was an admin error tbf
― "Asshole Lost in Coughdrop": THAT'S a story (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 11:05 (ten years ago) link
they saw you were an outsider.
― Wantaway striker (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 11:14 (ten years ago) link
yeah i had the roi plates on the car- we were just nipping through on a shortcut getting to donegal, i didn't see the harm. jesus, i was such a fool!
― "Asshole Lost in Coughdrop": THAT'S a story (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 11:16 (ten years ago) link
we were lucky to get out without our eggs broken
So, apparently British people don't understand the word "banjaxed"!
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Monday, 30 September 2013 10:28 (ten years ago) link
Banjaxed Britain
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Monday, 30 September 2013 10:32 (ten years ago) link
They all reflexively agreed with u and tutted that jaxed was very dangerous whatever it was
― hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Monday, 30 September 2013 10:35 (ten years ago) link
not only am i familiar with the word but i can tell you that Terry Wogan wrote a book of that title in the 70s
― how do i shot cwmbran? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 September 2013 10:59 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I'm familiar with the word also.
― Tim, Monday, 30 September 2013 11:06 (ten years ago) link
nobody in my office knew it. i mailed my entire editorial team cos i was going to use it in a headline. nobody had ever heard of it.
dictionary says it's american in origin.
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Monday, 30 September 2013 11:13 (ten years ago) link
Basement Banjaxed
― not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Monday, 30 September 2013 11:30 (ten years ago) link
I love that one of the references for "banjaxed" (here: http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/banjaxed) is
Martin McGuinness was known to have confessed in October 1994 to the Irish Prime Minister: "We know the arms will have to be banjaxed.TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES (2001)
― gyac, Monday, 30 September 2013 11:31 (ten years ago) link
banjaxing for peace
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Monday, 30 September 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
armalite and the banjax box
― gyac, Monday, 30 September 2013 11:34 (ten years ago) link
"will have to be banjaxed" is an odd way of putting it. In my experience things become banjaxed but you do not actively banjax them
― Number None, Monday, 30 September 2013 11:56 (ten years ago) link
OED says "Etymology unknown; perhaps originally Dublin slang". Going to try using it at work, maybe I can sneak something like this into a paper:
1968 Observer 29 Dec. 19/1 You completely banjax the whole psychological impact.
― Luigi Nono, le petit robot (seandalai), Monday, 30 September 2013 11:57 (ten years ago) link
OED has lots of examples of transitive 'banjax', though it does seem odd to me:
1969 G. Lyall Venus with Pistol viii. 48 The man is a twit. I mean, he banjaxed that Zurich trip.1972 New Yorker 28 Oct. 40/1 Ha-ha, so she ups and banjaxed the old man one night with a broken spade handle.1976 U. Holden String Horses viii. 102 The dawn suicide the day before had made a lot of work and worry, had banjaxed things for a while.1979 T. Wogan Banjaxed (1980) 78, I am out to banjax the bookies.
― Luigi Nono, le petit robot (seandalai), Monday, 30 September 2013 11:58 (ten years ago) link
"will have to be banjaxed"
martin mcnulty
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Monday, 30 September 2013 12:17 (ten years ago) link
Not sure you could go a day in this British office without hearing something described as banjaxed. (Generally active and transitive in use but with a barely defined subject, e.g. "well that's banjaxed the computer system")
― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 30 September 2013 12:43 (ten years ago) link
a thing can only be banjaxed
it cannot have been banjaxed
it is not banjaxed by anyone
it is now, as we stand, banjaxed, and that is all
― hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Monday, 30 September 2013 13:03 (ten years ago) link
I shall defer to your jaxment
― the supreme personality of Godhead : a summary study (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 30 September 2013 13:24 (ten years ago) link
im trying to come up with a suitably droll derivation using bean ui jaic or somesuch but tbh i've a dental appt coming up and am distracted by the likelihood of my mouth being beanjaicsed afterwards
― hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Monday, 30 September 2013 13:27 (ten years ago) link
the jax which will have been banned
― how do i shot cwmbran? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 September 2013 13:29 (ten years ago) link
bán jacks are a bad idea ime but for that to work the descriptor has to follow the noun iirc and it doesnt sound partic like ban so i mean
― hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Monday, 30 September 2013 13:29 (ten years ago) link
what does the OED give as earliest usage?
― zvookster, Monday, 30 September 2013 13:36 (ten years ago) link
Actually it stems from the Urdu "Bahnn Gehecked" which refers to a large pottery cooking bowl or gourd....These gourds were not very resistant to heat and developed cracks at the base.When the Pasthu women lifted these onto their shoulders the base frequently came away showering the carrier with hot liquid or stew.
By common usage then the term became a descriptor for an item which was faulty or unsafe.For instance when someone would attempt to lift a full basket of cobras for the snake charmer someone might say .."Be carefull Parminder....that could be bahnn gehecked...
British soldiers in India brought the expression to these islands
― hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Monday, 30 September 2013 13:37 (ten years ago) link
boards.ie so caveat emptor
shit i made a sweet caveat emptor joke the last day and forget it now
From the OED 2nd ed.
Anglo-Ir. slang.
Earliest quotations:‘F. O'Brien’ At Swim-two-Birds 240 Here is his black heart sitting there as large as life in the middle of the pulp of his banjaxed corpse. 1956 S. Beckett Waiting for Godot (rev. ed.) 79 Lucky might get going all of a sudden. Then we'd be banjaxed [1954: ballocksed]. 1959 D. O'Neill Life has no Price ix. 169, I had the right to leave him talk, I suppose, and banjax us altogether? 1968 Observer 29 Dec. 19/1 You completely banjax the whole psychological impact. 1969 G. Lyall Venus with Pistol viii. 48 The man is a twit. I mean, he banjaxed that Zurich trip. 1972 New Yorker 28 Oct. 40/1 Ha-ha, so she ups and banjaxed the old man one night with a broken spade handle. 1974 Nature 22 Nov. 334/1 My sense of enlightenment was somewhat tempered by the banjaxed mood in which I found myself. 1976 U. Holden String Horses viii. 102 The dawn suicide the day before had made a lot of work and worry, had banjaxed things for a while. 1979 T. Wogan Banjaxed (1980) 78, I am out to banjax the bookies.
― hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Monday, 30 September 2013 13:38 (ten years ago) link
is it one of a pair with bollixed now i wonder
the american dictionary merriam webster gives 1939, but boyle sez it in juno & the paycock and i suspect it's o'casey's coinage
― zvookster, Monday, 30 September 2013 13:38 (ten years ago) link
yep suspect so xp
― zvookster, Monday, 30 September 2013 13:39 (ten years ago) link
like podge & rodge?
― gyac, Monday, 30 September 2013 13:40 (ten years ago) link
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=banjoed on the uk tip
― zvookster, Monday, 30 September 2013 13:41 (ten years ago) link
banjaxed and bollixed is beautiful and i am def gonna start using it
pyoor o'casey yeah
― hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Monday, 30 September 2013 13:42 (ten years ago) link
originally from Caesar iirc: "alea banjacta est"
― Luigi Nono, le petit robot (seandalai), Monday, 30 September 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
The organisers of Cork’s main contribution to The Gathering have apologised after controversy flared up at Cork City Council over their use of the Cork term of abuse, ‘langer’, in relation to Michael Collins.
The controversy arose when Fine Gael members of Cork City Council noticed that a brochure promoting Cork Rebel Week carried a Cork Rebel Passport in the name of Michael Collins and in the slot for “sex”, bore the word ‘langer’.
The word ‘langer’ is a Cork term of abuse whose usage was generally confined to Leeside but after Roy Keane reportedly used it describe Mick McCarthy during their contretemps in Saipan before the 2002 World Cup, its familiarity spread.
The Saipan incident prompted local Cork songwriter Tim O’Riordan to pen ‘The Langer Song” which he recorded with his band Natural Gas which helped to promote ‘langer’ as a term of abuse beyond the Rebel County.
According to Sean Beecher in his Dictionary of Cork Slang, the word ‘langer’ has two meanings - ‘a disagreeable person’ as in ‘Go away, you langer’ or ‘a penis’, with the second derivation possibly coming from langur, a long tailed monkey in India.
topical
― hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 10:58 (ten years ago) link
ime cork people would use langer almost affectionately about fellow corkonians.
― Evil Juice Box Man (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 11:03 (ten years ago) link
Disgusting savages
― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 11:08 (ten years ago) link