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sounds promising will stream later

ps i am at work and we use explorer 1.0 which might explain difficulties

hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 13:13 (ten years ago) link

'The Irish has new answers' i can't help reading this and imagining an exasperated finnish finance minister dreading the latest proposal from noonan

hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 13:19 (ten years ago) link

I was thinking line from a bad Eleventh Hour sketch myself.

gyac, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link

A government scientist and his attractive counterpart try to save people from deadly

i've read enough i'm in

hey racists can be joyless too yknow (darraghmac), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link

deadly buzz

Luigi Nono, le petit robot (seandalai), Tuesday, 1 October 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link

DADDY: FUCK OFF

seems legit.

(This is great though. Where did you find this?)

gyac, Thursday, 3 October 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link

what is this

Victims’ tears deter rodent paedophiles (darraghmac), Thursday, 3 October 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link

srsly

Victims’ tears deter rodent paedophiles (darraghmac), Thursday, 3 October 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link

got bored after everyone died

Victims’ tears deter rodent paedophiles (darraghmac), Thursday, 3 October 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link

It's not terribly deep but still, wtf?

Ma mère est habile Mais ma bile est amère (Michael White), Thursday, 3 October 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link

deems m8 what were your impressions the first time you saw england

nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link

"at least the motorways are built properly"

pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:08 (ten years ago) link

ireland has very few motorways but there's nothing wrong with them in material terms

nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:10 (ten years ago) link

grotty hotel in london overnighting on way to france, school tour. burger king milkshakes were a velvety sensation such as i'd not dreamed of. there were gang fights outside our window and we had to stay indoors. some p cute girls came in, got drunk and danced to lola on our bed. i was reading 'last chance to see'.

i liked it.

unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link

xp our roads beat yours into a cocked hat, you can't get anywhere driving in britain it's a fuckin joke.

unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:12 (ten years ago) link

a fine introduction

nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link

who built the irish motorways? i don't mean germany i mean the construction workers themselves

nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:13 (ten years ago) link

pfunkboy is suggesting all the irish builders were building british motorways

nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:15 (ten years ago) link

first encounteer with real england was flying knock-wet midlands and virgin training it to old trafford and back to stay in a generic city centre birmingham hotel that night. streets were ugly and threatening and every building looked like the back of another building. kfc zinger box was good. i was reading, iirc, one of robin hobb's farseer trilogy. nobody came in and danced on the bed, but there wasn't as much fighting outside and we could come and go as we pleased. c+

unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link

thats the old stereotype
xp

pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:16 (ten years ago) link

fianna fail were in charge during the building of a lot of the newer motorways and national routes, so it's quite likely that we sent them over to the brits under agreed terms, organised a terrorist scare so that no work could be carried out, had them back into dun laoghaire that night with the material and equipment and had the job done here before anyone knew different. leases and documents all provided by goodmans meats.

unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:17 (ten years ago) link

can't recall the firms involved tbrr idk if sisk do motorways, twas all eu funding but yeah the roads running through the place now are tip top. the n5 through swinford, which iirc you will have known nakh, has won several awards or so i'm informed every time i sit next to the GIS fella at work outings.

unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link

spending a couple of nights in wigan certainly made me appreciate ireland that little bit more

Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:20 (ten years ago) link

when I first came to England I thought "I feel like I'm on TV".

Luigi Nono, le petit robot (seandalai), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:21 (ten years ago) link

yeah i recognise that, weatherfield vibes from the walk back from old trafford to the centre, ross kemp on gangs from the front gates of anfield until the safety of the airport bus and rogue cops go wild caught on tv! from birmingham centre after 8pm

unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link

spent a v memorable night in dulwich after a 0-0 draw with villa in which a cousin had an episode and scratched up several passers by before we spotted her turning, up til then it had all been fond cameraderie and singsongs to total eclipse of the heart and sambuca in the vale i have videos of most of the above iirc

unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link

6/10, that one, mainly for total eclipse

unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:27 (ten years ago) link

weatherfield vibes lol

I was in your County Kerry this year and things got pretty real. Chips on the pavements, smashed up phone boxes, the fuckin lot.

"Left-wing" poptimism: An infantile disorder (oppet), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:29 (ten years ago) link

by 'your' I am of course addressing the entire irish peoples wherever they may be.

"Left-wing" poptimism: An infantile disorder (oppet), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link

tralee?

unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link

xp we'll take it with good cheer, at least you got the country right

unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link

every building looked like the back of another building = this is probably true of most cities of the non-historical/picturesque variety but probably more true of english ones than most other european countries east of the soviet bloc

nakhchivan, Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:31 (ten years ago) link

Nah not tralee. That's a real dump. Right on the coast and that. It's very nice round there tbf.

"Left-wing" poptimism: An infantile disorder (oppet), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:33 (ten years ago) link

There was a group of people passing through on the way to puck fair, that's all. All very friendly I'm sure.

"Left-wing" poptimism: An infantile disorder (oppet), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link

ballybunion? that can be a bit dodge

Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:34 (ten years ago) link

jaysus i figured tralee from the warzone depictions, that town has gone ta fuck and no mistake from what i hear

unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:37 (ten years ago) link

Look lads I'm not going to start naming villages cos you just never know, do you.

While I was there I saw a v twee 'cupcakery' and of course it was run by some bloody English.

"Left-wing" poptimism: An infantile disorder (oppet), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link

xpost to darragh: it has indeed

Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:39 (ten years ago) link

ah you wouldn't be without the english arts and crafts and suchlike cottage industries, they'll fuckin pay anything for anything if you tell them its local

unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link

fuckin eejits

unblog your plug (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 October 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link

two weeks pass...

deems what do u think of this dude

http://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.1315463.1361917127!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_140_140/image.jpg

nakhchivan, Friday, 25 October 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link

in how many letters

drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Friday, 25 October 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link

i'll try to think of a uk equivalent but rly..

drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Friday, 25 October 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link

derivatives

snoop dogey doge (seandalai), Friday, 25 October 2013 23:39 (ten years ago) link

Eejit I think is the word that springs to mind

mirostones, Saturday, 26 October 2013 12:18 (ten years ago) link

eejit with serious public road frontage.

let me know if i've ticked any of the wrong boxes here

religious nut, craves the sceptre across the back from the old days
pretty much a fascist wrt the proper authorities doing the public's thinkin for them and all that entails
a bad, bad, stupid writer without any interest in actual discussion nor argument v-a-v exchange of views or any such
gives men's rights/the kickback against lefty nutcases a bad name tbh

feel free to add more

drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Saturday, 26 October 2013 12:44 (ten years ago) link

shit songwriter with weird Eurovision fixation

Number None, Saturday, 26 October 2013 12:47 (ten years ago) link

lol I'd forgotten about that

snoop dogey doge (seandalai), Saturday, 26 October 2013 13:06 (ten years ago) link

Who is it?

pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Sunday, 27 October 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link


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