Hmmm.
I want to know, did any of ye call these frozen drinks?http://www.freefromforkids.co.uk/sites/default/files/Mr-Freeze-Ice-Pops.jpg
― gyac, Monday, 28 October 2013 23:53 (ten years ago) link
mr freeze as per packet in my house
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:03 (ten years ago) link
i also remember a sort of fake ice cream cup that had mallow and chocolate and wafer. was really good in a filthy kind of way.
touchdowns were really nice. smileys also.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:09 (ten years ago) link
ah no there was no bite in them mallow cups, and iirc they weren't even wrapped. gack.
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 00:21 (ten years ago) link
Mr. Freeze called Mr. Freeze round our way.
― snoop dogey doge (seandalai), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 01:20 (ten years ago) link
Not even the internet can help me in my vain struggle to find a picture of a packet of Barry's Gloves - the Barry McGuigan themed crisps
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 11:01 (ten years ago) link
the mallow cups were often stale but the sweetness made up for it, in the same way as stale chocolate cake is perfectly good.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 29 October 2013 11:03 (ten years ago) link
Phoenix Park (Irish: Páirc an Fhionnuisce[1]) is an urban park in Dublin, Ireland, lying 2–4 km west of the city centre, north of the River Liffey. Its 11 km perimeter wall encloses 707 hectares (1,750 acres), one of the largest walled city parks in Europe
hmhm we were told it was the biggest in the world
but then we were told we had the highest sea cliffs in europe out the back of the achill head, really i ought to go back and re-examine where the education ended and the propaganda began eh
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 12:13 (ten years ago) link
o'connell st the widest in europe, i remember that going around. shannon the longest river in the british isles. anglo.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 12:17 (ten years ago) link
they used to say the highest sea cliffs thing about Slieve League too
also when I was growing up they always used to tell us Letterkenny was the "fastest growing town in Europe"
― Number None, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 13:01 (ten years ago) link
lol it must've been 3 houses not so long back then
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVzmecHQ4TM (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 13:32 (ten years ago) link
They just rezoned the bluestacks
fwiw i think slieve league are the highest. btw.
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 13:45 (ten years ago) link
Swords the biggest town in Ireland.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 13:59 (ten years ago) link
According to wiki they're not even the highest in Ireland!
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 14:02 (ten years ago) link
of course Letterkenny was also technically a city cos it had a cathedral
― Number None, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 14:02 (ten years ago) link
the strangest national pride myth i have heard is the anecdote that eamon de valera was one of only (some small number) people who could understand the theory of relativity
― nebby yolo (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
irish monks saved latin from extinction
― nebby yolo (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 14:06 (ten years ago) link
killary harbour is the only fjord in the world outside of iceland
― nebby yolo (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 14:07 (ten years ago) link
iceland norway
Lough Swilly had that one too
― Number None, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 14:09 (ten years ago) link
st brendan discovered america
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 14:17 (ten years ago) link
mother teresa conquered india
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 14:26 (ten years ago) link
back then you could kick a ball in the widest street in europe
― max, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
willie joe padden was in new york, taking a well-earned break after the 89 final, when he came across the scene of a fire. a young woman was screaming for help from the top of the building- "my baby" my baby". "throw it down" sez bauld willie joe, "and i'll catch it". she demurred, in as many words. "throw the child down" he sez again, his deep voice booming heroically between the buildings, amidst smoke and screams, "and i'll catch it, god help us". the young mother remained torn but unconvinced.
willie joe pulled himself to his full height, for all the world as if he had been called all-a-sudden to an FCA muster in bundoran, and cried "i'm willie-joe padden from belmullet! i have one minor connacht title, one u-21 connacht title and five connacht senior titles, a county league medal and two gaeltacht medals!"- these he produced with great solemnity as he listed them each in turn. "there's men from here to listowel and back might drop your child from the height from me to you, but willie joe padden is not such a man!".
pressed by these claims (and, possibly, those flames) the mother felt she no longer held discretion in the matter. she flung the child (a mere blob of a crátúr, who would not be eligible even for a junior team for some decade yet) down the storeys towards the great man.
he, that master of newtonian differentiation as best practiced- from the eyes straight to the hands and never mind the computational centre at all- took his mark and leapt as was his wont in those days- like a kingfisher in reverse, diving straight up towards the falling target. his strong hands closed gentle around the child, and he hit the ground with an impact felt a street away in either direction.
as the crowd cheered in delight and disbelief, he proceeded to take three mighty steps and kicked the unfortunate infant a full seventy yards down the street.
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link
booming post
― well if it isn't old 11 cameras simon (gbx), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 17:25 (ten years ago) link
that was told to me by a cousin of the man himself during a break in a fight at the web in belmullet
― drugs/lies: poll (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5434/272/1600/WillieJoePadden.jpg
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
ah stop im in bits looking at him
― midwife christless (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
jaysus yerman beside him is awful like a sweeney isnt he, sweeneys lower now not sweeneys upper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWZAGzGtNk0
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
I bought the Indo today for fuck knows what reason, and ugh. 1an 0 D0h3rty needs to be killed.
― gyac, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztq5p-h64qc&feature=em-share_video_user
xp never ever the indo ffs i mean the times has gone to shit but jesus things are never that bad
― midwife christless (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 22:51 (ten years ago) link
story of my life
― forbz (Matt P), Wednesday, 30 October 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
xp i am hanging my head in shame
― gyac, Wednesday, 30 October 2013 23:46 (ten years ago) link
what's the story with marrying a non-Catholic in a church? can you do that?
― gyac, Wednesday, 13 November 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2013/11/18/author-kevin-barry-on-writing-short-stories-and-caring-less/
Should I go see this guy do a reading and get his books?
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 November 2013 21:15 (ten years ago) link
I think he's brilliant. Start with his first short story collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, and go from there.
― Number None, Monday, 18 November 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
this is a good taster
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/02/01/100201fi_fiction_barry
― Number None, Monday, 18 November 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
marrying a non-Catholic in a church? can you do that?
Oh yes, especially if it's not a catholic church.
― Aimless, Monday, 18 November 2013 21:43 (ten years ago) link
x-post-- Thanks
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 November 2013 21:47 (ten years ago) link
No, I looked into it in the meantime. Would be a pain in the hole & I don't like that you basically have to promise to raise your children Catholic.
― gyac, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 09:06 (ten years ago) link
One of my best man gigs was at a mixer, they went with the proddy church cos less hassles.
Cmere if michael d declares bankruptcy in the commons we'd be all clear in 12 months y/n
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 11:34 (ten years ago) link
Yeah but other half isn't even a Proddy like, I think you at least have to be baptised to marry in their church?
― gyac, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 11:47 (ten years ago) link
you basically have to promise to raise your children Catholic
Hey, you wanna get married or dontcha?
― Aimless, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
wasnt a huge fan of it or anything but the dealer priest performance/sketch has haunted me ever since
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AC520-cK1Q
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Saturday, 23 November 2013 02:38 (ten years ago) link
v gabriel byrne in miller's crossing or something
forward to 1:05, even more haunting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnofM3VYQ-g
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Saturday, 23 November 2013 12:54 (ten years ago) link
wtfffffffffffffffffff
― 30 ch'lopping days left to umas (darraghmac), Saturday, 23 November 2013 17:33 (ten years ago) link
wow.
― wmlynch, Saturday, 23 November 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link
This has been one of the great Irish union performances. That chorus of The Fields of Athenry was spell-binding. Missed the fucking kick though!
― Windsor Davies, Sunday, 24 November 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link