[ROCKTOBER 4] darraghmac Appreciation Day

paul henry could be the name of a water engineer from westport

he'd be from the Newport side tbh in fact to my experience he'd be from polranny lynchehaun (not polranny sweeney)

any truth to the rumours you have recently been promoted deems

― Hayat Boumkattienne (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:16 (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its happening in instalments is the thing

― local eire man (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:25 (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for instance the pay just landed (backdated obv, nice)

thank you darraghmac for welcoming drunkposting insufferable me to ilx

was a fan even as a lurker, yet your kindness surprised me; goodhearted ye are

tbh sometimes don’t understand your posts (I’d need like Ulysses Annotated) but always esteem them anyway

deems's posts can be dense sure, although there have been disagreements as to which sense of that word applies

Darragh I'm reading the coldest eye, have you read it and if not can you read it and comment on the accuracy of every declaration made about "The Irish"

Oops, a colder eye I mean
/tipsy

hi drash, I'm as cuddly and soft as it gets. I dont know where I get a rep otherwise tbh. also the hard to understand thing baffles me but maybe its the accent. idk. hi anyway.

wins ive read v little apart from mediocre to good teen fantasy the past few years due to college pressures and a frankly appalling attn span but if you recommend a synopsis or offer what you feel to be a representative quote I'll happily critique the entire work

New q can you recommend some teen fantasy

like, ive been called obtuse a good bit this past year, which is a projected judgement of my motive/position in arguments and usually quite incorrect imo but normally its wins or nakh so its ok, sometimes by eg stevie or xelab posters I like but I tend to annoy and thats ok and sometimes its by genuine honest to god idiots,confused by toasters morons, in which case eh you can only shrug I spose

but to be called obtuse by afl posters is a bit lol tho im a fan of all there obv

xp I cannot, my tastes have been comfort reading of the lowest sort and my recommendations would invariably appall.

I'd recommend stuff to raggett maybe, we've liked same stuff before. I might expand now that my evenings are free but it might be mainly about pensions from now on have u read any good pensions stuff

ACE is a v amusing account of "the modern Irish writers" by the American Hugh Kenner, here is an early tidbit:

The Irish story is more complicated. Plenty of the reading matter and acting matter they produce seems intended for natives alone, but Irish writers have always been naggingly aware that Irishmen do not as a rule buy books, have never bought them, have even inherited a tradition whereby to write when you might be talking is an unnatural act. Books in England are sacred objects, exempt from the 10-percent Value Added Tax: not (until 1 April 1982) in Ireland.

I feel u re extracurricular reading tbh

I'd be happy enough to endorse the thrust of that excerpt every pub has a genius gabber seems a bit rich to scribble it down and sell it to the Brits as work

The opening goes on about the "Irish Fact" and holds up Brian o'nolan as the foremost exponent

It's really lively, I'm only 70 pages in but may post more later if I can be bothered to tap out passages

nakh started a poll before listing derogations (mainly) from Richard Burton about the irish consider that imo

Derogations not my aim! Author is m/l a hibernophile but obv makes a lot of sweeping statements about the place, thought it might be interesting or funny to cross-check w experience

to be called obtuse by afl posters is a bit lol tho im a fan of all there obv

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 March 2015 15:50 (48 minutes ago)

somewhat obtuse of you to confuse that term with obscure, your timeworn criticism of the minority interest subforum ilafl

I stand by it yr projecting intention again

XP I know derogation wasn't the aim but aimed accurately (and from Burton and indeed nakh idk can you not take causticity as seriously as from other less interesting sources) and allied with obvious kinship its often as illuminating and intimate as any praise/comment

less srsly I mean

Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan) wrote this on thread GET INVOLVED - will Liverpool win the Premiership 2013/14? on board I Love Everything on Apr 12, 2014

idkw deems means either when he tries for gnomic and ends up somewhere on the verges of inarticulate

― hot takes: audit in progress (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 16:35 (2 months ago)

this is my criticism more than obtuseness as such, you are far less of a rube than most despite the culchie posturing

consider your last tilting against landfills episode in the c_____n thread -- you suggest that both you and your interlocutors /really/ know what you are talking about, when it isn't clear that you do, and even if you did then they probably woudn't

that was amazing work by mencap incidentally

Agree that garden variety incoherence is the main problem with darraghmac's tedious mra vaguebooking, not to pile on or anything

lol at landfills

I fear I'm exactly the rube suggested but in knowing it may have a possible advantage at times. I'm a culchie before all else, without any element of expertise beyond purely functional education in the liberal or classical or what have you spheres highly valued on ilx. seeing as imo there's no accounting for different experiences/education/knowledge otherwise attained so better not to assume it imo.

wider point than discussing just myself obv there's ppl with degrees and private schooling and experience on things I like to discuss and as soon as I disagree with them they're wrong.

MRA, like I reject this utterly obv but fair enough shorthand distaste but its actually one of the things that irks. discussion on ilx on such issues is p much 100% a race to label ppl as in the tent or not, and the results are eh imo they're shit but I'm not getting an online degree on bell hooks to get in the tent to say so.

XP just to be clear u and nakh making oft repeatdd and often valid criticisms are not a pile on, a pile on is digs from ppl I dont like.

tho admittedly as an appreciation thread ye could do with keeping some sort of fair ratio in mind but I'm not a high maintenance kind of guy or anything

Well you have like 20 degrees and I have none and we're agreed you are a good poster and person I just don't relish the next 6000 variations on "____ shaming itt tsk tsk nagl safe space safe space twitter ____shaming *mutters unintelligibly"

Added mra unfairly just to put something before vaguebooking

Xps!

the 2nd ____shaming there shd be ____splaining TO BE FAIR

its a reaction to an otherwise total lack of ilx content, and thats read as reactionary, like tbh I meet an ilxor this stuff never comes up as ive zero interest in most of it and tbftm would readily acknowledge ive zero at stake. ive several wonderful liberal friends etc etc and am kind to the elderly, animals and children irl.

like matt DC landed a srs zing there lately by referencing my lack of content in the clarkson thread and I thought dear god the poor fella thinks that this hollow porridge-consistency triumphalism over a cunt like clarkson transitioning from adored BBC presenter to adored sky presenter is *ilx-level content* and I'm spoiling it and yknow I was shook and sad and sorry for all involved inc me

this is boring I'm a boring subject. how's the liver wins, how's the mystery and wine nakh.

i heard a good story about race in america firsthand where should I post it

DM, I was just in a pub (in London, natch) watching the Celtic v Dundee Utd, Scottish League Cup Final. The loudest, most fanatical, most irrational Celtic fan there was an Irishman. A Dundee Utd player, Sean Dillon, was sent off at which point the Irishman sprang up and exclaimed, "Fuck off Dillon, fuck off back to Dublin, you dorty Jackeen bastard!" and let loose a series of imprecations based on Dillon's apparent provenance as a Dubliner.... then spent the rest of the game apologizing to the couple sitting behind him, who were from Dublin. Anyway, this was the first time I'd ever heard this word, Jackeen. Worth mentioning that one of the co-owners of this extremely dodgy pub is an extremely dodgy Dubliner, whose frankly psychotic brother often works behind the bar but, thankfully for the Irishman, not this afternoon. Also that the Irishman heaped abuse on Dundee Utd, abuse based on their fairly obscure nickname of the Arabs as if they actually were Arabs.

I fear I'm exactly the rube suggested but in knowing it may have a possible advantage at times. I'm a culchie before all else, without any element of expertise beyond purely functional education in the liberal or classical or what have you spheres highly valued on ilx. seeing as imo there's no accounting for different experiences/education/knowledge otherwise attained so better not to assume it imo.

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Sunday, 15 March 2015 17:16 (12 minutes ago)

this is just you being at the wrong end of two confidence tricks, the american liberal arts education that gives its professional classes a patina of familiarity with great works and their discontents, and the english private school thing, which is less about learning than inculcating separateness and social grace

so you imagine the posters you dislike from both of those two demographics to have an advantage over you, and it is your suspicion rather than anything concrete that does the trick, and in doing so you fall into self-pity rather than fighting with your wits

nevermind that a postgraduate computer science degree is risibly demeaned as a 'functional education', there is nothing other than functional education, thankfully yours allows you to become a civil servant rather to add filigree to whatever phatic opinions about this or that you are enjoined to express this week

tom I will allow kinship to this type of guy but only on the internet yknow I dont shout in pubs at ppl. jackeen is a term for the dubs alright idk the provenance but its a bit like ned round yr way I guess

xp there's a bit in that nakh, but I'm not saying I rate that type of education in any way tho, or maybe that I dont rate it as used on ILX by some ppl at least. a tool used badly by others in this context, but not a tool I have to use at all.

I’m as cuddly and soft as it gets. I dont know where I get a rep otherwise tbh

you are! :) it’s not that i didn’t expect you to be kind; but you’re especially kind & i was grateful for that. (also nakh and mordy were kind, when i made my first drunk political posts on ilx, and next day feared i’d made a horrible faux pas.)

also the hard to understand thing baffles me but maybe its the accent

twas not meant as criticism. mostly just mean i’m a clueless yank and follow yall’s conversation over yonder which is often obscure to me but v interesting (though sportstalk is totally impenetrable). so yes, it’s the accent.

you do make gnomic utterances but i like them (and when i get them, find more often as not they hit target)

you strike me as extremely intelligent & astute yet often self-deprecatingly dissimulate this— charming & good a posting style as any (better than many); but admittedly sometimes i’d like to hear more of your thoughts
(again not a criticism but a compliment)

seconding nakh, some of the dummest people i’ve ever met were overeducated in (what passes for) liberal arts these days (include myself in this class of the badly educated)

anyway, hi back from the other side of the atlantic

nice one. wins, yr out. drash is in. nakh I want to see some of this from you or lj gets a run in the team.

nakh's last post to you was the beautiful gracegiving hand of intelligent empathy tbrh

ha dont worry about me and nakh

wins yr in lj is out obv

obviously i am a fan of yours and your wit's; i abhor the very thought that some might attempt to speak down to you and thankfully fail. obv obv we all still have to listen to each other a bit more above the din of our own online presences and by god the blood gets up now and again but if people are interpreting you as a malign force then they are absolutely projecting

my only beef w/ you is that i have not seen video evidence of your toi-disant football prowess yet

what dyou want, fps perspective

a game lad on the side with a phone camera maybe

while we're all here can we discuss the following

Ireland: Best Cricket Nation In Europe

tis only hurling with shit marking

gaa sports are only good for Australian rules footy teams to poach the best and brightest mind you

lol ye still haven't figured it out huh

its the new penal route ye fools

"ye have committed felonies that are shocking to decent men and thus you will be deported with steady employment on a rookie contract of at least €50,000"

i hope deems is paying you guys the standard £45 an hour.