The Irish

thats a sourpuss online catholic warrior narrative

everyone wanted to be there was there

I know...

like, take every no vote, presume half dead since, checks out

(and even though American Catholics apparently don't eat meat on any Friday?)

The only time my coworkers refrain from meat on Fridays is during Lent. On the other hand, when I was growing up, the school lunches on Friday were always meatless.

"Rimnheh"?

Probably Drimnagh. I'm guessing that the journalist didn't ask his interlocutor to spell it and had to take a wild stab at it later on while transcribing the recording.
"Rimnheh" sounds like something you'd encounter in a H.P. Lovecraft story.

or a gay tmi thread

hurrahhh

"thats a sourpuss online catholic warrior narrative

everyone wanted to be there was there

― flaneur brayin (darraghmac), Sunday, 26 August 2018 18:45 (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink"

There were tickets available at the gates to the park, and a mate of mine who I met at the Stand4Truth thing said he'd been offered multiple spare tix by punters as he walked against the tide and into town.

Francis needs to get a wee press-stud sewn under that cape.

his coat this mornin was p badass

RTE’s reverential coverage of the Pope’s visit was not journalism. It was propaganda for an institution that has been criminally complicit in the rape and buggery of children around the world and is the prime institutional carrier of mysogyny and homophobia.

— Vincent Browne (@vincentbrowne) August 26, 2018

atta fuckin boy vincent

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/28/christian-brothers-ireland-child-abuse

he'd get on well with my uncle Jim, the only person in my family to have an interview in the graun!

the text on the link the pinefox posted has been completely changed hah

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/pope-visit-ireland-crowd-phoenixpark-13142619

Pope Francis is an anagram of 'profane pics'.

makes you think.

Eating at a family restaurant and i see a happy go lucky priest say hi to old fat typical lads all making a ruckus and my immediate reaction when i see him is to greet him and cross myself

Bless me father for they are twats

I thought of an example of 'Catholic culture'.

Martin Scorsese.

do we not then need to extricate the italian-american and add the irish?

is there for the purposes a case for studying the irish-american?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irishman_(2019_film)

D-Mac, points taken.

I think I was just still trying to think of what a 'Catholic culture' might mean, absent national references and (as per my own search) not primarily an ecclesiastical matter, and this seemed one of the clearest living cases - an artist (not a priest or theologian) whose work is not mainly 'about' Catholicism, priests, churches, etc, but which one can I think fairly plausibly see as 'imbued' with it, reference to it, etc.

Presumably Graham Greene was a good case also.

If the claim is then that 'Irish Catholic culture' is a different matter then to be sure these are irrelevant to its field.

Separately I agree that Irish-American as a case of Irish is always a fair topic. I watched Richard Harris in MAJOR DUNDEE (1965) this week and his US Confederate prisoner, facing the gallows, with an Irish accent, seemed to me a version of an Irish rebel prisoner of 1867 or so.

an artist (not a priest or theologian) whose work is not mainly 'about' Catholicism, priests, churches, etc, but which one can I think fairly plausibly see as 'imbued' with it, reference to it, etc.

Sounds like Muriel Spark to me. Both her and Greene converts, of course - which may be a different kind of 'Cultural Catholicism' from Scorcese's, who was born into it.

thought- does 'roman' trump italian/irish for what we're trying to get at? think theres a case that it does

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/brexit-stockpile-favourite-foods-you-might-not-know-are-british-1.3735188 this piece REALLY fucked me off.

Who the fuck in Ireland is buying Hovis sliced pan?! The bread is so much better at home!

aye but you cannae beat a tunnocks tea cake

I would dispute them being biscuits, also I prefer Tunnocks wafers to the cake!

yeah it's not really a biscuit i must admit.

I'm from the town they're made in so I'm a big booster of tunnocks products

we wont be short of tunnocks while theres a lidl in the parish

stan hard for tunnocks myself but the east coast bakehouse cookies mentioned are really good

I don’t know them but I would choose Polo (normal or chocolate) or chocolate Kimberleys or mikado biscuits I’ve 99% of British biscuits

look we need a nom(ination) thread before we could even poll

chocolate digestive man meself

anything by fox even tho they are disgustingly sweet obv

(goldgrain are nicer than mcvities digestives nowadays)

Nomination poll for what? British or Irish biscuits? Biscuits of these isles

B.Is.cuits

controversailte

now we might think of it.....

you dont...see many ....orange biscuits?

So sure l'm an orange biscuitman, from Erin's shelves I came

the stash my father stored

it is round and it is crumbly
the taste is just divine

Lol that article knows it's nonsense. Food in England is terrible, despite all that guardian "we've come a long way since rationing" smugness. The Sainsbury's by my house permanently looks like a scene from 28 days later and I've never seen a ripe banana in a shop in London. "Decent food" just means small portions.

What is fever tree tonic water?

Also, since it would be an almost total market loss for Lyons tea, wouldn't Unilever just shift production back to Ireland?

Tonic water with a higher price point than Schweppes. Comes in a variety of flavours, pretty nice, seems to have saturation coverage in some tube stations.

You’d imagine so; either that or just slap some labels on some other tea brands...

I prefer Schweppes, it is fizzier, but Fever Tree seems to be hugely popular.

There is lots of good food in England - I wouldn't hold giant chain supermarkets up as an example of anything even if their foreign equivalents are a little better.

London has a wide range of independent businesses selling good food at p much every price range. Again, if you want to extrapolate from whatever set of choices you force yourself to ensure, ie shopping at a crap Sainsburys instead of a corner shop or a better supermarket then that is your choice.

Even from branch to branch the chain supermarkets vary and there are some notoriously awful ones, most of the small "local" ones are a crime against food and cooking and I'd use a corner shop any time instead.

endure*

As for "decent food just means small portions"

If you really think this you prob should go to Chinatown, Green Lanes, Kingsland Road, etc.

Or a few hundred other places.

the stash my father stored

Post unfairly slept on imo. In the World Foods section in my local Morrisons, Irish is sandwiched between Polish and Mediterranean.

North London? The London Irish centre in Camden recently opened an Irish shop and they have Polo biscuits so I might have to go there.

So... we’ve got some news 👀 pic.twitter.com/RsZv4wJFog

— London Irish Centre (@LDNIrishCentre) November 21, 2018

Seems like most white people over 65 in my area are either Irish or Cypriot so Morrison's on the ball there.

Being in the post office in Holloway Rd on a weekday morning is almost indistinguishable from any random Irish provincial town. You can almost hear the rattling of the seandaoine’s rosary beads.

theres an argument, and youd know better than i obv, that its moreso

are you calling me a culchie