ulster says no
― mark s, Saturday, 19 October 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
W. B. Yeats or gtfo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLlcvQg9i6c
― pomenitul, Saturday, 19 October 2019 16:44 (four years ago) link
He's working those r's like no-one's business.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
Yeats barely sounds Irish to me - might be class, might be time he lived (had an old English teacher who pronounced “poem” like he did, with two syllables).
― gyac, Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
every esl child should be taught to speak in the manner of ian paisley imo
I went to a language school in either Brazil or Argentina (iirc), a few years ago, where the teacher had studied in Belfast and was passing on a noticeable NI accent to all the kids.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
(xp) Sounds like someone trying to do a Scottish accent tbh.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
Ascendancy!
― gyac, Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
_every esl child should be taught to speak in the manner of ian paisley imo_I went to a language school in either Brazil or Argentina (iirc), a few years ago, where the teacher had studied in Belfast and was passing on a noticeable NI accent to all the kids.
Meet the Syrian primary school pupil so good at languages he's been acting as an interpreter for his classmates 🗣https://t.co/PNNlAv4sEA pic.twitter.com/K2fWhViEVG— BBC News NI (@BBCNewsNI) May 26, 2019
― gyac, Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
The intro gives you a slightly better sense of Yeats's accent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2FT4_UUa4I
― pomenitul, Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
But I agree that it doesn't sound very Irish.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
omg, <3 xxp
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
Can we have the video now?
I voted against the Letwin amendment. Parliament now meets again Monday to debate the new deal. Will post a video over the weekend laying out my thinking.— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) October 19, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
Mad props to Mohammed btw.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
Like right this sec xp
Yeats still sounds pretty Scottish to me.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
I know what he sounds like, he just doesn’t have a very representative accent.
― gyac, Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
Agree. I don't get this at all:
Yeats “had a very distinctive Irish country accent, from Sligo,” noted Patrick McAfee, a visitor earlier this month.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/arts/design/20dwye.html
― pomenitul, Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHP1K7sWsAQgaJv?format=jpg&name=large Oh no
― gyac, Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
lol yeats sounds way more irish than I would have expected. I grew up around a lot of people with similar sounding accents (very affected, galway).
― plax (ico), Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
Maybe it’s a class thing? But he has that sort of stilted sounding speech that makes it difficult to tell (for me anyway).I thought Dev would sound like that, but he actually sounded like any auld lad.
― gyac, Saturday, 19 October 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
lots of guys who hang around trad pubs and quote kavanagh have that accent regardless of class origins. I don't think there's a large enough residue of that kind of aristocracy to account for it, its pure fiction for the most part, but Yeats is of a very different class settlement than exists now.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
gyac thank you for posting the video of that tremendous boy, I salute him
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
Ditto.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
Think Rory Stewart might be bad, fellas
Well like others I was taken in by @RoryStewartUK, the fact that he apparently did not vote for the Letwin amend. shows his character. No scrutiny. He remained quiet over the last days, and now, he stabbed People in the back. Don‘t bother standing for London Mayor. You‘ll lose.— Rabbit Lady #FBPE🕷🕷🕸🕷🕷🎪🎪🎪 Register to vote (@RabbitLady4) October 19, 2019
― gyac, Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
did you know that he walked across afghanistan and speaks dari tho
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
i know what the spiders mean and i guess by association the spiderweb, but what is the signification of the three circus tents?
― mark s, Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
jesus god the replies to that thread are beyond parody
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
circus tents are where clowns live, is my measured conclusion after reading that
― mark s, Saturday, 19 October 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
― gyac, Saturday, 19 October 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
I fear it may be a Big Tent.
― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Saturday, 19 October 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
oh fuck :(
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 19 October 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
Rory is intents
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 October 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
A local councillor is so desperate for my vote he's been ringing me for days, turned up on the doorstep twice, local CLP secretary has been ringing me. I did tell them all I'm a f/t carer of two and rarely get spare time and don't want to spend any time in bullshit meetings unless it is in a pub. He must be short of numbers because he's got one of his runners to give me a lift to some meeting and back. lol didn't realise such responsibility came with party membership. Tbh I was all geared up to tell him to go fuck himself but he pleaded so hard I couldn't be so rude - the story of my life... alas.
― calzino, Saturday, 19 October 2019 19:13 (four years ago) link
I've been engaged with these kind of arguments calz and they've done nothing to endear me to party ultras
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 October 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
xp must be some sort of vote on?How angry are some unionists, you ask? Well, Jetedty Cromblyn isn’t looking so bad now:
Jeremy Corbyn, yes that Jeremy Corbyn has actually never advocated that which Boris just signed up to. That is a damning indictment of Boris.— Christopher Stalford (@CStalfordMLA) October 19, 2019
Corbyn would at least get a 2nd referendum and remain likely winning and keeping all the UK together. You lot have shafted us and expect us to just take it.— Horatio Nelson (@HoratioNelson0) October 19, 2019
― gyac, Saturday, 19 October 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
thank god all those people online shamed him into going to Westminster today instead of fleeing to Liverpool like he truly wanted to
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 19 October 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
the unionists shd do a deeper-magic-from-before-the-dawn-of-time* move to unravel what they helped wreak vonc-wise in 1979
*dawn of time = my 19th birthday as you know
― mark s, Saturday, 19 October 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
Jared O'Mara could have given Sir Alfred Broughton a few lessons on unselfish national interest voting etiquette :p
― calzino, Saturday, 19 October 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
lol
― mark s, Saturday, 19 October 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
Loooool “I won’t sign it so I hope the EU see my keyses behind my back too”
― stet, Saturday, 19 October 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
I was not expecting this to be the thread where I learned that Groundskeeper Willie was a Yeats impersonation.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 19 October 2019 21:05 (four years ago) link
all my threads are educational
― mark s, Saturday, 19 October 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
Nothing in the latest tactical idiocy to cause alarmThe Benn Act letter is sent, these other reported letters legally inconsequential Seems clever, and will impress the easily impressed, but nothing to worry about— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) October 19, 2019
― gyac, Saturday, 19 October 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
The extension request has just arrived. I will now start consulting EU leaders on how to react. #Brexit— Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) October 19, 2019
― gyac, Saturday, 19 October 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
Jog on Boris Johnson with your daft ideas. pic.twitter.com/ipFM12jXAB— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) October 19, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 19 October 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
i'd've used Wingdings
― koogs, Saturday, 19 October 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
Was just about to link. Classic tweet, almost as good as the time his account got hacked.
― gyac, Saturday, 19 October 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
Ugh, watching the papers review on BBC News and it’s a former Tory adviser and some bald geez from the Sun using generalisations such as ‘the talk in the pubs’ says ‘get on with it’ and minimising the PV march as ‘Londoners’ (my FB timeline was full of people coming from as far as Cornwall and Cambridge to march). Help!
Also: Boris Johnson sent but did not sign the extension letter - what is he, five years old?
― coup de twat (suzy), Saturday, 19 October 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
I suppose kuenssberg is still saying it's a grey area but this seems quite obviously a failure to comply with legislation.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 19 October 2019 22:07 (four years ago) link