xxxxp is this a feck vs fuck thing?
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
xxp the only Tayto I bend my knee tohttps://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAJSP6R.img?h=400&w=286&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=243&y=386
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 9 March 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
The Irish
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
i believe the discussion about accent variation starts from here in this very thread
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:22 (four years ago) link
The midlands is a lottery
lol now i look at it, they didn't even bother with midlands- otm
drogheda would rival limerick if it weren't so comical, i mean how do you talk like that naturally.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
When I say re my accent not being strong, I don’t mean the Irishness - I spend my life spelling out my name to people whenever I have to phone someone and full of “can you repeat that? the lines bad” - but the regional tags. Though I can thank my parents and my speech impediment (rip) for that.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
xp you wont, the link is broke
pollagh is pronounced
PULL-a
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
ffsat least you have that right
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
i bytimes ref the former future mrs mac, she was a pollagh girl so i got to know the place but twas never my neck of the island and ive less reason than ever to like it now
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
reupload the clip you coward
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
i will think about it
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wszzowjjfle63w9/Sound%20clip%2028.mp4?dl=0
thats the best i can do im afraid, had to open it outside of whatever dropbox wanted to use fwiw
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 9 March 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
drop the ? and everything subsequent, maybe
wheres sic when you need him
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 9 March 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
Haha this is cute! I was sad you didn’t attempt the cat noise yourself. You sound very much of the west but not in that slushy over-sibilant way some of the accents can tend to. Overall impression was young Bosco presenter, but a normal one, not one of the lads in adult dungarees. Also, you are clearly a v doting uncle.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 9 March 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
^cosine
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 9 March 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
we moved around a bit, sher
and she was a cute kid, once
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Monday, 9 March 2020 17:37 (four years ago) link
also if anything my cat noise is better than the automated one
no you're grand
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Monday, 9 March 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
Did you go to Newgrange? I went there as a child but my only abiding memory is my dad getting sick outside. Would love to do winter solstice but imagine it’s incredibly difficult.
the lucky few are chosen by lottery, but it's always overcast anyway
https://www.newgrange.com/solstice-lottery.htm
You should definitely go though. It's a magical place (and they do a simulation of the solstice effect for every tour)
― Number None, Monday, 9 March 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
Nothing could explain the Irish and Russian mentalities better, and why we get on so well together, than the fact that Moscow “Irish Week” lasts for eleven days. pic.twitter.com/7ModMpUkv5— Bryan MacDonald (@27khv) March 9, 2020
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 9 March 2020 23:38 (four years ago) link
Guinness is a drink widely perceived as being “Irish”, in reality this couldn’t be further from the truth. Arthur Guinness was a unionist and a British informer working against the United Irishmen in 1798. In 1913, the Guinness family donated £100,000 to the UVF. pic.twitter.com/v2H5wNrwlG— Imperialist Watch Ireland (@ImperialistWl) March 10, 2020
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:15 (four years ago) link
and still the use of the "" around irish there makes me want ta hint them down and beat them bloody
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link
down with Guinnessbring back Breó!
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:27 (four years ago) link
I unironically liked Breo. Pretty sure I’m alone.
― 29 facepalms, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
James Jeremiah Murphy was a nationalist
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:48 (four years ago) link
It’s a peak Celtic Tiger product, I only remember the ads. The Irish Times article about it has this description of the thinking behind the name.
Breo is a Celtic word meaning glow. "After some consultation with Bord na Gaeilge and a number of fluent Irish speakers, Breo was chosen as the name for this new beer as it reflects the original attributes, colour and look of the product."
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zigVHK5O38
― Number None, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
béarnaíbréoige
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 23:26 (four years ago) link
I thought of this pun and was distracted by events. Surely Beirní Breó?
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Tuesday, 10 March 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
I find it bizarre that James Nesbitt’s Wikipedia page makes no mention of that ad
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 10 March 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
its an interpretative language gyac imo
try searching under shamie nesbitt tb
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 00:20 (four years ago) link
Never drank a Breó
I wish you could still get Kilkenny here, you can still get it abroad
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 00:38 (four years ago) link
Breo had, I think, quinine in it. Like a pint of Harp cut with tonic water.
― 29 facepalms, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 08:01 (four years ago) link
we're kinda closing down for a bit
not a fan of attacking a taoiseach in these circs but that is a fairly ridiculous announcement
if you close schools you have to lead and announce all non-essential public staff are being told stay home.
cant ask businesses to react and not do so ourselves
strikes me that leaving airport to run according to its own judgement is also a copout
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 12:11 (four years ago) link
I don’t follow. What did he do?!
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 12:15 (four years ago) link
Ireland’s taoiseach Leo Varadkar has announced the closure of all schools, colleges and childcare facilities from tomorrow as part of a partial lockdown that will apply from 6pm tonight until 29 March.
― bagáistetd (seandalai), Thursday, 12 March 2020 12:28 (four years ago) link
sounds like chaos if parents still have to go to work
With you now deems. Yeah, that’s a total load of shit.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 12:36 (four years ago) link
It'll be fine, they'll just fine one person on every street that is already home and the kids can all stay with them.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 12 March 2020 12:38 (four years ago) link
sorry, busy here atm for obvious reasons
the half measure seems exactly wrong, is it, basically
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 12:55 (four years ago) link
and its not me being self serving to note that if you leave it to businesses and eg airport authorities to handle shit without direction, then yr lead becomes more important- leaving our non essential offices (400k odd ppl) open is no leadership at all
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link
can i get assistance here pls
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
how to grade severity of a pandemic where
you close schools
yet
keep 300k ppl in your purview going in to work
even where the work is non essential
unless you can work from home
which you havent allowed nor set up until now so very few can
oh and also unless we just closed your kids school
in which case we will pay you to stay home and babysit
fuckin messing
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:40 (four years ago) link
Sorry deems. Seems like a mess waiting to happen. You’d imagine the Easter weeks are covered at least but people are probably going to have to sort themselves out cos the government clearly didn’t give a fuck.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
i think closing schools was the right step, but you wanna see the head honchos flying around all over town today reacting
like.....lads ..... was this not discussed?
i havent been given access for remote working, so clearly im non essential. but somebody somewhere has decided that optics dictate that ill be commuting in during the pandemic regardless.
jesus waitll i get our useless union in front of me. palestine me hole lads.
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
You're a designated survivor for me Deems, that must count for something.
O'er here they decided the opposite: everyone should work from home but schools will not be closed. Lol.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
and not to begrudge parents the time because theyve been dropped in it too,but....like....who is going to pay private sector parents to stay home?
optics are shite tbh, at least if they had told every possible non-essential officer to stay home they could have looked businesses in the eye and said- as an employer, we're leading here.
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
"palestine me hole"?
― silby, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
social movement union that isn't giving him enough bang for his buck I suppose?
(extremely union activist voice: you are a member of your union and the majority of the work done is voluntary ie it's ineffectual that's partly your responsibility, you're a member not a service-user, your union is probably hamstrung by the legislation etc.)
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
sher look, ffs i dont mind coming in. ive been fatalistic about getting it til now, im fairly healthy, i dont have relatives or people that i will be in contact directly that i cannot avoid
but when yr employer points at you and says ey non-breeder, yr more compromisable, yr time's worth less or you have to cover for those with actual responsibilities (an ongoing struggle tbh), yr health is expendable here, it comes to a fairly self-pitying tantrum like this one every now and again im afraid.
ah well.
ill come in and read. pricks.
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link