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Been in Cork for 15 years here, and its still an alien language. I thought the Dublin accent was horrible, but holy poo poo Corkian. What gets me is how a good subset of the female cork accent is gravely and hoarse, as if they smoke 100 a day.
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forkboy84 posted:Fit like? Yer a fair bonnie quine. Fer about ye bide? We don’t need to delve into the Scots discussion again but I’ve never encountered a Doric speaker who was in practice harder to understand than folks from Cork—and I live in Scotland.
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Aug 13, 2022 10:43
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 Trying not to make a "put a cork in it" joke.
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endlessmonotony posted:Build quality is well-known to be a bit poo poo, can be a hair-pulling nightmare to get the drivers to work under Linux (tho not because of the AMD processor, those went open sores), performance is decidedly ok. Once it works I wouldn't worry though, Linux isn't prone to falling apart for no reason. Unlike the bloody motherboard. I've got to say my personal experience is opposite to yours . Owned a few ThinkPads, always been great. HP I'd never tough again, complete turd and constant linux driver issues, my hp devices have always died quickly. They also make the worst printers known to God. For work I always get saddled with Dell which are poo poo I agree, BUT their business support is phenomenal so I get why companies like them. Mega Comrade fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Aug 13, 2022 |
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Aug 13, 2022 10:48
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Amazing things are happening in the Highlands today (spotted in Nairn)
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Aug 13, 2022 10:54
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A level beyond the pie barm... impossible...
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Aug 13, 2022 10:58
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keep punching joe posted:Amazing things are happening in the Highlands today (spotted in Nairn) I'd have guessed that was at the games but apparently that's next Saturday, and the Nairn Show was a couple of weeks ago. Man, that's the most Scottish piece of cuisine since the Arbroath smokie
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Aug 13, 2022 11:00
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What is the middle bit?
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MeinPanzer posted:I studied abroad in Germany and became friends with a girl from Cork while there. Her accent was pretty mild, but her friend from Cork came to visit one time and it’s the hardest time I’ve ever had understanding an English-speaking accent. Had a 1+ hour convo with him and basically only understood every third word. All you have to do is know going into the conversation that they are probably talking about how great Cork is, and you'll make it through any conversation. Particularly if you hear the word "Republic " (I kid. I knew a bunch of people from Cork when I was at university. Particularly one girl who I drove to the train station on Fridays since it was on my way as I was going home. Lovely sort. But they often talked about Cork and how great it was.)
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Aug 13, 2022 11:04
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Jippa posted:What is the middle bit? That's a mutton pie my dude.
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Aug 13, 2022 11:05
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I've never had the chance to eat mutton and would like to.
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Aug 13, 2022 11:08
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keep punching joe posted:That's a mutton pie my dude. Was hoping it was a macaroni pie, or at a stretch haggis, but mutton will have to do
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Aug 13, 2022 11:16
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OwlFancier posted:I've never had the chance to eat mutton and would like to. i have good news, relating to the coming food crisis
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Aug 13, 2022 11:16
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There was me thinking it was a doughnut cut in half with a baked cheesecake in the middle
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Tomberforce posted:There was me thinking it was a doughnut cut in half with a baked cheesecake in the middle No, you get a sweet donut cut in half with a savoury pie in the middle and you'll like it
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Aug 13, 2022 11:21
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Margaret loving Hodge... https://twitter.com/margarethodge/status/1558056058740002818?s=20&t=ZfbBy7VJ46qimzwUe-8ZqA
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Aug 13, 2022 11:25
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forkboy84 posted:No, you get a sweet donut cut in half with a savoury pie in the middle and you'll like it If only you could still wash it down with a nice cooling glass of the Moray Cup.
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Mega Comrade posted:I've got to say my personal experience is opposite to yours . My current personal laptop is a Lenovo Yoga and I love it. But it is 6 years old now and definitely running much more slowly. It's like me and needs a couple of coffees in the morning before it starts running at a decent speed. I have to boot it up about half hour before I need it. And if I leave it on sleep or hibernate over night instead of turning it right off it it just hangs and freezes until I do a reset or reboot anyway. And yes I have done all the housekeeping tips other than a complete reinstall - fell foul of one of those on a different computer one time so never again unless dire need. I bought it in Cairo so it has a keyboard with Arabic letters on it as well as English ones. I shall miss that. Though my party piece used to be to touch type copy in Arabic (printed not handwriting) on a keyboard with no Arabic letters marked on it at over 20wpm which is apparently reasonably good even for native Arabic typers.
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Aug 13, 2022 11:31
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OwlFancier posted:I've never had the chance to eat mutton and would like to.    Dead Goon posted:Margaret loving Hodge...
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Aug 13, 2022 11:35
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forkboy84 posted:Fit like? Yer a fair bonnie quine. Fer about ye bide? https://twitter.com/chickenpaprika/status/1298318154175852544?t=fJ2YOdxU_kq6qI6APHQK_A&s=19
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Aug 13, 2022 11:59
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biglads posted:If only you could still wash it down with a nice cooling glass of the Moray Cup. Huh. I hadn't realised those had been discontinued until now. Sad (I say sad, I don't think I ever actually had any, but it was on the shelves of my local shop) Bobby Deluxe posted:This you? I hate that kid so much. Imagine confusing Scots with Scottish colloquial English.
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Aug 13, 2022 11:59
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the moray cup is what the winner of the shinty world championship gets
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Aug 13, 2022 12:03
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It has eels in it.
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(not actually entirely joking as until forkboy mentioned buying it in a shop I did actually think that the moray cup was a sporting event of some sort)
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Aug 13, 2022 12:09
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They have won the Cup of Moray (and Lady Mondegreen)
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Aug 13, 2022 12:35
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thanks for the thoughts, all - just to be clear, though, I've been thinking about leaving for a while (antisocial hours, physical exhaustion) so this is more a last straw than aggressive negotiation
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Aug 13, 2022 12:42
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OwlFancier posted:(not actually entirely joking as until forkboy mentioned buying it in a shop I did actually think that the moray cup was a sporting event of some sort) Came in lovely little plastic bottles: https://www.aberdeenlive.news/news/history/remembering-north-easts-famous-fizzy-7212124 I only remember it because I recognise the (I'm almost positive it's racist because this is the north-east of Scotland...) packaging. Killed by the sugar tax. Also as everyone knows the big cups in Shinty are the MacTavish Cup & the Camanachd Cup. The league is the Mowi Premiership, because sponsors Marine Harvest changed their name or were bought out, whatever. Since we're talking about shinty, my favourite thing is that since the Premiership came into existence in 1996 (there used to be a North & South league, Premiership is the entire country) it has been won by 4 teams. Kinlochshiel once, Fort William once, Newtonmore 8 times & Kingussie 13 times. 21 times in total by 2 villages 3 miles apart. About half the distance between Ibrox & Parkhead. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Aug 13, 2022 |
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At least by the standards of the usual British "let's sell marmalade with a horrendous African goblin-child stereotype" it's not that bad.Bobstar posted:They have won the Cup of Moray 
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Aug 13, 2022 12:57
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I wish the Golden Syrup people leaned harder into their 'Dead Lion' motif in their advertising, maybe some animated mascot or summat.
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forkboy84 posted:Huh. I hadn't realised those had been discontinued until now. Sad (I say sad, I don't think I ever actually had any, but it was on the shelves of my local shop) more the obvious deficiencies in wikification of things which shouldn’t be
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Dead Goon posted:Margaret loving Hodge... The sheer brass neck on this woman
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Dead Goon posted:Margaret loving Hodge... 
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The 'trying to be positive while facing the end times' tone of this Guardian piece is a whole mood, with a lot of fairly brutal honesty about what may well be coming. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/aug/13/when-food-shortages-bite-what-to-eat-and-drink-in-the-age-of-empty-shelves
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OwlFancier posted:I've never had the chance to eat mutton and would like to. No halal butchers anywhere near you? It's fairly available in most large cities if you know where to look. 
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keep punching joe posted:Amazing things are happening in the Highlands today (spotted in Nairn) Absolutely stunning to see my wee home town get the recognition it deserves, for all the right reasons. Also Moray Cup was the absolute best. We also used to have the Bon-Accord truck come round our houses where you could buy glass bottles of locally made fizzy juice of pretty much every variety.
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Danger - Octopus! posted:The 'trying to be positive while facing the end times' tone of this Guardian piece is a whole mood, with a lot of fairly brutal honesty about what may well be coming. Friend of mine does lighting at theatres and conference venues. Pre covid she was working at a national food production conference of some sort and she said it was scary what she was hearing. She told me this at the time. It's not a hindsight thing. Shortages were on the agenda pre covid and pre Ukraine. I wonder what else it could be? ( /S). Obviously covid, Ukraine and weather also add to the problems. I'm using up my brexit apocalypse supplies which I got in 2019 with bbf dates of 2022 at the moment so I will have to go invest in more I think!
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feedmegin posted:No halal butchers anywhere near you? It's fairly available in most large cities if you know where to look. Never tried, is it expensive? I hoped it would generally be cheaper than lamb and I like the gameyness of lamb so I figured that would be more pronounced in mutton.
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Aug 13, 2022 14:54
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Mutton is significantly cheaper than lamb and yeah, it's a bit gamier. Makes fantastic curries too.
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Would probably go for stew myself or just fry it up with some veggies if you can get a good fatty bit. Got some discount lamb chops the other week and had them just fried up with some veg, very nice.
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Fun fact, the sun is actually farther away right now than it is during winter.
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