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Guavanaut posted:Here's the clock but theirs is red if you want to Brexit cosplay and have £700 spare. There's something so symbolic about buying this loving thing rather than just using a wall calendar that I can't quite put my finger on. At least a calendar would still be useful after the electricity goes out on 00:05 Nov 1st
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Aug 1, 2019 11:40
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Ratjaculation posted:can't believe they didn't get a bargain one on AliExpress Nah mate , Buy British*  (*Final assembly in Britain, all components made in Shenzhen)
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Aug 1, 2019 11:44
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Guavanaut posted:If I'm reading the datasheet right, there's a setting where when it reaches the event it just flashes 00:00 so it's thematically fitting. At that point it's both a clock and a GBP/USD readout
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Aug 1, 2019 11:53
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Julio Cruz posted:never underestimate how charging twice as much for something can delude people into thinking it's somehow twice as good Thorstein Veblen - impossible to say if he was good or bad
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Aug 1, 2019 13:49
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feedmegin posted:Aaaaaalso, even if we are talking about the anglosphere, try asking them what they think about the Irish. Gabh mo leithscéal mo dhearthair, níl Béarla againn. Deirimid as Béarla ach amháin nuair a bhfuil obair le déanamh leis na Sasanaigh againn.
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Aug 1, 2019 15:21
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Guavanaut posted:What language do you use when you have to work with the Welsh? Na Sasanaigh beaga? ThomasPaine posted:Well yes, but Irish as a language was largely resurrected in the context of resistance against the British state. Ireland's majority population is still de facto part of the anglosphere - even among catholics - and has been since probably the medieval period (i.e. well before imperial capitalism as we understand became the dominant socio-economic system in Britain). News to me, I've only ever heard that Irish was the majority language up until An Gorta Mór, which was most definitely a product of British imperialism. Anyway, I mostly just wanted to regurgitate some creaky old cúpla focail from 15 years ago
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Aug 1, 2019 15:50
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Guavanaut posted:I've heard that it started with the Catholic Church switching to preferring English in the 1700s, which led to bilingualism and a dearth of written Irish, but yeah that was a big hit to bilingual Irish. While Quora is obviously poo poo, the top answer here seems to jibe with my understanding of the situation https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Ireland-speak-English-and-not-Irish And that it was really Edward Stanley establishing the National School system in the 1830s, which was a deeply-racist system of Irish cultural repression. Then An Gorta Mór happens, you get a huge death toll, huge emigration, and huge urban migration, all of which amounts to a sudden flip to an Anglophone culture. Frankly I don't see the assertion that Irish was revived as some sort of quaint cultural exercise to be anything other than racist fiction. Although it is true that a lot of what the Gaelic League were doing was sort of creating a new republican mythology as they went along Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Aug 1, 2019 |
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Guavanaut posted:Didn't everyone just ignore those outside of the Ulster plantations and The Pale? I guess if you're middle class enough you might be dealing with English officials bilingualism is a matter of utility, but it's not like people in Cork cared in the same way they did when the Church switched. (Or obviously during the later more direct British interventions.) Yeah, there were Hedge Schools. But, you could be killed for teaching at a Hedge School, it wasn't really a case of "lol whatever" even in the People's Republic of Cork E: although apparently there weren't really many prosecutions for that, so I dunno wtf. Probably was bad news to get caught. Failed Imagineer fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Aug 1, 2019 |
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Aug 1, 2019 17:29
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Darth Walrus posted:Are you completely sure that's not what happened to him anyway? This is like the micro-SF version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Go_to_Golgotha!
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Aug 1, 2019 18:14
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Azza Bamboo posted:when I get my SIA license will the jobcentre want me to apply for the new border force jobs? I hope you have sturdy kneecaps
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happyhippy posted:Fatten up the cat imo. Everything will be worth more per £ post-Brexit
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OwlFancier posted:I'm fairly terrible at the history of this dumb island but has there historically been any point before the last 20 years or so when the people living on Ireland and the people living on GB were not actively trying to kill each other? Mostly it's just been the Brits killing the Irish tbh. But yeah pre-12th century
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feedmegin posted:We're pretty much all Europe based here This post will not age well Yeah I know you still "be in Europe" , kinda
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Aug 1, 2019 21:26
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Aug 1, 2019 21:45
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OwlFancier posted:Given the thread's geographic distribution the accents would be awful. I speak a vaguely neo-mid-Atlantic nothing accent which nobody can place. And then I can get drunk and my >1,000 years of specifically North Cork ancestry comes rushing back. Like
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If anyone is ever in Dublin there's a chain of Chinese chippers called Charlie's that do a 4-in-1, i.e. chips curry rice and battered chicken balls. It's pretty good but overpriced now imo. Definitely powered some late night post-club sessions when I was a student
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Ratjaculation posted:we'll make sure its not destroyed when our tanks roll peacefully in O poo poo I forgot ye already had an appointment. lemonadesweetheart posted:This is a hate crime. If you commit a hate crime while drunk does it even count?
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Vlex posted:Man, what the gently caress, I just spent a week in Dublin and I'm home now, this is valuable intel. If you don't ask you don't get 
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bump_fn posted:i’m gonna go to wales for a few days what are some welsh delicacies that aren’t wet regret That's the national Welsh sex position
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Aug 2, 2019 10:22
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Help pls, my son has no game. He is very horny
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Aug 2, 2019 10:42
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lilljonas posted:Worst crime against tea though is reheating it in the microwave after it goes cold. My dad does that all the time. Sometimes several times with the same cup. It doesn't actually make any difference if you slap it in the microwave for 15 sec
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Aug 2, 2019 12:45
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OwlFancier posted:My grandma used to dip buttered toast in her tea and then drink it afterwards. The original bulletproof caffeinated drink. Bulletproof Granny
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Azza Bamboo posted:I like Barry's and hope we don't have a hard border in Ireland.  I knew I followed adult Matilda for a reason, she is a fellow traveler: https://twitter.com/MaraWilson/status/1157239306068660225?s=19 Also: I'm in the fancy lounge in Dublin Airport drinking quadruple Hennessys and eating scones. Might move on to a Bailey's in a minute. Life is good, boys. I'm also getting loaded while idly checking work mails on my laptop, feels like praxis
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Aug 2, 2019 13:54
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:God, I could do with a Baileys, might buy some after work. Update: I moved on to all the Bailey's. happyhippy posted:In Belfast the coffee shop chain Bewleys used to do hot chocolates to die for. If you're ever in Cork, O'Connaills praline hot chocolate is game changing. Makes the Bewleys hot chocolate seem like bin-juice
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Bardeh posted:
"We have purposely trained him wrong, as a joke"
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happyhippy posted:I live in Cork city. Do this in memory of me *Altarboy bells tinkling in the background*
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Aug 2, 2019 14:30
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Aidan_702 posted:This thread turned into #cork chat so effortlessly. Yes we can ruin everything. Uhhh... Rochestown represent (?)  E; Nash 19, a nice Cork eatery
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Aidan_702 posted:Guys what are your tricks for when you are literally trying to keep your eyes open in an office job Somebody post that epic sounding with research chemicals post. Other than that...work wank? Go outside for a 10min stroll in the fresh air!
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Gum posted:Please don't wank at work Spoken like someone who's never worked (wanked) from home. Gasmask posted:swallow saliva What.
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Aphex- posted:A few years ago at work someone posted on our #tech slack channel that he was working from home. A couple of hours later he posts another message, all it said was "pornhub.com". It was deleted like a minute later but a few of us saw it and just looked on in horror. It was glorious. Lmao Gasmask posted:"To calm one’s mind, one swallows his saliva. This is a secret matter. When one becomes angry, it is the same. Putting spittle on one’s forehead is also good." - Hagakure
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Tsaedje posted:I judge people who need anything other than fingers to get a teabag out of a mug of tea. I judge any man or penis-having lady who needs to use their fingers, just lmao
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Tesseraction posted:I think the suggestion is the organ is used for removal 
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Just saw an extremely thought-provoking take from Katie Hopkins that "this is Sadiq Khan's London". The woman is deeply unwell and needs to be in a home
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Diet Crack posted:Oh please. You don't have to be a dick about it, dick
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Diet Crack posted:You’re welcome I caught your post before you edited it out - and the answer is no one here cares about "oval office" because we're not Americans
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Diet Crack posted:Lol let me just go dig up all these posts then from this exact thread Please don't
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