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Mar 30, 2024 17:08
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Most of the places I want to go to are based on how weird their rocks look.
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Mar 30, 2024 17:15
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>:/ are you being facetious?!?
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Mar 30, 2024 17:18
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crispix posted:>:/ Of course not, I was the guy who was defending the Giant's Causeway in the first place. I'm going to go to Iceland in 2026 and see the eclipse and as many weird rocks as possible.
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Mar 30, 2024 17:20
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The Question IRL posted:Probably because they naturally formed into a tunnel which made the area underneath shaded. Oh nice! But are they nicer than rocks???
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Mar 30, 2024 17:22
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Shoehead posted:Oh nice! Seeing as they cut down the dying trees along it the stones have more staying power.
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Mar 30, 2024 17:26
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khwarezm posted:Of course not, I was the guy who was defending the Giant's Causeway in the first place. oh that's cool  i was just making sure you weren't taking the piss out of our rocks
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Mar 30, 2024 17:38
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Just Another Lurker posted:Seeing as they cut down the dying trees along it the stones have more staying power. i wonder what they did with the wood because it'd be sure to fetch a lot of money from gullible people who enjoyed watching that television programme
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Mar 30, 2024 17:39
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crispix posted:i wonder what they did with the wood because it'd be sure to fetch a lot of money from gullible people who enjoyed watching that television programme I think that is on private property/estate so who knows. 
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Mar 30, 2024 17:45
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crispix posted:oh that's cool  They're our loving rocks! And we'll loving eat them too if you try to starve us again.
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Mar 30, 2024 20:02
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Minerals like TK and Deasy.
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Mar 30, 2024 20:09
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Those are minnerdls
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Mar 30, 2024 20:12
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Pookah posted:Those are minnerdls Never seen it written down like this before but this is obviously correct
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Mar 30, 2024 20:18
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Fair.
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Mar 30, 2024 20:19
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The worst minerals are cadet in the tiny bottles - every flavour from cola to orange tasted like despair.
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Mar 30, 2024 20:27
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Failed Imagineer posted:Never seen it written down like this before but this is obviously correct I'd suggest "minnhrdls" but I feel like we're getting séimhiú and other forgotten Irish language alphabet territory there. Verging on Welsh level of regression. Mrenda fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Mar 30, 2024 |
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Mar 30, 2024 20:29
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Mrenda posted:I'd suggest "minnhrdls" but I feel like we're getting séimhiú and other forgotten Irish language alphabet territory there. Verging on Welsh level of regression. See also pronunciations of Darren, Karen, Sharon and oranges.
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Mar 30, 2024 20:39
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Mrenda posted:I'd suggest "minnhrdls" but I feel like we're getting séimhiú and other forgotten Irish language alphabet territory there. Verging on Welsh level of regression. I agree, there's definitely a 'h' sound in there, but it's very slight, like maybe half of a h.
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Mar 30, 2024 20:58
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don't know what everyone's talking about now
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Mar 30, 2024 22:12
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Country spring was another classic mineral, hard to beat those 3L bottles
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Mar 30, 2024 22:32
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Is ea.
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Mar 30, 2024 22:41
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TheDoublePivot posted:Country spring was another classic mineral, hard to beat those 3L bottles Someone I know tried to chug one of those like an eejit on the bus to the Gaeltacht and got drenched, a+ stuff
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Mar 30, 2024 22:46
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You have to admire the ambition
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Mar 30, 2024 23:05
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If you go to small corner shops in different counties, you will find each of them have their own unique bottles of minerals. I'm talking stuff like Finches or Big Brother from Cork, or Smak from Wexford or CC in the wilds of Wicklow.
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Mar 31, 2024 00:11
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The Question IRL posted:If you go to small corner shops in different counties, you will find each of them have their own unique bottles of minerals. Football Special
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Mar 31, 2024 00:35
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crispix posted:don't know what everyone's talking about now Parts of Ireland called lemonade/soda 'minerals', as the first fizzy drinks was mineral water. My mum's area of Sligo calls it minerals, but only boomers now use it I think as never heard it in ages. Me and my brothers used to call it 'millarn', thinking it was from the company 'Maine' that used to sell it door to door.  Sounds weird now buying lemonade from a back of a truck like an ice cream.
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Mar 31, 2024 01:49
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I vaguely remember my brother being really into Shannon Minerals cream soda as a kid.
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Mar 31, 2024 10:01
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khwarezm posted:Of course not, I was the guy who was defending the Giant's Causeway in the first place. Come to Scotland in 2025 and come see Fingal's Cave on Staffa, it's like Giant's Causeway's end point, giants lived in the cave.
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Mar 31, 2024 11:25
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forkboy84 posted:giants lived in the cave. Hence the name of the place. They Irish/Scot mythology is two giants having a barney. Finn McCool, the Irish giant, created the Giant's Causeway to walk over and fight Benandonner over in Scotland. He saw Benandonner was bigger, so lost his bottle, and hosed back home. Still unclear to this day which was the Celtic supporter, and which was the Rangers.
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Mar 31, 2024 11:39
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I thought the story was one giant tore up a chunk of the ground and hosed it at the other and the resulting hole in the ground ended up being Lough Neagh (and the chunk of land ended up forming the Isle of Mann which really begs the question of where the gently caress Fionn was aiming) It also begs the question of why Fionn was a giant for a little while instead of a normal sized man as usual
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Mar 31, 2024 12:13
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Booze.
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Mar 31, 2024 12:22
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I thought the story was Fionn dressing up as a baby to make yer man think that the Irish giants were even gianter, so he hosed off back home and tore up the bridge
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Mar 31, 2024 12:31
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Shoehead posted:I thought the story was one giant tore up a chunk of the ground and hosed it at the other and the resulting hole in the ground ended up being Lough Neagh (and the chunk of land ended up forming the Isle of Mann which really begs the question of where the gently caress Fionn was aiming) Fionn is one of those mythological characters that became an increasingly more ill defined culture hero that would just show up anywhere in all kinds of stories and after a while would sometimes became a literal giant in myths like that instead of a great leader of men. St Patrick is actually kind of similar, its hilarious how many Irish myths just have Patrick show up at the end out of nowhere like a cameo of a popular character in a spin off sitcom, you half expect the audience to start hooting and hollering when he converts an ancient Oisin to Christianity or the Children of Lir in some versions of their respective myths.
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Mar 31, 2024 14:41
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Flann O'Brien's Fionn description is great:quote:Finn MacCool was a legendary hero of old Ireland. Though not mentally robust, he was a man of superb physique and development. Each of his thighs was as thick as a horse’s belly, narrowing to a calf as thick as the belly of a foal. Three fifties of fosterlings could engage with handball against the wideness of his backside, which was wide enough to halt the march of warriors through a mountain pass.
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Mar 31, 2024 14:52
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Finn MacCool so thick his dumper could block up a mountain pass.
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Mar 31, 2024 15:01
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khwarezm posted:Fionn is one of those mythological characters that became an increasingly more ill defined culture hero that would just show up anywhere in all kinds of stories and after a while would sometimes became a literal giant in myths like that instead of a great leader of men. St Patrick is actually kind of similar, its hilarious how many Irish myths just have Patrick show up at the end out of nowhere like a cameo of a popular character in a spin off sitcom, you half expect the audience to start hooting and hollering when he converts an ancient Oisin to Christianity or the Children of Lir in some versions of their respective myths. St. Patricking into the story like it's an episode of Sinnfeild.
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Mar 31, 2024 15:07
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I like how St Patrick turned those guys in Tipperary into werewolves for being rude to him. It’s much more ‘wizard nonsense’ than ‘saint nonsense’.
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Mar 31, 2024 15:27
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The random Christian crap at the end of Children of Lir is obviously a later addition.
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Mar 31, 2024 15:46
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GhastlyBizness posted:I like how St Patrick turned those guys in Tipperary into werewolves for being rude to him. It’s much more ‘wizard nonsense’ than ‘saint nonsense’. The two are not a million miles apart.
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GhastlyBizness posted:I like how St Patrick turned those guys in Tipperary into werewolves for being rude to him. It’s much more ‘wizard nonsense’ than ‘saint nonsense’.
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