this thread is p much assigned to deems

i like that old picture of you and your girl

also, i hope you [edited b/c of source oopsie]. [redacted] in advance.

that is a clever thread title.

i have a finely balanced curiosity/dread of the second post however

fyi she's a reasonably catholic girl and rarely does anything in advance, so if that was your query you can just not bother

oh no no no nothing like that. it had to do with your upcoming plans, which i realized after the fact had been posted about on a secret bo/a/r/a/d.

the first part employed a verb, the word "fun," a preposition, and a place name. the second part included a tradional sandbox word that is commonly mispelled.

wisjes?

:-)

Yes that's a cracking picture, I'm a big fan

!

Ignoring that outrageous interruption its ok to note that im flying over oceans tomorrow and ty for the wisjes and yes it is a nice photo. I think thats everything.

what is that bugger cat's name

words obv. short, nasty ones come closest.

take yr pick

he/she got flung out the door at bedtime regardless of november and/or his/her feelings on the matter

ah thats better

(it wasnt)

what a roller coaster this has been

otm, otm

finest post:

lol at resident calculator of the mass of the universe being impressed by the speed of glt

― dn/ac (darraghmac), Sunday, June 15, 2014 12:12 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

! can a mod get that

i have this coworker who has only been with us a few months but is a very funny older man and i love those so i spend a lot of time with him at work and today he said "lemme ask you something. did you go to catholic school?" and i was like no and he said "i would have thought you did." but he didn't say what it meant. as the sandbox's catholic person can you explain it

my first inclination is that he thought you were secretly naughty

but maybe not necessarily?

no it was not that kind of situation at all now that i read my post it reads disgusting. we were talking about having ADHD OCD and disorganization

i was like WHY and then he got distracted

that's cool because i hate when funny endearing ppl are creepy and also hate myself for expecting them to be

Irish name maybe?

but as to where he was heading with the question, idk could be almost anywhere really.

I'm only catholic in the same way that I can jump my own height- once, maybe, many thanks years ago, and even then it was only cos I was small

no it was not that kind of situation at all now that i read my post it reads disgusting. we were talking about having ADHD OCD and disorganization

― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 02:38 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was like WHY and then he got distracted

― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 02:39 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol tho

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEEMS!!!!!!!

:D. ty try

just struck me that a bytimes rotten bytimes wonderful nz ilxor knew about it despite not being fb warned and I immediately blamed someone in sandbox

aww

glad tidings, deems! unfortunately the little sandbox bird's tweet didn't make it to my part of the world until this morning.

hb!

:D

I thought Klata was expressing his admiration for yrs truly above but he has made it clear on numerous occasions since that his fanship refers more to hrs truly

She has the air of being a lovely girl, no sense in denying it. I mean I'm sure you're a decent cove yourself, irl, but I've only so much to go round.

if she wasn't meaner than the previous recruits she'd not have outlasted em tbph but certainly it greatly upsets and confuses lots of ppl that she's taking so long wising up to me. that's her lookout imo i like christmas but im not voting for it

deems, what days will you be in seattle?!

huh

nm j/k

WAY TO KEEP ME IN SUSPENSE ALL HOLIDAY

🐶

outrageous attempt to hijack popular thread

this aggression on the pitch will not stand

I missed it I was in class :(

pitch bitch

well this is just great

how do you get the rolling stones?

lose jagger

lol

!

i have just been offered a house with no noisy neighbours and an extra bedroom and a garden and a shed and stuff but get this rent is 20% LESS than current place

ok we havent looked at it yet and the area is possibly sketchy but i know the owner and we're both tougher than she is so im not hugely concerned

i would like this noted as possibly big news and i would also like somebody to tell me that we definitely wont have any trouble getting out of our current tenancy, thanks

congrats!

tell yr landlords that your home distillery has gotten too big for the premises

(sheer luck I looked here, btw)

ty ty that's almost certainly legally binding enough for my purposes

nice

is it in cape verde?

it is closer to the airport tbf

That sounds wonderful!

Dear Darragh,

Congratulations! We are pleased to offer you a conditional place on the ICT Skills funded course, the Higher Diploma in Science in Data Analytics at the National College of Ireland.

Re: Higher Executive Officer Competition

Dear Darragh,

I am pleased to inform you that you have been shortlisted to progress to interview for the above mentioned competition.

nothing from the lotto as yet but fingers crossed eh

👏

quite

thoughts on this?

http://www.herald.ie/news/courts/dublin-man-given-six-year-sentence-for-damaging-10m-monet-museum-painting-30800266.html

cunt of the highest. I'd read before that he is an ex dealer settling old debts/grudges as well as the theft angle

jfc

text offering to come in and discuss role in bluechip multinational- graduate position using my new degree

moral of the story is quit ilx obv, everyone, at once

alternative moral: More sandbox Every day

warm turkey

so I did that interview then went home and applied for another job then studied a bit then went into town to stock up on playdoh for a unicorn-shower-curtain-buy tyrant and uh I saw a guy squash a guy using a car and then I sat an exam and then I finished a project then I went into work the next day and sat there feeling kinda strange

there's a story. best to all involved.

i hope you are not too shook up, deems, that was a horrible thing for you to witness. and good luck for the job and the exam.

and the tyrant

well I got the playdoh so on that front I'm covered

interview went....well. my life just changed.

Congratulations. I hope the good brings the bad back into balance.

p much reassigned to teams (mgmt)

otmt

what a week!

also otm

finished college since btw

aw congrats dr deems

i remember really liking the smell of play-doh. something about its smell made me want to eat it, though of course i didn't because i am not ralph wiggum

I always thought it smelled neat. Not necessarily appetizing, but intriguing.

yeah it has that Mars thing where you want to stuff it in yr mouth til it clogs yr throat

but sadly dohvinci clay is completely different I am told

oh dear

well yes, congratulations anyway

jolie bon beau, as my uncle used to say.

I always preferred Joe Elliott myself tbh

it was a pun about 80's hair rock front men you see

i knew it was nonsense whatever it was.

|} >>-------> <3

I wore my mgmt outfit to work yesterday and everyone is much amused

pics or it didn't happen

in a world where Dropbox behaved at all but alas

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/818963/IMG_20150108_221752735.jpg

expression otm

you're right there in the bathroom and you don't even include the unicorn shower curtain in your picture? i'm taking this to the domestic outrages thread.

i dont live with the tyrant anymore ;_;

also

u know my homes' methods, plies them (p much resigned to deems) wrote this on thread FUCKING PISSED on board Lxy and Jergins'board on Nov 11, 2012

u are v chatty.

I did promise that t-shirt. Hmm another bloody task.

The shower curtain was retired by yet another of the bros. mac, at my prompting. He is still in disgrace while yrs truly enjoys overexuberant niecely affection in his presence. He'll learn in time i figure.

thank u for not mentioning gentrification in the west bank

ooh there's an idea

https://instagram.com/p/zDcLdUHEx1/?modal=true

hi!

I've been neglecting the sandbox
like everybody else tbf

moving to that house this weekend! good times. I dont have to do any heavy lifting neither. good times.

:(

missed it

happy deemsday

^^^ cosign. Hope it's lovely.

it is blustery with torrents forecast for the BBQ I'm due to attend

but I took a long weekend yesterday and was, on the whole, pampered and cosseted

p much resigned to aging. hb!

unencrypted!

(^^^what happens when you type hbdmc and auto correct takes over)

i hope your day is this happy

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/398/19316186491_9df86dbdd3.jpg

it's your birTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Wisjes!

oh hay!

i hope you are this happy

http://c6.staticflickr.com/8/7529/16001200165_79050af32d_b.jpg

hold up. are you coming to seattle?

if he goes i'll go i want to give him a clither on the gob

omg the intonation is perfect harbl

ty sandbox i had a lovely half-significant bday

my dad lives in seattle now and ya maybe likely next year i'll be driving west coast over a few weeks. i'll keep youse literally posted.

i will look at every passerby differently now. and perhaps feel compelled to call out to likely candidates: "hey, deems' dad?"

Tbrrrwu youd spot him

But hes not v ilxy, lxy

to be really real rather wish u youd [sic] spot him?

i'm not v ilxy either so

Thats a p cheeky sic imo

w(ould) s(ic)

not feeling that sic

so what did it mean then?

which now

Tbrrrwu youd spot him

Really really real w/u this is basic stuff

i'm not v ilxy either so

― lxy, Friday, July 15, 2016 10:37 AM

fb is trying to sell me this nonsensical item https://www.sunfrog.com/ODOHERTY-185077754-Sports-Grey-Hoodie.html?68647

somebody has a birthday coming up!

Oh I like logic puzzles!

It's not me....

So....

They are either someone important enough to have their own thread (less talk of them here, so, if you please) or they are not (less talk of them at all, so, if you please)

i do in 2 months. what i would like is a shirt with someone else's name with no apostrophe thanks facebook. another celtic legend.

joe flacco
another sandbox legend

he's an elite quarterback, maybe?

I haven't heard of him here locally tbh

have you been to dundalk, ireland or dundalk, maryland

he is Schrödinger's elite quarterback

harbl, i became so confused i forgot your last name. but i remembered your birthday at least.

Wow u ppl will talk about anything but me won't u

heh, this thread is p much assigned to everything except deems?

okay, let's talk about you.

how are your travel plans coming along? what part of seattle will you be staying in when you're here? do you like fish?

is your wife coming with you? any brothers or nieces? do you like to go to irish-themed bars when you're traveling, or do you avoid them?

Wife!

Plans are stalled until we see how feasible driving california-seattle is

Avoid irish bars. Dunno where dad lives. No siblings or offspring.

This is a tiring mode of discourse imo despite excellence of both participants

I do not as a rule like fish despite being an erstwhile fisherman son of generations of fishingmen

fisjes

i like fisjes

i also hate irish bars but one irish bar i used to go to sometimes closed and was replaced by the worst millennial handcrafted cocktail and small plates bar so i regretted everything bad i ever said about its previous incarnation

i'll just go to seattle at the same time as deems goes and make him go to an irish bar and lol

isn't there that famous tourist 'irish bar" with the wall of gum? so gross.

I do recommend the fish though!

I'm proper night posting for the first time in a while. Feels good. Like putting back on a jacket that a recent ex never let u wear.

'night posting'

night posting, deserves a quiet night

september's coming soon

i'm not sure all these people understand

who who

oh oops. i get it. i forgot.

this one laughing quietly underneath my breath

As always I've been left bewildered by sandboxes

I'm only catholic in the same way that I can jump my own height- once, maybe, many thanks years ago, and even then it was only cos I was small

― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 08:44 (two years ago) Permalink

I think this is my favourite me quote

Right down to the autocorrect ruining it

took me two whole minutes to figure out it was a broad jump and not a vertical jump

Rong

it was the rong jump?

oh you jumped between 5 and 6 feet in the air then, i'm guessing. tremendous.

he recalls doing it when he was a precocious two-foot-tall lad

tbf at some point in my adolescence i wondered if i could touch the ceiling with my head. the answer was yes, and all too easily

Ulster u13 high jump champion 1993 iymk

Mookie went u p much at ceiling height normally iirc

Had a p rough few days and can't say why nor post about it at all what is a good tactic sandbox

go to sleep

Didn't hurt anyway

Quiet pint in town update

Home from quiet pint in town.

a quiet pint in a licensed premises

Update: up and showered. Making porridge.

xp hey I just got that

i'm having coffee

i like that old picture of you and your girl

― lxy, Friday, 24 May 2013 03:37 (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oi that's my wife you're talking about

big congratulations to the macs!!! happy wedding day!!!

^gets it

what happy news! all the best to you and yours.

(i was prescient on august 30)

Pushy, some would say

i suppose some would, perhaps some have

hurt that i wasn't invited tbh

Thread is open to all iirc

well done, sir!

you know what the next step is, right?

a cat

you can take your honeymoon at the sandbox compound in keene, new york

your imgur is adorable

IKR!!!?

will a smarter kind person point me to it? i like adorable vm.

Only cos I like u

http://i.imgur.com/8DBO7UH.jpg

oh thank you yes that is adorable! you both have fine taste in shoes.

aw <3

it's true, i richly deserved that fp

You were wrong and you've acknowledged you were wrong, we'll say no more about it for my part

Last one. Maybe.

https://imgur.com/a/fdgIl

Ah well

http://i.imgur.com/DBkcAEL.jpg

I give up on understanding links and images and the Internet tbh

Had a p rough few days and can't say why nor post about it at all what is a good tactic sandbox

― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 26 September 2016 00:02 (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i can post about this now but may not

i am not satisfied with this result but despite that i hope your outcome was good.

always get these threads confused

hey i started a new job it is a big change but i think a good one.

looking back itt i post mainly good news updates and am happy to continue this trend

my dad now lives in washington afaict btw

nb i wasnt offering that last part as either good nor bad news

what part and will i recognize him on the street?

bellevue

you kinda know him by me id say

http://i.imgur.com/8ZzZNth.jpg

hes on the left fyi

okay i will look for him. when are you coming to visit?

2017 is right out but theres always next presidency i guess

uh

my dad totally doesnt live in washington let me be clear about that

no sir

it's okay; he can at least pass for christian

not for long tbph

SHIT. eggs.

Just speaking to dad. It is Seattle apparently.

we're not details people.

bellevue is its own city. same county though.

He moved. Two towns further out. Visit next year maybe.

please tell me he moved to preston

Lookit I'm doing p well to have confirmed Seattle tbph

Kent, I'm told

well here's hoping we'll be able to connect while you're here

get in some cakes and he'll be there like a shot

i will personally bake a cake if i can sandbox with lxy, jergins, and deems irl

It's a while away yet and I'm amenable but I'm really more of a baguette guy

Estela does not know this because as host I suppressed all of my own wishes during her interminable haunting of our scone outlets

harbl, this sounds like a dream. please come bake cakes and help us entertain deems.

deems, i will not bake you a baguette (jergins may be able to accommodate as he is the baker in the family), but i know where to buy good ones.

jergins, would you?

estela, i am certain deems is right on this one.

everyone, i spent a good while yesterday trying to work up some kind of scone-based comment. you all will just have to take my word for it because i could never quite manage it.

You've lost that lovin feelin

because i couldn't formulate a scone joke?

Don't get righteous about it

can't help myself i'm falling
scone in love

i want to attend this gathering

All welcome..So far.

From other thread:

too late for a poll but should I srsly consider leaving my public sector job and begging my dad for an office job in cape verde y/n nb results held to be nonbinding but will be taken as srsly as I take anything else nbb this is p much as srsly as you would not hope

― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, 6 November 2014 10:27 (two years ago) Permalink

I will now post two articles about the employer that i did not end up going to cape verde to work for

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/carlos-rafael-fish-interview

http://m.motherjones.com/environment/2017/03/codfather-carlos-rafael-fish-fraud-catchshares

Dad and eldest brother were out working for him and came back with enough material for three hemingways

your dad's a fisherman?

i thought i put this here but i put it on BALTIMORE BALTIMORE

My dad is a fisherman.

Those dudes aren't rly otm

is he the gordon's fisherman?

He worked outtakes Gloucester but no

visiting dad in april '18 iirc

visiting dad lxy and jergins in april '18 iirc

visiting dad lxy and jergins in april '18 iirc

fap

sandbox muster

if it passes

mean

norm tbh

happy day

^

yes, a happy one

deemsday 7/7

<<<333

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drayton_Parslow

If anything they've oversold the public house there tbh

San Fran/drive/Seattle end may/start June 18 is latest

and confirmed tho I hope not to have to meet any of you

It was a joke about that loving feeling, scone, scone, scone, woah oh oh oh

FYI

In particular, I remember one example of her “can-do” attitude in
relation to her approach to learning Connacht Irish as opposed to Donegal Irish. Rather than
complaining about how unfair it was to have to relearn her first language, she found work in the
Connemara Gaeltacht and incorporated experiences for learning into her everyday life.

It's like learning a different accent really tbh

We moved from Connacht to Donegal and back often enough I should know

What's the ref

<3 btw

i got a misdirected email sending me a recommendation letter for myself to attend grad school. same exact name except it contained an í

I think take this opportunity

I can give you the requisite gaeilge over the phone if it arises

Equally important is Caitlín’s composure and disposition. She is warm, empathetic and has a sense of humour, all essential traits in a modern classroom. There is no fear that she will be intimidated by a room of children – in fact I expect she will thrive in such an environment and will take great pleasure in molding positive learning experiences for each individual pupil.

Yeah I can't see myself helping anyone with that last part tbph

how do you pronounce the í

shouldn't that be 'moulding'

Í is 'ee'

i am generally empathetic but not that warm

‘will take great pleasure in molding positive learning experiences for each individual pupil’

*merrily sprinkles mildew spores over everyone’s positive learning experience*

Mold-u

Anyway if one is in a culture that uses 'mould' then it transfers to both meanings sorry to punpolice

lookit

if the wonderful ms m allows will we have a drink of some sort in seattle will we

please behave in the meantime to improve your chances

weve all got work to do imo

tru

i am in mendocino its nice the irish pub is a decent effort for a building made from wood tho its feels more like a norn irish pub

in bellebue from friday fy alls i

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFbI8uVUFP4

deems on shakers

good luck usa

how long, bellevue?

i think five days

ive a woman who really does a lot of this stuff for me

suggest me something

congrats to the republic of ireland for rallying to defeat team usa in a friendly exhibition of truly awful football

i like to imagine "truly awful football" as its own game like european handball and ultimate frisbee

european handball?

did we do this?

fap today, 5:30, Fort St. George, 601 S.King Street, http://fortstgeorgeseattle.com/find-us/

fyi and as agreed with the locals

european handball is what i was taught to call it in gym class
lxy and jergins took me to fort st. george all those years ago

this was lively but more lxy jergins in future imo

also lovely

sup

yup

so are you, like, 31 now or what

like...not *that* far off?

i like this thread

https://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=106373#unread

ty ty

i feel the feverishly mischievous tone has been quite overlooked tbh

hi sandbox btw <3

deems, hi <3

hi <3

my dads in the country (unicorn shower curtain niece is now of confirmation age fyi) with what i guess is unofficially my stepsister (hes a hard man to pin down on many details is my dad) and his current partner (not u. stepsister's mom) is arriving friday morning and listen its only an idea but we're thinking it might be just the exact worst time for him to meet mrs macs father at long last because fuckit it was always going to go wrong, at least this way we picked how

deems, my dad is now a citizen of your fine country. have fun.

mazel tov, if thats what ye say

unicorn shower curtain girl is now 12 and five foot three or somethin ridiculous and does not yet know im bringin her to seattle in oct shhhhh

awwww we won't tell

when in oct btw? is your darling wife coming too?

theres wild talk that its a family excursion including sandbox celebrity n1ece

last week in oct. unsure of actual plans yet as the aul fella may finally have moved to kent but plans will spring into action as the time comes

i returned to my erstwhile abode to find that the new shower curtain i gave money to my brother to purchase does not match the curtains or tiles, neither of which have unicorns on them.

― u know my homes' methods, plies them (p much resigned to deems), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 22:50 (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

the person responsible for this spectacular bait and switch started big school on friday, there must be a group or something i can attend to help me deal with this

icym the best tale of recent years

https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=7340412&boardid=47&threadid=79734

if anything the central character tells it better, he is a very charming terrible rogue

sent it to my (irish) uncle; he called it ‘shudderingly authentic’ and said that achill is lovely

otm

i didn't understand it because it was not in english

well of all ppl!

i got a nephew yesterday, we're very pleased with him so far but have kept receipts just in case

i uncle well, or so im told by the only person qualified to say, so im approaching this second go at it with an easy confidence.

<3

A fine specimen of uncling!

listen im absolutely not allowed post pics to social media

does the sandbox count iyo as social media

i mean i have a terrific pic im very torn here

i agree with you all. we're not social media.

say a grumpy hello to donnachamac, a nephew vmic

https://i.imgur.com/TGVmtgi.jpg

damn that's a good nephew

you can tell that if only he had the words he'd be bellowing 'poch out!'

i think he knows french but can't get it out yet

oh my vmic indeed, definitely a mac

vmac, if you will

(i can deindex the thread if you like)

i dont think anyone knows him by his internet name just yet but ty

cool nephew

i always like those shirts (or onesies?) they put babies in and wish i could have one. v basic.

its a v "tenured professor idgaf" look imo

a wrap is kinda the closest youd get, i aspire to wearing a print pattern wrap to work one day alsov

i met the little maneen he seems easygoing enough

is this a brother of the unicorn girl?

i love that little mac nephew, he’s a corker

it’s my understanding unicorn girl will be playing the role of bossy older cousin

nephew otm

estela otm

saw one of these trucks in new jersey http://darragh-trucking.com/

otm

my dad sent me a picture of a 1911 census page showing my great-great-grandfather michael's family, including my 7 year old great-grandfather michael. my grandfather, father, and brother are all michael. i emailed back i wonder what great-great-great-grandfather's name was? and my dad said "pete." LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well the run had to end somewhere

bet he was peadar rly tho

my dads sister got the same census page printed for them all when it came available a few years back and he opened it in the house i was renting in dublin at the time. the family address for the census was three doors away!

anyway in the same trip home they discovered (tho apparently twas an open secret on the island) that the child in that census- my granda- was left to them by his mother as she was sent to mericay in disgrace. he was raised by his uncle and wife as their own, they being childless themselves.

when they moved back home and he inherited the land, the cousins (otherwise in line) never got over it and scuff up the right-of-way to the pier to this very day.

anyway, michaels all the way up in my lot too, until a pj who ran the smallest licensed pub in the country on the island in the late 1800's according to the sign still in the shed down home last i checked.

he was probably not pete, that was my dad's dadjoke. it said michael the elder was a "shopkeeper." i wonder what the shop was. it was limerick, they must have moved at some point because i think my grandfather was from clare. we gotta do a thing like they do on pbs where they showed bernie sanders and larry david were cousins and find out we are cousins but that isn't so hard in ireland i guess, the west virginia of countries

redundant to do so

the part of my surname after the mc is the first name of the donegal chieftain whose surname you share

this is iirc, ofc

you are correct

we're cousins

seems clear

happy deemsday iirc

happy deemsday, mr. president

OH! happy day!

deeming this day deemsday feels appropriate

happy birthday dear deems

ty ty my wonderful sandboxers <3

LOL WHAT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsUvcjk8J5c

Yes was there a question?

Forty five sheep gone is no joke bejaysus

poor mikey joe

trouble ahead
trouble behind
mikey joe you better
watch your sheep

The nightmare of Mikey Joe

my brother is mikey joe. well, he is now.

gordie and dingle are investigating the incident.

Ah see now that is interesting

Because the hnnngordie pronunciation is sheer Montrose speak, pure RTE and never actually heard in the hnnnnwild

But paschal takes it to hnnnnextremnnnnes

But the boys up the hill, yeah I know fellas talk like that my age- not the exact accent even, but the staccato bursts of suddenly-released furious nonsense.

Dingle was always Dingle but they made it into dingle-an-dangen but there was a revolt and now it's just Dingle again

I was there only last week and it's about as beautiful as we have, but obv the bucks staling the yos would be a concern in terms of a sandbox retreat there

we just need a good dag and some moonshine night

Maybe a fella with a truck waiting for us but lookit

whoever's doin it knows what he's doin

can be done about it nothin?

it made me think of a client i had from west virginia whose accent/cadence was so unintelligible i once sheepishly had to tell him i didn't understand anything he'd said and he did not seem to get why

was working fitting kitchens one summer a life ago and I walked into this apartment building we were working on that was getting a lot done on a few different units at once between electrics, kitchens, plastering and all that,so there were strange faces about the whole time. walked into a room getting painted by one of the first black guys I'd ever seen irl (I'm irish btw) and v likely the first I'd ever had spoken with, viz, at high volume from himself, HOWROOBI.
Well you can imagine, rly. I said ? in not as many words, being 16 and totally struck by the moment and wanting not to be unfriendly or awkward but at that stage of development socially where all I was projecting to the world was awkward unfriendliness. bastard had a gleam in his eye as he repeated happily HOWROOBI and at this stage I'm mugging like an early career Hugh Laurie, not wanting to say anything as obvious or stupid as "sorry I only speak english" (and being 16 still as apt to claim honours French, pass irish and three words of Dutch in any such sentence in any case).

dude advances, fuckin gleam in his eye now, slows it right down like I'm the idiot I'm clearly appearing to be, HOWR-OOBI, this is shit, I'm all but about to run out in agonised bewilderment or attempt a Chevy Chasesque bluff of massive proportions along the lines of generic multinational welcoming custom, when a fella walks in thats working with him:

HOWROOBI, GRAND HOWROOBI, GRAND. DOES THIS YUNG LAD NOT TAAAAWKATALL?

fuckin corkmen.

still didnt understand a word out of either of them the rest of the week, but yknow at least it felt better kinda thing.

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, March 4, 2015 10:50 PM

he done the same thing all week to everyone, the rest of em just muttered "sorry only english" I think I was his favourite tbh

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, March 4, 2015 10:55 PM

Sandboxers it looks like we will soon very likely own a house in ireland, which is a very expensive and grownup and scary thing to do but i still feel pretty good about it, ask me anything you like about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-fNzwo1iMA

A four-year-old in Northern Ireland had quite a to-do list on October 24. Caroline O’Neill recorded this video of her imaginative son Darragh going over everything he had planned for the day – only one day after he got his driver’s license, he said.

O’Neill told Storyful her son is a “very busy man,” as the lad notes in the video.

“He loves to work hard and farm the land with his brother and daddy and grandas,” she said. “He is a hardworking wee boy.”

In the video Darragh can be heard going through the impressive pretend list, which includes picking up the keys to the car he just bought, putting in tiles in the house he’s building, cleaning windows, putting up barbed wire, cutting sheep, and much more.

We dont approve of storyful but we approve of wee mon v much

Theres another one of him discussing how you know a bull from a cow with his brother

I had that approximate accent btwn c.89-94 but we moved back to the west again and at that stage i dropped accents like normal kids changed tshirts so the broad northern drawl of teyan heyans quickly reverted to the rushed and narrow tin hins of my native county

Nobody ever fell in love with a mayo accent

had no idea that the hedges were such a bother

Its the soil up that way, you can to nothin with it

i hear you cluckin re: eggshells, but

it was gyac who really stepped up

Absolutely, certainly ive been between eggshells and pretend-not-there for a decade

Unicorn girl has a nose stud and a skateboard, she seemed only a little disappointed that i approved

<3

happy birthday and year dear deems<3

lovely fellow despite all the consonants

OH! happy one day late!

Still a pretty good effort tho

Lisa frank shower curtain girl recalls no such event and is going to switzerland with her sister next month just cos

deems, we were in your airport for a few minutes. it was very welcoming, though surprisingly humid.

hi

its been a very unlocal fortnight of weather, heatwave then muggy now flash floods

i wouldnt rely on any observations made in that time tbh

happy deemsday

indeemd

happy birthday<3

still a big poster

oh thanks guys!

we spent it awaiting results of dog surgery

but given that we had been given reassurance in advance that all would very likely be well we also spent it eating well in town because you have to be able to compartmentalise imo

finished the first season of shadow & bone at yr suggestion

pretty decent imo. and as you said, everyone is incredibly attractive. a bit too much of her and him moping over each other. having not read the books i cannot tell all these hot people with vaguely russian names apart, but no biggie. they did a so-so job selling the bad guy as not the bad guy, but c'mon you can't make his special power Suffocating Darkness without tipping his hand

not surprised that netflix cancelled it; it looks insanely expensive

oops welp

oh welp

it drops off a little from what ive seen of season 2 tbh but there was plenty of reason to watch it and hopefully we'll see a lot of the cast kick on from there

its good that more and more fantasy is getting adapted but im longing for someone to manage to make magic/dark threats not such shorthand cliche

magic in WOT looks awful, bad guys just look like guys in masks, shadoe and bone was just clouds.

like i know angsty earnest puberty magic potential stories share similarities but the good ones all read as if the light and dark have their own texture in that tale, which i think is lost by use of the same effects onscreen every time

we'll give Peter Jackson his credit there at least

i am getting a irish passport

didnt do me much good in lisbon airport this morning but good for you

it’s a sorry state of affairs that we the sandbox failed to mark deems’ birthday last week.
happy belated birthday d<3

tbf *i* marked it on the other site

now i am drunkenly immersed in the semiotics of football, all thanks to a lad who wasn't even supporting the side he claims he wants to be better

i <3 him

<3 i should never have doubted your birthday conscientiousness

i lost my password and was too lazy to reset it for a few days but ty ty <3

hi from london where storm darragh is punishing us with freezing gusts and mean,spitting rain

classic deems

hi

sorry folks i lost my sandbox password and was dismayed at the thought of resetting it for six months

but i got tired of passing on notes through estela who never actually posted anything i told her to (tsk)

lol (tsk), and welcome back

i lose my sandbox password a lot as noted three or four times in my last ten posts or w/e but i dont really its that my password manager doesnt seem to remember any difference between ilx proper and sandbox so every now and again im left in a spiral of incorrect alternative attempts and i get very exhausted after one attempt at anything rly

<3 deems

happy birthday darragh

happy birthday<3

oh hey! fijne verjaardag!

i went for a lil walk today and saw a man wearing a t-shirt that said:

ACHILL ISLAND
CLEVELAND, OHIO
TWIN CITIES