i love that little mac nephew, he’s a corker
― estela, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 05:46 (four years ago) link
it’s my understanding unicorn girl will be playing the role of bossy older cousin
― estela, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 05:48 (four years ago) link
nephew otm
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
estela otm
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
saw one of these trucks in new jersey http://darragh-trucking.com/
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 29 November 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
otm
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Sunday, 1 December 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― spite n ease (harbl), Thursday, 19 December 2019 01:08 (four years ago) link
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.
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 20 December 2019 00:31 (four years ago) link
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
― spite n ease (harbl), Sunday, 22 December 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link
redundant to do so
the part of my surname after the mc is the first name of the donegal chieftain whose surname you share
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Sunday, 22 December 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
this is iirc, ofc
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Sunday, 22 December 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
you are correct
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 23 December 2019 01:38 (four years ago) link
we're cousins
seems clear
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 23 December 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
happy deemsday iirc
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 00:58 (three years ago) link
happy deemsday, mr. president
― spite n ease (harbl), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
OH! happy day!
― lxy, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
deeming this day deemsday feels appropriate
― toadstool might (tehresa), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 19:53 (three years ago) link
happy birthday dear deems
― estela, Thursday, 9 July 2020 06:10 (three years ago) link
ty ty my wonderful sandboxers <3
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, 9 July 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
LOL WHAThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsUvcjk8J5c
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 9 October 2020 00:43 (three years ago) link
Yes was there a question?
Forty five sheep gone is no joke bejaysus
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Saturday, 10 October 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
poor mikey joe
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 October 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
trouble aheadtrouble behindmikey joe you betterwatch your sheep
― mookieproof, Sunday, 11 October 2020 02:43 (three years ago) link
The nightmare of Mikey Joe
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Tuesday, 13 October 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link
my brother is mikey joe. well, he is now.
― spite n ease (harbl), Thursday, 15 October 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
gordie and dingle are investigating the incident.
― toadstool might (tehresa), Thursday, 15 October 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
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
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 16 October 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
we just need a good dag and some moonshine night
― spite n ease (harbl), Friday, 16 October 2020 01:59 (three years ago) link
Maybe a fella with a truck waiting for us but lookit
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 16 October 2020 10:00 (three years ago) link
whoever's doin it knows what he's doin
― lxy, Monday, 19 October 2020 16:14 (three years ago) link
can be done about it nothin?
― lxy, Monday, 19 October 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
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
― spite n ease (harbl), Thursday, 22 October 2020 11:51 (three years ago) link
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
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 23 October 2020 11:03 (three years ago) link
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
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 11 January 2021 01:42 (three years ago) link
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.
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
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
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 15 February 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link
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
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 15 February 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link
had no idea that the hedges were such a bother
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 February 2021 03:43 (three years ago) link
Its the soil up that way, you can to nothin with it
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Sunday, 21 February 2021 00:15 (three years ago) link
i hear you cluckin re: eggshells, but
it was gyac who really stepped up
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 04:38 (three years ago) link
Absolutely, certainly ive been between eggshells and pretend-not-there for a decade
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Tuesday, 23 February 2021 09:06 (three years ago) link
Unicorn girl has a nose stud and a skateboard, she seemed only a little disappointed that i approved
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 14 June 2021 00:01 (three years ago) link
<3
― lxy, Monday, 14 June 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link
happy birthday and year dear deems<3
― estela, Wednesday, 7 July 2021 23:58 (two years ago) link
lovely fellow despite all the consonants
― mookieproof, Thursday, 8 July 2021 02:52 (two years ago) link
OH! happy one day late!
― lxy, Thursday, 8 July 2021 15:50 (two years ago) link
Still a pretty good effort tho
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Friday, 9 July 2021 09:28 (two years ago) link
Lisa frank shower curtain girl recalls no such event and is going to switzerland with her sister next month just cos
― esperantzen (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 13 September 2021 23:47 (two years ago) link
deems, we were in your airport for a few minutes. it was very welcoming, though surprisingly humid.
― lxy, Friday, 16 June 2023 08:56 (eleven months ago) link