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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Butthole