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