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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
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FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
10hr ago
Unfortunately not. There's probably one in my gym but I don't fancy going. Tempted to treat myself to a massage this evening.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
10hr ago
New year's resolutions check-in:
- Posted my tenth blog post of the year last Thursday, an analysis of Chinatown and Spec Ops: The Line I originally wrote for Scott's everything-except-book review contest.
- Went to the gym three times last week. Have yet to go this week, as yesterday morning I suddenly got a horrible pain between my shoulder blades which has yet to dissipate. Can deadlift 1.84x my bodyweight for 3 reps, squat 1.15x for 7 reps and bench press .87x for 6 reps.
- Have not consumed any pornography since waking up on January 1st.
How goes it, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @falling-star, @Tollund_Man4 and @self_made_human?
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
12hr ago
(I doubt there are any transwomen fitting those specifications, though.)
Bless your heart.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
For the former meaning, Brits and Irish tend to use the word "unsociable".
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
I mean, wouldn't you rather them throw spears at each other than fire Glocks? Surely there's a vastly reduced risk of innocent bystanders getting caught in the crossfire.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
But when people call out Israel for not sharing our values (in being an ethno-religious state), that's also called Antisemitic.
I don't think there's anything antisemitic about pointing out that Israel is an ethnostate. However, when people reserve this criticism for Israel while ignoring the various other countries to which it applies (Liberia, Japan, Korea), it's hard to avoid the conclusion that antisemitism is the underlying motivation.
Even if Israel doesn't share all of its values with the US, I think you would have a hard time contesting the assertion that it has more values in common with the US than any other country in the Middle East, and that it's not even a close race.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
I fear you already know how he's going to answer.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
Oh "spunk" would still primarily be used as a noun in the UK too. I was using "ejaculate" as a noun, not a verb.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2d ago
Made a work trip to Australia very awkward.
They also use it very freely in Scotland.
Same for 'bloody' as a prefix, which I still don't get.
"Bloody" is generally just used as a generic intensifier. I have a very vivid childhood memory of listening to a newsreader talking about Bloody Sunday on the radio and feeling baffled as to why she was suddenly cursing mid-sentence.
Some examples that might be helpful.
- "Bender" can be used as a derogatory term for a gay man.
- "Bugger" can used as a verb meaning "to sodomize" (I don't know if this word has an innocent meaning in the US).
- "Pants" refers to boxers and briefs, not trousers.
- "Pissed" means drunk, rather than angry.
- "To pull" means to get a girl to come home with you e.g. "I managed to pull at the pub last night."
- "To shag" means to have sex with (I assume a lot of Yanks are familiar with this owing to Austin Powers).
- "Slag" means a promiscuous woman.
- "Spunk" means ejaculate.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2d ago
I'm a big believer in building redundancy into a system and don't like the idea of my entire life being in my phone/phone case. I pay for everything with Google Pay on my phone, but still carry my physical debit card with me in case I lose my phone or it dies. But my wallet now seems impractically large compared to the size of the contents within it I actually use.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2d ago
About two-thirds of the way through A Canticle for Leibowitz. Story is starting to pick up now. Committing to reading at least 10% a day until I've finished it.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
3d ago
If you could launch a show with The Simpson's budget and be assured of 2,000,000 viewers, you'd get a green light.
Do you think so? I've heard it said that The Simpsons is one of the most expensive shows on TV. This article claims that, by 2011, each episode cost $5 million to make, or $110 million for an entire season. I have a hard time imagining a network greenlighting a show that costs $100 million a season only to get 2 million viewers a week.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
3d ago
Do you often use cash? I hardly ever do nowadays. I'm thinking I really ought to swap my big leather wallet for something more compact, the only thing in there that's really of any use to me is my driver's license.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
3d ago
Bahaha, I immediately thought of this clip.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
3d ago
I disagree, although even now I wouldn't really say I find her particularly attractive.
I got into running at the very start of Covid, and ran my first marathon in May 2021.
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