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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
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FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
4hr ago
My fiancée. As I explained below, Irish people often use "himself" or "herself" to refer to their significant other. Occasionally I forget that this is a phrasing peculiar to the Irish.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
4hr ago
The Pew Research Centre has a new political typology quiz.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
5hr ago
Absolutely. The sound design is a big part of what made it so effective.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
7hr ago
This is just how Hiberno-English works, I'm afraid.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
7hr ago
I don't consider myself someone who scares easily. Even horror films I enjoy don't necessarily scare me that much.
Yesterday evening I went to see Obsession in the cinema.
It scared the BEJESUS out of me. As soon as I got out of the cinema, I said to herself "I need a drink".
It took me a few hours before I felt normal again.
If you get a chance to watch it in the cinema, take it. The hype is warranted.
A few weeks ago, Scott had a post where he described, as a child, how he thought food critics did their jobs. He was already familiar with the concept of double-blinding in medicine, and assumed that being a food critic was similar, with a restaurant's dishes being delivered to the critic's house in unmarked packages, perhaps literally spoon-fed to the blindfolded critic to ensure that he won't be biased by things like the restaurant's "ambiance", interior design or how the food is presented (as opposed to its taste, texture etc.). When he found out how food critics actually do their jobs, he was disgusted.
I had a bit of a shock of recognition, because when I was a child, I assumed that the footballers playing for Manchester United had to be from that city, or at the very least had to have lived within its borders for a significant period of time, so that the players are in some way representative of the sporting talent of that city. Otherwise, in what sense is it meaningful to say "we" beat Arsenal last night?
But no: it turns out the players are just the best people that team could afford, with absolutely no familial connection to the city of any kind. Even in the Olympics, my understanding is that you only have to be a citizen to represent "your" country.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
Yeah, I think @100ProofTollBooth's interpretation was warranted.
He earned that offer of MENSA membership.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
Keep up, old-timer! It's MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ now!
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
I considered being extremely granular with the sexuality options (asexual but romantic, aromantic but sexual etc.) but decided I was over-engineering it and just went straight/gay/bi/other. Based on the responses I received I think it was a sensible decision.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
His reasoning was significantly more convoluted than that:
During [Clinton's] deposition, he was asked "Have you ever had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky, as that term is defined in Deposition Exhibit 1?" The definition reads as follows:
a person engages in ‘‘sexual relations’’ when the person knowingly engages in or causes contact with the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks of any person with an intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person
On the basis of this definition, Clinton denied having had “sexual relations” with Lewinsky. He subsequently clarified: “I thought the definition included any activity by [me], where [I] was the actor and came in contact with those parts of the bodies” which had been explicitly listed (and “with an intent to gratify or arouse the sexual desire of any person”).
In other words, because Clinton had not touched Lewinsky’s genitalia, anus, groin etc. with an intent to gratify or arouse her sexual desire, he had not had “sexual relations” with her; but as Lewinsky had touched his genitalia, she had had sexual relations with him.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
I'm not persuaded that the existence of people who break a rule is a good reason to abolish the rule.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
At the risk of unmasking myself, you'd think so, but in the same way that a certain branch of the populace rounds bisexuals to straight or gay depending on their current relationship status, there's a pretty broad stroke who don't think you're poly if you're either fucking or seeking to fuck a side piece.
My understanding of monogamy is that it's a mutual arrangement, where two people both agree to be romantically and sexually exclusive with one another. "I'm going to be romantically or sexually exclusive with you, but I don't care whether you're exclusive with me" sounds... rather far removed from a conventional understanding of what "monogamy" is. I believe @ymeskhout once had a rather lengthy back-and-forth with Aella regarding her personal definition of what polygamy is, which seems to overlap with this person's conception of themselves as monogamous.
Wonder if there's enough information to point in direction of causation. I could imagine either a world where people who were cheated on were more likely to become poly (either in the charitable 'let's be extremely explicit about boundaries' or less charitable 'might as well get in on the action')
I had the same thought myself.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
I strongly suspect that a man being pinned to the ground by six burly security guards and violently struggling throughout would end up with more external injuries compared to an old woman being smothered in her bed with a pillow.
Analysis is live now! Although you may have to wait for the mods to approve it.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
There's an entire section about the subset you fall into.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
A few weeks ago some Irish rent-a-cops suffocated a man to death.
Now sources have told The Irish Mirror that an initial post-mortem examination which took place this week has not found any signs of foul play - and no visible external injuries on Mr Sakila's body.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
We were good as married in my mind,
But married in my mind's no good.
Normally my fiancée scares much easier than me, but in this case I was more scared than her. I explained to her that it's a very male-coded style of horror: the horror of getting trapped in a relationship with an abusive BPD art hoe.
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