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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
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FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2hr ago
122 responses so far, more than I expected. Debating how long I should wait before closing it.
Last night, there was a "stabbing attack" in Belfast.
The reason for the scare quotes is that video footage of the assault is circulating on social media, and "stabbing attack" must be the understatement of the decade. The attacker straddles his victim, stabs him in his eyes and then attempts to saw his entire head off with a blade. Thankfully, some brave good Samaritans intervened and tackled him before he could finish the job.
The attacker is Sudanese. The BBC is reporting that he migrated to Belfast from Dublin and was granted leave to stay in Northern Ireland. Less than twenty-four hours after the attack, politicians in Northern Ireland were already calling for "tensions not to be raised" in response, and insisting that no ethnicity or race has a monopoly on violence. Commenters in /r/ireland seem more concerned about Protestants rioting than they are about the victim of the stabbing, who will probably never be able to see again on top of his various other injuries.
The attack, the diligent but futile attempts to suppress the identity characteristics of the perpetrator, the criticisms of the people drawing entirely reasonable conclusions from the attack, the naked emotional appeals and guilt-tripping – all as tiresomely predictable as the tides. I feel like I'm in Groundhog Day.
I'm genuinely so fucking sick of this.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
6hr ago
I agree with you, I don't think the success of "Mr. Brightside" is primarily explicable by its lyrical content.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
9hr ago
As I've argued before (using the specific examples of OnlyFans and careers in the entertainment industry), alternative lifestyle choices work great – for alternative people.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
18hr ago
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
18hr ago
I'm sure it slaps when performed by a marching band made up of talented musicians. But as a national anthem, a song meant to be sung by masses of people, most of whom aren't professional musicians? Very peculiar choice.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
22hr ago
Wherever you blow, there you are.
Nominating for AAQC solely on the strength of this line.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
23hr ago
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
Frankly, at this point I'd be all in favour of only allowing bail for defendants charged with non-violent offenses.
This is, sadly, the rule rather than the exception for songs played at weddings. Sting was inspired by 1984 when he wrote "Every Breath You Take" and has repeatedly emphasised that it's an ugly, sinister song about possession and control: when people tell him that it was their first dance at their weddings, his response is "well, good luck". Similarly, "One" by U2 was written during The Edge's messy separation from his first wife: when people tell him it was their first dance at their weddings, he's horrified.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
Noted, if I ever do one of these surveys again.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
It's a bit annoying that a person who has been in zero romances can't just skip all the pages past the first one.
That's a valid point, I should have branched it accordingly. Let me see if I can change it without messing up the existing responses.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
That said, "What kinds of romantic relationships have you had?" could probably use a 'mix of above' answer
I considered it, but I thought having like nine or ten possible answers ("mostly mono but sometimes poly", "mostly poly but sometimes mono" etc.) would be too granular for an introductory demographic question, especially as I'm fairly sure the majority of respondents are going to answer "monogamous". So far the latter prediction has proved correct.
FtttG
Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
(eg, what does "without your knowledge or consent" mean in an open relationship, where I might well consent to broad ground rules without needing or wanting to know about every ERP partner?
I thought of that, which is why I included this subtitle below every question:
If you were in a polyamorous or open relationship, you can include instances in which your romantic partner had penetrative sex with someone in specific contravention of your "ground rules" (e.g. no sleeping with close friends or family members). Please provide details under "Other".
If you're in an open relationship with ground rules like "don't have sex with my friends or family members", then I wouldn't say you've been cheated on unless your partner had sex with one of your friends or family members.
I think the talent floor to do a half-decent rendition of "Space Oddity" is significantly higher than to do a half-decent rendition of "Mr. Brightside". The former has a much more complex vocal melody, structure and arrangement.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
Isn't it against the rules?
If it is, mods feel free to delete.
Btw, your sample is likely to be even more volunteer biased than Aella's
I have no intention of using this as hard data, it's just a bit of fun.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
IIRC correctly
Personal PIN number. ATM machine.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
Baffling choice of song for a national anthem. The entire point of them is that they're meant to be sung by masses of people, many of whom have no musical training.
It’s not explicitly gendered
Huh?
Now I'm falling asleep and she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke and she's taking a drag
Now they're goin' to bed and my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head, but she's touching his
Chest now
He takes off her dress now
Do you mean the viewpoint character isn't explicitly gendered? I suppose that would mean that the song appeals just as much to straight men as to lesbians whose bisexual girlfriends cheated on them with men, but surely the latter demographic is too small for it to have any meaningful impact on the song's cultural staying power.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
a loser being mopey and suffering and then dying without ever making anyone's life any better, including their own, is a really boring story.
So you've read my first novel, then?
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
1d ago
It involves State coercion to remove people from the gene pool
Personally, I get the impression that the culture war in the Anglosphere is becoming hot enough that quite a lot of people would support forced sterilisation of the (Red)/(Blue) Tribe (delete as necessary). I likewise think certain categories of criminal are so stigmatised (e.g. child rapists) that forcibly sterilising them would enjoy broad bi-partisan support.
I believe at least one other person in the thread hadn't heard of it, but you might be the first native English speaker who hadn't. That genuinely surprises me.
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