Tollund_Man4
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Tollund_Man4
1yr ago
The family friendly form would be gwaylge (gaeilge), I'm not sure if gaelic is an anglicisation or just an old word but gaeilge is the name of the language in Irish.
Tollund_Man4
1yr ago
Leithreas gan sneachta, leithreas gan anam.
Tollund_Man4
1yr ago
At what point does lifting weights become detrimental?
Realistically, when you're already stronger than most men and the time cost is cutting into other valuable pursuits.
Tollund_Man4
1yr ago
He's the "Covid-19 means there have been 18 other Covids" guy.
Tollund_Man4
1yr ago
Rinne me rud isteach sa leithreas, an bhfuil tú ag iarradh é a ceannaigh?
Best I can do without looking it up.
I went to an Irish primary school, it seems like the years of coasting on that have finally caught up to me.
An bhfuil ceannaigh mé dul go dtí an leithreas! (I checked after I wrote this and it was even worse than I thought).
Tollund_Man4
1yr ago
Well if the next Taoiseach is to be a sacrificial lamb I'm not too unhappy with it being Simon Harris, Helen McEntee would be my preference.
Tollund_Man4
1yr ago
Ah well maybe that's why we just call it Irish, 'Scottish-Gaelic' and 'Irish-Gaelic' can get confusing.
Maybe next time I'll go to Scotland and buy a proper Irish dictionary.
One of the best books I've read on Irish culture (the one that died in the 17th century) was originally written in Welsh (excerpts 1, 2, 1000 years of the poets being on icy terms with the Irish kings and then the English), I'd imagine any Scots-Gaelic or Welsh scholar will have some good books on Ireland too.
Tollund_Man4
1yr ago
I wouldn't say that's true of any of the Harkonnens in the recent Dune movies, even if some of their monstrous qualities have been omitted they're not replaced by anything redeeming.
Tollund_Man4
1yr ago
Also Zendaya has to go. It's not that she's half black, it's that she's actually ugly
Not to argue about taste, but I think she looks particularly bad in that movie and much better in interviews/photos. I didn't know who Zendaya was before right wing twitter started making la goblina memes about her, but looking her up I think a lot of it is that stillsuits aren't flattering.
There aren't any other non-white TDs (members of parliament) to make the attempt in the first place (and Varadkar is already half-Irish). At the moment it looks like Simon Harris is going to be the next Taoiseach, he's shifty-eyed even for a politician.
If we're counting kings then we should count presidents. Michael D. Higgins is the Irish head of state.
That's more Irish than I expect any of us here know! For example using Google Translate I discovered that 'ugh' is a valid way to spell 'ubh' and the same for 'eun' and 'éan', if you have the source I wonder if it's an old Irish text (the spelling has changed a lot over the years)?
Tollund_Man4
1yr ago
To be pedantic it hasn't toppled the government (yet), assuming they can find a successor he or she will have a year before the next general election.
Read 52 books - Not gonna happen. I just don't like reading books enough to knock this out. Better to acknowledge that and read when it strikes me than keep trying to be book-guy.
52 is a lot either way, but if you don't care about what books you read I've found you can definitely hit the 1 a week pace with audiobooks (I work with my hands so don't lose anything focusing on something else). Doesn't really work with dense nonfiction but old sci-fi/fantasy books are an easy listen.
Tollund_Man4
1yr ago
I've failed to make any progress on my fitness goals due to lack of gym attendance, but I've got a good enough baseline that this just means I'm continuing to slowly lose weight. Since I hit 1/2/3/4 in 2022 my lifting motivation has gone down a lot but I haven't found anything to replace it with.
Reading sort of, I've read a lot of books but they're not the history/philosophy ones I marked out as wanting to cover. My main excuse is that some of the latter are 1000 pages and it's taking a while to get through them.
Learning French I'm not sure, I feel like I'm making progress but random encounters with French speakers remind me of how bad it is.
Tollund_Man4
1yr ago
Finally, you are asking for something and offering nothing.
I can imagine some people who know a lot about something don't write about it because they don't think there will be any interest. Might be useful for both parties.
Tollund_Man4
1yr ago
This is true to an extent but sometimes it really is just the place. Personally every big move in my life has changed things up a lot (sometimes better sometimes worse).
Tollund_Man4
1yr ago
I would personally want a knife, but I've seen enough videos of Irish police handily sorting a knife-wielder out with a few swings of a baton that I have to second guess myself.
Tollund_Man4
1yr ago
Does being atheist really preclude being culturally Protestant? The momentum still carries you even if the engine has been turned off to use a metaphor, it takes a lot of work to actually change direction towards morals which are alien to the Christian.
Tollund_Man4
1yr ago
You'd think a loss like that would fall the government. Any inkling of that?
There’s a problem in that nearly all of the opposition parties were also campaigning for a Yes vote. Besides a few independents and Aontú (a party with 1 seat) there’s no one in opposition ready to capitalise on this.
Tollund_Man4
1yr ago
I’ve been getting through quite a few audiobooks at work, mostly sci-fi and horror classics. Recently finished 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Trial. Right now I’m listening to Dracula, despite me thinking I knew the whole story already it’s surprisingly good, so far it’s more impressive than the Cthulhu stories I’ve read.
I’m also working through Henry Kissinger’s Diplomacy. Given how little I know of the history covered I doubt I’ll be able to catch any wild claims but I have to start somewhere.
Ireland
In an unexpected change of tune Sinn Féin have come out against the controversial hate speech bill, citing their own experience being on the wrong end of censorship and the refusal to include their proposed amendments to the bill. This is especially strange given that they voted in favour of the bill at every stage of the process so far. Leo Varadkar has accused the party of cowardice and falling prey to "an online campaign of misinformation".
They've also come out against the EU migration pact saying that Irish immigration policy should be decided in Ireland. The migration pact seems like it would solve some of the immigration problems the EU is facing so Sinn Féin's opposition isn't a move to the right on the face of it, but they have said they agree with some parts of the agreement so the objection doesn't seem to stem from their being against stemming the flow of migrants.
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