View Full Version : The say anything, what's on your mind thread
brendy_éire
19/07/2010, 12:23 PM
By the way, today is July 19th…
The day Marathon changed its name to Snickers, Galway got liberated from the Indians, and of course the Ice Age ended!
Schumi
19/07/2010, 3:20 PM
Id go to town on herMotorised transport hasn't reached Sligo yet?
atfconline
22/07/2010, 3:29 PM
Why do radio stations insist on having two or three idiots in a studio talking absolute rubbish and trying to be funny all day? Just shut up, sack the other two and play some damn music.
De Town
22/07/2010, 5:00 PM
Why do radio stations insist on having two or three idiots in a studio talking absolute rubbish and trying to be funny all day? Just shut up, sack the other two and play some damn music.
I'm going to have a guess that you're talking about I 102 104? It's the only station I can pick up in work....torture to listen to.
stann
23/07/2010, 11:19 AM
Why do radio stations insist on having two or three idiots in a studio talking absolute rubbish and trying to be funny all day? Just shut up, sack the other two and play some damn music.
Because at the end (or in the middle) of the day, all daytime radio = a big steaming pile of horse****e. :poo:
(except Newstalk)
Riddickcule
23/07/2010, 1:31 PM
RIP Gerry, God I miss him. Colm, Lucy and Ryan Tubridy can't stand hearing them when I'm recovering from my hangover.
Acornvilla
24/07/2010, 1:32 PM
i miss the old italk when Chris Greene presented it
Riddickcule
24/07/2010, 2:48 PM
Why do our generation speak like yanks?? Really does my head in and when I mention it they get annoyed at me and say" I can talk whichever way I want" Things like "dude" "later" "backyard" "grandma" and the worst culprit "soccer"
Whats wrong with backyard and grandma? Are you talking about D4 heads?
Agree aboout the word soccer, as Johnny Giles said: "The game is football there, Bill"
Stevo Da Gull
25/07/2010, 2:26 AM
I would probably use all of those words Riddickule, and I didn't realise the Americans had trademarked them. Also, the term 'soccer' originated in England long before the game spread to the states.
Acornvilla
25/07/2010, 1:31 PM
does anyone here use that reputation thing instead of the thanks deelie?
Pauro 76
25/07/2010, 9:12 PM
Those George Hook fawning over Sky adverts really gets on my wick.
poster
25/07/2010, 9:51 PM
I'm going to have a guess that you're talking about I 102 104? It's the only station I can pick up in work....torture to listen to.
It's "aimed" at the young country folk who attend Sligo IT in their GAA jersies and love their county and Man Unitshed. COOOOOOOOOL like.
Why do radio stations insist on having two or three idiots in a studio talking absolute rubbish and trying to be funny all day? Just shut up, sack the other two and play some damn music.
I love 98fm to be honest. The music is great!
I always catch the end of Dermot and Dave in the morning on the way to work and they're pretty decent. The guy on the way home isn't bad either.
Acornvilla
26/07/2010, 1:04 AM
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/article/19275/ awesome
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/article/19275/ fail
Those George Hook fawning over Sky adverts really gets on my wick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QINzmRPfMCU
Den Perry
26/07/2010, 11:28 AM
Those George Hook fawning over Sky adverts really gets on my wick.
yes, he is a p rick. I cannot understand how he has got to where he is.He's from Cork, Talks with some kind of anglo-cised d4 accent, and is not funny.
What a tool
poster
26/07/2010, 12:23 PM
I think he's great. Best persona on the radio. George for Taoiseach!
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/8248/referee.jpg
John83
26/07/2010, 5:38 PM
Why do our generation speak like yanks?? Really does my head in and when I mention it they get annoyed at me and say" I can talk whichever way I want" Things like "dude" "later" "backyard" "grandma" and the worst culprit "soccer"
We grew up watching American, British and Irish TV, and reading American, British and Irish books (well, some of us). Of course we've assimilated some other dialect words and idioms. I would like to eliminate egregious use of the word "like". It, like, does my head in.
Pauro 76
26/07/2010, 8:35 PM
Really enjoyed Nicolas Roche's column in the Indo, a class act on and off the bike.
Stevo Da Gull
26/07/2010, 11:13 PM
I don't like walking home at night in noisy shoes. I just feel safer at night when I'm quieter. But if I were to go into a shoe shop and ask for a stealthy pair of smart-casual shoes so that people won't hear me coming, I might get a strange look.
poster
26/07/2010, 11:21 PM
Behind my team, Longford Town are the worlds greatest football club.
superfrank
26/07/2010, 11:25 PM
Why do our generation speak like yanks?? Really does my head in and when I mention it they get annoyed at me and say" I can talk whichever way I want" Things like "dude" "later" "backyard" "grandma" and the worst culprit "soccer"
Soccer came about in Ireland, afaik, and is thrown at us by all the GAA heads who look down their nose at football while they refer to Gaelic as football. Don't think it's anything to do with American influence in their case.
My grandparents all use "backyard" and they grew up in the 30s/40s.
Ma is used all over the country for mother, grandma is a natural progression.
Considering how much Americans are of Irish descent, it's highly conceivable that they've developed some bits of American English from Irish English.
pineapple stu
27/07/2010, 11:11 AM
I always took it that back yard was literally a yard (as in, an enclosed concrete area; I'm assuming that's a literal definition!). My grandparents had a back yard, but that's what it was. Yards don't have grass, whereas gardens do; that's the distinction I'd draw which isn't drawn in America.
Yep would go along with that, we never used 'backyard' here in the American sense, it was always two words, 'back yard', purely a yard out the back, concrete or tarmac, or just bare soil even.
Soccer is not an Irish invention, very much a Victorian English contrivance, to distinguish the Association code from all the other footballing codes, especially Rugby.
Oh, and Grandma may seem like a natural progression, but it isn't. Very much an American term. Granny, Gran, Nanny, Nan would overwhelmingly be the terms of choice here. I'd love to see a straw poll on it actually, I'd be surprised if any more than 5% of people would use Grandma here, even now.
John83
27/07/2010, 3:05 PM
Oh, and Grandma may seem like a natural progression, but it isn't. Very much an American term. Granny, Gran, Nanny, Nan would overwhelmingly be the terms of choice here. I'd love to see a straw poll on it actually, I'd be surprised if any more than 5% of people would use Grandma here, even now.
I'd be curious too. These things are picked up from your peers mostly, so it tends to depend on location and generation. I remember as a kid, my mother once asking us to call her "mam" (as she addressed her mother, and at least some of my cousins addressed their mothers), but she was always "mum" to me and my brothers, or occasionally "mom" if calling for her (I guess the o sound is easier to elongate). My grandmother was "granny", but she was "nan" to most of my cousins.
Dunno about the Grandda and Grandma thing.. in our house my parents were always referred to as Ma and Da so the progression does seem to fit.
No, that's what I meant above, probably didn't word it too well.
Ma and Da would be hugely popular terms (the most common, nationwide?), and it would seem an obvious progression, but overwhelmingly that obvious step isn't taken, and gran(ny) and nan are streets ahead, IMO.
Mind you grandda I'd say is rather more common than grandma over here, but again it'd be interesting to see the numbers.
(Not that interesting, obviously, but you know...) :D
osarusan
27/07/2010, 7:43 PM
It is one of the few linguistic universals (or strictly, near-universals) that babies describe their mothers with a 'm' sound, and their fathers with a 'd' or 'p' sound.
I'd imagine that most who called their father something beginning with 'd'(dad, dada, daddy) will call their grandfather 'grandda' or 'grandad', and most who call their father something beginning with 'p' (pa, papa) will call their grandfather 'grandpa' (pronounced 'grampa', due to linguistic assimilation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assimilation_%28linguistics%29))
Although some people do say 'gramma' for the reasons mentioned above, this doesn't explain how a child moves from 'm' with their mother to 'n' for their grandmother - 'granny'. Well, the reason they say it is because they're mimicking what they've heard, but i don't know how it originally started. The similarity to 'nanny' probably isn't coincidental.
Dunny
31/07/2010, 11:38 PM
Do people really like that "Me no speak Americano" song? It's garbage tbh, dont get the appeal at all.
Magicme
01/08/2010, 3:37 AM
Do people really like that "Me no speak Americano" song? It's garbage tbh, dont get the appeal at all.
Dont start me on what passes for music in pubs and clubs these days. Spent most of tonight wanting to bottle people coz of songs like "stereo love" "alasandro" and "Californian Gurls" What the F**K is that shyster about. God if I hear one more lady gaga or black eyed peas song this weekend I will actually kill someone (probably a dj coz its mainly their fault)
Stevo Da Gull
01/08/2010, 1:02 PM
I agree, although one of Gaga's songs and the Black Eyed Peas' songs were catchy :o
But, by and large, the music is one of the reasons I dislike clubs.
Acornvilla
01/08/2010, 2:04 PM
i think sligo people just randomly ,mention longford town to get easy thanks, or is that just me?
poster
01/08/2010, 2:42 PM
i think sligo people just randomly ,mention longford town to get easy thanks, or is that just me?
Why would we do that? Don't be ridiculous, alot of us genuinely like LT and want to see them do well. Plus Marty's class.
Ciaran W
02/08/2010, 2:55 PM
Im back :)
tetsujin1979
02/08/2010, 11:20 PM
Been off the grid for a month. Did I miss anything?
Magicme
02/08/2010, 11:41 PM
Been off the grid for a month. Did I miss anything?
Me? 8-)
Im back :)
Dun dun duuuuun!
Wolfie
03/08/2010, 12:33 PM
Been off the grid for a month. Did I miss anything?
Yeah - Cool Dog. He's like the Fonz. Only he's a dog.
osarusan
04/08/2010, 5:45 PM
'A lady?' Jem raised his head. His face was scarlet. 'After all those things she said about you, a lady?'
'She was. She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe...Son, I told you that if you hadn't lost your head I'd have made you go read to her. I wanted you to see something about her. I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. according to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.'
Do people really like that "Me no speak Americano" song? It's garbage tbh, dont get the appeal at all.
Please remove yourself from my presence at once. It is a fine ditty!
Wolfie
05/08/2010, 12:21 PM
'A lady?' Jem raised his head. His face was scarlet. 'After all those things she said about you, a lady?'
'She was. She had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe...Son, I told you that if you hadn't lost your head I'd have made you go read to her. I wanted you to see something about her. I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. according to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.'
Good excerpt - I'll name it in one!!
"Gazza - My Story" ????????
osarusan
05/08/2010, 12:40 PM
"Gazza - My Story" ????????
I haven't read it, so can't rule it out for sure.
In fact, it's quite possible that Harper Lee was plagiarising Gazza when she wrote 'To kill a Mockingbird.' There are too many similarities to be coincidental.
Ciaran W
07/08/2010, 2:57 AM
The gaeltacht is the best 3 weeks ever :)
Ciaran W
07/08/2010, 2:53 PM
The megan fox episode of two and a half men :o
Magicme
07/08/2010, 4:15 PM
my voice is as husky as a dog used to pull sleighs. Aw t'was worth it though! :D
Whoooo let the Mons out, Cooke, Cooke, Cooke, Cooke!
pineapple stu
08/08/2010, 6:49 PM
RTE Gold - where have you been all my life?!
osarusan
10/08/2010, 10:48 PM
"Breakfast is announced. Mr. Pickwick leads the old lady (who has been very eloquent on the subject of Lady Tollimglower) to the top of a long table; Wardle takes the bottom; the friends arrange themselves on either side; Sam takes his station behind his master’s chair; the laughter and talking cease; Mr. Pickwick, having said grace, pauses for an instant and looks round him. As he does so, the tears roll down his cheeks, in the fullness of his joy.
Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness, of which, if we seek them, there are ever some, to cheer our transitory existence here. There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them."
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