The say anything, what's on your mind thread

**SkStu** · 15/03/2013, 5:50 PM

It's a f*cking epidemic over this side of the Atlantic.

http://paddynotpatty.com/

**BonnieShels** · 15/03/2013, 6:18 PM

Originally Posted by SkStu

It's a f*cking epidemic over this side of the Atlantic.

http://paddynotpatty.com/

Everyone of my Canadian friends is guilty of that crime. Except the lad in BC incidentally. Drives me spare.

I had a couple of them over last year for this weekend and it ne'er killed me the whole time listening to them.

**BonnieShels** · 16/03/2013, 12:56 PM

Dear god I'm sore. And another sesh tonight with the Tyrone lads. Yikes.

I feel like someone has dragged me up the Jonesboro Slip Road.

**Acornvilla** · 16/03/2013, 1:26 PM

I've spent the last day or two trying to make a new (hopefully better) online portfolio, it's made me realize just how badly I've (or in a lot of cases haven't) been recording my work/images, the effort of finding stuff more than a year or two old has also been immense. Woe is me.

**BonnieShels** · 17/03/2013, 7:39 PM

I've just passed my office on the train. The southside nosebleed will begin soon.

**Spudulika** · 18/03/2013, 5:52 AM

I miss home.

**BonnieShels** · 18/03/2013, 2:18 PM

You wouldn't if you were around Dublin yesterday.

**Spudulika** · 18/03/2013, 5:39 PM

It was -11, snowing, nasty northern winds and miserable looking Russians eating manky pancakes. Then again.........

**BonnieShels** · 19/03/2013, 1:31 PM

I suppose. It feels like Paddys is getting bigger and bigger for foreigners drinking than it was when I was younger.

**tetsujin1979** · 19/03/2013, 8:59 PM

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

I suppose. It feels like Paddys is getting bigger and bigger for foreigners drinking than it was when I was younger.

lot more foreigners around than when you were younger too

**BonnieShels** · 19/03/2013, 9:07 PM

Originally Posted by tetsujin1979

lot more foreigners around than when you were younger too

True. Ha ha. I actually mean in the bussed in Yanks and Spaniards and others who can't get bar etiquette.

**BonnieShels** · 20/03/2013, 7:20 PM

I'm in Termonbarry.

**gastric** · 20/03/2013, 8:28 PM

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

I'm in Termonbarry.

I hope you took the appropriate vaccinations before your visit. Is it the hole the name suggests?

Love the reference to foot.ie in its wikipedia entry!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarmonbarry

**nigel-harps1954** · 21/03/2013, 3:49 PM

Thought this was absolutely fantastic.

**DannyInvincible** · 23/03/2013, 4:57 PM

That uncanny ability the elderly possess to say something unwittingly insulting whilst still sounding so lovably inoffensive always endears me. Like how my granny used to think she'd be raising my sisters spirits by telling her she'd put on weight when she saw her... Anyway, on the phone in work today, I had this genteel and cultivated elderly English lady ask me where my accent was from, so I informed her it was from the north-west of Ireland. In that adorable fashion, she chuckled, "Oh dear, that's terrible...", and hung up. All I could do was smile at the charm of her venerable audacity.

**osarusan** · 24/03/2013, 7:26 AM

Today's headline from Japan:

"19-yr-old who dismembered mother wanted to know more about dissection"

**Acornvilla** · 24/03/2013, 5:34 PM

Christ of almighty its -1 degrees in Longford right now. Getting sick of this ****e.

**Spudulika** · 24/03/2013, 7:43 PM

Originally Posted by Acornvilla

Christ of almighty its -1 degrees in Longford right now. Getting sick of this ****e.

We've had sub-zero since November (daily), -9 today, snowstorm, went out to play Aussie Rules and couldn't see the far end of the pitch. It worked in my favour though, I scored 2 goals by kicking from inside my own half when the opposition didn't see me (or the ball) and the wind was at my back. Still hate this weather though. And it's to be -20 this week after the sun goes down.

**peadar1987** · 24/03/2013, 8:03 PM

Going skiing for the third time in my life tomorrow. Hopefully it'll end up better than the last time, when I tried to turn on ice, power-slid into a fence, and smashed the phone I had foolishly left in my pocket!

**tetsujin1979** · 24/03/2013, 11:22 PM

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

That uncanny ability the elderly possess to say something unwittingly insulting whilst still sounding so lovably inoffensive always endears me. Like how my granny used to think she'd be raising my sisters spirits by telling her she'd put on weight when she saw her... Anyway, on the phone in work today, I had this genteel and cultivated elderly English lady ask me where my accent was from, so I informed her it was from the north-west of Ireland. In that adorable fashion, she chuckled, "Oh dear, that's terrible...", and hung up. All I could do was smile at the charm of her venerable audacity.

something similar happened to me not long after moving to Dublin. A canvasser knocked on my door to know would I vote for whoever she was canvassing for in the upcoming election. Told her I was sorry, I was only just after moving in and had not registered to vote in that area yet. She asked me where I was from and would I vote for their local candidate, so I told her I was from Limerick, she replied "oh, I'm sorry". So I shut the door in her face. In retrospect, what I should have done was demanded an apology from the candidate.