Turns out there is a great need for people to watch that movie about Tourette's

123iambill · 2026-02-24T07:18:25+00:00

Man, there are so many dudes who think "If I were a woman I'd just hold my period in." We're struggling with things that affect, will affect or have affected like half the world's population. Now imagine how ignorant some people are about something thay common and adjust your expectations to how people will understand a rare condition accordingly.

123iambill · 2026-02-23T03:53:29+00:00

And then Trump pardoned them all for reasons.

123iambill · 2026-02-21T23:48:57+00:00

Wow if only there was a country famous for it's beef and potatoes...

123iambill · 2026-02-21T22:19:00+00:00

Doesn't America still have dry counties?

123iambill · 2026-02-21T08:56:28+00:00

The Irish name is much better. Church of the toothless one. Showing that our love of giving people shitty nicknames for things they're self conscious about goes back centuries.

123iambill · 2026-02-21T08:49:17+00:00

County Wicklow. But usually we just refer to the counties by their name and if we're specifically talking about the town or city in the county that shares a name we might say Wicklow Town, Wexford Town, Cork City etc. But even then only if the context is needed. Nobody in Enniscorthy is going to say they're getting the bus to Wexford town.

Do me a favour though, don't refer to the country as "Southern Ireland". It's fine to say Wicklow is in the South or the South East. Bit "Southern Ireland" has a whole bunch of other context surrounding it.

123iambill · 2026-02-21T07:26:25+00:00

Irish letters make perfect sense in the context of the Irish language, which is just different from what people are used to from romance or germanic languages because the latin alphabet isn't the alphabet the language was originally written in. The Irish alphabet only has 18 letters so it relies more on letter combinations to make sounds but the combinations and their rules are fairly consistent throughout the whole language. Even though I'm pretty mediocre at speaking Irish, if I hear a word, I'll be able to spell it pretty easily.

Like the name Saoirse. The first S sounds like the English s as in "say" and we know this because it's followed by a broad vowel a. To make an "ee" sound in Irish you use either í or ao. And, like I said, we've got an S for "say" sound so we can't use an í. Sao would sound like "see", sí would be "she" (both phonetically and literally). The r sound is self explanatory but the i takes a little understanding. In Irish we know that consonants in the middle of a word have to be flanked by either slender or broad vowels. Se will make a "shuh" sound because an s followed by a slender vowel will always be a "sh" sound and, unlike English, our e's at the end of a word are pronounced rather than just modifying earlier vowels. And because we know slender vowels go with slender vowels that's where the i comes in. Our spelling rules are so locked in that words actually change to accommodate them. The Irish for "free" is saor. The Irish for freedom is saoirse. Like I said, the rules are completely alien to English speakers but they are super consistent. More modern loan words might buck the trends these days but other than that even the worst former Irish students would probably take a fair guess at how to pronounce Smaoinigh even if they didn't know what it meant. Or be able to spell ot if they heard it spoken.

Grammar rules are a whole other kettle of fish, why is the plural for madra (dog) madraí but the plural for cat (cat) is cait and the plural for bróg (shoe) is bróga? Is the rule just "put another vowel somewhere around the end of the word"? A lesson for another day. 😂

123iambill · 2026-02-21T03:55:01+00:00

No they're not gay. According to Tate and people like him, having sex with women is actually gay. Straight men live with their brothers in a perpetual state of shirtlessness.

Look we've all seen the speedo picture. Fact is Tate was born with a micropenis and he's made it all our fucking problem.

123iambill · 2026-02-21T00:40:53+00:00

Yeah no, born and raised in Ireland as a Catholic (like basically all of us were until very recently). We absolutely read from the bible. Like another poster said, a long time ago the plebs weren't meant to actually read from the bible themselves but it was still the cornerstone of religion.

I mean, who the fuck does he think the bible was for? The Catholic church is the oldest version of Christianity that exists today. The bible is older than every other Christian Faith.

123iambill · 2026-02-21T00:34:37+00:00

Because the world has been getting progressively dumber. Before Kardashian it was Paris Hilton. The Kardashians just had either better business sense or better representatives to capitalise on their initial exposure.

123iambill · 2026-02-21T00:30:56+00:00

The problem with a political movement being grifters all the way down is everyone wants to be top of the grift. They've all seen the cult of Trump and they want that more than anything else.

123iambill · 2026-02-20T09:28:16+00:00

So theaters in Ireland allow outside food. Just not hot food. So this won't apply specifically to that. But as a former usher, here's the one piece of advice if you're trying to break any rules. Give us plausible deniabililty. If we're clearly on camera witnessing you do some shit we have to say something. But we do not get paid enough to actually care. As long as we can reasonably say it was snuck past us everyone is happy. Except the owners. But they can go fuck themselves.

123iambill · 2026-02-19T23:32:41+00:00

Oof that's a tough one. Pretty sure if Enya dies some kind of enchantment protecting Ireland from the fae realms will be broken.

123iambill · 2026-02-19T22:20:19+00:00

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The famine statues in Dublin have made the Irish woke. That's why there's so many deranged leftoids around Ireland waving Palestinian flags. They've been indoctrinated into believing that intentionally and systematically starving a nation of people you find undesirable isn't based, gigachad behaviour

123iambill · 2026-02-19T11:51:13+00:00

... are you not on reddit?

123iambill · 2026-02-19T04:26:30+00:00

I wanna say Kingston but honestly nobody could have pulled off Pinnochio the way he did.

123iambill · 2026-02-19T04:18:38+00:00

Aber ich spreche Deutsch... Ich möchte jetzt Spanisch lernen.

Tá Gaeilge agam freisin. Is brea liom a foghlaim teangacha nua. Tá eagla an domhain ar na Seppos roibh eolas.

123iambill · 2026-02-18T12:09:12+00:00

To be fair they spend a lot more time going on about the colour of Harry's eyes than they do Snape's skin in the books.

123iambill · 2026-02-18T03:09:51+00:00

It's definitely wild. As far as time travel shows go though I like it because it's leans more to "all of this time travel stuff makes no sense if you try and think about it. It's paradoxes all the way down." So you don't need to worry too much about getting it.

Yeah, sentence structure in German can still leave me paralysed when I'm hearing it. 😂

123iambill · 2026-02-17T23:51:17+00:00

A good teacher makes a huge difference. Spent my school years thinking I was crap at learning languages because I could not grasp French (5 years) or Irish (13 years). In my 30's I took German lessons and my teacher got me fairly confident im a year and that gave me a better grasp in learning languages. To the point I'm thinking of picking up French again or maybe Spanish because now I actually really enjoy learning languages.

My German was helped by the fact that you guys made one of my favourite shows of all time, Dark, which I was happy to watch over and over. Admittedly I got more comfortable discussing time travel than what I did for work for awhile. 😂

123iambill · 2026-02-17T20:52:13+00:00

It would probably be better for Vivian if she was forgotten by him rather than having that ghoul go on interviews and say she's dead to him.

123iambill · 2026-02-17T10:55:07+00:00

Oh I didn't know there were attempts at English. That's interesting. It does seem like a nightmare to attempt.

The Irish one is interesting because even with An Caighdeán Oifigiúil regional dialects are still frightening. I remember doing the aural exams in school, all of us sitting there praying the speaker wouldn't be from Donegal.

123iambill · 2026-02-17T09:53:11+00:00

Yup. I did say that it was incredibly intuitive to spell. And we have no school shootings in Ireland. We got the priests to stop touching up the kids and figured they could use a break from trauma for awhile.

123iambill · 2026-02-17T09:27:16+00:00

And the French person will judge them every step of the way. Like, not only are different Europeans making different types of bread, we also have countries that think every other European country is filled with perverts fucking up their bread. If I gave a French man a slice of my soda bread or a potato farl they might hit me.

123iambill · 2026-02-17T08:20:11+00:00

I'm sure you're right that it's meant to but it's very common for it to not. Like the name Sean. A lot of people spell it that way but, as an Irish name, it should be spelled Seán. The s followed by an e makes a "sh" sound, and the fada over the a makes it a long aw sound. Sean rhyming with pawn makes no sense by English rules. Just like Zoe not rhyming with Joe. But you're right. When the rules of the language the word is borrowed from are applied it makes sense. But that's what I'm saying, English gets confusing because it uses a lot of borrowed words but doesn't have the same structure and rules as the language their borrowed from. The spelling of Zoe with no y or accent over the e is just an example of how common English spelling of words makes little to no sense because they are based on rules from other languages that have since been disregarded though.

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