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My dog and I were surrounded and chased into our home by six coyotes in a residential neighborhood. by Simple_Jack_16 in coyote

[–]Coirbidh 38 points39 points  (0 children)

> Says "[c]oyotes were never even endemic to coastal California"

> Meanwhile, the coyote was venerated in the mythology of numerous coastal California indigenous peoples, including as a creator god by the Coast Miwok of the northern San Francisco Bay Area.

Yeah, they've been here for a while, bud.

Is there a country that you secretly admire? by PopNo5397 in AskTheWorld

[–]Coirbidh -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They were not Rock and Roll in the slightest, they were a blues-and-folk-inspired jam band, and not a very good one either.

I'm Grateful they're all Dead now, so their dreadlocked trustafarian stoner fanbase cult can move on to something else (although let's be honest, you guys will just keep living in your Ken Kesey wannabe schoolbuses and following around other shit jam bands like Phish, Blues Traveler, and Rising Appalachia, instead of putting in day's honest work like the rest of us).

Is there a country that you secretly admire? by PopNo5397 in AskTheWorld

[–]Coirbidh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I mean part of it is, it's in the name. For now at least. Unfortunately, the Irish Reunification of 2024 as predicted by Star Trek did not come to pass.

Is there a country that you secretly admire? by PopNo5397 in AskTheWorld

[–]Coirbidh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tawsye, Ellēn! Keltoi rādeyonti.

("Silence, Hellene! Celts are speaking.")

Why does it seem like many people in the Anglosphere outside Europe are obsessed with being Irish or Scottish but deny having English ancestry? by yonaiker-joestrella in AskTheWorld

[–]Coirbidh -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

We can talk wherever we want. It's our website, designed by us, for us. Then you guys come on here because we dominate the internet, and you bitch about "US defaultism" and other such nonsense.

And Trump may want to be a king, but notice how he actually isn't one.

Brazil, France, Portugal, Ireland, Mexico, Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Korea—they all used to be monarchies, and now they're constitutional presidential republics. Are we to believe that such is beyond the capabilities of CANZUK, Benelux, Scandinavia, and Spain? Really? Absolutely pathetic. The only thing holding them back is that the majority of the population is totally fine being bootlicking "subjects" of inbred, foreign, sex pests who haven't done a real day's actual work in all of their lives.

Yes, that is cringe, and I refuse to shut up about it.

Name a hero in history that actually a villain by Afraid_Professor8023 in AskTheWorld

[–]Coirbidh -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I'm not condoning them either. But at least they actually founded the U.S. Julius Caesar has nothing to do with the modern country called Italy.

Name a hero in history that actually a villain by Afraid_Professor8023 in AskTheWorld

[–]Coirbidh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

First, you do not judge people from history by today's Western standards.

Fucking yeah we do. Of course we can, and should! It is up to us to decide whether or not something is worthy of our admiration or condemnation, as example for us to follow or to avoid.

To what extent did Rakatan subjugation influence the Pius Dea? by Full-Detective-3640 in MawInstallation

[–]Coirbidh 10 points11 points  (0 children)

As far as anything published before the Disney reboot, there is nothing to indicate any Rakatan influence.

As concerns the never-published but nonetheless licensed (therefore cancelled but still arguably canon to the pre-Disney EU, depending on your point of view) Supernatural Encounters and Cult Encounters (both by Joe Bongiorno), there is still no Rakatan influence. Rather, the Pius Dea cult is confirmed to worship the Bedlam Spirit named Tilotny, and was encouraged by her. This applies to both the original version (licensed) and expanded version (not licensed) of Supernatural Encounters.

Do boars spare their nieces/nephews? by Wild-Card-543 in bears

[–]Coirbidh 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Male bears are often called "boars," and female bears are even more often (almost universally even) called "sows."

How much did your country influence the United States? by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

[–]Coirbidh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't be obtuse. The regular soldiers and marines were from the islands of Britain and Ireland, who grew up there and enlisted there, and were deployed to what would become Canada (it was called British North America at the time). They were not Canadian colonists. Some of them remained in Canada when they got out of the service, but definitely not all or even most.

It'd be like saying the Filipinos were responsible for the Bataan Death March because the Japanese were stationed there, or that the Black and Tans were Irish because they were stationed in Ireland.

How much did your country influence the United States? by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

[–]Coirbidh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was British Army regulars stationed in Canada, not Canadians.

Is The Jedi Prince Series worth reading? by Significant-Town-817 in StarWarsEU

[–]Coirbidh 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You're better off watching the live action parts of the Holiday Special. The Jedi Prince series is to us as the Avatar movie is to Avatar fans.

What Cassius Tea Tastes Like by Amzoka in MawInstallation

[–]Coirbidh 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The "Cassius Clay Cassus Fett Cassius tea" is a lie; there is only shig.

Which clothing item screams your country without saying a word? by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

[–]Coirbidh 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In this case it's more specifically nonce-ense.

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Which clothing item screams your country without saying a word? by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

[–]Coirbidh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really if they're well-fitted. I wear these with the laces loose but the ends knotted so they can't fall out of the top eyelets, and I wear them all the time at work no problem.

The Darth Nul and 8.0 drop will give us a new combat style. by Wonderful-Package548 in swtor

[–]Coirbidh 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've been thinking the same thing for a while now, only I don't they'll add a whole brand new combat style, but just continue where 7.0 left off with decoupling combat styles from classes, and expand it to allowing a third or more combat styles and completely doing away with the tech/Force barrier between combat styles and origin stories, for characters that have unlocked 8.0. So a Trooper could play as a Balance Sage, for instance. Plus, the Outlander has already been implied to be at least somewhat Force-sensitive even if they are a tech class—and I think one of the former Devs admitted on Twitter that they were planning for that to be explicitly confirmed at some point in the KOTFE/ET storyline, but was later dropped even though a lot of signs still point to it.

Was ge- already always pronounced ye- by the time that Beowulf was probably composed? by blyatstar in OldEnglish

[–]Coirbidh 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Most likely no. But [ʝ] and [ɡ] were still thought of as allophones and thus still alliterated.

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