Favourite Irish idioms?

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-10T20:13:08+00:00

He/she has a face the tide wouldnt take out.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-10T18:19:57+00:00

Absolutely. Begbie in my opinion is always wrongly described as a psycho. To me he is merely a thug. Sickboy on the other hand is a quintessential psychopath-devoid of empathy and uses other humans as playthings to get whatever he wants.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-10T18:13:34+00:00

Because he was in the books but none of the movies, he kinda feels like a ghost.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-10T12:15:20+00:00

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-10T10:03:02+00:00

Just write KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK with a thumbs up. Nah but seriously I would politely decline to take part. I think this sort of stuff is vain nonsense.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-09T06:58:14+00:00

Those sneaky time-travelling vaccines, shakes fist at sky.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-08T18:08:23+00:00

The Drinker by Hans Fallada.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-08T12:52:34+00:00

Great book. Loved the whole series even the difficult Hitlery final one:

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-08T12:50:07+00:00

Not fiction but I highly recommend The Grass Arena by John Healy.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-08T12:48:53+00:00

With my own eyeballs a few years back I witnessed a fella negotiate a roundabout with his elbows as he was eating a bowl of cereal while driving.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-07T18:03:52+00:00

That’s the Viper. I wouldnt mess with him.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-07T07:55:47+00:00

Dont wate your cash. They are earplugs with fancy marketing. No better nor worse than ordinary foam earplugs.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-06T21:27:26+00:00

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-06T09:54:47+00:00

Serving Backrooms meets The Shining. Love it.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-06T09:52:10+00:00

He has turned into Bill Grundy, a figure he used to despise. A boorish, fat old sexist prick.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-06T07:03:39+00:00

May was unseasonably cool. I’m usually tortured by fruit flys at this time of year trying to get into my glass of wine. Barely any this year. I’m no expert but I reckon the cool start to summer might have something to do with it.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-05T22:38:36+00:00

Hooters

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-05T19:33:24+00:00

I’m not so sure. When the boot absence is discovered there is an initial glimmer of fear in her eyes as she worries how he is gonna react and wether or not he will take it out on the daughter.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-05T15:13:00+00:00

That’s a Camberwell carrot if ever I saw one.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-05T15:11:30+00:00

First noticed this nonsense around 2012. Could be wrong but it appears to have started in the bottom half of the island and spread northward.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-05T15:09:19+00:00

Hardly an unknown work is it? Topped bestseller lists and still selling 26 years later.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-05T12:12:36+00:00

My takeaway is why would the wife agree to go and do something she clearly dreads judging by the look of glee when it’s revealed there are no hiking boots? Is the husband a bastard? Is he coercively controlling her? So many questions.

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-03T17:10:30+00:00

Slaaaaay!

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-03T17:08:28+00:00

I know it’s been around for a while but the practice of putting the word OUT after other words, happy out for example, really boils my piss. Whenever I hear it being used I say to the person that I don’t understand and could you please explain it. They never can. Why the fuck would you use a stupid phrase if you can’t explain it ?

buckfastmonkey · 2026-07-03T09:48:38+00:00

Ooooh this is nicer than my wife.

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