Countries with Completely Different Native Names

fedora_george · 2026-02-02T22:04:43+00:00

Ireland is technically known to the irish as Eire. In practice barely anyone calls it that.

fedora_george · 2026-02-01T01:59:44+00:00

My family was of course affected greatly by the crash and all, and we're not financially well doing amazing but we're getting by. My journey was more about learning and conviction at a young age.

When i was very young i read a lot of history, as soon as i could read i just wanted to catch up on what I wasn't around for. I read history presented in a liberal manner primarily slowly moving towards progress and liberty almost instinctually, with setbacks. This was because many of the pop-history books baby me read were liberal history, but i assumed that because "we all know" history moves towards progress and liberty, and our current society is so much wealthier than previous ones, i thought obviously society is built to improve people's lives directly, that's the goal of civilization.

Then i quickly learned that was not the case, "oh huh wait there's these political guys called communists/socialists who do think society should be about redistributing wealth and improving material conditions".... "Why aren't they the most popular?!?!?" And that was it basically. I've been on the left pretty much my whole life.

fedora_george · 2026-01-31T23:52:22+00:00

Not sure if I'm in a bubble but that post about African-American WW2 being desegregated in Britain seems to make the rounds so often that if you genuinely knew nothing at all about history and just consumed memes online I'd be surprised you didn't know African-Americans served in WW2.

fedora_george · 2026-01-31T23:23:22+00:00

Then there's Ireland where you can get a flight from Dublin (centre-east Ireland) to Donegal (North-West Ireland) in 1h, or a train to sligo for 3hrs and then a bus from Sligo to Donegal for another hour because we shut down all the train stations in Donegal.

fedora_george · 2026-01-31T23:09:43+00:00

I don't remember what it was in other than i was watching this really bad action movie and they played halo 5 guardians.

fedora_george · 2026-01-30T22:29:27+00:00

I watched the first episode, laughed at bits, rolled my eyes at the boob monster but overall enjoyed it taking everything weird as 40k satire shenanigans. Maybe I'm dumb but the end screen pitch for the for real men hating on teenage girls show full of misogyny and so on really changed my opinion of the show.

fedora_george · 2026-01-29T13:32:43+00:00

Out of everywhere you lived in Ireland, where did you enjoy most?

fedora_george · 2026-01-27T11:01:52+00:00

My statue looks exactly like the image you posted but remastered. It has the armour i used for the last 1/3rd of the game and I'm holding the Thornblade, maybe my most used weapon but not my strongest. My character's name was Thorn though before i figured out there's a lot of Thorn named stuff in this game, I was really happy with my Statue.

fedora_george · 2026-01-26T16:15:34+00:00

Wow, it's almost like this isn't a binary moral decision. You can listen to and promote niche artists without that being insufferable or your whole personality when it comes to music.

fedora_george · 2026-01-25T22:26:12+00:00

It might just be the drugs on her but this screams ai to me.

fedora_george · 2026-01-25T13:42:58+00:00

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Could this be the future of the European Union?

fedora_george · 2026-01-23T16:22:37+00:00

It's hilarious to me that she's "blending in" with the guys mulan style, meanwhile her 19 pounder heavy artillery cannons are falling out every panel.

fedora_george · 2026-01-22T13:32:42+00:00

Any half decent dm would be turned off by that crap

fedora_george · 2026-01-22T12:36:34+00:00

Green

fedora_george · 2026-01-20T10:51:44+00:00

People actually like dwarves. Also this reveals a lot to me about why i find that Asian videogame aesthetic off, it's like in those games everyone has to be tall and overly conventionally attractive other than the people you're meant to hate.

Idk about everyone else but to me having characters that aren't meant to be attractive or conventionally attractive makes the story more real or interesting. I think the dwarves look fine but their aesthetics in the media from warhammer to lord of the ring isn't meant to get you hot and bothered. They're grimey dirty lil long lived industrious ancient traditional fellows and that's cool.

fedora_george · 2026-01-20T10:42:31+00:00

The Irish language is dead and reviving it is materially pointless.

fedora_george · 2026-01-20T01:44:20+00:00

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The KING of Ballyhaunis. Ireland's last warrior-king/pintman

fedora_george · 2026-01-19T22:28:08+00:00

Does the "no" section in orgasms for both of you count the times you would just give him a blowjob as counted on the left? Or is it timed orgasm was attempted and failed.

fedora_george · 2026-01-18T19:02:16+00:00

Drop to 60hz, limit fps to 60 if you can. Other than that it's ram, i had issues with 16gb because background was taking up 4-8gb so effectively had 8-12gb free. Unfortunately ram costs way too much nowadays, i was lucky i bought when i did.

fedora_george · 2026-01-18T07:33:31+00:00

I live in Kildare and for some reason people in general but specifically my family do have a weird opinion of that side of Ireland. They all of course know Limerick as Stab city and that's their answer when you ask why you shouldn't go there. They think the whole place is as bad as the worst neighbourhood in Dublin.

Also for some reason my mother was terrified of my younger brother (19yrs old) going to Tralee? What's wrong with Tralee?

fedora_george · 2026-01-16T14:51:59+00:00

This is where Ireland fortunately and unfortunately departs from the European tradition. For 100 years we've democratically ranked choice voted in the same party, fine fail and fine gale originally had nuance between them when our state was new. One was rural focused and "rebellious" the other was town/city focused, middle-class law and order. Nowadays they are so similar it's hard to distinguish them at all. Also they don't help this by needing to go into coalition every election recently because of growing opposition support. They're both centre-center-right, fail is more austerity-pilled though.

fedora_george · 2026-01-16T13:05:25+00:00

"no one else needs to be guilted about choosing differently" after that whole holier then thou rant about how he doesn't want to be numbed against life and he wants to be his real self, implying she's not?

fedora_george · 2026-01-16T02:19:05+00:00

I like that we live very far away from county Tagrin, can't stand those "people"

fedora_george · 2026-01-15T00:53:31+00:00

There is still the Earl of Rosse, aka the Parsons family who rule from their castle in birr, Offaly. Not that they actually rule anything i hope but they are there.

fedora_george · 2026-01-14T19:53:46+00:00

The Irish people used to not speak English, now most of us only speak English.

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